Re: [WAMUG] Web site hosts - Information - Recommendations

[Kaye and Geoff via WAMUG]

Hi,

> 
> I have had a family tree website for many years hosted by Webcity which were 
> taken over by Vodien Internet Solutions, based in Singapore around mid 2020.

Vodien - say no more! We don't use them for hosting, but they are the domain 
registrar we've ended up with. We host a lot of web sites for other people, and 
manage their domain names. Like Matt, we suddenly had about 20 domains taken 
over by Vodien when they bought out WebCity , and they are the worst registrar 
we have ever dealt with. One of the fundamental things we need in a registrar 
is the ability to point the domain name to the hosting site - we can't even do 
that for any of our sites. We are slowly moving everyone off them.

The only way we get any response from them is to phone them, but even then the 
person you talk to appears to have no technical knowledge.

My advice is to move servers if you can. We are moving to Ventra IP, but that, 
too, is just for the domain registration - our hosting is completely separate.

Cheers, Kaye 


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Re: [WAMUG] Subscriptions 2023

[Kaye and Geoff via WAMUG]

> Subscriptions are now due for 2023. The Membership Fee is $20 paid to WAMUG 
> through the P & N Bank  ( details on the WAMUG Website).

Just checking - the BSB and account number on the website differ from my saved 
ones - have they changed since last year?

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Re: [WAMUG] Fwd: Users Group Meeting

[Kaye and Geoff via WAMUG]

Hi Graham and Maureen,

>   At the next week’s meeting could we discuss the following new features
>   on Safari:
> * tab group enhancements;
> * tabs in the side bar;
> * website settings sync; and
> * strong password editing.

If you are going to discuss Safari, how about adding the security feature that 
stops Safari from being able to take a link to a file on another local 
(mounted) disk on your network. I can't attend the meetings (live too far away) 
but I'd love to find out how this is supposed to work. We are running Monterey, 
and can't get Safari to open link of the type file:///Volumes/[mounted network 
disk URL] without a bit of messing around.

The theory is that you go to the Develop menu and check "Disable local file 
restrictions", but that doesn't work straight up.

You CAN open the files if you use  "open" from the file menu, if you type in 
the URL, or if you double-click on the file and it is set to open with Safari. 
After that, provided   "Disable local file restrictions" is checked, you can 
navigate using links to the networked disk. It seems to need a direct access 
first to trigger it to accept the networked links.

We've had to set up an alias to a dummy file on the networked disk that we 
double-click first to open Safari in a state where we can use it across the net!

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[WAMUG] Claris Works

[Kaye and Geoff]

On 12/03/2022, at 1:56 PM, FW wrote:

> Does it have Claris Works ???


If you are interested in Claris Works because you have a need to read some old 
documents, I have it running on my 10.6.8 Mac.

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Re: [WAMUG} Random email trash action

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Alex

On 18/10/2021, at 11:45 PM, Alex wrote:

> Thank you Stephen & Geoff for your replies.  Apologies for thinking that 
> everyone is a mind reader!
> 
> Using MacBook Pro
> OS 10.13.6 High Sierra (can’t upgrade to Catalina & beyond due to version of 
> MYOB I prefer to use - for now)
> (Apple) Mail
> POP

Have you tried "Erase deleted items" under the "Mailbox" menu (at least that is 
where it is in my very old version 4.5 of Mail). I am assuming that you have a 
reasonable amount of free disk space; if not try fixing that first.

The web reports similar problems over the last few years but none say that the 
messages are empty. Maybe have a look at the raw source (View / Message / Raw 
Source in my Mail program) of the returned messages to see if that offers any 
clues.

Regards

Geoff

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Re: [WAMUG} Random email trash action

[Kaye and Geoff]

Sorry - chose the wrong message to resend in previous email

Hello Alex

On 14/10/2021, at 3:39 PM, Alex wrote:

> Hello members,
> 
> can anyone explain to me why some random emails that I delete but then decide 
> to return to my In Box are totally blank when I then open them?  Only To: & 
> Subject: …. are showing.
> 
> While here on email topic, how do I set the font colour for the body of my 
> messages, when I am starting from scratch or replying to someone?  I have 
> been in  preferences but nothing I do there seems to work.

You have not given a lot of detail as to what programs you are using and how 
you read your mail.

It would help to know:

  What device/operating system version you are using
  What mail client are you using
  Whether you are using POP or IMAP

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[WAMUG} Random email trash action

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello members,

can anyone explain to me why some random emails that I delete but then decide 
to return to my In Box are totally blank when I then open them?  Only To: & 
Subject: …. are showing.

While here on email topic, how do I set the font colour for the body of my 
messages, when I am starting from scratch or replying to someone?  I have been 
in  preferences but nothing I do there seems to work.

Many thanks in advance,

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Re: Auto Starting Mac

[kaye and geoff]

Well,

We're back in X-factor country. I checked out the iMac today and "Start up 
automatically after a power failure" was off!

I was sure it would have been the answer. I don't set up my machines with it 
on, but it COULD have happened, and if it had been set it would have been the 
perfect answer.

More tests needed.

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Re: auto-starting iMac

[kaye and geoff]

Hi all,

David Brown, who isn't on WAMUG but who has been following this thread, has 
suggested that the iMac might be set to auto re-start  on power failure. I 
haven't been into the new house, and I won't be going there today, but I'm 
certain he is right. I don't usually have that feature set, but the machine we 
are using is an old one, just set up to test that the NBN connection was 
working, and it could easily be set up that way.

It ties in with something else I noticed. The iMac shuts down quickly - 
noticeably quicker than the desktop machine I use at home. Because it is just a 
temporary setup there are no other devices attached, not even a backup disk, so 
there is nothing with a light to indicate that the shutdown is complete. When 
we're leaving the house I shut down the mac, turn off the modem, then flick the 
isolation switch as I walk out of the room. If the iMac is shutting down the 
screen well before it has completed its full power-down, I may be turning off 
the isolation switch while the iMac is still technically on (although it shows 
no sign of life).

When I want to use the machine I turn on the isolation switch, turn on the 
modem (or just walk over and wave my hand at it - takes the same amount of 
time) and lo and behold the iMac boot up - it has detected the return of power 
after what would have looked like a power failure. I've never had a pop-up 
warning me that the machine was shut down incorrectly.

It even allows for the fact that I've turned on the power, avoided the modem,  
and the iMac hasn't booted - if it had time to fully shut down last time it was 
used it wouldn't have re-started. 

I'll check it out next time I'm in at the house and let you know. 

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Re: auto-starting iMac

[kaye and geoff]

> Time to review the X-Files?
>> ...Where are Fox Mulder & Dana Scully when you need them?
>> 
I'll do some experiments - pull out the ethernet connection, for example, or 
change the port on the modem. If I find out anything that explains it I'll let 
you know. 

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Re: auto-starting iMac

[kaye and geoff]

> Are you plugged directly into the NBN termination box?
> Is the system status light ON?
> 
> I might have to agree with Neil’s suggestion “do you know any exorcists”?

Yes - the modem is plugged directly into the NBN termination box. The modem is 
off - no lights showing at all. The only connection between the modem and the 
iMac is the ethernet cable (as I said, they are even on different power 
circuits), and the the modem and computer are about 1.5 metres apart. This is a 
temporary setup in an otherwise bare computer room.

To be honest, in more the 50 years of computing I've never seen anything like 
it. When it was just the computer booting when I turned the modem on I was 
prepared to accept that there may have been an effect, but with the modem off, 
it is quite spooky.

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Re: auto-starting iMac

[kaye and geoff]

> Are you very sure that the iMac does shut down completely?

Absolutely. The room's isolation switch is turned off before we leave the site 
- it has no power going to it. The modem is on a separate power circuit that 
stays on, but the modem itself is definitely off.

I come into the house, turn on the room's isolation switch, then do my magic 
hand wave near the modem and the iMac (but not the modem) turns on, with a 
satisfying "boing".

The floor is solid concrete with tiles - no vibrations, and not even carpet to 
spark up static. It is truly inexplicable.

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Re: auto-starting iMac

[kaye and geoff]

Hi Peter and Neil,

> Bizarre is all I can think of. What brand/model is the modem? 

Standard Netcomm modem, straight from Aussie Broadband. The house is brand new 
- not even finished, and I not only turn everything off, I have a power 
isolating switch on the computer room and that is also switched off when we 
aren't there. 

We are completely charmed by it - makes a good show if someone else is there 
working on the place - we can just wave a hand and the iMac boots up. The modem 
isn't so obliging.

I have been known to make (old-fashioned large) printers spew out paper when I 
walk up to them - I definitely store a static charge strong enough to affect 
electrical devices, but I've never actually turned one on before, and Geoff has 
never had static issues.

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auto-starting iMac

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

This isn't a problem, but a rather puzzling behaviour from my iMac. We have 
recently connected the NBN to a house we are building, so I have the modem and 
an old (~2007) iMac in the house, connected by ethernet. Because we aren't 
living there I turn both computer and modem off most of the time.

