Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread Rob Findlay
I have a couple of 3DFX Voodoo2 Video cards with Mac ROMS. They are 8Meg VRAM cards suitable for using in a PCI slot to run a second monitor in a G4 or G3 tower. I don't need them so will sell for $40 each. Email me off list. Rob

Re: outgoing mail port is blocked

2004-06-17 Thread Onno Benschop
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 20:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I have a problem sending email out. I am using webmail instead of using eudora or mail. Trying with mail gives the error message This message could not be delivered and will remain in your Outbox until it can be

Re: Fwd:

2004-06-17 Thread Onno Benschop
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Accessing monitor geometry

2004-06-17 Thread Mike Fuller
I've recently upgraded to a BW G3 running OS 10.3.4 and 9.2.2, with an Applevision 1710AV monitor. As well as the video cable, the monitor is attached via the ADB port. When it was used on my 9600 running OS 9.1, I could access the monitor geometry via software. This is absent on the G3 from

10.3.3 and Epson Printer Utility

2004-06-17 Thread Rod Blitvich
The epson utility will not connect with my C80 printer to check the ink levels etc. I am using 10.3.3 It does on another laptop with 10.3.0 Any ideas please? Ta Rod -- (o o) *===ooO-(_)-Ooo=* | Rod BLITVICH HOD

Wireless cards

2004-06-17 Thread Peter Sealy
I am investigating third party wireless adapter cards [alternative to Apple's Airport Card] such as Buffalo, Linksys, etc for my TiPB 15in 867. During my research I keep coming across card descriptions as PC, PCI and PCMCIA. Could someone please explain these terms. Which card type do I need?

[OT] What flavour of Linux to install on a PC?

2004-06-17 Thread Rod
Hi All! Sorry for the off topic post, but just wondering what flavour of Linux is ideal to install on a PC? The PC is a P2 300 with 128Meg ram and a standard AGP card. I have a spare PC to run it on here at work, as I am tired of Mac OS 9.1 on this 7600 continually crashing under most browsers

Re: [OT] What flavour of Linux to install on a PC?

2004-06-17 Thread Kathy Quinlan
Rod wrote: Hi All! Sorry for the off topic post, but just wondering what flavour of Linux is ideal to install on a PC? The PC is a P2 300 with 128Meg ram and a standard AGP card. I have a spare PC to run it on here at work, as I am tired of Mac OS 9.1 on this 7600 continually crashing under

Re: Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread gary dorn
I have a couple of 3DFX Voodoo2 Video cards with Mac ROMS. They are 8Meg VRAM cards suitable for using in a PCI slot to run a second monitor in a G4 or G3 tower. I don't need them so will sell for $40 each. Email me off list. Rob I already have two screens running off the one card on this new

Re: Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread Shay Telfer
I have a couple of 3DFX Voodoo2 Video cards with Mac ROMS. They are 8Meg VRAM cards suitable for using in a PCI slot to run a second monitor in a G4 or G3 tower. I don't need them so will sell for $40 each. Email me off list. Rob I already have two screens running off the one card on this new

Re: Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread Martin Hill
I once put 6 video cards (all nubus) in the first Mac I bought for myself - a screaming $8000 16MHz 1MB RAM Mac II back in the late 80's and it all worked perfectly giving me a huge 6 monitor desktop that I surrounded my seat with. At one point, I ran Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer and

Re: Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread Shay Telfer
It has taken Windows many years (decades) to even get close to what the Mac has been able to do since 1987. -Mart And they still haven't got it right. I often see Windoze dialogs appear across the middle of the screen on a 2-monitor system. So one half of the dialog is on one monitor and

Re: Accessing monitor geometry

2004-06-17 Thread Rob Findlay
From: Mike Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:04:25 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Accessing monitor geometry I've recently upgraded to a BW G3 running OS 10.3.4 and 9.2.2, with an Applevision 1710AV monitor. As well as the video cable, the

Re: Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread Mark Secker
I once put 6 video cards (all nubus) in the first Mac I bought for myself - a screaming $8000 16MHz 1MB RAM Mac II back in the late 80's Once as a junior support officer at WACAE (now ECU) I had to go to UWA's Electronic Enginering School (?) to see a guy who was using, I think, Stairway's

Re: Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread Shay Telfer
I once put 6 video cards (all nubus) in the first Mac I bought for myself - a screaming $8000 16MHz 1MB RAM Mac II back in the late 80's Once as a junior support officer at WACAE (now ECU) I had to go to UWA's Electronic Enginering School (?) to see a guy who was using, I think, Stairway's

Re: Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread Mark Secker
I think you mean Stairways' Assimilator yeh it's been more than 10 years but now you've jolted my memory I think it was Rev R Dis we were using at the time but replaced it with assimilator some time later. early last year in my (now not so) new job we had a clean up and hired a mini

Re: Voodoo Cards and large monitors

2004-06-17 Thread Greg Manzie
Hello All I have a 21 Apple monitor (sharp picture good colour, but part of the image wraps around on itself) and an NEC MultiSync 6FG also 21 (works well but picture is soft, as in slightly out of focus with one colour). The monitor techs tell me they are not worth repairing. I would love to

30 monitor laugh

2004-06-17 Thread Mark Secker
incase you havent heard the BIG BIG rumor for WWDC this month is the announcement of a new range of LCD monitors including a 30 display so read the link below and have a laugh at apples expense (instead of the other way round (me bitter about 3 dead iPods in less than 6 months? NO WAY)

Re: 30 monitor laugh

2004-06-17 Thread Rob Findlay
My son's iPod which he scrimped and saved for died just out of warranty too! poor kid is heartbroken. I'm having second thoughts about buying one for myself after hearing more stories of their reliability (NOT). Both of the Voodoo Cards I had are gone now. Thanks Rob http://www.mactherapy.com

Postscript Laser Printer - 'The old days'

2004-06-17 Thread Brett Carboni
It used to be simple (though expensive). You either bought a Laserwriter SC, IINT or NTX, the latter 2 with postscipt. Just bought a cheap Samsung. It works well (except for spot on drum) but not suitable for postscipt or high-ish volume printing (40 copies). Wants to rasterise the job each time.

