And if yer lucky and live in France, maybe you can get your car burned up!
I don't plan to go to the Paris or Marseille projects. Same could happen if you lived in
the south Bronx, or east L.A. or Miami.
At least if you lived in the Paris projects you could watch it all happening out the
Paula Minor raven...@gmail.com escribió:
Crooked companies shouldn't be encouraged, much less allowed to get away with
their abuses.
Betty, in our home they are referred to as the Evil Empire and no one in our extended family will go near them. But we are lucky to live in a large city
stay away from the internet as much as is
possible and most certainly do not anchor your lifestyle to it
I repeat, some of you folks have a real problem dealing with change. You are
ignoring that many new technologies that greatly simplify and/ or enrich our
lives. I want more of
You Windoz weenies still don't get it, do you.
Mac users need to use multiple browsers that can mask the OS, because there are still
millions of web sites, many of them commercial that block Macs or distort their
experience. This isn't some clueless individual who's still using FrontPage
Again you are pining for the parallel port. Very few people want to take their
computers apart. Service is easy to get and priced reasonably. Apple
routinely waves
fees and offers huge trade-in discounts. By giving up on making some of their
products
easy to open Apple reduced costs, made
iPhone app is Pocket First Aid and CPR, $3.99.
Betty
--
telecommuting is just another way of saying lying naked with your
laptop on the front lawn.
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As seen in Robert L. Park's What's New newsletter at UMd physics site,
http://www.bobpark.org/. He comments, Of course, it may be the programming rather than
being sedentary that's bad for you.
Watching TV Linked to Higher Risk of Death
By RON WINSLOW
If you're reading this sitting down,
Battery alone will never work.
Just tonight I went outside to take my son to work, and my garden lights were
not
working. It has been overcast all day long and raining so they did not get a
charge.
Now I know that the solar panels on them are small and not high quality but
extrapolate
that
Elkton, Maryland, much further from TV towers than where you live.
Buy or make an antenna. Use it with a TV that has a good digital tuner, or with a good
converter box. New TV is good, http://is.gd/5Ihpu- .
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With a Windows PC, can you boot from an external drive? If not, can you run programs from
an external drive?
I do this with my Mac, and run Windows inside VirtualBox, but don't usually use my
husband's PCs. If I plan to install the hard drive in the computer, I'll run it bare using
a drive
to be used by vendors, doctors,
banks? Do you use the same email address for everything? Do you have a Facebook, etc. page
and lots of 'friends' there?
You still have no privacy [and it's probably your fault]. Get over it. It's like living in
a worldwide small town!
Betty
But that's the problem... when you have access to no other phone and you are conducting
business ... the minutes rack up.
You can't text a client when what they want is to talk to you...
Unlimited is for $130 the next step above 1300 minutes (or whatever that figure is... I
can't
Wow Stewart, you almost achieved superstardom with your OK first off you are an ignorant
philistine. Great! Not so good here.
Apple wanted worldwide sales for the iPhone. Verizon doesn't do GSM, but Apple wanted them
to do that to get the iPhone. Verizon doesn't get the iPhone without GSM. I
iPhone or Android? How about neither. Antennas and reception are very important for me as
are WiFi, browsing, email, basic camera, VOIP.
iPhones have lousy antennas and pathetic cameras [sshhh, Chad, Nokia ain't no Leica or
Kolsch, but at least they use Zeiss lenses and autofocus w/LED flash,
Toyota is a publicly held company with profits that go to its shareholders who may be anywhere in the world.
Yeah, I own some of that stock. But last time I checked Japan
was a free democracy.
What's their Ticker Symbol?
Find it on most financial sites: TM
A Toyota manufactured in Kentucky is an American product.
But where do Vincent's and Toyota's profits go? That's right,
not to China or the US.
I'm not saying that what you mention doesn't happen, although
I'd be interested to hear a quick list of the companies you describe.
If you had a
Seems like a travel vault would be an automatic first target for hacking by
passport
and identity forgers... and that Lonely Planet would not have the type and
quality of IT staff
or expertise to stay ahead of them...
But they don't run it themselves and you can't find it.
