Re: [CGUYS] electronics failures
Moving parts, OTOH, such as fans and disk drives, can be said to have x hours of life to them, and they will fail when they reach that point. Leaving a machine off overnight _will_ extend their lives. This is always an interesting question because both answers are correct. Turn-on causes failures and wear causes failures. Hence the best answer is in the middle. If you are not going to use a device for 8 to 10 hours, turn it off. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Lightning [Was: Speeding Up XP]
First of all, telephone loops aren't grounded. We were hit by lightning in 1998 and it fried all of the phones. There were burn marks coming out of the jacks, no kidding. When we recently remodeled I found a carbon block arrestor on my phone line. I replaced it with a solid state model for about $35. Somewhere I read about how far into the house the voltage spike will travel based on the clamping time of the arrestor. The electronic model limited it to just a few feet. The old arrestor let the surge travel over 100 feet -- not too useful. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Speeding Up XP [Was: Vista Memory Needs
Many years ago I witnessed a laboratory demonstration of the power of lightning. They rigged up a very high voltage spark (a shadow of a real lightning bolt) and had it jump to a block of wood. In an instant, the spark jumped and the block of wood was just gone. In that instant, all of the moisture in the wood was turned into steam, and the steam just shattered the wood into dust. Once an hour at the Franklin Institute. I wonder if they still do this? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] electronics failures
Could you refine that answer just a bit? When I sleep the various 'Books, for wear purposes, does sleep count as being turned off? I'm inclined to think it does, as it is my regular practice, but eagerly await your thoughts. Yes. Computers do now always wake from sleep or some parts wake while others don't. So I usually avoid sleep. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Washington Checkbook sez...
And if someone goes in and purposefully changes important settings, it can take days for someone else to find them. Heck, I'd as often recommend just reinstalling the OS (a couple hours) as I would spend hours and hours trying to figure out how they screwed it up. Even in a professional environment it is a hard call deciding to fix or format. In a consumer environment you must consider that once you charge for a fixed machine you are giving a guarantee that it is fixed. If it ain't you are on the hook to fix it even if the problem is something else. The best course may be to replace everything on the drive. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Anti-apple rant
The cynic sez that all business have just one aim: Earn as much money as is possible. ...Hewlett-Packard realized that they were in the money business, and prospered. Does Hewlett-Packard still make instruments? I don't know, but I'll bet that they don't care, one way or the other. HP is an example of a company that went too far. Under Carlie Fiorina they got rid of much of their engineering talent. The only thing that keeps HP in business are the buying habits of dumb IT managers who can't tell apart the good from the bad. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] TV Programming [Was: Apple entertainment...was:Anti-apple rant
In some ways, the hardware IS a bargain. I am willing to shell out $2k for a new TV. I have not yet done so, as I am unwilling to shell out $1.2 per year for programming, most of which I don't want, just to get the small amount that I do want. What I did not realize when I bought a new TV was that so much more programming was available on over-the-air HD than on SD. I now have more than three times more programming to chose from. Who needs cable? YMMV. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] TV Programming [Was: Apple entertainment...was:Anti
It is also supposed to be much better reception even in places where SD reception was poor. True. The picture is going to be perfect or it isn't there at all. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Apple hardware and Vista/PC hardware was: Anti-appl
Saw the show. Perhaps more a demonstration of product placement by Apple with Horizon and Nova. John, you are being silly (or desperate). * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Apple hardware and Vista/PC hardware was: Anti-appl
Silly by all means! The party may have me stand for parliament. Then you certainly need an early start on pandering so it won't look like a last-minute flip flop! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Toss You PC For Free Day (Sun in DC)
Overlooking your slightly incorrect link... How about posting your version of the link? Since the link I gave continues to work for me, I can't fix it. http://www.epa.gov/oei/ecycling/ * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Toss You PC For Free Day (Sun in DC)
a Saturday 21st dropoff at Carter Barron, 9am to 3pm. In the past DC would not take you junk unless your car had DC plates. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] The disappearance of bees...
