Re: [CGUYS] welcome to thunderbird

On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:00 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: > These examples are the best reasons to NEVER buy software at an app > store where it's automatically installed, overwriting the last version. > The worst bugs are always in the automatic installs, and they're harder > to clean up, too. I recal

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

For any app store purchase, including purchases from inside an app, you have to enter in your password the first time you make a purchase, but your password activation only remains good for a little while afterwards, and in particular will expire after the idevice goes to sleep. So Thurrott an

Re: [CGUYS] Apple iOS or OS X

That would be a great idea. I've read about fast boot computers that would launch a minimal version of Linux for basic use while WIndows continues to launch in the background. I don't know if anyone ever got past the concept phase into a commercial product though. You'd think that it would

Re: [CGUYS] Apple iOS or OS X

Whoops, the last post should have had this subject line. Sorry. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 23 Jun 2010 to 24 Jun 2010 - Special issue (#2010-146)

You are way off base here. First, every manufacturer and not just Apple is increasingly moving in the direction of computers as appliances. To a certain extent, that has been the case for a while. You've had the gaming computer, the video editing computer, the basic work computer for typing,

Re: [CGUYS] NPD reports Android ahead of iPhone in share

> Heaven forbid they compete on even ground... Beware what you wish for, they _aren't_ competing on even ground. These sales figures are US only, Apple is still well ahead worldwide, and their sales grew in a quarter where they usually stay flat. Also, those figures include all Android OS p

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Furthermore, it's something I should have known, since my son was very fond of the Tak video games and Nickelodeon series, "Tak and the power of Juju". Just about all the jujus in the series were ridiculous in pretty gross ways, that can't help the JooJoo's marke

[CGUYS] Missing/delayed posts [Was: illegal search warrant?]

lp. On May 3, 2010, at 9:47 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > From:David K Watson > Subject: Re: illegal search warrant? > > Not quite sure what your point is here, etc., etc. > > ***

Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

Not quite sure what your point is here, 1 suicide in a population of 300 is a suicide rate of 1/300 and 3 suicides in a population of 900 is still a rate of 1/300, etc. We were talking about suicide _rates_, not raw numbers, and as I said, densely populated areas have lower suicide rates than

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

MS aren't the only ones killing their prototype if this rumor bears out: HP is apparently killing its Slate tablet. It really isn't surprising, given that it was supposed to have more ports and memory than th

Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

Rick Perry is an embarrassment to the state educational system. He said when Texas entered the union in 1845, it was with the understanding it could later pull out. In fact, as the historical website points out (and Texas Monthly reminds its readers quite often), the agreement was that Texas c

Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

Actually, the holiday suicide idea is a media-perpetuated falsehood: And I posted about this yesterday, but somehow the post didn't make it to the list: Stewart was wrong about suicide increasing with population density. It's exactly the

Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

OK, so supposedly Apple sent folks over to the guy's house to demand he give them back the phone, but he wasn't there, so he didn't. Then presumably having heard about this from his roommate who was there, he nonetheless sells the iPhone to Gizmodo. It still looks wrong to me. PC World report

Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

Additionally, there is a difference between the police denying that Apple had any part in the raid and their simply being silent on the matter until they made an official statement, which appears to be what actually happened. As to Apple's involvement, it looks like Apple didn't file the thef

Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

> That is not a fair or accurate comparison. > How is it not a fair comparison? A running car in a convenience store parking lot has the presumption that the owner will return to it very quickly, while a phone that has been left unclaimed for a few hours does not, but that has no bearing on t

Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

I don't think you have the facts quite straight here. Here is Gizmodo's own account of how they got the phone: According to this account, the phone was picked up at the bar by the person who was sitting next to Powell (the one who l

Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

You can personally feel that Apple was foolish in how they let the phone be stolen, but that has absolutely no legal bearing on its theft. There are still people who are foolish enough to leave their car running and unlocked when they go into a convenience store, but if the car gets stolen,

Re: [CGUYS] Star apps [was COMPUTERGUYS-L...]

