difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Rob and Helen Storer
Dear all Once every month or so, an Eastern States organisation sends me a CD of crucial information. When I insert these CDs into my G4, it sounds like it is spinning up but then slows down again, and stops. No CD shows on the desktop and I cannot find it anywhere on the computer. The same

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Shay Telfer
Dear all Once every month or so, an Eastern States organisation sends me a CD of crucial information. When I insert these CDs into my G4, it sounds like it is spinning up but then slows down again, and stops. No CD shows on the desktop and I cannot find it anywhere on the computer. The same

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Craig Ringer
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 23:36, Rob and Helen Storer wrote: Any guesses as to how I can use these CDs without going through Virtual PC would be appreciated. Perhaps you can mount them from the command line? If the MacOS is failing to recognise what filesystem is in use on the CD (for example, if

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Ryan Schotte
According to recent discussion on Macintouch they're probably burning the CD as a UDF CD, which Mac OS X can't read. Windows XP creates these by default... Looking at the manual page for mount_udf in 10.3.3 : || BUGS || UDF 1.50 is supported. UDF 2.0 and later is not. And 10.2

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Onno Benschop
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 03:03, Ryan Schotte wrote: According to recent discussion on Macintouch they're probably burning the CD as a UDF CD, which Mac OS X can't read. Windows XP creates these by default... Looking at the manual page for mount_udf in 10.3.3 : || BUGS || UDF

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Ryan Schotte
Not much to be done about it except wait for an update... Format your hard-disk and install Linux? ..ducks and runs for cover.. Onno Benschop That too :) Ryan -- The problem with Onno's answers is that they're always right! - Anonymous

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Robert Howells
On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 01:03 AM, Ryan Schotte wrote: According to recent discussion on Macintouch they're probably burning the CD as a UDF CD, which Mac OS X can't read. Windows XP creates these by default... Looking at the manual page for mount_udf in 10.3.3 : || BUGS ||

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Onno Benschop
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 08:52, Robert Howells wrote: On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 01:03 AM, Ryan Schotte wrote: According to recent discussion on Macintouch they're probably burning the CD as a UDF CD, which Mac OS X can't read. Windows XP creates these by default... Looking at

Re: external Firewire drives problems

2004-04-15 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 14/04/2004, at 1:29 PM, Mark Secker wrote: no problems on any of these machines using an iPod - the iPod would always mount if and when it was daisy chained through the FirewWire Bus or mounted on a separate FireWire bus. any ideas, clues or hints? I can't offer any help,

Re: Virtual PC and printing

2004-04-15 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 14/04/2004, at 4:20 PM, wyvern wrote: a friend using virtual pc was having problems printing his documents at home and brought his laptop over my place in the hopes that one of my printers might make a difference. He was using publisher and cannot print any suggestions? Have you (a)

Re: external Firewire drives problems

2004-04-15 Thread Rob Findlay
From: Peter Hinchliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:18:55 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: external Firewire drives problems no problems on any of these machines using an iPod - the iPod would always mount if and when it was daisy chained

word form NAI re MP3Concept worm/trojan/virus Re: Ultimate word on MP3Concept Trojan

2004-04-15 Thread Mark Secker
The latest issue of Tidbits has an excellent, though lengthy, article on the recent Intego MP3Concept announcement. Well worth a read if you're worried about this sort of thing. http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-726.html#lnk2 This MacOS trojan generated a lot of fuss for no good

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread logrythm
On 15/04/2004, at 6:52 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 01:03 AM, Ryan Schotte wrote: According to recent discussion on Macintouch they're probably burning the CD as a UDF CD, which Mac OS X can't read. Windows XP creates these by default... Looking at the

OT: Digital SLR Compact Flash Cards

2004-04-15 Thread Wendy Austin Thomas Oswin
Hello All Apologies for the off topic post but I do know there are some photographers out there who might be able to help with this question. I am upgrading my digital camera to the Nikon D70 Digital SLR and is uses compact flash cards of which I know nothing, my other camera used the

Re: The mystery continues.........

2004-04-15 Thread Paul Troester
To every one who responded to The mystery continues., thank you very much. It certainly was an education. But I think that Matt may have hit the nail on the head. I originally was subscribed to the list with addy #1, and then because of the increasing level of spam that I was receiving. I

New eMac on the way !!

2004-04-15 Thread Stephen Chape
Did anyone see the story from News.com yesterday about Apple's price reduction on the eMac (superdrive model only) and with the inclusion of a faster Superdive ? -- Regards, Stephen Chape

Re: New eMac on the way !!

2004-04-15 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 22:01, Stephen Chape wrote: Did anyone see the story from News.com yesterday about Apple's price reduction on the eMac (superdrive model only) and with the inclusion of a faster Superdive ? It's funny - whenever I hear people talking about macs and superdrives I find