Right from the start I noticed that if I turned the modem on first the iMac 
booted itself up without being touched. OK, I can accept that. But one day I 
reached out to turn on the modem, changed my mind and didn't touch it, but the 
iMac booted anyway. The next time I was on site I tried an experiment, and just 
walked over to the modem and waved my hand in front of it. Sure enough, the 
iMac booted. Yesterday I got Geoff to try (in case I had a high static charge 
and it was me doing it). He never even got to wave his hand - he just walked 
briskly over to the modem and the iMac booted!

It does seem to be associated with the modem - I can go to the desk and sit in 
front of the iMac and nothing happens unless I get close to the modem.

Any ideas?

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Re: IMac problem.

[kaye and geoff]

On 04/02/2020, at 3:50 PM, "Anthony (Tony) Francis"  wrote:

> I am having a problem with my iMac 27” running extremely hot, I seem to 
> remember a query by another member some time ago with the same problem. After 
> 1 hour of processing Photo’s the rear of the Computer is almost too hot to 
> touch, how do I check the Fans or will I need to remove the back and possibly 
> clean the inside of the Computer?

Tony,

I had the same problem, and installed smcFanControl to monitor the fans. It 
lets you check the temperature on CPU and HHD. After a couple of weeks I 
decided that the problem was with my CPU fan, and that it was probably an 
accumulation of dust - the machine is some years old. I took it into our local 
service centre and had it cleaned out - it has been just fine for over a year 
now.

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Re: opening appleworks docs

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Garry

On 25/05/2018, at 3:16 PM, gary dorn wrote:

> I have some legacy appleworks docs ( from 1998)  which I would like to open
> is there any way of opening or viewing them 
> 
> Mac Os 10.11.6
> 
> I can also boot into 10.5.7 and 10.7.5


I am running 10.6.8 (yes, as my regular system) and I have Appleworks 6 which 
runs and opens .CWK files. So I guess it will run on 10.5.7.

I have not looked but we might have an original CD, alternatively just copying 
the executable on to your machine might work - things were simpler in the "old" 
days.

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Re: Find iPhone

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Michael

On 31/12/2017, at 3:16 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote:

> I recently lost an iPhone, and used Find my iPhone to try and find it.
> 
> According to the spot on the map, the iPhone was in the middle of the closely 
> mown lawn in the neighbour’s front yard across the street. We couldn’t find 
> the iPhone nor could we hear any sound from it, nor could we hear it ring 
> when we rang it.
> 
> I used f”ind my iPhone” on three different devices over the next three days, 
> from a variety of locations up to 20 km away from the neighbour’s place. The 
> result was identical on each of them, the location my missing phone less than 
> “1 minute ago” as being in the middle of the front lawn.
> 
> The battery has now gone flat, but just in case someone recharges the battery 
> and turns the phone on, I’d like to know what to do if, yet again, the iPhone 
> is reported as being in the middle of the yard. Or what I could have done.


I have never owned a smart phone; in fact I have only had any sort of mobile 
phone about 20 years ago, and then I kept it for just a few weeks. So I am well 
qualified to make a suggestion.

Get your replacement phone (or borrow one if you have not replaced it yet) and 
put it on the lawn as close as possible to where your lost phone was reported. 
Do a "find my phone". If it reports that it is on your neighbour's lawn where 
you put it then disregard this post. I cannot help. But if it reports that it 
is, say, 100 metres due north, then go 100 metres due south and start looking.

Have a happy New Year everyone - we are going to see the fireworks (in Albany).

Regards

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Re: iMac problem

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Rosemary

On 22/12/2017, at 4:19 PM, Rosemary Spark wrote:

> My husband’s 82 year old has a almost 2 year old iMac, early 2016, running 
> High Sierra ...don.t know which version at this point. It decided not to turn 
> on properly the other day. It gets stuck loading with the bar almost 
> complete, but never starts.
> So far
> Re-started a number of times...same result.
> Re-set SMC (according to advice I found just unplugging , leaving and 
> re-starting does that on this computer.
> Booted to recovery 
> Repair disc...no problems I could see
> Tried to make disk image but no go ( He has no backup!)
> Re-loaded software
> 
> Re-started in safe verbose mode
> Got stuck on line after line
> 
>  "Process[1xx] crashed: opendirectoryd. Too many corpses being created" 
> 
> At this point I don.t know what else to try.

Have a look at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7100079

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Wanted: bootable CD/DVD for Sierra on MacPro

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

I have a client who has Sierra running on a MacPro laptop. It is acting up 
badly - crashing, not writing to disk, but it isn't clear where the problem 
lies - she has only just upgraded the RAM and operating system, but also has 
updated 3rd party software (Photoshop, Indesign).

Normally I might produce a bootable copy of Sierra on a CD/DVD for her to try 
starting up from somewhere other than her hard drive, but I don't have Sierra 
myself, her machine is too flakey to use, and we live in an area very badly 
serviced for internet connections, so downloading it is out of the question at 
our place.

Could someone write me a bootable disk (Sierra, suitable for a MacPro) and send 
it down to us on the south coast - I'm happy to pay for your trouble and the 
postage. I figure that if we can reliably boot from it we may be able to better 
determine what is causing her intermittent problems. Get back to me off list if 
you can help out.

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Re: Tracking!

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Peter

On 11/02/2017, at 7:51 PM, Peter Curtis wrote:

> I use Duck Duck Go as a search engine as it isn’t supposed to track you, yet 
> when I look up an item on the net thereafter everywhere I go I’m bombarded 
> with ads for the item I searched for previously?
> How do I avoid this?

Try deleting the browser cache - this is normally where web pages store 
information which can persist between browsing sessions.

Sorry, having a seniors's moment - I meant to say - clear cookies.

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Re: Tracking!

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Peter

On 11/02/2017, at 7:51 PM, Peter Curtis wrote:

> I use Duck Duck Go as a search engine as it isn’t supposed to track you, yet 
> when I look up an item on the net thereafter everywhere I go I’m bombarded 
> with ads for the item I searched for previously?
> How do I avoid this?

Try deleting the browser cache - this is normally where web pages store 
information which can persist between browsing sessions.

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Re: Adding a graphic to an existing page in html

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello David

On 03/02/2017, at 11:35 AM, David Noel wrote:

> I'm trying to work out if it is possible, in a displayed html page, to
> add a button or link which if clicked will dynamically add a graphic
> below the click point.
> 
> Is this possible? Using Javascript maybe? Or would it require use of a
> more powerful language?
> 
> Any ideas welcomed --


As Ronni says, you would use an IMG tag if you just want to display a picture 
when the page loads, but if you want it to be dynamic (ie. the contents of the 
page move down to make room for a picture which appears when a button is 
pressed, or something similar) then you need javascript. Contact us off-list 
and if you like we can provide specific code when we understand exactly what 
you want to achieve.

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Re: Dictation not showing command list

[kaye and geoff]

Hi Neil,

> I have occasionally had problems (various) where things weren’t working as 
> expected and found that relaunching finder restored order.
> Of course, rebooting the machine would be a more forceful way of achieving 
> the same.
> But you have probably done the usual of rebooting the machine, seeing if the 
> problem is there on another user account, etc?


Yes - it has been rebooted a number of times, but thanks for the suggestion. I 
have finally found a reference to other people experiencing an empty command 
list when using dictation on an Apple Support page, but that forum only had 
people with the problem, and no proffered solution. I'll think about it. My 
friend is going up to Perth some time; its a Mac air, so she can take the 
machine into the Apple store and see if they can sort it out.

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Re: Dictation not showing command list

[kaye and geoff]

Hi Ronni,

> Is she trying to access the “show Commands” this way?
> To see a list of all the commands you can access, activate Dictation (press 
> fn fn), wait for the beep, and then say “Show commands”

Yes - she is familiar with using Dictation and has previously been able to see 
commands by doing it this way - now all she gets is an empty (formatted) page - 
no commands are listed

> When you're dictating, pause before saying a command. Otherwise, OS X may 
> interpret it as dictation.

Not an issue

> Check in System Preferences > Accessibility and choose Dictation in the list 
> to the left. 
> Click 'Dictation Commands' and then select the 'Enable Advanced Commands' 
> option. 
> Click done in the preference pane to activate advanced commands.

She has been using the Advanced Commands mode for some months now and it has 
always shown her a list of commands when asked to do so - now it just shows the 
empty page. 

She is able to use Dictation without trouble; the commands all work, even "Show 
commands" - it is just the response to the "Show commands" request that has 
changed. This is true for the Finder, Pages, and Mail - all places where you 
would expect to see a list of commands applicable to the current program. It 
happens for English, French and Spanish (using the equivalent commands to show 
the list).

I haven't been able to find any reported problem like this in other Mac forums.

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Dictation not showing command list

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

I have a friend with failing eyesight who is using Enhanced Dictation under El 
Capitan. Until recently everything worked well, but now the spoken request 
"Show Commands" returns a formatted screen with no commands listed. She 
normally dictates in French, but we switched to English (and to Spanish) and 
tried them with the same result. Dictation continues to work - it responds to 
the spoken commands and produces documents from spoken dictation in all three 
languages - but she can no longer get a list of the commands available to be 
recognised.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour or have any idea of where we start looking 
to get her commands displayed. She is unaware of doing anything that may have 
caused the problem, and I can't find anything in her settings that could turn 
off displaying the commands.

