Mac work

2004-02-10 Thread Brad Helden
Hi, As of the end of this month I am closing down my Japanese consultation business - at least on the full time basis. As such I am in desperately looking for some part-time work to make ends meet. If anyone knows of some work available on Macs can they let me know. I know a fairly large

explorer bookmark link levels

2004-02-10 Thread Chris Burton
Hi muggers about a week ago, some of the small arrows which open up to the lower levels of urls in my explorer bookmarks have just disappeared! (OS 10.3.2 IE 5.2.3 G4 1000). I now have to open up the level which contains the site I want, then go to that level and click it to get to the next

quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread Stewart Woods
Hey All, Just doing a little switch-pitch on a friend here... She's considering the 17 powerbook so I'm looking around to find a comparable Dark Side machine. Dell don't seem to make a 17 (from their near-impossible-to-navigate website? Is this correct? Is there anything comparable to the

Re: quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread Larry Pohl
On 10/2/04 8:58 AM, Stewart Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, Just doing a little switch-pitch on a friend here... She's considering the 17 powerbook so I'm looking around to find a comparable Dark Side machine. Dell don't seem to make a 17 (from their near-impossible-to-navigate

Re: quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Kitchener
On 10/2/04 8:58 AM, Stewart Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, Just doing a little switch-pitch on a friend here... She's considering the 17 powerbook so I'm looking around to find a comparable Dark Side machine. Dell don't seem to make a 17 (from their near-impossible-to-navigate

Re: The Sounds of Silence (From the NY Times)

2004-02-10 Thread Ken Woods
Very Sad On 9/2/04 7:56 PM, Mrs C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: February 9, 2004 Downloaders Can Get Nothing for Something From Apple By DAVID F. GALLAGHER he top-of-the-line iPod music player from Apple Computer can hold four solid weeks of music. But what if you just want a little

Re: quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread Craig Ringer
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 08:58, Stewart Woods wrote: She's considering the 17 powerbook so I'm looking around to find a comparable Dark Side machine. Dell don't seem to make a 17 (from their near-impossible-to-navigate website? Is this correct? Is there anything comparable to the 17 PB, off

Re: The Sounds of Silence (From the NY Times)

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Secker
Very Sad even sadder is I bet these instances are artificial digital silence - you know silence made by a machine spitting out zeroed bit's instead of honest to God analog silence... It's just not the real thing I tell you. in case you are perplexed by this... the original (or at

Re: quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Secker
snip I believe Toshiba is now making a 17 notebook - Satellite P20. I haven't really compared the specs to the Mac but I know it doesn't ship with snip I will stress to the customer that only quality PC laptop manufacturers can be compared with apples. Apples and oranges you see. snip and

Re: random reboots

2004-02-10 Thread Adam Hewitt
I have now had two kernel panics today alone. They started about 2 weeks ago and seem to be getting closer together. yesterday or the day before I also had an issue where the screen seemed to be stuck in the power saver mode, ie. the brightness was very low even though the brightness control

Re: random reboots

2004-02-10 Thread Shay Telfer
I have now had two kernel panics today alone. They started about 2 weeks ago and seem to be getting closer together. yesterday or the day before I also had an issue where the screen seemed to be stuck in the power saver mode, ie. the brightness was very low even though the brightness control

opening CD tray without eject button

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Secker
is there anyway to get a G4 iMac to eject its EMPTY CD tray if the keyboard's eject button doesn't work... that is ... while it's running and without restarting the machine and holding down the mouse button. -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL

DUH!!!opening CD tray without eject button

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Secker
f12 key (works on iMac but not on tower)... so ... the help menu can be useful sometimes is there anyway to get a G4 iMac to eject its EMPTY CD tray if the keyboard's eject button doesn't work... that is ... while it's running and without restarting the machine and holding down the mouse

FW: quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread Mrs C
Hi:I just came from the USA where 17 laptops are becoming common. What you find is that the cheapest you can get one for (HP, etc) is about $2400 AUS. (That obviously doesn't include shipping etc.) The drives are all DVD/CD-RW as DVD-RW comes at a higher price. All have wireless cards in them.

