Re: OT /Note to list...
Once upon a time (Fri Feb 03), Amber Robey wrote: Listen everybody - I am not trying to make things difficult for any you. I am honestly just trying to keep the list running smoothly and enforce the LEM list rules. That's all. I've operated a fairly large, and used-to-be extremely busy, mailing list since the mid 90s. Years and years ago I wrote a Perl script I called Mommy. Mommy processes the email sent to the list before the list software (Majordomo first, now Mailman) sees it. Mommy rejects email that contains the list signature or a fragment thereof, uses an unmodified digest subject, has an excessive quoted-to-original text ratio (detecting repetitive filler as well), has unbroken all-on-one-line paragraphs, et cetera. It is inflexible, unforgiving, and provides instant negative feedback to the non-compliant. Lots of people have hated Mommy over the years. I think more though have appreciated it. We have the rules in place to make the messages easier for everybody to read and enjoy, particularly those who have to use text readers. It's amazing how many people hate having some simple rules in place, intended to make life easier for ALL subscribers (including those using an ADM3A and /usr/bin/mail), because said rules require them to actually expend more effort than merely click Reply, type their thoughts, and click Send. I truly feel for you Amber. Larry -- Lawrence Weeks[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anabasis Consulting Ltd -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Reminder: LowEndMac lists rules
Once upon a time (Fri Feb 03), phoenix wrote: It's unfortunate that AOL and the advent of free webmail (which almost always has lazy users top-posting and including /everything/ in the previous message) have utterly destroyed what was once a far more pleasant means of communication, but once things start sliding down a greased shit-chute to hell, there's no stopping it... Ah... I still remember that fateful day when AOL (always mis-remembered it as Prodigy until I just googled it) unleashed its unwashed masses onto Usenet ... into alt.best.of.internet. Oh, the uproar. The cabal was not happy! Larry -- Lawrence Weeks[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anabasis Consulting Ltd -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: list up, but... functional??
Once upon a time (Wed Jan 18), Brian McEwen wrote: Ok, I have a email to send to the list, it is 63 lines. The list rejects it as it is 18k and there is a 10k size limit. There is something wrong beside a quota if that is what your rejection notice stated. The two messages you sent were, together, including every mail header sent by you, added by the list, and added by my server, and including the full list signatures, 8779 bytes. About 8.5 kB. 204 lines, including the blank ones. 63 lines of fully filled 80 character lines is only 5040 bytes, just under 5 kB. Larry -- Lawrence Weeks[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anabasis Consulting Ltd -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: real estate situation
Once upon a time (Tue Jul 05), Claire Hart wrote: Today I talked to the person that handles computer support for the company I will be working for. (He is not in-house, but works independently.) He says he has worked on Macs, but he doesn't know what Virtual PC is, and he can't believe that I don't have antivirus software running. Claire, Virtual PC (VPC) is what it sounds like: it is a PC implemented in software rather than hardware. The software emulates a particular basic PC, including a particular level of Pentium CPU, graphics card, so on. Then you install a copy of MS Windows onto that virtual computer, and within that install other software. Functionally, Windows and the other software knows no difference between the virtual environment and a physical environment. You will only have issues with software which depends on particular hardware, especially graphics, to operate. The vast majority of non-game PC software will work just fine in VPC. Some esoteric software may not, but I seriously doubt that any mundane real estate software would have any issue. Unfortunately, the copy of Windows executing in the virtual PC is just as susceptible to viruses and worms as any other copy. It should have anti-virus software installed, both to protect itself and other Windows computers on the network. He did tell me that the whole office runs on a server. The word server is not exactly good news. I think that the office has a staff person that installs everyone's software for them. When the guy says server it is 99.9% likely that he is speaking only of simple file and printer serving, perhaps with a Windows domain security scheme. They also probably use Exchange for email/calendaring. The Mac OS X works fine with such servers, and the Windows within VPC would as well. That is not an issue. In the PC world, a server typically serves only files and printers, and perhaps database connections, although recently with remote desktop software a PC server can actually execute applications for display on client machines. But even if they are doing that, which I really doubt given the guy's apparent level of competence, you shouldn't have a problem. So, here is my request one more time: Is anyone out there selling real estate, using current software that is written for real estate agents, and accomplishing it with a Mac? Or do you know of someone who is? Please, please, please respond if it is working for you. I work with clients who are realtors, using software to access the MLS system. Until a couple years ago, they were still using ancient DOS software connecting via a dial-up connection to the MLS server. They now use a more modern Windows based software package, which accesses the MLS data over the Internet. But that software is still trivial. Also, I did a quick Google search for Macs and MLS, and found this blurb: New Tech Support Group Formed for Mac Users Are you a Macintosh user? Join the new REALTOR® Macintosh Users Group, REMUG. This group is committed to finding solutions to issues involving Macintosh systems and real estate software. Contact Michael Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. So, somebody out there is using a Mac. Larry -- Lawrence Weeks[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anabasis Consulting Ltd -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Opinion wanted
