Re: [CGUYS] Passport RFID
idiot hyperbole those of us who have to live with a fascist administration. * == 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] Passport RFID
Sorry it's already been thunk. Thought crimes can be among the most serious offenses making lack of thought much in vogue. * == 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] Problem performing XP upgrade.
I'm stumped. When I go to shut down the computer I get a small window giving me the option to perform an upgrade and then when finished the PC will shut down. So I tell it to do the upgrade, but somewhere in the process it fails to install. I have even tried the upgrade option in Internet Explorer, but that doesn't seem work either. So how do I get this file to upgrade the OS or at least stop showing up when I want to shut down the machine? Any ideas? Thanks. * == 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] Cell Coverage [Was: Will the iPhone Change Everything?
I just returned from 5 weeks traveling overseas. I took two cell phones with me. My Nokia is [a toy] triband with 1800MHz service; the Samsung hand-me-down has 900MHz. Some day I'll find a simple quadband WiFi candy bar or slider phone that I like for a good price. The iPhone is a bar phone, but it's too big, and needs to be hacked to use with my T-Mobile service. The surprising thing about mobile phone service where we were, mostly on Crete and in Portugal, was the strength of signals no matter how obscure our location. On deserted beaches, miles down dirt roads I had 4+ bars. High in the mountains, far from towns and villages, where mountain goats hover on 4 wide ledges, I also had good reception. At home, reception is awful except near a window or outside. Why go outside with the smokers to use a phone? [Verizon has good reception indoors, but CDMA doesn't work in Europe. ATT has good reception, but costs more for service and international roaming than T-Mobile.] T-Mobile has a new service that combines WiFi and cellular service, http://tinyurl.com/2rx7h5, includes HotSpot @Home service, and use of T-mobile hotspots, mostly at Starbucks and Borders. These services are getting better, however they're soo expensive. I hate using flip phones [they're cumbersome and pointless], and it's a Moto flip phone. I also want a phone that switches from cellular to WiFi on any hotspot, not just TMo. I can do that on a laptop with Skype, but it hardly fits in my pocket. I picked up a magazine [for the enclosed free bikini] at the airport last week and saw a deal from Orange in the UK. It's £35 per month for mobile service--600 minutes, unlimited texts, free Sony Ericsson K810i, http://tinyurl.com/384aor, or Nokia N73, http://tinyurl.com/33mr2y, phone and free speakers, PLUS free home 2Mbps broadband, with an 18 month contract. Those are quadband and triband phones that can get good reception almost anywhere in Europe, including remote locations and indoors. Many phones are sold unlocked, too. BTW, 8Mbps broadband is £19.95/mo. The US cellular and broadband companies are far behind in service and innovation compared to European, Japanese and Korean companies--both in price and features, http://tinyurl.com/yr82oc. As of July 1, Euro roaming charges from one country to another will be significantly reduced, too. Constance, does the highway project have anything to do with the ICC project? Betty Constance Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Thanks for the interest in my story, but it was actually pretty boring. Cellphones receive on a couple of different frequencies [digital], plus analog. Depending on what your phone has got, and what the cell-tower has got (however the phone company has adjusted it), you may or may not get the service you're paying for. In my case, the cell-tower was adjusted by a bolt of lightning, and my cellphone--though thoroughly digital--is very old. The cellphone will have to be fixed or replaced, since the phone company is happy with the tower in its present condition. (The new phones will receive in the areas where I need service--I checked with another subscriber to verify the reception. The company, incidentally, is Sprint, which we'll probably stick with, because we have a month-to-month plan; i.e. no two-year contracts with hefty penalty clauses.) It took numerous trips to the Web and phone calls to find all this out. You know the drill: call, wade through several layers of automatic telephone crap (If you need your bill adjusted, say 'Bill adjustment.' If you have another problem, say 'Other problem.'). Then you get another person who doesn't have a clue. Then you do it again. And again. I was just lucky to get the guy in the Silver Spring repair facility who sounds as though he knows what he's talking about. Moral of the story, of POSSIBLE GENERAL INTEREST to this list: there are websites which register consumers' reports on cellphone companies in this area [Washington, DC, and environs], along with complaints of lack of reception in different places. If anyone is considering signing up for cellphone service or any kind of wireless service, it's probably a good idea to google Sprint reception or DC cellphone reception or the like. Especially since (another common complaint) it's nearly impossible to get out of a contract, even if you don't get any reception at all. Now, if you want stories: a more interesting story is the highway traffic management project I'm trying to get changed, the project that's so hazardous that there were three accidents the first day it was put in place. After what seemed like years in phonemail hell and the labyrinth of the Web, I finally got through to the right contact person, who promised to get back to me and of course didn't, so I marched into the fire station with a report on the project, only to find that the firemen agreed with me, so I decided tobut that is a story for another day. --Constance Warner On Jul
