From: William Robb
From: steve harley
On 2010-04-08 03:08 , Joseph McAllister wrote:
Risks are Risks. How many Toyota owners stopped driving their cars
because of the 'risk' that their gas pedal may stick?
risks are usually not clearly perceived; nonetheless, Toyota has taken a
large
On Apr 8, 2010, at 09:23 , steve harley wrote:
i'm just arguing for realism; don't get me wrong, i like using Macs;
i've been a Mac specialist in one sense or another for over twenty
years; it's nice not to worry much about viruses, but there are
plenty of other risks
The use of the
On Apr 7, 2010, at 08:34 , steve harley wrote:
my post wasn't about malware, it was about zero-day exploits, which
are descriptions of exploitable methods that were published before
the hole had been patched; some had enough detail to be exploited
by even dumb black-hats; i didn't claim
On 2010-04-08 03:08 , Joseph McAllister wrote:
Risks are Risks. How many Toyota owners stopped driving their cars
because of the 'risk' that their gas pedal may stick?
risks are usually not clearly perceived; nonetheless, Toyota has taken a
large sales hit, and in my casual observation i have
- Original Message -
From: steve harley
Subject: Re: adobe pdf question
On 2010-04-08 03:08 , Joseph McAllister wrote:
Risks are Risks. How many Toyota owners stopped driving their cars
because of the 'risk' that their gas pedal may stick?
risks are usually not clearly perceived
On 2010-04-08 14:11 , William Robb wrote:
Interestingly, I just heard on the radio that Toyota saw sales jump 40%
over the past short while.
Intersting that people are afraid to drive them, yet are willingly
buying them.
that same article should have also mentioned that Toyota used incentives
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 02:11:50PM -0600, William Robb wrote:
Interestingly, I just heard on the radio that Toyota saw sales jump 40%
over the past short while.
Ah, but 40% up from what?
If sales had previously fallen off by 60%, say, from an earlier period,
then an increase of 40% from that
Top posting may be the devil, but it's hard to do otherwise when I'm
responding via the Gmail app on an iPod Touch. ;-)
But I'm on my laptop now.
Graydon:
... So I'd be wildly disinclined to suppose that just because you're on OS X
you're safe. ...
I don't make such inappropriate assumptions,
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Top posting may be the devil, but it's hard to do otherwise when I'm
responding via the Gmail app on an iPod Touch. ;-)
Top-posting, using Gmail *and* using an iPhone??? Why don't you just
get 666 tattooed on your forehead?
;-)
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On 2010-04-07 06:22 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
However, all of the citations you posted, and steve posted, are not
citations of actual incidents. They are reports of professional
investigators finding malware, not actual incidents of malware
affecting users.
my post wasn't about malware, it was
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Top posting may be the devil, but it's hard to do otherwise when I'm
responding via the Gmail app on an iPod Touch. ;-)
Top-posting, using Gmail *and* using an iPhone??? Why don't you just
get 666
I personally find bottom posting painful to follow - here is my take:
if you aren't actively reading the thread or can't remember what is
going on in the thread, then bottom posting works well - because you
basically keep re-reading the entire thread in each post.
If you are actively following the
On 4/7/2010 9:58 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
I personally find bottom posting painful to follow - here is my take:
Which is why long standing rules of netiquette say that you should reply
on a line by line basis.
if you aren't actively reading the thread or can't remember what is
going on in
I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print
something with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in safari,
it brings safari down with it.
I just upgraded adobe reader from 9.2 to 9.3 and it still does it.
I tried printing a PDF with photoshop CS3, but it only
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:42 -0700, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print
something with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in safari,
it brings safari down with it.
I just upgraded adobe reader from 9.2 to 9.3 and it
On 5/4/10, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print
something with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in safari,
it brings safari down with it.
I just upgraded adobe reader from 9.2 to 9.3 and it still does it.
On 10.5.8
On Apr 6, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
This seems to be an example of how things just work on a mac, except when
they don't.
Well it is Adobe ;)
Have you tried opening the file in Preview and printing from there? I can't
say I've ever had a problem but I don't have Adobe Reader on
Using photoshop, you can import the pages one at a time and convert them to
tiffs or jpegs.
Paul
On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print something
with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in safari, it brings
David Mann wrote:
On Apr 6, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
This seems to be an example of how things just work on a mac, except when they
don't.
Well it is Adobe ;)
Have you tried opening the file in Preview and printing from there? I can't
say I've ever had a problem but I don't
Larry,
Try buying iBook Pro, and if that doesn't help, you can buy iPad.
If it won't work still, you can resort to installing Windows under
Parallels, and using that for printing from Adobe.
:-P)~~~
Igor
PS. Excuse me for Macking around.
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:42 -0700, Larry Colen lrc at
On 2010-04-06 00:42 , Larry Colen wrote:
I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print
something with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in safari, it
brings safari down with it.
i'd try deleting the font caches; the Apple caches can be deleted by
restarting with
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print something
with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in safari, it brings safari
down with it.
I just upgraded adobe reader from 9.2 to 9.3 and it still
On 4/6/2010 8:34 AM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-04-06 00:42 , Larry Colen wrote:
I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print
something with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in safari, it
brings safari down with it.
i'd try deleting the font caches; the Apple
On 4/6/2010 9:09 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Larry Colenl...@red4est.com wrote:
Try printing your documents with Preview rather than Adobe Reader. If
that crashes, the problem could be the document itself.
I've had this problem with every PDF file that I've
From: Larry Colen
Try printing your documents with Preview rather than Adobe Reader. If
that crashes, the problem could be the document itself.
I've had this problem with every PDF file that I've tried to print over
the past several months. I've usually gotten around it by printing from
On 2010-04-06 10:28 , Larry Colen wrote:
This has happened over several versions of adobe reader, and several
power cycles of the machine. Are the cache's stored on disk?
yes, and the Apple caches can be cleared via some shell commands too,
but not just by deleting some files; the best
On 2010-04-06 11:15 , John Sessoms wrote:
When you open a multi-page PDF file in Photoshop it should give you a
dialog box with thumbnails of all the pages. You choose the page you
want to work on.
and note that by opening a PDF in Photoshop you are rasterizing the
selected page of PDF, which
On 6/4/10, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
bash is my preferred environment. I'm American, not Chinese, I prefer to
communicate with words rather than pictures.
Pictures of naked breasts are my preferred environment. I'm British.
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Cotty
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On 6/4/10, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
I'll see if I can find any way to open it in preview.
Click once on the file to highlight it. Keyboard Command + i for File
Info, see 'Open with section, select 'Preview'. You also have the option
to allow Preview to open all documents of that
BTW I only recently discovered in 10.5.8 that you can select any file,
hit the spacebar and you get an instant preview, full screen if
necessary, without actually opening that file, text, pics, video,
anything. That is very cool :)
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Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
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On 4/6/2010 11:21 AM, Cotty wrote:
On 6/4/10, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
bash is my preferred environment. I'm American, not Chinese, I prefer to
communicate with words rather than pictures.
Pictures of naked breasts are my preferred environment. I'm British.
If I'm
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote:
On 6/4/10, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
I'll see if I can find any way to open it in preview.
Click once on the file to highlight it. Keyboard Command + i for File
Info, see 'Open with section, select 'Preview'. You
On 2010-04-06 12:47 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Or, control-click (right-click if you've got a mouse configured for
two button) and pick Preview off the menu.
or, if Preview is in your Dock, drag the file onto the Preview icon; or
if Preview is already running, click and drag the document,
Em, while you may not have explicitly opened the file, if you can read
it, you've opened it.
On 4/6/2010 2:30 PM, Cotty wrote:
BTW I only recently discovered in 10.5.8 that you can select any file,
hit the spacebar and you get an instant preview, full screen if
necessary, without actually
At some level, this is true but the Mac OS X Finder application reads
and displays the contents of the file for you in this instance. Steve
has not explicitly called a file system function to open the file. The
Finder keeps aware of where you are as you move around in the file
system and pre-loads
On 6/4/10, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
At some level, this is true but the Mac OS X Finder application reads
and displays the contents of the file for you in this instance. Steve
has not explicitly called a file system function to open the file. The
Finder keeps aware of where
On 4/6/2010 5:25 PM, Cotty wrote:
On 6/4/10, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
At some level, this is true but the Mac OS X Finder application reads
and displays the contents of the file for you in this instance. Steve
has not explicitly called a file system function to open
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:52 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is what engine is it using to display the image, the OS may be
rock solid, but the display engine could have problems. ...
Since the Finder is the standard tool delivered by Apple with Mac OS X
for
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:09:59AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi scripsit:
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
I'm running OS 10.5.8 on an iMac. Every time that I try to print
something with adobe reader, adobe reader crashes. If it's in
safari, it brings safari
While I don't disbelieve you, I've yet to see a single credible report
of a Adobe Reader/PDF malware attack on Mac OS X documented. If you
can cite one I'd be much obliged.
Thanks!
On Tuesday, April 6, 2010, Graydon gray...@marost.ca wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:09:59AM -0700, Godfrey
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:02:05PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi scripsit:
While I don't disbelieve you, I've yet to see a single credible report
of a Adobe Reader/PDF malware attack on Mac OS X documented. If you
can cite one I'd be much obliged.
Top-posting is of the devil.
Graydon wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:02:05PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi scripsit:
While I don't disbelieve you, I've yet to see a single credible report
of a Adobe Reader/PDF malware attack on Mac OS X documented. If you
can cite one I'd be much obliged.
Top-posting is of the devil.
On 2010-04-06 20:04 , Bruce Walker wrote:
Possible security hazards are found all the time, and fixed, most often
in a timely fashion. A big Mac OS X update was released last week that
fixed dozens of security issues uncovered by researchers. *However*,
there aren't any known exploits out there
Neither deleting the adobe nor the apple caches seemed to do any good,
but I was able to print from preview.
I'm not feeling nerdy enough to try to solve the adobe problem now,
rather than playing with photos and/or going to sleep.
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Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est
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