[MacGroup] MacGroup end

vening maintenance work. L^2 ---- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. — ‌George Orwell ‌1984‌ ___ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: Ma

Re: [MacGroup] Nostalgia

, it was working fine. We > needed a color printer and began using that more and more and eventually the > poor little LaserWriter was forgotten. It’s headed to that great recycling > bin in the sky unless someone has a use for it. I’m interested in it. I have a good place to put it

[MacGroup] The end of MacGroup

more than twelve years and migrate through at least three machine upgrades. Lee Larson leelar...@me.com So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, Volume 4 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: [MacGroup] The Hack of a Famous iPhone

use it against Bezos. And… how do you know it isn’t being widely used? If it were on your phone right now, how would you know? L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of th

Re: [MacGroup] The Hack of a Famous iPhone

efault. Sending an email is like using postcards; anyone in the middle can read it. That’s why some of us advocate encryption standards like S/MIME and PGP. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going

Re: [MacGroup] The Hack of a Famous iPhone

bility-jailbreak-permanent-bootrom-ios> that can’t be fixed. We don’t know what the NSA has because they don’t tell us, but I’m pretty sure they’ve got their own tricks. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. — ‌Napoleon Bonaparte ‌‌ signa

Re: [MacGroup] PIA and blocked websites

On Jan 17, 2020, at 7:01 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > More and more often I am finding that I have to disconnect from PIA in order > to access a website. I get a message that says something like Sorry we can’t > connect to our server. I disconnect PIA and I can connect to the web site. >

Re: [MacGroup] free email (SMIME) certificates

. We do this for several reasons: we do transfer financial information, particularly since some elderly family members have recently died and left money that must be handled; and, we value our privacy. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ___ MacGr

Re: [MacGroup] This will Affect us...

ncryption is pretty easy to do with today’s computers and the techniques are known to many. If laws are passed, most of us will use back-doored encryption. But it won’t be hard for bad guys to find the real stuff. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌The optimist thinks this is the best of all

Re: [MacGroup] How to find a good USB-c to HDMI adapter

On Dec 9, 2019, at 1:19 PM, William Micou wrote: > I’m having the same problem with all the mail from the Mac group going to > junk folder. Is there anything I can set? Have you tried either telling your mail program it isn’t junk or setting up a mail rule to magically dump it into a special d

[MacGroup] PDF Editor on iPad

I get many PDF documents by email that I must mark up and send back to the source. My idea was to do this with an iPad and the Apple Pencil. This works okay for short documents into which I only put small marginal notes. For that, the default Apple Quick Look works pretty well. It works really w

Re: [MacGroup] How to find a good USB-c to HDMI adapter

d its wires. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌Alice laughed 'There's no use trying,' she said; 'one can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was younger, I always did it for half an

Re: [MacGroup] How to find a good USB-c to HDMI adapter

nd it works, but the usual TV fuzziness was there. The LANBO is in my office at work and I use it with both VGA and HDMI projectors—most often VGA. The video has come from either a MacBook Pro or an iPad Pro. I don’t think it’s ever been connected to a TV. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com

Re: [MacGroup] Linux

e your software is up to date and beware any older 32-bit software because it won’t work at all. L^2 PS/ Another thing I do before a major upgrade is to make a clone image of the pre-upgrade hard drive so I can back out of the changes by restoring the original. ---- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌Ch

Re: [MacGroup] Linux

hey claim to be a more user friendly Ubuntu setup. As such, it probably works pretty well. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? — ‌Sherlock Holmes ‌The Sign of Four‌ ___ MacGroup mail

Re: [MacGroup] Catalina and external drives

still seems like a work in progress. No Time Machine support. Limited support for fusion drives. Questions about hard/soft links between containers. Terrible performance on spinners. When it first came out, I thought it was similar to Linux EXT4, which is really nice, but it seems less so t

Re: [MacGroup] DropBox

computers connected to DropBox or iCloud, make changes on one of them and see how long it takes to migrate the changes to the other. Both iCloud and DropBox are really quick with small files. Google not so much. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌ Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intel

Re: [MacGroup] Do I want this?

es. It can be removed. <https://applehelpwriter.com/2014/07/13/how-to-remove-googles-secret-update-software-from-your-mac/> L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem. — ‌George Carlin ‌‌ signature.asc Desc

Re: [MacGroup] Log file for network connections

e session created for host "cirrus", service "cifs". default 11:04:30.765493 -0400 NetAuthSysAgent MechType session created for host "cirrus", service "cifs". default 11:04:41.403071 -0400 NetAuthSysAgent server smb://cirrus default 11:04:46.52

