MacGroup: Iwork

2005-03-21 Thread Bill Holt
Same deal as usual ... you bring the dancing girls and I bring the beer? From: Tom Guenthner tom at aye.net Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:40:11 -0500 To: Mac Group macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: Iwork The March meeting

MacGroup: NeoOffice for OS-X is out

2005-03-31 Thread Bill Holt
I downloaded it and have been using it since the presentation at the last meeting. Pretty good. Like you say, the navigation windows are ugly, but that's a small factor. Imports and exports to/from Office have been painless. I'll probably be happy with it if I can ever figure out how to

MacGroup: Crashed hard drive

2004-03-22 Thread Bill Holt
Don, I can't vouch for the freezer approach, but did, some years ago, have success by substantially cooling a malfunctioning hard drive and doing an immediate file recovery operation. If it were me, I would bag the unit with several containers of dried silica sand and put it in the fridge over

MacGroup: A History of Apple OS's

2004-03-07 Thread Bill Holt
Don't be modest Tom. I bet you can remember the pile of rocks OS ... which is still an integral part of the Micro$oft systems. From: Tom Guenthner tom at aye.net Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:39:08 -0500 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu

Re(2): MacGroup: ripping vinyl

2004-03-21 Thread Bill Holt
If it can be held off until at least June, then I may be able to bring something of possible interest to a few people. I've been in the process* of developing a machine that will allow me to transfer the very old, tin can shaped records - from my Grandmother's childhood (1920's) - to CD. The

MacGroup: Adobe dropping FrameMaker for Mac

2004-03-23 Thread Bill Holt
I wonder if you can run the Sun Unix version in x-windows. From: Rex Baldazo Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:53:34 -0800 To: 'macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu' macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup:

MacGroup: IBM to exit the PC business

2004-12-03 Thread Bill Holt
And remember, they're the ones who loosed Micro$oft onto the world to wreck its decades of havac. From: Bill Rising brising at Louisville.edu Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:47:22 -0500 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup:

MacGroup: Size of Hard Drive

2004-12-01 Thread Bill Holt
Did you use the Apple hard drive setup utility on this? From: Glenn Hoehler glenn at insightbb.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:30:37 -0500 To: MacGroup macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: Size of Hard Drive Hi Folks I

MacGroup: Fwd:

2004-08-01 Thread Bill Holt
, but sometimes randomly chooses nothing and sends crap. Hen On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Bill Holt wrote: That's funny, in the odd sense. I've seen a few, very few, that were truly blank but wrote them off to misfires by spammers or perhaps the result of some kiddy-script virus. Frankly, I still don't

MacGroup: Re: Copying

2004-08-04 Thread Bill Holt
a slide rule. Bill Holt From: Ward Oldham woldham at insightbb.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:00:06 -0400 To: MUG macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Re: Copying Kay, Its one thing to politely correct the facts

MacGroup: Greener pastures, etc

2004-08-07 Thread Bill Holt
Henry, I'll second the need for accounting, not because I think it's important for the group, but because I don't believe user-groups should need dues and want to have good evidence of just why money is needed. Bandwidth, servers, hallspace, demo machines; all of these should easily be

MacGroup: disk woes

2004-08-26 Thread Bill Holt
machine, et al, stay retired ... although they still work. I hate that I had to miss the meeting the other night - no choice - and hope the knowledge that was spread about is sound enough to field the questions I'll eventually submit. Bill Holt From: Bill Rising brising at Louisville.edu

MacGroup: cassette vs. iPod

2004-08-13 Thread Bill Holt
Bill, Ed _must_ have been yanking your chain. It was funny, as are several of the other things on that site. The parody of the Apple Switching commercial is worth a giggle too. Bill Holt From: Bill Rising brising at Louisville.edu Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date

MacGroup: Very slow DSL...

