Re: [CGUYS] Comcast Must Die (in 3 parts)
I just went with FIOStv solely to screw comcast. So far it actually works better and costs less. The DVR is a little funkier but I have dvr playback in two rooms and more movie channels for 10$ less a month. Though that is just the cherry on the revenge cake. (fyi Comcast's on-demand function hasn't worked in weeks and tech support claims it is a widespread problem - are they maxing out on bandwidth?). - Original Message From: Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 4:06:58 PM Subject: [CGUYS] Comcast Must Die (in 3 parts) Read all the delicious goodness at www.adage.com/garfield (he's the guy who does WNYC's On the Media show). * == 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
[CGUYS] Culling Vista
I sent in this question earlier, but it kind of got lost in the shuffle. It boiled down to this: Does anyone have any suggestions for Windows files that I can harmlessly eliminate to save disk space? * == 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] Youtube truncating videos
On Sep 13, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Sorry, but this is not proof. What you are initially loading from YouTube is a play list. The playlist says 1st download file TheBigVideo and when done download the file VideoTrailer. So if for any reason the download of the 1st file is halted, the playlist will then download the 2nd file. That is what you are seeing. Okay. I made an improper assumption. If that is the case, then I am going to have to pursue my ISP some more because a nice fellow here used a dial-up connection to test this for me and he had no problem downloading long videos from Youtube. I understand that an ISP will be loathe to admit to throttling bandwidth out of fear of losing a paying customer. 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] Culling Vista
I wouldn't. I'd sooner buy a bigger hard drive - they're cheap. On 9/16/07, Harvey Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent in this question earlier, but it kind of got lost in the shuffle. It boiled down to this: Does anyone have any suggestions for Windows files that I can harmlessly eliminate to save disk space? * == 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] A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/technology/16digi.html The Mac's worldwide market share was 3 percent as of June 2007... That forlorn number looks even worse compared with Apple's peak worldwide share of 14 percent in 1984, the year the Macintosh was introduced and sales of Apple II computers were the company's mainstay. The Mac's share of personal computers has actually edged a bit lower since Vista's release in January, and the various flavors of Windows a bit higher I've heard this refrain a few times recently. I guess soon they'll start writing about the Mac taking over with the _next_ Windows release? * == 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] Youtube truncating videos
I understand that an ISP will be loathe to admit to throttling bandwidth out of fear of losing a paying customer. Don't forget that they could be doing this unintentionally. You may be their only dial up customer with the patience to use YouTube. Hence you are the only one seeing a problem that is buried in some configuration file. I often had problems like this because I would read the manual (back in the days whan programs did have good manuals) and discover some non-obvious feature of a programming language. I would start using it and run into long-undiscovered bugs that nobody had ever reported because nobody had used these features as I did. * == 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] Youtube truncating videos
On Sep 16, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Don't forget that they could be doing this unintentionally. You may be their only dial up customer with the patience to use YouTube. Hence you are the only one seeing a problem that is buried in some configuration file. I often had problems like this because I would read the manual (back in the days whan programs did have good manuals) and discover some non-obvious feature of a programming language. I would start using it and run into long-undiscovered bugs that nobody had ever reported because nobody had used these features as I did. I shall keep this in mind as I pursue this. I'll be contacting my ISP tomorrow, and I will suggest this possibility to them. But, how would this happen with these video downloads and not videos from some other sites or to other downloads if it is unintentional? 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] Culling Vista
That is too complicated a question to answer easily. There are free programs that will delete temporary files for you that Windows doesn't. In the Windows folder, you can delete those folders that were used to apply updates / save files to back out updates. If you have a \hibernat.* file for hibernating, you can delete that. There are also ways to delete functionality, but you will need to study that carefully. Maybe the Windows Annoyances web site can point you towards some of that. On 9/16/07, Harvey Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent in this question earlier, but it kind of got lost in the shuffle. It boiled down to this: Does anyone have any suggestions for Windows files that I can harmlessly eliminate to save disk space? -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * == 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] Youtube truncating videos
I second that! Incredibly cheap! Put the new drive and data inn a $35 external USB case. Windows as a proprietary OS isn't really a build it yourself system ... run Linux if that's what you need. db Steve Rigby wrote: On Sep 16, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Don't forget that they could be doing this unintentionally. You may be their only dial up customer with the patience to use YouTube. Hence you are the only one seeing a problem that is buried in some configuration file. I often had problems like this because I would read the manual (back in the days whan programs did have good manuals) and discover some non-obvious feature of a programming language. I would start using it and run into long-undiscovered bugs that nobody had ever reported because nobody had used these features as I did. I shall keep this in mind as I pursue this. I'll be contacting my ISP tomorrow, and I will suggest this possibility to them. But, how would this happen with these video downloads and not videos from some other sites or to other downloads if it is unintentional? 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 * == 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] Culling Vista
