On 01.10.2006 David W. Fenton wrote:
OK, if you're so smart, explain to me, if it's a fully open non-
proprietary standard, it's not installed by default on any PCs except
Apple and Sony? Why is it that the only hardware manufacturers who
routinely provide firewire ports are the ones who
Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 12:47 PM wrote:
Where, exactly, does Windows require a floppy disk?
When you need to do emergency boot.
This was true in WIN 98 SE, but is not true in WIN XP. Emergency boot
in WIN XP is from CD or DVD.
David W. Fenton wrote:
[snip]
OK, if you're so smart, explain to me, if it's a fully open non-
proprietary standard, it's not installed by default on any PCs except
Apple and Sony? Why is it that the only hardware manufacturers who
routinely provide firewire ports are the ones who created the
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 02:04 PM wrote:
Seems to me you're just behind the times, which is pretty typical of
those who criticize both Windows and Mac.
You are not helping, David.
None of my lowly PCs, Dell Dimension P-III 1GHz, homemade P-II, and two
ThinkPads
Javier Ruiz wrote:
Only 5% of Mac's out there?
We should start wearing any kind of bracelet to recognize ourselves. We are
s few.
[We'll revise the figures after Windows Vista makes 70% of the installed
PC's unusable]
[snip]
That assumes that at least 70% of the installed PCs actually
dhbailey / 2006/10/02 / 06:00 AM wrote:
It didn't even have to be true in Win98 -- it was possible to create a
bootable CD, and whether a computer can boot from CD or DVD or has to
boot from a floppy or hard drive is purely a function of the computer's
CMOS setup, nothing to do with windows.
On 2 Oct 2006 at 0:16, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 04:06 PM wrote:
None of the machines you describe should need a boot floppy. Maybe
you just don't know how to use the Windows installation disk and the
command console.
You are correct, David. I don't know how to
On 2 Oct 2006 at 13:01, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
dhbailey / 2006/10/02 / 06:00 AM wrote:
It didn't even have to be true in Win98 -- it was possible to create
a bootable CD, and whether a computer can boot from CD or DVD or has
to boot from a floppy or hard drive is purely a function of the
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/02 / 01:49 PM wrote:
It was still the primary boot hard drive that was doing the booting --
there was no magic that allowed you to boot from any device just
because you had OS/2. You had to have the boot manager configured to
boot from the particular device.
I don't
Darcy James Argue / 2006/09/30 / 04:36 PM wrote:
Also, I noticed that OS X is not quite as smart about this as I
thought. Sometimes, changing the file extension to .PDF really will
cause Finale files to (try and fail to) open in my PDF reader. I'm
not quite sure why this doesn't happen
On 30 Sep 2006 at 12:42, Richard Yates wrote:
What you
have to know is different between Mac and Windows, but you still
have to have certain knowledge to keep things running smoothly.
Not true at all.
Now this is simply disingenuous. How many years did I hear Mac folks
tell each
On 30 Sep 2006 at 15:47, Darcy James Argue wrote:
The problem on Windows seems to be that for some strange reason, when
saving backups, it's normal for Windows apps use the .bak extension
instead of the usual filetype extension. That doesn't seem like such
a great idea to me.
Er, how else
On 30 Sep 2006 at 18:46, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Completely different issue than a file extension. And that is a OS 9
and before thing, so, maybe 6 years ago that would be a fair dig. But
it's about as outdated now as Floppy disks. Oh, but Windows still uses
those
Where, exactly, does
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 12:47 PM wrote:
Where, exactly, does Windows require a floppy disk?
When you need to do emergency boot.
Seriously, I'd love to know how to create bootable Win32 CDR with
applications (but not DOS) of your choice such as maintenance tools.
Any pointer would be
I'll take repairing permissions (which is a cron job that most unix
systems run weekly as well) over the virus/security hole of the day/week
that Microsoft has any day.
