I'm guessing at the numbers, but there were something like 50 viruses for classic Mac OS. Most seemed to be the type that would attach themselves to applications or floppies and spread that way. I remember one time coming home from printing something at Kinkos, putting the floppy in my machine, and Symantec Antivirus coming up and reporting that it had removed a virus from the disk. The objective was different, typically they just tended to spread and be annoying; a handful did actual damage. Since this was back before most machines were online, they weren't trying to root your box to turn it to a remote control zombie for spamming or DDoS or push a bunch of ads in your face.
For the record, Marketplace is not a National Public Radio program. Though it is carried on many stations that identify themselves as being an NPR affiliate, Marketplace is actually distributed by American Public Media.
IIRC in some of the pre-1.0 versions (I switched from Apple Mail to Thunderbird at version 0.2) there was a note about having multiple SMTP servers configured being unstable. I've been using it fine for quite a while and haven't run into issues. Works with 2.0 just fine.
The biggest issue is that SMTP server configuration is in a separate section from the Account settings. Under each account you designate which SMTP server you want to use, and have to go to a different screen to actually configure the SMTP servers. Good if you have lots of separate accounts that share a single SMTP server, bad otherwise.
Firstly, doing a 'check for updates' in the old version (1.5 for OS X, I think) told me there wasn't a new one.
The announcement on MozillaZone notes that Thunderbird 2 hasn't been pushed to software update yet, so if you don't want to wait, you have to download manually like you did.
Then the real pain, viewing full headers is still totally broken.
When I want to view full headers, I usually just hit Apple-U (or Control-U for Windows and Linux) to view the message source, and all the headers are right there. Alternatively, you might want to look at the Mnenhy extension, which, among other things, lets you customize which header fields get displayed with the message.
So I still can't unsubscribe from a couple of (now spam dominated) Yahoo groups that I signed up to with throwaway names, as I have can't read the header to find out the throwaway name I used!
Nope. They used to include one free e-file with TurboTax, but that stopped a couple of years ago. As long as its cheaper for me to mail in the form, that's what I'll do. It reminds me of banks that charge for online banking and debit card use, when, from what I hear, those are cheaper for the bank to process than a paper check.
Yes, I know there are other products that will let you do it for free, but TurboTax (going back to when it was still called MacinTax) has worked well for me, and I'd rather not keep my data on some company's web server. I've considered TaxCut, but their Mac support has been shaky (they dropped it completely one year, and in years prior some state versions were available for Windows but not Mac) and I'd rather support a company that shows a little more dedication to my platform of choice.
I don't think Mozilla ever made the claim of being a file manager, nor does Safari. Just because IE and Konqueror combine both functions doesn't mean all browsers should be file managers. From your reply to Acer500 its clear that you like having them combined as Konqueror does it, but not everyone uses it that way. Typically on Linux, I uses Konqueror as a file manager and Firefox as a web browser.
I agree that Konqueror does some really nice things, especially the network transparency bit. I'd love for the Finder to pick up some of that. But I don't think Apple needs to replace the Finder with Safari.
How do you know it isn't the faculty and administration that is vandalizing the pages?
I can't speak for Inoshiro, but when I've done Recent Changes or New Pages patrolling, I've occasionally run across garbage that more or less states "im bored in class lolz".
Doesn't sound bad. I got the 32" version offered by Woot.com recently for $495 shipped, but it only has one HDMI input, and it only has ATSC and NTSC tuners, no QAM. It does have plenty of other inputs... component, composite, S-Video, etc. I'm happy with it, especially since it replaced a 19" mono CRT.
No thanks. An IPv4 address is 32 bits, while and IPv6 address is 128. My computer's link-local IPv6 address, fe80::020a:95ff:feba:2832, would be 254.128.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.10.149.255.254.186.40.50 using IPv4's dotted decimal notation. The:: is a compression notation, meaning "fill in a bunch of 0's here to get the right number of bits).
Sounds similar to the technology used to project a video of Davy Jones onto a mist of some sort in the updated Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
My son needs a Windows based computer and the university doesn't support (and doesn't want to support) Vista.
I wouldn't worry about that. When I started college, Windows 98 was the hot new OS from Redmond. The school's recommendation was to not upgrade and stick with Windows 95, but of course everyone moving in with brand new computers had 98. Unless they were like me, and bought a Mac instead. The really funny part was the directions for configuring the PC to use the campus network. On 98, you could follow all the steps they had documented for 95, but it didn't work.
