[CGUYS]
It's spam. Get this guy off of the list. On Jun 12, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Jack Hand wrote: http://www.medsfirstrx.net/skeletonised * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] McAfee vs. MS Security Essentials
Which is best for Windows 7: Run McAfee, run MS Security essentials, or run both? Thanks * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Verizon Webmail Security
I was using Verizon webmail today to adjust my account and subaccounts. All of the pages except one were unsecured, http pages. On the one page which was https, when I clicked submit, Safari came back and said this is an unsecured transmission. I discussed this with a Verizon fios tech support person, and although she helped me with other matters, she said that no one in tech support knows anything about how or why Verizon web mail pages are set up the way that they are. What's going on here? Why aren't the webmail pages secure? Why is the one page that's supposed to be secure, rated insecure by Safari? TIA, Alvin * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions
Begin forwarded message: From: lists...@listserv.aol.com Date: August 23, 2009 8:07:35 AM EDT To: Alvin Auerbach alvin.auerb...@verizon.net Subject: Rejected posting to COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Your message cannot be distributed to the COMPUTERGUYS-L list because it exceeds the maximum message size of 225 lines. The size of your message was 350 lines. This limit has been set by the list owner and does not necessarily apply to the other lists hosted at LISTSERV.AOL.COM. If you have any questions, please contact the list owner, who can be reached at computerguys-l-requ...@listserv.aol.com. From: Alvin Auerbach alvin.auerb...@verizon.net Date: August 23, 2009 8:07:28 AM EDT To: Computer Guys Discussion List COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions http://www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/?sr=hotnews.rss Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions Today Apple filed with the FCC the following answers to their questions. We are pleased to respond to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s inquiry dated July 31, 2009, requesting information regarding Apple’s App Store and its application approval process. In order to give the Bureau some context for our responses, we begin with some background information about the iPhone and the App Store. Apple’s goal is to provide our customers with the best possible user experience. We have been able to do this by designing the hardware and software in our products to work together seamlessly. The iPhone is a great example of this. It has established a new standard for what a mobile device can be—an integrated device with a phone, a full web browser, HTML email, an iPod, and more, all delivered with Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch user interface. Apple then introduced something altogether new—the App Store—to give consumers additional functionality and benefits from the iPhone’s revolutionary technology. The App Store has been more successful than anyone could have ever imagined. Today, just over a year since opening, the App Store offers over 65,000 iPhone applications, and customers have downloaded over 1.5 billion applications. The App Store provides a frictionless distribution network that levels the playing field for individual and large developers of mobile applications. We provide every developer with the same software that we use to create our own iPhone applications. The App Store offers an innovative business model that allows developers to set their own price and keep more (far more in most cases) of the revenue than traditional business models. In little more than a year, we have raised the bar for consumers’ rich mobile experience beyond what we or anyone else ever imagined in both scale and quality. Apple’s innovation has also fostered competition as other companies (e.g., Nokia, Microsoft, RIM, Palm and Verizon) seek to develop their own mobile platforms and launch their own application stores. Apple works with network providers around the world so that iPhone users have access to a cellular network. In the United States, we struck a groundbreaking deal with ATT in 2006 that gives Apple the freedom to decide which software to make available for the iPhone. This was an industry first. We created an approval process that reviews every application submitted to Apple for the App Store in order to protect consumer privacy, safeguard children from inappropriate content, and avoid applications that degrade the core experience of the iPhone. Some types of content such as pornography are rejected outright from the App Store, while others such as graphic combat scenes in action games may be approved but with an appropriate age rating. Most rejections are based on bugs found in the applications. When there is an issue, we try to provide the developer with helpful feedback so they can modify the application in order for us to approve it. 95% of applications are approved within 14 days of their submission. We’re covering new ground and doing things that had never been done before. Many of the issues we face are difficult and new, and while we may make occasional mistakes, we try to learn from them and continually improve. In response to your specific questions, we would like to offer the following: Question 1. Why did Apple reject the Google Voice application for iPhone and remove related third-party applications from its App Store? In addition to Google Voice, which related third-party applications were removed or have been rejected? Please provide the specific name of each application and the contact information for the developer. Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it. The application has not been approved because, as submitted for review, it appears to alter the iPhone’s distinctive user
[CGUYS] Tony's Search [Was Google: 2nd hit. Bing: Not in 100 hits}
Tony, I tried your suggestion, one percent own wealth Google said: No results found for one percent own wealth., Results for one percent own wealth (without quotes): Then all ten hits on the page were germane. - Bing said: We did not find any results for one percent own wealth. Try one of these related suggestions One Percent Motorcycle Club One Percent Realty The One Percent Doctrine HBO Jamie Johnson One Percent Movie 1 Percent One Percent Pipes Other resources that may help you: Get additional search tips by visiting Web Search Help. If you cannot find a page that you know exists, send the address to us. - Bing had NO meaningful results! - On Aug 1, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Tony B wrote: 1% own is a really bad search, so let's not blame the search engine. First, it uses the % sign, which is often an operator. But worse, it's too short to get a meaningful response. That Google was able to get it on your first page probably has to do with you having browsed a story about it recently. Especially if you have Google Desktop installed. A much better search would be one percent own wealth, where pretty much any engine - Bing included - will put meaningful results on page one. On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Alvin Auerbachalvin.auerb...@verizon.net wrote: Google: 2nd hit was what I wanted. I checked the first 100 hits from Bing, and found nothing. I did a find on each Bing page for 1% None of the first 100 Bing hits had that term. I then stopped checking. Search term: 1% own Google's second hit: World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers ... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Tony's Search [Was Google: 2nd hit. Bing: Not in 100 hits}
Tony did not suggest: one percent own wealth. He suggested: one percent own wealth. So that's what I used as a search term. Note that Google, on its own, tried the search without the quotes when it didn't get results with the quotes, whereas Bing did not do that, or even suggest that. On Aug 1, 2009, at 12:37 PM, mike wrote: I never use bing, but I couldn't resist on this one. I searched for one percent own wealth and all of the first 15 links given were germane. All of them. http://www.bing.com/search?q=one+percent+own+wealthgo=form=QBLHqs=n Perhaps we need to start a site 'let me bing that for you' since some can't seem to use it. On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Alvin Auerbach alvin.auerb...@verizon.netwrote: Tony, I tried your suggestion, one percent own wealth Google said: No results found for one percent own wealth., Results for one percent own wealth (without quotes): Then all ten hits on the page were germane. - Bing said: We did not find any results for one percent own wealth. Try one of these related suggestions One Percent Motorcycle Club One Percent Realty The One Percent Doctrine HBO Jamie Johnson One Percent Movie 1 Percent One Percent Pipes Other resources that may help you: Get additional search tips by visiting Web Search Help. If you cannot find a page that you know exists, send the address to us. - Bing had NO meaningful results! - On Aug 1, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Tony B wrote: 1% own is a really bad search, so let's not blame the search engine. First, it uses the % sign, which is often an operator. But worse, it's too short to get a meaningful response. That Google was able to get it on your first page probably has to do with you having browsed a story about it recently. Especially if you have Google Desktop installed. A much better search would be one percent own wealth, where pretty much any engine - Bing included - will put meaningful results on page one. On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Alvin Auerbachalvin.auerb...@verizon.net wrote: Google: 2nd hit was what I wanted. I checked the first 100 hits from Bing, and found nothing. I did a find on each Bing page for 1% None of the first 100 Bing hits had that term. I then stopped checking. Search term: 1% own Google's second hit: World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers ... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Tony's Search [Was Google: 2nd hit. Bing: Not in 100 hits}
But that doesn't change the fact that the original search was incorrect... The test is not to see which person can parse his search in the most efficient manner for the search engine. The test is to see which search engine can respond in the most efficient manner for the person, even if the person does not parse his search in the most efficient manner. This reminds me of a story from long ago, told to me by my mother: The boss wants to test which of two people is best for him to hire. He tells each of them to go to the grocery store next door to see if they have onions. The first person reports back, Yes, they have onions. The second person reports back, Yes, they have onions, and they're $1.00 a pound; and they have 5 lb. bags for $4.00. The second person gets hired, instead of the first person. Google gets used, instead of Bing. On Aug 1, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: Google said: No results found for one percent own wealth., Results for one percent own wealth (without quotes): Then all ten hits on the page were germane. - Bing said: We did not find any results for one percent own wealth. Your search shouldn't have been quoted. The quotes meant that you were searching for pages containing the literal phrase one percent own wealth, of which there apparently are none. Only use quotes when you're searching for a specific, exact phrase. Google found results because it removed the quotes and tried again. Bing didn't do that. What Google did is certainly helpful, and Bing should do it too. But that doesn't change the fact that the original search was incorrect... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Google: 2nd hit. Bing: Not in 100 hits.
Google: 2nd hit was what I wanted. I checked the first 100 hits from Bing, and found nothing. I did a find on each Bing page for 1% None of the first 100 Bing hits had that term. I then stopped checking. Search term: 1% own Google's second hit: World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers ... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System
Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/technology/companies/08operate.html?_r=1hp In a post on its company blog, Google said the operating system would initially be aimed at netbooks... It said the open-source software, called Chrome OS, would be available in the second half of next year. Google has already developed an operating system for mobile phones, called Android. And several manufacturers of netbooks are also using that software. Google has long promoted a vision of computing in which applications delivered over the Web play an increasingly central role, replacing software that runs on the desktop. In that world, applications run directly inside an Internet browser, rather than atop an operating system, the traditional software that controls most of the operations of a PC. ... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Embedding Metadata in PDF (Was: Databases: Open Office Base?)
Embedding metadata in a PDF file: I was curious about this so I made a duplicate of a PDF file which I'd downloaded. Opened the duplicate file with Preview. Used ToolsInspector to add a nonsense keyword, and saved file. Searched for the keyword and found it immediately. Problem: File size of original document: 2.2 MB. File size of modified document: 9.2 MB. Why the huge increase in file size? I opened the original file with Adobe Reader and found a list of the keywords under FileProperties...Description, but I was unable to add a keyword. I made a small file with TextEdit, and made a PDF file version of it with Print...PDFSave as PDF..., and added keywords to it with the PDF generation. File size changed from 4KB to 8KB, which is more reasonable. Alvin On Jun 20, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote: What are good tools for imbedding metadata in files that would not otherwise have such? On Jun 20, 2009, at 11:24 AM, t.piwowar wrote: If you embed metadata in each file * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] why they don't lease (was I Got 9)
I don't understand why... The usual answer to this type of question is Money. In our system of government, you get what you pay for. You didn't pay for government of the people, by the people, for the people, so you (and me and other taxpayers) don't get it. The special interests pay for government of the people, by the corporation, for the corporation, so they get it. On Jun 20, 2009, at 10:46 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: But the FCC already has sold off the bandwidth. I don't understand why they don't lease this sort of thing rather than sell it off wholesale. It should be continuing revenue not a one time thing. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Low price for MacBook 13.3 MB881LL/A
Micro Center is selling the MacBook 13.3 MB881LL/A for $900-($100 instant rebate)-($50 mail-in rebate)=$850 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Spiteful Win7 Release
AFAIK, All software is linked to an operating system. Apple software is not intricately linked; that is, it is very easy to run the OS without any other installed software; removing any application, even those supplied by Apple, is easy and does not adversely affect the OS. = Mac OS X/Safari compatibility: From the Safari download page: http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ = Macintosh Requirements * Any Mac running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 or Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and Security Update 2009-002 * Mac with an Intel processor or a Power PC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWire® * 256MB of RAM *Top Sites and Cover Flow on Mac OS X Tiger require a Quartz-Extreme compatible video card. Windows Requirements * Any PC running Windows XP or Windows Vista * 500-MHz Pentium-class processor or better * 256MB of RAM * Top Sites and Cover Flow require a compatible DirectX 9.0 video card with 64MB of video RAM Mac OS X Snow Leopard/Safari compatibility: From a Snow Leopard information page: http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/ = With Snow Leopard, Safari 4 delivers up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance thanks to its 64-bit support. In addition, Safari is even more resistant to crashes. It turns out that the number one cause of crashes in Mac OS X is browser plug-ins. So Apple engineers redesigned Safari to make plug-ins run separately. If a plug- in crashes on a web page, Safari will keep running. On Jun 15, 2009, at 7:08 PM, mike wrote: Well what I know, and what I've read in blogs and heard on podcasts are different. I understand from watching/reading/listening to tech news that the version of Safari that is shipped with snow cat won't be able to be installed on leopard. This just seems an oddity to me. You even imply in your email that snow leopard and safari are intricately linked when snow cat is an OS, and Safari is a web browser. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM, David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.comwrote: Unless you know something I don't, Snow Leopard be shipping with Safari 4. It will be a new version only in the sense that it is the Snow Leopard OS version, as opposed to the Windows, iPhone, Tiger or Leopard OS versions. From:mike xha...@gmail.com Perhaps I wasn't clear, a new version of safari is shipping with snow cat, this version of safari won't run on earlier versions of os x. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] On Demand Books [Was: Blogging for marketing networking (was: Blogging: is it worth it?)
http://www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm Amazing! They have a video of the machine in operation. Many years ago, before the digital age, my place of employment had a machine into which you could put a microfiche and receive a printed and stapled report. On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Blogs are being used much more for marketing and communication purposes now. Our publishing house uses one to feature and promote new publications and books. On another issue, I was listening to NPR last week and there is a new way to get yourself published. There are popping up machines that will take your document and format it and print and bind it all for about $10.00 Allows you to get a finished product that you can hand to someone to read. (Check out NPR I cannot remember the name of it.) Stewart At 06:43 PM 6/5/2009, you wrote: Absolutely not. Rants and undisciplined self-expression in a blog are a total waste of time. Save that for your diary. Ask any marketing expert in the publications industry: blogging is one of the few ways to get your work out to the public and, ultimately, the publishers. It's getting harder--make that almost impossible--for a first novelist--or even a midlist author who doesn't hit the NYTimes Bestseller list--to get something published with a major commercial publisher. But get a ready-made audience from your blog that you can sell to the publisher and you've got a chance. Obviously, what's on your blog had better be pretty good. --Constance Warner Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Wither the newsmag?
