Re: [CGUYS] Music from Minidisc to PC

2008-03-12 Thread mike
I had a minidisk ages ago...very good hardware. You could use mini plug to miniplug from the out on the MD to an input on pc if it's got one which it should. Audiograbber is free and should record the input signal. You can get a more versatile recorder like total recorder pro if you'd like.

Re: [CGUYS] Investment Tracking Recommendations?

2008-03-12 Thread Richard P.
While I don't have personal experience with these with regard to what you want to do, here are a few that are used: scottrade.com marketwatch.com under tools and research finance.yahoo.com I'm sure that cnbc also has one as well as any financial newsletter such as Morningstar. Richard P.

Re: [CGUYS] Web Politicking

2008-03-12 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
The www.whatsmyip.org is a pile of stuff site. For all we know the Obama 08 tab could be just another paid ad on the site but that is unlikely. I haven't given up on a site that has something I really want to use on it just because they have an annoying ad. That site has pretty useful set of

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
Can anyone confirm this as a likely fact, or does it sound as if that is untrue or the customer service rep simply doesn't know what they were talking about? If you go to Verizon's web site and click on the Terms and Conditions link you will see in several places that the terms require Verizon

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread mike
You will always get a better deal if you get all the services one company provides. You can also just switch to comcast internet without getting any other service, although you will pay more then if you get their other services. On the other end, if you are getting DSL speeds, I can't imagine

[CGUYS] Music from MiniDisc to PC

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 11:44 PM 3/11/2008, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot about Audacity...good free program also. I downloaded Audacity 1.2.6 (rather than the ß-version upgrade), and will try to install it later today. Thanks very much for the suggestions in your previous post. I'm

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
You will always get a better deal if you get all the services one company provides. Is that really true, or just a come-on to get customers to sign an expensive long-term contract? Are these plans not full of minimum requirements and penalty clauses for early termination or even changes in

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread mike
Well I can only speak in my case. Both Qwest (the worst telco in the world) and Cox offer better deals for all three (tv, internet and phone) then if I bought two from one and one from another or any combination. Cox is light years ahead of qwest in terms of service and speed. I view any

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
That is only supposed to happen with cable and then only when their nodes are too far apart. Stewart At 06:37 PM 3/12/2008, you wrote: whether or not speed varies may depend on lots of things (including how many neighbors are using the service --- but, can't remember whether that's

Re: [CGUYS] computer guys subscription

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
Hi - I am not getting emails from CG list. I just tested and am subscribed as... I'm also replying to the list because it is of general interest. gayley, No you have not been deleted, but the list has been unusually quiet. At the moment 28 list members are on the watch list and a few days ago

Re: [CGUYS] computer guys subscription

2008-03-12 Thread Richard P.
If Gayley just wrote to the list, I never saw it on the list until Tom replied. Did her message get bumped too or was it a PM to TP? Richard P. Tom wrote: Hi - I am not getting emails from CG list. I just tested and am subscribed as... I'm also replying to the list because it is of

Re: [CGUYS] computer guys subscription

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
If Gayley just wrote to the list, I never saw it on the list until Tom replied. Did her message get bumped too or was it a PM to TP? No she did not send to the list. I replied to her and the list for the reason stated. *

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
whether or not speed varies may depend on lots of things (including how many neighbors are using the service --- but, can't remember whether that's cable think so or DSL) DSL is not a shared line, so provides a fairly constant rate. Cable promises the moon, but puts the entire

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
I was also thinking of terms. I was of the understanding that true DSL...the swtiching of the digital to analog to run on long copper lines maxes around 6mbit. Nope. The newest format, VHDSL2, provides up to 250 Mbps full duplex over twisted-pair copper. It was designed to work over POTS lines.

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Yes but the phone companies must be willing to invest in the hardware and many local/piecemeal phone systems won't do it. I live less than 2 miles from my switch (As the bird flies closer to 1 mile) and they could not deliver 6mps with reliability, and had to cut it back to 1.5. Our cable

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread mike
This is not true for all areas, may be true for the place you live, here the complete opposite is true. I've never had consistent speed from DSL since i've had it. Cox must keep their nodes near enough that this same wire policy doesn't exist. In the last year or so, cable speeds have done

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread DC Cavalier
I really haven't done a LOT of looking around but of the looking around I have done, I really LOVE Vonage telephone and its services and the fact I can use it anywhere I go. Right now, the $28 a month for it, and $40 a month for Verizon DSL, is what I guess I will stick with for the time being. I

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread Judy Cosler
isn't Verizon DSL and Comcast is cable modem?? starpower is cable modem DC Cavalier wrote: I really haven't done a LOT of looking around but of the looking around I have done, I really LOVE Vonage telephone and its services and the fact I can use it anywhere I go. Right now, the $28 a month

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread b_s-wilk
Chris How fast is your Verizon DSL? What is the monthly charge? Are you in DC? Have you spoken to more than one CSR at Verizon? When one Customer service rep gives you the 'wrong' answer, call back and get a different CSR! Dry loop--unbundled Internet-only without land line--can be much more

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-12 Thread Mason Miller
Verizon offers DSL, Satellite and Fiber(FIOS). Mason On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Judy Cosler wrote: isn't Verizon DSL and Comcast is cable modem?? starpower is cable modem DC Cavalier wrote: I really haven't done a LOT of looking around but of the looking around I have done, I really