Thought this might be of interest--if anybody's going to be at the
Apple Expo Paris next month there's going to be a demo of an
Aqua-native version of OpenOffice. No X11 window manager required.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/30/aqua_openoffice_goes_public/
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According to the News.com article:
http://news.com.com/2110-1041_3-6090628.html
the education iMac has half the hard drive space and a cheaper video
chip system than the regular low-end 17 iMac.
--- Rex.
On 7/5/06, Greg Schoettmer Greg at knightsridgefarm.com wrote:
Looks like Apple
Bucking a trend, apparently a number of iPod accessory stores are going
brick-and-mortar instead of online:
http://techrepublic.com.com/2100-1035_11-6045837.html
(If you get a membership pop-up when you visit this link, just click the
close button that appears in the upper-right corner of the
A fairly lengthy photo gallery of shots taken at yesterday's Apple
announcement:
http://news.zdnet.com/2300-1040_22-6044137-1.html
--- Rex.
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In case you want to build a PC but have it look like a giant iPod,
they've now got the case for you:
http://news.com.com/2300-1042_3-6042476-1.html
--- Rex.
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Just thought I'd mention on News.com urls you don't actually need to
include the path. Our publishing platform actually only cares about the
numbers at the end, the path is strictly for Google optimization (pages
rank slightly better on Google results when keywords appear in the path
as well as
Agreed. I have a shuffle I bought for the gym, and if you're listening
to audio books that would be fine. But I'm mostly listening to music so
I find it a bit limiting to not have a screen I can look at to browse
the music. Hadn't realized it would be such an issue but it is. So I'm
also
A lot of the PC's and laptops I've seen switch component manufacturers
seemingly at will. Two supposedly identical laptops may both have, say,
an 8X DVD bruner. But it turns out one is from Toshiba and the other
from LiteOn or some other manufacturer.
Don't know if that's the cause of your G5
Always dangerous to read the tea leaves over at Apple, but they've just
dropped the prices on iPod shuffles and have pushed out a low-end 1 GB
model of the iPod nano:
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6035974.html
The speculation is that they intent to phase out the shuffle. So all
iPods will
I've never used this device so I'm not vouching for it. But companies
do make USB-to-Midi adapters like this one from Yamaha:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Recording/Computer/Hardware?sku=3
32007
Again, never had any need to use it so I can't tell you if it's any good
or not. Simply
I think those dual pocket contraptions are called panniers, or I've also heard
them called saddle bags. Most of the ones I've seen are just fabric, they
aren't generally padded to protect the contents. If you're gonna put a laptop
in there you should probably first put the laptop in some kind
: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:49 AM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: MS Word lite?
Rex,
Do you find that you have to fiddle with the display/font selection to
get abiword to display correctly on screen?
Bill Holt
On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote
Somewhat off-topic but I was at Target this weekend and they had a
little Lexmark ink-jet printer, I think the model was Z517 or something
like that, and it was on clearance for just $17. Of course the ink is
what kills you--the combo pack that has both a black and a color
cartridge runs about
I know this is not a good solution for you, but on PC's there's a new
kind of burner called Lightscribe:
http://www.lightscribe.com/
You know how the part of your DVD that's been recorded onto has a
different color than the rest? Lightscribe uses the same basic effect
to burn a label into the
Of Rex
Baldazo
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:03 AM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: MacGroup: Job Opening
Just thought I'd pass along this job posting for our Louisville office:
http://careers.cnetnetworks.com:80/candidatebench/jobdetails.jsp?reqId=1
4943type=ALLaccessKey=55!56
If I had to make a bet I'd say you will never see similar products
again. Simply because interfaces like USB 2, WiFi, and Bluetooth mean
you can do most of that stuff over standard connectors rather than
requiring a specialized dock. The economics of a two-piece computer
like the old Duo just
Some analysts are expecting an Intel-based iBook. News.com has an
article that will update as the keynote progresses, just reload the page
periodically:
http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-6024731.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-macgroup at
Unicode is an encoding that allows all characters from all languages to
be identified uniquely:
http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
Remember that to a computer, these letters you're seeing are represented
internally as just numbers. In the bad old days, what would happen is
that
Apparently there are some new iMacs experiencing video failure and
system shutdown problems related to some bad capacitors. Photo here to
show how to identify the bad capacitors--their tops bulge up ever so
slightly, instead of being flat like they should:
Apple is filing a patent application for methods to ensure software runs
on specific hardware:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5942107.html
Clearly part of their plan to make sure the Intel-based OS X software
only runs on Apple's Intel hardware, not generic (and cheaper) PC Intel
hardware.