Tom, thank you for the URL for the David Simon testimony. The testimony was well written, with the ring of truth. I was just talking with a neighbor of mine, who was a manager at Sears, and he had a similar story to tell about Sears. Jeff, I don't really want to argue with you, because I like to discuss issues and not dispense or receive vitriol, and also because I don't think that I have the ability to do a good job of it; but you shouldn't argue with Tom for the same reason as my latter reason. It's obvious that Tom's working with people, becoming friends with them, and having them tell him the inside story, is in a way describing what Mr. Simon the journalist did. Your analogy about driving over asphalt has no intellectual content or relevance to Tom's statements. On May 31, 2009, at 3:00 PM, t.piwowar wrote: On May 31, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Jeff Wright wrote: I originally posted this to perhaps generate a discussion of the impact of technology (and how it's changing culture as well) on the news industry, newsmags specifically, but it's hard to do that when you have someone who is intent on pushing their ideological narrative as the answer to all things. Only in your twisted world is a first-person account by a participant going to be branded an ideological narrative. Others who watched it happen will say the same thing as I did. The following is of interest because Mr. Simon moved on to greener pastures in 1995. So to disagree with him you will again have to invoke time travel and the modus operandi. http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/DavidSimonTestimonyFutureofJournalism.pdf On May 31, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Jeff Wright wrote: You don't work in publishing. You work *for* people who work in publishing. It's like my driving to work makes me an expert on asphalt. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Form text software
Insert the scanned forms into an AppleWorks Draw document, lock then in place, then put text on top of the form. I wanted to do just that in NeoOffice, but it became complicated, and I wanted to get the job done quickly, so I went back to AppleWorks. On May 26, 2009, at 3:18 PM, db wrote: A long time ago, I had some OCR software that would allow me to insert fields and computer text into paper forms that I acquired with my scanner so that I didn't have to fill in the forms by hand but could copy and paste from text I already have.. I don't have that software anymore. Can anyone recommend software that has that capability? I have a one off use for such and don't want to invest in one of the expensive OCR packages so am hoping to find freeware or shareware. (I don't believe my MS Office 2003 has such a capability ...?) db * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Color Calibration?
Everyone, thanks for your replies; especially Tom for that extensive and educational post. IMO, someone who is a good photographer can get stunning results with inexpensive equipment; and of course get amazing results with expensive equipment. Some who is not a good photographer (like me) needs more expensive equipment to get mediocre results! :-( FYI: http://www.integrated-color.com/cedpro/coloreyesdisplay.html As far as I can determine: Color Eyes is now software only. Price:$325.00 ... ColorEyes Display Pro DTP-94 Bundle ( Mac 1.5.2/PC 1.5.1) ... This bundle ships with the XRite DTP-94. The 94 has consistently out- performed all other colorimeters on the market today. And while Xrite \Gretag who knows is discontinuing this instrument we are not. Since they don't spoil we are stocking up. By summer perhaps it will become clear what the next colorimeter of choice will be. But for now we're sticking with the most reliable instrument on the market. ColorEyes supports most of the devices available today, including the Spyder3. A few like the Spectrolino and Spectracam have been eliminated because they are no longer available., The Basiccolor Squid/ Eye One 1 Sequel puck and the Chroma4 have been eliminated due to less than stellar performance., Try a demo today. The best just got better! On May 23, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: There is a hardware-software combination called Spyder3Pro ($169 list, $130 street) which purports to be able to do this. Color Eyes is better and cheaper, but not as cool looking. You probably do not need either one. The term calibration is a misnomer. Calibration is virtually impossible to achieve, a better goal is standardization. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Second thoughts [was: urgent query]
Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word http://www.livescribe.com/smartpen/desktop.html Pulse Smartpen Electronic pen. Records what you write and what it hears. Dumps info to Windows or Mac via USB. On May 23, 2009, at 9:24 PM, tjpa wrote: The computer is for travel AND for research. I've done a lot of both. For my research, it's been more useful to take notes on a reporter's notepad or small notepad in pen or pencil first, and take photos of important papers, objects, locations, using a copier machine when needed. This is fairly recently, too. I still rely primarily on reporters-style notebooks. I have one for each client or project and keep a running diary of everything. These narrow books are easy to fit into a pocket and nothing electronic is as convenient as paper. With hand-written notes, or short-hand on a Palm or tablet, I can gather information, then weed, sort, compose a report in the evening. I've used recorders [could be an MP3 player with a mic] for notes too I also use a Palm Tungsten, which has a keyboard to speed entry. I have given up on Graffiti. The Palm is used for facts I need to have with me on all jobs and for reference information I may need to quickly retrieve. Having a search function is a huge help. I wish I could search my notebooks this way. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Color Calibration?
I'd really like the group's advice on the following: I'm a not very knowledgeable, low end snap shooter picture taker. Still, I'd like to have my camera, scanner, monitor (iMac), and both printers agree on what colors in photographs are supposed to look like. There is a hardware-software combination called Spyder3Pro ($169 list, $130 street) which purports to be able to do this. 1. Will this thing really do this? 2. Can an amateur learn to use it get reasonable results with it? 3. If I send the file to a commercial printer, can the device still help? 4. Is there another model or another brand that would be better for me? Thanks for your advice, Alvin * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] NeoOffice 3.0/Mac PPC or Intel vs. OpenOffice 2.4/Mac PPC vs. OpenOffice 3.1/Mac Intel ?
1. I have an iMac PPC. Some (day? year?) I'll buy an iMac Intel. 2. The latest version of NeoOffice is 3.0, and it runs on Mac PPC and Mac Intel. 3. The latest version of OpenOffice is 3.1, and it runs on Mac Intel but not Mac PPC. 4. The latest version of OpenOffice that runs on Mac PPC is 2.4. I think that for now I'm better off using NeoOffice 3.0 rather than OpenOffice 2.4, and that when I get an iMac Intel, evaluate switching from NeoOffice X.Y to OpenOffice X.(Y+1). Opinions? If I do switch to OpenOffice, will there be difficult file conversion issues? Should I therefore start with OpenOffice 2.4? Or is NeoOffice best regardless of microprocessor? Opinions? What about file conversion issues between NeoOffice MS Office? What about file conversion issues between OpenOffice MS Office? I searched OpenOffice.org for answers, but didn't find much. FYI: Ratings from PC Magazine: Office Suites - Archive OpenOffice.org 3.0 Editor: 3.5/5 Readers: 4/5 MS Office 2008 for Mac Editor: 3/5 Readers: 1/5 Thanks in advance. Thanks, Alvin * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] DiskWarrior Report
I restarted my computer and restarted DiskWarrior, and it ran for about 3-1/2 days and then reported that it couldn't rebuild the directory, but to email Alsoft and tell them error no. xxx. Alsoft asked me to contact them via iChat, and Marc had me open Terminal, and passed commands for me to copy and paste into it. Eventually he said that there's no indication of data on the drive. I thought that although it ended up for nought, Alsoft gave me good service; taking so much time and effort to help me. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Cleaning the Inside of a Computer
My iMac is about 4 years old, and I think that the fan noise is louder than it was originally. I want to open it up and vacuum the dust out of it, but I recall reading that this may make a static electrical charge that could ruin some semiconductors. I would like to know if anyone has personal experience with this, either good or bad (I was going to write positive or negative, but...); or is this just an urban legend? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Cleaning the Inside of a Computer
I opened it up: No dust. No clogged intake filter. No intake filter. No loose screws. No loose wires. No WD40 for me. No loud radio for me. WWDC should see Snow Leopard. If there's also a new iMac, that's the way I'll solve the problem. On May 12, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: My iMac is about 4 years old, and I think that the fan noise is louder than it was originally. I want to open it up and vacuum the dust out of it, but I recall reading that this may make a static electrical charge that could ruin some semiconductors. I would like to know if I would give it a shot of canned air. Look for loose screws. Look for wires touching moving parts. WD40 sometimes helps, though some would be horrified at this idea. Best solution would be to turn up the radio volume. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth
In 1949, the money to be made from the widespread CONSTRUCTION of solar water heating was modest and diffuse. Shortly after, the money to be made SUPPRESSING solar water heating was large and concentrated and continuous: We had plenty of solar heated water (free heat): My parents' modest 2 bedroom home on a 50' wide lot in Miami, FL was individually built by them to their specifications, as were all of the other homes in the neighborhood. All of the homes had simple, low tech, solar water heaters, constructed locally. We needed the electrical backup only about 5 times a year. They had plenty of electrically heated water (expensive heat): Soon after, there was a large growth in the population of the city. My parents' home was considered to be far away when built, but was soon considered close in. Most of the new homes were built by speculators for sale to the public. The Florida Power and Light Company awarded the new home builders, in cooperative advertising, a Gold Medallion when they built All-Electric homes. The money to be made in Miami in the widespread CONSTRUCTION of solar heating of water was modest, was a one time sale, and was diffused among the home building craftsmen in the area. But ah, the money to be made in Miami SUPPRESSING solar water heating was and is, HUGE and continuous; and concentrated solely in the hands of The Florida Power and Light Company. Think of the 60 years, of the thousands of homes, broiling in the Miami sun, and paying, and paying, and paying, for electricity to heat their water! On May 11, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Jeff Wright wrote: I can bet you that if someone were able to make money off of widespread use of solar, they would have done it by now. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] DiskWarrior Info Wanted
I'm using Alsoft's DiskWarrior 4.1.1 on a WD 1 TB USB hard drive, connected to a 2 GHz iMac G5 with 2 GB RAM. DiskWarrior has now been on for about 48 hours. Alsoft's support did not answer my questions. If you have experience with DiskWarrior, what's your opinion: 1. Is DiskWarrior still running? 2. What is the maximum time before a user should give up. I would like to know some idea of that. Is it 3 days? A week? A month? What? Alsoft wants me to stop all other applications, but I have only one computer, and they don't give me any idea of the time involved in the process. I didn't ask for, as they said, ...the exact duration I asked for a very rough idea: Is it 3 days? A week? A month? What? My understanding of the Mac OS is that if an application is running but not active, there's not a big hit to the resources of an active application. Therefore, I'm not ...exponentially slowing down the process. Am I correct in this? = My question to Alsoft's support: Question_or_Problem: Console HangReporter reads: 2009-05-07-112345-DiskWarrior.hang Looking at the DiskWarrior window, the barber pole is still turning at Step 1. Is DiskWarrior hung or is it working? Is there a way to know for sure? Additionally: The Finder is not responding, and I tried to Re-Launch it, but it didn't work. However, Firefox, Mail, and Console seem to be working normally. I'm reluctant to reboot IF DiskWarrior is running okay, as I'm working on a 1TB disk, and DiskWarrior has been running for about 17 hours. Support indicates that it can take a long time to do a disk this large, but gives no indication what the maximum time is, before a user should give up. I would like to know some idea of that. Is it 3 days? A week? A month? What? Alsoft's Answer: As I requested yesterday, please run DiskWarrior without any other applications running. As I stated yesterday, there are two many variables involved here to give you the exact duration of the rebuilding process. If you want your files back, you will need to allow DiskWarrior to run to completion. I can tell you, however, that as you continue to run other applications while DiskWarrior is working, that you are exponentially slowing down the process. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DiskWarrior Info Wanted
Thanks Tom and db, for your advice. My Alsoft advice was from Marc Moorash, Alsoft Technical Support. I have no idea about what's in the drive, and I don't want to open it, as it belongs to a friend of mine, not to me. I will re-boot the iMac, and let my e-mail pile up on Verizon's server, and run only DiskWarrior. If it doesn't come out of Step 1 by Monday morning, I'll give the drive back to my friend. He may then need to just reformat and lose the data that's on it. Ah, wait! I forgot about my lil' netbook, which I use only for iTunes with my audio system! I'll turn on the wifi on my router (normally off) and get my e-mail as web mail! Alvin On May 8, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I'm using Alsoft's DiskWarrior 4.1.1 on a WD 1 TB USB hard drive, connected to a 2 GHz iMac G5 with 2 GB RAM. DiskWarrior has now been on for about 48 hours. Tough question. I have never seen DW run anything like this long. Step 1 usually runs quite quickly. Some of the following steps are the slow ones (and some are optional). My first instinct is to follow their advice. They are a small company and there is a chance that you were getting advice directly from Al himself, but I can't imagine step 1 running that long. I would have halted it and started over. Note that for this kind of program application not responding does not mean it is hung, just that it is busy with the drive. Never do other work on the computer while DW is running. That is asking for trouble. Running DW over USB is asking for trouble. You are sucking the data bi-directionally through a straw. USB is not good at 2-way traffic. I would halt DW, pop the drive case, and move the drive to an IDE or SATA connection. I know you can't do that with an iMac. Hopefully you have a friend with a tower model. I would use FireWire before I would use USB. Is your 1 TB drive really a 1 TB drive or 2 500 TB drives with a RAID controller? If it is a RAID you may be in very bad shape. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Firewall Logging: Are these a problem?
