From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Thu Jan 1 00:22:39 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:22:39 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Happy 2009 Message-ID: <56777A0C-FDA9-4744-AE88-9C17F4B6304D@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi Well you expected me to be up and on my Mac seeing in the New Year, so have a good 2009 and may Mac World bring you everything you wanted. Happy 2009 NMUGers. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Thu Jan 1 17:39:58 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:39:58 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Flash Videos On PowerBook Message-ID: <1D445864-FD1C-4DA8-9989-C2E6F313B613@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi I was trying to watch some flash videos on websites today on my PowerBook G4 and it was terrible. Both YouTube and YouPorn had really bad and slow playback. I am trying to work out what the problem is. I have tried it on my machine, two eMacs and my wifes Core Duo laptop. My machine is: PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB of RAM. Running Leopard. Browsers are Firefox 3, Safari and Cruz. Graphics is 32MB 4x AGP ATI Mobility Radeon 9000. eMac 1 is: G4 800Mhz, 640MB of RAM. Running Tiger. Browser is Safari. Graphics is 32MB 4x AGP ATI Radeon 7500. eMac 2 is: G4 1.25Ghz, 1GB of RAM. Running Tiger. Browser is Safari. Graphics is 32MB 4x AGP Radeon 9200. Laptop is: Core Duo 2Ghz Toshiba Satellite Pro, 1GB of RAM. Running Vista. Browser is latest version of Internet Explorer. Graphics is 128MB/256MB Mobile Intel? Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD. Both eMacs played back fine. I tried the Satellite Pro just to rule out bandwidth or broadband problems. This also worked fine. I am wondering whether it is Leopard or whether it is the graphics cards - or a mix of the both and whether this would be resolved by reverting back to Tiger or increasing the RAM to 1GB. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From alanbarber at mac.com Fri Jan 2 09:02:27 2009 From: alanbarber at mac.com (Alan Barber) Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:02:27 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] 10.5.6 Message-ID: Has anyone installed 10.5.6 and have you had any problems as previously reported. Regards Alan From penguin.999 at virgin.net Fri Jan 2 09:41:13 2009 From: penguin.999 at virgin.net (Paul Chapman) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:41:13 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] 10.5.6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <04464194-AB43-4745-A30B-009A3BE8F475@virgin.net> On Jan 2, 2009, at 09:02, Alan Barber wrote: > Has anyone installed 10.5.6 > and have you had any problems as previously reported. Not sure which problems were reported but after a fair amount of use now I only see one myself. I use PhotoBucket a lot for hosting pictures I use on eBay and other forums. Each picture would have a list of options underneath and just by clicking on the option you wanted it would automatically copy it for pasting where it was needed. Now after clicking it still highlights the option in yellow but doesn't copy. After highlighting it I have to do the keyboard copy keystrokes which is slightly annoying. I mainly use Firefox but the same happens in Safari. I tried on Sarah's computer which is still running 10.4 and things worked fine so I have to assume the latest update to 10.5.6 killed the option for me. Paul C From robbiemurray at f2s.com Fri Jan 2 09:43:36 2009 From: robbiemurray at f2s.com (Robbie Murray) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:43:36 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] 10.5.6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 1. Yes 2. No ... but my occasional screen garbage problem seems to have gone away ...... Robbie On 2 Jan 2009, at 09:02, Alan Barber wrote: Has anyone installed 10.5.6 and have you had any problems as previously reported. Regards Alan _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug Robbie Murray robbiemurray at f2s.com 01603-620749 01603-516175 07882-007667 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Fri Jan 2 14:19:30 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:19:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Wanted: PowerBook G4 Optical Cable Message-ID: <3CEC96D6-D082-44DB-B911-60A26BE34531@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi I am in desperate need for an optical cable for my PowerBook G4 15" Titanium 867Mhz. I have a SuperDrive installed but no cable connecting it to the logic board. As you probably would appreciate this is very annoying. So if anyone has one, let me know. Preferably in the UK. Can pay via PayPal. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Fri Jan 2 18:38:20 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:38:20 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Flash Videos Message-ID: <81378531-981D-4C43-A737-E27B9FA5FD56@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi I am reposting this again as I got no response last time and unlike my usual rants this is quite important. My PowerBook G4 867Mhz is having problems with Flash sites like YouTube etc... The playback is slow and jerky. At first I thought my Mac was too slow, but my sons eMac G4 800Mhz plays them fine. Any ideas. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From penguin.999 at virgin.net Fri Jan 2 18:59:11 2009 From: penguin.999 at virgin.net (Paul Chapman) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:59:11 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Flash Videos In-Reply-To: <81378531-981D-4C43-A737-E27B9FA5FD56@simonroyal.co.uk> References: <81378531-981D-4C43-A737-E27B9FA5FD56@simonroyal.co.uk> Message-ID: On Jan 2, 2009, at 18:38, Simon Royal wrote: > I am reposting this again as I got no response last time and unlike > my usual rants this is quite important. Maybe we hadn't realised how important getting jerk free downloads from YouPorn were to you. Was that information you really needed to share with us? When you say they are jerky, is that from the site or after you have downloaded them? Paul C From rbygrave at ntlworld.com Fri Jan 2 21:35:54 2009 From: rbygrave at ntlworld.com (Ruth Bygrave) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 21:35:54 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Audio on Youtube Message-ID: <4A079131-FCBE-4392-8B6E-8EAAAB9EBA9B@ntlworld.com> My Youtube has gone oddly silent on both Safari and Firefox. What is occurring? Tried readjusting sound settings, but I can consistently get noises out of my Mac except when playing Youtube. This is annoying, particularly when trying to listen to comic songs (Kit & the Widow, Flanders & Swann &c...). Was working fine the other day. Regards, Ruth From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Sat Jan 3 00:50:13 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:50:13 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] YouTube No Audio Message-ID: Hi Whoever mentioned they were having no audio in YouTube I have just checked and I too have none. Running Firefox 3 and 10.5.6. Audio is working for everything else except YouTube. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From paul at durrant.co.uk Sat Jan 3 08:06:53 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 08:06:53 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] YouTube No Audio In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: No problems with the sound here. Mac OS X 10.5.6, MacBook 2GHz, Safari. Perhaps just a temporary glitch? Paul On 3 Jan 2009, at 00:50, Simon Royal wrote: > Whoever mentioned they were having no audio in YouTube I have just > checked and I too have none. Running Firefox 3 and 10.5.6. Audio is > working for everything else except YouTube. From amlucas2003 at yahoo.co.uk Sat Jan 3 11:29:30 2009 From: amlucas2003 at yahoo.co.uk (Arthur Lucas) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:29:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Re: 10.5.6 In-Reply-To: <20090102120004.C36A87F2870@mail.durrant.co.uk> References: <20090102120004.C36A87F2870@mail.durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: Installed a few weeks ago without trouble on MacMini, 512MB, 1.42 Ghz. No problems enountered so far. Arthur > >From: Alan Barber > >Has anyone installed 10.5.6 >and have you had any problems as previously reported. -- Prof A M Lucas AO CBE 16 Downham Crescent Wymondham NR18 0SF 01953 602214 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Sat Jan 3 12:46:52 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:46:52 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Re: 10.5.6 Message-ID: Arthur. Nothing major. Had a few problems on reboot after installing. Been having sound issues, first no sound at all, now No YouTube sound. Other than that everything else is fine. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: [NMUG] Re: 10.5.6 From: Arthur Lucas Date: 03/01/2009 11:29 Installed a few weeks ago without trouble on MacMini, 512MB, 1.42 Ghz. No problems enountered so far. Arthur > >From: Alan Barber > >Has anyone installed 10.5.6 >and have you had any problems as previously reported. -- Prof A M Lucas AO CBE 16 Downham Crescent Wymondham NR18 0SF 01953 602214 _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From david at vanedwards.co.uk Sun Jan 4 11:17:16 2009 From: david at vanedwards.co.uk (David Van Edwards) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:17:16 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Free keyboard Message-ID: Dear All We've got an Apple USB keyboard and puck type mouse going spare if anyone is interested. I think they're a matching pair and look as if they're from a Graphite early iMac, translucent grey casing and black keys. Looks clean and seems to work to the extent that I've typed this on it! The mouse works but I'd forgotten how horrible roller-ball mice were! Bestwishes, David and Thea -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Sun Jan 4 17:18:19 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:18:19 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Free keyboard Message-ID: David I so want Apple to produce an optical puck. I love those little mice. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: [NMUG] Free keyboard From: David Van Edwards Date: 04/01/2009 11:17 Dear All We've got an Apple USB keyboard and puck type mouse going spare if anyone is interested. I think they're a matching pair and look as if they're from a Graphite early iMac, translucent grey casing and black keys. Looks clean and seems to work to the extent that I've typed this on it! The mouse works but I'd forgotten how horrible roller-ball mice were! Bestwishes, David and Thea -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From paulharrowing at waitrose.com Sun Jan 4 17:45:49 2009 From: paulharrowing at waitrose.com (Paul Harrowing) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:45:49 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Xbox 360 Message-ID: <7543C14C-2948-4023-91C9-DE7502DA8C7D@waitrose.com> Completely nothing to do with Mac. I have acquired an xbox and wonder if someone on here can tell me if it is practical to disconnect my broadband modem and plug the xbox into it just to get the freebies which are included on xbox live and then disconnect the modem from the xbox and connect the Mac again. I don't see myself playing online in the near future. Am I likely to encounter any problems? PAH From paulharrowing at waitrose.com Sun Jan 4 17:51:57 2009 From: paulharrowing at waitrose.com (Paul Harrowing) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:51:57 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] RC Helicopter Message-ID: I have also got a radio controlled helicopter which I have been trying to master but I am getting through blades like there's no tomorrow. I'm wondering if I should wait until the warmer weather when they maybe a little less brittle. Lucky there is an agent in Sudbury who despatches same day. Anyone with any experience on here? PAH From paul at durrant.co.uk Sun Jan 4 18:41:36 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:41:36 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Free keyboard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <54C3A0F4-06D3-42FC-B8D7-8893B85DF0E5@durrant.co.uk> Well, I suppose if you got a broken puck mouse, and a mini optical USB mouse, your could perform some surgery and create the world's first Optical puck mouse. Paul On 4 Jan 2009, at 17:18, Simon Royal wrote: > > I so want Apple to produce an optical puck. I love those little mice. From paul at durrant.co.uk Sun Jan 4 18:46:12 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:46:12 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] RC Helicopter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2BD0DE2A-5966-44F8-8E19-C304D47CC0D7@durrant.co.uk> While the collective NMUG knowledge is, of course, unparalleled among on-line communities, I'd rather keep message traffic vaguely Mac related, so please reply directly to Paul, not on-list. Paul On 4 Jan 2009, at 17:51, Paul Harrowing wrote: > I have also got a radio controlled helicopter which I have been > trying to master but I am getting through blades like there's no > tomorrow. I'm wondering if I should wait until the warmer weather > when they maybe a little less brittle. > > Lucky there is an agent in Sudbury who despatches same day. > > Anyone with any experience on here? From robbiemurray at f2s.com Sun Jan 4 19:03:26 2009 From: robbiemurray at f2s.com (Robbie Murray) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:03:26 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Free keyboard In-Reply-To: <54C3A0F4-06D3-42FC-B8D7-8893B85DF0E5@durrant.co.uk> References: <54C3A0F4-06D3-42FC-B8D7-8893B85DF0E5@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: .... and with a bit of gaffer tape add a wireless module from a mighty mouse: only problem may be working out which way it's pointing! Robbie On 4 Jan 2009, at 18:41, Paul Durrant wrote: Well, I suppose if you got a broken puck mouse, and a mini optical USB mouse, your could perform some surgery and create the world's first Optical puck mouse. Paul On 4 Jan 2009, at 17:18, Simon Royal wrote: > > I so want Apple to produce an optical puck. I love those little mice. _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug Robbie Murray robbiemurray at f2s.com 01603-620749 01603-516175 07882-007667 From steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk Sun Jan 4 23:07:11 2009 From: steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk (Steven Jefferson) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:07:11 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] RC Helicopter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: My 15 yo nephew crashed his RC copter immediately after opening last Xmas - write off. Learn to hover first..... I think thats what pilots do.... Steven Jefferson steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk On 4 Jan 2009, at 17:51, Paul Harrowing wrote: > I have also got a radio controlled helicopter which I have been > trying to master but I am getting through blades like there's no > tomorrow. I'm wondering if I should wait until the warmer weather > when they maybe a little less brittle. > > Lucky there is an agent in Sudbury who despatches same day. > > Anyone with any experience on here? > > PAH > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Tue Jan 6 22:16:15 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:16:15 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] MacBook Wheel Message-ID: <51226556-B624-49CF-A563-BEE7397D9D40@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi I love the way Apple are ripped for their crazy ideas. Check out this MacBook Wheel http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary It's hilarious. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From paul at durrant.co.uk Tue Jan 6 22:28:08 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:28:08 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] MacBook Wheel In-Reply-To: <51226556-B624-49CF-A563-BEE7397D9D40@simonroyal.co.uk> References: <51226556-B624-49CF-A563-BEE7397D9D40@simonroyal.co.uk> Message-ID: <1AFF8DE3-4507-463F-810B-7C65A6364A4B@durrant.co.uk> The Onion does do some good spoofs. Paul On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:16, Simon Royal wrote: > I love the way Apple are ripped for their crazy ideas. Check out > this MacBook Wheel > > http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary > > It's hilarious. > From paul at durrant.co.uk Tue Jan 6 22:31:34 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:31:34 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Real News Message-ID: There were just a few announcements at MacWorld Expo today. iLife '09 iWork '09 17" MacBook Pro. Interesting features that caught my eye: iPhoto '09 - face recognition. Supposed to be able to match people in photos, so it's easy to find all ohotos of a certain person. 17" MacBook Pro - non-removable battery, but 12 hour battery life, and five year battery lifetime. Paul From steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk Tue Jan 6 22:54:09 2009 From: steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk (Steven Jefferson) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:54:09 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Real News In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Disappointing. Need a new Mac Pro as my G5 died. Existing kit NOW one year plus old. Due a refresh big time. Aperture also needs an update. Do not want to buy old kit so Apple need to bring new stuff out to generate the sales waiting for new kit. No announcement about Snow Leopard either although the iProg updates & DRM announcements are obviously incremental. If the new MBP 17" battery is expected to last so long, by the time the batteries die won't it be simpler and more recycle positive to upgrade the kit? ie no second battery market or need for one. Are we going to have some announcement or a stealth upgrade to the Mac Pro, iMac and Mini in the next few weeks? How far off are the Core i7 Nehalem chips? I really need to have a new in house desktop by early spring. Steven Jefferson steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:31, Paul Durrant wrote: > There were just a few announcements at MacWorld Expo today. > > iLife '09 > iWork '09 > 17" MacBook Pro. > > Interesting features that caught my eye: > > iPhoto '09 - face recognition. Supposed to be able to match people > in photos, so it's easy to find all ohotos of a certain person. > > 17" MacBook Pro - non-removable battery, but 12 hour battery life, > and five year battery lifetime. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From rob at atvetsystems.com Tue Jan 6 22:59:18 2009 From: rob at atvetsystems.com (Robert Tillyard) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:59:18 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Real News In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <08C20293-2BCA-4651-AE99-56EAFCFE698A@atvetsystems.com> Although it doesn't look like much was announced today I found much of it useful. I've ordered both iLife and iWork and downloaded the trial of iWork '09 while mine is in transit. Numbers now opens the Excel spreadsheets that '08 wouldn't and a complex ten tab Excel workbook only has one minor error where I misused a date as a duration. Some tables in Pages have left aligned when I had then aligning with the indentation of the outline of a document but I'm sure I'll fix that. Keynote remote works really well. I used to use my Sony Erricson T68i with Sailing clicker when I had a G4 PowerBook but now I've upgraded to a MacBook Pro and an iPhone I can use the phone to move slides by setting up internet sharing on the AirPort card. iWork.com will be useful as I often have to send documents that I write in Pages or numbers to Windows users to see if they have anything to add, now they could edit it inline even from Windows. I use Flickr a lot and geo tag most of my pictures so the geotagging and Flickr intergration will be useful. I hated iMovie'08 and still use iMovie'06 but iMovie'09 looks good but won't know until I try it. And I've spent ?30 upgrading my iTunes library to DRM free versions. So I found today's stuff good but I had some dosh ready to buy a new MacPro which sadly didn't arrive today so I'll have to wait for that. Regards, Rob. On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:31, Paul Durrant wrote: > There were just a few announcements at MacWorld Expo today. > > iLife '09 > iWork '09 > 17" MacBook Pro. > > Interesting features that caught my eye: > > iPhoto '09 - face recognition. Supposed to be able to match people > in photos, so it's easy to find all ohotos of a certain person. > > 17" MacBook Pro - non-removable battery, but 12 hour battery life, > and five year battery lifetime. > > Paul From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Tue Jan 6 23:02:36 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:02:36 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Real News In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2AEA5F3F-D5D3-4F0A-AD6B-271FDBBD13A5@simonroyal.co.uk> Stefan I thought it was 5-9 January or did I miss something. If so it is not over and your new Mac Pro might be on the cards. Simon On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:54, Steven Jefferson wrote: > Disappointing. Need a new Mac Pro as my G5 died. Existing kit NOW > one year plus old. Due a refresh big time. Aperture also needs an > update. Do not want to buy old kit so Apple need to bring new stuff > out to generate the sales waiting for new kit. > > No announcement about Snow Leopard either although the iProg updates > & DRM announcements are obviously incremental. If the new MBP 17" > battery is expected to last so long, by the time the batteries die > won't it be simpler and more recycle positive to upgrade the kit? ie > no second battery market or need for one. > > Are we going to have some announcement or a stealth upgrade to the > Mac Pro, iMac and Mini in the next few weeks? > > How far off are the Core i7 Nehalem chips? I really need to have a > new in house desktop by early spring. > > Steven Jefferson > steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk > > > > On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:31, Paul Durrant wrote: > >> There were just a few announcements at MacWorld Expo today. >> >> iLife '09 >> iWork '09 >> 17" MacBook Pro. >> >> Interesting features that caught my eye: >> >> iPhoto '09 - face recognition. Supposed to be able to match people >> in photos, so it's easy to find all ohotos of a certain person. >> >> 17" MacBook Pro - non-removable battery, but 12 hour battery life, >> and five year battery lifetime. >> >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> NMUG mailing list >> NMUG at durrant.co.uk >> http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From robbiemurray at f2s.com Tue Jan 6 23:24:05 2009 From: robbiemurray at f2s.com (Robbie Murray) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:24:05 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Real News In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <75D0865E-D719-4DBD-97BD-272FB95991A4@f2s.com> Maybe they want to get away from the pressure to produce big launches for a date which is set in tablets of stone, and so soon after Christmas, when many potential buyers may be skint .... They're surely a big enough player nowadays to announce an event at any time for major launches - I believe a self hosted event in Cupertino would still attract maximum attention, ensure the products really are ready to go, and satisfy Steve's obsession with control! Perhaps, Steven, you'll still see your dream machine by Springtime. For the moment, I have everything I need from Apple, and also, for once, for once, everything I want (although I wouldn't turn away an iPhone if offered). Robbie On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:54, Steven Jefferson wrote: Disappointing. Need a new Mac Pro as my G5 died. Existing kit NOW one year plus old. Due a refresh big time. Aperture also needs an update. Do not want to buy old kit so Apple need to bring new stuff out to generate the sales waiting for new kit. No announcement about Snow Leopard either although the iProg updates & DRM announcements are obviously incremental. If the new MBP 17" battery is expected to last so long, by the time the batteries die won't it be simpler and more recycle positive to upgrade the kit? ie no second battery market or need for one. Are we going to have some announcement or a stealth upgrade to the Mac Pro, iMac and Mini in the next few weeks? How far off are the Core i7 Nehalem chips? I really need to have a new in house desktop by early spring. Steven Jefferson steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:31, Paul Durrant wrote: > There were just a few announcements at MacWorld Expo today. > > iLife '09 > iWork '09 > 17" MacBook Pro. > > Interesting features that caught my eye: > > iPhoto '09 - face recognition. Supposed to be able to match people > in photos, so it's easy to find all ohotos of a certain person. > > 17" MacBook Pro - non-removable battery, but 12 hour battery life, > and five year battery lifetime. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug Robbie Murray robbiemurray at f2s.com 01603-620749 01603-516175 07882-007667 From paul at durrant.co.uk Wed Jan 7 08:25:57 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:57 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Real News In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Whoops - eight hour battery life on the 17" MacBook Pro, not twelve. Paul On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:31, Paul Durrant wrote: > 17" MacBook Pro - non-removable battery, but 12 hour battery life, > and five year battery lifetime. From paul at durrant.co.uk Wed Jan 7 11:32:19 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:32:19 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Off-Topic: ballot stuffing Message-ID: <5AEC02CE-B785-4F24-A6C5-F36CC6A921E2@durrant.co.uk> This is an off-topic post. Listmaster's privilege :-). Feel free to ignore. I'd like to ask people to vote in an on-line poll for best Science Fiction/Fantasy book for 2008. If you would, please vote for "Slow Train to Arcturus" by Dave Freer and Eric Flint. The poll can be found at http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novelsf.shtml "Slow Train to Arcturus" is about three-quarters of the way down the (alphabetical) list. You'll need to supply a name and email address in the form at the bottom of the page (& click on the "submit" button), and confirm the the address via a link in the email you get sent. Why would I like you to do this? Dave Freer is an author whose works I like, and he's currently trying to emigrate from South Africa to Australia. Even a silly on-line award like this might help his application. Thanks, Paul Durrant NMUG listmaster From june.perrett at mac.com Wed Jan 7 11:34:57 2009 From: june.perrett at mac.com (June Perrett) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:34:57 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Photo storage on the iMac Message-ID: <11193063-2412-4E4F-A4C7-0755BA296CAC@mac.com> I want to find out how much storage there is on my iMac for photos. Could someone please tell me where to look and how I do this. I have over 4,000 in the iPhoto Library and I feel I may have reached the limit. The photos are mainly high resolution from a 8mb camera and also some video filming using the digital camera. My computer is a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with a 2GB memory. Do you think I should transfer and store them on an external HD. I'd be very grateful for advice and tips on how you cope. Many thanks June Perrett From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Wed Jan 7 12:49:46 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:49:46 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Photo storage on the iMac In-Reply-To: <11193063-2412-4E4F-A4C7-0755BA296CAC@mac.com> References: <11193063-2412-4E4F-A4C7-0755BA296CAC@mac.com> Message-ID: June The simplist way would be to open your hard drive and in the search box at the top right simply type the picture extension. I have just done it on mine, typed .jpg and it found over 2,500 within seconds and I am on an 867Mhz G4. Picture extensions generally are JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, GIF and maybe EPS. Simon On 7 Jan 2009, at 11:34, June Perrett wrote: > I want to find out how much storage there is on my iMac for photos. > Could someone please tell me where to look and how I do this. > > I have over 4,000 in the iPhoto Library and I feel I may have > reached the limit. The photos are mainly high resolution from a 8mb > camera and also some video filming using the digital camera. My > computer is a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with a 2GB memory. > > Do you think I should transfer and store them on an external HD. > I'd be very grateful for advice and tips on how you cope. > > Many thanks > June Perrett > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From email at johnstephens.me.uk Wed Jan 7 15:12:36 2009 From: email at johnstephens.me.uk (John Stephens) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:12:36 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Time Machine Message-ID: <3FDDD533-31BA-47AE-AB27-BEB0CEA019A7@johnstephens.me.uk> Hello I've just upgraded to OS X 10.5.4 and was hoping to make use of the Time Machine application. In set up, it tells me that my chosen volume (an external hard drive) needs to be re-formatted and will be completely erased as a result. I'm not going to go ahead with this straight away as I have many files on the drive that are only stored in that location. I use the external disk to store large files like my iTunes folder etc. Can someone clarify for me... does Time Machine wipe the back up location clean every time it performs a back-up, or is this just part of the re-formatting business? If it does wipe the disk clean each time, I'll need to get another. Incidentally, for those who are interested, I was very impressed with the ease of the upgrade. I have a few downloaded applications, for which I've purchased licenses, and was worried about them not transferring, but all worked very easily indeed. Many thanks John Stephens www.jsmusicservices.com From paul at durrant.co.uk Wed Jan 7 16:04:21 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:04:21 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Time Machine In-Reply-To: <3FDDD533-31BA-47AE-AB27-BEB0CEA019A7@johnstephens.me.uk> References: <3FDDD533-31BA-47AE-AB27-BEB0CEA019A7@johnstephens.me.uk> Message-ID: <5FC0FABE-6ECA-42D5-B62A-CA7281381588@durrant.co.uk> I'd guess that your external disk isn't formatted at an HFS+ disk, but in some other format. To work properly, Time Machine requires that the external disk is in HFS+ format, which is why it's offering to reformat it. You'll need to make a back-up of your data on the external disk before reformatting, but provided there's plenty of space, you can keep other data on the disk as well as the Time Machine back-up. Of course, the data stored on the Time Machine disk won't have a back- up. If you have space on your main hard disk, it would be better to keep everything there, so that you get everything in two places. Paul On 7 Jan 2009, at 15:12, John Stephens wrote: > I've just upgraded to OS X 10.5.4 and was hoping to make use of the > Time Machine application. In set up, it tells me that my chosen > volume (an external hard drive) needs to be re-formatted and will be > completely erased as a result. I'm not going to go ahead with this > straight away as I have many files on the drive that are only stored > in that location. I use the external disk to store large files like > my iTunes folder etc. > > Can someone clarify for me... does Time Machine wipe the back up > location clean every time it performs a back-up, or is this just > part of the re-formatting business? If it does wipe the disk clean > each time, I'll need to get another. > > Incidentally, for those who are interested, I was very impressed > with the ease of the upgrade. I have a few downloaded applications, > for which I've purchased licenses, and was worried about them not > transferring, but all worked very easily indeed. > > Many thanks > > John Stephens > www.jsmusicservices.com > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > From june.perrett at mac.com Wed Jan 7 19:13:02 2009 From: june.perrett at mac.com (June Perrett) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:13:02 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Thanks - re Photo storage on iMac Message-ID: <8D2AE27A-4577-4277-A55F-354442E2EC1A@mac.com> My thanks to Rob, Michael, Valerie and Paul D for your help. I can now check on the free space available on the computer. Thank you all for replying so quickly. Regards June From paulharrowing at waitrose.com Wed Jan 7 20:00:41 2009 From: paulharrowing at waitrose.com (Paul Harrowing) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:00:41 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Also off topic, Xbox Message-ID: <9D68EC1E-4C47-4C19-B78D-5DBC884468C5@waitrose.com> Managed to get my Xbox online but not thanks to MS or Waitrose. In the end I just unplugged the ethernet cable from the back of the Mac and plugged it into the Xbox without switching the router off. PAH From mercer at gotadsl.co.uk Thu Jan 8 13:54:15 2009 From: mercer at gotadsl.co.uk (Valerie Mercer) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:54:15 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Time Capsule Message-ID: <72FA9235-48CE-4E30-9EB5-F250DFD7C9D2@gotadsl.co.uk> I've just acquired a Time Capsule in an attempt to disentangle my MacBook from the web of cables which make it less than portable. However, I'm having doubts about the wisdom of combining back-up with Airport networking; I've had to reset my existing Airport Extreme a couple of times in order to solve problems. That means losing all settings, and in the case of a Time Capsule I assume it would also lose all the back-up data.(?) Can backup via Time Capsule be re-directed to a USB drive connected to the capsule - preferably my existing Time Machine drive? Makes a bit of a nonsense of the HD in the Time Capsule, but ....... Is it possible to use Time Machine to back-up to 2 drives? Can Time Machine Data be backed up? Life used to be so simple! From steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk Thu Jan 8 20:29:03 2009 From: steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk (Steven Jefferson) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:29:03 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Express Cards Message-ID: <0E8A1288-99B6-44AE-A498-61784BA1AE3D@zen.co.uk> Do Belkin Express Cards work in MacBook Pro's? There are some Bekin USB 2/FW cards going in a sale near me but the blurb covers winblows only. Do they work in Macs? Steven Jefferson steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Thu Jan 8 21:00:53 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:00:53 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Chipmunk Message-ID: <2771E301-7238-4402-BC80-14D6550EAA9D@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi I discovered this site from another group. Thought it was quite handy for those of us who buy old Macs from people who aren't sure of there specs. http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Thu Jan 8 21:27:18 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:27:18 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] NewerTech NuCube Message-ID: <942C4531-696D-48C8-BAE0-824C71D3D095@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi I got sent a link to this and I thought it was awesome. http://www.newertech.com/products/nucube.php It is a clear vertical case for the Mac Mini which makes it look like a G4 Cube. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From hannaford at sizzel.net Fri Jan 9 12:18:26 2009 From: hannaford at sizzel.net (Jennifer Hannaford) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:18:26 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Adding memory/system upgrades Message-ID: <6BC48C2F-E057-4129-A306-54A0C7EC785B@sizzel.net> Hi folks, I want to add some extra memory to the 215Mb on my Mirror door G4 (dual 867Mhz) ? 4 slots total. Crucial website suggests 3 alternatives: adding another 215Mb or adding 512Mb x 3 or putting in 4 new 512Mb. I would be satisfied with one or two 512Mb added. Is there any reason why I cannot do that? Also, I wonder if anyone can tell me if system upgrades would affect my old software? I am hanging on to my old version of Quark 5 and Photoshop 5.5, running Tiger OSX.10.4.11. Jennifer Hannaford From Stuartrichards at fastmail.fm Fri Jan 9 19:35:45 2009 From: Stuartrichards at fastmail.fm (Stuart Richards) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:35:45 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] MAC address Message-ID: <4ACB7B47-8904-48F9-9528-B995C98F2DDB@fastmail.fm> Can someone tell me how to find the MAC address of an iBook G4 ( my Wife's computer ). I have looked in System Profiler > Hardware overview but cannot see it. Thanks in anticipation. Stuart Richards Stuartrichards at fastmail.fm From robbiemurray at f2s.com Fri Jan 9 20:12:20 2009 From: robbiemurray at f2s.com (Robbie Murray) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:12:20 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] MAC address In-Reply-To: <4ACB7B47-8904-48F9-9528-B995C98F2DDB@fastmail.fm> References: <4ACB7B47-8904-48F9-9528-B995C98F2DDB@fastmail.fm> Message-ID: Assuming it's running OSX .... http://tinyurl.com/macaddressnmug On 9 Jan 2009, at 19:35, Stuart Richards wrote: Can someone tell me how to find the MAC address of an iBook G4 ( my Wife's computer ). I have looked in System Profiler > Hardware overview but cannot see it. Thanks in anticipation. Stuart Richards Stuartrichards at fastmail.fm _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug Robbie Murray robbiemurray at f2s.com 01603-620749 01603-516175 07882-007667 From sc at davidviner.com Fri Jan 9 20:20:26 2009 From: sc at davidviner.com (David Viner) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:20:26 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] MAC address In-Reply-To: References: <4ACB7B47-8904-48F9-9528-B995C98F2DDB@fastmail.fm> Message-ID: <4967B18A.6030700@davidviner.com> Another way (for OS X) is to open up a terminal and type ifconfig Look for the *lladdr* entry which is what you want. David Robbie Murray wrote: > Assuming it's running OSX .... > > http://tinyurl.com/macaddressnmug > > > On 9 Jan 2009, at 19:35, Stuart Richards wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to find the MAC address of an iBook G4 ( my > Wife's computer ). I have looked in System Profiler > Hardware > overview but cannot see it. > > Thanks in anticipation. > > Stuart Richards > > Stuartrichards at fastmail.fm > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > > > Robbie Murray > robbiemurray at f2s.com > 01603-620749 > 01603-516175 > 07882-007667 > > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > From Stuartrichards at fastmail.fm Fri Jan 9 21:13:00 2009 From: Stuartrichards at fastmail.fm (Stuart Richards) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:13:00 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] MAC address References: Message-ID: <1F376536-3B56-4E45-9711-75C606EEAAE0@fastmail.fm> Got it !! Thanks very much for help. Stuart Stuartrichards at fastmail.fm On 9 Jan 2009, at 20:12, Robbie Murray wrote: Assuming it's running OSX .... http://tinyurl.com/macaddressnmug _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Sun Jan 11 09:49:00 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:49:00 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Windows 7 Beta Message-ID: <2ED3FE6B-4E96-472F-BD0C-6870F5EEEE79@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi Has anyone managed to download Windows 7 Beta this morning? I have been trying for ages and it just won't go. I get to the page where you get your install code but the download link goes nowhere. I know this isn't strictly Mac related, but I am sure some of you with Intel Macs will be curious to see what it offers like myself and I am wondering whether the download is failing because I am using a Mac. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk Sun Jan 11 10:32:45 2009 From: footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk (joe butler) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:32:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [NMUG] Blackberry Storm for sale Message-ID: <408012.17804.qm@web26705.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hi all Im selling this for my mum, it an unwanted upgrade thats never been used ( apart from me having a 5 min play!) I have put it up on ebay 3 times the?1st payment fake cheque, 2 dodgy paypal payments so im looking for cash now!! ?375 ? 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From sc at davidviner.com Sun Jan 11 10:49:56 2009 From: sc at davidviner.com (David Viner) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:49:56 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Windows 7 Beta In-Reply-To: <2ED3FE6B-4E96-472F-BD0C-6870F5EEEE79@simonroyal.co.uk> References: <2ED3FE6B-4E96-472F-BD0C-6870F5EEEE79@simonroyal.co.uk> Message-ID: <4969CED4.1010400@davidviner.com> Simon The link that finally worked for me without failing or timing out (download took about 4 hours) was: http://wb.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso I also managed to get some valid keys using the info here: http://blog.hznet.nl/2009/01/10/how-to-receive-a-valid-windows-7-key I'm currently running Win7 under VirtualBox 2.1.0 (www.virtualbox.org). David > Hi > > Has anyone managed to download Windows 7 Beta this morning? I have > been trying for ages and it just won't go. I get to the page where you > get your install code but the download link goes nowhere. > > I know this isn't strictly Mac related, but I am sure some of you with > Intel Macs will be curious to see what it offers like myself and I am > wondering whether the download is failing because I am using a Mac. > > Simon > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk > --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Sun Jan 11 19:44:14 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:44:14 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] YouTube Audio Solved Message-ID: <109C2150-302B-4AC6-8AD0-D79FA7C6C979@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi Well I kind of feel a bit stupid. I have been struggling to get any audio out of YouTube for a few weeks now. All other audio works fine. Someone asked whether the volume on YouTube videos had been turned down and yes it had. I turned it up (you know under the video itself) and it worked. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From rbygrave at ntlworld.com Sun Jan 11 23:17:42 2009 From: rbygrave at ntlworld.com (Ruth Bygrave) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:17:42 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] YouTube Audio Solved In-Reply-To: <109C2150-302B-4AC6-8AD0-D79FA7C6C979@simonroyal.co.uk> References: <109C2150-302B-4AC6-8AD0-D79FA7C6C979@simonroyal.co.uk> Message-ID: <81BE1C3B-6663-42E5-805B-19F66C3F3C70@ntlworld.com> > Well I kind of feel a bit stupid. I have been struggling to get any > audio out of YouTube for a few weeks now. All other audio works fine. > > Someone asked whether the volume on YouTube videos had been turned > down and yes it had. I turned it up (you know under the video > itself) and it worked. Thanks ever so, now *I* don't need to feel that dim for looking confused for three days before somebody said 'look at the YouTube mute control'... (...hadn't even been aware YouTube *had* its own media controls...) Regards, Ruth From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Sun Jan 11 23:32:15 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:32:15 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] YouTube Audio Solved In-Reply-To: <81BE1C3B-6663-42E5-805B-19F66C3F3C70@ntlworld.com> References: <109C2150-302B-4AC6-8AD0-D79FA7C6C979@simonroyal.co.uk> <81BE1C3B-6663-42E5-805B-19F66C3F3C70@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: <11CC7CB9-79C3-4161-A222-C41A80EE6B88@simonroyal.co.uk> Ruth As experienced as I am, I never noticed them either, so you are not alone. Sometimes us tech geniui over look the obvious. Simon On 11 Jan 2009, at 23:17, Ruth Bygrave wrote: >> Well I kind of feel a bit stupid. I have been struggling to get any >> audio out of YouTube for a few weeks now. All other audio works fine. >> >> Someone asked whether the volume on YouTube videos had been turned >> down and yes it had. I turned it up (you know under the video >> itself) and it worked. > > Thanks ever so, now *I* don't need to feel that dim for looking > confused for three days before somebody said 'look at the YouTube > mute control'... > > (...hadn't even been aware YouTube *had* its own media controls...) > > Regards, Ruth > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From munkt0n at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 09:27:37 2009 From: munkt0n at gmail.com (Scott Matthews) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:27:37 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Insomniac MacBook Pro Message-ID: I have a peculiar problem with my MacBook Pro, it sometimes refuses to go to sleep. After a lot of trial and error I've discovered that if I switch Airport off it will go to sleep, most of the time it will sleep properly, but a few times I've closed the lid and it cycles between sleep and power on. Does anyone know what would be causing this? Thanks, Scott From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 12 11:28:26 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:28:26 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] DGen For OSX Message-ID: Hi. I like retro gaming and emulators. I've been playing with Snes9x for Super Nintendo games. I even synced my Wii Remote for total nerdy gaming. However, I cant seem to find DGen, the Megadrive emulator for OSX. I'm sure I had it before but each version I download is in an .sit file and when unpacked has an icon with a no entry sign which I assume is a classic app. Does anyone have an OSX version? I am running Leopard. Or know where I can find it. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) From anthonybrahams at themagic.me.uk Mon Jan 12 15:17:53 2009 From: anthonybrahams at themagic.me.uk (Anthony Brahams) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:17:53 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Computer on without switch Message-ID: I mentioned some weeks ago that my computer would be switched off at night yet in the morning it was on. From being occasional it was almost daily so I contacted supplier John Lewis, took it there and it went to Byte Systems who thought they had cured it by replacing the power unit. They had not. I spoke with John Lewis, then Byte who told me it was a rare but not unknown fault probably due to corrupted preferences (Library?). They could deal with it by either having the computer back or on the 'phone to me but would charge me as Apple's guarantee is only hardware. I have not been able to contact John Lewis. They may be contravening the Sale of Goods act (or whatever the current law is called). I think, though not certain, that the trouble started after I installed OS 10.5.5 so will install 10,5,6 in case it makes a difference. I have checked the preferences and reset the System Management Controller. Latter would have been the final action Bytesize would have told me if I agreed to pay them. Any more comments welcome, thanks. Anthony From munkt0n at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 15:31:27 2009 From: munkt0n at gmail.com (Scott Matthews) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:31:27 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Computer on without switch In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: in system preferences, under 'energy saver' or 'power management' (sorry, can't remember exactly) there is a 'schedule' button, this allows you to switch your Mac on at a given time, may be worth checking to see if it's been set. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Anthony Brahams wrote: > I mentioned some weeks ago that my computer would be switched off at night > yet in the morning it was on. From being occasional it was almost daily so I > contacted supplier John Lewis, took it there and it went to Byte Systems who > thought they had cured it by replacing the power unit. They had not. > > I spoke with John Lewis, then Byte who told me it was a rare but not unknown > fault probably due to corrupted preferences (Library?). They could deal with > it by either having the computer back or on the 'phone to me but would > charge me as Apple's guarantee is only hardware. > > I have not been able to contact John Lewis. They may be contravening the > Sale of Goods act (or whatever the current law is called). > > I think, though not certain, that the trouble started after I installed OS > 10.5.5 so will install 10,5,6 in case it makes a difference. > > I have checked the preferences and reset the System Management Controller. > Latter would have been the final action Bytesize would have told me if I > agreed to pay them. > > Any more comments welcome, thanks. > > Anthony > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > -- :wq From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 12 17:34:37 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:34:37 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Leopard & OS9! Message-ID: <5B94E497-CE4A-430C-95AD-E354B1DFCC80@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi I have a PowerBook G4 with an 80GB hard drive and it is running Leopard fine. The drive was cloned from my Pismo which had 10.4 and 9.2.2 on the same drive and same partition and I could boot to either. When I got my G4, I cloned the drive and then upgraded the 10.4 to 10.5. Until now I have not booted to OS9. I tried it today and OS9 showed up in the Start Up Disc pane. But on reboot it just showed the floppy disc with a question mark. I then did the ALT button to get the boot options and it only brought up the Leopard installation, but after selecting that it still brought up the floppy disc with a question mark. In the end I booted from my iPod which has the 10.4 installation files restored to it, and choose Start Up Disc and selected the Leopard option and it rebooted and is working fine. I just wondered why I can no longer boot to OS9. I know Leopard doesn't support Classic. But when I had my G4 'Sawtooth' tower, I had three hard drives each with a different OS on them. I had 10.5, 10.4 and OS9 and could always boot to what OS I wanted without any hassles. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 12 18:24:12 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:24:12 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Leopard & OS9! In-Reply-To: <5B44E8BB-B339-4109-8406-8C5CFA1C4ADE@durrant.co.uk> References: <5B94E497-CE4A-430C-95AD-E354B1DFCC80@simonroyal.co.uk> <5B44E8BB-B339-4109-8406-8C5CFA1C4ADE@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: <3FBE84BA-DF89-4B90-A71E-3241EDC5FA30@simonroyal.co.uk> Paul You are a star. Just check System Profiler and under ATA it says OS9 Drivers: No. Simon On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:43, Paul Durrant wrote: > It might be that you didn't include the OS9 drivers when you > reformatted the disk before installing Leopard. > > Paul > > On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:34, Simon Royal wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have a PowerBook G4 with an 80GB hard drive and it is running >> Leopard fine. >> >> The drive was cloned from my Pismo which had 10.4 and 9.2.2 on the >> same drive and same partition and I could boot to either. When I >> got my G4, I cloned the drive and then upgraded the 10.4 to 10.5. >> >> Until now I have not booted to OS9. I tried it today and OS9 showed >> up in the Start Up Disc pane. But on reboot it just showed the >> floppy disc with a question mark. I then did the ALT button to get >> the boot options and it only brought up the Leopard installation, >> but after selecting that it still brought up the floppy disc with a >> question mark. >> >> In the end I booted from my iPod which has the 10.4 installation >> files restored to it, and choose Start Up Disc and selected the >> Leopard option and it rebooted and is working fine. >> >> I just wondered why I can no longer boot to OS9. I know Leopard >> doesn't support Classic. But when I had my G4 'Sawtooth' tower, I >> had three hard drives each with a different OS on them. I had 10.5, >> 10.4 and OS9 and could always boot to what OS I wanted without any >> hassles. >> >> Simon >> >> --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk >> --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NMUG mailing list >> NMUG at durrant.co.uk >> http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug >> > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From hughmorgan at turrethouse.demon.co.uk Mon Jan 12 20:47:03 2009 From: hughmorgan at turrethouse.demon.co.uk (hugh morgan) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:03 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Narpo B2 -Important info about junk mail Message-ID: IMPORTANT!!! HOW TO FORWARD E-MAIL APPROPRIATELY A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures.. Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT. Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every e-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps: (1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top ). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second You MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on "Forward" first , you won't be able to edit the message at all. (2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC : (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO:" field! of the people who receive it. (3) Remove any "FW :" in the subject line . You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling. (4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent. (5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed to send the petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don 't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just aint so!) (6) One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that something like, "Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great run across your screen." Or, sometimes they'll just tease you by saying something really cute will happen IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (Trust me, I'm still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed. (Could be why I haven't won the lottery??) (7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward d them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to http://www.snopes.com/ Its really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on. So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know (but strip my address off first, please). This is something that SHOULD be forwarded. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1882 - Release Date: 1/8/2009 8:13 AM From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 12 21:24:32 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:24:32 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Goodbye OS9 Message-ID: <2D644861-3ED7-480A-9377-9DDFC99D0D46@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi After having problems with getting OS9 to boot I have just made a sad discovery. As Paul pointed out, I didn't have the OS9 driver installed so I can't run it at present. However, I have just noticed that my PowerBook originally shipped with OSX 10.2.1. As a rule, Macs won't run anything earlier than the OS they were shipped with, so my PowerBook won't run OS9 anyway. I am a bit miffed, as I still like OS9 but it is now gone forever. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 12 21:53:15 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:53:15 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Goodbye OS9 In-Reply-To: <3430C220-1EA8-418D-9168-AA137A7D4524@zen.co.uk> References: <2D644861-3ED7-480A-9377-9DDFC99D0D46@simonroyal.co.uk> <3430C220-1EA8-418D-9168-AA137A7D4524@zen.co.uk> Message-ID: <69F7F25E-27A8-4906-A86D-99A4B46A0B01@simonroyal.co.uk> Steven MacTracker says 10.2.1 and 9.2.2. Thanks for that. So it is purely because I didn't install the OS9 drivers. Is there anyway I can install them without having to reformat the drive. Simon On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:40, Steven Jefferson wrote: > Er, hang on here, but isn't 10.2.1 a bit early to be sole boot OS. > I'm sure these machines could dual boot. > > Have you checked on Apple's site or Mactracker? > > > Steven Jefferson > steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk > > > > On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:24, Simon Royal wrote: > >> Hi >> >> After having problems with getting OS9 to boot I have just made a >> sad discovery. >> >> As Paul pointed out, I didn't have the OS9 driver installed so I >> can't run it at present. However, I have just noticed that my >> PowerBook originally shipped with OSX 10.2.1. >> >> As a rule, Macs won't run anything earlier than the OS they were >> shipped with, so my PowerBook won't run OS9 anyway. >> >> I am a bit miffed, as I still like OS9 but it is now gone forever. >> >> Simon >> >> --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk >> --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NMUG mailing list >> NMUG at durrant.co.uk >> http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From paul at durrant.co.uk Mon Jan 12 21:54:24 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:54:24 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Goodbye OS9 In-Reply-To: <2D644861-3ED7-480A-9377-9DDFC99D0D46@simonroyal.co.uk> References: <2D644861-3ED7-480A-9377-9DDFC99D0D46@simonroyal.co.uk> Message-ID: <34888FBE-B9F6-46AD-859F-E012502BAFEC@durrant.co.uk> It's been over seven years since Apple touched the Mac OS 9 code, and over five years since they sold a Mac that would boot Mac OS 9. And Intel Macs can't even run Classic. Mac OS 9 is definitely dead. Paul On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:24, Simon Royal wrote: > Hi > > After having problems with getting OS9 to boot I have just made a > sad discovery. > > As Paul pointed out, I didn't have the OS9 driver installed so I > can't run it at present. However, I have just noticed that my > PowerBook originally shipped with OSX 10.2.1. > > As a rule, Macs won't run anything earlier than the OS they were > shipped with, so my PowerBook won't run OS9 anyway. > > I am a bit miffed, as I still like OS9 but it is now gone forever. > From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 12 22:24:16 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:24:16 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Goodbye OS9 In-Reply-To: <34888FBE-B9F6-46AD-859F-E012502BAFEC@durrant.co.uk> References: <2D644861-3ED7-480A-9377-9DDFC99D0D46@simonroyal.co.uk> <34888FBE-B9F6-46AD-859F-E012502BAFEC@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: Paul It is only dead if you want it to be. I had machines running OS7 and OS8. Keep the Classic OS alive. It's great. Simon On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:54, Paul Durrant wrote: > It's been over seven years since Apple touched the Mac OS 9 code, > and over five years since they sold a Mac that would boot Mac OS 9. > And Intel Macs can't even run Classic. Mac OS 9 is definitely dead. > > Paul > > > On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:24, Simon Royal wrote: > >> Hi >> >> After having problems with getting OS9 to boot I have just made a >> sad discovery. >> >> As Paul pointed out, I didn't have the OS9 driver installed so I >> can't run it at present. However, I have just noticed that my >> PowerBook originally shipped with OSX 10.2.1. >> >> As a rule, Macs won't run anything earlier than the OS they were >> shipped with, so my PowerBook won't run OS9 anyway. >> >> I am a bit miffed, as I still like OS9 but it is now gone forever. >> > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From penguin.999 at virgin.net Mon Jan 12 22:30:27 2009 From: penguin.999 at virgin.net (Paul Chapman) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:30:27 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] So how much do you know about your Macs? In-Reply-To: <34888FBE-B9F6-46AD-859F-E012502BAFEC@durrant.co.uk> References: <2D644861-3ED7-480A-9377-9DDFC99D0D46@simonroyal.co.uk> <34888FBE-B9F6-46AD-859F-E012502BAFEC@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: <2505950B-0D35-4AEC-8346-F52F3AD83CA5@virgin.net> I scored very low but I'm not concerned. I love my Macs but I don't need to know all the trivia. Paul C From michelehurst at mac.com Mon Jan 12 22:34:50 2009 From: michelehurst at mac.com (Michele Hurst) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:34:50 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] limewire and printer sharing Message-ID: Hi 2 items, Firstly, I did the really daft thing of updating my 3 ish year old version of limewire which worked perfectly, to the latest version to which I cannot get a connection. Am running the latest update of leopard which was fine with the old version. Have checked firewall is off and it is. Any ideas.? Also, tried once again to set up my mac g4 al powerbook to my hp 5850 deskjet printer wirelessly. How to spend many hours fruitlessly!!! The printer has a great big blue wireless light shining but I cannot make them connect. Am sure must be doing something moronic. Any ideas!? (is the printer supposed to connect via the router or is it direct to the computer) Thanks Michele Michele Hurst michelehurst at mac.com From ken.arnoldi at virgin.net Mon Jan 12 23:04:07 2009 From: ken.arnoldi at virgin.net (Ken Arnoldi) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:04:07 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Re: NMUG Digest, Vol 60, Issue 12 In-Reply-To: <20090112223033.A502D7F7FE1@mail.durrant.co.uk> References: <20090112223033.A502D7F7FE1@mail.durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: <44C8B8B2-9391-41A1-8DA0-A0464366E2F7@virgin.net> Re not now able to boot in OS9. I had a similar problem on my G4 destop after installing OS10.4. I tried reinstalling OS9 from the same disk that I had used before, but it would just no longer boot in OS9. I then obtained a OS9.2.2 installation disk that was labelled for a G4 and I can now boot again in 9. It seems that OS9 installation are not identical. Ken Arnoldi On 12 Jan 2009, at 10:30 PM, nmug-request at durrant.co.uk wrote: > Send NMUG mailing list submissions to > nmug at durrant.co.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nmug-request at durrant.co.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nmug-owner at durrant.co.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of NMUG digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Computer on without switch (Anthony Brahams) > 2. Re: Computer on without switch (Scott Matthews) > 3. Leopard & OS9! (Simon Royal) > 4. Re: Leopard & OS9! (Simon Royal) > 5. Narpo B2 -Important info about junk mail (hugh morgan) > 6. Goodbye OS9 (Simon Royal) > 7. Re: Goodbye OS9 (Simon Royal) > 8. Re: Goodbye OS9 (Paul Durrant) > 9. Re: Goodbye OS9 (Simon Royal) > 10. So how much do you know about your Macs? (Paul Chapman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:17:53 +0000 > From: Anthony Brahams > Subject: [NMUG] Computer on without switch > To: Group list NMUG > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > I mentioned some weeks ago that my computer would be switched off at > night yet in the morning it was on. From being occasional it was > almost daily so I contacted supplier John Lewis, took it there and it > went to Byte Systems who thought they had cured it by replacing the > power unit. They had not. > > I spoke with John Lewis, then Byte who told me it was a rare but not > unknown fault probably due to corrupted preferences (Library?). They > could deal with it by either having the computer back or on the 'phone > to me but would charge me as Apple's guarantee is only hardware. > > I have not been able to contact John Lewis. They may be contravening > the Sale of Goods act (or whatever the current law is called). > > I think, though not certain, that the trouble started after I > installed OS 10.5.5 so will install 10,5,6 in case it makes a > difference. > > I have checked the preferences and reset the System Management > Controller. Latter would have been the final action Bytesize would > have told me if I agreed to pay them. > > Any more comments welcome, thanks. > > Anthony > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:31:27 +0000 > From: "Scott Matthews" > Subject: Re: [NMUG] Computer on without switch > To: "Anthony Brahams" > Cc: Group list NMUG > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > in system preferences, under 'energy saver' or 'power management' > (sorry, can't remember exactly) there is a 'schedule' button, this > allows you to switch your Mac on at a given time, may be worth > checking to see if it's been set. > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Anthony Brahams > wrote: >> I mentioned some weeks ago that my computer would be switched off >> at night >> yet in the morning it was on. From being occasional it was almost >> daily so I >> contacted supplier John Lewis, took it there and it went to Byte >> Systems who >> thought they had cured it by replacing the power unit. They had not. >> >> I spoke with John Lewis, then Byte who told me it was a rare but >> not unknown >> fault probably due to corrupted preferences (Library?). They could >> deal with >> it by either having the computer back or on the 'phone to me but >> would >> charge me as Apple's guarantee is only hardware. >> >> I have not been able to contact John Lewis. They may be >> contravening the >> Sale of Goods act (or whatever the current law is called). >> >> I think, though not certain, that the trouble started after I >> installed OS >> 10.5.5 so will install 10,5,6 in case it makes a difference. >> >> I have checked the preferences and reset the System Management >> Controller. >> Latter would have been the final action Bytesize would have told me >> if I >> agreed to pay them. >> >> Any more comments welcome, thanks. >> >> Anthony >> _______________________________________________ >> NMUG mailing list >> NMUG at durrant.co.uk >> http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug >> > > > > -- > :wq > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:34:37 +0000 > From: Simon Royal > Subject: [NMUG] Leopard & OS9! > To: nmug at durrant.co.uk > Message-ID: <5B94E497-CE4A-430C-95AD-E354B1DFCC80 at simonroyal.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Hi > > I have a PowerBook G4 with an 80GB hard drive and it is running > Leopard fine. > > The drive was cloned from my Pismo which had 10.4 and 9.2.2 on the > same drive and same partition and I could boot to either. When I got > my G4, I cloned the drive and then upgraded the 10.4 to 10.5. > > Until now I have not booted to OS9. I tried it today and OS9 showed up > in the Start Up Disc pane. But on reboot it just showed the floppy > disc with a question mark. I then did the ALT button to get the boot > options and it only brought up the Leopard installation, but after > selecting that it still brought up the floppy disc with a question > mark. > > In the end I booted from my iPod which has the 10.4 installation files > restored to it, and choose Start Up Disc and selected the Leopard > option and it rebooted and is working fine. > > I just wondered why I can no longer boot to OS9. I know Leopard > doesn't support Classic. But when I had my G4 'Sawtooth' tower, I had > three hard drives each with a different OS on them. I had 10.5, 10.4 > and OS9 and could always boot to what OS I wanted without any hassles. > > Simon > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk > --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:24:12 +0000 > From: Simon Royal > Subject: Re: [NMUG] Leopard & OS9! > To: nmug at durrant.co.uk > Message-ID: <3FBE84BA-DF89-4B90-A71E-3241EDC5FA30 at simonroyal.