DDT isn't banned any more, at least for anti-mosquito efforts. You can buy insect repellant now that has DDT in it. Isn't that DEET in the insect repellant? As a suspected carcinogen DDT would not be a good thing to smear on one's body. DDT is banned in N America and mostly banned internationally according to Wikipedia. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Apple Issues Patches for 25 Security Holes
Or you could just edit the registry to disable remote access as noted in the workaround section of the KB article. Takes about 2 minutes a server. Nah, better to panic. In my experience nothing will strike panic into the hearts of IT managers like the prospect of getting their big butts out of their chairs. Disable remote access you have got to be kidding. It won't be done. Anyone who relies on it getting done is asking for trouble. It is much safer to switch to a reliable DNS. Perhaps we need a way to cross check the results from multiple DNS servers? If one were polluted the inconsistent results would be a tip off that something is wrong. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Apple Issues Patches for 25 Security Holes
Again, I keep wondering where you meet these guys? Are you loitering around best buy and figure the geeksquad guys are IT managers? I've met many IT managers, and their staff, never have I met these caricatures you describe. We had this discussion here a few months ago (and I mostly stayed out of it). There were plenty of first-hand accounts of IT mis-management and resolute refusal to see anything amiss on your side of the aisle. Sort of like watching the White House defend Bolton, Gonzales, Wolfowitz, et al.. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Toss You PC For Free Day (Sun in DC)
Very easy. Very sweet people. Yesterday's TV news reported long lines at the Carter Barron recycling site sponsored by DC. So we got to Freedom Plaza 45 minutes before the start. There was no line. We were immediately directed to pull over to the curb and they helped us unload directly to the curb and they sent us on our way. It is now just past 10:30 and I'm back here at my computer. It could not have been easier. YMMV. The woman who pullled over right after us was discarding an original Mac. A guy who was helping me unload reminisced that he had paid $2500 for his and I said I had too. P.S. I'm keeping my original Mac, but my 1st PC was gleefully discarded years ago. This Sunday 11 AM to 3 PM at Freedom Plaza (13 E St NW in DC). http://www.epa.gov/oei/ecycling/ Looks like the drop off point is at the corner with the statue of Casimir Pulaski flag:wavePolish military commander and American Revolutionary War hero/flag:wave). * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Savvy Senator? [Was: Email Security Contradictions
Blinded by ideology, Jeff ranted... No one is denying that Gore put through funding that, in retrospect, was well timed, but Gore saying the I took the initiative in creating the Internet is like George Westinghouse saying that he took the initiative in creating Emiril Lagasse. Al Gore and the Internet By Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf (Before Jeff demands to know who are these jerks?... Robert Kahn, invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton Cerf created the IP protocol. So the following is an account from people who were deeply involved with the Internet at the time these events happened.) Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development. As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept. Gore secured the passage of the High Performance Computing and Communications Act in 1991. This Gore Act supported the National Research and Education Network (NREN) initiative that became one of the major vehicles for the spread of the Internet beyond the field of computer science. As Vice President Gore promoted building the Internet both up and out, as well as releasing the Internet from the control of the government agencies that spawned it. Gore provided much-needed political support for the speedy privatization of the Internet when the time arrived for it to become a commercially-driven operation. No one in public life has been more intellectually engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the Vice President. Gore has been a clear champion of this effort, both in the councils of government and with the public at large. More at... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/02/net_builders_kahn_cerf_recognise/ * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files
First thing to do is to frame the video to the size YouTube wants (320 x 240). If you have not already done this, it will make the file a lot smaller. Software, called a CODEC (COder-DECoder) does the compression. There are many different CODECs with different properties. The two basic types of CODEC produce eiter smaller files or better quality files. A transfer CODEC is used to make files that you use for editing (high quality). A delivery CODEC is used for making smaller files. Some CODECs are best for specific types of images (like animations). The H.264 (QuickTime Pro $29) and Sorenson (expensive) CODECs are good for making small video files. Other things you could do are reduce the frame rate or the data rate; or ask for fewer key frames; or reduce the color depth; or lower the quality setting (similar to making a smaller jpeg). Large files at YouTube are commonly posted in sets so you may want to break up the performance into several smaller units. While in Jerome,AZ I took some video of a band that I want to upload to YouTube. My MPG file is 500mb but Youtube limits you to 100 mb. How do I go about compressing the video so that it's small enough to upload? I'm on either an iMac G5 and I do have GarageBand if that worksor a MacBook Pro laptop. JPG's I could handle but I've never worked with video so haven't a clue. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Savvy Senator?
I am kinda getting tired of this who invented the internet crap. Yes! STOP! STOP! STOP! Any conclusive demonstration of the facts could cause adverse results. Reality go away. Out! Out! Out! Leave us alone in our land of fantasy. How's about talking about computers and much more related subjects rather than peeing in the wind about political differences? Who would expect that a thread with Senator in the subject line would not be related to politics? Since when is the Internet just politics and not computers too? And since when are politics not relevant to computers? Did anyone catch the savvy Senators telling the public on Meet the Press that the VT tragedy was not caused by ready availability of autommatic weapons, but by those dangerous, dreaded computer games that poison the minds of our youth. I'm only surprised that he did not find a way to drag the Internet into it too. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Savvy Senator?
Since whan is putting your money where your mouth is an indication of insincerity? Would you denounce a doctor who gave money to the Red Cross? CERF, VINTON ANNANDALE,VA 22003 WORLD COM 9/7/2000 $5,000 Assn of State Dem Chairs/Dollrs for Dems * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Need advice on buying new desktop PC
I have a Dell E510 (a year old) that I'm very happy with. Dell's E520 seems to be a direct update of mine and I believe it has everything he wants (big HDD, lots of RAM, built-in networking card, CD/DVD-RW, [duo-core processing -- I recommended that because it's what I have] and a 19 flat panel monitor). His previous computer (before the laptop) was a Gateway so he asked me to check them -- and it seems Gateway has essentially the same machine (DX 430) as the Dell E520 -- but for $699 instead of $819. Why do you say laptop and 19 flat panel monitor? If the computer is being used as a desktop he could save $100s by getting a desktop. Dell has some great deals that include a 19 flat panel monitor. I have never heard anything good about Gateway computers. You need to strike a balance between price and durability. I would not go cheaper than the Dell. Though I seem to recall that Dell Laptops are a bit on the too cheap side too. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Savvy Senator?
Read and weap (but heavens no politics!). The Best and Worst Internet Laws Date: Apr 20, 2007 By Eric Goldman. Over the past dozen years, the lure of regulating the Internet has proven irresistible to legislators. For example, in the 109th Congress, almost 1,100 introduced bills referenced the word Internet, and hundreds of Internet laws have been passed by Congress and the states. This legislative activity is now large enough to identify some winners and losers. In the spirit of good fun, Eric Goldman offers an opinionated list of personal votes for the best and worst Internet statutes in the United States. http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=717374rl=1 * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Border for Certificate of Appreciation in MS Word
Running MS Word 2000. Where can I find, how do I import into a document a fancy page border suitable for a certificate of appreciation? Insert Picture From File etc. or Format Background Watermark Picture Watermark etc * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] iPhoto question
How does one move a folder full of images with keywords and descriptions assigned to them and not lose this information in the process. Lots of info here: www.faughnan.com/digcam.html#LibraryMerge BUT! iPhoto is not a good way to work with lots of photos. It gets slower and slower as photos are added. To avoid this many people deliberately maintain many smaller folders. If you friend has Photoshop or Creative Suite, suggest they switch to Adobe Bridge. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Savvy Senator?