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Re: Intermittent network sharing problem

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

Just to follow up on our internet sharing problem, with a big thanks to 
everyone who helped. We removed the EDUP wifi router from our network and have 
been able to share files and internet over ethernet. I plugged the EDUP back in 
today. It had no immediate affect (except to successfully share internet 
connection over wifi) but when we re-booted the machines the internet sharing 
on ethernet failed. Took out the EDUP, rebooted, and it all worked.

So it looks as though we need a new wifi router.



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Re: Web site timing out

[kaye and geoff]

Thanks to all who gave me feedback - I think we have an idea of what is going 
on.

> Seems be a ISP server issue with some ISPs as Stephen & Brian could access on 
> Bigpond ISP?

Yes, it does seem to be a problem limited to some ISPs - not just 
Westnet/Iinet, since our telstra pre-paid also fails. I tried setting the DNS 
to google on one of our machines, but that didn't work either. When I did a 
trace route the other day I succeeded in getting to his nameserver.

I'll get back to Michael and let him know that large numbers of people who are 
specifically interested in his work can't get to his site because of the 
westnet/iinet block. He can take it up with his hosting site.

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Re: Web site timing out

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

Thanks to Peter, Stephen and Brian for the feedback. 

At their request we put that link on a client's web site, but none of the 
people involved with that site could get a response. Nor could we. If we go to 
Micheal Kehs'  Facebook site and try to take the link from there we get the 
same problem: like Peter, we get a timeout. The two of you who could get 
through are on Telstra Bigpond. We are on Telstra pre-paid. Other people who 
couldn't get to the site are on Westnet. My sister, currently in rural Cuba, 
had no problem. We'll continue to investigate.

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Web site timing out

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

We're trying to link to the web site  http://www.michaelkehswoodworks.com/  but 
simply get no response. We know that some other people in WA have the same 
problem, but that the site is up, and is accessible from the USA (by the owner).

Can a few members try linking to the site for us please, and let us know what 
happens - we are trying to work out if it does respond for anyone in WA.

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Re: Intermittent network sharing problem

[kaye and geoff]

Ronni,

> You mention you had this Network setup working prior to a couple of weeks 
> ago, what changed at that time?
Absolutely nothing - it literally failed overnight. We did have a severe 
electrical storm at least a day earlier, but it had worked after the power came 
back.

> There is another device handing our IP Addresses - its as though you have 2 
> devices acting as Routers.

I agree - it does look as though there are two separate devices doing the job.

> The Telstra pre-paid 4G USB modem (ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM) IP 192.168.0.1
> The EDUP business portable wireless partner (EP-2908) IP 192.168.2.1
> I’m confused with how your Network is actually setup.

We have an ethernet hub (Cisco Linksys SE2800) with CAT5 to four desktop 
machines and into the EDUP (EP-2908), which is plugged into a power source.

The Telstra modem is plugged into USB on my machine, and I have internet and 
file sharing over ethernet turned on.

We have always used the ethernet connection for file and internet sharing - the 
EDUP is just there as a courtesy for clients/friends who have portable devices 
and want to use the net or exchange files with us; we normally wouldn't have 
wifi turned on for any of our machines.

When it all worked I didn't take any notice of the router IP addresses on the 
various machines - it is only now that it has become a bit crucial.

I've just done what I should have done earlier - started from scratch with 
nothing connected and slowly add connections.
I've unplugged everything, then worked through from no modem/no sharing through 
to modem and sharing. It all works perfectly - Geoff can share internet and 
files.
I HAVEN'T added the EDUP wifi device.

We've shut down and rebooted, and it still works. But: I still have 192.168.0.1 
as my router and DNS, and Geoff still has 192.168.2.1 as his router - it isn't 
coming from the EDUP device, which isn't plugged in; it is coming from me.

So, we'll leave it like this for now, with no wifi, and see if it continues to 
work. We've had it working briefly before, only to have it fail the next time 
we rebooted. If it is still working in a few days time I'll re-introduce the 
EDUP and see if it causes a problem.

Thanks for all your help and for getting me thinking - I need someone else to 
talk to about this stuff to see it all a bit clearer

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Re: Intermittent network sharing problem

[kaye and geoff]

Hi Ronni,

> Your Router/Gateway Address is 192.168.0.1
> System Preferences  > Network - Advanced > TCP/IP
> Configure IPv4: Using DHCP
> IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.xx   (this will change automatically because you are 
> using DHCP)
> Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
> Router: 192.168.0.1 should stay the same
> DNS Server should be the same as the Router: 192.168.0.1 

All that is true for me, but I've just booted up one of the old machines and 
checked it out:

IPv4 uses DHCP
IPv4 address 192.168.2.xx
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Router 192.168.2.1

Right now I have manually set the DNS server to 192.168.0.1 and it is working. 
If I reboot it may just stop again.

Geoff's machine is connected using wifi and it is working despite the following 
settings:
IPv4 address 192.168.2.xx
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Router 192.168.2.1
DNS is set to 192.168.2.1

I'm finding this extremely frustrating - I'm not sure how we can be getting 
different router and DNS IP numbers, and I cannot explain why the wifi is 
seeing the shared internet connection on ethernet when nothing else can. 
Despite the different IP numbers we can still file share. I have tried cutting 
out the Cisco hub - just a single cable between our two machines. Again, we 
could file share but not share the internet connection.

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Re: Intermittent network sharing problem

[kaye and geoff]

Hi Ronni,

> ethernet hub: Cisco Linksys SE2800
> Are the LED (lights) on each port indicating connected?

Connected and active - external indicators are all good

I really think that the different router numbers are a bit of a clue to what is 
happening. Can you tell me where the router numbers come from? Is it the Cisco 
hub? I need to sort out why the other machines on the network have a different 
router number from me; I think that may be crucial.

We may just get another modem, but I hate not figuring out what is happening 
and fixing it!

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Re: Intermittent network sharing problem

[kaye and geoff]

Hi Ronni,

> The details look setup correctly - Router and DNS settings. You are not 
> having self-assigned IP addresses 169.
> Gateway 192.168.0.1 - 255.255.255.0 Subnet Mask
> Are all on the same Subnet Mask?

Yes, but I've just made it work (for now!) doing the following:
   booted up one of my heritage machines, manually set 192.168.0.1 as the 
ethernet DNS server
   came back to my machine and manually set up 192.168.0.1 as the ethernet DNS 
server

and that worked! Geoff's machine, currently using the wifi connection, still 
works, although it currently shows 192.168.2.1 as the DNS server

While doing that I saw that the modem on my machine has the router as 
192.168.0.1 but the router on the old machine is 192.168.2.1
I think that this latter info is a pointer to what is going wrong - these 
machines have, for some reason ended up pointing to different IP addresses, 
none of them local.

None of this has stopped us sharing files/disks on the network, and prior to it 
all going wrong I changed nothing at all in any network settings on any of the 
hardware.
…
Despite getting it to work I removed the manual DNS settings, shut everything 
down, tried a PRAM reset. Booted everything up, with no connection. Reset the 
manual DNS - it didn't work this time. I'll try it again tomorrow. Like the 
subject of this email says - intermittent and unpredictable. We are back to 
wifi, which is still working.

We are getting to the stage where we might just buy another dongle for Geoff 
and give up trying to share mine. The wifi does drop out at times and it isn't 
a satisfactory way to work.

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Re: Intermittent network sharing problem

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

> We might require more details on what Telstra Dongle you are using and the 
> Network settings you have.

Telstra pre-paid 4G USB modem (ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM), working just fine 
for my machine
EDUP business portable wireless partner (EP-2908), also working fine

On network settings I have the dongle first, followed by ethernet. 
IP uses DHCP
Router and DNS settings are 192.168.0 numbers
I share my connection from the modem to ethernet
We use an ethernet hub: Cisco Linksys SE2800
My machine is running OS X10.8.2


> The dongle is connected to your Mac so the dongle would only see your 
> machine, the Mac would be handling all the local IP assignment NAT and data?

That is right

> You have 'Internet Sharing' turned on in System Preferences > Sharing?

Yes - this has been working for around two years, and nothing had been changed; 
got up one morning, turned it on, and it had just stopped sharing

> Do you have any Proxy server or firewall setting blocking DNS servers?

No - remember, the wifi router plugged into the ethernet network is seeing and 
sharing the connection from my machine - it is getting out onto the ethernet 
and being broadcast, and we are using it to get internet on Geoff's machine. 
However I have heritage machines on the network with no airport - they can no 
longer connect.

> Sounds like you are picking up local IP addresses but not Public IP addresses.

Not really - the ethernet addresses on the other machines are perfectly normal 
(192.168.0.*) - not local, but assigned by the router. If they were local I'd 
expect them to be 169… numbers. The router address also looks fine. I did have 
a period where we were seeing local IP addresses on the other machines, but 
re-booting everything sorted that out.

> Without seeing your setup or knowing what Modem & Wi-Fi router you’re using 
> its difficult to offer any suggestions.

I did try one other thing when we were first faced with trying to get it all to 
work again. I manually set the ethernet DNS server address to that of the 
modem. This appeared to work instantly - everything came back on-line, and 
stayed up all day. I thought I had solved it. When we turned the machines on 
next morning, same settings, it failed again, and has never worked since. I've 
turned it back to automatic.

