Re: Backup Strategy

2009-09-24 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, Interesting that you use two different programs to clone to external FW drives - Déjà Vu for your weekly clone and Superduper for your monthly clone. Do you have a particular reason for this? - I can see the reason for two different drives in two different locations with two different

Re: Backup Strategy

2009-09-24 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Neil, No particular reason really. It's just that I have a purchased copy of SuperDuper, so seeing as I have paid for it, I decided I should at least use it ;-) I created the original clone on the off-site drive using SuperDuper before I realised Déjà Vu could do a bootable clone as well

FW: Mobileme

2009-09-24 Thread Jack/Bauer
-- Forwarded Message From: Jack/Bauer bart...@e-wire.net.au Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:59:05 +0800 To: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au Conversation: Mobileme Subject: Mobileme Hi all Is anybody having problem accessing mobileme . Bart -- End of Forwarded Message

Re: Backup Strategy

2009-09-24 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Ronni, good post. There are clearly circumstances where a backup to disk matters. And the maturity of online backup is now at the point where - coupled with a fast broadband connection - where it has become very useful, particularly for those items that change frequently and where offsite backup

Re: Backup Strategy

2009-09-24 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Glenn, GetDropBox for my Home Folder would not be very viable as it is over 120GB ( growing) in size :-) But, yes GetDropBox for online backup of smaller data works well ... as long as your Internet doesn't go down when you are wanting a file. I have iDisk which I can store files in as

Re: Backup Strategy

2009-09-24 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Fair enough Ronni, although I think larger offsite backup plans might not be that far off. Glenn OM4 :: 2009/9/24 Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com: Hi Glenn, GetDropBox for my Home Folder would not be very viable as it is over 120GB ( growing) in size :-) But, yes GetDropBox for online backup

Re: Mobileme

2009-09-24 Thread Michael Waldie
Email is working for me. I have had calendars syncing successfully today as well between iMac and iPhone and have accessed a couple of documents in the iDisk app on the iPhone. Michael On 24/09/2009, at 4:09 PM, Jack/Bauer wrote: -- Forwarded Message From: Jack/Bauer

Re: Low sound

2009-09-24 Thread David Moyle
Evening, Out of interest Severin are you using 10.6? Cheers, On 25/08/2009, at 4:58 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I find that the sound level on DVD playback is consistently very low on many DVDs and this low level is not correlated with the sound from the same DVD played in a DVD player.

Bugdom 2 serial number

2009-09-24 Thread Steven Knowles
I went to purchase a Bugdom 2 serial number from the Pangea web site, but it seems to only accept Visa or Mastercard, and if I conduct a foreign purchase with the Mastercard which I have, I get slugged AUD 35 by the bank, which is ridiculous given the cost of Bugsom 2 is USD 19. Anyone

Links in Safari

2009-09-24 Thread Severin Crisp
In Explorer Preferences the colours for Read and Unread links can be changed. I can find no such item in Safari or Firefox. Are they hidden somewhere? Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys,

Re: Links in Safari

2009-09-24 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, 2009/9/25 Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au: In Explorer Preferences the colours for Read and Unread links can be changed. I can find no such item in Safari or Firefox. Are they hidden somewhere? Safari supports this through Style Sheet (in Advanced Preferences). If you