Re: [CGUYS] Battery
On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Fred Holmes wrote: I don't know about exact dimensions, but the widely available CR2 lithium battery is 3.x volts and appears to be the diameter of and 1/2 the length of an AA battery. My wife's camera (35 mm, not digital) uses two of them. I see them anywhere that camera batteries are sold. I shall look into that battery. It may need to be more than 3 volts to work properly in my Mac, but I shall find out if it will fit and will supply enough juice to hold up over time. Thanks. Steve * == 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] Problem performing XP upgrade.
It's a .Net update. What do you suggest? Thanks Bart - Original Message - From: Andy Gallant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Problem performing XP upgrade. What is the upgrade? There have been problems with .Net updates on some systems - these are solvable but a little painful. In the meantime, when you choose shutdown from the start button, you might see an option (in small print) to click on to shut down without installing pending updates. -Andy Site Guy wrote: I'm stumped. When I go to shut down the computer I get a small window giving me the option to perform an upgrade and then when finished the PC will shut down. So I tell it to do the upgrade, but somewhere in the process it fails to install. I have even tried the upgrade option in Internet Explorer, but that doesn't seem work either. So how do I get this file to upgrade the OS or at least stop showing up when I want to shut down the machine? Any ideas? Thanks. * == 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 * == 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] Problem performing XP upgrade.
Important note: I am NOT an expert!! If you want official Microsoft support, try using Microsoft Update (from Internet Explorer) and go to the support options. Report any error messages/codes you can find. Support for Windows Update installation problems is (I believe) free of charge. There is also a lot of information on the web and in various news groups. If you want to try it yourself, well, here's the outline of steps that worked for me. I will send details offlist - use at your own risk. Maybe someone else can post a simpler way to fix these problems. First, just in case, make a complete backup of your system. You might also want to perform disk error checking and disk cleanup, too. Outline of steps to resolve problems with Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB928366) - UNOFFICIAL!! 1. Download and install Microsoft Windows Installer CleanUp utility. 2. Use it to remove .NET Framework 1.1, then restart. 3. Download and install - Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package - Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/b/4/8b4addd8-e957-4dea-bdb8-c4e00af5b94b/NDP1.1sp1-KB867460-X86.exe - Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB928366) 4. Check by running Microsoft Update again. If problems remain after that with updating .Net Framework Version 2.0, you may have to use the Installer CleanUp utility to remove it (Version 2.0), and then download and install: - Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5DisplayLang=en - Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0 (KB928365) Good luck. I hope you find a better way! -Andy Site Guy wrote: It's a .Net update. What do you suggest? Thanks Bart - Original Message - From: Andy Gallant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Problem performing XP upgrade. What is the upgrade? There have been problems with .Net updates on some systems - these are solvable but a little painful. In the meantime, when you choose shutdown from the start button, you might see an option (in small print) to click on to shut down without installing pending updates. -Andy Site Guy wrote: I'm stumped. When I go to shut down the computer I get a small window giving me the option to perform an upgrade and then when finished the PC will shut down. So I tell it to do the upgrade, but somewhere in the process it fails to install. I have even tried the upgrade option in Internet Explorer, but that doesn't seem work either. So how do I get this file to upgrade the OS or at least stop showing up when I want to shut down the machine? Any ideas? Thanks. /snip/ * == 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