No setup is absolutely 100% reliable, but I have yet to lose email with
AOL (which does offer free IMAP access), Google or Yahoo. I have
however had email and other files disappear from supposedly securely
backed up providers. I do have to wonder just those folks with multiple
gigs of photo or
I'm finding it very difficult to teach these seniors not to be afraid of the
machines, and yet balance that with the security issues that they will find on
their
home computers.
You are experience first hand the difference between getting Windows vs
Macintosh. The
Macs are far more resistant
.
These are not unusual for Apple.
Betty
This seems extreme even for Apple. Why would they do something like this
outside the 1 year warranty or 3 year extended? This seems more like a very
pleasant mistake on Apple's part then anything near the norm. The times
I've dealt with Apple they have been fine
I don't know if my computer isn't displaying this stuff right or what but these
symbols
and foreign language puncuation don't look like upside down letters to me. �
�ı
It could depend on the character encoding you set. I have mine set to ISO 8859-1 on this
MacBook. Also works in Unicode.
instance is what we use. I
don't mean to dismiss you at all, only to contrast where our experiences differ. I enjoy
your comments. Sorry for the confusion.
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that does the job best for you.
Too bad that the differences are offered as adversarial rather than complementary, but
that's business! Even Microsoft makes a fair profit from Mac users, with Office, and with
dual booting or virtualization. So being next-door neighbors can be a good thing.
Betty
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better article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
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Love that 24 iMac!
I have no trouble using Appleworks on my iMac; I saved it from an older Mac--runs fine. I
also downloaded Smultron and Bean to replace TextEdit. Smultron is OK. Bean is good. iMac
is good.
Betty
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sonnenbrand
I used to use only FF but switched back to IE with 8,
so I don't understand this one. It must be newish.
Are you saying that any typing is turned into a
text search?
about:config
accessibility.typeaheadfind = true
It's been that way for years, going back to netscape.
This seems strange
It *was* broke, now it's fixed. For a while, anyway. You wouldn't
really consider driving a 1940 model car today, would you? Your 'fire'
analogy is a really bad one because DTV is a set of standards, not a
universal chemical process.
Nobody around here can get all the channels they had with
There's also a feature where you can find text on a
page just by typing it, but you have to turn it on.
I used to use only FF but switched back to IE with 8, so I don't understand
this one. It must be newish. Are you saying that any typing is turned into a
text search?
about:config
Get here a combo FireWire/USB drive enclosure and put whatever HD you want inside.
Enclosures start at around $25. Don't rely on just USB. If you want to use it for backup
with TimeMachine, I think it has to be formatted as a Mac drive [Disk Utility].
I have one of mine formatted FAT32 to use
Each time I turn on any of our TVs there are no channels and I have to scan.
We've had DirecTV for years, and they've been digital for years. They get it right, and
have a lot of good channels, but we can only get Baltimore TV stations for our local
stations, not Philly and not both, like we
.
Betty
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iWork isn't shareware or freeware, it's commercial software developed by Apple. Go find a
torrent of something like Adobe CS4, MS Office Pro, Archicad, Quark XPress, and see how
many of those expensive programs are real and how many are waiting to eat your computer
for lunch.
Why would anyone
Why would anyone steal shareware or freeware? It's free to download
directly from developers.
Think more broadly. Looks like you are still at step 1 while I'm at step
3.
Fill in the blanks:
Step 1 _
Step 2 _
Step 3 _
Panic? Don't panic. More fake vulnerabilities, this time from ZDNet. Where is that botnet?
Is it in Symantec labs?
Yawn! This article says this supposed trojan needs to run as root. On all Macs, root is
disabled by default. How many people know how to enable the root account on a Mac, have
in a few messages.
FWIW, a hot rant or flame every so often is good for the soul. I've been laughing at the
Windoze/M$ comments this week.
Betty
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to take a
chance. It's not worth the risk, yet it's tempting.
Betty
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Why would it have a negative impact on shareware/freeware?
Because it would make folks terrified to install it.
That's silly. Most people are either too scared or too confused about torrents to consider
downloading programs--or anything else with BitTorrent. Probably don't know what it is.
Interesting story at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30229181/
We know the about caps and metered usage plans that the cable companies
are trying to institute. This story goes a little further to speculate
why.
snip
After analog broadcasting stops, those who are out of broadcast range may
instead of the camera body for night shots.
