Re: MacBook request - wanted to buy

2011-11-03 Thread mince and pud
Hi Peter Did Brian's mate want your powerbook in the end? If not I would be interested - my very similar one has a battery but a dodgy screen, among other things, so they could be a perfect match. kind regards alastair On 03/11/2011, at 3:18 AM, Peter Cutrona wrote: Brian. I have a

Re: sending sms from the Mac to a blue tooth phone

2011-04-17 Thread mince and pud
Hi Roger Skype will do that best alastair On 17/04/2011, at 10:21 AM, Roger Kortas wrote: Hi Guys Does anyone have any good applications or utilities that let you send an sms from the Mac to your phone? Its would also be nice if it allowed you to keep and track them also :) I have

Re: Telephone scam - your computer has viruses etc.

2011-03-25 Thread mince and pud
I get these calls a lot, and a friend suggested the following, which I tried too. Keep them talking for a while then, as if you have had time to trace the call, tell them you are really mr whatsisname from the online fraud department of the rest doesn't matter as they hang up really

Re: Warning: Apple Store Fishing Attack Adobe, Edition

2011-01-28 Thread mince and pud
Hi all When you get potentially dodgy emails with links in them it is revealing to click and drag the links a little way, which shows the real url. If it matches the link text all is probably well (though still use your judgement)- if it's a long, complicated affair ending in .ru you

Re: new scam - failed goods delivery - and Re: strange phone call

2010-12-14 Thread mince and pud
I don't think the scammers take a lot of notice of donotcall - I'm on the register and still get plenty of calls from Indians called Mark and Kevin offering to help with my computer. I usually say I don't have a computer best alastair On 14/12/2010, at 6:12 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: I

Re: Show Desktop

2010-11-30 Thread mince and pud
Hi Peter F11 on ordinary leopard, not sure about snow best alastair On 30/11/2010, at 10:17 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Does anyone know the shortcut to “show Desktop”? Its part of the standard Windows XP build but puzzled it’s not so intuitive with Snow Leopard. I Googled it and saw the

Re: URL

2010-11-23 Thread mince and pud
Hi Clive That's odd - I also looked at your site, because I'm an illustrator/ animator and I work with blokes like you, and I can't get past your logo page, though Neil obviously can. Could it be a browser thing? I'm safari 5.0.3 beat alastair www.goatpix.com.au powermac G5 dual 2ghz

Re: Word 2008 snitchy

2010-11-15 Thread mince and pud
Hi Ronni / Severin Interested in your photoshop and disc space discussion. I have also read that PS likes a separate disc for a scratch disc - any idea if this makes a significant difference? I was considering getting an extra drive but it would be disappointing if I didn't see a benefit/

Re: Word 2008 snitchy

2010-11-15 Thread mince and pud
need to do some research on this before I could comment further. Cheers, Ronni On 16/11/2010, at 11:53 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi Ronni / Severin Interested in your photoshop and disc space discussion. I have also read that PS likes a separate disc for a scratch disc - any idea

seeking code wizard

2010-11-07 Thread mince and pud
Hello wamug folk Is anyone out there a whizz at website code, databases and the like? I'm working on a site offering animated e-cards which capture user input into themselves before being sent, but my collaborator in Barcelona (long story) seems to have disappeared, so I'm after either

can't connect over network

2010-10-10 Thread mince and pud
Hi all can anyone give a steer on this please? - Mr google is not helping My wife's iMac has been happily connecting to my G5 over ethernet to get access to the firewire drive connected to the G5 where her time machine backup resides. But now she can't. The G5 appears in her sidebar, but

Re: can't connect over network

2010-10-10 Thread mince and pud
- but a multiple restart - thanks Tim - seems to have it all going again. G5 has even remembered that it's meant to auto-sleep, but I bet it won't last. Thanks very much to both alastair On 11/10/2010, at 1:54 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 10/10/2010, at 6:13 PM, mince and pud wrote

Re: How do you make a bluetooth connection between Mac iPhone

2010-09-29 Thread mince and pud
Hi Neil my samsung phone is horrible in many respects but i can at least bluetooth files with ease so i can understand how annoying it must be that you grown-up phone won't. I suppose you could always email the files if there weren't too many - inelegant, I know.. best alastair On

