Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil @jaybird got your email; will deal with it soon. Deluged at the mo. And I agree with your stance; as a rule, cutting yourself off doesn't help any if you have the means to drop the DRM. Although of course I wish Audible wouldn't use it to start

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil OK, found two links bound for New Zealand (mega.co.nz). Requires Chrome or Flash for download. Hope you can handle that.For Windows (1.71).For Mac (0.09).The Windows version is probably the superior because it performs batch conversions. But as I

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil OK, found two links bound for New Zealand (mega.co.nz). Requires Chrome or Flash for download. Hope you can handle that.For Windows (1.71).For Mac (0.09).The Windows version is probably the superior because it performs batch conversions. But as I

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil @jaybird got your email; will deal with it soon. Deluged at the mo. And I agree with your stance; as a rule, cutting yourself off doesn't help any if you have the means to drop the DRM. Although of course I wish Audible wouldn't use it to start

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil I think I understand you. There's something psychological going on.DRM makes premium bits feel more premium. I'm sure I've experienced that. Heck, I'm sure Audible was responsible for that, to some extent. It's such a wonderful, vertical,

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil I think DRM is evil because it takes control away from the user; that's it's function, and it wouldn't be very useful DRM without it. It is a software adversary, that protects its masters from its users, and presumes guilt over innocence. And

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil @Figment: Yes. I completely understand that a retailer has the right to refuse business for any reason, and that indeed, returns can mean losses that, if unchecked, would not provide any incentive for the customer to moderate their spending.

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil @enes: files received, thanks! I wish I'd checked my PMs sooner; I already had them, but through Mega, which on any browser besides Chrome requires Adobe bloody Flash to obtain. Ugh! Ended up using Chrome on XP, which supports the APIs required.

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Do you mean a media player or an ID3 killer? Afraid I don't know of many ID3 killers; id3kill was the one I know about, but that works only on MP3 files of course, and is now quite old.There are lots and lots of media players and virtual

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil Conversion between lossy formats is a problem, etc. I could probably manage, but really, I'd much rather just get the actual, decrypted, compressed data. Anyway, this was back in the days of the Audible codec for Windows Media Player

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please @afrim: I think you need another app like VLC if you're playing from the cloud automatically. There are also other apps that can simulate network drives, which play music, and you should look into those. The only way to make use of the

Re: MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) For Sale in the UK

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) For Sale in the UK FYI, the MacBook was sold. Sale closed ( but not the topic ). URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250438#p250438 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil Yeah I know. I really don't like wandering off the straight and narrow. I guess if you purchase audiobooks then you appreciate that, especially when you have devices (iPhone, Stream) and software (iTunes) that support Audible so perfectly and

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil Well, legal options would certainly be very interesting, given that these are digital purchases. Or rather, licenses ...It's certainly an idea though. We're just trawling for info at this point. And it doesn't look as if it's a particularly new

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil @enes Thanks, I responded in a PM. Probably, because PMs don't generate email notifies, it's simpler just to email (I have a direct address, although forum mail works too). URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250417#p250417

Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil Thanks guys.You can be sure I'm looking, but it seems that Inaudible is now being chased by Audible (surprise!) because it decrypts the material losslessly. It is now on a private tracker somewhere. Anyone know where and how? I can save myself,

FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil Amazon have closed my brother's account because he was returning too many articles to them. He'd apparently crossed some sacred threshold or other--presumably one calculated to be the least profitable to Amazon--with the result that he can no longer

FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil Amazon have closed my brother's account because he was returning too many articles to them. He'd apparently crossed some sacred threshold or other--presumably one calculated to be the least profitable to Amazon--with the result that he can no longer

FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil Amazon have closed my brother's account because he was returning too many articles to them. He'd apparently crossed some sacred threshold or other--presumably one calculated to be the least profitable to Amazon--with the result that he can no longer

FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil Amazon have closed my brother's account because he was returning too many articles to them. He'd apparently crossed some sacred threshold or other--presumably one calculated to be the least profitable to Amazon--with the result that my brother can no

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Outlook Express an efficient, bloat-free client? Ugh! Never! Outlook Express was essentially a web browser masquerading as an email program--"Client" is too generous a term here, since its only real connection to email is that it (poorly,

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Outlook Express an efficient, bloat-free client? Ugh! Never! Outlook Express was essentially a web browser masquerading as an email program--"Client" is too generous a term here, since its only real connection to email is that it (poorly,

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Can you use iCloud to transfer music? Good question! I think the answer is that you can, but that you will need a third-party app to actually play the media files (like VLC, for example). Dropbox probably has the edge here because it has

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Yes. Or the blind gal who couldn't talk to his bank over the phone because the mindless gorp at the other end heard a second person--presumably a sighted person--reading out the account's card details to her, for relay to the bank.The

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Yes. Or the blind gal who couldn't talk to her bank over the phone because the mindless gorp at the other end heard a second person--presumably a sighted person--reading out the account's card details to her, for relay to the bank.The

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Yes. Or the blind gal who couldn't talk to her bank over the phone because the mindless gorp at the other end heard a second person--presumably a sighted person--reading out the account's card details to her, for relay to the bank.The

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Well, I think both human and automated checks are good, but that because security concerns mean that automated checks are frequently inadequate, humans often need be involved--humans with precious little intelligence. The solution is

Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please

2016-02-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please Great thread and some nice opening suggestions for apps here. Think I've got everything now. The number of things I do on my desktop gets smaller and smaller over time, and I just seriously wonder whether desktops are even cool anymore. I

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-02-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Mmm, doesn't sound too healthy, but no matter, I have clean images if it should come to that.And yeah, there's really no downside to actually having optical media. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249870#p249870

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-02-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Ditto, XP for me too (at least in a VM running on my Mac).Yes. Just write the XP ISO (which I hope is an official full ISO, either retail or OEM, for which you have a key) to the disc. You could probably have spared some of the cost with CD-Rs rather than

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-02-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Ditto, XP for me too (at least in a VM running on my Mac).Yes. Just write the XP ISO (which I hope is an official full ISO, either retail or OEM, for which you have a key) to the disc. You could probably have spared some of the cost with CD-Rs rather than

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini The drivers you want will certainly be on that image, as long as the DVD is newer than the Mac. Indeed, the drivers downloaded by BootCamp Assistant are intended for Windows 7 and up, at least on contemporary versions of OS X, which probably explains why you're

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Well played. I didn't know you had a Windows VM, but that is indeed what you are after.That stuff on the DVD is mostly from the bad old days when the MacBook Air used networked optical drives to boot and install OS X. It's all now irrelevant, except the Windows

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-02-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Try to follow the instructions on this thread.If this doesn't work, I can just send you the drivers, as I know I have recent ones for XP.Good luck ... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249704#p249704

MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) For Sale

2016-02-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) For Sale I have a fairly recent Retina MacBook Pro, mid 2014, 2.8 GHz quad-core I7 Haswell, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, in excellent condition, that I am no longer using, for sale to anyone within the UK. I'd like £900 plus postage for it. I bought the MacBook Pro for a

Re: MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) For Sale in the UK

2016-02-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) For Sale in the UK Hey Arq. No problem about the hijacking: I like talking about Macs. And you reminded me of another point which I'll mention. But first ...Nah, I doubt you'd experience any difference worth talking about while just doing everyday things. In

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-02-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Yes, you ought to be able to extract the BootCamp drivers from your Snow Leopard image, using a tool like TheUnarchiver. If you're having any trouble, just let me know and I'll MailDrop them to you.Buy those DVD-RW discs. Or go cheaper and buy DVD-R, it hardly

Re: REquesting Window eyes assistance

2016-02-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: REquesting Window eyes assistance Hi Dark.As you know, I'm not often in Windows nowadays, so I apologise if any of this turns out to be wrong, but here is what I remember from my glorious past as a Window-Eyes advocate. Control-Shift-W reads the entire window.The WE cursor is an

Re: Dear Windows, lets just be friends.

2016-02-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Dear Windows, lets just be friends. As with Aaron, I say, very well put and remarked upon by all.I hope I don't qualify as too elitist an Apple fanboy. I think of Windows sometimes too. Steam works better on OS X from what I hear, however the games available are far more limited.

Re: Dear Windows, lets just be friends.

2016-02-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Dear Windows, lets just be friends. As with Aaron, I say, very well put and remarked upon by all.I hope I don't qualify as too elitist an Apple fanboy. I think of Windows sometimes too. Steam works better on OS X from what I hear, however the games available are far more limited.

Re: Dear Windows, lets just be friends.

2016-02-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Dear Windows, lets just be friends. As with Aaron, I say, very well put and remarked upon by all.I hope I don't qualify as too elitist an Apple fanboy. I think of Windows sometimes too. Steam works better on OS X from what I hear, however the games available are far more limited.

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order They didn't remove the tiles, and no they won't learn. You can configure it IIRC, but I'm not going to install it to find out. Classic Shell does work, though--that is when MS aren't disabling it. I think M$ simply don't like apologising or admitting

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order What about the new Start menu? Is that any less broken than it was? It used to be slow, too. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249271#p249271 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-02-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini It's not that the idea is bad (I already covered it on this thread, in fact) but that, somehow, you need to be able to provide a bootable environment without using any optical media, and only using the tools in OS X. So for instance, you could get the MBR from

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-02-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order If you absolutely insist on upgrading, for whatever reason, then at least take a backup. Your personal files, at minimum, but a full system image is even better. It is known that the rollback process sometimes isn't available for the full, advertised

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-02-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @aaron: you should be all right. When the dialog comes up, just press "Later" or close the window (which is permanent). You can always download the media creation tool yourself if you wish, and use your existing Win7/8/8.1 key to do a fresh install. If

Re: Before the Mini: Using an Aire To Prepare

2016-02-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Before the Mini: Using an Aire To Prepare +1 Chris.QT accessibility is improving, although not all apps (in particular VirtualBox) are accessible enough to be usable. TeamTalk, apparently, may now work. This is indeed the worst part of OS X: accessibility politics, and realising that

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-02-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order It's here. Windows 10 is now a "Recommended" update. We knew this was coming, of course. Watch out.@Chris: I don't know whether Windows Mobile spies like 10 does, although as you said, I'd not be surprised. I know that previous versions were excellent;

Re: When do you truly lose it all?

2016-02-01 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: When do you truly lose it all? @nocturnus: no shame at all in asking for help when you need it. You're just as important as everybody else.I sent you $100. I know it's only a tiny fraction of what you need. I hope others can pitch in. URL:

Re: When do you truly lose it all?

2016-01-31 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: When do you truly lose it all? "Bollocks" doesn't really begin to describe it. Nevertheless, I stand by what I said in post 3. Don't despair.I will see if I can't send you some money in the near future. It won't be much, but I trust that every bit helps. URL:

Re: The Accessible *BSD Effort

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Re: The Accessible *BSD Effort @king gamer 222: it wasn't speech from the machine itself. It was an installation operated entirely over a serial line, from installation to usage. The "Client" was Windows, or Linux with Minicom or SSH. Ultimately I stopped using it because, while I loved

Re: Before the Mini: Using an Aire To Prepare

2016-01-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Before the Mini: Using an Aire To Prepare LOL, re the breathing. I'm now quite used to it, really. Well, OK, so when I first heard it I thought it was way cool. I guess if you need Macintalk but can't stand Alex, there is Fred. He's awful quiet, and IMO has his own problems (he is no

Re: Before the Mini: Using an Aire To Prepare

2016-01-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Before the Mini: Using an Aire To Prepare Somebody mentioned the Dock.When you have the time on your own Mac, do a VO+Shift+M to get a context menu on any item that's described as a folder, and choose the option to view it as a list. Now it's an accessible menu, instead of a pretty

Re: The Accessible *BSD Effort

2016-01-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Accessible *BSD Effort ammericandad2005 wrote:if I remember correctly, bsd was the bastard cousin to linux.If you said that to a BSD devotee, to their faces, they'd have your guts for garters. @king gamer222: sure, what you got? I use OS X now, and have had experience in the past

Re: Before the Mini: Using an Aire To Prepare

2016-01-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Before the Mini: Using an Aire To Prepare Somebody mentioned the Dock.When you have the time on your own Mac, do a VO+Shift+M to get a context menu on any item that's described as a folder, and choose the option to view it as a list. Now it's an accessible menu, instead of a pretty

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @Flyby Chow: I think you can do this (emphasis on "Think"). All these releases of Windows use the same VHD technology for image backups, so I don't see why an earlier version of Windows shouldn't be able to restore a later one unless the VHD image file

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order So, on VMWare.Time to file some bugs to Apple about being open to third-party toolkits. If we lose Fusion ... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=248048#p248048 ___ Audiogames-reflector

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order I've got a nice long list of bugs here in a text file. I'm reporting accessibility bugs on Fridays. Although, TBH, I'm wondering whether reporting on Fridays makes any difference at all if nobody else is doing it ...Send your gripes to accessibility at

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

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Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @wanderer: you could do worse than to try using the "--enable-speech-dispatcher" switch, but IIUC that appears as an option in CV options if installed. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=248019#p248019

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @wanderer: you could do worse than to try using the "--enable-speech-dispatcher" switch, but IIUC that appears as an option in CV options if installed.And the Google TTS patches are available from subversion somewhere; would need to dig up the

Re: When do you truly lose it all?

2016-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: When do you truly lose it all? Of course, I can hardly comment on the gravity of your situation, Nocturnus, what with having not experienced it. So I'm not even going to bother trying to.What I can absolutely, definitely say is that you reacted admirably and sensibly. Think of all the

Re: When do you truly lose it all?

2016-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: When do you truly lose it all? LOL! Yes, can't deny to having the same thought; Apple are now going to guarantee your compliance, one way or the other. Either that or the Lord saw what was coming, and made the necessary arrangements for your next computer for when the time came for you

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @nocturnus: re Cortana making you keep promises you send in email, it's certainly creepy and I'd certainly turn that off, but to MS's credit it's not actually a problem if the data doesn't leave your device. It's stuff like the forced "Basic" telemetry

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @nocturnus: re Cortana making you keep promises you send in email, it's certainly creepy and I'd certainly turn that off, but to MS's credit it's not actually a problem if the data doesn't leave your device. It's stuff like the forced "Basic" telemetry

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

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Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @Wanderer: yeah I'm pretty sure I've actually seen this work, I just need to get together the patience and the breath. ALSA certainly works; I can enable and use it in another, textmode guest that I have here, and it works just fine after I set the volume

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order I'm keeping an eye (ear, whatever) on ChromeOS. ChromeVox is undergoing serious renovation. It's now quite Mac-like--more than usual--and supports the chrome outside Chrome, as it were, i.e. all of the menus and system apps. It's no longer a mere

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

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Re: The Windows 10 New World Order +1.My thoughts coming up. Get a barf bag handy. I have been trying to reconcile my apparent desire to use Windows, which I feel very strongly every now and again, with the reality, which is that I rarely do. Sometimes its the refinement of Windows screen

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

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Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @Chris: Linux is an option, although really the question of which Linux and desktop and how to get it installed is something of a maze. I prefer to bootstrap, which is not the easiest thing in the world to do, because I haven't found a live CD that can

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

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Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @Chris: Linux is an option, although really the question of which Linux and desktop and how to get it installed is something of a maze. I prefer to bootstrap, which is not the easiest thing in the world to do, because I haven't found a live CD that can

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

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Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @Chris: Linux is an option, although really the question of which Linux and desktop and how to get it installed is something of a maze. I prefer to bootstrap, which is not the easiest thing in the world to do, because I haven't found a live CD that can

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

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Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Put the disc in the drive, then go to System Information and look under Disc Burning. You should be able to learn about the media that way. You can also try just erasing the disc in Disk Utility. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247795#p247795

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-01-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Put the disc in the drive, then go to System Information and look under Disc Burning. You should be able to learn about the media that way. You can also try just erasing the disc in Disk Utility.To be a teensy-weensy bit fair to Apple, machines often had

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Well, of the Mac Mini and iMac, iMac gets you more at the higher price points. And as is generally advised where specs are concerned, more is usually always better. I generally always by the highest and most of everything when I can, simply for that

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Well, of the Mac Mini and iMac, iMac gets you more at the higher price points. And as is generally advised where specs are concerned, more is usually always better. I generally always by the highest and most of everything when I can, simply for that

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-01-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini And as an aside, the bloke who sold you them clearly scammed you, since machine-specific discs should never be sold without the Macs they came with. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247779#p247779

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order +1. Narrator is improved, but impractical. It's almost like MS copy-pasted Apple's ideas (even the touch gestures!) but stopped short of actually making it a usable substitute for a commercial screen reader, sort of like a proof of concept that's only

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Fix privacy on Ubuntu, on OS X and, last but definitely least, on Windoze. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247594#p247594 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Fix privacy on Ubuntu, on OS X and, last and definitely not least, on Windoze. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247594#p247594 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Blimey. Now, don't do anything hasty ...But you're right. I know I'm pissed, and Windows isn't my primary OS. Choose wisely, try the machines out, take full advantage of the refund policy, do the research on the net to learn how it's done, and seek help

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Blimey. Now, don't do anything hasty ...But you're right. I know I'm pissed, and Windows isn't my primary OS. Choose wisely, try the machines out, take full advantage of the refund policy, do the research on the net to learn how it's done, and seek help

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @Theo yes, it means you're OK. Cool.@Nocturnus NP, and feel free to follow up in further OT posts/topics if your questions merit them, as usual. To answer the questions you have posed now and my general advice: as a rule bigger is better, and because

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order That's the spirit! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247665#p247665 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @Arq: as per Safari preferences, Command-enter is equivalent to Command-click. So, if you use tabs and have tabs open instead of windows, Command-Enter will open the link in a new tab. You can close it with Command-W, whether it is a tab or a window. I do

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order QT apps: not so good. Once upon a time they were just about usable, but now it's completely hit or miss (and usually miss). Apparently Apple and Nokia got into a "It's all your fault!" argument and we lost. My understanding of Apple's APIs leads me to the

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Yes, indeed. Least worst desktop OS, here we come. Now, we shall see just how well Apple can meet your needs. Good luck, have fun, enjoy yourself. Try not to give up and go back to Windows. URL:

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order That's the great thing about this thread: it exposes all the blatant MS fanboys. Of course, we must be very careful not to be elitist about this whole situation. It's just that we're right, that's all. Computing should be accessible to all, but *NOT* at

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order That's the great thing about this thread: it exposes all the blatant MS fanboys. Of course, we must be very careful not to be elitist about this whole situation. It's just that we're right, that's all. Computing should be accessible to all, but *NOT* at

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Mmm, you still need a bootable Windows OS to get it going. That means a CD. Trust me, my 2011 iMac couldn't do MBR USB boot, either. Although I'm not exactly sure what might happen if you try to start the UEFI loader on the Mac from USB. Maybe, if you did, and

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini @Chris: yes. Macs can boot from GPT-format USB media, but only the newest Macs (starting with MacBook Airs, I believe) know how to boot MBR, which is what you need for Windows. I wasn't wrong, I'm afraid. You'll need that ISO burned to a CD.To get the drive nice

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Yep. Windows 3.0 for me. 95 good, 98 rotten, 98 SE good, Windows ME pretty awful, Win NT/2K double-plus good, XP initially awful but then got to pretty damned excellent at about SP1, really at SP2. Vista made me switch to OS X. 7 was just Vista with a

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order @blindncool: which Linux?And re Ubuntu: not for much longer, happily. Dash's Amazon integration will soon be retired. Then Linux really will be the final refuge. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247554#p247554

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini If it shows up as a USB audio device in OS X, then the likelihood is good that it's fine for USB audio in Windows. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247542#p247542 ___ Audiogames-reflector

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order I did really like XP. Sure, Classic Shell is half the battle, but modern Windows is still a very large sprawling mess. I mean look at the list in services.msc and Task Scheduler. It's appalling!Yes, it's modern. I do appreciate that. But XP works, it

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order I did really like XP. Sure, Classic Shell is half the battle, but modern Windows is still a very large sprawling mess. I mean look at the list in services.msc and Task Scheduler. It's appalling!Yes, it's modern. I do appreciate that. But XP works, it

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Mmm, dunno. For all that MS don't want it to be the case, the truth is that their whole success is predicated on back-compatibility. And yeah, lazy they may be, but isn't it the right of the people to choose? Remember, we've been through worse:

Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment

2016-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment It just gets better and better.This isn't actually about spyware or the Windows 10 nagware, but it's still relevant to this thread because it's another underhanded tactic for getting people onto Win10. So ...Microsoft is giving Windows

Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment

2016-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment It just gets better and better. This isn't actually about spyware or the Windows 10 nagware, but it's still relevant to this thread because it's another underhanded tactic for getting people onto Win10. So ...Microsoft is giving Windows

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

2016-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hi Chris.Yes, install Windows to save your Mac. And yes, good ol' XP is probably the best option. The BootCamp drivers are on your Snow Leopard disc, which I hope you have, although I can also find you some up-to-date ones I've rescued. You won't be USB-booting

Re: talking windows pe four 64 bit installation of windows now available.

2016-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: talking windows pe four 64 bit installation of windows now available. The Mac allows programatic changing of the firmware NVRAM variables in OS X, which includes changing the boot device for both single-use and thereafter. Ditto for Linux, albeit that the support is more

Re: The Windows 10 New World Order

2016-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Sebby via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order Windows 8.1 plus Classic Shell works just fine for me too. No need of an upgrade, and no wish for it either. And yeah, Win7 was somewhat crappy, really; it's only that it was marginally better than Vista that people took to it at all, and to be honest

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