I am in sNJ 08320 and have a 40' tower with an uhf/vhf antenna on there
pointed toward Philadelphia to coaxial cable to an amplifier to more coaxial
cable to a splitter/secondary-amplifier to a 1984 1984 Sony kv25-xbr tube
set which, with over-the-air gave such good picture/sound people would ask
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:
Didn't Amazon just announce that they would no longer accept Phorm cookies
in GB?
I don't know about Amazon, but Wikipedia says they will not deal with
Phorm at all. Wikipedia views it as an integrity issue.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
When spammers, Phormis, etc. abuse the system we all lose.
It is governments as well. The EU is demanding answers from the
British government as to why they have entered into this spying
arrangement with Phorm in order to
It could be any of the places/causes you cite. You need a good signal strength
meter (or a tech with one) to plug into the line at each of the transition
points to see what kind of signal you are getting in the DTV band. I don't
know what the frequency band is for DTV, but be sure that the
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, my experience is polar opposite of yours. I recommend Dell to those
who ask and often I'm asked about Macs. I tell them to use what they're
comfortable with; a computer is a tool, not a fashion statement or position
Another good reason for No Script.
Richard P.
Phormís All-Seeing Parasite Cookie
Then we are back to setting our browsers to keep no cookies at all and every
website we visit will be worse off for it. It is a bad result for everybody,
including Phormis.
One thing to look at is the receiver portion of the converter. In
general, I think older TV receivers had better reception capability
because it was so important with everyone using an antenna. With the
advent of cable, the manufacturers were able to cut back on the
quality of the receiver and
Even the antenna needs to be one that is tuned to the DTV frequency band.
The old antenna may not do a good job.
You will need a VHF/UHF antenna.
We once thought we would only need a UHF, but the VHF frequenceis we
thought were going to be given up will continue to be used by some
stations.
Where is the problem here? 1-antenna,
2-amplifier, 3-secondary-amplifier 4-the boogie man?
If the antenna is old enough to have lost some elements you probably have
corrosion problems at various terminals. So you want to replace or clean
up as much as you can. Corrosion will attenuate the
I don't know about Amazon, but Wikipedia says they will not deal with
Phorm at all. Wikipedia views it as an integrity issue.
Looks like grandstanding to me. If the ISP adds the information to a
cookie before sending it to the customer and strips it out before passing
it on to Wikipedia what
Another good reason for No Script.
It will not help at all. Zero.
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Saving web pages in Firefox is exactly what the Scrapbook Add-on does.
I usually print to PDF because the resulting file is more reliable.
Sometimes I use the ScreenGrab (screengrab.org) plugin to save it as a
JPEG or PNG.
It is just too bad that computers, which are becoming almost an appliance
of necessity in the modern world, are viewed as being so nettlesome and
needing of constant TLC.
Everyone experiences that only if they get the computer that everyone
has. That has been the point, as I was all too much
played with locating the best signal possible inside the house, and
we've gotten to about 80% signal strength. (The RCA box has very nice
controls for monitoring this, which is helpful in siting the antenna
for best reception.)
My experience is that an 80% signal is not good enough because
Will you explain? If I cookies aren't allowed to be placed by using
NoScript, then wouldn't there be nothing to read? Or is it the fact
that this info is being picked up at the ISP, so it doesn't matter
about the cookies.
Thanks,
Richard P.
Another good reason for No Script.
It will not help
Everyone experiences that only if they get the computer that everyone
has. That has been the point, as I was all too much reminded of yesterday.
No, not everyone Tom, just people who approach management of
multiple computers the same way Chevy Chase approches a comedic scene.
At the very
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:17 PM, chrper...@aol.com chrper...@aol.com wrote:
We have also tried replacing our home-made antenna (a la the YouTube
instructions) with an RCA super antenna. Same results whichever antenna we
used, so the RCA antenna, with booster, goes back to Walmart tomorrow. No
No, not everyone Tom, just people who approach management of
multiple computers the same way Chevy Chase approches a comedic scene.
Clearly, M$ has managed to make updates such a tangled mess that you need
to install special software to manage it all. Not so on the Mac.
Or, you just keep
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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Where is the problem here? 1-antenna,
2-amplifier, 3-secondary-amplifier 4-the boogie man?
If the antenna is old enough to have lost some elements you probably have
corrosion problems at
NoScript shows what is trying to access the page and then I can
selectively give permissions as needed for what I want to do. For
instance, DoubleClick is never needed for anything, so it never sees
the light of day. As far as I know, the browser security settings
don't allow this individuality.
Just get an antenna that has sufficient gain to enable you
to receive whatever stations you can reasonably expect to be able to
receive.
Good point. A good antenna is the most important part of it. Everything
else you may do will be to make up for antenna shortfalls. If the antenna
you get has
If you are going to manage your systems so poorly, you aren't going to get
much sympathy when you complain.