I read an article about computer security, suggesting that firewall logging should be used. I had forgotten that I had turned it on in my iMac running Mac OS 10.5.6, so I inspected the log, but I really don't know the true meaning of the results. These entries seem ominous. Are they? Is there some site which has interpretations of some log entries? From appfirewall.log May 1 06:32:43 Macintosh Firewall[41]: LaunchCFMApp is listening from 0.0.0.0:3829 uid = 501 proto=6 May 1 06:35:50 Macintosh Firewall[41]: cupsd is listening from fe80::1:631 uid = 0 proto=6 When I asked for the log, another window also opened, called Console Messages. Most of this seems benign, but the last two entries seem like trouble. Are they? Is there some site which has interpretations of some Console Messages? From Console Messages: 5/1/09 8:38:49 AM SMARTReporter[215] Drive: 'Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80 (Leopard | KRFS26RAH8VRVD | disk0)' Status: SMARTOK (S.M.A.R.T. condition not exceeded, drive OK) 5/1/09 9:08:49 AM SMARTReporter[215] Drive: 'Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80 (Leopard | KRFS26RAH8VRVD | disk0)' Status: SMARTOK (S.M.A.R.T. condition not exceeded, drive OK) 5/1/09 9:28:06 AM [0x0-0x16016].com.alsoft.diskwarriorstarter DiskWarriorDaemon: Fri May 1 09:28:06 EDT 2009. Running scheduled hardware tests. 5/1/09 9:28:07 AM [0x0-0x16016].com.alsoft.diskwarriorstarter DiskWarriorDaemon: [Fri May 1 09:28:06 EDT 2009] : ATA device 'Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80', serial number 'KRFS26RAH8VRVD', reports it is functioning normally. 5/1/09 9:28:07 AM [0x0-0x16016].com.alsoft.diskwarriorstarter DiskWarriorDaemon: [Fri May 1 09:28:06 EDT 2009] : ATA device 'Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80', serial number 'KRFS26RAH8VRVD', reports it is functioning at a temperature of 129.2F (54C) degrees. 5/1/09 9:28:07 AM [0x0-0x16016].com.alsoft.diskwarriorstarter DiskWarriorDaemon: [Fri May 1 09:28:06 EDT 2009] : The spare blocks for ATA device 'Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80', serial number 'KRFS26RAH8VRVD', appear to be exhausted. (Total Available: 5) (Use Attempts: 55) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Firewall Logging: Are these a problem?
Tom, thanks! Listening: I thought that someone on the outside was listening! Hard Drive: I use Time Machine and alternate between two external drives, so I should be OK there. The first iMac hardware upgrade after Snow Leopard I will probably buy a new iMac, thus using a new hard drive. On May 1, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: From appfirewall.log May 1 06:32:43 Macintosh Firewall[41]: LaunchCFMApp is listening from 0.0.0.0:3829 uid = 501 proto=6 May 1 06:35:50 Macintosh Firewall[41]: cupsd is listening from fe80::1:631 uid = 0 proto=6 The firewall log is telling you that you have 2 apps that are listening for customers on designated ports. cupsd is the daemon for the cups printing system. That's normal. Port 3829 I don't know about. LaunchCFMApp is support for running old applications. This may be the notification mechanism. I don't know. 5/1/09 9:28:07 AM [0x0-0x16016].com.alsoft.diskwarriorstarter DiskWarriorDaemon: [Fri May 1 09:28:06 EDT 2009] : The spare blocks for ATA device 'Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80', serial number 'KRFS26RAH8VRVD', appear to be exhausted. (Total Available: 5) (Use Attempts: 55) Only this one is a worry and probably not much of one. The rest are periodic tests you have set up to check your drives and they are reporting no problems. This last one says you are out of spare blocks so from now on when a bad block is detected on your drive it will be blocked off with no replacement. I don't know enough about disk drive internals to be completely sure, but having a few blocks blocked should not be a big deal. If suddenly you were losing many blocks that would be a different matter. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Firewall Logging: Are these a problem?
Here's what happened; what does it mean? Macintosh:~ Alvin$ netstat -an | grep LISTEN tcp6 0 0 fe80::1%lo0.631*.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.3829 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.631 *.* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 ::1.631*.* LISTEN Macintosh:~ Alvin$ On May 1, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Listening: I thought that someone on the outside was listening! Having your computer listening is not such a good thing either. It might actually do what's its told. Some of the most famous exploits run against Windows come from that OS not following Mom's advice Don't listen to strangers. To see what ports you Mac is listening to, type this in Terminal: netstat -an | grep LISTEN * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] OS X on an MSI Wind [was Another new Windows ad...]
Thanks Betty, Tom, and Mike, for your info. After looking it over, I've decided that for my degree of computer expertise, I should leave my MSI Wind just they way it is. It does run iTunes well, and that's the main reason that I purchased it. BTW, I paid $379 + $9 shipping at Costco.com, for the MSI Model U100-432US Netbook. It has the better battery and supposedly better audio, and a padded case. This also includes some mildly useful tech support from Costco, the option for a fully refundable return within 90 days; and from the AMEX card, a second year of warranty identical to the MSI warranty, and a 1% rebate. One glitch tho -- When I connect the audio out directly to the input of my amp, there's no problem. When I connect it thru an unshielded switchbox, I get some noise in the audio, and additional noise when I use the trackpad. When I disconnect the MSI's AC adaptor at either the AC input or the DC output, the noise goes away. Alvin On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote: I have an MSI Wind which I use as my jukebox, with iTunes. I've read articles in which people describe how they put OS X on the machine, but it seems that one must be quite knowledgeable to do so. I'm not that knowledgeable. Has anyone heard of a turnkey solution? Alvin On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:47 AM, mike wrote: I've got more then one friend seriously contemplating getting one of those MSI winds to run OS X on. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Another new Windows ad...
Chronologically: Steve W. Steve J. came first. The hardware came first, then an OS to make the hardware do something useful in a relatively easy manner. Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was made by IBM. He didn't decide to sell an OS. IBM licensed QDOS from Bill, and they renamed it. They should have purchased it. Korean manufacturers undercut IBM, and licensed the OS from Bill, and the BIOS from (I don't remember). Bill originally wrote software for Apple, then was approached by IBM. QDOS was purchased, not written, by Bill; and QDOS was a rip off of CPM. Windows was a rip off of Mac OS. AFAIK, Bill never came up with an original OS. On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: MS and Apple came up with two marketing campaigns, and methods. Bill decided to sell an OS and let manufacturers design equipment around it. Steve decided to not only sell an OS but to sell Hardware designed around it. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] OS X on an MSI Wind [was Another new Windows ad...]
I have an MSI Wind which I use as my jukebox, with iTunes. I've read articles in which people describe how they put OS X on the machine, but it seems that one must be quite knowledgeable to do so. I'm not that knowledgeable. Has anyone heard of a turnkey solution? Alvin On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:47 AM, mike wrote: I've got more then one friend seriously contemplating getting one of those MSI winds to run OS X on. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] First Place? [Was: Not cool enough [was re: Laptop Hunters]
...from what I could tell. As individuals, our car yarns are anecdotes. When Consumer Reports (CR) collects all of those anecdotes, they become statistics. CR has auto test engineers who test the cars in CR's own lab and on CR's own test track. No individual can do all of that. No individual can make the sound judgement of quality and performance and reliability that CR can, using their own tests and the data gathered from their readers; and data from government and insurance industry tests. Of course, this is all done by people, and occasionally, people make mistakes. Of course, the public has their own preferences and value judgments, but using your own criteria you can make a sound choice from the data on the cars listed by CR; both new and used. Additionally, CR anonymously purchases their cars from dealers, using ordinary folks who buy the cars in their own names. AFAIK, the auto magazines borrow cars from the manufacturers. All of the money that comes to CR, comes from their readers. AFAIK, most of the money that comes to the auto magazines, comes from their advertisers. There is apt to be very much less bias from CR than from the auto magazines. IMO, from the purchase to the publication, no one informs the public about cars as well as does Consumer Reports. Alvin On Apr 5, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Jeff Miles wrote: I stayed away from foreign models due to cost for the size I was looking for. Sure you can get a high quality full size foreign car, but they cost twice as much, and the quality seems just about the same from what I could tell. Jeff M * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Make Disk Image In Mac OS 10 Use It In Win XP; How Can I?
I purchased a MSI Wind U100-432US netbook, mainly for use as a jukebox using iTunes. [It works great!] I've never had a Windows machine before, having used Macs since they were a Lisa. There is a data DVD that came with the netbook, that I'd like to put into the netbook. I tried using both Mac OS 10.5.6 Disk Utility and Toast 7 to make a disk image compatible with Wind XP, but nothing I've done seems to work. Can someone please tell me how to do this? The Help file in XP has nothing about disk images. Does this mean that unlike the Mac, in which the OS makes, mounts, and reads disk images; that XP has no native support for disk images, and external software must be obtained? Could it be that the disk images that I made were okay but XP didn't know what to do with them? BTW, I've been transferring files from the Mac to the netbook using a Transcend 16 GB SDHC card [14.96 GB formatted]. It came with a reader, which I use with the Mac, and the netbook has a built in reader. Thanks * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Make Disk Image In Mac OS 10 Use It In Win XP; How Can I?