Re: Mail problem

2010-09-14 Thread mince and pud
I just had a password request on iinet account too - must be their fault! best alastair On 14/09/2010, at 1:13 PM, Jon Davison wrote: Yes, me too (Claremont). I think it must be one of those 'iinet things!'. Every once in a while I get the same thing, then it seems okay. Cheers Jon

Re: Sleep

2010-09-13 Thread mince and pud
until you press the power button. A restart simply ends your session in Mac OS X, shuts the operating system down, and then re-loads the operating system again. Cheers, Ronni On 13/09/2010, at 12:20 PM, mince and pud wrote: Thanks Ronni for that useful summary. One question

Re: Sleep

2010-09-12 Thread mince and pud
Thanks Ronni for that useful summary. One question - for the purposes of clearing all the gibbledygook, is a restart the same as a shutdown? best alastair On 13/09/2010, at 5:08 AM, Vladimir James wrote: I only occasionally shut down (thunderstorms, outages); I use a UPS. The computer

Re: Home file copy

2010-08-29 Thread mince and pud
Hi Merv/Ronni It's the first I've heard about time machine needing intel - seems to work fine on both our PPCs. Should I be worried? best alastair On 29/08/2010, at 12:58 PM, Merv Bond wrote: Hi Ronni According to Apple, Time Machine requires and intel Mac. Unfortunately our iBook

Re: Home file copy

2010-08-29 Thread mince and pud
be very pleased. Are you running OS 10.4.11 on any of your PPCs? Perhaps the OS has a role to play as well. Merv On 29/08/10 8:36 PM, mince and pud wrote: Hi Merv/Ronni It's the first I've heard about time machine needing intel - seems to work fine on both our PPCs. Should I be worried? best

Re: Used Macbook

2010-08-10 Thread mince and pud
Ray is a bit tough on HD recorders - my modest model does 1, 2 and 4 quite happily (well, 2 is a bit iffy, but in theory it can). Granted it can't do 3 or 5 - and it's only analogue, but I can't imagine a digital version being unable to do the same - maybe someone can correct this. I

screen dark at top

2010-07-24 Thread mince and pud
Any suggestions on this please? Can only find one mention - unsolved - on a forum. This morning my apple display - 20, older, plastic surround, is normal at the bottom but gets progressively darker towards the top. Also, the power light is blinking erratically. It's the kind with the

Re: screen dark at top

2010-07-24 Thread mince and pud
Thanks James but sorry I wasn't clear - it's a flat screen On 24/07/2010, at 11:41 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: if its a cathode ray tube type, bulky weighty, then the vertical deflection is failing (capacitor drying out/loosing value) = sign of age James On 24/07/2010, at 17:46, mince

Re: screen dark at top

2010-07-24 Thread mince and pud
will be able to buy a better screen for less money than a repair. Regards Roger On 24/07/2010, at 7:27 PM, mince and pud wrote: Thanks James but sorry I wasn't clear - it's a flat screen On 24/07/2010, at 11:41 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: if its a cathode ray tube type, bulky weighty

Re: NEW MacMin has a HDMI Port!

2010-06-20 Thread mince and pud
thanks James - may splash out on a jaycar one just to see... On 20/06/2010, at 6:07 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: with gadget cables you can end up in suprises, hdmi should be in the range $15 to $40 depending on the length James On 20/06/2010, at 13:02, mince and pud wrote: Does

Re: NEW MacMin has a HDMI Port!