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
No, not everyone Tom, just people who approach management of
multiple computers the same way Chevy Chase approches a
Maybe you shouldn't have waited to download SP3 until the day after Windows
7 RC, which is a 2.6 GB d/l, is released to great demand.
There always seems to be some excuse. Everybody knows not to do this on
Tuesdays or Wednesdays, or whatever. The bottom line is that I needed to
do something
Adobe site says Win XP SP 2 is the requirement...were you running these
systems with just SP 1? Pre SP 1?
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Maybe you shouldn't have waited to download SP3 until the day after
Windows
7 RC, which is a 2.6 GB d/l, is released to
There always seems to be some excuse. Everybody knows not to do this on
Tuesdays or Wednesdays, or whatever. The bottom line is that I needed to
do something fairly ordinary and it didn't work and the reason it didn't
work was at their end.
That's your excuse when you play in traffic at rush
I am trying to repair a wormy EMachines W3107 with a damaged recovery partition.
I contacted tech support for a disc set, and they said:
We do not keep recovery disc images prior to March 2006.
and they could not provide a set.
This is a very disturbing development ... Comments? Help?;
NoScript shows what is trying to access the page and then I can
selectively give permissions as needed for what I want to do.
And then they pown you. From what I read, to avoid Phorm you have to stop
using cookies completely. Being selective won't help. Your ISP captures
all your traffic and
Clearly, M$ has managed to make updates such a tangled mess that you need
to install special software to manage it all. Not so on the Mac.
Nope, but you do have to have more than a gnat's worth of gumption.
StartSettingsControl PanelAutomatic Updatesdownload but don't
install.
Whew! Wipe
Adobe site says Win XP SP 2 is the requirement...
The installer halts and demands SP3. Who am I to argue?
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You don't say whether he wants a notebook or a desktop. I bought my
daughter a HP desktop PC computer for Xmas this past year for about
$350. It was not the cheapest: I wanted a dual-core processor. I am
amazed at the quality and value when the mail-order computer arrived
from HP. My
The only protection is to toss all your cookies periodically.
I have all my browsers set to delete cookies when I quit the programs. I
also delete cookies when I'm online for a few hours. I don't care if
that means I have to do a few extra clicks on web sites. No big deal.
You still have no
Nope, but you do have to have more than a gnat's worth of gumption.
StartSettingsControl PanelAutomatic Updatesdownload but don't
install. Whew! Wipe brow.
Do you really run around the office, stopping at each PC to run
StartSettingsControl PanelAutomatic Updates? No wonder you are so
grumpy.
Do you really run around the office, stopping at each PC to run
StartSettingsControl PanelAutomatic Updates? No wonder you are so
grumpy.
No, I use a not-free patching system that scans each system and lists
what patches are missing on them. I can then push out patches,
including service
Thanks very much for the comments, Steve! Interesting that we'll lose
stations when the UHF to VHF transition takes place.
How do you tell, before you purchase, which antenna will give you the
most gain?
We'll have to look into the Channel Master 4228. Baltimore has a
Channel 2, but we
Thanks, Mark.
EMachines (owned by Gateway last time I checked) makes good machines in
cheap boxes with minimal power supply... and they have a website where we
can still download the drivers for this machine... I just cannot get the
RESTORE disc.Every EMachine I have ever owned (4 now)
What patching system is that?
Do you really run around the office, stopping at each PC to run
StartSettingsControl PanelAutomatic Updates? No wonder you are so
grumpy.
No, I use a not-free patching system that scans each system and lists
what patches are missing on them. I can then push
A customer failed to make his own set, now his restore partition is
corrupted.
Need to purchase restore set for Emachine W3107; W3115 and W3118 should
work fine (same MB and DVD).
As a last resort, I could put a commercial WinXP on it, but he would lose
all of his bundled
Since you only have a dozen Windows PCs or so, and can handle
installing CS on them (not an insignificant nor quick process), I
figured you could handle this. I could be wrong.
If the M$ stuff worked I would be a happy camper. As you said, installing
CS is not insignificant, it fills 2 DVDs and
What patching system is that?
Shavlik NetChkPro
http://www.shavlik.com
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But 3/4 of the day was M$ updaters running very slowly or not at
all. I should have been able to download the SP3 exe once and then
quickly run that on each PC. It didn't and there is really no excuse for
that.
I've given you the fish and the net and told you how to catch the fish
and how to
How do you tell, before you purchase, which antenna will give you the
most gain?
Nice charts and discussion at hdtvprimer.com. See section on erecting
antennas.
SolidSignal.com has good info. Note new Channel Master model 4228HD
covers down to channel 7. Channel Master 4228 has the highest
A customer failed to make his own set, now his restore partition is
corrupted.