I sent in this question earlier, but it kind of got lost in the shuffle. It boiled down to this: Does anyone have any suggestions for Windows files that I can harmlessly eliminate to save disk space? I have seen good reviews of ccleaner (www.ccleaner.com), but never used it myself. New version 2.0 works with Vista. * == 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 Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
I've heard this refrain a few times recently. I guess soon they'll start writing about the Mac taking over with the _next_ Windows release? This was a silly article. The author just doesn't get it. This is something few Windows users understand. Mac users don't get personal affirmation from being part of a great collective. We get our satisfaction from doing jobs well and enjoy work more when we use the fine tools that Apple provides us. Consider this: would a master wood carver use dull and chipped tools just because most people do not take care of their tools? I bet most Mac owners don't eat dinner at McDonald's either. * == 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 Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
Tom, Are you saying Windows users get satisfaction out of being members of a great collective? -P3281 - Original Message From: Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 4:14:26 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close I've heard this refrain a few times recently. I guess soon they'll start writing about the Mac taking over with the _next_ Windows release? This was a silly article. The author just doesn't get it. This is something few Windows users understand. Mac users don't get personal affirmation from being part of a great collective. We get our satisfaction from doing jobs well and enjoy work more when we use the fine tools that Apple provides us. Consider this: would a master wood carver use dull and chipped tools just because most people do not take care of their tools? I bet most Mac owners don't eat dinner at McDonald's either. * == 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] A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
Except the article isn't talking about users. He's talking about Apple as a company possibly missing an opportunity. So it's not that the author of the article doesn't get it, you are missing the point of the article. Macs have often been compared to ferrari or bmw..companies not after 'market share' but after customers willing to pay more to get their products. Trouble is I've never seen any CEO tell his investors, I sure hope this quarter we don't see any growth. Indeed at each apple conference Jobs brings up market share, sales etc of all his divisions. Jobs and Apple want market share just like anyone else. They go after it the best they know how. Being not a monopoly as MS is or nearly is, they can't use their dominance in other markets to 'sell' their brand. Apple does it by changing their product line, improving and trying to offer products they believe either don't exist, or aren't doing the job well. Most windows users probably eat at places that are just as good as those expensive places with 'atmosphere' but pay a lot less cause they don't need to keep telling themselves how cool they are for eating at the expensive places. Mike On 9/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard this refrain a few times recently. I guess soon they'll start writing about the Mac taking over with the _next_ Windows release? This was a silly article. The author just doesn't get it. This is something few Windows users understand. Mac users don't get personal affirmation from being part of a great collective. We get our satisfaction from doing jobs well and enjoy work more when we use the fine tools that Apple provides us. Consider this: would a master wood carver use dull and chipped tools just because most people do not take care of their tools? I bet most Mac owners don't eat dinner at McDonald's either. * == 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] A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
No Windows users eat at those cheap places, buy lots of stuff ala carte, and spend more than the Mac user in the high end place. Plus they still left hungry. On 9/16/07, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except the article isn't talking about users. He's talking about Apple as a company possibly missing an opportunity. So it's not that the author of the article doesn't get it, you are missing the point of the article. Macs have often been compared to ferrari or bmw..companies not after 'market share' but after customers willing to pay more to get their products. Trouble is I've never seen any CEO tell his investors, I sure hope this quarter we don't see any growth. Indeed at each apple conference Jobs brings up market share, sales etc of all his divisions. Jobs and Apple want market share just like anyone else. They go after it the best they know how. Being not a monopoly as MS is or nearly is, they can't use their dominance in other markets to 'sell' their brand. Apple does it by changing their product line, improving and trying to offer products they believe either don't exist, or aren't doing the job well. Most windows users probably eat at places that are just as good as those expensive places with 'atmosphere' but pay a lot less cause they don't need to keep telling themselves how cool they are for eating at the expensive places. Mike On 9/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard this refrain a few times recently. I guess soon they'll start writing about the Mac taking over with the _next_ Windows release? This was a silly article. The author just doesn't get it. This is something few Windows users understand. Mac users don't get personal affirmation from being part of a great collective. We get our satisfaction from doing jobs well and enjoy work more when we use the fine tools that Apple provides us. Consider this: would a master wood carver use dull and chipped tools just because most people do not take care of their tools? I bet most Mac owners don't eat dinner at McDonald's either. * == 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 -- John Duncan Yoyo ---o) * == 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 Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
