Re: Posting Guidelines - v0.3

2002-02-08 Thread Matt Huitson
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 03:33 PM, Doug Wilson wrote: on 6/2/02 3:26 PM, Darren Kam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's all good, but I do find it difficult to conform to: 4. You put your response *below* the quoted part. I often don't do this because I assume that people are

Re: Posting Guidelines - v0.3 7 year itch...

2002-02-08 Thread Greg Hosking
I wish people would read the RCF. It's more than just a personal preference. It's the way things are supposed to be done. RFC 1855, Netiquette Guidelines http://rfc.net/rfc1855.html Sorry Doug but I beg to differ. The RFC is merely a set of guidelines, and to quote from the RFC itself:

Re: Posting Guidelines - v0.3 7 year itch...

2002-02-08 Thread Keith Palmer
To me this looks more and more like we are the ones sitting eyes forward in the theatre - personally I'm waiting for the hammer throwing blonde to run up the aisle. (replying at the top of the page because I find it tedious to scroll down through message threads that I've already been

More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Kevin Phyland
Hi every1, After much mucking about with different burn formats I finally emailed the maker of the DVD player, NEC and received the following rather cryptic reply. If anyone can decipher it I'd really appreciate it... -- Hello The NDV-21

Re: Posting Guidelines - v0.3 7 year itch...

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 09:41 8/02/02 +0800, Greg Hosking wrote: ...not to mention the fact that is it is dated October 1995... The age of a standard does not indicate its currency. If we get rid of standards, we might as well each start speaking a different language, since English as been around since before

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi every1, After much mucking about with different burn formats I finally emailed the maker of the DVD player, NEC and received the following rather cryptic reply. If anyone can decipher it I'd really appreciate it... -- Hello The

RFC: Posting Guidelines - v0.5

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
This proposal only adds version details and credits. If I've misrepresented your contribution in *any way*, please let me know. As a community, WAMUG is a group of people who send each other email, generally about Macintosh issues. The group is now so large that not everyone knows everyone

Re: Posting Guidelines - v0.3 7 year itch...

2002-02-08 Thread Brett Carboni
The age of a standard does not indicate its currency. If we get rid of standards, we might as well each start speaking a different language, since English as been around since before you and I were born. E la verita. Questo discorso e proprio buffo. (Tutti, mi dispiache tanto. Un piccolo

Spring Cleaning 4.0 and Mac OS 9.2.2 - finds duplicate files but does not display the entries found

2002-02-08 Thread Derek Ellerton
Hi WAMUG folks. I have a customer who is running an iMac DV machine. The machine recently was upgraded to Mac OS 9.2.2, and has now had Spring Cleaning 4.0 installed, as requested by the customer. The problem is that Spring Cleaning doesn't display items that it's meant to, when doing a

Re: Posting Guidelines - v0.3 7 year itch...

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 11:21 8/02/02 +0800, Brett Carboni wrote: The age of a standard does not indicate its currency. If we get rid of standards, we might as well each start speaking a different language, since English as been around since before you and I were born. E la verita. Questo discorso e proprio

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-08 Thread Lara Hopkins
Onno Benschop wrote: Lara Hopkins wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: To connect to ADSL with the vast majority of ISP's you are required to use a PPPoE client, Not with Iinet's Corporate accounts, which is what I've been using up till now. Ethernet modem, static IP. From your perspective there

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-08 Thread Troy May
Lara Hopkins on 08/02/02 2:51 PM, wrote: PPPoE adds another protocol layer over your network packets. Many (most?) people needed to tweak their TCP/IP settings to drop the MTU (packet size) so that their packet plus the PPPoE headers will still get through all the routers. As far as I'm aware

Re: Iinet ADSL - PPPoE?

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 11:51 8/02/02 +0800, Lara Hopkins wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: From your perspective there will be no change. Well, not no change. I will need to configure the PPPoE client on the Airport Base Station, rather than using the Ethernet/Manually option in the Internet panel of the Airport

ADSL/Cable

2002-02-08 Thread Peter Curtis
Hi I'm going to upgrade from my 56k connection to iiNet to either ADSL via iiNet or Bigpond via the Foxtel cable already installed in my house. Is one better than the other? Is one likely to be outdated prior to the other? And finally, is the support of either supplier likely to better than the

Re: ADSL/Cable

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 13:12 8/02/02 +0800, Peter Curtis wrote: Is one better than the other? Is one likely to be outdated prior to the other? And finally, is the support of either supplier likely to better than the other (I'm talking about large differences here, not personal likes or dislikes) Depends. Don't

FS: Indigo iBook 366

2002-02-08 Thread Larry Pohl
Indigo iBook 366 (last model before the iceBook) 320MB Ram 10 GB Hard drive Balance of warranty - 2 years $1800 Contact on 9291 3162 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Larry Pohl

Re: ADSL/Cable

2002-02-08 Thread Peter Curtis
Onno Benschop wrote: But what did your spell-checker make of my name? Suggestions No On One Onto Onion I was tempted on the last one! :) Peter

Re slow formatting and printing in Word

2002-02-08 Thread Neil Blake Associates
Hi WAMUGGERs A small good news story! I posted a query a couple of weeks back about Word 2001 being slow to carry out certain formatting tasks and slow sending print jobs to the printer. Having had a couple of helpful replies (trashing Word preferences, reducing the font list etc), but no

