I would plan to add 10.5, especially if you get an external drive(s) and
would like automatic backup with TimeMachine, which comes with 10.5.
But don't do it this month or next!
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This endless thread about old versus new computers with accessories
assumes a healthy business with productivity being a goal. A few people
not in this situation might find an old computer makes sense.
Perhaps a failure to think clearly about technology is a contributing
factor to not having
I don't remember specific wording but at the end of
the CCC process it put up a message that certain parts of the System
could not be copied. It would seem that they might be critical parts of
the OS.
Sure looks like it.
Faster than reinstalling the whole OS you might have succeeded by simply
You should also try a wee bit of research for recycling options (it's that
thinking thing again). Service Source in Va. takes CRTs for $10 each. They
even will come and get them.
http://www.ourpeoplework.org/content.asp?contentid=381
Has anyone actually been to this place and managed to unload?
Here's an interesting note in the Terms and Conditions page:
9. Neither OLPC Foundation nor One Laptop per Child, Inc. has service
facilities, a help desk or maintenance personnel in the United States or
Canada. Although we believe you will love your XO laptop, you should
understand that it is
It's Bradley Hand ITC Bold. I have regular Bradley on the PC, with a .TTF
extension. The Bold version doesn't show an extension on my Mac, which I
know will cause problems. When saving the file from my email to the PC, I
did the (probably) heinous act of adding .TTF to the filename. I also
That didn't occur to me, but the OS was totally up to date. Is it
possible to somehow force it to do an update it does not need?
The combo updater will check and fix a version that is the same as the
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I see Apple has finally released 10.4.11. I am currently running
10.4.8. Should I just stick with it or should I upgrade 10.4.9 or 10.4.11?
Well finally. This is the long-awaited update that I hope will fix the
problems introduced by the X.4.10 update -- I hope it will introduce few
others.
I have recently started using iTunes to rip CD's. The drive itself is fine,
I can look at DVD's with no problem, CD's iTunes are another issue.
It's not unusual for me to have to reboot. Force quit...
I started doing this after I installed Leopard.
Anyone who thinks they are going to bring off
Tom Piwowar
I have recently started using iTunes to rip CD's. The drive
itself is fine, I can look at DVD's with no problem,
CD's iTunes are another issue.
It's not unusual for me to have to reboot. Force quit...
I started doing this after I installed Leopard.
For the record, these words
Someone on the list said that they were going to wait until
Leopard Mac OS X 10.5.1 came up before making a purchase.
I'm actually more interested in the dot 11 update to Tiger. The dot 10
caused so much instability with Creative Suite that I wasn't using it. I
sure hope that dot 11 fixes
I am thinking about upgrading the memory in my iMac G4 (700). I
realize it is getting old and I won't be able to upgrade to Leopard, but
I'm happy with Tiger. How hard is it to access the the RAM to change
it? I've done it on other Macs, on PowerBooks, and on PCs, so I'm
confident that I
Our G5 repair has resolved. We called Apple
Should I buy a lottery ticket tomorrow or what?
This is not an unusual story. Apple's excellent customer service will
often bend over backwards to treat a customer right. So you should not
generalize. You won't win the lottery and there are still
I found this list of what it claims to fix at.
www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/14/apple_releases_mac_os_x_10_4_11_up
date_for_tiger_users.html
That's the list from Apple's download page. It is amazing how brazenly
the press just does a copy/paste/reformat and then claims the work as
their
Does anyone have any idea on, how I can replace the feet on my
full-tower case?
For my PCs I use sticky-back felt circles from the hardware store.
Actually, I don't think they are felt any more -- some mystery fiberous
material. I have 20 towers in my classrooms that are constantly being
Tom, why so reluctant about X.5; are all of your computers used for
production things? My copy of Leopard is also still in its shrink wrap,
but I was only waiting for X.5.1 which is out. I am only waiting now to
back everything up, probably over the upcoming four day weekend.
And one more
I'm looking for a wireless IP camera that can be config'd and managed
by OSX v1.4.11... I've found cameras in the past that were supposed to run
under OSX but needed first to be set up under Windows. As a result,
I've never gotten one going.
I'm casually following such cameras so I can't
This paragraph explicitly cites a steel central member which is likely
for tensile strength.
Surge protection or lightning protection?
