Re: [CGUYS] No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Art Clemons
Draw a parallel to my DVR. I really love my DVR. I can't imagine watching TV any other way. My DVR works fine -- probably has years of life in it. I have a lifetime subscription to the programming service. Yet my DVR only knows the NTSC standard and NTSC is going away in 14 months. So I am

[CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
So buy an ATSC converter intended for televisions and go on using your DVR which will likely quite happily accept the signal from the converter and record it, then play it back in glorious NTSC. If you wait, you can even get coupons likely to be worth $40-$50 to apply to the purchase of two

Re: [CGUYS] scrup-a-licous [was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Heck, the siren song's pull is so strong, even my MacZealot manager is getting one. DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to:

Re: [CGUYS] USB Turntable?

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
For the workout times I bought myself a cheap (as in 45 bux) 2 gig sony flash mp3 player with built in tuner. It's also water (sweat) resistant. So the only problem is the audible one...course there is always the library for some books just to work out with. I can think of plenty of up-tempo

Re: [CGUYS] USB Turntable?

2007-12-05 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I've been working my way through Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. I prefer to laugh while working out. On Dec 5, 2007 1:48 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the workout times I bought myself a cheap (as in 45 bux) 2 gig sony flash mp3 player with built in tuner. It's also water

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
If you are ready to jump Circuit city has a 5 hour deal today for a $239 Series 3 TiVO. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=376938 On Dec 5, 2007 2:43 PM, John Duncan Yoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about Series 3 but I love my Series 2 DirecTV TiVo's but

[CGUYS] RIP in printing

2007-12-05 Thread David Turk
One of our departments just purchased a 60 HP plotter for a Mac system. The only software they got with it was the drivers. When I worked in a photo lab 10 years ago, we had to use a separate RIP program to send items to the printer. This printer is on our LAN. Every time they try to send a

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I have TIVO and just recently added my second box. What you heard is correct and wrong. If the interface is the same as mine (No HD not available in our area.) Tivo's are set to erase programs after a set time to free up room on your DVR. You can mark programs to keep until you delete them

[CGUYS] TIVO?

2007-12-05 Thread Richard P.
FYI, there is a Save until I delete setting for what is recorded. I got one last year for free (one of the output ports was bad so I just used the RF connection). I never wanted or needed a subscription (my viewing choices are simple and I know how to program it to record when I want it to),

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I don't know much about Series 3 but I love my Series 2 DirecTV TiVo's but there was a dawg of a system upgrade that came down the pike a few months ago. DTV controls the upgrades on these units and they are slow about it since they stopped selling DTiVO's in favor of their own machine which is

[CGUYS] Cellphone to Landline Router/Dock

2007-12-05 Thread rocky lee
Hi, Has anyone had any experience using devices which integrate your cell phone into the existing phone wiring within your house? (Eliminating the external connection to the phone company/ outside of the demarcation box) We are considering converting the landline to a cell phone service. For the

Re: [CGUYS] Diskworld Audio books

2007-12-05 Thread mike
audible lists stephen briggs on some books at least On Dec 5, 2007 1:10 PM, Matthew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my favorite authors. Who is the reader? On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:20 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: I've been working my way through Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.

Re: [CGUYS] USB Turntable?

2007-12-05 Thread George Carr
When I am working out and sweating, and feeling inclined to feel sorry for myself, listening to an account of, say, the Bataan death march, can put my head in a useful place! Tom Piwowar wrote: I can think of plenty of up-tempo music for exercising, but I can't imagine what kind of audio book

Re: [CGUYS] TIVO?

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
FYI, there is a Save until I delete setting for what is recorded. That might do the trick, but I still wonder if the enforced deletion may be a feature that is tied to using the programming service. Unlike, you I find the programming service very useful.

Re: [CGUYS] No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread b_s-wilk
I rarely use IE since the last one for Macs was v.5.5. I was at the public library today looking up some reference information--couldn't find it in Reference so I looked online. They have IE 6. I've requested that they get Firefox too, so we could have a choice [of something that

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
If you are ready to jump Circuit city has a 5 hour deal today for a $239 Series 3 TiVO. Thanks, but if Circuit City has a deal for $239 I'm sure someone on the 'net will have it for $199. Circuit City I have never seen a good deal at Circuit City.

Re: [CGUYS] USB Turntable?

2007-12-05 Thread Steve at Verizon
Hey, Don't knock it! I've spent years and hundreds of hours on our county ReCenter treadmill listening to mysteries, suspense, police procedurals, etc. Been through all of Michael Connelly, John Grisham, David Baldacci, Donald Westlake, Carl Hiaasen and many more. In fact, the best device

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
I've done both the kit from Weaknees and prepared my own harddrive and installed it. Weaknees has excellent instructions on the website for the installation of the disc drive in a variety of machines. That's one of the winning features of the Series 3: they have an eSATA port. From the user

Re: [CGUYS] TIVO?

2007-12-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Nope it is just to keep room on the system (Their hour numbers are at the lowest quality setting, so an 80 hour TIVo is really about 30 at highest quality recording a lot like the old VHS tapes that were advertised as 6 hour but really were 2 hour.) As you put more and more programs on it,

Re: [CGUYS] RIP in printing

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
One of our departments just purchased a 60 HP plotter for a Mac system. The only software they got with it was the drivers. When I worked in a photo lab 10 years ago, we had to use a separate RIP program to send items to the printer. This printer is on our LAN. Every time they try to send

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Tivo's are set to erase programs after a set time to free up room on your DVR My Replay can be set to save a certain number of shows and will delete the oldest when a new show arrives. This is reserved space and is independent of anything else going on in the box. Can Tivo do this? I do this

[CGUYS] Diskworld Audio books

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Taylor
One of my favorite authors. Who is the reader? On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:20 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: I've been working my way through Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the

Re: [CGUYS] USB Turntable?

2007-12-05 Thread mike
For the workout times I bought myself a cheap (as in 45 bux) 2 gig sony flash mp3 player with built in tuner. It's also water (sweat) resistant. So the only problem is the audible one...course there is always the library for some books just to work out with. Mike On Dec 4, 2007 9:14 PM, John

[CGUYS] MP3 player sites (was DVR's]

2007-12-05 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
Tom Piwowar DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID! Are there any websites that have a www.dpreview.com style that will match a persons needs with an MP3 player? For example, no music management s/w, mounts as a USB drive. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply

Re: [CGUYS] MP3 player sites (was DVR's]

2007-12-05 Thread Jeff Wright
Ah, found it. http://www.anythingbutipod.com/compare/ Not sure if it will have that per se, but http://www.anythingbutipod.com is fairly extensive. -Original Message- Are there any websites that have a www.dpreview.com style that will match a persons needs with an MP3 player?

Re: [CGUYS] MP3 player sites (was DVR's]

2007-12-05 Thread Jeff Wright
Not sure if it will have that per se, but http://www.anythingbutipod.com is fairly extensive. -Original Message- Are there any websites that have a www.dpreview.com style that will match a persons needs with an MP3 player? For example, no music management s/w, mounts as a USB drive.

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
At 05:22 PM 12/5/2007, you wrote: My Replay can be set to save a certain number of shows and will delete the oldest when a new show arrives. This is reserved space and is independent of anything else going on in the box. Can Tivo do this? Possible I have not totally played with it yet. My

Re: [CGUYS] USB Turntable?

2007-12-05 Thread Paula Minor
I can think of plenty of up-tempo music for exercising, but I can't imagine what kind of audio book would be suitable! I find a really good audio book a lot more engrossing than music and makes the time doing unpleasant tasks (like exercising) seem to go more quickly. g Paula IN/USA Life