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Brian Jepson replied on December 18, 2009 15:44 to the question "what have i done to make SEND disappear on my new Macbook?" in O'Reilly Media:

Julie,

Is the menu at the top of the screen visible? If you click the Message menu at the top of the screen, you should see a Send option. If it is grayed out, then something is missing from the message (such as the recipient address).

If it is not grayed out, try clicking the menu option, but take note of the menu shortcut listed to the right of it. The attached screenshot shows what it looks like on my computer.



If you don't see the Send button on the toolbar, click the View menu, choose Customize Toolbar, and then drag the default set of icons to the toolbar.

Brian Jepson replied on April 17, 2009 12:46 to the problem "Print problems with Illustrated Guide to Astro Wonders" in O'Reilly Media:

Stephen,

Very sorry about the problems you had with the book. The bars are part of the original plates that the Space Telescope Science Institute granted us permission to use in the book.

Regarding the quality of the images, Page 36 explains this a bit more, but we chose the image size, contrast, and print resolution in order to increase the utility of the book as a field observing guide.

That is, when viewed at night under a red astronomical flashlight, the images in the book look close to what you'd see in a decent-sized scope. We found that observers can be hindered by very high resolution images that do not resemble what they would see in their own observing equipment.

- Brian

Brian Jepson replied on January 05, 2009 18:41 to the question "Is the code in "Making Things Talk" available electronically?" in O'Reilly Media:

It is available; if you go to the link we listed in the book's preface, it will take you to http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetai... where you can find a link to the source code.

Here is the direct download link: http://cachefly.oreilly.com/make/eg/M...

You should also visit the author's site, where he posts updated samples and information: http://www.makingthingstalk.com/

Brian Jepson replied on September 18, 2008 14:46 to the question "When will "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, Fourth Edition" ISBN 9780596520625 be available ? On amazon.com it says the book should be available on September 15 2008 ? Any idea of when it will be available ? Thank you" in O'Reilly Media:

I am one of the authors--I'm really looking forward to seeing the printed copies any day now!

Brian Jepson replied on September 18, 2008 12:30 to the question "When will "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, Fourth Edition" ISBN 9780596520625 be available ? On amazon.com it says the book should be available on September 15 2008 ? Any idea of when it will be available ? Thank you" in O'Reilly Media:

Hi pbn, I just checked, and it looks like it should be in stock in the next few days, perhaps even today.

Regards,

Brian

Brian Jepson replied on June 30, 2008 14:43 to the question "I need help with Excel Hack #24" in O'Reilly Media:

Not at all, papa; I committed the cardinal sin of letting that code break where it did. I should have indicated that the line break should not have been whitespace.

Brian Jepson replied on June 26, 2008 01:53 to the question "Arduino An Open Source Microcontroller Board & Hacks" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks! I'll keep your suggestions in mind as we work on future titles.

Brian Jepson replied on June 25, 2008 21:31 to the question "Arduino An Open Source Microcontroller Board & Hacks" in O'Reilly Media:

laefsky, we have a great book on Arduino. It's called Making Things Talk, and you can find more information here:

http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetai...

Brian Jepson replied on June 25, 2008 14:51 to the question "I need help with Excel Hack #24" in O'Reilly Media:

I heard back from the authors. It appears that the confusion stems from the fact that the example code was split between two lines, giving rise to the appearance that there is a space between COUNT and IF. But this should be one word, COUNTIF.

If you remove the space, it should work. But just to be sure, the authors have posted an example spreadsheet you can look at here: http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/dependent...

Cheers,

Brian

Brian Jepson replied on June 21, 2008 19:19 to the problem "Excel Hacks Tip #24 (at edition) #25 edition" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, Chris--that will work!

Brian Jepson replied on June 20, 2008 13:25 to the question "I need help with Excel Hack #24" in O'Reilly Media:

papa, could you post some more information? If you could put a copy of your spreadsheet up online somewhere, I can take a look at it and/or forward it to the authors.

Brian Jepson replied on April 09, 2008 13:42 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

GreggJensen,

I'm thinking late Summer or early Fall (August-September, basically). We're going to work on getting some chapters up into Rough Cuts (http://www.oreilly.com/roughcuts) in the next month or so.

- Brian

Brian Jepson replied on April 05, 2008 15:32 to the question "Entering google hacks into computer" in O'Reilly Media:

Hi Tom,

I don't understand the question. Could you tell us which hack you are trying out, exactly what steps you attempted to follow, and what happened?

Thanks,

Brian

Brian Jepson replied on March 17, 2008 16:12 to the question "Word Hacks - where do I find the code online (all the code, not just selected samples)?" in O'Reilly Media:

Hi Bruce,

You can also find code examples linked off of the catalog page for most books, right under the cover image. See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wordhks/

You can go here to download a zipfile with the examples for this book: http://examples.oreilly.com/wordhks/

Cheers,

Brian

Brian Jepson replied on February 28, 2008 16:53 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, zuneless! We just started work on it, and we're going to get it out as quickly as we can!

Brian Jepson replied on February 08, 2008 12:53 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

lutzhell,
I think you'll get some mileage out of the current edition. While a number of things have changed, there are many things that have changed slightly or not at all. What topics in particular are you interested in learning from the current edition?

Brian Jepson replied on February 05, 2008 19:04 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, numpty. Gregg: we're going to keep the table of contents essentially the same, and update everything for Leopard.

Brian Jepson replied on February 05, 2008 15:12 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, Rich! Your opinions definitely did make a difference--it's helpful to know that there are eager readers. As far as a release date, we don't have an ETA yet, but I suspect it will be within the next 6 months. We will be doing a shortcut release before then: http://shortcuts.oreilly.com/

Brian Jepson replied on February 05, 2008 14:20 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

After some more consideration, we have decided to do a new edition of this book. I'm one of the co-authors, and I'm really excited to be working on it!

Brian Jepson, an employee of O'Reilly Media, replied on January 05, 2008 01:02 to the question "Where can I find the download "speech_final.fla"? In your book FLASH HACKS is written the site should be www.orelly.com, but I can't find it." in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, Chris!

Michael: The filename is slightly different in the zip file (FlashHacks-code.zip). After you extract the zip file. look for the file named hack52_speech_final.fla in the subdirectory chapter07.