Actually I'd say they are left feeling BLOATED..heh Mike On 9/16/07, John Duncan Yoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus they still left hungry. * == 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] Weird Sites With Weird Names
I googled The G rate make-up stamp (an old postage stamp) and came up with several weird sites with weird names (example below) that have in them hundreds of seemingly random words and phrases strung together, as: ...files dailymotion airport in bulgaria the g rate make up stamp custom made bottles in the philippines emergency... http://r.rqzgu.cn/ulkdxx.html Most of the sites have .cn in their URL. Does anyone have any idea of what they are doing and 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
Re: [CGUYS] A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
Except the article isn't talking about users. He's talking about Apple as a company possibly missing an opportunity. So it's not that the author of the article doesn't get it, you are missing the point of the article. Macs have often been compared to ferrari or bmw..companies not after 'market share' but after customers willing to pay more to get their products. Trouble is I've never seen any CEO tell his investors, I sure hope this quarter we don't see any growth. You are making the same mistake as the article author. You and the author want to impose the notion that market share is paramount -- it isn't. Apple is proof that it isn't. At Apple, doing something well is paramount. Apple demonstrates that doing something well can be very profitable and Apple's stockholders are very happy with their returns. (Compare Apple's stellar share price performance to Microsoft's poor showing.) I'm glad I don't have to live in such a market-share driven world where everything must be bought at Walmart -- cheaply-made products that quickly wear out while poisoning you. * == 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] Weird Sites With Weird Names
That's the two letter ISO (International Organization for Standardization) country code for China. I'd guess that the characters are being converted into the words you see. I'm just spitballing here, but that's my guess. The stamp is probably worth 3 ยข. Alvin Auerbach wrote: I googled The G rate make-up stamp (an old postage stamp) and came up with several weird sites with weird names (example below) that have in them hundreds of seemingly random words and phrases strung together, as: ...files dailymotion airport in bulgaria the g rate make up stamp custom made bottles in the philippines emergency... http://r.rqzgu.cn/ulkdxx.html Most of the sites have .cn in their URL. Does anyone have any idea of what they are doing and 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 * == 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 Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
At Apple, doing something well is paramount. Apple demonstrates that doing something well can be very profitable and Apple's stockholders are very happy with their returns. Good. Point. * == 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] Weird Sites With Weird Names
In case you are interested, here's what I found: http://www.bcpl.net/~j1m5path/isocodes.html http://postage.20m.com/0003550.htm Alvin Auerbach wrote: I googled The G rate make-up stamp (an old postage stamp) and came up with several weird sites with weird names (example below) that have in them hundreds of seemingly random words and phrases strung together, as: ...files dailymotion airport in bulgaria the g rate make up stamp custom made bottles in the philippines emergency... http://r.rqzgu.cn/ulkdxx.html Most of the sites have .cn in their URL. Does anyone have any idea of what they are doing and 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
Re: [CGUYS] Weird Sites With Weird Names
That kind of random string of good English words in an e-mail (rather than on a web page) is usually an attempt to sneak past the spam filter. Fred Holmes At 06:10 PM 9/16/2007, Alvin Auerbach wrote: I googled The G rate make-up stamp (an old postage stamp) and came up with several weird sites with weird names (example below) that have in them hundreds of seemingly random words and phrases strung together, as: files dailymotion airport in bulgaria the g rate make up stamp custom made bottles in the philippines emergency... http://r.rqzgu.cn/ulkdxx.html Most of the sites have .cn in their URL. Does anyone have any idea of what they are doing and 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] .mix
A friend sent me a .mix file. Is there any way that I can open and view this on my Mac? I have a G4 running OS 10.4.8. 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] A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
In contrast, Computerworld sez: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9033302intsrc=hm_list When you subtract all the people in the third world who are inclined to get the cheapest computer and use pirated software, you're left with a totally different set of positive numbers. People use Macs because they work, are easier to use than PCs, last longer, and are more fun, with less down-time, not because they're part of a cult. Lots of people are happy with their PCs, too. Is Porsche going out of business because they have a tiny market share? Mr Kay is full of it: ...There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics... --Benjamin Disraeli [and Mark Twain, and some guy at Georgetown U...] Betty * == 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 Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