Thank you, everyone who responded. The netbook doesn't have an optical drive. I didn't want to take a chance on just copying files and leaving behind critical invisible files. I looked up Roger's suggestion of the free winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21, which is unsupported, and that led me to daemon4303-lite which is a supported light, free version of a commercial program. I installed and ran it, and it turned out that the bin/cue file pair that I previously made using Toast 7, was recognized and mounted by the daemon4303-lite! Success! It also turned out that the disk was a collection of installers for stuff that was already installed by MSI, so it didn't help me. However, it was a great learning experience and I'm sure that I'll use the technique for other disks. Thanks again. Alvin On Mar 8, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Roger D. Parish wrote: At 9:03 AM -0700 3/8/09, mike wrote: Is it not possible to simply copy the files from the CD on the mac to the thumb drive? I know some installers won't work this way and NEED to be on the cd to work, but it may work this way also. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Alvin Auerbach alvin.auerb...@verizon.netwrote: I purchased a MSI Wind U100-432US netbook, mainly for use as a jukebox using iTunes. [It works great!] I've never had a Windows machine before, having used Macs since they were a Lisa. There is a data DVD that came with the netbook, that I'd like to put into the netbook. I tried using both Mac OS 10.5.6 Disk Utility and Toast 7 to make a disk image compatible with Wind XP, but nothing I've done seems to work. Can someone please tell me how to do this? winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe http://www.download3k.com/Install-Virtual-CD-ROM-Control-Panel.html I use this on my wife's HP 1000 netbook to mount an ISO image for one of her games. It has a facility to automount on bootup. -- Roger Lovettsville, VA * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Would like suggestions for 4-in-1 printer
I've used my Brother MFC9840CDW color laser multifunction machine for a little over a year, and I like it very much. It costs more than you like, but to me it's worth it. I think that Brother has similar machines with fewer functions for less money. One feature that I think is important in the construction of a color laser printer is the number of passes that the paper makes through the printer. Older printer designs pass the paper through the machine four times, once for each of the cartridges. One way to find out if this is so, is to compare the print speed for color with the print speed for black only. If the speed for color is slower than for black, it's because the paper is making more than one pass through the machine. The print speed for the Brother is the same, color or black. The Brother MFC9840CDW does printing (of course) but it also has a legal size glass and functions as a copier, a scanner, and a fax machine. It has a duplexer, so that it prints on both sides of the paper. I don't think that any inkjet has a duplexer, as the paper comes out too wet to be immediately printed on the reverse side. It as has an automatic duplexing document feeder which functions for both copying and scanning. Most functions can be done from either the computer or the front panel. It connects to your computer wirelessly, or via Ethernet or USB2.0. It has a manual feed capability which I use for envelopes and labels. The paper tray holds about 250 sheets, and it's adjustable for letter or legal. The larger capacity cartridges are rated at 5,000 copies. It comes with standard cartridges which I think are rated at 2,000 copies. It has a USB connection on the front (not used for connecting to your computer), and you can plug in a flash drive and print from it or scan to it. I've never tried that USB stuff, so I can't vouch for it. The print quality for text and for color graphics is great. For color photos, especially of people, the quality is acceptable to me and to others that I've given prints to. However, an inkjet does better for photos. It has a one year in-home service warranty, which I never had to make use of. The telephone support is great. The people are Brother employees in the USA. One negative: For two of the original standard cartridges, when they were nearly empty, they began dribbling toner on the copies. So I had to replace the cartridges while they still had some toner in them. On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Ranbo wrote: I need a 4-in-1 printer and have had it with replacing ink jet cartridges every 50 pages (or whatever the low number is) so am thinking of getting a laser 4-in-1 if it's affordable. Was in Staples recently and noticed they have 4-in-1 inkjets which claim (and the salesperson did as well) get far more pages per cartridge, and are actually cheaper per page (50% cheaper as I recall the statement). Some of the models were on sale, at least that week. I don't think I need color, at least not for current needs. So my questions are: 1) any suggestions for a model of a reasonably priced (under $200?) laser 4-in-1, and where to get one? Is this something to buy online? 2) Anyone with experience with these supposedly improved, higher capacity inkjet cartridges, and if so, whether this might be worth it over a laser printer, all costs considered? 3) Is is it a good idea, if one can afford it, to get a color laser printer, in case one has need for this in the future (maybe brochures, flyers?) 4) Is the print quality on a laser noticeably better to today's inkjets? Please don't suggest a Dell inkjet; I've had so much frustration with the one I have now! As always, I appreciate people with knowledge and experience on this list taking the time to answer such questions! Thanks Randall * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker
I use the Mail program that came with Mac OS !0.5, and it picks up about 98% of the spam that I get and puts it into my Junk folder. On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Ellen Rains Harris wrote: Spambayes. Free download. Google is your friend. - Original Message - From: Gail.Miller gail.mil...@comcast.net To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:43 PM Subject: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker Hi ... I'm drowning in SPAM in my Outlook Express mail program. Can anyone recommend a reliable cheap (better yet, free) anti-spam program? As always, thanks in advance! Gail Miller * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Recommendation for OS X replicating software?
I have two Firewire drives daisy chained, Time Machine 1 and Time Machine 2, and switch back and forth between them with no problem. The icon of the drive which I've selected to be active shows the special Time Machine icon and the other drive reverts to the generic Firewire drive icon. On Feb 17, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Time Capsule not withstanding, someone has said TM is not meant to be used as an as an off site backup. Could that, and programmer's difficulty, have to do with the integrated and unusual role that the OS X kernel plays in the backup/ restore? That does not appear ro be the case. Reports are that you can swap out the drive TM uses for the backup and TM keeps on ticking. I have not tried this for myself yet. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Availability of Cell Phone Batteries
Batteries are usually made up of cells. It is not unreasonable to open the container and replace the cells. You are right. Do you know of any company that actually does this for cell phone batteries? Other batteries contain an aluminum pack. It is not unreasonable to replace this pack with a newer one. I did this with my iPod and the new pack had a much longer run time than the original. Isn't the aluminum pack the battery itself? So when you open the iPod and remove and replace the aluminum pack you are not refurbishing the battery. You are refurbishing the iPod by replacing the battery. On Jan 11, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: We did see advertisements on the web for refurbished batteries. [Sure. They opened the battery and renewed the chemicals. Uh huh.] Batteries are usually made up of cells. It is not unreasonable to open the container and replace the cells. Other batteries contain an aluminum pack. It is not unreasonable to replace this pack with a newer one. I did this with my iPod and the new pack had a much longer run time than the original. On Jan 11, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Alvin Auerbach wrote: There' s been a great deal of discussion here about unlocking used cell phones, and I assume that this means using the phones for several years. Correct? But what about obtaining batteries? My experience with a LG phone on Sprint, and a friends ?? phone on Verizon, is that at about three years of use we needed a new battery, and could not find a new battery on the web or from the carrier. We did see advertisements on the web for refurbished batteries. [Sure. They opened the battery and renewed the chemicals. Uh huh.] Is there a list of equivalent, new cell phone batteries? What do you do about keeping a phone after the battery doesn't hold a charge for very long? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Roxio Toast 10 and Toast 10 Pro: Opinions?
Any opinions about Roxio Toast 10 Titanium and Toast 10 Pro Titanium? I'm currently using Toast Titanium 7.1.3. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] How to make a Mac computer view wmv files?
Go to http://www.telestream.net/telestream-products/desktop-products.htm and select Flip4Mac WMV Components for QuickTime - Make, edit, play WMV on your Mac Alvin On Jan 3, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Robert wrote: My daughter has a Macbook Pro laptop. She says she can't view WMV video files. Is there a way to view them on the Mac? If not, what video format can be viewed? RealVideo? Mpeg? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts
Thanks, David, I rebuilt the individual account inboxes and the ghosts vanished instantaneously! Gosh, that was simple! Why didn't I think of expanding the Inbox?! Alvin On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:43 AM, David K Watson wrote: 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 get back some space and you won't have the mismatch between messages showing and actual messages as often. I also second the idea of checking your mail via the web. I remember once having a similar type of problem that was caused because the message on the server immediately before the ghost message was corrupted in a way that the mail server couldn't handle. If you can, log into your account on the web and try deleting the ghost messages there as well as anything preceding them that looks suspicious. If that doesn't work, I'd try again to move the messages out and rebuilding the mailbox. This time try it t for just those messages in the problem account, and keep holding the mouse down over the new location when dragging them over until you can see that Mail is ready to move them, because Mail can be very slow in moving a lot of messages. This is particularly true for mailboxes that haven't been rebuilt in a while. Mathew, Thanks for the idea, but when I try to move the messages, they just bounce back to the Inbox. Also, Mail doesn't allow the Inbox to be rebuilt (at least on my machine!). It would be interesting if it's allowable on someone else's machine. Alvin On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote: You might try moving all the messages out of the inbox into another local folder (you can always move them back if you want). With your inbox zeroed out, rebuild the mailbox. Use the web interface for your mail account to make certain the headers or entire messages are not still on the server - if they are, delete them there. Matthew On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote: ClamXav 1.1.1 looked at Apple's Mail and found 2 incoming messages that were suspicious, and asked to delete them. I gave the okay, and the messages were moved to the computer's trash. However, the 2 messages are still listed in the Inbox. box. When I open them, they are blank - ghosts! When I delete them, they remain in the Inbox. When I drag them to another mailbox - Trash, Junk, anything, they remain in the Inbox. I used [command-delete]. Didn't work. I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox folder is empty. I checked Apple and Google, and found a problem like that with AOL mail, and the solution was to update the OS. Both my OS and my Mail program are the latest version. I found a reference to a similar problem, but their solution was to change the type of email account. Rebuild the Mailbox does not apply to the Inbox. I replaced the app from my Leopard disk. The message count is often wrong, but I ignored it. Is this a clue? I save most of my mail, and the size of my Mail folder is 1.45 GB. Is that a factor? Does anyone have any ideas on how to exorcise these ghost messages?! Alvin * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts
Michael, Thanks for the ideas. I tried the previous suggestion first (from David K. Watson) and it worked. Alvin On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:46 AM, Michael Lewis wrote: Alvin Auerbach sez: Mathew, Thanks for the idea, but when I try to move the messages, they just bounce back to the Inbox. Also, Mail doesn't allow the Inbox to be rebuilt (at least on my machine!). It would be interesting if it's allowable on someone else's machine. Alvin Download OnyX for the Mac OS you have: http://www.titanium.free.fr/index_us.html According to the thread here http://www.tidbits.com/webx?14@@.3cb7a1fc/ 1 it has a selection to force a rebuild of all mailboxes. Check that thread as there may be some other tips you can try as well. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts
Tom, Thanks for your suggestions. I'll turn off ClamXav. David K Watson sez: 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. I tried it, and it worked. Alvin On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox folder is empty. 1) You should not run antivirus software on your Mac because there are no Mac viruses. What ClamXav spotted were Windows viruses at most. You have no reason to worry about them. They won't spread. 2) You should never allow any antivirus program to mess with your email data. The data structure managed by your email program is complicated. Your antivirus program hacked at it with no knowledge of how these files are managed. It deleted the contents of a mail file, but may not have deleted the file itself and it certainly did not adjust the index file to match. So the email program's index is pointing to a file that is empty or not there. Hence a ghost file. 3) Two problem messages out of 1.45 GB of messages. Why are you spending any time on this? The odds are that in messing with this you will make things much worse. I would leave it alone. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts
Betty, Thanks for your suggestions. This is the first time that I've had such a problem. I'll try Thunderbird when I have some time. Have you backed up your email files this month? week? ever? I use Time Machine, so backups are made every hour. Do you know where the preference/data files are located? If that is com.apple.mail.plist then yes, I know where it is. Alvin On Nov 5, 2008, at 8:57 AM, betty wrote: I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox folder is empty. ...snip... 2) You should never allow any antivirus program to mess with your email data. The data structure managed by your email program is complicated. Your antivirus program hacked at it with no knowledge of how these files are managed. It deleted the contents of a mail file, but may not have deleted the file itself and it certainly did not adjust the index file to match. So the email program's index is pointing to a file that is empty or not there. Hence a ghost file. This is the best argument I've seen for avoiding Apple's Mail program--the data structure is complicated, as in OE. It's not so complicated in Mozilla's Thunderbird, so fewer things are likely to go wrong. I dumped Apple Mail ages ago after using it for only a couple of weeks. Went back and tried it again last week and dumped it again. Have you backed up your email files this month? week? ever? Do you know where the preference/data files are located? Betty * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts
ClamXav 1.1.1 looked at Apple's Mail and found 2 incoming messages that were suspicious, and asked to delete them. I gave the okay, and the messages were moved to the computer's trash. However, the 2 messages are still listed in the Inbox. box. When I open them, they are blank - ghosts! When I delete them, they remain in the Inbox. When I drag them to another mailbox - Trash, Junk, anything, they remain in the Inbox. I used [command-delete]. Didn't work. I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox folder is empty. I checked Apple and Google, and found a problem like that with AOL mail, and the solution was to update the OS. Both my OS and my Mail program are the latest version. I found a reference to a similar problem, but their solution was to change the type of email account. Rebuild the Mailbox does not apply to the Inbox. I replaced the app from my Leopard disk. The message count is often wrong, but I ignored it. Is this a clue? I save most of my mail, and the size of my Mail folder is 1.45 GB. Is that a factor? Does anyone have any ideas on how to exorcise these ghost messages?! Alvin * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts
Mathew, Thanks for the idea, but when I try to move the messages, they just bounce back to the Inbox. Also, Mail doesn't allow the Inbox to be rebuilt (at least on my machine!). It would be interesting if it's allowable on someone else's machine. Alvin On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote: You might try moving all the messages out of the inbox into another local folder (you can always move them back if you want). With your inbox zeroed out, rebuild the mailbox. Use the web interface for your mail account to make certain the headers or entire messages are not still on the server - if they are, delete them there. Matthew On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote: ClamXav 1.1.1 looked at Apple's Mail and found 2 incoming messages that were suspicious, and asked to delete them. I gave the okay, and the messages were moved to the computer's trash. However, the 2 messages are still listed in the Inbox. box. When I open them, they are blank - ghosts! When I delete them, they remain in the Inbox. When I drag them to another mailbox - Trash, Junk, anything, they remain in the Inbox. I used [command-delete]. Didn't work. I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox folder is empty. I checked Apple and Google, and found a problem like that with AOL mail, and the solution was to update the OS. Both my OS and my Mail program are the latest version. I found a reference to a similar problem, but their solution was to change the type of email account. Rebuild the Mailbox does not apply to the Inbox. I replaced the app from my Leopard disk. The message count is often wrong, but I ignored it. Is this a clue? I save most of my mail, and the size of my Mail folder is 1.45 GB. Is that a factor? Does anyone have any ideas on how to exorcise these ghost messages?! Alvin * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Selection of Browser to Print Entertainment Coupons
To Entertainment.com: I had a problem printing restaurant coupons on http://www.entertainment.com using Safari 3.1.2 on my iMac running Mac OS 10.5.5. Your representative told me that your site isn't compatible with my browser, and that I should use Internet Explorer. I exercised an option on Safari that lets me have Safari just tell your site that it's an Internet Explorer, even though it's still actually Safari. After that, I had no problem printing the coupon. So there's nothing wrong with my browser, it's just that your software limits who it wants to deal with. This is akin to saying You can't eat in my restaurant because I don't like the color of your skin. There is no excuse for this type of behavior. Please change your policy and accept any browser which adheres to internet standards. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, Alvin Auerbach CC Distribution * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] iPhone Unlock, Money Back Guarantee All Networks and All Applications
Is this real, or a scam? http://www.unlock.iphoneinfused.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Mount .sd2f Files Without Toast?
