Re: airport on a windows network
Mark Secker wrote: sorry there I meant to say Derek... so used to Onno being first cab off the rank on networking stuff ;) Seems I have a proxy now too :) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CMS for web site
Chris Burton wrote: Hi muggers I have a query regarding CMS (content management system) for a web site. I have only just heard about this from a web designer who says it is very necessary for my quite simple web site, as Im wanting to make my site more interesting and be able to update with more information over time. My question is how will I know if I need to have this, as it is expensive and by the sounds of it ties me down to their hosting of my site so I can use the CMS to update the site. The hosting is quite expensive, relative to what I pay now. They are charging $360/year just to host the site. Could someone please give me some advice or online sites that I can check out to help me make a decision. I am a complete novice but eager to learn what I can. I have dabbled in Golive 6, but at the moment have no spare time and realise there is a lot more to making a good site than at a first glance. Many thanks to everyone As a software developer I can give you some comment about what you're asking. I'll refrain from commenting on cost because I don't know your circumstances. (For one organisation $10 is expensive, for another, $3000 is a bargain.) As you know, a web-site is a way to share information with people using web-browsers. This information could be stored as single documents inside folders on the hosting server. They run a piece of software, called a web-server, that retrieves the requested document and returns it to the visitor. A document based web-site is simple to maintain until it hits around 20 pages. At that time you might find that you spend more time fixing links and changing menus everywhere, rather than maintaining actual content. A CMS is a tool to manage that process. The CMS generates documents (from various sources) and sends them back to the web-server which sends it back to the visitor. From the outside nothing seems to have changed. On the inside however, a whole lot of different things happen. Some CMS software generates its content from a database, others do it from little text files. The upshot is that the CMS software should deal with navigation, organisation and permissions, and you as the web-master only need to worry about content. If you have HTML skills and a small site there is likely no need to invest in a CMS, but if either of those is missing, then you need to ask yourself, am I a web-developer, or not? As some on this list have pointed out, a CMS can be free, or it can cost money. As you've found out, the CMS being offered to you is charged by way of hosting. Other constructs set up your CMS including x hours of training and support with the hosting separate. Some things to consider: * If the relationship between you and your web-developer sours, where is the content, who has control of it and do you have the right to host your existing application somewhere else? * If you're locked in, the process of getting your data out can be very painful - I have dealt with this more than once. * A CMS isn't a catch all tool, but it can solve a problem for many people. * Some users of CMS software never get it and continue to upload complete HTML pages into their CMS, completely defeating the purpose. Disclaimer: I am a web-developer, I sell my own CMS, ITemWeb, it runs on several sites including the WA Bed Breakfast and the World Solar Challenge. I cannot comment on your personal environment without knowing any details. I've left out a great many other considerations here, but tried to give you some idea of what the scope of the question you're asking entails. Kind regards, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tool kits
Paul Doyle wrote: Has anyone ever found a use for the universal hook? I use it to carry shopping bags and pull out knots. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tool kits
Reg Whitely wrote: On second thought the SwisChamp XLT seems a better choice, but there's no usb drive included http://www.victorinox.com/newsite/en/produkte/index.htm Well, I owned my first Victorinox Cybertool for a week when my car was broken into and it was stolen. It was a gift from Fran. I purchased its replacement two days later, invested in a belt pouch and have carried it most places for the past two, nearly three years. It has opened many computers, torx and all, and has fixed many other things that needed pliers, tweasers, screw drivers, wire cutters, scissors or any of the other wonderful bits. It has thus stood me in great stead: http://www.victorinox.com/newsite/en/produkte/produktdetails//1-7725-T/1-7725-T.htm It also does jumpers, connector bolts (like the ones on a VGA or printer output), dip-switches and has a mean tin-opener, a pen and a tooth-pick :) I could keep going, but then it would become an advertisement, rather than a happy user. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Canon Printer
Does anyone have or know anyone who has the following Canon Printer, connected to a Macintosh? Canon IRC 3200 Can you please contact me direct? Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Epson Stylus 740 printer
Robert Howells wrote: On 01/09/2005, at 11:32 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Epson Stylus 740 printer. The above printer has gone on strike. Has ink and seems to function but nothing is printed despite all sorts of head cleaning. So have you checked out your Printer software and Printer setup ? Bob, Also Cord , turmed power off /.on tried a different Printer outlet from Mac More importantly, have you tried the self-test that is built into 99.99% of printers? Your manual will tell you how, but often it involves holding down the Power Switch, the Form Feed Switch or a combination of both. Sometimes you need to power the device off, hold the power switch when switching on, etc... -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website Test
Can someone please visit the following web-site with their Mac and tell me if it works for them? http://www.wsc.org.au/ I've got a report from a user in France with problems and I'm trying to figure out if it's fingers or a real problem. Appreciated, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Website Test
Thanks all, I've now got 11 reports that it works. Unless you find it doesn't work for you, you can ease off on the Send button :) Hmm, makes me wonder if I should enrol you lot for usability testing, I'll have a think about that :) Thanks, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Battery life in Cordless Mouse ??????
Robert Howells wrote: Hello Everyone, They make life easy but . what battery life is being experienced for a cordless mouse ? Depends on the amount of shake in your wrist :) Seriously, you're not supplying nearly enough information, is it a ball mouse, a ball-less mouse, does it talk over custom RF, IR or Bluetooth? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Website Test
Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Onno I get a blank page! i'm using Explorer 5.2 on an iMac running OS 10.2. Strange. We have a winner... Can someone please confirm this? http://www.wsc.org.au/ It seems that writing to an actual standard doesn't actually seem to help... -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broken spacebar key - replacement needed
Ian Bacon wrote: Hi all, I have an old iMac, which now has a broken spacebar key. Everything else about the computer is fine, so I would like to keep it, and find a replacement key. So, does anyone have an old iMac keyboard they are not using from which I could have the spacebar key? That's what you get from playing Falcon over the school holidays. (Historically that was a reference to the Apple ][ EuroPlus computers in my high school computing lab which were taken home by the computing teacher for his kids to play Falcon on over the holidays. ) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dashboard- currency converter euro-OZ
Robert Howells wrote: On 22/08/2005, at 1:51 PM, gary dorn wrote: Dashboards currency converter I am trying to get a $600 Euro to Australian and get 9.711, which I gather is merely a decimal point mistake, does anyone else get a a similar result? -- gary dorn north perth You could use this :- http://www.commbank.com.au/Today/DEF-Build.asp?H=SH1- ForeignExchange.htmN=TNB-ForeignExchange.htmB=ForeignExchange/TBC- Fxcalc.htm Or: http://xe.com/ -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti Virus Software
Shay Telfer wrote: ClamXAv will not remove viruses (it just detects them), whereas Virex will attempt to do so in most cases. It should be pointed out that ClamAV (and the MacOSX and Windows versions) don't remove detected virus occurrences for a reason. Their FAQ states: Can ClamAV disinfect files? No, it can't. We will add support for disinfecting OLE2 files in one of the next stable releases. There are no plans for disinfecting other types of files. There are many reasons for it: cleaning viruses from files is virtually pointless these days. It is very seldom that there is anything useful left after cleaning, and even if there is, would you trust it? So, while you might choose Virex because it removes infestations, you should think about what is happening underneath the hood. Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Anti Virus Software (Something Found)
Adam Lippiatt wrote: Hi I downloaded and used this software and found (amongst other things) a: Worm.Bagle.Gen-zippwd in my mbox file in the inbox. Does anyone know what the mbox file is and is it safe to remove it (it seems to appear in most other mailboxes)? Thanks Adam The file is likely part of an email attachment inside your mail folder. You should not delete the mbox because it contains all your mail in that folder. A smarter solution is to create a new mail folder, move the message to there, then purge your mail folders, then scan again. The attachment will now have moved to another file which only has that one message inside it. I should also point out that having a windows virus sitting inside an email file won't actually do anything until you save it and open it inside Windows, either by transferring it to a Windows machine, or by launching a Windows emulator. In short, you really don't need to worry too much about this particular one. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virus protection
Lloyd White wrote: As far a I know I do not have any virus infection on my Mac but today Google refuses to do a search for me saying there is a Virus or Spyware on my computer. This has nothing to do with your computer. It is likely a machine either on your network, but more likely on your ISP network - that is, likely an infected Windows machine that has the same ISP as you do. I've had that message for weeks. Google has also been issuing captcha's. It mostly happens on Google.com, not Google.com.au, but the latter has been acting up of late. 19/07/2005 6:29Access Denied 19/07/2005 7:05Access Denied 19/07/2005 7:24Access Denied 19/07/2005 7:44Access Denied 19/07/2005 8:04Access Denied 19/07/2005 8:27Access Denied 22/07/2005 7:00Access Denied 22/07/2005 8:21Access Denied 22/07/2005 8:35Access Denied 28/07/2005 6:31Access Denied 31/07/2005 8:48Access Denied I've logged a fault with Optus networking, but they claim they cannot reproduce it. At present they also don't seem able to sniff their own network either :-( They've been asking me to boot into Windows and show that it's something to do with my browser, also they think that my internal IP address - that is, the one behind my modem and the one behind their NAT firewall is the one at fault. Seems that they really don't know what is going on. An email from google tells me that they're sorry, but that's all I've had so far. Perhaps its time for some communal logging of the phenomenon. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT kind of: changing IP address on a HP 1320n
Mark Secker wrote: one of the areas I support has purchased a HP 1320n laser printer to be networked for 3 people. I have tried setting it up on both an OSX mac and a Win XP printer and in both cases can get it to print via USB but via ethernet it is constantly coming up with the IP address of 192.0.0.192. That IP address is likely coming from a DHCP server sitting on the network somewhere. The HP support site recommends resetting the Jet-Direct on-board by doing the following: reset the Internal HP Jetdirect print server to the factory defaults. To cold reset the Internal HP Jetdirect print server, turn off the printer. While pressing the Reset button on the back of the printer, turn on the printer. Continue to press the Reset button until the printer is in the Ready state (from 5 to 30 seconds). If this doesn't work, I suspect you might need to set your own computer to an address on the same subnet to reconfigure it - and make sure you change your computer back to what it's address is supposed to be :-) If all that fails you could also add an arp entry to your arptable that tells your computer that a certain MAC address (not to be confused with a Macintosh address) is reachable with a specified IP address. The aim of this is to be able to make your computer think that it can reach the printer, so you can configure it. Of course I don't actually have this particular HP printer, nor am I on your network, so none of this might actually help, but you get it all for free ;-) Good luck, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GASP! Dvorak praises OS X
