TPiwowar wrote:
On Aug 20, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Jordan wrote:
I think Google is doing the a good job of making its Groups, on-line
apps, and other tools accessible and easy to use, but as the article
suggests, control and security are difficult and complicated.
Is that fair? The article says
My 2 year old intel iMac won't boot. I got a grey kernel crash screen
yesterday, but it restarted and ran fine in the evening so I didn't take
any time to investigate. This evening it started strangely, displayed
properly, but would not run Eye TV. I tried to restart it and now all it
does is
TPiwowar wrote:
On Aug 22, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Jordan wrote:
My 2 year old intel iMac won't boot. I got a grey kernel crash screen
yesterday, but it restarted and ran fine in the evening so I didn't
take any time to investigate. This evening it started strangely,
displayed properly, but would
db wrote:
It's a new computer and the most he might have done was accidentally
clicked on the iChat icon on the Dock (he says he didn't..) ... which
could have launched the program. Somehow it got launched. (I think
maybe iChat gets automatically launched if you access the camera or
db or anyone else, how did the logmein work for you, and are there any
other programs like that, that work for the Mac?
Thanks
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db wrote:
LogMeIn is easy as cake... a great tool. Web based it takes all the
tech out of setting up VNC / remote desktop login etc.
The Free version does most of all you want. No SFTP or printing to
the controlling computer that you get with Pro.
A PC controlling a Mac won't have the
OK, thanks for the confirmation! I've been kind of busy since this
morning and was afraid to shut it down or let it go to sleep.
TPiwowar wrote:
On Aug 23, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Jordan wrote:
I think I had tried that at one point last night, but in any case, it
didn't start it just now when I
David Cowdrill wrote:
I live in No. Va. also and use T-Mobile pre-paid for uses like you
describe.
Advantages:
- low cost: first year I paid $100 for 1000 min. Used 500 in first
year, second year is $50 for another year. Hard to beat $4 per month.
Disadvantages: T-Mobile coverage is spotty.
Sue Cubic wrote:
That's what's nice about TracFone. They buy space on all of the major
companies' towers. You get coverage from whatever tower you're nearest.
I don't know how much I trust that. Tracfone won't show you a coverage
map that you can zoom in on. I checked them out years ago
This is interesting stuff. Some if the things I read in the late 90s and
early 2000s seemed to suggest that the Linux and BSD type platforms were
antiquated.
Probably FUD.
But Apple is still moving forward and further refining and updating the
OS X core.
TPiwowar wrote:
This explains a lot.
Has anyone gotten a warning or seen anything about the Postcard virus?
A friend of mine forwarded a big panic about not opening anything in an
email entitled Postcard.
As a Mac user I guess getting emails like this are the greatest threat.
Here's what it says:
*checked with Norton Anti-Virus,
Tony B wrote:
If you really looked this up at Snopes, you sure didn't read very
well. If you trusted _someone else_ to look it up at Snopes and read
it, shame on you.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
I didn't say I looked it up at Snopes or anywhere else. I would have no
t.piwowar wrote:
WFBs can't detect that they are being mocked.
Shh!
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t.piwowar wrote:
MacWorld's extensive coverage of Snow Leopard makes me think Apple
lied. This upgrade offers many significant improvements. Maybe Apple
marketing isn't impressed because they want big flashy additions
(which I'll probably never use). In contrast in Snow Leopard I'm
seeing
I've read discussion of what you can update with the $30 version of Snow
Leopard, but I have a specific question that I'm not sure about and have
not seen anything written about.
This notebook has Leopard, but I did a migration from My iMac when I got
it. I'm thinking of getting a fresh start
phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:42 PM, One Manone911...@yahoo.com wrote:
I lost interest when Dan Frakes began his review with a minor tweak ... *9* years
in the making -- viewing the date in the menu bar. Come on. How difficult is it
to click on the time for the
David K Watson wrote:
(sorry for forgetting to fix the subject line in the previous post)
Well, I'm certainly happy so far. Everything I use works in the 32 bit
kernel although EyeTV has a few issues and Office 2004 and some
older games still need Rosetta to be installed. In the 64 bit
Bill Wajert wrote:
To put it straight we have not been the Land of the Free for
decades. We have become the Land of the Regulated.
We've had 8 years, really many more since it started before Reagan, of
tearing down regulations. It doesn't work.(like we didn't already know
that) Look where
katan wrote:
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:50:30 -0400, t.piwowar wrote:
America has its Dick Cheney. CGUYS has Chris Dunford.