I expect your connection will have enough insulation to protect against
surges. Any metal armor or support wire isn't going to be directly
connected to your
Isn't that like how Microsoft has proclaimed Internet Explorer to be a
standard so they don't need to follow what the standards setting body
has set.
I can find plenty to gripe about, but I don't think Cisco domination is
one of those things.
You go right ahead and keep paying more for your cheap-o RAM; it makes no
difference to me. I'll keep paying the lower prices I get from Crucial and
being productive.
I don't run my life on superstition.
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My husband is creating a Word document (for a class that requires a
Word doc as the final presentation) on his Macbook, which has MS Office
2004 loaded on it. Word will create a table of contents for the
document, but does not automatically hyperlink the content entries, as
it does in PC
Looking at the specs for my iMac G4, I see it can take an Airport Card.
Can it take an Airport Extreme Card? I would not mind going wireless,
however, I'd hate to give up the speed I have with the Ethernet.
No. The Extreme Card is a different size.
Also, are the posts archived somewhere for later reference? Have been
saving many emails from this list, just for future reference, but this has
amounted to a lot of emails. Perhaps going forward, with GMAIL, it won't
really matter how many I save.
Read the footer at the bottom of every
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Attention K-MartI mean online shoppers! I hear that tomorrow is Black
Monday, the Internet equivalent of brick and mortar's black Friday.
An invention of the media. Internet shopping does not really get into
full swing until the latter half of Dec.
I usually start shopping at comparison
When I have raised questions to retailers about
this, they have told me that if any hardware is consumed to perform the
labor portions of a job, such as screws or bolts, then .
Do not say they are allowed to charge sales tax. It word should not be
allowed it should be required. The merchant is
I lost the replies to, the first time I asked(yes, I know I could request
the archive for the group) when, I didn't backup my e-mail.
Christopher--See here: List archive at
www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/
Our archive at mail-archive.com is directly accessible and
I was all ready to point you to Snopes.com, but if this is actually
true it's one of the wackiest laws I've ever heard of. It would
certainly mean I'd have to charge tax if I looked at a computer, but
not a washing machine.? I've been in the service industry all my life
and we've never charged tax
Looks like they copied the DC tax.
This bill extends the 6% sales tax to
computer services including computer facilities management and
operation, custom computer programming, computer system planning and
design that integrate computer hardware, software and communication
technologies, computer
Now, if they collect a tax where they should not be
collecting one, can they then retain that collected money for
themselves as opposed to having to send it to the state?
Where on earth did you see that in my post?
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It was, I believe, located where one looks for what is not really
stated in a direct manner, that being between the lines.
A phantasm.
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My experience is that vented metal fanless models like Speed Metal, in
which four sides are wire mesh, last just as long as internal CPU case
mounted drives do.
I should have been clearer.It is not the drive that fries. It is the
interface card. Probably a static charge issue as the external
I can find some all in one, but I was hoping for the option to swap
drives without buying two full enclosures.
I find that I'm replacing enclosures every year or two. Eventually they
fry.
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Millions use NAV because the manufacturers ship you their PC with it already
installed.
Millions smoke tobacco and other weeds. Millions are morbidly obese.
Millions don't wear seat belts. Millions use Windows. What's your point?
I guess it is because I think buying a crappy, misconfigured computer is
a CHOICE.
Smoking, overeating, and not wearing seat belts are CHOICES that consumers
are (mostly) free to make. Receiving a PC with AOL or NAV already installed
is not a choice most computer buyers make. It's the path of
wadda y'all think about that?
Save yourself some trouble and convert it to a hackintosh. Instructions
for Leopard are already on the web.
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Time Machine is not really a substitute for a full drive backup. Each
backup strategy has its strong and weak spots. Together they are
complementary. So I'm considering recommending both. With drives so cheap
these days it is worth the small cost to get the added security. If you
have to pick
Stuart's suggestion of a single format, dual function device is
short-term most practical, but may need replacement when the camera is
replaced.
Jeff'f suggestion of a multi-format adapter will let her take pictures
from other cameras too. That might be handy for working with friend's
I had no issue with transferring pictures directly from the camera to my
computer. Until i realized transferring pictures this way was the fastest
way bar none to draining batteries.
All the cameras I have tried this with got their power over the USB wire,
not using their batteries. One of my
How do people do Christmas cards using a Mac? Do they
still write them by hand?