Doug Wilson wrote: I can't believe it. An article where John C. Dvorak says that OS X is better than Windows and that Vista won't change a thing. I'm shocked and amazed. How come? As I see it he's been talking out of his ass for years :) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bill Gates rezones the Earth
Laurie McDonald wrote: This is war http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/msn_earth_deletes_aple/ For starters the Microsoft offering uses data from the USGS - the US Geological Survey and appears to be nothing other than an old photo. So another silly beat-up by idiot journalists. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK
Richard Kay wrote: richard-kays-ibook-g4:~ rmkay$ telnet www.apple.com 80 Trying 17.112.152.32... telnet: connect to address 17.112.152.32: Operation timed out telnet: Unable to connect to remote host I'm going through the Fremantle exchange with Bigpond. As I said before, I can connect with the iBook on Barking Owl's/ Fremantle Technology's free wireless network in the main street ... so it is not the iBook per se that is the problem. Any suggestions? Use traceroute and see what it says. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I Can't Access Apple Australia Or Apple US Or Apple UK
Richard Kay wrote: Works fine here now too ... but there was something weird happening for a short while ... and yes Bob ... the unusual Australia address occurred at my end. Sounds like an internal Apple snafu. There is no snafu. This change happened around the weekend of the 25th of June when Apple Australia moved to US hardware. Another list I'm on noticed within 24 hours :) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Satellite Broadband
Darrel McGuiness wrote: Has any member had experience with Comdek/eSat Communications satellite internet? If so could they please give comment on the same. Yes and no. AFAIK They use the Optus SatWeb network and I have extensive experience with that. Also, I heard from someone in the industry (who knows, untrue?) rumours that they went (or are in the process of going) bust, so you might want to investigate other alternatives, all using the same technology: * Optus * BorderNet * ClearNet I've only dealt with Optus and BorderNet. This email comes to you using one of the many Optus two-way satellite products. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tiger
Wez wrote: Solved Font issue from 10.3.8 Didn't solve audio problem which i'm still looking into from 10.3.7 Made Bluetooth worse Stuffed up Printer drivers (which has been solved with some fiddling) so one +, two -'s Will try 10.4.2 to see if that solves bluetooth. In the spirit of the West Wing when Sam says to C.J.: [1] Okay. Let’s... I tell you what, let’s forget the fact that you’re coming a little late to the party and embrace the fact that you showed up at all. Dear Wez, and other WAMUG members with problems, I'd suggest that you flesh out your issues, that is, document them fully, then visit the following web-site with your bug report: * http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/bugrptform.html The reason I'm suggesting this is that this current contribution, as it stands here today, and in the WAMUG archive in the future (until a hard-disk dies or the archive gets lost) doesn't actually tell anyone anything at all in any way. So, apart from the pleasure of sharing your feelings, your email served only as a complete waste of bandwidth. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not here to smack you or anything, I'm just pointing out that you have potentially valuable information that might actually help improve the operating system of your choice and you appear to be missing an opportunity. Of course you can just feel insulted and start a whole thread about how I abused you on WAMUG, but that is up to you. For any onlookers, Hi!, yes, I did have my coffee this morning :) [1] MR. WILLIS OF OHIO [Series 1, Episode 6] -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Size of PDFs created under OSX
Kaye and Geoff wrote: Hi, We were asked to turn a PC-using friend's MSoft Word docs into PDFs to make them smaller (she needs to email them to multiple recipients). However, the PDF created by printing under OSX (10.2.8) is much larger (5.2Mb) than the original Word document (2.6Mb). Can I suggest that you not send an attachment of anything near that size anywhere that includes multiple recipients, instead, upload the file to a web-site and email the URL. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNA
Wow. Watch it tonight after Catalyst on ABC. And Turing was right... -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: All is quiet
Matthew Healey wrote: So... anyone done anything interesting today? Nah, just: * Putting together a proposal for the provision of Internet services to a major event. * Figuring out how to parse MMS message emails. * Updating the web-site of a client. * Finalising a site for another client. * Nursing a head-ache. * Muttering under my breath about how long it takes to get a simple answer out of either Telstra or Optus. * Trying to get my MP3 player to remember which songs its played between power-outages. * Attempting to transfer my phones to corporate accounts. So, not that much. If it's interesting? Well, that's entirely up to you. Oh, and I'm working on improving my dynamic set-up map and incorporating it into a much bigger project: * http://itmaze.com.au/locations/ * http://itmaze.com.au/locations/map.html So, nothing really. Oh, and when I've got a spare moment, I've been thinking about a reseller feed-back web-site, but that might have to wait a little :) Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shock and horror
Matthew Healey wrote: On 05/07/2005, at 7:56 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: Does anybody here know why companies put these scripts in place? I've never seen the logic behind it. Companies are usually obliged by law (or industry practice) to provide support. A script means that they can hire unskilled workers to perform that support. It costs money to hire someone who can actually think and comprehend. Any monkey can read a script, and you can pay them peanuts. Uhm, no. On the face of it, that may seem what is happening, but on the other side of the fence there is Helpdesk burn-out. The reason a majority of companies scripts support calls is to increase both employee and customer satisfaction. The idea is that a consistent answer will give consistent results, require less stress on Helpdesk staff, allow for centrally coordinated answers and quicker response times. Bean-counting is an aspect, but by no means the major one. Generally the process happens a little like this: * A company puts a product in the market place. * Phone calls to the company with questions result in the establishment of a support phone number. * The support phone number is swamped with calls and more staff is hired. * Typical Helpdesk burn-out occurs when staff still has too many calls to handle and staff turn-over increases. * More support staff are hired. * The cycle repeats. * Helpdesk staff gets more over worked because due to the high staff turn-over more time is needed to spend on training new employees. * Helpdesk management attempts to reduce induction times by trying to standardise training and introduces a Helpdesk Manual as a tool. (Other tools like calling queues, pre-selection, email access, Helpdesk tickets, etc. also fall into this category.) * The manual proves hopelessly out of date the moment a new employee receives it. * At some point a bean-counter points out that a lot of costs are associated with running a Helpdesk that don't actually generate direct income. * They decide that the manual works well enough and gets offered a too good to be true proposal from a call centre which would reduce employment costs, standardise their answers, reduce call hold times, increase customer satisfaction. The disconnect happens when the bean-counter and Helpdesk management cannot explain to each other what their respective problems are. The bean-counter sees money flying out the door, Helpdesk management sees overworked, stressed and misunderstood staff. The bean-counter also doesn't see sales advice happening on the Helpdesk and does not realise that Helpdesk staff are the biggest subliminal sales force a company has. Some companies then notice: * The number of complaints about their Helpdesk increases. * The turn-over of their company slows. At that time, the local Helpdesk is generally re-instated and the cycle begins again. I should point out that I used to manage a Helpdesk, went to the USA in 1997 and visited the help desks for SGI, HP, Sun and another whose name I forget. At that time Curtin was considering spreading the Helpdesk across multiple departments and locations. It proceeded to close its central Helpdesk on Friday the 19th of December, 1997 to force the issue. In stark contrast to this, the companies I visited had gone through the decentralisation woes and had re-consolidated their help desks. In my experience many things like this in Australia run three to five years behind any US trend. I suppose I'm buttering you up for: It will get worse before it gets better. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Macintosh 128k
Nostalgia: http://www.totse.com/en/ego/no_laughing_matter/macvsbrk.html -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Satellite Map
Skehan Adrian wrote: http://maps.google.com/maps? ll=-31.851372,115.903219spn=0.007471,0.009734t=khl=en http://itmaze.com.au/locations/ -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ogg to iTunes
Stewart Woods wrote: You might also try Ilovemp3: iLoveMP3 will quickly convert complete directories of files in mixed formats (such as ogg, midi or acc) to mp3, using Quicktime for Java to uncompress files and lame to recompress in mp3 format. The result should be superior in quality to iTunes Convert to mp3. iLoveMP3 is also smart enough to skip mp3 files or files that already have an mp3 counterpart. Finally it will take advantage of dual processor machines by processing 2 files at once. Except that you will be loosing quite a significant amount of audio quality for no good reason. You're much better off using an ogg-capable player. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re Skype
KEVIN Lock wrote: Onno, Please tell me how I am paying for computer to computer Skype calls. Kev At 12:11 AM +0930 17/6/05, Onno Benschop wrote: You get given money to make phone calls? Seriously though, your Internet phone call *is* costing money, just that you're paying for it in another way. -- Onno Benschop Sigh, do I *really* need to join the dots here? Likely you are paying some form of line-rental for your Internet connection. In addition, you are likely paying a monthly charge for your Internet connection and in some cases you are paying to connect to the Internet in the form of analogue or ISDN dial-up charges. You might also be charged for excess data down-loads. You likely needed to purchase some hardware, in some cases lots of it to be able to connect to the Internet. There's the cost of your computer, the cost of power, the cost of an extra microphone (or a head- or hand-set). True, your actual software might not actually cost money directly, though even there some hidden costs exist such as disk space, downloads, in some cases costs associated with advertising - that is downloading banner ads. So, as I said, your Internet phone call is costing money, just that you're paying for it in another way. Is it cheaper, perhaps, but add up all of the above before you start screaming from the roof-tops that it's free. I suspect that some will now be jumping up and down: But, but..., for those the following paragraph: Yes, you already had your computer and you've already paid for your Internet connection and you've got unlimited data, etc. Sure, all that is true. But from the perspective that you started with nothing, that is, you walked into an empty house, buying a phone and connecting it and then phoning the UK on a phone card is much cheaper than buying a computer, connecting it to the Internet, installing Skype and making a computer to computer call. By now I'm actually beginning to wonder how much cheaper, so here goes: The first phone call to UK with a phone line and a calling card: * Connect the phone line: $59.00 * Touchphone 400 rental: $3.00 * Purchase of phone card: $20.00 * Local call to calling card: $0.175 * 1 minute phone call to UK: $0.29 + $0.019 The second phone call to the UK with a phone line and a calling card: * Local call to calling card: $0.175 * 1 minute phone call to UK: $0.29 + $0.019 The first phone call to the UK with Skype: * Connect the phone line: $59.00 * Connect ADSL (incl. modem): $189.00 * ADSL plan: $29.95 * Macintosh (eMac): $1299.00 * Download Skype (6.7Mb @ 15c/Mb): $1.005 * 1 minute phone call to UK (3-16kB/s = Average 9.5kB/s = 570kB/min): $0.0855 The second phone call to the UK with Skype: * 1 minute phone call to UK:$0.0855 So, that means for the first call the total costs are: * Phone: $82.484 * Skype: $1578.0405 The second call totals: * Phone: $0.484 * Skype: $0.0855 So, if you were to spend 3146 minutes phoning the UK, then Skype would be cheaper. Now at that time, after 3146 minutes on-line, you will have used nearly 37Mb of data (including the download of Skype and excluding idle time on a Skype connection), which is still included in the cap associated with the chosen ADSL plan, thus the picture would change: 3087 Skype * First call: $1578.0405 - $1.005 - $0.0855 = $1576.95 That would mean it takes 3087 minutes for Skype to become cheaper. I should point out that the initial phone call on a phone line incurs the cost of a phone card and that the call itself is also charged in that. The perspective is that you need the phone card as an infrastructure item to actually make the call and that the infrastructure looses value (namely the call to the UK) for the first minute. It should also be pointed out that the shown calling card is only capable of maintaining a call of 1037 minutes, so you'd actually need to get a higher credit. I've also ignored that this calculates phone calls lasting one minute only, otherwise 3087 minutes would cost $142.70 for a phone line. If you make it as one call (and you have enough credit and your call doesn't drop out), it takes even longer, 78631 minutes, or 54 days on the phone - and I've ignored the need to pay for multiple months of rental.) So, next time you say that Internet calling is cheaper, you are now armed with some facts and I must say that I'm surprised at the outcome. You should also note that I've used standard pricing for all things here, I suspect that you can get a cheaper ADSL plan, a cheaper Macintosh by buying a Mac Mini, monitor, keyboard and mouse, etc. I have attempted to make sure that I've covered all my bases and that I've not made any errors or omissions, but if I have, let the debate begin. And I should point out that this email took 1 hour and 13 minutes to compose which would also result in a bill of $146 for my