Kinda makes my original point, don't ya think? Nope. Makes mine. When an authority in the field gives a first person account that contradicts one of your previous assertions and you immediately respond by attacking the credentials of that authority it is a bad sign. When the contortions required to maintain a certain belief become extreme it is time to reexamine the belief. Take off the ideological blinders please! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Savvy Senator?
Umm, no, the original point was that Congress should not be trusted with anything to do with technology, since its record over the past decade or so is a sad and sorry tale. Did you forget that part already? I started this thread so you telling me what the original point was is a bit odd. No? My point was that I saw some movement in the direction of better understanding on the part of some Senators. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] More on bees and cellphones
Or, in the Washington Times today... You are supposed to know that the Washington Times reports on the news of a fantasy Universe parallel to our own. I guess as the years go by it gets harder to remember that the paper was established by and continues to be owned by the Rev. Moon to promote a particular point of view. Any resemblance to reality is coincidental. (Sort of like some of the posts on this list.) The paper is designed to gradually warp the reader's percention of reality until they start to believe that they live in fantasyland. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Fotowoosh
Nobody would like to see true 3D photography catch on more than myself, but this is not that. How do you expect to achieve binocular vision with a monocular display? Keep the laws of physics in mind while reading extravagant claims made by MBAs who flunked their one physics class. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Spammer?
My website provider really went to bat for me. They were very responsive, albeit by e-mail only. They contacted Comcast and got the whole thing straightened out -- I think. No more messages being sent for a week or so, so I can't be sure. But I think it's all better now. (Fingers crossed!) You have a really good vendor, but you don't mention their name. This denies us the benefit of learning a valuable solution and denies the good vendor the potential reward of getting more business. Not nice twice! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Savvy Representatives? [Was: Savvy Senator?]
There are plenty of Senators and Representatives who are computer literate, a few of whom are more than novices, or at least members of their staff are. --- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security is holding hearings on spyware attacks on government agencies. Apparently, the State Dept. was attacked in June 2006 by Chinese hackers who stole passwords and planted backdoor programs. Ans the Commerce Dept's Bureau of Industry and Security was hacked a month later. Members will understand that the penetrations on our systems were bad so bad that we don't even know whether we or the attackers now control our own systems, the briefing materials noted. --- I'm seeing good questions getting asked and a growing impatience with leaving this to IT management who seem too willing to make apologies for the defective software their computers run. It will be interesting to see what happens when a frustrated Congress tries to light a fire under these IT idiots. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] More on bees and cellphones
Weren't you supposed to change the topic to 'slam newspaper cause it doesn't agree with my idealogical bias' ? If you write that you are simply uninformed about the history and ownership of this newspaper or you have already emigrated to fantasyland. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] FWD: Dell brings back XP
Hasn't Vista had less critical updates then XP in the last five months? Would that not be because fewer people are running Vista -- ha ha ha! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Faux News in DC--was: More on bees and cellphones
Nobody in DC, except a few transient politicians, takes the Washington Times seriously. Hardly anybody buys it. Every morning at the Metro entrance there is a woman distributing the Post's free Express paper and a man with a bundle of Washington Times papers, which he gives away for free. The lady with Express is passing them out from a big stack as fast as her hands can move. I have never seen anybody take a Times. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] DC powered remote control switch buried in block of
My first reaction was to use solar cells, but that could require wires. Can the solar cells be attached directly to the LEDs in ice, and still generate the tiny bit of power for the LED? It's worth trying. Won't it need resistors? Not if the internal resistance of the battery is sufficient to limit the current. The resistor is only needed if you need to limit the current flow. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Off topic-political
A few nights ago PBS ran a great program on Watergate 30 Years After. They interviewed many of the primary players looking at events from the perspective that 30 years provides. One of the interesting points was that those involved in the Nixon crimes were people of high personal virtue -- they didn't smoke, didn't drink, didn't chase the opposite sex, etc. But they had no morals when it came to the public sphere. There seemed to be no limits to what they would do to win a political battle. One reporter noted how those in the administration would just lie and lie and lie with absolutely no compunction. If caught in a lie they would just lie some more. They bribed, they bullied, they falesly prosecuted, they blackmailed, they burgled, they ruined people's lives. Watching the show I sadly noted that those were the good old days. It is worse today. As you see from the snippet below, you just can't engage Jeff in any serious discussion. Evil, stupid and/or ignorant, dishonest, sleazy indeed. And so very sad. He is a smart guy, but isn't willing to work with it. No, no Rev, you've got it all wrong. Your side is brilliant, honest, forthright, righteous, of the highest ethics and above reproach. The other side is evil, stupid and/or ignorant, dishonest, sleazy and always up to something no good. This discussion is not really off topic. This is an attempt to examine a decisionmaking process that is central to any discussion of how we use technology. It is key to thinking about DMCA, net neutrality, defective software security, false market statistics, etc. If we can't honestly examine the data, we can't honestly come to valid conclusions, and we can't effectively plot a future course. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] A GOOD Dreamweaver book?!?
