From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ken Woods wrote:
most people, and I mean most people will draw absolutely no
separation between Intel and Windows!
I don't believe this group encompasses Mr and Mrs Joe Average, who buy
many more computers than us enthusiasts.
I agree - I would think Apple
What are the two main reasons PC people state over and over why the Mac
isn't a good option? In my experience, they boil down to:
1. Not enough software for the Mac
2. Macs are too slow
With probably Macs are too expensive coming in third.
And what do we get with Macs moving to Mactel:
1.
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 00:39 +0800, Martin Hill wrote:
What are the two main reasons PC people state over and over why the Mac
isn't a good option? In my experience, they boil down to:
1. Not enough software for the Mac
2. Macs are too slow
Really? The top two I've had mentioned:
1. Macs
Hi everyone,
I have got my hands on a 400 TiBook but want to put a wireless card in
it. I am thinking about wacking a 802.11g PCMIA card in, since it would
be much more effective (and cheaper?) than an original airport card.
Does anyone currently use a 802.11g PCMIA card, and can recommend a
On 10/06/2005, at 3:07 AM, James Anderson wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have got my hands on a 400 TiBook but want to put a wireless card
in it. I am thinking about wacking a 802.11g PCMIA card in, since
it would be much more effective (and cheaper?) than an original
airport card.
Does anyone
On 09/06/2005, at 7:59 AM, Paul wrote:
I don't believe this group encompasses Mr and Mrs Joe Average, who
buy many more computers than us enthusiasts.
I really only work with the Averages and their PCs and I can tell
you they don't even want to know about this stuff.
You try to tell them
Hey y'all,
I'm selling my Strawberry Imac if anyone wants it:
Strawberry Imac 333MHZ
Idance stand
288MB Ram
20Gig hard drive
Logitech Cordless Optical Mouse
OS 9 and 10.1 media
OS 10.2 media
$150
If you're living in the metro area, I'll happily drop it off.
I'm selling this as I just picked
At 8:19 AM +0800 10/6/05, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
On 09/06/2005, at 7:59 AM, Paul wrote:
I don't believe this group encompasses Mr and Mrs Joe Average, who
buy many more computers than us enthusiasts.
I really only work with the Averages and their PCs and I can tell
you they don't even want
From: Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 00:39 +0800, Martin Hill wrote:
What are the two main reasons PC people state over and over why the Mac
isn't a good option? In my experience, they boil down to:
1. Not enough software for the Mac
2. Macs are too slow
Really?
I use Eudora here at home with a POP3 setup.
I also have an account at work (Outlook). I could always run Eudora
at work (XP) if that makes things better / more reliable.
The problem seems to be even with some good forwarding filters I
don't always get / have access to important e-mail while
Hi James,
I came across the following compatibility list a little while ago:
http://mystique.metaphyzx.net/~tehen/Wireless.htm
I cannot vouch for it's authenticity, but at worst it should give you
a starting point and/or perhaps a heads-up as to the existence of 3rd
party drivers for 3rd
Antony,
I use Eudora here at home with a POP3 setup.
I also have an account at work (Outlook). I could always run Eudora
at work (XP) if that makes things better / more reliable.
The problem seems to be even with some good forwarding filters I
don't always get / have access to important
On 10/06/2005, at 9:34 AM, Antony N. Lord wrote:
I use Eudora here at home with a POP3 setup.
I also have an account at work (Outlook). I could always run Eudora
at work (XP) if that makes things better / more reliable.
The problem seems to be even with some good forwarding filters I
I use Eudora here at home with a POP3 setup.
I also have an account at work (Outlook). I could always run Eudora
at work (XP) if that makes things better / more reliable.
The problem seems to be even with some good forwarding filters I
don't always get / have access to important e-mail while
From: Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone got some recommendations / comments before I do the switch?
I always seem to see reports of IMAP stuffups.
Yeah - I agree. I suffered one myself. I changed my personal email account
over to IMAP from POP on my PowerBook and then a few months later
On 10/06/2005, at 10:09 AM, Martin Hill wrote:
I prefer to download everything using POP in one blast and then be
able to
read it all offline afterwards so POP is really better for me anyway.
I should point out that you can do that with IMAP as well. I have
Mail.app configured to download
Anyone else struck the problem of trying to enable FTP traffic through the
Firewall in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Server?
