Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / September 2003

I have  a 100 page (or so) document ( a glider flight manual) that I
want to scan to PDF.
How would _you_ go about it with a standard USB scanner?
I have access to OS X, OS 9, Win 2K the scanner and large amounts of

any suggestions on howto copy a 183GB file from one firewire disk to
another?
and no I did not create this monstor, I just need to copy it onto my
disk for editing with fcp4

Anyone got one of these they want to sell me ?
remove NOSPAMPLEASE to email me.

Folks,
How do I stop or reset the time frame in which an external firewire
drive spins down.  I have an external drive which i use for backup and
it it spins down very quickly.  This stalls the whole system whenever

In excellent condition:
Intel Pentium 2 processor 733mhz with 3d now technology
512MB RAM
20 GB HDD

I recently abandoned my previous e-mail address as it was attracting +/-
300 pieces of spam a day. Noticing that .mac had a free 28 day trial I
took advantage of that - not a spot of spam, it has been absolute bliss!
That said, my trial is nearly ending. It isn't *that* cheap, but I

I have an old Quadra 605 with a dead monitor. Can anyone tell me if
(and where) I can buy a VGA adapter for it? I am in Perth.
Thanks, Paul

You know the one, where there was a PC processor on a card.  Could be a
serious contender if the add-in PC cards are made cheap enough.  Could
even be installed in a current or earlier machine.

what is the purpose of the num lock?
the light comes on for some apps but when i switch to the finder it goes
off. recently i started up Word and it crashed. when i restarted, the num
lock light remained on and i cant get it to go off.

Does anyone know of any telephony apps for OSX?
I had one that worked pretty well in my OS8.6 days and found it useful
in certain circumstances. Preferably free/shareware becuase those
circumstances don't arise that often and they're not all that great for

It was jason's first week in year two at school.  After the first day he
comes home and his father asks how his day was.
"It was good.  We had a spelling test today and I got nearly every word
right.  Is that because I'm Australian?" said jason.

I'm having a problem with my Bigpond ISDN connection over OS X 10.2.6.
Periodically, for no apparent reason, Internet Connect will drop the
connection and display "...disconnecting..." endlessly in the menu bar.
Nothing I do seems to stop it - I can't reconnect, disconnect, nuthin'.

I've just been given a 5500/225 but it has a noisy fan - the small one
located above the heatsink[?]. When I disconnect it [only for 2-3 minutes]
the noise is gone.
A few questions: