Huh? Which battery? His CMOS battery? He said 'surge protector', not
UPS, but most UPS's have a switch on the front, and turning them off
won't affect their batteries either.
I admit I'm too lazy to chase after my UPS, I just use the front panel
computer switch, knowing the unit sucks power even w
Failing to trim quotes and failing to change the subject line have
peeved me for years. If there's a page of quotes, I don't usually
bother to search around for content hidden at the bottom somewhere. If
you want people to see what you have to say, trim the quotes. Or at
the very least, top-post.
The concept of "fixed" and "removable" has never been completely
clear. I mean, we've been using removable EIDE drives for years. But
they're getting harder to find, thus my experiments with esata. I
think the word you're looking for is "hotswap".
It's clearly not just an OS issue, but also a chip
ROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hotswap worked..to a point. It sees the drive now, but is giving me the
> typical cannot be stopped because a program is accessing it. The only thing
> I did is connect the drive and move 50 gigs to it as a test. That was
> almost two hours ago.
>
&g
I dunno about Vista 64, but in WinXP I have to use the freeware
HotSwap!. Better than the default icon anyway, as it shows more drive
information; I'd recommend it for everyone.
http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
I guess you meant to say "smaller". I've seen people do this, usually
those with poorer eyesight, but with LCD technology it just isn't
true. By setting an LCD to a lower resolution, the text looks larger
to them, so they mistakenly think the picture is clearer. But it
isn't.
First, know that elec
I'll guess it's an intrusive firewall issue. More than that is
probably beyond the scope of a mailing list, unless she wants to drop
by and mess with it herself.
It's probably a bad idea to have clients logging in via FTP anyway, so
instead I'd be trying to figure out why she can't work via http.
Files also disappear due to hard disk errors. No big deal, she can
just recover it from backup. But she should run chkdsk manually and if
she sees a lot of errors I'd consider replacing that drive.
Windows Desktop search in Vista is probably equivalent to Google
Desktop Search, depending on what i
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bugmenot doesn't store your personal
logins now, does it? I use it to log in to the odd site that still
demands logins just to read a blurb, but those have mostly disappeared
in the last couple years.
Maybe it's just that sites now offer enough incentive to log in, or
I just tried it with FF 3.0.1 and it works fine. Normally I would just
use Roboform, but this time I went in and copied and pasted from
Roboform to Amazon.
Maybe you have some sort of clipboard app that's changing the text?
Does it look normal if you paste it into notepad?
Oh, and someone's gotta
Working real snappy here. Try clearing your browser cache.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anybody else had trouble loading Google maps lately? I've had
> intermittant slow or no loads for a few days now and today it's almost
> stopped. Or maybe everyone i
You know you're just feeding the trolls, don't you? A simple notice to
newbies that there is a very small group of rabid Mac fans on here that
often post just to rile people up would suffice.
I suppose it's a good thing this list doesn't have rules against trolls.
Where else would we get some of o
Only a few scenes were 'shot' (rendered?) in Imax. Reviews indicate on an
Imax screen most of the film is smaller with those scenes being physically
much larger. Cityscapes and such.
We're going to Orlando FL 8/11-8/14. I wonder if they'll still be showing it
then on Imax? Being on vacation I coul
>Firefox 2.0.0.16 Upgrade
Any particular reason you aren't using FF3.0.1 by now? Virtually no
trouble reports, and add-ons (that aren't included) all work fine.
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It certainly doesn't mean we can conclude *all* Mac addicts are raving
lunatics. They may just be easier for wackos to operate.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK so what does that say when Rush Limbuagh is a Mac Addict :-)
Unless you need a film scanner, I sure couldn't recommend you spend
$655 to scan paper. Especially not without an autofeeder. I know
nothing about film scanners, so if that's your question I can't help.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:27 PM, David Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Popular Photography h
I had nothing but trouble with iTunes the last time I tried it. But it
uninstalled nicely.