Need to purchase restore set for Emachine W3107; W3115 and W3118 should
work fine (same MB and DVD).
As a last resort, I could put a commercial WinXP on it, but he would lose
all of his bundled
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:09 PM, chrper...@aol.com chrper...@aol.com wrote:
Thanks very much for the comments, Steve! Interesting that we'll lose
stations when the UHF to VHF transition takes place.
How do you tell, before you purchase, which antenna will give you the most
gain?
We'll have
I've given you the fish and the net and told you how to catch the fish
and how to avoid pulling up old boots,
But the lake is a Superfund Site!
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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Richard P. richs...@gmail.com wrote:
Will you explain? If I cookies aren't allowed to be placed by using
NoScript, then wouldn't there be nothing to read? Or is it the fact
that this info is being picked up at the ISP, so it doesn't matter
about the cookies.
b_s-wilk wrote:
As an aside to your daughter, if she expects to work in video or
graphic design, the good studios all use Macs or other Unix. Magazines
and newspapers, good web developers, even credit card companies, use
Macs. Local and national TV stations use Macs. Locally, JP Morgan
A minor correction: 3 db is twice power, not 1 db.
The formula is: db = 10 log(P2 / P1) = 20 log (v2 / v1) where P is
power and v is voltage.
12 db is an increase in power of about 15.8.
Tom Piwowar wrote:
SolidSignal.com has good info. Note new Channel Master model 4228HD
covers down
A minor correction: 3 db is twice power, not 1 db.
Sorry, brain cramp.
12 db is an increase in power of about 15.8.
A 1580% increase! You definitely want a good antenna.
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Is the choice of antenna something we'll just have to wait to see what
the signals will be like in June when analog signals are turned off?
Channels will move. Frequencies and power will change. A box or antenna
that is so-so now could be just fine in the summer.
I ordered a Tivax STB-T8
Does anyone have any data on 12v converter boxes?
The TVs on boats and rvs are perfectly fine for what they're doing and they
were cheap, but to replace them with a flat dtv is a considerable
investment... and what about hurricane season?
- Original Message -
From: Robert Carroll
Steve Tice added you as a friend on MyLife(TM).
Please confirm you know Steve so we can connect you.
Do You Know Steve?
YES - Connect with Steve, and see who's searching for you
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:24 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Is the choice of antenna something we'll just have to wait to see what the
signals will be like in June when analog signals are turned off? Channels
will move. Frequencies and power will change. A box or antenna that is so-so
Thanks for the invite Steve, whoever you are.
Um...no. Unless you throw in beer and pizza. I'll be friends with anyone for
beer and pizza!
Ken
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Steve Tice stevet...@verizon.net wrote:
Steve Tice added you as a friend on MyLife(TM).
Please confirm
I ordered a Tivax STB-T8 yesterday. Has good reviews, customers and
review sites.
I have it and much regret the purchase. Poor sensitivity. Crummy remote.
Slow to change channels. Poor display of program info. Suspect they paid
for good reviews or the other boxes must be really bad. The RCA
Apologies. I was unaware that My Life is a VIRUS. I received and invite
and make the mistake of signing up. BIG MISTAKE. It grabs your address
book and invites EVERYONE who is in it. And I don't know why you are, as
I don't recognize your name (sorry).
Steve
Ken Board wrote:
Thanks for the
Apologies. I was unaware that My Life is a VIRUS. I received an invite
and make the mistake of signing up. BIG MISTAKE. It grabs your address
book and invites EVERYONE who is in it.
Please disregard, and DO NOT make my mistake of signing up, unless you
want to do what I did.
Steve
Um...no. Unless you throw in beer and pizza. I'll be friends with anyone for
beer and pizza!
Good plan. Count me in for beer and pizza too as long as it is not
Budweiser, the Vista of Beers.
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Not a problem. At least not for me. I didn't get the invite directly, I got
it through the Computer Guys list, which I (mostly) lurk on.
Does this mean I won't be getting the beer and pizza?
Ken
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Steve at Verizon stevet...@verizon.netwrote:
Apologies. I was
Please disregard, and DO NOT make my mistake of signing up, unless you
want to do what I did.
What!? No beer? No pizza?
S sad.
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Excellent Find!
It's worth a try! ... They say they have it... $26.95 including
shipping!
Thanks,
- Brian
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http://www.restoredisks.com/
This is not an endoresement of this service whatsoever, nor do I have
any idea
Good plan. Count me in for beer and pizza too as long as it is not
Budweiser, the Vista of Beers.
That's a base canard. Budweiser is the King of Beers. It says so
right here on the bottle.
But as long as beer is being offered, I'll take a Golden Monkey,
please.
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I have it and much regret the purchase. Poor sensitivity. Crummy remote.
Slow to change channels. Poor display of program info. Suspect they paid
for good reviews or the other boxes must be really bad. The RCA box we
have works
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