From tabdave at ca.rr.com Thu Nov 1 16:06:46 2007 From: tabdave at ca.rr.com (Crandon David) Date: Thu Nov 1 16:06:54 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can I connect a computer monitor to my cable box? Message-ID: Hey Everyone, I'm getting a new TV for a spare bedroom. It's gonna be small, around 19-25" LCD. Can I buy a computer monitor of that size and use my cable box for the signal? Assuming of course we have compatible connections? I'm thinking about that because computer monitors are considerable less expensive than TV's of the same size. Thanks, David From healyzh at aracnet.com Thu Nov 1 17:53:28 2007 From: healyzh at aracnet.com (Zane H. Healy) Date: Thu Nov 1 17:53:41 2007 Subject: [X4U] Volume Setting on Restricted accounts? Message-ID: Is there a way to set the max volume on a restricted account? Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh@aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | From nickscalise at cox.net Thu Nov 1 18:11:22 2007 From: nickscalise at cox.net (Nick Scalise) Date: Thu Nov 1 18:14:25 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can I connect a computer monitor to my cable box? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Nov 1, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Crandon David wrote: > I'm getting a new TV for a spare bedroom. It's gonna be small, > around 19-25" LCD. > > Can I buy a computer monitor of that size and use my cable box for > the signal? Assuming of course we have compatible connections? I'm > thinking about that because computer monitors are considerable less > expensive than TV's of the same size. As long as the monitor has the same kind of inputs as your cable box has outputs, it should work. Don't forget to find a monitor with speakers. -- Nick Scalise nickscalise@cox.net From dancurr at frontiernet.net Thu Nov 1 19:27:48 2007 From: dancurr at frontiernet.net (Dan A Currie) Date: Thu Nov 1 19:27:55 2007 Subject: [X4U] Pasword? Message-ID: <472A8B24.8020101@frontiernet.net> Hello, I am driving an MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 320 GB HD / NETSCAPE 7.2 / OS X.4.7 and would like to know if there is a way to password protect my documents hard drive partition. Kids seem to think that it is a playroom!! TIA, Dan Currie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071101/8edb5cd6/attachment.html From nickscalise at cox.net Thu Nov 1 20:32:15 2007 From: nickscalise at cox.net (Nick Scalise) Date: Thu Nov 1 20:32:28 2007 Subject: [X4U] Pasword? In-Reply-To: <472A8B24.8020101@frontiernet.net> References: <472A8B24.8020101@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: On Nov 1, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Dan A Currie wrote: > I am driving an MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 320 GB HD / NETSCAPE > 7.2 / OS X.4.7 and would like to know if there is a way to password > protect my documents hard drive partition. If you are using separate accounts, just put permissions on that partition that only give you access. Otherwise, you could create an encrypted disk image and put your documents in there. -- Nick Scalise nickscalise@cox.net From rick at rickgordon.com Fri Nov 2 02:25:42 2007 From: rick at rickgordon.com (Rick Gordon) Date: Fri Nov 2 02:25:58 2007 Subject: [X4U] Standard Protocol Equivalent for Terminal "open" Command?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Is there any standard (or easily distributable) protocol (syntactically like http, file, ftp, etc.) that can be prefixed to a POSIX path that can duplicate a Terminal "open" command? So that (assuming that the protocol was "open"): open:///Library/Application%20Support would open the global Application Support folder in the Finder, or open:///Applications/Utilities/Disk%20Utility.app would launch the Disk Utility application, or reveal:///Applications/Utilities/Disk%20Utility.app would reveal the Disk Utility application in the Finder? Some thing like that would be a boon for technical support emails requiring an unsophisticated user to easily access a file or folder, without having to laboriously explain the file path. -- ___________________________________________________ RICK GORDON EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING ___________________________________________________ WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com From macmonster at myrealbox.com Fri Nov 2 05:52:14 2007 From: macmonster at myrealbox.com (Stroller) Date: Fri Nov 2 05:52:37 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can I connect a computer monitor to my cable box? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5D50F9BF-E3AA-4974-99DF-71F4EF22AE3F@myrealbox.com> On 1 Nov 2007, at 23:06, Crandon David wrote: > ... > I'm getting a new TV for a spare bedroom. It's gonna be small, > around 19-25" LCD. > > Can I buy a computer monitor of that size and use my cable box for > the signal? Assuming of course we have compatible connections? I'm > thinking about that because computer monitors are considerable less > expensive than TV's of the same size. > ... It's likely that your cable TV box will have composite (single yellow connector) video output. I think there are a number of monitors that accommodate this, but this signal simply does not give very good image quality. Component (red, blue & green video connectors) give *much* better image quality. I think you can get monitors that support this, but I do not think they're common or cheap. If your cable box is hi-def then it may have an HDMI output, the highest quality of video transfer. You can connect this to any good- quality TFT monitor using an DVI cable. HDMI output can be encrypted via HDCP - and video output from a cable box most likely IS encrypted - so you should ensure that the monitor is HDCP-capable. Such monitors are not uncommon, but obviously not as cheap as ones without the facility. Because of these limitations, I'd be surprised to hear that a computer monitor would really be such good value. A monitor's video scaler is likely not as good quality as that of a TV, and TVs tend to have lower pixel-resolution than monitors. Unless the smaller size is an absolute requirement, I would have thought that you'd get a suitable 30" LCD TV - which is currently the size at which you get best bang-per-buck in TV purchasing - for the same price as a suitable 20" monitor. Stroller. From tabdave at ca.rr.com Fri Nov 2 07:04:22 2007 From: tabdave at ca.rr.com (Crandon David) Date: Fri Nov 2 07:04:45 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can I connect a computer monitor to my cable box? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3F6FB9E8-1AFF-4768-977F-FA42EDA176C3@ca.rr.com> Crap, forgot about the speaker issue! Are there converter cables for all this? Like component to old SCSI or HDMI to whatever new monitors use? David On Nov 1, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Nick Scalise wrote: > On Nov 1, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Crandon David wrote: > >> I'm getting a new TV for a spare bedroom. It's gonna be small, >> around 19-25" LCD. >> >> Can I buy a computer monitor of that size and use my cable box for >> the signal? Assuming of course we have compatible connections? I'm >> thinking about that because computer monitors are considerable >> less expensive than TV's of the same size. > > > As long as the monitor has the same kind of inputs as your cable > box has outputs, it should work. > > Don't forget to find a monitor with speakers. > > -- > Nick Scalise > nickscalise@cox.net > > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Pricehttp:// > www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal From tabdave at ca.rr.com Fri Nov 2 07:10:20 2007 From: tabdave at ca.rr.com (Crandon David) Date: Fri Nov 2 07:10:29 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can I connect a computer monitor to my cable box? In-Reply-To: <5D50F9BF-E3AA-4974-99DF-71F4EF22AE3F@myrealbox.com> References: <5D50F9BF-E3AA-4974-99DF-71F4EF22AE3F@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: Thanks Sroller, you gave me some great info! From a price standpoint, at Costco and Sam's, in the 22" and below range, computer monitors are $100-200 less, but I haven't looked at whether they have the correct connections or if they have speakers. David On Nov 2, 2007, at 5:52 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2007, at 23:06, Crandon David wrote: >> ... >> I'm getting a new TV for a spare bedroom. It's gonna be small, >> around 19-25" LCD. >> >> Can I buy a computer monitor of that size and use my cable box for >> the signal? Assuming of course we have compatible connections? I'm >> thinking about that because computer monitors are considerable >> less expensive than TV's of the same size. >> ... > > It's likely that your cable TV box will have composite (single > yellow connector) video output. I think there are a number of > monitors that accommodate this, but this signal simply does not > give very good image quality. > > Component (red, blue & green video connectors) give *much* better > image quality. I think you can get monitors that support this, but > I do not think they're common or cheap. > > If your cable box is hi-def then it may have an HDMI output, the > highest quality of video transfer. You can connect this to any good- > quality TFT monitor using an DVI cable. HDMI output can be > encrypted via HDCP - and video output from a cable box most likely > IS encrypted - so you should ensure that the monitor is HDCP- > capable. Such monitors are not uncommon, but obviously not as cheap > as ones without the facility. > > Because of these limitations, I'd be surprised to hear that a > computer monitor would really be such good value. A monitor's video > scaler is likely not as good quality as that of a TV, and TVs tend > to have lower pixel-resolution than monitors. Unless the smaller > size is an absolute requirement, I would have thought that you'd > get a suitable 30" LCD TV - which is currently the size at which > you get best bang-per-buck in TV purchasing - for the same price as > a suitable 20" monitor. > > Stroller. > > > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Pricehttp:// > www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal From jleo at projectsupport.com Fri Nov 2 07:25:01 2007 From: jleo at projectsupport.com (Jesse Leo) Date: Fri Nov 2 07:25:50 2007 Subject: [X4U] Fubar Firefox bookmarks In-Reply-To: <20071102141035.411451B97366@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: Hiyas, Something funky happened to my firefox bookmarks and prefs, when I started firefox today all bookmarks were gone and it was running as if it was just installed. I have a backup of my hard drive, anyone know which file(s) and locations I should restore? Thanks, Jesse From simon-lists at ldml.com Fri Nov 2 08:08:09 2007 From: simon-lists at ldml.com (Simon Forster) Date: Fri Nov 2 08:08:47 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard's lost NetInfo Message-ID: <4CCA82B8-D0E9-4894-B03B-33EE1FA0AABE@ldml.com> My friend NetInfo has been stripped out of Leopard and I'm not too sure how we're meant to admin the various (hidden) users now. Can someone point me in the right direction - a doc or 2 would be a good start! TIA Simon Forster __________________________________________________ LDML Ltd, 62 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5HZ, UK Tel: +44 20 7993 8813 Fax: +44 70 9230 5247 __________________________________________________ From neil at laubenthal.net Fri Nov 2 08:18:24 2007 From: neil at laubenthal.net (Neil Laubenthal) Date: Fri Nov 2 08:18:42 2007 Subject: [X4U] Fubar Firefox bookmarks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20071102111824.xy9tjt4r9bs4occ0@webmail.his.com> Quoting Jesse Leo : > Hiyas, > > > Something funky happened to my firefox bookmarks and prefs, when I started > firefox today all bookmarks were gone and it was running as if it was just > installed. > > I have a backup of my hard drive, anyone know which file(s) and locations I > should restore? IIRC . . it's ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox(although this might be Mozilla)/Profiles/some directory I can't remember the name of/random numbersequence/bookmarks.html. Once you get into the ~/Library/Application Support it's pretty easy to figure out. From macsys at mac.com Fri Nov 2 08:32:53 2007 From: macsys at mac.com (wilkinw) Date: Fri Nov 2 08:33:12 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard's lost NetInfo In-Reply-To: <4CCA82B8-D0E9-4894-B03B-33EE1FA0AABE@ldml.com> References: <4CCA82B8-D0E9-4894-B03B-33EE1FA0AABE@ldml.com> Message-ID: <59529A62-8A8F-49D0-A3BE-EF18EAFEC29A@mac.com> In System Prefs/Accounts Control click on the account On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Simon Forster wrote: > > My friend NetInfo has been stripped out of Leopard and I'm not too > sure how we're meant to admin the various (hidden) users now. Can > someone point me in the right direction - a doc or 2 would be a > good start! > From simon-lists at ldml.com Fri Nov 2 08:49:51 2007 From: simon-lists at ldml.com (Simon Forster) Date: Fri Nov 2 08:50:00 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard's lost NetInfo In-Reply-To: <59529A62-8A8F-49D0-A3BE-EF18EAFEC29A@mac.com> References: <4CCA82B8-D0E9-4894-B03B-33EE1FA0AABE@ldml.com> <59529A62-8A8F-49D0-A3BE-EF18EAFEC29A@mac.com> Message-ID: <36C51CB5-3061-4A4B-B237-ED880EDCFF1D@ldml.com> OK. A start. But what about the mysql account? www? It looks like we're confined and constrained to dscl. I'm sure that this must be a step forward but right now I'm at a loss to see why / how. Simon On 2 Nov 2007, at 15:32, wilkinw wrote: > In System Prefs/Accounts > Control click on the account > > > On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Simon Forster wrote: > >> >> My friend NetInfo has been stripped out of Leopard and I'm not too >> sure how we're meant to admin the various (hidden) users now. Can >> someone point me in the right direction - a doc or 2 would be a >> good start! From