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Paul > > You are a star. Just check System Profiler and under ATA it says OS9 > Drivers: No. > > Simon > > On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:43, Paul Durrant wrote: > >> It might be that you didn't include the OS9 drivers when you >> reformatted the disk before installing Leopard. >> >> Paul >> >> On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:34, Simon Royal wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I have a PowerBook G4 with an 80GB hard drive and it is running >>> Leopard fine. >>> >>> The drive was cloned from my Pismo which had 10.4 and 9.2.2 on the >>> same drive and same partition and I could boot to either. When I >>> got my G4, I cloned the drive and then upgraded the 10.4 to 10.5. >>> >>> Until now I have not booted to OS9. I tried it today and OS9 showed >>> up in the Start Up Disc pane. But on reboot it just showed the >>> floppy disc with a question mark. I then did the ALT button to get >>> the boot options and it only brought up the Leopard installation, >>> but after selecting that it still brought up the floppy disc with a >>> question mark. >>> >>> In the end I booted from my iPod which has the 10.4 installation >>> files restored to it, and choose Start Up Disc and selected the >>> Leopard option and it rebooted and is working fine. >>> >>> I just wondered why I can no longer boot to OS9. I know Leopard >>> doesn't support Classic. But when I had my G4 'Sawtooth' tower, I >>> had three hard drives each with a different OS on them. I had 10.5, >>> 10.4 and OS9 and could always boot to what OS I wanted without any >>> hassles. >>> >>> Simon >>> >>> --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk >>> --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NMUG mailing list >>> NMUG at durrant.co.uk >>> http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug >>> >> >> > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk > --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:03 +0000 > From: hugh morgan > Subject: [NMUG] Narpo B2 -Important info about junk mail > To: nmug at durrant.co.uk > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > > IMPORTANT!!! > > HOW TO FORWARD E-MAIL APPROPRIATELY > A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly > from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an > excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send > e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you > already follow proper procedures.. > > Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT. > > Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? > > > Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from > the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail > addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of > addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for > some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that > virus to every e-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, > someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk > mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will > make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience > over a nickel! > > > How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps: > > > (1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses > that appear in the body of the message (at the top ). That's right, > DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut > them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second You > MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full > editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If > you don't click on "Forward" first , you won't be able to edit the > message at all. > > > (2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use > the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC > : (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is > the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail > address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To: > and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose > BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your > message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO:" > field! of the people who receive it. > > > (3) Remove any "FW :" in the subject line . You can re-name the > subject if you wish or even fix spelling. > > > (4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are > reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to > read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the > actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to > open many e-mails just to see what you sent. > > > (5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a > position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it > to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be > forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email > addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple > of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid > names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support > the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended > recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter > than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. > (Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed to send the petition > in to whatever cause it supports? And don 't believe the ones that > say that the email is being traced, it just aint so!) > > > (6) One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that something > like, "Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great > run across your screen." Or, sometimes they'll just tease you by > saying something really cute will happen IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! > (Trust me, I'm still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 > years ago!) I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get > trashed. (Could be why I haven't won the lottery??) > > > (7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of > the other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you > forward d them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the > net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is > in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to > http://www.snopes.com/ > > > Its really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please > don't pass it on. > > So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. > > > Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know (but > strip my address off first, please). This is something that SHOULD be > forwarded. > > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1882 - Release Date: > 1/8/2009 8:13 AM > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:24:32 +0000 > From: Simon Royal > Subject: [NMUG] Goodbye OS9 > To: nmug at durrant.co.uk > Message-ID: <2D644861-3ED7-480A-9377-9DDFC99D0D46 at simonroyal.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Hi > > After having problems with getting OS9 to boot I have just made a sad > discovery. > > As Paul pointed out, I didn't have the OS9 driver installed so I can't > run it at present. However, I have just noticed that my PowerBook > originally shipped with OSX 10.2.1. > > As a rule, Macs won't run anything earlier than the OS they were > shipped with, so my PowerBook won't run OS9 anyway. > > I am a bit miffed, as I still like OS9 but it is now gone forever. > > Simon > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk > --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:53:15 +0000 > From: Simon Royal > Subject: Re: [NMUG] Goodbye OS9 > To: nmug at durrant.co.uk > Message-ID: <69F7F25E-27A8-4906-A86D-99A4B46A0B01 at simonroyal.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Steven > > MacTracker says 10.2.1 and 9.2.2. > > Thanks for that. So it is purely because I didn't install the OS9 > drivers. Is there anyway I can install them without having to reformat > the drive. > > Simon > > On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:40, Steven Jefferson wrote: > >> Er, hang on here, but isn't 10.2.1 a bit early to be sole boot OS. >> I'm sure these machines could dual boot. >> >> Have you checked on Apple's site or Mactracker? >> >> >> Steven Jefferson >> steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk >> >> >> >> On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:24, Simon Royal wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> After having problems with getting OS9 to boot I have just made a >>> sad discovery. >>> >>> As Paul pointed out, I didn't have the OS9 driver installed so I >>> can't run it at present. However, I have just noticed that my >>> PowerBook originally shipped with OSX 10.2.1. >>> >>> As a rule, Macs won't run anything earlier than the OS they were >>> shipped with, so my PowerBook won't run OS9 anyway. >>> >>> I am a bit miffed, as I still like OS9 but it is now gone forever. >>> >>> Simon >>> >>> --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk >>> --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NMUG mailing list >>> NMUG at durrant.co.uk >>> http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug >> >> > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk > --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:54:24 +0000 > From: Paul Durrant > Subject: Re: [NMUG] Goodbye OS9 > To: Norwich Mac User Group list > Message-ID: <34888FBE-B9F6-46AD-859F-E012502BAFEC at durrant.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > It's been over seven years since Apple touched the Mac OS 9 code, and > over five years since they sold a Mac that would boot Mac OS 9. And > Intel Macs can't even run Classic. Mac OS 9 is definitely dead. > > Paul > > > On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:24, Simon Royal wrote: > >> Hi >> >> After having problems with getting OS9 to boot I have just made a >> sad discovery. >> >> As Paul pointed out, I didn't have the OS9 driver installed so I >> can't run it at present. However, I have just noticed that my >> PowerBook originally shipped with OSX 10.2.1. >> >> As a rule, Macs won't run anything earlier than the OS they were >> shipped with, so my PowerBook won't run OS9 anyway. >> >> I am a bit miffed, as I still like OS9 but it is now gone forever. >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:24:16 +0000 > From: Simon Royal > Subject: Re: [NMUG] Goodbye OS9 > To: nmug at durrant.co.uk > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Paul > > It is only dead if you want it to be. I had machines running OS7 and > OS8. > > Keep the Classic OS alive. It's great. > > Simon > > On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:54, Paul Durrant wrote: > >> It's been over seven years since Apple touched the Mac OS 9 code, >> and over five years since they sold a Mac that would boot Mac OS 9. >> And Intel Macs can't even run Classic. Mac OS 9 is definitely dead. >> >> Paul >> >> >> On 12 Jan 2009, at 21:24, Simon Royal wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> After having problems with getting OS9 to boot I have just made a >>> sad discovery. >>> >>> As Paul pointed out, I didn't have the OS9 driver installed so I >>> can't run it at present. However, I have just noticed that my >>> PowerBook originally shipped with OSX 10.2.1. >>> >>> As a rule, Macs won't run anything earlier than the OS they were >>> shipped with, so my PowerBook won't run OS9 anyway. >>> >>> I am a bit miffed, as I still like OS9 but it is now gone forever. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> NMUG mailing list >> NMUG at durrant.co.uk >> http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug >> > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk > --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:30:27 +0000 > From: Paul Chapman > Subject: [NMUG] So how much do you know about your Macs? > To: Norwich Group list Mac User > Message-ID: <2505950B-0D35-4AEC-8346-F52F3AD83CA5 at virgin.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > I scored very low but I'm not concerned. I love my Macs but I don't > need to know all the trivia. > > > > Paul C > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > > > End of NMUG Digest, Vol 60, Issue 12 > ************************************ From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 12 23:39:52 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:39:52 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Firefox eBay Edition Message-ID: <229260C8-8715-4525-AE0F-F99E6EC22BEA@simonroyal.co.uk> Hi I have been using Firefox 3 for a while and it is pretty nippy on my PowerBook G4. Today I installed the eBay edition, which is basically an add-on which has a side bar and popups of your auctions, selling, buying and watching. Does anyone else use this and does it make your Firefox incredibly slow. I know it is pulling in more data than the standard Firefox 3 as it updates auction information every few seconds, but it incredibly slow. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From dale at ukonline.co.uk Tue Jan 13 02:13:24 2009 From: dale at ukonline.co.uk (Dale Wright) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:13:24 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Scanning Photos Message-ID: Hi Folks, This question is not 100% Mac related, but using Mac Hardware & Mac software so ner ;-P Anyway, I know there is some folks out there that like their Photography & Mac's. So hopefully someone can help me out a bit. Scanning can be a big job depending what you what out of it etc. So many options & different media to deal with also. Anyway I'm in the process of scanning Colour & B&W photos of all different sizes, My scanner is a Epson Photo 2580 2400x4800, but know the best I can get out of it is a max of 2400x2400. Will be using Photoshop Elements 6 to do any work with them, but also have iView Media Pro, GraphicConverter & iPhoto v7. ATM Scanning them at 24bit colour at 300Dpi & 600Dpi & saving as uncompressed Tiffs, also Jpegs at 300Dpi for quick viewing etc, the B&W photos scanning at 16bit greyscale at 300Dpi & 600Dpi & again 300Dpi Jpegs for quick viewing etc. Some photos I have no negs of, but some I do! So one question what would be the better scan be say, a 6x4 photo at 600Dpi or whatever, or the colour neg at 2400, what would give me the best results??? Also say there is a 6x4 photo, & the bit I'm interested in is about 1 quarter the size of the 6x4 photo, would it be better to scan at 600Dpi or scan just the bit I need at 300Dpi??? Doing some colour correction via the scanner itself along with sharpening them up, but saving these as other files too, no problem with drive space etc have tons of it & drives. In a way I know it depends of the photo that was printed of the colour neg in some ways, but really not got the time to check them all out on their own. I'm in the process of scanning a few thousand of the little buggers, so anything that will save me sometime would be very helpful, the best way is to look at & check the scan for each picture, but I will never get the job done if I do it that way. Also have a few B&W negs same question as above??? Have some colour slides too but will scan these at max of 2400x2400 so no problem with them. Any other ideas or links to helpful stuff would be very very grateful, have done some reading of the above subject/s, but get different answers to some of my questions. TIA, Dale A CoCo the Clown Production. [ Spooky RIP 1988-2007 :-( ] From paul at durrant.co.uk Tue Jan 13 08:39:56 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:39:56 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Scanning Photos In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Don't bother scanning at both 300dpi and 600dpi - just keep the 600dpi. You can always do a batch conversion afterwards to generate small JPEG versions. In all this, there are only three important factors (1) How good is the original I'm scanning (2) How many pixels can I get (3) Colour range Consider a 6x4 photo with 35mm negative. The image on the 35mm negative is about 1.5"x1" (1) The negative is probably better than the photo - it's the original, so unless it's been damaged, it will be sharper/more detail/ better colour range than the photo. (2) Scanning the 6x4 at 600dpi gives you an image 3600x2400 pixels. Scanning the negative at 2400dpi gives you an image also 3600x2400 pixels. (3) While the negative may have better colour range, your scanner may not be able to access it - it depends how good it is at scanning negatives. Most flat bed scanners aren't very good at this, and the scan of the photo will probably turn out better. In short - it's a toss-up. If your scanner does negatives well, I'd go for scanning the negative. As for just scanning a bit of the photo - best to scan the bit you need at 1200dpi. :-) regards, Paul On 13 Jan 2009, at 02:13, Dale Wright wrote: > Hi Folks, > > This question is not 100% Mac related, but using Mac Hardware & Mac > software > so ner ;-P > > Anyway, I know there is some folks out there that like their > Photography & > Mac's. So hopefully someone can help me out a bit. > > Scanning can be a big job depending what you what out of it etc. So > many > options & different media to deal with also. > > Anyway I'm in the process of scanning Colour & B&W photos of all > different > sizes, My scanner is a Epson Photo 2580 2400x4800, but know the best > I can > get out of it is a max of 2400x2400. Will be using Photoshop > Elements 6 to > do any work with them, but also have iView Media Pro, > GraphicConverter & > iPhoto v7. ATM Scanning them at 24bit colour at 300Dpi & 600Dpi & > saving as > uncompressed Tiffs, also Jpegs at 300Dpi for quick viewing etc, the > B&W > photos scanning at 16bit greyscale at 300Dpi & 600Dpi & again 300Dpi > Jpegs > for quick viewing etc. > > Some photos I have no negs of, but some I do! So one question what > would be > the better scan be say, a 6x4 photo at 600Dpi or whatever, or the > colour neg > at 2400, what would give me the best results??? Also say there is a > 6x4 > photo, & the bit I'm interested in is about 1 quarter the size of > the 6x4 > photo, would it be better to scan at 600Dpi or scan just the bit I > need at > 300Dpi??? > > Doing some colour correction via the scanner itself along with > sharpening > them up, but saving these as other files too, no problem with drive > space > etc have tons of it & drives. > > In a way I know it depends of the photo that was printed of the > colour neg > in some ways, but really not got the time to check them all out on > their > own. > I'm in the process of scanning a few thousand of the little buggers, > so > anything that will save me sometime would be very helpful, the best > way is > to look at & check the scan for each picture, but I will never get > the job > done if I do it that way. > > Also have a few B&W negs same question as above??? Have some colour > slides > too but will scan these at max of 2400x2400 so no problem with them. > > Any other ideas or links to helpful stuff would be very very > grateful, have > done some reading of the above subject/s, but get different answers > to some > of my questions. > From mghc.repps at virgin.net Tue Jan 13 11:04:27 2009 From: mghc.repps at virgin.net (Michael Crook) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:04:27 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Important info about junk mail In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I am sure we all need to take on Hugh's message as a matter of urgency. I have a cautionary tale! About five years ago, I wandered around the Lexus dealers off Cromer Road in Norwich and must have left my email address with them. Fast forward five years. Just before Christmas I received a five word "Seasons Greetings" email - yes, literally one line - from an idiot by the name of Martin Ghost who described himself as the General Manager of Norwich Lexus. Mine was one of 207 addresses in the "To:" field. Goodness knows how many additional commercial address lists now contain my name. However, the result for me is that whenever I want to send an email, and bring up Mail, as soon as I type a couple of characters in the "To:" field I get offered four or five alternative suggestions, almost all from the list of 207. Please can somebody advise me of a way these can be deleted from my hard disk. Belated New Year Greetings. - Michael Crook. 13.01.09. On 12 Jan 2009, at 20:47, hugh morgan wrote: > > IMPORTANT!!! > > HOW TO FORWARD E-MAIL APPROPRIATELY > A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly > from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an > excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e- > mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you > already follow proper procedures.. > > Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT. > > Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? > > > Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from > the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail > addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of > addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for > some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that > virus to every e-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, > someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk > mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will > make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that > inconvenience over a nickel! > > > How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps: > > > (1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses > that appear in the body of the message (at the top ). That's right, > DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut > them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second You > MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full > editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If > you don't click on "Forward" first , you won't be able to edit the > message at all. > > > (2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use > the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the > BCC : (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. > This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e- > mail address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it > says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address > and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: > your message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the > "TO:" field! of the people who receive it. > > > (3) Remove any "FW :" in the subject line . You can re-name the > subject if you wish or even fix spelling. > > > (4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are > reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to > read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the > actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to > open many e-mails just to see what you sent. > > > (5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a > position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it > to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be > forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email > addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple > of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid > names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support > the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended > recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter > than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. > (Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed to send the > petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don 't believe the > ones that say that the email is being traced, it just aint so!) > > > (6) One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that something > like, "Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great > run across your screen." Or, sometimes they'll just tease you by > saying something