I agree with Tom for a quick review of a lost skill. The Dreamweaver bible is by Joseph Lowrey and is Dreamweaver Bible. Joseph's site for these books is: Yes, I have Dreamweaver Bible on the book shelf closest to my computer. Also the Visual Quickstart Guide. But, first I Google. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] I Blame You All
The owner of Fox News today announced that they want to buy the Wall Street Journal. We should not have mentioned WSJ as a trusted source. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Cleaning the Dust out of a PC
Every time I vacuum my carpet the plastic hose becomes charged with static electricity. Cat and dog hair cling to it and sometimes small scraps of paper. Now it could be the friction of the cleaning wand on the carpet fiber, Precisely what is happening. This is the classical method of creating static electricity. but anyone who doubts that plain old air movement can lead to static electricity buildup must have never seen a thunderstorm. Where do you think the lightning comes from, Thor's hammer? The theories all involve stuff that happens with ice or water molecules, not air molecules. It's so easy to avoid the possibility of damaging expensive electronics by blowing the dust out instead of sucking it, why take the risk? Because blowing makes an unnecessary mess. Are you going to disconnect all the fans in your computer? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Cleaning the Dust out of a PC
There is no significant difference between blowing air and sucking air. However, people are used to vacuuming by *touching* the thing being vacuumed with the hose. People generally don't touch the hose blowing air to anything. It is undoubtedly touching or getting very close that would allow any static build-up to arc. Very good. Makes sense. But if both the vacuum cleaner and the computer are grounded I expect that static discharge will not happen. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Cleaning the Dust out of a PC
I pulled out a CD drive cleaning disc and ran it on my burner. Sure enough, some of that chased dust had managed to work its way inside to coat the lens on the burner. Caveat! So it is better to suck than to blow and better to be wet than to be dry and necessary keep everything grounded and above all: stay out of helicopters! All mysteries are revealed on the ComputerGuys-L. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Comparing Mac and PC laptops
Best to see what the professors are using. Ask what software they find the most valuable and make sure she can run that. My son, with a BFA and MFA in theater and a number of stage productions to his credit, is a Mac user and is convinced that all the best software for the stage runs on Macs. I also know someone with a daughter majoring in stage management (I think at UVA) and her school told her to buy a Mac. Cost wise, an Apple laptop and a good PC laptop will cost about the same. The iBook will be more durable because Apple designed it for the K-12 school market. The polycarbonate case is impact resistant. Laptops tend to break more quickly than desktops because of the way they are used. So get a service contract for the useful life of the computer (3 or 4 years, including the standard warrenty period). Having a contract will also get you better service at the Apple Store so check if there is one near school. This service can make a big difference in getting the most out of a computer. Daughter in college, studying stage management, decides she wants a laptop. Neither she nor dad owns one, and neither have owned a Mac. Both own desktop PCs with lots of software. Dad sends daughter his minimum recommended specifications for PC laptop, using Dell as an example. Daughter's friends tell her that Dell and Toshiba laptops are crap, the only thing to have is a Mac because it will do multi-tasking, runs so much faster than a PC, and it is so much more reliable than PC. Based on these comments, she thinks that she should get a Mac. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Landscape Object in Word
I followed the instructions in Word: select pages - format - document - page setup - landscape icon - OK - apply to selected text. Are you sure you did the last step, this is critical. To repeat: 1) In the Settings pop-up menu select Microsoft Word 2) In the Apply... to pop-up menu select Selected text 3) Then OK The section breaks, etc. will be inserted automatically. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Mapping a folder
I inherited a folder on one of our network drives that was created maintained by 2 ex-co-workers. There are 1,750 files 160 folders. I found stuff all over the place, with not much rhyme or reason. I've tried using PrintFolder to print the contents of the folders, but it won't show the content of subfolders. Any suggestions? tia. I use SpaceMonger to get a quick overview of such messes. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Switch from dial-up to broadband
The place where I work, a small shop, is moving to broadband from dial-up. As this new broadband hookup will use the ethernet port previously used to network two computers for point-of-sale purposes... Most broadband routers include a 4 port hub/switch. Will that suffice? The two POS computers already are hardwired by a CAT5 cable for their networking, and the third computer has never been networked. With the appropriate hardware, would there be any advantage, other than having to lay some cable to that third computer, to going wireless Anyone wanting to intercept your financial transactions would consider your going wireless a big advantage. They's send you a thank you card from the Grand Caymans. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Comparing Mac and PC laptops
SSD is going to be expensive for a while. HHD is more interesting in the short term. With memory prices dropping the hard drive cache is increased to as much as 1 GB. This shouldn't add much to cost. Of course the data loss will be much worse when computers crash. First, you may want to wait to get that new laptop until later this year or early in 2008. There are a number of interesting new hardware features coming. One is called a solid-state drive, or SSD, which replaces the traditional hard disk with a faster drive made of memory chips like those used in digital cameras. Another is a hybrid hard drive, or HHD, which combines memory chips with a standard hard disk, for faster start-ups. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] USB Flash drive
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/267 Looking at Figure 3, I would think that the PCB could just be shoved into a USB socket. Look at the photo of the iStick at http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/intelligent_stick_usb_drive_review * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] How to Install Free Anti-Virus Offline
You're worrying too much. Just go download AVG or such and quit being so paranoid. As a Windows user you are going to have to adjust your anxiety levels. Just as if you had moved into a bad neighborhood, it would be impractical to lock yourself in and never venture out. Risk is the price of admission into the world of Windows. You need to learn the first names of the drug dealers and ladies of the night on the street corner and try to develop a friendly relationship. (I'm not going to ask why you did such a bone-headed thing in the first place.) First question is if you really need anti-virus software. If you do your web browsing with OS X and use the Mac version of Office you will eliminate most of the risk right there. The need to run Windows should be for a very narrow purpose, e.g. some custom-written software. You need to consider if this software offers any real virus exposure. If you use it in a confined way you may have no real problem. The biggest thing you need to worry about is not viruses, but invasions. Bad guys can reach through the Internet to take over a Windows computer. To protect against this you need to run the firewall that comes with Windows and you need a hardware firewall between your computer and the outside. Your Internet router may already be doing this (via NAT). * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] How to Install Free Anti-Virus Offline
First of all I bought Vista for my MacBook because there is a specific bookkeeping program for my business that is only made for Windows that I'd like to use, because Netflix has a new on-line movie viewing option only available for Windows and because I anticipate similar situations occurring occasionally in the future. If you just stick to using the bookkeeping program you have very little exposure. You will probably find the Netflix on-line movie viewing option to be so pathetic that it will not be an exposure for long. So the threat vanishes. I don't have a router -- or rather I don't have a hardware router. My iMac's internal AirPort card functions as a software router, using Apple's Internet Sharing and Web Sharing. In other words I can get on line with my laptop by wirelessly sharing the Internet connection from my desktop, which is wired to the modem, sans extra hardware. Am I correct in assuming Apple's internal firewall won't function when the machine is running Windows? The laptop won't have Apple's firewall because you are not running OS X on it. The desktop will have Apple's firewall, but I don't think that firewall applies to a shared connection. If your desktop is providing NAT, then that if giving you basic firewall protection. This would suffice in most cases. Nevertheless, I would spend the $35 on a router or for a few dollars more get a WiFi router and simplify your network topology. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] What should one charge?