Ever notice how The List can have a pleasant conversation, or even a
lively debate. . .until Tom joins in?
No.
Jeff Miles wrote:
I've found this list to be pretty quick at answering questions.
Here, I'll test it.
How do I get Safari to open when I click on a link in Mail? I've
got it set to Firefox now, but want to change back to Safari. I used
to know this, but this morning I couldn't find the
I hate to throw cold water on all this fun, but wasting time talking
about all this fear and straw men is just what the right wing wants you
to do. That little video posted a while back is enough for any rational
person to get the picture.
t.piwowar wrote:
On Sep 6, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
That food, which uses a mixed but largely free market system, is so
cheap
and plentiful that even the poor can easily afford it, is lost on the
socialized medicine proponents.
Did you see the Time cover story about cheap food?
The nice Apple keyboard that I use on the iMac has a problem. The cde
and 3 keys have stopped working. Is there anything I can tinker with
that might fix this? It's a couple years old, but does anyone think
Apple will do anything for me on this?
Thanks
This is the thin, low profile, full width, aluminum, $50 keyboard, which
I love. The keys that failed are all in a row and failed the same day,
suggesting to me that the failure is electronic rather than a physical
problem with individual keys. There has not been any foreign material
near this
This is the thin, low profile, full width, aluminum, $50 keyboard, which
I love. I cover it when I'm not using it, nothing was spilled on it and
the keys that failed are all in a row and failed the same day. Doesn't
that suggest that the failure is electronic rather than a physical
problem
b_s-wilk wrote:
I agree that you probably need a new keyboard. Now that you have
nothing to lose, open the keyboard and try to fix it yourself anyway.
Betty
Yes! I am that kind of person.
I'll have to see if I can do it more gently than the guy in the link you
gave. Heating it up a but
I'm looking into a better spell checker than the one that comes on the
Mac. Sometimes the one on the Mac does a lousy job of guessing what I'm
looking for.
Does anyone have knowledge or experience with an alternative that the
Mac can use instead of the native one?
Thanks!
TPiwowar wrote:
On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:41 AM Sep 15, Jordan wrote:
I'm looking into a better spell checker than the one that comes on
the Mac. Sometimes the one on the Mac does a lousy job of guessing
what I'm looking for.
http://www.rainmakerinc.com/
OK. Thanks
Fred Holmes wrote:
At 02:46 AM 9/17/2009, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
It is insane to think that a faceless
corporate bureaucrat is better than a faceless federal bureaucrat.
If one doesn't like what the faceless corporate bureaucrat decides, one can
drop the insurance and go with
Maybe some clarifications are in order to start:
Bill L'Hommedieu wrote:
I've my hi-speed broadband with Comcast and I cant access the Mac Mail through the server settings now set.
Mac Mail meaning the Mail program on your Mac, or mail from Mobile Me,
or what?
The techies at Comcast seem to
I've been away and I don't know if anyone suggested this, but I think
for some circumstances making a PDF of a web page is the best way to
save the info. It's perfect for receipts.
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I have in the past, but not recently. It's a pain for me to track though
because I have gmail sent to Thunderbird, so I don't know if my posts
made it unless I check the archives, or someone responds.
By the way, I'm one of those who bought the package with Snow Leopard,
but I'm in no hurry to
Some of us suggested saving pages as a PDF. It's really the best
alternative to printing out a web page. (it's a far superior solution to
me) Is this not possible with Windows?
computerg...@att.net wrote:
Hello all:
Thank you everyone who replied to my post a while back. Briefly, I am
Ahh, yes. But you sounded like you were looking for a replacement for
printing web pages out.
Fred Holmes wrote:
At 07:36 PM 10/17/2009, Jordan wrote:
Some of us suggested saving pages as a PDF. It's really the best alternative to
printing out a web page. (it's a far superior solution
I'm new to flash drives.
The SanDisk flash I have loads a separate volume called U3 System
which is clearly meant for Windows users.
Is there a way to get rid of this on the Mac?
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terminal did not work.
Thanks again
John DeCarlo wrote:
Google U3 Removal. There are ways to get that space back.
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jordan jor17...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm new to flash drives.
The SanDisk flash I have loads a separate volume called U3 System which
is clearly
The SanDisks and the Cruzer ones I was working with had uninstalls on them.
