Hi Tom-
I "laughed out loud" when reading your response*. You're right that without
more context, Occum's Razor would suggest passing around a sheet of paper.
In fact, the issue is that the information that needs to be collected from
participants had been on sheets of paper, but that paper was ge
My god talk about topic drift. This has to be one of the worst things
about a mailing list - there's no way to actually *close* a thread
when it veers way off course.
Everyone's had their say about the missing laptop study. And 94-98% of
the world still buys Windows computers and probably will for
On Jul 11, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Why do you think a businesses should not care about the
productivity and
happiness of its workers?
Your question could be more easily answered had it not contained
the phrase "productivity and happiness", as if they are somehow
connected
A polygraph for who? I like the way you cut and pasted that quote from
cnet...at first glance it looks like 20,000 google employees have macs.
Hopefully all our readers who care enough followed the link to learn the
numbers.
Most successful businesses have macs? Really? I'd like to see that
spr
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >My point was that it should not be assumed that a goodly number of those
> >"lost" computers were Macs that were owned by businesses and dedicated
> >to business use.
>
> Why do you think a businesses should not care about
>
>> >to pass around a room of attendees to sign in their information or
fill
>> >out a form, what would you choose?
>
> What is wrong with a piece of paper?
>
GoBook - tiny, solid, indestructible, waterproof, with keyboard and
touchscreen - saw one last week at an airport, asked the user abou
>Also the Mac version doesn't have a place where you can adjust the
>speed of the upload to lessen the pressure on the computer resources
>so I'm stuck with the way they have it set. I've emailed their tech
>support (3 days ago) but have gotten no response.
>I'm going to check out the links
>I think one thing that's hurting Apple's sales (to some extent) is
>people have gotten used to Apple's historically higher prices. But as
>Tom's attempting to point out, the price points are getting remarkably
>close.
Macs have always been a bargain.
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>My point was that it should not be assumed that a goodly number of those
>"lost" computers were Macs that were owned by businesses and dedicated
>to business use.
Why do you think a businesses should not care about the productivity and
happiness of its workers? Why do you think managers are
>You have an emotional attachment to a tool? That would be touching if not
>so disturbing.
I would expect Jeff to not get it. Many people have emotional attachments
to things like pets or cars or tools. When a tool is empowering its user,
its user gets a rush and some of that good feeling trans
> Thinking about this while I write this out, maybe the thing
> to do is check the settings for the printer in the control
> panel.
That's right. This is often the case. The printer has to know that the
paper it is feeding matches the paper being requested.
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Man, you are so off base here. You've never noticed:
classic car owners emotionally attached to their cars?
musicians emotionally attached to their instruments?
chefs attached to their knives?
craftsmen (woodworkers especially) attached to their tools?
Most peopl
H'. This might be the problem I was having using Avery cardstock to
make business cards. Could never get them aligned correctly, so one card
might not have my name, another, missing the phone number, etc. Was using
Wordperfect as well. But then again, I have all sorts of computer
problems,
Glad to help.
I suspect you may end up with S3/ Jungle disk...
Keep us posted...
db
Paula Minor wrote:
Maybe you can make Mozy work for you. Once it's all backed up won't
your additions and changes be minimal? A total restore would take a
long time too but would be do-able if you didn't min
Don't ask me they are the ones publishing it. I guess they decided
to make only one platform I guess.
From what I hear it is a real dog anyway. It is a subscription
program and My church does not want to pay out for the subscription.
They changed the way they do the programing now as they w
>Program is only written and published for Windows computers, even though
>the head guy in charge of this a Mac addict.
That is just plain ignorant. There are plenty of software frameworks that
will pop out binaries for both platforms with no or little additional
work.
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> You didn't realize Mac owners would be emotionally attached to their
> computers? I think we must ask you to step over to the polygraph
> machine.
You have an emotional attachment to a tool? That would be touching if not
so disturbing.
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> I think you missed the point. No one will dispute that you can find a
> Windows junk box selling for close to nothing. The point was that
> people
> looking for a good computer should not immediately rule out Macs
> because
> of false propaganda about their price. If the false propaganda was not
It depends on the software... MS actually has the best prices for
non-profits. XP Pro for about $20 per copy - although it might've gone
up since I haven't looked recently. Office 200x for pretty good prices
too.
We got a Cisco Switch for $50 (brand new, in the box and it didn't fall
off the b
I was not familiar with them, but after looking at them they are only
slightly cheaper than buying on the market.
