Wayne Dernoncourt
My wife said that the printing on a PDF file was squished.
Squished? I couldn't tell what was going on so I looked
at it, the copy on the screen is fine, when she prints out,
it's wrong. The original text was italicized, the printed
is bolded. I don't know much
My wife said that the printing on a PDF file was squished.
Squished? I couldn't tell what was going on so I looked
at it, the copy on the screen is fine, when she prints out,
it's wrong. The original text was italicized, the printed
is bolded. I don't know much of anything else about fonts,
I think you have to be in OSX environment for IOS development. I would love to
be wrong.
This clown speaks for himself
On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:01 AM, D Freye dfr...@fastmail.fm wrote:
My friend wants to develope iphone apps on his $3000 desktop quadcore
win7 machine. It runs VM at all times.
I'm getting frustrated. My wife's printer on her computer has
had issues for the past 4 or 5 months, she keeps getting new
copies of the printer (HP1522, HP1522 copy 1, etc.), I'm
trying to get this to work before we go off on vacation... I
heard the solution was to delete and reinstall the most
b_s-wilk
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Regarding Flash, Adobe has a knack for buying good
programs and breaking, discontinuing, or overpricing
them. Have they created any of their own products
lately [in the past 15 years]?
Apple didn't entirely ban Flash anyway. They require
that apps for touch screens be
tjpa
On Mar 23, 2010, at 2:48 PM, mike wrote:
Yeah I covered that too in the past. I'm not arguing
you are not safer on a mac, I'm arguing the same thing
Miller is verifying, macs are safer because they are
such a small portion of the market and the hackers don't
spend time going after
Fred Holmes
At 07:30 PM 3/15/2010, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
I shoulda mentioned that she's firmly stuck in the 1980's
and uses WordPerfect. She's talking about moving to Word
but _really_ doesn't want to. She uses WP for everything
including file management.
WordPerfect is a far superior
I've showed my wife how to use PDF Creator, it seems
to have at least a few limitations:
- has to be run as an Administrator
- it only will print one page, there's no error
message, it's just that nothing happens until
you cancel the print job and get a dialog and
get a single page
I
Rev. Stewart Marshall
Mac or PC?
I use Software 995. (Paid version.) PC
Valerie insists on a PC with WordPerfect. Me, I
use a Mac that includes PDF creation as a service.
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Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly
Me
John Duncan Yoyo
Open Office lets you print directly to PDF and it
is free.
I shoulda mentioned that she's firmly stuck in the 1980's
and uses WordPerfect. She's talking about moving to Word
but _really_ doesn't want to. She uses WP for everything
including file management.
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Rev. Stewart Marshall
PDF995 (Part of Software995 Suite)
Installs as a print drive and when you click print
select PDF and you have it.
Love the program. It is not expensive and you get
some nice utilities with it.
It will work out of any program even Word Perfect.
I looked at the
Stewart Marshall
He is up tight because I said it is not reality yet
until it hits the shelves.
I thought the MS slate/pad/tablet thingie was called the
Courier, last I heard it was very much in the prototype
stage.
I don't know if they're going to run Windows Mobile 7 or
Windows 7 on it.
I
Chris Dunford
Hardly. You're blowing this all out of proportion.
A better comparison would be that we're all aware
we can be filmed while on that bridge.
You have no reasonable expectation of privacy on the
bridge. You do in your bedroom. If the school system
was going to violate that
Art Clemons
On 03/04/2010 01:48 PM, John Settle wrote:
Don't sue the school district. Prosecute the
people who did the deed. They should not be
allowed to hide behind the school district.
Hear! Hear ! Well said.
You are supposing that the school district wasn't
responsible for the
tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Judy Cosler wrote:
what is the issue with Flash?
Probably because it is not Silverlight. That would be
consistent with the rest of his comments.
Not that I want to defend either Flash or Silverlight.
HTML5 will go a long way to making them both
Chris Dunford
Knife the baby??! Good Lord, he must be doing
something I haven't heard about. He's a war profiteer,
maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists?
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This is a reference from the antitrust trial. See
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_3533/ai_53185748/
Chris Dunford
Microsoft is to pull out all the stops in a bid to
lock down security on its products, considered by
many as the company's Achilles heel.