2010-06-19 Thread mince and pud
Does anyone know if expensive HDMI cables are any better? I was looking at a hundred-buck DVD player in Hardly Normal and the bloke offered to throw in a cable at a knock-down $99. Well-trained in gouging if nothing else. Having said that, the 5 buck ebay one doesn't make a brilliant

Re: ISP collation

2010-06-18 Thread mince and pud
Alastair I know that sometimes might be fast and sometimes slow, but what i meant was what average speed would people usually get as aposed to speeds at specific dates/times. and for comparison to what provider advertised. regards lynn - Original Message - From: mince and pud minceand

Re: ISP collation

2010-06-17 Thread mince and pud
Hi Lynn I'm still a bit confused - is there a way of measuring actual speed in use NOT at a specific time, some readout of average speed? thanks again for your efforts alastair On 18/06/2010, at 1:30 AM, lynn...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi everyone (who may be confused to what info i am

Re: ISP collation

2010-06-17 Thread mince and pud
Hi Jane iinet claim 'up to' 24000kbps for adsl 2+ which makes your 3100 even more modest than my 6000... Mind you I was on a tech call with them once and I remember the router was showing a - theoretical, I suppose - download speed of 12000 and the bloke reckoned that was good, so even

Re: G5 problems

2010-05-30 Thread mince and pud
On 29/05/2010, at 11:04 PM, mince and pud wrote: Hi Jon This may well be rubbish but better I suggest it than not have you run fsck on them lately? This happened on my imac (well, the fans, not the double beeps) after running fsck and I had to run it again and typeexitat the end

Re: G5 problems

2010-05-29 Thread mince and pud
Hi Jon This may well be rubbish but better I suggest it than not have you run fsck on them lately? This happened on my imac (well, the fans, not the double beeps) after running fsck and I had to run it again and typeexitat the end instead of rebootand that fixed it. Might

Re: G5 problems

2010-05-29 Thread mince and pud
/05/2010, at 6:05 PM, Jon Davison wrote: Thanks for the reply Alastair, but how on earth do I do that? I don't even know what it means. Plus how can I do that if it won't even start? Help Jon On 29/05/2010, at 11:04 PM, mince and pud wrote: Hi Jon This may well be rubbish but better I

Re: How to draw a helix?

2010-05-28 Thread mince and pud
Hi Rob there's usually a teenager out there who knows about this stuff... http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rosati_vincent/ai_helix_1.php (google draw helix illustrator for more) good luck! alastair On 28/05/2010, at 9:32 AM, Rob Phillips wrote: Hello everyone Can anyone

Re: what is it about macs and sleep?

2010-05-16 Thread mince and pud
AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi all We've had six macs between us now, 3 still current, and not one has ever done what we asked as regards sleep. They don't sleep when they should, doze off when they shouldn't, refuse to wake My G5 is usually ok after a restart for a few days, sleeping

what is it about macs and sleep?

2010-05-13 Thread mince and pud
Hi all We've had six macs between us now, 3 still current, and not one has ever done what we asked as regards sleep. They don't sleep when they should, doze off when they shouldn't, refuse to wake My G5 is usually ok after a restart for a few days, sleeping after 15 mins, then it

Re: gradual freeze

2010-05-05 Thread mince and pud
carefully saved before the pram restart, has lost its end of file and is apparently irrecoverable. Grrr On 05/05/2010, at 11:04 AM, Rob Phillips wrote: One possibility is that your system disk has less than 10% free space. On 5/05/10 5:26 PM, mince and pud wrote: wah - would really appreciate

Re: speaking of time machine...

2010-04-24 Thread mince and pud
to the imac to complete the backup, just to finish the experiment, but I've no doubt you are correct and it will now behave Another million points best alastair On 24/04/2010, at 8:42 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Alastair, On 24/04/2010, at 8:57 AM, mince and pud wrote: a million points

speaking of time machine...

2010-04-23 Thread mince and pud
a million points to Ronni (as ever) for her comments on partitioning a drive for two computers on one TM disc - I did quite a bit of research on the backing up of two macs when they both hit leopard recently and nobody had thought of that. However I hit another snag that might make it

Re: itunes library

2010-03-25 Thread mince and pud
the music even though they're not even on the same drive, let alone in the same folder. Many thanks Ronni and Peter Alastair On 25/03/2010, at 8:20 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 24/03/2010, at 4:52 PM, mince and pud wrote: Hello Ronni Yes I copied over all the old itunes stuff - it never

Re: itunes library

2010-03-25 Thread mince and pud
/2010, at 4:02 PM, mince and pud wrote: woo hoo! My library is back from the wilderness. The opt-launch thing was as simple as not holding the key down for long enough (so it stopped working the more impatient I got!) At a loss to find a working library file in the music folder on my