Just wanted to mention that if you have an old PowerMac that you're not
using, you might experiment with loading a Linux distribution on it. I
installed Ubuntu Linux on an old Blue-and-White G3 this weekend:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/
This old G3 used to have OS X Panther on it, and I
Thought this might be of interest--a lot of Apple's competitors in the
music space have apparently decided to stop chasing the iTunes model.
Instead of delivering their music thru an integrated application (a la
iTunes), they're adopting Web-based music stores instead:
I've had similar problems. One thing I found helpful was that I took
the 60's Music smartlist which I never use anyway and changed the name
to Recently Added. Then I changed the rule behind the smartlist so
that it displays the last two week's worth of new music. That way if I
come back and
Just FYI, photos of Sony's upcoming hard-drive based iPod competitor:
http://www.atraclife.com/index.php?showtopic=242
--- Rex.
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This came across one of our internal Mac mailing lists, thought it might
be of interest to some of you.
--- Rex.
-Original Message-
From: Guy Ferraiolo
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:23 AM
To: mac-users
Subject: fix for an annoying problem
Folks
Something in a recent update
Another useful online resource for looking up computer terms is the
Wikipedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta
Edie
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:31 PM
To:
The Apple.com site is a bit slow right now, probably being hammered by a
lot of folks. Apple just announced a couple new products, the
long-rumoured iPod phone and the iPod Nano, a super-small version of the
iPod Mini:
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/
http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/
Here's
A short QA with the CEO of Adobe, about the Mac/Intel switch:
http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-5844899.html
--- Rex.
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Apple is inviting reporters to some kind of big event next week. Might
be the video iPod:
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5844112.html
--- Rex.
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/by3wb
rob
Rex Baldazo wrote:
Apple is inviting reporters to some kind of big event next week.
Might
be the video iPod:
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5844112.html
--- Rex.
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If you're into game programming, id software has just released under the
GPL the source code for their old Quake III Arena game:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/19/news_6131614.html
Includes a link to a page where you can download the ZIP file.
Supposedly includes instructions how to
Rumour is that Samsung has offered to cut their price on flash memory to
make it competitive with the little hard drives Apple uses today in the
iPod Minis:
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050819_164307.html
--- Rex.
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Rumour of course, but the scuttlebutt is that we may have only one more
upgrade to the PowerPC-based PowerBooks and then that's it, nothing
until the Intel-based PowerBooks:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1229
I thought Apple wasn't planning on an Intel-based laptop until 2007,
which
the notion of
an intel box...jf
On Aug 12, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Rex Baldazo wrote:
Rumour of course, but the scuttlebutt is that we may have only one
more upgrade to the PowerPC-based PowerBooks and then that's it,
nothing until the Intel-based PowerBooks:
I thought Apple wasn't planning
Sorry, that should of course have been G4 and not G5.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Rex
Baldazo
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 4:01 PM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: RE: MacGroup: The last
Now if only they would put the scroll wheel on the laptop too :)
Haven't seen it on Apple products but my HP laptop has a mousepad where
a narrow strip on the right is in fact a scroll strip. If you slide
your finger vertically along the right-hand edge of the mousepad it
scrolls the window
Creative has started taking orders for the Creative Zen Vision, which
supports video, photos, and music:
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5817467.html
It supports TivoToGo for those of you who use Tivo.
Couple photos of the device, must admit the screen looks pretty good but
these are publicity
ROFL is shorthand for Rolling on floor laughing. It's also sometimes
ROTFL meaning Rolling on the floor laughing.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta
Edie
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:07 PM
To:
Engadget has collected links to a bunch of reviews, some from bloggers
some from regular media, for the new Apple mighty mouse:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000450052910/
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
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|
If you're interested, screenshots from the beta release of Windows Vista
(the Microsoft OS formerly known as Longhorn):
http://news.zdnet.com/2300-9590_22-5806815-1.html
--- Rex.
