Re: *iCal 1.5.1 and iSync 1.2.1

2003-10-09 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-08 at 23:11(GMT+0800) Daniel Kerr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: Hi All *iCal 1.5.1 and iSync 1.2.1 updates are out. iCal shows up in Software update, but as I write this iSync wasn't. iSync 1.2.1 only shows up once iCal 1.5.1 is installed. Running Software

Re: Water cooling for your G5 laptop

2003-10-10 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-09 at 21:36(GMT+0800) John Currie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60733,00.html Note that Apple cooperated with the research. Have fun, Shay -- Could it be connected to a coffee maker ? If the heat output of a 12

Re: iCAL 1.5.1 (v616)

2003-10-10 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-10 at 20:48(GMT+0800) Kay, Richard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: Have downloaded iCal 1.5.1 (v616) and installed on iBook (OS X 10.2.8 (6R73)). I drag on calendar to create a new event ... no problem. I select the event and then click on Show Info button in

Re: usb to RJ45 network adapter

2003-10-12 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-12 at 19:18(GMT+0800) logrythm at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: I need to connect a PM5500/OS9 to adsl. Probably DSL300+ or DSL504 from westnet. It has no network adapter, nor does it have USB either which is deemed necessary. Puting in a PCI network adapter

Re: Colours in iCal 1.5.1

2003-10-14 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-14 at 18:19(GMT+0800) Peter Hinchliffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: There is a Calendar pop-up menu on the drawer which lets me assign the appointment to another calendar, thereby changing the colour of the _appointment_, but there is no option available to

Re: Colours in iCal 1.5.1

2003-10-14 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-14 at 18:49(GMT+0800) Peter Hinchliffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: Hopefully in v1.5.2, Apple might consider putting the colour popup-menu in a more logical place - such in the drawer contents section, instead of the extreme right hand side of the Title area,

Re: Music Event From Apple

2003-10-17 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-17 at 01:40(GMT+0800) Daniel Kerr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: Hi All,.. An interesting run down of the Apple Music Event,...from MacNN http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/musicevent/ Worth noting that it seems to be live at the moment, so just leave the window

Re: Open Play for Linux and Windows: Important

2003-10-17 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-16 at 00:17(GMT-0500) Lane Roathe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: 1. I have found on the site http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/openplay/faq.html; that open play is in the developing stage in terms of linux? Unfortunately that page has not been updated

Re: Open Play for Linux and Windows: Important

2003-10-17 Thread Ryan Schotte
Sorry, that obviously got sent to the wrong list. My apologies. Ry (Ooops.)

Re: Data Bases

2003-10-17 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-17 at 08:11(GMT+0800) Peter Hinchliffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 11:15 AM, John Currie wrote: There is another data base for the Mac besides FileMaker It's called Panorama and has been going since 1985 with constant

Re: St George Bank Safari

2003-10-17 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 2003-10-17 at 14:26(GMT+0800) Adam Hewitt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether: I am not with St. George, however there was a very *long* thread on the Sydney Linux Users Group earlier this year/end of last year on this topic which basically said that St. George banks sucks

Re: 10.3.2 is out

2003-12-18 Thread Ryan Schotte
38.2 MB via software update Unfortunately, the link to the Knowledge Base entry for this update seems to be broken. Software Update's description says it should be at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25652 but that's Document Not Found territory... anyone found the real location of the

Re: 10.3.2 is out

2003-12-18 Thread Ryan Schotte
38.2 MB via software update Unfortunately, the link to the Knowledge Base entry for this update seems to be broken. Software Update's description says it should be at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25652 but that's Document Not Found territory... anyone found the real location of the

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

2003-12-18 Thread Ryan Schotte
Hi All! I have been having a couple of problems with 10.3 and networking. Specifically, when I take my laptop to work and plug into the ADSL router (which is just running a DHCP server), I have to restart both the modem and the iBook to get the internet up and running. I have no

Re: Panther and Scaling System Fonts

2004-01-10 Thread Ryan Schotte
Hi all. I am banging my head against the desk because of this simple little thing. I want to use my monitor in its highest resolution, the problem is I can't read my text. I knew how to change this in 9 but I can't find this option anywhere in the System Preferences in Panther. Can

Re: Video conferencing

2004-01-18 Thread Ryan Schotte
What is the simplest/cheapest software for chat/video conferencing. My son is in Montreal and has all the necessary and we want to receive/send with him. He has the right camera but we are content just to send voice while we receive pictures and voice. iChat requires signing up for

odd battery behaviour -- is it dead Jim?

