MacGroup: Turbotax

2003-02-19 Thread Ward Oldham
Very strange Andy. If you have no external peripherals involved, you may just want to run your hardware test CD and see if anything turns up. If you do have external peripherals, you may want to detach them and see if the kernel panics go away. Ward On 2/19/03 11:21 PM, "andrew arnold" wrote:

MacGroup: Turbotax

2003-02-19 Thread andrew arnold
Ward, thanks for the info. It is interesting. I have not changed my hardware configuration, and I get a repeatable crash when I am working in Turbotax. It NEVER happens in any other program. I assume it is a kernel panic. I have never seen anything like it. The screen, cursor, etc all completely fr

MacGroup: The Grey Side joins the Dark side

2003-02-19 Thread MJI
I'd like to see virtual mac os x running on a peecee. Hey, I can dream can't I? mark - Original Message - From: "Jerry Yeager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:30 PM Subject: Re: MacGroup: The Grey Side joins the Dark side > > http://www.openosx.com/wintel

MacGroup: Re: Entourage printing address books

2003-02-19 Thread Dan Crutcher
Okay, then a group is a category; they're the same thing. If you define categories in Entourage the same way as you have defined groups in OE (or whatever contact manager you're using), you should be able to print them out as separate groups. Dan >Dan Crutcher wrote: >> When you say you have

MacGroup: Specials for LCS members

2003-02-19 Thread Harry Jacobson-Beyer
I have it and I use it and I love it. First, it automatically corrects commonly mistyped words like teh when you meant to type the. You can also type your own short hand for words you commonly use. For instance when I type LCS1 Spell catcher changes it to Louisville Computer Society. I have set up

MacGroup: Re: Entourage printing address books

2003-02-19 Thread Allan Atherton
Dan Crutcher wrote: > When you say you have "groups" of contacts, I'm not sure what that means. In > Entourage (and in other contact managers) one can assign contacts to > "categories". "Family" might be one such category, "Business" might be > another, "Left-handed people with tattoos" might be a

MacGroup: Re: Turbotax

2003-02-19 Thread Allan Atherton
andrew arnold wrote: > Has anyone tried this year's Turbotax program by Intuit? Under OS 10.2.3 I > get what I think are kernel panics. I used TurboTax last year under OS 10.1, and have started it this year under OS 10.2.3. So far it has been OK. Allan Atherton | The next meeting of the Loui

MacGroup: OCR

2003-02-19 Thread Robert M. Klein
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MacGroup: The Grey Side joins the Dark side

2003-02-19 Thread Jerry Yeager
http://www.openosx.com/wintel/index.html Go open source! On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > On 2/19/03 16:33, Jerry Yeager wrote > >> Connectix, maker of Virtual PC for the Mac has sold out to M$. Perhaps >> this is M$'s answer to Apple for releasing Safari and

MacGroup: Specials for LCS members

2003-02-19 Thread Brian O'Neal
Not sure that you do need it. I didn't know OS X checked spelling on everything. I would go to Cassidy and Greenes web site to check out the specs for yourself. I am just relaying info for LCS members to act on if they like. Thanks B.O' On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 05:02 PM, Mike Watki

MacGroup: The Grey Side joins the Dark side

2003-02-19 Thread Bill Rising
On 2/19/03 16:33, Jerry Yeager wrote >Connectix, maker of Virtual PC for the Mac has sold out to M$. Perhaps >this is M$'s answer to Apple for releasing Safari and Keynote. > Hmm... should I buy VPC 6 now, or skip it? VPC 5 (what I have now) is a dog under OS X. Ugh. My guess: we've seen the l

MacGroup: Specials for LCS members

2003-02-19 Thread Bill Rising
On 2/19/03 17:02, Mike Watkins wrote >Brian; > >Why do I need it, when OS X already automatically checks my spelling on >everything I do? What are the advantages? > I use SpellChecker to have abbreviations which get used across applications, such as typing lvl for Louisville and the like. This

MacGroup: Specials for LCS members

2003-02-19 Thread Mike Watkins
Brian; Why do I need it, when OS X already automatically checks my spelling on everything I do? What are the advantages? Mike On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 03:50 PM, Brian O'Neal wrote: > 1] - Spell Catcher X for OS X > ... > > The long-awaited OS X version of Spell

MacGroup: Insight Modem

2003-02-19 Thread Jerry Yeager
Was that Diogenes cat hanging around? (grin) Jerry On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 02:54 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > Back 'in the day' we usually described this as In My Honest Opinion, > rather than Humble, as no one who ever usd IMHO was humble :)

MacGroup: The Grey Side joins the Dark side

2003-02-19 Thread Jerry Yeager
Connectix, maker of Virtual PC for the Mac has sold out to M$. Perhaps this is M$'s answer to Apple for releasing Safari and Keynote. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-985149.html?tag=fd_top Jerry | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be Febr

MacGroup: Verne Troyer at the carl casper Custom Auto Show Saturday.

2003-02-19 Thread Brian O'Neal
Verne Troyer, better known as "mini me" from the Austin Powers movies will be at the Carl Casper Custom Auto Show this upcoming Saturday. Mr, Troyer is also the little person in one of Apples newest advertisements for the new 12" and 17" PowerBooks. Anyone need their new 17" PowerBook signed?

MacGroup: Specials for LCS members

2003-02-19 Thread Brian O'Neal
1] - Spell Catcher X for OS X ... The long-awaited OS X version of Spell Catcher has just been released by Casady & Greene, and user group members can purchase or upgrade at special discounted prices. Spell Catcher X for OS X has been completely rewritten for OS X and works wi

MacGroup: OCR

2003-02-19 Thread Anne Cartwright
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MacGroup: The Grey Side joins the Dark side

2003-02-19 Thread Anne Cartwright
gt; | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > Anne -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1875 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20030219/a0fd57c4/attachment.bin

MacGroup: Specials for LCS members

2003-02-19 Thread Anne Cartwright
But I'm not ready to get rid of an OS X capable Mac. What do I use to scrub my old Mac running OS 8.0? Anne On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 03:50 PM, Brian O'Neal wrote: > > 3] - SuperScrubber > ... > > Getting rid of an old computer? You know it's smart to shred paper

MacGroup: X11

2003-02-19 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Hello Anne, > > It may be possible to do this (be easy now Harry, I am not volunteering > yet! -- grin) > > Open Office is a full blown replacement for M$ Office (you can work > with M$ Office documents all the way up to windoze XP). I've no clue why,

MacGroup: Apple's X11 update

2003-02-19 Thread Henri Yandell
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Lee Larson wrote: > On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 07:33 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > > > Pray tell, what are you talking about? > > This gets very confusing when you're around Unix people. For them X is > "ex" and for us X is 10. Bah. It's still "OS Ex" to me :) Di

MacGroup: Insight Modem

2003-02-19 Thread Henri Yandell
Jerry's instructions are pretty much the unpublish how-to for insight, or at least exactly how I've had to do it. Couple of notes: 1) If you move from using a single computer to using a router, you'll have to repeat this stage. 2) If things seem to go kaput, it could be insight's fault. Twice I

MacGroup: Insight Modem

2003-02-19 Thread Henri Yandell
Back 'in the day' we usually described this as In My Honest Opinion, rather than Humble, as no one who ever usd IMHO was humble :) On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Yes, as opposed to IMO. > > On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 03:03 PM, Mike Watkins wrote: > > > Jerry; > > > > IMHO? Is