Re: FW: quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread Craig Ringer
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 13:56, Mrs C wrote: What I found interesting about them is the display settings. Unless you kept the settings on the original configuration, the screen ended up all stretchy and weird. In other words, if you took the 17 screen and tried to make the settings lower to make

Re: The Sounds of Silence (From the NY Times)

2004-02-10 Thread Rod Lavington
On 10/2/04 10:08 AM, Ken Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very Sad On 9/2/04 7:56 PM, Mrs C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: February 9, 2004 Downloaders Can Get Nothing for Something From Apple By DAVID F. GALLAGHER he top-of-the-line iPod music player from Apple Computer can hold

MP3 player for OS 9?

2004-02-10 Thread meg_travers
Hi all, I'm looking for a free MP3 player for OS 9 It's to go on an old non-G3 powermac for a computer-less friend. iTunes requires a computer with a built-in USB port which this machine doesn't have. Audion and Macast are shareware - seems like an odd preposition to have to pay for a

Re: MP3 player for OS 9?

2004-02-10 Thread Onno Benschop
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a free MP3 player for OS 9 It's to go on an old non-G3 powermac for a computer-less friend. iTunes requires a computer with a built-in USB port which this machine doesn't have. I'm using iTunes on a PowerBook 1400,

Re: MP3 player for OS 9?

2004-02-10 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi all, I'm looking for a free MP3 player for OS 9 It's to go on an old non-G3 powermac for a computer-less friend. iTunes requires a computer with a built-in USB port which this machine doesn't have. Audion and Macast are shareware - seems like an odd preposition to have to pay for a

eudora

2004-02-10 Thread gary dorn
Eudora 5.1 is available on WAMUG CD no 1. http://www.wamug.org.au/services/cd_archive/filelist/filelist_2002_04_april.shtml -- Gary Dorn Architect Perth, Australia

Off Topic... Live in Australia.com

2004-02-10 Thread Geoffrey Stormzand
We are planning our Australian scouting trip for June, already have the vistors VISA. If all goes well we would like to immigrate to Perth in the fall or at the latest around the beginning of next year. Does anyone have an opinion of liveinaustralia.com and the service they offer? Is the

WAMUG mailing list archives post Aug 2003?

2004-02-10 Thread Steven
I see from wamug.org.au that you can access archived messages at the old Yahoo! Group site, but these archived messages only seem to be about August 2003 and earlier. Is there anyway of seraching messages archives since then and up to the present? I'm looking for some messages that would've been

Re: WAMUG mailing list archives post Aug 2003?

2004-02-10 Thread James Devenish
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:47:16PM +1000, Steven wrote: Is there anyway of seraching messages archives since then and up to the present? I'm looking for some messages that would've been posted around 13th/14th November 2003. As per the list headers:

Re: Off Topic... Live in Australia.com

2004-02-10 Thread Robert Howells
Geoffrey, Have you looked over this site ? http://www.immi.gov.au/migration/index.htm Bob On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 03:46 PM, Geoffrey Stormzand wrote: We are planning our Australian scouting trip for June, already have the vistors VISA. If all goes well we would like to immigrate

Re: Mac OS X 10.3 install issues

2004-02-10 Thread James / Hans Kunz
i'm using a 17 powerbook, no install problems, but.you have to get a lot of updates panther renders a lot of !osx! software useless if you don't update..James On 09/02/2004, at 14:08, Mark Secker wrote: Has anybody noticed that running the OSX 10.3 installer causes an

Re: Big Pond Broadband

2004-02-10 Thread Stuart Elvish
Hi everybody, Telstra are responsible for providing a large number of ADSL services, however the statements recently uttered about Telstra supplying most (if not all) ADSL services is incorrect. To begin with, the internet service market is now divided into retailers (the people you as a

problems

2004-02-10 Thread David Hudleston
After connecting my Powerbook G4 to a client's server (I had to use 9.2 to connect) and working there for three days my laptop experienced several crashes resulting in freezing of my computer and subsequent forced restarts. Now I am having problems with freezing requiring a forced restart.

