s actually up and running on a working, plugged-in DOS machine. But
then, I'm a total pack rat.
I'm a pack rat too. I'll be holding on to my zip and floppy
drivesjust in case. They don't take up much space.
Paula Minor
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choice once the Evil Empire moves in.
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Now that you are all talking about this, I realized I've had problems
with it too. I can send an email from my gmail acct to my gmail
account all from Apple Mail with no problem. But if I send that
message out and happen to check my mail on my laptop instead of the
desk computer, I can
Is anyone else finding this latest update of Firefox to be more
similar to a demolition derby than a browser.
It's crashing every time it's opened on my machines. Vista Home
and XP machines.
My son said he's been having a lot of problems since upgrading it on
his pc and his search of
I don't really understand how to interpret the speed I get on the
speed test sites. This is what I got tonight on Speakeasy
Download Speed: 16523 kbps (2065.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3077 kbps (384.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
I'm on cable. Is this considered a fast download speed?
I just got a gorgeous bluetooth keyboard (Logitech diNovo Edge) and
was shocked to discover my MacPro doesn't have bluetooth! I had
thought it was standard in all Macs but mine was the last of the ones
made in 2007 and in Jan of 2008 new models came out. The older ones
didn't have
Paula there are also inexpensive bluetooth USB dongles that you can
purchase that will do the same thing and just plug into the USB port.
Sheesh , you'd think they might have mentioned that on the Apple
Discussions group. Thanks, Stewart. If I feel too intimidated when
I start installing
'm seeing them all over the place. Last night everyone sitting in the
row in front of me was fiddling with their iPhone while waiting for
the
lecture to start. This reminds me of the early
I'm seeing a lot of them too. I LOVE my iPhone and wonder why I
waited so long to get one. The voice
I don't get my email thru Comcast but I have noticed consistently
slower download and response times in the last several weeks on
Comcast. I'm in Seattle.
Same here in Indianapolis
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My main email is my comcast mail.and today I cannot get my mail
because they have somehow managed to change my password without
telling me AND can't give me a temporary one because they are making
changes to their email systemI can call LATER this afternoon to
see if it's finished
I've moved everything that still used my
Comcast address to Gmail. Gmail is handling everything quite nicely
and I can access that from anywhere.
I'm gradually moving more and more of my mail over to Gmail or my mac
mail accts but I've had my Comcast address so long that that is where
Or, allow competition in the market instead of perpetuating the
same idiotic
guvmint-enforced monopoly scheme.
Yeah, I know, crazy talk.
That's heresy! ;-)
Competition in the market..bite your tongue.
Paula/IN/USA
Note that if they can gat away with that, they can do anything else
they
please. Next they will be sending you a list of approved partner
websites where traffic won't be counted against your bandwith cap.
Only option I see is local: getting the neighbors together to let the
local pols know
Does anyone know what Verizon's policy is regarding bandwidth? Do
they also restrict it? I could go back to their slower service over
the phone lines if Comcast kicks me off.
From an engineering point of view, I think there would be little
incentive to cap FIOS because it does not have
So, I wrote to Comcast today to let them know that this LONG time
Comcast customer was going to have serious issues with their
bandwidth limit because I would be backing up many hundreds of GB's
of data to an online service and that was perfectly legal to do. Was
I going to be 'punished'
How would a Comcast subscriber know when that usage limit has come
close to being exceeded? Does Comcast provide subscribers with
notifications about how much or how little usage they have left
before being kicked off? Is it the subscribers duty to keep tabs
on all their bandwidth
While everyone is talking cellphones..I'd like input on which
ones have the clearest sound on a call. I'm on Verizon and have been
using the original LG Chocolate for a couple of years and I HATE it.
I struggle to u nderstand what people are saying on it and it has
nothing to do with
I had good luck with my Samsung 730 but found it bulky. I am now
on a Motorola Q9C. Smartphone not PPC. The Samsung is a PPC.
Daughter has a newer Choclate but those are now defunct. Son-in-
law got LG Venus, and they like them.
Stewart
Stewart, I'm mainly concerned with the clarity of
Tell me whoever is asking, is the wifi desire to use vonage or
something or
is it to surf?
It was to surf and do email without having to also buy a data plan
from Verizon. I wouldn't be using it enough to warrant the data plan.
Paula/IN/USA
They couldn't, however, do this for
everyone, obviously. I wonder what their formula for this level of
service
is?
Several months ago the display went out on my MacBook Pro that was
only abouty 4 mos old. I took it to the Genius Bar and they said
they had to send it in because they
There are more podcast feeds than I can keep up with. Some of the best
are from NPR, CBC, BBC, and some local stations. iTunes keeps
filling up
with more and more good stuff. I especially like APM's Future Tense.
These are short, 5-minute programs that often inform me of tech events
that are
The stuff I was searching for was a little esoteric (my own
website, my husband's name) but Cuil found none of it. While
Google finds TONS of references.
Not Cuil.
I didn't care for it's appearance at all but I do have to say that
in searching for my name it did as well as Google.
Does anyone else find Smileys to be insulting?
I mean, a little :-) at the end of a comment to explain that you
meant it
humorously/ironically/sarcastically implies the recipient isn't
capable of
getting the joke in the first place.
Or maybe I should just switch to decaf today... ;-)
Yep,
I mentioned Cyberduck already. It has a setting to throttle the
data rate.
I missed that one, Tom. Ill look into it.
I checked out S3 as db suggested but it would be around $75/MONTH for
me to store all my photos, music,videos and some other misc data.
That's a lot per year for just a
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
Does your backup need to be online (i.e. over the Internet)? It
sounds
like you might be better served by using an external (USB,
Firewire, or
eSATA) hard-disk. Get a 500GB unit (or more, prices are coming
down, and
your data will only increase over time). Actually, get two. Then,
after
Have any of you used the Credo (formerly Working Assets) cellular
network? What are your impressions of it's reliability?
Thanks
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather
to skid in
Adelphia did NOTHING to upgrade its
service (probably the bankruptcy court wouldn't let them if they
wanted to)
and Comcast has done little besides
a) repaint the trucks;
b) hire different undocumented workers to trench in the coax;
Wow! You mean you actually went out there and asked those
n the context of this discussion, it's funny that I received the
following email this morning.
I'm on an iMac using Thunderbird for email and I do send emails to
groups of people sometimes. I have Comcast for internet, there is
really no choice here, but I email exclusively through gmail.
It's nice to be BACK!
You have no way of knowing what is being
blocked and no mechanism to retrieve any false positives. It's
amateur hour
at Comcast.
Oh how true. I now wonder what else isn't coming through. ANd I
also know that some of my email never gets to the recipients but that
Paula,
Dim LCD screen has become a common compaint, and there may be a
solution!
I have been repairing laptops recently, and they have a small
board along the boarder of the LCD screen called the 'inverter'.
It can cost as little as $20 in single quantity. According to
Why would you replace a proven technology that still works with a
newer technology that apparently has a shorter lifespan?
Business reason please.
I switched because the lcd's are easier on my eyesat least when
they are working well. My CRT monitors were really causing my eyes
to
I bought a new Dell LCD monitor so I could have a dual setup. Now,
with both of them side-by-side, I realize that my eyes weren't going
bad fastthe older LCD monitor(also a Dell) is very dim and the
letters are a bit soft or blurry. I do calibrate my monitors and had
been having
No, but Mozy is excellent depending on what you needs are. Mozy has
a decent interface, free for 2 GBs, $4.95 for unlimited storage,
Really? UNLIMITED storage? I'm talking maybe 600 gig of photos.
Another 500 gig if I back up my iTunes folder.
I don't need file sharing.
Mozy.com???
No. DSL does not work that way. You get the speed you pay for plus
usually a small margin. You get it reliably. You don't get wild
highs and
lows.
That wasn't my short experience with ATT DSL. I started out paying
for the highest speed they offered and tested it several times a day
for a
Be sure that the person who will potentially receive the ebook
really wants one and realizes its features and limitations.
Otherwise the ebook will end up spending more time on a shelf or in
a drawer, or broken. For electronic books, I prefer unabridged
audiobooks on my iPod.
My 2 cents.
From what I can tell one can only get a few recent programs from
iTunes and that iPods only work (well?) using iTunes. QUESTION 1:
Is that true? QUESTION 2: Are there any combinations of software
and hardware that one can use to put old ARCHIVED programs on a PDP?
I pretty much only use my
This may or may not be off topic for this list but the video is very
entertaining and informative and perhaps worth discussion here.
http://storyofstuff.com/
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body,
She claims we've used 1/3 of the total of earth's natural
resource. In her
fancy graphic she shows things like trees being cut down...wow a
third of
all forests are decimated? In 3 decades? wow. Oh wait...forested
areas
have remained relatively stable since the early 1900's since
. The previous version of Adobe
Creative Suite does not work with the current Apple OS and Adobe says
they will not update it.
You all can be the judge.
If that's true, another good reason NOT to upgrade to Leopard. I'm
perfectly happy with Tiger and haven't seen anything offered on the
That is BS. Adobe profits are up by 23% this quarter. When they
instituted their onerous copy protection they assured us that it would
allow them to lower prices -- the liars.
LOL! That gave me a chuckle, Tom. Adobe follows the same path of
corporate greed as other large corporationsand
This would be a sign that the cable provided knows it is running
out of
bandwidth and is trying various tricks to keep things from getting b
This is pretty much what I had thought, too, and I called them and
asked about it. They denied they were doing anything to alter or
inhibit the
Tom P said:
Normally, DSL should not do that. This implies that some bandwidth
is being consumed by NACs. The speed measuring sites do not seem to
register NACs.
Tom, what is NAC?
I just checked the DSL speed and it was 962 down...and less than a
minute later it was 2280 down. But no matter
Mike said:
It's only anecdotal but I've heard from many people across the
country with
DSL that they almost always get the lesser service then what they
pay for on
average. This is exactly what she described. When she dropped it
to the
service she was actually getting, the actual speed
I decided to go ahead and set up the ATT DSL and see if I liked it.
I had signed up for the elite service which was to give me up to
6000kb/s. Of course she didn't tell me up to but said I'd get 6000
kb/s. I managed to figure out how to turn off the wireless in the
ATT modem so I could
Mike said:
.AT$T's motto is 'we aren't happy
till you aren't happy.'
Funny but sad. I will say that everyone I worked with was very nice
and tried hard to make sure everything was going as it
should...tho they did screw up the initial order requiring me to
cancel everything and start
One more thing. I just ran another test on the Comcast line and
while fast (Download 5049 Kb/s; Upload 1496 Kb/s) there is a
Warning !Your connection shows signs of ISP upload compression
message. What does that mean?
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the
The only color I'd consider is red; the others are too boring.
I'll have to borrow my son's iPod touch when he gets his soon [I
won't be bored with that, either]. Go to the Apple Store and pl
Woman after my own heart. I love color everywhere and having to
choose between black or white
I'm ashamed to say I can't leave home without my 30GB video iPod.
I've got my entire CD collect
I never leave home without my 60 gb video iPod, either...and I only
have 10gb left! If you get your wife a gift cert. for Audible.com
she'll get hooked on audio books too. I think now you have
The box with my DSL ATT stuff arrived today and Im not sure I'm
going to even try to install it. I hadn't realized that their modem
was also the wireless box. I have NO intention of redoing my
wireless network again. I just bought...and lovean Airport
extreme and want to use it.
DSL *can be* faster. In practice it is often a lot slower. DSL
bandwith
is dedicated to you and is throttled back to give you the speed you
pay
for. Cable is shared so your speed depends on who you are sharing
with.
As we have seen recently with Comcast, it can also be limited in
various
How differently each of us sees things. I was forced into 1.5mbit
over a year ago and have been suffering ever since. I can't do more
then one thing at a time. I used to download all my podcasts in a
minute or so, now i'm waiting almost an hour for all of them to update
one or two at a time
ATT tried to do the same to me. I figured that I would be getting
something
more reliable, but slower. I opted to wait until FIOS was in the
neighborhood. It may be worthwhile to you to have the reliability
over the
speed.
--
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
No, John, speed is
I can think of plenty of up-tempo music for exercising, but I can't
imagine what kind of audio book would be suitable!
I find a really good audio book a lot more engrossing than music and
makes the time doing unpleasant tasks (like exercising) seem to go
more quickly. g
Paula
IN/USA
Life
I can't help but say that the worst thing about Macs/OSX is the Dock.
Great operating system otherwise but whenever I am using OS X and
multi-tasking between programs, web pages, files etc, I am spending
a LOT of time struggling with the various windows... trying to
find one I had open
I see quite a few of them on the corporate side.
On Oct 16, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Other than at trade shows I don't think I have ever seen a Dell
laptop.
My son-in-law has one.provided by his business.
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with
Robert said:
Today, there ought to be a separate pocket in everyone's clothes
each for the cell phone, the GPS device, the iPod, the subcompact
digital camera, the pocket PC (if it still exists), the digital
passport, and a portable radio/tv. I think I have missed an
important device
I have several different iPod cases for various activitiesand
because I like to decorate mine. g
iSkin makes many types but I've used the rubberized ones that come
with a screen protector and wheel protector. You can even get those
(the protectors) in varying colors if you like variety.