2004-08-30 Thread Bill Holt
Thanks Mike. I'd been seeing exactly the same thing, but through a different dsl provider. Took the same steps and got the same result ... now quite zippy. I have absolutely no idea why it worked. Bill Holt From: Mike Watkins watk5926 at bellsouth.net Reply-To: macgroup

MacGroup: Greener pastures, etc

2004-08-07 Thread Bill Holt
it Tom didn't give polka dance lessons after each meeting. And a one and a two ... Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 24. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page

MacGroup: Re: Former U.S. V.P. Elected to Apple Board

2003-03-24 Thread Bill Holt
it's good marketing. Bill Holt -- From: Beth Ernst bernst at fastline.com To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: RE: Offtopic: Re: Former U.S. V.P. Elected to Apple Board Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 11:32 AM I have been out of the office since I sent my email

MacGroup: Re: Former U.S. V.P. Elected to Apple Board

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Holt
and guts to run a successful, substantial business, there are no Al Gore admirers. Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org.

MacGroup: Re: from V.P. to board topic

2003-03-26 Thread Bill Holt
the price has been right. Besides, it is nice to deal with a pleasant and competent human being. So I'd have to report that my first experience with the Mac store under this new management was quite positive. Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25

MacGroup: winmail.dat redux

2003-03-27 Thread Bill Holt
Job 1.1 - service pack 2b Soon to be available only by subscription. -- From: Bill Rising brising at Louisville.edu To: MacUser Group macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: winmail.dat redux Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2003, 12:18 PM On 3/27/03 11:44, Lee Larson wrote On

MacGroup: Safari Censorship?

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Holt
problems with that level of linguistic sophistication and it seems really, really unlikely that Apple would spend a chunk of its RD budget to do such a thing. This smells like the birth of an urban legend. Bill Holt -- From: Rob Kersting laffmakr at aye.net To: macgroup

MacGroup: Safari Censorship?

2003-03-29 Thread Bill Holt
Browser set to accept cookies? Two N's in the spelling? -- From: Anne Cartwright cartwrig at aye.net To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Safari Censorship? Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2003, 11:15 PM OK, I'll bite. I tried a search (using Safari) on e-Bay for Nazi

MacGroup: Safari Censorship?

2003-03-31 Thread Bill Holt
or Cracker Face Laundry Whitener. (Of course I made up those names to illustrate his same point.) The n-word has been used as a product name where other racial slurs have not. Get it? Bill Holt wrote: I think the chances are, Rob, that you and Tavis' guest are screwing something up. Think

MacGroup: System X anxiety

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Holt
for wading through this and for any responses. If anyone ever needs to know the soft interrupt key sequence for the first Mac system, or how to use the original program switcher, I'll be able to chime in with the help. Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society

MacGroup: Local service(s)

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Holt
happy, there needs to be at least one person who's happy working with the elementary crowd. Actually, I'd guess the latter is more important to your business in the long haul. Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is http

MacGroup: Local service(s)

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Holt
tech support (that is our job ^-^). If I don't have to deal with the friggin phone company, that's a plus. Can you say anything about the speeds that are generally accomplished in the Hikes Point area? Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS

MacGroup: Re: System X anxiety

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Holt
Thanks Lee, I'll stick with HSF+. -- From: Lee Larson llarson at Louisville.edu To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Re: System X anxiety Date: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 5:31 PM On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Bill Holt wrote: 1) Is there any advantage

MacGroup: Re: System X anxiety

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Holt
on a relatively conventional setup. If no-one knows about that, I may just do a quick switch and see if it works. :) Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org.

MacGroup: Local service(s)

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Holt
neither liberty nor safety. Bill Holt -- From: John Stone jsstone at bellsouth.net To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Local service(s) Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 7:59 AM Hello All, My .02?.. I'm using Bellsouth, and have nothing but great things

MacGroup: Local service(s)

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Holt
ain't possible. Bill Holt -- From: Ward Oldham woldham at insightbb.com To: MUG macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Local service(s) Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 12:24 AM Hi Bill, I appreciate the detailed info. I'm suspect that this experience occurred sometime

MacGroup: Local service(s)

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Holt
I do wish that there were a neighbor, Tony, I could email for reassurance. It would just be so reassuring to be able to figuratively kick the tires. When and if I'm up and running, I will volunteer to be a customer reassurance by email contact. Bill Holt -- From: Anthony Shelburne