The only advantage is Office 2003 coming with it.
Stewart
At 12:34 PM 7/11/2008, you wrote:
Stewart - have you ever heard of TechSoup - www.techsoup.org? They
offer significant h
I was looking at the corporate world and not the non-profit world. I'm
on the board for a local non-profit that helped about 65,000 kids last
year and unfortunately, the non-profit world is in an entirely different
league.
Budgets are much, much tighter so price does become a deciding factor.
A
It depends on the industry/business you are involved in.
In the religious/Non profit world you are usually confined to
donated/refurbished equipment. I know many pastors who have either
bought their own laptops (like me) or have larger churches where
business exec's donate used laptops from t
I've found that takes a good deal of time to run and generally hasn't
really done much.
YMMV of course...
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HAHAHAHA! You are too funny Tom! But you didn't use one of them cute
smileys, so it's hard to tell if you're being serious - as most of your
posts seem, or if you're saying a funny.
If this is the later, then that's a downright knee slapper. I literally
fell out of my chair when I read that..
Why wouldn't you just start with #4?
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Larry Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd try to resolve it in this order (namely if the first step doesn't
> fix it, try the next, etc and post your results):
>
> 1. Method 1: Use Windows Update to obtain any fixes that a
Without actually looking at raw data, there's no way to prove or
disprove either point. Macs are becoming more prevalent these days but
it's hard to determine just how many are being purchased by
corporations.
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>How did you find that they had searched for your wife's name?
The "old fashioned" way: They told her and she told me.
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On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Why is it so important for you to deny the prevalence of Macs? Macs,
especially Mac laptops, are quite common these days.
I am not trying to deny the prevalence of Macs. I was responding
to a post of yours that was related to a thread about
>to pass around a room of attendees to sign in their information or fill
>out a form, what would you choose?
What is wrong with a piece of paper?
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'DestroyWindow' is not a Spyware problem - although the name does have
that nice and nasty ring to it. There's talk about it in various coding
forums, so don't let the name freak you out.
MS has a pretty good writeup of possible fixes for User32.dll problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/14267
www.geeks.com
Has even gotten into the act and has been selling Mac Mini's core duo
for 497 and are advertising a Mac Ibook for 399.
With as large a user base as it has now, the refurb market is heating
up with them.
Stewart
At 11:00 AM 7/11/2008, you wrote:
Tom makes a good point here.
Tom makes a good point here. Are you amazed I'm actually agreeing with
you? :-)
Not to start an advertising debate, but there are a lot of junk PCs for
sale out there because with some buyers, price is the ultimate factor.
Apple's been able to avoid that by refusing to allow anyone to build
cl
>Agreed. However, that does not mean that a significant number of
>those purchases are being made by corporations for use by their
>employees
Looks like a fine post for FlatEarthSociety-L.
Why is it so important for you to deny the prevalence of Macs? Macs,
especially Mac laptops, are quit
Maybe you can make Mozy work for you. Once it's all backed up
won't your additions and changes be minimal? A total restore would
take a long time too but would be do-able if you didn't mind waiting.
The saying: "Time is money" applies here I guess...
I suppose that's true but I'm afraid Com
My wife, aka Sweetie, is having an issue with Word Perfect,
Windows XP and apparently Avery Labels. A month or two ago,
she had someone make labels for a newsletter she sends out.
Now whenever she tries to print something out, she has to
say okay to a dialog box asking for for the label stock.
If
I just googled. These are ATI files left over from an ATI update. I would
try downloading the latest version of your graphics driver, etc. and
(re)installing. Is your laptop is under warranty? You might want to report
the problem to the vendor.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Rob Fleetwood <
Well, I did use Karen Kenworthy's whois utility which reported "No database
entry for 208.69.32.13." Is there a generic way to check whois? I'll try
http://www.whois.com. OK, I've done that. The only dialog I find, which is
"well hidden", accepts domain names, but not IP addresses. OK, now
> >When you ran the Doxpara test, what IP address did it report? For me,
> it
> >reported a different IP address than either of the two (primary and
> >secondary) that we are supposed to use for OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and
> >208.67.220.220). Rather, it reported 208.69.32.13. Is there some
> sor
> But, Now, When I try to open many(not all at once) of my programs, I
> get the error message 'DestroyWindow could not be located in dynamic
> link library user32.dll.'.
User32.dll is part of Windows. It's either been damaged or replaced by
something less desirable, and you need to repair or rein
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