UTERGUYS-L Digest - 7 Apr 2010 to 8 Apr 2010 - Special issue > (#2010-71) > > Google sky. > > Sent from my iPod > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 17:04, David K Watson > wrote: > >> Really? Can you tell me where you got it so that I can suggest it >> to my nephew

Re: [CGUYS] Why I won't buy an Ipad...

Geez, give a little consideration to the context why don't you? The iPad is obviously a computer in the sense of being a device with a processor whose primary purpose is to manipulate data. Sometimes though, when we say computer we specifically mean a desktop or laptop, and not the more gener

Re: [CGUYS] Why I won't buy an Ipad...

est system wrote: > From:Mike > Subject: Re: Why I won't buy an Ipad... > > Very cool app, I have it on my android phone. > > Sent from my iPod > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:42, David K Watson > wrote: > >> The next time you see an iPad, see if it has t

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 7 Apr 2010 to 8 Apr 2010 - Special issue (#2010-71)

ry cool app, I have it on my android phone. > > Sent from my iPod > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:42, David K Watson > wrote: > >> The next time you see an iPad, see if it has the Star Walk app >> and give it a try. It's like Google Earth but for constellations. >

[CGUYS] And another icomplaint falls...

All of our arguments over multitasking will soon be moot. At the iPhone OS 4 preview today, Steve Jobs has announced that the next iPhone OS will allow multitasking: "Now we weren't the first to this party, but we're go

Re: [CGUYS] Why I won't buy an Ipad...

The next time you see an iPad, see if it has the Star Walk app and give it a try. It's like Google Earth but for constellations. You can see representations of the night sky from various locations with or without various overlays. If you turn the iPad upside down, it shows the live sky map fo

Re: [CGUYS] workaround for safari blocking popups

I haven't heard about Pith Helmet for a while. The last time I paid it any attention, a Safari update had come out, and the two wouldn't work together very well until Pith Helmet made a series of fixes. Looking at the website, I see that they say that the most recent version is compatible wi

Re: [CGUYS] ipad/iphone/ipod touch and the lack of multitasking explained

Safari has always worked pretty well on my Touch, it's only crashed once that I can remember. On my laptop the flash plugin will crash sometimes, but I almost never need it and will continue to surf on with a lot fewer annoying ads. Could you give us some examples of some sites that crash Saf

Re: [CGUYS] ipad/iphone/ipod touch and the lack of multitasking explained

Nice article, but I don't entirely buy it. First, just because the iPad has plenty of processing power and battery capacity and Apple may add more multitasking in a future OS release, this doesn't make a straw man out of Apple's argument that third party multitasking is a hamper to stability a

Re: [CGUYS] It's an app world, and it could swallow all computing

il. > > You didn't answer either, do you or your supervisors post work material on > facebook to get things done faster? > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:39 AM, David K Watson > wrote: > >> No, I haven't changed the parameters, you are artificially limiting them.

Re: [CGUYS] Wozniak solves two iPhone problems

uld certainly be mistaken for an iPhone. On Apr 1, 2010, at 2:47 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > From:katan > Subject: Re: Wozniak solves two iPhone problems > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:25:31 -0400, David K Watson wrote: > >> Very good, except

Re: [CGUYS] It's an app world, and it could swallow all computing

ng facebook, twitter..sms and games. Do the experts > recommend putting requests for jobs up on facebook? > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 AM, David K Watson > wrote: > >> Two things: first, as has already been pointed out, email creates a >> record and can act as a remin

Re: [CGUYS] Wozniak solves two iPhone problems

Very good, except that looking something up while talking on the phone is one of the kinds of multitasking that iPhones do. Apparently Woz hasn't seen the commercials. Of course he says "I have two iPhones, a [Google] Nexus One, a [Motorola] Droid, plus a Garmin [GPS] and TomTom [GPS]. I tur

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Runs Out of iPads

I got a kick from this item on the article Mike linked to: "Typing accurately and quickly on the iPad’s wide on-screen keyboard was ** perectly ** comfortable and fast." [emphasis mine] I guess the review wasn't typed on an iPad then. Here is another review roundup

Re: [CGUYS] It's an app world, and it could swallow all computing

Two things: first, as has already been pointed out, email creates a record and can act as a reminder. Productivity experts generally recommend the use of emails over verbal requests. Knowing that there is an electronic record that can be forwarded to the boss is a big incentive to taking tim

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 21 Mar 2010 to 22 Mar 2010 (#2010-38)

Speaking of intellectual honesty, facts and stuff, here is some more things Charlie Miller said: "I usually work on a pretty old MacBook that I've upgraded the hard drive on. " and "For now, I'd still recommend Macs for typic

Re: [CGUYS] noPad4me

It's already here: The battery improvements come in part from: using lithium polymer instead of lithium ion or nickel-cadmium, better chemical composition, and making the battery smart with a chip that controls how individual cells are discharged an

Re: [CGUYS] TinyURLs [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC wants to measure]

While long naked URLs are broken in Thunderbird, the link will be preserved if the URL is wrapped in < >, and this is the case for every email program I've heard of. Example: with < > witho

[CGUYS] Subject: Re: combining PDFs

Whoops, forgot to change the subject line. Sorry, here it is again for those of you who like your messages threaded properly: You CAN combine PDFs with Preview. Basically, you open the PDFs in Preview, make sure that the sideba

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 10 Mar 2010 to 11 Mar 2010 - Special issue (#2010-9)

You CAN combine PDFs with Preview. Basically, you open the PDFs in Preview, make sure that the sidebar is open, then drag the sidebar icons for the other PDFs onto the one you choose to be the first, then Save or Save As... that

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

You're not the only one confused, Rev. Reid started this thread with this link which is a video of a woman on "Ukraine's Got Talent" creating some amazing sand art USING ONLY HER HANDS. Then Steve goes on a tangent saying that the iPad is not suita

[CGUYS] Google: evil, indifferent or disorganized?

While I enjoy all the discussion about an Apple product that isn't even shipping yet, maybe we should open up the discussion up a little. "Hey, Google! Why No Multitouch for the Droid?" Onl

[CGUYS] RRe: apple-stanza-usb

I think that publisher had its fight with Amazon over the issue of who controls the pricing. Apple isn't locking out any other e-book vendors. Their books will use the open ePub format, so just like you can do now with non-DRMed MPG and AAC files, you probably will be able to buy books from m

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 3 Feb 2010 to 4 Feb 2010 - Special issue (#2010-82)

Page with links to the Real Audio or Windows Media Player formats for that show: Podcast link:

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

One of those later SNL skits had the Will Ferrell character come out with a big 80s style cell phone, and when teased about it by the "girls", insisted that " 'big' is the new 'small' ". Insert your own iPad jokes here. As to why the micro SIM has to be smaller than the mini SIM, if it is to

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved? [was: You Saw the Demo?...]

Just to put it in concrete terms, the micro SIM is actually slightly larger than a microSD card, and I can certainly see why my phone uses that for storage rather than a SD card. It probably has to be swapped as often as a SIM, so it is equally deserving of complaints due to its size, yet I ha

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

, and one near the top of the list, at that. > From:"phartz...@gmail.com" > Subject: Re: You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed? > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:21 PM, t.piwowar wrote: > >> On Jan 30, 2010, at 5:30 PM, David K Watson wrote: >>> >>&

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

> From:Chris Dunford > Subject: Re: You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed? > > David, sorry, but I have plenty of experience with multitouch devices. Of the > two I have now, the SMALL one is 12" (and they're both 16:9, by the way, not > 4:3 like iPad). The iPad's touchscreen is > incontrover

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

While price was probably an issue, I don't myself think that it was the main one in Apple's decision to keep the physical interfaces to a minimum. Apple likes to promote itself as the company whose devices just work, and if they had USB ports on the iPad then there would immediately be thousan

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

Chris, you're wrong or misleading on many of your criticisms of the iPad. First, it's not "a midsize touchscreen", it's a large size multitouch screen, one of the largest to be readily available. You have to have some experience with multitouch devices, particularly Apple's, to really have th

Re: [CGUYS] Apple's homepage for ipad...how long till they fix it? Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

Why is everyone making a big fuss about this? The most likely explanation is that this is a production error, and Apple will have to fix it soon or get sued. It isn't surprising if this is the case, because Apple's well-known secrecy concerning upcoming product means that Marketing probably di

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 29 Jan 2010 - Special issue (#2010-59)

According to what I read, Fujitsu had a trademark on a 2003 product they called an iPad. In 2009, that trademark was either declared invalid or was in the process of being declared abandoned, and Fujitsu started making some weak efforts to revive it. Also, the Fujitsu iPad was some kind of ba

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

I think that they were congratulating themselves that in referring to the whole group of products they could just type iP*d instead of (for example) iPod/iTablet if that had been its name. > From:"Rev. Stewart Marshall" > Subject: Re: You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed? > > Most of the c

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

Small screen?? A 1024 x 768 pixels, 9.7" diagonal screen that you typically are going to view much nearer to your face than you would a laptop or netbook is small? A custom-designed, well-tuned 1 GHz mobile processor is slow? Weren't you one of the people singing the praises of the tegra pro

Re: [CGUYS] UNIX help needed

These are good suggestions, and OS X does have a built in emacs, just type in "emacs" in Terminal. If you haven't used it before, it is important to remember that you have to type ^x^c (x and c with the control key held down) to exit emacs. However, sidestepping the more technical unix hacks

Re: [CGUYS] Wi-Fi foe sues neighbor for using electronics - The Santa Fe New Mexican

In order to get the court to grant him an injunction, he would first have to prove that he is in fact suffering from electromagnetic sensitivity and that he is suffering from his neighbor's wifi connection. Good luck with that. If he wants to indulge his delusions, he should wallpaper his ho

Re: [CGUYS] os x and limiting net access

As others have pointed out, Accounts in System Preferences has parental controls which allow you to limit computer time or specific applications, but not time for particular applications. However, your friend could set up two accounts and limit internet applications but not time on one account

Re: [CGUYS] Audio File Conversion

In addition to the other suggestions, you can look at switch audio converter: http://www.nch.com.au/switch/ It comes in a free and a paid version, and the free version will do batch conversions to MP3 I think, while the paid one gives you a number of additional conversion options. On Dec 18

Re: [CGUYS] Program start OS X

OK, if you want it harder, go to Accounts in System Preferences, select your user account, click on the Login Items tab, and add your application there. This is also how you can remove login items if you want to (and the real reason I'm telling you this). > From:Reid Katan > Subject:

Re: [CGUYS] A Tale of Two Hard Drives: Apple's Secret Wea pon?

Mike, the statement was that an Apple machine is not much different in cost from an equally spec'd PC. Your example does not refute this by being a substantially cheaper PC that is also substantially different from the Mac you are comparing it to. Also, I have to dispute most of the implied

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Magic Mouse

I got a Magic Mouse as soon as I could, because my mighty mouse's scrollball would get clogged up and need cleaning annoyingly often. I agree that the Magic Mouse works much better than the Mighty Mouse (now just Apple Mouse), and I'd go so far as to say that it's the best mouse I've ever trie

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

According to what I've read, part of the impression that Win7 is faster than XP and Vista is a hangover from the fact that many of the Win7 betas really were faster because they were more streamlined. That stopped being the case as Win7 moved closer to RC status and MS started adding back more st

