Re: Info on GMUG

2005-08-02 Thread Reg Whitely
Hi all I responded off list to this email from Greg and forwarded a copy to Steven Tan, our GMUG webmaster and moderator. My mail app sorted it into GMUG folder rather than WAMUG and I didn't read the header. Sorry but I thought it was an email sent to GMUG mailing list. I don't know why

Re: Compact Camera Recommendations

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Secker
It's all horses for courses...personally I'm on the look out for some thing cheap that I can just keep in the bottom of my day pack and stuff like Kodaks might the bill nicely, I think if people can make decent snaps with a Holga (and they do) then you can do it with even the cheapest

Re: Compact Camera Recommendations

2005-08-02 Thread Andrew
Thanks for the responses. I decided to go for really compact, as we already have a Fujifilm Finepix S7000 and wanted a backup camera which fits in a pocket. I got a Pentax Optio S5N (no viewfinder) at Plaza Digital for $449, after reading a few favourable reviews. Very easy to use. 2.5

Networked printer no longer visible

2005-08-02 Thread Kaye and Geoff
Hi, We have two eMacs networked, sharing a single Epsom inkjet printer. The printer is attached (USB) to our secondary machine, running OS10.3.3, and is working perfectly well from that machine. Our main machine (OS10.2.8) normally prints to the remote printer over the network. Yesterday,

Re: Compact Camera Recommendations

2005-08-02 Thread Murdoch Allen
I had a problem like that with one of the kodaks I have It turned out it was a software problem somehow as I updated the software for the dock and since then it drained the battery had to wipe the software off and put the earlier software on which wasn't easy was it Rod ;) On Aug 2, 2005,

Re: Compact Camera Recommendations

2005-08-02 Thread Rod
:-) Definitely not! Seeya Rod! On 02/08/2005, at 11:36 AM, Murdoch Allen wrote: I had a problem like that with one of the kodaks I have It turned out it was a software problem somehow as I updated the software for the dock and since then it drained the battery had to wipe the software

follow up Re: OT kind of: changing IP address on a HP 1320n

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Secker
in the end the problem was additional ram. took ram stick out and printer now running fine the fault lights for RAM are the same as no network connection and looking for DHCP server. obviously the printer was only accessing the additional memory some minutes after starting up as the printer

.hqx

2005-08-02 Thread Malcolm J McCallum
Can someone tell me please what I need to read a .hqx file. :-) Mac

Re: .hqx

2005-08-02 Thread Robert Howells
On 01/08/2005, at 5:52 PM, Malcolm J McCallum wrote: Can someone tell me please what I need to read a .hqx file. :-) Mac Failing all else drop it onto Stuffit expander and it should UNSTUFF Bob

Re: .hqx

2005-08-02 Thread Murdoch Allen
Stuffit should do it On Aug 2, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 01/08/2005, at 5:52 PM, Malcolm J McCallum wrote: Can someone tell me please what I need to read a .hqx file. :-) Mac Failing all else drop it onto Stuffit expander and it should UNSTUFF Bob -- The WA

Re: .hqx

2005-08-02 Thread Greg Pennefather
Or, more accurately, de-binhex. But, yes, Suffit will almost certainly de-binhex the file. Cheers Greg From: Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:59:33 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: .hqx On 01/08/2005, at 5:52 PM, Malcolm J McCallum

Re: .hqx

2005-08-02 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:52 +0800, Malcolm J McCallum wrote: Can someone tell me please what I need to read a .hqx file. :-) .hqx is usually used to identify a BinHex encoded file. That's an old and inefficient way of encoding binary files into text so that they can be transmitted through stupid

Powerbook G4 Start Up problems

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Anderson
My son's Pbk G4, 400, with 764 Mb Ram, running OSX 10.4.2 cannot start up. He gets a grey screen (multi language restart instruction). He apparently ran TechTool Delux when it was slowing down. Then after restarting from a Start Up Disk and running Disk Utlitlies - repaired preferences -

Re: Info on GMUG

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Healey
On 02/08/2005, at 7:53 AM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi all I responded off list to this email from Greg and forwarded a copy to Steven Tan, our GMUG webmaster and moderator. My mail app sorted it into GMUG folder rather than WAMUG and I didn't read the header. Sorry but I thought it was an

Unstuffit

2005-08-02 Thread Malcolm J McCallum
I Knew That ! Its' the old timers you know :-) Thanks everyone, enjoy tonight while I am at 38,000 feet. Mac

Re: Powerbook G4 Start Up problems

2005-08-02 Thread Robert Howells
On 02/08/2005, at 12:17 PM, Michael Anderson wrote: My son's Pbk G4, 400, with 764 Mb Ram, running OSX 10.4.2 cannot start up. He gets a grey screen (multi language restart instruction). He apparently ran TechTool Delux when it was slowing down. Then after restarting from a Start Up Disk and

