RE: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Philip Aker wrote: > On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 19:00 America/Vancouver, David H. Bailey > wrote: > > > I'm glad you're on a Mac, too. Somebody has to keep Steve Jobs > > employed! The rest of us are so busy keeping Bill Gates > the richest > > slob in the world that we can't be bothered

Re: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread Philip Aker
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 19:00 America/Vancouver, David H. Bailey wrote: I'm glad you're on a Mac, too. Somebody has to keep Steve Jobs employed! The rest of us are so busy keeping Bill Gates the richest slob in the world that we can't be bothered seeing to Jobs's fortunes. :-) Well, to

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Jerry W. Kortge
I recently purchased a Western Digital external USB hard drive (80Gig) as back up device on my Beige G3 Mac. Works very well and not particularily expensive. Painless to get operational. Hope this helps. Regards..Jerry >The hard drive on my dual-boot iMac is about to crash. Nobody seems >t

[Finale] Mac patch (was Randy...viruses)

2004-05-21 Thread Shelley Huston
There is a new security patch for Safari that can be obtained via Software Update. So far it hasn't caused any problems for me. Shel Shelley Huston ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread David H. Bailey
I'm glad you're on a Mac, too. Somebody has to keep Steve Jobs employed! The rest of us are so busy keeping Bill Gates the richest slob in the world that we can't be bothered seeing to Jobs's fortunes. :-) David H. Bailey Philip Aker wrote: On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 14:29 America/Vancouve

Re: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread David H. Bailey
The viruses of today MIMIC other people's addresses, so just because it appeared to come from Randy Stokes doesn't mean his computer actually sent it. It's the latest attempt to get people to try to open the attachments, figuring if it appears to come from somebody you know you are more likely

Re: [Finale] Doubling Instruments

2004-05-21 Thread Carl Dershem
Bruce Petherick wrote: Hello all, One of my students posed a question to me today that I had never considered with Finale. How does one handle an instrument double. The example he had involved an arrangement that has a sax part that keeps changing between Soprano, Tenor and Alto. How does he pu

Re: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread Philip Aker
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 14:29 America/Vancouver, Javier Ruiz wrote: Today I received a message from Randy Stokes. Not a personal one, no, but one of those virus messages "Re: Your software" with an attached exe application disguised as another thing. The problem is serious when you see that

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Philip Aker
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 14:35 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: My apologies, Philip. (Maybe I should just call you Mr. Aker?) Cheers, Nope. I don't like that either. It's 'Philip' for everyone from tots to octogenarians. Unless there's a chance of confusion with a person of the s

RE: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 03:30 PM 5/21/04 -0700, Microsoft Support \(aka Brad Beyenhof\) wrote: >A guy I know who owns his own domain has about 5 email address set up to be >"@his-own-domain.com". [1] However, sometimes he gets spam and/or viruses >with bogus "@his-own-domain.com" addresses in the From line! It's easy

RE: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread Microsoft Support \(aka Brad Beyenhof\)
David W. Fenton wrote: > On 21 May 2004 at 22:29, Javier Ruiz wrote: > > > Today I received a message from Randy Stokes. Not a > personal one, no, > > but one of those virus messages "Re: Your software" with an attached > > exe application disguised as another thing. > > > > The problem is seri

Re: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses - not

2004-05-21 Thread kaub001
The fact that the "from" on the email says "Randy Stokes" does not mean it came from Randy Stokes. More than likely, especially in the case of viruses/worms, the sending program is "spoofing" the from-address with one of the other addresses in the infected machines mailbox. Most likely you and

Re: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread David W. Fenton
On 21 May 2004 at 22:29, Javier Ruiz wrote: > Today I received a message from Randy Stokes. Not a personal one, no, > but one of those virus messages "Re: Your software" with an attached > exe application disguised as another thing. > > The problem is serious when you see that even professionals

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Javier Ruiz
Dear Andrew. 1) Calm down. DonĀ“t panic 2) Buy a Firewire external hard disk. Check that includes the Firewire 6-6 cable. 3) No need for Retrospect. LaCie has a FREE backup application called "Silverkeeper". Get it here: http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ 4) Backup your data. 5) Have your hard

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
My apologies, Philip. (Maybe I should just call you Mr. Aker?) Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 21 May 2004, at 05:27 PM, Philip Aker wrote: On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 12:36 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: You should really get that external FireWire drive even

[Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses

2004-05-21 Thread Javier Ruiz
Today I received a message from Randy Stokes. Not a personal one, no, but one of those virus messages "Re: Your software" with an attached exe application disguised as another thing. The problem is serious when you see that even professionals got viruses and let them spread. I am glad I am on a M

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Philip Aker
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 12:36 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: You should really get that external FireWire drive even if you're planning on replacing the internal drive -- it costs less than paying someone to do the data transfer for you, and it will make backups from the new i

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 May 2004, at 03:18 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: There's a major irony here in that the probable reason my disk is failing is that I've been devoting tons of time in the past week to downloading and installing post-Panther Apple upgrades (something like 80 MB of software), Sibelius III, Fin

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
First of all, thanks to those who responded. I've decided as a first step just to call my local Mac repair place and ask them how much they'd charge to do what needs doing. I would quibble just a little with Phil's suggested order, though. I would *first* install Panther on the pristine Fire

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Phil, It may be difficult for Andrew to find a LaCie FW drive in the size he needs. The smallest desktop drive still available is 80GB ($129.00), but there aren't that many of those still around. (OWC doesn't carry it anymore.) But sure, if he can find one of those online or locally, I th

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Andrew, I assume you've already ruled out everything except pending catastrophic hardware failure for your internal HD. Step One would be to get an external FireWire drive at least as big as your HD. Neptune makes a 40GB FireWire drive that you can get here for $99.99:

Re: [Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Philip Aker
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 08:54 America/Vancouver, Andrew Stiller wrote: The hard drive on my dual-boot iMac is about to crash. Nobody seems to be offering free Mac hardware advice online anymore, so can anyone on the list advise me? It's a 38 GB drive w. ca. 8 GB of data on it. I need to bo

Re: [Finale] OSX macro capabilities

2004-05-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
So anyway, you will need to get either QuicKeys X or iKey, and I highly recommend iKey. - Darcy Thanks! I'll keep it in mind--once I replace my dying hard drive... -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale maili

[Finale] OT: hard drive dying!

2004-05-21 Thread Andrew Stiller
The hard drive on my dual-boot iMac is about to crash. Nobody seems to be offering free Mac hardware advice online anymore, so can anyone on the list advise me? It's a 38 GB drive w. ca. 8 GB of data on it. I need to both recover the data (hopefully in one seamless lump) and replace the drive.

[Finale] Ties with accidentals

2004-05-21 Thread Ken Moore
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wrote: >A quick way (somebody must have suggested this already) to be sure that >you have the pitch right in the second bar I forgot you were not using MIDI entry. This can still be made to work, but you have to enter a short note, add the accidental with + or - a

Re: [Finale] JW plug-ins on OSX

2004-05-21 Thread Jari Williamsson
d. collins writes: > What are your plans for your Forza plugins? A new beta build (without time limit) of Forza! has been posted to the file space of forza-talk: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forza-talk/files/ The current known problems with Forza! in Finale 2004 has been listed in a separate

Re: [Finale] Human playback expression weirdness

2004-05-21 Thread Jari Williamsson
Darcy James Argue writes: > In the piece I'm working on now, I have created an expression "wuh" > (indicating a breathy, relatively short note with no tongue on the > attack or release). Despite the fact that the playback options for > this expression are set to "none," when I turn Human Playb