Re: itunes library

2010-03-24 Thread mince and pud
) Still puzzled - many thanks as ever alastair On 24/03/2010, at 1:38 PM, mince and pud wrote: hope everyone survived the deluge and has their power back. I just got a new mac (well, new to me...) and migrating over seems to have been pretty smooth. Probably shouldn't have said

Re: itunes library

2010-03-24 Thread mince and pud
, at 8:20 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 24/03/2010, at 4:52 PM, mince and pud wrote: Hello Ronni Yes I copied over all the old itunes stuff - it never bothered the old setup Both 9.0.3 - but now under leopard, formerly tiger may indeed have opened iT before connecting drive - I forget

itunes library

2010-03-23 Thread mince and pud
hope everyone survived the deluge and has their power back. I just got a new mac (well, new to me...) and migrating over seems to have been pretty smooth. Probably shouldn't have said that. But iTunes has me stumped. My library is still on an external firewire drive where it has

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

2010-03-22 Thread mince and pud
Hi Barb I have firefox 2.0.0.20 on my laptop though not the installer - if all else fails and you want to just copy it and see, you're welcome best alastair On 23/03/2010, at 11:40 AM, Barb Zahari wrote: Hi imac power PC 750 (2.2) 400 mhz OS 10.3.9 Looks like the ethernet port on my

Re: software from abroad

2010-03-16 Thread mince and pud
thanks to Denise and Daniel for the en- and dis- couragement! alastair On 16 Mar 2010, at 11:28, Daniel Kerr wrote: Just be very wary with this. If it's not used for educational purposes and the company (be it Quark, or Adobe or whatever) find out, it's not used for the intended

software from abroad

2010-03-15 Thread mince and pud
Hi all Sorry if this has been covered before - can't seem to hit the right search words in the archive. My wife needs to buy Quarkxpress for her - voluntary - design work for a society. She thought of buying via friends in the US rather than squandering nearly double the amount here in

Re: Darken printing

2010-03-03 Thread mince and pud
Hi Peter I expect the eggheads of wamug will come up with a one-click answer but if not - send it to me off-list and I'll see if I can photoshop it for you regards alastair On 3 Mar 2010, at 08:15, Peter Curtis wrote: Hi I've a problem with a .pdf I'm printing. Unfortunately the

Re: Adobe CS4 Crashes on Launch

2010-02-06 Thread mince and pud
Hi Daniel I echo Ronni's font suggestion - I was tearing my hair over Flash doing the same thing and did lots of dud font chasing. And don't give up after one font programme says they are all fine - the several I tried all found different things wrong and though by the end I was trying

flash mx crashing

2010-01-18 Thread mince and pud
Hello all Don't know if there are any Flash experts out there but maybe someone can help with basic principles. I have been googling this for weeks, on and off, and have found several forum posts by people with the exact same problem - but none with a solution. I have had flash mx on my

Re: Ringtones

2009-12-28 Thread mince and pud
Hello Kim It may depend on the phone, but mine will play any mp3 I put into it as a ringtone, no software required. If you're producing something in garageband you'll have to turn it into an mp3 first, which you can do via iTunes regards alastair On 28 Dec 2009, at 09:38, F.W. Hänel

airport extreme

2009-12-27 Thread mince and pud
A quick and easy one (I hope) If I get an airport extreme card for my wife's iMac - the one with the broken ethernet port - will it talk to the belkin wireless router or does it have to have an airport base station? thanks alastair -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --

Re: airport extreme

2009-12-27 Thread mince and pud
I love the simple ones - thanks Gav On 28 Dec 2009, at 03:38, Gavin Criddle wrote: A quick and easy answer - yep! Gav On 28/12/2009, at 11:20 AM, mince and pud wrote: A quick and easy one (I hope) If I get an airport extreme card for my wife's iMac - the one with the broken ethernet