really cute will happen IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! > (Trust me, I'm still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on > 10 years ago!) I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they > get trashed. (Could be why I haven't won the lottery??) > > > (7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of > the other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you > forward d them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the > net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is > in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to >http://www.snopes.com/ > > > Its really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please > don't pass it on. > > So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. > > > Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know (but > strip my address off first, please). This is something that SHOULD > be forwarded. > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1882 - Release Date: > 1/8/2009 8:13 AM > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From paul at durrant.co.uk Tue Jan 13 11:43:17 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:43:17 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Important info about junk mail In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <42C28CC9-6CB0-4C5C-8868-810993F106D3@durrant.co.uk> In Mail, Windows/Previous Recipients should bring up a dialog that will allow you to delete these. Paul On 13 Jan 2009, at 11:04, Michael Crook wrote: > > Goodness knows how many additional commercial address lists now > contain my name. However, the result for me is that whenever I want > to send an email, and bring up Mail, as soon as I type a couple of > characters in the "To:" field I get offered four or five alternative > suggestions, almost all from the list of 207. > > Please can somebody advise me of a way these can be deleted from my > hard disk. From djr.massy at ntlworld.com Tue Jan 13 12:31:50 2009 From: djr.massy at ntlworld.com (DJR Massy) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:31:50 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Scanning Photos In-Reply-To: <20090113021020.2C2767F81A6@mail.durrant.co.uk> References: <20090113021020.2C2767F81A6@mail.durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: <6A98CB36-5AA4-4008-9E7A-105A1E013D1C@ntlworld.com> Hi CoCo, My reply really relates to your last sentence "Any other ideas or links to helpful stuff would be very very grateful". Have you a digital camera, preferably SLR? If so, photographing the prints is a much quicker option than scanning. Get the camera set up on a tripod or copying stand with the print on the floor, get everything properly squared up, make sure there are no unwanted reflections (a dull day gives even lighting) and take the exposure using delayed action or a remote release. Mark the exact position of the print on the floor and replace with the next one. With a remote release or a two second delayed release (available on some cameras) you can get through large numbers of prints relatively quickly. To focus at this distance (you will want to fill the frame) you may need a close-up "filter" or ideally a so-called macro lens. The same technique can be used on negatives with the use of a light box (just a source of uniform illumination from behind). Here a close up lens or extension tubes or a macro lens are essential. The topic of copying negatives this way was discussed on the ndps (Norwich & District Photographic Society) website forum. Here are some links: http://ndps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1109 http://ndps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1030 http://ndps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=909 http://ndps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1708 Jim Massy. ============================================== On 13 Jan 2009, at 02:10, nmug-request at durrant.co.uk wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:13:24 +0000 > From: Dale Wright > Subject: [NMUG] Scanning Photos > To: Norwich Mac User Group list > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hi Folks, > > This question is not 100% Mac related, but using Mac Hardware & Mac > software > so ner ;-P > > Anyway, I know there is some folks out there that like their > Photography & > Mac's. So hopefully someone can help me out a bit. > > Scanning can be a big job depending what you what out of it etc. So > many > options & different media to deal with also. > > Anyway I'm in the process of scanning Colour & B&W photos of all > different > sizes, My scanner is a Epson Photo 2580 2400x4800, but know the > best I can > get out of it is a max of 2400x2400. Will be using Photoshop > Elements 6 to > do any work with them, but also have iView Media Pro, > GraphicConverter & > iPhoto v7. ATM Scanning them at 24bit colour at 300Dpi & 600Dpi & > saving as > uncompressed Tiffs, also Jpegs at 300Dpi for quick viewing etc, the > B&W > photos scanning at 16bit greyscale at 300Dpi & 600Dpi & again > 300Dpi Jpegs > for quick viewing etc. > > Some photos I have no negs of, but some I do! So one question what > would be > the better scan be say, a 6x4 photo at 600Dpi or whatever, or the > colour neg > at 2400, what would give me the best results??? Also say there is a > 6x4 > photo, & the bit I'm interested in is about 1 quarter the size of > the 6x4 > photo, would it be better to scan at 600Dpi or scan just the bit I > need at > 300Dpi??? > > Doing some colour correction via the scanner itself along with > sharpening > them up, but saving these as other files too, no problem with drive > space > etc have tons of it & drives. > > In a way I know it depends of the photo that was printed of the > colour neg > in some ways, but really not got the time to check them all out on > their > own. > I'm in the process of scanning a few thousand of the little > buggers, so > anything that will save me sometime would be very helpful, the best > way is > to look at & check the scan for each picture, but I will never get > the job > done if I do it that way. > > Also have a few B&W negs same question as above??? Have some colour > slides > too but will scan these at max of 2400x2400 so no problem with them. > > Any other ideas or links to helpful stuff would be very very > grateful, have > done some reading of the above subject/s, but get different answers > to some > of my questions. > > TIA, > Dale > A CoCo the Clown Production. [ Spooky RIP 1988-2007 :-( ] From sales at trianglecomputers.co.uk Tue Jan 13 14:22:29 2009 From: sales at trianglecomputers.co.uk (Triangle Computer Systems) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:22:29 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Mac Pros & MacBook pros wanted for cash Message-ID: <496CA3A5.2050004@trianglecomputers.co.uk> Is anyone looking to sell their MacBook Pro or Mac Pro (tower)? Looking for working items ideally, although can repair faulty and pay cash for good parts. Cheers, Tom - Triangle Computer Systems t: (01603 ) 66 72 32 e: sales at trianglecomputers.co.uk w: www.trianglecomputers.co.uk From brian at clearlight.uk.net Tue Jan 13 18:10:13 2009 From: brian at clearlight.uk.net (Brian Steere) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:10:13 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Camera repair? Message-ID: Hello all My Canon Powershot S3 IS isnt. At least the lens isn't reliable extending and retracting. Though I have a lens extension and protector on it it is perhaps because I live at sandy Wells-next-the-Sea and am occasionally exposed to wind and sand. I found CAMERA REPAIR CO. NORFOLK CAMERA CENTRE 11 NELSON PLACE DEREHAM NR19 1EA 01362 693 506 Who suggest a couple of weeks to doand likely ?80 ish for a repair. Jessops are ?25 to look and probably send it to the above and take the ?25 from the bill if I go ahead with repair. Have I other options that anyone can suggest or recommend? (Not sure I can justify the SX1 or SX10 but they look attractive) I like the big optical zoom, Image stabilising and good movie modes too. all the best Brian PS - some of my S3 IS shots are at http://www.clearlightcards.co.uk From hidunc at ntlworld.com Tue Jan 13 18:16:15 2009 From: hidunc at ntlworld.com (J L Duncan Bradford) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:16:15 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Cheap CDs Message-ID: <79AB1F60-E85B-42C8-8797-1D298FF5F00A@ntlworld.com> Hi all In case its of interest: Norwich ASDA still have a fair stock of packs of 50 Maxell CD-Rs at only ?4 - that's 8p each. In the leisure/ electrics area next to Macdonalds. On-line shop has now sold out, so I don't expect they'll hang around for long. As is often the case with Asda, this smaller pack is better value than the 100x pack. -------------- next part -------------- From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Tue Jan 13 20:59:08 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:59:08 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] New Version Of Stainless Message-ID: Hi For anyone interested, there is a new version of Stainless, the Chrome based browser for Leopard. 0.45 has some much need Java, Flash and AIR fixes. If you are still hanging back, give it a go. Me with my aging Mac it screams along, you lot with your new shiney ones should be supersonic. It is a little basic lacking basic features but it is shaping up to be an awesome browser. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From dale at ukonline.co.uk Wed Jan 14 01:49:21 2009 From: dale at ukonline.co.uk (Dale Wright) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:49:21 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Scanning Photos In-Reply-To: <6A98CB36-5AA4-4008-9E7A-105A1E013D1C@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: On 13/1/09 12:31, "DJR Massy" wrote: > Have you a digital camera, preferably SLR? If so, photographing the > prints is a much quicker option than scanning. Get the camera set up Martin Fry's idea too, have done this in the past with my Nikon F-801 before scanners where about, used B&W film to copy old B&W photos, was impressed with the results at the time. -snip- Now also have a Nikon D80. So will try this again with some of the fussy photos etc, that I what to have good digital copies of that I have no negs for. -snip- > http://ndps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1708 Sorry missed your message when answering back to Paul D, thanks for all your ideas & links, very very much appreciated! ATB..Dale A CoCo the Clown Production. [ Spooky RIP 1988-2007 :-( ] From ken.arnoldi at virgin.net Wed Jan 14 09:13:23 2009 From: ken.arnoldi at virgin.net (Ken Arnoldi) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:13:23 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] 'securing' a Netgear Message-ID: Can anyone please advise how to set up a secure or locked network? I think the menu options on the Netgear are clear and I understand that WPA is preferred to WEP. I have also decided on my password, but how do I configure my wired G4, Powerbook, and iPod Touch? Ken Arnoldi From jeremyknight at mac.com Wed Jan 14 09:38:56 2009 From: jeremyknight at mac.com (jeremy knight) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:38:56 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Important info about junk mail Message-ID: <14AEA3CD-DBD9-4A64-AE7D-A836717905D3@mac.com> Morning All, I receive the usual funnies from several friends which are full of email addresses in the body of the email. I counted over 100 in a single email. As I don't send on any of these on, I have none of the previous recipients in my address book. It is this innocent copy pasting that is providing the spammers with their fodder My question is how do I email the previous recipients? I am using mac.mail I don't want to enter them in my address book, and send them as a a group. I think the way is to send the info about junk mail to the first , and copy paste the others into BCC. Is that correct? jeremy From dale at ukonline.co.uk Wed Jan 14 01:38:43 2009 From: dale at ukonline.co.uk (Dale Wright) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:38:43 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Scanning Photos In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 13/1/09 08:39, "Paul Durrant" wrote: > Don't bother scanning at both 300dpi and 600dpi - just keep the > 600dpi. You can always do a batch conversion afterwards to generate > small JPEG versions. Good idea, with the software I'm using should have know better, brain mode wasn't working at the time :-) -snip- > (1) The negative is probably better than the photo - it's the > original, so unless it's been damaged, it will be sharper/more detail/ > better colour range than the photo. Was thinking may be of that too but needed someone elses on the idea too. Most of my photos where printed but big commercial printers, & swear some of the photos should look a lot better when I compare them to the negs. > (2) Scanning the 6x4 at 600dpi gives you an image 3600x2400 pixels. > Scanning the negative at 2400dpi gives you an image also 3600x2400 > pixels. Thanks for that, never knew, helps me no end with that info :-) > (3) While the negative may have better colour range, your scanner may > not be able to access it - it depends how good it is at scanning > negatives. Most flat bed scanners aren't very good at this, and the > scan of the photo will probably turn out better. The Epson 4580 I'm using does have a convenient 35mm negative autoloader built into the lid, have done a few tests & so far impressed with the results, also when scanning negs the software does have a option for dust removal also. But most of mine are near 100% from the day they was processed so NP there, kept in very dark & dust free contains etc over the years. > In short - it's a toss-up. If your scanner does negatives well, I'd go > for scanning the negative. A few reviews reckon the Epson 4580, which is getting on now I know, is better at scanning the negs more than the photos, a few tests to compare the results, after your message & some tips from Martin Fry, ATM can't really see much between them, but being a bit colour blind does not help me in that matter. > As for just scanning a bit of the photo - best to scan the bit you > need at 1200dpi. :-) Thanks for that tip makes sense really. Thanks again Paul & too Martin Fry for his tips too, knew peeps on here could help :-) Now just to get my head around layers in PS Elements 6 now. ATB..Dale A CoCo the Clown Production. [ Spooky RIP 1988-2007 :-( ] From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Wed Jan 14 22:35:30 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:35:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] iSquint Message-ID: Hi TechSpansion has stopped development of iSquint and VisualHub. Does anyone have a copy of iSquint, they could email. It is free but I can't find it anywhere. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 From robharrington at mac.com Sat Jan 17 19:46:59 2009 From: robharrington at mac.com (ROB HARRINGTON) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:46:59 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Re-installing Pages Message-ID: Recently I had to replace my internal hard drive on my G5 imac and now Pages has requested my serial number as it now 'thinks' I am on a new computer. I entered the number in the requested space and could then use Pages properly. On booting up again Pages makes the same request and this time it announces the serial number to be invalid. What should I do? Rob Harrington From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 19 22:47:24 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 19 Jan 2009 22:47:24 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] iTeddy Video Questions Message-ID: Hi My 4 year old son has just got an iTeddy. It is a mini media player that can play back music, photos, games and videos inside a teddy bear, that is both PC and Mac compatible. It comes with both a PC and Mac video converter to convert video files into it's AVR format. The screen on it is no bigger than a mobile phone screen and some of my videos are fullscreen videos. While the iTeddy software converts them to the right format it doesn't downside the screen size. Putting a video that is five times the screen it is going to be played on is a bit of an overkill, plus it makes the files sizes five times the size you need them. Is there anyway to take AVI, MPG and MOV files and make them smaller screen-wise? I will then use the iTeddy software to convert it right format. An AVI of a film is about 700MB, reducing the screen size would make them under 200MB. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 19 22:53:38 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 19 Jan 2009 22:53:38 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] QuickTime Mac vs QuickTime PC Message-ID: Hi I have an AVI file that I have been playing on my Mac in Quicktime and it works fine. However, I copied it to my wifes laptop running Vista and installed the latest version of Quicktime and it wouldn't play it. Any ideas. I know this isn't strictly Mac related, but I haven't done anything special to the Quicktime on my Mac, just installed the updates when Software Update told me to. Is this a codec thing? Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 19 23:06:47 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 19 Jan 2009 23:06:47 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] More More RAM... Message-ID: Hi I know I have kind of asked this question before, but now I have a different end agenda. I am using my PowerBook 867Mhz with 768MB of RAM running Leopard for quite a lot of video and music editing and encoding as well as heavy Photoshop CS work and it can be a bit slow under heavy useage at times - the one thing I miss about my Intel iMac. Would upping it to 1GB of RAM make any difference or is this more hinged on the power of the processor? Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From paul at durrant.co.uk Tue Jan 20 08:45:01 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:45:01 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Leopard/Safari Security vulnerability Message-ID: <7414DD91-B44B-4726-A0E0-B9437375FC86@durrant.co.uk> Hi All, It seems there's a bug in Safari under Mac OS 10.5.x that affects your Mac's security. If you have Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) and use the default Safari web browser, you need to take action. The steps you need to take are detailed at http://brian.mastenbrook.net/display/27 In short: * Download and install the RCDefaultApp preference pane, following the included instructions. http://www.rubicode.com/Downloads/RCDefaultApp-2.0.1.X.dmg * Open System Preferences and choose the Default Applications option. * Select the "URLs" tab in the window that appears. * Choose the "feed" URL type from the column on the left, and choose a different application or the "" option. * Repeat the previous step for the "feeds" and "feedsearch" URL types. The only workaround available for users of Safari on Windows is to use a different web browser. regards, Paul From rbygrave at ntlworld.com Tue Jan 20 13:41:13 2009 From: rbygrave at ntlworld.com (Ruth Bygrave) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:41:13 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Safari prefs... Message-ID: <332C107D-6D81-40F2-BB9B-EF6D9ADBB830@ntlworld.com> ...how do I blacklist a particular domain? Safari seems frequently full of junk windows from 'b.casalemedia.com'. Have Googled, but (apart from vague threats of my having adware) cannot find anything about how to block it. I had a blacklist/whitelist in WinXP; am moderately surprised OS X doesn't seem to offer me the option. Regards, R From stefanyoungs1945 at googlemail.com Tue Jan 20 20:40:55 2009 From: stefanyoungs1945 at googlemail.com (stefan youngs) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:40:55 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Playing .avi Message-ID: <899D43AB-C0BF-41E2-9F26-72CE2783FCE5@gmail.com> Simon asks: >I have an AVI file that I have been playing on my Mac in Quicktime and it works fine. However, I copied it to my wifes laptop running Vista and installed the latest version of Quicktime and it wouldn't play it. Any ideas. I know this isn't strictly Mac related, but I haven't done anything special to the Quicktime on my Mac, just installed the updates when Software Update told me to. Is this a codec thing? Answer: The problem relates to the encoding codec used. ,avi is NOT a format as such.. it describes the packaging around an encoded file. So you can have a .avi file encoded with DiVX codec for example that won't play unless you have the DiVX codec plug-in installed, whilst it may well play other .avi files. It's all very confusing. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Wed Jan 21 10:52:02 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 21 Jan 2009 10:52:02 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Quake or Quake 2 Mac Message-ID: Hi I have been trying for a long time to get hold of Quake 2 for the Mac, or even Quake. I did have them once then sold them in a big clear out - and regret it. Quake 2 has to be one of the best games ever. If anyone has a copy they'd like to part with can they let me know. I have tried eBay but it only ever comes up with Quake 3 or 4. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From david.tillyer at googlemail.com Wed Jan 21 10:56:16 2009 From: david.tillyer at googlemail.com (David Tillyer) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:56:16 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Playing .avi In-Reply-To: <899D43AB-C0BF-41E2-9F26-72CE2783FCE5@gmail.com> References: <899D43AB-C0BF-41E2-9F26-72CE2783FCE5@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi, I may be stating the obvious here but I would recommend avoiding quicktime as a player and getting VLC Player on both machines. I use on my iMac and on my work PC and it plays pretty much anything. It'll even play files just copied and pasted from a DVD movies as well as VCD Images. 