I send everyone an individual eCard via email.
I did something like what you need for a cleint using FileMaker. The
script had to figure out fairly complex family relationships: married,
not married but living
If anyone listened to the public health academic who wrote
The Secret History of the War On Cancer some of the most
quoted studies
done on cell phone radiation have severe methodological
flaws and even if they were good might been inadequate for
assessing the brain cancer risk 20 or 30 years
The Mac just refused to recognize the camera. And Samsung's software
driver download site was no help. No software drivers for Macs! This
was probably one of those weird and far in-between situations.
That is why it is important to make sure the camera manufacturer complies
with PTP. Getting
but at least being funny about it...
http://www.youtube.com/v/oXcimfzLLoY
http://www.youtube.com/v/ZRAUlK8_2VE
http://www.youtube.com/v/PxLgBx3W9Ss
http://www.youtube.com/v/sfCHuVrWHPk
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a crank, and her claims and arguments were quite reasonable when
interviewed on NPR.
I know plenty of professors who are cranks. In fact, I suspect the
proportion of professors who are cranks is higher than it is in the
Before I move to a new piece of software, I want to know what features it
provides that I really need. Most of the time the old software works just
fine, and the new software doesn't provide the one or two features that I
would really like to see to improve my work. The new features are
Brain-dead users like me cling to Windows 2000 (because it works, and
because it supports the applications I use), which doesn't support IE7.
The Internet changed all that. If you are still operating as a computer
in isolation then we don't care if you are still running DOS. But if you
are
I was surprised to see a pair of turntables at Target last week. I
think both had USB outputs, but one had a built in CD burner.
I'm surprised that the RIAA is not suing them for selling burgler tools.
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On Windows I have been using PSPad -- a full-featured programmer's text
editor. I especially need GREP for search/replace and to extract lines
that meet a certain pattern. I'm doing things like log analysis. My
problem is that I'm working with some very large files (150 MB). PSPad
gets
apparently these things are not selling very well.
Last Dec when I was checking Amazon's best seller list for the Zune I
noticed that two models of USB turntable were selling better than the
Zune. So don't call it not selling very well.
Anectdotaly, the fellows who manned the pirate radio stations in England
were known to have their hair fall out.
That was MI5 using some of the left over powder the CIA had made for
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Why should I have to get used to IE7. It's only a browser... something
that should be transparently invisible.
When I borrow a friends car, do I have to go on an easter egg hunt to
find the turn signal, brake, gas pedal,, steering wheel, or dashboard so
I can pop down to the store to buy
Such people don't have huge amounts of time--and probably don't have the
knowledge--to mess around with tekkie things like downloading a new
browser and spending hours delicately adjusting it so that it actually
works.
I leave it you to explain to the young couple in rural Virginia who are
just
However, please, please, please don't use IE 6. Broken piece of cr*p.
Well okay. I can agree with that, but how come it has the most users? How
can we make them stop?
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I think Tom's point was that technology leaves the old stuff behind,
eventually. For example, not many computers from the 1980's would be of
much use today, if one wanted to use that computer to connect to the
internet. Many web sites will also become unreadable by the oldest
browsers, too. Not
Is your dvr the tuner also?
Alas, yes. It is a Replay.
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I understand that the new Zune lands pretty much in the
doesn't suck real bad category.
Microsoft 2007 = Apple 2001. Apple has moved well beyond that old design.
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While it's possible to code a site with all the excessive bells and
whistles, commercial and nonprofit sites ultimately need to develop
their pages to attract customers/clients, not the script-kiddies putting
the sites together. It's not necessary to have lots of scripts and Flash
to create an
The only dodgey parts are whether the software will allow you to use
the HD program guides and will they stop offering the guide since all
this equipment is NTSC.
My guess is that they will drop service at the earliest opportunity.
But I bet that no one deigns to think of you as brain-dead just because
you are embracing this less than cutting edge technology.
It is cutting edge for another 14 months. If I hold on to it any longer I
will be rightly called brain dead.
FWIW I heard that the Zune is number two in the market for MP3
players. It is the competition that makes them look bad- iPods are so
dominant that they dwarf all the competition combined.
NPD sez:
Apple (75%)
SanDisk (10%)
Creative (4%)
Samsung (2%)
Sony (2%)
Microsoft (2%)
On the other hand, a
Actually I think they mean hard disk mp3 players.