The thing that threw me about my client, though, was that she really didn't realize that there was an on switch. The computer was just always turned on. Fantastic confirmation of just how well the Macs do run. In contrast it would be a rare Windows user who did not know about BSOD, the three finger salute, anti-virus, anti-spyware, and patch Tuesday. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Scanner stats
Depends on the scanner. A $49 scanner is not durable. A $ scanner will probably last until it is technically obsolete. If you spend $ to buy 200 $49 scanners and discard one every month, they will outlast the one $ scanner. Has anyone done a study on the average life of a scanner? I know I tried finding similar stats on digital cameras awhile ago, but not much luck. I need to tell my supervisors when we can expect to get another scanner to replace the one that's out for repairs. I'm guessing maybe 5-7 years. This scanner is used every day in a normal 40-hour week, doing anywhere from 10-50 scans per day. At least 1/3 of the scans are hi-res (8x10 @ 600dpi, 30x40 @ 300dpi, etc.), if that makes a difference. tia. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Neighbor Runs A Crackhouse [Was: How to Install Fre
I could manage without Windows, but why not have it there, just in case? I used to do that, especially with books, but now books are obsolete and I'm gradually tossing them. When I toss an obsolete tech book that I never read that is a waste. Unlike books which are mostly not dangerous to have around (unless Homeland Security takes an interest in your reading habits), having Windows around can be potentially harmful. Would you keep a loaded shotgun at your front door, just in case? Some people would. The argument for not having Windows and not having that loaded gun is about the same. It could potentially hurt others. Both the gun and Windows owner will insist: I know what I'm doing. Yet the plague of shootings and the plague of malware would not exist if they were not around. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] LCD TV's and how to feed them
I beleive that Apple TV is similar to TIVO which is a type of DVR. No, Apple TV is much less than it could or should be. It just plays files you have on disk. It has no recording functions. For that you will have to go elsewhere. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Neighbor Runs A Crackhouse [Was: How to Install Fre
It doesn't matter why he wants Windows on the Mac (he did tell us later on). It never occured to me to ask WHY he wanted to do it, I simply assumed that he had a need that the Mac was not able to meet on its own. The strident reactions remind me of a time when I was frequently telling people on a bus, airplane, waiting room, etc.: This is not a smoking area. Many were indignant that I was violating their rights. I am happy that times have changed. The point is that by using Windows you are harming me and I wish you would stop. The malware, spam, and security measures are becoming too much to bear. I should not be forced to build walls and hire guards just because you insist on running a crackhouse. Stop running defective software! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Power Buttons
On many computers nowadays, push the button for less than 3-8 seconds (it varies by manufacturer) and it does one thing. Hold it in for longer and it will power off the computer. That longer press is to force the computer off. This puts open files and cached data at risk. Better to turn it off via software. That starts an orderly shutdown process. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Upgrading Laptop Hard Drive
Thank you all for the suggestions. As more background, no, I do not store, edit, or view videos on my laptop and I am in fact mystified as to how it filled up. Could be a big temp, scratch, or cache file. I have seen these grow to many useless GB. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] three-finger command et al.
Yes you can set up Windows to bypass security, but is this a good idea? What three-finger command are you talking about? My XP Pro desktop at home is locked but running 24/7. I merely click on my USERID icon and enter the password. My work machine uses a CAC. Once again no three-finger command. To power up any of these machines, including my MBP, I depress the power button and enter my credentials at the login screens. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Neighbor Runs A Crackhouse [Was: How to Install Fre
I admit it...you are right. Macworld lied...computerworld...dozens of news organizations lied. MS paid big for this one. I take it all back. Nice review of the press reporting on the CanSecWest Mac crack at Roughly Drafted http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/616874CC-35CE-49D3-B859-C2 719B6FF352.html Beyond the glaring error of conflating a remote exploit with something that requires a concerted effort between a user acting locally on the machine and an outside party, Gohring's article perpetuated a number of myths about Mac security. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] FW: Macintosh Question
Try this: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/ Read this... http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/apple/index.html * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Mac compatible printers -- recommendations?