2009/1/20 stefan youngs > Simon asks: > > >I have an AVI file that I have been playing on my Mac in Quicktime and it > works fine. > > However, I copied it to my wifes laptop running Vista and installed the > latest version of Quicktime and it wouldn't play it. > > Any ideas. I know this isn't strictly Mac related, but I haven't done > anything special to the Quicktime on my Mac, just installed the updates > when Software Update told me to. > > Is this a codec thing? > > Answer: > > > The problem relates to the encoding codec used. > > ,avi is NOT a format as such.. it describes the packaging around an encoded > file. So you can have a .avi file encoded with DiVX codec for example that > won't play unless you have the DiVX codec plug-in installed, whilst it may > well play other .avi files. > > It's all very confusing. > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > -- David Tillyer Photography http://www.davidthephotographer.co.uk http://davidthephotographer.blogspot.com/ From paul at durrant.co.uk Wed Jan 21 12:11:45 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:11:45 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Quake or Quake 2 Mac In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2AF5818F-AE1F-44C2-9AF3-47158B312AEF@durrant.co.uk> Quake 2 for Mac isn't sold anymore, and was originally only a Classic Mac OS game. id Software released the source code some time ago, and various people have recompiled to work with Mac OS X. Download the Quake 2 demo from http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/ (yes, it is the Windows version, but that doesn't matter) Download the Quark 2 Mac OS X port from http://www.fruitz-of-dojo.de/php/download.php4?dlnr=6 Follow the instructions that come with the Mac OS X port. It should all work. I think you'll be limited to the demo levels. If so, you could buy the Windows version from id software (or eBay?), and then substitute the Mac OS X port application as with the demo. Hmm... the AbSIRD port looks fascinating... http://www.leweyg.com/download/SIRD/q2/index.html regards, Paul On 21 Jan 2009, at 10:52, Simon Royal wrote: > Hi > > I have been trying for a long time to get hold of Quake 2 for the > Mac, or even Quake. I did have them once then sold them in a big > clear out - and regret it. > > Quake 2 has to be one of the best games ever. If anyone has a copy > they'd like to part with can they let me know. > > I have tried eBay but it only ever comes up with Quake 3 or 4. > > Simon > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, > upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for > Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, > so I bought an Apple Mac. > > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Wed Jan 21 22:35:21 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 21 Jan 2009 22:35:21 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Permissions On G4 Message-ID: Hi I have Leopard running on an 867Mhz G4 Titanium. I was having a clean up and following some tips on making sure I get the most out of Mac. I decided to repair permissions, and Disk Utility has been 'reading the permissions database' for the past 10 minutes. I don't remember having this problem before or on any other machine running Leopard. Is this normal? Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Wed Jan 21 23:19:03 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 21 Jan 2009 23:19:03 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Windows Gets Stickies... A Bit Late Message-ID: Hi Was just checking out the new Windows 7 Beta 1 and by all accounts it is looking pretty good. Something that I thought was funny is one of the major features in one of the reviews is now the inclusion of Sticky Notes, something that Macs have had since System 7.5 since 1997. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Thu Jan 22 10:03:53 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 22 Jan 2009 10:03:53 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Fwd: Question about a G4 Message-ID: Hi I was contacted by a reader of my LEM column with this question. As far as I can tell there was a problem when Leopard first came out, but can't seem to find if this has been fixed. Wondered if anyone else could help. Simon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:53:02 -0800 Subject: Question about a G4 To: mail at simonroyal.co.uk Simon, I found your excellent columns on LowEndMac after looking around for help with a specific question about my 933 PowerMac G4 (768 RAM). I wonder if I could ask you directly since I didn't see my particular issue addressed and you're clearly an expert on these machines. I bought my G4 new in 2002 and have been very happy with it. It's now running Leopard with no problems at all. I'm interested in adding a second display to the Dell 19" VGA monitor I've been using, in order to have a larger work area. The Mac has its original GeForce4 MX card which claims to support dual monitors and has both VGA and ADG ports. My idea was to pick up an inexpensive used 17" or 20" cinema display with an ADG connection and keep the Dell connected via VGA. Looking around online, though, I see some reports that G4s with the GeForce4 MX lose the ability to support dual monitors under Leopard. Are you familiar with this issue? Would you recommend buying a second monitor to use with this video card? Many thanks for your advice, Gideon Santa Monica CA -------------- next part -------------- From david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk Thu Jan 22 19:18:02 2009 From: david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk (David Reynolds) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:18:02 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] iSquint In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <375992370901221118m50364ab6m2536aa4555bdb22c@mail.gmail.com> Simon, 2009/1/14 Simon Royal : > Hi > > TechSpansion has stopped development of iSquint and VisualHub. > > Does anyone have a copy of iSquint, they could email. It is free but I can't > find it anywhere. Saw this and thought of you: http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/mac_video_converter_freeware/# -- David Reynolds david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk From paul at durrant.co.uk Thu Jan 22 20:07:09 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:07:09 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Dangerous Mac OS X Trojan Message-ID: I hope none of our members would do such a thing, but if you've been tempted by a full copy of iWork '09 that's appeared on Torrent sites, DO NOT INSTALL IT. It's been hacked to install a backdoor on your Mac, allowing the authors to download additional malicious code to your Mac. For full details see http://blog.intego.com/2009/01/22/mac-trojan-horse-osxtrojaniservicesa-found-in-pirated-apple-iwork-09/ This is the first serious trojan horse attack on Mac OS X for a long while. It may well lead to more. Be careful what software you run on your Mac. No security software or firewall can completely protect you against trojan horse attacks - only caution. regards, Paul From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Thu Jan 22 20:20:31 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 22 Jan 2009 20:20:31 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Dangerous Mac OS X Trojan In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Paul Thanks for that. I have blogged it. But call me a little skeptical that a security firm found it. Maybe that smells of free publicity to me. --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. On Jan 22 2009, Paul Durrant wrote: I hope none of our members would do such a thing, but if you've been tempted by a full copy of iWork '09 that's appeared on Torrent sites, DO NOT INSTALL IT. It's been hacked to install a backdoor on your Mac, allowing the authors to download additional malicious code to your Mac. For full details see http://blog.intego.com/2009/01/22/mac-trojan-horse-osxtrojaniservicesa-found-in-pirated-apple-iwork-09/ This is the first serious trojan horse attack on Mac OS X for a long while. It may well lead to more. Be careful what software you run on your Mac. No security software or firewall can completely protect you against trojan horse attacks - only caution. regards, Paul _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Fri Jan 23 11:16:11 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 23 Jan 2009 11:16:11 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Quad Core Mac Pro... Problems Message-ID: Hi Can anyone help. An ex-colleague of mine contacted me regarding his work Mac. It was bought about six months ago and believe it is a 2.6Ghz Quad Core Mac Pro. It is running Leopard. He said it keeps freezing up. The screen flashes and has scrambling on it. Then it takes ages to boot up. I have asked him for more info, but any ideas. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From ghowells at f2s.com Fri Jan 23 15:46:35 2009 From: ghowells at f2s.com (G.Howells) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:46:35 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] CD drive problem Message-ID: Hi everyone. A friend has just phoned me saying that he inserted a CD into the drive in his iBook and couldn't get it out again. Eventually he took it to a local (PC) computer shop. They managed to get it out somehow and then inserted another CD to try it out - and couldn't get this 2nd CD out!. All the time the computer is on the drive is apparently grinding away (he thinks trying to eject the CD.. He's pressed the eject button, etc. I've made one or two suggestion like shake (gently!) or try to ease it out or alignit with the slot using another CD, but I'm not very hopeful! There's no Apple specialist near us (on the North Wales coast), though we have found the address of one in Denbigh. He wouldn't be keen on trying to open the computer up himself. Any ideas. (Did I hear "Take it to Denbigh!"?) Gordon. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Fri Jan 23 17:00:44 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 23 Jan 2009 17:00:44 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Quad Core Mac Pro... Problems In-Reply-To: <02D941D1-1E8A-4D45-8D47-0D2CE26D4222@zen.co.uk> References: <02D941D1-1E8A-4D45-8D47-0D2CE26D4222@zen.co.uk> Message-ID: Steven Tried the Apple forums, seems to be reported a lot, but I cannot find a solution. Have a feeling it is a dodgy graphics card problem. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. On Jan 23 2009, Steven Jefferson wrote: Apple Forums is the best start. If its 6/12 old is this an issue under warranty? Steven Jefferson steve.jefferson at zen.co.uk On 23 Jan 2009, at 11:16, Simon Royal wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone help. An ex-colleague of mine contacted me regarding his > work Mac. > > It was bought about six months ago and believe it is a 2.6Ghz Quad > Core Mac Pro. It is running Leopard. > > He said it keeps freezing up. The screen flashes and has scrambling > on it. Then it takes ages to boot up. > > I have asked him for more info, but any ideas. > > Simon > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, > upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for > Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, > so I bought an Apple Mac. > > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From djr.massy at ntlworld.com Fri Jan 23 18:42:34 2009 From: djr.massy at ntlworld.com (DJR Massy) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:42:34 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Black line round screen icons, work areas etc Message-ID: <33EF5E11-5B09-4B34-96BC-99C08BAABC19@ntlworld.com> Stupidly, I replaced batteries in my wireless keyboard by turning the keyboard upside down, but without turning off the computer. Some key or keys must have been pressed accidentally and this has given rise to a strange result. It has caused the work area to be surrounded by a black border. As I type this, the area in which I am typing becomes surrounded with a black border, rather as though it was a letter of condolence after bereavement. I'm writing this in Mail and if I put the message into the Dock temporarily, then the icon "Smaller" in the top row of icons (next to "Bigger") becomes surrounded by this black border. I notice now that the border surrounds the icon "Send". Perhaps this behaviour is something that some people want, but I certainly don't! Does anyone know how to remove it? Restarting has no effect and there does not seem to be anything in System Preferences which is relevant. Jim Massy. From munkt0n at gmail.com Fri Jan 23 18:51:30 2009 From: munkt0n at gmail.com (Scott Matthews) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:51:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Black line round screen icons, work areas etc In-Reply-To: <33EF5E11-5B09-4B34-96BC-99C08BAABC19@ntlworld.com> References: <33EF5E11-5B09-4B34-96BC-99C08BAABC19@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: this sounds like 'voiceover' has been switched on, the keyboard shortcut is apple + F5 alternatively, go to system preferences / universal access and switch it off from there On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:42 PM, DJR Massy wrote: > Stupidly, I replaced batteries in my wireless keyboard by turning the > keyboard upside down, but without turning off the computer. Some key or > keys must have been pressed accidentally and this has given rise to a > strange result. It has caused the work area to be surrounded by a black > border. As I type this, the area in which I am typing becomes surrounded > with a black border, rather as though it was a letter of condolence after > bereavement. I'm writing this in Mail and if I put the message into the > Dock temporarily, then the icon "Smaller" in the top row of icons (next to > "Bigger") becomes surrounded by this black border. I notice now that the > border surrounds the icon "Send". Perhaps this behaviour is something that > some people want, but I certainly don't! > > Does anyone know how to remove it? > > Restarting has no effect and there does not seem to be anything in System > Preferences which is relevant. > > Jim Massy. > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > -- :wq From phil.charnley at ntlworld.com Fri Jan 23 20:33:04 2009 From: phil.charnley at ntlworld.com (Phil Charnley) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:33:04 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] CD drive problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From MacTips. Have you tried these? This is one of those tips that I have written about in the past on Apple Gazette - but after searching the archives here on MacTips I didn't find it anywhere, and its an important one - so I'm writing about it here too. If you do stumble across it somewhere in the archives of the site, feel free to add the links in the comments. Every once in a while you may find that you have a CD or DVD stuck in your Mac that just refuses to eject. If it happens - it's frustrating. There are a few things that you can do to force you Mac to eject the disk. 1) First, try iTunes. Sometimes the iTunes eject button will work, even if your Finder eject button, or keyboard eject button won't. 2) Open Terminal.app and type "drutil tray eject" - this will eject the disk tray most of the time. 3) If you're still having no luck, you can restart your Mac and hold down the mouse button. Keep your finger pressed down until the disk ejects, or the login screen appears. If you've tried all three of these, and you're still having trouble - you may want to call Apple Support. On 23 Jan 2009, at 15:46:35, G.Howells wrote: > Hi everyone. > > A friend has just phoned me saying that he inserted a CD into the > drive in his iBook and couldn't get it out again. Eventually he took > it to a local (PC) computer shop. They managed to get it out somehow > and then inserted another CD to try it out - and couldn't get this > 2nd CD out!. All the time the computer is on the drive is apparently > grinding away (he thinks trying to eject the CD.. > > He's pressed the eject button, etc. I've made one or two suggestion > like shake (gently!) or try to ease it out or alignit with the slot > using another CD, but I'm not very hopeful! There's no Apple > specialist near us (on the North Wales coast), though we have found > the address of one in Denbigh. > > He wouldn't be keen on trying to open the computer up himself. > > Any ideas. (Did I hear "Take it to Denbigh!"?) > > Gordon. > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From ghowells at f2s.com Fri Jan 23 23:01:07 2009 From: ghowells at f2s.com (G.Howells) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:01:07 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] CD drive problem Message-ID: Thankyou to everyone who gave ideas. I have passed them on to my friend. Gordon. From robbiemurray at f2s.com Sat Jan 24 12:52:29 2009 From: robbiemurray at f2s.com (Robbie Murray) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:52:29 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] test- please ignore Message-ID: Robbie Murray robbiemurray at f2s.com 01603-620749 01603-516175 07882-007667 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Sat Jan 24 13:34:38 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 24 Jan 2009 13:34:38 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Leopard DVD Player Message-ID: Hi Am I right in thinking I cannot watch DVDs on my PowerBook G4 867Mhz running Leopard. Does DVD player require a 1.6Ghz or something. I bought it a few months ago. It had a SuperDrive fitted but no cable to the logic board, well I got one and it arrived this morning. However, everytime I pop a DVD film in and DVD player boots it gives an app error and says something like 'nilp' Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From djr.massy at ntlworld.com Sat Jan 24 17:50:03 2009 From: djr.massy at ntlworld.com (DJR Massy) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:50:03 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Black line round screen icons, work areas etc In-Reply-To: <20090124120004.460BB7FD9DA@mail.durrant.co.uk> References: <20090124120004.460BB7FD9DA@mail.durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: <6BBFDC8A-28E6-4910-92B4-EE2E3E5FB12C@ntlworld.com> Scott - thank you so much. You've got it right. I'd never have found that on my own. All is now back to normal! Jim. ============================================== On 24 Jan 2009, at 12:00, nmug-request at durrant.co.uk wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:51:30 +0000 > From: Scott Matthews > Subject: Re: [NMUG] Black line round screen icons, work areas etc > To: DJR Massy > Cc: Norwich Mac Users' Group > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > this sounds like 'voiceover' has been switched on, the keyboard > shortcut is apple + F5 > alternatively, go to system preferences / universal access and switch > it off from there. >> Message: 3 >> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:42:34 +0000 >> From: DJR Massy >> Subject: [NMUG] Black line round screen icons, work areas etc >> To: Norwich Mac Users' Group >> Message-ID: <33EF5E11-5B09-4B34-96BC-99C08BAABC19 at ntlworld.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed >> >> Stupidly, I replaced batteries in my wireless keyboard by turning the >> keyboard upside down, but without turning off the computer. Some key >> or keys must have been pressed accidentally and this has given rise >> to a strange result. It has caused the work area to be surrounded by >> a black border. As I type this, the area in which I am typing >> becomes surrounded with a black border, rather as though it was a >> letter of condolence after bereavement. I'm writing this in Mail and >> if I put the message into the Dock temporarily, then the icon >> "Smaller" in the top row of icons (next to "Bigger") becomes >> surrounded by this black border. I notice now that the border >> surrounds the icon "Send". Perhaps this behaviour is something that >> some people want, but I certainly don't! >> >> Does anyone know how to remove it? >> >> Restarting has no effect and there does not seem to be anything in >> System Preferences which is relevant. >> >> Jim Massy. > > From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Sat Jan 24 22:08:48 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 24 Jan 2009 22:08:48 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] DVD Player Help! Please Message-ID: Hi I am still having problems with DVD player. I have Leopard on my 867Mhz PowerBook G4. When ever DVD Player is launched it gives an initialisation error 'nilP'. I have deleted the pref file from Home>Library>Preferences. No change. I have created a new user. No change. The DVD player needs a 1.67Ghz rule, and it isn't quite true. I have Googled this and it isn't a Leopard specific problem, but I cant seem to find an answer. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From penguin.999 at virgin.net Sun Jan 25 07:42:16 2009 From: penguin.999 at virgin.net (Paul Chapman) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:42:16 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] January Meeting Message-ID: The next meeting should be on Wednesday 28th January 2009 that being the fourth Wednesday of the month and should be held at: The Bakers Arms, 66 St Leonards Rd, Norwich, NR1 4JF The time will be 7.30 as usual and here is a map to help you. I will phone the landlord later today to check everything is still OK. See you all there. Paul C From peter.hunter1 at sky.com Sun Jan 25 08:21:36 2009 From: peter.hunter1 at sky.com (Peter Hunter) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:21:36 -0000 Subject: [NMUG] Intel Mac wanted Message-ID: <001c01c97ec5$f18852b0$0300a8c0@peter225c44749> Hi, if anyone is selling an Intel Mac (anything considered), please let me know as I am in the market. I travel all over Norfolk, so don't mind where it is. Cheers Peter. Peter Hunter peter.hunter1 at sky.com Tel: 07983856097 From ernienmug at f2s.com Sun Jan 25 18:41:11 2009 From: ernienmug at f2s.com (Ernie Ives) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:41:11 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Indexing Message-ID: Ernie Ives Marquetarian and microscopist Not entirely Mac related but can anyone advise me how to do a back of the book index for a multi-chapter book using Quark 8 and running Leopard. All I can achieve is indexes for individual chapters Best wishes Ernie From penguin.999 at virgin.net Sun Jan 25 18:59:11 2009 From: penguin.999 at virgin.net (Paul Chapman) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:59:11 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] January Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Jan 25, 2009, at 07:42, Paul Chapman wrote: > I will phone the landlord later today to check everything is still OK. I rang and he is expecting us this Wednesday however I'm not sure how long into the year the pub will be open as he seemed a bit lacking in confidence about how things were going. Well we've had this sort of thing hanging over us for years now so no change there! Paul C From mail at edmarlodge.co.uk Mon Jan 26 12:13:03 2009 From: mail at edmarlodge.co.uk (Raymond Paine) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:13:03 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] iMac red colour for sale Message-ID: Any body interested in a red iMac DVD/Cd player original disks included plus loads of games and other software. On OS9 operating system ?45.00 ono. Phone 01508 538131 Ray From band1 at mac.com Mon Jan 26 12:19:45 2009 From: band1 at mac.com (David King) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:19:45 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Tiger Message-ID: <09910284-60E0-48C3-8DD3-83E58328A54B@mac.com> Has any one got a Tiger (10.4) disc they don't want or would like to sell as a friend would like to up date his G4 Mac Book Pro? David From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 26 13:05:38 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 26 Jan 2009 13:05:38 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] FaceBook Group Message-ID: Hi I have created a FaceBook group for NMUG. If you are a member of NMUG and FaceBook, then please join. Members are by approval only so we won't be bombarded by lots of non-Norfolk people. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47398458434 Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From paul at durrant.co.uk Mon Jan 26 14:24:03 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:24:03 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Fwd: Help, no boot. References: Message-ID: <14D1EAE8-9C95-4362-B365-DF96998EB1B8@durrant.co.uk> Does anyone have any ideas for Paul H? Paul D Begin forwarded message: > Date: 26 January 2009 14:08:09 GMT > To: Paul Durrant > Subject: Help, no boot. > Reply-To: micheal_gordon at live.com > > Hi Paul > > I am having to send this from my PC at work using webmail. > > On Saturday my G5 iMac stopped finding the wireless mouse and after > some time also the wired keyboard and then stopped booting. I have > tried external HD, install DVD etc. with no luck. It just will not > work. I also had a screen of jargon with the last line saying > something like "we are hanging". The keyboard and mouse work on > bootup but stop working once bootup complete. Even if it boots, > which it does sometimes, the keyboard and mouse will not work. > Someone has suggested that I try with alternate ram chips removed > removed which I will try when I get home. > > Can you post this for me on NMUG to see if anyone else has had this > problem. > > Thanks for your help. > > PaulH > From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 26 18:52:22 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 26 Jan 2009 18:52:22 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Another Trojan For OSX Message-ID: Hi Paul pointed us to the trojan horse in pirated versions of iWork '09. There has been a second one discovered in pirated versions of Photoshop CS4. These are worrying times for us Mac users. Has our virus free reign ended? Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 26 18:57:30 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 26 Jan 2009 18:57:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Mac Virus Protection Message-ID: Hi In light of recent viruses/trojans popping up are we going to start thinking about virus protection? What do people recommend. Pre-OSX days and I had Norton, and was trialling the beta of McAfee 7.6 in Tiger for a while but whats good for OSX? Is ClamXav any good? Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From munkt0n at gmail.com Mon Jan 26 19:02:54 2009 From: munkt0n at gmail.com (Scott Matthews) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:02:54 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Mac Virus Protection In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I recommend not downloading software from dodgy sources! One thing I'd like to see is a bit more info when you're installing something and it asks you for an administrators password, an option to see exactly what is about to be written to the disk would be nice. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > Hi > > In light of recent viruses/trojans popping up are we going to start thinking > about virus protection? > > What do people recommend. Pre-OSX days and I had Norton, and was trialling > the beta of McAfee 7.6 in Tiger for a while but whats good for OSX? Is > ClamXav any good? > > Simon > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks > and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group > - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. > > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > -- :wq From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 26 19:05:05 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 26 Jan 2009 19:05:05 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Mac Virus Protection In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Scott OK, so it is in dodgy sources at present, but if these kind of attacks are becoming available on the Mac platform it wont be long before we see them in legit software. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. On Jan 26 2009, Scott Matthews wrote: I recommend not downloading software from dodgy sources! One thing I'd like to see is a bit more info when you're installing something and it asks you for an administrators password, an option to see exactly what is about to be written to the disk would be nice. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > Hi > > In light of recent viruses/trojans popping up are we going to start > thinking about virus protection? > > What do people recommend. Pre-OSX days and I had Norton, and was trialling > the beta of McAfee 7.6 in Tiger for a while but whats good for OSX? Is > ClamXav any good? > > Simon > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, > hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac > User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an > Apple Mac. > > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > From penguin.999 at virgin.net Mon Jan 26 19:44:36 2009 From: penguin.999 at virgin.net (Paul Chapman) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:44:36 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Mac Virus Protection In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <18C82AC2-2E60-48AE-8F85-B290DEAF574B@virgin.net> On Jan 26, 2009, at 19:05, Simon Royal wrote: > OK, so it is in dodgy sources at present, but if these kind of > attacks are becoming available on the Mac platform it wont be long > before we see them in legit software. Why would they appear in legit software? If you bought it from the right source then they wouldn't be putting a trojan in their own software, would they? Still not a virus. Paul C From paul at durrant.co.uk Mon Jan 26 20:20:41 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:20:41 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Another Trojan For OSX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There's a bug difference between a Trojan Horse and a virus or a worm. The only way a Trojan Horse will get access to your system is if you deliberately download and install/run it. Viruses and worms get access without your intervention. There are still none for Mac OS X 'in the wild'. Paul On 26 Jan 2009, at 18:52, Simon Royal wrote: > Paul pointed us to the trojan horse in pirated versions of iWork > '09. There has been a second one discovered in pirated versions of > Photoshop CS4. > > These are worrying times for us Mac users. Has our virus free reign > ended? From paul at durrant.co.uk Mon Jan 26 20:21:30 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:21:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Another Trojan For OSX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <260081A1-8FA0-4A99-AC45-4B0E3EC6DCA6@durrant.co.uk> Whoops - big On 26 Jan 2009, at 20:20, Paul Durrant wrote: > There's a bug difference From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 26 21:05:30 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 26 Jan 2009 21:05:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Mac Virus Protection In-Reply-To: <18C82AC2-2E60-48AE-8F85-B290DEAF574B@virgin.net> References: <18C82AC2-2E60-48AE-8F85-B290DEAF574B@virgin.net> Message-ID: Paul I am not talking about software you buy on disc in a shop. There are plenty of legit software download sites or small developers that in the past have had files 'infected' by hackers. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. On Jan 26 2009, Paul Chapman wrote: On Jan 26, 2009, at 19:05, Simon Royal wrote: > OK, so it is in dodgy sources at present, but if these kind of > attacks are becoming available on the Mac platform it wont be long > before we see them in legit software. Why would they appear in legit software? If you bought it from the right source then they wouldn't be putting a trojan in their own software, would they? Still not a virus. Paul C _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 26 21:06:46 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 26 Jan 2009 21:06:46 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Another Trojan For OSX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Paul Yes I am aware, sorry should have made that a little clearer. However in terms of protection software they usually are all covered in an anti-virus package. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. On Jan 26 2009, Paul Durrant wrote: There's a bug difference between a Trojan Horse and a virus or a worm. The only way a Trojan Horse will get access to your system is if you deliberately download and install/run it. Viruses and worms get access without your intervention. There are still none for Mac OS X 'in the wild'. Paul On 26 Jan 2009, at 18:52, Simon Royal wrote: > Paul pointed us to the trojan horse in pirated versions of iWork > '09. There has been a second one discovered in pirated versions of > Photoshop CS4. > > These are worrying times for us Mac users. Has our virus free reign > ended? _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Mon Jan 26 21:50:24 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 26 Jan 2009 21:50:24 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] WMA To MP3 Message-ID: Hi I have been looking for a way to convert WMA files to MP3. This is not easy to do. If you need to do it, check out Switch, it is great and easy. http://www.nch.com.au/switch/ Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From dale at ukonline.co.uk Tue Jan 27 00:36:58 2009 From: dale at ukonline.co.uk (Dale Wright) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:36:58 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Fwd: Help, no boot. In-Reply-To: <14D1EAE8-9C95-4362-B365-DF96998EB1B8@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: On 26/1/09 14:24, "Paul Durrant" wrote: Sent this to the group, as mentioned this before, saying it in the group again maybe it will help in the future for any further issues etc. > Does anyone have any ideas for Paul H? Well hopefully..... >> On Saturday my G5 iMac stopped finding the wireless mouse and after >> some time also the wired keyboard and then stopped booting. I have 1st, would be handy to know which model of the G5 he as. Mine is a G5 ALS. 2nd, When he says wireless, may sound silly but does he mean as Bluetooth wireless via the G5's own Bluetooth module? Or running a wireless system that then runs off it's own system, i.e.: I have a Microsoft wireless mouse but works via a dongle that plugs into the USB port & not off the Mac's own Bluetooth system. >> tried external HD, install DVD etc. with no luck. It just will not >> work. I also had a screen of jargon with the last line saying >> something like "we are hanging". The keyboard and mouse work on >> bootup but stop working once bootup complete. Even if it boots, >> which it does sometimes, the keyboard and mouse will not work. 1st thing is to try with a USB Keyboard & Mouse & see what happens then? Also if & when he can get his G5 up & running, is his Bluetooth system running on the G5, check via 'About This Mac' & then 'More Info...' as this gives you full details about the installed Bluetooth. If it is anything like what happened to me & a few others that I heard via the Apple Forums, when my Power Supply started to play up the 1st things that happened was that my Bluetooth Mouse etc stopped working, then would work again, then stopped again, over & over a period of about a month or so, until in the end nothing what so ever. Then over a period of a few more weeks, the OS said I had no Bluetooth installed on the Mac what so ever! Then as time went by & I needed to reboot the G5, it got harder & harder until in the end it just would not boot up at all! The problem with mine & the others that had the same problems as me, was the Power Supply had died & gone to heaven, one new Power Supply later & all is normal again! The power supply are not cheap though, well over a hundred quid for a new one, but way way cheaper than a new or even 2nd hand iMac would cost! Mine is now plugged in via a UPS system which hopefully will keep this power supply 100% with no surges & spikes etc. >> Someone has suggested that I try with alternate ram chips removed >> removed which I will try when I get home. Worth ago... The problem with the Power Supply as they are not cheap, is getting someone that as got one for your Mac that they can then test it on before buying a new one, & if the main Mac repair shops don't have one or the right equipment, it is hard to know if it is power supply, due to so many variables etc, some problems have been down to the mother board, but most have been the Power Supply. Sorry for the rambling on, but hearing of so many iMac's with these problems G5 ALS, G5 iSight & the 1st Intel iMac's, & peeps are still not checking the power supply as one of the main problems! ATB..Dale A CoCo the Clown Production. [ Spooky RIP 1988-2007 :-( ] From micheal_gordon at fidelity.com Tue Jan 27 08:44:39 2009 From: micheal_gordon at fidelity.com (micheal gordon) Date: 27 Jan 2009 08:44:39 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] No boot Message-ID: Hi All It looks as if the next thing I will be needing is a good local Apple computer mechanic. Who is flavour of the month, if anyone? PAH From footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk Tue Jan 27 11:24:14 2009 From: footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk (joe butler) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:24:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [NMUG] Web site test Message-ID: <365038.73029.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello ? If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at this site? ? http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . ? ? My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for it. All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more than 1 person looking at it! ? Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to much!) ? Many thanks ? Joe ? ? ? From david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk Tue Jan 27 11:30:33 2009 From: david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk (David Reynolds) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:30:33 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: <365038.73029.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <365038.73029.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <375992370901270330g635f1929g7b2855e6fbe2ae42@mail.gmail.com> Joe, It was really really slow to load on my first hit - might put people off? 2009/1/27 joe butler : > > > > Hello > > If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at this site? > > http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . > > > My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for it. > All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more than 1 person looking at it! > > Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to much!) > > Many thanks > > Joe > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > -- David Reynolds david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk From footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk Tue Jan 27 11:32:38 2009 From: footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk (joe butler) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:32:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: <375992370901270330g635f1929g7b2855e6fbe2ae42@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <302876.3624.qm@web26706.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Its a bit strange it can be very quick then grind to a painful crall Cheap and Free mobile phones http://www.nimrod.2u.co.uk ? Iphone and Ipod Insurance http://nimrod.2u.co.uk/insurance ? Get your own FREE mobile phones sales website http://nimrod.2uaffiliates.com/join/ ? ? ? ? --- On Tue, 27/1/09, David Reynolds wrote: From: David Reynolds Subject: Re: [NMUG] Web site test To: nmug at durrant.co.uk Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 11:30 AM Joe, It was really really slow to load on my first hit - might put people off? 2009/1/27 joe butler : > > > > Hello > > If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at this site? > > http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . > > > My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for it. > All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more than 1 person looking at it! > > Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to much!) > > Many thanks > > Joe > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > -- David Reynolds david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From steve.forst at virgin.net Tue Jan 27 11:54:46 2009 From: steve.forst at virgin.net (Steve Forster) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:54:46 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: <365038.73029.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Loaded fine and relatively quickly here. -- Steve Forster From: joe butler Reply-To: Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:24:14 +0000 (GMT) To: Subject: [NMUG] Web site test Hello ? If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at this site? ? http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . ? ? My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for it. All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more than 1 person looking at it! ? Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to much!) ? Many thanks ? Joe ? ? ? _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From paul at durrant.co.uk Tue Jan 27 12:14:54 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:14:54 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: <365038.73029.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <365038.73029.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Looks OK here. I see that the most people on it at one time was 9, at 11:39 today. There's only me on it at the moment. Perhaps it does slow to a crawl with lots of users? Perhaps we could all try connecting at 2.00pm-2.05pm today! Paul On 27 Jan 2009, at 11:24, joe butler wrote: > > If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at this > site? > > http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . > > > My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for it. > All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more > than 1 person looking at it! > > Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to > much!) From footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk Tue Jan 27 12:18:31 2009 From: footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk (joe butler) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:18:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <923389.15201.qm@web26703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> That's a great idea!! Cheap and Free mobile phones http://www.nimrod.2u.co.uk ? Iphone and Ipod Insurance http://nimrod.2u.co.uk/insurance ? Get your own FREE mobile phones sales website http://nimrod.2uaffiliates.com/join/ ? ? ? ? --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Paul Durrant wrote: From: Paul Durrant Subject: Re: [NMUG] Web site test To: "Norwich Mac User Group list" Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 12:14 PM Looks OK here. I see that the most people on it at one time was 9, at 11:39 today. There's only me on it at the moment. Perhaps it does slow to a crawl with lots of users? Perhaps we could all try connecting at 2.00pm-2.05pm today! Paul On 27 Jan 2009, at 11:24, joe butler wrote: > > If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at this site? > > http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . > > > My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for it. > All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more than 1 person looking at it! > > Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to much!) _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From micheal_gordon at fidelity.com Tue Jan 27 14:04:30 2009 From: micheal_gordon at fidelity.com (micheal_gordon at fidelity.com) Date: 27 Jan 2009 14:04:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] iMachanic needed Message-ID: Hi All, I have just realised that emails I send from Waitrose webmail are going out with stuff which I know nothing about and with someone else's email address on. I had complained to Waitrose weeks ago and I thought it was sorted but obviously not. I have found and deleted the offending items, I hope. Can anyone recommend an iMechanic please. PAH From valeriehardman at btinternet.com Tue Jan 27 14:06:00 2009 From: valeriehardman at btinternet.com (VALERIE HARDMAN) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:06:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [NMUG] sonos music streaming Message-ID: <20726.57302.qm@web86508.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Hello all We are thinking of buying a Sonos system to stream music to various rooms. Sonos can use Napster which can be accessed straight from the internet, thus bypassing the imac, which is fortunate as Apple does not support Napster. Does anyone have any experience of using the Sonos system, and if I register with Napster from a PC in another house can I then access Napster in our house which only has Mac. thanks Valerie From paul at durrant.co.uk Tue Jan 27 14:13:04 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:13:04 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: <923389.15201.qm@web26703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <923389.15201.qm@web26703.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <12C4BEB3-5444-4FF5-A08D-8B55B7E83B63@durrant.co.uk> Yep, but I forgot to set an alarm and missed it. Only three of us there now. Paul On 27 Jan 2009, at 12:18, joe butler wrote: > That's a great idea!! > > --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Paul Durrant wrote: > > Perhaps we could all try connecting at 2.00pm-2.05pm today! > > On 27 Jan 2009, at 11:24, joe butler wrote: >> >> If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at >> this site? >> >> http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . >> >> >> My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for >> it. >> All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more >> than 1 > person looking at it! >> >> Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to >> much!) From steve.forst at virgin.net Tue Jan 27 14:19:11 2009 From: steve.forst at virgin.net (Steve Forster) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:19:11 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: <12C4BEB3-5444-4FF5-A08D-8B55B7E83B63@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: Been there since 2 and keep refreshing to stay active. 