Re: [MacGroup] Log file for network connections

o take a look at the raw log files, which are in /var/log. When I want information about Ethernet connections, I’ll often find it in the system.log files. (Normally, your Ethernet connection is en0.) L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, b

Re: [MacGroup] RIP DVD's

tle money at the problem. Mac DVD Ripper Pro <https://www.macdvdripperpro.com/> is a easy-to-use GUI front end for Handbrake+libDVDCSS, with some nice custom enhancements. It’s on sale right now for about $25. This is what I use to put movies on my MacBook Pro for long plane flights.

Re: [MacGroup] Any way to know what apps will cost?

no charge. Otherwise, it will show the price. Quite a few apps are free to download, but to turn on the features you want, you’ll have to do in app purchases. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have b

Re: [MacGroup] Ahh, iCloud

ly killed it about ten years ago. L^2 PS/ I emptied my mail Junk folder late yesterday afternoon and it already shows 407 emails flagged as junk across the five accounts I’m using. Errr… three more as I was writing this sentence. Lee Larson leelar...@me.com ‌I don't believe in astrolog

Re: [MacGroup] iCloud for email or other suggestions?

do use it often via IMAP and Thunderbird in Linux. If Outlook supports standard IMAP, you shouldn’t have any problems. L^2. Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. —

Re: [MacGroup] Cutting the cable

panel type and I see no difference between the one I got for $6.95 at Ollie’s Bargain Mart and the “expensive” amplified versions I got from Amazon for about $22. (The amplifier seems to make no difference.) L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌A computer lets you make

Re: [MacGroup] MacGroup Digest, Vol 120, Issue 9

Gmail as a garbage account, I have my work account, a semi-serious iCloud account and a private iCloud account I keep hidden from all but close friends and family. I do most of my Web searching with Duck-Duck-Go, but I find Google Scholar indispensable. L^2 Lee Larson lee.lar...@gmail.c

[MacGroup] Power failure

There was no power on the UofL campus all last night and most of this morning, so, I you sent a message to MacGroup and it vanished into the ether, you should probably send it again. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌"Data! Data! Data!" he cried

Re: [MacGroup] Terminal and empty trash

e size of the disk that’s being backed up. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five. — ‌Yogi Berra ‌‌ signature.asc Description: Mes

Re: [MacGroup] Terminal and empty trash

Machine at that partition. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus, 'Let us take history by the scrotum.' Of course, he was not a very honourable fighter. — ‌Terry Pratchett ‌Jingo‌ signature.asc D

Re: [MacGroup] Phone dies at 50 percent

) or is there a different issue? This is the usual sign of a dead cell in the battery. > I don’t like to upgrade while I still feel I have some life still in my > current device. My practice with devices is to keep them running as long as they can do the job for which I need them. L^2 -

Re: [MacGroup] App wish list

On Mar 20, 2019, at 10:41 PM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote: > I’m guessing the Google and Amazon remotes do as well. Roku has had voice control for quite a while. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌I don't believe

Re: [MacGroup] Just What is a Stingray?

ve warrants. Also, they’ve got to really mess up the local cell towers when they are impersonating the tower, inconveniencing how many people and maybe emergency services. (Has the FCC ruled on their use?) L^2 ---- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌The trouble with the r

Re: [MacGroup] Back Door, Front Door, Side door or someone else's door?

etwork. A good router will let you do this within its routing table. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌The story so far: In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. — ‌Douglas A

Re: [MacGroup] Back Door, Front Door, Side door or someone else's door?

video games. They all connected to the visitor network. Many of the better routers will let you set up dual networks, or you can do it with three cheap routers in a Y configuration. There are lots of Web pages with instructions for doing it with multiple routers. L^2 ---- Lee Larson leel

Re: [MacGroup] PIA

tability. I never use the router to connect to outgoing VPN. I connect individual machines as I need to, and that isn’t very often done at home. I have the router set up to accept inbound VPN so I can connect to my home network from anywhere. L^2 ---- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:l

Re: [MacGroup] PIA

e better off with a hardware solution supporting OpenVPN. L^2 ---- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌From a long view of the history of mankind — seen from, say, ten thousand years from now — there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century

Re: [MacGroup] Question about email

ield is left blank, you get a null entry. L^2 ---- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! — ‌Larry Niven ‌