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

Your overall point is true, but Leopard was slower than Tiger. Exposé, Spaces and the Spotlight improvements in Leopard put some overhead on the OS. Still, it's quite a record, 10.0 -> 10.1-> 10.2-> 10.3-> 10.4, each with more features but also faster than their predecessor, then a slowdown in t

Re: [CGUYS] MobileMe [Was COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest …]

thing. From:John Duncan Yoyo Subject: Re: COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 7 Nov 2009 - Special issue (#2009-996) On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:17 AM, David K Watson wrote: I am not going to argue any general claims, but in this case go back and read Tom's posts when MobileMe was having all i

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

Don't be so hard on her, Tom. She has a brother to do all her computer service for her, for free. At least that's the way it seems to work in my family. From:tjpa Subject: Re: Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear On Nov 7, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: The other possibility i

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 7 Nov 2009 - Special issue (#2009-996)

I am not going to argue any general claims, but in this case go back and read Tom's posts when MobileMe was having all its service problems the first times Apple tried to put in Exchange support. Tom was at least as unhappy with Apple over that as he was over MS's recent problems with Sidekick ph

Re: [CGUYS] Moto droid by Andy ihnatko

That is the kind of answer I've been looking for, that I haven't seen at all anywhere else. Whatever works for you, fine. You make a good case for your phone. (Was all that on your phone, or was it at your computer and you are giving an example of what you'd like your phone to do?) However, do

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

Let's take the report at face value and do the math. Microsoft is also charging less than half for Win7 than they were for Vista, so they are grossing at about the same rate. If you consider that they plainly didn't realize the revenue they expected on Vista and they had to pay out some heavy de

Re: [CGUYS] It's monotheist versus pagan (It's a Windows Mobile killer)

Actually, according to what I read, it is a hybrid UMTS/CDMA iPhone made possible by a new hybrid chip from Qualcomm, so Apple can continue to make a single global iPhone that will work with all major carriers. The evidence for the phone is pretty skimpy, I haven't seen any evidence at all that A

Re: [CGUYS] Moto droid by Andy ihnatko

What kind of multitasking is it that you want to do on a small handheld that is so crucial? I don't have have an iPhone, but I do have an iPod Touch, and I can surf the web or compose an email, etc. while listening to music, and you can do more than one thing at a time of this sort with the iPhon

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

Rather than just bickering about it, tell us a little about these people. I, for one am curious about who is running Win7and why. Like: are they putting it on work machines or personal machines? Is it mostly preinstalls on new machines or upgrades on old machines, and if the latter, was it fr

Re: [CGUYS] It's monotheist versus pagan (It's a Windows Mobile killer)

I had read that some android phones other than the Droid don't have the 256MB application limit. Perhaps it's just that they have more hardwired memory. I don't really buy your argument for memory expansion. With the iPod, you plug it into your computer and swap files between it and your comput

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of flash drives

Besides making sure that the drive is sturdy, another thing to consider is the protection for the USB tip. If the drive has a separate cap for the tip, it inevitably will get lost. Jeff should consider getting a drive with a USB tip that slides or folds out from a built-in cover. Another thing

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of flash drives

I have washed and dried flash drives before, usually my son's when he left it in his pants and I didn't find it. I've also done the same with DS game cartridges. They've always survived the wash, but perhaps that is because we have a front loader, so they don't spend much time being completely i

Re: [CGUYS] It's monotheist versus pagan (It's a Windows Mobile killer)

Since Mike is so desperate to find out what the Droid can't do that the iPhone can, here's two: Because the Droid is built for Verizon's mostly CDMA network, you don't have simultaneous data and voice. So you can't for example do a web search for restaurants while making dinner plans with your ca

Re: [CGUYS] It's monotheist versus pagan (It's a Windows Mobile killer)