Trolling Google turned up some suggestions, including deleting
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist 
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
but I'm not sure that this would do anything useful in this case. Do you think 
it worth a go? Another suggestion is to use the unix commands to shut down the 
ethernet connection and re-starts it. I can do this, but can't see that it is 
any different from doing it through system preferences, and I've already tried 
that.

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Re: Intermittent network sharing problem

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

We've been living with our internet sharing problems for a couple of weeks now, 
with no solution.

I share our wireless connection over ethernet to three other machines and a 
wifi router. The sharing failed overnight a couple of weeks ago; we can still 
mount disks over ethernet, and the IP addresses all look good, but the other 
machines fail to access the internet using the ethernet sharing I'm providing; 
network preferences thinks they are connected, but all applications fail - they 
just time out, then give a "no internet connection" message.

You might think that my machine has failed, and no longer provides internet 
sharing, but this isn't the case - the wifi router is on the same ethernet 
network, and it broadcasts the shared connection, so currently we are limping 
along with that.

I've turned everything off and on countless times. I've also removed and 
re-created the ethernet service. I'm hoping someone can suggest other things I 
can try. For example, are there any .plist files I can try deleting to see if 
that helps restore our sharing?

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Intermittent network sharing problem

[kaye and geoff]

Hi - I'm looking for some advice on a very annoying problem with our shared 
internet connection.

I connect using a wireless Telstra dongle, then share my connection over our 
ethernet network, which includes a separate wifi broadcaster to give 
connectivity to any device not directly plugged into ethernet.

At the moment we are having problems; my machine has internet access, but other 
machines on the network can't connect - typically they are only getting local 
network IP numbers and can't see outside the local network. We've also 
intermittently lost the ability to connect to each other's machines; sometimes 
we can connect one way and not the other, for example.

We usually fix the problem by turning all machines off and on. It may take 
several goes, but eventually the sharing works. Currently even this isn't 
working. I tried to solve the problem by resorting to wifi networking for one 
of the machines that is normally connected using ethernet. This worked for 
about 20 minutes, then dropped out - it can see the wifi network, everything 
looks just fine in System Preferences, the IP number is fine, but there is no 
internet - everything times out.

We've swapped our ethernet cables over in case one is flakey, but that makes no 
difference. It feels more like the internet sharing from my machine is the 
problem, not the network.

I'm running OS X 10.8.2
The main machine I'm trying to share with runs OS X 10.6.8
This shouldn't matter - this setup has been running with no hassles for a long 
time.

Any suggestions on what I should try to restore our shared access will be more 
than welcome.

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Re: USB modems

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi Kevin

On 08/03/2016, at 8:19 AM, Kevin Lock wrote:

> does anyone on the list know where I can source such modems that will run on 
> PPC Macs.I still have a number of nice PPC macs to give to welfare 
> clients and most of them require a USB modem as the clients are usually 
> unable to afford other connection methods.


We have a couple of Huawei USB modems that you can have if they are of any use. 
Of course they will need SIM cards. One has a broken aerial connector, but in 
the city an aerial is probably not required (unlike here). We have found these 
connectors to be very flakey - it pays to take the modem to the shop when 
buying an aerial to try it out.

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Re: Mail problem

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Bill

On 17/07/2015, at 8:13 AM, Bill Parker wrote:

 I should have said all servers are said to be offline

I have an old version of Mail, but if yours is similar to mine, look at the 
Mailbox menu and check that all accounts have not been taken offline. The menu 
gives you the opportunity to take them online.

In general being offline implies no internet connection, but since Thunderbird 
works this would appear not to be the problem

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Re: Second email address problems

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Jennifer

On 12/07/2015, at 6:29 PM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote:

 I should add that I have sent successfully  a message to our first address 
 and it appears in that mailbox, but there is no way of knowing this 
 otherwise. 

You can check that the email account is set up correctly by your ISP (and that 
you have the correct password) by using webmail to access the account. I 
presume that your ISP provides webmail - I do not know of any who do not.

First send a test message to your new email address and then use webmail to see 
if it has been received. Your ISP's web site should have instructions for using 
webmail if you have not used it before - it is similar to Gmail so you should 
be able to work it out.

If you can get in to the account and the message is there, then the problem is 
in the settings in your mail program on your computer. Follow Tim's suggestions 
to get it working.

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Re: NO BROWSER

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi Julie

On 04/06/2015, at 2:51 PM, Julie Bedford wrote:

 All was working fine earlier today, now I am unable to use Safari or Firefox 
 - when trying to connect I get The proxy server is refusing connections  - 
 however I can send and receive email.  Any suggestions.  I have not tampered 
 with any cables.
 (OS 10.7.5 - Mac Pro)


The problem is nothing to do with your computer. The proxy is a device used by 
your ISP to route (and in theory make more efficient) web page access. If the 
proxy refuses to talk to you, then you will not be able to see any web pages. 
Mail does not go through a proxy server.

As to why it is refusing connections, who knows. You need to ask your ISP. I 
would think that if you waited for a few hours, whatever is wrong will be fixed 
and it will all be working again.

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Re: NO BROWSER

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi Julie and Ronni

On 04/06/2015, at 3:51 PM, Julie Bedford wrote:

 You are an absolute godsend - seriously.
 All fixed !!


I have just seen Ronni's reply, and it seems that I was mistaken in thinking 
that the problem was not with your computer. Our ISP, as far as I know, 
enforces the use of a proxy no matter what settings you have in your browser.

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Re: Getting Apple ID unblocked

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello pat

On 01/06/2015, at 5:27 PM, Tim Law wrote:

 Pat I am assuming the email you responded to was the same as Blitto posted.
 
 Next time, before you click on the link, hover your mouse over the link and 
 you will see the ‘real’ link that you will be going to. In this case it’s 
 sending you to an address with intersrves”   in the address.  It’s clearly 
 not an Apple address, don’t have anything to do with it. 
 
 This address also appears in the address bar of the browser if you DO click 
 on the link - which in itself is unwise to let, let alone complete any of the 
 fields.
 
 Mail.app is so alarmed that I have tried to send the web address in this 
 email, that it’s blocked me from sending even a partial address to use as an 
 example for you; it’s that well known. 

You should not even rely on using your mouse to hover over the address to check 
that it is valid - even this can be got around by hiding the address inside 
another apparent address. This only becomes apparent if you look at the full 
header information, which is not normally displayed. And for all I know some 
scammers might have a way to get around that.

So the answer is to never provide personal or financial details to any 
unsolicited email no matter what it looks like, and who it appears to be from.

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Re: Help with Website/Email/Domain Relocation

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Hi Blitto

On 30/04/2015, at 9:41 AM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote:

 Dear WAMUGers
 I have a friend who has bought a villa on an island just off Bali.
 It is rented out to holiday makers.
 It has a website/hosting/domain and email.
 
 He needs help shifting all this to him.
 Changing the email contact details
 And probably shifting the hosting.
 
 Please do any of you do this kind of thing?

We do it - it keeps us occupied during our retirement. As long as the current 
owners are cooperative the domain is reasonably easy. Once that is done the 
email address should be straightforward. There may be lots of options with the 
web site depending on what is used to build it and where it is or will be 
hosted.

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Re: Not happy Jan!

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi Kevin

On 15/04/2015, at 11:21 AM, Kevin Lock wrote:

 Updating to 10.10.3 has lost me the use of Photoshop Elements 6.   
 
 I am turning into a bit of a luddite.A couple of my Macs running 10.6.8 
 run quite nicely thanks.  


I am running 10.6.8 as well with no plans to upgrade (not that I could with our 
internet connection speed - the download would take many many hours and would 
almost certainly fail before it completed).

I am on Photoshop Elements 4 which does more than I need. I also run an old 
version of Graphic Converter because the newer version, though compatible, has 
inexplicably removed some useful features which I regularly use. But then I 
still pine for Cricket Graph and even the old MacDraw which could handle bitmap 
and vector graphics together in a way that no current program seems to be able 
to emulate.

I am obviously a lot of a luddite (we still have at least one machine running 
7.something plus DOS on a 486).

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Re: Add Icon to Menu Bar

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Hi Alan

On 31/03/2015, at 8:10 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:

 
 On 30 Mar 2015, at 11:32 am, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote:
 
 
 Thanks for your response Peter.  I had reached the same understanding you 
 gave, hence my request to wamug for the extra experience or a workaround 
 solution.   Perhaps a more detailed description of my desired outcome would 
 help:-
 
 My start position is that changing the desktop picture via System 
 Preferences is independent of any open app, which is critical. Further, 
 selecting the menu bar or an menulet item does not affect the current 
 “active” application.
 
 I share my desktop screen during webinars.  Most of the desktop acreage is 
 used by the working applications - but the top menu bar remains visible and 
 accessible.  Ideally I want 4 single-function Menulets on the menu bar.  (A 
 single Menulet with a drop down menu would be second best.)I can control 
 the working application window sizes to leave a border of the base desktop.  
 I want to signal time warnings of green, orange and red desktop colour 
 changes for webinar participants to ensure they wrap up their point so I can 
 (politely) resume control. The fourth menu bar icon would be to restore the 
 standard desktop background.  These desktop background colour changes must 
 be done “within one second”.  Navigating through Apple  System Preferences 
  Desktop  Screen Saver etc etc takes too long, displays its windows over 
 the working webinar windows, and is prone to error due to haste.
 