Re: [MacGroup] VPN Offer

ices. Duck-Duck-Go will give you dozens of links. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — ‌Arthur C. Clarke ‌Profiles of the Future, 1982‌ signature.asc Description: Message signed with Open

Re: [MacGroup] Question about email

addresses. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌There's no way to build a digital lock that only angels can open and demons cannot. Anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant of the mathematics or less of an angel than they appear. — ‌C.G.P. Grey ‌‌

Re: [MacGroup] The Verge: Google Fiber is leaving Louisville in humiliating setback

ed. L^2 Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> If you took all the women at the Yale Prom and laid them end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. — Dorothy Parker ‌ ‌‌ signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: [MacGroup] The Verge: Google Fiber is leaving Louisville in humiliating setback

om New York to London just to shave 5 milliseconds off the latency time, not to increase the data transfer rate. There’s a new cable from New York to Chicago for the same reason. ‌ Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌I like deadlines. I love the whooshing sou

Re: [MacGroup] Mojave and Neo Office

there are some other minor differences with the Open dialog box because of the restrictive permissions Apple requires for the App Store. I read a note about this when they first went into the App Store and none of it seemed to be a big deal to anyone not talking to SQL database servers. L^2 -

Re: [MacGroup] Installing Mojave

procedure to roll back might be something like: Nuke the drive. Reinstall High Sierra. Finish restoring with Time Machine. L^2 ---- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever be

Re: [MacGroup] Installing Mojave

ur-mac>> (2) Create an installer image on something like a flash drive or another hard drive. <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372>> If you’re going to nuke the original drive, you’ll have to use the second method.

Re: [MacGroup] Need help with launchd, LaunchControl or similar

On Jan 14, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Beth Phillips mailto:beth.phill...@fastline.com>> wrote: > Is anyone familiar with launchd, LaunchControl or similar? I need help > setting up a custom daemon. Check out a little program called Lingon <https://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/>. L^

Re: [MacGroup] free email (SMIME) certificates

On Jan 11, 2019, at 8:39 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > When I tried to do my annual download of an SMIME certificate from Comodo, I > saw that Comodo had changed its name [1] and now charges for its > certificates. Any links to its pages from other articles redirect to pages > which are all about b

Re: [MacGroup] How Secure are our Text?

On Jan 11, 2019, at 10:00 AM, John Robinson wrote: > Not your normal effort. The writer takes a techie subject and dumbs it down > to where I can understand…take a few minutes to understand WHY it may be a > good idea to send text via iMessage. Of course, the messages you send to an Android p

Re: [MacGroup] Apple Pay at a shell station

On Dec 27, 2018, at 12:13 PM, Dan Crutcher mailto:dcrutc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I saw one of those symbols two days ago at the Pilot in Simpsonville. I had > already inserted my credit card, so I didn’t get to try it, but I was > wondering how it would work in a situation where you haven’t actu

Re: [MacGroup] Apple Pay at a shell station

On Dec 25, 2018, at 10:32 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > I pulled into a shell station to get gas. The pump had an applepay logo. I > pulled out my trusty iPhone, opened my wallet and put the phone next to the > ApplePay gizmo - nothing happened. I couldn’t get it to work. > > What do you t

Re: [MacGroup] Neo Office

On Dec 22, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > Is there a program in the window’s world that can read/edit documents made in > neo office? Any version of Open/Libre Office should work. L^2 ___ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: Mac

Re: [MacGroup] How Is This Possible?

On Dec 17, 2018, at 2:33 PM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote: > Lee, I only use DropBox from a Browser, I had logged in & the file was not > there. Everything else was, not the Excel file I was working on. I had just > put a copy on iCloud, waited for it to complete, we

Re: [MacGroup] How Is This Possible?

On Dec 17, 2018, at 1:11 PM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@me.com>> wrote: > So, if TimeMachine doesn’t have a backup I’m toast…I do have a USB backup but > it’s several days old… You can recover the last-saved version of a file from DropBox, if you log in to your account with a Web brow

Re: [MacGroup] iPad Pro as an external monitor on my MacBook Air

On Dec 12, 2018, at 9:46 AM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote: > My MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports but they will automatically connect to a > Lightening port on the iPad with Apple’s adapter…. Apple finally started certifying third-party USB-C to Lightning adaptors a month

Re: [MacGroup] iPad Pro as an external monitor on my MacBook Air

On Dec 12, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > My MacBook Air does have lightning, not sure if it has USBc. On Dec 12, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > My MacBook Air does have lightning, not sure if it has USBc. It gets