Re: ip over firewire

2009-12-25 Thread mince and pud
On 25 Dec 2009, at 09:22, James Devenish wrote: Hi Alastair, On 25/12/2009, mince and pud minceand...@goatpix.com wrote: I have followed all the tips I can find about networks and sharing but although the laptop is now connected to the internet via ethernet through belkin router, and the iMac

Re: ip over firewire

2009-12-25 Thread mince and pud
restarts, or maybe I ran some maintenance tasks I cannot recall. Anyway, in the interim, I used Airport. Tim On 25/12/09 6:17 PM, mince and pud minceand...@goatpix.com wrote: Hi James Thanks for taking the trouble on such a day - I had re-plugged the cable several times already, plus

ip over firewire

2009-12-24 Thread mince and pud
Happy Christmas, all I had thought everyone would be doing festive things today but I see activity so maybe there's hope - The ethernet port on my wife's iMac (20 pre-iSight, 10.4.11) seems to have died - cable plugged into my powerbook = fine; same cable into iMac = not fine. I have

Re: ram and sleep

2009-11-26 Thread mince and pud
, mince and pud wrote: In case it's of interest.. I was having a lot of sleep problems with my mirror door G4 1.25 10.4.11 (thanks to Bob et al for suggestions but nothing really fixed it). Freezing instead of sleeping, refusing to wake, kernel panic on wake, you name it. Much more recently

ram and sleep

2009-11-25 Thread mince and pud
In case it's of interest.. I was having a lot of sleep problems with my mirror door G4 1.25 10.4.11 (thanks to Bob et al for suggestions but nothing really fixed it). Freezing instead of sleeping, refusing to wake, kernel panic on wake, you name it. Much more recently I was trying to

Re: How to get rewritable CDs to play

2009-11-10 Thread mince and pud
Hi Brian I just discovered this too - and note that you can fit 10 times as much on an mp3 disc happy listening alastair On 10 Nov 2009, at 08:26, Brian Scott wrote: On 10/11/2009, at 3:14 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Brian, Does it play mp3s? If not, there is a good chance that it

Re: Animated gifs

2009-11-09 Thread mince and pud
if it's any help the gifs play straight away for me safari 4.0.3 G4 1.25 10.4.11 maybe your systems just aren't old enough best alastair On 9 Nov 2009, at 10:36, Neil Houghton wrote: Should also have said - 24 iMac, 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo running Leopard 10.5.8 Hi Severin, I don't

Re: NOTE BOOK PROBLEM

2009-10-19 Thread mince and pud
many thanks to Ronni on behalf of at least 222 people alastair On 19 Oct 2009, at 09:34, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello People, I notice that 165 people have downloaded What To Do If You Lose Your Broadband Internet Connection and 222 have downloaded Don't Scream ... Backup! I'm sure anyone

Re: iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-23 Thread mince and pud
making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos. Put it this way. Go to your Pictures Folder. If it's in the iPhoto Library Folder leave it alone. -- Cheers, Ronni On 23/09/2009, at 11:40 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi Ronni Hm

Re: iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-23 Thread mince and pud
/ 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 24/09/2009, at 12:38 AM, mince and pud wrote: Ronni You've done it again - correct in every particular, dragging the rolls over works like a charm many many thanks alastair On 23 Sep 2009, at 05:49, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Alastair

Re: iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-22 Thread mince and pud
;-) Cheers, Ronni On 22/09/2009, at 12:29 PM, mince and pud wrote: yes, both of those are ticked On 22 Sep 2009, at 04:47, Ronda Brown wrote: Have you checked your iPhoto Preferences Advanced - Importing: Copy files to iPhoto Library folder when adding to library, and Add ColorSync profile

Re: iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-22 Thread mince and pud
do anymore messing around ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 22/09/2009, at 12:29 PM, mince and pud wrote: yes, both of those are ticked On 22 Sep 2009, at 04:47, Ronda Brown wrote: Have you checked your iPhoto Preferences Advanced - Importing: Copy files to iPhoto Library folder when adding

Re: iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-22 Thread mince and pud
On 22/09/2009, at 6:57 PM, mince and pud wrote: Hi again Ronni Thanks for suggestion - but after another rebuild all is as before except that I now have FOUR identical copies of my last roll, all of which produce the file when clicked. (pause) I imported another, different roll, to see