This shows that it is once again time to enforce the
anti-trust laws. Split Comcast and the others up.
P.S. Anyone advertising unlimited bandwith is prima facie guilty of
consumer fraud. Comcast management ought to be thrown into a dark deep
dungeon for an unlimited period of time.
Amen, Tom!
I'm getting into this topic a bit late but:
The MacBook PRO is the one that may be more delicate, although
friends ho have them haven't had problems--yet. The MacBook
[replacing the iBook] is solid.
FWIW, my MacBook PRO was knocked off the table and landed face down
on the floor. I've had
Whatever the form univeral access takes it will require the
government restructuring of health care markets.
This will be attacked as socialist (and already is) no matter what
distinctions u.a. supporters will make.
Those folks who fear creeping socialism will probably never
support u.a.
That is not an argument for abolishing the PO (inadvisable) but for
reforming politics (really hard,
but what else are you going do)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,HOOHHOHOHOHOHOHWHAAH! G
That would require real effort on the part of the majority of
americans and they are just too busy
alance things out. We do not like rationing and we will fight
rationing at every turn. My wife's grandmother died of an aortic
aneurysm. Diagnosed, but not treated, she was over 80.
My grandmother died due to a failed hip operation, her third in two
months and she was over 90! OK which
I am not sure. When you talk about rationing it sounds like
a bad thing. But in terms of dollars and cents the Canadian System
has to make sure that the tax money is well spent. In the
US the private sector has a lot of rationing by the insurance
companies. And then
cent inquiries both personal and on line have failed to uncover any
knowledge of being asked to do this in recent times.
Does anybody have any experience with this? I travel relatively
seldom, and almost never with a laptop.
Thanks!
I fly only once or twice a year but always with a laptop
But, would the flash things running overnight on a Mozilla type
browser cause OSX to close?
Looks like there may be more than one thing amiss. Need to clear
things
out to get a better picture of what is causeing your CPU problem.
This shutting down of OSX is happening EVERY night now but
Have you tried to run X on another account? As admin, you'll be
able to use your files. Does the second account crash? Which
maintenance utilities have you used? I've fou
No I haven't tried that Betty. I will make a new account and see
what happens.
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a
Have you checked your logs to see what time it's doing it? Same
time every
night? What programs are running, any errors before it shuts down
in the
log?
Where do I find the logs?
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an
Woke up this a.m. to find OSX had quit again. It seems to happen
every night now. I don't have any backups running then. I do set
the computer to sleep after about 1/2 hr. I did forget to restart it
in safemode when I went to bed.
Right now, with only mail running the CPU is running
Paula, lose the widgets. Set up a larger swap file for Photoshop.
Mine's on a separate drive [it's in the prefs somewhere; in my ps
you can select up to 4 swap disks]. Does Camino have a memory leak
like other Moz browsers? I use some beta versions just so I can
have a debug menu. Can you
If I were you I'd look closer at each CPU hog and see what it's
doing or if there are settings you could change to stop this
behavior. For example, there are certainly setting in Camino you
could alter, but I'd start by closing o
Thanks, Jordman. I've dumped Camino as it seemed to have a
One thing I've noticed on my computer is that a lot of programs are
running in the background, some of which do not need to be running.
Question...can you direct me to a good source so I can figure out
what some of these things are and put an end to the things that do
not need to run? Is
Now I'm starting to think you are pulling my leg. Do you routinely
drive
your car through ditches and then complain about the rough ride?
I'm chuckling here. g I do run my truck thru ditches from time to
time but I don't complain. I do expect it to perform as it was
intended. ;-)
Yes, I
Tony B said:
but on any computer that simply has graphics programs
open, your idling load should be close to 0% CPU. Idle priority tasks
like indexing, defragging, or malware scans will raise this, but
should be obvious because of the disk activity.
It could also be malware activity like a
When either box has a conniption I just restart and
immediately switch to the o
Oh, so even you pro's have cantankerous machines?! ;-) I don't feel
so bad then.
If I didn't feel compelled to try out every cool sounding piece of
software that I read about, I'd probably have a lot fewer
What happens when you run from a safe boot (Shift key down on Mac's
startup)?