Chairman and founder Bill Gates has called for a
fundamental shift to focus on improved security
against hackers and viruses.
In a memo
Chris Dunford
Doesn't justify how they got that money. And Gates
goes from Knife the baby to savior...
Knife the baby??! Good Lord, he must be doing
something I haven't heard about. He's a war profiteer,
maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists?
snip
This is a reference from the
tjpa
I'm stumped. The dear folks from Adobe have produced a
file on my Mac (OS X.5) named Icon\r which I can't
delete or rename.
rm -i * does prompt me with the file name, buy when I
reply y it says no such file or directory.
Any suggestions for deletion?
Re-reading this, does the
tjpa
On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:03 AM, John Emmerling wrote:
rm -i Icon\\r
rm -i 'Icon\\r'
rm -i Icon\r
rm -i 'Icon\r'
Maybe rm -if ./Ico*
You may have to drop the i part and wipe out Icoa, Icob, etc.
I thought there was an option to delete by the inode, but I
don't see it mentioned on the man
Rosenberg, Alan [USA]
The old days??
The old days were when an IBM 7094 (the powerhouse of
its day) filled a room with a raised floor, dedicated
air conditioning, and a crew of operators, cost
megabucks to buy (or lease) and maintain, had a cycle
time measured in microseconds, and a maximum
t.piwowar
Creative accounting and refusing to admit the real costs.
When you lock down a computer you have greatly reduced its
functionality. People can't do as much with a locked down
computer. Their productivity is lower. Their creativity
is lower.
It is not a fair comparison when that
mike
I've had no regrets with my android phone, got the
hero, no keyboard and it's great. I've not been
wanting for apps in the least, everything I've gone
looking for, I've found. There are a couple things
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My boss at work (as opposed to the boss at home...), his
girl friend now has a
mike
More crap from Tom.
Top 17 macbook pro runs 2500 dollars
For under 1800 I can get a system with
17 display (1680 x 1050) as opposed to apple's 1920 x 1200
intel i7 1.73 cpu to apple's older 2.8 core 2 duo
intel mainboard on both machines
4 gigs ddr3 memory on both machines
geforce
Rev. Stewart Marshall
trying to drag this back to 'puters - sort of
Verizon also did not want to be stuck with the
problems. From what I understood Apple wanted
everything but was willing to give nothing.
Verizon said we wont play that game.
I'm not so sure that it wasn't more that Verizon
Chris Dunford
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/technology/personaltech/17pogue.html?8dpc
Zune's reputation as the player for weirdos and losers.
Among the under-25 set, Zune is a punch line
Wow!
Boy, you really had to hunt for something negative in that
review, didn't you? How strange
Jeff Wright
OK on the Mackey thing. Yes I did read it, and he has
some great things to say, HOWEVER.
You must have government mandate minimums. If they do
not many companies will try and fly through with a
bunch of worthless insurance.
snip
Rev, now you miss his point. If you allow
Mike
Only your misunformation on this one. I doubt when he
mentions single payer federal system he is talking
about just Illinois.
I dont get why the lefties dont want to admit this is
the goal, what are they afraid of? It's very difficult
to have any real discourse when facts are so
TPiwowar
On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Mike wrote:
So you know google is lying...how do you know that?
The issue is not Google or Apple lying. It is you trying
to insert misinformation into the account of what transpired.
GV was not rejected by Apple. It was not approved. The
two are not
TPiwowar
On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:10 PM, David K Watson wrote:
I haven't read anything about how aged the iPod has become, can
you point me to one of those blogs? On the other hand, every day
I see several articles about a new or updated iPhone/iPod app.
And you CAN customize your iPhone home
t.piwowar
On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:48 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
I maintain that within 5 years, the iPhone will be a bit player
in the mobile device market. Way too much competition coming
down the pike.
With 65,000 apps available for the iPhone and less than a dozen
for the competitors it is
My wife and I are finally trying to do our 2008 taxes
(long aggravating tale of woe). We also got married
last year and now we need help in getting Turbo Tax to
fill out the tax return (I have 401K contributions,
they don't show up on the tax return, etc.) We
imported her information since we
b_s-wilk
On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
I'm thinking we should go to a tax person to deal
with this.
