Bigpond cable/wireless router

2005-08-29 Thread Bob Jackson
I am currently using Bigpond cable with a Netgear wired router. It is my intention to buy an iBook soon and I am currently looking at wireless routers. From my reading of Whirlpool it appears that many of the wireless router brands have problems of one kind or another. I would appreciate

Re: Bigpond cable/wireless router

2005-08-29 Thread Rob Findlay
I have setup D-Link wireless cable routers for clients with good success. They have an up to date version of the Bigpond Cable client installed which is the main thing. We sell them here at Team Digital where I'm working or they can be had from Harvey Norman or I'm sure, many other places. Rob

Re: Bigpond cable/wireless router

2005-08-29 Thread Gordon Campbell
As it happens I'm using that exact config at home myself. I'm using a DLink DI-524 and found it excellent, no probs at all. It has a built- in client for Bigpond Cable and my iBook connects to it with no problems at all. Gordo -- Need to get in touch? Email MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -UNIX is

Slightly OT: Caught between a Dell and a cinema display

2005-08-29 Thread Toby Oldham
Hi all, I'm trying to decide between a 20 Apple Cinema Display ($1200 or so) and a Dell 24 display ($1400). Advice or suggestions gratefully appreciated. I've read many website reviews of the Dell 2405 FPW which praise it, and many forum reviews which both praise it ... but point out

Re: Slightly OT: Caught between a Dell and a cinema display

2005-08-29 Thread mark
(compared to Apple's displays). On the other hand, I've read many comments on the Apple displays which mention 'pinkish whites' and 'grayish blacks'. I noticed the 20 was a little warm when I first plugged it in but doing colour correction through display panel by eye it is now better

[FS] Various Items!

2005-08-29 Thread Rod
Hi All! I have the following for sale, with possibly more items in the next few days. NVidia FX5200 AGP Graphics card 256Meg version flashed for a mac. Works fine with 10.4. Had it running in a Powermac G4 MDD. $120 ono 80Gig 5200RPM 2.5 HD Brand new, never opened from anti-static bag

Re: Slightly OT: Caught between a Dell and a cinema display

2005-08-29 Thread Toby Oldham
I noticed the 20 was a little warm when I first plugged it in but doing colour correction through display panel by eye it is now better than acceptable Yeah, I figured whatever I get will need some tweaking. :) sorry this is illogical as occasional game and WoW in one sentance is an

Re: Slightly OT: Caught between a Dell and a cinema display

2005-08-29 Thread Andrew Schox
Toby, Hi all, I'm trying to decide between a 20 Apple Cinema Display ($1200 or so) and a Dell 24 display ($1400). Advice or suggestions gratefully appreciated. I've got two 20 Apple Cinema Displays (hooked up to a dual 2.3 G5). They are very nice indeed. I haven't noticed any colour problems,

WTB: ADC to VGA adaptor

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Secker
Does anybody have a ADC to VGA adaptor for sale need to plug a second VGA monitor in to a G4 tower. New prices for 3rd party seem around the $60 which is reasonable but need to be ordered from US/UK so looking at something a bit quicker than the 2 months snail mail or cheaper than the silly

Re: WTB: ADC to VGA adaptor

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 29/08/2005 3:50 PM, Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have a ADC to VGA adaptor for sale need to plug a second VGA monitor in to a G4 tower. New prices for 3rd party seem around the $60 which is reasonable but need to be ordered from US/UK so looking at something a bit

Ethernet Linking

2005-08-29 Thread Warwick L Smith
Hi all I'm trying to connect a G3 266 tower running MacOS 8.6 to a G4 Powerbook (using Tiger) through their ethernet ports over a small ethernet network. A call to Apple Support pointed me to Macintosh: How to Create a Small Ethernet Network http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n106658 but the link

Re: WTB: ADC to VGA adaptor

2005-08-29 Thread Antony N. Lord
$41.95 at ELX : http://www.elx.com.au/item/elsADC-VGA Cheers, Anton. Does anybody have a ADC to VGA adaptor for sale need to plug a second VGA monitor in to a G4 tower. -- == ==

Re: FS: MIDI and ADB/usb graphics hardware etc

2005-08-29 Thread Neil Houghton
on 27/08/05 17:30, Mark Secker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just clearing out some excess hardware here... 1 x Midiplus music MIDI controller keyboard $30 A basic 48 key + bend modulation wheels + data entry slider theoretically works with USB but I haven't been unable to get it to

Re: Website Test

2005-08-29 Thread Neil Houghton
on 26/08/05 17:06, Onno Benschop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Onno I get a blank page! i'm using Explorer 5.2 on an iMac running OS 10.2. Strange. We have a winner... Can someone please confirm this? http://www.wsc.org.au/ It seems that writing to

Re: FS: MIDI and ADB/usb graphics hardware etc

2005-08-29 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:00 +0800, Neil Houghton wrote: 1x A5 Wacom ADB graphics tablet with 1x iMate ADB to USB converter $30 (Will not split) Graphics tablet works under classic OS's only (will function under OSX but no pen pressure sensing). iMate can be used to connect old ADB

Re: Ethernet Linking

2005-08-29 Thread Neil Houghton
on 29/08/05 17:41, Warwick L Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm trying to connect a G3 266 tower running MacOS 8.6 to a G4 Powerbook (using Tiger) through their ethernet ports over a small ethernet network. A call to Apple Support pointed me to Macintosh: How to Create a Small

Re: Ethernet Linking

2005-08-29 Thread David Watkins
On 29/08/2005, at 5:41 PM, Warwick L Smith wrote: A call to Apple Support pointed me to Macintosh: How to Create a Small Ethernet Network http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n106658 but the link is obsolete. -- Warwick Give the link another try as it worked for

Re: Ethernet Linking

2005-08-29 Thread wyvern
I had a workaround which worked under OSX 10.1 which involved connecting under classic and keeping classic running - however this ceased to work when I updated to 10.2. I then found that for the powerbook I could connect using TCP/IP (set TCP/IP to connect via ethernet) rather than

Wanted: Command Conquer Mac Discs

2005-08-29 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi All, I tried to fire up an old game of Command Conquer (The original MacOS 8 game) only to find that my original discs were scratched. (I thought CD's were supposed to be indestructible.) Does anyone have an old copy of the game they would be willing to sell me, or burn me a copy of

Harman Kardon iSub

2005-08-29 Thread Christian Kotz
Hi All Anyone know who would be responsible for repairing Harman Kardon iSub's, the USB Mac specific versions. I'd imagine it would be the same people who fix JBL Creatures and HK Soundsticks. I'm just wondering as my iSub has developed an unusual 'buzz' like the sound electronic

Re: Harman Kardon iSub

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 29/08/2005 10:47 PM, Christian Kotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Anyone know who would be responsible for repairing Harman Kardon iSub's, the USB Mac specific versions. I'd imagine it would be the same people who fix JBL Creatures and HK Soundsticks. I'm just wondering as my iSub has