 Some extra words to clarify or confuse - - -.   One solution would be use a 
 third party app - but I haven’t found one.  Another possibility (not 
 researched) is to use large coloured images floating on the desktop.  These 
 would normally be hidden by the open webinar apps.  Each card could be 
 dragged to the unused border area as needed.  Two immediate problems: such 
 cards MUST remain in the background when “activated, and clicking on any 
 one must not open an application.
 
 Cheers
 Alan
 
 
 
 I know of nothing in the Mac OS, as it comes out of the box, which can help 
 you -  other than Automator, where I now think your solution lies, in 
 conjunction with a bit of Applescript thrown in. Failing that, I’m afraid you 
 are going to have keep searching for your elusive 3rd party app or commission 
 someone to write one.


Have a look for a program called wallpaper-wizard-lite (Google the phrase) - I 
am not familiar with it but it may allow you to change the background by 
pressing a key. Note that I did find a user comment that it is no longer being 
updated, and can cause problems with Yosemite, but comments about it with older 
versions of the OS were generally positive.

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Need an old copy of Safari

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

Running OS X 10.8.2

I was running Safari 6.0.1 but updated it this morning to 6.1.6 with disastrous 
consequences - it suddenly goes grey/blank and has to be restarted. Does it all 
the time.

I'd love to go back to 6.0.1 or 6.0.2 but don't have the installation files. I 
could re-install Mountain Lion but it would be a lot easier to sort Safari out. 
I've been unable to find old versions on the net. Does anyone have the URL of a 
site that will let me download a suitable installation file?

I kept the old version of Safari when I updated, but installing V6.1.6 did 
something that prevents V6.0.1 from opening windows, rendering it useless.

Alternatively, are there files I can restore from backup or trash from the 
system folders that will let my old version work again?

Any help will be much appreciated - I'm fond of Safari and would like it back.

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Re: Opening winmail.dat

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi 

On 18/02/2015, at 3:19 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote:

 I have been sent by email a document which was saved on a Windows computer in 
 .doc and in .docx formats.
 It is received on my computer as winmail.dat
 
 TNEF enough will not open the attachment.
 
 Any suggestions?


It is a Microsoft-only format and as you suggest is due to the sending mail 
program being configured badly. A Google search for winmail.dat will provide 
several links which explain what it is and why you get it. Try 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-winmaildat-attachment which has a 
link to a Microsoft page covering the issue and what the sender can do about it.

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Re: OS 10.10.2 and Quicklook

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Pat

On 02/02/2015, at 4:47 PM, clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote:

 I work on a rapidly expanding web site, using BBEdit 11.0.2, the newest 
 version. I used to be able to use Quicklook on raw html files: it would give 
 me a view of how the file looked on Safari.  This is enormously useful and 
 saves a lot of time as it is not necessary to open a file to see what it 
 looks like.
 
 However, I did the Yosemite 10.2 update a week ago (went well and quickly 
 with no apparent problems), but I think this may be a prolem, because 
 Quicklook no longer works on html files.
 
 I tried to have a look on the Support pages of Apple, and wrote out a 
 description of the problem, but the page would not let me post it to the 
 community.
 
 Has anyone else noticed this? I would hope Apple knows about it and is fixing 
 it. Failing that, is it possible to remove the 10.2 update?


I understand that BBEdit was discontinued some years ago by Bare Bones 
Software. Their supported text editor now is Text Wrangler, which I think is 
free. It claims to understand HTML, and lots of other languages, which I take 
to mean that it will pretty up HTML with colours and formatting. 

We use Web Design, which has the in-built ability to display the web page as 
you change the HTML. It is OK, but I am not sure that I would recommend it. It 
crashes a bit (but usually only immediately after you have saved the file!), it 
has funny behaviour over our network and has a way of hanging on to pictures 
despite you having specified a new/different one. We paid for Web Design, but 
not a lot I think.

Not a specific answer to you problem, I realise, but you could look at a 
program like Web Design (there are a number to choose from ot there) rather 
than ditching your OS.

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Web page problem

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hello Muggers

I have an interesting problem which someone might recognise and be able to 
explain. It is a version of a web page hack, but with specific symptoms. It 
involves an environmental organisation called Greenskills - we do their web 
page support for them.

They own several domains, in particular greenskills.org.au and ecojobs.org.au. 
Ecojobs.org.au is being phased out so if you point a browser at it a page is 
displayed which immediately redirects to an ecojobs page on the main site. Or 
at least this is what happens if you enter the URL www.ecojobs.org.au/. With 
this format you rely on the default HTML file name, which in this case is 
index.html, as is standard for most sites.

However if you enter www.ecojobs.org.au/index.html, you get a flashy page which 
wants you to sign up for what I suspect is a pyramid selling scheme. The html 
source is for this flashy page, it has not done a redirect and the ecojobs URL 
is the one displayed in the window at the top of the browser.

The nameservers for ecojobs.org.au have not been corrupted - they point to the 
correct place.

A search of the net has, surprisingly, shown no pertinent information about 
this scam. The source code has some links in the header which suggest that 
someone in the Ivory Coast might be behind it. The source code does not appear 
to have any actual nasties in it; ie. any code or links which look like they 
might be trying to download a virus or something along those lines.

Has anyone got any insights into this? In particular at what point in the 
process of retrieving the web page does the switch occur?

I have informed the hosting company which Greenskills use but so far have no 
comment from them.

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Re: Blank emails

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi Bill

On 21/11/2014, at 8:15 AM, Bill Parker wrote:

 I have a problem with email.  The main one is blank messages. I click on the 
 incoming mail.  The message opens up to show sender but nothing else.
 
 The only way I can read the message is to click on either Reply or Forward ( 
 it doesn’t matter which)  - the text shows.  I then delete the reply or fwd 
 and return to the incoming message that WAS blank and now I can read it.
 
 However, I have a daily task where I get an incoming message (from the same 
 source) and a login to go to a website.  In this case, I cannot perform the 
 log in - the cursor remains as the black arrow and does not change to the 
 “hand”.
 
 I can live with the blanks, but not the log in failure.  
 
 Does anyone have any suggestions?


Try going (in Mail) to View / Message / Raw source. You may get some clues from 
the extra information that this provides.

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Re: Creating Installation windows

[Kaye and Geoff]

Peter

On 19/10/2014, at 7:31 AM, Peter Faulks wrote:

 I have written a book in word and excel in a web page, to be put on CD and 
 need to create those install windows where you drag the icon to the 
 Applications to install the files.
 
 I need to do this so the CD can be used on a Mac or PC any suggestions of a 
 suitable program that will launch a web based book from a CD for Windows or 
 Mac?
 
 I was going to print the book but it is 300 pages long and my printer packed 
 up so I now have a new Epson printer but have   3 sets of HP Printer  print 
 cartridges  (HP02, HP94 and HP95) surplus to requirements.


I am not sure what you mean by in word and excel in a web page, but no one 
else has answered so I wonder if you have considered saving your book as a PDF. 
This would make it generally available on Macs and PCs.

Alternatively, just provide instructions to open the initial file in a web 
browser. It used to be possible to get this to happen automatically on a PC 
when the Cd was inserted, with an AUTORUN.INF file (plus a couple of other 
small files) but I do not know whether this still works with more recent 
versions of Windows. I do not think that this was ever possible on a Mac, 
because Apple took the security implications more seriously.

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Re: email

[Kaye and Geoff]

Michael

On 13/06/2014, at 7:33 AM, michael.hawkins wrote:

 I've tried ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads 
 in  Go to Folder but it results in the message Folder cannot be found
 
 Could this be because I'm using OS 10.7.5?

I am running 10.6.8. I put Mail Downloads in a finder window search box (top 
right) and set it to look at file name and it told me that it was at 
users/[username]/Library/Mail Downloads.

I assume that this approach should work for any version of the operation system.

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Re: Appleworks

[Kaye and Geoff]

Peter

On 21/05/2014, at 4:21 PM, Peter Curtis wrote:

 Hmmm, tried opening with Pages and it didn’t happen, will have to investigate 
 further.

I tried a few Appleworks word processor documents and they opened OK in Pages, 
but I can imagine that some would fail.

If you have drawing/painting or spreadsheet documents, it is more tricky. I 
have a program (Intaglio) which will have a go at opening Appleworks drawing 
files (and maybe paint files) but it is not always successful and if it does 
open the document the result can be a bit wonky. I am not sure about 
spreadsheets.

Like Daniel we have working copies of Appleworks (and no doubt Clarisworks) on 
various computers but the problem is that the choices for saving the results 
are limited. RTF is available for word processor documents but the other 
formats have less useful options. In particular it is difficult to preserve the 
drawing characteristics of drawings.

I am happy to have a go at converting your files if you would like me to 
(contact me off list).

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Re: Jumping Dock

[Kaye and Geoff]

Pat

On 27/03/2014, at 1:33 PM, Pat wrote:

 Three questions:
 1. Is there any way to pin the Dock down so that it won’t flip around?
 
 2. Is it possible to cause the Menu bars on both monitors to be highlighted?
 
 3. Is it possible to prevent Safari from opening the Top Sites page every 
 time it is opened? It keeps coming back and cluttering up the view.


