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I sent the following message to the link you provided:
After waiting for months for your upgrade to Entourage, and its promise to work with Exchange servers, I am very dissappointed to find that it still does not function well in a corporate environment.
The IM&T department at my company tolerates my mac on the network, but provides me no support. Therefore, getting them to enable IMAP and/or SMTP is out of the question.
So far, my only working option remains to operate a PC just to receive properly formatted mail at my corporate address.
Please provide full mac compatibility with Exchange servers
Thanks for the input, guys.
Methinks I have underestimated the 604 -- I still have a 601 on an 8100/80, now used by the wife.
Even at that perhaps I gave up to early -- I had been frustrated before on a Quadra 68040, and when I absolutely couldn't get anything to play music on that I decided I was too far obsolete and got a Cube.
How did you play 'em on your Quadra? That was where I absolutely failed.
Nowadays, my wife has discovered she can paint pretty pictures in photoshop on the 8100, and she wouldn't know an MP3 from a WMD, so I guess I can shut up about music on the PowerPC -- but if it comes up again, I will remember your suggestions.
8100 stats:
8100/80 601, 256 MB, VM == off, and it will only go up to OS 9.1
Quicktime 6 also brought the system to a standstill, so I backdropped to QT 4.x
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg mp3 from one folder on the hard drive to an ipod.
OK, I know we're not supposed to feed the trolls, but --
I'm really curious to know how he connected that 8600 SCSI/Serial PowerPC...
...to a Firewire iPod?
For that matter, how do ya play an MP3 on a 604e?
Actually, the Office update is a signif piece of news, at least for those of us who have been trying to migrate to OS X in a corporate environment.
No known Mac mail client can make use of the features of the Exchange server, except a buggy old Outlook that doesn't render html, graphics, or support calendar and scheduling events -- and only runs in classic.
While it's not realy propellorhead stuff, it's a major and much-anticipated upgrade for some of us End Users. And it took/. to let me know it's available, even though I've been sittin on pins & needles for it.
You never actually looked at iTunes, did you? They have this fun little thing called a smart playlist. I'm sure that you could, with very little effort, create a smart buy list that brought up all pan flute folk songs from the Balkans if that's what you're in the mood to buy or acid metal from Japan if that floats your boat today, listen to a few samples and spend your $0.99 getting something you never heard of before and might have never found with conventional searching.
Yes, actually I use iTunes as my principal music listening environment. I use both static and smart playlists extensively.
Now, since you are the second to bring this up in this thread, I'm obviously the ignorant one here. So please enlighten me: exactly how can I use the Smart Playlists to view the iTunes Music Store selections?
From the iT help file: Playlists can include songs or spoken word files from your library or from radio stations. (emphasis mine)
I don't find any obvious way to link a Smart Playlist to the iTMS. Great idea, though!
Britney, Christina, and friends would all have amazing karma and artists like Brian Eno would languish at the bottom of the Hellmouth because mainstream people wouldn't get it.
What do you mean by that statement, and what is the 4th branch?
While given no specific powers, the free press and free speech was specifically included by the Founding Fathers (writers of the U.S. constitution) for, among other reasons, to enhance the system of checks and balances among the three branches (Judicial, Executive, Legislative).
Hence, the media is (unofficially) the fourth branch of government - and the easiest for the general populace to participate in - espceially now that it includes/. (shameless karma whoring)
People who have PC's has never been Apple's core market. Apple's core markets are (1) people who have Macs and are replacing them, and (2) people who don't have a computer at all
Err... but then... that is to say... what about...?
Wednesday, June 25, 2003 Posted: 5:14 AM EDT (0914 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- U.S. Internet media company Yahoo Inc. said it is debuting its popular music service Launch in Europe, its first crack at the region's burgeoning online music market.
Launch Music carries free and subscription-based programming ranging from music videos to artist interviews to streaming music, which it is bringing to Europe as high-speed broadband Internet usage reaches mass market levels.
Yahoo does not sell music downloads in North America, but the company said it would consider launching such features in the United States and abroad in the future with Launch's user base of monthly visitors topping 9 million.
"What we will be doing is building this service to take Launch global, and then we'll look at the opportunities," David Goldberg, vice president and general manager for Launch Music on Yahoo, told Reuters on Wednesday.
Launch will be a primarily advertiser-supported Web site in Europe, as it is in North America.
Goldberg said Launch will likely team up with UK music site Dotmusic, which is owned by BT Group, as part of its newly struck alliance to bring entertainment content to BT OpenWorld broadband subscribers.
