I'd like to ramp up the technical question a bit. We already have DSL coming
into the house (firewall, antivirus, etc., are already installed) with 2
Windows XP desktops plugged into the modem. Are there any technical
considerations in taking the existing system wireless beyond slapping a
Good point. Thanks, Rev.!
Dan :-)
Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/27/2008 10:15 AM
Yeah security. Turn on security when you add wireless mode.
Stewart
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My wife and I are planning to purchase a new laptop and need recommendations on
the most cost-effective hardware/software combination. I welcome input from
anyone with relevant experience. By the way, this list has yet to steer me
wrong with the many pleas I've posted in the past.
Well taken, Betty, But I don't know if the Wii would help or frustrate. His
Parkinsons is starting to gallop along.
Dan
b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/26/08 12:44 PM
My dad is using a computer that over 10 years old for Internet, email,
WP, database. It's old, slow, so is he. He's retired,
I'd appreciate some expert opinions on resolving a family challenge.
Dear old Dad has moved to an assisted care facility and has eventually taken
his desktop with him. The facility has a WiFi net that the residents are free
to use. Dad's Dell runs Windows XP Pro, but is of 2002 vintage and
I think he was asking if he could erase it completely once entered.
Dan
Christopher Range [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/30/2008 2:23 PM
rlsimon wrote:
WinXP SP2 Home At present has no password protection so it just boots and
starts without any folderol. If I add a password now, can I take it off and
My own experience since the early 1990s has been to use a credit card for
purchases as much as possible. Since the credit card companies convert huge
sums of money routinely, all those commissions, etc., are minimized.
It took the Europeans a long time to accept the idea of credit purchases,
Just got one of these in the inbox from IRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject line:
Tax Notification
I suggest that you not follow the link.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
United States Department of the Treasury
Dear Taxpayer,
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal
activity we have
That is almost identical language to the footnote on a price-hike
announcement we got yesterday from Verizon (we have their DSL service).
No mention in there about whether or not we will have the option of
switching to FiOS, just the price hike to more than $20 per month.
John J Settle [EMAIL
Both obviously. A mortgage contract has two parties.
Maybe yes, but there's more.
During the past several years, there have been three, not two, parties to the
mortgage. Only two are present at closing, but that third is really calling the
shots.
In days of yore, banks (or other financial
Adobe Reader can rotate the pages easily enough, and it's free. Can't they then
be saved?
Dan
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Just the format and phrasing raises a host of red flags. It uses very generic
wording that can apply to any targeted recipient. The placement of the images
of interest looks like a mail merge of some kind. It just smells of an
automated bulk email - not something who wants to decorate an
Best Buy also carries them - 1 brand, 1 model, listing for $59.99. Coupons
should be available online.
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MS Office has an Information Rights Management feature that helps prevent
sensitive documents and e-mail messages from being forwarded, edited or copied
by unauthorized people. It is found under File - Permissions. This requires
the installation of a Windows Rights Management client to invoke.
It's magic.
Seriously, the 100-240v designation on the power supply indicates that it can
handle both voltages, sensing the input voltage and automatically stepping it
down to the much lower voltage used by the computer. By building this sensing
and switching capability into a single power
Mike, if you have someone in the family who qualifies for the Adobe Acrobat
Education pricing structure, I'd recommend that you go ahead and purchase AA
Professional. It is a terrific discount. That will allow you to do anything you
want to a pdf.
Dan
:46 PM
Can the file be printed? On a Mac you can print to Preview, then save
again as a PDF. Is there a Windows equivalent you can use?
Daniel Else wrote:
Mike, if you have someone in the family who qualifies for the Adobe Acrobat
Education pricing structure, I'd recommend that you go ahead
I use Verizon DSL, so I can't address the service question. As for DSL itself,
I have no complaints - fast (relative to the dial-up modem it replace) and so
far trouble-free (we've been on it for about a year).
Interference with the phone is eliminated by in-line noise filters. Though the
As alluded to in the IE 7 discussion of the past several days, MS is offering
free actual telephonic customer support for the IE7 installation. I don't have
the number in hand, but it is toll-free. You might give it a shot.
Dan
Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/6/2007 12:30:37 PM
Outlook
Microsoft is pushing its Internet Explorer 7 pretty hard and through touting
free phone tech support for the change seems to be implying that the transition
from 6 to 7 might not be transparent.
Is there any experience out there with the move from one version to the other?
Good? Bad? or just
Google fiber optic cable or read:
www.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm
www.arcelect.com/fibercable.htm
Do you know the actual construction of the Fios cable? While the data
transmission medium is glass fiber, there may well be a metal wire or jacket
component for tensile strength. If
I'm no comms engineer, but I believe that FIOS, being glass fiber, has no
conducting material to bring any kind of electricity into the house. It should
be all blasts of light.
Dan
K Swab [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/19/2007 4:02 PM
I just installed Verizon's FIOS service for both my
phone and
You asked for it, now here is the whole story, the text of the Waco
Tribune-Herald post-Apocalype account of the McClennan Community College
incident (it hardly seems worthy of being called a confrontation). In defense
of the good folks of Waco, Bill's presentation (actually both of them, for
They featured her on All Things Considered last evening (she was jabbering away
while driving down the highway). She is a life blogger, and one wonders (a)
why and (b) why anyone else would be interested in putting her and her doings
on line. Are there perhaps more interesting things to do with
Anyone have experience with doing the videophone experience?
A colleague is trying to come up with a way to get his ancient auntie online
with a no-hassle version of a videoconferencing capability. Dear Auntie has no
computer skills or computer, nephew will take care of purchasing required
The rerouting feature does have its limitations. For those of you familiar with
the DC area, try going from, say, Reston, VA, to Ft. Myer on a route that uses
I-66. Google will not let you do that, no matter how you try to force
intermediate waypoints. So, it appears to be increasingly useful,
The latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking claims to not require learning
the voice before transcribing voice to text. It should therefore be perfect
for your use. I've used several versions of the software, and I find it
excellent (though you always must check for accuracy). It will
I beg to differ. This software is able to distinguish among homonyms with a
high degree of accuracy, and as stated earlier, it learns through experience.
Worst case, someone might use it to repeat interviews into the computer - which
would still save a boatload of time and effort.
I have used
Have you tried downloading and watching Process Explorer while svchost is
running?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx
Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/15/2007 10:34 AM
svchost.exe is using 98-99 percent of CPU, making my PC very unpleasant
to use. I
My challenge with my Epson 1640SU is not dust - it works just fine. I'm looking
for the auto document feeder for the thing.
Since this went out of production about 3-4 years ago, it won't be in any
store, and my beloved Practical Computers, the local used store, went
sneakers-up on October 1
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