Once upon a time (Thu May 19), Laurent Daudelin wrote: So, I called Apple and they confirmed what I had just found out. There was still liquid residues on the motherboard and this had shorted the display circuit. It seems that the computer is still working fine because I was able to boot it in target disk mode just fine. Once upon a time (Thu May 19), Robert Gruber wrote: I had a surprising experience with a Fluke digital multimeter; I spilled Transmission fluid on it, and it quit working. I had to buy another one. Several months later I put batteries in it and it works like the other one. My old Palm Pilot Pro was in a dry bag on a boat. A crew member opened the bag, and forgot to close it. This is a wet sailboat, the bag filled with water, and the cell phone and Palm inside were submerged. Both died. Took them apart to dry, the phone revived, but the Palm didn't. So, put it in a drawer and a couple years later, preparing to toss it out, put new batteries in it. It worked just fine. Sold it on Ebay. The voltage going through that motherboard circuitry isn't all that much. There may be no permanent damage. You could try taking it apart, and cleaning the motherboard with alcohol and/or distilled water. Dry the motherboard well, and after a couple days put it together. See what happens. Larry -- Lawrence Weeks[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anabasis Consulting Ltd -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Finder is somewhat back
Once upon a time (Thu Jan 13), sacredsystem wrote: Thus spoke Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED]1/13/05 Have you tried to rename the Library folder in your regular account, logoff and then log back in? What happens then? Rename? How? Get info from the file? If that is the way, when I do my finder blinks and disappears for a second. Despite the GUI (and some other funkiness), MacOSX is Unix underneath, and sometimes these problems are easier to fix when you think in Unix rather than Mac. So, if you have a second account with administrative privileges, log into it. If you don't, create one and log into it. Get a Terminal up (Applications/Utilities/Terminal). Say your username is fubar: substitute fubar with your real user name. At the prompt type each of these lines separately, pressing Return at the end: sudo su - fubar mv -i Library oldLibrary exit exit The -i option to mv is to make sure it will ask you before doing anything destructively. Next, log out of the administrative account, and log back into yours. The system will recreate a nice fresh Library directory for you. If that fixes your problem, then you can move things from your oldLibrary directory into the freshly created Library directory as needed. Or, just live with the new one. If it does not fix the problem, and you want to go back to the way things were, log out and log in as that other user again, and type in the Terminal: sudo su - fubar mv -i Library freshLibrary mv -i oldLibrary Library exit exit You can delete the freshLibrary directory later if you wish. Larry -- Lawrence Weeks[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anabasis Consulting Ltd -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Free ipods?
Once upon a time (Wed Sep 15), geno endicott wrote: One of my friends and a few guys from TechTV did the freeipods.com thing and it really worked. But you do have to join. I decided to check it out. Signed up late last night with a unique email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] This morning, I have four spam messages to that address, at least the ones that got by spam filters: GL Accounts [EMAIL PROTECTED], is this your c CAP ConsultantNote on #3932: Don?t Delay - Pre- Approved for 500USD Tom Complimentary Airfare ProductTestPanel A Free set of Titleist Golf Clubs is just what every golf So, in addition to having to try out some product, you also have to submit to having your address put immediately into spammer databases. Per their terms: 3. Emails. (c) By signing up for this website, the user agrees to receive emails we or another 3rd party may send about special offers on our website, as well as third party advertisements or offers. If you do this, use a throw-away address. Larry -- Lawrence Weeks[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anabasis Consulting Ltd -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Powerbook G4, airport card cable, yanked off connector...
Hi, Has anybody else here done what I did: while installing the airport card in the battery compartment, and trying to get that cable to reach, rip the metal connector right off? Apple said it would be a $650++ repair. Good lord. The wire in that antenna cable is EXTREMELY fine gauge, I can see why it broke. I stripped some of the plastic off of the now-exposed wire, and just jammed it back inside the connector. I get reception: three bars right next to my access point. I presume I should get four, but this isn't bad for the repair I performed. My question is, if you have done this, were you able to solder it back on? Did the solder take to the metal of the connector? I think that if I heat up the connector, put a bit of solder inside, and stick the cable in the melted solder, it should set. That connector is not insulated; all parts that I tested have continuity. So soldering needn't be terribly precise. I'm also considering soldering a bit of new wire inside the connector, and then the existing antenna wire to that new wire. Larry -- Lawrence Weeks[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anabasis Consulting Ltd -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
