Re: Message for Susan Poole - sorry, I don't have her direct email

2001-12-14 Thread Derek Ellerton
Hi Anne and WAMUG folks. I think you might find there was actually a very small attachment with the message from Susan yesterday, well, at least the very short message I received from her yesterday did. It appears to be due to a virus, which I believe may have infected her PC. You may

Micro$oft viruses

2001-12-14 Thread Ray Forma
The following extract from an article by Microsoft mentions Linux, which isa version of Unix, as having security vulnerabilities. Does this mean that System X, which has at its core the BSD version of Unix, will become a target for viruses, ending the virtually virus-free Mac environment?

Re: Micro$oft viruses

2001-12-14 Thread Doug Wilson
on 13/12/01 2:06 PM, Ray Forma at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following extract from an article by Microsoft mentions Linux, which is a version of Unix, as having security vulnerabilities. Does this mean that System X, which has at its core the BSD version of Unix, will become a target for

Re: Micro$oft viruses and other security issues

2001-12-14 Thread Troy May
I think it was this same MS post that generated an uproar amongst the security community not so long ago. Microsoft is essentially arguing for security through obscurity (don't tell anyone and they won't know) whereas the security geeks were arguing that when security holes are found the responses

Re: Message for Susan Poole - sorry, I don't have her direct email

2001-12-14 Thread Susan Hastings
The other interesting things is that Susan Poole's emails are going directly to people on the wamug list, I am not getting her emails, just peoples' responses. On 14/12/01 8:27 AM, Derek Ellerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Anne and WAMUG folks. I think you might find there was actually a

Re: Message for Susan Poole - sorry, I don't have her direct email

2001-12-14 Thread Rod Lavington
On 14/12/01 9:41 AM, Susan Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other interesting things is that Susan Poole's emails are going directly to people on the wamug list, I am not getting her emails, just peoples' responses. On 14/12/01 8:27 AM, Derek Ellerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It

Using a laptop as a dvd player

2001-12-14 Thread Class
Howdy I have G4 laptop 667 DVD and I get a dark patch when I try to watch a dvd on a television monitor . I get the message NOT PERMISSIBLE when trying to watch a DVD on the television in the dark patch on the television screen. Fiddled with monitoring and resolutions. All of the computer

Netscape 6.1 not displaying html pages

2001-12-14 Thread Kaye Geoff
Hi, We are running OS8.6 on a 5500/225 and have recently installed Netscape 6.1. When I first installed it, the browser worked just fine, but it is behaving very strangely a couple of days later. It displays all local web pages (served off the hard disk) It displays ftp:// files from remote

FW: [FOR SALE]: Powerbook 400 Firewire

2001-12-14 Thread Garry Kuchel
-- From: Garry Kuchel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:20:06 +0800 To: Ian Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FOR SALE]: Powerbook 400 Firewire Hi Ian, My name is Garry, and I am interested in the PowerBook you have for sale. I am going to Germany (all going well) next

Dial-in Macintosh LAN

2001-12-14 Thread Stuart Breden
Hi Can someone point me to information about dial-in facilities (Mac to Mac) for a Macintosh LAN that requires a dial-in from home and a dial-in from an iBook? Cheers, Stuart Breden

Re: File sharing and DOS formatted Zip disks

2001-12-14 Thread hinchlif
On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 11:36 AM, Greg Hosking wrote: sorry, maybe I didn't explain properly - I meant this: When I go to erase a disk, any disk, I must turn filesharing off first, and then turn it back on when I'm done. I thought maybe there was some way I could set different

Re: File sharing and DOS formatted Zip disks

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Hosking
oh. Well, at least I know, now. Thanks Peter! On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 11:36 AM, Greg Hosking wrote: sorry, maybe I didn't explain properly - I meant this: When I go to erase a disk, any disk, I must turn filesharing off first, and then turn it back on when I'm done. I thought

RE: Using a laptop as a dvd player

2001-12-14 Thread Darren Kam
Hi Brian, Under Mac OS X 10.1 you cannot view DVD's on an external TV. I looked it up last night and it's just not supported yet. Under Mac OS 9, simply do the following: Connect up your TV to the PowerBook. Turn video mirroring ON. Change the video resolution to something like 800x600 or

Macosrumors

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Pennefather
Is anyone able to get to the Macosrumors site? I have been trying it all week with no success. Cheers Greg P.S. I'm running Office:mac v.X and it is fantastic. Only got to make the leap from Outlook to Entourage for the office email and I'm totally OS X :-)

Re: Macosrumors

2001-12-14 Thread Rod Lavington
On 14/12/01 12:41 PM, Greg Pennefather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone able to get to the Macosrumors site? I have been trying it all week with no success. Cheers Greg P.S. I'm running Office:mac v.X and it is fantastic. Only got to make the leap from Outlook to Entourage for the

Tips On Buying A Mac

2001-12-14 Thread S. Newton
Hi everyone, I am thinking about buying a Powerbook and was wondering if there is anything I need to know or look out for when purchasing the mac? Thank you Shane [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Tips On Buying A Mac

2001-12-14 Thread Rod Lavington
On 14/12/01 4:34 PM, S. Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am thinking about buying a Powerbook and was wondering if there is anything I need to know or look out for when purchasing the mac? Thank you Shane Hi Shane! Buying from a trustworthy dealer is a good start!

Re: Steve's pre Expo keynote... should be interesting!

2001-12-14 Thread Ken Woods
I'll be there. I'm on holiday's so can sleep in the next day. What date is it happening in Frisco. Ken W... on 13/12/01 3:50 PM, Matthew Healey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/12/01 3:10 PM, Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully this will be webcast. If so bet your bottom dollar

Re: Macosrumors

2001-12-14 Thread hinchlif
On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 12:41 PM, Greg Pennefather wrote: Is anyone able to get to the Macosrumors site? I have been trying it all week with no success. It's been down for longer than that, it seems to me. Even AppleInsider, with their brand spanking new design, has had only one

Re: Tips On Buying A Mac

2001-12-14 Thread Andrew Nielsen
At 16:50 +0800 14/12/2001, Rod Lavington wrote: On 14/12/01 4:34 PM, S. Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am thinking about buying a Powerbook and was wondering if there is anything I need to know or look out for when purchasing the mac? As Rod mentioned, it's actually quite

File Conversion to .pdf format

2001-12-14 Thread Severin Crisp
Yes, if you are going to do many files you had best to buy Acrobat and get all the extra features but there is a nice workaround which I discovered. On their web site Adobe allows you access for tryouts for conversion to PDF format. You sign in (no cost) and then you get five, yes five!

Re: Tips On Buying A Mac

2001-12-14 Thread Troy May
Hi Shane, first law of computing... computers are the spawn of the devil ;-) First law of purchasing a computer... what do you _need_ to be able to do with it? Second law of purchasing a computer... how much can you afford to part with to achieve law one (see above). Once you've figured those