A nice laser printer with an Ethernet port. I use a Dell 3100cn. I currently use an Epson Stylus. Ink builds up and deposits excess on edges of paper. Cleaning heads doesn't resolve it. Can't clean rollers. Replacing cartridges doesn't minimize/prevent. This is my second Epson and the first had the same problem. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Q: adding a latest news to a town web site
I know you know about Contribute, why are you looking for a different solution? There are, of course, many other ways to do it, but they would not be easier or cheaper than Contribute and would afford a less general solution. My town is looking to add a simple box that can be updated daily with latest happenings that affect town life. Here is what one of our council members asked: If any of you do this, know of software or code that does this, or have ideas on this, please pass them on. We are working with town staff with limited time and no coding knowledge. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] OS 9 Emulator on Intel? [Was Macintosh Question]
MY question is: When some year I purchase a MacIntel computer, will there be an emulator for it that will run Mac OS 9? Yes there is one. I have not tried it and can't remember its name. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] OS 9 Emulator on Intel? [Was Macintosh Question]
MY question is: When some year I purchase a MacIntel computer, will there be an emulator for it that will run Mac OS 9? Yes there is one. I have not tried it and can't remember its name. I REMEMBER! It is called SheepShaver (I don't know why). * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Microsoft Wants to 'Kill' Open Source
Once again demonstrating that MS is not in the innovation business Businessweek (and others) report today... Microsoft contends that the Linux operating system and other open-source software programs violate 235 of its patents. The company plans to use that intellectual property to collect royalties from companies that make, distribute, and use Linux. Microsoft's plans were disclosed in a May 14 article in Fortune. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2007/tc20070515_706287.ht m Unfortunately, even if all its claims are without merit, who would have the money to defend against the bottomless resources of MS? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Help! Debugging svchost.exe
svchost.exe is using 98-99 percent of CPU, making my PC very unpleasant to use. I have read that svchost manages DLLs so this is probably something to do with something recently added to my PC that is sucking up the cycles. I suspected it was Suitcase so I uninstalled Suitcase and ran a registry cleaner. Alas, no joy. Does anyone know of a way to get a handle on what svchost.exe is running? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Why Security Pros Use Macs
Who is this guy? The Lone Rainger? Super Man? Spider Man? Definitely a smart guy. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] recommendations for Mac compatible printer
Thanks! A few others have also recommended HP. Have you had yours long? I ask, because the Epson works fine at first, but as it rounds the corner of its first year, the problems begin. HP made good printers, long, long ago, once upon a time, but are no longer anything special. The last HP I bought had lots of paper jams. I threw it out long before my HP 4MP wore out. Now those were printers! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Debugging svchost.exe
It's Automatic Updates. For some reason, I'm seeing this a lot on our laptops this month, but I don't know why. I've turned off AU, and it's notification that you may be at risk!, off. So, that's not a bug that's a feature! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Debugging svchost.exe
The Patch Watch section of the latest Windows Secrets newsletter had this to say about the svchost.exe bug: Thanks. If it acts up again I will know what to do. The problem went away as mysteriously as it arrived. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Debugging svchost.exe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6657677.stm The bypass most commonly occurs after a successful social engineering attempt lures the user into inadvertently running [Jowspry], which then utilizes BITS to download additional malware. Looks like another one of those non-viruses that you have to install yourself. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] *dishwasher-safe* keyboard
Isn't this Computer Guys IP? Should we sue? I read a couple of days ago where some company is now selling a *dishwasher-safe* keyboard! You know all that gunk and grit that falls down in between the keys? On this new keyboard there is a silicone membrane in between the keys and the innards of the thing and you just stick the whole keyboard upside down in the dishwasher whenever you want to clean it out. Cool! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] DVD-RW
I don't know the answer to your question -- it seems today that only a few DVD-RWs are needed. I've almost quit using them. I'm seeing DVD-RWs priced just over $1. So why not buy a 5 pack and immediately toss the three you don't need into the trash? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Battery Question.
If you leave the battery charger/power unit on and always plugged into the notebook PC, even when the notebook is off, will that harm the battery, or notebook for that matter? Depends on the type of battery and type of charger. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] quickest way to learn CSS
I have always coded my webpages using a text editor, but now find I just can't keep up with everything, especially CSS. I will probably purchase Contribute which I think should be adequate for my needs - Contribute does CSS doesn't it? but I would also like to understand CSS better. Contribute does not do CSS in the way you mean. Contribute will let you apply an existing CSS to text, but it has no support for creating or editing a CSS. CSS syntax is so easy that I just use a text editor. I have programs, like Dreamweaver, that have a CSS editing function, but I find it to be more trouble than it is worth. When I need to be reminded of details I use the 4-page crib sheet at www.metalaxis.com/references/css.html * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] quickest way to learn CSS
Safari can't open the page http://www.metalaxis.com/references/css.html; because it can't find the server www.metalaxis.com. Sorry, bad typing... http://www.mentalaxis.com/reference/css.html This time I checked the link. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] how to get sound from tape into the computer
It sounds to me (no pun intended) that the line in on the card is somehow disabled, probably in software. Getting the sound working on a PC can be a long frustrating task. One thing is connected to another thing and then to another and any one thing set wrong in the chain can stop the sound. I would uncheck anything and everything that said mute and turn all the volume controls to high. (Take notes so you can put things back.) You may find that some control that looks like it has nothing to do with what you are doing is causing the stoppage. In the world of Windows you must also consider that parts of your computer may have been disabled by various members of the RIAA who believe the DMCA gives them the right to invide your computer with DRM enhancements. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Macintosh help needed