Yahoo has been exporting select features of its North American service to its European operation in an effort to boost advertising and subscription revenues overseas.
Earlier this month, Yahoo launched a free online dating service in Europe, but will change to a monthly subscription service as soon as this autumn.
Yahoo has been noticeably quiet in Europe on the music front as the market has been slower to take off here.
The major music labels have been more selective in releasing music to song download sites, offering their artists' music to a handful of Europe's largest Internet service providers and Web portals including Tiscali and Microsoft's MSN.
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Yeah, I know, it's not the same, but still...
It is precisely stupid of them because they fail to realized how much greater exposure is available to each and every artist through file sharing. If you hear it, you might want it. If you don't hear it you will never want it.
It is as precisely stupid of them as it was when they went after radio stations -- because they were playing music for free!
Ask Paul McCartney how much money he lost through free radio transmission of Beatles music.
It is precisely as as stupid of them as when they feared they would lose revenue from people having video tape recorders in their homes -- nobody would go to theaters anymore.
Ask Steven Speilberg how much money he has lost from video rentals.
The bottom line: you have to get your product in front of the people to make them desire it. Instead of suing filesharers into oblivion, The RIAA should be paying us for promoting their product!
That is precisely how stupid they are -- stupid enough to byte the hand that feeds them!
An oldie but a goodie: the following excerpted from Janis Ian's website
Am I suspicious of all this hysteria? You bet. Do I think the issue has been badly handled? Absolutely. Am I concerned about losing friends, opportunities, my 10th Grammy nomination by publishing this article? Yeah. I am. But sometimes things are just wrong, and when they're that wrong, they have to be addressed.
The premise of all this ballyhoo is that the industry (and its artists) are being harmed by free downloading.
Nonsense. Let's take it from my personal experience. My site (www.janisian.com ) gets an average of 75,000 hits a year. Not bad for someone whose last hit record was in 1975. When Napster was running full-tilt, we received about 100 hits a month from people who'd downloaded Society's Child or At Seventeen for free, then decided they wanted more information. Of those 100 people (and these are only the ones who let us know how they'd found the site), 15 bought CDs. Not huge sales, right? No record company is interested in 180 extra sales a year. But⦠that translates into $2700, which is a lot of money in my book. And that doesn't include the ones who bought the CDs in stores, or who came to my shows.
As a musician myself, I want everyone in the world to be aware of my music, and, when I can, I make it available for download. Free.
Cause then I think someone might come up to me and say "Please sir, can I have some more?"
Apparently the 7-minute rule is not hard and fast.
Just take a look at (what else?) the Yes selections.
Close to the Edge, Relayer, and Tales from Topographic Oceans, albums comprised exclusively of >8 min songs, are notably absent from iTMS, though Yes is otherwise fairly well represented.
From the Big Generator album, 2 songs over 7 min are available for single song purchase.
Roundabout, at nearly 8 minutes, is available as part of the Classic Yes album or single song -- but not as part of the partial Fragile album, where it belongs.
Fragile, however, gives us South Side of the Sky at 8:08.
The full (1973 live version) Close to the Edge, at 18:14, is available as a.99 DL, but the best yet is that the entire Yessongs (triple, on vinyl) Album is only 9.99. And all songs are available as single songs, including 8 songs at over 9 minutes.
Disclaimer: Cut&Pasted from an earlier, modded-down post -- G
Very interesting question. "Close To The Edge" by Yes fits this description (3 songs, all over 8 minutes).
However, Close to the Edge, Relayer, and Tales from Topographic Oceans are albums notably absent from iTMS, though Yes is otherwise fairly represented.
From the Big Generator album, 2 songs over 7 min are available for single song purchase.
Roundabout, at nearly 8 minutes, is available as part of the Classic Yes album or single song -- but not as part of the partial Fragile album, where it belongs. Fragile, however, gives us South Side of the Sky at 8:08.
The full (1973 live version) Close to the Edge, at 18:14, is available as a.99 DL, but the best yet is that the entire Yessongs (triple, on vinyl) Album is only 9.99. And all songs are available as single songs, including 8 songs at over 9 minutes.
So apparently the 7-minute rule is not hard and fast. Good thing, or we Yes-heads (Troopers, Generators, Relayers and Panthers alike) would be out of luck (not really, since the lot of us tend to rabidly rapidly buy each work in every avilable format with an emphasis on completeness)
How many times have you bought a CD just because of one track that was worth having?
Never. I always buy a CD in the belief that, if these people can create one song I like, then they can create others that I like. (Not that I'm not sometimes disappointed.)
