Re: Astroturfing ­ Don't trust the web

2011-09-18 Thread Stuart Evans
Great info Ray. The sad thing is it goes beyond the Internet and it's been happening for ages in other mediums. So much News in the media whether it be TV, Papers, or Web sites is influenced whether they are paid by sponsors or some other way. A media outlet can manipulate a story that should

Sad tale of woe

2011-09-18 Thread McCallum Malcolm
Some years ago I bought an Ipad which I had great fun with and used it extensively. I had a leather case and that was it's down fall as my dog likes leather and chewed the leather case! Unfortunately the ipad was still inside inside and a tooth went through the aerial part and the ipod no

Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.

2011-09-18 Thread Stephen Wonfor
Ronni There is a wired network with a SonicWall router. I am plugging in the Airport Express and setting it up in Bridge mode. It simply allows wireless clients to pull an IP from the SonicWall. This works. If I make the wireless closed I cannot access it. That is the problem, we do not

Re: Scam with .zip file I haven't seen before

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 17/09/2011, at 8:06 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all, I didn't have to think about this much as I haven't made any such transactions in a very long time. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com This one has been doing the rounds for weeks. To be treated with the

Re: Sad tale of woe

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 18/09/2011, at 6:53 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: Some years ago I bought an Ipad which I had great fun with and used it extensively. I had a leather case and that was it's down fall as my dog likes leather and chewed the leather case! Unfortunately the ipad was still inside inside and a

Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.

2011-09-18 Thread Stephen Wonfor
Daniel 1. Both Expresses have been reset to factory. 2. Both work in Bridge mode when visible. 3. Both cannot be accessed when I close the wifi network. 4. Same behaviour at client office - SonicWall Router (Non-wifi) plus Express. Cannot be accessed when closed. 5. Same behaviour my house -

Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.

2011-09-18 Thread Daniel Kerr
Yeh, sounds like there is something else going on. Did you try setting it all up from scratch. (including the SonicWall). I re-tested it here with a Netgear router and TimeCapsule. Reset wireless to a Closed Network and joined it with two machines (neither that had been on the Wireless Network

Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.

2011-09-18 Thread Stephen Wonfor
Daniel I have a feeling that the term network may not be applicable to a Wifi device running in Bridge mode... Anyway...I am moving on... Stephen --- program, n.: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to

Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.

2011-09-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Stephen, I have just come back online and picking up on this thread. The Airport Express is still a Wireless Network when running in Bridge Mode. And the Wireless Network 'does' work when 'hidden' (closed) I've run Airport Wireless Networks with their SSID hidden with no problems. Like

Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.

2011-09-18 Thread Stephen Wonfor
Ronni Tx. I will delve into it again. Stephen --- Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue. On Sep 18, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Stephen, I have just come back online and picking up on this thread. The Airport Express is still a Wireless Network when running in

Re: Time Capsule dilemma

2011-09-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Stephanie and welcome to WAMUG, Being a new member of WAMUG you have probably not read all our discussions on having a ‘Good Backup System' in place. Never rely on just Time Machine, or any one form of backup. Have a Backup Strategy which involves ‘three parts’, Archives, ‘bootable’

Re: Time Capsule dilemma

2011-09-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Ah g, the new Mailing List now doesn’t accept Rich Text, so my Links in my previous email did not work ;-( ‘Cracking Open the Time Capsule’ is found here: http://www.applefritter.com/node/23907 The SATA Drive Docking Station link is found here:

Re: Sad tale of woe

2011-09-18 Thread Paul K
Hi Mac, Might I also pass on our strategy for preventing dogs chewing and digging. Go to your nearest Op-Shop and buy a large bag of old unloved stuffed toys. Should run you less than $5. Now spread the toys around near something, your shoe maybe(not your new iPad), that is not for the dog. When

Micro Card

2011-09-18 Thread Curtis Peter
Hi Everyone Please excuse my ignorance! But I'm using a new GPS unit which has a micro SSD card which I want to add some geo maps to. Never having used a SSD card on my MacBook Pro I purchased a new one from Dick Smith (micro SDHC Memory Card 4GB with SD Adaptor). My question is, having

Re: Micro Card

2011-09-18 Thread Ronda Brown
On 19/09/2011, at 9:28 AM, Curtis Peter wrote: Hi Everyone Please excuse my ignorance! But I'm using a new GPS unit which has a micro SSD card which I want to add some geo maps to. Never having used a SSD card on my MacBook Pro I purchased a new one from Dick Smith (micro SDHC Memory

Re: Micro Card

2011-09-18 Thread Curtis Peter
Thanks Ronni It's not showing up on the computer so I'll investigate further on the info you have kindly provided. It might be my age but things seem to be so much harder these days! I want to use my new GPS. 1 I have to wade through a 123 page manual. 2 I need to download another

Re: Micro Card

2011-09-18 Thread Ronda Brown
ha haaa Peter, All this new Technology is making life faster and easier for us … so they keep telling us ;-) The bit they forget to tell you is that ’trying to keep up with Technology’ is the HARD PART! Best of luck, you will get there … eventually ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 19/09/2011, at 10:00

Re: Micro Card

2011-09-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Peter, is it a SanDisk micro SDHC Memory Card 4GB with SD Adaptor? What model MacBook Pro do you have? Is it one of the latest MBP’s that will read SDHC cards? It should be pre-formatted FAT-32 so that is read/write on a Mac, no problem there. You do have in Finder Preferences General -

Re: Micro Card

2011-09-18 Thread Curtis Peter
Hi Ronni I've got it to see the card now so I'm not going down that track any further for the moment, I'll follow up later. For now I'll proceed with the GPS stuff. Regards Peter On 19/09/2011, at 10:28 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Peter, is it a SanDisk micro SDHC Memory Card 4GB with SD Adaptor?

Re: Sad tale of woe

2011-09-18 Thread McCallum Malcolm
Thanks Peter, will try it Mac Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au Skype docmactor On 19/09/2011, at 12:20 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 18/09/2011, at 6:53 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: Some years ago I bought an Ipad which I had great fun with and used it extensively. I had a