My [prestidigitator] grandfather used to say, Consider the source.
Guess he was right, but he also said more often, They're all fakes!
Could have been right with that too!
Betty
Original Message
Subject:Wikipedia false fact proves itself
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009
Again, I was referring to contemporary usage of the terms liberal and
conservative. If you looked at the link I gave, you will see that
today the term liberal usually refers to Modern Liberal as described
there.
I cannot think of any modern conservatives who would side with the
Tories. Modern
Liberation theology refers to the Catholic priests and nuns who
worked to protect the local people against the dictators who
controlled the governments, mostly in Latin America.
Not just Catholic. There were a number of mainline Protestants
denominations that bought into it.
Stewart -
Ever heard of liberation theology? Seen the news reports of all the
delightful celebrities cozying up to left wing thugs and dictators?
Idolizing the Viet Cong and NVA? Worshiping at the feet of the
Sandanista's (and Ortega is at it again I hear)?
Liberation theology refers to the Catholic
Please give me an example where liberals did overthrow a government
and replaced it with a democratic one along the lines of the western
world.
That's easy; here's two. The United States--original 13 colonies. India,
1947, with work of Mahandas K. Gandhi. How about the Magna Carta in 1215
But mostly the right in winning the Cold War.
And, if I may be so bold, the neocons can take credit for ousting a
totalitarian regime...
I fear that historians will identify Bush 43 and his neocons as bringing
about the end of the American century. They may not even call it that. It
did not
I would consider the founding fathers to be conservative, not liberal.
You've got it.
The Bill of Rights are PROHIBITIONS on what the federal government can do...
Yep.
Most of the founders of the United States, especially those who wrote
the Constitution considered themselves to be
As opposed to the world wide good liberal activists and supporters of
liberation have done over the years.
Where did this happen? The liberators I recall are mostly the cons
overthrowing popularly elected governments in places like Iran [at least
twice], Chile, Australia, Honduras, Cuba
Our cheap Compaq notebook didn't have install disks, but has a partition
with all the data you need to create restore disks. The HP notebook
didn't have install disks, although I think it was because it was the
floor model--they lost the box, maybe the disks too. The tech at the
store created
At the risk of incurring wrath by discussing something digital on
this forum, I have a question: I've used Audacity to transfer tape
recording to digital, and the results are quite good. However, in
Mac I don't seem to have full access to the program's controls. No
complaints whatsoever about
Sue Cubic scu...@earthlink.net escribió:
These got very little use and are now gone. I bet our politics
thread will be gone soon too.
I hope so. I'm about ready to unsub. The subject of politics is not
why I joined this list. I'd rather discuss needlework on here--would
anyone mind?
And yet they do this because it is clear that their own publics would
not support paying market prices directly. And it also helps keep
third world farmers at starvation level because they can not compete
with European (and American) subsidized agriculture. Good job. Oh,
and then we send tons
But by providing a support structure for Hamas, you help perpetuate
the suffering.
I know it is harsh, but sometimes you have to let people suffer until
they change the behavior that creates the suffering.
I would be all in favor aid programs to take people out of Gaza, or
to take Hamas out of
Count me in, Sue! I'm just getting over a really bad cold. I took to
my bed for about a week, and I've almost completed a needlepoint pillow
(really complicated design) while resting in bed. It kept me from going
completely crazy during the week.
If you know of any sites with good stitch
I think you're still misunderstanding the concept. Or purposely trying
to obfuscate. Implementation of cloud computing hasn't really been
possible until recent broadband penetration. But you insist on talking
about 'many years' as if you've been avoiding a cloud by choice all
this time.
FWIW, my
Album tags have been corrected. Even though album has the same name, it's
still separating them by artist even when I sort by album.
Don't you want each artist to be named? If not, just make the artist the
same as the album for all. Or make a playlist for that compilation.
I'd rather sort
I just loaded Fedora 10 on a computer and would like to add it to my
home network which consists of Macintosh computers. It can find the
internet via Ethernet or wireless. How can I get it to be recognized
and/or have it recognize my iMac running OS 10.4.11? Thanks
Have you tried Samba? Manual
Forget Karl Marx and neocons. This is a good place for an appropriately
sensible quote from the Bible, like Matthew 25:31-46? [Matthew was a
kool dood]
...when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink? ...When did we see you a stranger and invite you in,
Everything is political, one way or another.
This meandering thread is interesting--fun--in that there's a lot of
information and personalities being revealed. We'll get back to
computers eventually, after we deal with paying for repairing our
infrastructure, dealing with jobs,
I put the soundtrack for collateral into itunes, all tags appear correct,
artist is different for each track but album name is the same, COLLATERAL.
Yet iTunes breaks it up so that each artist has it's own album, even when I
tell it to sort by album. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong...? I've
I didn't mean to start some sort of email war. Sorry, but POP and IMAP
are yesterday's news. My grandfather's email. An email client that
can't work in any browser via AJAX and can't store my stuff in the
cloud just isn't worth consideration in 2009. Except perhaps in a
historical perspective; I
Glad to provide some clarity. Now, will you find us a place to stay in
Praha? HAHAHA [and a translator]
Betty
Brilliant matchbox tutorial, why can't everything digital be explained with
this level of lucidity? Thanks, Betty
--- On Fri, 1/30/09, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
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800's will work fine, if they fit in the space.
there are a lot of counterfeit batteries out there. the counterfeit
Nokia batteries even come with the nokia holo.
batteries need cobalt to be high quailty. cobalt is expensive.
cheap batteries = no cobalt. other than buying directly from
I have another take on the .pdf's, and take some issue with Tom. I have
scanned my letterhead to a pretty high resolution .tif file. I can then
type in photoshop my correspondance, then convert to .pdf - clunky, but it
works. Files go from 37mb down to a manageable 500kb for e-mail. I am
What does this result mean?
Using IPv4 address
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David Turk dt...@indianahistory.org escribió:
We already have the full Final Cut suite (please don't ask why we
bought the software before the hardware-wasn't my decision),
I'd like to get some suggestions for hardware. Hopefully, we can
keep this under $10,000. Doesn't have to be top of the
Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] escribió:
Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed?
Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper right
before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download my gmail,
which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now
Now this is example of why I hang with the list, overlooking the
bloviating discussion that seems to have overwhelmed the original
exchange of information.
I have rushed to my InDesign disc, to learn these features, many
thanks, Betty. Image quality was really fine with my voodoo
improvisation
b_s-wilk wrote:
I don't shop at Sam's club, since it's owned by evil trolls.
?
Please elucidate.
Sam's Club is owned by Walmart. Since Sam Walton died Walmart has been
the epitome of a bad neighbor. They get tax breaks from local
communities, often paying no local tax, sell products
Did you find any particular online sites you found good TV deals on?
Don't buy a TV online. Buy it in a store. That is, unless you will be
home when it's delivered, and the delivery truck driver will wait while
you unpack the TV to test it. Many online sites won't take TVs back once
the box
Look, I admit to procrastinating on this (as I typically do, admittedly) but
it seems like they are not really ready for this, for various reasons (see
the Post article in, I believe, yesterday's business section). Running out
of funding for the coupons is not the fault of those who waited. As
Delaying the mandatory switch is going to cost TV stations millions
of dollars as they will continue to have to double transmit. (many
have been ramping up for this and have had two transmitters running,
expensive) Also the bandwidth that the police and emergency
departments have been
Is the earthlink account IMAP, POP or online only? Do you have the
correct server names, addresses?
duh. thanks for the tip. I've since downloaded eudora and that
comes up as the default mail reader. but it still looks like mac
mail. I've been using web-based (earthlink and yahoo), but it
A friend of mine keeps forwarding formatted email from Mac Mail. It
arrives in my mail as a collection of disjointed pictures and broken
links, with full headers. I use Thunderbird for my email client. Haven't
been able to reproduce the jumble in either program.
What kind of settings in Mail
Cost to call international numbers (we do that) is very low.
I'm paying 2 cents/minute for calls to Europe using POTS. Are you lower
than that?
What's your service? Do you use a phone card or dial-around number?
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I detest mac mail. I don't understand why I can't change it from the default
when I click on a webpage to send an email and damn damn damn mac mail opens.
Help!
I think the best solution is to go to my friend's house and install
Thunderbird for her. If I tell her, she'll do something
Is there such a rule of thumb in the gaming computer world?
Yes. Your graphics subsystem and power supply are the places
to spend the bucks.
400W is not nearly enough to run a modern graphics card and
processor, plus at a minimum one optical and two or three hard
drives, plus other stuff. I
GSM and CDMA seem to be the most prevalent with some small (Nextel,
and local carriers) pockets of other.
I was told that my carrier, T-Mobile will work with any unlocked GSM
phone. You can order a To-Go SIM from their online store for $7
(includes overnight delivery and xx minutes).
I second Crucial.
db
I second both Datamem and Crucial, and nominate OtherWorld. All have
good products. Buy from any one of them. My last online RAM purchase for
a PC was from datamem where I saved about 50% over Crucial. Depends on
the rate of the day. Sometimes Crucial is less, but
Yes I read it. As I said in the Post Script: I tried sending
it in plain text from the web site and received the same bounced mail
error message. I will continue to check out the web site to see if
there is a way to change how it sends my email
If you are getting bounced with the
Yes I am using a Mac. I realize that the Verizon site is made for
Windows (It frustrates me, because it it should be both OS and
browser independent.) I primarily use my Verizon address for this
list. I have a number of other email accounts. I thought that the
Verizon filters were just
Netbooks are small, but can be more portable than most notebooks. I
looked at the HP netbook yesterday and rejected it because it's small,
yet heavy. The Dell is similar. There are smaller netbooks that have
full keyboards, have a 6-7 display and can fit in your pocket--if you
wear cargo
One of the hidden issues that I don't see being considered by anybody
re: thumb texting is RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) tendinitus.
That's why I'd rather use a tiny netbook with a real keyboard. I don't
like thumb texting. Fingers--yes.
I did find a major downside of having a touchscreen
The free Flip4Mac plugin will play wmv videos in browsers and QuickTime.
Windows Media Player 9 still runs OK in OS X, http://snipurl.com/9gxas.
I use if for stream links, and to play videos that I don't want to tie
up the browsers.
VLC, http://www.videolan.org/, is also a good stand-alone
Whenever I try to reply to an email on this list using the Verizon
webmail (Verizon website), it gets rejected and I get the attached
message. If I reply from my computer using Thunderbird (same Verizon
email address) no problem. What gives?
You're using a Mac? You/they have filters turned on?
If you really want to be frightened, just go over to youtube and watch a
video about bump keys (there are 100s). You can easily get detailed
instructions for opening almost any lock in seconds. Curiously, almost
nobody seems to be bothered by this. I thought about getting a shotgun
and never
How did you suspend the 3rd drive below the optical drive ?
I usually use duct tape for such things.
Metal or plastic straps work as well, or better, since there's no
adhesive to break down. Duct tape is good. I used it to piece together
my old Volkswagen.
i looked into the iphones for me and for my wife. we both in the
middle of very favorable ATT contracts (corporate negotiated
holdovers)that i do not think we can cancel and and reup. to get an
iPhone, we would have to either pay the full price, or buy out, and
re up at probably $10--20 a month
Can anyone tell me what are the best things to move off the internal
drive of a G5 OSX Tiger tower in order to make more room?
(Applications?, scratch space etc?)
Its 160GB internal drive has 140 GBs on it now.
Buy another internal drive or two--they're cheap, and the internal bus
is fast
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.
Paula
Any USB bluetooth adapter
So, I've found instructions on the web for adding it and have ordered
and received the bluetooth card...but I'm REALLY nervous about
installing it. I've added RAM and harddrives.they're plug and
play. But this thing is TINY and you have to attach a TINY antenna
wire from the computer to
Can you print directly from an iPhone/Touch via Bluetooth or other means
to [Bluetooth] photo printers? What about printing from other smart phones?