It will probably be legacy equipment that I will need. Unless I know model numbers it is impossible to research legacy equipment on manufacturers sites. I have found the DLink DWL-122 (a USB dongle) to have good drivers for OS 9, OS X, and XP. I bought bunches of them for $10. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Macintosh help needed
Saw a whole bunch of imported noname crap on Ebay that said Mac compatible but they all said X for OS. I have had good luck with noname crap. Just plugs and plays with OS 9.1. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Getting Answers [Was: Macintosh Question]
I find it very hard to find tech articles at apple.com, but when using Sherlock, it is VERY easy to find exactly what you need quickly. Strangely, I don't find that anybody's in-house search does as good a job as Google. But Google is not as effective as it used to be because so many hits now land on someone trying to sell you something. For a specific site the site:www.domain.com tag does a good job of filtering out extraneous matter. Does anybody here have their own effective methods? I wonder if Google's new Universal Search will make it harder to get the information we seek? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Macintosh Question
However, I could not find Power Macintosh 7800/180. Are sure it is not a Power Macintosh 7300/180? Here is the link to all older systems Correct. There is no such thing as a 7800/180. If the computer you are asking about is a desktop model it could be a 7200, 7300, 7500, or 7600. The 180 speed narrows it down to 7300. Use Apple Sysyem Profiler to confirm this. It should be in your Utilities folder. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Q: how do they do this - a directory web site
It's probably a simple answer, so can one of you more tech-savvy fill me in on how a site gets to look like this: It looks like a simple directory, but is some script (or other magic) involved? Can't figure out what you are asking. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop
Google Desktop has been a problem. Soon after installation, Google Desktop use up to 99% of my CPU for searching the same file for a day or more: a graphics file. Can you restrict what Google Desktop indexes to a particular set of files or set of directories? I know I can with Apple Spotlight. Maybe Google does this too? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Comparing Mac and PC laptops
I copied each response and emailed them to her as well as the recent Consumer Reports article. Consumer Reports writers love to bad mouth the Mac. You have to dig into their charts to see that it is consistently top rated in virtually every category. The stats say one thing, the editorial copy says another. An untrustworthy source. Finally yesterday she made her decision: to get a MacBook Pro, and she says she loves it. She told me that the Mac seemed to be for people who didn't know anything about computers such as herself. (I have no opinion since I've never owned any laptop.) Also for people who know a lot about computers and know that computers don't have to be born defective. At this point, I don't know whether she got an extended warranty, how much SDRAM she got, nor what software came with the laptop. She bought it at a Mac store in Boston, MA. In case she bought 1 GB of memory, how beneficial would increasing to 2 GB be? The MacBook comes with a reasonable amount of RAM. Apple is not cutting corners. You should not have to add anything to a current model MacBook Pro. She says that she intends to use the laptop for everything pertaining to her study (stage management with a minor in television journalism), and to use her desktop PC for her hobbies, which include video editing but not gaming. The PC was built locally to my specifications. The MacBook comes with iMovie which is a great way to get started with video editing. As her needs grow she can buy FinalCut Express or maybe the professional (expensive) FinalCut lineup. Using a PC for video editing is a bad move. iMovie is surprising powerful. GarageBand is a great audio editor. iDVD is impressive too. All the iLife stuff comes with the Mac. Also, does the MacBook Pro come with an emulation program for Windows? If not, what is recommended (we have CDs with Windows ME, XP Home, 2000, and XP Pro available to install if needed). Stay away from this. Windows emulation is for hackers and those into pain. And you say she already has a PC so why bother? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop
Can I take the old Find app from 10.3 and make it work in 10.4? It could find anything better, faster than Spotlight, et al. With Find you have to turn on the extra features instead of turning them off. Worse, yet, I can't search for anything inside the system folder without first using Safari to reveal the invisible folders. Have you tried EasyFind? www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] the Myth of TiVo [was Re: DVD-RW]
The surest sign of downward regress is a civilization that's too damn lazy to look things up and keep track of them. Mourning the passage of the buggy whip? I can't think of a better task for a computer than to keep a list of all my wishes and to make sure they are carried out. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop
Have you tried EasyFind? www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware Don't like it. Slow. Not enough choices. None of them could find the chocolate chip cookie recipe in the system. Of course. This is not a good tool for searching file contents as it does not index files beforehand. It is great for the purpose we were discussing: finding file names. Like you should not use a screwdriver to drive in nails. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] the Myth of TiVo [was Re: DVD-RW]
Tired of looking at so many grossly obese Americans. Turning TV Guide pages doesn't burn up many calories. Don't you have a treadmill set up in front of your TV? You could even power the TV with it and be totally green. www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-06-07-office-fit_x.htm * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Google desktop
None of the search tools could find exactly what I wanted quickly without having to muddle through a big list of irrelevant results. None of the tools could search the system without first using Safari [Location = file:///usr... etc.] to open some of the invisible folders and add to the sidebar, or using OnyX. Why would you be searching in invisible folders. The invisible folders are well structured so if you know what you are doing you should know exactly where the file you need resides. If you don't know that, then you probably don't know enough to be mucking with those files. I don't get what Safari (a web browser) has to do with any of this. Yes, EasyFind finds file names, but it's much slower than the others. It's so slow that it's like browsing on dialup. Not always. If a file is indexed then programs with pre-built indices will of course be faster. If you have no index or an indexing problem then EasyFind is much faster. Many who dislike the user interface of Spotlight or Google, do like EasyFind. It all depends... * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Now...what do I do?