David W. Fenton wrote:
As to current problems, what about repairing permissions? That's a
specifically OS X problem that is
And my favorite Windows thing is the daily Windows Update to see if
Microsoft got off it's ass and fixed Windows flaw #445325 or perhaps
#787534 or did they get around to closing hole #421233 in Internet
Explorerwho knows. It's a daily treat though!
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 30 Sep
Eric Dannewitz / 2006/10/01 / 01:03 PM wrote:
repairing permissions (which is a cron job that most unix
systems run weekly as well)
As far as I know, cron script does not invoke repair permission. It is
mainly for cache cleaning task.
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
I believe, at least on FreeBSD systems, it's in /etc/periodic/security.
There are scripts that are run, I think, weekly on a system to check out
user id (uid) and other file permissions. Perhaps it's run monthly.
I think the periodic stuff that is run daily is, as you said, to check
out
No, but there are two very easy solutions:
1) Specify a different folder for backups.
OR:
2) Have the application append bak BEFORE the file extension. This
is what Finale does with autosaved files (not backups). If the
regular file is MyMasterpiece.mus, the autosave file is MyMasterpiece
On 1 Oct 2006 at 12:57, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 12:47 PM wrote:
Where, exactly, does Windows require a floppy disk?
When you need to do emergency boot.
Since when? I haven't done a floppy disk boot (intentionally) in
ages. I always do emergency boots from the
I stand corrected -- Javier points out that Finale appends copy to
the name (not the file extension) of backups when they are set to
save in the same folder as the original files.
- Darcy
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://secretsociety.typepad.com
Brooklyn, NY
On 01 Oct 2006, at 2:00 PM,
On 1 Oct 2006 at 10:03, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
As to current problems, what about repairing permissions? That's a
specifically OS X problem that is ridiculous from the point of view
of a reliable security system, one that NT-based Windows has had for
quite a long,
Yeah, you are right again. It's CLOSED technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire
That is why it's on digital camcorders, and is an IEEE standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers
Yep. You are correct again.
David W. Fenton wrote:
Firewire is
On 01 Oct 2006, at 2:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Something is wrong with the design of OS X's security subsystem if it
has to be constantly repaired.
It doesn't. Earlier versions of OS X were prone to permissions
errors, but this hardly ever happens any more. I have a script set to
On 1 Oct 2006 at 10:05, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 30 Sep 2006 at 12:42, Richard Yates wrote:
What you
have to know is different between Mac and Windows, but you still
have to have certain knowledge to keep things running smoothly.
Not true at
On 1 Oct 2006 at 13:19, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Eric Dannewitz / 2006/10/01 / 01:03 PM wrote:
repairing permissions (which is a cron job that most unix
systems run weekly as well)
As far as I know, cron script does not invoke repair permission. It
is mainly for cache cleaning task.
On 1 Oct 2006 at 14:00, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 01 Oct 2006, at 12:45 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 30 Sep 2006 at 15:47, Darcy James Argue wrote:
The problem on Windows seems to be that for some strange reason,
when saving backups, it's normal for Windows apps use the .bak
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 1 Oct 2006 at 10:03, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I'll take repairing permissions (which is a cron job that most unix
systems run weekly as well) over the virus/security hole of the
day/week that Microsoft has any day.
What are you talking about? I and my clients
On 1 Oct 2006 at 11:15, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
Firewire is a Sony/Apple technology and simply not well-supported
elsewhere (because it's a closed technology).
USB drives are bootable with newer BIOSes. All Dells allow it these
days.
Seems to me you're just
On 1 Oct 2006 at 14:16, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 01 Oct 2006, at 2:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Something is wrong with the design of OS X's security subsystem if
it has to be constantly repaired.
It doesn't. Earlier versions of OS X were prone to permissions
errors, but this
On 1 Oct 2006 at 11:23, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 1 Oct 2006 at 10:03, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I'll take repairing permissions (which is a cron job that most unix
systems run weekly as well) over the virus/security hole of the
day/week that Microsoft has any
On 1 Oct 2006 at 13:27, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 12:47 PM wrote:
Where, exactly, does Windows require a floppy disk?