Roxio's Toast creates a disk image of an audio CD in a format called Sound Designer II (.Sd2f), and I've used it to back up many of my CDs. I've been thinking (worrying): If ever Toast was discontinued, and a future version of Mac OS 10 broke the old Toast, is there anything else that will mount the image? I've searched and come up with some technical discussions that I don't understand, and the info that QuickTime will play the file, but I don't think that it will mount it. I haven't come up with anything that will mount it. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Mount .Sd2f Files Without Toast?
What format would that be? What program would that be? I forgot to mention that I use a Mac. BTW, somehow I mistyped the file extension. It's .Sd2f, not sd2f. I corrected the subject line. Not sure, but I think that file extensions are case sensitive in some places, and not in others!? On Aug 7, 2008, at 9:12 PM, mike wrote: How many is 'many' ? If it's not a whole lot, you may just want to re rip these cd's into a format that will be available in the future. Sorry I can't offer any info on mounting this particular format. It's always best to keep any data you want to back up in open formats. Mike On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Alvin Auerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Roxio's Toast creates a disk image of an audio CD in a format called Sound Designer II (.Sd2f), and I've used it to back up many of my CDs. I've been thinking (worrying): If ever Toast was discontinued, and a future version of Mac OS 10 broke the old Toast, is there anything else that will mount the image? I've searched and come up with some technical discussions that I don't understand, and the info that QuickTime will play the file, but I don't think that it will mount it. I haven't come up with anything that will mount it. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] iTunes mess
iTunes plays several formats, including mp3. No conversion is needed. On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:01 PM, gerald wrote: i loaded itunes and do like it. it took all my mp3 files and converted them to itune format. i got my new acer econobox, and loaded everything i could. the folder with the mp3 files transfered, as did the file with the itune format files. itunes.exe did not transfer in an executable form, so i reloaded it. after it loaded, it went searching for files to convert. it found all the mp3 files and converted them. it did not overwrite the old itunes files, so i now have some 800 tunes, and some 800 dupes. is there an easy way to clean the dupes? i can see them, but do not want to go in and delete each one individually. i could wipe out the itunes music library, and then convert the mp3's again, i guess. i had added a few tunes to itunes, and would prefer not to go that way. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Lost Computer Recovery: On the Level, or a Back Door?
Lost Computer Recovery: On the Level, or a Back Door? Easily found and removed, or tenaciously holding on? Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Tom: I just renewed my candy-bar Nokia 6010 for a year.
Tom, Quite some time ago when the List was discussing cell phones, you mentioned that you had a no-contract phone, as it was the least expensive. I am interested in knowing the name of your current cell phone company, and why you made the switch (assuming that renewed indicates that you switched, not that you purchased a year's worth of time), and details of your plan (unless of course, you consider my request unseemly prying). Thanks, Alvin On Jul 14, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I just renewed my candy-bar Nokia 6010 for a year. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] External Terabyte hard drives - recommendations ple
Hmmm! I'm sorry to hear about the power supply failures! As far as the temperature goes, my drive is just slightly warm. I hope that means that the PS is less likely to fail. On Jun 22, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I'm been using a LaCie d2Quadra 750 GB drive for about 6 months and I'm happy with it. It has a metal case, variable speed fan, FW 400, FW 800, and USB 2... LaCie designs some very nice drives. However, in recent years LaCie has also developed a bad reputation for power supply failures. I have also found that some of their drives run quite hot. Too hot to pick up! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] External Terabyte hard drives - recommendations please
Yes, if you are using a Mac, FireWire USB is a good idea (IMO) as I don't think that USB will boot a Mac, but you may at some time want to connect it to a machine which has USB but not FireWire. FireWire will boot a Mac, but it's my understanding that some FireWire drives will not boot a Mac. Check before buying, or ask if it's returnable if it doesn't boot. Perhaps Tom or others know details about this. Personally, I like a drive with all of these options and capabilities, as although I've purchased it for one use, I may want to change its use in the future. I'm been using a LaCie d2Quadra 750 GB drive for about 6 months and I'm happy with it. It has a metal case, variable speed fan, FW 400, FW 800, and USB 2. I've partitioned it into 2 volumes. The first is for Time Machine, and the second is for Mac OS Tiger. The main drive of my Mac runs Mac OS Leopard, which does not support Classic. Occasionally I boot the machine with Tiger, so that I can run a Classic app. Yes, you did ask about TB drives, but this one is almost, and I think that LaCie now makes a TB drive similar to mine. I wanted to purchase a TB drive, but at the time, this 750 GB from LaCie was the only one that I could find which met all of my other specs. I hope that this helps you. Alvin On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:11 AM, Phil Marchetti wrote: Anyone have a favorite brand or model of this kind of drive ? A good magazine article review ? Besides terabyte, I am looking for FireWire 400 USB 2 at a minimum, external reliable. Thanks in advance for your advice. Phil * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Fool MLS: Make Safari look like IE on Windows?
Thanks Jordan, I'll try that also. Alvin On May 23, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Jordan wrote: I don't know if this of any use to you , but the MLS site works fine on my iMac using Firefox. Jordan Alvin Auerbach wrote: Thanks Michael, I will not be able to try using this for a while (although I've set it up), as it's for when my GF uses my computer, and she will not be doing this for a while. I hope it works, and I can show her that she can use a Mac for her work! Alvin On May 22, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Michael Lewis wrote: Alvin Auerbach sez: For some reason, the real estate industry's MLS on the Web will work only on IE on Windows. Is there a way to fool MLS, and make Safari on a Mac look like IE on Windows? Thanks, Alvin - Go to Preferences. - Click to show the Advanced panel. - At bottom, check the Show Develop menu in menu bar option. - Close the panel and go to the new Develop menubar selection. Under that will be a place to select User Agent. Choose the IE version you wish to try and see if it works. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Fool MLS: Make Safari look like IE on Windows?
Thanks Michael, I will not be able to try using this for a while (although I've set it up), as it's for when my GF uses my computer, and she will not be doing this for a while. I hope it works, and I can show her that she can use a Mac for her work! Alvin On May 22, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Michael Lewis wrote: Alvin Auerbach sez: For some reason, the real estate industry's MLS on the Web will work only on IE on Windows. Is there a way to fool MLS, and make Safari on a Mac look like IE on Windows? Thanks, Alvin - Go to Preferences. - Click to show the Advanced panel. - At bottom, check the Show Develop menu in menu bar option. - Close the panel and go to the new Develop menubar selection. Under that will be a place to select User Agent. Choose the IE version you wish to try and see if it works. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Need Help to Make a PDF with a Small File Size
Thanks Tom and Stewart, I will try to get her to update her Adobe Reader. Alvin On Apr 29, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Yeah but the age of the reader should have little to do with it. If anything, the older reader (5.x) will be faster and less buggy than newer versions. Reader 5.0 through 5.0.4 were very buggy. If she doesn't have 5.05 what happens is unpredictable. Newer versions of Acrobat can save the PDF with greater compression. But you won't be able to take advantage of that if you have to work with such an old reader. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Adobe Media Player
I went to Adobe.com to see what versions of Adobe Reader were available for Windows 2000, and I came across something called Adobe Media Player. I downloaded it for my iMac OS 10.5.2, and then the install process started, and displayed (among other things): System Access: Unrestricted This application may access your file system and the internet, which may put your computer at risk. I stopped the installation, as that System Access: Unrestricted note seems rather ominous. Does anyone have any knowledge and opinions as to the advisability of installing this application? Alvin * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Need Help to Make a PDF with a Small File Size
Thanks Jim. I tried it and it seemed to work, but when she received it on her Windows machine, she couldn't open it. When I used the routine built into OS 10, she had no trouble with it. Alvin On Apr 27, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jim wrote: On Apple's Automator Actions download page is the following: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/compresspdfworkflow.html About Compress PDF Workflow Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) does not exhibit the “Compress PDF” workflow on the Print dialog that used to appear in OS X 10.4 (Tiger). This package will restore “Compress PDF” to the Print dialog. Jim On Apr 26, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote: Thanks Betty. It turns out that Apple had the the solution to the problem built in to OS 10! I just didn't realize it, but someone else told me about it. Thanks, Steve Jobs and Apple!! 1. Make the PDF as usual, using the Print command and PDF Save as PDF... 2. Open the PDF in Preview, the go File Save As... 3. Select Format: PDF, and Quartz Filter: Reduce File Size; then Save It worked very well. Alvin On Apr 26, 2008, at 9:51 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: When you make changes in a document to make it smaller, be sure to Save As... to replace the original. The original may contain extraneous data that you deleted, but are still in the file for to allow an Undo. There's only one level of Undo in AppleWorks and Graphic Converter, but it may be enough to bloat the file. My tools are a G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.5.2, AppleWorks, and GraphicConverter. Somehow, even though I've tried to bring down the file size of the photos to about 400KB each in GC, pasting them into AW and using the iMac Print function to create the PDF, the file size seem to ballon up. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Need Help to Make a PDF with a Small File Size
She told me it said it couldn't be decoded. I don't have the actual Windows error report. I remember that when I used the Automator, the resulting file was very small, something like around 45 KB. When I found that I could do the compression with the OS, I didn't attempt to use the Automater again, and removed its files. The compression with using the OS was much greater, about 1.1MB. She does have Acrobat Reader 5 for her Windows 2000. In my experience, the Mac OS always adds the pdf extension when it creates a PDF file. ... I'm just curious that the workflow would be on Apple's pages if it is faulty. Perhaps it's not faulty. Perhaps Windows is faulty. Perhaps... Perhaps a glitch is always possible anywhere at any time! I don't have anything more to report. Alvin On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Jim wrote: I wrote to the Automator author to ask if he had seen this error before and here is his reply: Never. Could it be that the .pdf extension was missing? Or, perhaps Acrobat reader was not installed on the Windows computer? What error, exactly, was reported? [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't want to beat a dead horse if this is past history for you, Alvin, I'm just curious that the workflow would be on Apple's pages if it is faulty. Jim On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote: Thanks Jim. I tried it and it seemed to work, but when she received it on her Windows machine, she couldn't open it. When I used the routine built into OS 10, she had no trouble with it. Alvin On Apr 27, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jim wrote: On Apple's Automator Actions download page is the following: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/compresspdfworkflow.html About Compress PDF Workflow Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) does not exhibit the “Compress PDF” workflow on the Print dialog that used to appear in OS X 10.4 (Tiger). This package will restore “Compress PDF” to the Print dialog. Jim On Apr 26, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote: Thanks Betty. It turns out that Apple had the the solution to the problem built in to OS 10! I just didn't realize it, but someone else told me about it. Thanks, Steve Jobs and Apple!! 1. Make the PDF as usual, using the Print command and PDF Save as PDF... 2. Open the PDF in Preview, the go File Save As... 3. Select Format: PDF, and Quartz Filter: Reduce File Size; then Save It worked very well. Alvin On Apr 26, 2008, at 9:51 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: When you make changes in a document to make it smaller, be sure to Save As... to replace the original. The original may contain extraneous data that you deleted, but are still in the file for to allow an Undo. There's only one level of Undo in AppleWorks and Graphic Converter, but it may be enough to bloat the file. My tools are a G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.5.2, AppleWorks, and GraphicConverter. Somehow, even though I've tried to bring down the file size of the photos to about 400KB each in GC, pasting them into AW and using the iMac Print function to create the PDF, the file size seem to ballon up. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Need Help to Make a PDF with a Small File Size
Thanks Betty. It turns out that Apple had the the solution to the problem built in to OS 10! I just didn't realize it, but someone else told me about it. Thanks, Steve Jobs and Apple!! 1. Make the PDF as usual, using the Print command and PDF Save as PDF... 2. Open the PDF in Preview, the go File Save As... 3. Select Format: PDF, and Quartz Filter: Reduce File Size; then Save It worked very well. Alvin On Apr 26, 2008, at 9:51 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: When you make changes in a document to make it smaller, be sure to Save As... to replace the original. The original may contain extraneous data that you deleted, but are still in the file for to allow an Undo. There's only one level of Undo in AppleWorks and Graphic Converter, but it may be enough to bloat the file. My tools are a G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.5.2, AppleWorks, and GraphicConverter. Somehow, even though I've tried to bring down the file size of the photos to about 400KB each in GC, pasting them into AW and using the iMac Print function to create the PDF, the file size seem to ballon up. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Need Help to Make a PDF with a Small File Size
I've made a Real Estate Fact Sheet PDF for my GF, which looks nice but is too large to email to her. The first page has five color photos and weighs in at 25 MB. My tools are a G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.5.2, AppleWorks, and GraphicConverter. Somehow, even though I've tried to bring down the file size of the photos to about 400KB each in GC, pasting them into AW and using the iMac Print function to create the PDF, the file size seem to ballon up. What am I doing wrong? How can I bring the total PDF file size down to 10MB or less, so that I can email the file to her and she can print it? If I don't do this, it may affect our relationship! : ( Thanks in advance, Alvin * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Solar Energy (was solar battery chargers)