I've just installed Tiger Server on one of our G5 Xserves (Dual 2 GHz G5,
1GB RAM 1.2TB HD) and as soon as I turn on the Firewall, FTP clients can't
connect and download files
I have 'leave on server for one week' option on mail at work and at
home. That way, I get all emails on both machines. If I want to
delete the mail, I can go in via one of my machines and hit delete
from server now.
It means I have copies of emails I want to keep on both machines.
On
Howdy all,
I'm having trouble getting iPhoto to recognise my iTunes library to
access music for slideshows. When you go to select the music 'Sample
Music' is available, but 'no iTunes Music Library' is greyed out.
Running:
iTunes 4.8
iPhoto 4.0.3
OSX 10.3.9
I've run through the suggestion
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:28 +0800, Martin Hill wrote:
1. Macs are too expensive,
Indeed, that's what I put down as my 3rd point and with the advent of the
Mac Mini and the potential for cheaper intel components (some more
expensive, some cheaper), this also is being better addressed by
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:51 +0800, KEVIN Lock wrote:
In my experience, people about to get into a computer for the first
time look to a friend to ask if that friend can be their techie when
they purchase.In my case, I have advised a few friends that if
they want my help then they
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:34 +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote:
Anyone got some recommendations / comments before I do the switch?
IMAP is bliss and you won't look back, though you'll find you need to
pick your email client more carefully. One of the more reliable ones
I've seen is Mozilla
On 10/06/2005, at 10:54 AM, Martin Hill wrote:
Anyone else struck the problem of trying to enable FTP traffic
through the
Firewall in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Server?
I've just installed Tiger Server on one of our G5 Xserves (Dual 2
GHz G5,
1GB RAM 1.2TB HD) and as soon as I turn on the
Hi...
I've set Preview to display PDF's at 150% (via its PDF preferences
pane), but it doesn't actually seem to do anything.
Does it work for anyone else?
Our clipping service gives us newspaper articles at unreadable sizes
and they need to be opened with a bit of zoom.
Have fun,
Shay
--
In order to use a cable free mouse and keyboard I have the choice of
Wireless or Bluetooth.
Can anyone explain the advantages of one over the other?
ALSO
Which is the better product for playing music over the FM radio from my iPod
Photo, Airplay from Apple or iTrip from Griffin, or others?
Sorry but I don't think I'm going to be able to help you. I just
tried encoding one of my songs into AAC format to see if it would
present a problem. Worked just fine. I did have to move up a bar at
the bottom to be able to see what I can select but aside from that no
issues.
In your
In order to use a cable free mouse and keyboard I have the choice of
Wireless or Bluetooth.
Can anyone explain the advantages of one over the other?
Wireless is presumably some random manufacturers standard, which will
require a receiver unit plugged into your Mac. Bluetooth will not
require
I have been a long time user of Fetch as an FTP client for managing
my websites. Having had a few recent glitches with the latest
version (5) and 10.4.1, acknowledged by Fetchsoft, I have tried
Transmit, recommended to me by Westnet support.
It works beautifully, is lightning fast, and very
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On 10/06/2005, at 2:35 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:
Hi...
I've set Preview to display PDF's at 150% (via its PDF preferences
pane), but it doesn't actually seem to do anything.
Does it work for anyone else?
Using Panther 10.3.8 .YES !
I did have it set at 100%, changed to 150%
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:35:02PM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote:
I've set Preview to display PDF's at 150% (via its PDF preferences
pane), but it doesn't actually seem to do anything.
Does it work for anyone else?
Try this: change the % magnification, then go to the
From: Lloyd White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In order to use a cable free mouse and keyboard I have the choice of
Wireless or Bluetooth.
Can anyone explain the advantages of one over the other?
We've been through 2 cheap RF wireless keyboards and mice (Belkin $60 and
Microsoft $80) and both had very
Transmit is great. There is also another nice client called Cyberduck.
cyberduck.ch (free, but donations accepted!)
On 10/06/2005, at 2:35 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:
Hi...
I've set Preview to display PDF's at 150% (via its PDF preferences
pane), but it doesn't actually seem to do anything.
Does it work for anyone else?
Using Panther 10.3.8 .YES !
Sorry, should have said I'm using Tiger
On 10/06/2005, at 3:06 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
I have been a long time user of Fetch as an FTP client for managing
my websites. Having had a few recent glitches with the latest
version (5) and 10.4.1, acknowledged by Fetchsoft, I have tried
Transmit, recommended to me by Westnet
And after that
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/0047246from=rss
On 9/6/05 6:25 PM, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rod wrote:
Hi All!