Re: iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-22 Thread mince and pud
iPhoto Library backup, if it was working without any problems. iPhoto 6 I remember was a flaky version of iPhoto, it has improved with each version since. Cheers, Ronni On 22/09/2009, at 6:57 PM, mince and pud wrote: Hi again Ronni Thanks for suggestion - but after another rebuild all

iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-21 Thread mince and pud
Hi all I'd really appreciate advice on this iphoto 6 problem - it's a bit tricky to explain which is why I'm having no luck with mr Google... The last few rolls I imported have disappeared - ie, blank thumbnails and the grey ! when I try to open one. Searching for them by file number

Re: iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-21 Thread mince and pud
/09/2009, at 10:54 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi all I'd really appreciate advice on this iphoto 6 problem - it's a bit tricky to explain which is why I'm having no luck with mr Google... The last few rolls I imported have disappeared - ie, blank thumbnails and the grey ! when I try to open

Re: iphoto gone spoggly

2009-09-21 Thread mince and pud
wrote: On 22/09/2009, at 10:54 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi all I'd really appreciate advice on this iphoto 6 problem - it's a bit tricky to explain which is why I'm having no luck with mr Google... The last few rolls I imported have disappeared - ie, blank thumbnails and the grey

Re: I book G4

2009-09-17 Thread mince and pud
John before you get too involved - you have tried clicking the log in button without typing a password? There might not be one! regards alastair On 17 Sep 2009, at 09:30, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/09/2009, at 3:26 PM, j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Folks, I have been given the use of an

Re: someone using our wireless

2009-08-27 Thread mince and pud
we're on iinet and they are good - we get the odd dropout but that may be our dodgy phone line (currently waiting for telstra to dig the road up - enough said) and re Craig's last comment - software updates don't count on your quota (I've not seen them trumpet this, but whenever I update

Re: Strange window keeps popping up continued ? ?

2009-08-19 Thread mince and pud
Hi all I recently had trouble getting rid of maxtor software so I could reinstall it - if you have the original installer (might be in libraryreceipts if you lost the disc - I did and it was!) go to the file menu of the installer where it says list files, and you get a list of what it's

Re: eBay

2009-06-22 Thread mince and pud
if you DO get dudded by a seller - don't expect any help from ebay. alastair www.goatpix.com On 22 Jun 2009, at 08:04, Paul Weaver wrote: We've been using eBay for a few years with no problems. I've managed to get some bargains and never been dudded by a seller. We find the

Re: powerbook battery

2009-06-18 Thread mince and pud
from Melbourne: http://www.mobilepower.com.au/ Reg On 18/06/2009, at 11:46 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi all I have had to rest the PMU on my G4 powerbook several times lately as it kept refusing to wake from sleep and nothing else would budge it. Today I unplugged the adapter when the power

Re: powerbook battery

2009-06-17 Thread mince and pud
it show (how many lights/max5) when you push the button in the middle of the battery (battery inserted) are the connections clean? James On 18/06/2009, at 11:46, mince and pud wrote: Hi all I have had to rest the PMU on my G4 powerbook several times lately as it kept refusing to wake from

Re: Photo albums et al

2009-06-14 Thread mince and pud
Hi Laura As a fellow tigerite - command-tab (I don't know how to type the symbol either - but Neil does! - perhaps he'll tell us...) does indeed bring up the dock - but tab again and things are highlighted in turn Command ~ would do nothing if you only have one window open in the

tablet

2009-05-28 Thread mince and pud
Hi all Just on the off-chance - I don't suppose anyone has a non-essential wacom tablet (small; A5 or less) that I could borrow/buy/steal for a couple of weeks?? Going on hols and find I have to take some work along - no time for ebay from the east - no funds for a new one that will be so