Re: MP3 player for OS 9?

2004-02-10 Thread logrythm
GrayAmp is free, if you can find a copy anywhere, as it seems to have gone from http://www.mp3machine.com/software/GrayAMP/ but there is an r18c3 version :) at http://www.rogueamoeba.com/~qdc/pub/os9/GrayAMP_r18c3.sit VersionTracker also suggests:

SuperDrive vs DVD-R 4x media...

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Heeler
Superdrive vs. DVD-R 4x media Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a eMac (running 10.3.2) with a Superdrive. This is a factory DVR-104 listing the device revision as A227. Using Apple DVD-R 4x

Re: DUH!!!opening CD tray without eject button (Scroll Wheel Too)

2004-02-10 Thread logrythm
On 10/02/2004, at 1:15 PM, Mark Secker wrote: f12 key (works on iMac but not on tower)... so ... the help menu can be useful sometimes F12 works on my BW G3 under 10.X too While we are on little tricks. I discovered that if you use the scroll wheel to click a hypelink while in Safari it

Re: DUH!!!opening CD tray without eject button (Scroll Wheel Too)

2004-02-10 Thread Stewart Woods
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 09:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we are on little tricks. I discovered that if you use the scroll wheel to click a hypelink while in Safari it loads it into a new tab, now Im even lazier! OOOh yeahlazier here too.. thx paul Stewart

Re: Big Pond Broadband

2004-02-10 Thread Greg Pennefather
I would just like to clear up a couple of points that Stuart made ... Telstra's wholesale network doesn't provide a 1:1 contention ratio. What happens is that Telstra Wholesale will terminate layer 2 or layer 3 sessions on your own equipment (if you're an ISP) using their backhaul network. An

Re: Off Topic... Live in Australia.com

2004-02-10 Thread andy baker
Having just emigrated to perth (3 weeks ago) I would recommend using an agent. We used one and they did help a lot with form filling and certain problems that arose during our application. Shop around - some agents charge a lot less than others. It took us 18 months to apply (this was increased

Re: Off Topic... Live in Australia.com

2004-02-10 Thread andy baker
Having just emigrated to perth (3 weeks ago) I would recommend using an agent. We used one and they did help a lot with form filling and certain problems that arose during our application. Shop around - some agents charge a lot less than others. It took us 18 months to apply (this was increased

12 powerbook power adapter

2004-02-10 Thread andy baker
Does anyone know where I could get a power adaptor for a 12 powerbook and the cost of one of these. Thanks Andy _ E-mail just got a whole lot better. New ninemsn Premium. Click here http://ninemsn.com.au/premium/landing.asp

Re: MP3 player for OS 9?

2004-02-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I managed to get itunes working on a beige g3 running mac os 9 without any usb ports. I'm not sure where I got the installer from though. On 10/2/04 3:22 PM, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a free MP3 player for OS

RE: random reboots

2004-02-10 Thread Kay, Richard
If your iBook falls within the serial number range UV220XX to UV318XX, I'd hazard a guess and say BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!! It might be worth doing a reinstall of the software ... I've got that down to 45 minutes (including internet configration and loading of odds and sods

Re: quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread Adam Yap
In terms of comparing Apples with equivalent PCs I always use IBM Thinkpads as a standard. Good support, good warranties, and I'd say similarly good design principles and quality of construction. Adam On 10/02/2004, at 10:09 AM, Paul Kitchener wrote: On 10/2/04 8:58 AM, Stewart Woods [EMAIL

Re: quick laptop question

2004-02-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are a couple of 17 laptops on.. http://search.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ss_17_laptops.html WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au On 10/2/04 8:58 AM, Stewart Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, Just doing a little switch-pitch on a friend here... She's considering the 17 powerbook so