If it's just the one song that I like, then I've already heard it. I can just replay it in my head ad nauseum. I buy the album to explore and expand my knowledge of new music.
(But, generally, I also don't buy "Best of" albums. I've already heard all that crap on the radio. What else ya got? [live albums are another matter entirely -- I have four live Yes albums published by labels, with another half dozen concerts from P2P])
Defend away, but I spent years creating new folders with command-N, and still get a "Home" window whenever I try to make one. It's a mac consistency that has been blown away - command N means make a "new whatever," in any application.
I very seldom want a window. I only want what's inside it. So I am (self)trained to type the first two letters of the folder or disk that I want on the desktop, then Command-O(pen).
It's so much less intuitive to make a new window, then use it to go somewhere -- kinda like starting my car everytime I need to make a left turn.
My father, who had a passion for rebuilding Morris Minor automobiles, was fond of the old joke: "Why do the English drink warm beer?"
A: Because they have Lucas refrigerators.
He also defined the Morris Minor as the world's only true sportscar -- because it was the only vehicle that gave the elements an equal chance.
Yeah, I know: -2, offtopic.
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I sent the following message to the link you provided:
Thanks for the link!Even at that perhaps I gave up to early -- I had been frustrated before on a Quadra 68040, and when I absolutely couldn't get anything to play music on that I decided I was too far obsolete and got a Cube.
How did you play 'em on your Quadra? That was where I absolutely failed.
Nowadays, my wife has discovered she can paint pretty pictures in photoshop on the 8100, and she wouldn't know an MP3 from a WMD, so I guess I can shut up about music on the PowerPC -- but if it comes up again, I will remember your suggestions.
8100 stats:
8100/80 601, 256 MB, VM == off, and it will only go up to OS 9.1
Quicktime 6 also brought the system to a standstill, so I backdropped to QT 4.x
And now for something completely offtopic...
OK, I know we're not supposed to feed the trolls, but --
I'm really curious to know how he connected that 8600 SCSI/Serial PowerPC...
No known Mac mail client can make use of the features of the Exchange server, except a buggy old Outlook that doesn't render html, graphics, or support calendar and scheduling events -- and only runs in classic.
While it's not realy propellorhead stuff, it's a major and much-anticipated upgrade for some of us End Users. And it took /. to let me know it's available, even though I've been sittin on pins & needles for it.
One less application to run in Classic!
My error, I see now that you were the suggestor in both posts.
Yes, actually I use iTunes as my principal music listening environment. I use both static and smart playlists extensively.
Now, since you are the second to bring this up in this thread, I'm obviously the ignorant one here. So please enlighten me: exactly how can I use the Smart Playlists to view the iTunes Music Store selections?
From the iT help file: Playlists can include songs or spoken word files from your library or from radio stations. (emphasis mine)
I don't find any obvious way to link a Smart Playlist to the iTMS. Great idea, though!
As opposed to the way it is now?
While given no specific powers, the free press and free speech was specifically included by the Founding Fathers (writers of the U.S. constitution) for, among other reasons, to enhance the system of checks and balances among the three branches (Judicial, Executive, Legislative).
Hence, the media is (unofficially) the fourth branch of government - and the easiest for the general populace to participate in - espceially now that it includes /. (shameless karma whoring)
Power to the People! Right On!
I'm really curious to hear how you or anyone might have used an alligator as a tool!?!
thats right, no anti-war, no pro-war, no nothing.
You can ask.
We can ignore.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the frying pan.
http://www.apple.com/switch/
It's a turntable tone arm (the mechanical gizmo supporting the all-important diamond sytlus). The subliminal -- loop anything!
Yahoo! music tunes into Europe
Wednesday, June 25, 2003 Posted: 5:14 AM EDT (0914 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- U.S. Internet media company Yahoo Inc. said it is debuting its popular music service Launch in Europe, its first crack at the region's burgeoning online music market.
Launch Music carries free and subscription-based programming ranging from music videos to artist interviews to streaming music, which it is bringing to Europe as high-speed broadband Internet usage reaches mass market levels.
Yahoo does not sell music downloads in North America, but the company said it would consider launching such features in the United States and abroad in the future with Launch's user base of monthly visitors topping 9 million.
"What we will be doing is building this service to take Launch global, and then we'll look at the opportunities," David Goldberg, vice president and general manager for Launch Music on Yahoo, told Reuters on Wednesday.
Launch will be a primarily advertiser-supported Web site in Europe, as it is in North America.
Goldberg said Launch will likely team up with UK music site Dotmusic, which is owned by BT Group, as part of its newly struck alliance to bring entertainment content to BT OpenWorld broadband subscribers.
Yahoo has been exporting select features of its North American service to its European operation in an effort to boost advertising and subscription revenues overseas.
Earlier this month, Yahoo launched a free online dating service in Europe, but will change to a monthly subscription service as soon as this autumn.
Yahoo has been noticeably quiet in Europe on the music front as the market has been slower to take off here.
The major music labels have been more selective in releasing music to song download sites, offering their artists' music to a handful of Europe's largest Internet service providers and Web portals including Tiscali and Microsoft's MSN.
==== Yeah, I know, it's not the same, but still...
It is precisely stupid of them because they fail to realized how much greater exposure is available to each and every artist through file sharing. If you hear it, you might want it. If you don't hear it you will never want it.
It is as precisely stupid of them as it was when they went after radio stations -- because they were playing music for free!
Ask Paul McCartney how much money he lost through free radio transmission of Beatles music.
It is precisely as as stupid of them as when they feared they would lose revenue from people having video tape recorders in their homes -- nobody would go to theaters anymore.
Ask Steven Speilberg how much money he has lost from video rentals.
The bottom line: you have to get your product in front of the people to make them desire it. Instead of suing filesharers into oblivion, The RIAA should be paying us for promoting their product! That is precisely how stupid they are -- stupid enough to byte the hand that feeds them!
An oldie but a goodie: the following excerpted from Janis Ian's website
As a musician myself, I want everyone in the world to be aware of my music, and, when I can, I make it available for download. Free.Cause then I think someone might come up to me and say "Please sir, can I have some more?"
Close to the Edge, Relayer, and Tales from Topographic Oceans, albums comprised exclusively of >8 min songs, are notably absent from iTMS, though Yes is otherwise fairly well represented.
From the Big Generator album, 2 songs over 7 min are available for single song purchase.
Roundabout, at nearly 8 minutes, is available as part of the Classic Yes album or single song -- but not as part of the partial Fragile album, where it belongs.
Fragile, however, gives us South Side of the Sky at 8:08.
The full (1973 live version) Close to the Edge, at 18:14, is available as a .99 DL, but the best yet is that the entire Yessongs (triple, on vinyl) Album is only 9.99. And all songs are available as single songs, including 8 songs at over 9 minutes.
Disclaimer: Cut&Pasted from an earlier, modded-down post -- G
Hey!
I resemble that remark!
Very interesting question. "Close To The Edge" by Yes fits this description (3 songs, all over 8 minutes). However, Close to the Edge, Relayer, and Tales from Topographic Oceans are albums notably absent from iTMS, though Yes is otherwise fairly represented. From the Big Generator album, 2 songs over 7 min are available for single song purchase. Roundabout, at nearly 8 minutes, is available as part of the Classic Yes album or single song -- but not as part of the partial Fragile album, where it belongs. Fragile, however, gives us South Side of the Sky at 8:08. The full (1973 live version) Close to the Edge, at 18:14, is available as a .99 DL, but the best yet is that the entire Yessongs (triple, on vinyl) Album is only 9.99. And all songs are available as single songs, including 8 songs at over 9 minutes.
So apparently the 7-minute rule is not hard and fast. Good thing, or we Yes-heads (Troopers, Generators, Relayers and Panthers alike) would be out of luck (not really, since the lot of us tend to rabidly rapidly buy each work in every avilable format with an emphasis on completeness)
Yes, by including as many misspellings as possible! (Preview, dammit!)
Is there any consumer-based reason to want to upgrade. Was anything fixed that was truly broken?
Is there any possible way this oculd be a first post?
If it's just the one song that I like, then I've already heard it. I can just replay it in my head ad nauseum. I buy the album to explore and expand my knowledge of new music.
(But, generally, I also don't buy "Best of" albums. I've already heard all that crap on the radio. What else ya got? [live albums are another matter entirely -- I have four live Yes albums published by labels, with another half dozen concerts from P2P])
I very seldom want a window. I only want what's inside it. So I am (self)trained to type the first two letters of the folder or disk that I want on the desktop, then Command-O(pen).
It's so much less intuitive to make a new window, then use it to go somewhere -- kinda like starting my car everytime I need to make a left turn.
Ba-dap Boom!
The Gift of the Magi. (the Gutenburg Project)
If there's a greater master of irony than O. Henry, I want to know about it. (Though Spider Robinson is also a great master!)
A: Because they have Lucas refrigerators.
He also defined the Morris Minor as the world's only true sportscar -- because it was the only vehicle that gave the elements an equal chance. Yeah, I know: -2, offtopic.