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It wasn't really clear to me that this means for sure you'll be able to
play songs purchased from iTunes Music Store on a PSP, but apparently
sony has released a patch (for the Japanese version only so far) that
enables AAC playback on a PSP:
I think the scary part with the Google Maps photos is how good they
really are. Remember these are the ones that can be licensed for public
use. Can you imagine the resolution they must be able to get in the
top-secret military version of these photos?
--- Rex.
-Original Message-
Speaking of Google Maps, MSN has launched their competitor called
Virtual Earth:
http://virtualearth.msn.com/
I'm at work so I haven't been able to verify if this works on a Mac. It
does work though in Firefox for Windows so at the very least it ought to
work on Firefox for the Mac.
I love the
Konfabulator, which made those cool Mac gizmos that were clearly the
inspiration for Tiger's Dashboard feature, has been purchased by Yahoo:
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5803092.html
--- Rex.
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If those aren't able to open the .doc file, there are a couple free
open-source options. I particularly like AbiWord, because you can
download just the word processor:
http://www.abiword.com/download/
There's also a fairly decent Mac version of OpenOffice now:
I hate to side with a bank but I've been in their shoes and I understand
their position. The testing matrix to support two browsers is large
enough--the resources to test every darned browser would be too much for
any organization. You have to pick which ones you support, generally
the ones with
Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
On Jun 21, 2005, at 8:50, Rex Baldazo wrote:
I hate to side with a bank but I've been in their shoes and I
understand their position. The testing matrix to support two browsers
is large enough--the resources to test every darned browser would
? ( Testing
matrix?) Marta To array a man's will against his sickness is the
supreme art of medicine.
-Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
On Jun 21, 2005, at 8:50, Rex Baldazo wrote:
I hate to side with a bank but I've been in their shoes and I
understand their position
Apple's Web application engine is now available free for Tiger's Xcode
dev tools:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11860
--- Rex.
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Unfortunately the two easiest tools I could find that actually check
email addresses are Perl or Visual Basic:
http://www.codeguru.com/vb/vb_internet/article.php/c1629/
http://search.cpan.org/~ilyam/Mail-CheckUser-1.21/CheckUser.pm
I'm going to be selling my old iBook and I'm trying to figure out what a
reasonable asking price would be. It's a 3-1/2 year old dual-USB G3,
600 MHz, 640 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive, Airport card installed,
DVD-ROM/CD-RW (tray-loading, not slot-loading). I'm seeing similar
models on eBay that are
This article is primarily about MSN's plans for a subscription-based
music service, a la the new Napster:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39196413,00.htm
Another case of Microsoft competing with their own partners.
But buried in the article is one interesting tidbit--MSN may be
Your G5 won't ever run the MacTel stuff. The real question is, will new
software be produced that still runs on PowerPC chips like the G5? The
answer is yes, for a while.
If the software you rely on gets re-compiled as a fat binary then it
should run on both the PowerPC and the Intel versions
I understand the aprehension and maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic
about this but what I keep thinking about is power consumption. Even
those badly-engineered laptops you were looking at probably had decent
battery life--can you imagine how much battery life Apple's engineers
will be able to
We've reprinted an excerpt from Apple Confidential 2.0 that details an
early attempt about a decade ago to create an Intel version of System 7.
It's fascinating reading if you have the time:
http://news.com.com/2100-1045_3-5734189.html
It's four pages, so if you'd rather view it as one page
I think the switch to Intel is going to happen. Stephen Shankland is reporting
it on News.com and he's pretty hooked in to these kinds of things:
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5731398.html
The open question is whether we're talking actual PC's (i.e., Intel chips, a
compatible BIOS, etc.) or
If you didn't see the post last night, MacWorld has hired on the guy who
runs Mac OS X Hints:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050601001239978
He'll apparently though keep running the site as a standalone entity, it
won't be integrated directly into MacWorld.com.
--- Rex.
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What is the new address for MacTown? Their Web site still shows the old
address.
Thanks,
--- Rex.
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Rumour has it the next software update for you lucky iPod Photo owners
will include a color version of Tetris:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1101
--- Rex.
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Apple is apparently again flirting with the idea of using Intel chips:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7951114/
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/05/23.5.shtml
Not clear though if this would be in addition to, or instead of, the IBM
PowerPC chips they're using today.
--- Rex.
