Re: Unbiasd and totally honest answer needed from mac users..Please!
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:31 +0000
Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
[snip]
> All I can say is that I've only ever had two that failed to start - one
> was back in 199(mumble) - an LC475 with a dead CMOS battery (some older
> pre-iMac Macs had a tendency not to boot if the CMOS battery was dead)
The Performa/LC 475 was /designed/ so that i ...
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Re: Unbiasd and totally honest answer needed from mac users..Please!
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:31 +0000
"the_niner_nation" <sf49ers@removethis@nfl.com> wrote:
> "Mark Beastly" <ilove@macaronis.com> wrote in message
> news:STMBCGE840135.4720833333@reece.net.au...
[snip]
> im not a troll at all..
*YOU* are not a troll. The poster you are responding to is one, though
- it came here following me.
Look at th ...
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Why was the SE/30 called the SE/30?
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:24:22 +0000
'cos it's a weird sort of a name for a Mac if you ask me.
Apparently:
"Apple had indicated the presence of a 68030 processor by adding the
letter "x" to a model's name, but when the Macintosh SE was updated to
the 68030, [...]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE/30
Rowland.
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Remove the anim ...
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Re: MBP latch problem
19 Nov 2009 14:13:50 GMT
Ric <infobubble@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 Nov, 14:08, Ric <infobub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Noticed last night that the lid on my 2008 Santa Rosa MBP 17 doesn't
> > latch shut. If I look closely, when it's nearly shut the magnets in
> > the base correctly pull out the two catches, but they don't seem to
> > *cat ...
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Re: What can Apple learn from Windows 7?
19 Nov 2009 14:13:46 GMT
T i m <news@spaced.me.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:40:42 +0000, black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B)
> wrote:
>
> >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:48:52 +0000, Ben Shimmin
> >> <bas@llamaselector.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Perhaps Apple could impleme ...
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Re: Newsreader suggestions?
19 Nov 2009 14:13:42 GMT
T i m <news@spaced.me.uk> wrote:
> I think it's totally pointless and distracting having more than the
> screens needed to do what you want or can do at one time. As most of
> us can't actually multi-task (and generally only have one keyboard and
> mouse on our machines) we are just talking semantics re how fast w ...
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Re: OSX upgrade
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:01:57 +0000
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:30:23 +0000,
real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
>> Nix is frustrating even to the point of reading a .man page and not
>> having it fly off the screen ...
>
>You need to track down a tutorial on using the shell(s) available via
>the MacOS X Terminal ap ...
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10.6's Software Update
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:56:28 +0000
With MacOS X 10.4, I could use Software Update just to download an
update.
With MacOS X 10.6, Software Update seems not to let me do that. It
tells me it'll install the needed software.
Well, I don't want it to do that. I want to download the updater,
archive it, and apply it manually.
Is there any way t ...
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Re: Scanning photos and setting dates
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:02:49 +0000
J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:
> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Howard <Howard.not@home.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am about to start scanning in a few hundred photos from prints from
> > > the late 80s and early 90s. I have done ...
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Re: Mac jewellery
19 Nov 2009 11:56:15 GMT
Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
> Sara wrote:
> > In article <1j9dwho.1sxa17dhgjvgtN%peter@cara.demon.co.uk>,
> > peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:
> >
> >> Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think I've been led astray.
> >> I blame Bella. Remember, the Wolfbag Girl? ...
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