MacGroup: network stuttering...

2004-07-12 Thread Marta Edie
My webpages also load slower than they used to. I thought it was Safari or my overclogged computer. - Now i am not so sure. Do you want to know how long it took me to try to get an answer from Insight? Let me tell you - three and a half hours and then it made a howl and a busy sign and th

MacGroup: network stuttering...

2004-07-12 Thread Frank Hammitt
;<) > > Bill > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://e

MacGroup: network stuttering...

2004-07-12 Thread Bill Rising
On Jul 12, 2004, at 22:29, Frank Hammitt wrote: > My own experience is similar to yours. Very slow downloads (similar to > a dial-up connection) on both small and larger files. A speed test > indicated a reasonable 1.8 to 2.3 MBPS (I can?t see how that it is > accurate) but in reality, all web

MacGroup: network stuttering...

2004-07-12 Thread Bill Rising
On Jul 12, 2004, at 22:17, Brian wrote: > I am waiting to hear others responses to this question. But a nice > reboot might be in order. > For some reason, my wireless connection will occasionally slow down. > The only thing that I can attribute it to is the length of time I go > between restar

Re(2): MacGroup: network stuttering...

2004-07-12 Thread Harry Jacobson-Beyer
I'm on DSL and everything seems to be fine, but I don't download a lot of stuff. Harry Monday, July 12, 200410:29 PMFrank Hammittfhammitt at msn.com >My own experience is similar to yours. Very slow downloads (similar to a >dial-up connection) on both small and larger files. A speed test indicat

MacGroup: network stuttering...

2004-07-12 Thread Frank Hammitt
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MacGroup: network stuttering...

2004-07-12 Thread Brian
I am waiting to hear others responses to this question. But a nice reboot might be in order. For some reason, my wireless connection will occasionally slow down. The only thing that I can attribute it to is the length of time I go between restarts (ibook, usually shut the lid). After I restart i

MacGroup: network stuttering...

2004-07-12 Thread Bill Rising
Hey Folks, I'm sitting here trying to learn some Good Stuff while listening to music from my computer at work (via the nice, old iTunes 4.0). For the first time I can remember, the stream is choppy enough that the music is interrupted every, oh, 10 seconds, max. Really *&^$)(*&^! annoying. I l

MacGroup: firefox

2004-07-12 Thread Jerry Yeager
Hello Henri, On Jul 12, 2004, at 12:32 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> These tend to be designed specifically for using windoze components, >> such as ActiveX gizmos that you have to have windoze. Very, very, bad, >> bad programming. > > Harsh to call

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2004-07-12 Thread Jerry Yeager
A little later I will be testing the Thawte signed / and encrypted messages, then the Mac GPG (PGP) version. (I need to sign up for the GPG version). Jerry p.s. Oddly enough, this idea of signing, etc. comes up on MacMerc's site: http://www.macmerc.com/articles

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2004-07-12 Thread Jerry Yeager
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2004-07-12 Thread Jerry Yeager
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MacGroup: printing

2004-07-12 Thread Marta Edie
Can somebody enlighten me what it actually means when you want to print out something, you click for a preview and there on the left bottom it says "soft proof". What is that all about? Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: reformating

2004-07-12 Thread Janice Weber
Does this hold true for RW CDs as well? Can you suggest a recovery app please? On Thursday, July 8, 2004, at 09:51 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Put it back in the camera and in one of your menu options for the > camera is the format option. if that does not work, then one of the > data recovery

MacGroup: Imac modem string and osx

2004-07-12 Thread Bill Rising
On Jul 12, 2004, at 9:10, Steven Brown wrote: > Does anyone know of an imac modem string for osx? > > I read someplace the standard 56k modem string won't work and that you > have to use one from 8.6, but you have to change the name? > > Has anyone heard of or know how to do this? I had had som

MacGroup: Imac modem string and osx

2004-07-12 Thread Steven Brown
Does anyone know of an imac modem string for osx? I read someplace the standard 56k modem string won't work and that you have to use one from 8.6, but you have to change the name? Has anyone heard of or know how to do this? Steve Brown | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society wi

MacGroup: firefox

2004-07-12 Thread Lee Larson
On Jul 11, 2004, at 11:57 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > This might be enough. CERT issued a very serious recommendation that > windoze users change from using IE to some other browser, dang near > any other browser beside IE. It seems that the viruses attacked the M$ > IIS servers (apparently so

MacGroup: printing

2004-07-12 Thread Rex Baldazo
I believe it's related to color printing--if you have the color profile set up for a particular printer, the soft proof uses that profile to give you an approximation on-screen of what the final colors would look like. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-mac

MacGroup: firefox

2004-07-12 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote: > These tend to be designed specifically for using windoze components, > such as ActiveX gizmos that you have to have windoze. Very, very, bad, > bad programming. Harsh to call it bad programming. It's usually a business choice. Though often the choice i