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2004 / Suspicious e-mails

« on: January 30, 2004, 07:28:32 AM »

I had around 40 mails in my box this morning that I wouldn't normally expect to find there. They were all from seemingly legitimate e-mail addresses (none of which I had ever heard of before), all had attachments (either body.zip, test.zip or document.zip), and all contained the following text in the message;

'This message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment'

Does this sound like it might be the work of Mydoom? I obviously won't open any attachments, but should I send e-mails to the addresses concerned to warn them that they may be unsuspectingly sending out a virus?

Thanks

Paul

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2004 / The almost forgotten artist

« on: January 28, 2004, 01:54:25 PM »

I found that really interesting. I certainly wasn't aware of her name/work before.... but I am now  

Thanks for sharing it.

Paul

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2004 / 'Passphrase' problem in Panther

« on: January 28, 2004, 06:11:23 AM »

SORRY!

Problem sorted.

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2004 / 'Passphrase' problem in Panther

« on: January 28, 2004, 05:59:38 AM »

One of my colleagues has just upgraded his iMac to run Panther and is having a problem relating to passphrases.

He has downloaded Safari from the Apple website and when trying to install it is asked for a 'passphrase'. He has no knowledge of having input a passphrase at any stage. He's tried running from the startup disc but on restart is asked for the passphrase each time.

Can anyone help?

Paul

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2003 / Printers

« on: November 07, 2003, 08:23:06 AM »

Funnily enough, I opened your post to say 'Don't touch Lexmark' as I thought you were looking to buy, but it seems you've already bought.

Anyway - don't touch Lexmark. We bought a Lexmark laser printer a couple of years ago and it has proved to be a complete load of junk. It's poorly made, constantly misfeeds, the print quality is average and the software is poor.

Sorry  

Paul

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2003 / Copy protected CDs...

« on: September 25, 2003, 04:20:57 AM »

I've had the most pathetic automated response from Amazon along the lines of 'we can't show all information on a CD in our catalogue' and 'sometimes suppliers don't issue us with all information'. With the e-mail comes a couple of links - has this mail answered your question or not? I clicked not and told them they'd completely missed the point and that displaying copy protection details is essential - after all, if the CD screws my drive up, who's paying? Not Amazon for sure.

Anyway, I have had a second response - appeared to be from a human being this time, but the e-mail said much the same as the first mail and basically what it comes down to is that they may or may not display 'copy protected' against a CD, but if you buy a CD and have problems with it, they might be prepared to 'look at it'.

Wonderful.

Paul

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2003 / Copy protected CDs...

« on: September 24, 2003, 05:18:47 AM »

Thanks for all your comments.

I have posted a message on the band's message board telling them what I think of the record company and also that the fact that the CD is corrupt is not mentioned anywhere on the site.

I have also mailed Amazon who do not even mention it on their site - and they're selling the thing!

And I'm about to write to the record company asking for an assurance that the CD will not damage my computer/car player/portable player if I buy it. What do you think the chances of a response are?   I'll let you know.

Thanks again

Paul

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2003 / Copy protected CDs...

« on: September 23, 2003, 11:55:11 AM »

I once swore that I would never buy any audio CD that was copy protected. I have always burnt a copy of my CDs to keep in my car, so, if the car gets stolen, at least I still have the original CDs. This is not to mention scratches, very hot days in the car, split drinks etc. etc. I have never burnt a copy and given it to someone else.

Now guess what. One of my favourite bands have just released their new album and it's copy protected. Now I either buy it and don't listen in the car or run the risk of it getting stolen/damaged or I don't buy it. But I want it.

Is there a way around the copy protection? I believe I've heard people say that there is, but I don't know where to turn. If you don't want to divulge any secrets here then I understand, but I'd be grateful for any help.

I really want the album but I'm not laying down to the record company.  

Thanks

Paul

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2003 / Speed of animations

« on: September 18, 2003, 11:55:17 AM »

Hold everything! Having quit Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator etc. etc. it's now down to 2.5 seconds. Having seen the other times posted, I was about to start a new topic 'Why is my Mac so slooowwwww'? Now I know why.  

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2003 / Speed of animations

« on: September 18, 2003, 07:43:07 AM »

Sorry forgot    2 channel ISDN connection.

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2003 / Speed of animations

« on: September 18, 2003, 07:40:38 AM »

5 seconds (from fuse lighting to full display).

G4 800MHz, 768 MB, 9.2.2.

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2003 / Password protect folders

« on: September 15, 2003, 08:39:32 AM »

Thanks Diana and Dakota

I've downloaded FolderGuard for now - will have a play with it and see if any other suggestions come along meantime.

Thanks again

Paul

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2003 / Password protect folders

« on: September 15, 2003, 06:09:21 AM »

Hi dakota

I searched Tucows but couldn't find anything relating to PuzzlePalace - but from what you're saying, it sounds like it may be for OSX only?

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2003 / Password protect folders

« on: September 15, 2003, 04:55:20 AM »

Under system 9.2, I'd like to be able to password protect certain folders so that only I have access to them (and it's not what you're thinking - mainly financial stuff!   ).

Can anyone recommend an application to do this? It's the sort of thing I'd have thought would be available as free/shareware (in fact, it's the sort of thing Apple should have included as part of the system software, but that's another story), but I haven't been able to find anything.

Thanks for any help.

Paul

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2003 / OT: Ladies is this true?

« on: September 11, 2003, 03:48:25 AM »

A woman without Herman is nothing.

Herman