MacGroup: Re: System X anxiety

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Holt
about 1984 to maybe 1986 which was designed to use the external floppy port, but that was before Macs had scsi ports. That people were willing to buy those may be what persuaded Apple to add scsi as a standard. Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January

MacGroup: Re: System X anxiety

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Holt
, in which case the big engine is more of a noise maker than a go maker. Only the Shadow knows where the balance lies, and he works for Apple and doesn't talk much. Tim Taylor would suggest that you do it. I'd just request that yuou report back if you decide to try it. Bill Holt | The next

MacGroup: Local service(s)

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Holt
Marta, Think of us as prophets, leading people away from the darkness. Maybe some day somebody'll write a book. :) Bill Holt -- From: Mledie at aol.com To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Local service(s) Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 12:13 AM Bill, you

MacGroup: Re: System X anxiety

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Holt
, at 12:59 AM, Bill Holt wrote: There are rumors that you can replace the floppy drive with a hd and do this as well. Jerry I'd treat those rumors with extreme skepticism, Jerry. The floppy isn't a scsi or an ATA drive ... it's a whole different sort of system. Now, it's true

MacGroup: iMac or eMac avaliable?

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Holt
, it won't recognize the new memory and needs to do so to make good use of her new broadband service. So I'm looking for a replacement, and the financial situation indicates that barter is the preferred method of exchange. Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society

MacGroup: iMac or eMac avaliable?

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Holt
? Did you take the new RAM out and reboot? Are you certain it's the correct RAM? :)...jf On Jan 5, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Bill Holt wrote: If any of you have either a slot loading iMac or an eMac that's collecting dust, and you'd like a Pentium machine of similar age ... or two ... or three

MacGroup: iMac or eMac avaliable?

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Holt
. What OS is this iMac running, did you zap the PRAM, or reset the PMU? ...jf On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Bill Holt wrote: Well Jerry, I can't be absolutely sure, but I think that's the most likely case. Right memory? Well, yes, I'm pretty sure. It came from OWC, and I've never had

MacGroup: MWSF related question

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Holt
I don't know this for an absolute fact, but I'd expect the refurbed units to be more reliable, rather than less, because of the QC checking they should receive before going out the door a second time. Bill Holt On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:33 PM, b3 wrote: Your best bang for the buck would

MacGroup: iMac or eMac avaliable?

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Holt
. Bill On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Bill Holt wrote: I did do the blow-out operation to make sure the socket was clear of cat hair (having encountered that problem in the past) and would wager heavily that the module was seated properly. I

MacGroup: iMac or eMac avaliable?

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Holt
Schoun, you have a mean streak. Fortunately, Marta has a sense of humor and probably won't feel compelled to do you harm. Bill On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Schoun Regan wrote: PRAM, PMU, PPP, TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4 IPv6, VPN, PPTP, L2TP, DNS, SQL, IRC, QTSS, RTSP, SLP, SASL, 802.11b,g,a

MacGroup: Help! Data Recovery

2004-05-06 Thread Bill Holt
From: Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:12:12 -0400 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Help! Data Recovery I'll let you know how it goes. That's a good thing. This is something

MacGroup: Processor temp and cron job - can't finds

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Holt
those lines too. It would be nice to save old messages and still be able to search based on sender/recipient, subject, date span, and content. Alex Whitman On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Bill Holt wrote: Second can't find - there is a way, I know, to have the OSX system do it's self

MacGroup: Help! Data Recovery

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Holt
. There's some possibility that you'll still have to have the files recovered professionally. Good luck. Bill Holt From: Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 13:32:48 -0400 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject

MacGroup: Processor temp and cron job - can't finds

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Holt
. No more bad puns or straight lines for a week or two days which ever comes first, I promise. On May 03, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Bill Holt wrote: Lee, I really appreciate you going into the level of detail you did to guide me through the process of tweaking the self-repair routines, but I have

MacGroup: Spell Checker for Outlook Express...

