Re: RAID and thunderbolt

2013-12-07 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Dec 7, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, I am looking forward to getting a new Mac Pro, which will require me to buy at least one external disk array. I have been looking at a 2-disk thunderbolt unit, which can be set up for either RAID 0

Re: RAID and thunderbolt

2013-12-07 Thread Lawrence Sica
Hi Larry, Thanks for your response. In fairness to the vendor, I was also looking at their 5-disk thunderbolt units. It was in reference to those that they said thunderbolt does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10. Sorry for the confusion. I was trying to keep my original message

Re: Surprised ...

2013-12-01 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Nov 30, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Nov 29, 2013, at 7:51 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 28 Nov 2013, at 18:48 , Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: back on a 32 MB 68040 machine, web browsing was relatively simple and easy. But it

Re: Is Apple supporting this bill ? U.S. House passes cybersecurity bill as privacy concerns linger

2013-04-18 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Apr 18, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-house-passes-cybersecurity-bill-200805404.html Backers included the wireless group CTIA, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and TechNet, which represents big technology companies such as Google

Re: TextEdit and iCloud

2012-08-26 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Aug 26, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: I know that apps can register to open types on iOS. So, I saved a file in TextEdit to iCloud. Now I want to view and edit it on my iPad. What do I do? This is the biggest weakness with iCloud imho. There is no

Re: iTunes pinwheels on launch

2012-07-31 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Is one or more of your devices synching over wifi? Sent from my iPad with Retina Display http://www.kevincallahan.org On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:03 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On launching iTunes it becomes

Re: iTunes pinwheels on launch

2012-07-31 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:23 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: LuKreme spake on Tuesday 31-Jul-2012@18:52:41 I've left iTunes running overnight and there's been no change. I can't seem to get out of this. OK, got out of it. Started iTuens with Shift-Opt-Command and it came up in safe

Re: Time Machine not Running

2012-06-02 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jun 1, 2012, at 10:32 PM, LuKreme wrote: I opened up Time Machine in the System Prefs and it said the next backup was scheduled for 20:06 and that the last backup ran yesterday at 23:19 (when I ran it manually). Before that, I watched the pref pane as it incremented the time the next

Re: iPad 3: More of the same?

2012-03-12 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:06 AM, Jared Earle jea...@gmail.com wrote: No Siri because they do a Wifi-only iPad. Think about it. What would be nice, though very hard to do really, would be to have it know if you are connected and have Siri enabled, with a non-Siri voice thing otherwise. That

Re: Thoughts on 10.7 now?

2011-12-19 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Dec 19, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: FWIW I was toying with getting a MBA a few months back and asked around campus and got these misgivings about it: 1. No optical disc slot (no one wants to carry around an external drive) 2. No RJ45 ethernet jack (yes, some/many dorms still

Re: Standby mode disconnects USB HD

2011-11-08 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Nov 7, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Macs R We wrote: On Nov 7, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Rudolf O.Durrer wrote: I recently bought a external HD (Freecom mobile drive classic II, 500 GB, connected with USB 2). Nice device, so far, but: each time any of my macs (mini, MBP 2010, MBP 2011, all with

Re: Subscribing to calendars from iCloud

2011-10-18 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Macs R We wrote: On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Scot Hacker wrote: It blows my mind that Apple would put so much effort into the new iCloud infrastructure but not make it available to Snow Leopard users. Very uncharacteristic of Apple indeed! Clearly an

Re: Safari - downloading AAC or MP3 files

2011-10-02 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Oct 2, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Jared Earle wrote: http://23x.co.uk/test/sae.mp3 Try with that. Oh interesting. I guess it makes sense from one perspective if annoying. This might be a job for an extension! *dusts off safari extension documentation* --Larry

Re: MobileMe sending mail (LION)

2011-10-02 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Oct 2, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Oct 1, 2011, at 7:32 PM, LuKreme wrote: Am I foolish for trusting Google? Perhaps, but I've seen nothing to convince me they are not trustworthy. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/us-internet-security-idUSTRE78T2GY20110930

Re: Apple's iCloud runs on Microsoft and Amazon services!

2011-09-13 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:29 AM, LuKreme wrote: On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:37, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: On Sep 6, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/02/icloud_runs_on_microsoft_azure_and_amazon/ And this has been confirmed? Of course

Re: password management

2011-09-12 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: On 12 Sep 2011, at 11:04, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: I am not being paranoid but I am wondering, as a SOHO, what is the best policy in terms of password management… Thanks everybody for the suggestions. Let me go back to

Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?