Re: kernel panics

2009-05-22 Thread mince and pud
in it? On 22/05/2009, at 11:57 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi all I can find lots of discussions on kernel panics on waking from sleep, but nothing on the following. I thought I would try putting my G4 1.25g 10.3.9 to sleep instead of shutting down every night, but on 2 of the 3 times I've tried

kernel panics

2009-05-21 Thread mince and pud
Hi all I can find lots of discussions on kernel panics on waking from sleep, but nothing on the following. I thought I would try putting my G4 1.25g 10.3.9 to sleep instead of shutting down every night, but on 2 of the 3 times I've tried it I get an immediate kernel panic. Apart from the

Re: Recording sound from a Mac

2009-05-20 Thread mince and pud
Lloyd I see you're with iinet - do you know about their freezone? Radio doesn't count as quota. best Alastair On 20 May 2009, at 09:02, Lloyd White wrote: That is a useful site Severin. Can anyone tell me how much of my download quota is being used when I listen to radio via the

Re: Drives

2009-05-19 Thread mince and pud
Hi Ken Was the WD you bought a firewire? I hear that's best for the mac. My maxtor 500gb is firewire and just plugged in and worked best Alastair On 20 May 2009, at 06:23, Ken Jackson wrote: Thanks Brian, I'm running 10.4.11 on a Power Mac G5. It wasn't a good result for me. Should it be

Re: did my hard disc die?

2009-05-14 Thread mince and pud
as 'failing', so I guess it's shopping time Thanks for your help Alastair On 14 May 2009, at 14:54, Robert Howells wrote: Hi Alastair Wondering how you made out with your problem ? Cheers bob On 11/05/2009, at 10:56 AM, mince and pud wrote: Bob Thanks for your advice. Currently backing

Re: slow web connection

2009-05-13 Thread mince and pud
Hi Gary Just had a similar thing solved by belkin support - maybe something similar will do it for netgear. I logged in to the router, saved the configuration, pressed the reset button (paper clip job) on the router, restored the config file to the router, and after another switch off and on

did my hard disc die?

2009-05-10 Thread mince and pud
Hi gurus I had just installed extensis suitcase on my G4 powerbook and it got stuck initialising, then pretty well everything froze and I force-restarted to a blinking question mark. Now it won't boot even from an install disk. Boots fine from a firewire drive but there's no sign of its own

Re: did my hard disc die?

2009-05-10 Thread mince and pud
lasted more than 2 hours and now does barely 1 thanks Alastair On 11 May 2009, at 03:41, Robert Howells wrote: On 11/05/2009, at 10:19 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi gurus update - at the second attempt there's still no disc in the finder but disk utility can see it. Toshiba blah blah

Re: did my hard disc die?

2009-05-10 Thread mince and pud
thanks again Bob On 11 May 2009, at 04:22, Robert Howells wrote: On 11/05/2009, at 10:56 AM, mince and pud wrote: Bob Thanks for your advice. Currently backing up my backup (!) then will pile in with a reformat. Your comments on new drive noted. How does the battery affect

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread mince and pud
Just as a 'control' in this experiment - I wasn't on digilife's list and I didn't get the spam regards Alastair www.goatpix.com On 23 Apr 2009, at 09:58, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: I was Digilife's mailing list as well, and it was probably the address that was used for this. Could it be

Re: inundated

2009-04-20 Thread mince and pud
to send daily reports cheers James On 17/04/2009, at 8:04, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 16/04/2009, at 4:03 PM, mince and pud wrote: hi all every now and then I am besieged by alert messages from my router saying it has repelled attempts to access my network. Some are smurfs and others

inundated

2009-04-16 Thread mince and pud
hi all every now and then I am besieged by alert messages from my router saying it has repelled attempts to access my network. Some are smurfs and others UPD flood to host. The router recommends looking the source up at http://combat.uxn.com but there's nothing at that address. Does anyone

Re: inundated

2009-04-16 Thread mince and pud
wrote: On 16/04/2009, at 4:03 PM, mince and pud wrote: hi all every now and then I am besieged by alert messages from my router saying it has repelled attempts to access my network. Some are smurfs and others UPD flood to host. The router recommends looking the source up at http

Re: council interactive maps

2009-04-02 Thread mince and pud
If it's any help at all... I used to have to use firefox for mundaring - nowadays safari is fine but bayswater made both grind to a halt and had to force quit safari 1.3.2 10.3.9 regards Alastair On 2 Apr 2009, at 09:16, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: On 02/04/2009, at 3:57 PM, gary dorn

