From dave at davesevick.com Wed Nov 2 20:12:59 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 22:12:59 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Bill Gates self-portrait Message-ID: <999D0AFA-6E05-4840-B88F-046DA5906DB6@davesevick.com> http://davidaoriginalart.hostedbyamazon.com This comes from our friend Mim ..... thanks, a good laugh .... From marty.swartz at gmail.com Thu Nov 3 10:13:00 2011 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:13:00 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] WANTED: Used/Failed Intel Macs Message-ID: This is a long shot, but .... WANTED TO BUY, your broken or obsolete iMac, Mac Mini, or MacBook. Heck bring out ANYTHING Mac, and I'll get it to ComputeReach and/or Goodwill. "Bring out your dead!" with apologies to Monty Python.... - Marty Swartz, fixer of Macs, Maker of Things Certified Marble Blast -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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No delivery from Goodwill today, so we'll continue to chip away at these Macs that take a lot of attention to get going again. We refurbished six Macs today bringing our all time total to 3,132. We de-manufactured six others. Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill is maintaining the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. We'll have another workday on Friday, November 11. We'll resume our regular starting time of 8:30 a.m. That's just when I show up, and we don't mind if you sleep in and come in a bit later. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Sat Nov 5 22:36:25 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 00:36:25 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Thank You - Dave Marra from Apple Message-ID: <84383387-8D3B-4F7D-9861-5ACA7CFE6096@davesevick.com> Dear Apple folks, For those of you not able to get tickets to the Lion, iSO5, iCloud event today ... we are sorry it sold out so fast. We will do this again. You missed a great day full of cool tips and good productive instructions on how Lion truly improves on "ease of use". http://www.apple.com/macosx/ Many thanks again to Dave Marra for the two sessions 10AM-12Noon and 1:30PM-3:30PM at MacOutfitters in Cranberry Twp. http://www.macoutfitters.com/ 20395 Route 19 Cranberry Township, PA 16066 P: 724-776-8075 F: 724-776-8035 For a follow-up and links to Mac Tips every day .... go to Dave's site at: http://marrathon.com/ THANKS DAVE ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111106/44bcaa77/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: overview_callout_osx.png Type: image/png Size: 25712 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111106/44bcaa77/attachment-0002.png -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Three years later, most of the MacBooks and MacBook Pros with those old-style adapters are now out of warranty; Apple redesigned the MagSafe connector last year, presumably to address some of the physical strain that may have been causing the cable to fray. Those of you who still have the old-style MagSafe adapters are in luck, because whether or not your Mac is under warranty, your MagSafe adapter is eligible for replacement under Apple's Adapter Replacement Program. This program has come about as the result of a lawsuit settlement over the frayed cables. In addition to providing free replacements for MagSafe adapters, Apple is also offering refunds to customers who paid for a replacement from their own funds. The amount of the refund depends on how much time elapsed after your Mac's purchase before you bought the replacement. US$79 within the first year of the Mac's purchase US$50 during the second year following the Mac's purchase US$35 during the third year following the Mac's purchase The type of damage covered is very specific and is known as "strain relief." Apple will still deny coverage if your MagSafe adapter shows signs of accidental damage. What isn't yet clear is whether Apple will be replacing the old MagSafe adapters with the same model or one with the newer connector. Based on TUAW's experience at the Genius Bar, probably the redesigned connectors. Apple launches MagSafe adapter replacement program originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments Sent with Reeder ?? ?We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing.??Oliver Wendell Holmes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We hit rock bottom on inventory in the morning, and took delivery of four Macs in the afternoon, which we fixed up before leaving for the day. The only Macs remaining are ones awaiting parts we don't yet have. We refurbished eight Macs on Friday bringing our all time total to 3,140. We de-manufactured two others. Having a bare cupboard, and not knowing when to expect a delivery of more donated Macs, we'll be taking a couple of weeks off. We'll not have a work day this coming Friday, November 18, and we'll be off as usual the day after Thanksgiving, November 25. Goodwill is closed that day. We'll resume on Friday, December 2, at the usual place and time, 2400 East Carson St. about 8:30 a.m. You can show up anytime during the day, but just don't miss lunch.... :-) Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill is maintaining the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From sevick at computereach.com Wed Nov 16 23:54:45 2011 From: sevick at computereach.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:54:45 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] eMacs from Goodwill go to a local Head Start program with the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER, Inc Message-ID: Rochelle -11-16-11 ComputeReach at the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER, Inc Photos and video on YouTube .... Some samples .... 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Many thanks go out to the donors who thought of us and Goodwill to make these great Macs available. These three Macs bring our all time total to 3,143. Marty tells us we have a delivery of several G3 and G4 Towers for our next workday, Friday, December 2. The address is 2400 East Carson St. We're there about 8:30 a.m., but you can show up anytime during the day, but just don't miss lunch.... :-) Hope to see you there! Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill is maintaining the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com robertadonaldson at gmail.