Well, initially it wouldn't start up in safe mode. It hung at the
white screen with the apple logo and the spinning dial. So I shut it
down after about 5 mins and started again. It took almost 5 min. but
did
Service restored. Problem was Comcast had intentionally
disconnected me from the pole according to the tech that arrived
promptly at 5 pm for his 11 to 2 pm appointment window. I recall a
saying something like Never attribute something to malice when
mere incompatence will suffice. They
My iMac G5 iSite has been having frequent blue screen
equivalents.the transparent gray box that tells me OSX has quit
and I have to shut down. I thought I had found the problem when I
unplugged 2 of the 4 external hd's I have on it. But I got up this
a.m. to a new error msg. Instead
If I get a MacPro with 2 drivesone with OSX of course.can I
put Windows on the second drive and use Parallels or boot camp to
run it? If I have it on it's own drive, will the Mac drive still be
at risk of infection if the Windows part gets a trojan infection? I
haven't put
Also www.smalldog.com
Just be careful to prevent static discharge. Replacing components
in a
laptop requires a bit more expertise than working on stereos. Good to
ask questions and to know what interface the disk drive uses.
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
From: Computer Guys
Thanks, Mark. It just never came through before and I look at all
the messages.
Pay attention! You missed a good response from Riley:
Yes, yes yes. The parts basically snap into place and plug in with
about the complexity of a home stereo. A few places on the net that
sell otherwise
I'm considering replacing my iMac with a MacPro. I've found that I
can get more RAM for less thru Crucial. The harddrive prices for the
empty bays from Apple seem awfully high priced. Can I get off the
shelf internal harddrives to put in it and is it hard to set up so
the computer finds
keep everything in the three ring binder type cd cases. I have too
many
to want to put them all in jewel cases
THis is what I do as well..and the same for DVD movies. I store
all the plastic cd boxes in a box in the basement..tho I'm not
sure why. I just keep everything I guess.
Another one to give a listen to is the Cranky Geeks with John C Dvorak
I like Cranky Geeks, too, but it doesn't offer help with problems.
It's mainly short takes on various tech issues or newly released
gadgets. A fairly short, but entertaining, podcast.
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be
Leo Leporte has an amazing tool working for him in his radio show- The
chat room that ru
I guess I'll put in a plug for Leo's podcasts too. I listen to all
of them and they are numerous but I always find some helpful hint or
answer to a problem I'm having in nearly every podcast. The
I don't know her, but in general these are often also some of the
worst photographers - taking 100 pics and keeping all 100 of them!
Of course, with digital cameras it's sometimes advisable to overshoot,
but if I can't delete 90% of the pics I take I feel I'm doing
something wrong.
I guess I'm
I have not visited Apple recently - are the
power buttons hard to find on the current models?
The power button on my iMac is on the back, the same white color as
the case. When I first got it I had to search a while for it.
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the
My son has been trying to set up a wireless network in his
homeand I've tried to help him too. We've run the set up several
times and get connected just fine but once the computers are turned
off or the top is put down and it sleeps, they can't get it to
reconnect. But they are
Michael Lewis said
I'll let Paula tell more about the process as well as provide the
link to
the movie she worked on. :)
Thanks to Michael and Apples discussion groups, I was able to find
the problem with the sound on my video file. My camera is not a real
digital video camerait
Paula --
I think Handbrake is mainly a program for work with DVDs. I admit I
haven't looked at it very closely, so my initial look could be fooling
me. However, you should have everything you need on your Mac if you
have
iMovie or have purchased Quicktime Pro. Try what I've created at the
spent a couple hours at command line trying to
make the folder visible. Then I did the simple, dumb thing: ran disk
utility. That fixed everything.
Thanks, Tom. Worth a try. I'm still learning how to troubleshoot on
a Mac. I had no idea how to find out if the USB ports were working.
But
betty said:
Macs last a long time. They don't break, generally.
Yeah, well,maybe. Unless Apple breaks it for you.
I updated my iMac G5 with the latest security updates and now
EVERYTHING that needs to be transferred to or from it via USB
connection (memory cards, podcasts from itunes to
Michael, thank you.
I had to look to see if I had iMovie since I'd removed it from the
dock, figuring I'd never use it. Ha.
I'll give it a try.
And if any of you like old fashioned RR..shades of Buddy Holly!
look for the Cadillac Angels because they put on a fantastic show and
music
Did you repair permissions before and after installing the update?
Did you run Yasu first? Did you back up your drives?
Not before but after reinstalling the 10.9 update I repaired
permissions. Not after installing those security fixes tho. I
have most stuff backed up. It will take
While in Jerome,AZ I took some video of a band that I want to upload
to YouTube. My MPG file is 500mb but Youtube limits you to 100 mb.
How do I go about compressing the video so that it's small enough to
upload? I'm on either an iMac G5 and I do have GarageBand if that
worksor a
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