Re: [MacGroup] java

On Dec 1, 2018, at 10:33 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > is there a way to tell where I got neo office from? >App Store>Store>View My Account This will show you a list of all the stuff you’ve downloaded. L^2 --- ‌Lee Larson‌  leelar...@me.com

Re: [MacGroup] java

On Dec 1, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > I use Neo Office so I should upgrade, right? It depends on from where you got your NeoOffice. If you got it from the NeoOffice site, you might need Java. If you got it from the Mac App Store, you don’t need Java

Re: [MacGroup] java

On Dec 1, 2018, at 9:44 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > I got a notice on my computer that a new version of Java was available. I > know this question has come up before but I don’t remember the answer. Should > I install this? The dialogue box said I had an older versi

[MacGroup] Microsoft Tech Support Scams

Over the last few years I’ve been sometimes annoyed and sometimes amused by the frequent calls from “Microsoft Technical Support” about “problems with my Windows computer.” The calls always begin with someone speaking in a heavy Indian accent saying something like “Hello, this is Edward from Mi

Re: [MacGroup] What do you think?

old road is Rapidly agin'. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’. L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌‌ ‌Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. — ‌Winston Churchill, ‌‌

Re: [MacGroup] What do you think?

delivery vehicles or drones. Amazon is already working on using drones for local deliveries. L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌‌ ‌Thus the good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fac

Re: [MacGroup] creating a cd

ayer. It burned the tunes as mp4. > > I converted the tunes to .aiff files, burned them to a cd and the cd would > not play in my cd player. > > Any suggestions? Make a playlist in iTunes and then choose File>Burn Playlist to Disc… in iTunes. L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar..

Re: [MacGroup] refurbished iPad 4 MD510LL/A

On Nov 4, 2018, at 9:42 PM, Jeff @ SLYN Systems mailto:slynsystems1...@juno.com>> wrote: > I'm seeing a "B grade" iPad 4 (part # listed in the subject line), 9.7", 16 > GB, A6, 1.4 GHz, iOS 10 for $87. Is that reasonable? Should I spend more > and go with something faster in a tablet this size

Re: [MacGroup] Massive Collection For Sale

aws in order to mitigate some of this. Apple has been lobbying against these bills all over the country. I think fighting such laws is anti-consumer and environmentally egregious. L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌‌ ‌Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwi

Re: [MacGroup] MacGroup Digest, Vol 114, Issue 7

ap, but is not named. You can see it by using the search “Morgan Creek Negaunee Michigan.” You can see a creek clearly labeled Morgan Creek flowing into the unnamed pond. --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌‌ ‌I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to li

Re: [MacGroup] What do you think?

On Oct 15, 2018, at 10:40 PM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@me.com>> wrote: > I would love to get away from Google, they are way too intrusive into our > lives but I didn’t like Bling so I’ve stuck with the dark side.. I’ve been using Duck Duck Go instead of Google for years and have been

Re: [MacGroup] macOS Mojave?…

On Oct 2, 2018, at 10:54 PM, preston@twc.com wrote: > Are there any options for an older computer to upgrade the OS, with otherwise > up-to-date software? With Mojave, Apple is replacing the older OpenGL graphics architecture with their new one called Metal. To

Re: [MacGroup] VPN

On Sep 12, 2018, at 6:48 PM, tom holloman mailto:chuba...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I thought getting your IP address was how hackers got your info. I use > internet to play stocks and all my banking. Saw this. Is it not true? An IP address is like a street address. It does a burglar no good unless

Re: [MacGroup] VPN

On Sep 12, 2018, at 4:33 PM, tom holloman mailto:chuba...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Any suggestions on a good vpn? I have tunnel bear but many sites I try to > open will not open unless I turn it off. I’ve tried setting it to > Canada,Mexico, and mainland with no good results I’ve been using Private

Re: [MacGroup] Need help with cord cutting (tv/ cable)

On Sep 9, 2018, at 9:15 AM, William Micou mailto:derby...@me.com>> wrote: > What I want - I think - is: > 1. have a dependable internet service. > 2. Have OTA (over the air) antenna. > 3. Be able to record shows/ movies, and sports. > 4. Want to use 2 TVs. One is definitely a smart tv. > > Consi

Re: [MacGroup] Unlike Costco, Walmart Has 'No Plans' to Accept Apple Pay

This is not surprising at all. Walmart was the biggest mover behind the CurrentC mobile payment system, along with Target, 7-Eleven and a bunch of others. The CurrentC stuff collapsed, largely because it came to be seen as a way for the retailers to track everybody’s purchases. Apple Pay gives l

Re: [MacGroup] Download and alarms

On Aug 3, 2018, at 7:53 AM, Suzanne H Blake mailto:dyby...@me.com>> wrote: > Is this for real? I got a notice that I needed to download the latest Adobe > player, and then there wes a big notice about how I had 3 viruses on my > computer, had 90 seconds to DO SOMETHING NOW.’ > I closed that win

Re: [MacGroup] Find & Replace in Pages

On Jul 13, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Richard D. Meadows mailto:rmead...@gmail.com>> wrote: > How do I replace at (,) comma in a #pages document with a Return - line feed > & carriage return? I have abcd, efgh, ijkl and I need it to be > abcd > efgh > ijkl > > > I have a document with 400+ email addr

Re: [MacGroup] Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover

where different companies process their cards differently. For example, my default card under Apple Pay is Discover. It will not work at any Subway. If I flick over to American Express, everything goes through. L^2 PS/ Subway does accept Discover and the card itself works without a problem. --- Le

Re: [MacGroup] Supreme Court deals a blow to Apple Pay

On Jul 2, 2018, at 2:55 PM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote: > Is this the definition of BIG DATA? Thanks so much Lee, this is so > interesting and accurate.. Just a little demonstration of how science is actually done in this post-fact era. L^2 --- ‌Lee Larson‌ ‌leel

Re: [MacGroup] Supreme Court deals a blow to Apple Pay

On Jul 2, 2018, at 12:11 PM, Bill Rising mailto:bris...@mac.com>> wrote: > Part of the difference could come from where she wears the fitbit. After some > discussions in our family (back when there was a friendly competition about > who could rack up the most steps), experimentation showed that

Re: [MacGroup] Supreme Court deals a blow to Apple Pay

On Jul 1, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > so if you answer your phone with the Apple Watch does it have a speaker? If > not, don’t you still have to dig your iPhone out of your pocket? The watch has a speaker and microphone. There are two ways to use it as

Re: [MacGroup] Supreme Court deals a blow to Apple Pay

On Jul 1, 2018, at 4:37 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > How is using Apple Pay on the Apple Watch different than using it on your > iPhone? There’s not much difference, except you don’t have to dig out the phone. Just push the button on the side of the phone twice and

Re: [MacGroup] Supreme Court deals a blow to Apple Pay

On Jul 1, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Anne Cartwright mailto:cartw...@aye.net>> wrote: > Which do you think was (is) more accurate? The pedometer was quite a bit more accurate. Hays-Kennedy park has a paved track that’s a little over 0.6 miles around. I did two laps and counted my steps. The pedometer wa

Re: [MacGroup] Supreme Court deals a blow to Apple Pay

On Jun 30, 2018, at 10:26 PM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote: > If the folks that have an Apple Watch would use ApplePay the merchants would > be overwhelmed & more quickly adopt the system. I see the Watch on a large > number of people, I’ll walk up & ask most of them

[MacGroup] Mail not working

On May 31, 2018, at 4:31 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > I just did and it said mail.me .com is using port 993 which > is not one of the ports you asked about. Apple’s mail uses IMAPs by default. The standard IMAPs ports are 993 for incoming mail and

[MacGroup] Mail not working

On May 30, 2018, at 5:21 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > I too, think it’s a router problem because it is a problem on all my devices > (3 computers, two iPhones, two iPads). > New information. I tried to upgrade to the latest version of PIA but it’s not > working. I do

Re: [MacGroup] Lee, can you explain?

On May 25, 2018, at 11:41 AM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@me.com>> wrote: > Did you not tell us that you had TWO router’s, one behind another? Over the years I’ve played with many different router setups. Here are the last three I’ve tried. For quite a while, my setup was to plug the c

Re: [MacGroup] P-Touch Brother PT-2430 pc label printer

On May 22, 2018, at 8:24 AM, William Micou mailto:derby...@mac.com>> wrote: > I’m sure you would have thought of this, but are there still programs that > emulate a vitual Window machine? What were those - Boot Camp? VM Ware? I > haven’t heard or read much about those lately. There are a bunch

Re: [MacGroup] apfs, volumes, partitions and disk images

On May 8, 2018, at 4:40 PM, Bill Rising mailto:bris...@mac.com>> wrote: > I use SuperDuper!, which is a careful front-end to rsync, as far as I know. Do you know if SuperDuper! can talk to an rsync server on another machine. L^2 --- ‌Lee Larson‌  leelar...@me.com ‌ ‌

Re: [MacGroup] apfs, volumes, partitions and disk images

On May 7, 2018, at 6:39 PM, Bill Rising mailto:bris...@mac.com>> wrote: > This must be the reason that Time Machine has often told me that it found > problems and I would have to start from scratch. Who knows? I use it, but the belt and suspenders approach always seemed prudent. > I, too, have

Re: [MacGroup] apfs, volumes, partitions and disk images

On May 7, 2018, at 11:48 AM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote: > So under Apple’s new file structure what backup will protect the integrity of > the data? This article talks about HFS+ but for those with High Sierra and a > SSD now implementing APFS, what works with this f

Re: [MacGroup] apfs, volumes, partitions and disk images

can > propagate into all your backups. When it's finally discovered, perhaps years > later when looking at old baby pictures, it's too late to do anything about > it. > --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com>

Re: [MacGroup] apfs, volumes, partitions and disk images

I forgot to mention that HFS+ doesn’t really have hard links. Apple just grafted something onto it that kinda, sorta but not quite behaves like hard links. They did this in order to make Time Machine work. I can kind of see how this came about. The Apple Time Machine engineers were looking at r

Re: [MacGroup] apfs, volumes, partitions and disk images

On May 7, 2018, at 10:23 AM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote: > Lee, when you and some of your geek friends talk it’s hard for a slurp the > syrup guy like me to know what you are talking about, hard links, forks, and > a USB RUST-Based drive… > > To further my non exist

Re: [MacGroup] apfs, volumes, partitions and disk images

really slow compared to HFS+. APFS is apparently designed only for solid state drives, or spinny drives are still a work in progress. (I suspect the former.) L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌‌ ‌You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you a

Re: [MacGroup] apfs, volumes, partitions and disk images

On May 6, 2018, at 6:05 PM, Bill Rising mailto:bris...@mac.com>> wrote: > Enter APFS, with its concept of containers and volumes which can share space. > This seems to imply I could reformat my 3TB disk as a big APFS container with > 3 volumes (instead of partitions). The volumes would look like

Re: [MacGroup] Stepping To The Window Again

because it looks a normal size on the page doesn’t mean it’s actually small. The file can be ginormous, but the visual display size can be shrunken down by using options within the image tag in the HTML. L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> signature.asc De

Re: [MacGroup] Stepping To The Window Again

n, not sure why, The limit is set at five megabytes. It could probably be set a bit higher, but I thought five megabytes was already pretty generous. There’s nothing large in the thing you appended. Even the picture of Warren Buffett is only 15 KB. L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailt

Re: [MacGroup] Is this for real?

On Apr 26, 2018, at 11:05 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote: > This is popped up twice on my iMac in the last few days when I opened a link > in Safari. > > I assume it’s a scam and if so, how do I stop this from popping up? > > Has anyone else had this happen? It’s fake.

Re: [MacGroup] Questionable purgeable space

On Apr 19, 2018, at 6:35 PM, Bill Rising mailto:bris...@mac.com>> wrote: > I don't see any swap files or any such thing. Wouldn't it be odd if the swap > files were on a disk image aside from the main disk, or can they appear > anywhere? You’re right… I missed the word “image” in your original

Re: [MacGroup] Questionable purgeable space

On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:21 AM, John Robinson mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote: > What is Swap? It’s also called virtual memory. When your machine needs more RAM than it has, it swaps out some of the inactive areas of RAM to the hard drive in order to free up space. When the swapped-out

Re: [MacGroup] Questionable purgeable space

On Apr 19, 2018, at 9:16 AM, Bill Rising mailto:bris...@mac.com>> wrote: > So... why does macOS think that there are files it can delete at whim? Should > I be worried that my irreplaceable [3] files could disappear if I copy a > large file to the disk image? Have you ruled out swap? L^2 ---

Re: [MacGroup] Resolve IP addresses

I should have mentioned they work in both directions. L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌‌ ‌Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. — ‌Albert Einstein, ‌Quoted in Die Macht der K

Re: [MacGroup] Resolve IP addresses

e.net. Name: e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net <http://e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net/> Address: 23.79.200.49 L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌‌ ‌I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. — ‌Hunter

Re: [MacGroup] 32-bit apps to not be supported

binaries. L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> ‌‌ ‌The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! — ‌Larry Niven, ‌Meeting of the Min

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