At 11:17 PM -0500 9/7/08, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Eric you forgot one important as[ect in this also.
Wall Streets expected gains.
All publicly held companies are expected to perform by Wall Street
and they set the numbers.
If a company comes in low for the quarter they are having a
On Sep 6, 2008, at 10:18 PM, David wrote:
I'm looking for instructions as to how to upgrade (to a larger
capacity) the hard drives on a G-5 iMac (now running OS 10.3.9) and
a two-year old MacBook (running 10.5 and Windows XP via Boot
Camp). Can anyone point me to step-by-step instructions
We are not ALL computer geeks. We've mostly come along with the
various OS's since Win95. Now we're facing a huge learning curve, unlike
any
other that MS has hit us with before.
I don't think there is a HUGE learning curve, but there are changes. Some
make sense, some don't. I'm used
If a company comes in low for the quarter they are having a problem
and it leads to stock sell off, which means less capital to work
with.
How do you figure that?
Many companies like to buy things with stock, not cash. Hence a lower
stock price actually does result in less capital to work
The Search function is on the menu bar (just like before) and you can also
type ANYTHING in the old command line bar and it will execute a search.
Unless you have added NOTHING to the Dell Machine, do NOT convert to Vista.
It reformats the drive and installs Vista. You will lose any apps and data
It also effects how they can borrow and what they pay.
I was just reading an article the other day about the big three auto
companies in Detroit.
Because their stocks are rated just above junk status they are having
a hard time borrowing money to upgrade. They are looking to Uncle
Sam for
That is not greed it is called expected return on investment.
Not all profits are bad.
Not all profits are good.
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We pay you out of our profits if you own our stock, you own the company.
Some companies, like MS, hold on to their profits. What's up with that?
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It is called return on investment and there is an expectation of a
percentage of earnings.
Some companies keep a cash reserve for buy outs and reinvesting in
the company. They also buy back stock to increase it's value.
Public Service Commissions (they are called different things in
The only Eudora being released is a NEW one put out by the folks at
Thunderbird, that is compatible with Vista.
There is another. Google on Odysseus email.
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At 11:50 AM -0500 9/8/08, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
It also effects how they can borrow and what they pay.
I was just reading an article the other day about the big three auto
companies in Detroit.
Because their stocks are rated just above junk status they are
having a hard time
It did not state clearly. Just that they are having a hard time
borrowing money due to their low performing financial status.
Stewart
At 01:12 PM 9/8/2008, you wrote:
At 11:50 AM -0500 9/8/08, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
It also effects how they can borrow and what they pay.
I was just
Now this is good...no smart ass toys r us remark anywhere.
I agree RAID controllers can cause a very bad day...as can failed HD's. Can
we agree that while MTBF has gone up, that hard drives are not mythical
machines that never fail?
A 25 user client base needing access to data 24/7. The client
It is called return on investment and there is an expectation of a
percentage of earnings.
Expectation is not an entitlement. There are good profits and bad
profits. See note on mafia.
Some companies keep a cash reserve for buy outs and reinvesting in
the company. They also buy back stock
Can you elaborate? I get that a HD failure will make back ups on it mute,
but I am now backing up onto an external drive. Is the idea that if I also
back up on the HD, I will then have 2 copies in case one or the other drives
fail?
You are doing the right thing. Your backup should be on at
I'm not sure the failure or perceived failure of Vista has done
anything...even if Vista had been a huge success, google would not have
altered it's chrome roadmap. One has nothing to do with the other.
I did not say the MS's failure caused Google Chrome. I said that it
opened a huge
EVERY program? A 2 y/o program is not exactly ancient. Where are the
warnings: before you buy, please note ? And what choice does one
have? What if we don't like OE (or Vista mail) for mail or IE for browsing?
Compare to Apple. The two times they changed processors -- a big enough
The web site that I am developing used only the embed and the
noembed tags, but I have now modified with both object and embed.
This I haven't uploaded yet. The reason is that I am now unsure what
player to specify to open the downloaded mp3 file. Should I specify
Quicktime or MS Media
Don't want vista? Don't buy it. XP is still around, some vendors are still
selling it installed. This is a fake argument.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not only does MS think they own our computers, it looks like they also
think they own us. We must
Now we're ramping up the hyperbole?
