OMUG Newsletter 117

OMUG Newsletter 117, July 2005

This newsletter is edited by Owen Baxter, Information Technology Services, University of Otago, New Zealand. If you want to any information about the group, please send an email to the current OMUG supervisor at OMUG@macintosh.otago.ac.nz. If you want to join the OMUG email list go to the info page of this site for details.

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OMUG Software Collection

This is for those of you who have forgotten the reminder I sent a couple of years ago! The OMUG software collection is still available, and I have been keeping it up to date. Its available through the link below. The software is organised by function, and is available from outside the University to anyone. Please use the mac-support server if you need access from inside the University network.

This software is freeware, shareware, demo versions and free upgrades which is all available elsewhere, I have just tried to make finding the useful, reliable stuff quicker (its simply organised) and cheaper (its hosted locally). You also know that because we have tested this stuff its unlikely to cause any major problems for your Mac.

The software section is here.

This is almost all Mac OS X software because few people are still using older systems, and there isn't a lot of new software for old systems anyway. Contact me if you have any problems with this software or would like something added to the collection.

OMUG List Archive

The OMUG list archive will be brought up to date soon, so if you want to refer back to discussions we have had on the OMUG list you can do your searches here. The archive can be accessed through the OMUG archive page.

Mac OS X Processes

Often when you want to troubleshoot Mac OS X you need to know what different Unix processes do. I've done a bit of research on this, and created a list of processes and what they do - in some cases there isn't good information on this, and I have had to make an educated guess - at least I hope its educated!

The page is in the Mac technical section of my personal web site here.

Please email me if you have any corrections, suggestions, etc regarding the stuff I have created that is linked to here.