From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #430 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 14 2001 Volume 10 : Number 430 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: laptop advice, please! 0% robyn [Eleanore Adams ] OS9 (2% RH) [Mike Swedene ] software license explanation (0% RH) ["Melissa Higuchi" ] Re: laptop advice, please! 0% robyn/N2 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dign] Re: pete buck court case update ["mats" ] Re: laptop advice, please! 0% robyn ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: robyn to appear in bbc production ["Melissa Higuchi" ] Re: analog playground (0% lap top dancing) [Mike Swedene ] Re: The Fegman's tale ["Fric Chaud" ] Re: analog playground (0% lap top dancing) [Jason Thornton ] Robyn's film [Jill Brand ] Anti-War Pamphlet and CDs ["Eddie Tews" ] Re: war Pampers for the poor [gSs ] Re: Pulp (o% RH) [Ken Ostrander ] Wheatabix ["Walker, Charles" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:20:10 -0800 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: laptop advice, please! 0% robyn I am not a tekkie, so I shouldn't be here... But my husband is and just bought the Mac Titanium. He is leterally sleeping with it. He loves that machine. I have an orange iBook and it has suited me very well for the past 2 years. I am getting the new white iBook for X-mas, the o ne w the DVD drive. I have been very happy w the Macs - they work very well and are strong. I am a klutz so this feature is very important. e Capuchin wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Fric Chaud wrote: > > Come on, Tom! The guy's trying to save some money. Apple is not > > famous for its dollar/performance ratio, unless you're talking about > > Photoshop, but TLR3 said he doesn't want to do high-end graphics. > > Well, you gotta admit, that titanium one is about the coolest portable > computer ever made. > > > Every time I see hardware or software in the stores, the Apple version > > (if you can get one) costs more. TLR3 said "cheapish". > > That's what you get for running commercial software. All that and no > source. Pshh. > > > One could argue that Apple products are the very best for some > > applications, but for an office app workhorse? > > Actually, the only application he even hinted at was watching DVDs (and > that wasn't too overt). > > But to respond to the Other Tom: > > In my experience with laptops, it's all come down to one thing: battery > life. > > You can deal with it being a little slow bringing up a GUI, it might be a > touch jerky on the full-screen full-motion MPEGs, and I can get used to > any pointer device over time... But if it dies between the bus mall and > Gresham Transit Center, I'm going to be pissed. > > Weight is also a concern... and how well it balances on your lap when the > train is starting and stopping. > > That said, I liked my old NEC Versa until something went crazy with the > power regulator (that's my guess, anyway) and now it won't stay up for > more than fifteen minutes without being tethered to the wall outlet. > > It's in the living room now and one of these days I'm going to hook it up > to the stereo to play MP3s from the fileserver (which I'm building as I > type this). > > Although the long-term goal is to get one of those touch-screen LCDs for > that and write a custom app for music selection. I'll have to find stereo > components that can be controlled via serial ports, though. There aren't > too many amplifiers on the market with RS-232, though. (While searching > the net a while back, I found a device that was the size of a laptop, and > contained a reasonably fast Intel processor, EIGHT serial ports, two > parallel ports, and a touchscreen that worked as a regular PS/2 pointer. > Man, THAT is the system to make into your new stereo controller.) > > J. > -- > _______________________________________________ > > Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:52:43 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: OS9 (2% RH) I have a question on OS9.2.1. Tom? Herbie RH content - Robyn uses the letters o and s in many of his songs...... Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 19:10:58 +0000 From: "Melissa Higuchi" Subject: software license explanation (0% RH) Hey there fegs. Apologies for a really non RH post but I know that there are a lot of computer professionals on list. I need to find something that explains how software licenses work that would make sense to a non technical reader. I have a general understanding of how they work but I think that something that I didn't write would have more credibility. This was originally my supervisors project but it's now my responsibility because I'm in charge of the membership database and also access to it (buying software, needing licenses, spending more $$). If anyone out there has anything I'd really appreciate it if you could mail me off list. Thanks, Melissa _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:14:45 -0800 (PST) From: bayard Subject: Nu Blues I've just been notified that "Give It To The Soft Boys" will be appearing on an album of 'Nu Blues' being compiled for Union Square Music for release in Feb next year. Hopefully they will be sitting alongside the likes of Nick Cave, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Beck, Moby, RL Burnside, Capt Beefheart, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Diamanda Galas, Gun Club and (one for the Coen Bros fans on the list ;-)) Chris Thomas King, who played the country bluesman Lonnie Johnson in O Brother Were Art Thou? Most of these licensing requests haven't been cleared yet, but fingers are crossed. - -- http://glasshotel.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:13:58 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: laptop advice, please! 0% robyn/N2 I'm with Tom on this one. Apple does very well in office situations - often far more reliably than IBM or the Clones. And the iBook's price - even here in this far-flung part of the world - is very much in the same ball-park as its competitors. Plus it has all the features that were wanted and more. And a few more after that. >Just an odd point or two on Eb's Nuggets 2 remarks: one more: The La De Da's were New Zealand's answer to the Rolling Stones. "How is the air up there?" and "Hey baby" were their biggest (and best) hits, although they had five singles in the NZ charts during the late 1960s. Formed just noth of Auckland in 1964, the changing line-up rotated around Phil Key and Kevin Borich. They produced (hm... at least) three albums between 1965 and 1968, including (1% Robyn content? ;) New Zealand's first concept album, "The happy prince". They went from R&B-ish stonesisms in their early years through Traffic-tinged hippiedom to typical 70s pub-rock in their last years. They finally disbanded in the mid-1970s. A CD best-of, heavily favouring their Stones-influenced early tracks has recently been released. James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:06:29 -0800 From: "mats" Subject: Re: pete buck court case update the crockery thing will get you every time - ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael R Godwin To: Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:42 AM Subject: Re: pete buck court case update > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Walker, Charles wrote: > > tales of peter buck trying to insert cd's into a muffin on a plane: > > http://uk.news.yahoo.com/011112/4/cfahi.html > > "Buck denies being drunk on an aircraft last April, two counts of common > assault involving cabin services manager Mario Agius and stewardess Holly > Ward, and one charge of damaging British Airways crockery". > > My guess is he'll get off the common assault charges, but for damaging BA > crockery? 3 months at least! > > - MR ("psychic sentence-forecasts a speciality") G ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:15:26 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: laptop advice, please! 0% robyn Capuchin wrote: >But they're just out to make sure you keep running their commercial crap >and have as little power as they can get away with giving you. ... >That's what you get for running commercial software. All that and no >source. Pshh. Somebody give Fegmaniax! a good whack on the side. I think it's skipping. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:20:00 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: analog playground (0% lap top dancing) Showing tastes at least somewhat similar to Robyn's, the Charlie Hunter Quartet covers both Bryan Ferry ("More Than This") and Nick Drake ("Day Is Done") on their new album, "Songs from the Analog Playground." Very jazzy and funky, though - it is on Blue Note! - so if you don't like that sort of thing, be forewarned. Cheers! Jason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:16:14 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: The Fegman's tale >Who mayhap argue, disagree >But are in this communitie >Of feggyfolk who seeme to be >As one grayt familie to me! this may be the best post i've ever seen on this list! i must say, being part of the "nader clique", that i think this list is as robust and dynamic as it's ever been. sometimes it seems like something doesn't happen until it's discussed here; and more often things that are discussed here don't happen anywhere else. since things can get pretty busy for me here, i don't usually have time to weigh in as much as i'd like; but someone usually expresses what i would've. ken "if you could read my mind" the kenster np we love life pulp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:41:13 +0000 From: "Melissa Higuchi" Subject: Re: robyn to appear in bbc production Has anyone already read this? >>film adaptation of tony parsons' "man & boy". _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:20:24 -0500 From: Brian Subject: Re: analog playground (0% lap top dancing) At Tuesday, 13 November 2001, you wrote: >Showing tastes at least somewhat similar to Robyn's, the Charlie Hunter >Quartet covers both Bryan Ferry ("More Than This") and Nick Drake ("Day Is >Done") on their new album, "Songs from the Analog Playground." Very jazzy >and funky, though - it is on Blue Note! - so if you don't like that sort of >thing, be forewarned. > >Cheers! > >Jason I have a Charlie Hunter cd that's fantastic jazz (burned, dunno what it's called). Earlier this year I missed him play by about 1000 feet. They played outside the Toledo Art Museum about a block away from the party I was at. After hearing the cd I regret not walking over. Doesn't he play the bass on the lower strings of a suped up guitar? Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:43:14 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: analog playground (0% lap top dancing) I heard the "More Than This" on our public radio station today. They called it "MUCH MORE THAN THIS" and I thought it was funny. Oh well/.... Simple things amuse simple people.... Herbie - --- "Jason R. Thornton" wrote: > Showing tastes at least somewhat similar to Robyn's, > the Charlie Hunter > Quartet covers both Bryan Ferry ("More Than This") > and Nick Drake ("Day Is > Done") on their new album, "Songs from the Analog > Playground." Very jazzy > and funky, though - it is on Blue Note! - so if you > don't like that sort of > thing, be forewarned. > > Cheers! > > Jason Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:21:06 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Pulp (o% RH) So who here likes the new Pulp album? It took a while to grow on me but I think it is pretty strong. Herbie np - "Weeds" Pulp Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:48:10 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: The Fegman's tale >Who mayhap argue, disagree >But are in this communitie >Of feggyfolk who seeme to be >As one grayt familie to me! Insaynlie grayt! - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:51:44 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: analog playground (0% lap top dancing) At 10:20 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, Brian wrote: >I have a Charlie Hunter cd that's fantastic jazz (burned, dunno what >it's called). Earlier this year I missed him play by about 1000 feet. >They played outside the Toledo Art Museum about a block away from >the party I was at. After hearing the cd I regret not walking over. >Doesn't he play the bass on the lower strings of a suped up guitar? Yes, he plays a "fanned fret" Novax eight-string guitar, with three bass strings and five guitar strings. He ends up being responsible for both the bass parts and guitar parts. I've seen him a number of times live, and he's truly amazing to watch. More importantly, though, he's got this hip, tasteful approach to jazz, and despite the fact that he's such an impressive player, he doesn't play to impress. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:42:10 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: robyn to appear in bbc production Melissa Higuchi wrote: > > Has anyone already read this? no, but we publish it, so I might splash the whole 50p (under US $1) to buy it. Stewart (who just got the Vivian Stanshall biog "Ginger Geezer" yesterday.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:32:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Nu Blues On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, bayard wrote: > I've just been notified that "Give It To The Soft Boys" will be > appearing on an album of 'Nu Blues' being compiled for Union Square > Music for release in Feb next year. Hopefully they will be sitting > alongside the likes of Nick Cave, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Beck, Moby, RL > Burnside, Capt Beefheart, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Diamanda Galas, Gun > Club and (one for the Coen Bros fans on the list ;-)) Chris Thomas King, > who played the country bluesman Lonnie Johnson in O Brother Were Art > Thou? Most of these licensing requests haven't been cleared yet, but > fingers are crossed. Interesting. I wonder what the definition of 'Nu' is, bearing in mind that 'Give it to the Soft Boys' was released in 1977 and Captain Beefheart's final album was released in 1982? - - Mike Godwin Nitpicking PS: I wouldn't describe Lonnie Johnson as country blues. He was a professional jazz and blues singer / guitarist from a musical family, who recorded with Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, as opposed to a self-taught "folk" act. See ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:27:45 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Robyn's film I wrote to Amanda Howard Associates to ask about Robyn's movie. Here is the correspondence. Jill - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:48:15 -0000 From: Amanda Howard Associates To: jlbrand@bu.edu Subject: Re: AHA Web Request We don't know I'm afraid, film release dates are notoriously unpredictable. However given the success of the book, I am sure it will be widely trailed. Best wishes - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:08 PM Subject: AHA Web Request > **************************************************************************** *** > Name: Jill Brand > Email: jlbrand@bu.edu > Telephone: 617-484-2979 (USA) > Client: Robyn Hitchcock > > Request: > > It says on your site that Robyn Hitchcock will soon be appearing in a film adaptation of "Man and Boy". When is "soon"? > > Thanks, > Jill Brand ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:40:54 -0800 From: "Eddie Tews" Subject: Anti-War Pamphlet and CDs dear friends, i have compiled a 22-page anti-war (pro-peace, if you prefer) pamphlet and 3 companion CDs. the pamphlet can be downloaded and printed out from http://riseup.net/nacc/images/pamphlet.pdf. if you dig it, please copy off as many as is feasible for you, and distribute. also, feel free to forward this e-mail as widely as possible. the pamphlet is especially designed, i suppose, for people currently supporting the war, or for those with little time to keep updated on events. up to 7 million people are in danger of starving to death once winter begins to set in (which will be any day) if the bombing is not halted IMMEDIATELY. those with CD-burners can also copy and distribute the CDs relatively cheaply and easily. for the CDs, send three blank, 80-minute CD-Rs and an SASE to: NACC 4554 12th Ave. NE Seattle, WA 98105 Peace! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:19:33 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: war Pampers for the poor On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, E.Tews wrote: > up to 7 million people are in danger of > starving to death once winter begins to set in (which will be any day) if > the bombing is not halted IMMEDIATELY. So are you saying that even if we continue bombing, there is a chance the "7 million people" won't starve this winter? Wow, we better be careful and not fuck this one up. But jesus fucking allah krishna blah blah as many insults, moses lovin shit, as possible, that is such a small number compared with how many we could actually kill with just a little more effort. And just starving? Thats nothing compared to the enormous amount of suffering we could bring with the process. A few strategically placed squiggly wiggleys and this could be a great winter for pictures. At least for us since the misery and suffering of others is what keeps Americans going. And since everyone else around the world is thinking of something besides starving Waseem and nothing is being organized by the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, the UN, Iran, Pakistan, Russia etc... the piles of bodies could be huge. A photo-journalist's dream. An American photo-journalist that is. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:29:03 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: Pulp (o% RH) >So who here likes the new Pulp album? >It took a while to grow on me but I think it is pretty >strong. i really like it a lot. it was listed as an import when i got it last week; but it wasn't all that pricey. i downloaded 'trees' and was so blown away by it that i had to get the album. i think it's a strong contender for my top ten. i've been listening to it constantly yesterday and today. 'ster ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:25:34 -0800 From: "Walker, Charles" Subject: Wheatabix Chas in LA writes: When i was a student in London in '92, trying to be a vegetarian [a lot harder to do in England than I imagined!] I ate a lot of Wheatbix simply because of the song, Love on BSDRole. I too was looking for the joys that love can bring but the cereal food only brought rain and gray skies. But i enjoyed myself and I didnt complain if my beans weren't warm either. The stuff is like shredded wheat and tasted good only with large amounts of cinnamon. Maybe I was hoping I'd find my cinnamon girl, who knows. http:www/theweeklywalker.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #430 ********************************