It's *Apple* that has maintained a proprietary OS these many years,
requiring a dongle to run (a computer). You can install any version of
Windows on 1000's of pieces of hardware and things will (mostly) work.
At least Bill is getting out of the way and
Without knowing what exactly this is, who knows why? But, the permission
model on Vista is different from XP. Microsoft announced this loudly and
often to the development community during the beta testing period. Why
didn't the mfr of the lock box update their software?
Apple has also made a
It's *Apple* that has maintained a proprietary OS these many years,
requiring a dongle to run (a computer). You can install any version of
Windows on 1000's of pieces of hardware and things will (mostly) work.
Oops, I just didn't know, so sorry. When did Vista go Open Source? I sure
will sing
Larry,
For photos, consider storage in the cloud. Smugmug.com allows unlimited
photo storage for an annual fee. There are also paid versions of Google's
Picasa that provide large amounts of storage. The disadvantage is that it
will take a really long time to upload (or download) 200 GB, but
Does anyone know if there is an application out there for the Mac
that would allow me to remap a Logitech keyboard? Awhile back I ruined
yet another Mac keyboard, and in a crunch for both time and money,
opted for the logitech wireless keyboard and mouse that was only $35
at Fred Meyer's.
But what the admins are really looking at is having the same data
replicated on multiple NAS. You can do a lot of that with a good SAN, but
interoperability issues and expense can limit you there. Also, hardly
any server runs its own local database. There are dedicated database
machines,
At 02:01 PM 09/08/2008 -0400, Tom Piwowar wrote
The only Eudora being released is a NEW one put out by the folks at
Thunderbird, that is compatible with Vista.
There is another. Google on Odysseus email.
Looks like that's for Macs?
Sue
At 03:25 PM 09/08/2008 -0400, Tom Piwowar wrote
EVERY program? A 2 y/o program is not exactly ancient. Where are the
warnings: before you buy, please note ? And what choice does one
have? What if we don't like OE (or Vista mail) for mail or IE for browsing?
Compare to Apple. The two
At 12:43 PM 09/08/2008 -0700, mike wrote
Don't want vista? Don't buy it. XP is still around, some vendors are still
selling it installed. This is a fake argument.
No it's not. Only a few vendors will still install XP, and those mostly
have to be ordered. If you want the price that's in
that's called dilution. got 1 billion share out. issue 100 mil to purchase a
new hot yacht, and a hot honey for decoration, and the stock depreciates by 10%.
At 11:42 AM 9/8/2008, you wrote:
If a company comes in low for the quarter they are having a problem
and it leads to stock sell off,
Yes...it is.
I didn't say you could get it on the cheapest laptop at Best Buy. I just
said it was available. You deny it's available and then in the next
sentence admit it is.
Mike
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Sue Cubic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 12:43 PM 09/08/2008 -0700, mike wrote
The Search function is on the menu bar (just like before) and you can also
type ANYTHING in the old command line bar and it will execute a search.
Unless you have added NOTHING to the Dell Machine, do NOT convert to Vista.
It reformats the drive and installs Vista. You will lose any apps and
You want to search your computer using DOS?
Hit the windows key and search from the start menu. Works every time for
me. Control panel and index options offers more...options.
You could have also opened up his browser and checked the download manager
to find where he's putting stuff.
Mike
So, I search the same as I did in DOS, right? Isn't Vista supposed to
eliminate the need for command-line? In Windows 3.1 I could search any
file on the computer for content, and find exactly what I wanted--but
not Vista. My husband downloads things, forgets where he puts them and
asks me to
Vista is hardware agnostic- if the hardware meets the specs.
MAC OSX is pickier but yields a more consistent experience given the
limited number of platforms it runs on. Going MAC eliminates some of the
weirder PC problems even if you only run Vista on it.
This illustrates a very
Oops, I just didn't know, so sorry. When did Vista go Open Source?
I sure will sing the praises of MS now that they put their OS into
the public domain.