So, he's saying iPhone::iPod Touch::iPhone OS=father::son::holy ghost ? On a topic more related to the article, remember the YouTube Droid commercial (at ) that was discussed here last week? I saw it on live TV t

Re: [CGUYS] New Apple Ad -- doesn't play on iPod Touch

Betty, I have OS 3.1 on my iPod, and it won't play the newest videos (the top 3) either. Sent from my iPod On Oct 24, 2009, at 8:20 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system > wrote: Date:Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:10:00 -0400 From:b_s-wilk Subject: New Apple Ad -- doesn't play on iPod T

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 23 Oct 2009 to 24 Oct 2009 - Special issue (#2009-949)

Sent from my iPod On Oct 24, 2009, at 8:20 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system > wrote: Date:Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:10:00 -0400 From:b_s-wilk Subject: New Apple Ad -- doesn't play on iPod Touch http://tinyurl.com/yjtwgwn Does this mean I have to upgrade the OS from 2.x to 3.1?

Re: [CGUYS] best system test utility for OS X computer?

I don't think Applejack will verify your disk. Do this with Disk Utility.app, and if problems are reported, repair them by booting from your installation disk. Another thing you can do, besides the suggestion already given that you look at the logs, is to run Activity Monitor. Look at the open

Re: [CGUYS] Snow Leopard bug deletes all user data

Tom, you probably know this and just mistyped, but guest accounts aren't new to Snow Leopard. Leopard has guest account functionality too. The bug seems to be new to Snow Leopard though. From:Tom Piwowar Not to be outdone by M$, Apple has got its own catastrophic bug... "Snow Leopard's

Re: [CGUYS] Crazy Adoption Rate for Snow Leopard

The day Snow Leopard came out, I looked at the compatibility list, didn't see any deal-breakers for me, and upgraded that day. Of course, I made very sure that my Time Machine was working and updated a clone of my hard drive just before upgrading just to be on the safe side. It was cheap, easy an

Re: [CGUYS] Netbooks vs. Notebooks

The Touches are all microphone-capable. In the most recent generation, the larger capacity Touches come with Apple earphones that have the built-in microphone, but the entry-level 8GB Touch comes with regular earphones. For my previous generation Touch, I bought and use a microphone by Monster t

Re: [CGUYS] Apple pushes unwanted enterprise tool to Windows users

Late to the party here, but: First of all, it's a tiny little application, and is practically an iTunes plugin. Future versions of iTunes will likely have it built in and you'd never notice it unless you needed it. Do you complain this much every time Firefox updates itself unnecessarily?

Re: [CGUYS] Pogue Feeling Sorry for M$

From:Chris Dunford "Wow!" is right. You pick out the single most damning line in a generally positive review and hold it up as proof that the Zune Sucks. The only thing wrong with this statement is that the review isn't "generally positive", it's overwhelmingly positive. Myself, I'

Re: [CGUYS] Snow Leopard Review

As others have pointed out, no one is being forced to buy new hardware. Our older computers haven't lost any of their capabilities because Snow Leopard has come out. It makes just as much sense to rail about being "made" to buy a new computer because you want to use 4GB of ram and your old one ma

[CGUYS] Glenn Beck [was: COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest ...]

On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:36 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: From:Jeff Morris Subject: Re: COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 28 Aug 2009 to 29 Aug 2009 - Special issue (#2009-814) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuRwbXI0KdI&feature=re

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Lied?

According to Elgato, the latest version should run but have a few issues with exporting, etc. My own experience with it in Snow Leopard is that it would take a long time to start up and then would get as far as showing the controller, but then I would get a spinning beach ball and no TV viewer an

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Lied?

(sorry for forgetting to fix the subject line in the previous post) Well, I'm certainly happy so far. Everything I use works in the 32 bit kernel although EyeTV has a few issues and Office 2004 and some older games still need Rosetta to be installed. In the 64 bit kernel, EyeTV and Parallels do

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 29 Aug 2009 - Special issue (#2009-815)

Yes you can, at least on an intel mac running Leopard, and I'm not so sure you even need Leopard. The OS has no serial numbers or activation keys. This has always been the case for OS X as far as I can remember. Most Mac users are honest and buy the extra licenses, and Apple makes it easy for t

Re: [CGUYS] Subject: Will SL Finally FTFF?

