Re: [CGUYS] think i've been taken: replacement laptop keys

2011-02-13 Thread Mason Miller
I would imagine it would depend on the laptop. I have lost and replaced keys on my MacBook. Mason On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Judy Cosler wrote: first of all, which is the correct address for this list? the yahoo address? I think I've been taken! Is there any such thing as replacement

Re: [CGUYS] laptop shuts down

2010-07-12 Thread Mason Miller
Bad battery? Mason Sent from my iPhone On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Judy Cosler jfcos...@gmail.com wrote: My *fully charged *ASUS laptop, not v. old, shuts down if I unplug it. what could be causing this? *** ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO**

Re: [CGUYS] Guys and GPS

2009-09-04 Thread Mason Miller
I use the GPS, but ignore its instructions. Mason On Sep 4, 2009, at 1:32 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshallpopoz...@earthlink.net wrote: I will be honest I use them usually on long trips so when I get off the interstate at an interchange

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Lied?

2009-08-29 Thread Mason Miller
I have been very pleased so far. Mason On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:21 AM, t.piwowar wrote: MacWorld's extensive coverage of Snow Leopard makes me think Apple lied. This upgrade offers many significant improvements. Maybe Apple marketing isn't impressed because they want big flashy additions

Re: [CGUYS] iPhoto (Was: Interesting quotes about using a Mac)

2008-08-27 Thread Mason Miller
Hi Constance, For your particular concern, go to the iPhoto Library file in your Pictures directory. Do a right-click(or control click if you do not have a two-button mouse) and select Show Package Contents. You can now see all of the photo files individually. It is not really a single

Re: [CGUYS] Comcast even faster?

2008-05-11 Thread Mason Miller
I have the FiOS 15 up/15 down plan for $50 per month. I am showing 15.2 down and 14.4 up using the below test. Mason On May 11, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Eric S. Sande wrote: I'm pretty sure these services are rated in megabits/sec, not megabyte/sec. Yep. See http://myspeed.visualware.com/ .

Re: [CGUYS] Signs of the arrival of FIOS

2008-04-13 Thread Mason Miller
You could also add several batteries in parallel and extend the amount of backup time. Mason Sent from my iPhone via SiteWelder On Apr 12, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I'ld suggest anyone worried about losing connectivity after the UPS for FIOS runs

Re: [CGUYS] Slate website

2008-04-09 Thread Mason Miller
Snapped right up here at home. I am using Verizon FiOS (yipee!).. Mason On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:58 PM, David Turk wrote: Does anyone have problems accessing Slate's website? I'm using Firefox, have no problems with other sites. Slate just seems to time out more than any other site.

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

Re: [CGUYS] No call list

2008-02-18 Thread Mason Miller
Political speech is exempt from Do Not Call. Mason On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:41 PM, gerald wrote: the two canidates in my district, wynn and donna ? got about 2.5 million dollars for the house primary campaign, they spent most of it on deamon dialers to call residents in the area, and bad

Re: [CGUYS] adobe vs apple

2007-12-23 Thread Mason Miller
My experience with Leopard is that just about everything is significantly faster. The finder is much faster, as is working with network volumes. If you doa lot of work with Photoshop, one of the nice features in 10 is that when you do a Save for Web to a JPEG, Photoshop keeps the copyright

Re: [CGUYS] Adobe is the scammer [was: possible eBay scam: what

2007-12-21 Thread Mason Miller
10 is CS3 Mason On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I have been using Photoshop 7 since it was released. Nothing in later versions is special enough to get me to upgrade, except that it won't run in Leopard [supposedly]. Every so often I use an older version so I can use Kai's

Re: [CGUYS] non-iPod MP3 player for Mac

2007-10-27 Thread Mason Miller
Before you add the songs/videos to your iTunes library, set the press to not have iTunes organize your library. Mason Sent from my iPhone via SiteWelder On Oct 26, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mason Miller You can make your iTunes directory use

Re: [CGUYS] non-iPod MP3 player for Mac

2007-10-26 Thread Mason Miller
You can make your iTunes directory use an external drive. So using an iPod with iTunes should work fine. You can also choose to have iTunes leave your media where it is, so you could keep music on one drive and video on another if you like. Mason Sent from my iPhone via SiteWelder On Oct

