Re: Anyone using one of these "brain boosting" supplements? - 12 years ago

Lots of academics/scientists take that kind of stuff. Nature magazine ran a survey.

Re: Quicken replacement recommendation - 12 years ago

QuoteKen Sp. Quotepipiens Thanks Ken. I do not believe that iBank supports bill pay. Am I wrong? I was just checking that. Doesn't appear to. I use my bank site for bill pay. Sorry Using a bank site for bill pay would be an option. How do you handle recurring payments? Do you have to re-categorize each time it is payed?

Re: Quicken replacement recommendation - 12 years ago

Thanks Ken. I do not believe that iBank supports bill pay. Am I wrong?

Quicken replacement recommendation - 12 years ago

My wife is currently using Quicken for on-line bill paying. She hates the program. Does anyone have a recommendation for a replacement ? Bill pay and data import from Quicken would be important features.

Re: Do you have a Dedicated Home Theatre Room? - 12 years ago

I live in a high-rise condo. There is a theater that holds about a dozen people as part of the common area.

Re: Trying to figure out a new backup solution... - 12 years ago

How badly to you want the data? There are lots of ways for a raid system to lose data. Some of the single points of failure are: A single drive can fail in ways that have an effect on other drives. The enclosure power supply can fail and take out all the drives. Intermittent electronics failure can corrupt data. Cockpit error. You can erase it all yourself. The sy

Re: Organize Photos - 12 years ago

Here is a book with more than you want to know.

Re: Voluntary MacResource Birthday Extravaganza : punkindrublik !!!! - 12 years ago

Happy B-day wherever you are.

Re: RIP: Kenneth Olsen.. Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) - 12 years ago

I used a pair of PDP-8's to automate price reporting for the Chicago Board of trade in the 60's. I was also involved with designing a communication system for the Strategic Air Command in the early 60's. The communication processor from that system morphed into the PDP-1. DEC was a manufacturer of digital modules in those days. IT&T wanted to make a commercial version of the military

Re: Voluntary MacResource Birthday Extravaganza : pRICE cUBE !!!! - 12 years ago

Happy B-Day !!!!

Re: Vegetable oil or olive oil? - 12 years ago

Avocado oil has a high smoke point(255° C) and is considered to be a "healthy" oil.

Re: Quick Audio Circuit Question: Clamping Audio Input Level? - 12 years ago

Dan Dugan invented a device that solves a similar problem. It can take mixed audio inputs from several sources and produce a constant volume output. It is used in places like panel shows where several people can speak at the same time. You can drop him a line. Dan is an easy guy to talk to and a Mac user.

Re: Voluntary MacResource Birthday Extravaganza : PeterB !!!! - 12 years ago

Happy B day. You are off to a good start for the year.

Re: Who makes the best hard drives? - 12 years ago

Call our sponsor and ask which drives currently have the lowest return rate.

Re: Voluntary MacResource Birthday Extravaganza : MacResource Forum !!!! - 12 years ago

It has been a great ride. Happy B-day and thanks to the OWC crew.

Re: Voluntary MacResource Birthday Extravaganza : BillMac !!!! - 12 years ago

Happy B-day BillMac !!!

Re: Ron Paul TSA video - 12 years ago

In my view "opt out" is a weapon that should be used. I travel a fair amount and have decided to opt out at every opportunity. I have done so in the past and will do so again tomorrow.

Re: Germans strip in airport body scanner protests - 12 years ago

You don't have to go to the airport to get x-rayed.

Re: That was fast! 256GB upgrade for Air - 12 years ago

Photofast makes Gmonster compact flash cards. I have a bunch of them and find the transfer rates to be outstanding. Pricing is good too.

Re: Which backup engine or method is fastest for updates? - 12 years ago

Re: Best free online pic hosting with static links to actual .jpg,, etc., file - 13 years ago

3x for dropbox. PM one of us with your email address and you will get an invitation that buys both of you a little more free storage.

Re: Help with Leopard installation please - 13 years ago

Here is the procedure from the seed notes for installing Snow Leopard. It did not work for me either. Installation Instructions IMPORTANT: Always back-up your system before installing pre-release software seeds. A. Install Snow Leopard using hard disk partitions: Requirements: Three hard disk partitions internal or external (you could use 2 but 3 recommended) Hard disk partition

Re: Help with Leopard installation please - 13 years ago

I repartitioned a firewire drive using the G5.I think that would take care of any APM problem. I only saw a single download for leopard. I did not see separate Intel and PPC versions I don't understand the directions at the insanely great mac that ADent cited. There are a bunch of instructions to be found via Google none have worked for me yet.

Re: Help with Leopard installation please - 13 years ago

QuoteDoc Burn it to a DL DVD using the Disk Utility. BTW: What legitimate source offered you a copy of Leopard for legal download? I will have to get a DL DVD. I already have them on order. It is worth a try. The apple developer site has the legitimate copies of everything you can imagine. There is a new developer program. The old one gave hardware discounts in addition to software downl

Help with Leopard installation please - 13 years ago

I am trying to install 10.5 on a G5. I downloaded a disk image of the original GM version from the developer web site but as is it will not install. I can mount the disk image but it goes away when the installation tries to restart the computer. I cloned the disk image to a firewire disk using SuperDuper. It mounts OK but the installation quits with a " you have to use the installation DVD&q

Re: heavy-duty AA cell holders? - 13 years ago

Digikey has a bunch of different types. This one looks like it might work for you.

Re: It's hard to believe it's been nine years. - 13 years ago

My building was within about 4 blocks of ground zero but I was in a bush camp in Uganda at the time. We found out about it via the camp manager's short wave BBC broadcast. A week later we were in a place with news access and saw pictures of destruction very close to our home. It was not clear that we had a place to go back to. We were scheduled to spend a week in the Sudan but that seemed to be a

Re: Vitamins and Supplements - 13 years ago

Re: need advice on traveling in NY - 13 years ago

Re: Green Home Challenge - please vote for friends (and fellow Mac Addicts) - 13 years ago

OK Stingme I just voted from all the machines in the house.