(My emphasis in Betty's message.) My parents built our home in Miami, FL in 1949. At that time, in that place (from my childhood memory), homes were built individually, and our home and the others in our neighborhood had solar water heaters. They were simple affairs, inexpensive, just a galvanized steel pan containing copper pipes zigzagging to and fro a few times, then filled with tar and covered with glass. In the Miami sun, ours provided all of our hot water needs on all but a handful of days per year; and an electric heater in the storage tank took care of those days. Then the area's population began to grow rapidly, and tract homes began to be built. The Florida Power and Light company offered those builders incentives and authorized them to advertise their homes as Gold Medallion All- Electric Homes. No solar water heaters allowed. Think of those hundreds of thousands of homes, broiling in the Miami sun for all of those years, burning all of those tons of fossil fuel to heat water, that could have been heated by the sun! -- [We did not have air conditioning. We just opened our windows and there was enough space between the homes to allow enough of a breeze for us to feel comfortable.] On Mar 27, 2008, at 10:51 PM, betty wrote: I've lived in a solar house since 1980. We have at least 100 trees. From my experience with passive and active systems, all you need is daylight--sun, clouds, rain or snowy weather, direct or reflected light--to produce enough electricity to run a battery charger, or produce enough electricity to run most home appliances, including recharging a laptop; same weather conditions apply for heating and cooling. Most people I know who live in apartments, even basement ones, have at least one window. There's enough light coming in through a window to use a PV battery charger, or the panel can be hung out the window--doesn't even have to face south. Ambient light can also activate a trickle charger indoors. Besides it's not likely that an individual apartment would have its own independent connection. The building owner, manager, super, would have the FIOS boxes installed in one location for the entire building. No, we aren't generalizing. It continues to amaze me that there are so few people _in_the_US_ who take advantage of almost free heating, cooling and electricity, and simply make up excuses for not doing it. Aren't we generalizing a bit? I'm under trees here, there's not nearly enough sunlight to charge batteries. People in apartment buildings would have the same trouble. On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Photovoltaic solar panels are the sensible answer to unlimited backup for FIOS. They can be standard equipment with FIOS boxes. PV solar panels are small and will keep the backup batteries charged indefinitely, even on rainy days. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras
Okay, let's say that you have the hardware - cameras, recording hardware, etc.; and the software. What useful information can you glean from the pictures? I was experimenting with cameras being sold at Costco, and one of the lenses had a wide enough field of view so that you could catch the action over a width that was reasonable, given the setback of my house, but the detail was lost so that it was difficult to recognize a face, and certainly not a license number. The other camera had a narrower field of view, but a car would drive through very rapidly. AND Where could I set up the camera so that it would be close enough to the street to see the back end of a car? No poles in my neighborhood. If I put up my own, with a camera disguised as a bird house, how long before it would be vandalized, or indeed recognized for what it was? Alvin On Feb 25, 2008, at 9:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, looking into the world of 1984 and Big Brother. Vandalism in a residential neighboorhood has me looking into possibly putting up an array of video cameras that can watch the streets to get a handle on groups of people cruising the street and ripping mirrors from cars and trashing mailboxes. I am looking to cover a street between 1/4 and 1/2 mile long. Anyone have info regarding : How a group of homeowners might do this? What would we need to set up in our homes to get the video? How can we access and record the video? What kind of money are we talking about? Tracy Foust * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras
I would like to catch vandals. If I deter them, I will merely displace them, and they will attack someone else in the neighborhood. Catching them may also deter the rest from ever participating in vandalism. Vandalism: Mail box destruction. (This is also a crime.) More serious crime: Reckless driving. Car burglary. Car theft. On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote: Do you want to catch the vandals or prevent vandalism? If the latter, you want to advertise the video surveillance - that is how it deters. What type of vandalism has occurred? On Feb 26, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Alvin Auerbach wrote: If I put up my own, with a camera disguised as a bird house, how long before it would be vandalized, or indeed recognized for what it was? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?
Thanks db and Stewart for your suggestions of alternative machines, but those are inkjets. The Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer is a color laser printer which Brother rates at 21 pages per minute, black or color. I've been looking for a color laser multifunction printer for a long time, and this machine has excellent user reviews. Alvin On Jan 22, 2008, at 8:24 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: I have an Epson RX700. It has two paper paths, a front feed for regular paper, and a rear feed for thick paper and envelopes. Love it. Stewart On Jan 22, 2008, at 2:07 AM, db wrote: Try the Canon PIXMA MP520. It is a multifunction printer which has two paper paths. Really nice machine. db -- Thanks Tony, but as you can see from what I wrote above, there are other considerations that command the selection of this machine. Alvin On Jan 22, 2008, at 5:26 AM, Tony B wrote: It's not something I ever need to do, but if you do a lot of printing on thick paper, I would buy a printer designed around that feature, not a 'multifunction' that, at best, might be jerry-rigged to do it. -- Alvin Auerbach wrote: I'm interested in purchasing a Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer, but I don't like the fact that it (and similar Brother printers) does not have a straight through paper path. However, the back of this printer opens to remove paper jams, and it seems to me that if one could defeat the interlock switch, that perhaps the open back would allow a straight through paper path. I asked Brother about this in an e-mail, but they refused to address it. I saw a similar Brother model in a store, but in that brief period, I was not able to locate the interlock switch. Has anyone had experience with doing this with a Brother printer? Has anyone had experience with doing this with any other printer? Thanks, Alvin * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Pr
You might be correct, but I don't think so. This Brother MFC9840CDW printer is of a fairly new design. It does not use a carousel. The four toner cartridges are parallel to each other, and I think that the paper makes only one pass over the cartridges. This is how the machine achieves a print speed of 21 pages per minute for color or black. There isn't any difference in print speed between color and black as the paper path is the same. In the old carousel design, the carousel did not rotate for black only, and could achieve a print speed similar to a monochrome printer. For color, the carousel had to rotate to put each of the cartridges in print position, one at a time, and the paper had to be sent back to traverse the print position four times. In the new linear design, all four cartridges are always in print position. Alvin On Jan 22, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Straight through is so valuable, and monochrome laser printers have it. Perhaps it's more difficult to achieve with color laser printers. However, if the back opens... (As I started out saying...) You are missing the point. The paper in the printer has to do a loop the loop four times inside the printer. To get what you want the printer would have to be unfolded and that woule make it about three feet long. That is not how these printers are made. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: ComputerGuys-L- [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?
I'm interested in purchasing a Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer, but I don't like the fact that it (and similar Brother printers) does not have a straight through paper path. However, the back of this printer opens to remove paper jams, and it seems to me that if one could defeat the interlock switch, that perhaps the open back would allow a straight through paper path. I asked Brother about this in an e-mail, but they refused to address it. I saw a similar Brother model in a store, but in that brief period, I was not able to locate the interlock switch. Has anyone had experience with doing this with a Brother printer? Has anyone had experience with doing this with any other printer? Thanks, Alvin * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Voting Perfection
We use words in our thoughts and propagandists like to give us the
wrong words so that we will think the wrong thoughts.
They repeatedly use the word Democracy to describe our form of
government, and we all follow along and use Democracy also. The word
Democracy makes us think that we have a say in the way things are
run in our nation.
However, the form of government of the USA has never been a
Democracy. Our current form of government, instituted with the
ratification of our Constitution, is a Republic. This means that we
have NO say in the way things are run. It means that every two years
we are given the Appearance of an opportunity to choose between
tweedledum and tweedledee to Represent us, and that often (as we've
discussed here) the mechanism of the choice is such that we don't
actually have that small choice! After the Election of the
Representatives the tweedledums and tweedledees meet and decide
which of their several paymasters they will follow. They then declare
what the ordinary citizen must do and shall not do, and then further
declare that once again, Democracy has triumphed!
Those who are paymasters can call the tweedledums and tweedledees and
say Let's have lunch tomorrow and I'll tell you what I'd like to see
happen with issue X. These paymasters, and the tweedledums and
tweedledees, are known as Republican party members and Democratic
party members. Any person who is not a paymaster or a tweedledum or a
tweedledee, is not a member of those Political Parties. They may think
that they are a member (and they are encouraged to so think!), but
they are not.
Alvin
On Jan 10, 2008, at 12:43 AM, db wrote:
And, we've spent how many billions of dollars (supposedly) to bring
democracy to Iraq? Why can't the federal government spend just a
tiny fraction of that money to bring a single, standard voting
system to our own country?
Because the big entrenched special interest groups have worked for
more than a century to be able to influence the government (and
elections). Why would these interests care about more efficient
voting machines?... when they already get their way with the
candidates. Like a fish needs a bicycle!
The candidates don't care (except for Gore maybe... who got caught
in the wrong place at the wrong time...) because they know where
their bread is buttered and it's not really in the ballot boxes.
Billions of dollars to bring democracy to Iraq? If you believe
that I have a bridge to sell you!! Think quick ticket to political
support for a going nowhere administration, arms sales, Oil, Oil,
Oil and the Straits of Hormuz.
All these apparent non-sequitor affronts to our democratic
sensibilities ... like the voting machine boondoggles ... aren't
really mysteries or illogical if you think about them within the
right frame of reference. And, in my opinion, it's not our simple
folk motives or benefits that you need to be factoring in if you
want to really understand how our democracy is working and why
What, me a cynic??
db
Michael Fernando wrote:
... they print a zero tape at the beginning of the voting day and
then a final tally tape at the end. And the vote counts have to
match meters on the front of the machines ...
This is the answer I got from my polling place in Montgomery county,
MD in 2004. Sure, if the number of total votes recorded by the
machines match the number of voters who walked in, that simply
means there hasn't been an electronic equivalent of ballot box
stuffing.
That does _not_ mean that those black box voting machines didn't
incorrectly recorded voters' choices. And, there's no way to
audit that fact without voters' choices being recorded in a medium
that could be hand counted (ie: voter verified paper records).
If they can't re-count without using the same (suspected) machines,
then I don't trust that system.
While I have my own doubts about the programming of the machines,
I think that the actual vote count is relatively secure.
Why should we believe the election officials or the black box
manufacturers that the count is accurate? The officials can test
the machines before the election day for various scenarios. The
manufacturer can have various internal quality testing. Yet, it
only takes one not-so-honest programmer to do something like the
following to skew the tallies on the election day.
if (today = election_day) #easy to predict in the US
if ( 8am time 5pm)
magik_min = RANDOM_NUMBER (3 to 53)
if ( magik_min time_minutes magik_min+4 )
do { display voter's selection
screw the voter and add votes to Party_X
}
end-if
end-if
end-if
The election officials won't catch this in their testing before
the election day. How do we know the manufacturer's QA is
good enough? If the HW are standard components and the software
is open, then others can do
Re: [CGUYS] Voting Perfection
I like the system that we had in Montgomery County, Maryland, before we received the Diebold machines. It was a punch card system. No, not the notorious Florida system where you use a pencil to poke out previously scored circles. It was a system that used an IBM card and a hand pressed punch, with no electricity required. The card was inserted in the simple machine. You could see the card at all times. You slid a pointer down until it was next to your choice of candidate or issue. You then pressed down on a handle. At light pressure, nothing happened. As you increased the pressure, suddenly the punch came down and punched a nice neat rectangular hole in the card. AFAIK, there wasn't a problem with hanging chads. In my experience, the punch either did nothing or punched cleanly and completely. If the cards were guarded, there was no way to cheat the system, and the cards could be easily saved and counted and recounted. Yes, it was simple, inexpensive, reliable, accurate, difficult to cheat, and easily re-countable, and did not require electricity. That's probably why they replaced it. I guess that the politicians like a system that's complicated, expensive, unreliable, inaccurate, easy to cheat, can't be recounted, and uses electricity. A system that's expensive can provide greater campaign contributions from the manufacturer of the system. A system that's easy to cheat allows the politicians to assist the uneducated voter to get the proper government. Am I being cynical? Ahem. Alvin On Jan 6, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Great long article in the NY Times... Can You Count on Voting Machines? www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06Vote-t.html?pagewanted=1ref=magazine Perfection isnt possible, of course; every voting system has flaws. So historically, the public and candidates for public office have grudgingly accepted that their voting systems will produce some errors here and there. The deep, ongoing consternation over touch-screen machines stems from something new: the unpredictability of computers. Computers do not merely produce errors; they produce errors of unforeseeable magnitude. Will people trust a system when they never know how big or small its next failure will be? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Intego Virusbarrier X4 Dual Protection Win/Mac?