Re: [CGUYS] Mac OS UG's

2007-10-24 Thread Mason Miller
10.5.x updates will be free. You will have to pay again at 10.6 (at least a year or two). Mason gerald wrote: Mac 10.5.0 arrives next week. someone is selling it for $106. when they fix it 6 months from now with 10.5.1, what will be the charge,another $106, or 170?? or historically

Re: [CGUYS] BroadBand Speeds

2007-10-24 Thread Mason Miller
It may not be as fast, but it will be more steady and reliable in most cases. You pay a lot more, but your bandwidth to the other end of the connection is guaranteed, and if it goes down you will see the telco there in hours, not days. It is a different type of service. Mason Jay Montero

Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: XP Gets Life Extension]

2007-09-30 Thread Mason Miller
This would all be easier, not for you, but for her, on a Mac. Mason Sent from my iPhone via SiteWelder On Sep 30, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Sue Cubic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:18 PM 09/30/2007 -0500, Tom Piwowar wrote I don't think ignorance is an acceptable defense. What if her doctor did

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes updates

2007-09-21 Thread Mason Miller
I have confidence is the ability of the people who created these hacks to be able to overcome the patches as they come out. Mason John Duncan Yoyo wrote: On 9/21/07, Harvey Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The iPhone, iPod Touch and other new iPods are driving these updates. To update the

Re: [CGUYS] Processor speed for video work

2007-09-19 Thread Mason Miller
Apple uses the same Intel chips that many PC's use, so the same economies should apply in that respect. Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: I do not know about Apple Computers, but in the IBM realm the price decrease on Dual processors has been steep.

Re: [CGUYS] Setting Up a Bootable External Drive

2007-09-18 Thread Mason Miller
Sometimes the problem is not with the copy of the disk, but the FireWire chipset in the external drive. I have not done a bootable backup with Retrospect, but I have with CC. Mason Harvey Simon wrote: Retrospect is supposed to copy everything, but apparently it isn't getting something right.

Re: [CGUYS] Test

2007-09-10 Thread Mason Miller
I do find it interesting that this message came from the future... Mason Tom Piwowar wrote: Have I been banned from the list? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an

Re: [CGUYS] Buying First MAC

2007-09-10 Thread Mason Miller
I am planning to purchase an iMac for my wife. I have only owned PC's since jobs was in the garage, and have a few hardware questions. we are getting this mainly because it fits well in the allocated space, and because my wife generates and edits dvd's and says her PC is very slow in this

Re: [CGUYS] spam questions

2007-09-06 Thread Mason Miller
Unless you are having mail forwarded to the ISP where you are receiving it, go ahead and report it as spam. It is the IP address of the sending machine that is generally observed. We have problems where we forward mail for certain customers to a large provider(say AOL). Any spam that gets

Re: [CGUYS] FIOS

2007-08-08 Thread Mason Miller
I still had my copper intact when I had FIOS because my local telco was MCI, not Verizon. But I also have a backup generator for my home, so I would not have to run off the local battery even if I had been on Verizon for phone. The TV picutre and channel selection was far better than

Re: [CGUYS] FIOS

2007-08-07 Thread Mason Miller
You won't want to switch from FIOS, once you have had it. Mason rlsimon wrote: Wachit...seems when Verizon puts up your fios it takes down your old standard telephone line unless you tell them to leave it there (burried in small print of contract) so if you change your mind later you hafta pay

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone cracked

2007-07-29 Thread Mason Miller
The iPhone has a sim slot right on the top. You push a tiny button and it pops out. Mason b_s-wilk wrote: The discrepancy may be for people who bought the iPhone and use it with PAYGO. That wouldn't register as a regular ATT account, since you don't have to give personal information to sign

Re: [CGUYS] Importance of secure login page

2007-07-19 Thread Mason Miller
If you view the HTML, the form is probably being sent to the server running SSL. You will see something like: form action=https://blah.blah.com; other form stuff here... /form As long as the form data is being sent via SSL, all of your form data is secure. Mason Michael S. Altus

Re: [CGUYS] Importance of secure login page

2007-07-19 Thread Mason Miller
The initial pages protocol(http vs. https) does not matter. It is the method with which the data is sent to the server when the user hits submit. As long as the form specifies an action that points to an address that begins with https, your data is secure. Nothing is passed in the clear when

Re: [CGUYS] Will the iPhone Change Everything?