Oh, please. You know perfectly well what he was talking about.
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A study by http://www.canalys.com/ said that in Q3 2007 and Q4 2007, iphone
outsold all windows mobile in the US. Outside the US, Windows mobile was
12% followed by Apple at 7%.
Mike
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/12/17/against-odds-iphone-overtakes-windows-mobile-sales-in-q3
At 02:20 PM 09/08/2008 -0700, mike wrote
Yes...it is.
I didn't say you could get it on the cheapest laptop at Best Buy. I just
said it was available. You deny it's available and then in the next
sentence admit it is.
I'm done here. If all you want is to play semantics, that's enough for
half of smartphone market
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A study by http://www.canalys.com/ said that in Q3 2007 and Q4 2007,
iphone
outsold all windows mobile in the US. Outside the US, Windows mobile
was
12% followed by Apple at 7%.
Mike
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/12/17/against-odds-
Not being argumentative ;) but I didn't post articles from mac specific
sites on purpose...ars is a apple site? What about canalys?
BTW, that article you posted was Q1 2007...
Mike
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A study by http://www.canalys.com/ said
Why do you think every thing is a defense of MS$? (By the way the
Mafia is an illegal entity and crime never is justified.)
I have no friggin idea how much they hold back and I never mentioned
them once in all I wrote. I was giving broad general Brush strokes.
Me thinks you are showing
Does anyone know if there is an application out there for the Mac
that would allow me to remap a Logitech keyboard? Awhile back I
ruined yet another Mac keyboard, and in a crunch for both time and
money, opted for the logitech wireless keyboard and mouse that was
only $35 at Fred Meyer's. It
I'm starting to agree with Tom. If I have to buy new software every
time MS decides it's time for a change, I might as well tackle the
learning
curve from Mac. If most businesses are refusing to use Vista, it's not
a very good recommend for those of us out here who just want a computer
A study by http://www.canalys.com/ said that in Q3 2007 and Q4 2007, iphone
outsold all windows mobile in the US. Outside the US, Windows mobile was
12% followed by Apple at 7%.
But it is only this month that Apple has made a big push into
international markets. Before then, much of the world
Not being argumentative ;) but I didn't post articles from mac specific
sites on purpose...ars is a apple site?
They used to be major WFBs, but I think they defected.
Blame Vista.
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This illustrates a very fundamental difference in culture between the 2
platforms: choice vs. dictates. I'll take choice every time.
Jeff has been thoroughly re-educated. Microsoft is double-plus good!
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My own recent experience with Jungle Disk and the boss's laptop full
of unedited family pictures has not been without trouble.
First, some people just don't have the dedication to process any of
these pictures. Upon investigation, I found folder after folder full
of huge pics of really dumb stuff
Vista is hardware agnostic- if the hardware meets the specs.
The Mac is hardware agnostic- if the hardware meets the specs.
You can buy such hardware from Paystar.
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 5 TB NAS, but only one.
You do realize that you don't have to buy a dedicated NAS, but can build
one yourself out of any old computer that can run Linux. Same for a MySQL
server.
For a small business, I would
Right now I'm tearing my hair out trying to understand how to teach newbies
to use a computer. Most of them are seniors, who are not of a mind to
replace equipment and software all the time. Nor can I replace mine all
the time just to be able to teach them.
If the new system were clearly
There is another. Google on Odysseus email.
Looks like that's for Macs?
Well of course. However they do promise to get around to a Windows
version eventually (I can't imagine why).
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For a small business, I would generally recommend using computers they would
otherwise discard and set up two, replicated MySQL servers for a reliable
database that won't stop if one computer or one disk drive fails.
Thank you.
Some of our geezers are still acting like the hard drive was the
I'm starting to agree with Tom. If I have to buy new software every
time MS decides it's time for a change
That's a bit extreme, Sue. MS has always bent over backwards for
compatibility. As I've mentioned here before, I still use DOS programs that
were written in the early 80s for a CPU
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Questions to ponder:
1. Did MS make changes in Vista just to annoy customers, or were there good
reasons?
Some parts had good reasons. Others were simply to have something new, to
justify the people who count the number
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