2011-08-30 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: On 30/08/2011, at 1:54 PM, LuKreme wrote: Ashley Aitken mrhat...@mac.com squawked out on Monday 29-Aug-2011@20:43:29 On 29/08/2011, at 7:33 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: no. Any software you buy on the App Store can be installed on

Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?

2011-08-30 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: Hi Larry, Thanks for your post. On 30/08/2011, at 11:49 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: Mac App store has no restriction, the iTunes app store does. That is what it says. This jives with what Steve said and what I've seen bear out

Re: The new Mac mini

2011-08-03 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Aug 3, 2011, at 11:32 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Aug 3, 2011, at 2:49 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: A/V consumption on computers is a nicety that is being phased out fairly quickly. really? Data? Why the big emphasis on iTunes? A/V is not only optical you know. More people

Re: The new Mac mini

2011-08-03 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:19 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Aug 2, 2011, at 19:02, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: I doubt many software vendors are going to increase their distribution costs by replacing installation media with USB drives. USB thumb drives are cooperative with optical media.

Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?

2011-07-23 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Matt Penna wrote: On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:21 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: On Jul 22, 2011, at 8:19 PM, LuKreme wrote: Lion is really Designed for the trackpad. Absolutely ! Your experience is going to be sub par without a trackpad. Absolutely ! I've

Re: Archival encryption to DVD?

2011-06-09 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:05 AM, LuKreme wrote: On Jun 8, 2011, at 14:35, Nathan Sims newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: I need to archive off a bunch of source code and data to DVDs. Is there a way to do so that encrypts the archive? I have a DVD sized dmg that is encrypted with a 30+

Re: Multiple accounts and iCloud?

2011-06-08 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:36 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: Looks to me like the writing's on the wall. I don't think it'll be very long before content from the iTunes store is streamed, not downloaded, i.e. you can enjoy but not own it. The rest

Re: Synced over the air? WiFi?

2011-05-30 Thread Lawrence Sica
On May 30, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: When iTunes suggests calendars, mail, contact, notes etc. are being synced over the air does that include wifi? Particularly, an iPad without 3G working ... It does, also require Mobile.me thought iirc.

Re: faster video conversion?

2011-05-23 Thread Lawrence Sica
On May 23, 2011, at 10:41 AM, LuKreme wrote: On May 20, 2011, at 15:33, William Ehrich ehr...@mninter.net wrote: Are there any good programs yet to convert and compress an mpeg2 stream to h.264, making good use of the video processor? Yet? We've had Handbrake for several years

Re: iPad 2 versus iPod Touch?

2011-04-17 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Apr 17, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:49, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Ohh, this looks like it might do the synching: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Only if you port it to iOS. DropBox already does what

Re: iPad 2 versus iPod Touch?

2011-04-17 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: if you'd stop calling them phone versions you might have a better grasp of what they are -- or are you harping indirectly on some point? it's like calling your HP LaserJet a calculator the 3G iPad can optionally receive

Re: iPad 2 versus iPod Touch?

2011-04-15 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Apr 15, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: I'm trying to understand the difference between the iPod touch and the iPad 2, and what they can and cannot do. Please tell me where any of this is in error: First, what I understand: The iPod touch is basically a

Re: Best app/tool for writing a book that will contain a lot of PDF graphics

2011-03-19 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:47 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2011-03-19 13:27 , Kevin Callahan wrote: I assume InDesign allows for creation of a multi-page document. yeah, so much so that that's kind of a funny question ;? Sibelius has an export option to Adobe InDesign (EPS). So it

Re: Best app/tool for writing a book that will contain a lot of PDF graphics

2011-03-16 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Mar 16, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: My music publisher has asked me to write some teaching volumes. Text + PDF (scores) and perhaps other graphics. Each volume will be 100+ pages. (easy conversion to HTML, eBook a plus) What's the best app to use these

Re: Paintbrush: how to protect privacy in screen shots? Make sensitive data glassy?

2011-03-15 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Mar 15, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: h Firstname Lastname. It provides a bit more to compare against. I'd recommend a solid bar (black or another background color) drawn over your sensitive information. I'd go further and do a cut of the content and then replace it with a black

Re: Paintbrush: how to protect privacy in screen shots? Make sensitive data glassy?

2011-03-15 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Mar 15, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Michael Winter win...@mac.com wrote: On Mar 15, 2011, at 4:22 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2011-03-15 14:42 , Michael Winter wrote: On Mar 15, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: I'm just curious, why bother with cut first? Depends on the

Re: Manton Reece on the Mac App Store

2011-01-10 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jan 10, 2011, at 4:07 PM, aglee wrote: Apple doesn't have a specific dev relations person but you can easily talk to the internal devs about stuff, I have before it's not hard to track them down. Manton said it seemed like nobody's in charge, so not knowing one way or the other I

Re: App store

2011-01-07 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:13 AM, LuKreme wrote: On 6-Jan-2011, at 20:54, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: On 7 janv. 11, at 12:07, Arno Hautala wrote: oth on my laptop and my desktop, when installing from the Purchases screen, it seemed to replace the existing bundle (even within a subfolder

Re: Panic

2011-01-05 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:57 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 5-Jan-2011, at 13:54, John Musbach wrote: Were you unlocking an unlocked mutex or spinlock when playing the game? Is that some sort of gnome NPC or something? :) It's a gnome rogue trick. You were spinlocked. There was something in the mac

Re: native Mac alternatives to Screen Grabber :: grabbing screen shots at even timeintervals from a movie

2010-12-30 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: You can do this with mplayer: mplayer -ss interval -vo jpg,png,gif,... -frames number-to-capture -nosound movie with this mplayer command you don't have one single

Re: Games changers ...

2010-12-28 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Dec 28, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: Hi Michael, On 28/12/2010, at 1:54 PM, Michael J Wise wrote: With the caveat that the Kinect really needs about a 12 x 12 foot unobstructed play area, no projectors (you block the projected image) ... and carpet :) Yes, that's a

Re: Games changers ...

2010-12-28 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Michael Winter wrote: On Dec 27, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Michael J Wise wrote: My PS3 is pretty much only used as a BluRay player. If the XBOX team ever decides to offer BluRay support ... 1x PS3 4sale, ch34p! Don't have a Wii, completely un-interested. If

Re: lion

2010-10-21 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:41 AM, Michael Brian Bentley wrote: 10.7 Lion yanks the apps out of the file system jungle. The Mac desktop becomes program-centric, while it remains document-centric for some. The full-screen thing is part of the deal, tho I think it depends on how it gets done.

Re: use APPLE Magic Trackpad and mouse in parallel

2010-10-18 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Oct 18, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Rodti MacLeary ro...@macleary.com wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:15:43 +0100, Jared Earle jea...@gmail.com wrote: I use a PS3 for gaming so I don't miss the mouse in any way. I had my Mighty Mouse plugged in, but I honestly couldn't tell you where it is right

Re: iTunes 10

2010-09-06 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Sep 5, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Christopher Bort wrote: On 09/04/10 19:40, macs...@macsrwe.com (Macs R We) wrote: On Sep 4, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Cyril Niklaus wrote: Oh, and btw, does anybody knows why the corners had that wedge thing? Why not leave them blank? For a long time I was wondering

Re: iTunes 10

2010-09-06 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Sep 6, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: On Sep 6, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Lawrence Sica wrote: On Sep 5, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Christopher Bort wrote: On 09/04/10 19:40, macs...@macsrwe.com (Macs R We) wrote: On Sep 4, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Cyril Niklaus wrote: Oh, and btw, does

Re: mbp sleep issues

2010-08-30 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Aug 29, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Matt Penna wrote: On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: I was wondering if anyone has encountered the issue with the unibody MBPs where it won't go to sleep on it's own. A friend of mine is having this issue, sleep does work

mbp sleep issues

2010-08-29 Thread Lawrence Sica
I was wondering if anyone has encountered the issue with the unibody MBPs where it won't go to sleep on it's own. A friend of mine is having this issue, sleep does work if they are not logged in so I suspect a corrupted plist or something running in the background. They claim to not have

Re: mbp sleep issues

2010-08-29 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:28 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Aug 29, 2010, at 12:05, Lawrence Sica lom...@gmail.com wrote: A friend of mine is having this issue, sleep does work if they are not logged in so I suspect a corrupted plist or something running in the background. They claim to not have

Re: yucko ... Safari 5.01

2010-08-14 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Aug 13, 2010, at 2:55 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 12-Aug-2010, at 16:44, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote The world wide web's primary function is to display pages of text and graphics, with hyperlinks. That was HTML 1. It works, and works amazingly well. The initial purpose of the

Re: Converting PDF to epub

2010-04-06 Thread Lawrence Sica
Sent from my iPad On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:55 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/6/10, Lawrence Sica lom...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a good way to do this? I've downloaded calibre but my initial attempts have been not so great. You're in luck, this has just