Re: windows drive

2009-03-06 Thread mince and pud
the software reinstalled. I ask yer..) thanks Bob On 6 Mar 2009, at 09:07, Robert Howells wrote: On 06/03/2009, at 2:43 PM, mince and pud wrote: Many thanks Bob and Greg I only wanted to read and copy, not write, but although Tiger should have done this ok, it didn't. Even when I installed

windows drive

2009-03-05 Thread mince and pud
Hi all Does anyone know if there's a way of reading a friend's USB hard drive - formatted windows NT filesystem - on either my G4 mirror doors 10.3 or my G4 powerbook 10.4? many thanks Alastair www.goatpix.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: windows drive

2009-03-05 Thread mince and pud
/2009, at 7:37 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 06/03/2009, at 12:29 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi all Does anyone know if there's a way of reading a friend's USB hard drive - formatted windows NT filesystem - on either my G4 mirror doors 10.3 or my G4 powerbook 10.4? many thanks Alastair

Re: iiNet Naked DSL disconnected / line dropouts

2009-01-27 Thread mince and pud
Hi gurus I have the same router on iinet ordinary (clothed?) adsl, and I also get the odd dropout and reeaallyy slloww periods. Do you think the firmware update would help that? And how do you tell what the existing version is? I can't find it. thanks Alastair On 27 Jan 2009, at 06:59,

Re: iiNet Naked DSL disconnected / line dropouts

2009-01-27 Thread mince and pud
- not sure, but the 'latest driver' strategy is often a good way of benefiting from fixes to known problems. Glenn. 2009/1/27 mince and pud minceand...@goatpix.com: Hi gurus I have the same router on iinet ordinary (clothed?) adsl, and I also get the odd dropout and reeaallyy slloww periods. Do

defragmented disc

2008-11-25 Thread mince and pud
Can anyone advise please? I made a clone of my hard disc with superduper on my external firewire onetouch disc, booted from there and everything went faster with the new, tidy defragmented version. Tested it a while to make sure all was well, then erased and restored back to the internal

Re: defragmented disc

2008-11-25 Thread mince and pud
Oops - not practiced at this.. late G4 desktop 1.25ghz 1mb L3 cache 1gb ram 10.3.9 Maxtor one touch III firewire 400 500gb thanks Bob and Rob On 25 Nov 2008, at 08:15, Robert Howells wrote: On 25/11/2008, at 5:01 PM, mince and pud wrote: Can anyone advise please? I made a clone

Re: defragmented disc

2008-11-25 Thread mince and pud
Thanks for your help Bob IBM-IC35L090AVV207-0: It's 80gb, but partitioned in two so it's only one 40gb half that concerns us. 12.7 gb spare best Alastair On 25 Nov 2008, at 09:22, Robert Howells wrote: On 25/11/2008, at 5:22 PM, mince and pud wrote: Oops - not practiced

Re: Google Maps Street View

2008-08-04 Thread mince and pud
Safari always quits on me whenever I launch google maps - anyone else get this? 10.3.9 safari 1.3.2 Alastair On 5 Aug 2008, at 04:18, Severin Crisp wrote: Yes, brilliant. These are quite historic pictures in my case, taken before the July 11 storm, which took out so many large trees and

Re: Dr Who to MP3?

2008-07-27 Thread mince and pud
Hi Paul WireTap will record whatever sound your mac's making - nothing to plug in. It's free... http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/ best Alastair On 28 Jul 2008, at 06:26, James / Hans Kunz wrote: if you can't afford audio hijack, you may use a mini jack cable to connect headphone out to

Re: Who is getting an iPhone tomorrow?

2008-07-09 Thread mince and pud
Hi Jane iPhone aside, I was interested to hear you use your pre-paid telstra sim abroad - I have the same but to roam abroad they make me go on to a temporary contract, which I then have to undo when I get back. How do you do it? regards Alastair On 10 Jul 2008, at 04:20, Jane Griffiths

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