Hi, I'm generating a list of directions using the Outline feature in WP where I refer to a later step in the protocol by saying "see Step #X below." I'd like...
Thanks! I've been meaning to learn how to do that for years and have been too lazy. Its amazing how many features WP has and how the program can do pretty...
Dear All Anyone else having this experience. Since upgrading to 10.5.7, if I use Sheepshaver, then while I can shut it down, I cannot subsequently shut down or...
Geoff Gilbert
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Jun 7, 2009 7:02 am
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... This doesn't happen on my systems, so it isn't a symptom of all 10.5.7 setups. However, sometimes the updater from one 5.x version to the next 5.x version...
... You probably will, and Command-? accesses only one of the Help features available. QuickHelp is another application, written for WP OpenDoc but easily...
This sounds like more an OS issue than an issue with SheepShaver, which is YA cocoa app. Two thoughts: I usually run Onyx, a nice free maintenance utility...
Dear All On the Emaculation forum (as Edward had suggested), I asked the same question to see if there was any existing knowledge/ experience - the people...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 9, 2009 6:30 am
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Ed, I went to download the latest WP Appliance installer today, and got an apparently Google-based warning about malware on the dl.getdropbox.com site. It...
... Hmm... there are probably tens of thousands of users with software on dl.getdropbox.com, and it's more or less inevitable than one of them would host...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8096822.stm Security experts have discovered two novel forms of Mac OS X malware. OSX/Tored-A - an updated version of the...
I have a question about viruses. Don't know when/how to recognize them. I only have Macs. Yesterday, I received an email from a list member of an animal...
"Users logging on to these sites are asked to download a "missing Video Active-X Object" but are sent a virus payload instead." Unless the mac user less than...
... The problem with that is that many sites on the web are infected with links that you never see. When a friend died my wife looked her up and found an...
His point, though, was, according to the article, you have to go to a porn site, which tells you that you need an "Active-X plugin". That's the virus, the...
... Start here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10255226-83.html It doesn't tell how the stuff actually gets on the sites, but that's presumably done through...
... Note that this is the third time I have tried to send this, the first time the electricty went out in our entire neighborhood, the second time my Mac...
... But the links /on one's own site/ to pages elsewhere do not optimize the /referring/ site in a search, do they? Rather, they optimize/enhance the search...
... It's pretty easy to figure out the user name of the owner of the HTML files of a web site. Once you have done that, there are plenty of lists of passwords...
... Someone decided that the world would be a better place if they put together a website with a link to every antisemtic website in the world. They called it...
Geoff, Thanks for the education. The bottom line appears to be that web site corruption, like Mac viruses, rely on weak owner/user security rather than ...
I've downloaded John R's impressive MetaMacro utility, toward converting 20 years of WP files to something readable (RTF?) by a yet-unselected, modern word...
Just one question - how complex are your 20 years worth of files? NeoOffice is good for straightforward fles but can lose some of the more complex attributes...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Jun 22, 2009 5:06 pm
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... Dead simple, for the most part. No embedded tables or graphics, e.g. No footnotes, headers, indices, math formulas, weird paginations or documents over 50...