Betty
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[April 09, 2009 | 4:50:55 PM]
Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/time-warner-cab.html
Time Warner shelves plan to cap Internet use
Capitulation doesn't bode well for the future of metered billing
updated 5:13 p.m. ET, Thurs.,
April 09, 2009 | 4:50:55 PM
Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/time-warner-cab.html
Time Warner shelves plan to cap Internet use
Capitulation doesn't bode well for the future of metered billing
updated 5:13 p.m. ET, Thurs.,
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote:
Actually my fortune-100 company is reconsidering their Windows-only
policy. This has been gaining momentum since many senior IT
administrators are buying MacBook Pro's and setting up dual-boot.
The
Where is the data for the user accounts stored? In the main Library or
System/Library--and which folder/file? Can it be edited in Terminal?
Migration Assistant displays the list of user accounts with a check box
for each account. You only check the accounts you want transferred.
The fun
is Silverlight BETTER
than Flash or MPEG that both work on almost all computers?
Light Up the WebSilverlight powers rich application experiences wherever the
Web works.
Yeah, sure, whatever. Pointless.
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She wanted a Mac. She went first to the Mac store.
I wish I could visit your imaginary world some day. Does Mrs. Butterworth
fix you breakfast every day, saying Good morning, dear! And a lovely one it
is, too!
I looked at the video. Lauren didn't go into the Apple Store at all. She walked to
Hey, guys. You don't need to exaggerate to make your point. BTW, if
you really believe that a BASIC Mac costs 2 K, then your idea of
basic is very different from mine. [To be boringly factual, you can
do well for a lot less.]
I just bought several new Macs from Apple's online store for
We can go into the Costco in Delaware, but can't buy anything without a membership.
Couldn't even spend their rebate check. Do you shop in DC metro Virginia? Wish we could
buy. I wouldn't mind paying a markup.
(3) Strange, in my area Costco is free admission.
town by town, and even block by
block. Sit tight.
Betty
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Betty it is the old magicians ruse.
Keep everyone looking this way while you perform your slight of hand elsewhere.
Stewart
I could show you how that works. My grandfather was a prestidigitator [magician] and
sometimes I was his
assistant, uh, distraction
the bill. Don't bother with their free web pages in your account either, Geocities,
et al, work infinitely better for Mac users, and most everyone else, too.
Betty
So if I understand the implications of this correctly: you can not post
anything to the CGuys list if you use Verison's new email
This is a better video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s
I like these better:
Hummer vs. Smart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkjZtfgqC2w
Banned TV ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oph4fcJmPBk
The safety test results for cars sold in the EU are on the European New Car Assessment
businesses, balancing the budget and paying down the
national debt, we get a bill requiring us to spy on ourselves. Don't they have important
work to do? HAHAHAHA
What a waste of time.
Betty
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files to me, too.
I use TIFFs for printed materials, but not for email or web. Too big, not compatible.
Designed for printing, not for Internet.
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Oh brilliant idea Betty! Duh! I should have known the G5 tower could hold 2 SATA
drives but you say it can hold 3?
It's my friend's machine so I don't have it handy to poke around in. It's this machine
however:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_dual_2.0
Pros. I hope they keep it on new iMacs since many of
us use them for video and don't want to give up speed and reliability. My videocam works
better with FW.
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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
chad evans wyatt escribió,
Not a feature, what's missing is unlocked universal use. Tied to ATT (same
model overseas, tied to one carrier), the iPhone is useful only to those who
wish to spend, rather than use. That's the problem, Tom. Betty is trying to
get there without shackles.
Thank
,
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Organizing+Bookmarks.
Betty
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, library/system files and add-ons away? There's not much
on this computer, but I don't want to start from scratch. Contextual menus are useful. I
miss them.
MacBook 2.16 GHz, 2007, OS X v.10.4.11
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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
And what about Windows users who are perpetually in the dark?
The price for those panels is lower
than some of the new cable/DSL/ADSL modems. Searched online and found
one that retails at $44.99, and another for $37.95; will be much less if
bundled with FIOS service boxes.
Betty
just not enough competition,
instead of anti-competition.
Verizon service here is pretty good, but very expensive, except in
comparison to local cable. Eric? Why so much for so little?
Betty
Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED] escrubió:
If everyone started downloading 4 GB movies, could
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