Actually I think they mean hard disk mp3 players that are brown.
And the market is shifting away from players with hard disks.
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I'm giving away 6 year old computers to staff
Giving away these sad-sack computers so you won't get stuck with paying
the $15 recycling fee. You are probably going to take a tax credit too.
You are so unscrupulous.
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I'm not familiar with IE causing so much trouble for people who don't
use it, but now it makes sense, sort of. The solution is for web authors
to put a note on the page, viewed best with [name a good browser], and a
warning that it may not work with IE. If that were done enough would
sites
So buy an ATSC converter intended for televisions and go on using your
DVR which will likely quite happily accept the signal from the converter
and record it, then play it back in glorious NTSC. If you wait, you can
even get coupons likely to be worth $40-$50 to apply to the purchase of
two
Heck, the siren song's pull is so strong, even my MacZealot manager is
getting one.
DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID!
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For the workout times I bought myself a cheap (as in 45 bux) 2 gig sony
flash mp3 player with built in tuner. It's also water (sweat) resistant.
So the only problem is the audible one...course there is always the library
for some books just to work out with.
I can think of plenty of up-tempo
FYI, there is a Save until I delete setting for what is recorded.
That might do the trick, but I still wonder if the enforced deletion may
be a feature that is tied to using the programming service. Unlike, you I
find the programming service very useful.
If you are ready to jump Circuit city has a 5 hour deal today for a
$239 Series 3 TiVO.
Thanks, but if Circuit City has a deal for $239 I'm sure someone on the
'net will have it for $199. Circuit City I have never seen a good deal at
Circuit City.
I've done both the kit from Weaknees and prepared my own harddrive and
installed it. Weaknees has excellent instructions on the website for
the installation of the disc drive in a variety of machines.
That's one of the winning features of the Series 3: they have an eSATA
port. From the user
One of our departments just purchased a 60 HP plotter for a Mac system.
The only software they got with it was the drivers. When I worked in a
photo lab 10 years ago, we had to use a separate RIP program to send items
to the printer. This printer is on our LAN. Every time they try to send
Tivo's are set to erase programs after a set time to free up room on
your DVR
My Replay can be set to save a certain number of shows and will delete
the oldest when a new show arrives. This is reserved space and is
independent of anything else going on in the box. Can Tivo do this?
I do this
Tom I have to correct myself All but the last is FALSE.
Thank you. You had me scratching my head.
This is good news. Most of the reasons I have been avoiding Tivo are not
problems and I get some very useful new features.
There is a DRM option in the TiVO software for forced deletion after a
fixed time determined by a flag set by the network programmers. It
hasn't been used much There was a hullabaloo about it a few years
ago when a few local programmers set it on a few programs. No one has
said much about it
Conclusions - bet wary of tech support J If I had thought to use non
Microsoft registry fix and uninstaller before hand, I probably could
have avoid days of frustration and hours of work, yet on all the message
boards I read of people with the same .NET errors, this never came up.
Is there any
Used to be that when somebody sent a link in an email, I could click on
the link the site would open in Firefox.
that no longer works.
Nothing happens when I click on the link.
do I need to reconfigure something? what?
Today I had to fix that same thing with the Notes Email client. It was
one
Can anyone recommend a suitable supplier of
web hosting and email serving for a small business that has no in
house tech support and is entirely Mac based? No not a graphics
business, just Mac based computers . I realize that web hosting
itself is entirely platform transparent but tech
You can also look at pair.com
Last time I used pair.com (a few years ago) I observed serious
performance problems. If it were not for the slowness they would be fine.
Can anyone comment on their recent performance?
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Here is a picture of my case: Antec KS188
http://www.antec.com/us/support_productInfo_details.php?ProdID=11193#
A case with a face that only its motherboard could love.
So why so much fuss over feet? I don't get it.
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At Mozilla HELP it told me I should be able to bring up the Profile
Manager and create a new Profile. I double click the Tbird icon
while holding down the Option key, but all that accomplishes is that it
toggles the Mail News groups window hidden and visible.???
My experience with
Compatible exclusively with digital cameras and camcorders that support
Secure Digital High Capacity memory cards; Note: legacy Secure Digital
devices are not compatible
Please tell us what make and model camera so we can approach it with
caution.
watch out tom, new technology roaring down the road.
you still using that canon FDt from 1970 or do you have a pre war (II)
leica rangefinder?