Yes you should. I found that fighting the software
distracted me from other important tax issues, causing
a mess. I filed and then had to hire a human to refile
Art Clemons
Security isn't high on the list of concerns, cows out number
people at least 5 to 1, the town does have a stop light and
it works. I wasn't really concerned with being safe as much
as not breaking the Internet for our hosts. The mom there
is talking about getting a
Art Clemons
Does any of that make sense? I understand that the local
cable office does have a WAP version as well as a non-WAP
version of the modem.
One other approach when the cable company or other
broadband ISP doesn't want to open up its firewall setup
is to have a DMZ IP address which
I was visiting my sister brother in-law in NY this past
weekend for a baby shower (oh, the joys...). They do
have cable (road runner). My niece, aka the new mom, says
that as she understands it, if you disconnect the PC from
the cable/modem to try and insert a router/WAP, things get
screwed up.
Rev. Stewart Marshall
Talk about rationing.
When I hear those commercials that rail against
rationing, I wonder which insurance company paid
for it, and if the CEO has the same coverage that
all his employees are offered.
I think the congress critters must be made to
live under the same
t.piwowar
I bet Mozart's contemporaries said the same things about him.
I also bet that long after Bill Gates is forgotten, people
will still be thrilled by MJ.
Could be
BTW, without Googling it, who invented the transistor? the
microprocessor? the 1st programming language?
First
Robert Carroll
Don't forget ALGOL. Predecessor of Fortran. Contemporary of
Cobal.
Hmmm, I thought FORTRAN pre-dates COBOL which pre-dates ALGOL.
ALGOL was the predecessor to Simula. Checking wikipedia says
that FORTRAN was from 1953, COBOL 1959. Wikipedia says that
ALGOL is from 1958...
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Stephen Brownfield
I didn't know there were so many B5 fans on the list.
John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Great now I get hear all Toms posts with Londo's
accent.
It is to late for pebbles in the stream to vote...
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Wayne D. | supply
Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.
Tom:
There is a BIG difference between network connectivity
(i.e., server connections) between Home and Business.
Absolutely, but more than a few businesses don't require
server connections, etc.
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Jeff Wright
I know I'll regret asking...how do you link your
made up political bogeymen to this?
I was wondering the same after reading the linked
article, since it doesn't even touch on ideology at
all. But, it has a simple explanation:
Tom is green. Anyone putting forth an idea that
One Man
It's a deal killer. It's an inappropriate use of a form
of govt id which was intended for the SS admin, not the
convenience of Sprint. A private biz cannot require you
to divulge your ssn.
My power company demanded my SSN to pay my bill!
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mike
Have no idea what you are so excited about. I never said you
could upgrade from 98 to w7...that was the point. XP and
OS X came out within months of each other, xp a few months
after os x. The big technology leap for apple was of course
os 9 to OS X, for windows, the big leap is xp to
b_s-wilk
We went from getting around 20 stations to 2. We have a new
Well, you now almost have the same status I always have had.
I used to get (with rabbit ears) a bunch of snowy stations
from DC with one slightly better station (channel 4). I
live in southern MD (LaPlata/Waldorf).
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Take
Jeff Wright
Let's put this all into a certain perspective. Market
forces have made it abundantly clear that the Windows
operating system and the computers that come supplied
with that OS are absolutely superior in every way,
shape and form. The sales figures have made this an
indisputable
Rev. Stewart Marshall
Most vista drivers are supposed to work out of the box. So
far I only found one that did not, and it was HP which is
notoriously slow in releasing updates.
A friend of mine at work ended up buying another XP system when
the scanner vendor wouldn't supply Vista drivers
Rev. Stewart Marshall
Never been involved in retail marketing have you? Anything
a company does is considered a revenue stream.
Some companies make money on the front some make it on the
back some make it every step of the way.
marketing stuff snipped
OSX has come out with how many
Rev. Stewart Marshall
That is not the song playing in my mind. It is old
Marshall Tucker stuff and Little Feet. (My first
room mate in college was a big fan of them)
I'm a classic rock guy as well
When I remember the concerts I used to go too way
back when and some of the bands I saw I
tjpa
On May 28, 2009, at 10:27 PM, rileyca...@espsound.com wrote:
Your PC software will not run on a Mac - PERIOD. PC software will
run on an Apple made computer if you have installed Windows on it
but the Mac OS runs software written to run in the Mac operating
system.
