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The DOJ has finally decided that iPhone (with 55% market share) is a monopoly and uses its monopoly power to the detriment of consumers and in restraint of trade. Somehow the politicians have to look like they are taking on big tech. MSN but at least not paywalled. From the linked article...

I just put High Sierra on a mid 2010 21.5 inch iMac I got for free. I ordered 4x4gig memory from OWC but they sent me 2x8gig. I put it in anyway. I was having trouble installing the OS with the 16 gigs so I bumped it back to the 4 it came with and the install went smoothly. I put back the 2x8s...

I just had to re-route an ethernet cable in the office and it required me to cut off the rj45 and replace it after rethreading the cable through the new route. I cut off the end so I'd remake the cable the same way - looking at the bottom of the rj left to right - wo-o-wg-b-wb-g-wbr-br. When I...

We lived overseas for most of children's childhoods and have developed ( or underdeveloped ) interesting ways of pronouncing things. When the kids were reading Harry Potter they were skeptical that Ms Granger's name was her-MY-oh-knee. They really did not believe me until Victor Krum showed up...

Here's an idea - a twist on the word association thread that might be more engaging. We start with a word and develop a new word and new idea through a three-stage association. So let's say the word is Dance (borrowing from the regular association thread) Dance infers Party which infers Mario...

14.5 Billion?!?! Apple required to pay Ireland more money than Ireland wants and... if they do they will ask a tax credit from the US for taxes paid overseas. Very Kafkaesque. I get the feeling Europe might not be a great destination if Trump wins. :^) So Canada is the winner!

I haven't seen the site on my iPad or my phone but on the MacBook - it is awful. Specifics: Don't like the teal Don't like the font - it just hurts my eyes (maybe because it is in "Barf Teal") The two column format leaves out important info about thread activity The leading both between threads...

Searched for this on the forum and at google, found some old threads that kind of touch my problem, but not really. I have a mid 2011 MacBook Pro with 4 gigs and Yosemite with an SSD. OK - I'll get some more RAM one day. I use Mail with imap for several mail accounts and keep the inboxes...

My new (September) MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz has 10.6.6 installed with 4 gigs of RAM. When I stream live video in both Safari and Chrome, I get audio only (no video) and after a minute or so, the plug-in fails. It happens more quickly in Safari than in Chrome, but both of them crash. So far I...

Egypt is in flames, with protests going on for 7 days now. Crowds are defying curfews and tanks, calling for the removal of Hosni Mubarak, virtual king of the country for the last 30 years, and his cronies. Mubarak has been propped up by US aid that was a promise to Sadat for the Camp David...

The lists at the bottom say it is our favorite devil with smelly stuff's birthday. Of course he could have lied on his profile. Many Happy Returns Jeff, whether it's your birthday or your unbirthday.

I'm not seeking legal advice, just a sampling of what others would do. A friend (call him Rolf) owns a small shop for computer sales/repairs and is doing OK. The other day one of his first customers came in with a laptop she says a "friend gave my son." but that had some trouble with Windows...

I was on my way over to Hervé's but nobody's really there, so I am out here in the street to say that the Saints are gonna win. I have no reason for the prediction (kinda nuts to bet against Manning), just the alignment of the stars. If they don't - drinks are on me at Hervé's. TH

I've been using Dreamhost for a while now after learning about it here. I used to think I was doing well on price _and_ service, but saw today that unlimited disk space and bandwidth are the norm for half what I pay. I run my personal site (to keep family and friends abreast of our traveling)...

My mintel 1.66 CoreDuo with a gig of RAM had been chugging along with 10.4.10 for some months, slow but stable. The chugging was due to a full HD, but since I don't use it - it's for the other half and the kids - I left it. But - love, you know. It overcomes wisdom like - if it ain't broke...

I've been playing around with the trial download of iWork and am very happy with Numbers for the most part. It opens my Excel sheets fairly well - mostly font and some formula concerns in the importing, but nothing I can't handle. One thing I find irritating is that I can't align text...

I usually go about my business just using the automatic network settings on my macBook. But the other day, I went to set up a dummy address to have the macBook serve pages on a school network and found to my dismay that there are two ethernet adaptor (en1) AND (en2) that are not physically...

Mr Apple is looking for new digs in Cairo. I drove past, saw the signs and stopped to get a pic with a camera-phone. It's right across the street from the BMW dealer and when I was taking the shot, a cop came and rousted me. Touchy those Egyptians... :D I can hardly wait - Mr Apple tells me...

A third logicboard failure on a G3 iBook has accelerated my purchase of a c2d Macbook. In general it is very sweet. I love the keyboard, the bright screen and Parallels. (cohesion is awesome) but several programs are giving me a hard time. My old friend Eudora won't run on it - so I had to...

I am running 10.4.8 on an 1.33 iBook with a gig of RAM. I don't remember :P what I used to install php5, but it's there and it works fine with a few local test sites I fool around with. (install location seems to be /usr/local/php5. MySQL is there in the same folder - works fine. Contents...