It was having to dig out my Windows computer to uninstall that I didn't
like.
Yes, I know I'm spoiled.
tjpa wrote:
On Nov 1, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Rich Schinnell wrote:
Maybe I missed something but I have had flash drives
Most internet services provide email that can be accessed from any
computer, anywhere, called webmail.
I think it's also safe to say that you have to go into your email
services settings and change it to IMAP. It would not be IMAP by default.
It is also my understanding that IMAP sort of
Costco also generally sells 8G drives and 4G flash drives in a 3 pack. I
suggest going with one of those. A 16G flash drive is probably
unnecessarily huge.
Don't go to Wal-Mart.
Jeff Miles wrote:
I haven't really been paying attention to this thread, but now I
think I should have. My son,
But shopping at Wal-Mart is a choice.
If you are aware of the history and are a socially responsible and moral
being, not shopping at Wal-Mart is a choice you can easily make.
It's easier to avoid the evil we can see.
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
There are definitely more evil things in this
Clearly, you have not been reading Tom's posts very carefully.
Rich Schinnell wrote:
At 03:06 PM 11/7/2009, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Date:Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:05:15 -0500
From:tjpa t...@tjpa.com
Subject: Re: online storage --HIJACKED!!
For example I would not trust Apple.
Repeat
Chris Dunford wrote:
Windows fan bois; most of them don't see the PCs as anything more than a
hammer. They couldn't care less who
makes it as long as it can drive whatever nail it is that they have a use for.
No one has said anything to me about any problems.
Who was it that said MS
I do feel your pain.
tjpa wrote:
On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Jordan wrote:
Again, yours is the perspective of the pure urban dweller. Some of us
spend little or no time in densely populated areas, and are thankful
for it.
Don't I know it. Who's that standing at the top of the escalator
John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:43 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
I know plenty of smokers who didn't get lung cancer, doesn't mean smoking
doesn't cause it.
Yep, My point was that smoker's smoke may have caused lung cancer in people
who never smoked.
Or more
Adil Godrej wrote:
P.S. Okay, I'm done. It's going to be a long week at work. I'll accept
whatever you send my way, but I'm afraid I will not be able to
respond. Yeah, I'm running away from the fight. It's only the ethical
thing to do (being as I'm at work). (Did I just hear a collective
I'm sorry for the misguidance about Firewire. I thought I had read
somewhere that they were phasing it out, can't recall where, and then
was looking for an inexpensive Mac notebook for a friend. The new
MacBooks don't have Firewire but there was a $750 refurb that had it. I
think he got one.
where Newt
was just middle of the road?
tjpa wrote:
On Dec 4, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Jordan wrote:
Oh, please, please let the likes of Sara and Beck run for office.
That would be interesting
You mean Huck was not loony enough for your tastes?
You should read more of his stuff
By the way, if you go to System Preferences-Accounts and click on Login
Items, you can see what's loading at startup and add or remove programs.
I don't know a specific answer to the shortcuts question, but I think I
read that more of this capability was added to Snow Leopard.
Again, in System
I type slowly and only take my hand off the mouse when necessary, so I'm
no authority on keyboard shortcuts.
But in 10.4.11 at the bottom of keyboard Shortcuts, it appears as though
you can add Apps and maybe assign shortcuts to them. Just guessing.
Reid Katan wrote:
I've looked through
Right. I don't know what the Dock does when it gets full. When
you've got more icons than can fit in a given space (vertical or
horizontal). Do the icons shrink to make more room? start a second row?
They shrink.
I like mine on the right.
Humans eyes scan better in the horizontal plane. Maybe
, but the computer played Doom really well.
Jordan
Stewart said:
|I remember my first Windows 98 machines had maybe 512 MB in them.
Unthinkable now, |but this was the case for a long time.
|
|My fist PC had 64K in it and I had to replace all the chip banks to get
it to 640K
|
|Stewart
Thank you Betty and all!
This is one of the best posts in a while.
Robert Michael Abrams wrote:
On Jan 9, 2010, at 1:47 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican
Posted: Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 1/8/10
A Santa Fe man who says he suffers from electromagnetic
Cool!
Now the first result is the mail-archive for computerguys.
Google is watching.
On 1/2/10 2:48 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Christopher Rangelcms0...@comcast.netwrote:
The address shown with the link, after the search, is not the address that
comes up in
Get real Tom! It's a Windows machine.
t.piwowar wrote:
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Jordan wrote:
Now the first result is the mail-archive for computerguys.