Except the article isn't talking about users. He's talking about Apple as a company possibly missing an opportunity. So it's not that the author of the article doesn't get it, you are missing the point of the article. Macs have often been compared to ferrari or bmw..companies not after 'market share' but after customers willing to pay more to get their products. Trouble is I've never seen any CEO tell his investors, I sure hope this quarter we don't see any growth. Indeed at each apple conference Jobs brings up market share, sales etc of all his divisions. Jobs and Apple want market share just like anyone else. They go after it the best they know how. Being not a monopoly as MS is or nearly is, they can't use their dominance in other markets to 'sell' their brand. Apple does it by changing their product line, improving and trying to offer products they believe either don't exist, or aren't doing the job well. Apple is #3 in the US computer market. They had 17.6% of laptop sales in June. That's a significant increase in market share. Apple sold a million iPhones since June. The iPhone is important because it's also a computer that runs Mac OS X. The iPhone as a concept is similar to the G4 Cube. The Cube was an experiment to see how small a space could hold a G4 processor safely without a fan, as a precursor to the G4 laptop. The iPhone is the result of Apple's vision for a hand-held personal computer. Considering that the iPhone as a computer is still in its infancy, sales are nothing short of spectacular. The article is just a bunch of words taking up space with virtual hot air. Twisting stats and taking them out of context is as bad as a lie. The important market stats are here in the U.S., and also somewhat in Europe and Japan, not in India or China or eastern Europe, or all the places that Kay included in his stats to dilute the remarkable increase in sales of Apple products. Apple, Inc. is doing very well, indeed. Betty Chaos is simply your documents neatly organized in random order. * == 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 Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
I never said it is paramount, you did. I said that there is no CEO that has ever said, 'boy I hope we don't gain any market share'. Do you really think Jobs says that at shareholders meetings? Perhaps he also says 'We hope this quarter our market share will drop even more so we can get better quality.' That's the logical end of your argument...that the perfect product will only be produced when in the end there is zero market for the product.In that case the zune must be damn close to being perfect. Mike On 9/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except the article isn't talking about users. He's talking about Apple as a company possibly missing an opportunity. So it's not that the author of the article doesn't get it, you are missing the point of the article. Macs have often been compared to ferrari or bmw..companies not after 'market share' but after customers willing to pay more to get their products. Trouble is I've never seen any CEO tell his investors, I sure hope this quarter we don't see any growth. You are making the same mistake as the article author. You and the author want to impose the notion that market share is paramount -- it isn't. Apple is proof that it isn't. At Apple, doing something well is paramount. Apple demonstrates that doing something well can be very profitable and Apple's stockholders are very happy with their returns. (Compare Apple's stellar share price performance to Microsoft's poor showing.) I'm glad I don't have to live in such a market-share driven world where everything must be bought at Walmart -- cheaply-made products that quickly wear out while poisoning you. * == 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] .mix
MIX is the file extension for the Picture file associated with Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 and Microsoft Picture-It! It is also the file extension for Command Conquer game package file. that from http://www.liutilities.com/ Tell em to send you a .jpg like everyone else. Mike On 9/16/07, Stephen Brownfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend sent me a .mix file. Is there any way that I can open and view this on my Mac? I have a G4 running OS 10.4.8. 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 * == 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] .mix
Every Mac owner should have the application GraphicConverter. Go to http://www.lemkesoft.com and download it for free. Use it, you'll love it, then pay the $35 bargain shareware fee. GraphicConverter does not list .mix files as a format that it works with. However, page 323 of the manual states: Problems with Opening and Converting Files We won't leave you out in the cold. GraphicConverter opens or converts almost every graphic. If it doesn't work, please contact us (contact information can be found on page 16). We can adapt GraphicConverter as long as it is technically feasible and conforms to licensing requirements. It has usually been possible to implement a new format within 24 hours. Often the cause is a problematic graphic that is in a format that GraphicConverter can actually open. The file cannot be opened because a different manufacturer created a new variation of the format for whatever reason. Please describe your problem to us before you send us an example graphic. We can often give you advice on how to solve the problem. Send us an example graphic only if we request one. We will analyze your example graphic and, if necessary, add it to the types of formats. We will then provide you with a free update either per e-mail or via download. Alvin A friend sent me a .mix file. Is there any way that I can open and view this on my Mac? I have a G4 running OS 10.4.8. 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