Which war? Even my digital cameras can be called pre war.
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I've tried 1and1 and they are also good. I have dropped them in
favor of bluehost.com -- they are similar. My experience is
bluehost's support is more knowledgeable.
Thanks gayley. I just took a look at BlueHost and it does look good.
Their control panel is very clear and easy to use. Lots of
http://www.steves-digicams.com/pdf/sdhc.pdf
Thanks for the link. This is a piece of new technology I missed. Another
reason this list is so valuable.
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Manual focus on today's cameras is still motorized (slow) and doesn't have
any fine adjustment. The merest tap on the manual focusing control (and
the zoom control as well) moves the adjustment a considerable distance,
often too far.
With digital displays as coarse as they are you have to
Interesting story. Has anyone tried either alternative?
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/tes
t_bench/article3016102.ece
With all the fuss about digital radio (DAB), it has been easy to miss
the arrival of a new technology that offers even greater choice:
Ok. I do have one quandry on the 'air circulation' issue. I was
reading the other day that, leaving the case open while using the
computer would actually allow more dust to get on the iinside of the
computer yet, that is what one person mentioned, that they do.
Who cares? Why do you think a
The Elite Apple Corps
A Hundred Million Strong, Every One of Them Cool.
By Hank Stuever
Washington Post Staff Writer
Silly story. Is this Hank the guy from King of the Hill and living on
another planet? The Apple store he kept mentioning is my neighborhood
Apple store (Clarendon). He is right
I had to call ATT for a question about my phone bill and they talked
me into trying out their DSL internet. It was cheaper than comcast
cable so I agreed to try it out. Does anyone have any experience
with it?
I use Verizon at home and office. Works fine. My impression is that the
kinks
I have DSL but not ATT DSL. DSL is slower then cable, so if speed is what
you are after I'd stick with cable.
DSL *can be* faster. In practice it is often a lot slower. DSL bandwith
is dedicated to you and is throttled back to give you the speed you pay
for. Cable is shared so your speed
I've tried 3 different filters. No go.
Maybe something else is going wrong? This is just a simple low pass
filter that keeps the high frequency signal away from the phones.
At my house instead of fussing with lots of filters I just used one at
the head end to split off POTS from the data
A friend who has used Windows forever is looking to move to an Apple
laptop. Any recommendations and how difficult is it to transfer files
between the two? I know they use MS Word/Excel a lot.
No problem at all. I use both Mac and Windows all the time, accessing the
same MS Office files off
I'm looking for opinions on the reliability of brands of external
hard drives, the moderate-sized multi-MB stationary ones that are
designed for storage and backups.
I have been using hard drives for backup for over 10 years with results
that are much better than when I was using tape. The
Last I heard it was not possible to check SMART via USB2 or 1394?
You are right. Can't get the SMART status through the FireWire interface.
So my SMART utility is not polling my backup drive.
One more reason my next set of drives will be eSATA.
Is it ok to go with the low-end model ($1099), with the 80GB drive/1GB
RAM or does that create future upgrade issues?
It depends. It has 2 memory slots. Only one is easy to get to. So ideally
you want it to come with 1024 in the hard-to-get-to slot and the easy one
empty so you can eventually
The nice thing about using a hard drive as backup media is that
incremental backups are consolidated (by copying new/newer files) into a
directory tree that is current and complete. Copying can be with or
without replicating deletions so that old stuff can be preserved in the
backup. The
How difficult is it to get to the hard-to-get-to memory slot? Does it
require taking apart more of the case or is it just difficult to access
through the main opening?
Major disassembly.
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Is this not the proper instruction set for the MacBook in question?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303721
Yes. I was wrong. (About a Mac no less.) I missed the news that the new
laptops had a major change. This eliminates a major problem that the
previous models had. Sorry.
Lies, damn lies and...well you know.
When we describe actual IT horrors they call it anecdotal and dismiss
it.
When we show survey results they make fun of statistics.
I would say the bad guys are in deep, deep denial. They are severely
damaging their organizations and want to continue to do
Through past IT non-involvement, I've had to acquire quite a few IT skills
myself, consequently don't need IT assistance often (in part because of
all of you on this listserv). Yet, I enjoy working with the staff, so I
don't think working with computers all day alone can make one anti-social.
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