I cannot help with 1 and 2, but for 3:

Navigate in Safari to the page that you want to open when you start up Safari

In the menu, go to Safari/Preferences/General and click the set to current 
page button

That's it

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Getting Mountain Lion if your internet connection is too slow

[kaye and geoff]

Hi,

I've recently bought a new iMac loaded with Lion, and qualify for a free 
upgrade to Mountain Lion. I went through the dialogue to get my redeem code, 
but our internet connection is very poor out in the country, and the upgrade 
failed to download (timed out and told me my connection was too slow). No 
problem - I'd followed the thread open by Tim Law and figured I could get the 
local Apple reseller to download it and put it onto a thumb drive for me. While 
T4 is prepared to do this for me they tell me I have to bring my iMac in to the 
store - they can't just use my serial number and Apple Id to get the code. I'm 
not keen on lugging my machine into Albany unless I really have to.

Has anyone made use of an Apple Store or reseller to get a copy of Mountain 
Lion? If so, were you able to get it on a thumb drive or did you need to cart 
the machine in?

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Firefox printing problem - no A5

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

I'm printing from Firefox onto A5 stationery
eMac OS 10.4.11
Firefox 3.0.6
Epson Stylus Photo R290

To keep my printouts to a minimum I'm previewing the pages, editing 
to compress the file, then printing double-sided. All worked fine for 
about six files, but suddenly preview only showed two pages when 
Firefox displayed about six pages worth of text. I trashed prefs for 
firefox and preview, reloaded the file, exited and restarted firefox 
and preview, rebooted - nothing changed. If I tried to print a third 
page it printed blank.


I went back and tested one of the files that had previously printed 
correctly (10 pages). It now only allowed me to print one page. The 
number of pages I can print from the files seems to be arbitrary - 
some files showed all data, some only the first 1, 2...n pages. To 
complicate matters, one file I tested appeared to show all pages on 
preview, but after I printed them I found it had actually printed the 
first three pages, then the last page, and omitted two pages in the 
middle!


As part of determining what was wrong I used page setup to switch 
back to A4 and did a print preview - all pages appeared correctly. 
When I went to switch back to A5 it had completely disappeared from 
the choices of stationery size.


I now have no preset A5 stationery size (from any application). To 
get around this I've defined a custom A5 page size, but this gives 
exactly the same problems with missing pages in preview and printing 
from Firfox. The problem doesn't occur if I print from Word, 
NeoOffice, etc or if I use another browser.


I can work around the problem but would prefer it didn't happen, and 
I'd definitely like my preset A5 stationery back.


Any suggestions on how to get things back to normal would be appreciated.

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Re: epson stylus photo R310 Printer

[Kaye and Geoff]

Peta,

I have had my Epson Stylus Photo R310 Printer for several years 
(probably a few several years!)


Do you have Printer Setup Utility? If so, open this, select your 
printer, then click on the utility button to get access to head 
cleaning, etc.


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Re: System Preferences corrupted

[Kaye and Geoff]

Robin

We've been here before, you can trawl through the archives or you 
can try this link from apple.


http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1730909tstart=120http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1730909tstart=120


Thanks Robin, we did not remember any discussion of this topic, but 
it has not affected us before. Anyway, your advice was spot on and we 
have now sorted it out.


Thank you

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System Preferences corrupted

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi

I normally connect to the internet through an ethernet connection to 
my partner's machine, but I've just been testing a wireless broadband 
connection, which seems to have left my System Preferences corrupted.


Now, every time I open System Preferences and select Network I get 
a pop-up box that tells me Your network settings have been changed 
by another application. When I press OK the box just pops up again 
immediately. If I am very quick I can get System Preferences to 
respond to me, but the pop-up box keeps re-appearing.


I've tried trashing com.apple.systempreferences.plist from the 
preferences with no change. I do have backups but I'm not sure what 
needs replacing. Any help will be appreciated.


emac 800MHz
OS 10.4.11
System Preferences 3.3

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Re: G3 iMac surplus

[Kaye and Geoff]

Sev

I  have a G3 iMac now surplus to requirements.  It has a 500Mhz CPU, 
20GB HD, 320MB RAM, CD read only, USB x 2, Firewire 400 x1, 
ethernet, internal modem and is fully operational with a fresh Tiger 
updated to OSX 10.4.11 installed.  A trusty friend, old and well 
used!

Free to a good home.


We would be happy to take it and with luck find a good home for it - 
in fact we have someone in mind - his daughter is starting Uni in 
Perth and wants a machine, and he does not have a lot of money.


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Re: G3 iMac surplus

[Kaye and Geoff]

Sev

We just read more emails and saw that your computer was already 
taken, so disregard our previous message. We have another machine 
which we might be able to set up to be suitable.


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Re: Emails show time 3hrs behind

[Kaye and Geoff]

Denise


Yes I was thinking the same thing except that I'd say it's going via India
or somewhere that is BEHIND Perth time by 3 hrs - Our East is 3 hrs ahead so
it would have said 11am.
Just a bit confusing for my recipients. BTW what time does it say this email
is being sent to you? My clock now says 9.40am.


Eudora shows the sent time and date as:

  Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:37:22 +1100

which from what you say is correct.

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Re: Emails show time 3hrs behind

[Kaye and Geoff]

Ronni and Denise



Shouldn't it be +0800 (WST)  not +1100 


Yes, so it should, I did not pay enough attention to that bit.

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Re: Inkjet Printer

[Kaye and Geoff]

This is very reassuring news.  The review said clearing a paper jam 
was difficult and might shorten the life of the printer if it 
occurred frequently.  It also said placing the CD was not straight 
forward - but I guess that comes with testing.


We found that working out how to get the CD in was a bit 
non-intuitive, but once we sorted that out it was not difficult and 
worked well. We do not have to do anything special to line up the 
disk and we use the Mac software provided with the printer.


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Re: Inkjet Printer

[Kaye and Geoff]

...An Epson inkjet would be my first choice and a likely product 
appeared to be the Epson Stylus Photo R290  (about $170), but 
reviews identified feed problems.  Anyone had good performances from 
other Epson photo quality printers, or an alternative Brand?


We bought an R290 mostly because of its ability to write on printable 
CDs. Its inks are expensive, but its performance has been fine - the 
printing quality is good and we have had no feed problems.


Cheers,
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Re: Agriculture WA Explorer only?

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi Wamuggers

The reason that this site requires IE is that it uses vbscript code, 
which as far as I know can only be understood by IE, although it may 
be that other browsers can interpret it with the help of a plug-in. 
If they had used Javascript then any browser could handle it, but 
many government departments are so Microsoft blinkered that this is 
beyond both their imagination and capability.


This means that purely changing the user agent, which most browsers 
including Safari 3 will do for you, will not solve the problem. In 
fact a quick look at the HTML for the site suggests that it does not 
even check to see what user agent is being used.


Anyone trying the site using a slow connection should be aware that 
the main page includes a 20Mb(!) flash file - another example of 
their lack of concern for their clients, many of whom will live in 
the country and will not have broadband connections. Your taxes at 
work.


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Wanted to buy - PC laptop

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

My sister, who is a Mac user, wants to buy a second-hand PC laptop to 
set up as a game-playing machine.


We wondered if anyone has a laptop from the dark side that they no 
longer use. Only requirements are:


15 screen (or better)
enough memory to be useful
running XP
reasonable price

I live down on the south coast and my sister lives up north, so 
neither of us is in a position to view/pick-up a machine in Perth in 
the short term, but if you have something that might be suitable 
contact me off-list and I'm sure we can sort something out if the 
machine sounds OK.


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Network awareness

[Kaye and Geoff]

We run a simple network of two eMacs, one running 10.2 (hereafter 
called 10.2) and the other running 10.3 (10.3). Most of our 
critical working files are on 10.2. When 10.3 mounts the 10.2 disks, 
and 10.2 user unthinkingly shuts down without checking first, there 
is no dialogue box or other indication that another machine is 
attached; 10.2 just shuts down. Not surprisingly this annoys 10.3 
user.


We recollect that in the old days, pre OSX, that on shutdown the OS 
checked for anyone attached and displayed a dialogue box if there 
was, and we think that OS 10.3 also does this (we will check later). 
We considered writing a script (Applescript) to solve the problem, 
but can find no place in 10.2 which can be inspected to indicate 
whether someone else is attached. We imagine that there could be a 
daemon which starts up when a network connection is made, which we 
could see in the process viewer, but maybe not? We thought up a few 
very complex solutions, but something simple would be nice.


Does anyone know of any solution to this problem, either something 
straightforward, or any flag which can be inspected by Applescript?


Thanks

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Can't get default application to change

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Hi,

I've just been trying to sort out problems for a friend with a new 
Intel iMac (OS10.4.10), where the trial version of MSoft Office 2004 
was put onto the system by the sales team. I've installed MSoft 
Office X, but all files created by applications default to opening in 
the trial version. If I reset .doc files to open with the licensed 
version of Word they immediately reset to the trial version.


I've tried renaming the trial version, then uninstalling it. No 
difference - all .doc files now open with a non-existent, trashed 
application.