This uninformed
Jeff Wright
As you pointed out, testing used synthetic benchmarks.
Vendors tend to code for these well-known benchmarks.
We expect real world experience to be worse.
Actually, the expectation is that real-world results will
be just be different. Synthetic benchmarks only measure
what they
I've been doing some hourse cleanning/re-organizing and have
found stuff I forgot ever ordering. For example a Boardwatch
poster and t-shirt with a picture of Bill Gates with a title
of BillGatus in the StarTrek Next Generation type. The
poster and T-shirt still have the original box. I'm
Tom Piwowar
Since the town may also have a website, it sounds like its
not unreasonable to have a web form on the site instead of
any other email way to get a hold of the government. You
can put a CAPATCHA or other bot-obstacles in front of the form.
Spammers attack web forms too. They have
Art Clemons
According to a study sponsored by the EU(?ECIS?), MS didn't
document the Windows interface so that WP could use it. The
document was very interesting. It was things I had all along
but never had a strong enough desire to hunt down and
document.
It also didn't help that
Tom Piwowar
It also didn't help that WordPerfect got sold several
times first to Novell and then Corel.
The big failure was that the folks at WordPerfect never
figured out how to re-engineer their program for a GUI.
They made lots of mistakes. Their menu structure was
terrible. The tried to
Art Clemons
Ubiquitous maybe, but popular I think not. Pushing
software down people's throats is no way to win a
popularity contest.
I remember WordPerfect and WordStar being the dominant
word processors, with Lotus and MS being real also rans.
WordPerfect at the time was a much better
Tom Piwowar
Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was
made by IBM.
And the OS was written by Digital Research. Some say MS stole it.
Hmmm, no. As I understand the story, IBM went to Digital
Research and the guy there blew off the meeting with IBM for
licensing CPM. Next,
Tom Piwowar
Oh, boy, here we go.
Who exactly says that, and why? MS licensed it, which to the
best of my knowledge isn't theft.
(Anyway, it was Seattle Computer Products, not DR. DR's OS
was CP/M.)
I'm sure MS has a division assigned to rewriting history and
you have a shelf of their briefing
Does anyone have a clue on how to get Firefox to work
with extensions as a non-admin on a Mac? As an admin,
they work great. BTW, the extensions are noscript,
Forecast Fox, flashblock and a few others.
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Wayne D. | supply this, at
David K Watson
One box has superior specs, better reviews, and higher customer
satisfaction ratings. The other one is cheaper and sells more.
Where do you get your figures? I looked on amazon, and the
Wii had better customer satisfaction ratings there than any of the
Xbox models. That also
Rev. Stewart Marshall
Here is what all I do on my smart phone.
snip
This computer has been out of commission for the last week, I
currently have 748 messagesgroan
Nope this has nothing to do with the current discussion except
in the most general of ways. I've been putting together the
box
Wayne Dernoncourt
Rev. Stewart Marshall
Here is what all I do on my smart phone.
snip
This computer has been out of commission for the last week, I
currently have 748 messagesgroan
That wasn't supposed to go to the list!!!arggghh
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David Turk
We have a group that will be doing oral histories, then
giving us the files. We'd prefer this stay all-digital,
so we don't have to do the conversion from cassette tape.
Can someone recommend a device? Also, the ones I've been
looking at can save files as both WAV MP3. Would
David Turk
The organization will be conducting the interviews on their
own, without any assistance from us, aside from telling them
what device file format we would like them to use.
Hopefully, editing will be kept to a minimum.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I should've read this before my
Jeff Wright
Ok, so you refute some of my possibilities. Do you
have any idea why we don't have them? If it is true
that customers want them or it is recognized that
they would want them, and their are no impediments in
law to selling them then surely there are enough
salesmen out their to
Tom Piwowar
You probably need a fair number of amps to drive
speakers to a reasonable volume.
I have a small portable radio that does more than enough.
snip
Also, I don't know much specific about Coby mp3 players,
but when I've seen that brand name on line, it seems to
me it has usually been
BTW, I saw and bought a small radio with an adjustable iPod
charger/plug for about $30 at Walgreen's. It doesn't
sound great, but it's okay for podcasts. It can also take
some number of batteries for portable use (it's about 6-8
wide, a couple of inches deep and about 6 tall).
