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:
From: b_s
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 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,
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
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
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
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
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 -
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
How do you preserve history and direct seekers to facts and
rational discussions instead of getting lost and entangled in a
jungle of disinformation and fantasy? How do we educate our
children so that they have the ability to know the difference and
discern truth/fact from fiction?
Yesterday's
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
Well this can be said in both directions, I don't see many of my liberal
friends who populate the Kos and MM and Huffington post spending much time
at conservative blogs...these blogs are just lying liars who lie. Very open
minded. Generally speaking most people gavitate towards views they
Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com escribió:
I've concluded after reading through this thread that you may be (and
there are plenty of contenders) the winner of the Legend in His Own
Mind award. I congratulate you.
It's called a discussion Ray. It's when 2 or more people share their
Elaine Zablocki elainezablo...@ezab.net escribió:
What scarcity? What is America running out of in your view? In
what way are our prospects diminished? Most libertarians believe
that if there is a scarcity, it represents a market opportunity,
and believe that with the right choices made our
One of the problems with Solar and Wind is that at present and in the
coming future (I have heard at least a decade) is that we can not
generate enough power from them.
I think a lot of Armageddon preachers (cultural not theological) have
been beating the drums and not addressing the real
One of the problems with Solar and Wind is that at present and in
the coming future (I have heard at least a decade) is that we can
not generate enough power from them.
True - and we have a nimby problem as well when it comes to locating
the collection points and transmitting the electricity.
I'm using Bombich Carbon Copy Cloner at this moment.
http://bombich.com/
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By the way affordable is in the eye of the beholder, What may be affordable to
you is not to me.
Damn straight, Reverend.
The first Earth Day in the 1970s was embraced by the so-called
counterculture. The more entrepreneurial and creative people with almost
no budget [like us] used their
Oil, coal and gas will eventually be replaced as
primary energy generation sources when other energy
sources become either economically (I'm looking at
you, solar) or technologically (fusion) viable and
also as consumers increase demand for alternative
energy sources
This is correct
Most people I know are happy with SuperDuper. Try it. I haven't tried
Time Machine, but since my friends using Leopard still use SuperDuper,
there must be some features missing in TM. Haven't tried it yet.
What about the other choices mentioned: Deja Vu ($25), Super Duper ($?) and
Cronnix /
Most people I know are happy with SuperDuper. Try it. I haven't tried
Time Machine, but since my friends using Leopard still use SuperDuper,
there must be some features missing in TM. Haven't tried it yet.
Most of these utilities will not copy Time Machine files successfully.
CCC's latest
There are plenty of reasonably priced external speakers for the iPod, or
even docking stations which are portable.
And they are big and bulky. I'm looking for something like a portable
radio, not a boom box, that will play MP3s and not require that I walk
around the house wearing earphones.
rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com escribió:
visited my family in a little tiny town in the backwoods of belgium where I
connected dialup to local isp and got extremely fast response even there
...also, 3g cell coverage is almost 100% so you can get that kind of service
tethered ...at my
Why do you think we don't have them now? I honestly have no idea but it could
be one of the following:
I do have an idea and the stats.
1. The cars do not meet US safety standards as currently configured.
Wrong.
The Fiat 500/Ford Ka has a 5 star crash test rating, as does the MINI,
Ok, so you refute some of my possibilities. Do you have any idea why we don't have them? If it is true that customers want them or it is recognized that they would want them, and their are no impediments in law to selling them then surely there are enough salesmen out their to figure it out and
How do you make a bootable CD for Mac OS X Tiger?
The install disk is on a DVD, and was installed through a network. The
system is on an iMac that only has a CD-RW drive. The iMac was given to
me, and I gave it to my brother, but without recovery disks. I have a
Tiger installation DVD that
We're using an old Panasonic answering machine that uses regular audio
tapes. The messages are clear to the end, as the line is filtered. Try a
different answering machine. I'll probably switch to the built-in
answering feature on our Panasonic DECT 6 base station when the old
machine dies.
Where would you find a tape-based machine? Goodwill?
We got ours at a Du Pont company surplus sale. Try eBay, craig's list?
This is similar: http://snipurl.com/cn33l. I got one new in 1988, and
after the cats knocked it down too many times, I got another one, used,
and have been using for
Would there be any reason in 2009 to consider a receiver that couldn't
pick up internet radio? I mean, talk about receiving far away stations
clearly...
http://www.crutchfield.com/g_200650/Streamers.html?tp=255
Would there be any reason to pay megabucks more for a receiver when you
can
That's true. But there are two things to consider.
1) POTS will go out too during emergencies, as it too is a trunked
system, relying on having only a few users on at a time.