I've trashed MSoft Office and Word Settings in the preferences and 
tried to reset the default application again - same problem. It 
appears to reset, but when I go on to tell it to reset all .doc files 
it reverts to the now-deleted trial version.


Any ideas?

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Morphing software

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Hi,

I'm looking for recommendations for morphing software, preferrably 
something that will export to movie format.


I have MorphX, but find it to be a bit flakey and wondered if anyone 
used software that they really liked .



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Re: Problem writing audio CD

[Kaye and Geoff]

Recently all CDs she has tried to burn have been unusable on CD 
players - tracks 1-8 are fine, but tracks beyond 8 cannot be 
directly addressed using the CD's forward/backward buttons. All 
tracks can be played, but tracks beyond 8 show on the display as so 
many minutes and seconds into track 8. ..[it works fine in itunes 
and all tracks on the CD look OK]




what is the writing speed? should be max 8x for reliable burn


8x with no other applications running


did you try different brand of cd-r?


two brands, both well known


can you burn 650meg of data  read them all?


didn't try this, but it is a good suggestion and I'll give it a go


try another burn software


I can do this, but toast used to work for her - this is a new problem 
with old software. Someone suggested it could be hardware. It doesn't 
feel like hardware to me, but it is difficult to see how it is toast 
when a re-install fails to fix it. I can drop back to toast V5 and 
see if it makes a difference.


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Problem writing audio CD

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

A musician friend of mine uses her eMac (OS10.4) to burn her own CDs 
using Toast Titanium 6.


Recently all CDs she has tried to burn have been unusable on CD 
players - tracks 1-8 are fine, but tracks beyond 8 cannot be directly 
addressed using the CD's forward/backward buttons. All tracks can be 
played, but tracks beyond 8 show on the display as so many minutes 
and seconds into track 8. The player correctly reports the total 
number of tracks, but if you try to go directly to track 9, for 
example, it will show track 9 selected, but won't play it. One CD 
player we used allowed us to insist on playing; it correctly played 
track 9, but the display changed, showed us 4:35 minutes into track 8.


I've tried writing different groups of files, different numbers of 
tracks, from different directories. They all stop being addressable 
after track 8.


The CDs play correctly in itunes or from the finder, using  preview. 
They appeared to write correctly in toast, with 2 seconds between 
tracks, and all tracks are in their separate files on the disk.


I've tried removing the preference and plist files - no change.

I've removed all toast files and reinstalled - no change.

I assume that something is going wrong with the lead in or lead out 
files, but given that reinstalling the software didn't fix the 
problem I'm at a bit of a loss - what else to try?


Has anyone any experience of this sort of problem? I'd appreciate any 
suggestions on what else might be affecting writing the CDs.


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Re: Registrant comparison?

[Kaye and Geoff]

We have used CheapDomains (generally $38 / 2 years for .au and $48 / 
2 years for international) and they happily tried to help us when we 
rang them. We have also used ClicknGO (around $39 / 2 years for 
international and $29 / 2 years for .au, although .com.au is more). 
Both have web based interfaces which allow you to change registration 
details - as far as I remember no trouble using Safari.


Once the domain is set up you do not normally need much service from 
the registrar except an email when the domain is about to expire, to 
remind you to renew. Most do this - it is in their interest to do so.



On 27/11/2006, at 4:15 PM, Steven wrote:


Anyone know of any comparisons that have been done between Australian
internet domain registrars with regards to price, features, service, etc?
Particularly in relation to their Mac friendliness?

Cheers, Steven



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Re: Animated cursor code - anyone know why doesn't it work on a Mac ?

[Kaye and Geoff]

I think the following is a bit of html code embedded in, for instance,
http://www.alpha1.org.au/12.html, which causes an animated cursor.



!--Goodie//--!--AnimatedCursor//--script language=javascript
var _cursorType='2';
var _cursorText='AAA';
var _cursorPath='';
var _textColor='#006600';
/scriptSCRIPT
src='goodies/AniCursor/js/elasticText.js'/SCRIPT!--AnimatedCusor//--!-
-/Goodie//--/FONTBRlink type=text/css rel=stylesheet
href=http://thewebdesigner.netregistry.net/swiz/editor/css/default.css;!-
-f3f3--/font!--f4f4--/FONT/TD
TD valign=top
IMG src=img/hp/base/ba19.jpg width=35 height=254/TD



Can anyone hazard a guess as to why the animated cursor works with, for
instance, Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, but doesn't seem to work
when using Safari or Firefox with MacOS X ?


The important code is in goodies/AniCursor/js/elasticText.js. It is 
Javascript full of constructs of the general form:


   if (internet explorer) do something otherwise [if netscape] 
do something else


In other words it is almost certainly using non-standard Javascript - 
but I have not tried to figure out exactly how it does work. The code 
has no reference to safari or firefox or mozilla and so does 
not have special code which would make it work in those browsers 
(which in fact may be impossible - I am not sure that standard 
Javacript can modify the appearance of the cursor, if that is what 
this code does).


This is yet another example of varying web page behaviour where it is 
not the fault of the browser - Safari  (and most other browsers) and 
especially Firefox generally handle standard HTML/Javascript very 
well - as usual the fault lies with the creator of the web page.


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Re: Safari problem

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi everyone, who is going to win the Melbourne cup? :-)  I want to 
open and use a website  www.kingstoncapital.com.au and when I 
get on in Safari the site is not live, no links work etc.  I would 
like some advice as to which Mac  web browser I should go to.  I 
have VPC on my Mac and IE works on www.kingstoncapital.com.au. :-(.


Neil is right - it is horrible HTML, possibly vying for the worst we 
have ever seen, and we too would wonder about the professionalism of 
the company. The site appears to have been created by saving HTML out 
of Microsoft Word - enough said. When I asked Firefox to show me 
errors in the source, it reported Too many errors - not all errors 
and warnings were shown.


By the way, if anyone wants a recommendation for a very good 
financial advice/management company, email us off list (we are one of 
their clients but have no other interest in them).


Regards

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Problems after trying new version of Silverkeeper

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

eMac OS10.2.8 backing up to partition on external firewire disk

We use Silverkeeper to do our routine backups. and recently upgraded. 
The new version(1.1.4) was incompatible with the old version, and 
offered features we wanted, including the ability to make the backup 
disk bootable. We archived our old backup (thank heavens), erased the 
backup disk, and tried out the new version with somewhat disastrous 
results.


Although the backup appeared to work ( it took a couple of hours and 
files appeared on the backup disk), the only entry written to the log 
was an error (code 50 - indicates timeout). After finishing the 
backup and rebooting we found that about half our applications had 
disappeared from the Applications folder (and weren't on the backup 
disk). That was solvable, since we had the archive. but we are left 
with a rather strange problem. Our internal drive now shows the unix 
directories (/var, /etc, /usr and so on) in the finder window.


Initially we thought it might be a permissions/ownership problem, but 
fixing permissions didn't sort it out (although there were thousands 
of file permissions that changed). Further investigation shows that 
our internal disk has / as its mount point. I would normally expect 
all disks to have /Volumes as the mount point.


Can we change the boot disk mount point without causing problems? If 
so, can someone remind us where the appropriate unix config file can 
be found? We're familiar enough with unix to be able to edit the file 
directly, but can't find the right file!


A secondary problem is the existence of an alias visible from the 
finder called dev that points to nothing (and gives an error), with 
root/wheel as owner/group having no access as the permissions, 
which are grayed out and unchangeable. Attempting to change the 
ownership from the finder asks for admin password, then gives a no 
permission error. It doesn't show up at all in Terminal, and /dev 
itself is fine. Any ideas?


Needless to say, we've gone back to the old version of Silverkeeper.

Cheers, Kaye  Geoff


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Query on eMacs for sale

[Kaye and Geoff]

Greetings all

with reference to the following 'for sale' notice which appeared on 
the list a few days ago:



i have for sale 2 x Apple eMacs
1Ghz G4 / 60GB / 640mb /Combo dve / 56k /Tiger 10.4.6
looking for around $600.00 each ono

please contact me off list
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cheers

Nat


We were reluctant to respond to an email address with a name such as 
'subscribe' - can anyone (Natas?) confirm that this ad is genuine?


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Networked printer no longer visible

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

We have two eMacs networked, sharing a single Epsom inkjet printer. 
The printer is attached (USB) to our secondary machine, running 
OS10.3.3, and is working perfectly well from that machine. Our main 
machine (OS10.2.8) normally prints to the remote printer over the 
network. Yesterday, the remote printer simply disappeared from the 
printer list, and we are unable to see it using Print Centre. The 
network is still working - we can mount disks - but we cannot 
reconstruct our printer list.


Print Centre is set to see remote printers, and the print utility on 
the machine that hosts the printer is set to share printers.


At this stage we are not sure where the problem lies - with the 
machine that hosts the printer or with the machine that we want to 
use it remotely. The only adverse thing that has happened with these 
machines is that the host machine was accidently switched off at the 
mains a bit before this all happened. It rebooted without trouble, 
and we can't find anything wrong with it at all.


We have tried all the standard things - checked the network and 
printing preferences; rebooted; used the printing utilities to try to 
find the printer on the network. I also trashed the printing plist 
file on the hosting machine and reset the preferences.


Any ideas about what else to try will be very appreciated.