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dadditude at gmail.com Fri Nov 18 18:41:03 2011 From: dadditude at gmail.com (James Naron) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:41:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: [NPMUG] Drop your iPhone often? Get SquareTrade! Message-ID: <394618410.20423.1321666863445.JavaMail.ops@domU-12-31-39-0E-88-62.compute-1.internal> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111118/91c25fce/attachment.htm From sevick at computereach.com Sat Nov 19 11:28:31 2011 From: sevick at computereach.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:28:31 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] "Computer Tutor" opportunity for a Dormont after-school program Message-ID: <3564D474-8DE4-45D5-8272-91FD91A01AF4@computereach.com> Dear Apple list, ComputeReach will be installing a lab of 10 G4 eMacs at a local Methodist Church off of Potomac Ave in the Dormont neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Starting in December 2011, they will begin an after-school program for 20 teens ages 12-15 in a specially designed computer lab with an onsite coordinator directing the program. Anyone with the skills to tutor in Math, Science, and Writing please contact Pastor Annette Bolds at dormontumchurch at verizon.net with your resume along with current proof of child abuse and criminal background clearances ( sorry, that is the world we live in today ) or call for more information at office 412-531-9055. The tutor position pays $10/hr for 10 hrs/week in the grant that has been approved. The hours are Mon-Thurs 3:30-6PM. The teens come directly to the church after school. 1641 Potomac Ave, Pittsburgh 15216. This newly developed program is called "Youth Step - Striving Toward Excellence" and is sponsored by Church Union, the governing body of the urban United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh. This is not a religious education initiative, it is for supporting teens in need of extra help with homework from that neighborhood. Thanks, Dave -------------------------------------------- Dave Sevick ComputeReach, humanitarian computer outreach http://computereach.com 724-779-0099 sevick at computereach.com -------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111119/8cef2f25/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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His mission, he says, was plain: to ?build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products.? Then he turned to the rise and fall of various businesses. He has a theory about ?why decline happens? at great companies: ?The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesman, because they?re the ones who can move the needle on revenues.? So salesmen are put in charge, and product engineers and designers feel demoted: Their efforts are no longer at the white-hot center of the company?s daily life. They ?turn off.? IBM [IBM] and Xerox [XRX], Jobs said, faltered in precisely this way. The salesmen who led the companies were smart and eloquent, but ?they didn?t know anything about the product.? In the end this can doom a great company, because what consumers want is good products. Don?t forget the money men This isn?t quite the whole story. It?s not just the salesmen. It?s also the accountants and the money men who search the firm high and low to find new and ingenious ways to cut costs or even eliminate paying taxes. The activities of these people further dispirit the creators, the product engineers and designers, and also crimp the firm?s ability to add value to its customers. But because the accountants appear to be adding to the firm?s short-term profitability, as a class they are also celebrated and well-rewarded, even as their activities systematically kill the firm?s future. In this mode, the firm is basically playing defense. Because it?s easier to milk the cash cow than to add new value, the firm not only stops playing offense: it even forgets how to play offense. The firm starts to die. If the firm is in a quasi-monopoly position, this mode of running the company can sometimes keep on making money for extended periods of time. But basically, the firm is dying, as it continues to dispirit those doing the work and to frustrate its customers. As the managers find it steadily more difficult to make money playing solely defense, they become progressively more desperate and start doing ever more perilous things, like looting the firm?s pension fund or cutting back on worker benefits or outsourcing production to a foreign country in ways that further destroy the firm?s ability to innovate and compete. There is another way What?s interesting is that Steve Jobs lived long enough to show us at Apple [AAPL], in the period 1997-2011: what would happen if the firm opted to keep playing offense and focus totally on adding value for customers? The result? The firm makes tons and tons of money. In fact, much more money than the companies that are milking their cash cows and focused on making money. Other companies like Amazon [AMZN], Salesforce [CRM] and Intuit [INTU] have demonstrated the same phenomenon and shown us that it?s something that any firm can learn. It?s not rocket science. It?s called radical management. Fifty years ago, ?milking the cash cow? could go on for many decades. What?s different today is that globalization and the shift in power in the marketplace from buyer to seller is dramatically shortening the life expectancy of firms that are merely milking their cash cows. Half a century ago, the life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune 500 was around 75 years. Now it?s less than 15 years and declining even further. Why do managers keep on this path that is systematically killing their firm? For one reason, it?s more difficult to add value than to cut costs. For another, the executives have found ways to reward themselves lavishly. As Upton Sinclair has noted, ?It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.? See also: Why We Are In Political Gridlock: The Private Sector is Dying ?