Re: outgoing mail port is blocked

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 05:16, Onno Benschop wrote: I suspect that you ISP is blocking it in an attempt to stop Email viruses from your PC brethren... I'd have a little chat with them first. You can often log in to the ISP's members page and turn off port 25 blocking from there. Saves a

Re: Postscript Laser Printer - 'The old days'

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 12:05, Brett Carboni wrote: What model and make are people on the list using nowadays for postscipt 600+dpi printing? We need to print out menus etc quite frequently at the restaurant. Is anyone using A3 or is that inkjet territory now. I run a Xerox DocuPrint 4025 here

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Mark Secker
the first one the hard drive died a couple of months in OK I can accept this Hard Drive often fail in the first couple months , the second one the battery was only lasting 20 minutes, my sisters had the same battery problem. the worst part is that the last one was brand new out of the box 5

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 12:41, Shay Telfer wrote: There's the usual pressure to be more competitive which involves looking for cheaper ways to do things in order to be able to lower prices and yet keep the same profit margins. Are you surprised that the lower end gear isn't as reliable as

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Shay Telfer
Again, I can agree with that. What gets me, though, is that there's a growing history of systematic design and manufacturing problems. Would you expect the history of problems to decrease as time passes? History, by its very nature will get larger... Or perhaps people would just forget about

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:17, Shay Telfer wrote: Again, I can agree with that. What gets me, though, is that there's a growing history of systematic design and manufacturing problems. Would you expect the history of problems to decrease as time passes? History, by its very nature will get

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Tobes
Well, having just bought a 20 gig ipod, I'm going to be annoyed if anything goes wrong in the next 3-6months. The ipod's been out about 2 years yeah? 'figure that's enough time to work out a few manufacturing errors. I think MS offer a one year warranty on the Xbox ... Apple offer the same

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Shay Telfer
We had a perfectly good 7220 and a perfectly good 8600 here. We only retired them early last year. The 8600's power supply did die, but given how old it was that was more than reasonable. I wasn't even aware there was a known fault with those models. The 7220's were from the Gil Amelio reign of

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Mark Secker
I think MS offer a one year warranty on the Xbox ... Apple offer the same on the 'pod. Seems crap but consistent. Anyone know what the warranties are like on similar music players (e.g. Creative's 'Zen') LOL as I was tying the text below Drake training sent me a e-mail to say that I'll get

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Mrs C
I would like to weigh into this debate. A wise man (although a Dark Side User) once said to me: Don't think of computer equipment or electronics as a purchase. Think of it as a subscription. Because you will always, at some point, have to upgrade. So don't think of your initial investment,

Re: PC Card slot

2004-06-17 Thread Onno Benschop
Before you read this, note that Craig and I know each other (pretty) well and that I'm trying to clear up my (mis)understanding of his contribution - eg. I may be talking out of my ass, but Craig will set me straight if I'm wrong... I'm pretty sure that what I wrote below is correct :-) Read

Re: PC Card slot

2004-06-17 Thread Kathy Quinlan
Onno Benschop wrote: I always knew that you were a geek Kathy :-) Yeah, just wait to you see my home once I have moved, (IT is just ME :o) So it will be even more geeky ;o) Just have to work out how to buy food lol maybe a standard monitor repair will now be a weeks supply of dinner ;o)

Re: PC Card slot

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 16:08, Onno Benschop wrote: I'm pretty sure that what I wrote below is correct :-) Looks like it, allowing for the fact that your reading of my post is entirely different to how I read it. Your reading is rather more likely though. On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:27, Craig

Community Seminars

2004-06-17 Thread Onno Benschop
I'm thinking of hosting 10 half hour seminars about aspects of computing in the library of the rural community where I'm staying. If there was a single topic that you'd like your parents to know about, with relation to computing, what would it be? Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Dark Servant
Yeah, I'd be shattered if anything happened to my iPod. Just going without it for a while when it needed to be serviced was hard for me to take. I missed it every day while it was gone. I got my iPod under a student purchase so I have an extra couple of years warranty take help me sleep

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread logrythm
On 17/06/2004, at 2:57 PM, Mrs C wrote: I have to say they have outstripped the competitor's products even at Apple's lowest ebb. rant ego=auto background=amateur I couldnt agree more. These (personal computers) are not normal consumer items like cars, 'if' they could be compared (IMHO) I

Re: Voodoo Cards

2004-06-17 Thread logrythm
On 17/06/2004, at 10:28 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: I often see Windoze dialogs appear across the middle of the screen on a 2-monitor system. So one half of the dialog is on one monitor and the other half is on the other monitor. Sigh. If I remember correctly the funniest one is the login dialog

Re: Community Seminars

2004-06-17 Thread Ryan Jay Schotte
I'm thinking of hosting 10 half hour seminars about aspects of computing in the library of the rural community where I'm staying. If there was a single topic that you'd like your parents to know about, with relation to computing, what would it be? That things work much, much better when