tabdave at ca.rr.com Fri Nov 2 09:30:33 2007 From: tabdave at ca.rr.com (Crandon David) Date: Fri Nov 2 09:30:40 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can a G4 go to Leopard? Message-ID: <7A41702D-0841-43C3-80E8-D1202F0734E3@ca.rr.com> Hi Everyone, Legalities aside, can a G4 (whose installation disks I've lost) be updated to Leopard with the disks that come with a new Mac that has Leopard already installed? Or, perhaps with the Leopard update disks that people can get if they purchased their Macs last month? Thanks, David From macsys at mac.com Fri Nov 2 10:10:24 2007 From: macsys at mac.com (wilkinw) Date: Fri Nov 2 10:11:27 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard's lost NetInfo In-Reply-To: <36C51CB5-3061-4A4B-B237-ED880EDCFF1D@ldml.com> References: <4CCA82B8-D0E9-4894-B03B-33EE1FA0AABE@ldml.com> <59529A62-8A8F-49D0-A3BE-EF18EAFEC29A@mac.com> <36C51CB5-3061-4A4B-B237-ED880EDCFF1D@ldml.com> Message-ID: <165790AE-9BB4-4BAE-8406-47774C190EA7@mac.com> Google is a wonderful thing! http://www.sitecrafting.com/blog/apache-mysql-php-on-leopard/ From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Fri Nov 2 11:15:52 2007 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Fri Nov 2 11:16:08 2007 Subject: [X4U] Small text in Firefox Message-ID: When I open a website in Firefox, I need to enlarge (comm +) the text to read it. Can't I make that permanent somewhere? I searched Firefox but can't find anything. Paul Moortgat From rashton at telus.net Fri Nov 2 11:44:00 2007 From: rashton at telus.net (Robert Ashton) Date: Fri Nov 2 11:44:15 2007 Subject: [X4U] Mac virus?? Message-ID: <41901C6F-54D2-4B3D-83F1-E1CBAFD211D4@telus.net> Stopped at the local pc computer store this morning and they told me that there was a Mac virus out. Has any one heard of any thing? Thanks Bob From kirkmc at mac.com Fri Nov 2 11:46:23 2007 From: kirkmc at mac.com (Kirk McElhearn) Date: Fri Nov 2 11:46:44 2007 Subject: [X4U] Mac virus?? In-Reply-To: <41901C6F-54D2-4B3D-83F1-E1CBAFD211D4@telus.net> References: <41901C6F-54D2-4B3D-83F1-E1CBAFD211D4@telus.net> Message-ID: <2DA9B39D-235B-4236-A530-A00163DB23AE@mac.com> On Nov 2, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Robert Ashton wrote: > Stopped at the local pc computer store this morning and they told me > that there was a Mac virus out. Has any one heard of any thing? > Thanks Bob It's a Trojan, not a virus. I've got an article on my blog, with links to the main articles (Macworld, etc.): http://www.mcelhearn.com/article.php?story=20071101092210113 Kirk Author of: The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood http://www.mcelhearn.com/unix.html - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more From XPressoBean at mac.com Fri Nov 2 11:59:29 2007 From: XPressoBean at mac.com (Linda) Date: Fri Nov 2 11:59:41 2007 Subject: [X4U] Mac virus?? In-Reply-To: <41901C6F-54D2-4B3D-83F1-E1CBAFD211D4@telus.net> Message-ID: On 11/2/07 1:44 PM, Robert Ashton wrote: > Stopped at the local pc computer store this morning and they told me > that there was a Mac virus out. Has any one heard of any thing? It's not a virus, it's a Trojan Horse. They're different. From what I read, this new one requires you to download and try to install a "video codec" that will enable you to play a pr0n video that you just tried to view that wouldn't work. Of course there is no video, and you aren't missing a codec. It's their way to entice you to install the Trojan Horse. ~Linda From lists at marksmandesign.ca Fri Nov 2 16:20:35 2007 From: lists at marksmandesign.ca (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Fri Nov 2 16:24:28 2007 Subject: [X4U] PAL to NTSC? Message-ID: Hi all, First let me say that I'm not that familiar with all of this... I'm working on a project for a local school board. They have a video from a few years ago that they want me to burn a dozen copies to be included with a booklet I'm producing for them. They tell me that the only copy of this video is on one of the school servers. It's in the form of a "VIDEO_TS" folder which I believe is a DVD format. (it is isn't it?). I was able to watch the video using DVD Player so I know the file is OK. Anyway, I thought that all I had to do was use the "DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS" option in Toast 7 Titanium. The DVD seemed to burn OK but when I try it on my DVD player a message comes up saying that the disk is not NTSC. I presume that means I burnt a PAL DVD. I checked the preferences in Toast and it's set to burn NTSC disks. Is PAL or NTSC already set in the VIDEO_TS folder? Is there anything I can do to burn it to a NTSC DVD? I need to have these disks burnt by the end of next week. Thanks Mark Des Cotes Owner-Graphic Designer Marksman Design Mailing adress: 7-841 Sydney Street, Suite # 338 Cornwall, Ontario K6H 7L2 Canada 613-936-6876 From netkat at comcast.net Fri Nov 2 16:31:10 2007 From: netkat at comcast.net (nk) Date: Fri Nov 2 16:31:24 2007 Subject: [X4U] PAL to NTSC? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53790048874d0b5f81ed61d828d4637e@comcast.net> On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > The DVD seemed to burn OK but when I try it on my DVD player a message > comes up saying that the disk is not NTSC. I presume that means I > burnt a PAL DVD. I checked the preferences in Toast and it's set to > burn NTSC disks. Is PAL or NTSC already set in the VIDEO_TS folder? Is > there anything I can do to burn it to a NTSC DVD? I need to have these > disks burnt by the end of next week. Hi, Mark; I would *heartily* encourage you to post this question at the Apple Discussions>Final Cut Forum. Not that your question isn't worthy here, but bcs within about 30 minutes, you are likely to get a definitive, helpful answer from some video pro who tangles with this issue everyday. excellent bunch there, and I'm sure they'll help you git 'er all figured out....as would I if I knew the answer! good luck! nk From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Fri Nov 2 16:41:07 2007 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Fri Nov 2 16:41:36 2007 Subject: [X4U] PAL to NTSC? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7855866C-49AF-40A4-93DB-9091877E229F@pandora.be> If you can get FCP see Paul Moortgat On 03 Nov 2007, at 00:20, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Hi all, > > First let me say that I'm not that familiar with all of this... > > I'm working on a project for a local school board. They have a > video from a few years ago that they want me to burn a dozen copies > to be included with a booklet I'm producing for them. They tell me > that the only copy of this video is on one of the school servers. > It's in the form of a "VIDEO_TS" folder which I believe is a DVD > format. (it is isn't it?). I was able to watch the video using DVD > Player so I know the file is OK. Anyway, I thought that all I had > to do was use the "DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS" option in Toast 7 > Titanium. The DVD seemed to burn OK but when I try it on my DVD > player a message comes up saying that the disk is not NTSC. I > presume that means I burnt a PAL DVD. I checked the preferences in > Toast and it's set to burn NTSC disks. Is PAL or NTSC already set > in the VIDEO_TS folder? Is there anything I can do to burn it to a > NTSC DVD? I need to have these disks burnt by the end of next week. > > Thanks > > Mark Des Cotes > Owner-Graphic Designer > Marksman Design > > Mailing adress: > 7-841 Sydney Street, Suite # 338 > Cornwall, Ontario K6H 7L2 > Canada > 613-936-6876 From baltwo at san.rr.com Fri Nov 2 17:22:39 2007 From: baltwo at san.rr.com (John Baltutis) Date: Fri Nov 2 17:22:50 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard's lost NetInfo In-Reply-To: <20071102232437.ADA6F1BA8AF0@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20071102232437.ADA6F1BA8AF0@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: On 11/02/07, Simon Forster wrote: > > My friend NetInfo has been stripped out of Leopard and I'm not too > sure how we're meant to admin the various (hidden) users now. Can > someone point me in the right direction - a doc or 2 would be a good start! for starters. From baltwo at san.rr.com Fri Nov 2 17:28:17 2007 From: baltwo at san.rr.com (John Baltutis) Date: Fri Nov 2 17:28:28 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can a G4 go to Leopard? In-Reply-To: <20071102232437.ADA6F1BA8AF0@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20071102232437.ADA6F1BA8AF0@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: On 11/02/07, Crandon David wrote: > > Legalities aside, can a G4 (whose installation disks I've lost) be > updated to Leopard with the disks that come with a new Mac that has > Leopard already installed? > > Or, perhaps with the Leopard update disks that people can get if they > purchased their Macs last month? Legalities can't be put aside. Get replacement disks: 1-800-MY-APPLE. They should run about $20-30. From nickscalise at cox.net Fri Nov 2 18:19:10 2007 From: nickscalise at cox.net (Nick Scalise) Date: Fri Nov 2 18:19:20 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can a G4 go to Leopard? In-Reply-To: <7A41702D-0841-43C3-80E8-D1202F0734E3@ca.rr.com> References: <7A41702D-0841-43C3-80E8-D1202F0734E3@ca.rr.com> Message-ID: On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Crandon David wrote: > Legalities aside, can a G4 (whose installation disks I've lost) be > updated to Leopard with the disks that come with a new Mac that has > Leopard already installed? Most likely, although the disk may check what machine it is loading on. However there are probably ways around that, too. > Or, perhaps with the Leopard update disks that people can get if > they purchased their Macs last month? More likely. -- Nick Scalise nickscalise@cox.net From michaelelliott at mac.com Fri Nov 2 23:31:39 2007 From: michaelelliott at mac.com (Michael Elliott) Date: Fri Nov 2 23:31:49 2007 Subject: [X4U] Apple Mail keeps launching spontaneously in Leopard Message-ID: <8E3E3F76-274B-4D5D-8DA5-9803FF046DD9@mac.com> I'm not sure if this was happening in Tiger or not, but every time I quit Mail, it relaunches again after 5-10 seconds. Is there a cron log or some other way I can determine what is telling the computer to relaunch this program? I had it set to launch on login using the Login Items section of the Accounts prefpane, but I've disabled/ deleted that startup item. Thanks Michael From michaelelliott at mac.com Fri Nov 2 23:35:48 2007 From: michaelelliott at mac.com (Michael Elliott) Date: Fri Nov 2 23:36:01 2007 Subject: [X4U] Apple Mail keeps launching spontaneously in Leopard In-Reply-To: <8E3E3F76-274B-4D5D-8DA5-9803FF046DD9@mac.com> References: <8E3E3F76-274B-4D5D-8DA5-9803FF046DD9@mac.com> Message-ID: Wow...as usually happens on here, I stumbled across the answer minutes after I posted my question :-) I opened system.log in Console and noticed repeated errors thrown by Soonr Agent (Soonr is a really cool little background app that lets you access files, emails, etc from a web browser or your iPhone or whatever). I quit the menu item, and then quit mail...waited a full 2 minutes and it didn't launch again. On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:31 AM, Michael Elliott wrote: > I'm not sure if this was happening in Tiger or not, but every time I > quit Mail, it relaunches again after 5-10 seconds. Is there a cron > log or some other way I can determine what is telling the computer > to relaunch this program? I had it set to launch on login using the > Login Items section of the Accounts prefpane, but I've disabled/ > deleted that startup item. > > Thanks > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Pricehttp://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal From list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net Sat Nov 3 01:07:21 2007 From: list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net (Eugene) Date: Sat Nov 3 01:07:42 2007 Subject: [X4U] Mac virus?? In-Reply-To: <41901C6F-54D2-4B3D-83F1-E1CBAFD211D4@telus.net> References: <41901C6F-54D2-4B3D-83F1-E1CBAFD211D4@telus.net> Message-ID: <20071103080721.GA274@core-age.local> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:44:00PM CDT, Robert Ashton wrote: > > Stopped at the local pc computer store this morning and they told me that > there was a Mac virus out. Has any one heard of any thing? Thanks Bob Your local store peeps have been drinking the kool-aid. >> >> The trojan claims to install a video codec necessary for viewing free >> pornographic videos on Macs, but when users click on the still images >> to view the content they are directed to a Web page stating that they >> must download a new version of a codec to play the movie file with >> QuickTime. Safari users who have checked the "Open 'Safe' Files After >> Downloading" option in General Preferences will find that the disk >> image which is downloaded to their Mac automatically mounts, and the >> installer application will automatically launch. >> >> Proceeding with the installation installs the trojan horse, and >> requires users to enter their administrator password which grants the >> malicious software full root privileges. No codec is installed and >> users who return to the website simply receive another download >> request. >> Maybe your local store peeps have nothing better to do than to watch Internet porn. -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ From jamesrob at sonic.net Sat Nov 3 10:34:46 2007 From: jamesrob at sonic.net (Jim Robertson) Date: Sat Nov 3 10:36:54 2007 Subject: [X4U] aDSL: dynamic vs. static IP Message-ID: I'm moving in a month or so, and it seems I could save money by bundling my current phone, internet, and wireless phone services. I currently have a SUPERB local ISP (sonic.net), but my 3-6 mb/sec service with 4 static IP addresses will soon cost me $70/month. I've rarely used more than one IP address, but my new house will have CAT 5e cabling throughout, and it's possible I might want it. The competition for what I have now would be bundling everything through ATT (which means ATT Yahoo for the ISP), and it seems I could get wireless phone, residential phone service, and 1.5-3 mb/sec with a dynamic IP and multiple email addresses for about $100/month. There was a time when I used the static IP to host a website. I no longer do that. For the short term, I think the only reasons I might want a static IP would be remote access to my Macs from other locations, but that seems built in to Leopard with "Back to my Mac" (which I assume will get me there even with a dynamic IP address). Am I correct on that? For the moment, I'm the only one in my household who would want remote access to my computer at home. If others do as well (there are 3 full-time Mac users in the household), is port-forwarding to the DSL router needed to implement "Back to my Mac", and would that make it available to only one computer "hiding" behind the router that does NAT? If so, would I need to use the dedicated static IPs I have now to get around this obstacle? Can others comment on the general issues attendant to such "bundles" of services? I could save even more by adding TV services, but that would mean DISH network, and the only way to get the F1 races (Speed) and European bicycle racing (Versus) is with DISH network's most expensive channel grouping - AND I'd lose my beloved TiVo. Thanks so much, Jim Robertson -- From XPressoBean at mac.com Sat Nov 3 11:01:08 2007 From: XPressoBean at mac.com (Linda) Date: Sat Nov 3 11:01:45 2007 Subject: [X4U] aDSL: dynamic vs. static IP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 11/3/07 12:34 PM, Jim Robertson wrote: > AND I'd lose my beloved TiVo. DISH offers their own version of DVR. :-) I've got ATT/Yahoo for my DSL, have had for a little more than a year, and it's only been out twice (cable was out a couple times a month for varying lengths of time). When it was out, tech support on the phone was great, walked me through what to do (one of the two times it was something I needed to reset here in my house to get back online -- in addition to restarting the modem and router, you *also* need to unplug the DSL cord from the wall for 10-30 seconds, which I never had to do with my years of cable internet service). My fear of "bundled services" is that if service goes out, do all of your services go out at once? With cable, it was too often for my taste, and users tell me that you *do* lose cable phone service when cable goes out. With AT&T/Yahoo, even when my DSL was out, my phone wasn't (oddly). DISH is separate from your internet/phone, so service interruption isn't an all-or-nothing prospect. Can't comment on the dedicated IP number. I don't have that with AT&T DSL, but before I go on a trip I doublecheck my IP, and I can always get back to my computer if I need to (unless the power has gone out). My IP address hasn't changed in several months; I haven't kept track to see how often it does change, though. I'm certain it must... Don't be afraid to haggle the price of the channel groupings. Seriously. Especially if you're thinking of going with a bigger bundle. They know they have to be competitive with the cable charges in your area as well as the other satellite TV providers. Do your homework and find out what the premium channel packages cost with the other cable/satellite providers in your area; don't mention a specific channel that you "can't" live without; don't be afraid to quote numbers from the other providers even if it's not for exactly the same service. "Well, for just a couple dollars more than what you're quoting me, I could get *two* premium packages on DirecTV..." Also make note that many "deals" are time-limited -- a free premium package for six months, free texting for one year, etc. Good luck. ~Linda From jamesrob at sonic.net Sat Nov 3 11:16:41 2007 From: jamesrob at sonic.net (Jim Robertson) Date: Sat Nov 3 11:16:53 2007 Subject: [X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 39, Issue 3 In-Reply-To: <20071103180155.067681BC3A24@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7m Type: application/pkcs7-mime Size: 3129 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071103/7379a998/smime.p7c From ronsteinke at mac.com Sat Nov 3 11:48:47 2007 From: ronsteinke at mac.com (Ronald Steinke) Date: Sat Nov 3 11:48:54 2007 Subject: [X4U] Volume Setting on Restricted accounts? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <97BC8CB4-31E8-446F-B165-94CEB2F43D8A@mac.com> On 1 Nov, 2007, at 17:53, Zane H. Healy wrote: > Is there a way to set the max volume on a restricted account? If you have set up separate accounts on your Mac, each account preferences setting will be separate from the other accounts. Just set the volume level that you want for the account you want to control and then lock the settings using Parental Controls to isolate that user account from changing any system preference setting. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071103/2e438f50/attachment.html From edgould1948 at comcast.net Sat Nov 3 12:23:37 2007 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Sat Nov 3 12:24:14 2007 Subject: [X4U] aDSL: dynamic vs. static IP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <097EAF52-A6AB-4CF7-9636-3F2FA36D09FD@comcast.net> On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Linda wrote: > On 11/3/07 12:34 PM, Jim Robertson wrote: > >> AND I'd lose my beloved TiVo. > > DISH offers their own version of DVR. :-) > > I've got ATT/Yahoo for my DSL, have had for a little more than a > year, and > it's only been out twice (cable was out a couple times a month for > varying > lengths of time). When it was out, tech support on the phone was > great, > walked me through what to do (one of the two times it was something > I needed > to reset here in my house to get back online -- in addition to > restarting > the modem and router, you *also* need to unplug the DSL cord from > the wall > for 10-30 seconds, which I never had to do with my years of cable > internet > service). > > My fear of "bundled services" is that if service goes out, do all > of your > services go out at once? With cable, it was too often for my taste, > and > users tell me that you *do* lose cable phone service when cable > goes out. > With AT&T/Yahoo, even when my DSL was out, my phone wasn't (oddly). > DISH is > separate from your internet/phone, so service interruption isn't an > all-or-nothing prospect. > ---SNIP-------- I had at&t for a couple of years and even when Yahoo became partners. I ended up switching to a cable modem (comcast). The reason I did so was that their (AT&T-YAHOO) tech support (besides telling me every time I had an email issue was to delete and re-install my email package. I rebelled and told them where to get off. The last year I had them the support went to INDIA and talk about POOR support. They advised that a bouncing problem was in my house and that they would have to send a repair man out and it would cost me $100. The next day the local person called up and when I explained the issue he said they were nuts and it was a server issue (duh...). I won't tell you the other horror stories about Indian TS. I got fed up with them and went with COMCAST. While their support is average the number of times a day I loose the connection to the INTERNET is a real PITA. I am staying with comcast at least they are local and give average support. I am not happy with it but its the only option I have left. Ed From neil at laubenthal.net Sat Nov 3 14:04:30 2007 From: neil at laubenthal.net (Neil Laubenthal) Date: Sat Nov 3 14:04:45 2007 Subject: [X4U] aDSL: dynamic vs. static IP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Easy . . . Register a domain name (dotster or whoever) and use www.dyndns.org to point to your domain. Configure your router (most recent ones can be) or load a DynDNS client on your Mac to update the dyndns.org DNS server for your domain whenever your dynamic IP changes. For accessing several macs remotely . . . there are probably a couple of ways. I don't think that backtomymac requires any port forwarding although I haven't set it up yet. You can also use ssh tunnels pretty easily to connect a port on your out of the house mac to a port on the local macs . . . just use a different port for each one you want to to control. Once the ssh tunnel is setup (how-to's are on the net or I can give you the basics if you need them) then you just VNC on your laptop to localhost:port_that_is_forwarded and you're connected. On Nov 3, 2007, at 13:34, Jim Robertson wrote: > > There was a time when I used the static IP to host a website. I no > longer do > that. For the short term, I think the only reasons I might want a > static IP > would be remote access to my Macs from other locations, but that > seems built > in to Leopard with "Back to my Mac" (which I assume will get me > there even > with a dynamic IP address). Am I correct on that? > > For the moment, I'm the only one in my household who would want remote > access to my computer at home. If others do as well (there are 3 > full-time > Mac users in the household), is port-forwarding to the DSL router > needed to > implement "Back to my Mac", and would that make it available to only > one > computer "hiding" behind the router that does NAT? If so, would I > need to > use the dedicated static IPs I have now to get around this obstacle? From simon-lists at ldml.com Sun Nov 4 12:18:31 2007 From: simon-lists at ldml.com (Simon Forster) Date: Sun Nov 4 12:18:39 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard's lost NetInfo In-Reply-To: References: <20071102232437.ADA6F1BA8AF0@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: <59D1B8BF-39B9-441A-BBFC-D4AAE65C378B@ldml.com> Thanks for the replies. I'll follow up some of these links in more detail later. ATB Simon On 3 Nov 2007, at 00:22, John Baltutis wrote: > On 11/02/07, Simon Forster wrote: >> >> My friend NetInfo has been stripped out of Leopard and I'm not too >> sure how we're meant to admin the various (hidden) users now. Can >> someone point me in the right direction - a doc or 2 would be a >> good start! > > > > > > > > > > > > for starters. > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal From jleo at projectsupport.com Sun Nov 4 16:36:22 2007 From: jleo at projectsupport.com (Jesse Leo) Date: Sun Nov 4 16:36:32 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: <20071103180155.47BA61BC3A25@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: Hello, I apologize if this has been covered before, but is it possible to somehow get my beloved collection of Battlestar Galactica episodes that I purchased from itunes (m4v format) to DVDs? I'd love to be able to watch them on TV, and have no desire to buy iTV or whatever it's called. Thanks, Jesse From macmonster at myrealbox.com Sun Nov 4 19:05:51 2007 From: macmonster at myrealbox.com (Stroller) Date: Sun Nov 4 19:06:06 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5EB1CC6E-D6EF-45BB-A646-7CC630ED7BC9@myrealbox.com> On 5 Nov 2007, at 00:36, Jesse Leo wrote: > > I apologize if this has been covered before, but is it possible to > somehow > get my beloved collection of Battlestar Galactica episodes that I > purchased > from itunes (m4v format) to DVDs? I'd love to be able to watch them > on TV, > and have no desire to buy iTV or whatever it's called. The DRM appears to render this task non-trivial: http://askbobrankin.com/convert_itunes_videos_to_mpeg.html You'll easily find some for-pay solutions using Google - I'm dubious but they seem typically to do a free demo. This is the only free beer tool I can find: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SUPER_1 Do you mind if I ask you how much you paid for these downloads? Looks to me like you can get series 1 & 2 of the "reimagining" of Battlestar Galactica for less than $100 on Amazon.com, or the the "Complete Epic Series" for less than $50 (includes fancy packaging, but check out December's $20 release, too). The lengths required to fulfil such a simple request - to play on your DVD player movies you've bought by download - seem to me quite inconvenient. It looks like the 3rd-party software required to convert the format from m4v is all Windows-based - and it's probably "illegal" in the US, anyway - or Apple are happy to sell you new hardware. I guess it'd make sense to buy these shows from iTunes if you wanted them the day they came out, but now you're stuffed if you want to watch 'em on your telly - in the light of all this I don't know how anyone could condemn piracy. With the benefit of hindsight it would seem far more reasonable to have downloaded these shows using BitTorrent the day after they were aired and bought the DVD upon release. Now you've bought & paid for TV shows with a limited use. You can still download them from BitTorrent - and this solves the problem of watching on your telly iTunes shows you've paid for - but that doesn't seem as nice as getting the DVD for your collection. A great commentary article: http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink- birth-of.html Stroller From lists at mac.com Sun Nov 4 19:29:30 2007 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Sun Nov 4 19:29:46 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9B54CBB5-DC24-48E8-BA0D-6D15EDA0151E@mac.com> I don't think you can burn the copy protected videos to DVD. Do you own an iPod with video (5th or 5.5th generation)? Then, you would only need a $4 cable to put the videos on your TV, although there would be a slight degradation on video quality. As an Apple shareholder, I can't figure out Apple's business model in the video market. They expect consumers to pay hundreds of dollars for the AppleTV and then $10-15 per movie when everybody already all has the hardware that let's us watch pay per view movies on demand for only a few bucks per movie from cable or satellite. On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Jesse Leo wrote: > I apologize if this has been covered before, but is it possible to > somehow > get my beloved collection of Battlestar Galactica episodes that I > purchased > from itunes (m4v format) to DVDs? I'd love to be able to watch them > on TV, > and have no desire to buy iTV or whatever it's called. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071104/52f6fc47/attachment-0001.html From randy at macattorney.com Sun Nov 4 20:57:37 2007 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Sun Nov 4 20:57:50 2007 Subject: [X4U] Can a G4 go to Leopard? In-Reply-To: <7A41702D-0841-43C3-80E8-D1202F0734E3@ca.rr.com> References: <7A41702D-0841-43C3-80E8-D1202F0734E3@ca.rr.com> Message-ID: On Nov 2, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Crandon David wrote: > Legalities aside, can a G4 (whose installation disks I've lost) be > updated to Leopard with the disks that come with a new Mac that has > Leopard already installed? It's hard to say. New Macs nowadays often come with a model-specific version of OS X: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25784 ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________ From cubeistaner at gmail.com Sun Nov 4 22:48:06 2007 From: cubeistaner at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=98=AAubeistan?=) Date: Sun Nov 4 21:48:25 2007 Subject: [X4U] Screen Artifact Message-ID: <16DA9658-7C6F-40B4-A64F-5925CC7E63FC@gmail.com> All, On the flight home, watching a movie on DVD in my MacBook, the battery died before the movie finished so I put the MB away. Got home, plugged it in and have a black stripe about 3" wide on the right side of the screen, almost all the way to the top of the screen. Not an horizontal line at the top, but jagged. Hasn't gone away through several restarts, "Command,Option,P,R" restarts & shutdowns. What else might I try before calling Apple? Thanks for any ideas. R/ -- rs From jessup at san.rr.com Mon Nov 5 05:58:47 2007 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Mon Nov 5 05:59:07 2007 Subject: [X4U] Screen Artifact In-Reply-To: <16DA9658-7C6F-40B4-A64F-5925CC7E63FC@gmail.com> References: <16DA9658-7C6F-40B4-A64F-5925CC7E63FC@gmail.com> Message-ID: At 8 48 +0200 11/5/07, ?ubeistan wrote: >All, On the flight home, watching a movie on DVD in my MacBook, the >battery died before the movie finished so I put the MB away. Got >home, plugged it in and have a black stripe about 3" wide on the >right side of the screen, almost all the way to the top of the >screen. Not an horizontal line at the top, but jagged. Hasn't gone >away through several restarts, "Command,Option,P,R" restarts & >shutdowns. What else might I try before calling Apple? A wild guess, maybe if you reset the VRAM. You would boot into open firmware by restarting while holding Command-Option-O-F (oh, eff) then at the prompt, type: reset-nvram (Return) then: reset-all (Return) Can't hurt. Daly ---------------------- From jamesrob at sonic.net Mon Nov 5 05:21:17 2007 From: jamesrob at sonic.net (Jim Robertson) Date: Mon Nov 5 06:13:09 2007 Subject: [X4U] Re: aDSL: dynamic vs. static IP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 11/3/07 1:04 PM, "Neil Laubenthal" wrote: > Register a domain name (dotster or whoever) and use www.dyndns.org to point > to your domain. Configure your router (most recent ones can be) or load a > DynDNS client on your Mac to update the dyndns.org DNS server for your > domain whenever your dynamic IP changes. Mac-L list One of my main concerns about changing ISP is losing the email address I've had forever (or at least since Mr. Gore invented the internet). A new domain wouldn't permit me to keep my old email address, so far as I can understand this. Mac-L list Thanks to you and others for your helpful responses! Jim Robertson -- From jamesrob at sonic.net Mon Nov 5 06:18:14 2007 From: jamesrob at sonic.net (Jim Robertson) Date: Mon Nov 5 06:18:18 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 11/3/07 10:16 AM, "Jim Robertson" wrote: > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... OOPS! OK, I didn't write that, the listmom's scripts did. But the episode shows how far we are from computing as something that requires no more user tweaking than the toaster (alleged to be Steve Jobs's quest) I'm a physician, and I need to deal with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act), which "offers" steep fines and jail time for people who reveal what's called "protected health information." As yet, there are no formal "HIPAA Police", but Health Care as an industry is struggling with the desires of patients to communicate electronically with their medical care providers and the converse. I've been experimenting with PGP. It works (unfortunately) about as well as the Mac/PC commercial where the sunglass-enhanced CIA-types looking over PC's shoulder chant repeatedly "cancel or allow" . The non-text attachment was merely my PGP digital signature, which can't be parsed by many recipient email servers (and, as far as I know, by NO webmail interfaces). Jim Robertson -- From jamesrob at sonic.net Mon Nov 5 06:16:47 2007 From: jamesrob at sonic.net (Jim Robertson) Date: Mon Nov 5 06:39:16 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 11/3/07 10:16 AM, "Jim Robertson" wrote: > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... OOPS! OK, I didn't write that, the listmom's scripts did. But the episode shows how far we are from computing as something that requires no more user tweaking than the toaster (alleged to be Steve Jobs's quest) I'm a physician, and I need to deal with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act), which "offers" steep fines and jail time for people who reveal what's called "protected health information." As yet, there are no formal "HIPAA Police", but Health Care as an industry is struggling with the desires of patients to communicate electronically with their medical care providers and the converse. I've been experimenting with PGP. It works (unfortunately) about as well as the Mac/PC commercial where the sunglass-enhanced CIA-types looking over PC's shoulder chant repeatedly "cancel or allow" . The non-text attachment was merely my PGP digital signature, which can't be parsed by many recipient email servers (and, as far as I know, by NO webmail interfaces). Jim Robertson -- From jleo at projectsupport.com Mon Nov 5 06:49:42 2007 From: jleo at projectsupport.com (Jesse Leo) Date: Mon Nov 5 06:49:50 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: <20071105032944.7A9BF1BF6B08@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: Thanks for the info. I believe the BSG episodes were $1.99 apiece. I knew at the time of purchasing that I would be regretting it later. But the final season had not yet come out on DVD at that time, and I absolutely HAD to find out what happened next. Pathetic, I know. It is an extremely lame business model, I have no plans to get AppleTV. Looks like my viewing will be restricted to the powerbook. Thanks, Jesse From vplewis at mac.com Mon Nov 5 07:21:47 2007 From: vplewis at mac.com (Vince Lewis) Date: Mon Nov 5 07:22:07 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <08786379-0E37-49C9-9A02-098F68DACA86@mac.com> On Nov 5, 2007, at 6:18 AM, Jim Robertson wrote: > On 11/3/07 10:16 AM, "Jim Robertson" wrote: > >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > OOPS! > > OK, I didn't write that, the listmom's scripts did. But the episode > shows > how far we are from computing as something that requires no more user > tweaking than the toaster (alleged to be Steve Jobs's quest) > > I'm a physician, and I need to deal with HIPAA (Health Insurance > Portability > and Privacy Act), which "offers" steep fines and jail time for > people who > reveal what's called "protected health information." As yet, there > are no > formal "HIPAA Police", but Health Care as an industry is struggling > with the > desires of patients to communicate electronically with their medical > care > providers and the converse. > > I've been experimenting with PGP. It works (unfortunately) about as > well as > the Mac/PC commercial where the sunglass-enhanced CIA-types looking > over > PC's shoulder chant repeatedly "cancel or allow" . > > The non-text attachment was merely my PGP digital signature, which > can't be > parsed by many recipient email servers (and, as far as I know, by NO > webmail > interfaces). > > Jim Robertson > -- > Check out Thawte. They offer a freemail signing and encryption service. It adds a text-based key to your email. Also, dotMac users get Apple's version as part of the subscription price. ciao, Vince From tim_collier at bellsouth.net Mon Nov 5 11:31:29 2007 From: tim_collier at bellsouth.net (Tim Collier) Date: Mon Nov 5 17:07:07 2007 Subject: [X4U] Re: aDSL: dynamic vs. static IP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Jim Robertson wrote: > On 11/3/07 1:04 PM, "Neil Laubenthal" wrote: > >> Register a domain name (dotster or whoever) and use www.dyndns.org >> to point >> to your domain. Configure your router (most recent ones can be) or >> load a >> DynDNS client on your Mac to update the dyndns.org DNS server for >> your >> domain whenever your dynamic IP changes. Mac-L list > > > > One of my main concerns about changing ISP is losing the email > address I've > had forever (or at least since Mr. Gore invented the internet). A > new domain > wouldn't permit me to keep my old email address, so far as I can > understand > this. Mac-L list > > Thanks to you and others for your helpful responses! > > Jim Robertson > -- A .Mac account would sure take care of this. The IMAP mail has been a lifesaver for me at times and it's not one that goes away if I switch ISP's. LIke now, I have AT&T (bellsouth) and Comcast. But .Mac is always there and the family pack is really great. Visit the website and look into it. I'm not going to try to sell it to you here. Tim From maclist at analogdigital.com.au Tue Nov 6 05:14:20 2007 From: maclist at analogdigital.com.au (Christopher Collins) Date: Tue Nov 6 05:15:12 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Google is always helpful. http://all-streaming-media.com/faq/removing-DRM/faq-Remove-copy-protection-from-iTunes.htm Christopher On 06/11/2007, at 1:49 AM, Jesse Leo wrote: > Thanks for the info. I believe the BSG episodes were $1.99 apiece. I > knew at > the time of purchasing that I would be regretting it later. But the > final > season had not yet come out on DVD at that time, and I absolutely > HAD to > find out what happened next. Pathetic, I know. > > It is an extremely lame business model, I have no plans to get > AppleTV. > Looks like my viewing will be restricted to the powerbook. > > Thanks, > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071107/77bd0cfe/attachment-0001.html From jamesrob at sonic.net Tue Nov 6 06:02:44 2007 From: jamesrob at sonic.net (Jim Robertson) Date: Tue Nov 6 06:02:58 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: <08786379-0E37-49C9-9A02-098F68DACA86@mac.com> Message-ID: On 11/5/07 7:21 AM, "Vince Lewis" wrote: > Check out Thawte. They offer a freemail signing and encryption service. It > adds a text-based key to your email. Also, dotMac users get Apple's version > as part of the subscription price. ciao, Vince Proves (some of) my point. The non-text attachment that the listserv management software scrubbed, leaving behind a cryptic post on the digest, WAS my Thawte signature key. Proving who I am with this digital stamp often makes my communications indecipherable to the recipients. Such is life... Jim Robertson -- From simon-lists at ldml.com Tue Nov 6 06:49:55 2007 From: simon-lists at ldml.com (Simon Forster) Date: Tue Nov 6 06:50:02 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 6 Nov 2007, at 14:02, Jim Robertson wrote: > On 11/5/07 7:21 AM, "Vince Lewis" wrote: > >> Check out Thawte. They offer a freemail signing and encryption >> service. It >> adds a text-based key to your email. Also, dotMac users get >> Apple's version >> as part of the subscription price. ciao, Vince > > Proves (some of) my point. The non-text attachment that the listserv > management software scrubbed, leaving behind a cryptic post on the > digest, > WAS my Thawte signature key. Proving who I am with this digital > stamp often > makes my communications indecipherable to the recipients. So only prove who you are to those that care (and this list doesn't care). Almost certainly you'll want 2 email accounts - a public (insecure) persona and a private, signed you. In this age of free gmail, hotmail, xmail accounts, this shouldn't be too onerous. Simon Forster __________________________________________________ LDML Ltd, 62 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5HZ, UK Tel: +44 20 7993 8813 Fax: +44 70 9230 5247 __________________________________________________ From healyzh at aracnet.com Tue Nov 6 07:14:40 2007 From: healyzh at aracnet.com (Zane H. Healy) Date: Tue Nov 6 07:14:52 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: At 6:18 AM -0800 11/5/07, Jim Robertson wrote: >On 11/3/07 10:16 AM, "Jim Robertson" wrote: > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > >OOPS! >I've been experimenting with PGP. It works (unfortunately) about as well as >the Mac/PC commercial where the sunglass-enhanced CIA-types looking over >PC's shoulder chant repeatedly "cancel or allow" . > >The non-text attachment was merely my PGP digital signature, which can't be >parsed by many recipient email servers (and, as far as I know, by NO webmail >interfaces). Actually if all you did was have your PGP digital signature attached there was no faux pas on your part as far as I'm concerned. It is more of a bug or misconfiguration in the mail-list software, as that should logically be allowed and encouraged. I'd never even thought about this before, but I suspect that pretty much all mail-lists out there would react the same way. I don't even trust the Mac for data I want to keep safe, so I've not researched the current state of encryption software on the Mac. Have you looked into using GPG? It is opensource and I would be more inclined to trust it over PGP. I just don't know how well it will work with a Mac. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh@aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | From jleo at projectsupport.com Tue Nov 6 07:37:51 2007 From: jleo at projectsupport.com (Jesse Leo) Date: Tue Nov 6 07:38:06 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: <20071106131521.3842B1C294A5@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: "Message: 10 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 00:14:20 +1100 From: Christopher Collins Subject: Re: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user." Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Google is always helpful. http://all-streaming-media.com/faq/removing-DRM/faq-Remove-copy-protection-f rom-iTunes.htm Christopher" Not really. A google search returns a lot of sponsored junk, most of it Windows-only and suspicious looking. From XPressoBean at mac.com Tue Nov 6 07:50:55 2007 From: XPressoBean at mac.com (Linda) Date: Tue Nov 6 07:51:13 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 11/6/07 9:37 AM, Jesse Leo wrote: > Not really. A google [sic] search returns a lot of sponsored junk, most of it > Windows-only and suspicious looking. You can reduce your chances of that by specifying "Mac OS X" in the search field. Your search results are, after all, determined by your search terms... I just tried [iTunes TV to DVD Mac OS X] without any quotes at all, and my entire first page is Mac-related, not a Windows item on there -- and no sponsored returns, either. Christopher's answer isn't among them -- I'm sure his Google search included words mine did not, or included them in a different order -- but to dismiss Google as "sponsored junk, most of it Windows-only and suspicious looking" is mischaracterization of the service. From tabdave at ca.rr.com Tue Nov 6 09:06:03 2007 From: tabdave at ca.rr.com (Crandon David) Date: Tue Nov 6 09:06:14 2007 Subject: [X4U] Sound output suddenly changes! Ugh! Message-ID: Hello Everyone, For a friend of mine, below are his symptoms. Could you please all help out? This is a spontaeous change and it appears nothing in particular caused it.... Thanks. the audio problem with video clips, which for no apparent reason came upon my mac a few weeks (?months) ago, drives me nuts. Here is a summary of the symptons to make it easier for you to post this in one of the mac forums you visit. I would really appreciate it. The problem has nothing to do with specific preference settings of various softwares (WM-player, QuickTime etc) or settings in system prefs > sound > output. The audio portion of certain video formats does not play through external speakers anymore but only through the internal built-in speakers: mov and avi: sound plays ok through external speakers both in QuickTime and Preview. mpg: audio only from built-in speaker, both in QuickTime and Preview. wmv: audio only from built-in speaker (opened with WMPlayer) Mac start-up sound audio only from built-in speaker but all other alert sounds also from external speakers. All audio files, mp3, aiff, iTunes etc play through both int. and ext. speakers according to the settings in system prefs > sound > output. Mac Pro, 2x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel, 2 GB, OSX 10.4.1 From hdmorganjr at att.net Tue Nov 6 10:42:45 2007 From: hdmorganjr at att.net (Howard Morgan) Date: Tue Nov 6 10:42:58 2007 Subject: [X4U] Mail Signatures References: <3C050744-E9FF-4761-89C0-D50639EB45BC@att.net> Message-ID: <8C0A7303-2A2B-4446-A854-A7146DF16E61@att.net> I would like to create a mail signature that is in Courier 12. When I create the signature it displays correctly in the signature pane, but when I create a new email it shows up in Arial 12. I can manually change it to Courier 12, but I'd like to not have to. Any suggestions? Howard Morgan hdmorganjr@att.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 6-Nov-07, at 9:06 AM, Crandon David wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > For a friend of mine, below are his symptoms. Could you please all > help out? This is a spontaeous change and it appears nothing in > particular caused it.... > > Thanks. > Similar problem was solved with an upgrade from 10.4 to 10.4.1 he might get away with the audio fix file only Popping sounds after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.10 Issue or symptom After updating to Mac OS X 10.4.10, a "popping" sound may be heard from external speakers connected to an Intel-based Mac. The sound may be similar to a sound heard when the computer goes to sleep or wakes from sleep. Products affected * Mac OS X 10.4.10 * Intel-based Macs Solution Download and install the Audio Update 2007-001 regards A West -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Cojcolds From brettnlis at bigpond.com Tue Nov 6 14:35:11 2007 From: brettnlis at bigpond.com (Brett Conlon) Date: Tue Nov 6 14:35:36 2007 Subject: [X4U] Send & File via Apple's Mail Message-ID: <80154A1E-9A81-44D2-A247-36D1E515D905@bigpond.com> Hiya, Just starting to use Mail for the first time (I'm a previous Lotus Notes user) and I'm hoping there is a way to send an email and allow me to file it on the fly without me having to click on the "Sent" folder and manually drag it. Lotus Notes has a "Send & File" button that I used all the time. I like to keep both what was received and what I sent back in the same location for easier searching. Cheers, Cojcolds From XPressoBean at mac.com Tue Nov 6 14:55:00 2007 From: XPressoBean at mac.com (Linda) Date: Tue Nov 6 14:55:20 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing to PDF via CS3 under Leopard In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 11/6/07 4:31 PM, Brett Conlon wrote: > Anyone else successfully printing to PDF with CS3/Leopard? tuaw mentions "unspecified problems with Acrobat 8.1": The third comment (after Sandee and Kris) mentions that the PDF isn't created -- sounds like your problem, from what you've mentioned of it: Same for "bogu?s Machnik", last post. This guy says his tech support dude "had received many calls from people who were unable to create a PDF at all." And a discussion in the Apple forums: peace, Linda From lstnmt at bresnan.net Tue Nov 6 15:12:58 2007 From: lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) Date: Tue Nov 6 15:13:07 2007 Subject: [X4U] Send & File via Apple's Mail In-Reply-To: <80154A1E-9A81-44D2-A247-36D1E515D905@bigpond.com> References: <80154A1E-9A81-44D2-A247-36D1E515D905@bigpond.com> Message-ID: <16B2017F-7B28-43F6-82EA-8C5EFA5EDF32@bresnan.net> In Tiger, under preferences/Composing is a selection to automatically CC or BCC to yourself. Then use Mail rules to distribute the messages as needed. Jens Jens Selvig ...lost in Montana... On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Brett Conlon wrote: > Hiya, > > Just starting to use Mail for the first time (I'm a previous Lotus > Notes user) and I'm hoping there is a way to send an email and > allow me to file it on the fly without me having to click on the > "Sent" folder and manually drag it. Lotus Notes has a "Send & File" > button that I used all the time. I like to keep both what was > received and what I sent back in the same location for easier > searching. From jamesrob at sonic.net Tue Nov 6 15:43:37 2007 From: jamesrob at sonic.net (Jim Robertson) Date: Tue Nov 6 15:43:45 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 11/6/07 7:14 AM, "Zane H. Healy" wrote: > I don't even trust the Mac for data I want to keep safe, so I've not > researched the current state of encryption software on the Mac. Have > you looked into using GPG? It is opensource and I would be more > inclined to trust it over PGP. Must admit I don't even know what it IS, let alone whether it's Mac-friendly. Jim Robertson -- From macmonster at myrealbox.com Tue Nov 6 15:48:33 2007 From: macmonster at myrealbox.com (Stroller) Date: Tue Nov 6 15:48:42 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm reading those results as only operating on audio files. Only one of them says "please note that it can convert DRM-protected audio and video files" but then it continues: "to DRM-free audio files only." Stroller. On 6 Nov 2007, at 13:14, Christopher Collins wrote: > Google is always helpful. > > http://all-streaming-media.com/faq/removing-DRM/faq-Remove-copy- > protection-from-iTunes.htm > > Christopher > > > On 06/11/2007, at 1:49 AM, Jesse Leo wrote: > >> Thanks for the info. I believe the BSG episodes were $1.99 apiece. >> I knew at >> the time of purchasing that I would be regretting it later. But >> the final >> season had not yet come out on DVD at that time, and I absolutely >> HAD to >> find out what happened next. Pathetic, I know. From macmonster at myrealbox.com Tue Nov 6 15:51:28 2007 From: macmonster at myrealbox.com (Stroller) Date: Tue Nov 6 15:51:35 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47648E48-7810-4208-9A5C-6C71E0A5BE06@myrealbox.com> On 5 Nov 2007, at 14:49, Jesse Leo wrote: > ...I believe the BSG episodes were $1.99 apiece. I knew at > the time of purchasing that I would be regretting it later. But the > final > season had not yet come out on DVD at that time, and I absolutely > HAD to > find out what happened next. Pathetic, I know. For the record I don't think that's pathetic at all. You went into it with your eyes open, knowing what it cost you. We're not supposed to be rational about our hobbies. I do think that next series you'd be better off finding some other way to view the shows when they come out, tho', so you can save your money for the DVDs. Stroller. From macmonster at myrealbox.com Tue Nov 6 15:54:33 2007 From: macmonster at myrealbox.com (Stroller) Date: Tue Nov 6 15:54:38 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5C5B17CB-6022-4E61-96CF-3032F04A5BB9@myrealbox.com> On 6 Nov 2007, at 15:14, Zane H. Healy wrote: > ... > Actually if all you did was have your PGP digital signature > attached there was no faux pas on your part as far as I'm > concerned. It is more of a bug or misconfiguration in the mail- > list software, as that should logically be allowed and encouraged. > I'd never even thought about this before, but I suspect that pretty > much all mail-lists out there would react the same way. I'm pretty sure that PGP signatures go through to the Gentoo-user mailing list. This has occasionally raised snippery about how unnecessary they are on mailing lists ;). Stroller. From lists at mac.com Tue Nov 6 15:56:47 2007 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Tue Nov 6 15:57:08 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <685B997D-C21D-4C8D-BCC2-C90E77FF245B@mac.com> But, none of the answer the original question, unless I'm missing something. I think the answer is that it can't be done. The workaround is to use a 5th gen iPod or just acquire the material in a different format (ie. buy a DVD or download the file from a file sharing site). If I already paid for material, I wouldn't feel bad about renting the DVD from Netflix and ripping it to my hard drive. On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Linda wrote: > I just tried [iTunes TV to DVD Mac OS X] without any quotes at all, > and my > entire first page is Mac-related, not a Windows item on there -- > and no > sponsored returns, either. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From winstonworks at sympatico.ca Tue Nov 6 15:59:49 2007 From: winstonworks at sympatico.ca (Winston MacKelvie) Date: Tue Nov 6 15:59:57 2007 Subject: [X4U] Mail Signatures In-Reply-To: <8C0A7303-2A2B-4446-A854-A7146DF16E61@att.net> References: <3C050744-E9FF-4761-89C0-D50639EB45BC@att.net> <8C0A7303-2A2B-4446-A854-A7146DF16E61@att.net> Message-ID: Sounds like you need to set Font Prefs in the Mail Prefs. Winston -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071106/a8453f9a/attachment-0001.html From XPressoBean at mac.com Tue Nov 6 16:08:19 2007 From: XPressoBean at mac.com (Linda) Date: Tue Nov 6 16:08:32 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: <685B997D-C21D-4C8D-BCC2-C90E77FF245B@mac.com> Message-ID: On 11/6/07 5:56 PM, Neil wrote: > But, none of the answer the original question, unless I'm missing something.? Well, this link came up in a Google search using the terms I offered: for one (no iPod or P2P necessary). And this one: From Robert at Ameeti.net Tue Nov 6 15:58:55 2007 From: Robert at Ameeti.net (Robert Ameeti) Date: Tue Nov 6 16:11:17 2007 Subject: [X4U] list ettiguette faux pas In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: At 7:14 AM -0800, 11/6/07, Zane H. Healy wrote: >Actually if all you did was have your PGP digital signature attached >there was no faux pas on your part as far as I'm concerned. It is >more of a bug or misconfiguration in the mail-list software, as that >should logically be allowed and encouraged. That is a matter of personal opinion. I run a list serve and I do not want any attachments on any of my lists. I strip all attachments from emails. While you may feel that users should always be able to attach their desired attachments, that choice is the right of the list serve owner. This 'digital signature' attachment argument is not likely to find majority than the argument for HTML in emails. I also strip all HTML from any list mail while some people feel that is wrong as well. Sorry people but the list owner gets to choose what they want to deal with. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. - Henry Ward Beecher <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> From lists at sofstats.com Tue Nov 6 16:41:18 2007 From: lists at sofstats.com (Rod Buchanan) Date: Tue Nov 6 16:41:32 2007 Subject: [X4U] Mail Signatures In-Reply-To: <8C0A7303-2A2B-4446-A854-A7146DF16E61@att.net> References: <3C050744-E9FF-4761-89C0-D50639EB45BC@att.net> <8C0A7303-2A2B-4446-A854-A7146DF16E61@att.net> Message-ID: <8AAD4EA9-68BB-473F-AF6B-EAECE457BA36@sofstats.com> On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Howard Morgan wrote: > I would like to create a mail signature that is in Courier 12. > > When I create the signature it displays correctly in the signature > pane, but when I create a new email it shows up in Arial 12. > > I can manually change it to Courier 12, but I'd like to not have to. > > Any suggestions? This assumes Apple Mail, and "Rich Text" messages. Create your sig in Mail prefs, then highlight it and press Cmd+T. Select the font you want (Courier 12). Make sure "Alwqys match my default message font" is not checked. Now, when you create a "Rich Text" message the sig s/b in Courier 12. -- Rod "I have a 72-hour rule. If I stay in Washington for more than 72 hours, I have to bathe myself in the same stuff I use when one of my dogs gets into a fight with a skunk -- stuff to get the smell out." -- Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Montana From robertmacleay at mac.com Tue Nov 6 19:51:46 2007 From: robertmacleay at mac.com (Robert MacLeay) Date: Tue Nov 6 19:51:59 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing to PDF via CS3 under Leopard In-Reply-To: <20071107000003.232CE1C3B59D@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:31:52 +1100, " Brett Conlon " wrote: > I've just finished installing Leopard/CS3 and I just can't print to > PDF. I can create a PostScript file and distil it but when I print to > PDF it stops the queue. This is what Adobe means, but won't tell you, when they say that parts of CS3 don't work quite right under Leopard. They are talking about a cure coming in January 2008. In the meantime, EXPORTING to PDF, as opposed to printing to PDF, works just fine. From lists at mac.com Tue Nov 6 20:06:23 2007 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Tue Nov 6 20:06:46 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1A5F6C09-84FF-49C0-A968-4C2FB04406C1@mac.com> On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Linda wrote: > On 11/6/07 5:56 PM, Neil wrote: > >> But, none of the answer the original question, unless I'm missing >> something. > > Well, this link came up in a Google search using the terms I offered: > > for one (no iPod or P2P necessary). That looks like it's a Windows only app. > And this one: > It's funny you mention that thread. I happen to be familiar with it. In fact, I already posted to it. There is nothing in there on converting iTunes videos into DVD. The only solution mentioned was the 5th gen iPod. Yes, that was MY post. Jesse, I take it that you DON'T have a 5th gen iPod, right? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071106/7e76ba41/attachment.html From michaelelliott at mac.com Tue Nov 6 20:08:19 2007 From: michaelelliott at mac.com (Michael Elliott) Date: Tue Nov 6 20:08:30 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard peculularity regarding command-clicking in title bar of Finder window Message-ID: <2F47CC06-25D7-473F-B75F-24A16019A074@mac.com> Is this a new behavior, or have I just never noticed it? If I have a Finder window that is nestled several folders deep, and I want to get to the next level up in the hierarchy, I usually just hold the command key down and then click on the title bar of the window, which gives a popup of the hierarchy, allowing me to select the level i want to go to, and then the window changes to that folder. Now, when i do the same thing, another separate window of the enclosing folder opens up, whereas I thought I remembered that it would simply replace it in-place. If I CONTROL-click on the Finder window, it gives me the old behavior. Or am I just misremembering? Thanks :-) From XPressoBean at mac.com Tue Nov 6 20:15:02 2007 From: XPressoBean at mac.com (Linda) Date: Tue Nov 6 20:15:13 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: <1A5F6C09-84FF-49C0-A968-4C2FB04406C1@mac.com> Message-ID: On 11/6/07 10:06 PM, Neil wrote: > That looks like it's a Windows only app. Nope, it's not a Windows-only app. Did you follow the link? It may LOOK like it, as the screenshots are from Windows, but if you follow the link to the software you'll find "iTunes Converter for Mac - Convert iTunes to M4p to MP3, AAC, WAV". I'll say it again; no iPod needed. From choffman at eclimb.net Tue Nov 6 20:23:17 2007 From: choffman at eclimb.net (Craig Hoffman) Date: Tue Nov 6 20:23:27 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine Message-ID: <6D165414-8684-4AAC-9B4C-AF7B066E7426@eclimb.net> Has anyone had any issues with Time Machine? I've had bad luck with it . I have had one kernel panic and several lock ups running TM. During the lock ups the only thing I could do hold the power button down for a hard restart. :( I just read this article this evening on Apple's site about repartitioning the drive using "GUID", I'm giving it a try now. Hopefully it will help. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306932 ____________________________________ Craig Hoffman IM / iChat: m0untaind0g ____________________________________ From blmatthews at gmail.com Tue Nov 6 20:32:26 2007 From: blmatthews at gmail.com (Brian L. Matthews) Date: Tue Nov 6 20:32:34 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard peculularity regarding command-clicking in title bar of Finder window In-Reply-To: <2F47CC06-25D7-473F-B75F-24A16019A074@mac.com> References: <2F47CC06-25D7-473F-B75F-24A16019A074@mac.com> Message-ID: <47313FDA.7070701@gmail.com> Michael Elliott wrote: > Is this a new behavior, or have I just never noticed it? > > If I have a Finder window that is nestled several folders deep, and I > want to get to the next level up in the hierarchy, I usually just > hold the command key down and then click on the title bar of the > window, which gives a popup of the hierarchy, allowing me to select > the level i want to go to, and then the window changes to that folder. > > Now, when i do the same thing, another separate window of the > enclosing folder opens up, whereas I thought I remembered that it > would simply replace it in-place. > > If I CONTROL-click on the Finder window, it gives me the old behavior. Tiger operates like you remember, command-click opens the selected folder in the current window. I've actually wanted to be able to have it open in a new window, sounds like one more thing to look forward to when I get around to updating to Leopard. :-) Brian From spikedds at bellsouth.net Wed Nov 7 04:50:29 2007 From: spikedds at bellsouth.net (David R. Boag, DDS) Date: Wed Nov 7 04:50:44 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard peculularity regarding command-clicking in title bar of Finder window In-Reply-To: <2F47CC06-25D7-473F-B75F-24A16019A074@mac.com> References: <2F47CC06-25D7-473F-B75F-24A16019A074@mac.com> Message-ID: <0EBB61B1-150E-407A-B69E-50C74D9E7E08@bellsouth.net> Yes. You are remembering correctly, and yes, it is a new feature. I like the choice, although I'd personally rather it be the other way around: CMD-click to do what it used to do and CNTL-click to open in a new window, but I assume they did it this way to make people aware of the new option, because it has not been publicized to any significant degree at all. Choice is always good. DRB On Nov 6, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Michael Elliott wrote: > Is this a new behavior, or have I just never noticed it? > > If I have a Finder window that is nestled several folders deep, and > I want to get to the next level up in the hierarchy, I usually > just hold the command key down and then click on the title bar of > the window, which gives a popup of the hierarchy, allowing me to > select the level i want to go to, and then the window changes to > that folder. > > Now, when i do the same thing, another separate window of the > enclosing folder opens up, whereas I thought I remembered that it > would simply replace it in-place. > > If I CONTROL-click on the Finder window, it gives me the old behavior. > > Or am I just misremembering? > > Thanks :-) From Robert at Ameeti.net Wed Nov 7 05:24:03 2007 From: Robert at Ameeti.net (Robert Ameeti) Date: Wed Nov 7 05:48:15 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: <6D165414-8684-4AAC-9B4C-AF7B066E7426@eclimb.net> References: <6D165414-8684-4AAC-9B4C-AF7B066E7426@eclimb.net> Message-ID: At 9:23 PM -0700, 11/6/07, Craig Hoffman wrote: >I just read this article this evening on Apple's site about >repartitioning the drive using "GUID" Do you have an Intel Mac or a PPC Mac? How is your drive currently formatted? Note that GUID is not a partition scheme. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti I am a deeply superficial person. -- Andy Warhol <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> From choffman at eclimb.net Wed Nov 7 05:57:06 2007 From: choffman at eclimb.net (Craig Hoffman) Date: Wed Nov 7 05:57:55 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: References: <6D165414-8684-4AAC-9B4C-AF7B066E7426@eclimb.net> Message-ID: Mac Pro Before starting TM, I reformatted the drive (HFS Plus, journaling) with 1 partition. I choose GUID under options on the partition tab. __________________________ Craig Hoffman iChat/AIM: m0untaind0g __________________________ On Nov 7, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote: > At 9:23 PM -0700, 11/6/07, Craig Hoffman wrote: > >> I just read this article this evening on Apple's site about >> repartitioning the drive using "GUID" > > Do you have an Intel Mac or a PPC Mac? > > How is your drive currently formatted? Note that GUID is not a > partition scheme. > -- > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Robert Ameeti > > I am a deeply superficial person. > -- Andy Warhol > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal From janmel at mac.com Wed Nov 7 07:08:37 2007 From: janmel at mac.com (Jan Melichar) Date: Wed Nov 7 07:08:56 2007 Subject: [X4U] bluetooth and leopard Message-ID: <4E7AD79D-B09D-4D48-9CC1-EB0FF28D6FA6@mac.com> I was not able to pair/connect my mobile in Panther; pairing/ connecting in Tiger was a breeze but now in Leopard once again I cannot make a connection. Anyone any ideas? Using Nokia N70 Jan From polonius19 at gmail.com Wed Nov 7 07:47:16 2007 From: polonius19 at gmail.com (Hector Luna) Date: Wed Nov 7 07:47:23 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: References: <6D165414-8684-4AAC-9B4C-AF7B066E7426@eclimb.net> Message-ID: I didn't have the issues you described, but my experience with Time Machine has not been as advertised either. I also reformatted the HD on my MBP w/ HFS+ and journaling before I installed Leopard. After I had it up and functional I attached the 80GB USB HD I would be using. Before starting Time Machine, I reformatted it w/ HFS+ and journaling. That was on Saturday. I left the MPB in place through Sunday before bringing it w/ me to work. The external I was using for TIme Machine was connected from Saturday till I brought it in to work. I got one error on Sunday, but it wasn't very descriptive and I assumed it was for an incremental file backup, so I wasn't overly concerned. On Monday, I had a file go bad on my. I wasn't able to open it anymore. When I got home that night I plugged the 80GB external again and tried to recover the file but not only could I not recover that file, but I couldn't recover anything. The size of the backup.backup folder in the external was 43GB+, but Time Machine wouldn't show anything other than "Now." Not only that, but when Time Machine next started its backup, it seemed to be starting over from scratch. I've since discovered that my internal HD on the MBP was bad and is being replaced by Apple, and I don't know what effect the bad HD might have had on the backup, but Time Machine hasn't lived up to its hype yet, at least not for me... On Nov 7, 2007 6:57 AM, Craig Hoffman wrote: > Mac Pro > > Before starting TM, I reformatted the drive (HFS Plus, journaling) > with 1 partition. I choose GUID under options on the partition tab. > __________________________ > Craig Hoffman > iChat/AIM: m0untaind0g > __________________________ > > > > On Nov 7, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote: > > > At 9:23 PM -0700, 11/6/07, Craig Hoffman wrote: > > > >> I just read this article this evening on Apple's site about > >> repartitioning the drive using "GUID" > > > > Do you have an Intel Mac or a PPC Mac? > > > > How is your drive currently formatted? Note that GUID is not a > > partition scheme. > > -- > > > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > Robert Ameeti > > > > I am a deeply superficial person. > > -- Andy Warhol > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > _______________________________________________ > > X4U mailing list > > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal > -- Someday, when the historians study how someone as accomplished as Al Gore was effectively marginalized by a party without a conscience and kept press, they're going to be amazed that any of us had opposable thumbs. - Charles Pierce From lists at mac.com Wed Nov 7 08:31:24 2007 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Wed Nov 7 08:31:37 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <14C8A22D-B18C-4ECF-AF41-B3FB15C33243@mac.com> Right, there is a Mac version of the software, but it appears to be limited to converting audio files. The video conversion feature looks like it is Windows only. That one had me hopeful for a few seconds too. Reread the snippet you quoted. Notice that it converts iTunes files into "MP3, AAC, and WAV." Those are all audio only formats. On Nov 6, 2007, at 11:15 PM, Linda wrote: > On 11/6/07 10:06 PM, Neil wrote: > >> That looks like it's a Windows only app. > > Nope, it's not a Windows-only app. Did you follow the link? It may > LOOK like > it, as the screenshots are from Windows, but if you follow the link > to the > software you'll find "iTunes Converter for Mac - Convert iTunes to > M4p to > MP3, AAC, WAV". > > I'll say it again; no iPod needed. > I'll say it again; no iPod needed. > I'll say it again; no iPod needed. ;-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071107/337533a8/attachment.html From lists at mac.com Wed Nov 7 08:37:15 2007 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Wed Nov 7 08:37:35 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard peculularity regarding command-clicking in title bar of Finder window In-Reply-To: <0EBB61B1-150E-407A-B69E-50C74D9E7E08@bellsouth.net> References: <2F47CC06-25D7-473F-B75F-24A16019A074@mac.com> <0EBB61B1-150E-407A-B69E-50C74D9E7E08@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <1F0B7E0C-1270-46B0-A2BE-FC70EAEC79AF@mac.com> Maybe they do it that way to be consistent with the way web browsers work. CMD-clicking a URL will open it in a new window (or tab). People have become more comfortable with web browsers than the Finder. On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:50 AM, David R. Boag, DDS wrote: > I'd personally rather it be the other way around: CMD-click to do > what it used to do and CNTL-click to open in a new window, but I > assume they did it this way to make people aware of the new option -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071107/d2470a45/attachment.html From Robert at Ameeti.net Wed Nov 7 09:18:15 2007 From: Robert at Ameeti.net (Robert Ameeti) Date: Wed Nov 7 09:19:14 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: References: <6D165414-8684-4AAC-9B4C-AF7B066E7426@eclimb.net> Message-ID: At 8:47 AM -0700, 11/7/07, Hector Luna wrote: >I've since discovered that my internal HD on the MBP was bad and is >being replaced by Apple, and I don't know what effect the bad HD might >have had on the backup, but Time Machine hasn't lived up to its hype >yet, at least not for me... I wouldn't expect Time Machine to be able to do its job if it is working with a defective internal hard drive. I can understand why it would error when trying to back up a bad hard drive and fail to continue based on that error. Just sounds like your internal going bad was a stroke of bad luck in timing. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without asking a clear question. -- Albert Camus <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> From lists at marksmandesign.ca Wed Nov 7 11:08:43 2007 From: lists at marksmandesign.ca (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Wed Nov 7 11:12:40 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? Message-ID: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> Hi all, Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e-mail in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth that printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a way to select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? Right now I'm having to press Forward then erase the parts I don't want, print, and then close the new message without saving it. The problem is that this results in a message header from me and not the true sender. Mark Des Cotes Owner-Graphic Designer Marksman Design Mailing adress: 7-841 Sydney Street, Suite # 338 Cornwall, Ontario K6H 7L2 Canada 613-936-6876 From baltwo at san.rr.com Wed Nov 7 11:32:14 2007 From: baltwo at san.rr.com (John Baltutis) Date: Wed Nov 7 11:32:28 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard peculularity regarding command-clicking in title bar of Finder window In-Reply-To: <20071107125051.1334F1C51491@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20071107125051.1334F1C51491@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: On 11/06/07, Michael Elliott wrote: > > Is this a new behavior, or have I just never noticed it? AFAICT, it's new behavior. > If I have a Finder window that is nestled several folders deep, and I > want to get to the next level up in the hierarchy, I usually just > hold the command key down and then click on the title bar of the > window, which gives a popup of the hierarchy, allowing me to select > the level i want to go to, and then the window changes to that folder. > > Now, when i do the same thing, another separate window of the > enclosing folder opens up, whereas I thought I remembered that it > would simply replace it in-place. That's how it worked in previous versions. > If I CONTROL-click on the Finder window, it gives me the old behavior. Not here. CMD- or CNTL-click displays the same behavior. From tlmiller at mac.com Wed Nov 7 11:37:37 2007 From: tlmiller at mac.com (T.L. Miller) Date: Wed Nov 7 11:38:32 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> Message-ID: <20071107193737.1414955806@smtp.mac.com> On 11/7/07, at 2:08 PM, Mark Des Cotes lists@marksmandesign.ca said: >Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e-mail >in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth that >printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a way to >select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? Right >now I'm having to press Forward then erase the parts I don't want, >print, and then close the new message without saving it. The problem >is that this results in a message header from me and not the true >sender. I just Copy and Paste what I want into a text processor like Tex-Edit. Tom Miller .................................................. "The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side." R.O.Clark ................................................... From baltwo at san.rr.com Wed Nov 7 11:36:11 2007 From: baltwo at san.rr.com (John Baltutis) Date: Wed Nov 7 11:38:43 2007 Subject: [X4U] Leopard peculularity regarding command-clicking in title bar of Finder window Message-ID: Follow-up to my previous. To open the parent directory in the same window, use CMD+OPT+up arrow. From sumbera at mac.com Wed Nov 7 11:37:58 2007 From: sumbera at mac.com (Michael W. Sumbera) Date: Wed Nov 7 11:38:50 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> Message-ID: If you have text selected when you hit forward or reply, only the selected text will be included in the new message. It's not the most elegant way, but also not too far different from what you're already doing. On Nov 7, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e-mail > in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth that > printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a way to > select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? Right > now I'm having to press Forward then erase the parts I don't want, > print, and then close the new message without saving it. The problem > is that this results in a message header from me and not the true > sender. > > Mark Des Cotes > Owner-Graphic Designer > Marksman Design > > Mailing adress: > 7-841 Sydney Street, Suite # 338 > Cornwall, Ontario K6H 7L2 > Canada > 613-936-6876 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Pricehttp://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal ---------- Television is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20071107/16b394f4/attachment.html From XPressoBean at mac.com Wed Nov 7 11:43:57 2007 From: XPressoBean at mac.com (Linda) Date: Wed Nov 7 11:44:10 2007 Subject: [X4U] Itunes TV shows to DVD? In-Reply-To: <14C8A22D-B18C-4ECF-AF41-B3FB15C33243@mac.com> Message-ID: On 11/7/07 10:31 AM, Neil wrote: > Reread the?snippet you quoted.? My bad, I thought that M4P was a video format, never having bought a show from iTunes. From pandcsealy at internode.on.net Wed Nov 7 11:46:34 2007 From: pandcsealy at internode.on.net (Peter Sealy) Date: Wed Nov 7 11:46:38 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> Message-ID: <11E1BE15-72F6-45F5-999D-2D666C7AD259@internode.on.net> One way I have used, not the most elegant but the only way I figured out: Select the text you want, then under Mail > Services > TextEdit > New Window Containing Selection. This produces a TextEdit document which you can simply print then close without saving if you don't want to keep it or of course Save if required. HTH On Thu 312 Nov,, at 6:08 AM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e-mail > in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth that > printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a way to > select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? Right > now I'm having to press Forward then erase the parts I don't want, > print, and then close the new message without saving it. The > problem is that this results in a message header from me and not > the true sender. > ......... Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA From markg5 at myrealbox.com Wed Nov 7 11:47:22 2007 From: markg5 at myrealbox.com (Mark Gilchrist) Date: Wed Nov 7 11:47:41 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> Message-ID: <75FB2AB8-2161-4600-B8A8-C180D3FB6B63@myrealbox.com> On 7 Nov 2007, at 19:08, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Is it possible to print only part of an e-mail in Mail? What about "File > Save as ..." Open it in Textedit or whatever Edit out the fluff and print You get to see the headers, and can delete the text file afterwards. Or just save it as text until MailTags gets the Leo upgrade then file everything o your HD (with regular backups!) ---AV & Spam Filtering by M+Guardian - Risk Free Email (TM)--- From readout at earthlink.net Wed Nov 7 13:08:55 2007 From: readout at earthlink.net (Clifford H. Readout, Jr.) Date: Wed Nov 7 13:09:12 2007 Subject: [X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: <20071107193239.C0B361C5D95D@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: On 11/7/07 2:32 PM, "x4u-request@listserver.themacintoshguy.com" wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 05:24:03 -0800 > From: Robert Ameeti > > How is your drive currently formatted? Note that GUID is not a > partition scheme. > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Robert Ameeti > > I am a deeply superficial person. > -- Andy Warhol > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Actually, it is. I have an MacPro and several external hard drives (LaCie). These were all formatted and used with my former G5 Quad. However, the Leopard installer would not install to any of them without my first reformatting them by creating a GUID partition scheme. This formatting scheme only appears in the "Partition" tab of Disk Utility, which does not seem to be the most reasonable place to have put it, considering the demand leopard makes for the drive to have been formatted using it. Once I reformatted the drives with one partition using the GUID scheme, Leopard installed. I will not go into the various problems with the install, and afterward. Suffice it to say that it seems Apple has finally succumbed to the temptation to let paying customers do the final beta testing for the OS. CR From polonius19 at gmail.com Wed Nov 7 13:51:35 2007 From: polonius19 at gmail.com (Hector Luna) Date: Wed Nov 7 13:51:57 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: References: <6D165414-8684-4AAC-9B4C-AF7B066E7426@eclimb.net> Message-ID: Things are tad off all around. I could understand if Time Machine reported an error when attempting to write the file, that I could dismiss to the bad internal, but I was never able to initiate a recovery, that was what had me concerned about this utility... On Nov 7, 2007 10:18 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote: > At 8:47 AM -0700, 11/7/07, Hector Luna wrote: > > >I've since discovered that my internal HD on the MBP was bad and is > >being replaced by Apple, and I don't know what effect the bad HD might > >have had on the backup, but Time Machine hasn't lived up to its hype > >yet, at least not for me... > > I wouldn't expect Time Machine to be able to do its job if it is > working with a defective internal hard drive. I can understand why it > would error when trying to back up a bad hard drive and fail to > continue based on that error. Just sounds like your internal going > bad was a stroke of bad luck in timing. > > -- > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Robert Ameeti > > Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without asking a clear question. > -- Albert Camus > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal > -- Someday, when the historians study how someone as accomplished as Al Gore was effectively marginalized by a party without a conscience and kept press, they're going to be amazed that any of us had opposable thumbs. - Charles Pierce From Robert at Ameeti.net Wed Nov 7 15:21:37 2007 From: Robert at Ameeti.net (Robert Ameeti) Date: Wed Nov 7 15:37:30 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: References: <6D165414-8684-4AAC-9B4C-AF7B066E7426@eclimb.net> Message-ID: At 2:51 PM -0700, 11/7/07, Hector Luna wrote: >Things are tad off all around. I could understand if Time Machine >reported an error when attempting to write the file, that I could >dismiss to the bad internal, but I was never able to initiate a >recovery, that was what had me concerned about this utility... Time Machine has to get a good read before it can do a write. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children -- Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983) <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> From landrey at mac.com Wed Nov 7 15:49:33 2007 From: landrey at mac.com (Art) Date: Wed Nov 7 15:49:46 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> Message-ID: <4A9763C5-F3CE-421C-BBF1-E20888D8E00C@mac.com> On Nov 7, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e-mail > in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth that > printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a way to > select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? I use Services (actually via the oh-so-convenient ? pull-down menu) --> "Print Selection" --> then either "Print Selected Text" or "Print Area of Screen" (when I want to include the address, date & subject lines). Quick and easy! From mcclernan1 at comcast.net Wed Nov 7 16:25:36 2007 From: mcclernan1 at comcast.net (John McClernan) Date: Wed Nov 7 16:26:00 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <4A9763C5-F3CE-421C-BBF1-E20888D8E00C@mac.com> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> <4A9763C5-F3CE-421C-BBF1-E20888D8E00C@mac.com> Message-ID: <8EC470E8-1D3B-436B-889D-E26916615226@comcast.net> On Nov 7, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Art wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: >> Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e- >> mail in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth >> that printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a >> way to select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? > > I use Services (actually via the oh-so-convenient ? pull-down > menu) --> "Print Selection" --> then either "Print Selected Text" > or "Print Area of Screen" (when I want to include the address, date > & subject lines). Quick and easy! > _______________________________________________ Bingo! Art has the right answer. If you do not see "Print Selection" in your Services menu under the Mail menu, then download the free tweak from here: http://osiris.laya.com/projects/printselection/ I do not run Leopard, so I don't know if it works with 10.5, I use Tiger and Print Selection saves me a ton of time and keystrokes. That's my 2?. Cheers, John From puterwhiz at gmail.com Wed Nov 7 16:45:48 2007 From: puterwhiz at gmail.com (Ken Hagen) Date: Wed Nov 7 16:45:53 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine Message-ID: <19d59e2f0711071645x1ae845c0r68975d5178031f95@mail.gmail.com> I had the same sort of problems getting an initial backup completed until I deselected the automatic logoff option in System Preferences\Security and restarted TM by deselecting and reselecting the backup drive. Once it was finished doing the initial backup, I restored the original settings and TM seems to be working as advertised. Ken Hagen From pandcsealy at internode.on.net Wed Nov 7 17:09:50 2007 From: pandcsealy at internode.on.net (Peter Sealy) Date: Wed Nov 7 17:17:34 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <8EC470E8-1D3B-436B-889D-E26916615226@comcast.net> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> <4A9763C5-F3CE-421C-BBF1-E20888D8E00C@mac.com> <8EC470E8-1D3B-436B-889D-E26916615226@comcast.net> Message-ID: <4AC1C41B-D18E-47A8-BA67-999EE33C1419@internode.on.net> Agreed. Give Art a gold star! Or a free beer. A much simpler, and built in, method than mine. On Thu 312 Nov,, at 11:25 AM, John McClernan wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Art wrote: > >> >> I use Services (actually via the oh-so-convenient ? pull-down >> menu) --> "Print Selection" --> then either "Print Selected Text" >> or "Print Area of Screen" (when I want to include the address, >> date & subject lines). Quick and easy! >> _______________________________________________ > > Bingo! Art has the right answer. If you do not see "Print > Selection" in your Services menu under the Mail menu, then download > the free tweak from here: > http://osiris.laya.com/projects/printselection/ > I do not run Leopard, so I don't know if it works with 10.5, I use > Tiger and Print Selection saves me a ton of time and keystrokes. > ......... Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA From ralph at avatarbiz.com Wed Nov 7 17:21:01 2007 From: ralph at avatarbiz.com (Ralph) Date: Wed Nov 7 17:21:14 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? Message-ID: <4FF47EA6-C166-4463-9BBE-70CC574C20AC@avatarbiz.com> Copy the desired text, paste into TextEdit, print. Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e-mail > in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth that > printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a way to > select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? Right > now I'm having to press Forward then erase the parts I don't want, > print, and then close the new message without saving it. The problem > is that this results in a message header from me and not the true > sender. Ralph Jones Avatar Community Business Center Fairfax, California ralph@avatarbiz.com From jamesrob at sonic.net Wed Nov 7 17:29:41 2007 From: jamesrob at sonic.net (Jim Robertson) Date: Wed Nov 7 17:29:50 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 11/7/07 3:21 PM, "Robert Ameeti" wrote: > Time Machine has to get a good read before it can do a write. I'm curious. The original poster didn't know his internal drive was bad, which means it apparently wasn't having frequent problems in ordinary use. If there were FREQUENT problems, wouldn't they be apparent to a well-designed backup utility; i.e., shouldn't it verify its reads/writes as it does its job? If I read the original poster's original report correctly, Time Machine didn't complain at all while filling up 43 gigabytes of his backup disk, but then had nothing available for him when he tried to find either a single file or anything at all. I wouldn't be happy about that if I'd paid for the backup software! Jim Robertson -- From spikedds at bellsouth.net Wed Nov 7 18:17:04 2007 From: spikedds at bellsouth.net (David R. Boag, DDS) Date: Wed Nov 7 18:17:09 2007 Subject: [X4U] Airport & Enet Message-ID: <9FC0DC51-931E-402B-9FD7-41C89E023732@bellsouth.net> Is there any advantage to having my Mac Mini connected to my router by BOTH Airport and wired Enet? Will there be any advantage speedwise or might performance slow down? Just curious. DRB From Robert at Ameeti.net Wed Nov 7 18:14:49 2007 From: Robert at Ameeti.net (Robert Ameeti) Date: Wed Nov 7 18:30:28 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: At 5:29 PM -0800, 11/7/07, Jim Robertson wrote: >On 11/7/07 3:21 PM, "Robert Ameeti" wrote: > >> Time Machine has to get a good read before it can do a write. > >I'm curious. The original poster didn't know his internal drive was bad, >which means it apparently wasn't having frequent problems in ordinary use. Oftentimes a user will have a bad disk but not know it until they choose to back it up. Backing up a drive will touch every file on the drive and the typical user has tons of files that they never touch or haven't touched in years. >If there were FREQUENT problems, wouldn't they be apparent to a >well-designed backup utility; i.e., shouldn't it verify its >reads/writes as it does its job? We really do not have enough information to come to any real conclusions. We don't know if Time Machine ever was able to do a complete back up. Until it completes at least one cycle, I wouldn't expect it to be able to give back any files. The most often overlooked weakness of any back up system is backing up but then not attempting to restore. Oftentimes an admin will have lots of backups but he has never restored and when the need arises, he finds that none of them work. In this case, I'm thinking that the first part was not ever completed. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti Oh, what a tangled website we weave when first we practice. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> From lstnmt at bresnan.net Wed Nov 7 18:32:09 2007 From: lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) Date: Wed Nov 7 18:32:14 2007 Subject: [X4U] Airport & Enet In-Reply-To: <9FC0DC51-931E-402B-9FD7-41C89E023732@bellsouth.net> References: <9FC0DC51-931E-402B-9FD7-41C89E023732@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <4E911386-8A73-484C-912B-0355E543E36E@bresnan.net> You can only use one at a time. The wired connection should be faster if you connect to other Macs, for connecting to the wide world of computers through you Airport either will be faster than you connection to the outside world. Jens Selvig ...lost in Montana... On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:17 PM, David R. Boag, DDS wrote: > Is there any advantage to having my Mac Mini connected to my router > by BOTH Airport and wired Enet? Will there be any advantage > speedwise or might performance slow down? From brettnlis at bigpond.com Wed Nov 7 19:00:32 2007 From: brettnlis at bigpond.com (Brett Conlon) Date: Wed Nov 7 19:00:41 2007 Subject: [X4U] Time Machine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1E13F450-038D-4969-933F-132BAC81DE4D@bigpond.com> Unless the part of the drive that contained important information about the backed up files became inaccessible/corrupted.... But a thought worthy of further investigation nonetheless. Coj On 08/11/2007, at 12:29 PM, Jim Robertson wrote: > On 11/7/07 3:21 PM, "Robert Ameeti" wrote: > >> Time Machine has to get a good read before it can do a write. > > I'm curious. The original poster didn't know his internal drive was > bad, > which means it apparently wasn't having frequent problems in > ordinary use. > If there were FREQUENT problems, wouldn't they be apparent to a > well-designed backup utility; i.e., shouldn't it verify its reads/ > writes as > it does its job? > > If I read the original poster's original report correctly, Time > Machine > didn't complain at all while filling up 43 gigabytes of his backup > disk, but > then had nothing available for him when he tried to find either a > single > file or anything at all. > > I wouldn't be happy about that if I'd paid for the backup software! > > Jim Robertson > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal From lists at marksmandesign.ca Wed Nov 7 19:23:05 2007 From: lists at marksmandesign.ca (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Wed Nov 7 19:27:01 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <4A9763C5-F3CE-421C-BBF1-E20888D8E00C@mac.com> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> <4A9763C5-F3CE-421C-BBF1-E20888D8E00C@mac.com> Message-ID: <5CE516FE-593B-44B8-B8C6-96CCCAC837CF@marksmandesign.ca> You know, I was just venting my frustration when I posted my question. I didn't really expect a solution but WOW. Thanks Art, that is exactly what I wanted. BTW I found out through a little test that, in Mail, if you place your cursor at the top of an e-mail and drag down you can only select the header. But if you start at the bottom of your message and drag up you can select both the message and the header. This way you can use "Print Selected Text" to get everything in one shot and not have to use the extra step involved in "Print Area of Screen" There, now I contributed as well. Mark Des Cotes Owner-Graphic Designer Marksman Design Mailing adress: 7-841 Sydney Street, Suite # 338 Cornwall, Ontario K6H 7L2 Canada 613-936-6876 On 7-Nov-07, at 6:49 PM, Art wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: >> Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e- >> mail in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth >> that printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a >> way to select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? > > I use Services (actually via the oh-so-convenient ? pull-down > menu) --> "Print Selection" --> then either "Print Selected Text" > or "Print Area of Screen" (when I want to include the address, date > & subject lines). Quick and easy! > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal > From lists at marksmandesign.ca Wed Nov 7 19:37:00 2007 From: lists at marksmandesign.ca (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Wed Nov 7 19:40:54 2007 Subject: [X4U] Printing part of an e-mail? In-Reply-To: <5CE516FE-593B-44B8-B8C6-96CCCAC837CF@marksmandesign.ca> References: <141B22E3-D875-48FB-B839-8E0F188F6FC8@marksmandesign.ca> <4A9763C5-F3CE-421C-BBF1-E20888D8E00C@mac.com> <5CE516FE-593B-44B8-B8C6-96CCCAC837CF@marksmandesign.ca> Message-ID: <72CC36E5-31B2-4A7E-BD9D-5E18F5DC24A0@marksmandesign.ca> Did a little more testing and found out that my little trick of selecting text from the bottom up only works on a plain text message such as from this list. Message containing HTML or Rich Text don't let you select both body and header. Bummer! As an added bonus, the Services > Print Selection solved another question I posted to this list a few months ago. I was wondering how I could print an e-mail that has attachments without having all the attached files print. I often receive e-mails with PDFs, graphic files or Photos attached. It was always a pain when I needed to print the message but didn't need to print whatever was attached to it. Now I'll be able to save on paper. Mark Des Cotes Owner-Graphic Designer Marksman Design Mailing adress: 7-841 Sydney Street, Suite # 338 Cornwall, Ontario K6H 7L2 Canada 613-936-6876 On 7-Nov-07, at 10:23 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > You know, I was just venting my frustration when I posted my > question. I didn't really expect a solution but WOW. Thanks Art, > that is exactly what I wanted. > > BTW I found out through a little test that, in Mail, if you place > your cursor at the top of an e-mail and drag down you can only > select the header. But if you start at the bottom of your message > and drag up you can select both the message and the header. This > way you can use "Print Selected Text" to get everything in one shot > and not have to use the extra step involved in "Print Area of > Screen" There, now I contributed as well. > > Mark Des Cotes > Owner-Graphic Designer > Marksman Design > > Mailing adress: > 7-841 Sydney Street, Suite # 338 > Cornwall, Ontario K6H 7L2 > Canada > 613-936-6876 > > > > On 7-Nov-07, at 6:49 PM, Art wrote: > >> On Nov 7, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: >>> Just wondering here. Is it possible to print only part of an e- >>> mail in Mail? Sometimes there are so many replies back and forth >>> that printing would result in multiple pages printed. Is there a >>> way to select (highlight) text in an e-mail and only have it print? >> >> I use Services (actually via the oh-so-convenient ? pull-down >> menu) --> "Print Selection" --> then either "Print Selected Text" >> or "Print Area of Screen" (when I want to include the address, >> date & subject lines). Quick and easy! >> _______________________________________________ >> X4U mailing list >> X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u >> >> Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price >> http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal >> > > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal > From jcountry at insightbb.com Wed Nov 7 19:56:59 2007 From: jcountry at insightbb.com (Jack Countryman) Date: Wed Nov 7 19:57:08 2007 Subject: [X4U] Re: print part of an email message In-Reply-To: <20071108034102.8196E1C6A4B9@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: >> Bingo! Art has the right answer. If you do not see "Print >> Selection" in your Services menu under the Mail menu, then download >> the free tweak from here: >> http://osiris.laya.com/projects/printsele