July 06
17/07/06 20:03
Q. Can’t log into LMUG members area
A. try, try again - tested and works correctly, on this machine at least!
Q. Keep getting can’t connect to Internet. I have BT Online, what’s wrong?
A. One member couldn’t connect to the internet with his 24-inch iMac. Sent to repair by Apple, but still got the message intermittently. So, now he pulls out the ethernet cable to re-set it (15 seconds). However, you should not pull out the cable. Instead, turn off and turn on the router. But depending on your router, it might not have an on/off switch - be careful.
If it works on one computer and not another, change the cable!
Q. Problem burning DVDs. I can produce a perfect disc image, burn it at the slowest speed and always fails at verification. I then get a playable but unreliable disc. Using iDVD. Tried different discs (Verbatim, Maxwell, TDK).
A. Try different software. May be a mechanical problem -> Apple, but may be cheaper to just get an external DVD burner/re-writer. Test the drive by burning some files (e.g. word docs) to the drive. This will tell you if the hardware is faulty.
Q. Acquired a cheap G4 Cube with Tiger and OS9. I installed VPC 5, with Win 3.11. This crashed the computer. I ran disc utility and Norton. Norton trashed the disc (OS9/OSX incompatibility). Ran conflict catcher and it caused problems re-building the desktop - crashing. Conflict catcher would load the first extension, itself, then shut down, restart and load a different CC set! Then CC reports no conflicts at all! Is this a sign of the power of Bill Gates?
A. This sounds like an article for SoundByte!
Q. Under OS X is there a start up folder? Where is it?
A. System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items.
Q. Where do you find Xerxes frameworks for OS X?
A. Xerxes is an XML parser developed by Apache, so try the Apache web site.
Q. Has any one else tried Bootcamp?
A. Works fine for the list manager. Tried Vista etc. Used for work, seemed fine. NB, you’ll need to purchase a copy of Windows - license is for 1 machine only - you’d be foiled by activation. OEM version is cheapest. Requires XP or Vista.
Q. Was browsing the web (as you do) and found http://clusty.com/ This auto-categorieses your search results into contextual clusters displayed on the left
Q. Received a Universal Disc Format disc with pictures of my children, can’t open on the Mac.
A. This is a Windows Vista format - appears to be not compatible with Macs.
A. try, try again - tested and works correctly, on this machine at least!
Q. Keep getting can’t connect to Internet. I have BT Online, what’s wrong?
A. One member couldn’t connect to the internet with his 24-inch iMac. Sent to repair by Apple, but still got the message intermittently. So, now he pulls out the ethernet cable to re-set it (15 seconds). However, you should not pull out the cable. Instead, turn off and turn on the router. But depending on your router, it might not have an on/off switch - be careful.
If it works on one computer and not another, change the cable!
Q. Problem burning DVDs. I can produce a perfect disc image, burn it at the slowest speed and always fails at verification. I then get a playable but unreliable disc. Using iDVD. Tried different discs (Verbatim, Maxwell, TDK).
A. Try different software. May be a mechanical problem -> Apple, but may be cheaper to just get an external DVD burner/re-writer. Test the drive by burning some files (e.g. word docs) to the drive. This will tell you if the hardware is faulty.
Q. Acquired a cheap G4 Cube with Tiger and OS9. I installed VPC 5, with Win 3.11. This crashed the computer. I ran disc utility and Norton. Norton trashed the disc (OS9/OSX incompatibility). Ran conflict catcher and it caused problems re-building the desktop - crashing. Conflict catcher would load the first extension, itself, then shut down, restart and load a different CC set! Then CC reports no conflicts at all! Is this a sign of the power of Bill Gates?
A. This sounds like an article for SoundByte!
Q. Under OS X is there a start up folder? Where is it?
A. System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items.
Q. Where do you find Xerxes frameworks for OS X?
A. Xerxes is an XML parser developed by Apache, so try the Apache web site.
Q. Has any one else tried Bootcamp?
A. Works fine for the list manager. Tried Vista etc. Used for work, seemed fine. NB, you’ll need to purchase a copy of Windows - license is for 1 machine only - you’d be foiled by activation. OEM version is cheapest. Requires XP or Vista.
Q. Was browsing the web (as you do) and found http://clusty.com/ This auto-categorieses your search results into contextual clusters displayed on the left
Q. Received a Universal Disc Format disc with pictures of my children, can’t open on the Mac.
A. This is a Windows Vista format - appears to be not compatible with Macs.