2) On a day to day basis, how often do catastrophes happen? Last time
I remember the phones not working was on 9/11,
I don't think that's sufficient justification to keep POTS ...just buy a
simple battery backup unit which, for the small draw of a cable modem and
the voip modem, will likely last many hours most likely longer than any
outage at least around here ...I was with ATT.net ever since they came over
My friend has a shortwave base station that has worked for years. It's
the best first responder emergency radio system. Shortwave operators
gave reports during Katrina and 9/11 when nobody else could get through.
Shortwave probably will die when BPL comes online. Too bad. There's
enough real
Are you sure this is possible? I wanted to put OS X on my external
drive, but it's a USB drive and OS X wouldn't load as a workable
operating system to a USB drive. All thumb drives I've seen have been
USB.
Jeff M
We tested a 16GB thumb drive as a boot drive at a meeting last month.
Yes you
I don't understand why Verizon has chosen to go with only FIOS. Yes,
fiber-optic has more bandwidth, but at a huge price. Since you can use
POTS copper lines for VDSL at 100Mbps speed for a lower cost than FIOS,
why not do both? The original cost for the DSL switches less than 8
years ago was
Some HD radio stations have online streams. WAMU.org lists two, WNYC.org
lists one. Since I don't have an HD radio, I can't say how the web
stream compares to the sound quality on an HD radio, but it's OK.
Ilisten to most radio programs online.
Buy a radio capable of receiving HD broadcasts.
Eric S. Sande esa...@erols.com escribió:
I don't understand why Verizon has chosen to go with only FIOS.
I think I tried to explain this at some point. I'll try it again.
We get a greater rate of return from an all optical network, frankly.
Yes it costs more to deploy and not everyone will
Actually, the incentives for the telephone company to replace copper
pairs with fiber throughout their service area (urban or rural) are
there - the outside copper plant is aging rapidly and becoming an
expensive nightmare to maintain. I suspect the maintenance cost per
cable mile of copper is
with generators?
Let's be realistic. If you have no power for a week, you're not going
to stay there. I mean, no phone is minor compared to the hassles of no
refrigerator, hot water, no heat, etc.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:46 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Are there third party solar battery
passive gas heaters
Tell us more. I Googled the term and got just 1 hit (in French).
We have two propane heaters--no electricity, no natural gas lines.
Glow-Warm 18,000 BTU, Comfort Glow 15,000 BTU. Can be vented or
unvented. Ours are unvented since they're so small and low-power. Both
The telcos NEVER made money from residential dialtone, and
it remains heavily regulated. We have no choice but to provide
it but it remains a cost of doing business.
Broadband is a different story but even in that arena franchise
agreements have to be negotiated with entities as small as
We have two propane heaters--no electricity, no natural gas lines.
Glow-Warm 18,000 BTU, Comfort Glow 15,000 BTU. Can be vented or
unvented. Ours are unvented since they're so small and low-power.
Doesn't unvented fill the house with noxious fumes? I have read that even
cooking with gas has
Some investors went so far as to say Verizon's investment in FiOS doomed
the company, while others just claimed it was a huge waste of money -- and
that upgrades weren't necessary. Yet ironically FiOS (alongside wireless)
is helping Verizon weather the recession...
Were these the same
...make the rest live on less than $100,000 and no bonuses, especially when
their companies tank.
You mean if I tank the company I get $100 grand?
Ok, I'll get to work immediately.
:-)
That would be nice, wouldn't it!
More likely you'd be out of a job with few prospects, unless you're the
Barron's is bullish on Verizon this month; says outlook is good. Rumor
is iPhone on VZ,
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/02/23/apple-to-launch-iphone
-on-verizon-wireless/trackback/.
That might be nice, but I recently was reading a blog that called the
iPod Touch the phone of
Hitachi 0A38016 1 TB SATA II 16 MB92 bux
Western Digital 10EACS 1 TB SATA II 98 bux
Both carry 3 year warranty. I've got bad feelings about hitachi due to past
experience with just one drive. I'm buying two of these which means I could
save a whopping 12 bux, what does the list think?
Jailbreaking is a nondestructive software change to the Touch. It sounds
like something you'd do with sharp metal tools, but it's not. A
jailbroken iPod Touch or iPhone can easily be returned to the original
state.
iPod Touch as phone, details, 2009:
I need a 4-in-1 printer and have had it with replacing ink jet cartridges
every 50 pages (or whatever the low number is) so am thinking of
getting a
laser 4-in-1 if it's affordable. Was in Staples recently and noticed
they
have 4-in-1 inkjets which claim (and the salesperson did as well)
I buy Seagate drives--their top ones; haven't been disappointed. Our PM
6100 ca. 1994 has one in it that sounds like an airplane warming up, but
still works after 14 years--lasted longer than most dogs. However, I'm
considering a Hitachi 500GB for my MacBook. I've only had one other
Hitachi
Tom you did not read what I wrote, I said reported. This indicates it
may not be out of ink.
Many of these companies have admitted, they put a timer type of chip on the
cartridges to count number of copies made, and default it to report empty at
the number of copies made. (not empty
I do not buy an MP3 player to cruise the net.
It is no more an MP3 player than your PC is an MP3 player. It is a
computer, with tons of software, including an MP3 player.
Don't forget videos, too. I have two full movies loaded onto my iPod
Touch, and it does YouTube too. And it's a great
Here is an article on why Apple needs to get into the netbook market.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-10173772-82.html
SURVEY:
1. Do you have a netbook? Which one? Size?
2. What software and features do you use most? Do you need to print?
3. Pros and cons of your netbook?
4.
Yes, I do need a fax. Space is also a consideration; I'm in an apartment
and sitting here with 3 printers scattered around, none of which works.
Scanning first to fax seems a bit of a hassle, but maybe not too bad.
Why
do you suggest I have both an inkjet and a laser, or am I
Not that convenient but how about buying online from them?
Lots on online retailers will sell you a printer, but the shipping cost
can turn a good deal into a bad deal. Often the free shipping at Amazon
makes them the best deal.
Costco has a $50 per year fee for regular membership, $100 per
That said, I have a couple apps on my touch that utilize those wheels.
These wheels I believe are prebuilt by apple and then utilized in whatever
fashion by the app builder. The ones I have aren't for numbers but for say,
restaurant types or names and so there are many more then just 0-9. Also
My son Cavan wants to get a Mac Mini [wants our MINI too ;-D]. I
suggested that he get the new one instead of the leftover that's on
sale. But the top Mini of last generation is almost the same except for
FW 400 vs. 800, better video card, 4 vs 5 USB ports, built-in composite
and s-video [?].
Mini and display recommendations welcome. Thanks
I'm leaning toward a a Mac mini as a music server, if I can
figure out what they are doing with the optical ports and
if I can get a bigger drive in there.
The new one definitely has a better graphics card but it
isn't anything special.
The
A report by Secunia finds the vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
greatly
outnumbered those in Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and other
browsers in
2008
Computer security companies exist because there are vulnerabilities in
software. It's in their interest--not yours--to blow the
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/06/owc_mac_mini_upgrades/
Some good links to mod your new mac mini including getting RAM at half
what apple would charge you and pulling the optical for a second drive
to get a good fast RAID going! Good stuff.
We've been buying RAM [and drives and PCI
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/06/AR2009030603057.html
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Just bought 3 USB cables this week at Monoprice.com. Very good quality,
better than expected. Also bought Cat 6 cable and HDMI cables from
them--all good. So are the prices.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102cp_id=10303
Doesn't matter where the photo subject is located, a copyrighted photo
may not be used without permission of the photographer or owner. There's
a big difference between an ordinary snapshot and a carefully considered
professional photograph, even when the subject and location is the
same--the
I'd probably switch to chrome or safari 4 if I could just get some plug ins
for search.
Is there a way to have google search only specific sites, like search:imdb
watchmen ?
This works in Yahoo! and Google search engines, and some others:
watchmen site:http://www.imdb.com
Format is:
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/freestyle_pc.htm
You might want to try the flexible silicone keyboards. Staples had them
for $10 recently.
http://www.adesso.com/products_detail.asp?productid=299
Call the manufacturer and ask about using the keyboard in odd positions.
Your attitude implies that it's OK to steal someone's work. It's
not OK, nor is it legal. Has your work ever been stolen? Mine
has, and it's a legal mess to try to get compensation.
Just in case the original poster misses your note: I believe that his
Why not? was referring to the photo being
Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net escribió:
It is even worse when your work is used against you.
...snip...
Many of us were upset as this individual had broken copyright laws
and considered it OK.
My understanding is that if you publish anything you automatically
have a
The G5 can't print to any of the printers. It also didn't recognize USB
flash drives. I reinstalled the system, can see the flash drives, but
still can't print. The printer utility for the local printers shows a
print queue with completed documents, except they didn't print.
Since it came
. Some are sold as surplus. Tips are announced quietly over
the grapevine.
Shhh...Wanna hot deal on a monitor?
I would like to know how to find a bank giving away Mac's ...
On Mar 12, 2009, at 10:17 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
I'm glad the bank has good security--just not on my Mac
chad evans wyatt cewyattph...@yahoo.com escribió:
...One of my photos was used in a sweater ad in the Czech
Republic, with neither compensation nor attribution. Everyone knows
Kafka, right? The Czech courts are very much in that stream. Another
image was taken by a small French company to
I was looking through the apple store at the new mac towers. I was
wondering if anyone knows off hand if the motherboards on the bottom line
towers use the same motherboard as the top of the line tower?