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Holt
John, Tell your friend to look under the Tools menu. There's on built into OE 4.5 and 5.0 for OS9 Macs. From: John Stone johnstone at blackbirds.net Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 13:28:47 -0400 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject:

MacGroup: Processor temp and cron job - can't finds

2004-05-03 Thread Bill Holt
Marta, Sorry about being so slow to get back to you. The way I archived is nothing fancy. I have used Outlook Express for quite a while as it gives me periodic reminders to turn, face Redmond Washington, and use all the curse words I know. One hates to lose skills that are painfully gained.

MacGroup: Filemaker and email

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Holt
at FMP scripting, I think I probably worked for about $2/hr when doing exactly what you're talking about for a project of mine. Bill Holt From: Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:20:59 -0400 To: macgroup

MacGroup: More GRASS

2004-05-07 Thread Bill Holt
You overestimate my competence with OSX, Jerry. I still haven't found out where X-windows is, never the less how to fire it up. Or is it X-11? Something with an X in it. As much as I look forward to diving into this, it is recreational and will have to wait until at least Saturday. I have some

MacGroup: MS Office 2004, and VPC

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Holt
it demo might really be useful. Hint hint hint. Bill Holt From: KR'sListMail listmail at electrablue.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:19:41 -0400 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: MS Office 2004, and VPC Hi

MacGroup: PDF question

2004-05-09 Thread Bill Holt
the too-much-resolution that's choking your friends DOSasaur machines. Bill Holt From: Harry Jacobson-Beyer harryjb at bellsouth.net Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 21:56:10 -0400 To: Macusergroup macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup

MacGroup: Spell Checker for Outlook Express...

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Holt
Sorry about that, Dave ... although it's a minor dream of mine, I don't think I've ever had an installation without some version of Word installed. So, in answer to your original question, I'd suggest that your friend look up Excalibur. It is solid, has quite a few specialized dictionaries, is

MacGroup: Processor temp and cron job - can't finds

2004-05-04 Thread Bill Holt
2004, Bill Holt wrote: Thanks Jerry, I don't understand why anyone would object to these people selling a compiled, easy-install version of an OS program. [a kind of round about answer to why people would object, with hopefully lots of explaining for anyone else listening] The GPL

MacGroup: Excel Formula

2003-02-14 Thread Bill Holt
Sure enough ... but it doesn't mean I'll answer to D-cell. :) Bill -- From: profile profile at aye.net To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Excel Formula Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2003, 8:22 AM Bill, Many thanks, it works perfect. Knowledge is power, isn't

MacGroup: spam trap

2003-02-27 Thread Bill Holt
what to make of it, but if there was something sent that I really should have received, I've now added the louisville.edu domain to my specific permit list so it should get through. Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is http

MacGroup: filemaker pro question

2006-03-09 Thread Bill Holt
are possible, I had no trouble importing a number of version 4 files into version 8, with minimal tweaking, and suspect she won't have any trouble with that either. Bill Holt On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Bill Micou wrote: Revised question... she thinks she has to convert from Filemaker Pro

MacGroup: US slips lower in programming contest

2005-04-10 Thread Bill Holt
Sure, could be, but it could also be a sign than a larger part of the population is being included in the testing - like with SAT scores. From: Rex Baldazo Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:36:24 -0700 To: macgroup at

MacGroup: US slips lower in programming contest

2005-04-10 Thread Bill Holt
in the countries that were beating us, only their better students were taking the test. Perhaps that's no longer true, but it's at least worthy of a pinch of salt. My personal theory: We're getting stupider as a society. Data point of the day: http://shorterlink.com/?LD61Z5 Bill Holt From

MacGroup: US slips lower in programming contest

2005-04-10 Thread Bill Holt
Oops. Good manners suggests that I should provide sign-in info for: http://shorterlink.com/?LD61Z5

MacGroup: Play DVD movie

2005-04-14 Thread Bill Holt
Thanks Lee. Works like a champ! Bill From: Lee Larson leelarson at mac.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:02:00 -0400 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Play DVD movie On Apr 14, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Bill Holt asked