2007-07-13 Thread Mason Miller
My phone is cooler than yours Jeff, and it helps me save/make money. I have an iPhone. It does the following for me, and my business seamlessly: 1. Make conference calls on the first attempt without embarrassing myself by losing one of the callers. 2. Send and receive SMS messages

Re: [CGUYS] Will the iPhone Change Everything?

2007-07-06 Thread Mason Miller
My family and I were at Stone Harbor, NJ this week, and my wife got hit with a putt-putt golf club. She needed stitches, or so I suspected. I opened the phone, went to maps and looked up Stone Harbor. Once that came up(seconds), I searched for Hospital. In a few seconds I had a map with the

Re: [CGUYS] Tom, Reformat Annually?

2007-06-13 Thread Mason Miller
I wouldn't reformat every year, but I would plan on reformatting for 10.5 You will have your choice of two filesystems with 10.5 - HFS+ and ZFS. There are some compelling reasons to use ZFS. Go Google ZFS and Leopard. Mason Alvin Auerbach wrote: Tom, I'm thinking ahead about Mac OS 10.5.

Re: [CGUYS] Need recommendation for high-end (non-Apple) laptop

2007-05-27 Thread Mason Miller
The Core Duo is 32 bit. Core 2 Duo is 64 bit. Mason John DeCarlo wrote: On 5/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/07, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it have to be Intel? No, I should have said Intel Core Duo or equivalent. However I don't know what the

Re: [CGUYS] Need recommendation for high-end (non-Apple) laptop

2007-05-27 Thread Mason Miller
I would be looking for a Core 2 Duo with all of the other goodies you indicated. The Core Duo will be obsoletish much sooner. Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/07, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it have to be Intel? No, I should have said Intel Core Duo or

Re: [CGUYS] Neighbor Runs A Crackhouse [Was: How to Install Fre

2007-05-08 Thread Mason Miller
I have spent over $10,000 on hardware this year, and untold time, that serves no purpose other than to scrub spam. I can tell you from experience, logs and stats that 90% of our spam is coming from infected Windows machines. I am beginning to firmly believe that Windows IS a virus. Mason

Re: [CGUYS] Neighbor Runs A Crackhouse [Was: How to Install Fre

2007-05-08 Thread Mason Miller
When was the last time this happened on a Mac? Apple has already patched the hole that was documented in very short order, as they usually do. Windows on the other hand.. Mason On May 8, 2007, at 3:09 PM, mike wrote: So what do we run? Couple of weeks ago it was proven an exploit

Re: [CGUYS] Neighbor Runs A Crackhouse [Was: How to Install Fre

2007-05-08 Thread Mason Miller
People have been spreading this intellectual honesty for years, and still no mac exploits. Mason On May 8, 2007, at 7:03 PM, mike wrote: In April alone Apple released a dozen security patches that could allow arbitrary code to be run. Each one of these a possible exploit of the type

Re: [CGUYS] Neighbor Runs A Crackhouse [Was: How to Install Fre

2007-05-08 Thread Mason Miller
Generally they are current within weeks. Mason On May 8, 2007, at 7:44 PM, John DeCarlo wrote: Which makes me wonder how Macs are shipped - if I go buy a new one next Sunday will it have this patch for Quicktime with it, or do I need to do an update when I get home?

Re: [CGUYS] Comparing Mac and PC laptops

2007-05-03 Thread Mason Miller
MacBook is great. Get the one with the SuperDrive. Add: $129 for the Student/Teacher edition of Microsoft Office for the Mac. $249 for AppleCare. Particularly for a student, you will want the 3 year parts warranty. - You can find this for around $180-190 if you shop Amazon/Froogle. This

Re: [CGUYS] Comparing Mac and PC laptops

2007-05-03 Thread Mason Miller
No Windows included, although if you know you want it, you can get the Apple with it preinstalled at macmall.com. Parallels will let you run any version of Windows in a Mac window. Dual booting requires XP or Vista. Mason Pete Rozanski wrote: Can't they run both a Windows OS as well as a

Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-24 Thread Mason Miller
Paula, Michael is right. I use it for compressing DVD's, and it has great compression algorithms, but it needs to start from a DVD source. OSrry for the bum tip. Mason Michael Lewis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]