Well, in the past you've linked to John Siracusa's critiques when discussing your problems with the finder. One of his big criticisms (which has always seemed very silly to me) is that the finder is a bad analogy or a mixed metaphor, in that it is not consistently "spatial". Since the finder is

[CGUYS] Snow Leopard Review

The NY Times has David Pogue's review of Snow Leopard. It looks like it is a review of the actual release and not the developer preview like I've seen elsewhere. There is a video of Snow L

Re: [CGUYS] Subject: drupal for only 10 million

Well, you could set up an insecure Drupal website if you didn't really know what you were doing. But given that the list of Drupal's users includes many really big names in IT (including the security company Symantec), e-commerce sites, etc., it would seem that it can't be too hard to set up a fa

[CGUYS] Subject: drupal for only 10 million

More details please. What kind of site? Also, like Tom I'd like to know what specifically you have against drupal. I know little about it, but the list of big corporations using it is impressive: The list includes Sun, Nike, Sony Ericsson, Adobe,

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

From the ars technica article that your battery numbers come from: Battery life is cited as up to 24 hours (wireless off) for music and up to four hours for video, but this seemed a l

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

Screen size: Remember size is roughly the square of the diagonal. Taking second digit rounding into account that could be as much as 18% difference. That is a worst case number, but it agrees pretty closely with the computation in pixels: 480x320 vs. 480x272 (17.6% more for the Touch). Yes, I

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

From:mike Where is the zune HD behind on the touch? Well, there's: Screen size advertised battery life bluetooth apps (by about 64,000 or so) and of course, availability Because of that last one, the jury is still out on things like actual usability issues, reliability, and app pricing.

[CGUYS] Win7 not winsome WRT upgrades

Walt Mossberg requested and got from MS an official Windows 7 upgrade chart. It has *only* 66 upgrade scenarios in it, as it merely considers half of the versions of Win7 that MS will be offering. Th

Re: [CGUYS] Brutal Zune Review..and on to winmo

It is interesting that in your mind "interface is at worst just fine" translates into "matches iPod touch". To me though, it says that the interface is manageable with a connotation that it is not great, which matches the impressions I've gathered. But you are right that I should've let Mike spe

Re: [CGUYS] Brutal Zune Review..and on to winmo

This sounds too much like the children's argument, "I know you are, but what am I?". Rather than waiting for the "No you are" from Tom, and a "No YOU are" back from you, I beg you: Please, one of you make an actual point instead of going around in circles like this, or let it drop. Of course, t

Re: [CGUYS] Brutal Zune Review

UTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: From:mike More in reference to the iphone. Most of these references are in the middle of reviews of phones such as the palm or the hero coming out in the US soon. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:10 AM, David K Watson >wrote: I haven't read

Re: [CGUYS] Brutal Zune Review..and on to winmo

Yes, but Apple wasn't first in either the music player or smart phone markets. Both markets were considered to be fairly stable and buttoned down until Apple came along and churned them up again. Remember this review of the first iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."? Of course it

Re: [CGUYS] Brutal Zune Review

I haven't read anything about how "aged" the iPod has become, can you point me to one of those blogs? On the other hand, every day I see several articles about a new or updated iPhone/iPod app. And you CAN customize your iPhone home screen, that came with version 2 of the OS. From:mike

Re: [CGUYS] Computer gadgets in cars

I'm feeling pedantic today: If 90% had 100 and 10% had 0, then the average is 90. Result: 90% are above average. Math alone isn't sufficient justification. From:Mike Math. Sent from my iPod On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: Ninety percent of drivers claim to be abov

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