MacGroup: burning from OS X

2005-04-20 Thread Bill Holt
before attempting to do something. Usually it's easier to do it than to read about it. Second rule of Macs: The most difficult thing to do on a Mac is forgetting the convoluted steps required to make a Windoze machine work. Bill Holt From: Stuart Ungar teamungar at yahoo.com Reply

MacGroup: iPod mini drawing

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Holt
Harry, Tech Republic is a big compu-publishng outfit, mainly serving IT people. They own, or or owned by, Zif, or ZDnet, of some such ... I'm pretty sure. My Sis, the computer nerd, used to work for TR. I still take the newsletter, but most of it is beyond me. Bill On Monday, April

MacGroup: iPod mini drawing

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Holt
PS: It's here in town. On Monday, April 25, 2005, at 04:55 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: Who is tech republic. And if I sign up will I then be getting mail that I don't want from the organization? :-) Thanks. Monday, April 25, 20053:50 PMRex BaldazoRex.Baldazo at cnet.com | The

MacGroup: Mac mini report

2005-04-28 Thread Bill Holt
of MultiPlan, was over $3k. Same credit card. Much less pain. Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http

MacGroup: erdos?

2005-04-29 Thread Bill Holt
Is the erdos part of the list address associated with the famous Hungarian (?) mathematician or some sort of computerish acronym, or something else? Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting

MacGroup: erdos?

2005-04-29 Thread Bill Holt
Well if we're going to be persnickety, Jerry, wasn't his first name actually Pal? And didn't he teach _everywhere_ for a short time? ;) In all seriousness, I would hope that means that the University has several people walking about with a low Erd?s number. That would be more impressive to

MacGroup: erdos?

2005-04-29 Thread Bill Holt
, that would be P?l rather than Pal. :^) Almost everywhere. Used to be, but as time went by, the number grew smaller. Mathematicians seem to move around a bit. Jerry On Apr 29, 2005, at 12:44 AM, Bill Holt wrote: Well if we're going to be persnickety, Jerry, wasn't

MacGroup: erdos?

2005-04-29 Thread Bill Holt
Erdos number of 3! Do you allow people to kiss your ring? :) Bill On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Lee Larson wrote: On Apr 28, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Bill Holt asked: Is the erdos part of the list address associated with the famous Hungarian (?) mathematician or some sort

MacGroup: erdos?

2005-04-29 Thread Bill Holt
. Jerry On Apr 29, 2005, at 2:32 AM, Bill Holt wrote: Heh heh. Do you recall about when it was he was here? I would be irrationally pleased with myself if it were possible that one of the strange little guys I ran across during my years there might have been him. Bill On Friday, April

MacGroup: more on iPod

2004-10-15 Thread Bill Holt
I've been watching AAPL for quite a while, and have bought an sold it a few times ... well. It seems to me that the best time to buy AAPL is after you hear this is the end of Apple at least a few time. Usually, the stock doubles during the next year. Generally, after the first buy

MacGroup: Re: compling

2004-10-20 Thread Bill Holt
Neal, I thought I was the last one in the world to change over to OSX, so I just assumed you'd know about Preview. If you're on an earlier system, Preview won't work but, don't worry, there are many other choices. For example, you can drag drop image files to GraphicConverter or JPegView just

MacGroup: Tricks With PearPC

2004-10-26 Thread Bill Holt
And at the other end of the scale, my good ol' Newton 2100 boots in about one (1) second. Lots of times, newer ain't better. From: Lee Larson leelarson at mac.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:01:28 -0400 To: Macgroup macgroup at

MacGroup: prefCheck

2004-10-22 Thread Bill Holt
Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us From: Bill Holt billholt at iglou.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:46:59 -0400 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: prefCheck I

MacGroup: Re: compling

2004-10-20 Thread Bill Holt
:09, Bill Holt wrote: Neil, I've already responded off list, but for the list, here's the problem. The email you received had been forwarded many times and no-one bothered to clean it up before sending. So, it accumulated multiple layers of the header info and eventually became too