Betty
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Yahoo / MS * 100 = 147%
No.
Yahoo / MS = 1,311,504 / 885,567 = 1.48097659 = 148%
148% * 100 = 14800% or 148. Yahoo's share isn't 148 times more than MS'
share. It just seems that way.
Yahoo's share is 148% of MS share, or Yahoo's share is 48% more than MS
share. MS still sucks.
You raise good points. The backup would essentially be for only My
Documents although at some point I would like to start backing up the
image on a daily basis too. Never planned on trying to backup the
operating system. It's too much fun reinstalling it :)
Aren't settings and preferences in
Yahoo / MS * 100 = 147%
No.
Yahoo / MS = 1,311,504 / 885,567 = 1.48097659 = 148%
148% * 100 = 14800% or 148. Yahoo's share isn't 148 times more than MS'
share. It just seems that way.
Yahoo's share is 148% of MS share, or Yahoo's share is 48% more than MS
share. MS still sucks.
Who are
I'm darned if I can find where he or any of us are coerced into
making changes in the technology that we use to extend our reach. I'm
quite pleased to find an ever widening array of better hammers within
reach both physically and financially to make my life easier and more
productive. I have a
If I lived/worked in the DC metro area, the broadband might be more
reliable. It's not particularly reliable in most of the country.
This would be interesting to track. Do you have a source for this?
There are many comparisons of broadband service around the country and
the world. Here's
Valid points. But email comes from the cloud anyway, so it's tough to
argue that one. I mean, why delete an important email from the cloud?
Then you're relying on your own backup methods to preserve it.
Also, today's cloud _does_ offer multiple locations and backups. Which
systems were you
In the thirty years I've used computers, I have never trusted them to
absolutely be there when I need them the most--local or remote.
Could it be that your 30-year perspective causes you to put more emphasis
on things as they once were and not enough emphasis on things as they are
today?
If
Betty (b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED]) replied:
When I want to copy the header, I simply choose Edit as New in
Thunderbird's Message menu. Then I make whatever changes I want, or
keep it as is.
I comment:
Betty, I tried this repeatedly in incoming and outgoing messages. In my
hands
Yeah, I can see why everyone would be incredulous. It sounds like 10X
the work to produce what you perceive is a little convenience. Get a
Gmail account and you can just use any browser *anywhere* to access
these records and compose documents. No Word needed, and no worries
about backing up
Doesn't matter why OP wants to do this. That's his business. When I want
to copy the header, I simply choose Edit as New in Thunderbird's
Message menu. Then I make whatever changes I want, or keep it as is.
Betty
No, this wouldn't explain why the OP needs to copy headers along with
the
Apple's AirPort Express can stream to your stereo receiver,
http://www.apple.com/wifi/.
I also use a stereo FM transmitter to broadcast from my Mac to
receivers. The one I have is for use in a car. I power it by plugging
into a DC to AC converter, and added an antenna. I can listen to
...I power it by plugging into a DC to AC converter, and added an antenna...
It's an *AC to DC* converter. Looks like a cigarette lighter without the
car. NewerTech makes one 120v-12v.
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Does this have any validity, or is Apple doing a CYA? It kind of makes
sense that an AC adapter might not be able to provide the same kind of
power as a battery that's designed for the full power demanded by the
processor/processes. I'm not an electrical engineer. Please elaborate.
Does this
When Apple sells something at the iTunes store, they tell you up front
that it has DRM. Walmart doesn't label their music or movies to tell
you that there are significant parts missing from the products. You don't
know until the package is open and not returnable.
Does Apple really tell you
for once, i agree with tom. i really like my nokia which does
little. if i reviewed a crakbury, iphone or zune, i would say it is
a horrible unusable piece of crap.
while OT with cell phones, the power connector on my beloved Nokia
has gone sour. it is very difficult for me to charge the
Walmart and Amazon both have significant libraries that are DRM free.
The
near monopoly Apple has(d) on digital tunes seems to have angered some of
the record companies and they have struck better deals elsewhere.
Walmart is DRM free? Sure. They also edit all the
Not strictly true. They require artists who wish to sell via their
store to provide edited versions. Nothing evil about it, just a
marketing decision that for them works. No one is forced to make an
edit and Walmart is not forced, nor should any store be forced, to
sell what they do not wish
Knowledge leads to more knowledge. It might lead to servitude if the wrong
parties gain access to the wrong knowledge. Knowledge without a moral or
ethical code to guide it is just data.
Self-important and self-appointed meddlers keeping their noses out of other
people's consensual
I understand tat a university legal professor has taken on the RIAA
in defending a student at a nationally known us university. His
premise is that the RIAA is being given permission by the us congress
to do law enforcement work.
It will be interesting to see if America can return to first
Interesting story from AP www.govtech.com/gt/558977 describes a push to
serve rural areas with broadband by delivering it over existing power
lines. This may be just what the doctor ordered.
Has BPL been tweaked so that it doesn't interfere with shortwave and ham
radios any more? That was the
Rob Flickenger's Wireless Hacks book has been released as open source.
Although it was released in 2003, much of what you need to know about
wireless starts here, http://www.freeopenbook.com/wireless-hacks/.
We made a cantenna out of a coffee can. The most difficult part was
finding a lucent
I have an AIM account that I got a few years ago. AOL gave free POP/IMAP
email accounts to AIM users. Her AOL account probably also has POP/IMAP
access. Try this setup:
Incoming mail server:
* imap.aol.com or imap.aim.com for IMAP
* pop.aol.com or pop.aim.com for POP
Outgoing mail
chad evans wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Salient point. While traveling in Central Europe, signal seldom dips
below full reception. Little surprise: all providers use the same
robust gsm network, instead of erecting their own dedicated towers.
Phones here will get better and better, but
Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
I'm using Mozilla as my default browser for everything that works,
because I like its interface, e.g., its bookmarks manager. I like
the ability to manually sort my bookmarks by just dragging and
dropping them. They are not in alphabetical order, nor in
My wife is interested in tagging her 10k + pics of kids and vacation
photos. I'm looking for an easy to use app to do so and perhaps also
work
as a good viewer. Picasa comes to mind..type a tag into the search field
and all related pics show up? Anyone have any experience dealing with
Buy a PCI controller card
If I buy a 1tb external usb drive,
Hey folks, this is a question about an *external* drive. You keep
providing answers for *internal* drives.
If the drive doesn't need to be portable, an internal drive is more
convenient to use, but it can have some
David Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
My partner was working on a Word Processing document in Appleworks 6,
saved it, when he reopened it, it opened up as a Spreadsheet.
There has to be way to reconvert this, right? I've copied pasted
the info to a TextEdit file, then copied pasted back
Buy a PCI controller card. The new bus won't have the same size limit as
the old one. My old Mac's internal bus limits drives to 128GB. The new
card allowed me to use the 250GB drive internally instead of in an
external case. If it's a PC, make sure it has adequate ventilation/fan.
Might be
Kittens drink too much coffee too. I washed my white Mac keyboard a few
months ago, after taking it apart; hung it in the greenhouse for 3 days
to dry. Works fine now.
Be careful: if you take your keyboard apart, it's really hard to get the
space bar or other spring-loaded keys back on so
You accuse Safari of serious problems but all the issues you list are
personal preferences that you even admit most people don't care about.
If these are serious problems then what words should we use when
discussing Internet Explorer?
To label these serious problems is like ordering a
I avoid Safari because it has a lot of serious problems,
What serious problems? Perhaps you have not looked at it recently? Or
maybe you are reading reviews written by WFBs? Safari is fine. The same
code base (Web Kit) is also used by Google's Chrome.
Safari tries to follow KISS, but it
I have a couple of old Powerbook G3 hard drives. Is there anyway that I can
make them into a small portable external hard drive?