Any experience/opinions regarding Intego Virusbarrier X4 Dual Protection Win/Mac? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] No Classic in Leopard! Help!
Sandbagged by an Apple with a Leopard in its mouth! What a Jobs! No mention by Apple that Leopard will not support Classic on my iMac G5, and I didn't heed your advice and ordered the thing from Amazon! :( [I was salivating over Time Machine and Spaces.] Does this seem okay? Partition my iMac G5 internal drive and put Leopard on one partition and Tiger/Classic on the other. If I put the results of my Classic work in a format that is readable by an OS X app, then when running in Leopard, I could open that file. It would be better if there was a Classic emulator that would run under Leopard, but searching the web, people say this is doubtful. There is talk of maybe SheepShaver, but that takes someone who knows how to program; it's not a you can be dumb and still install it type of application. Is there a way that I could run both Leopard and Tiger/Classic at the same time, à la Parallels? Alvin * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Tom Predicted That...
July 7, 2005; the Computer Guys on the Kojo Namdi Show Tom said: I'm expecting that somewhere down the road I'll be carrying an iPod that answers to the telephone ringing. I imagine it will not be long before you guys are carrying cell phones that play music. John Gilroy laughs at these predictions. --- Cleaning out old files, I came across the realPlayer file k1050705.ram. I don't remember why I had this. I turned it on and just randomly set it to 5 minutes and came across this. Alvin * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] [ OT WARNING!!!!
Constance, Just addressing your one point below: If you recall, our Supreme Court ruled that a State could use its power of eminent domain to wrest real property from a citizen, then give that real property to a corporation, if in so doing, they would get more tax revenue from the corporation than from the rightful owner of the real property. So your question has already been answered in the affirmative by the highest court in the land. This is another proof, and an extremely important one, that our government is gradually being changed from a Republic (note that we never did have a Democracy) into a Fascist State. SNIP As I see it, the underlying question is: do we, as citizens, want a system in which the highest ethical value is making more money, down to the last penny, no matter what else is lost in the process? SNIP * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Setting Up a Bootable External Drive
Mac OS 10.5 is due out in a few weeks, with Time Machine, Apple's new backup software. Personally, I'm putting off any changes to my backup software and hardware, until I find out the details about Time Machine. I've been using Retrospect on a regular schedule to make a complete copy of my iMac's hard drive. (The drive I use has a partition devoted solely to this backup and is connected by a firewire cable.) I had thought I'd be able to boot my computer from this drive, but when I tried it, I was surprised to find it didn't work. I started up my Mac while holding down the option key and the partition with the complete backup appeared as an option, along with the Mac's hard drive. But when I selected it I received the universal no sign, a circle with a slash through it. What does it take to make a drive bootable? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Weird Sites With Weird Names
I googled The G rate make-up stamp (an old postage stamp) and came up with several weird sites with weird names (example below) that have in them hundreds of seemingly random words and phrases strung together, as: ...files dailymotion airport in bulgaria the g rate make up stamp custom made bottles in the philippines emergency... http://r.rqzgu.cn/ulkdxx.html Most of the sites have .cn in their URL. Does anyone have any idea of what they are doing and why? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] .mix
Every Mac owner should have the application GraphicConverter. Go to http://www.lemkesoft.com and download it for free. Use it, you'll love it, then pay the $35 bargain shareware fee. GraphicConverter does not list .mix files as a format that it works with. However, page 323 of the manual states: Problems with Opening and Converting Files We won't leave you out in the cold. GraphicConverter opens or converts almost every graphic. If it doesn't work, please contact us (contact information can be found on page 16). We can adapt GraphicConverter as long as it is technically feasible and conforms to licensing requirements. It has usually been possible to implement a new format within 24 hours. Often the cause is a problematic graphic that is in a format that GraphicConverter can actually open. The file cannot be opened because a different manufacturer created a new variation of the format for whatever reason. Please describe your problem to us before you send us an example graphic. We can often give you advice on how to solve the problem. Send us an example graphic only if we request one. We will analyze your example graphic and, if necessary, add it to the types of formats. We will then provide you with a free update either per e-mail or via download. Alvin A friend sent me a .mix file. Is there any way that I can open and view this on my Mac? I have a G4 running OS 10.4.8. Thanks, Steve * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: Walgreen's offers free ink refills]
Couldn't find link to FREE but found Walgreens link that says Offer excludes Canon and Epson cartridges. [$10 black, $15 color] http://www.walgreens.com/printercartridge/ Free Ink? I like free. Original Message Subject: Walgreen's offers free ink refills Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:43:04 -0400 Extremetech is reporting that Walgreens is offering one free ink jet refill to promote their refilling service. This will happen on Wednesday, September 12. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2181480,00.asp * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Replacing Vista with XP
You know that eventually they will make it impossible for you to stay with OS 9. 1. Mac had a change of microprocessor. Windows did not. The change was because although at the introduction of the IBM PPC, it was superior to the Intel offering, over the years, Intel worked hard and pulled ahead while IBM's progress was shallow. This was beyond Apple's control and could not be foreseen. To Apple's credit, after the switch to Mac OS X, they made it possible, for many years, to run Mac OS 9 and OS X *at the same time* on PPC machines; stopping this ability only after the switch to a completely different microprocessor. 2. Mac OS X is far superior to Mac OS 9, and the new microprocessor is superior to the old one, so you gain a lot by switching. Vista is not far superior to XP. You gain very little by switching. I don't think that you can run Vista and XP at the same time, unless you use a third party virtualization program. You can re-boot the Mac and run it in XP. Probably someone will figure out how to re-boot the Mac and choose either XP or Vista! There. Fixed that for you. --- Now you know why Apple is so confident about future OS X sales. You may be better off following Mac user's favorite activity: succumb. You know that eventually they will make it impossible for you to stay with OS 9. Might as well do it now. Just make sure the Mac you buy has all the right specs. Now you know why MS is so confident about future Vista sales. You may be better off following Windows user's favorite activity: succumb. You know that eventually they will make it impossible for you to stay with XP. Might as well do it now. Just make sure the PC you buy has all the right specs. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] YahooGroups Problem - Please Help
I know that the message gets to yahoo because it's listed in the email commands! Here is a problem I run into that is not really Yahoogroups problem. Every now and then my ISP (earthlink) just drops emails. I mean they drop them, I don't get them and they go into the etherworld. (This happened with a few important notifications for payments I receive for a couple of accounts.) I also cannot set my charter addresses as alternatives to Yahoogroups as Charter will not let their authorization email into the system. I am not sure where the problem lies, but I suspect it is because yahoogroups mail is often tagged as spam by some major spam filters and it it just gets filtered out. This might be a good reason to switch to Googlegroups, but they are not without problems either. Stewart At 08:53 AM 8/29/2007, you wrote: Stewart, thanks for your reply. I've always had all of those boxes checked. On receipt of your message, I went back and looked at them, and they're still checked. I think that I'm getting notified if an application makes it to Pending, and anyhow I check Pending regardless of any notification. It's just that many applications for memberships just don't get from E-mail Commands to Pending!! And Yahoo doesn't seem to care!! Alvin Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace Ozark, AL SL 82 * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] YahooGroups Problem - Please Help
Sue, Potential members -- let's say potential households instead: 1300. We have a newsletter which we publish about 3 or 4 times per year in which stress the importance of joining the group. I want and need the Yahoo machinery to do its work, and keep my work at a minimum. I feel overloaded already. :( Alvin At 08:06 PM 08/29/2007 -0400, Alvin Auerbach wrote It's not that we want to control what people write, after they're in the group. We want to control who gets in to the group. So we need to approve or deny, so we need the request to go to Pending. I understand--I have a closed group like that also. How many potential members do you have? How do the neighbors find out about the group? Perhaps it would work to simply have them email you and you could send invites or even direct add them to your group? Sue * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] YahooGroups Problem - Please Help
Finally!! A reply from Yahoo! This makes sense, so I guess that I'll stop worrying about it. If people want to join but don't follow the instructions there's nothing that I can do about it (except point it out to them). Thanks everyone for your assistance. Alvin ==Begin Message From Yahoo == Hello Alvin, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Groups. We appreciate your patience, Alvin. I have heard back from our engineers regarding your concerns about potential members who have requested to join the group via email not showing in the pending members section. Members who request to join via email are sent a confirmation email asking them to confirm. Once this email is returned, they will show up in pending. If they do not respond to the confirmation, they will not show in pending. I hope this has addressed your concerns. Please contact us again if you have any further questions or concerns. Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Groups. Regards, Gidget ==End Message From Yahoo == At 9:15 PM -0400 8/28/07, Alvin Auerbach wrote: Part 1 Is anyone else a YahooGroups moderator in a group where the moderator must approve each applicant? If so, have you had this [see below] problem, where the email request for membership is received by yahoo, but is not transferred to the Pending page, where a moderator can deal with it? Have you complained? What happened? I have this problem over and over, and prospective members are angry, since they apply and are not approved. Have you found some other way to get around the problem? FAQ: Why do you want to approve each membership application? Ans: The Group is for our neighborhood only, and we disapprove any applicant outside of our boundaries. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 Is AOL any better? Is there a way to transition to AOL and not need to have all the members reapply? Thanks, Alvin Begin Message to YahooGroups IT NEVER ENDS!! The page http://groups.yahoo.com/[group]//logs?cat=cmds shows Aug 28, 2007 5:59 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membership requested via email The page http://groups.yahoo.com/[group]//members?group=pending does NOT show this request at Aug 28, 2007 8:35 pm The page http://groups.yahoo.com/[group]//logs?cat=mod does NOT show any activity regarding [EMAIL PROTECTED] CAN YOU PLEASE, PLEASE, MAKE THE YAHOOGROUPS SOFTWARE WORK? Please advise. Thank you, Alvin End Message to YahooGroups * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] YahooGroups Problem - Please Help
Part 1 Is anyone else a YahooGroups moderator in a group where the moderator must approve each applicant? If so, have you had this [see below] problem, where the email request for membership is received by yahoo, but is not transferred to the Pending page, where a moderator can deal with it? Have you complained? What happened? I have this problem over and over, and prospective members are angry, since they apply and are not approved. Have you found some other way to get around the problem? FAQ: Why do you want to approve each membership application? Ans: The Group is for our neighborhood only, and we disapprove any applicant outside of our boundaries. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 Is AOL any better? Is there a way to transition to AOL and not need to have all the members reapply? Thanks, Alvin Begin Message to YahooGroups IT NEVER ENDS!! The page http://groups.yahoo.com/[group]//logs?cat=cmds shows Aug 28, 2007 5:59 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membership requested via email The page http://groups.yahoo.com/[group]//members?group=pending does NOT show this request at Aug 28, 2007 8:35 pm The page http://groups.yahoo.com/[group]//logs?cat=mod does NOT show any activity regarding [EMAIL PROTECTED] CAN YOU PLEASE, PLEASE, MAKE THE YAHOOGROUPS SOFTWARE WORK? Please advise. Thank you, Alvin End Message to YahooGroups * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Canvas Customer Exclusive! Reserve your copy of Canvas 11 for $99.99 and get ACDSee Pro
I'm a registered user, and a Mac owner, and I was about to pony up my 100 bucks, when I read: Canvas 11 is available for Windows only. I don't understand this. With the increasing popularity of the Mac, and (my assumption) that's it's not that difficult to port a Win-intel version to a Mac-intel, why are you doing this? Why are you throwing away your Mac customers? Alvin Auerbach From: ACD Systems Ltd. Canvas Customer Exclusive! Reserve your copy of Canvas 11 for only $99.99 and get ACDSee Pro included. Save over $300! Offer available only until August 18 and excludes free upgrades on future releases of ACDSee Pro. Canvas 11 is available for Windows only. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Sicko -- discussion location (off topic)
Most people do not understand that we have only one political party in this nation. It's the Corporation Party. It has two wings, the Democratic Wing and the Republican Wing. Each wing draws voter support from a different base, but what counts is money support, and for each wing, that comes mainly from the Corporation Party. Remember that Eisenhower warned us against the Military-Industrial complex. As both a general and a president, he knew whereof he spoke. Remember the Golden Rule: He (or she) who has the gold, makes the rules. The Corporation Party has the gold and makes the rules. When each wing is in power, they will throw a sop to their own voter base. Each wing will raise emotional issues that get the electorate boiling, so that the electorate will vote against their own economic interests, in order to attempt to foist their emotional issue on the nation, using the power of the federal government. The Corporation Party then quietly and unemotionally achieves its economic ends, to the detriment of the electorate. Most people do not understand that it's un-American to trust the government. The framers of the constitution did not trust the government. That's why they set up the three competing branches of government. The original 13 states did not trust the government. That's why they refused to ratify the constitution until it was immediately amended with 10 amendments that we call the Bill of Rights. Don't trust the government. Do keep your eye on who gets the money. Watch how the government will in many instances prevent us from knowing who obtained our money. Remember the dictum: Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is possible to cover everyone for health insurance, we just have to change the way we think, and as you said take the profit motive out of the equation. Well Rev. the wing nuts believe that everything ought to be for profit. Even their mega churches are for-profit corporations paying big salaries to their mullas. Their members lie, steal, and kill all week long, then show up on Sunday with a big payment to be told that they are righteous. You know this could be brought around to an on topic discussion. The underlying issue is the same one argued here several months ago about network neutrality. It is also integral with Google's effort to make cell phone spectrum vendor neutral. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Terminal Message Quandry
