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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Saw the show. Perhaps more a demonstration of product placement by Apple
with Horizon and Nova.
John, you are being silly (or desperate).
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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!
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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/
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In the past DC would not take you junk unless your car had DC plates.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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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
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
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 --
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.
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.
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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
Try this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/
Read this...
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/apple/index.html
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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
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
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.
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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).
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
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
Who is this guy?
The Lone Rainger?
Super Man?
Spider Man?
Definitely a smart guy.
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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
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!
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.
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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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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.
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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.
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
There are too many settings in too many places.
Isn't that MS's motto?
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