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August 15 Information
hey, you, get off of iCloud
iTunes (on MacOSX) keeps telling me “Your iCloud session has expired” (and prompting me for a password, which I haven't bothered to look up). I don't know what an iCloud session is, but am reasonably confident that iDon't want one. Is there a setting to shut it the heck up? —
Tamfang (
talk) 02:39, 15 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Of course there is! Turn the Mac off, and get a Linux machine. --
Trovatore (
talk) 03:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
reply
Tried that once. —
Tamfang (
talk) 03:45, 15 August 2015 (UTC) reply
Re: Linux. Read
William Edward Hickson &
Robert_the_Bruce#Legends. Follow their advice and then you might find your living in the land of
Ambrosia. Once, twice doesn't get you anywhere. It is the modus operandi of the
Ne'er-do-wells who work hard, in order to afford to be remain poor slaves to the Microsoft's & Apple's of this world.--
Aspro (
talk) 13:28, 15 August 2015 (UTC)reply
More precisely, tried it for five years. —
Tamfang (
talk) 03:41, 16 August 2015 (UTC)reply
User:Tamfang, you have probably enabled
iTunes in the Cloud, intended to synchronize your music across all of your computers and devices. If you did not intentionally enable that feature, it can be turned off in the settings panel in iTunes. Here are
instructions to turn the feature on; reciprocally, uncheck those checkboxes to turn it off.
Thanks but I don't see anything about clouds in "Turn On Automatic Downloads". — As a longshot I unclicked "Share my library on my local network"; didn't help. — There is an iCloud panel in System Preferences, but it's only a login dialog! —
Tamfang (
talk) 03:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)reply
When
Lotus 1-2-3 software was launched in 1983, was it used primarily in the USA? or was it used widely outside the USA also? How can one verify the proportion of international adoption of this American-made software? Advice on sources would be much appreciated. Thank you.
M2545 (
talk) 13:07, 15 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes, I recall using
Lotus 1-2-3 in the UK. I think it was widely used before Microsoft took over, but I don't have references or evidence.
Dbfirs 21:59, 15 August 2015 (UTC)reply
[1] suggests it's an NDA not shame and in fact Alan Sugar remained in 2008 proud of the deal.
Nil Einne (
talk) 13:09, 17 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes, a NDA is Microsoft's
Damocles Sword but they are not binding in perpetuity. They just exist as long as the commercial 'need' exists. So why the current day secrecy? Software once developed is very cheap to distribute. If AS had told Digital Research about this, DR could have easily met the price and used the European courts to block their little scam.--
Aspro (
talk) 20:34, 18 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Aspro, about the wordprocessor, did you leave out some words? —
Tamfang (
talk) 19:28, 18 August 2015 (UTC)reply
It included a word-processing application? One word.--
Aspro (
talk) 20:34, 18 August 2015 (UTC)reply
I don't quite see where the word application would improve "the word-processor was probably (and arguable not as good) as
WordPerfect". —
Tamfang (
talk) 04:20, 20 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The IT purchasing policy of my UK-based employer's was "no-one gets fired for buying IBM" - this stretched to from Mainframes to Wintel Servers to Desktops (later Lenovo) to Printers (later Lexmark) and other kit at various times (network, telecoms, etc) - as part of this we used Lotus's office software incl 1-2-3 extensively until the end of the first decade of the 2000's.
188.29.165.185 (
talk) 22:12, 18 August 2015 (UTC)reply
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August 15 Information
hey, you, get off of iCloud
iTunes (on MacOSX) keeps telling me “Your iCloud session has expired” (and prompting me for a password, which I haven't bothered to look up). I don't know what an iCloud session is, but am reasonably confident that iDon't want one. Is there a setting to shut it the heck up? —
Tamfang (
talk) 02:39, 15 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Of course there is! Turn the Mac off, and get a Linux machine. --
Trovatore (
talk) 03:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
reply
Tried that once. —
Tamfang (
talk) 03:45, 15 August 2015 (UTC) reply
Re: Linux. Read
William Edward Hickson &
Robert_the_Bruce#Legends. Follow their advice and then you might find your living in the land of
Ambrosia. Once, twice doesn't get you anywhere. It is the modus operandi of the
Ne'er-do-wells who work hard, in order to afford to be remain poor slaves to the Microsoft's & Apple's of this world.--
Aspro (
talk) 13:28, 15 August 2015 (UTC)reply
More precisely, tried it for five years. —
Tamfang (
talk) 03:41, 16 August 2015 (UTC)reply
User:Tamfang, you have probably enabled
iTunes in the Cloud, intended to synchronize your music across all of your computers and devices. If you did not intentionally enable that feature, it can be turned off in the settings panel in iTunes. Here are
instructions to turn the feature on; reciprocally, uncheck those checkboxes to turn it off.
Thanks but I don't see anything about clouds in "Turn On Automatic Downloads". — As a longshot I unclicked "Share my library on my local network"; didn't help. — There is an iCloud panel in System Preferences, but it's only a login dialog! —
Tamfang (
talk) 03:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)reply
When
Lotus 1-2-3 software was launched in 1983, was it used primarily in the USA? or was it used widely outside the USA also? How can one verify the proportion of international adoption of this American-made software? Advice on sources would be much appreciated. Thank you.
M2545 (
talk) 13:07, 15 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes, I recall using
Lotus 1-2-3 in the UK. I think it was widely used before Microsoft took over, but I don't have references or evidence.
Dbfirs 21:59, 15 August 2015 (UTC)reply
[1] suggests it's an NDA not shame and in fact Alan Sugar remained in 2008 proud of the deal.
Nil Einne (
talk) 13:09, 17 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes, a NDA is Microsoft's
Damocles Sword but they are not binding in perpetuity. They just exist as long as the commercial 'need' exists. So why the current day secrecy? Software once developed is very cheap to distribute. If AS had told Digital Research about this, DR could have easily met the price and used the European courts to block their little scam.--
Aspro (
talk) 20:34, 18 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Aspro, about the wordprocessor, did you leave out some words? —
Tamfang (
talk) 19:28, 18 August 2015 (UTC)reply
It included a word-processing application? One word.--
Aspro (
talk) 20:34, 18 August 2015 (UTC)reply
I don't quite see where the word application would improve "the word-processor was probably (and arguable not as good) as
WordPerfect". —
Tamfang (
talk) 04:20, 20 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The IT purchasing policy of my UK-based employer's was "no-one gets fired for buying IBM" - this stretched to from Mainframes to Wintel Servers to Desktops (later Lenovo) to Printers (later Lexmark) and other kit at various times (network, telecoms, etc) - as part of this we used Lotus's office software incl 1-2-3 extensively until the end of the first decade of the 2000's.
188.29.165.185 (
talk) 22:12, 18 August 2015 (UTC)reply