2004-01-21 Thread Ryan Schotte
I have a 12 PowerBook G4, about 9 months old now, running 10.3.2, that has been doing really odd things with the battery lately. I finally found the time to look into it properly, and downloaded X-Charge... which makes really pretty graphs of battery charge ;) Odd things I've seen this morning

Re: odd battery behaviour -- is it dead Jim?

2004-01-21 Thread Ryan Schotte
It may be that your indicator is simply wrong, they've never been very accurate, so you might want to try simply pushing it and seeing how long you actually get out of it. Batteries are usually one of the first things to die in portables, but if you've only had it for 9 months it should

Re: odd battery behaviour -- is it dead Jim?

2004-01-21 Thread Ryan Schotte
I have a 12 PowerBook G4, about 9 months old now, running 10.3.2, that has been doing really odd things with the battery lately. I finally found the time to look into it properly, and downloaded X-Charge... which makes really pretty graphs of battery charge ;) You have installed the battery

Re: iLecture Streamed Audio and QuickTime Question

2004-01-30 Thread Ryan Schotte
For people interested in saving streams for personal viewing, this step by step guide may be useful courtesy of my rapidly no 1 website, macosxhints.com: Save 'unsavable' QuickTime movies (revisited) Wed, Jan 21 '04 at 09:50AM from: bschmwsii Streams are not the same as QuickTime

Re: Virtual PC 6.1 and Panther

2004-01-30 Thread Ryan Schotte
Can anyone tell me if VPC 6.1 will run properly under Panther (10.2.3)? I am thinking of upgrading from 10.2.6, but have a niggling suspicion that it may not? I'm currently running VPC 6.0 under Panther 10.3.2 and haven't noticed any problems myself... except sometimes it seems to hang while

Re: Of Dodos and Penguins

2004-02-05 Thread Ryan Schotte
I have a friend who is with Dodo, and he consistantly experiences very slow and unreliable modem connections on the Rockingham dialup pool. Could just be his telephone line of course, but the number of times he sometimes has to redial is scary itself. I guess you get what you pay for? We're

Re: DUH!!!opening CD tray without eject button (Scroll Wheel Too)

2004-02-11 Thread Ryan Schotte
Anyone know if you can scroll through your open tabs 'CMD+TAB' style? You can in Safari 1.2 How's it done, cmd+tab? Im at work so I cant try it... cmd+shift+leftarrow and cmd+shift+rightarrow Has worked since tabbed browsing was introduced to Safari i think. I'm annoyed, I love

Re: From the Washington Post!

2004-02-12 Thread Ryan Schotte
Also, UNIX underpinnings do nothing to prevent loopholes such as the Directory Services-based third-party root access that Apple fixed (or merely disabled by default) in December. While I agree wholeheartedly that UNIX underpinnings bring a tremendous number of advantages, it would be

Re: From the Washington Post!

2004-02-12 Thread Ryan Schotte
Actually, what happens is that the Finder still has permission from Authorisation Services to do things, so it doesn't need to re-authenticate with the user until the permission expires. And it gets issued with a default set of rights rather than a more restrictive set. This doesn't imply

Re: From the Washington Post!

2004-02-13 Thread Ryan Schotte
BTW - how has this hideous fault remained in OSX for so long? Surely there's an equivalent of 'sudo -k' - a way the finder can explicitly drop priveleges? It's Apple's Authorisation services, not the unix privilege mechanism that are behind the problem. Yes, but such

Re: GarageBand Update

2004-02-13 Thread Ryan Schotte
Apple has posted an update for GarageBand. The blurb reads: 'This software update will upgrade your version of GarageBand 1.0 to GarageBand 1.0.1. This update clarifies specific alert dialogs regarding system performance'. R.K. Isn't available on software update yet apparently, so you'll

Re: Why join WAMUG? Financially that is.

2004-02-24 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 23/02/2004, at 5:06 PM, Adam Yap wrote: Can someone tell me why I'd join WAMUG financially? Are there any benefits etc? The never ending torment for the WAMUG Committee. At the moment it's more of a good-will reason. However, WAMUG does provide it's financial members with an

Re: PCI ethernet cards? was Re: Mac TO PC File Transfer

2004-02-24 Thread Ryan Schotte
According to my information the 5500 should have a ethernet jack... I recall that only the US budget model came without the ethernet card in the expansion port . if your 5500 doesn't have an external monitor port (or you don't mind loosing it for the period of transferring data) you

Re: laserwriter in Panther

2004-03-08 Thread Ryan Schotte
In Os 8.6, I could set up a HP design jet 750 large format printer , by installing the driver and then selecting that printer in the Laserwriter8 section of Chooser Then I could set up the page and do print - send to file a print to file, this file could then be sent to a print house to

Re: Using a G3 Powerbook on the bus

2004-03-13 Thread Ryan Schotte
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:10:21PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: I think you'll find that laptop disks are up to it. If you're unsure, look up the operating shock specs for a 2 1/2 disk (say, a 42k RPM or 54k RPM Hitachi) on the 'net, and find out for sure. It

Re: What am I missing?