______________ Steve Denning?s most recent book is: The Leader?s Guide to Radical Management (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Follow Steve Denning on Twitter @stevedenning -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111124/062934f0/attachment.htm From bishopjosephsr at mac.com Thu Nov 24 09:40:55 2011 From: bishopjosephsr at mac.com (Joseph Garlington) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:40:55 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Peggy Noonan On Steve Jobs And Why Big Companies Die - Forbes In-Reply-To: <0C0A35C5-7D15-4A8D-B240-BAB972A462B0@gmail.com> References: <0C0A35C5-7D15-4A8D-B240-BAB972A462B0@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1F4D014B-7C92-4793-ACB1-8CC0C06071BB@mac.com> Thanks Ron. BJG Sent from my iPhone On Nov 24, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Ron_A wrote: > > http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/19/peggy-noonan-on-steve-jobs-and-why-big-companies-die/ > > Peggy Noonan On Steve Jobs And Why Big Companies Die > > > Image via Wikipedia > > We don?t usually think of Peggy Noonan as a management thinker. But she has an insightful paragraph on management in her Wall Street Journal column on Friday: > > There is an arresting moment in Walter Isaacson?s biography of Steve Jobs in which Jobs speaks at length about his philosophy of business. He?s at the end of his life and is summing things up. His mission, he says, was plain: to ?build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products.? Then he turned to the rise and fall of various businesses. He has a theory about ?why decline happens? at great companies: ?The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesman, because they?re the ones who can move the needle on revenues.? So salesmen are put in charge, and product engineers and designers feel demoted: Their efforts are no longer at the white-hot center of the company?s daily life. They ?turn off.? IBM [IBM] and Xerox [XRX], Jobs said, faltered in precisely this way. The salesmen who led the companies were smart and eloquent, but ?they didn?t know anything about the product.? In the end this can doom a great company, because what consumers want is good products. > > Don?t forget the money men > > This isn?t quite the whole story. It?s not just the salesmen. It?s also the accountants and the money men who search the firm high and low to find new and ingenious ways to cut costs or even eliminate paying taxes. The activities of these people further dispirit the creators, the product engineers and designers, and also crimp the firm?s ability to add value to its customers. But because the accountants appear to be adding to the firm?s short-term profitability, as a class they are also celebrated and well-rewarded, even as their activities systematically kill the firm?s future. > > In this mode, the firm is basically playing defense. Because it?s easier to milk the cash cow than to add new value, the firm not only stops playing offense: it even forgets how to play offense. The firm starts to die. > > If the firm is in a quasi-monopoly position, this mode of running the company can sometimes keep on making money for extended periods of time. But basically, the firm is dying, as it continues to dispirit those doing the work and to frustrate its customers. > > As the managers find it steadily more difficult to make money playing solely defense, they become progressively more desperate and start doing ever more perilous things, like looting the firm?s pension fund or cutting back on worker benefits or outsourcing production to a foreign country in ways that further destroy the firm?s ability to innovate and compete. > > There is another way > > What?s interesting is that Steve Jobs lived long enough to show us at Apple [AAPL], in the period 1997-2011: what would happen if the firm opted to keep playing offense and focus totally on adding value for customers? The result? The firm makes tons and tons of money. In fact, much more money than the companies that are milking their cash cows and focused on making money. Other companies like Amazon [AMZN], Salesforce [CRM] and Intuit [INTU] have demonstrated the same phenomenon and shown us that it?s something that any firm can learn. It?s not rocket science. It?s called radical management. > > Fifty years ago, ?milking the cash cow? could go on for many decades. What?s different today is that globalization and the shift in power in the marketplace from buyer to seller is dramatically shortening the life expectancy of firms that are merely milking their cash cows. Half a century ago, the life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune 500 was around 75 years. Now it?s less than 15 years and declining even further. > > > > Why do managers keep on this path that is systematically killing their firm? For one reason, it?s more difficult to add value than to cut costs. For another, the executives have found ways to reward themselves lavishly. 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111125/9eca3f03/attachment.htm From sevick at computereach.com Sat Nov 26 15:11:22 2011 From: sevick at computereach.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:11:22 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Thanks_to_all_8_who_helped_at_the_Point_?= =?windows-1252?q?Breeze_warehouse_today_=85_=22Many_hands_make_light_work?= =?windows-1252?q?_=2E=2E=2E=22?= Message-ID: Some photos! http://gallery.me.com/davesevick#100499 Nick Schembri Aristide Niyungeko Nancy Latimer-Clark Judy Galardi Beth Lynn Eicher Sue Marty Swartz Dave Sevick All 8 of us joined together this Saturday morning 11-26-11 for a day of boot-testing 159 iMac G3 computers. 141 started up successfully and were boxed and stacked on pallets of 16 computers each. 18 were not working when powered on, and were sent to Goodwill at 151 51st Street in Lawrenceville for CRC evaluations and/or de-manufacturing of all the recyclable parts. We'll be seeing these computers I'm sure at the CRC at 2400 Carson this upcoming Friday Dec 2 for our weekly recycling days under the tutelage and technical direction of one Robert A. Donaldson. So, on this THANKSGIVING holiday weekend, we thank those who took some time to come volunteer with Marty and me getting the new warehouse space more organized. "Many hands make light work ..." This proverb was first recorded in English in the early 1300s in a knightly romance known as Sir Bevis of Hampton. It appeared in practically all proverb collections from 1546 on. Dave -------------------------------------------- Dave Sevick ComputeReach, humanitarian computer outreach http://computereach.com 724-779-0099 sevick at computereach.com -------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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