Re: Skype
Stephen Chape wrote: I have been using Skype for about 6 weeks, since my wife's son moved from UK to United Arab Emirates. My phone is with AAPT and to phone UAE costs $1.21 per minute (UK is about 9 cents a minute). So if he is offline we use Skype to call his phone and ask him to go online so we can call back computer to computer. Oddly enough comp to comp is clearer than comp to phone. It is also free. To call comp to phone to UK is 3 cents per minute and to UAE is 35 cents per minute. And if you get a calling card it's even cheaper and you don't have to futz around with a computer or install Skype. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skype
Stephen Chape wrote: Interesting !! How does one get cheaper than zero dollars ?? You get given money to make phone calls? Seriously though, your Internet phone call *is* costing money, just that you're paying for it in another way. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing List Etiquette
David Watkins wrote: Hi I really enjoy picking up tips and leraning from the many people who contribute to the list. However, in recent times that it is extremely difficult sometimes to find a couple of lines of text some one has replied with amongst maybe a hundred lines of quoted text. Below are a few tips which I've taken from the Usenet Mailing List Etiquette FAQ which you may consider adopting. [..excellent advice about quoting deleted..] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro Perhaps you should check out the Guidelines URL that accompany each WAMUG message ;-) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°45'36.5 - E139°00'08.7 (Mount Pleasant, SA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Innocent abroad :-(
Malcolm J McCallum wrote: Hi everyone. [..big Internet café sob story deleted..] grin Ok, so, the problem that Malcolm is really describing with his Internet saga is that he is unable to send email. There are two ways of resolving that, but I need to provide a little background first. Sending email in an email program generates a request to a mail server to send and email out to the person you wish to get the message to. After the Green Card affair in the early '90s we got introduced to SPAM. At that time you could generally connect to any mail server from anywhere and send email to someone. These days that is no longer the case. The simplest way to reduce SPAM is to ensure that only known users are allowed to use the email gateway. From an ISP perspective the easiest way to achieve that is to only allow people who connect to the Internet from their service to use their email server. When you're in an Internet café, you're most likely not connected to the Internet via your normal ISP connection, thus you are prevented from sending email using their server. As I said, there are two ways of resolving that: 1. Find an email server that provides another way of authenticating you. 2. Bring your own email server along. Option 1 means that you need to ask your ISP if they have a mail server that you can connect to while roaming, and from memory, WestNet has one of those [they do indeed, read on :-) ] Option 2 means that you need to install a mail server, like exim, postfix, sendmail or 20 other options. You should note that Option 2 will at some times give you grief because ISPs are now beginning to block email coming from anything other than registered domains and mailing lists such as WAMUG use SPAM filters which use blocking lists that block email from known spammers - I put that in quotes, see below for why :-) So, in this case and in most cases, it's simpler to get your ISP to assist you with a means of authenticating yourself against their mail-server, either using SSH, secure-SMTP or what ever scheme they've dreamt up. Finally, I shall even provide you with some links: * http://www.google.com/search?q=westnet+roaming+mailserversafe=off * http://www.westnet.com.au/support/setup/ Which state that: * * **Roaming Mail Server* (for use when not connected to WestNet) * Mail/POP3/SMTP/POST/Incoming and Outgoing * Mail server: mailr.westnet.com.au * Username: Full email address * Password: Email address password As for the known spammers - some block lists - like the one used by WAMUG will also block infected computers, even if they are on a corporate network that affects a whole country, so users like me will have their mail blocked because some other user on the network has an infected PC and the network operator has no mechanism to separate out legitimate actual email, from a user like me who runs their own server and from an infected machine that sends out many megabytes of SPAM. So in the past I used option 2, and now I use both option 2 and 1, in that my mail server sends the mail to the Optus mail server. So, there you have it. Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT Dreamweaver and css
Roger and Rosemary Horton wrote: I've just been setting up a new website (for a friend) All was going swimmingly, but all of a sudden whether I link the css sheet with document relative or site relative links the pages are still not loading the style sheets. At the same time, when I try to change the style sheet Dreamweaver loads the css sheet on the remote site. Strange! Anyone got a clue? Depending on how you've written your HTML, it is possible that the browser is refusing to load a style sheet of the wrong MIME-type. Style sheets are text/css, but sometimes they get recognised as text/html or text/x-c and the browser refuses to load them. The javascript console should tell you if that is the case. Of course it might be that you've mis-typed the file-name or path. Other than that, get rid of Dreamweaver, all it does is weave pipe-dreams, use a text editor. Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Set Top Box updates
Keith Feltham wrote: Our family are considering purchasing a Set Top Box in an attempt to improve the fringe-signal ghosting and snow that currently constitutes our TV picture. Having moved around the country over the past two years, I'm familiar with snow. In Crossing Falls, you could almost hear the ABC news through the snow and we resorted to downloading the bulletin every day, seeing that my Internet connection was just dandy. *But*, I would like to point out one, likely fatal, flaw in your reason for wanting Digital TV. You state that you're wanting to improve fringe-signal ghosting and snow, which both point to marginal reception. Digital TV uses the *same* method of transporting data to you, only the information that is being sent is digital, not analogue. What this means is that if your reception is poor, the amount of information that you'll get that can successfully be decoded will be less than 100%, thus your picture will suffer. Specifically you'll notice the following things: * Artifacts on the screen, things like blocks, frozen frames * Black screen for about half a second every half hour or so This basically means that you're going to get a different kind of irritating TV experience, rather than an improved experience. It is my experience that nothing beats spending some time and money on a real TV antenna, or failing that, you might find that you are better off installing a satellite dish and getting a service called Aurora. This will provide you with ABC, SBS and in WA, WIN and GWN. This is *not* pay-TV! The Aurora service is free, but you will need to buy a satellite decoder (~$300) and an Aurora card (~$80). For information on Aurora you can contact the Optus Satellite Services Support team on: 1300 301 681 Disclaimer: I am an Optus SatWeb 2-way Internet Satellite user and have no relationship with Aurora. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Part II streaming video now up
Martin Hill wrote: You'll now find part II of the WAMUG meeting is available at: http://ilectures.curtin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=692 I've now got the iPod audio book and mobile phone 3GP video versions working so you can listen/watch the meeting on the bus. :-) Out of interest, does your MPEG4 encoding use H264? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't dialup to net
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a friend who's having trouble dialling up. They connection dials ok, makes handshaking noises and then disconnects with bad authentication. We've checked, double checked, everything is fine on the ISP side, they gave us a test account, tested with another ISP (still using Telstra's MegaPOP VISP stuff), changed V34, removed echo packets... ISP can't see any connection attempts at all. Any ideas? You're dialling the correct phone number? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Airport Extreme Interference
Chris Griffiths wrote: I'm wondering if there is a solution to this. When I first installed the airport extreme base station it worked perfectly. I could move my laptop around the 54sqm office get the internet etc. Then about 6 weeks ago the airport just dropped out and it would go on sometimes and off others. I recently had a techo come out and check it and he said all was fine and maybe there was someone in the area that is using a 2.4Ghz phone and that was rendering the airport useless. I get a few hours use at various times of the day but this is pretty much useless to me because I need to transfer files all the time. Does this mean the airport and the two airport cards that I bought were a waste of money? Or is there something I can do about it? Thanks in advance. Well, yes and no. My first test would be to see if the problem lies with the hardware itself. The best way to do that is to have the two devices close together (less than a meter) and see what gives. It is possible, though unlikely that a 2.4Ghz phone would cause all traffic to stop, because the whole point of the way they both work, the phone and your wireless gear is that they shift channels around if there is interference and both you and the phone would interfere with each other. The next test would be to change channels on all your wireless gear and see if that makes any difference. Finally, most wireless communications has no need to be running at maximum speed, in my case for example, the satellite link can at most provide 1Mbit, so my wireless gear doesn't have to run any faster than that. Slower wireless connections travel further and are more resistant to interference. Of course there are going to be some differing opinions on the above advise, but I suppose you have to start somewhere. I should also point out that I'm not a radio technician, and the above is a result of having fiddled for some years, not from any formal research or otherwise. (In other words, you're on your own and if you break it, you get to keep both parts.) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Screen Resolutionsand Web Design
Kelly Duffy wrote: I was wondering if anyone can give me a rough idea of the average resolution for new Mac monitors? I hate websites that aren't Mac friendly, I find the colours change between my PC and Mac, so I can generally fix it up, but at the moment I have pretty much no idea what size I should be making my websites to find a happy medium. This is going to likely sound like a cop-out, but you should really consider the implications of what you are asking. The whole point of the web is to be a common distribution environment for information. The places were that information is distributed is as varied as it gets: * different connection speeds * audio and Braille screen readers * mobile phone browsers * pda browsers * text-only browsers * screen resolution varying from 160x160 to 1600x1200 and others * paper vs. screen The above just name a few of the things you'll come across and I've not even touched on compatibility between browsers. So, the question you are asking is the wrong question in my professional opinion. The real question is: How do I design a web-page that will render appropriately in the environment in which it is presented? The answer used to be, create graphics, tables, single pixel lines, set widths, set font-sizes, etc. The answer today is, separate out the content from the display. Make very simple HTML pages and apply style sheets to them. I find great success in thinking of a page as chunks of data and semantically wrap each element into a div, so you can later refer to that div class within the style-sheet and change the layout completely. A great example of this is a very simple page, called the http://www.csszengarden.com/, which has hundreds of different style-sheets attached that show different views of the same information. I suggest that you should also visit http://www.alistapart.com/ to learn about how style-sheets really work. So, how big should I make it is not really what this medium is about any more. Kind regards, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Screen Resolutions and Web Design