They look the same. See for yourself:
http://www.apple.com/macpro/design.html
Have a new 22 display with HDMI and VGA ports. Computer [Mac] has mini
DVI. We can get cables either DVI to VGA or DVI to HDMI. Prefer digital.
What kind of resolution can I get with the HDMI?
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Sooo outside the box! Very cool.
Who will dust it, or is it inside a lab exhaust vent?
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/15/bmw-designworksusa-designs-ultimate-gaming-rig/
Clearly this is an effort to simply see just how cool they can make a
computer housing...pretty damn cool!
As high as it will go!!!
I have a new desktop I built that had VGA or HDMI out.
I bought a HDMI to DVI for my flat panel.
Great. Now, which one of hundreds of cablesand adapters do I buy from
monoprice.com that can connect the Mac Mini to the HDMI on the HP
display? Mini's ports are
I'm recording voice and cd for an Audacity presentation. When I
save, it splits the recording into many pieces. When I try
subsequently to play the presentation, it won't play. What am I
doing wrong? With thanks ...
'Saving' saves the project in Audacity's format. You need to _export_
the
Rev. Stewart Marshall escribió:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102cp_id=10231cs_id=1023102p_id=2286seq=1format=2
This is the cable I bought to hook up my mother board. HDMI to DVI.
No sound. (which is normal with DVI)
Is yours the same DVI as in the Mac Mini? I
Today's client question is what is the current thinking about
preferred format for delivering online media/movies via a web site:
DVD, quicktime, wmv or other (please specify if you use something
else). Thanks for any feedback. --
You want to use media with two important criteria:
AIF and wav formats are exactly the non-lossy formats you want to
save into for compatibility with other playback apps. Audacity's
proprietary file format is a nuisance, a side effect of the programs'
aspirations to be a real DAW. Get what you pay for, pay for what you
get.
I missed a comma
What MS forgot, was we spent years learning how to use their Word
Processor and were quite happy with it. We did not ask them to
change the menu system on it.
They also forgot that they once had a very good word processor that was
very logical and easy to use. They have steadily crapped it
Wow! Thanks for the Bean! It looks like a good solution for me. I also
have TextWrangler [BBEdit Lite], mostly for its powerful search
features. I can search my entire computer from TextWrangler, and do a
better, faster job than Find or Spotlight.
I still use AppleWorks 6.2.9 in OS X, 10.5.6.
I backed up the boot drive to an external FireWire drive and plugged it
into the iMac. Migration assistant only sees two accounts that I deleted
several months ago, and not the one user account that's current. I
assume the deleted accounts are in a preference somewhere, but where?
Check the
I wonder if this Lauren was and always has been a Windows user in
the first place? An office manager? Sounds like Windows to me!
Obviously she has never had a Macintosh, and did not even like or
appreciate Macs. She proved that by her comments about not being
cool enough. Looks to me
Oh Betty...where were your calls for disservice during the i'm a mac/i'm a
pc ads from Apple? Please.
Get real! Nobody is stupid enough to think that John Hodgman really is a
PC and Justin Long really is a Mac! Are they? Mac and PC are
caricatures. Cute and funny, too.
Lauren is presented
Constance I am not sure how you shop but I shop with a budget and a
list.
I have a preconceived idea of what I need and want before I go
shopping. Ever go to a grocery store without a list? How much do
you spend without a list versus with a list.
When I go shopping for a car I have a
Is CD and DVD - R or + R media advantageous for burning data on a new
iMac?
One plays better on DVD players. I don't remember which. Try Wikipedia. I
think I saw the answer there.
DVD-R is the native format for video DVDs. I can burn the -R and +R on
my computers, but I've found that the -R
Which print server do you have or recommend for $30?
I've used the Linksys PSUS4. It is $31.
I looked at it; found a few at that price too. How easy is it to set up
via browser on a Mac? Does it work OK with HP and Samsung small office
laser printers? Epson inkjets?
HP notebook couldn't
Is this something a novice can install/set up? A friend wants to be
able to print from either a PC or a Mac.
The ones I've done do not come with instructions for the Mac, but it is
the standard add printer procedure. The trick is that the printer's name
is the ID number on the bottom of its
This is one of the best reasons for ALL U.S. mobile phone carriers to
switch to GSM. With Verizon and Sprint, if you change to another carrier
or plan, you often must buy a new phone. When Cavan bought an iPhone
from ATT, he unlocked his Sony-Ericsson phone and gave it to me to use
with
Eric S. Sande esa...@erols.com escribió:
I have been looking at Sansas and saw someone with a nice one on the Metro this
last week. Please share before I make another sad mistake.
What's your objective? The audiophile objection to these players
is that they can't drive real headphones
Does anyone know if there are length limits to this type of cable?
I'm only finding 13' as the max length. We have a video transfer
unit (which is in a fixed location), are putting a video editing
workstation in the same room. However, we may have 2 people working
in the room at the same time,
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