MacGroup: Re: question

2004-10-19 Thread Bill Holt
Do these images display or show up as broken links? emi is a new one to me, and I don't see it in the GraphicConverter list, which is pretty extensive. Forward one of these mails to my address and I'll seen if GC assigns some other suffix to the file and opens it. Bill Holt From: Neal

MacGroup: prefCheck

2004-10-22 Thread Bill Holt
/software/download.htm Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup

MacGroup: Re: compling

2004-10-19 Thread Bill Holt
Bill Holt wrote: Do these images display or show up as broken links? emi is a new one to me, and I don't see it in the GraphicConverter list, which is pretty extensive. Forward one of these mails to my address and I'll seen if GC assigns some other suffix to the file and opens it. Bill

MacGroup: iMac won't start up

2004-10-23 Thread Bill Holt
Have you tried starting up from the CD? I think, for your model, all you need to do is restart with the CD in place and hold down the letter c on you keyboard until you see that the CD has been used to start up from. It'll be obvious. Then, you can see if your hard drive is accessible. That's

MacGroup: Dying iMac

2004-10-26 Thread Bill Holt
Just fyi, Alan, shrevesystems is selling the same base model for $249, which I'd guess defines the upper limit of practical repair costs. Bill Holt PS to all: I have to miss the meeting tonight. Family obligation. Keep the dancing girls warm and the beer cold, and I'll be there next time

MacGroup: converting photos for web

2004-11-08 Thread Bill Holt
, color correction, of sharpening. It's probably the best piece of shareware I've ever invested in. Bill Holt From: Bill Micou derbywiz at mac.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:27:24 -0500 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup

MacGroup: bug?

2004-11-09 Thread Bill Holt
Usually, Anne, although the spoofing-virus will plug your email address into the messages it sends, it won't alter the IP of the sender (listed in the header info) to match you. If I understand correctly, the IP generally remains that of the person with the infected machine. Bill Holt From

MacGroup: The Apple Product Cycle

2004-11-15 Thread Bill Holt
4 hoots on a 5 hoot scale. From: Jerry Yeager jerry at browseryshop.com Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:43:07 -0500 To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: The Apple Product Cycle For those of you that follow this type of

MacGroup: Three month evaluation of OSX

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Holt
, door and flaps missing, backlight flakey, no stylus. Price: put a soft drink in my hand at the next meeting. I got 2100 fin a great deal, and it is a magnificent little machine. Hand writing recognition that's actually useful! Woo hoo! Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville

MacGroup: ClarisWorks vs. AppleWorks

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Holt
with whoever absconded with my CD holder. If anyone has a copy they can part with of 9.1, I'm interested. I would go ahead and install 9.2 off of the Syst X disk but am sure I'd lose the ability to run Claris Cad - which still mostly works on 9.1. Bill Holt -- From: Allen Prunty alprunty

MacGroup: Better printer than the imagewriter???????

2003-09-15 Thread Bill Holt
I have an Imagewriter LQ - nearly as good output as my various inkjet types, for text, and very, very cheap to operate. Also, the graphics output is good enough so that I can blow up line based drawings by 200% and have a usable result for review, although not as a final plot. Of course, I could

MacGroup: Better printer than the imagewriter???????

2003-09-16 Thread Bill Holt
I don't know... my new epson C82 is pretty loud too! On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 12:22 PM, Bill Holt wrote: I have an Imagewriter LQ - nearly as good output as my various inkjet types, for text, and very, very cheap to operate. Also, the graphics output is good enough so that I

MacGroup: Filemaker Group?

2003-10-01 Thread Bill Holt
Is anyone aware of a group in this area that meets to discuss the topics related to FileMaker Pro? Bill Holt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | This list's page is http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup.

MacGroup: This month's Louisville Computer Society meeting

2003-10-31 Thread Bill Holt
Harry, I assume you meant Tuesday the 25th of November, as the 28th is a Friday ... and meant to say that the demonstration will be on the topic of using FileMaker Pro. IOW, I think you accidentally sent out last month's announcement. :) BTW: That was an excellent presentation you did on the

MacGroup: one last indication...