devices and is simpler to maintain, all of which makes your company's bottom-line look better. And to top it off, if you want to create a new look site, you change one style-sheet and the new look is rolled out. You can decide how much you want to charge your customer for the new look. So, pardon me for not buying your argument. Finally, I completely understand your reluctance. The Internet is full of information about style-sheets that is incomplete and out of date. While you're learning this stuff, much of it hinders your progress, rather than helps it. If there is any interest, I'd be happy to entertain the idea of setting up some training to cover the above, but understand that I do this for a living and while I'm happy to show the way in a forum such as this, it's an entirely different thing to expect me to become a central web-site developer help desk without some form of remuneration, seeing that I still have to pay the bills and helping around here isn't doing that in any way. Kind regards, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WestNet Issues-Update
Shay Telfer wrote: 2.Unable to use WestNet's backup service if you have a Mac. WestNet Answer: The Express Backup issue is out of our hands. It was not developed by Westnet, and the company that developed it, chose not to write a Mac interface. So we are stranded until we move to a completely new product. If you (or anyone else) are interested in having your system backed up remotely, let me know and I'll see if I can sort out some options. Hey, a simple copy of Retrospect and an FTP site is all that is required, I'm surprised that WestNet doesn't know this. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: email message size
Neil Houghton wrote: Eg I just sent a message with a jpeg attachment but wanted to copy the message to our committee (we have a committee only yahoo group set up) - the finder showed the attachment to be 880k and the message was only a couple of paragraphs so I thought it would be OK, but it was still rejected and on examining the sent message I noticed that the mail window showed the attachment as 1MB - I presumed that this was just an approximation or does the email program increase the size of the attachment? I guess my real question is how can I see the size of the total message to see if it exceeds 1MB BEFORE I actually send it and then have it rejected. The reason why your 880k message grew in size was because of something called encoding. It may come as a complete surprise to you and others, but you cannot send attachments using email and anyone who says otherwise does not understand how it works. When you attach something to an email message, the attachment is translated into text, and that text is sent as part of your message. If you were to open the message you'd see all manner of gobbledygook and not your attachment. What makes it possible to make sense of that included piece of text, commonly referred to as the attachment is that there are all manner of standards, the most common today is MIME, that describe how your file has been translated into text. The limit of file size is not that of the attachment, but of the email message. The limit is a sensible one and you should adhere to it. It makes much more sense to send a URL, that way the recipient can decide if they wish to download your file now, or at a later stage. This might not make much sense to you, but imagine that the recipient is reading email on their mobile phone. They are charged per *kilobyte*, thus your 880k message is costing the recipient something like 2.2c per K, thus more than $20, just for your email. So, don't send attachments to groups of people, send them a URL instead. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eyetv recordings and DVD Studio Pro
Rob Davies wrote: Apple suggests 560/minutes=maxbitrate remembering audio is added to this as is the other but very minimal and not usually a problem. Their are programs to assist with the mathematics if necessary. But if you are not proficient with this ideology I would suggest adding raw (unencoded) files ie dv into DVDSP and if you guess wrong it is very easy to modify and quicker to re-encode than have to rebuild mpegs then rebuild your output in DVDSP. Also if you set DVDSP up correctly most times it will build mpegs, vobs etc. while you are designing your DvD hence less compiling-rendering time when it comes time to Build, Format and Burn your DvD. Does it strike anyone else as bizarre that in 2005 we are manually calculating bit-rates and your ability to successfully author a DVD depends on your ability to do this calculation? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eyetv recordings and DVD Studio Pro
Paul Kitchener wrote: Has anyone on the list come across/used a PC based PVR (personal video recorder)? I hear there are purpose built Linux distros to do the job. Well there is MythTV, but it's far from trivial to setup in my experience. I am also seeking the holy grail of integration, but I've not yet found it and when I do, of course someone else will package it and sell it and my attempts at world domination will be thwarted :-) Specifically, can anyone make a comparison between one and an Eyetv 400 on a Mac? Seems to me that Eyetv and a Mac are a great combination, but the moron^d^d^d^d^d^d^d developer that came up with requiring a resample to burn saved content to DVD needs their head read. It is for my one day wish list. Hey, that list includes the ability to have all my address books synchronised, my diaries synchronised, my TV guide included in my diary and the ability to remote control my home theatre system with whatever Bluetooth/IRDA gadget I happen to be holding - phone, PDA, laptop. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting online away from Home.
Shay Telfer wrote: Can I make a suggestion thatb our Gurus give a talk on getting on line from internet cafes etc. It is not vas easy as it sounds :-( Last time I did it we took our own 2m satellite dish with us :) As for configuration, IIRC, all you needed to do is turn your laptop on and sit-down, the rest was automatic :-) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HD space...
Janis Lynn wrote: Dear All I recently purchased a second hand G4 ibook with 30G, 1G RAM 800MGz running 10.3.8.At the moment there is only 9 G available. I optimized with Onyx and gained 2 G, but I still feel that although there are a quite a few applications I should have more space available. Has anyone experienced this problem or have any suggestions? I just download tinker tool systems, but alittle uneasy to make any major changes with advice. Also, does anyone know how to delete old mail addresses from the system? I have searched and deleted all the usual places eg. address book etc, but they still come up in my mail account when I write new emails. One more question, how do I change the name of Home without re-format[t]ing? I'm not sure why you're asking about removing stuff from the previous owner and then continue with the statement: without re-formatting. If it were my iBook I sold to you, I'd have given it to you with a fresh restore CD image, cleaning anything that was previously on it. If I had bought it, I'd have formatted the drive and used the restore CD. Some things you may wish to think about: * Do you know that the drive has no illegal content on it - think photos. * Do you know that the drive has no spy ware on it, reporting your on line purchases, bank passwords, credit card details etc. back to the previous owner? * Do you know that the drive has illegal software on it - you are now the owner and likely liable. So, I'd be formatting the drive if it were me. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Web Site Wont Load,..any ideas?
Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I've been asked to look at a website for a client. It will load fine in Safari, but doesn't in Internet Explorer OSX. I've tried it on 4 different machines and all they all do the same thing. Safari is fine, the address loads in the type of IE, but nothing else. The website is: http://www.jdco.com.au I'm not 100% sure why it would do this, so would any web guru be able to advise what it could be. Email me off list. I don't regularly make a habit of emailing people off-list with a question sent to WAMUG and I'm not about to start now, since it completely defeats the purpose of an email list. Over to your web-site issue: Works for me in a standards compliant browser (Firefox/Galeon). Perhaps turn on the JavaScript console and see what gives because I've never seen so much JavaScript to render a simple page. htmltidy gives back more errors than I've ever seen in a page, most of them missing attributes for table properties. You should also know that the page does some seriously funky stuff to actually render, writing divs on the fly, generating menus inline - which you don't actually see if you do view-source, but in Galeon if you save the page, it comes back in great detail. I'd be instructing the client to contact their web-developer. Failing that, have a poke around in scripts/Menu.js for some fun. Let me know if you need more. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Comparing Folders
Antony N. Lord wrote:
I have an (uncompressed) backup of a folder tree on another machine.
By mistake I began working on numerous files on the BACKUP copy.
Is there an app to do a simple comparison of the 2 folder trees to
find the modified items?
Cheers, Antony.
diff -r {folder1} {folder2}
Will give you a whole chapter and verse on the differences. You can also
just get it to report if the files differ with:
diff -rq {folder1} {folder2}
And finally if your version of diff doesn't do this, install a real one :-)
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Re: Hard Drive/Server names (was Re: Gimp Shop)
Rod wrote: On 01/04/2005, at 1:14 PM, Mark Secker wrote: At least it's better than the endless Star Trek references. How may mailservers out there are called picard ;) true dat... Now just watch for a new flood of Hitchhikers Guide names when the movie hits the streets but. names of my old boxes and servers were all Red Dwarf referenced so I can't talk For a bit of Friday fun, what do WAMUGgers call their hard drives or servers? To get the ball rolling, my G4 MDD drives are John, Paul, George and Ringo (easy guess what icons I use!), while my Powerbook is Calvin and external FW drive is Hobbes (after the comic strip characters). My drives used to be called Roll, Pitch and Yaw, but now they are called /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1 :-) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41 - E152°35'34 (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tricking a PPC 580 into running OS8 CDROMS
Reg Whitely wrote: Presumably, correct me if I'm wrong, Mac Start is looking for some form of system software from OS 8 that is not in OS 7. I've got an OS 8.1 disk which I could load onto the 580s but there is not enough hard drive space on them to do so. I'm loath to delete the ed software on them to make room for unnecessary system stuff and certainly don't want to upgrade any hardware. Is there a workaround? Is it possible to install the components of OS 8 needed to run the CDROMs without totally updating to 8.1? If so, what would I need to install? It would be nice for the kids to have these extra learning resources in their classroom at NO cost. Fundamentally, OS 7 and OS 8 are different beasts. There are some extensions that will travel well between the two, but if your application needs OS 8, your missing resource is only a red herring and it is likely telling you in a non-intuitive way that it won't actually work. So, over to the idea of installing OS 8. The first thing you might like to check is if the drive is actually big enough if it were completely empty. If that is not the case, you're out of luck, but more likely you can in fact just install the new OS on the drive if it were empty. First thing to try is to boot off the 8.1 CD, [cmd]+[option]+[shift]+[delete], or set the Start up Disk in the Control Panel. You will be able to choose a clean install. Another trick is to install the boot image from the disk tools disk onto the HDD, then change the Startup System Folder - look up blessing the system - and boot with that - warning, this may fail, so make sure you have a bootable CD, otherwise the exercise becomes making bootable floppies, pretty painful. Formatting the HDD on an older system is not a bad idea, just backup all the gumpf you think you need. Also, if the machines have enough RAM, you can make a RAM disk, install the OS8.1 Disk Tools image onto that, set the start-up disk to the RAM disk and reboot. You can then format the HDD. Many other tricks exist. Disclaimer: This is all from memory, I've not looked to see which OS is supported by which machine and if your Mac might actually run under OS 8.1 - likely it will. The idea of installing one extension to magically make it work is doomed to fail - the only exceptions I've seen to that is the installation of CarbonLib and QuickTime. So, there is lots to play with. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: organised itunes over multiple drives?