8 online just now and seems OK -- Steve Forster From: Paul Durrant Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:13:04 +0000 To: Norwich Mac User Group list Subject: Re: [NMUG] Web site test Yep, but I forgot to set an alarm and missed it. Only three of us there now. Paul On 27 Jan 2009, at 12:18, joe butler wrote: > That's a great idea!! > > --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Paul Durrant wrote: > > Perhaps we could all try connecting at 2.00pm-2.05pm today! > > On 27 Jan 2009, at 11:24, joe butler wrote: >> >> If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at >> this site? >> >> http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . >> >> >> My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for >> it. >> All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more >> than 1 > person looking at it! >> >> Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to >> much!) _______________________________________________ NMUG mailing list NMUG at durrant.co.uk http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug From footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk Tue Jan 27 15:46:19 2009 From: footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk (joe butler) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:46:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <80560.73286.qm@web26705.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> As its a free site I cant get shot of the adds, As its for a one off event I dont realy want to pay to have them removed. ? ? Cheap and Free mobile phones http://www.nimrod.2u.co.uk ? Iphone and Ipod Insurance http://nimrod.2u.co.uk/insurance ? Get your own FREE mobile phones sales website http://nimrod.2uaffiliates.com/join/ ? ? ? ? --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Paul Durrant wrote: From: Paul Durrant Subject: Re: [NMUG] Web site test To: "joe butler" Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 2:19 PM Having registered and looked at some forum pages I have some comments There's a lot of bumpf on every page above the iportant bits, even on forum message pages. The title graphic's OK, but them there's some border graphics, more generic text, a big "welcome" box with eBay ads. In the interesting bits, I'm getting some overlapping text and graphics - the "PUST REPLY" graphics and some "Post a reply" text. And the ad at the bottom that pretends to be a personal message link on the board is a bit deceptive. Responsiveness still seems oK to be, with now 7 people on board. Paul From footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk Tue Jan 27 15:47:22 2009 From: footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk (joe butler) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:47:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [NMUG] Web site test In-Reply-To: <7B31520B-95AD-40A1-B8EC-BBF0C1CA2B7F@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: <281842.64822.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Thanks for looking folks xx Cheap and Free mobile phones http://www.nimrod.2u.co.uk ? Iphone and Ipod Insurance http://nimrod.2u.co.uk/insurance ? Get your own FREE mobile phones sales website http://nimrod.2uaffiliates.com/join/ ? ? ? ? --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Paul Durrant wrote: From: Paul Durrant Subject: Re: [NMUG] Web site test To: footballbutlerjoe at yahoo.co.uk Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 2:25 PM Well, we pushed it up to seven or eight, and it seemed OK. I hate the big google ad in the News section, and the ad at the bottom could do with an "Advertisement" border. Paul On 27 Jan 2009, at 14:14, joe butler wrote: > it copes with 3 fine!! > > > --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Paul Durrant wrote: > From: Paul Durrant > Subject: Re: [NMUG] Web site test > To: "Norwich Mac User Group list" > Date: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009, 2:13 PM > > Yep, but I forgot to set an alarm and missed it. Only three of us there now. > > Paul > On 27 Jan 2009, at 12:18, joe butler wrote: > > > That's a great idea!! > > > > --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Paul Durrant wrote: > > > > Perhaps we could all try connecting at 2.00pm-2.05pm today! > > > > On 27 Jan 2009, at 11:24, joe butler wrote: > >> > >> If any of you have a free moment could you have a quick look at this > site? > >> > >> http://www.anglingtrustmatch.com . > >> > >> > >> My girlfriend is putting on a fishing avent and this the forum for it. > >> All she wonts to know is that its working ok and can cope with more > than 1 > > person looking at it! > >> > >> Any feedback would be great ( it is a free forum so dont expect to > much!) > > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Tue Jan 27 18:41:38 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 27 Jan 2009 18:41:38 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Upgrade Or Not Message-ID: Hi When I got my PowerBook G4 a few months ago, I cloned my Pismo drive over to the new PowerBook. The Pismo was running 10.4.11. I ran the Leopard installer and did an upgrade. I am now wondering whether that was a good idea. I was being lazy. I didn't want the hassle of setting it all up, but I am wondering if it would have gotten rid of all the rubbish clogging up my Pismo (and now PowerBook). Would a wipe and install improve performance at all or am I just in for a few hours of hell for nothing. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Tue Jan 27 19:21:30 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 27 Jan 2009 19:21:30 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] How Much Does It Cost To Run Your Mac? Message-ID: Hi This discussion was going on in another group and I thought the results were very interesting. Check out this site for working it out and putting myths to rest - like it is cheaper to keep a computer running than start it up every day and that constantly turning it on and off is bad for it. http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/computers.html If I have worked this out right - I checked my electric suppliers website and I pay 16p/kwh - and I estimated 12 hours use a day - although that is 12 hours solid without it going to sleep and that is 12 hours everyday, my PowerBook costs ?12.48 to run a year. It is interesting how much cheaper laptops are compared to desktops. My sons eMac based on the same supplier and 12 hours a day costs ?44.16 a year - almost 4 times as much. MacTracker will tell you the watt usage of your Mac. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Wed Jan 28 13:19:12 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: 28 Jan 2009 13:19:12 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Fresh Install Message-ID: Hi After posing the 'upgrade or fresh' question yesterday, I took the plunge this morning. I copied all my files to my iPod, wiped my PowerBook and installed Leopard fresh. While I was doing it, I partitioned my 80GB drive so it had a 1GB partition ready for OS9 and the rest for OSX and also made sure the 'OS9 drivers' was ticked in Disk Utility (something I forgot to do last time). It is too early to tell if a fresh install will help things, but at least its fresh. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. From david at vanedwards.co.uk Wed Jan 28 11:03:42 2009 From: david at vanedwards.co.uk (David Van Edwards) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:03:42 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Testing ignore this Message-ID: Testing -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk From jeremyknight at mac.com Wed Jan 28 14:19:18 2009 From: jeremyknight at mac.com (jeremy knight) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:19:18 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Adhobe photoshop working space colours Message-ID: Afternoon all, What working space colour should I be using with photoshop please? Also when I pull up free transform there is a cross in the middle of the selected area that can be moved,but does nothing what's it for please? jeremy From penguin.999 at virgin.net Wed Jan 28 14:26:09 2009 From: penguin.999 at virgin.net (Paul Chapman) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:26:09 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Adhobe photoshop working space colours In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Jan 28, 2009, at 14:19, jeremy knight wrote: > > Also when I pull up free transform there is a cross in the middle > of the selected area that can be moved,but does nothing what's it > for please? If you rotate the selected area that is the point at the centre. You can drag that point wherever you wish before doing the rotation. Paul C From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Wed Jan 28 16:18:58 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:18:58 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Using Someone Elses Wireless Network Message-ID: I have wifi on my Nokia E71. When I am out and about I will search for wireless networks to use so I can surf or get my emails at high speed - as opposed to 3G. Is it wrong to jump on someone elses wireless network if it is wide open? Sitting in my local pizza shop last night I noticed a wifi network with no encryption on it, so I connected to it and pulled in my emails. --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) From paul at durrant.co.uk Wed Jan 28 16:49:00 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:49:00 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Using Someone Elses Wireless Network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It is technically illegal, and some people have been prosecuted for it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/18/uk_war_driving_arrests/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4721723.stm On 28 Jan 2009, at 16:18, Simon Royal wrote: > I have wifi on my Nokia E71. When I am out and about I will search > for wireless networks to use so I can surf or get my emails at high > speed - as opposed to 3G. > > Is it wrong to jump on someone elses wireless network if it is wide > open? > > Sitting in my local pizza shop last night I noticed a wifi network > with no encryption on it, so I connected to it and pulled in my > emails. From david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk Wed Jan 28 16:51:26 2009 From: david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk (David Reynolds) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:51:26 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Using Someone Elses Wireless Network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <375992370901280851y577bcf2if5ff0968a67c728b@mail.gmail.com> 2009/1/28 Paul Durrant : > It is technically illegal, and some people have been prosecuted for it. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/18/uk_war_driving_arrests/ > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4721723.stm You of course also run the risk of someone sniffing your traffic - especially with something like POP3 that sends passwords in the clear over the internet. -- David Reynolds david at reynoldsfamily.org.uk From alanbarber at mac.com Wed Jan 28 20:41:20 2009 From: alanbarber at mac.com (Alan Barber) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:41:20 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Meeting Message-ID: <48ACB053-081A-4C43-ADC7-3B247AEAF36D@mac.com> Hi Where are you no one at B arms regards Alan sent from my iPod touch From paul at durrant.co.uk Wed Jan 28 22:17:57 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:17:57 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] New meeting place -- suggestions? Message-ID: <5785AB26-E56A-49EA-8CBE-42914007B35A@durrant.co.uk> Apologies to anyone who turned up at the Bakers Arms tonight and found it shut. It closed suddenly. So - we'll need a new meeting place for February. Can we have sugggestions to the list please? Essential: Heat Parking Seating Quiet, or at least not loud. Desirable: Refreshments Free Thanks Paul From paul at durrant.co.uk Thu Jan 29 09:01:20 2009 From: paul at durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:01:20 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] "Mac Malware Myth" In-Reply-To: <5785AB26-E56A-49EA-8CBE-42914007B35A@durrant.co.uk> References: <5785AB26-E56A-49EA-8CBE-42914007B35A@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: An interesting article from Daniel Eran Dilger: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/01/29/the-mac-malware-myth/ "On the Mac, there is no background danger of viral infection, only a theoretical one. That makes running anti-virus software a risk not worth accepting. It?s not just that there?s no valid reason to run anti-virus software, but that there is real danger in installing anti- virus software on the Mac and assuming that you are now protected from any problems." Paul From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Thu Jan 29 09:28:17 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:28:17 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] "Mac Malware Myth" Message-ID: Paul Isn't that what Windows users do they. Slap on Norton or AVG and 'hey I'll be alright, I'm protected.' --- but that there is real danger in installing anti- virus software on the Mac and assuming that you are now protected from any problems." --- From munkt0n at gmail.com Thu Jan 29 09:32:22 2009 From: munkt0n at gmail.com (Scott Matthews) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:32:22 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] New meeting place -- suggestions? In-Reply-To: <5785AB26-E56A-49EA-8CBE-42914007B35A@durrant.co.uk> References: <5785AB26-E56A-49EA-8CBE-42914007B35A@durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: how about the forum? My wife goes to a knit club (first rule: don't talk about knit club) once a week at the forum, she's off there tonight so I shall ask her to enquire about availability On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Paul Durrant wrote: > Apologies to anyone who turned up at the Bakers Arms tonight and found it > shut. It closed suddenly. > > So - we'll need a new meeting place for February. Can we have sugggestions > to the list please? > > Essential: > Heat > Parking > Seating > Quiet, or at least not loud. > > Desirable: > Refreshments > Free > > Thanks > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > -- :wq From djr.massy at ntlworld.com Thu Jan 29 18:25:09 2009 From: djr.massy at ntlworld.com (DJR Massy) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:25:09 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Adhobe photoshop working space colours In-Reply-To: <20090129120003.BBD5E80056D@mail.durrant.co.uk> References: <20090129120003.BBD5E80056D@mail.durrant.co.uk> Message-ID: There are two commonly used colour spaces, sRGB and Adobe RGB (1998). Photoshop copes with either. The Adobe colour space covers rather more shades of colour (I'm told) and may therefore be better. However, most digital cameras, especially non-professional ones, are set up with sRGB, as are most printers. You may therefore find sRGB suits your needs better. Digital SLRs generally have the option of using either of these two colour spaces and it would be best to stick to the same one on the computer etc. Other views? Jim. ============================================== On 29 Jan 2009, at 12:00, nmug-request at durrant.co.uk wrote: > Afternoon all, > What working space colour should I be using with photoshop please? > Also when I pull up free transform there is a cross in the middle of > the selected area that can be moved,but does nothing what's it for > please? > jeremy From paulharrowing at waitrose.com Thu Jan 29 23:30:36 2009 From: paulharrowing at waitrose.com (Paul Harrowing) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:30:36 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] I'm back Message-ID: <69F99019-764F-4BAE-BF88-830D9A054C7C@waitrose.com> You can all breathe easy again, I'm back. G5 iMac is now in the back bedroom in the naughty corner and this is being written on a new 20" Intel. I still need to know if there is a decent Apple repairer in the area. Suggestion that the problem maybe a power supply looks the most likely at the moment. I had not realised how easy it would be setting up the new machine. It took a couple of hours over FireWire 800 but apart from the fact I am looking at a new screen everything is exactly the same as I was used to. No one mentioned the fact that one or two of my emails were not from me so maybe no one noticed. Someone had got into my Waitrose webmail account and put their email address and a message about some investment opportunity in the signature box so everything I sent from webmail was mucked up. I think I have sorted it now. PAH From homeopathy.expert at googlemail.com Fri Jan 30 08:38:33 2009 From: homeopathy.expert at googlemail.com (Simon King) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:38:33 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Adhobe photoshop working space colours In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <734d07ef0901300038i7a5fa2fcy31ee368f71f587d2@mail.gmail.com> If shooting RAW use Prophoto, if shooting jpgs use Adobe RGB if destined for CMYK output (sending to a printer), if shooting jpg destined for home printer or web use sRGB If using prophot etc to beginn with before you print, send to web etc convert to the desired profile under EDIT>Convert to profile The reason for using Prophoto is that it is the widest colour space so you lose less during processing, bt it will nearly always ned to be converted before final output Do a search on luminous-landscape for 'prophoto' for more ( and better) info;) Simon On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, jeremy knight wrote: > Afternoon all, > What working space colour should I be using with photoshop please? > Also when I pull up free transform there is a cross in the middle of the > selected area that can be moved,but does nothing what's it for please? > jeremy > _______________________________________________ > NMUG mailing list > NMUG at durrant.co.uk > http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug > -- Kind Regards Simon King 227 St Leonards Rd Norwich Norfolk NR1 4JN UK 01603 466092 07954 581 774 From mail at simonroyal.co.uk Fri Jan 30 14:04:37 2009 From: mail at simonroyal.co.uk (Simon Royal) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:04:37 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] 867Mhz/1Ghz Message-ID: Hi. I have an 867Mhz G4 PowerBook. Could I replace the logic board with a 1Ghz model? Is that as high as I can get for a Titanium? Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) From alan at asw6000.plus.com Fri Jan 30 19:01:50 2009 From: alan at asw6000.plus.com (Alan Williams) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:01:50 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] intermittent fault Message-ID: My ibook ( G4 ) has developed an annoying habit - every minute the macintosh HD symbol " winks " & whatever screen I am using greys out . I have tried running Cocktail & repairing Disk permissions through Disk Utility to no avail . Any ideas welcome. Alan Williams alan at asw6000.plus.com From alan at asw6000.plus.com Fri Jan 30 19:48:50 2009 From: alan at asw6000.plus.com (Alan Williams) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:48:50 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] re intermittent fault Message-ID: <822DFF22-F372-439F-9DC0-54E826F06AD6@asw6000.plus.com> Further to my prev email , looking at the logs it appears that Finder is crashing . What could cause this ? Alan Williams alan at asw6000.plus.com From stairbooks at yahoo.co.uk Fri Jan 30 20:49:06 2009 From: stairbooks at yahoo.co.uk (Alistair Hindmarch) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:49:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [NMUG] macbook external monitor issue Message-ID: <881488.56579.qm@web25901.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hi folks, Having trouble connecting external monitor to laptop. Used mini-dvi to vga adapter. Yet only centre of screen image is shown on monitor. Is there a keyboard shortcut I should be using to switch to external monitor mode? Many thanks, Stair From june.perrett at mac.com Fri Jan 30 23:30:18 2009 From: june.perrett at mac.com (June Perrett) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:30:18 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] Scanning photographs Message-ID: <35C15820-D1E7-4DA5-BCC2-5E058C05D9C7@mac.com> I am trying to scan non-digital photographs into my computer and save them in suitable format for albums in my Facebook profile. I also want to save them in a suitable format in the iPhoto Library for other purposes. I have been messing around all evening trying to change the image size/resolution suitable for Facebook. I am using an HP Scanjet G4010 Photo Scanner and I have iPhoto '08 & Photoshop Elements 4 installed on my iMac. Are there some simple points I can follow? I'd be grateful for some help. Many thanks. June. From karl.hortt at btinternet.com Sat Jan 31 15:56:08 2009 From: karl.hortt at btinternet.com (Karl Hortt) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:56:08 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] scanning documents and loosing quality Message-ID: <1FB6ECFF-90BF-4ED2-8FC3-5959A59044E2@btinternet.com> Hi All, My wife has lots of training material she uses on courses there are many handouts, I spend alot of time photocoping !!! Ahah, I thought, I will scan them using acrobat pro save as PDF, then I can print them out double sided on the laser printer, and save lots of time !! well, I scan them into Acrobat, fine, but some of them have black marks on them, so I put them into photoshop, clean them using the eraser, then save them, but after this, when I print them out, they are all fuzzy !!! what am I doing wrong ?, any advice, much appreciated I am saving them at the highest quality I can regards Karl From david at vanedwards.co.uk Sat Jan 31 17:33:12 2009 From: david at vanedwards.co.uk (David Van Edwards) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:33:12 +0000 Subject: [NMUG] scanning documents and loosing quality In-Reply-To: <1FB6ECFF-90BF-4ED2-8FC3-5959A59044E2@btinternet.com> References: <1FB6ECFF-90BF-4ED2-8FC3-5959A59044E2@btinternet.com> Message-ID: Dear Karl, Why not scan them as TIFFs, that's not a lossy format and prints fine. Use 300 dpi B&W (ie 1 bit depth) on the scanner and print the resulting images with the laser printer. On my scanner [Epson 2400 ] you can adjust the brightness to eliminate most of the stray black marks before scanning. I do the same thing all the time and it seems to work well. Best wishes, David At 15:56 +0000 31/1/09, Karl Hortt wrote: >Hi All, > >My wife has lots of training material she uses on courses > >there are many handouts, I spend alot of time photocoping !!! > >Ahah, I thought, I will scan them using acrobat pro save as PDF, > >then I can print them out double sided on the laser printer, and >save lots of time !! > > >well, I scan them into Acrobat, fine, but some of them have black >marks on them, > >so I put them into photoshop, clean them using the eraser, then save them, > >but after this, when I print them out, they are all fuzzy !!! > >what am I doing wrong ?, any advice, much appreciated > >I am saving them at the highest quality I can > >regards > >Karl >_______________________________________________ >NMUG mailing list >NMUG at durrant.co.uk >http://server.durrant.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/nmug -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk