Excuse me for asking the obvious question, but have you tried
the adjustment buttons on the front of the monitor? If you have
young kids, that is one of the things they eventually get around to
messing with, whereas the adults just forget that those buttons
are there.
I found the display
Worse, this is not CIO magazine's own writers saying this, they
are quoting an analyst with Technology Business Research who
essentially is implying that consumer confidence rebounded in the
second quarter, but only for Apple users. That is some interesting
professional analysis and
Neal Stephson's own words, from his Slashdot interview:
Neal:
You guessed right: I embraced OS X as soon as it was available
and have never looked back. So a lot of In the beginning was the
command line is now obsolete. I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm
honest with myself, I have to say
, 2009, at 6:02 PM, David K Watson wrote:
Even so, it is fun to note (for the purposes of riling up some
people) that in the scenario where either switch was equally
likely, you'd approach a steady state in which there were equal
numbers of windows and mac users
Of course, anecdotal evidence is worth almost nothing, but
even if we accept it as being representative, we still don't actually
know the switching probabilities here. For example, the
windows-mac and mac-windows switching probabilities could
be the same and you'd still see many times more
Actually, some gas stations still do give discounts for cash, like
the one I frequent. I still pay by credit card most of the time though,
as I generally would save less than $ 1 and usually don't carry
a lot of cash on me.
From:Matthew Taylor taylorsmatt...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Batch
If you had dug a little deeper, you would have found that Apple
EOLed AppleWorks two years ago. The links on that page
are all for the updater, not AppleWorks itself.
At 6:52 PM -0700 7/9/09, Jeff Miles wrote:
You are quite right! I never really looked at it beyond it
opening read
From:mike xha...@gmail.com
I like how once again Apple is forcing users to upgrade their OS if
they
want to run the newest Safari. Good thing they have no market share
to
speak of.
It looks like either you or somebody you read saw that one option for
getting Safari is via the
Since you speak of her job in the past tense, I suspect that the
newspaper was running a pre-OS X system. Even well-managed
OS 9 and pre-OS 9 systems were occasionally prone to extension
and control panel conflicts if you used any beyond a basic set,
and your wife's newspaper probably had to use
How much more beyond that to include Exchange support?
In Snow Leopard, you'll have to pay a hefty $0 extra to get it.
Microsoft might actually have something to be happy about in
this regard, because Snow Leopard's Exchange support requires
the most recent version of Exchange, so this will
Well, the people who are most likely to upgrade their OS are the
ones who have recently bought a new one. A significant proportion
of XP users in this group are ones who had to buy a Vista license
in order to run XP, so the XP - Win7 upgrade cost should not
apply to them.
As for the rest of the
SInce this topic came up, the London Homesick Blues
(The I want to go home with the Armadillo... song that used to
open the Austin City Limits program) has been playing in
my head.
From:Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com
Looks like a great place, Rev, it's a shame that it's gone. What a
The running game on the Wii Fit doesn't use the balance board
either. It uses the motion sensor in the remote. You put the
remote in a waist pocket for this. On a related note, Nintendo
has announced the Wii Fit Plus at E3. It has new games
(one lets you pretend to be Mario) and it also has a
I second what Betty said, with the addition that if you did get a
mac, then the Boot Camp partition can be used to run windows
both natively and in a virtual machine, and Apple's drivers lets
you keep much of the functionality of the extremely cool multi-touch
trackpad in Windows. I've been told
It's a funny quote, but it ignores the fact that Wolfram Alpha
was never intended from the start to be a Google killer.
From a PC World article:
The first thing Wolfram Research co-founder Theodore Grey wants you
to know is what Alpha is not: It is no Google killer, as it's been
called by
Sorry to take so long to comment on this, I have been
recovering from a bad cold.
That is not the way FIOS is setup at my house. The fiber optic
cable runs from the pole to the FIOS box outside the house and
from there it is only a coax cable inside the house which is split
to serve different
I had prepared a fairly detailed reply about how to set up your
Airport to use a USB printer, then I noticed the IP in your
printer name and looked it up. The Canon PIXMA iP90v
has built-in wireless. If you go to http://www.usa.canon.com/
and look for the downloads for your printer, you can
First, turn off the Airport for now, so it doesn't complicate things.
Also, go to Network preferences for your macbook and select the
Show Airport status in menu bar option if you haven't already.
Try unplugging the power from the Verizon modem and see if
the MacBook is still getting a signal.
The Nation magazine has been completely dependent on a wealthy
benefactor
since it started publishing 100 years ago. It has yet to make one
dime of
profit on its own and would have gone out of business decades ago
otherwise.
Just to provide a slight correction and a little context here,
So the choice is to read one mag who supports enhanced
interrogation, or one that thought Joe was a great guy
when he was killing as many as 20,000 Russians a month?
I think that you have been confusing The Nation with The New
Republic. The New Republic was was generally quite pro-soviet
until
Go back to GraphicConverter's developer's website,
http://www.lemkesoft.com/,
and pay attention to the testimonials animation on the left margin.
Eventually you'll see I used GraphicConverter for free for two
years before buying a license. Follow the link to the
GraphicConverter product page,
A slight correction and addendum: It is Thorsten Lemke, not
Thorsen, and the asterisk on the practically without any restrictions*
part tells about the delay on starting up and batch mode being
disabled.
Go back to GraphicConverter's developer's website,
http://www.lemkesoft.com/,
and pay
Parallels is coming out with a XP virtualization tool for Windows 7.
That might work where MS's XP mode won't.
I've read a couple of reviews on XP mode in Windows 7 so far.
One class of reviews says essentially that XPM is great for its
very limited intended use, and the others say that XPM is
Apple's documentation is often dated. They are much faster a putting
new
stuff up than at taking obsolete info down.
Except that one of the ADC articles I quoted was explicitly written
for Leopard, and I could show you other articles as well, like one
on writing 64 bit code for Leopard which
I remember those times too. There were user-installable versions
of CUPS that some people used even after it was included in 10.2,
including (I think) a commercial professional version that supposedly
worked better than than the others. Also, even if you stuck with
the limited implementation in
Tom, I think you are wrong about most people not using CUPS
for printing, (at least on OS X, which is what I think you are talking
about). I'm pretty sure that CUPS is the system that the printing
GUI interacts with.
A neat trick that I recently re-discovered backs this up.
In OS X, if you
You shouldn't need a new Airport, the problem seems to be with
your network settings, with your system holding on to an old setting
that it ought to forget. When you have deleted the old network
and leave the Network settings pane and you are given the option
to apply new settings, are you sure
Here are a few things you can try:
1) Go to Startup Disk in System Preferences and see if the partition
shows up there. It probably won't, since it is not showing up in
Disk Utility or when you start up with the option key held down,
but you might get lucky.
2) In Disk Utility, try selecting
You report lots of problems with partitions in Windows and Linux,
then on the basis of a single reported incident on a Mac whose
cause is so far unknown, you say I don't see how this reflects well
on Apple…? It sounds to me like you are saying (to paraphrase
Churchill) that OS X is the worst
It is perfectly OK to criticize Apple, I do so myself sometimes
(and don't get Tom started on the Finder). I was wondering about
your reasoning.
Given the missing sentence (which I didn't understand at the
time and omitted because I thought it irrelevant), you do make
more sense. Thanks for
I hate looking like the person who has to have the last word
on the subject, but I followed your suggestion that I read the
entire thread in order, and I'd like to say what I found.
This started with a discussion about whether it should be a list
rule that we not write M$ for MS or Windoze for
I don't know about Tom, but I followed those directions and did one
better: I actually went back to look at the offending post (previous
in thread). The person who offended you so much quotes your
entire post WITHOUT ALTERATION, in which you talk about
MS-bashing for its own sake, then he
From:Chris Dunford ch...@covesoftware.com
snip
This is intolerable. You don't know how to search your own archive,
nor are
you apparently aware that MARC does not provide a usable link from
search
results. And then you pretty much say that I am making this up.
I will give you explicit
I wasn't replying to your first comment in this thread, but to
the more recent ones.
Yes, your first recent comment was mild, but you used it and
Tom's somewhat snarky response to it as the basis for a
fair amount of hectoring over whether or not it was OK to
misquote someone, a question that
This is a very common tactic of yours, claiming because Tom hasn't
said something about a behavior that he is condoning it. In the first
place this is an invalid argument. In the second place, why do you
want Tom to be the arbiter of other people's behavior on this list?
The proper person to
I'm betting that he didn't notice the bit of the URL that got wrapped
to the next line. This is a good time to remind people that if you
don't want to use tinyurl or similar service, you can wrap the
URL with and most mail clients will link to the whole URL even
if it is wrapped across
One box has superior specs, better reviews, and higher customer
satisfaction ratings. The other one is cheaper and sells more.
Where do you get your figures? I looked on amazon, and the
Wii had better customer satisfaction ratings there than any of the
Xbox models. That also seems to be the
My memory is that the font is identified as corrupt, and you can
choose to delete it or leave it in place.
If you validate the fonts, what happens when you validate corrupt
fonts. They get repaired or identified as needing to be replaced?
db
Have you checked to see if the firmware has been altered?
Security measures (including blocking USB ports) are often
implemented by making changes in the firmware, and this won't
be fixed by wiping the drive and reinstalling OS X. The problem
is, if the bank altered the firmware, they likely
The thing you tried will not work if a font is in fact corrupt, and
reinstalling Office may not fix it either. To check for corrupt
fonts, open the Font Book application, select all the fonts and use
the Validate Fonts selection under the File menu. Also, drag the
Fonts folder from the Office
The page
http://search.ufl.edu/user_help.html
documents a lot of advanced Google search operators besides
the usual , OR, -, and the aforementioned site: . For example,
you can use + to search for something exactly as written, * for
wildcards,
inurl: to search for occurrences only in the
In the terminal, type
sudo yum install galeon
You will be prompted for your password, after which the install
should proceed.
If you want to learn linux/unix on your own, IBM's website has
a number of tutorials. I think you need a membership (free) to
view some of the articles, but the effort
You must be thinking of the Heinlein story Let There Be Light
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_There_Be_Light_(short_story)
The Ursula K. Le Guin story, “The New Atlantis” was also about
the discovery of a cheap and easy way to capture energy, only in
this case the enemy was a pseudo-communist
This doesn't directly affect me, but I expect it will affect some
of you:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/charter-file-bankruptcy-april-1/story.aspx?guid=%7B14171E23-A3D2-4740-ADDE-024BB74F80D6%7Ddist=msr_2
Cable operator Charter Communications, weighed down by huge
debt for many
I have two ideas for you.
The more sane one is to use T-shirt transfers. You print onto
the transfer sheet (standard paper size), then iron the pattern
onto the shirt, or in this case, the canvas. For a larger image,
break it up onto several sheets and piece them together on the
canvas. You
Assuming that you are using Audacity for legitimate purposes
(otherwise we shouldn't help you and Tom will yell at us), what
are your issues? I've only used Audacity a little bit, but I've
tried it on OS X and Linux, and I haven't seen any loss of
functionality on OS X. The only real issue I
To change the application for a single file, it's very similar to
the windows situation. Right-click on the file and in the popup
menu select the application from the Open With… menu item.
Or, open the application and drop the file icon onto the
application icon in the dock.
To permanently
As I've said before (but not recently), I get the list in digest form
and have to paste in the subject line manually. Sometimes
I forget. I apologize for doing it again (as I have apologized
for doing it previously).
It would be horribly distracting for me to get each posting as
it comes in,
When I opened it in Acrobat Reader I couldn't copy.
The document properties in Acrobat shows
Content Copying: Not allowed
Content Copying for Accessibility: Allowed
Apparently, different viewers interpret these properties
differently, since (as others have reported) it can be
Of course, now that Adobe has opened up the pdf format, this may
change. But for now, it's just not an editing format.
I agree that PDF is not an editing format. But it was never really
intended to be, it was intended to be a fixed presentation format.
Also, while it is only recently that PDF
Yeah, I got the PDF add-on for my older Office distribution at
the same time I got the add-on for opening the newer Office
formats. I'm guessing that they did this because OpenOffice
has had a PDF feature for a while now. Competition is good!
Speaking of the new Office formats, I thought that
Yes, I meant the Save as PDF… option on the Print dialog box.
Calling it Print to PDF is fairly common, I think, unless my
memory betrays me.
As to the problem you had, the save as PDF option has always
worked properly for me, but for some reason Preview will sometimes
open up PDFs with a high
my understanding is that tif is one of the more efficient methods
of file compression for pics.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF, which also matches
my memory, Today, most TIFF images and readers remain based
upon uncompressed 32-bit CMYK or 24-bit RGB images. The article
goes
Wait a minute, she tells you front right and then you hear it as
coming from the front, and when she tells you rear right you
hear it as coming from the rear? That sounds like it could be
suggestion to me. As an experiment, try it on an unsuspecting
friend with the headphones on backwards and
A few people with certain configurations had problems with doing
the Leopard update via Software Update. This has presumably
been fixed. If you are worried about this, download the update
from Apple and use that instead. If you are really worried, back
up your system first. Aside from that, I
about him all the time.
How about complaining about a product you get for free? When you
aren't
even one of the people getting the product?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.com
wrote:
Why is it that servers not getting activation keys to the beta
testers
It's a good thing that Apple is so good at this kind of thing,
otherwise
they might also have had server problems rolling out new products.
Hey, wait
a minute!
Isn't this a big stretch, comparing the somewhat routine operation of
serving product activation keys with Apple's launch of a
I can agree with the problem not being with the OS to a certain
extent, but having a problem with mis- or un-served activation
keys is only an issue if your product needs them in the first place.
Windows needs them, OS X doesn't. Don't ascribe this to
hardware lock-in either, my old desktop ran
Are you saying that because Tom made a wild comparison,
its fine if you do it? Didn't your momma ever tell you that just
because somebody else does it, doesn't mean that it's OK
for you to do it? :))
Turning a little more serious again, while Tom may just possibly
be a wee bit extreme in
I'm sorry, but bashing MS over this while praising Apple assumes
that Apple
finds all bugs in all third-party components, and I think I can
pretty well
assure you that it doesn't.
I question this assertion. Bashing MS over this while praising
Apple does
not assume that Apple finds *all*
This is just plain bizarre.
It is plainly obvious that no one is going to check every line of
code in every third party component. Such a task would be
almost as difficult as originating the code in the first place. That
question is purely rhetorical and as such needs no answer.
There is,
Possibly not as good as WhatSize, but free for
30 days/ 10 tries is File Buddy
http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/
It's good for figuring out what big chunks of
disk space is being used for.
I just checked ... it's free for use with 20 GB of files, $12.95
for
unlimited data size use. Not a
As others have pointed out, there is no risk in switching to a Mac,
as it can boot XP and Vista natively via Boot Camp, or you can
run Windows inside OS X as a virtual machine using Parallels,
VMware, VirtualBox, or other virtualization software. If it turns
out that you really don't like OS X
The Powerbook uses the PowerPC processor architecture.
According to the Ubuntu Wiki, Ubuntu for PowerPC is no
longer officially supported, and is a community port. How good
it is depends on how dedicated and experienced the PowerPC
community is. I'd guess that it is pretty good, but that some
What? We were having a quasi-rational discussion actually comparing
iPods and Zunes, and you break out the labels and say how some of
us are dirty iPod-lovers out to smear the Zune? Instead of making
the ad hominem attacks, why don't you tell us again what the Zune
can do now that it couldn't
I ran the Tiger update on my desktop mac and the Leopard update
on all the family laptops right away, as all systems are recently
backed up. The Leopard updates took a bit longer than average
to install and reboot, but not scarily so. The updates haven't caused
me any problems nor have they
It was an honest evaluation at the time it was written, when both
products were the best of their respective companies and the
market hasn't evolved to where it is today. Not so much today.
More importantly, where have you gone that you have been able to
test these things on a Zune? At
That's a two year old review comparing the now Classic iPod
with essentially the same Zune of today. The points in favor
of a iPod still hold for the touch screen version, aside from the
issues over screen size (iPod wins) and scroll wheel (now moot).
Also, I believe that the Zune can be used
A few people have reported problems with the Parallels upgrade.
My understanding is that most of the problems occur with virtual
machines originally created with other virtualization software and
imported into Parallels 3. Another set of complaints was over
reverting to version 3 because
You have to reconfigure the router to use wpa. Look at
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17679150-Howto-make-ActionTec-MI424WR-a-network-bridge
Follow the first part of the article directions for accessing the router
configuration interface. Note that under the usual settings, you have
to
I have had a 1TB Time Capsule since June, and it works pretty
well for me. I haven't had to use it to restore my MacBook, but
I have used it a couple of times to rescue a file I had mistakenly
deleted or otherwise messed up. I set it up to operate with user
accounts for each member of my
You are right that you can't rebuild the inbox. However, expand
the inbox (click on the right-pointing triangle next to the inbox)
and you should be able to rebuild each of the single account
inboxes under the main inbox. If you rebuilt all your inboxes
and all of your other mailboxes, you'll
Tom is right that RealPlayer/RealOne is an obnoxious piece of
crud and shouldn't ever have been installed. If you insist on
keeping it, start up Realplayer and disable the Enable web
Downloading and Recording option. In Windows, this would
be in the Preferences under the Tools menu, so for the
Quite a lot depends on the speed of your machine. Given that
you are not running the latest version of iMovie (the last iMovie
to call itself HD was version 6 and the most recent version
of iMovie is version 7), I suspect that your experience is not
out of line for your hardware.
I think that
My FIOS installation last July was very similar. The only real
issue was with the set top boxes. The salesman had signed us
up for an HD converter, telling us that it would work with our SD
set and we would avoid the hassle of upgrading in case we ever
did get an HD set, but the installer said
Does the DVR have any external ports to save recordings to e-sata
drives? or network computers?
Once it is on coax will any digital tuner work or do you need a
Verizon Box?
Mike
I can't answer about the DVR, but once your house coax is connected
to the FIOS box, your signal will be all
I may be sorry for reviving one of our more acrimonious recent
threads, but I thought this might contribute to the discussion:
Why RAID 5 Stops Working in 2009,
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162
The storage version of Y2k? No, it’s a function of capacity growth
and RAID 5’s limitations. If
The mail list archive at
http://www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.html
and the recent postings at http://www.cguys.org/ are supposed
to be current, but recently I've noticed that they often are not.
Why is that, and can it be fixed?
I get this list in digest form,
Come on Stewart. You know that they were protesting a tax imposed
by fiat by King George. You know, the whole Taxation without
representation thing.
Taxes are the dues you pay for living in relative safety and freedom.
Paying taxes is also the Christian thing to do, if I understand the
I had forgotten (if I ever knew) that Safari could do that.
Alternatively,
in the finder you can use the menu item Go Go to folder ...
(or type the menu shortcut command-shift-G) and type /private in
the window that appears to go to the private folder.
As for the original iPhoto problem, if
The EyeTV 250 is great. I love mine. The reason it can be
used with TV game boxes is because it combines the TV signal
decoder with a fast video co-processor, which in Game Mode
has no perceptible time lag. The co-processor is also used in
exporting recordings to other formats. The EyeTV 250
Home Solar panels have to be manufactured in a plant that emits
polluntants into the atmosphere ...
The have to be part of your statement is wrong. I recently read
about a solar panel plant that is itself solar powered.
Even under today's most common manufacturing processes,
the carbon
Just to be clear: you can only get the _UN_encrypted digital signals.
The majority of the FiOS channels are encrypted. This means
you won't get most of the channels people generally buy cable for,
like USA, TBS, TNT, SciFi, Comedy, TCM, AMC, CNBC, CNN,
MSNBC, etc. If you have subscribed to any
StarOffice 9 (beta) is also out and has a native version for intel
macs. It will supposedly be coming out of beta in November.
Also NeoOffice is Mac-only and will run natively on both PowerPC
and Intel macs.
All three share the same code based on StarOffice, but
StarOffice is commercial while
If your Glyde and your computer have bluetooth, you might
try doing a bluetooth pairing between them and see if you can
get your photos that way. Strangely, the bluetooth pairing
will sometimes give options unavailable from the data cable.
There is also free phone data manager software called
I wasn't really trying to correct you, Betty. You were making
the case that while Photoshop is available for both WIndows
and OS X, the OS still makes a difference. I wanted to make
the point that although Mathematica is remarkably similar across
platforms, the OS matters even there.
An
The OS is not entirely irrelevant for Mathematica, either. Mathematica
is a little slower and somewhat more unstable on Windows than it is
for OS X and other Unix or Linux OSs. This mostly shows up when
doing highly memory-intensive operations.
Also, while it is true that a self-contained
On the heels of the second Gates and Seinfeld ad comes
the news that Seinfeld is being dumped. Here is a cynical
take on the matter from The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/seinfeld_campaign_over/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/seinfeld_campaign_over/
Between the Mac, Windows and Linux OS's, Linux is the most rapidly
changing of them all, so your experience several years ago is
likely dated. You might want to look again.
As for Matlab, I wasn't sure of your meaning. If you were referring
to its availability, it does come in Linux, Mac
I have no user experience with them, but there are Virtualizations
that allow running of Windows applications under Linux. One of them
is known as Wine I belive.
Not quite. Wine is a system add-on that attempts (with some success)
to run windows programs natively in Linux. This is
My favorite humorous (or humorous if you are a touchy about
Windows) take on the second ad came from a recent posting on
Slashdot
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/1328211
... Microsoft has introduced a new advertisement in which the aging
former CEO and comedian take up
To transfer the contents of the drive, put the new drive into a drive
enclosure,
connect it to your machine and use either CarbonCopyCloner
http://www.bombich.com/ or SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
to create a bootable copy of your hard drive. Both are free to use,
SuperDuper!
is
It _IS_ a big deal. Chrome has a number of amazing features
(though some of them are obvious in retrospect). I predict just
about every other browser developer will be scrambling to
incorporate them into their browsers, followed by Microsoft with
IE some years later. (This is not a gratuitous
I see some people have already answered some of Constance's
problems while I was typing this. I apologize for having some
redundant content.
It's true--iPhoto has a number of annoying features. Most annoying,
it
puts all your photos in a single folder such that individual images
are
not
The wikipedia article you quote says about its table,
This is a list of tax rates around the world. ... It is not intended
to represent the true tax burden to either the corporation or the
individual in the listed country.
So it's doesn't really settle the matter. On the contrary side,
If Tom were to use virtualization, he'd be better off doing it
on a Mac or Linux machine, because virtualization is notoriously
buggy and runs with too much overhead on Vista. However,
if he is running the legacy software as one of his primary
applications, he would be adding a layer of
, David K Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
If Tom were to use virtualization, he'd be better off doing it
on a Mac or Linux machine, because virtualization is notoriously
buggy and runs with too much overhead on Vista
Betty, I found this
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=28757
which may be applicable. It says that problems like yours are
typically caused when you have
- installed software that added a bad contextual menu item, or
- removed software that left a contextual menu item behind.
My own
Are you really trying to say that you have never, in
your vast experience, come across the acronym FUD
or any of the many things Microsoft has done that
this label has been applied to?
I'm not saying you should believe all of those things,
though some are quite believable. I am just wondering
Speaking of debating ploys, another good one is to
change the subject. :-)
After Strong Quarter, Apple Signals Changes in Its Prices
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/technology/22apple.html?nl=techemc=techa1
...Apple executives hinted during a conference call about Apple’s
third-quarter
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