Navid Mavaddat wrote: I was wondering if anyone was aware of a way to create a 'virtual folder' over multiple drives. My itunes folder is in excess of 170GB (lossless compressed from my CD collection) and soon it will be larger than the 200GB drive. I am considering getting a 250GB drive, but I can see this will only ultimately be an interim measure. If I could span over multiple drives this would save much hassle. Currently I can't consolidate the library. I tried relocating 50GB off the drive, but it still wouldn't let me consolidate it. Without actually having done this, you should be able to create a raid array from multiple drives, then stick your iTunes folder on the new raid volume. (And you get redundancy for free :-) I'm not sure how much you know about how this works, but at a system level you can combine multiple drives into one logical volume, that shows up as one place to store stuff. This is what geeks with too much time on their hands did when they created a raid array on floppy disks and across several iPods. Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't see disc
Edward Arrowsmith wrote: An iBook and a PowerBook. Put in CD with MYOB data files and no disc shows up on the desktop of either machine. The disc was burned on a PC. Any clues please? I have heard of instances where discs burnt on an WinXP machine using the built-in burning software are not readable by anything other than another XP machine - in fact, in some cases it's not readable at all. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uploading From Mac Problem
Rod Blitvich wrote: We have started experiencing problems where mac users are unable to upload to this site. We are getting quotes from web developers to do a number of modifications to our site and have asked that they also guarantee that the teachers survival kit will accept both uploads and downloads to and from macintosh computers running OSX. The developer who has submitted a quote Said this a compatibility problem between macs and some browsers. and cannot provide us with this guarantee. Well, as a web-developer I can and will make the following guarantee: The whole point of the World Wide Web is inter-operation. Before the invention of the web as we know it in 1992, as a developer you had to contend with all manner of separate ways of communicating with your audience, the Internet didn't have the unified front-end that we today experience as the web. Software should and can follow the relevant standards, in this case those published by the W3 consortium. As a web-developer I strive to make my projects as compliant as possible. Of course this in itself leads to issues where non-compliant browsers have issues. If you have issues with specific browsers on particular operating systems, I guarantee to resolve the issue to the satisfaction of the publisher of the site. Any comments would be appreciated please. Is this really an insurmountable problem? Do you know of any decent web developers, who could provide such a guarantee? I'm not sure it's appropriate for me to bang my own drum here, so I won't, but if you would like me to quote, I'd be happy to. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Specific Web Page inability to access
Brett Carboni wrote: I've been trying to access a specific web page ( http://www.philbaker.net/ ) and everyone seems to be able to get it but me. Even contacted the webmaster but am assured it is working. Is this a conspiracy or is my Mac sick or both? Using 17 Powerbook connected with Telstra Bigpond Cable running 10.3.8. Tried Safari, Explorer and Firefox. I can get everything else, and my friends can get this site ( i.e. you don't need to check it). I gotta say that there isn't much in the way of actual content there, so why would you bother :-) Some actual useful help perhaps: * Did you open a terminal and try to ping it? ping www.philbaker.net * Did you turn off all your caches and try to force-reload it? Also does anyone have a TiBook 15 667MHz for sale. Condition not important except the screen. (Broke a friends screen last night - arghhh - just moved it one inch backwoods). Some friend you are :-) Ah, the penny drops, you broke their screen, now you're praying for forgiveness :-) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting an iPod Shuffle *today*. Is it possible?
Matthew Healey wrote: Being in Perth doesn't really help the matter. We are just too small a market for Apple to care. I am surprised that the Apple staff in Perth have kept their jobs as long as they have. (Yes, I am bitter. This particular delayed order has the very real possibly of costing me my job.) I must observe that if your employer makes your job dependent on the ability of a third-party it means that either you have promised something you cannot deliver, or it's time to look for a new employer. Seriously, talk to whomever is riding your back, because the reason you're buying Apple is not timely delivery, it is for other reasons. If your reasons for using Apple are no longer cost-effective, then your employer should be looking at another supplier, not another employee. What I'm saying is that while I feel for your situation, a little communication to those jumping up and down would be a good thing. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to Send to a Hotmail Address
Ronda Brown wrote: What Anti Virus have you got installed on your PC's please? This is what I sent to the list on the 25th of January: --- START--- While not likely relevant for single platform Macintosh users in this forum, others might like to know that this is what I install on client Windows based home machines, much nicer and for home users they cost nothing: * AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/) * AdAware (http://www.lavasoft.de/) * SpyBot Search Destroy (http://www.spybot.info/) I am currently evaluating ClamAV as an Open Source Cross Platform alternative to AVG. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mac Mini Server
If you're bored and have more money than sense: http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/miniserver/ -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HiBIS advice
Susan Hastings wrote: Comments from my brother who is on satellite. its not as good as broadband but better than dialup, you come in via satellite anywhere from 300kps to 1000 and go out via land line(depends were you are) in my case about 32kps average, monthly $50.00 deal all inclusive,$350.00 for the dish (old foxtel dish will do fine) and internal card software etc,could look on ebay and do better price, hope this helps, seems M.T.Helena will soon get optic cable up close broadband look out here we come! These comments only apply to One-Way Satellite and a FoxTel dish should cost around $80 IIRC. The dish size is completely dependent on your physical location in Australia, but near Perth, a FoxTel dish should do fine for One-Way, but *not* for Two-Way Satellite. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HiBIS advice
Vladimir James wrote: Cannot get normal broadband services on the Eastern side of Sawyers Valley, and the prospects in the near future appear bleak. Am about to invest in a 256/64 kbps satellite set-up under the Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme. eSat, based in Hobart, is the registered supplier. I would be grateful for pithy comments or advice on the matter. I'd also recommend that you look at BorderNet and I believe that WestNet may also be able to provide this access, seeing that HiBIS is a government incentive, not something from one ISP. There are other speeds available and you might also investigate one-way satellite if all you need is download. Surfing the net does generally not require high outband data. Don't expect this to work like ADSL, there is a second delay before traffic transports between you and the satellite and back to the ground (and then back to you). Finally, I suspect that you have access to ISDN where you are which might turn out to be cheaper. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mac mini - A mini mirror door
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 16:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/01/2005, at 10:59 AM, gary dorn wrote: oh does is boot into OS9. What's Mac OS 9 anyway? Anyone still remember it? /me pats 8.6 Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Non Reply To Posts
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:22, Robert Howells wrote: On 04/01/2005, at 4:35 AM, Peter Sealy wrote: Often I see a request for help appear on the list for which I think I would also like to see the answer. Not that I am having the same problem at that time but because the topic interests me or I think it may be one to store away for future use. After several days when no answer appears on the list I just assume that the request was answered directly to the OP or that noone knew the answer. Sometimes the OP will send an email to the list thanking those members who helped him/her off list but often such acknowledgement does not contain the solution to the problem. [..] It does not work to its bestwhen /if the person asking for answers does not reply to the list showing the successful result with the remedy that achieved that. [..] Let's just get the remedies fed back to the list .. please ! Hence these two lines in the posting guidelines: When you reply to a posting made by another person: 1. Did you only respond to the list - unless specifically asked otherwise? 6. It is good to be mindful of a future user who searches the archive. The intent of #1 is to encourage all postings to go via the list, to assist those users who may need a solution at a later stage. This is then amplified by #6, to actually state that there are future users who may need this same solution. For those who missed it, v1.1 of the FAQ has been published for some time and can be seen at: http://itmaze.com.au/articles/mailing.list.guidelines/ Perhaps the WAMUG web-master has some time to upload the new version... Hmmm, time for another cup of coffee... Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Norton and the rest
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 09:42, bill parker wrote: Is this because people are not prepared to be public with such views? Because I am not a financial WAMUG members ( somebody give me the BSB and account number and beneficiary name and its done by reply).or what? It has nothing to do with your financial status, though I'm sure the committee will gladly take your money off you. It has nothing to do with people not being able or willing to part with a public opinion. Likely people haven't made up their mind one way or the other. Disclaimer: Symantec software on Windows is not the same as on Macintosh. Likely they come from different teams and code-base. My personal experience with Symantec software of late has been less than stellar. I've been to many organisations, over 50, who had some form of Symantec software installed. (I hate to call it rubbish, because for some (10%) it works, but rubbish is what it should be called.) The software - *UNDER WINDOWS* - tries to take control of all aspects of the operation of the machine. This means that checking email takes over 10 minutes, rather than 30 seconds. The machine invariably runs at 486 speed, no matter how much RAM/Disk/CPU is provided. My solution has been to remove the software - which doesn't always work - then it takes eight programs from all manner of locations to remove it -, then install AVG, AdAware and SpyBot. Of course this has nothing to do with a Macintosh in any way, but perhaps it serves as an example of good software gone bad. Finally, you should know that every computer is different and that not everyone experiences all the bad aspects of an application. It's just that the software I've seen has so many bad aspects. So, if I had a choice for my Macintosh, I would stay away from Symantec. Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Non Reply To Posts
As one of the scary people posting here, I thought I'd add my reply after a large number of posts to provide my perspective on our little WAMUG community. Others have pointed out that you are not alone when you feel your question going unanswered. As a long-time member of this community I can assure you that I answer more questions than get answered, thus adding to your perspective that not all questions get answered. Over the years I've varied in my contributions from giving freely, through pointing out unreasonable expectations from fellow community members, quiet benevolence, ignoring most posts and all the various levels in between. At the end of the day it comes down to the care-level. Some days I care more, others I care less. When community members expect support, and complain about the lack of support, my initial response is invariably: Well, if you need support, then bloody pay for it. Some have responded to the lament about the level of professionalism and others have replied that they are unfamiliar with what ever the software was that sparked the original question. I think it comes down to this: This is a community of people who more-or-less have a common interest in the Macintosh in all its diversity. The community is made up from people who bought their computer yesterday, through to people who have used more computers than they care to remember. There are users, developers, amateur and professionals in this community. Each community member has the choice to give or to take. The bigger the community, the more takers and the less givers. At some stage, the givers will leave or ignore silly questions. The posting guidelines were written in an attempt at increasing the number of givers and showing the takers that they can benefit if they become givers. At the end of the day, I make a living from giving IT support. I need to pay my bills and eat. Some days I feel charitable towards people asking questions, and other days I feel like I'm surrounded by a horde of cheap-skates who could afford a Macintosh, but can't be bothered to pay for support. So, my advice to this community and those who lament the lack of reply, give more than you take, learn, communicate and enjoy this large group of fellow Macintosh users from around the globe. Some people don't have any family, shelter or food, so really, take a deep breath and remember that there are people at the end of every email message. As an aside, some of the professional members in this community have in fact discussed this whole concept face-to-face and have experimented in several ways with their level of contribution. Strangely enough, we can't seem to help ourselves and still feel the need to assist, even if the level of communication has degenerated into finger pointing. So, don't be afraid, we haven't run away just yet :-) Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: List etiquette [was: Re: Starcraft Crashing Problem]
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:17, James Devenish wrote: Note also that the following appears in the posting guidelines at http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml : When you reply to a posting made by another person: 1. Did you only respond to the list - unless specifically asked otherwise? I'm not quite sure what that sentence means, but my interpretation is that it recommends that replies be sent only to the list's address, so that other correspondents' addresses do not accumulate as duplicate recipients. As the author of that sentence, it means, send mail to the list as a first response, unless the message indicates that another response is required. I'll concede that it could do with a re-work :-) Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Dreamweaver Permissions - OSX
[Aside: Third attempt to send this message - someone decided to black-list the Optus firewall...] Have a situation where a web-site has been moved around between several computers during its development and when it has been approved, it gets uploaded to an ftp site. The upload succeeds, but the file permissions are completely stuffed. This means that some files will have appropriate permissions, and some will not allow any access to anyone at all. Directories are similarly affected. Can anyone point to why this is and how it gets to be fixed? (Yes I'm familiar with the chmod command, I was hoping for a more automated solution.) Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
iTablet
teknokracy writes MacMod has a story about a unique Mac hack. Joseph DeRuvo Jr. says: As a Photographer and a Dyslexic the idea of being able to use a Tablet as a platform for showing photographs, editing, and an extension of my badly organized memory is very appealing. ... So taking matters into my own hands I cut into a Dual USB iBook and didn't look back. It seems our intrepid hardware hacker hasn't just flipped around the LCD and added a semi-functioning touch screen - he's completely engineered a new kind of mac portable, complete with a CF reader, properly installed touch sensor, and topped it all off by properly engineering it all into an Ives-worthy design. With all the trouble these particular iBook models have experienced, why not hack one up for fun and turn it in to something useful? Mirror: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/91587696fba18a250f301656869ab275/index.html Original: http://www.macmod.com/content/view/166/2/ Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Partition or not?