2004-03-14 Thread Ryan Schotte
First thing: have her upgrade to Safari 1.2. Might be something quirky in 1.1. You might, for diagnostic purposes, have her create a new user on the iBook. If the error goes away when logged in as that user, it might just be an old preference file that can be trashed... If I knew what the site

Re: nice bonus: OSX calculator currency /metric conversion

2004-03-16 Thread Ryan Schotte
On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 10:35 PM, Ryan Schotte wrote: For the past few days everytime I go to Update Currency Exchange Rates the Application Calculator Quits. I'm using OSX 10.3.2Calculator 3.1 Mine is doing the same thing -- same versions. Very annoying, since

Re: MacOS X 10.3.3

2004-03-16 Thread Ryan Schotte
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:33:04AM +0800, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: MacOS X 10.3.3 is now available via Software Update. For Ryan Schotte's interest: Improves security by requiring an administrator to authenticate for each Finder action that needs authentication, such

Re: 10.3 to 10.3.3 upgrade

2004-03-19 Thread Ryan Schotte
James Devenish said: Oh wow! So it is! For some reason, I find it astonishing that Apple is continually able to web browsing faster. (Remember when graphical web browsing used to be the killer app -- the app guaranteed to bring a machine to a crashing halt?) I'm running Netscape 1.0N (circa

Re: XPOD

2004-03-20 Thread Ryan Schotte
Or thinking about the description? Microsoft XPOD, a portable music player for the 20th century. *chuckles* Ryan

Re: Sharing the internet

2004-03-21 Thread Ryan Schotte
Bring on IPv6 ... and IP addresses as available as POP3s ... Ryan

Re: Garageband and DVD drives

2004-03-27 Thread Ryan Schotte
I have two macs connected to a lan - one with a DVD drive - the other without. Otherwise, the DVD-less one should run GB fine. You might be able to mount the DVD on the dvd-less mac over AppleShare. Give it a try, I have a vague memory of having done something similar in the past.

Re: ping

2004-03-31 Thread Ryan Schotte
ping - Matt Guess this means the server's back! How's Panther Server going Matt? BTW, any chance of having a link to the _new_ list archives added to the wamug home page? I know they're in the email headers, but without being in the archives I can't check what the headers are.. ;) Ry

Re: Terminal FTP

2004-04-02 Thread Ryan Schotte
Could someone please tell me how I can use the terminal for ftp uploading to a server for a web page? I don't really have a great deal of money to throw around at shareware products here and there and it's difficult to find a reliable freeware ftp client. I know. And even reliable Shareware

Re: Terminal FTP

2004-04-02 Thread Ryan Schotte
Anarchie changed name and became Interarchy. It's not free. But, it is good. It's a little bloated these days for my liking though. It's just got so much more functionality than I need I guess -- I want something simple that doesn't crash every ten minutes. Ryan

Re: mailing list

2004-04-02 Thread Ryan Schotte
Hi all can some one tell me the home page of the mailing list i need to subscribe a new email address and delete the other one. Send anything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the account you want to delete. Send anything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the account you want to subscribe. Ryan

Re: Terminal FTP

2004-04-02 Thread Ryan Schotte
In addition to using Terminal or Safari, you can choose Go Connect to Server... in the Finder. In the dialog which appears, type ftp://; followed by the name of the server you are connecting to, eg, ftp://members.iinet.net.au;. When you provide a legitimate login and password the server

Re: Terminal FTP

2004-04-02 Thread Ryan Schotte
A lot of programs assume 'anonymous' == 'read only'. If you're using anon ftp, that could be why. If you're authenticating with a username password, I have no idea. No, it seems the original post was incorrect - at least in implying the Finder's FTP feature was relevant for uploading web

new Security Update available

2004-04-06 Thread Ryan Schotte
Security Update 2004-04-05 is now available for both 10.2.8 and 10.3.3. It is about 3MB, and hasn't appeared to break anything in the few minutes I've been running it. Security Update 2004-04-05 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This

Re: Fast User Switching during Prebinding

2004-04-06 Thread Ryan Schotte
Hi, Does anyone else find that machines getting 'stuck' if Fast User Switching (OS X 10.3) is used while an Apple installer is Optimizing System Performance? Basically, the system gets stuck on its blank blue screen while switching. I can't remember if this is before or after the '3-d cube'