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Re: Size of PDFs created under OSX

[Kaye and Geoff]

Thanks to everyone who replied about reducing the size of OSX PDFs.

Using the initial 2.6Mb Word document I've had the following results:

PDF using print under OSX : 5.2Mb
Put PDF through PdfCompress: 728Kb
Put PDF through PDFshrink: 700Kb (screen quality)
Put PDF through ColorSync: 1.3Mb

As a result I've purchased PDFshrink - it looks just fine and gives a 
choice of compression.


I do have an old (OS9) version of Acrobat Distiller, but it failed to 
open the file, so I couldn't test that.


Cheers,
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Size of PDFs created under OSX

[Kaye and Geoff]

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).


We tried the same file on our other Mac (OS10.3.3) and produced a 
slightly smaller file (5.1Mb).


Does anyone know if this is standard for PDFs created in this way, 
and if Acrobat produces smaller PDFs than those created under OSX?


Cheers,
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Re: LOading Omnipage SE

[Kaye and Geoff]

I've experienced exactly the same - haven't heard of one yet that has worked.


I have Omnipage SE working, but only after figuring out that it 
wasn't an OS X program at all (despite being bought as such, and with 
no indication on the CD or documentation).


I was unable to install it as a Classic program from OS X, but had to 
reboot into OS9 first, then install into the OS9 application 
directory. Once installed, it works from Classic with no problem.


I was really annoyed by it - I expected an X program, or, at least, 
one that would install without the hassles it gave. Luckily we're on 
an eMac that is still OS9 bootable.


Cheers,
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Safari fails to install

[Kaye and Geoff]

I downloaded Safari 1.2, but can't install it on my eMac - it fails 
the check, and says that it can't be installed on my internal hard 
drive.


I'm running OS10.3, and currently have Safari 1.1 installed.

I would have understood if I was on an earlier version of the 
operating system, but can't figure out what is stopping the 
installation. Any ideas?


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Re: Is it just me, or does Networking in 10.3 suck!

[Kaye and Geoff]

Generally I've found the networking in 10.3 good ...


I'm having endless trouble connecting my PC (Windows ME) to my eMac 
running 10.3. (used to have it working from 10.2).


I can see the eMac from the PC, but get No permission to access 
resource if I try to connect. I have enabled Windows sharing in 
System Preferences. Is this another case of having to also set 
switches somewhere else?


Despite the fact that networking seems to be working OK on the PC I 
can't see it at all from the eMac - it simply doesn't appear when I 
browse the network.


Any suggestions will be gratefully received (ok - I know - get rid of 
the PC :-)


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Date/time problem between OS10.2 and 10.3 over network

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

We recently networked our two eMacs, one (eMac2) running 10.3 and the 
other (eMac1) running 10.2. Both are set to the correct time zone, 
both have the International settings set for Australia, and both have 
the same date/time formats.


eMac2 (10.3) looks absolutely fine when we are using it - the files 
have correct date/time details. However, if we mount its disk from 
eMac1 (10.2) the files all have dates in the 1960's - 1970 if it was 
created recently. The date/times shown are consistently incorrect. 
Going back the other way (mounting the eMac1 disks from eMac2) has no 
similar problem.


We added our old 5500 to the network and mounted eMac2's disks to see 
if they showed incorrect date/times; not so - the 5500 sees correct 
date/times on the same files.


We also tried writing to eMac2's from eMac1. Files written to the 
disks over the network show correct date/times on all machines.


Has anyone else had this sort of problem, or does anyone have 
suggestions as to what is going on? Any help would be appreciated. We 
do move files between these machines, and currently either live with 
files showing impossibly old dates or have to touch each of the 
moved files and accept today's date.


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Re: Problem with installing downloaded software

[Kaye and Geoff]

A colleague of mine is unable to install software downloaded from the net
(or taken from a cd we have given him), even though two other people have
succeeded in doing so. The difference, is that he is using an e-mac running
OSX, while we are running OS8.6 and 9.2


We had this problem, even though we only have one account on our 
eMac, and it has full administrator privileges. We solved it be 
rebooting in OS9, installing the software, then rebooting into OSX, 
where it launched under Classic with no problem.


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Re: toilet map doesn't support Macs

[Kaye and Geoff]

This is not good enough for publicly funded web resources. I sent an
email and also suggested they refer their web designer to Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) http://www.w3.org/WAI/


I just tried it with Mac (OS8.6) and Netscape 4.5 - it works well 
enough to locate public toilets in our district. A couple of pictures 
slightly overlapped the text, but the maps, zooming, and showing the 
toilets all worked.


Any problems with Mac/Netscape probably arise from their choice of 
MapInfo as the engine - it may use IE/Microsoft special features in 
the HTML code.


Cheers,
Kaye

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Networking Emac, Mac550 and PC

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

Here we are with a new eMac, metres of cable, an ethernet hub, and a 
brand new network.


Networking works just fine from the eMac to the Mac5500 (running 
OS8.6) and the PC - the eMac can mount all the disks made available 
to it, run software from the 5500, and shunt files around the system 
with ease.


Unfortunately, we haven't been able to get the Mac5500 or the PC to 
mount the eMac's disks - this seems to be a one-way network!


On the Mac5500 I have created an alternative TCP/IP configuration 
(using Appletalk, which is configured to be on Ethernet). On the 
Chooser, when I select Appleshare I can see the eMac - so far so good.


Double-click on the eMac, and I get a login screen. If I try to log 
in using our (only) username/password I get the message:


The connection to this server has been unexpectedly broken

Same message if I try to connect as guest.

On the PC it is a similar story - we can see the eMac, but when we 
try to open a connection it fails with a password error.


So...is there something that we should have done on the eMac end to 
allow access from the other systems? Should there be a user login 
just for network access, for example?


On the same topic, if we drag-and-drop folders from the eMac onto the 
PC we are getting intermittent failures, where the system reports 
that it can't find the files that it is meant to be copying. Repeat 
the copy, or copy one-by-one and the files that previously failed to 
copy now work. This only happens between the Mac and the PC - 
Mac-to-Mac copies are perfect. Since we want to back up the Mac to 
the PC this could be a real hassle. Any ideas?


As always - any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Wanted to buy - a machine from the dark side

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

A friend of mine had his PC and modem wiped out by lightning the 
other day, and wants to pick up a second-hand one. Does anyone know 
of a similar list to this (or the Mac-for-sale list) for PC users?


Alternatively, do any of you want to rid yourselves of a working PC 
lurking around the house? He used his machine mainly for email and 
needs Windows 98 or 2000, and a modem that works with it.


Cheers,
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Web: http://www.omninet.net.au/~kg/

Re: Australian search engines?

[Kaye and Geoff]

Can anyone suggest any good Australian search engines? The equivalent of
google?


http://search66.com/ is a country-specific search page that 
channels searches to a number of search engines. Links to the 
individual search engines (specifically Australian) are available at 
http://search66.com/addurl.htm


Go Eureka http://www.goeureka.com.au/standard.php is the Australian 
Alta Vista.


Yahoo's Australian/NZ search page is http://au.anzwers.yahoo.com/

Cheers,
Kaye and Geoff
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Kaye Stott  Geoff Prince
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Web: http://www.omninet.net.au/~kg/

Re: Hooking a modem up to a Mac LC111

[Kaye and Geoff]

John asked:


Currently I have a Mac LC111 (a very old Mac by the standards of i-
macs) with a system in French - System 7.5.1 I thinkCurrently I 
have no modem for this machine as I'm not sure what I can

actually use with it. Obviously I should be able to use it on the
mains in the UK (230v) but my question is... What will I need to set
this machine up with a modem. What drivers, connection lead etc?


We have an old LC that connects perfectly well to the net using 
MacPPP and MacTCP. You can find them at 
http://www.index-site.com/macppp.html


Connect the modem to the modem port (or the printer port - either 
will work). Select the port and configure using ConfigPPP and it 
should all work!


The page I've pointed to has a detailed description of what to do.

Cheers, Kaye
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Kaye Stott  Geoff Prince
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System booting off the wrong disk

[Kaye and Geoff]

Hi,

Does anyone out there know under what circumstances the Mac will 
choose to boot off a disk other than the one that has been designated 
as the startup disk?


I've recently added a SCSI external disk to my 9600 PPC. This disk 
has a bootable partition [OS8.6] that has worked just fine with my 
Mac5500, but when I designate it as the startup disk on the 9600 it 
doesn't work at all - the machine simply boots from one of the 
internal disks (the one it previously booted from [OS8.1]).


Apple System Profiler reports that the external disk is the startup 
device, but that the internal drive is the active system disk. I can 
see the external drive with no problem, it doesn't have a SCSI id 
conflict, and both partitions are mounted and accessible. I get no 
error message, but there is no indication that the machine even 
attempts to boot off the drive (no lights flicker) - it just seems to 
ignore the startup instructions.


The Startup Disk control panel does appear to work - I can reset the 
startup device to another bootable internal drive [also OS8.1] and 
have that work.


This isn't my machine - it is on loan, and not to be played around 
with. SoI want to be able to set up everything I need to use it, 
including the system, on the external drive, and keep off the owners 
internal drives.


Any ideas?

Cheers, Kaye
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Kaye Stott  Geoff Prince
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.omninet.net.au/~kg/