No question you should be using Firefox 3 instead of IE6, but your
question seems odd - iTunes or Firefox??? Firefox is a web browser;
iTunes is well, something else. I'd love to know what 'information'
requ
1gig of RAM isn't likely enough and is the primary cause of your
delays. Double it or remove some of your startup stuff.
You can probably speed things up tremendously by reinstalling the OS;
certainly as much as a new computer, anyway. There have been no big
improvements in SATA lately, so that's
Nothing stopping you from scanning the paper sheets.
I too would vote for a pad and pencil LONG before I would pass around
an electronic device. Heck, under your scenario, an unscrupulous or
ham-fisted person could delete previous entries!
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:41 AM, John Emmerling <[EMAIL
My god talk about topic drift. This has to be one of the worst things
about a mailing list - there's no way to actually *close* a thread
when it veers way off course.
Everyone's had their say about the missing laptop study. And 94-98% of
the world still buys Windows computers and probably will for
I dunno, the list reminds me of those shortwave radio stations that
broadcast nothing but long lists of numbers.
I don't think searches are confidential. I've seen pages in the past
where you can see what people are searching for, sometimes live. Heck,
search 'clouds' are quite popular these days.
Probably. Apple doesn't have a factory in Fantasyland where parts and
labor cost less. This really hasn't been news for a while now, as
there was only a short time at the end of the Motorola era that Macs
were more expensive.
But clearly that hasn't got anything to do with what people prefer.
On
That may be easier to do with a solution like Logmein. But she should
still have all those files backed up daily.
https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en
http://www.netopia.com/software/products/tb2/
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not looki
It's probably file corruption in IE6. The good news: You shouldn't be
using IE6 anyway. Upgrade to IE7. Or better yet, Firefox or Opera.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Rosenberg, Alan [USA]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am periodically having IE6/SP2 crash, with a display of the following
> mes
I think the study is flawed. If not, why hasn't any of us heard of
this auction of thousands of unclaimed laptops? What are the odds that
none of them has sensitive information and wouldn't have made the
news?
And yes, most definitely, if someone were to 'forget' a laptop at an
airport I would exp
Even including thefts, this just doesn't sound plausible. Can anyone
find the *actual study*? Following a bunch of links they all just seem
to link to each other.
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Study says more than 10,000 laptops go missing at US airport
Jul 7, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Michael S. Altus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote:
> Windows XP computer; Verizon DSL
> Sometimes I get a popup warning from the sys tray (lower right-hand side).
> What does this mean? Is a warn out ether cable a possible source?
>
> Tony B replied:
&
What did Fuji tech support say when you called?
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Richard P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> simpler process which I would like to go back to. I haven't been able to
> find any way of changing the default within the Fuji program.
**
Ya, you completely forgot to tell us what the notification is.
Presumably it's just telling you a network connection is unavailable,
which can be normal as long as it isn't the one you're using for the
internet. You should be able to right click it and go to Properties
and uncheck the box "Notify m
I've always liked Sony's Vegas. They have a slimmed down version
(~$90) which is probably all you'll need. It runs great on any old
computer, makes full use of multi cores, has a very shallow learning
curve, and works fine with Vista.
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204775878&listingid=19
Actually, in their FAQ at
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/info.aspx?page=FAQ#_Ref28770280 it also
states:
> Most stations will continue to provide analog programming through
> February 17, 2009. At that point, full-power TV stations will cease
> broadcasting on their current analog channels, and the s
Probably. But even _thinking_ about the DMCA (or ways to get around
it) are forbidden on this list.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Tourbus Rider Stuart Carlow
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I go to some websites and click on a link, it brings up a form of Adobe
> Flash Player and plays music.
Actually, I think it's the FCC that's responsible for disseminating
accurate information about this, and in this regard they are woefully
lacking. We're watching mandated commercials and crawls now several
times per hour about the changeover, but none of them actually present
much information. Inst
I missed the link where some politician tries to defend this as a good
idea. Can someone paste it here?