Anti Virus Software - Was: Re: slow formatting and printing in Word

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 14:21 8/02/02 +0800, Neil Blake Associates wrote: turn off Norton Antivirus. What a difference! What I do for virus software is to: 1. Keep it up to date. 2. Scan the whole machine. 3. Scan any file-server completely. 4. Set the software to only scan when creating files. 5. If you deal

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Kevin Phyland
Thanx Shay, That was my interpretation...however...it begs the question as to why the machine has a clearly labelled MP3 as one of the playable formats on the console/window, the box it came in and the manual!! My suspicion is that the proliferation of MP3s has caused some companies to flog

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Shay Telfer
Is it worth my while kicking up a stink (i.e. posting the name/model/brand on a number of mailing lists as it was definitely a selling point with me - considering a friend has a different brand DVD player which he assures me DOES play MP3s!!!) or chalking it down to experience, very much Let

Re: FS: Indigo iBook 366 - SOLD

2002-02-08 Thread Larry Pohl

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Rod Lavington
On 8/2/02 2:40 PM, Kevin Phyland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it worth my while kicking up a stink (i.e. posting the name/model/brand on a number of mailing lists as it was definitely a selling point with me - considering a friend has a different brand DVD player which he assures me DOES play

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Shay Telfer
The one thing that I have not tried yet is naming each mp3 file with the old 8.3 dos naming structure (.mp3). Maybe the mp3 software built into the machine can only understand the old 8.3 filenames, rather than the longer win9x filename format. Would I be correct in saying that? Most

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 16:42 8/02/02 +0800, Rod Lavington wrote: On 8/2/02 2:40 PM, Kevin Phyland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it worth my while kicking up a stink (i.e. posting the name/model/brand on a number of mailing lists as it was definitely a selling point with me - considering a friend has a different

Re cartridges and ink

2002-02-08 Thread Diana James
I meant to put this in my last request but forgot. Where does one buy the cheapest cartridges for a Stylewriter 1200. Thank you Diana James

Re servers

2002-02-08 Thread Diana James
I am due to pay my current server - who I am not very happy with - another six months subscription of $105.60. Can anyone recommend a server who is a bit cheaper? Thanks...Diana James

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Scott
Have you tried burning one onto a CD-R Digital Audio Disk?? Hi every1, After much mucking about with different burn formats I finally emailed the maker of the DVD player, NEC and received the following rather cryptic reply. If anyone can decipher it I'd really appreciate it...

Re: Re servers

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 11:31 8/02/02 +0800, Diana James wrote: I am due to pay my current server - who I am not very happy with - another six months subscription of $105.60. Can anyone recommend a server who is a bit cheaper? I'm guessing here that you're referring to your Internet Service Provider - the people

Telnet Automation in OSX

2002-02-08 Thread Scott
Hi all, Wondering if anyone knows how to automate telnet in OSX? I made this apple script for 9. And then used chronotask to Reload it every 8 hours. I need something that will log me in every 8 hours. And if the previous session is active to logout first. This is my old script property

Almost there...

2002-02-08 Thread Jon Davison
Hey everyone :) Thanks for the help with the Mac-PC issues that we were having. I didnĀ¹t manage to get the two machines to file share with each other so I have set up the PC box as an FTP server. So the Mac can now download files via IE, which is great. However, it would be great to also go the

Re: Telnet Automation in OSX

2002-02-08 Thread Onno Benschop
At 14:26 8/02/02 +0800, Scott wrote: Wondering if anyone knows how to automate telnet in OSX? [Applescript solution deleted] You're now running a computer with a real operating system, so you can use real tools - things like shell scripts :-) You could do something *like* this in a shell

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Kevin Phyland
Thanx again all, Hmmnn...My very first post about this problem (I think) mentioned not to use the Joliet version of ISO 9660...is that right or did I misunderstand? Also...(big time newbie here!)...the stuff that was mentioned about filenames...(.m3u and AUTORUN.INF??) is it possible to put

Re: More DVD/MP3 Problems...

2002-02-08 Thread Kevin Phyland
Ta Rod, However, the CDs that work are working on my friend's DVD player not mine still no luck... I'm curious about Scott's suggestion about different types of CD-R Audio Disks though... Kevin. -Original Message- From: Rod Lavington[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

A Cautionary Tale to WAMUGers re Guidelines

2002-02-08 Thread Reg Whitely
Look down, for the response is at the top. The foot is at your head. - 21st Century 'Think Differenter ___ Dear WAMUGers In the tedious debate about email ettiquite, let's not overlook some basics. When someone needs help,they call for it. In

A Cautionary Tale to WAMUGers re Guidelines

2002-02-08 Thread Reg Whitely
Look down, for the response is at the top. The foot is at your head. - 21st Century 'Think Differenter ___ Dear WAMUGers In the tedious debate about email ettiquite, let's not overlook some basics. When someone needs help,they call for it. In

Re: servers

2002-02-08 Thread Angus Sue Jordan Russell (Phuket)
Hi Diana If you mean ISP then I would recommend Global Dial (http://www.globaldial.com/ or [EMAIL PROTECTED]), for A$26 pcm I get unlimited on time a 300MB download each month, if I remember correctly if you pay 6 months up front then your download is also unlimited. While I appreciate it is