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 20:39, P.Bull wrote: Hi, This is a question related to a PC (sorry, I have to slum it sometimes). Since I downgraded to XP I have been having problems with MS Access and I have thought of formatting the hard drive and setting up 2 partitions with operating system and applications on one and data files on the other. Does anyone have thoughts or experience on something like this? In my experience there is little point in partitioning a Windows machine because the separation of application/documents and OS is almost impossible to achieve. Having said that, some of my clients partition off a slice that is the same size as a blank CD (or DVD) so they can copy stuff aside and burn it to disk. Of course you really should be installing a copy of Linux (only semi-kidding) and if so, you'll need to partition to separate the two. Perhaps download a copy of Knoppix onto a blank CD and boot with that to play :-) Finally if your intent was to speed up your Access Database, or have some notion that a partition will stop corruption, you're better off buying a UPS and regularly backing up. A partition won't really do anything for you. Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Separating odd and even numbered files
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 17:45, John Reed wrote: Hi there wamuggers I have a folder containing an image sequence saved from FCP in a folder. Projectname 0001.png Projectname 0002.png Etc to 2887 What I want to do is separate the odd numbered files from the even no. of files (I'm converting interlaced alternating field 3d into red blue 3d) Does anybody know how to do this separation process? This should do it: mkdir odd ; mkdir even ; for n in `seq -f%04g 1 2 2887` ; do mv Projectname $n.png odd/ ; done ; mv Projectname* even/ (All on one line) Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Pinjarra providers
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 22:02, Lloyd White wrote: I have a friend who has just bought a new iMac. Was a PC man! Horses for courses... He lives in Pinjarra. Is there anyone living in that area who could advise him on good servers and the possibility of ADSL. I think there is a problem with paying expensive STD fees so a dial-up service might be the shot. Hmm, this statement makes little sense for a number of reasons: * ADSL does not attract dial-up STD fees * Dial-up accounts should be providing an 019 number that gets charged at the cost of a local call. ADSL is a service that is available in many telephone exchanges around the country - not all - but has limitations on which actual telephone lines can be enabled. In short: * Actual copper length maximum of 4km (though experiments with 6km do exist I believe) * No pair-gain allowed - this is very common in older areas where sub-divisions have been done (think of it as a mini-telephone exchange at the beginning of your street) * No ISDN service on the line There are other limitations, but those are the most common. First step is to visit any ISP site and fill in the check ADSL availability form and see what happens. Which ISP to choose is entirely up to the user, and I'm sure that any number of WAMUGgers have lots to say on the subject - though not always informed :-) He would appreciate some advice. He just got some :-) PS. I did have my coffee first... Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°33'15 - E150°21'57 (Moss Vale, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Attachment format
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 10:54, Peter Sealy wrote: I need to send an attachment to an email so it can be opened and read by PC-using recipients. The attachment will be a kind of an information sheet and ideally will have more than one font size and bold typing as well as regular. Send a URL instead. Is there any way I can set up the format using TextEdit [or Tex-Edit Plus] so the PC-ers can read it? I do not have Word of any description or any other word-processing app? No. If the answer is no, then if I just write a standard letter format using TextEdit and add .doc at the end of the title of the document does that ensure that at least PC-users can open it and with the original paragraph set out and formatting in place. No, a .doc extension is not the same as a TextEdit file. Write a HTML document, put it on the web and send the URL to your users. Onno Benschop Connected via WestNet because I cannot see Optus B3 where I am :-( -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Audio cassette recording to Powerbook?
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 07:31, Steven wrote: Hoping one of the keen audio techs can give me a hint or two please? You have two challenges: * Getting the wires connected. * Getting the sound level correct. The two are related in that one type of connector implies the voltage associated with it and thus the sound level. The simplest solution is to connect your RCA Play connectors via a cable to the sound-in port on your laptop. A simple $5 converter cable, to be had from Dick Smith, Jay Car, Altronics or Tandy will do the trick. (RCA stereo to 3.5mm jack stereo). (Please note that I don't have your PowerBook handy, so I'm only guessing that Apple hasn't changed its mind and moved away from a 3.5mm stereo jack :-) Of course you'll then actually need to record the sound, but that is for others to advise you on :-) Onno Benschop Connected via WestNet because I cannot see Optus B3 where I am :-( -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: screensaver
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 07:10, bill parker wrote: I cannot turn off screensaver.Setting the slider to never does not work [OSX 10.3 15 powerbook]. This annoying feature got in the way of a powerpoint presentation I was giving such that I resorted to the paper version I had printed out earlier! This is likely to be power saving, not a screen saver. Look in the power preferences. Any help welcome.I have run all the usual diagnostics and done permission repairs. That is beginning to sound like Rebuild The Desktop or Zap the PRAM as a solution for all woes. Repairing permissions is a solution to a specific problem, not a solution to all problems. Onno Benschop Connected via WestNet because I cannot see Optus B3 where I am :-( -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: DVDBackup without Apple DVD Player?