If my neighbor hands me a book to read and something illegal falls
from it, why do I need a PI license? For what? To dash over to his
house and arrest him?
t 12:43 PM, Janaki Kuruppu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, does someone have a scientific explanation for _why_ freezing works??
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Tony B
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02,
Yes, this trick can work, but there's an elephant in the room. i.e.,
Why didn't the person have all the important data on the drive backed
up so they didn't *have* to go to the ridiculous extreme of freezing
the drive?
Actually, there's probably a second elephant too. When a drive won't
spin up, y
We're using both of them now. Just got another bill today from S3 for
last month - 66 cents.
Google Docs uses your regular google password. 'Forgetting' an
important password isn't an option, but I have no idea how easy it is
to get it back if someone hacks your account.
JD uses a regular passwor
What a laugh. How quickly they forget!
Bill Gates DID bail out/buy Apple in the 90's. Correct me if I'm wrong, but
doesn't he still own like 49% of the stock - more than anyone else?
Like vultures picking at a dead horse, I guess you intend to rant about Bill
Gates forever? It's almost worse than
Let's not lose focus. The point of this thread was to point out that
digital TV broadcasters are having a lot of trouble trying to fit
everything they want to fit into a single limited DTV (digital tv)
channel. Some are reportedly already recompressing, but they use
little boxes that cost as much a
Actually, you're thinking about the old analog days. Broadcast TV will
be compressing quite a bit in the digital era.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:13 PM, John Duncan Yoyo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you get a clear signal from a roof top antenna it certainly is the
> way to go. No compression ar
I haven't been paying attention, but I think it's a bit of a leap to
say that FIOS is inferior to cable (if anyone has?). Cable seems
capable of faster speeds, but will they offer those better speeds at
better prices is the question.
>> the entire effort of the advertising industry is to convince
AVG misleads it's free users every year or so into believing their
free product is being discontinued. It hasn't been yet, but it gets
harder and harder to _find_ the free one.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Frank Sestir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where did you get this information?
> Randa
>From the "It's about time!" department:
Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links:
http://lifehacker.com/392287/set-firefox-3-to-launch-gmail-for-mailto-links
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Some people have easy access to the case, many don't. I leave my own
case half open year round. But eSata basically costs nothing, and
improves the sturdiness of the system with a rear mounted bracket.
Hot swap of eSata is a whole 'nother issue. Mine usually works,
despite having my SATA running i
Yes, most of the *data* you backup from WinXP will transfer to Vista.
At least, I can't think of any that won't.
If you're actually asking if *programs* will transfer, then no, most
won't - they'll need to be installed in Vista.
If you're just backing up personal data, you want Jungle Disk. If yo
That will work but it's too much trouble. Get eSata (external sata).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392022
It comes with a bracket for the back of the computer.
Oh, and don't waste time doing 'backups' drive to drive (upload
those). You want to image.
http://www.newegg.co
od enough.
>
> Also, when a URL appears in a Eudora e-mail message, I can left-click on it
> and it opens in the default browser. If I right-click on it, "SendTo" is not
> one of the options on this right-click menu.
>
> Just looking for a good solution to an "annoy
Couldn't you just drop a shortcut to each browser in your "Sendto"
folder? (C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\SendTo)
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does XP or Vista provide for right-clicking on a URL and selecting the
> browser with which to open the
I build my own external drive solutions. But just a note, especially
applicable if you've got terabyte sizes to worry about: eSata (and
1394b) are MUCH faster than USB2 or 1394a. As things stand today, I'm
implementing eSata for all newer drives, and you should too.