A shame that it was not one of our brighter moments. Did that computer
ever get fixed
A new improved model could be called a Maxipad.
:-)
Perhaps because of its ability to absorb so much umdata.
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phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
It's simple: try this i (change), etc. The idea of Obama always
was government for the rest of us. Too simple, and isn't working.
Steve
It's not working because he's not doing it.
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John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
FWIW Safari does the same things on a Snow Leopard Mac.
I recently put Snow on my MacBook Pro and I have not seen this behavior.
But maybe it only happens on some web sights. I would not use it if it did.
To me, for someone to choose implies that they are reasonably informed
about the options. I believe that great masses of Windows users are not
sufficiently aware of the Mac and OS X as a serious option.
Do I even want to respond to this?
Your response is incorrect. Prefer means tend to
phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jordan jor17...@gmail.com wrote:
To me, for someone to choose implies that they are reasonably informed about
the options. I believe that great masses of Windows users are not
sufficiently aware of the Mac and OS X as a serious
Constance Warner wrote:
At this point, why not WAIT AND SEE what happens when the iPad gets
into the stores and people actually buy it and start using it?
It seems to me that the discussion has gone about as far as it can go
at this point, at this imperfect state of knowledge about the device
tjpa wrote:
On Jan 31, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Jordan wrote:
More of us should have heeded David Pogue's advice quoted early in
this discussion.
Quote provided by Tom, but you didn't respond as suggested.
I'm aware of that and appreciate it, (I read Pogue all the time) and I
have
b_s-wilk wrote:
I have T-Mobile... There's another DC dead zone, I think along
Rhode Island Avenue.
Curious. I also have T-Mobile. My office is on Rhode Island Ave. No
dead zone.
The area is a couple of miles north of there, closer to where RI Av
merges with Baltimore Av, in a
,
using a tool that I know well instead of spending the time figuring out how to
make the scanner simple to use.
Jordan
Jeff Miles wrote:
This says every laptop comes with a remote control. None of mine have. And I
have a 17 Macbook Pro with the intel chip set. Not new as of in the last
I was just catching up on some of the technology videos at the NY Times
site:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/technology/1194811622271/index.html
I think it was the video of their 2nd day of CES coverage where they had
a guy talking about a new Garmin unit that can communicate with a
I gave up on Comcast modems many years ago.(They might be better now) I
got a Motorola Surfboard and it has been flawless. It still is, in spite
of its age. I do keep a back-up on hand though. It just makes sense.
Richard P. wrote:
During the last week, my cable modem for Cox Cable loses its
Just go to the home store and get a little piece of plexiglas the same
size as the netbook..
One Man wrote:
I 'm travelling and using a samsung netbook. I like the navy lid. I sit on the couch at my bro's, cross my legs and balance the netbook on a pillow. This can't be good as it blocks the
I'm sorry you got no answers from the wizards of
this group but I'll go out on a limb and say that
that is because you answered your own question and
solved your problem.
Avoid IE and use one of the many alternatives.
On 12/12/10 12:30 AM, D Freye wrote:
This thursday while trying to reach a
Turn the volume down all the way or set it to mute.
On 3/21/11 11:37 AM, Tom Chambers wrote:
List members -
I hate computers that talk to me ,
so when I'm setting up
a machine for my own use I always set it to no
sounds in
the control panel. That works for most sounds ,
but in
I have a hard drive with a clone of an iMac's drive made with Carbon
Copy cloner. I'd like to install that clone on another iMac. Is there a
simple way to do this or do I have to go folder by folder, copying files
over.
I usually just do some research and/or just dive in and figure it out as
I
This is very weird. The email I posted, which you are responding to, has
not been delivered to my mail client, and you are responding tomorrow!
I did not see a way to use Migration assistant from a drive that is not
in another Mac. Do I just plug the drive into the target Mac and access
it
I see what you mean now.
Thanks
Tom Piwowar wrote:
I have a hard drive with a clone of an iMac's drive made with Carbon
Copy cloner. I'd like to install that clone on another iMac. Is there a
simple way to do this or do I have to go folder by folder, copying files
over.
Use Migration
I have not had a problem with it on my iMac G5
Stephen Brownfield wrote:
It has been a couple weeks and I really haven't heard anything good or
bad about X.4.11. Any thoughts on it?
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