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Matthew Taylor
You can not ignore what is not there.
On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Chris Dunford wrote:
Ding! You win the prize for the obvious - the bills
threatened the availability of abortion without
consequences and had to be opposed - even if this
meant tolerating infanticide
Why
Art Clemons
Peace is possible the day the Palestinian people want to
live in peace. To date the majority has not so chosen.
I do not support everything Israel does or has done, but
until all their neighbors, including the Palestinians,
accept its right to exist and live in peace, the war
John Emmerling
Hamas was launching rockets as recently a week ago (I won't
vouch for the reliability of this NewsDaily site, so please
corroborate for yourself):
I was talking about the suicide bombers.
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Wayne Dernoncourt
But they do get rockets, mortars and explosives into Gaza and
the West Bank along with people who will kill themselves
with the explosives (hmmm, that hasn't happened recently has
it, at least I haven't seen it in the news). The focus of the
Israeli's seems to be to stop
Tom Piwowar
*Big* difference. One may not agree with the conclusions, but at least
there are no incendiary remarks.
You don't know incendiary. You want to see incendiary, read this...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10148896-27.html
MSN Mobile Music: Worst idea ever?
Now here's a recipe
Chris Dunford
You cut off the rest of my sentence so I would appear
unreasonable.
snip
It's very, very clear: negative reviews are clear-eyed,
even-handed, and accurate. Positive reviews are
fawning, suspicious, and written by M$'s minions.
I get it.
cue Fox news...
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Tom Piwowar
Okay, Tom, it's time to take off the Apple-colored
glasses. . . Post a link to the ad that people are
saying they're just a generic PC.
I saw it on microsoft.com and later on network TV.
There was a good amount of press about how it was
replacing the terrible Seinfeld ads. Have
Tom Piwowar
That's why I prefer to use a limited user for everything on a
regular basis, it limits my exposure. (I picked up this habit
years ago when I was a system manager for a PDP VAX systems.
That is correct, except when installing software or making
changes to the system. That is what
Tom Piwowar
And that is what I was trying to do - install the flight
simulator... Except that it's not a general app, it's special.
The idea of general app vs. special app is totally foreign
to me. All apps can do potentially harmful things to a computer
so I worry about all apps. If there
Tom Piwowar
That's in the documentation. They don't directly say not
to do it. They do describe why you will be sorry if you do it.
That's why I prefer to use a limited user for everything on a
regular basis, it limits my exposure. (I picked up this habit
years ago when I was a system manager
Jeff Wright
Huh, Jeff, WTF?
Mark--It's very simple.
Tom operates under the RDF'd delusion that Apple is some
kind of warm-hearted, sweet-little-aunt-who-bakes-you-pies
company that only behaves badly when backed into a corner
I wonder if the Tom/Jeff pair are different personalities in
the
Tom Piwowar
Actually, I think Tom was saying that Garmin forcing you to
use Active X is a Bad Thing. And I'd have to
ag. . . agre. . . Ohh, I just can't say it.
Forcing anyone to use IE is certainly a crime. I went one
step further to say that any company who can't figure out
how to do a job
Jordan
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1 Chicken, approximately 2 pounds (without skin),
cut in serving sizes.
Ingredients for marinade:
3 tbsp yogurt + 1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp garam masala --- oh good, alcohol should help
of course, it must be sampled to ensure quality
1 cup portland cement
Tom Piwowar
Can IWork or iLife be installed as a limited user? Yes, I
installed the Garmin program as admin and then switched to
the limited user to do the actual registration.
No application can be installed by a non-admin user. That
is as it should be.
Some programs can be installed and
Tom Piwowar
Some programs can be installed and used as a non-admin,
x-plane for example. It isn't a general purpose
application like word processing, etc. To run, it has to
open files for read/write from where it was installed.
They tell you to not install it into the Applications
folder.
katan
Really? Install our program or run Active X to register the
product? That doesn't sound like the greatest customer
service. I guess there's always ye olde tried-and-true
mail-in card?
