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From: Jon on 22 Oct 2006 10:52 Tony Winston <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > Jon wrote: > > And it is also e.o.d., as far as I am concerned. > > Now you're being hypocritical, because I don't know what e.o.d. means, > but everyone knows what O.S.X. means. End Of Discusion -- /Jon For contact info, run the following in Terminal: Mail: echo 36199371860304980107073482417748002696458P|dc Skype: echo 139576319600233690471689738P|dc
From: Sue Rodgers on 22 Oct 2006 11:11 Tony Winston <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > If we were in a business environment, I would agree with you, but this > is an unmoderated froum in a free society, where even slang is tolerated. Ah yes, here we go again. One definition of insanity, that used by 12-step programs, is "repeating the same actions and expecting different results." -- Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see...
From: Mike Rosenberg on 22 Oct 2006 11:18 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > Putting the comma outside the quote, and using single quotation marks > are both correct usage. Your 1972 grammar is out of date. Seriously? > I wonder, do you write I.B.M. and A.T.T. instead of IBM and ATT? No. But I write M*A*S*H instead of MASH. Does that count? :-) -- <http://designsbymike.biz/macconsultshop.shtml> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/musings.shtml> Mostly muckraking T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift
From: Mike Rosenberg on 22 Oct 2006 11:25 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > but everyone knows what O.S.X. means. > > Nope, but everyone here knows what OS X means. I would argue that nearly everyone reading this newsgroup knows what a poster means by O.S.X. On the other hand, he just said everyone, not everyone here. I also have to wonder what his thinking is in not having a space preceding the X and having a period following it. -- <http://designsbymike.biz/macconsultshop.shtml> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/musings.shtml> Mostly muckraking T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift
From: Dave Balderstone on 22 Oct 2006 11:31
In article <453B7FEE.4B14EEA5(a)address.com>, Tony Winston <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > Dave Balderstone wrote: > > > > In article <453B731F.676BBC0A(a)address.com>, Tony Winston > > <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > > > > > Dave Balderstone wrote: > > > > > > > > In article <4535AED2.E313BF24(a)address.com>, Tony Winston > > > > <unreal(a)address.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > nospam wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Tony Winston wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > So the 9.22 on my computer is my only remaining working copy and I > > > > > > > don't > > > > > > > want to mess with it until I've mastered X. > > > > > > > > > > > > In that situation I think first I would burn a cd with the system > > > > > > folder > > > > > > and as much other stuff as I could fit on it (or a DVD if it has a > > > > > > DVD > > > > > > burner), then try booting from it to make sure I copied everything > > > > > > right. > > > > > > > > > > > > Not answering your question here, but I think it might be a good > > > > > > idea. > > > > > > > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Andy. > > > > > > > > > > I've tried repeatedly to do that, but I can't burn anything on my > > > > > DVDs ? > > > > > even in X. The options are grayed. I checked the Help section but it > > > > > was > > > > > of no help. > > > > > > > > > > I have a package of Apple 4x blank DVD-Rs. I tried two of them with > > > > > the > > > > > same lack of results. > > > > > > > > Do you have a DVD burner in the Mac? Or is it limited to burning CDs > > > > and read-only for DVDs? > > > > > > > > If you run System Profiler (in the Utilities folder) it will tell you. > > > > > > I have a program called, "Disk Burner" which comes as part of O.S. 10, > > > but I don't know why it won't work. I thought that it would allow me to > > > copy data onto my DVD'Rs, but it's not doing anything. > > > > > > Also, when I bought my used Mac, the salesman included a c.d. containing > > > a program called "Patchburn II" so that when I got O.S. 10 I could burn > > > c.d.s. > > > > > > The documentation on the c.d. says: > > > > > > "This program generates and installs drivers for CD/DVD-burners that are > > > available on Mac OS X systems. This allows many, otherwise unsupported > > > burners to be used directly with Mac OS X, iTunes and Disk Burner." > > > > > > Is it safe to install that Patchburn II onto my O.S. 10 drive? I'm using > > > O.S. 10.47 and 10.48, but Patchburn is for 10.43. > > > > You didn't answer my question. > > I thought I DID answer the question. Isn't Disk Burner a DVD burner? > > I also have an old version of Toast. I don't know if Patchburn II would > update that old version of Toast. (The salesman at the Mac store told me > it would, but I want to make sure before I install Patchburn.) I meant the HARDWARE, not software. It doesn't matter what software you have if the hardware isn't capable of burning a DVD. |