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 08:06, Antony N. Lord wrote: DVDBackup (which I've used in the past on other machines) requires Apple DVD Player to authenticate DVDs before they can be backed up. Obviously the player can't be installed on this model machine. Uhm, obviously ? Not sure why, but I'm sure you've actually tried it yes? I suspect that with some un*x tools you could do what you need to, or you could likely use the DiskImage tool and make an image of the disk, but I'm not anywhere near a Macintosh - despite Mike's best efforts - so I can only speak from a hist[o|e]rical perspective :-) Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via WestNet because I cannot see Optus B3 where I am :-( -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Planned Obsolescence - Canvas 3.5.5
* rolling the Mac clock settings back (only a temporary workaround) You could always write a little AppleScript that sets the system clock back to the current date in the year 2003, then launches Canvas and waits until it quits, then sets the clock back. If I had a spare life, I'd even write it for you, but I'm a tad busy at the moment... Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
3 Year Warranty
Hi Guys, One of my clients has a computer with three years warranty. Their CD Burner died and they called me in to fix it. Some how, not quite sure how yet, the computer supplier contacted the warranty company and they called me. Their main question was that they wanted to sign me up as their registered repairer. One of the phone calls I had with the company was not very pleasant - and I wondered if anyone else had dealt with this company and what kind of experience they had, because, it might have been a mistake, or it may have been indicative of their modus operandi. The company is called: United Electrical Engineering. I wondered what, if any, your experience was. Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: data lost from HD
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:37, William Crabb wrote: does anyone have a data recovery business that they have used for macs. this HD is a hitachi 180g only 6 mths old, thanks Bill Well you don't say what the value of the data is, nor do you indicate how the data was lost, but I'd like to warn you that a data recovery business is not going to be cheap. If you are currently using the drive, turn the machine off, and don't turn it on again until such time as you are ready to recover. If the drive crashed, then you may be able to recover the data using a drive of the same make/model, by going to a supplier and swapping out the circuit board. (This *may* work.) If you deleted a file/files, then recovery is completely dependent on what you did next. If you kept using the drive, likely it is too late already and no manner of money will get the data back - though some recovery operations will recover data that was erased four of five generations back. If you deleted files and switched off the computer, then you *may* be able to undelete the files, but I'd be going to visit someone who has a copy of Ghost first. Disk Warrior may be able to recover data also. Finally, chances of getting data back under OS/X is poorer in my experience than under OS7,8,9, not because the OS is broken, but because there are many more processes writing to disk at any one time. If all you're looking for is a name for a company, the name Disk Doctor keeps popping up, I have no experience with them at all, but I hear their charges are high, but of course that completely depends on the value of the data lost. Also, I should ask a silly question: What about your backups? Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: OT Planning my visit to Perth... Need some advise and info
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 03:28, Geoffrey Stormzand wrote: There are a couple of reasons for my post, as we are trying to secure housing for the period mentioned above, we are hopefully looking at splitting our time between the CBD and the beach. Right now were are looking at these 2 places: Well, I should point out that the distance between the CBD and the beach is not that great, we even have a City to Surf fun-run, so I'd not be too worried about organising two locations, seeing that from a distance perspective at least that seems moot. Having said that, of course there is a difference in life-style between living in the CBD and the beach, but the CBD as such doesn't have any houses, just a few hotels, and such. So what you indicate is actually near the CBD, but not actually the CBD. Now I happen to know that one of the members of this list also runs a Bed Breakfast in Victoria Park, I'm pretty sure he has broadband and Mark and Kathy are very friendly people - just beware of their son :-) (Hi Ryan :-) http://www.durhamlodge.com.au/ And he's a Mac person to boot! (And he also has a few self-contained apartments, so you get the best of both worlds, a home away from home and some local knowledge.) The sticking point for me as a Mac Consultant is I will need to still service my clients while here, so I need to have high speed internet access while I'm in Perth. The apartment in Scarborough is willing to install it. What would be the best service? I've seen mention of Big Pond are there other that are more reliable? As Shay pointed out, I'd not want to come along and hope to install it while I was there. At present there seems to be a pretty high demand and past experience indicates that some requests take more than a little time to implement if the local telephone exchange doesn't have enough capacity. I'd be looking for *existing* Internet, especially for such a short visit. Does anyone have an opinion about which air carrier to use when flying to Perth from Melbourne? We have seen Quantas,of course, and also Virgin Blue ??? Well, there are only those two, and Qantas comes without a 'u', because it is an acronym for Queensland And Northern Territory Air Services. I'd expect that it would be cheapest to book an International Flight to Perth via Melbourne and organise a stop-over, rather than a separate flight. Also I have subscribe the the iCal schedule for WAMUG, are the upcoming meetings still 3 August and 7 September? If nothing is changed I will be attending the meeting in September to meet all of you!! WAMUG meetings are always the first Tuesday of the Month. (Except Janauary for some reason :-) I'd also love to meet you, but presently I'm on the other side of the country and will be here until at least the middle of October. So, welcome to Australia :-) Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Forms in Dreamweaver/Javascript Question
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 14:16, Mrs C wrote: After verifying that my host accepts PHP and setting up my PHP scripts, I am still getting errors. You will need to be much more specific than that because getting errors tells me absolutely nothing. Can anyone in the know help out? The address of the form page is http://sss.sesafetyservices.com/survey-form.php That link results in an illegal address, but replacing sss with www gives me a form. The parse error tells me that someone broke the script. I cannot see the script, so you'll need to supply it. Also, I should point out that either you are a programmer learning to write code, or you are a user installing a script. You cannot successfully be both. While I'm prepared to answer specific questions about your script, you need to understand that this is what I do for a living, so there is a limit to the free assistance I am prepared to give. This may sound rather abrupt, it is not intended as such. I see too many bad scripts from people who compete with me and I end up being the monkey fixing them, often for free. Show me the script and perhaps I can assist. Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Adding signature as a graphic
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 14:56, Denise Williams wrote: Is it possible to use small custom designed graphics? I'm sure it is, but you should resist all temptation to use HTML email and attached graphics. It is a sure way to get people to respond to you in an unfriendly manner because not only do they incur the cost of your graphic, minute as it may be, many people don't have email programs that can or want to display such attachments. Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: OK Who's responsible for this :)
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 10:42, Mark Secker wrote: Office for Windows 2003 (the Windows equivalent to 2004) has ads and shop posters that have people using Ti-Powerbooks that have had the Apple light logo airbrushed out. While suppling great amusement for us Mac owners it showed some marketing smarts from Redmond as no mater what no Intel based laptop manufacturer paying MS licensing fees could fairly accuse MS of playing favorites by featuring a product from a direct rival. No, what it shows that even such horrible software as Office for Windows 2003 runs fine under emulation on a Ti-PowerBook :-) It shows that, or it shows that MS doesn't want to advertise Dell/HP/Toshiba, and prefers to advertise Apple... Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: OT: I hope this version of NT doesn't crash
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 12:37, Mark Secker wrote: Why can I see the Microsoft layers rushing in Because they have more money than sense perhaps? Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Coding resources
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 05:39, Rod wrote: Actually, at the moment it is possible that you wrote this message then, but we both know that your clock is borked... (At this stage I could start making jokes about why bother coding if you can't set the time, but I'm too happy that you're thinking about coding, that I won't.) (I'm also drinking coffee at the moment, so I'm smiling, rather than snarling :-) Anyone know of a good resource to learn how to code? I have been reading up on C at the moment, then hopefully progressing to C++ at some stage (got to have goals!). Books or online are welcome! I started a response yesterday and deleted it, because it wasn't being constructive, but I've got to share at least one thought from that message, I'll keep it short: Yikes! What I mean by that is learning to code and C are not things that in my opinion go hand-in-hand. I saw the other suggestions for Java and my response to that would be: yikes! The observant ones here would note a slightly less distaste for that as a place to start. Now, the hard thing for me is to write this email and not put 24 years of experience into it, but also try to encourage you to continue. I'll try that by making some observations, which I'm sure some on this list will disagree with: * The more you write software, the better you get at it. * When you first solve a problem, your solution is based on your understanding of the problem at the time. After you've solved the problem, you are just as likely to find a better solution. * Every language is the same, some are more the same than others. * Coding is not a skill, designing is a skill. Coding is a tool. * When I started I read everything there was on BASIC. I wrote software in that language for about a year. The next tool was 6502 Assembly, then PASCAL, then MODULA-2. * C++ is a hack on C to attempt to make it more palatable, but it isn't. * Learning about object oriented approaches will broaden your horizon, but you should understand that it is only another tool to solve problems. * Starting with an interpreted language, like PHP, Lingo or BASIC will filter out a lot of the noise in the learning process related to libraries, linking, compiling and making. * The more you read, the easier it gets. * There are a multitude of university courses that supposedly teach you the things you want to know. I haven't seen one that I like. I'm not completely happy with the level of completeness of the above, but I'm loathe to spend more time. There are excellent manuals for PHP on-line and I'd recommend going through the tutorial and seeing if you like what you read. I'm not saying that PHP is the final answer in programming, but it is a place to start that won't require you to jump through too many hoops to get started. The on-line IRC channel for php is at irc.freenode.net, and if you do get there, I'm a regular visitor [owh], and the group is very welcoming to new faces. Go forth and read! Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Wanted: 6GB hard disk or larger, ATI Rage 128 card
I've heard that you have to flash the ROM (change the firmware) for some cards, Uhm, a card and a hard-disk are *not* even close to being the same thing. I have no evidence at all that any firmware modifications are needed for any hard-disks. If you are completely paranoid - which you should be - I would recommend that you take your machine to the place where you are thinking about purchasing a drive and testing it there. I would also bring a boot-able CD with me and a copy of the current version of Drive Setup. So, while a firmware change *might* be required for a brain-dead PCI or AGP card - shoot the manufacturer, I am suspicious of any such requirements for hard-disks and suspect either ill-informed users who confuse the two, or ruthless dealers charging a premium for Macintosh compatibility. Of course, I may be completely wrong, in which case I'd be happy to learn about it. Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Wanted: 6GB hard disk or larger, ATI Rage 128 card
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 15:25, Craig Ringer wrote: I am extremely confused as to how you get the idea that I (or anyone else on this thread) was at any point suggesting that firmware modifications might be required to use non-Apple-supplied hard disks in macs. The only firmware tweaks I'm aware of for hard disks are used for failure simulation. You are absolutely correct. I suspect at 5:35 this morning when I typed it with my gloves on after waking up to the sound of my wife struggling with the remote control to the A/C, it must have resonated in my mind, that this was what was being discussed. So, apologies all round... I will close with an observation that in the past I have heard people exclaim that they needed Macintosh Firmware for their hard-disks, but in this case that was not at all muted. Again sorry for any confusion. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: For Sale - Colour Printer
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 14:31, Rick Armstrong wrote: uses ADB printer port (all cables included) There is no such thing. What you likely mean is a circular port that looks like an ADB port, but is in fact a serial port. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Mac OS 8.6 IMAP client
Hi all, My trusty PB1400 runs 8.6 and I'm looking for an IMAP client that doesn't take six years to load. I played a little with an older version of Eudora - I forget which, but it requires a system key chain to talk to IMAP and I cannot figure out how to do that under 8.6. I'd rather avoid Lookout Express, but if that is all there is... Any suggestions? Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Mac OS 8.6 IMAP client
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 11:25, Shay Telfer wrote: Mulberry http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/ Eww, that looks horrible. Or you could get someone to send you an invite for a GMail account :) Except that it would change the question to: What browser should I run under 8.6, it would also cause no end of challenges with redirecting mail and cause a whole host of other issues, but thanks for the comments. Any other suggestions? Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: DOS error message