straightened paper clip too to no avail... Try turning the power off and using a stiff (jumbo) paper clip. Pushing in the paper clip should move the drive tray out about 1/8 to 1/4 inch. Then you can pull it out the rest of the way manually. Go slow and watch carefully. You may have to manipulate the defective disc as you move the tray out. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Apple hides account info in DRM-free music
shouldn't the idea that your account name and email address are contained in the files make you uneasy, to say the least? Only if you are planning to do something unethical with the files. Did you get upset at your Mom when she put a name label on your coat? Books sold as PDFs are often similarly watermarked. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] PDF files in a Macintosh environment
I will not install the Adobe Acrobat reader on my OS X Mac because of issues with bloat and unnecessary ancillary files. If you are running OS X you have already lost the war against bloat. Adding a useful, though bloated, application is not going to make any significant difference. I have not seen any cases where adding Acrobat Reader has caused a problem. With hard drives selling for 25 to 50 cents per GB I don't know that there is every going to be much incentive for leaner software. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation
Tom, I couldn't let this pass without comment: Please demonstrate. Buy some software, retail package or download, your choice. Start the installation. Decline the EULA. Return the product and try to get your money back. Let us know how that goes. This is a hot topic in the Linux community. Here is a recent article (Jan 2007) http://community.linux.com/community/07/01/03/227237.shtml?tid=12 Most of what is written on the topic is about getting a refund on the Windows part of a computer purchase when you can't decline getting Windows on the hard drive. This situation is a bit more difficult as some vendors insist you return the computer too and get a full refund. Getting a refund on the retail version of Windows should be easier, hence nobody is writing about it. In years past my office manager got a refund direct from Microsoft on an Office upgrade. We had already installed it. She hated it becasue it was so much slower than what she had been using. I told her it was futile to even try. She proudly told me it was easy. MS sent us a check. As I recall we didn't even have to return the software. They accepted her promise to discard it. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] PDF files in a Macintosh environment
Sometimes you have to open the file from withing the program instead of clicking on it to open. I've seen the problem a few times. The worst offender is when I receive a PDF in an email and it displays as an attached text file. I have to wait for the entire thing to load, then detach it to view in Preview. That is nor a problem with the PDF or Acrobat. That is a problem with your mail reader not interfacing correctly with display software. This is usually programmed as a plug-in. You may be missing a plug-in or have a out of date plug-in, or your mail reader may not handle plug-ins correctly. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] PDF files in a Macintosh environment
I suspect that the header on the text PDF is nonstandard, rather than having a defective mail program, otherwise all PDFs would behave the same. Next time I have PDF that displays as text, I'll save it and see if I can compare the header with one that behaves better. Yes, incorrect MIME can be a big problem. Then the problem is with the sender's email program or computer. There is plenty of blame to spread around. If it is a MIME problem your only recourse is to save the file to disk and open it from there with a reader program. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation
If we want to do something about unfair practices in the computer industry, we have to do something about the monopolistic corporations. It matters how you vote, and what kind of leadership we have in Washington. Yes. People who don't vote because it doesn't matter. People who vote for wingnuts because their mullah tells them how to vote. Legislators who abdicate their oversight responsibilities to an out of control executive. Media that don't do investigative reporting and only parrot press releases (like WMD). Media management that won't stand behind their investigative reporters (what happened to Dan Rather?). People who go along to get along. People who undervalue themselves. Yes, that is all banal evil. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] PDF files in a Macintosh environment
I requested a Preview-compatible version because Preview can save fill-in forms with contents, as opposed to Adobe Reader that prints but doesn't save the forms, and doesn't print to Preview either. Actually Acrobat Reader can do more. The creator of the form can set the PDF to email the responses back (just the responses, not the whole form). On return Acrobat will merge the responses back into the form. Easy. Very slick. Lots of variations to interface with databases etc. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation
FYI, the IEEE requires me to assign anything that I publish in their journals (for me, a lot) to them or I don't get published in their journals. And it makes sense that IEEE does. IEEE's goal is to distribute what you write via a variety of means (using known and as yet unknown technologies) and I presume your motivation for writing is to have your work as widely distributed as possible. At the time they came up with this policy there was considerable discussion of what was the appropriate thing to do. IEEE typically loses money on its publications. IEEE's publishing goal is the dissemination of knowledge, not making a profit. Most of their publications have no advertising. With other publishers it is not so clear. For example there was a long writer's strike when the Washington Post tried something similar and the writers were justified in their objection. The Post wanted additional rights and did not want to pay an additional fee. (I don't recall how that dispute concluded.) * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat and Silverlight (was PDF files in a Macinto
Bundling... So? What is wrong with that? That *is* competition and it still goes on today in other markets. Short-sited thinking, but consistent with Jeff's MO. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] The Consequences of EULA Violation
That is the reason to ONLY run windows software in Parallels. You make a clean install once set it up the way you want. Save that file as master. Copy the file master file. Now run the copy until it gets wonky and toss it. Copy the master file again and start over. No prolonged reinstall. You are not thinking about the new environment. What you describe would work in the old-style mode of operation where the software was autonomous. But Windows is no longer autonomous. It frequently phones home for permission to keep running. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat and Silverlight (was PDF files in a Macinto
I don't expect Silverlight to work any better than most of its other lackluster products, but I do expect to see them put extraordinary pressure on Adobe to replace good PDFs and animation with the usual M$ shoddy afterthought products. MS did get Adobe to give up its crown jewels, PostScript type, and adopt the problematical MS-developed Open Type format. The color space default for Photoshop, sRGB, is also all wrong, but Adobe went along because MS insisted they had to in order to get a Works with Windows sticker on their box. Etc, etc. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] wireless connection problems
There are too many settings in too many places. Isn't that MS's motto? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
