At 11:43 am +1000 4/23/02, Rocky Road wrote:
In HTML would that be rant and then /rant? :)
Yeah... My HTML chews, but I should have caught the first slash. The
-off part just makes sense for most people.
I run a couple of computers and when I upgrade software with a free
upgrade off the
At 1:37 pm -0400 4/25/02, David W. Fenton wrote:
What makes you think the Mac scenario doesn't involve a boot manager?
There are plenty of boot managers for Windows that will do what you want.
David --
I didn't and don't want to fan a platform war -- I think they usually
have as much meaning
At 1:12 pm -0400 5/2/02, David W. Fenton wrote:
The way around that is to tell them you are using the router for the
minimal firewall protection that it's NAT features give you.
{...}
This is a valid configuration, one computer connected to a router,
A very valid configuration. I would never
At 12:05 pm +0200 5/10/02, Jari Williamsson wrote:
So do you suggest that we should move from the flexible
any-page-can-have-any-size to an only-one-page-size-per-document
approach?
Of course not. It's just the wisdom of requiring the user, especially
the new user, to select the orientation
At 9:28 pm -0400 5/18/02, Crystal Premo wrote:
I want to create music examples in Finale on the MAC, then use them
in a desktop publisher on a Windows machine. I tried saving them as
.tifs and .eps's, but they are not recognized on the Windows
machine. Please help me. Again.
Crystal --
At 5:15 pm -0400 5/19/02, Crystal Premo wrote:
Graphic Converter has options in the save box for this.
Graphic Converter?
Go to http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=1870db=mac
GraphicConverter is the premier application for translating
bit-mapped files from one format to another.
At 7:40 AM -0400 6/23/02, David H. Bailey wrote:
127 is actually NOT one less than a power of two, since computers
use 0 as a real number, so 0-127 represent 128 values, which is a
common number to run into in programming,
127 is 2 to the 7th - 1, also known as 0111 (in binary). For
Tobias --
At 11:57 AM +0200 6/26/02, Tobias Giesen wrote:
I, at least, am willing to pay the extra cost that Kagi charges
for their service just to have the peace of mind that comes from
knowing that they take transaction security seriously.
a) The customer is never charged such fees,
Dennis --
At 6:03 AM -0400 6/26/02, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Eh? I've used them all, but try to avoid Kagi, which is a private company.
Most of the places (though not most of the total dollar volume) at
which I use my card in the corporeal world are private companies. I
don't see how
At 12:49 PM +0200 6/27/02, Tobias Giesen wrote:
Dennis:
The banking lobby has been successful in stopping all laws
designed to protect customers from fraudulent electronic
withdrawals from their checking accounts.
In Germany, you simply go to the bank and cancel the unauthorized
At 8:15 AM -0700 6/27/02, Robert Patterson wrote:
It [Billpoint] provides secure web payment w/o looking at bank
accounts or requiring sign
up. It is unlike (at least) Kagi, in that there is no storefront.
You request an
invoice from the seller, the seller sends it, you pay it. As with Paypal,
All --
News for those of us who despise PayPal's Reach Out and Touch
Someone's Bank Account attitude, but find eBay's Billpoint system
relatively benign; a story on Lycos:
http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=27736031
Relevant quote:
eBay's current payment service, eBay
At 7:19 pm -0400 9/18/02, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I'm gonna defend David on this one, because although I've used
Finale for nearly 11 years, I despise using lyrics and find the
whole system distasteful and regressive.
Thank you Dennis for standing up to say this. I seldom use lyrics
with
At 10:58 pm -0400 10/5/02, Howard Rigby wrote:
What I want to know is whether any of you can recommend a particular
prepress PDF manipulator that can do the following *without* me
having to use the Finale source files:
allow a cover and endpage not already in the Handlo PDF;
the ability to
At 7:34 am -0800 11/14/02, Robert Patterson wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 07:25:08 -0800 (PST), Andrew Stiller wrote:
An order of magnitude means a factor of 10.
I hate to be technical, but an order of magnitude means a factor of
X, where X is any number you choose (including real imaginary
At 2:38 pm -0500 11/24/02, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Is this a new feature or what?
Yes. This is an incredibly stupid and undesirable feature of the
new mailing list software. The solution is to choose reply all
when posting to the list. Or manually pasting in the address for
the Finale
At 2:53 pm -0500 11/25/02, Darcy James Argue wrote:
...For lists such as these, the *overwhelming majority* of replies
are intended for the entire list. Only a very small number of
replies are meant to be private, and it seems to me if you want to
send a private reply, the burden is on *you*
At 12:59 pm -0500 11/26/02, John Howell wrote:
I agree completely. The purpose of a mailing list is conversation
among members of the list. That should be implemented as a matter
of course. And is on almost all the other lists I'm on.
BUT! I'd like to hear from our listmom whether
of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) cancelling my order.
Original message to finalesales and macsupport:
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dennis W. Manasco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cancellation of Order Number
to flame me, but I think that this is an exchange that
should be made public.
-=-Dennis
Reply to email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] dated Wed, 13 Aug
2003 15:56:12 -0500:
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To: Finale Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dennis W. Manasco [EMAIL
At 4:11 pm -0400 8/28/03, Andrew Stiller wrote:
As long as we're on this general subject, let me pose another such
problem, also on the Mac.
Norton Utilities keeps telling me that I have a couple of bad blocks
on my hard drive that it can't repair because they are in vital
areas of, I assume,
At 4:23 pm +0200 8/29/03, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Before you do this I would definitely run Norton from it's CD and
see whether it can solve the problem more easily. If it runs into
severe problems it will tell you.
Johannes
On 29.08.2003 12:01 Uhr, Dennis W. Manasco wrote
...
Johannes
At 9:59 am -0400 8/29/03, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Thanks especially to Dennis Manasco for his technical explanation of
my bad-blocks problem.
You are welcome.
The upshot appears to be that I should do nothing, because a)
whatever info is in the bad blocks is certainly not compromising my
At 5:03 pm -0400 8/30/03, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Nick Carter and I have been discussing the possibility of a new
edition of my book, which I hope will become possible within a year,
and would include this and numerous other recent developments--and
second thoughts.
As a vote for the
At 12:52 pm +0200 8/30/03, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
The point is that the problem is in Andrew's OS 9 partition, not the OS X one.
Was it actually in a _ separate_partition_? I thought that Andrew was
using his iMac fairly generically as an out-of-the-box computer and
just booting into OS 9
to flame me, but I think that this is an exchange that
should be made public.
-=-Dennis
Reply to email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] dated Wed, 13 Aug
2003 15:56:12 -0500:
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To: Finale Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dennis W. Manasco [EMAIL
At 9:20 pm -0500 11/6/03, Raymond Horton wrote:
OK, it's sounds like it's failing hard drive, all right, but none of
the problems I was having with the old computer were anywhere close
to the hard drive.
If it _is_ a failing drive, and as a last resort,
http://www.drivesavers.com/, though it
At 3:43 am -0600 11/23/03, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
I wrote in part:
and for a few tens of dollars, one can purchase a file converter
which will convert the WAV to MP3 format, among others;
to which Darcy wrote:
iTunes does this for free. You can burn the CDs from there as well.
but I suspect
David --
I'm sorry, but I don't think either the analogy or the analysis
holds. I've ripped tens of gigs of my own CDs with iTunes but I've
yet to purchase a single track. And, of course, I use it to sync my
iPod. That may not be entirely typical, but I don't think it is
entirely atypical
Brad:
If 2004 for the Mac still debuts with Coda/MakeMusic's excremental
phone home copy-protection scheme, then doing the upgrade is a
suicide-watch for our files anyway. I have no desire to experience
that. YMMV.
Coda/MakeMusic:
Please notify me when Coda/MakeMusic produces a version that
At 5:40 pm + 12/31/03, Robert Patterson wrote:
The OS9 Finder compensates in two interdependent ways: one is that
when you click on a window, all windows for that app come foreward.
One can argue the pros and con of this, but it does make the Expose
functionality less necessary, especially
At 3:43 pm -0500 3/15/04, Phil Daley wrote:
In a Windows app, it is not possible to have cascaded windows and
maximized windows at the same time.
As soon as you maximize one cascaded window, all the rest are
automatically maximized, too.
Aside Brad's comments, there is a subtle cultural
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