Below is a Terminal message that I received after activating the ClamXav file named REMOVE_engine.command. Does the message mean that: 1. The file was found, removed, then the machine was checked to see if it was removed, and it was. OR 2. The file was never found. Thanks. --Completed Command--- Last login: Sun Aug 5 20:31:01 on console /Applications/ClamXav\ /REMOVE_engine.command; exit Welcome to Darwin! alvin-auerbachs-imac-g5:~ alvin$ /REMOVE_engine.command; exit -bash: /REMOVE_engine.command: No such file or directory logout [Process completed] -- * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] shredding services
There is no way for me to evaluate the risk, as I know nothing about the people, machines, and procedures being used to accomplish the shredding and disposal. Since the whole idea of shredding is to keep others from viewing sensitive information, my preference is to not have that information placed in the hands of others before it is shredded. Of course I understand that many people have a different preference, based on the number of cars shown in the photographs of the event. My attitudes may be shaped from my experience working for the Navy. We personally shredded our classified documents. We did not give them to anyone else for shredding, even if they had a security clearance. The shredder was an advanced model which turned the paper into dust particles smaller than a period at the end of a sentence. how big a risk do you consider this to be? Alvin Auerbach wrote: Note that the shedding is not done in front of your eyes. They load your papers on a truck and take them away, so you're trusting all of the people who handle your papers. Judy Cosler next one is mid to late Sept community shred http://www.nbc4.com/sponsors/5340872/detail.html Thank you very much for this info. I'm actually a little surprised that some place like Staples or Kinko's don't have this, they have photo-copying, this would seem to be the other side of that. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I've never seen so damn many Indians. --G.A. Custer * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] shredding services
Note that the shedding is not done in front of your eyes. They load your papers on a truck and take them away, so you're trusting all of the people who handle your papers. Judy Cosler next one is mid to late Sept community shred http://www.nbc4.com/sponsors/5340872/detail.html Thank you very much for this info. I'm actually a little surprised that some place like Staples or Kinko's don't have this, they have photo-copying, this would seem to be the other side of that. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I've never seen so damn many Indians. --G.A. Custer * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Powerless Powerbook
The Apple Powerbook ac adaptors are known to have problems with the dc cable and the dc connector. Try to borrow a known good ac adaptor to determine if it's the adaptor or something else. I have an Apple Powerbook, it's a G4, 857mgh, 15 inch model. It wont run when using the ac adaptor and the battery isn't being charged. The light where the adaptor plugs into the computer is orange and not green. Not sure exactly what is at fault, it could the the ac adaptor, something internally in the laptop or maybe a battery issue. If anyone has advice on how to process from here, I'd really appreciate any suggestions on what to do to narrow down what is wrong and how to process. John * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Will the iPhone Change Everything?
At 5:05 PM -0400 7/9/07, Constance Warner wrote: EXAMPLE: I've spent many, many hours on websites and the phone lately, trying to track down, among other things, the answer to why my cellphone suddenly stopped working in critical parts of town. This is a standard business question. It will take an additional investment of capital to make the signal strength in that area high enough to make your cell phone work. The business person answers your question with these three questions: 1. If I make that investment, will I make enough money to recover my investment in a reasonable amount of time, and then go on to make a profit? 2. If I don't make that investment, will I lose money? 3. If I make an alternative investment, will I make more money or lose less money than by making the investment that you want me to make? Obviously if the answers point to making more money or not losing as much money, then you'll get your new antennas. If not, ... * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Eudora and MIME
I use Eudora 6.2.4 for Mac OS 10. I just received a message containing this note: -- This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you might want to consider changing to a mail reader that understands how to properly display MIME multipart messages. -- I thought that Eudora could do this. I read the Eudora manual about MIME, but I don't understand it. I looked through the Settings and there was something about MIME in outgoing messages, but not in incoming messages. Is there a way to get Eudora to properly read MIME messages? Just had a thought. Is it possible that the message is not a properly formatted MIME message, and Eudora is not at fault? Additionally: The bottom part of the message had text that looked like it might be HTML, but Open in Browser was dimmed. Begin Partial Message Received: from space15.tatnet.com ([69.20.57.160]) by vms169133.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:31:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: by space15.tatnet.com (Postfix, from userid 48) id 94A2CFA85E2; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phpmailer ([72.75.40.198]) by wges.com with HTTP (Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)); Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:31:26 -0500 (CDT) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by vms169133.mailsrvcs.net From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Clean Energy Rewards Confirmation X-Originating-IP: [69.20.57.160] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:31:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:31:26 -0400 From: Washington Gas Energy Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: phpmailer [version 1.50] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary=Boundary-=_ba2aacf5b645332d655039c91b55d1a29 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you might want to consider changing to a mail reader that understands how to properly display MIME multipart messages. --Boundary-=_ba2aacf5b645332d655039c91b55d1a29 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; charset = iso-8859-1; boundary=Boundary-=_sb559ca6afd752fa26c35a1acf2b126259; --Boundary-=_sb559ca6afd752fa26c35a1acf2b126259 Content-Type: text/plain; charset = iso-8859-1; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit End Partial Message * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora and MIME
Thanks, Vicky. Alvin On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Alvin Auerbach wrote: I use Eudora 6.2.4 for Mac OS 10. I just received a message containing this note: -- This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you might want to consider changing to a mail reader that understands how to properly display MIME multipart messages. -- [...] Is there a way to get Eudora to properly read MIME messages? Just had a thought. Is it possible that the message is not a properly formatted MIME message, and Eudora is not at fault? Yes. If you've ever received any messages with attachments, then Eudora can indeed handle MIME multipart messages. It looks like the message has some extra blank lines in the header before it gets to the Content-Type header, so Eudora is (correctly) interpreting the first blank line as the end of the headers. Without the Content-Type header, Eudora doesn't think the message is MIME based. -- Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] PDF Printing Problem
I made a simple AppleWorks Draw document, containing a (originally) tiff file from GraphicConverter, and some lines drawn with the AW line tool. This document prints without any problem from my HP 4ML laser printer. I wanted to email the document to someone, so I made a pdf file using the Print function in Mac OS 10.4.10. I tried to print this file, and the processing of the file in the computer seemed to proceed normally. However, when the printer got a hold of it, the indication was that it was doing its processing but the file never printed. After many experiments, I found that if I changed the lines from a hairline made into a dotted line by the pattern pallet, to a solid hairline, the pdf file would print normally. I also found that while Adobe Reader sees the dotted or solid hairlines in the pdf file, when Preview looks at the pdf file, it sees just a barely discernable blue-looking line. Has anyone else had this problem? What's going on here? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Tom, Reformat Annually?
Tom, I'm thinking ahead about Mac OS 10.5. It seems to me that many, many years ago you recommended that a computer's hard drive should be reformatted annually. Then reinstall the OS, applications, and data. Do you still recommend this? I was thinking that if I'm going to do this, then the installation of OS 10.5 might be a good time to do it. At that time my iMac G5 2GHz 2GB RAM, 400GB disk, will be 2-1/3 years old. Alvin * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat and Silverlight (was PDF files in a Macintosh environment)
At 4:05 PM -0400 6/2/07, Jeff Wright wrote: You have to marvel at the irony of someone who crows on and on about monopolies to cry about competition in dominant media formats. It's a different situation. As I understand it, there are applications other than Adobe's which can create PDF's. When I was using Mac OS 9, I used PrintToPDF, for which I paid $20.00. If MS can gain a foothold with XPS, I am sure that one way or another, they will figure out how to go from a foothold to a stranglehold. They will eventually come up with extensions which will not be open in any way, and then everyone will be forced to buy only their software to generate XPs's. Remember, MS has a track record for ruthless law breaking. That WILL happen. They may even find a way to make it so that if your computer can read PDF, it will not be able to read XPS. Then by putting XPS for free on about 95% of all computers, and forcing many companies to distribute XPS documents only, PDF will slowly die. Once PDF is gone, MS might require an annual license fee to use their XPS reader. Again, MS has a track record for ruthless law breaking. Put NOTHING in a category of Oh, they wouldn't do THAT. If it comes to a point where we need to fight the creator of the software, who would you rather fight, Adobe, or MS? The next thing that you know, MS will want to replace ASCII text with a proprietary scheme! PDF works. It's now universal, as it's been around for many years. There is software other than Adobe's to generate them. There is no reason to cause an upheaval, except for the greed of MS. XPS should be stopped right now. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] *dishwasher-safe* keyboard
My understanding is that a long time ago when printed circuit boards were manufactured, at the end of the process they were cleaned with some sort of solvent. This became too damaging to people and the environment, so most manufacturers switched to a process that allowed the boards to be cleaned with water. Someone I knew spilled milk on their keyboard, and telephoned me for advice. I told them to put it into the sink and submerge it in water so that the milk wouldn't dry, and I would come over, open the keyboard, clean it, dry it, and close it. They thought that I was crazy and never wanted to see me again! I dont have a dishwasher safe keyboard, but I have run my dirty keyboard through the dishwasher. I can honestly say it worked. The keys were clean and no longer sticky. When plugged into the computer it worked fine. Having said that I take no responsibility for what happens to your keyboard if you try it. Turn off the settings that control the heating coil so that the water doesnt get any hotter than what normally comes out of the faucet. Make sure you have it on the top rack. Place it on the rack keys down and give it a try. I dont remember if I used soap or not. If you were going to replace the keyboard anyway you might as well give it a try. By the way, the keyboard is still going strong. Bart -- Original message -- From: David Chessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Original: FROM. Kentski I read a couple of days ago where some company is now selling a *dishwasher-safe* keyboard! You know all that gunk and grit that falls down in between the keys? On this new keyboard there is a silicone membrane in between the keys and the innards of the thing and you just stick the whole keyboard upside down in the dishwasher whenever you want to clean it out. Cool! Kent * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] quickest way to learn CSS
Safari can't open the page http://www.metalaxis.com/references/css.html; because it can't find the server www.metalaxis.com. I have always coded my webpages using a text editor, but now find I just can't keep up with everything, especially CSS. I will probably purchase Contribute which I think should be adequate for my needs - Contribute does CSS doesn't it? but I would also like to understand CSS better. Contribute does not do CSS in the way you mean. Contribute will let you apply an existing CSS to text, but it has no support for creating or editing a CSS. CSS syntax is so easy that I just use a text editor. I have programs, like Dreamweaver, that have a CSS editing function, but I find it to be more trouble than it is worth. When I need to be reminded of details I use the 4-page crib sheet at www.metalaxis.com/references/css.html * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] recommendations for Mac compatible printer
I still have two HP 4ML printers. One for me and one for my daughter. They were originally almost $1k. Slow as molasses by today's standard, but excellent text print and very reliable. It is getting difficult to get good rebuilt cartridges, and the new ones, if you can find them, cost a fortune. I would like to buy a faster color laser all-in-one, but so far, when I read the specs, calculated the cost per page, and especially read the complaints of those who own them, I've rejected all of them. Apparently the old way of designing the printer has the cartridges in a carousel that brings each cartridge in its turn up to the paper, and the paper thus makes four passes through the machine! To me, that seems like just asking for trouble. The new way is to have all cartridges in position and the paper makes one pass through the machine. Does anyone know of a good printer that uses this design? Thanks! A few others have also recommended HP. Have you had yours long? I ask, because the Epson works fine at first, but as it rounds the corner of its first year, the problems begin. HP made good printers, long, long ago, once upon a time, but are no longer anything special. The last HP I bought had lots of paper jams. I threw it out long before my HP 4MP wore out. Now those were printers! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