Re: Apple extended keyboard back

2004-04-08 Thread Ryan Schotte
http://halfkeyboard.com/tactilepro/index.php Looks like they based it on the Extended Keyboard II... very cool! Though the first model was better I thought. It still lacks some features I wish had never disappeared - just give me a caps lock key that actually locks, and bumps on my D and K

Re: Command Conquer Generals Demo

2004-04-08 Thread Ryan Schotte
Then again, I consider 1024x768 to be the bare minimum (on a 19 monitor, anything less looks awful). Hmm. I just finished doing some work for someone who had this nice big plasma screen (around 1m diagonal?) hooked up to his PC, but he was running it in 800x600... made me want to scream. Ryan

Re: Emailing file saved in iTunes

2004-04-08 Thread Ryan Schotte
BUT better still is you can just drag the MP3 file from within iTunes and drop it on to the desktop or what ever media you want it on (unless of course it's currently been stored in an iPods hidden music folder) Or if you want to easily see where iTunes is actually keeping it, select the

Re: First Trojan Horse for MacOS X reported

2004-04-09 Thread Ryan Schotte
However, the fact that the MP3 icon appears bouncing in the Dock makes this an easily noticeable trojan. The application is a Carbon app, and Carbon apps may not have the ability to not have their icons appear in the Dock -- the fact that it is a Carbon application is why it is allowed not to

Re: Anyone know this software?

2004-04-13 Thread Ryan Schotte
Does anyone know about this software - MacPhoneHome security app to track locate stolen Macs . I found it listed on Versiontracker and read the spiel. sounds quite good. I've set it up a couple of times on my dad's iMac and PowerBook, with them configured to phone home to my email

Re: A consideration regarding first post moderation

2004-04-13 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 13/04/2004, at 2:11 PM, Onno Benschop wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:05, David Watkins wrote: The moderating of the the first post by a subscriber appears to be creating more problems than it is trying to solve and maybe it would be worth turning that feature off. If a week or more can

Re: A consideration regarding first post moderation

2004-04-13 Thread Ryan Schotte
On 13/04/2004, at 4:23 PM, Ryan Schotte wrote: Well as a stop-gap measure, why not just send a 'welcome' email to new users informing them that their first post may be delayed because it must be moderated? Does anyone actually read welcome messages? If they're under 5 lines, I do at least

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Ryan Schotte
According to recent discussion on Macintouch they're probably burning the CD as a UDF CD, which Mac OS X can't read. Windows XP creates these by default... Looking at the manual page for mount_udf in 10.3.3 : || BUGS || UDF 1.50 is supported. UDF 2.0 and later is not. And 10.2

Re: difficulty reading a PC created CD

2004-04-15 Thread Ryan Schotte
Not much to be done about it except wait for an update... Format your hard-disk and install Linux? ..ducks and runs for cover.. Onno Benschop That too :) Ryan -- The problem with Onno's answers is that they're always right! - Anonymous

Re: [OT] Forum (Problems viewing members)

2004-04-16 Thread Ryan Schotte
I understand this -- I am a guest. Perhaps you are logged in but don't have permissions to view the information. That is, perhaps the error message is accurate and should be taken at face value? Perhaps your friend was logged in a different user with different permissions? Actually, I just

Re: Dual Processor Issue

2004-04-26 Thread Ryan Schotte
I have a DP1.25 and every so often (including right now) Activity Monitor reports that only one processor is working. I check AM, because there is a perceptible change in system performance, so my guess is this is not AM playing up, but my Mac. Has anyone else had this problem or

Re: Bcc in Email

2004-04-29 Thread Ryan Schotte
In Entourage at least one address must be in the To box for the email to be sent (Unless there is some way of doing this that I have not yet discovered). In my Entourage, in the little panel for entering address I can click in the region to the right of the BCC label, and start entering

Re: Bcc in Email

2004-04-29 Thread Ryan Schotte
In Entourage at least one address must be in the To box for the email to be sent (Unless there is some way of doing this that I have not yet discovered). In my Entourage, in the little panel for entering address I can click in the region to the right of the BCC label, and start entering

Studio Displays and PCs

2004-04-30 Thread Ryan Schotte
Can anyone here share their experiences on using an Apple Studio Display with a Windows PC through a ADC-DVI converter? Were drivers required? Were all screen resolutions available? Ryan

uhoh - Security Update 2005-007

2005-08-16 Thread Ryan Schotte
In the hours since applying the new mammoth Security Update, I've had about seven kernel panics. They seem to be caused by copying any file(s) from any partition of my Firewire400 drive to any other partition. The crash reporter lists the same cause though: panic(cpu 0): BlockAllocateContig: