Well, there are some possible things they could do to make it much more difficult to put on non-Apple hardware than the development release. The most common idea being that Apple x86 hardware, unlike the test hardware they sent out with the dev version, will be using a variant of the OpenFirmware used on Macs, rather than standard PC BIOS. Not an easy thing to get on hardware that doesn't come with it (or maybe impossible?).

Of course, the big thing is: they won't let anybody presell it, and they won't support OS X on hardware other than their own, and of course Dell/Compaq/whatever won't support OS X on their hardware either. So, sure, you might could undercut Apple if you felt like having no support whatsoever. Meaning a few thousand geeks will do it, Apple will get their $150 (or won't if it's torrented, but they won't care), and it will never matter at all in the big picture.

OK, I'll try over here:

Anyone around who knows PHP? Namely, how to grab form field values sent over POST when register_globals is disabled?

ETA: Never mind. Figured it out.

Is there an easy way to send a bunch of people in an Access database an email? Currently I am exporting the table to Excel, cutting and pasting just the emails into word, coverting it from table to text, deleting the extra spaces for people who don't have emails, and then doing a search and replace to replace the paragraph marks with semicolons. Then I paste the whole thing into my bcc field in access.

It seems there must be an easier way....

It seems there must be an easier way....

Depends on what you call easy. You can write a script of some sort that creates the email, then populates the sendto: paramter with the e-mail address. I do it on our corporate website using a VBScript routine in an .asp page. That may be a little more than you need if you're only going to do it once.

There a FAQ here [link] that may be of help.

I think I just want filemaker with the little "email" option in the scriptmaker :(

That would be too easy.

C'mon, it'll be good for you in the long run... :)

Ok-- well I will muddle through, but I really do not know Visual basic at all... So I followed the steps on the website for sending a message from Access 2003 with Outlook 2003. And it worked! Sort of

What it is doing is looking for an address in my outlook box, but I would like it to take the emails from a query I have set up in Access, from the field "Email"

Current the part reads

Add the To recipient(s) to the message. Substitute ' your names here. Set objOutlookRecip = .Recipients.Add("Nancy Davolio")
objOutlookRecip.Type = olTo
' Add the CC recipient(s) to the message.
Set objOutlookRecip = .Recipients.Add("Andrew Fuller")
objOutlookRecip.Type = olCC

Do I just add the field in there or am I way out of my league....

nevermind-- I think I found the answer on that website DX linked. thank you!

A local group I'm with wants to run a forum they point to their own URL to. They are not looking for free forums, because of wanting to point their own URL, not wanting ads, and wanting do their own moderation. I mention the "leftish" because they want a host who is not easy to intimidate if they offend someone who screams and tries to get their site pulled; essentially it is going to be a safe place in cyberspace for currently serving military and veterans in the a particular small geographic area who think the Iraq war is a bad idea, or are seriously considering the idea. Obviously politics is not the prime thing you look for in a web host - but at the same time a business relationship is more comfortable with someone who does not find the whole point of your website deeply repulsive - especially if they may occasionaly face harassment by lunatics for hosting you.

Ideally we would like to host to run the forum software, so that it can be run by volunteer who may not always have web savvy people available. But we are open to the idea of a virtual server set up (like the one the Buffista rented from Kristen at one time) provided the host can recommend software that has been tested on and is known to work well with their standard setup.

Maybe the way to go is with a group blog type set up? Typepad is not horribly expensive, not political, but used to wingnuts on all ends of the political spectrum trying to get blogs they disagree with pulled, and you don't have to do your own hosting. But a blog even a group blog is not really the same as forum - because of the distinction between posts and comments.

It looks like some Sony CDs will try to install DRM software on your Mac, also: [link]

It doesn't look as stealthy and underhanded as the Windows rootkit, though. Also, Macs don't automatically run programs when a CD is inserted, right?