Of course, if portability betwe
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=usb+floppy
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=PCMCIA+USB
I doubt you can fit just any old floppy drive into a laptop.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Michael Drabick <[EMAIL P
I think you've misdiagnosed Tom's problem entirely. Hint: It has
nothing at all to do with computers or virtual machines.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM, David K Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While this suggestion was offered in jest (and got stomped
> on by some humorless Windows types),
I'd like to know what software it is. But I should probably know
better than to ask, because often the answer is some antique POS you
couldn't _give_ away today, but the clients are real luddites.
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:28 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So you don't like Vista because it
Odd you should mention this, as I will be getting a new motherboard
this month and I've (almost) decided to go with Vista instead of XP.
I've had a dual boot XP/Vista install for a while, but little (third
party) problems kept me from defaulting to Vista. Well, now that
Nvidia has gotten their act
I doubt large parts of Montana actually have any cell coverage. If
they're going camping, they'll need a satellite phone.
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Any discounts? GigE3 isn't even on Wikipedia yet, tell us about it.
And how do these compare to docsis3?
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Eric S. Sande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can also hook you up with GigE3.
>
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I can't argue the point, because, unlike you, I've only ever had to
try it once. A new board wouldn't boot and tech support told me to
remove everything but the CPU and it should reach the BIOS. It didn't,
and they replaced it. It makes sense as the BIOS doesn't use RAM. But
I imagine boards may be
You should have capitalized "Real Soon Now". Or better yet, pointed
out this is from the "I'll believe it when I see it" department.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Run the Mac OS on a PC. No hacks. No muss, no fuss. Allegedly. Coming
> real soon now
A mobo should get as far as loading the OS even without RAM. You
should have no trouble getting into the BIOS. Of course, the on-board
video could be bad, but I suppose you'd need a PCI video card to check
it.
I'm not sure what would happen if someone switched off the on-board
video in the bios, t
I heard back from Intel tech support and today verified their solution
was correct, so I thought I'd remind everyone.
In WinXP setup, the selection boxes MAY SCROLL. They have no "boat"
showing this, nor does it say anywhere on the setup page that you can
try this. Last week I was totally puzzled
if so they've either been told off by the mods or just wandered
off because no one would take their troll bait.
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Tony B wrote:
>
>> I'd be unlikely to visit yet another
I'd be unlikely to visit yet another computer oriented forum very
often. And if I did, there are tons to choose from so I couldn't see
myself hanging at a PC-bashing site. Hard enough to tolerate it via
email.
Heck, I'd be unlikely to subscribe to another general computer
oriented mailing list, no
I tried my slipstreamed WinXP Pro today and it worked. Nlite had no
problem allowing me to choose the correct SATA drivers from the
package I downloaded. Unlike Windows setup.
Alas, there was no increase in speed, and possibly a decrease. In
fact, now that I've reinstalled an image from Friday I'm
> Are any of you using flock?
> http://www.flock.com/
>If you're a fan of social networking sites, and believe the Web is as much
>about connecting to other people as it is connecting to Web sites, then this
>is the browser for you.
Well, that leaves ME out. I can't even figure out exactly what
Yes, I'd read the wikipedia entry. All Intel seems to be saying is
that, even though they give you three choices, you should only pick
one of two. i.e., "Install RAID Drivers" doesn't mean you necessarily
want a RAID, and it'll work fine if you don't set one up.
Like everything else, it's clear as
Yes, just today, although I really don't want RAID, just AHCI. Setup
stops saying it can't find any hard drives (bios shows them okay). It
really shouldn't be this difficult for a mainstream board like Intel.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good luck with
Nope. This presents me with the same four F6 choices as the last one I
downloaded. None match the chip the manual says I have. I tried one
last night, then a different one just now. A few minutes later setup
tells me it can't find any drives, press F3 to reboot.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:06 AM, m
There's an 'expand all' button on the right.