Thanks
Steve
Sure. Search for a 2.5 hard drive enclosure, like these,
http://snipurl.com/4tfir [www_newegg_com], or http://snipurl.com/4tfki
Microsoft should continue to use names, like Microsoft Nova instead of
New Vista or Windows 7 or NT 7.
['no va' = 'doesn't go' in Spanish]
Only one source I could find - The NY Times - is saying today that MS has
officially announced the next version of Windows will be named Windows 7.
Please don't send them to the landfill. Freecycle and Craigslist are
terrific. People come to your door to pick up things or are happy to
meet in a neutral location. Be sure to list the dimensions--in
inches--when you post the offer. Good luck. Thanks.
Betty
If you have no takers here,
My default browser is Mozilla SeaMonkey. I also use Firefox and Camino,
sometimes Opera. I avoid Safari because it has a lot of serious
problems, unless I need to hide my browser type and OS. For
Entertainment coupons, I print to Preview from SeaMonkey, and view the
coupon. It's usually OK
Bob's Compaq Presario F572US notebook has an 80GB hard drive. It's too
small. He asked the computer what kind of drive it had. Vista told him,
Htachi HTS541680J9S SCSI drive. I knew it wasn't SCSI, so I looked it
up, and it's SATA.
How big a drive can he put into this notebook? How
We don't have FIOS in our neighborhood yet, but may get it some day.
One major concern that we have is battery backup which is only good for
around 6 hours. Do they have a setup with multiple batteries or solar
charger for power outages longer than that? Our power goes off almost
every time
It does have a USBN port in the front, but from what I've from all
indications, it's not enabled. There's a Ethernet port on the back, but I
haven't looked into what you can do with it yet.
I was told it was inactive.
Could this USB port be similar to the one on my HDTV? The USB is for
In the sidebar of the article about RAID was another interesting story:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2415
The author reports that MS is seeking to pay pundits to write anti-Apple
stories. They offered to provide all the research to write from and
$15,000.
I guess that is easier than fixing
We are actually very, very close to eliminating the individually-operated
automobile. The GPS stuff works and is rapidly improving. (So glad that
MS does not make a GPS!) Collision avoidance still has a way to go. Today
we do use cruise control with no collision avoidance. (Is that a good
I know that many list participants are business owners. Just how bad
is the problem? Are the numbers misleading? Why did this happen, and
who is to blame? It seems to me that when Republicans rail against
high taxes, they usually cite income and capital gains taxes as the
primary evil. Why
Why do you assume that computer control means a reduction of your
freedom? Do you feel that way when using a word processor? Well, I guess
if you use MS Word you might feel that way, but assuming that you have
alternatives to MS why can't you imagine that computers will not expand
your freedom?
Verizon dug a ditch for our cable, then left and never returned to fill
it in. When we had Comcast, they put their cable in the trench, and
didn't cover it over, either. My cats helped. I filled it with stinky
kitty litter.
This is not an unusual situation at all. More often than not,
I accidently deleted photos from mac mini (Tiger). Are these photos
recoverable? Thanks for any help on this.
I did something like that this week too. I deleted some songs from
iTunes, instead of just deleting a playlist, then emptied the trash. I
also wanted to save a flash file that was
Oh, that's so city/suburban of you. I used to work in a state park with
no paved roads. I live 5 miles outside a small town on the Chesapeake
Bay. I like it here. My neighbors drive worse than monkeys. I was
rear-ended yesterday at a stop light by a driver who thought the light
was green--it
A follow-up on my question about finding a replacement device for my
broken VCR that will work with both broadcast digital signals and
satellite signals. After much searching, I have concluded there is
no replacement for a VCR.
That's right. You don't need a VCR. Get a DVD recorder [use
I don't understand why you would then throw the driver into prison for
leaving the highway.
Human control of a vehicle has proven to be extremely dangerous. It has
killed more people than all wars put together. We want this dangerous
weapon of mass destruction under reliable control as soon
There is no such thing as clean coal. New plants may pollute less, but
coal miners still get black lung and die.
Germany's assistance with solar rooftops has a payback period of 5 years
and produce up to 80% of electricity, often 100%. The power companies
are required to buy back excess power
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