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Shouldn't really impact anybody, but interestingly the new iTunes 4.8
apparently changes the file names that it writes into the iPod:
http://foodisworse.typepad.com/hackpod/2005/05/itunes_48_and_i.html
The theory is that this might make directory look-ups more efficient
since the new file names
I saw this at Best Buy this past weekend--it's a PC notebook that looks
a lot like an iBook:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7134941type=productid=11
10263501821
Clearly a copy-cat product but for the money it's a pretty good
deal--$1,200 gets you a DVD+/-RW. And something that's
:18 AM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: RE: MacGroup: A PC that thinks its an iBook
Rex, the web page has expired, do you recall the name of the PC?
From: Rex Baldazo Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com
Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
When I was living out in the San Francisco Bay area they had a number of
salvage-type stores where you could rummage for used PC parts. Is there
anything similar here in the Louisville area?
--- Rex.
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I bought a dead Mac Iisi at the flea market today because I wanted the
case for a media PC project I'm gonna build. After gutting it this
evening I just have to say that is perhaps the most elegant job of
hardware engineering I've ever seen. Almost everything was
custom-designed to snap
I hope what I said vis-a-vis the Apple/CompUSA employees wasn't an ad
hominem attack but if it was construed as such I do apologize. I was
only trying to point out that CompUSA does have competent Mac sales
support available.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If your employer uses Cisco VPN software, as mine does, you may want to
hold off upgrading to the latest Tiger OS X release. There's a
compatibility problem the companies are still working one:
http://news.com.com/2100-1036_3-5688731.html
--- Rex.
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Not to admit I actually shop at CompUSA on occasion, but sometimes there
is an Apple employee in the Mac section. He doesn't work for CompUSA,
he's some guy hired by Apple to be back there answering questions.
I would say he didn't seem as knowledgeable as the MacTown folks but he
is certainly
Depends a lot of course on the site, but one reason some sites do that
is they really don't get a lot of traffic via the front door so they use
that as a brand identity page. I've usually heard it called a splash
page, kinda like how some apps display a splash window when they start
up (Adobe
coming in May is an unauthorized bio of Steve Jobs. Seems Apple is
upset--they've removed all books from the publisher in their stores:
http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-5686487.html
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Bill Gates did a sneak peek of Longhorn, our reporter took a couple
snapshots:
http://news.com.com/2009-1016_3-5683877.html
The scuttlebutt is that a lot of the Avalon graphics stuff looks a lot
like what we've got already in Aqua.
--- Rex.
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CSS stands for Content Scrambling System. Not really sure how to do
what you're after on the Mac, on the PC I think you'd use DVD Decrypter:
http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
--- Rex.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu]
Just FYI, we are giving away six iPod mini's as part of our sixth
anniversary celebration next month:
http://techrepublic.com.com/1200-22-5672734.html
There's no cost, you just need to complete your online member profile to
enter the drawing.
--- Rex.
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Yeah, we're owned by CNET Networks (www.cnet.com).
As for emails, yeah that's part of the membership but you can opt out. With
this iPod giveaway we're really after getting folks to update their online
profile data. The hope is that you will become a more engaged member of our
online
If you've updated to the latest 10.3.9 release and are having
Safari/Java problems you may have run into this bug:
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5675631.html
Instructions for fixing the problem are listed here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301380
--- Rex.
| The next
Sorry I deleted the email and can't find it--if the person who was
looking for an old all-in-one Mac still needs it, could you drop me a
line to my work email, rexb at cnet.com? I have what I think is a Performa
5200:
http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/5200.shtml
Got it at the Mac sale a few months
This could be a bad sign--US students are scoring lower and lower in a
major world programming contest:
http://techrepublic.com.com/2100-10548_11-5659116.html
Software is pretty much what defines technology today. Think about
gadgets like the iPod--yes the hardware is nice but it's really the
in programming contest
On Apr 8, 2005, at 9:36, Rex Baldazo wrote:
This could be a bad sign--US students are scoring lower and lower in a
major world programming contest:
http://techrepublic.com.com/2100-10548_11-5659116.html
oops - need a login
Here's the direct link to the article:
http
Rumour is that the Taiwanese manufacture of the iBook has received an
order for a wide-screen version:
http://news.com.com/2061-10793-5660146.html
--- Rex.
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If you know anybody looking for part-time work, somebody very
detail-oriented who can work 4-hours a day looking thru spreadsheets of
data, we're hiring for a quality control agent. I'll pass it along as a
tinyurl because the original link is very long:
http://tinyurl.com/4cvhf
If you do know
So I got my Sony PSP last week, and over the weekend I was using ffmpegX
to convert some DVD's into a format that would play on the PSP memory
stick:
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
But it was god-awful slow--on my ancient iBook (600 MHz G3 w/ 640 MB
RAM) it took upwards of 8 hours to convert
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Cc: Rex Baldazo
Subject: Re: MacGroup: Any cheap way to get a fast USB 2.0 port for an
older iBook?
Rex,
Do you have an open PC Card/PCMCIA slot in the iBook?
The USB 2.0 adapters are very reasonably priced.
Jeff Slyn, Owner
SLYN Systems Peripherals
(502) 426
From a friend of mine at Google:
http://labs.google.com/googlex/
Hover over the icons and behold their homage to our beloved OS X.
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If you haven't seen it, here's a project to take an old pencil sharpener
and a tiny motor to build a hand-cranked recharger for the iPod shuffle:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/03/hand_powered_ip.html
Kinda useless yet kinda cool at the same time.
| The next meeting of the
To: Rex Baldazo
Subject: Coupon, 20 LCD TV under $400, iPods, Digital Cameras, Hard Drive..
5% OFF your Buy.com purchase
Orders must be placed on or before 3/8/2005 11:59:00 PM PT.
(Some Restrictions apply. See site for details.)
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y
An IDC analyst dissects the iPod shuffle, based on her analysis Apple is
making a decent profit. She thinks that it costs Apple $59 to make the
512 MB model, the most expensive part is $31 for the flash memory. As
flash memory prices decline, Apple's margin will go even higher.
Eric Meyer publishes a lot of stuff on his blog that might be what
you're after. I found this for examle showing a CSS dropdown menu
(works on Firefox, I did not test Safari):
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html
--- Rex.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Seems to have stirred a bit of controversy, though it makes sense given
the much wider penetration of USB ports on the PC side:
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5587951.html
--- Rex.
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Does anybody else have problems in Safari viewing certain little
graphics in Web sites? For example, the little star ratings on
Amazon.com, in Safari they're all messed up so I can't tell what the
rating is. I can tell the graphic is there but it's got a bunch of
horizontal lines thru it, almost
Not quite the built-in bluetooth stereo you want, but there is
apparently a bluetooth-enabled casette adapter due on the market soon:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000127032903/
--- Rex.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu]
Larson
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:25 AM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: Graphic wierdness in Safari?
On Feb 23, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Rex Baldazo complained:
Does anybody else have problems in Safari viewing certain little
graphics in Web sites? For example
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:41 AM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: Graphic wierdness in Safari?
On Feb 23, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote:
Sigh, yeah those are the graphics that don't look right in Safari.
Okay, guess this means no Amazon shopping
Now, if I would even buy a Tivo, would I not be charged a monthly fee
anyhow, or could I then do as I please. Right now Dish gives you the
machine, but charges you $ 5.00 a month to do your recordings for so
many hours.
Yeah, there is a monthly charge for TiVo as well. You'r subscribing
Somebody on the list mentioned iCab to me earlier, and I've tried it.
It's www.icab.de (yes, the company is German apparently but the Web site
is mostly in English and they have an English version of the software).
On my hardware, it's not all that fast a browser but it does seem to be
good
Mobile PC apparently came up with a list of the greatest gadgets ever,
and the PowerBook 100 topped the list:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4284501.stm
--- Rex.
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I've also got Dish and it definitely does depend on how good your
installer is. I got mine done thru HH Gregg and at the guy who did mine
was very well trained. My house has old cable wiring built-in and when
he connected the Dish to that wiring we had problems with higher
channels. This
Generally, the circle means off.
-Original Message-
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[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Anne
Cartwright
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 9:12 AM
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Cc: Anne Cartwright
Subject: MacGroup: Help with symbols
I have a toggle switch
Interesting little piece that says it was Steve Jobs himself who
forwarded links to music executives showing them how Napster-protected
songs could be hacked:
http://news.com.com/2061-1027-5578827.html
Looks like Steve is definitely watching the iTunes/iPod competitors
closely.
--- Rex.
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Not clear to me if this means it will run on Apple PowerPC's or strictly
on IBM PowerPC servers, but RedHat has announced an upcoming version of
RedHat Linux for the PowerPC CPU:
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5576163.html
--- Rex.
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