Anyone want to know how Steve got that satellite pic of the
Skunkworks at Apple? Look here:
I've only experienced the iTrip. It's a working portable solution
but I find the range/quality often very annoying. For something for
home use the best thing in my opinion is a dock connected to your
stereo. That way you can play your music and charge your iPod at the
same time.
If the FTP client is able to connect and issue commands but then doesn't get
any response, then using a passive ftp client and server is the answer. FTP
has always been a problem for firewalls and that's why passive mode clients
were introduced. It's been a long time since I looked at this but,
From: Severin Crisp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:06:02 +0800
To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au
Subject: FTP client
snip
I used to support the local product, Interarchie, but gave it away
for similar reasons some few system incarnations ago.
It is quite a pity that
On 10/06/2005, at 1:23 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
You do need to find an IMAP server that will give you a large quota,
ozmac.com has no quota. The biggest user on the server is currently
running a 2 gigs.
preferably one that also keeps good backups if you care about your
mail.
ozmac.com
From: Greg Pennefather [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the FTP client is able to connect and issue commands but then doesn't get
any response, then using a passive ftp client and server is the answer. FTP
has always been a problem for firewalls and that's why passive mode clients
were introduced.
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 16:56 +0800, Martin Hill wrote:
Apples docs at this detail are pretty poor :-(
Yeah. The FTP protocol is, frankly, pretty poor too. It's just not made
for the modern Internet, with its hideous mess of intentionally non-
standards-compliant software (firewalls) and bizarre
How did you manage that Kev ?
I have advised every person that has asked me to buy a Mac.
So far every one of them has bought a Windoze PC, then come to me for
assistance.
I swore after the last one that I would say NO to any assistance, but
how can you do that to friends and family.
My
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 18:36 +0800, Stephen Chape wrote:
How did you manage that Kev ?
I have advised every person that has asked me to buy a Mac.
So far every one of them has bought a Windoze PC, then come to me for
assistance.
That's very interesting. I usually just ask them a few things
My mother (who is 85 years old) has decided that her old Windows
machine (that is so old it struggles with Windows 98) is getting too
old so she wants to upgrade. I took her to Digilife in Mt Hawthorn
this morning and now she is going to think about it. However my
brother has already told
On 10/06/2005, at 7:13 PM, Jude wrote:
My mother (who is 85 years old) has decided that her old Windows
machine (that is so old it struggles with Windows 98) is getting too
old so she wants to upgrade. I took her to Digilife in Mt Hawthorn
this morning and now she is going to think about
I guess we all have a story like this to tell. A friend is in the process of
buying his first computer. His daughter is warning him off Macs: his son in
law can get him a Windows REALLY cheap but the only argument I can offer is
my support on how to work on a Mac. It is working! He needs a friend
Hi All,
Good summary of the situation is at :-
http://www.macintouch.com/
page down to heading
Cut loose, Bluetooth style. naviPlay is Bluetooth for iPod.
and read Commentary immediately beneath it.
Cheers
Bob
Might I suggest an inducement for first-time computer folks to go Mac.
Zytech has (or had) some great 500mhz iMacs for el-cheapo prices.
They are already OSX loaded and are in great condition. I have set
up a couple of mates with them and they are well pleased.
I am not in any way connected
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html
Probably malarky, but he does have an interesting point.
I just hope they don't change the starting chime to the Intel jingle :-)
Seeya
Rod!
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:39 +0800, Rod wrote:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html
Probably malarky, but he does have an interesting point.
That man is a genius. He should be in comedy, because he's evidently
good at it. If he's actually serious, he should probably stick to
At 09:28 +0800 10/6/05, Martin Hill wrote [in relation to UI responsiveness]:
I'm with you on that one Craig. That's one pet peeve of mine as well. (but
the Dell on my desk is another matter entirely *blech*)
Wow, the Dells I use all work really well and are plenty responsive
under Windows
At 18:16 +0800 9/6/05, Paul wrote:
I'm praying that Apple remain the Motherboard designers and or
builders. Thats where they have had the edge IMO.
Would that be like the iMac G5 design which has, er, reported issues?
--
Andrew Nielsen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another approach, after providing whatever advice your friend or
family member has requested about buying a computer, is to simply
make an offer.
If you choose a Mac I'll give you unlimited free technical support
for life. If you choose Windows you're on your own.
Your friend or family
On Friday, June 10, 2005, at 08:54PM, Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:39 +0800, Rod wrote:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html
Probably malarky, but he does have an interesting point.
That man is a genius. He should be in comedy, because
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