When you need to do emergency boot.
This was true in WIN 98 SE, but is not true in WIN XP. Emergency boot
in
On 01 Oct 2006, at 2:26 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I don't know why WinFin doesn't offer this option. Is it user
controllable, or does it just happen because that's the way MacFin is
written?
I believe it's the way MacFin is written. However, in many cases OS X
will also rename files with
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 02:04 PM wrote:
Seems to me you're just behind the times, which is pretty typical of
those who criticize both Windows and Mac.
You are not helping, David.
None of my lowly PCs, Dell Dimension P-III 1GHz, homemade P-II, and two
ThinkPads boots off USB. ThinkPads
At 02:33 PM 10/1/2006, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 1 Oct 2006 at 14:16, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 01 Oct 2006, at 2:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Something is wrong with the design of OS X's security subsystem if
it has to be constantly repaired.
It doesn't. Earlier versions of OS X
On 1 Oct 2006 at 15:04, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 02:04 PM wrote:
Seems to me you're just behind the times, which is pretty typical of
those who criticize both Windows and Mac.
You are not helping, David.
None of my lowly PCs, Dell Dimension P-III 1GHz, homemade
Phil Daley wrote:
When I used OS/2 for several years, IBM had file type stuff stored in an
attributes file.
This emulated the Mac, that the same file extension could be associated
to different programs.
Unfortunately, this part of OS/2 was very prone to breaking and
rendering files
Hmm, well, my home made PCs can boot off CD-Rom/DVD. This includes my
lowly dual pentium III server computer, bought and built by me in 1998.
But, what you can do when you boot, that is a different matter. You
can't really do anything useful with the Windows XP CD. Perhaps the
emergency disk
I have no clue as to why it's not supported more. However, a lot of
newer motherboards do have firewire on them now. I imagine PC makers,
and it's users, are slow adapting to anything new. Look at PC cases.
They haven't changed in 20 years. Still boxes. They still have PS/2
connectors. And
On 1 Oct 2006 at 13:38, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
You
can't really do anything useful with the Windows XP CD.
You can if you boot to the command console.
--
David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
The reality is there are still 70-80% IE users.
The breakdown at my site in 2006:
MS Internet Explorer 75.9 %
Firefox 2.4 %
Safari 3.7 %
Unknown 3.3 %
Mozilla 1.4 %
Opera 1.2 %
Netscape 0.8 %
Windows 89.4 %
Macintosh 5 %
Unknown 4.5 %
Linux 0.8 %
Only 5% of Mac's out there?
We should start wearing any kind of bracelet to recognize ourselves. We are
s few.
[We'll revise the figures after Windows Vista makes 70% of the installed
PC's unusable]
Javier (80% Mac-20%PC Pentium [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get the wireless signal from
my
On 1 Oct 2006 at 14:10, Richard Yates wrote:
The reality is there are still 70-80% IE users.
The breakdown at my site in 2006:
MS Internet Explorer 75.9 %
Firefox 2.4 %
Safari 3.7 %
Unknown 3.3 %
Mozilla 1.4 %
Opera 1.2 %
Netscape 0.8 %
The
On 1 Oct 2006 at 13:55, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
OK, if you're so smart, explain to me, if it's a fully open non-
proprietary standard, it's not installed by default on any PCs
except Apple and Sony? Why is it that the only hardware
manufacturers who routinely provide
The reality is there are still 70-80% IE users.
The breakdown at my site in 2006:
MS Internet Explorer 75.9 %
The website of a client of mine has:
IE 50%
Windows 89.4 %
Macintosh 5 %
Windows 58%
Unknown 15%
Mac 12%
My personal website has:
Netscape (compatible)
On 1 Oct 2006 at 15:04, Richard Yates wrote:
The reality is there are still 70-80% IE users.