1. It said "US Airlines", meaning airlines based in the United States, not US Airways in particular.
2. Frontier has nothing to do with US Airways. US Airways is merging with America West. It's more like America West bought US Airways out of bankruptcy, but is keeping the US Airways name. Currently, the two still are operated as separate airlines, but market themselves as US Airways and recently integrated their reservation systems.
I was able to use my 12" iBook on a recent flight, on an Embraer Regional Jet no less. I've also used it on larger planes. It can get a bit tight but it is usable. Even smaller would work better, like those ultra-portable Viaos.
I always thought: why not take out one row of seats and divide that space between 3 or 4 other rows and offer some kind of tourist+ class which has a price 1/3 or 1/4 higher than the normal tourist class ticket?
United has it, it's called Economy Plus. Unlike the Premium Economy product described on Seatguru linked by the other poster that has replied, it is more legroom only; all the other service is the same. They even offer a program called Economy Plus Access; for $299/year you can book an Economy Plus seat on a regular coach class ticket. JetBlue also offers a couple extra inches of legroom in the front half of the airplane (it used to be the back half, but it changed with a recent reconfiguration, for reasons I can't remember).
I don't remember exactly how Apple's implementation works as it's been a while since I've done it -- ask me again after Leopard ships:) -- but what business does an operating system upgrade have messing around in C:\Documents and Settings,/Users, or/home in the first place?
I think you assume that the grandparent poster puts the manuals for his GPL'd software under a restrictive CC license. That's not the conclusion I drew reading it. I would agree with you that it makes sense to put documentation under the same license as the software.
Taking a quick look at his site, it looks like the open content books are more along the lines of what you'd find in the computer section of a bookstore. Since these aren't directly tied to an open source software product, I think its perfectly reasonable that he use a restrictive license.
It's been done: http://www.novajo.ca/xgridagent/. The problem is that Xgrid ships a binary to the target system to the client system to execute. When I played around with it I was able to get the agent to run on Gentoo x86, but naturally the job built for Mac OS X on PowerPC wouldn't run. There are potential ways around it; using an interpreted language like Python or Java might work (but be detrimental to performance) or using a wrapper script, but that's not something I had much success with.
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I still haven't figured out why people don't just quit the browser when they leave the computer for a bit. It doesn't take that long to start up.
Looks like it's fixed now, but Marriott's web site used to not really work in Firefox, but was fine in Safari.
I'm guessing at the numbers, but there were something like 50 viruses for classic Mac OS. Most seemed to be the type that would attach themselves to applications or floppies and spread that way. I remember one time coming home from printing something at Kinkos, putting the floppy in my machine, and Symantec Antivirus coming up and reporting that it had removed a virus from the disk. The objective was different, typically they just tended to spread and be annoying; a handful did actual damage. Since this was back before most machines were online, they weren't trying to root your box to turn it to a remote control zombie for spamming or DDoS or push a bunch of ads in your face.
For the record, Marketplace is not a National Public Radio program. Though it is carried on many stations that identify themselves as being an NPR affiliate, Marketplace is actually distributed by American Public Media.
IIRC in some of the pre-1.0 versions (I switched from Apple Mail to Thunderbird at version 0.2) there was a note about having multiple SMTP servers configured being unstable. I've been using it fine for quite a while and haven't run into issues. Works with 2.0 just fine.
The biggest issue is that SMTP server configuration is in a separate section from the Account settings. Under each account you designate which SMTP server you want to use, and have to go to a different screen to actually configure the SMTP servers. Good if you have lots of separate accounts that share a single SMTP server, bad otherwise.
The announcement on MozillaZone notes that Thunderbird 2 hasn't been pushed to software update yet, so if you don't want to wait, you have to download manually like you did.
When I want to view full headers, I usually just hit Apple-U (or Control-U for Windows and Linux) to view the message source, and all the headers are right there. Alternatively, you might want to look at the Mnenhy extension, which, among other things, lets you customize which header fields get displayed with the message.
If they're tied to a Yahoo ID, you should be able to unsubscribe via the web. Try http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups.
Nope. They used to include one free e-file with TurboTax, but that stopped a couple of years ago. As long as its cheaper for me to mail in the form, that's what I'll do. It reminds me of banks that charge for online banking and debit card use, when, from what I hear, those are cheaper for the bank to process than a paper check.
Yes, I know there are other products that will let you do it for free, but TurboTax (going back to when it was still called MacinTax) has worked well for me, and I'd rather not keep my data on some company's web server. I've considered TaxCut, but their Mac support has been shaky (they dropped it completely one year, and in years prior some state versions were available for Windows but not Mac) and I'd rather support a company that shows a little more dedication to my platform of choice.
I don't think Mozilla ever made the claim of being a file manager, nor does Safari. Just because IE and Konqueror combine both functions doesn't mean all browsers should be file managers. From your reply to Acer500 its clear that you like having them combined as Konqueror does it, but not everyone uses it that way. Typically on Linux, I uses Konqueror as a file manager and Firefox as a web browser.
I agree that Konqueror does some really nice things, especially the network transparency bit. I'd love for the Finder to pick up some of that. But I don't think Apple needs to replace the Finder with Safari.
It's on their list of additions added by the editors (as opposed to the top 10 from the public voting), as part of Office 97.
I can't speak for Inoshiro, but when I've done Recent Changes or New Pages patrolling, I've occasionally run across garbage that more or less states "im bored in class lolz".
Doesn't sound bad. I got the 32" version offered by Woot.com recently for $495 shipped, but it only has one HDMI input, and it only has ATSC and NTSC tuners, no QAM. It does have plenty of other inputs... component, composite, S-Video, etc. I'm happy with it, especially since it replaced a 19" mono CRT.
In a world where nastiness online can erupt and go global overnight,
Why do I picture this line being spoken by a seven foot tall man who has been smoking cigarettes since childhood?
No thanks. An IPv4 address is 32 bits, while and IPv6 address is 128. My computer's link-local IPv6 address, fe80::020a:95ff:feba:2832, would be 254.128.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.10.149.255.254.186.40.50 using IPv4's dotted decimal notation. The :: is a compression notation, meaning "fill in a bunch of 0's here to get the right number of bits).
Sounds similar to the technology used to project a video of Davy Jones onto a mist of some sort in the updated Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
Odd. My local Best Buy has these, and I'm pretty sure they don't have Vista.
I wouldn't worry about that. When I started college, Windows 98 was the hot new OS from Redmond. The school's recommendation was to not upgrade and stick with Windows 95, but of course everyone moving in with brand new computers had 98. Unless they were like me, and bought a Mac instead. The really funny part was the directions for configuring the PC to use the campus network. On 98, you could follow all the steps they had documented for 95, but it didn't work.
1. It said "US Airlines", meaning airlines based in the United States, not US Airways in particular.
2. Frontier has nothing to do with US Airways. US Airways is merging with America West. It's more like America West bought US Airways out of bankruptcy, but is keeping the US Airways name. Currently, the two still are operated as separate airlines, but market themselves as US Airways and recently integrated their reservation systems.
I was able to use my 12" iBook on a recent flight, on an Embraer Regional Jet no less. I've also used it on larger planes. It can get a bit tight but it is usable. Even smaller would work better, like those ultra-portable Viaos.
United has it, it's called Economy Plus. Unlike the Premium Economy product described on Seatguru linked by the other poster that has replied, it is more legroom only; all the other service is the same. They even offer a program called Economy Plus Access; for $299/year you can book an Economy Plus seat on a regular coach class ticket. JetBlue also offers a couple extra inches of legroom in the front half of the airplane (it used to be the back half, but it changed with a recent reconfiguration, for reasons I can't remember).
I don't remember exactly how Apple's implementation works as it's been a while since I've done it -- ask me again after Leopard ships :) -- but what business does an operating system upgrade have messing around in C:\Documents and Settings, /Users, or /home in the first place?
So it's like Mac OS X's Archive and Install, which we've had since 2002, except it doesn't work as well?
TurboTax fills in that line with "Self-prepared".
I think you assume that the grandparent poster puts the manuals for his GPL'd software under a restrictive CC license. That's not the conclusion I drew reading it. I would agree with you that it makes sense to put documentation under the same license as the software.
Taking a quick look at his site, it looks like the open content books are more along the lines of what you'd find in the computer section of a bookstore. Since these aren't directly tied to an open source software product, I think its perfectly reasonable that he use a restrictive license.
Apple Display Connector. DVI (digital and analog), USB, and power.
It's been done: http://www.novajo.ca/xgridagent/. The problem is that Xgrid ships a binary to the target system to the client system to execute. When I played around with it I was able to get the agent to run on Gentoo x86, but naturally the job built for Mac OS X on PowerPC wouldn't run. There are potential ways around it; using an interpreted language like Python or Java might work (but be detrimental to performance) or using a wrapper script, but that's not something I had much success with.