Gmail still offers free POP or IMAP access, but why hang onto the past
like that? It's not too difficult for _this_ old dog to learn new
tricks. :)
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see all the messages in my G
Well, you may have *thought* you did, but like me, you probably had
EIDE mode enabled for the SATA ports. This works, but then none of the
SATA ports are using AHCI, so they're degraded - e.g. slower and not
hot swappable. By default WinXP (even SP3) doesn't come with SATA
(AHCI) drivers, so you co
Yes, I tried that. Well, you _have_ to do this registry change to get
Vista to use the SATA drivers at all. Oddly, on first boot it seemed
to get all the way up, then it seemed to very nicely shut down. After
that, nothing but 7B blue screens complaining about 'crcdisk.sys'.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 a
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:06 AM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2372&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go%21#DRV
> That doesn't contain the files you need?
Thanks for looking, but if so, they'r
[rant]
What a PITA. This Intel DQ965GF board, purchased 4/07, didn't come
with any floppy disk (or files) despite the fact WinXP is still the
most common OS. No problem, if their website responds to an obvious
"DQ965 floppy drivers" query, but of course it doesn't.
At the time I simply kicked the
There shouldn't be any sound coming from the PC speaker except a beep.
If you want Windows to beep on events, go into your Control
Panel>Sounds.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jay Montero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought I posted this earlier but did not see it. So forgive me if I
> have
This is a new stat. We'd like to hear more about the "non-junk"
demographic. Or not.
While I'm waiting I'll take a quick look at Google Analytics and see
what my visitors are using. Hm. 94% of them are junk users, and only
4% are the "glitterati". Now I'm worried. What can I possibly do to
encoura
This may be true, but there's only so much a program can do to protect
you from all malware. Use anything but IE6, immunize with Spybot, and
always use DropMyRights and there's no need for your AV app to deal
with that stuff.
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wa
Tom thinks everything having to do with computers was first invented
by Apple, and subsequently stolen by Microsoft.
I've seen the video
(http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/05/27/microsoft-demonstrates-multi-touch.aspx),
and I just don't believe it could ever catch on. I d
Unless you have some real need for standby, you should be powering
down every day. Anyway, why not just change the scheduler to 1PM, or
better, turn off scheduled full system scans entirely? Scan the system
once (overnight), but after that it really shouldn't be necessary.
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at
Huh? It's true Gmail calls it's filters 'labels' (not 'tags'), but how
does that mean *I'm* doing anything wrong? I was the one making the
point that this is where we commonly see tags today - on the web, not
in file systems like you brought up.
I won't argue that tags may be the future. My other
A five minute SD mpeg 2 video should only be maybe 180mb. You're doing
something wrong. What app are you using to encode the file? What
bitrate are you encoding to?
If they're meant to watch this on a computer, you could also encode to
an mpeg 4 format and get much better compression.
On Mon, Ma
bably going about it the
wrong way, but everyone's being too polite to actually tell him that.
Or maybe just turned off by his attitude. He asked for it.
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:50 PM, John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL P
Let's not confuse the issue. Tag based file systems like WinFS may, in
the future, replace the folder structures we now know.
But *today*, the term 'tags' and 'tagging' refers to posts and
pictures on the web.
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No, a 'tag' is a common search term.
e.g. A post about Holsteins could include the tags:
milk,cows,bulls,holstein . These are meant to make searching for the
topic easier. I'm also seeing a lot of search 'clouds' - graphic
representations of the most used search terms/tags. Such a cloud may
lead y
Sorry, but I'm seeing this all the time these days. People are no
longer constrained by expensive film, so they're shooting 10X the
pictures they need. Nothing wrong with that.
But modern audiences bore quickly. If you can't tell your story with a
5 minute presentation, you're going to lose them.
> If it did not matter, to me at least, I would not have asked the question.
Sorry, I missed the part where you explained what you were trying to
accomplish. Oh wait, YOU DIDN'T.
> If I used Windows Movie Maker I'd have to buy a Windows machine. As to
> your final suggestion, that is just plai
I'm unaware of much of anything about Joliet, but does it really matter?
Anyway, make a video (use Windows Movie Maker if you don't want to buy
anything). But first I'd separate out about 375 of those pics, unless
you're really _trying_ to bore viewers to death.
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:58 PM,
Or, more likely, the Mac fanboys are going to have a hard time
accepting that the Mac is still such a small part of the market it's
inconsequential.
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Windows fan boys are going to have a very rough time accepting this...
I don't know. But you can try my way as a workaround. Install the add
on PDF Download (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636)
which allows you to specify a program to handle pdfs. I went a step
farther and installed Foxit Reader
(http://www.download.com/Foxit-PDF-Reader/3000-2079_4-103
We can send a man to the moon but we can't get decent video formats
with audio locked in sync to each frame! Don't get me started.
Sometimes you can fix this stuff by retiming the audio bitrate or
delay. Often you just have to break it up and manually sync each
block. Painful either way.
On Sun,
No, if this was a standard UDF no-multisession data DVD then they
should have been able to read it in any computer. Region settings
would only kick in for video DVDs played in DVD players. But know that
a good percentage of DVDs I send to our office 60 miles away in DC
don't work; I think it may ha
It really doesn't matter if it doesn't interfere with the program's
operation. Of course, if he's running MSIE6, he shouldn't be.
Upgrading to either MSIE7 or Firefox or Opera will likely solve the
issue.
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Stephen Brownfield
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A friend of
That one gives me 14mbs/2mbs. Like all the other tests, all over the board.
More importantly, why can't I get a full page at many sites like all
the following, all of which want to sit there with half the graphics
empty? I guess it just goes to show speedtests and raw throughput are
not a measure
Well, whatever they want to call it, the caching is a mixed blessing.
Anyway, I'm averaging 6.5 mbs (800KBs). I dunno if we have our M's and
B's straight. I'm trying to use Netmeter and it even offers "kibobytes
(KiB)". Anyway, these are unremarkable speeds and I don't think coming
from any cache
I think what you're seeing is just the Comcast cache - what they call
"PowerBoost". It can be quite useful for things like movie trailers.
But it can be annoying when I just want to test my speed. I just ran a
couple tests at speedtest.net to Frederick Md. and Wash. DC, and the
DC test actually pe
It doesn't really sound like it's ready for the trash heap yet. But
stop screwing around. Format and install Windows clean. Afterwards,
you can check the SMART status of your drives, but I doubt the
unformatting was because of the drive.
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w
I finally tried it myself on this machine. It halts in the middle with
an "access is denied" error. Then it goes through a long uninstall.
But seems fine.
Of course, one _should_ remember to turn off protections before running this.
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Boot to your Driveimage boot cd and restore from there. Or see if it
will run in Safe Mode.
PS Let this be a lesson to people using drive imaging that don't take
the time to make a boot disk.
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Internal hard drive (not boot drive
Networking can be flaky. I've given up on it myself many times, only
to come back the next day and it's working fine. Don't forget you have
to share at least one folder.
Some links:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/
Practically Networked Home
http://www.homepcnetwork.com/index.htm
The Home PC
Well, it seems I'm going to have to reinstall XP in the wife's laptop,
so I'd like to install SP3 immediately. Is it my imagination or is the
SP3 redist unavailable???
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TV Guide is the obvious one. http://www.tvguide.com/listings/
I find Titan TV is usually less busy. http://ww2.titantv.com/ttv/Grid/grid.aspx
Lots of others. Like Yahoo. http://tv.yahoo.com/listings
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My apologies if this has bee
No I didn't. You're confused, which is why I changed the subject.
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Larry Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think you're proving the point you're trying to prove.
>
> Mind you, this all started in response to Paula's question about her
> hard to see LCD mon
I suppose I really should know better than to question the size of
someone's tools.
Were this a carpentry list, and I dared suggest those with smaller
hammers were just as productive as those with bigger ones, I imagine
the small firestorm from a very few people would be about the same.
And god fo
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