The breakdown at my site in 2006:
MS Internet Explorer 75.9 %
The website of a client of mine has:
IE 50%
Windows 89.4 %
Macintosh 5 %
Windows 58%
Unknown 15%
Mac
David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 04:06 PM wrote:
None of the machines you describe should need a boot floppy. Maybe
you just don't know how to use the Windows installation disk and the
command console.
You are correct, David. I don't know how to launch CLI from Win2K
installer disk. I just
Um, Windows. Go figure...
Try renaming the file from .BAK to .MUS. That will work. If the BAK file
is in the same directory as the original .MUS file, rename one of them
like Mygreatscore_bak.mus or Mygreatscore_oldmus.mus
Will Denayer wrote:
Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense
Have you tried changing the .BAK extension to .MUS?
On 30 Sep 2006, at 17:23, Will Denayer wrote:
Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense again. However, I do not
seem to be able to open a BAK.file (I can't find it inside Finale
and when I click on the icon, Windows says that it cannot open
On 30 Sep 2006 at 10:40, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 30 Sep 2006 at 8:29, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Um, Windows. Go figure...
Try renaming the file from .BAK to .MUS. That will work. If the BAK
file is in the same directory as the original .MUS file, rename one
On 30 Sep 2006, at 1:51 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Yes, the Mac has metadata and keeps data about file creator and which
application to use to open it, which means multiple apps can use the
same file assocation (at least, it used to be that way -- did OS X's
UNIX origins remove that?).
Yes.
Even fewer steps... right click the file and choose OPEN WITH and
then choose Finale200x version that you wish to open it with. If it
is a finale Bak it will show Finale as an option to open it with.
___
J. Scott Jones
Band/Orchestra
On 30 Sep 2006 at 15:07, Scott Jones wrote:
Even fewer steps... right click the file and choose OPEN WITH and
then choose Finale200x version that you wish to open it with. If it
is a finale Bak it will show Finale as an option to open it with.
That's right click on WinXP and Win2K3 Server
David W. Fenton wrote:
No, learn how to use your Windows machine.
Yes, the Mac has metadata and keeps data about file creator and which
application to use to open it, which means multiple apps can use the
same file assocation (at least, it used to be that way -- did OS X's
UNIX origins
Will Denayer wrote:
Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense again. However, I do not seem
to be able to open a BAK.file (I can't find it inside Finale and when
I click on the icon, Windows says that it cannot open the document but
that it can look up the program on the net. When I click OK,
What you
have to know is different between Mac and Windows, but you still have
to have certain knowledge to keep things running smoothly.
Not true at all.
Now this is simply disingenuous. How many years did I hear Mac folks tell
each other to 'rebuild the desktop' or to something arcane
On 30 Sep 2006, at 3:31 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Not true at all. You stated above that the Mac has metadata that
keeps track of things. So, even though I have .BAK word and .BAK
Finale and other files, the Mac OS can open the right program to
run them. Hell, you can even get rid of the
On 30 Sep 2006, at 3:42 PM, Richard Yates wrote:
What you
have to know is different between Mac and Windows, but you still
have
to have certain knowledge to keep things running smoothly.
Not true at all.
Now this is simply disingenuous. How many years did I hear Mac
folks tell
each
At 03:47 PM 9/30/06 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote:
It's just a little smarter about it than Windows -- it knows which
applications can open which file types. If I change the file
extension of a Finale document to .doc, it will still open in
Finale, not Word. If I change the file extension
On 30 Sep 2006, at 4:28 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 03:47 PM 9/30/06 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote:
It's just a little smarter about it than Windows -- it knows which
applications can open which file types. If I change the file
extension of a Finale document to .doc, it will still open
On Sep 30, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 30 Sep 2006, at 4:28 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Does that mean you cannot force another app to open any file on
Mac? Or is
the 'sticky' association more of a convenience?
The latter. I can, for instance, drag my Finale files
Completely different issue than a file extension. And that is a OS 9 and
before thing, so, maybe 6 years ago that would be a fair dig. But it's
about as outdated now as Floppy disks. Oh, but Windows still uses
those
You can read up on OS X via Wikipedia or even
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