Hi All Here are some brief notes from tonight's meeting:
Q&A 1) A brief discussion on Apple in the media. 2) Yahoo mail. Can log in from the school network, but from home on a modem it crashes out? To clear out Cache in Explorer, have a look under preferences in the program. Have a look in Preferences/Explorer/delete cache and file "cache.waf" 3) Toast won't install on Panther? Need to update to Toast 5.2.3 update. This should fix the issue. Palm Sync issues. Need to update to 4.2.1 4) Any way to make one machine sync to a phone to another machine so they are the same? Try syncing one calendar and see if this makes a difference. Reset to factory defaults and see how it goes. 5) To backup 1000 pages to file? Is there a machine that will do this? A lot of the multifunction machines will allow you to do this, and will even work on a network. Can access it to a machine, hit scan and it will transfer it to one specific machine. Brother and Epson have machines that do this. Canon also have one as well. HP also have some on the market as well. Best for drivers would be Epson and Brother. ***Matt and Peter do an in house demo on Xgrid.*** What is a grid of computers? A grid is a bunch of computers all working together on a single problem. (Big computing tasks that can be shared amoung low cost computers.) It means they all work faster then 1 computer trying to do it all by itself. Everyone with laptops installed the software on their computer (which was linked from Matt's machine.). The demo was ready to go after installing the software on everyone's computer. Matt then ran the Mandelbrot demo, which ran about 600MHz on one machine. With about 7 computers linked together (via Airport) the demo increased from MHz to GHz processing. (even up to 6GHz). Although it didn't look the computer was doing anything it was working away and transferring the information back to the main machine, which was Matt's laptop. This is where you would use the "downtime" of each computer and get them to work together. (A bit similar to Seti at Home, or "folding". So we could see the workload was distributed around all the computers and getting much faster results out of many machines working together then one machine. Very useful for bio-tech companies. (released a program called Blast for matching DNA code. Very processor intensive.) The G4 and G5 are very good at it, due to AltiVec. Very big program. Allows to do jobs that could have taken days previously, whereas now can get it done in hours. To delete, go to Library/Xgrid/Scripts. Double click on Xgrid uninstall.command. *** Matt demo's Unison *** For looking at newsgroups, which is a like a lot of emails all together in categories. (Hogwasher, Neswatcher, Mt-Newswatcher.) Now there is Unison (From panic) <http://www.panic.com> or Versiontracker <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22293> It uses an interface like the Finder. The first thing you have to do isw configure a server. This is normally news.ispname Eg news.m.iinet.net.au, news.westnet.com.au etc You can't access your own newsgroup server from other ISP's. (This can normally be in the realm of 50,000 newsgroups.) You can then look in Discussions and look into a category that interests you. For example Macintosh. Then you can look at further categories inside this. For example "Applications". So inside Politics there was alt.politics.democrats and there were 14 messages. This is very similar to the WAMUG mailing list, except it's in one spot on a webserver. You can also create favourites that you go to your self. (NOTE: You also have to be very aware that the "live" content you see can also be a bit risky, so be aware that some of the content you may come across may not be suitable for all ages!!!) You can also post to the list. Also when you use your email address to post be aware that you can get a lot more spam. You are better to disguise your real address and use something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eg for [email protected] you would use [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then in your email tell people to remove the *NoSpam* from your address. This stops your email being taken by "spam bots". (Just a little side note for you - Ed) It sells for about $30AUD. Matt notes it as the best one for the Mac. *** Daniel does the demo with eyeTV400 *** You may remember the demo for eyeTV USB some time last year. Well El Gato have significantly changed the range now. They added a lot of Firewire devices. EyeTV basically allows you to watch, record and edit television on your Mac. You can also "time-shift" what you're watching. This means if you're watching a show then you can pause it and when you come back to watch it again you start from where you left off, meaning you don't miss anything, even if you've been away for an hour! (Hard drive space permitting.). All models now come with a remote control! The range now consists of: EyeTV USB - Analogue system for G3 or better. All normal features. RRP $429. WAMUG SPECIAL - $349 EyeTV 200 - MPEG-2 Quality via Firewire. Remote, Aerial. All normal features. RRP $829. WAMUG SPECIAL $699. EyeTV 300 - MPEG-2 Quality for Satellite via Firewire. Remote and aerial. All normal features. RRM $699. WAMUG SPECIAL $599. EyeTV 400 - MPEG-2 Quality for Digital TV via Firewire. Remote and aerial. All normal features. RRP $600. WAMUG SPECIAL $599. Eye Home - Opposite to eyeTV. You can watch and view all your music files, video files, pictures on your TV from your Mac. And you can even surf the internet on the TV as well!! RRP $650. WAMUG SPECIAL $599 The major difference in the eyeTV400 (and 200 or 300) is the quality as seen via the projector which was lived streamed from an ABC channel, not bad for inside Curtin!! For more info, details or to order contact Daniel from MacWizardry on 0414-795-960 or <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. *** The night ends with MacWizardry give-aways. *** Congratulations to the winners of the iMation Vinyl Cd 10Pk, the USB 6-in-1 Card Reader, and the DVD-R 3Pack. Well done!! Tea and Coffee was then drunk, biscuits eaten and general chit-chat. Then it was called a night and everyone went home! Another good meeting and once again thank you to everyone for coming along!!! See you at the next meeting in June!!!! Enjoy. Kind Regards Daniel Kerr (Apologies for any Errors and mis-spelling.) :o)
