State Govt First Click Grant

2002-05-13 Thread Shay Telfer
From Saturday's (11/5/2002) West Australian, Page 59: Copy and paste your computer skills throughout the community. If someone in your community has basic computer skills like suing the interne, sending email and setting up bais documents, a group in your community can apply for a grant to

Re: Difference between 512MB and 1GB

2002-05-13 Thread Shay Telfer
To be on the safe side I have been using 1GB of RAM with my G4 867.. Is this overkill with OSX? No. Too much RAM is never enough. Now I just got my mother to purchase a new iMac G4 800 with 512MB of RAM and running these applications on her machine, I can feel no real notable difference. If

Re: Remote Access In Control Strip

2002-05-13 Thread Tony Cockbain
I have successfully used a CSM called OT/PPP for some time http://home.ici.net/~djw/otppp/otpppstrip.html Tony Cockbain Editor Australian Journal of Earth Sciences PO Box 8114 Angelo Street South Perth WA 6151 Tel Fax 08 9367 7037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Truth emerges more readily from error than

Congratulation's Shay!

2002-05-13 Thread Philip Trouchet
Hear Hear Ray, Thank's for advice Congratulations to Shay who has always been supportful helpfull to any one with problems! Minor or Major. Hope you have a wonderfull Very happy Marriage. Saludos P.

drag n' drop in entourage

2002-05-13 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all a simple question with a simple solution, I'm sure: Entourage has ceased to perform drag n' drop: drag-copying text, draggin messages to folders, draggin files onto emails as attachments etc etc, all have stopped working, while drag drop works fine in all other applications. Any ideas

[Comm Post] 80Gb External FW/USB Under $495.00

2002-05-13 Thread robertzatta
Hi The count down is on for our busiest time of the year. Now is the time to get rid of that excess cash on some new gadgets for your beloved Macs.!!! We've had price reductions across our whole range for firewire products. For this weeks WAMUG Special. (This special is a newsgroup, list and

font VC needed

2002-05-13 Thread Paul Weaver
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of a font which looks like the hand drawn script they are trying to teach to WA primary school kids. My wife thinks it is called Victorian cursive. Ta, Paul.

Re: font VC needed

2002-05-13 Thread Shay Telfer
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of a font which looks like the hand drawn script they are trying to teach to WA primary school kids. My wife thinks it is called Victorian cursive. Ta, Paul. To quote the WAMUG list archives :) At 9:36 +0800 12/2/2001, Reg Whitely wrote: Dear WAMUG

Re: modems

2002-05-13 Thread rniesten
Kelly! I have been reasonably happy with Firedream and they give DingoBlue users 1 month free. I signed my parents up and they are quite happy with them too. It works out to $110 for 6 months with unlimited time/downloads - check Saturday's West. r Kelly Duffy wrote: It isn't just modems with

Re: Scanner for OS X?

2002-05-13 Thread Shay Telfer
BTW, the archives URL http://www.wamug.asn.au/mailinglist/archives.html at the bottom of current messages, which directs you the the WAMUG archives site, appears to be broken. Until that's fixed, you can still use the old YahooGroups one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wamug/messages/ Have fun,

Remote Access Control Strip

2002-05-13 Thread Severin Crisp
I am using Apple's Remote Access Control Strip v4.0 with OS9.1 quite happily. Not quite sure which installer it originated from. Severin Crisp -- __ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence,

Limewire P2P

2002-05-13 Thread Daniel Forsdyke
Hi Are many people using P2P programs such as limewire, for mp3 and other file types. If so, are there any good or bad experiences with these programs, or any secrets regarding security. I was thinking of trying out LimeWire. Is it worthwhile. Tia Daniel F

Re: Congraulations to Shay Telfer

2002-05-13 Thread Shay Telfer
Congratulations to Shay Telfer on his engagement. Shay has always been of great help to this list over the years. I hope coming events will not distract him too much from continuing to contribute so much to our association. I hope so too! Thanks to Ray and everyone else for their best

Email virus - a summary of the new problem

2002-05-13 Thread Peter N Lewis
The problem we are now encountering is because email viruses have developed a new technique whereby the email they send has faked From addresses derived from the infected users email address book, email mail boxes, or web cache. The consequence of this is: If you receive an email virus, the

Appleturns lock up

2002-05-13 Thread Stewart Woods
Hi all, Woke up this morning to find that my homepage in IE5 locks up the program EVERY time.. can someone check out whether it's me or them? The URL is http://www.appleturns.com cheers in advance stewart

Re: Evil Outlook Express-Conclusion

2002-05-13 Thread aurora
Hi, Seems the problem was not with Outlook but with my ISP. They are a very nice ISP that got back to me fairly promptly. Seems the main problem came from those incredibly uninformative Microsoft error messages sigh Hope this my help someone in the future. Aurora -- If reality wants to get

Re: Appleturns lock up

2002-05-13 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi all, Woke up this morning to find that my homepage in IE5 locks up the program EVERY time.. can someone check out whether it's me or them? The URL is http://www.appleturns.com I think it's them. It locked up (the download, not IE itself) when I first loaded the page, but if I hit stop and

Re: OS X scanners

2002-05-13 Thread David Choy
If you're in the market for scanners for OS X, I'd look at the Agfa e25 scanners. Still some of these suckers floating around perth (I've been told the supplier had about 20 at last count), and I can personally guarantee they work with Mac OS X - I got one for a friend who REFUSES to use OS 9 and

Re: FW: Evil Outlook Express

2002-05-13 Thread Phillip Arena
Actually, I shouldn't really slag off Microsoft. After all, wasn't it Bill Gates who said that they didn't make particularly good software, they're just a very successful business? Regards Phil If you think this is bad, try using Lotus Notes (like we do at work). Thankfully I do not think