[MEETING] Reminder - 7.30pm Tuesday 2nd August - tonight

2005-08-02 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi All Just to let you know what is coming up for this month's meetingwhich is tonight, Tuesday 2nd August, 7.30pm. Welcome to Members Normal QA Session Main Demonstrations for this meeting Peter Hinchliffe is going to hopefully demo Mac OS Services as well as FlySketch (it kept getting

Apple black shirt job in Perth

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Secker
http://hr.apple.com.au/FMPro?-db=recruit%5fjob-format=hr%2fdetail.html-sortfield=closing%5fdateshowonweb=Y-recid=36573-find= -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ It takes an

drawing/grafix for panther/tiger

2005-08-02 Thread James / Hans Kunz
hi guys panther/tiger are fast animalsbut is there a useful grafix/drawing package available (eg corel draw for os9 osx.2) especially that can import corel draw doc's corel ( many others) stopped writing software for mac because apple makes to many changes when updating/upgrading the

Re: drawing/grafix for panther/tiger

2005-08-02 Thread Craig Ringer
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:42 +0800, James / Hans Kunz wrote: hi guys panther/tiger are fast animalsbut is there a useful grafix/drawing package available (eg corel draw for os9 osx.2) especially that can import corel draw doc's corel ( many others) stopped writing software for mac

Re: drawing/grafix for panther/tiger

2005-08-02 Thread Craig Ringer
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 17:17 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:42 +0800, James / Hans Kunz wrote: hi guys panther/tiger are fast animalsbut is there a useful grafix/drawing package available (eg corel draw for os9 osx.2) especially that can import corel draw

Re: Info on GMUG

2005-08-02 Thread Reg Whitely
Thanks Matt. now we need to update it... :-) http://gmug.wamug.org.au/ Reg On 2 Aug 2005, at 12:24pm, Matthew Healey wrote: On 02/08/2005, at 7:53 AM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi all I responded off list to this email from Greg and forwarded a copy to Steven Tan, our GMUG webmaster and

off topic query

2005-08-02 Thread Skehan Adrian
This question is unrelated to the normal topics so responses may be more appropriate off the list. I am wondering if anyone on list has had a good, bad or indifferent experience with Roof Restorers/Coaters/ Painters etc. of late. I am in the process of refurbishing our 30 year old tiled

Re: drawing/grafix for panther/tiger

2005-08-02 Thread Rob Davies
On 02/08/2005, at 4:42 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: hi guys panther/tiger are fast animalsbut is there a useful grafix/ drawing package available (eg corel draw for os9 osx.2) especially that can import corel draw doc's CorelDraw doc's not sure, but GraphicConverterX might be able to

MIGHTY MOUSE!

2005-08-02 Thread Malcolm Burtenshaw
Apple have released their Might Mouse - http://www.apple.com/au/mightymouse/ $79 RRP. I must have one. Mal

Re: MIGHTY MOUSE!

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Secker
oww must get one... so much for no more gadgets this month (though technically I guess even if I order it tomorrow I wont see it for a at least 3 or 4 weeks. Apple have released their Might Mouse - http://www.apple.com/au/mightymouse/ $79 RRP. I must have one. Mal -- The WA

Re: MIGHTY MOUSE!

2005-08-02 Thread Paul
how does one right click? oww must get one... so much for no more gadgets this month (though technically I guess even if I order it tomorrow I wont see it for a at least 3 or 4 weeks. Apple have released their Might Mouse - http://www.apple.com/au/mightymouse/ $79 RRP. I must have

Re: MIGHTY MOUSE!

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Hill
Ha! At last Apple sees the light. Good to see they have finally seen sense and managed to keep the simplicity of the one-button mouse by default while still allowing more advanced users to program the touch-sensitive areas on either side of the scroll ball to act as left and right buttons (and

Re: MIGHTY MOUSE!

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Secker
'how does one right click? much like you do on a touch pad of a laptop lift finger slightly then tap it on the mouse. I'm kind of surprised they bothered to put a scroll button at all I would have done the whole front 3rd of the mouse as a touch sensitive area and, like the new

Re: MIGHTY MOUSE!

2005-08-02 Thread Reg Whitely
PC Compatible too. Is there a bluetooth model? Reg On 2 Aug 2005, at 9:46pm, Malcolm Burtenshaw wrote: Apple have released their Might Mouse - http://www.apple.com/au/ mightymouse/ $79 RRP. I must have one. Mal -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: MIGHTY MOUSE!

2005-08-02 Thread Malcolm Burtenshaw
With it being PC compatible I'm wondering how hackable this mouse is going to be. It also has an inbuilt speaker. I wonder how long till some enterprising young soul lets us upload custom sound schemes to our mighty mice. Mal On 02/08/2005, at 10:20 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: PC