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Holt
PS: You can have Safari report that it is Windows MSI.E.-6. I don't remember the name of the utility that enables you to reach that feature in Safari, but am pretty sure I read about it on this list. Bill Holt On Thursday, September 8, 2005, at 02:04 PM, Bill Rising wrote

MacGroup: pagemaker

2005-09-12 Thread Bill Holt
Hopefully Marta, he'll send you an html file, since that's what Pagemaker is designed to create. Of course, you can open an html with your browser. On Monday, September 12, 2005, at 05:54 PM, Marta Edie wrote: Thanks , Mike and thanks, Rob,--- if, whoever this magazine man, editor or

MacGroup: pagemaker

2005-09-13 Thread Bill Holt
I estimate that there are, Jonathan, at least a million more things remaining for me to confuse. Just trying to limit the process to one a day. Bill On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, at 05:55 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:29:03, Bill Holt billholt at iglou.com

MacGroup: bandwidth speed test

2005-09-26 Thread Bill Holt
Pretty slick. According to that, I'm getting 1032.1?kbps via my iglou dsl account. A bit quicker than I'd've thought. Bill Holt On Monday, September 26, 2005, at 09:13 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote: Thanks to all who replied. I probably should have mentioned that I'm using Safari 1.0.3

MacGroup: mail 2.0 in Tiger

2005-05-02 Thread Bill Holt
of the system? Bill Holt On Monday, May 2, 2005, at 01:40 PM, Bill Rising wrote: Hey folks, Has anyone else installed Tiger and had problems with Mail? One of my IMAP accounts (the groupwise account I have through UofL) cannot sync with the server properly. It will sync for a while

MacGroup: In depth review of Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Holt
Well, as in depth as in can be in a mere 21 pages. I didn't know what the guys was talking about 3/4 the time. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/1 | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting

MacGroup: In depth review of Tiger (English version)

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Holt
Sorry about the previous send. I was confused. The sequence is supposed to be finish and proof-read before sending. The review: Well, it was as in depth as a mere 21 pages permit. I didn't know what the guy was talking about 3/4 the time. The other 1/4 was interesting. Although Tiger is

MacGroup: 10.3.9 security patch

2005-05-07 Thread Bill Holt
Apparently it's a big deal. But it's not an especially large download - about 6.4 meg. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301528 | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address:

MacGroup: G3 startup, etc.

2005-05-29 Thread Bill Holt
in whatever way. Bill Holt On Sunday, May 29, 2005, at 05:16 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. But zapping the pram didn't get help my G3 reboot. I guess it's a dead computer unless there are other suggestions. I can't imagine it would make sense to get another hard drive

MacGroup: G3 startup, etc.

2005-05-29 Thread Bill Holt
drive the startup, install the Prosoft file recovery software, and most likely you'll be able to get all your files back before dealing with the problem drive in whatever way. Bill Holt On Sunday, May 29, 2005, at 05:16 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. But zapping

MacGroup: G3 startup, etc.

2005-05-30 Thread Bill Holt
is probably the way to go. Bill Holt On Monday, May 30, 2005, at 02:23 AM, Ben Hershberg wrote: Neither disk utilities nor disk warrior could find the hard drive in my G3. Did you mention the computer is old enough for a battery to have died? If that had happened, would the hard drive

MacGroup: Re: failed hard drive

2005-05-31 Thread Bill Holt
Pop the hood and look at the motherboard. You should be able to spot it. Bill Holt On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, at 09:51 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote: Do I understand properly from earlier suggestions that my 450 mhz G3's inability to start up from its hard drive--and the hard drive's

MacGroup: Elegant Mac IIsi

2005-05-01 Thread Bill Holt
Agreed, Rex, about how nicely the SI was put together, but it was really a matter of form following function. The SI broke some price barrier ... don't recall the number ... but I bought a couple of them. The elegance you saw was the result of a design that allowed an extremely low assembly

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