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:57, Oldham, Toby wrote: I've just tried Google the MS website - a friend of mine is getting a DOS line error message when they try and boot up their wintel box. 'rating system not found'. Anyone know what that means? It means that they have deleted too much stuff when they were cleaning up. Generally it cannot find command.com and msdos.sys and io.sys. It could also be a corrupt boot block, or it could be a virus, or it could be a crashed disk, or it could be an incorrect BIOS setting. Boot from a dos floppy and have a look-see. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: NetGear WG302 ProSafe WAP Info
DISCLAIMER: This response is incomplete, from memory and in my experience. Eg. You are on your own :-) On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 22:38, Reg Whitely wrote: The NetGear WG 302 ProSafe WAP seems to meet all the required specifications and has been recommended to me. http://www.netgear.com.au/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=224 I have not used this device. I have downloaded and referred to the data sheet where appropriate. 1 The ability to be configured from MacOS 10.3.4. System requirements suggest Win 98-XP but maybe that is for Resource CD. DLink devices have some issues in this regard. I'll take that in two parts: The data sheet says that it supports secure SSH Telnet, I'm supposing that this means you can telnet to it to configure it, but you'd need to talk to Netgear. It also says that it has SSL remote management login - (albeit in a future firmware revision) - which means you can use a web-browser to talk to it - again, confirm with Netgear. Finally, it supports SNMP, so you can likely also configure it with an SNMP tool. All in all, very likely to be configurable with a Mac. Hmm, just read this paragraph in the specs: · Network Management: - Remote configuration and management through Web browser, SNMP or Telnet with command line interface (CLI) - SNMP management supports SNMP MIB I, MIB II, and 802.11 MIB Yes, your Mac is supported. Your reference to dLink is incorrect. You can configure any of their devices that I am aware of using a web-browser. Their own software runs under Windows only AFAIK, but it is not required at all. 2 Range: It has 2 x 5dBi detachable antennae. I would like it to act as a stand-alone wireless provider for my whole school. Currently an Apple Extreme Base Station cannot quite meet the distance to the extremities of the school - ~40m total Extreme range. We need at least 60 m radius, reliably receiving and sending. Range is a two-way street. If you have 5km range, the other end needs that too! Similarly, if you have 60m radius, the other end also needs to be able to transmit across that distance. In general I've found that lower speeds travel further - some times *much* further with less errors. These days I run my link at its slowest speed, because it's still faster than the satellite down-link. 3 What are your experiences with extension antennae? NetGear offer 2, one being omnidirectional. DLink have quite a few nice models. Are they cross-compatible? DLink's 5km radius is tempting to ping it out to the rest of town... http://www.dlink.com.au/products/wireless/antenna/ant24_1500.htm The biggest issue is one of plug compatibility. I've found that dLink sometimes does weird stuff with their connectors. Ask and find out. But again, a high gain antenna will only help if you have two of them! 4 Does it have capacity to obtain internal IP address via DHCP? This is needed. I can't find this info in the tech specs. Uhm, give out an address via DHCP? I would be very surprised if it didn't, but ask. 5 Is a G4 Dual Processor Xserve running 10.3.4 Server software considered to be a RADIUS server, presumably to enable EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP security and authentication, which are DET requirements and which the WG302 supports? A radius server is a server that provides a specific authentication protocol. It has nothing to do with OS or hardware. I suspect that there is radius server software for the Mac, but it is only required to provide authenticated access to the network itself. I'm not sure that you need this, but perhaps the EdDep says otherwise. There are other more minor details but these are the most pertinent now. If you'd like more info on the DET Standards for clarification, please let me know off-line. No thanks :-) Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Firewall
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 20:22, Peter Sealy wrote: The modem's User Guide says that NAT technology is incorporated in it which I assume is a type of firewall system/technology. Do I need any other firewall? Is turning on the OS X 10.3.4 Firewall in the Sharing system prefs sufficient or is this unnecessary? NAT is not a firewall. It just translates addresses, allowing a single IP address to be used by multiple computers. A firewall is always a good idea. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
RFC: Posting Guidelines v1.1
Hi all, The posting guidelines were last updated on the 19th of February, 2002. It features several out of date URLs and are missing some obvious additions. Also the mailing list archive seems to be off-line - that is, the non yahoo one, the headers on each WAMUG message point to: http://wamug.org.au:80/Lists/wamug/List.html This gives a 404 error. I recalled that the URL was more like :8000, so I did a port scan, that port is not in use, in fact there is only one web-server running on the WAMUG server. I suspect something has fallen over, or the mailing list archive is no longer available, other than the old one provided by yahoo. The mailing list signature points only to the yahoo archive. I've linked to the page in the signature, in the expectation that when it is all working again, that redirect will point somewhere more sensible. The new version of the posting guidelines is here: http://itmaze.com.au/articles/mailing.list.guidelines/ Any feedback and comment is kindly requested. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: outgoing mail port is blocked
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 delivered. The connection to the server ?smtp.mac.com? on port 25 timed out. 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. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Fwd:
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:31, Matthew Healey wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Michael and Sheree Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16 June 2004 6:51:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hello, Do you know where I can get my hands on the start up discs for a power book 180 from 1992? Regards Mike This would be a good place to start: http://www.lowendmac.com/pb/180.shtml Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: PC Card slot
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 on... On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:27, Craig Ringer wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 22:04, Kathy Quinlan wrote: CardBus and PC card and PCMCIA slots are all the same things Mostly. CardBus is like PCI, and PCMCIA is like ISA. PC Card is usually used to refer to both of them interchangeably. The only real difference is compatibility between different cards and different computers, they all work much the same. This paragraph makes no sense to me... PCMCIA is a standard that requires a device to be encased in a shell of some sort. The card is about the same size as a credit card, it's about 5mm thick and has a female connector on one end with two rows of holes. CardBus is a standard that describes the 32 bit nature of transfers within the PCMCIA interface. The original PCMCIA standard was only 16 bit. PCI is a standard that provides for a circuit board adaptor to be placed inside a computer. It has no protection, can be of numerous sizes and has electronic components visible and accessible on the board. I'm pretty sure that PCI is 32 bits. The connector is a circuit board edge connector and is in no way compatible with PCMCIA. ISA is a similar device to a PCI device, but the cards are not interchangeable, they're much older than PCI, come from memory in 8 bit, perhaps 16 bit versions, but I'm pretty sure that the 16 bit is only EISA. The connector is similar to that of PCI, but much thicker and less connectors, since this standard is from the late '70's PC card is a term that was invented because people couldn't memorise computer industry acronyms and only refers to PCMCIA cards, with or without the CardBus extension. So, only in terms of ISA is older than PCI and PCMCIA predates CardBus, does any of what you write make any sense, but basically it doesn't. things to plug in range from Compact Flash cards, adaptors for different memory card formats, Modems, LAN cards, wireless Lan cards, Hard drives (yes IBM has developed a Hard Drive that will fit in the cardbus slot, not sure if it was ever marketed) Toshiba made one that was widely available, a 2GB PCMCIA hard disk. As for IBM, the PCMCIA disk is news to me but they have been making and selling MicroDrives (Flash-disk sized hard disks) for quite some time. It's possible to use a MicroDrive with a PCMCIA Compact Flash adaptor. Yes, if you have drivers. there may even be audio cards. The list goes on. These days alot of what cardbus was meant for has been replaced by 2 things, #1 the laptop its self, #2 USB devices. Mini-PCI, too. You get a lot of internal Mini-PCI devices for things like WiFi where you used to need a CardBus device. No, Mini-PCI is a small form factor PCI card for MicroATX cases. A CardBus device has no place in that sentence, unless you are referring to a Mini-PCI PCMCIA adapter in which you plug-in a PCMCIA card using the CardBus standard. But laptops still support the standard ExpressCard should be replacing it in the next few years, but I wouldn't be stressing about that yet. I suspect the reader is already completely confused without introducing more standards... as sometimes you just need an extra network card (I had to run my laptop at a clients and all they had was thin net, so I grabbed out my 1998 trusty thin net card, whacked it in, and accessed the network devices) I always knew that you were a geek Kathy :-) Craig Ringer Hmmm, you may know a lot about Linux, but I suspect that your terminology is just a little rusty... Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Community Seminars
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 S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Publish Subscribe
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 13:37, William Chesnutt wrote: Hello All, Once upon a time there was a wonderful feature of Claris Works called Publish and Subscribe. Does anybody know if AppleWorks can still do this? Setup = OS 9.1 and AppleWorks 6.2.8. Actually, it was nicer than that. It was an operating system function, so the application didn't even need to know about how to deal with it, but it could add functionality. If it still exists, I'm not sure... Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: TCP/IP LAN (9.x)
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:01, David de la Hunty wrote: Dear WAMUG, Can anyone help me out with a good link or reference? I have an OS 9 based LAN (because the software I need to run is still Classic). I am thinking of buying a scientific device which is based around a WinDoze computer running WinXP. It has USB and Ethernet connections and can export its printout to an Excel spreadsheet. The manual also describes logging in using a LAN intranet TCP/IP method, ie with a browser, but I can’t get it to work. I have no experience with TCP/IP in a LAN under 9 though I have done it in 10.2.x. Is it possible to share files and log into an XP computer on the same ethernet LAN? What do I have to do to the g3 Macs on the network to enable it? Or do I have to run a computer under Panther, and my app under Classic, to get the networking going? Hmm, about three hundred different questions there, so I won't be answering all of them, but here's a start:-) You said that it allows logging in using a browser, so you won't need XP to do that at all. The manual for the device will no doubt talk about setting up it's IP address in one way or another. It might talk about MAC addresses, or default IP addresses, or the need of a setup program. The most likely scenario is that it has a default IP address. You need to set your computer up with an IP address next-to the default, so you can change the device IP address to something more sane. For example: If your computer IP address is 192.168.0.1 and the device is 10.10.10.10, then you cannot talk the device. So, change your computer's IP address to 10.10.10.11 and try to connect (while you're doing this you won't have Internet connectivity). If you can then connect, you can change the device IP to say 192.168.0.2 and change your computer back to the original 192.168.0.1 and you'll be laughing. If it needs a (windows) setup program to change the IP, visit your nearest friend with a Windows box and change the IP to something appropriate. If it talks about MAC addresses, then the simplest is likely to boot into OSX and use the arping command to ping the MAC address, so you can tell if it's working, the command will look something like this: * arping aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff * arping aabbccddeeff Where those letters come from the back of the box, the MAC address. There is another command, called arp, which looks something like: * arp -s 192.168.0.2 aabbccddeeff Which temporarily makes that device have that IP address. You'd best read the manual pages on those commands, man arping and man arp, before you start breaking things. This is not intended to be a complete answer, for that you'd actually likely need me to be there at the time, but there is enough stuff to assist your google searches :-) If you're completely stuffed and bamboozled, give me a call, but understand that I do normally charge for these services. Cheers, Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Spam and Spamcop.
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:13, Ken Woods wrote: Hi all, A friend of mine has informed me that her emails to me are being sent back to her with the message Blocked by Spamcop. However the messages she has sent have arrived at my inbox, but not from her normal Bigpond account. They from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have never had any dealing with Spamcop and am a little intrigued by these occurrences! Is it a problem with Telstra or just a rogue bug. Information about this can be found here: http://www.spamcop.net/ Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Win an iPod and an iPod Mini!
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:26, Matthew Healey wrote: 1. Members must be present on the night to receive all prizes except for 1st prize. If a member wins 1st prize and is not there on the night to collect it, they will be notified by email. I must confess that in this day of electronic communication that is a pretty big dis-incentive to become a paid up member. I'm sure that you have subscribers on this list who would love to become paid up members of WAMUG, but who have no chance of actually arriving in person at any meeting. So, for my money, you won't be getting any this year from me. Disclaimer: I'm not often a paid up member of WAMUG, but prize give-aways have often acted for me as a final inducement to pay up. I figure my email contributions pay for my membership without any money leaving my wallet. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S27°52'30 - E151°16'25 (Millmerran, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