I didn't see one. I'm guessing they get a lot of configuration
information from the Active-X
David Newhall
On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:35 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic
digest system wrote:
Date:Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:05:21 -0500
From:Wayne Dernoncourt way...@panix.com
Subject: Windows Active X
I bought myself a Garmin GPS in October. I've been
trying to register it on the Garmin
I bought myself a Garmin GPS in October. I've been trying to
register it on the Garmin site for the last couple of weeks. I
say trying because so far I've been failing. They don't really
support the Mac so I've been trying to use my wife's Windows XP
computer. The Windows version uses Active X
Tony B
Wild first guess - you _are_ using IE? ActiveX only works
in IE. And there should be a blocking notice you'll have
to manually approve. Install IE7 (if applicable) and try
again.
Tom seemed to indicate lack of Mac support seemed to be a
reason to not consider Garmin. None of the
Tom Piwowar
Yes, we know Tom, you hate windows. We know, you've
flogged it to DEATH...we all know. It's not a secret.
Everyone agrees with you now, you've beaten everyone
to your side. Windows is horrid and terrible and a
scourge.
I use Windows all the time. Probably half the time most
days.
Tom Piwowar
Tom was trying to make this into a problem with
Windows 7, which it clearly is not.
You keep slicing and dicing every MS problem to
find any way you can to put the responsibility on
somebody else.
Oh? What somebody else did I try to put the problem
on?
I don't know. You were
Chris Dunford
Wayne, Tom appears to have confused two different events.
There was a technical glitch of some kind, not related to
demand, in delivering the activation keys. Subsequently
MS decided that it was going to need more hardware to
handle the volume of Win7 downloads, so it added
Tom Piwowar
OK, MP3 players have the same fail-safe requirements
as 747s. My bad. Don't know what I could've been thinking.
I did not ever use the word failsafe. You are once again
trying to drag the discussion to a nutty place.
Previously you tried to sell the idea that because it was
not
Rev. Stewart Marshall
Often if you go the manufactures web site you can
download drivers for the sticks.
98SE was the only one to support USB.
I know, if you worked hard enough, you _might_ get them
to work work with later service packs of WinNT.
My suggestion is this (Suggestion) look up a
Michael Fernando
To copy stuff from an old Win98SE disk ...
I have used up to 1 GB size of these sticks with great
success. Otherwise if it must be smaller look around on
ebay. Someone must be selling a few of these dirt cheap
(even compgeeks might have them) with the price of solid
Michael Wosnick
Hi all,
I am posting this with great reluctance. While I am truly
wanting legitimate information, I know I am risking a lot
of posturing in the PC vs. Mac, MS vs. the world camps,
etc and would prefer to just get the straight info
without all the politics, posturing,
Jeff Wright
There's about 2GB worth of stuff that may need
to be kept. I divided that up into 625-700MB directories and
the plan was to burn this stuff to CD's, make sure those are
readable and then nuke the drive. Win98SE can start Roxio
Easy CD Creator, but when I hit burn, I'm told
William McCarthy
Having only an anecdote, my own experience, to offer, I
would suggest that she wait. My own (attempted) upgrade
from 3 to 4 has been terrible. Before version 4, I had
been very happy with Parallels.
snip
I wish I would read this before last weekend when I ordered
the
Tom Piwowar
Tom didn't mention that a firewire connection is best
between the computer and the external hard drive.
Sadly, Apple is walking away from FireWire. Their newest
laptops omit it.
Although FireWire continues to have many advantages over
USB2, USB2 is just good enough to get by.
db
Yes, and a good thing too that it was determined to
be a crime.
Just because the internet is a new frontier does not
mean crime and injustice isn't perpetrated by its use.
To the contrary. The internet is just a new medium
for human beings to use for age old purposes
(information,
Tom Piwowar
But what I get tired of, is the one sided biases that some
folks show when they review stuff.
I recently watched a review of the Blackberry Storm done by
(Get this) two Iphone users. Built in bias! Pick
someone who does not use either phone and have them compare
and see what
Tom Piwowar
And of course, Herr Doctor himself. Tom has on many
more than one occasion urged list members to dump their
ISP provided email and move to the cloud via Gmail or
the like. An idea with which I agree with whole-heartedly.
A feeble attempt to change the subject. Nothing has been
Tom Piwowar
Things like this are improvements that MS should be making
to the Windows OS, but all that seems to happen is the
addition of what I would call glitter, not functionality
That is what happens when engineers try to copy a successful
competitor's product and they don't fundamentally
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