Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / April 2006

Wanted to Buy, Faulty Mirror door Dual 1 Gig Mac
Yours Ray W  .
In Williamstown Victoria Australia
03-9-397-7695 Or 0409-805-520

I'm looking to increase mr storage and I'm looking foe a good reliable
ext HD of over 250 GB for under $500 (Australian).
I have a Le Cie D2 200GB Firewire 800 at the moment and while I
understand that they can be diasy-chained I'm wondering how reliable and

I bought a Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition (600GB model) yesterday.
It comes preset to RAID0 mode but I want to use it in RAID1, so I
fired up the Maxtor software to try and change it. Problem is, the
list of drives in the bottom right of the Manager software comes

I have 10.3.9 running and using Entourage as my Email program.
Lately I have noticed that when I get on to my N/Gs that some .jpg pics are
just blank icons and some open and some don't.
To open, I have to double click on the blank jpeg icon, and sometimes then

Anyone got one yet?
We have had ours on order since late January.  Apparently our store here is
Brisbane (which will rename unnamed) has over 110 on order and received from
Apple Australia ...wait for it.... 1 machine.  Yes one, 1, uno.  The funny

For several days now about half my email has been notifications from
postmasters that 'my' emails have been returned undelivered. The emails
contain a gif which is some sort of stock market report that I'm sure
most of you will have received from time to time. On the face of it, my

As an experiment, I installed the beta version of Parallels (which
creates a virtual Windows setup) on my MacMini. It worked quite well
using Win XP Pro except for a failure to connect with the net using the
MacMini's wireless connection through the router.

I am planning on travelling for a fair while (a year or two), and am
looking for a way to maintain Internet access, with the view that VOIP
will give me constant phone access at a low cost.
I note though that Bigpond allows you to use the CDMA system only with

I'm looking to change to broadband now that the daughter has discovered the joys of
the iTunes music store.
I currently have one of those phone/dial-up internet plans with the free local calls
from Optus, and it has been pretty good so far.

Since January, we have had terrible problems with our dialup connection
dropping out. After having the phone line checked three times, I
mentioned to the technician that our troubles seem to have started when
in January Optus changed us over to some super new Optusdirect service.

Cosidering "Buffalo TeraStation NAS". Anyone got any experience (good or
bad) to share about the topic generally especially in relation to using with
Macintosh?

I have an old Apple LaserWriter Pro, vintage 1993. It's slow, but still
produces crisp and clear prints.
However, it does have a paper feed problem. The paper ends up all
crumpled usually just before it comes out of the printer. It seems as

Saved the recently orphaned beast from a pile of junk.
Only thing is the monitor blacks out after about 10-15 minutes. Power
light on front still stays on but no picture. Unplug the power cord
then can't turn it on for 10-20 minutes. Any ideas? Fixable? Cheaply or

Last night, I deleted a couple of programs I didnt want anymore
including pacman and a couple others (I was very careful to not delete
anything importan). This morning I restarted my
Powerbook G4 12 inch laptop (macosx10.4.6) and I tried to open my AOL

My wife's iBook G3 has just suffered catastrophic HD failure.  The
machine refuses to boot in FW target mode, but will boot from the OS X
install CD.  Disk utility does not see the HD in this case.
Where in Sydney is a good place to take it, or if it's completely