Re: [CGUYS] Optical drive firmware questions....
I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of return on investment resolution choices. The firmware upgrade took about 10 minutes. During this time: no donning the LED headlamp ( that terrifies my kid almost as much as when I wear tall white crew socks with shortssee it on Amazon here : http://tinyurl.com/23b2wy), no gymnastics while disconnecting cords/cables in order to relocate computer from where it sits for normal work to where it must go to swap parts (it doesn't live on a test bench in its day to day life), no computer case to crack open, no power and IDE cables to remove/replace, no worries that the replacement hardware is DOA, and no encore of the headlamp-enabled gymnastics to return the 'puter to its normal location and reconnect all the stuff in back. At least a 30 minute drill...plus the extra that will come with the the inevitable cable management and dust removal drill that will will be an inevitable part of this. Few people like buying or opening shiny new boxes of hardware more than I do. My retreat position for most PC issues is new hardware solves everything. Well, OK, maybe new hardware or a reformatted HD and a reload of Windows) will take care of what new hardware won;t. I fully realize that even a multi-format, double layer DVD writer is essentially a commodity item these days..but I'm still not in a hurry to move to purchase and replace if there seems to be a good alternative. If it stops playing nice with DVD-Rs in the future...yeah, bring on the new box. On Jan 14, 2008 6:34 PM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably just a hardware failure then. Maybe intermittent; a dust mote on the laser, or a crack on the circuit board. May come back soon, may not. I personally doubt the firmware upgrade was responsible for 'fixing' the drive. Again, you've gone to much more effort than I would have. I'd be more worried about a _lasting_ repair and would likely have just replaced the unit. * == 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * 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] Sun Buys MySQL
It's not uncommon for competitors to buy one another. I used to use St. Bernard's Update Expert for centralized patch management on my LAN. It was a good product until the most recent version. After that, it was basically unusable. I was considering scrapping it and getting another system (but kept putting it off) when Shavlik, which has its own patching product, announced that it was buying Update Expert and converting the UE customers over to its product. So, by waiting and doing nothing, I saved a bundle, got rid of the one I didn't want and got the product I wanted instead! -Original Message- Stranger things have happened before. How many of you remember that after it lost its bid to be bought by MS Intuit went out and bought a company out of Iowa called Parsons Technology. The reason? To kill off it's Tax Edge program. It shuttered Tax Edge, and then slowly dismantled the company and sold off some of its better products (Bible Software etc.) to Then TLC (I think) Parts of it still exist, but its chef programmer Craig Rairdian left and formed his own compnay called Laridian that now fills the niche with smart phones an PDA's for Religious software. Wouldn't be the first time someone spent a lot of money to kill the competition. Tom who is it that you keep railing against who buys up the competition to stifle innovation??? (Bi$$) * == 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * 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] Time Warner pay based on Data Usage?
I heard it and am tempted to write to Marketplace about a very poorly researched story. The assertion that there is a shortage of capacity is false. One of the two experts she interviewed was actually just another reporter. So I did... I was saddened to hear yesterday's report Time Warner plans pay-for-data option by Ashley Milne-Tyte. Such stories spread false information and turn Marketplace into the propaganda ministry for greedy corporations. I was especially unhappy that one of the two people interviewed in the story (Declan McCullagh) was another reporter! He is a smart guy, but no expert. This is lazy journalism. If your reporter had contacted an engineer with knowledge of the facts I expect you would have had a very different and true story. Digging just a little deeper would have revealed that the premise of the story is false: there is no bandwidth shortage. A technology called dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) can tremendously increase the carrying capacity of existing fiber cables by simply changing a box at either end of the cable. A huge return for a relatively small investment. The bigger story is that DWDM manufacturers are not doing all that well in the marketplace. Companies like Time Warner are not buying their products because they don't want more capacity. I hope you do better next time. * == 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * 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] State taxes [WAS: What to charge for contract to develop web content?]
Even for the Fed Gov, when the vendor is located in 2 states, somewhere in the west/southwest IIRC, the contract must include state tax for that vendor's good or services. YMMV Subject: Re: What to charge for contract to develop web content? Interestingly, the University of Washington... a state educational institution ... pays tax on all purchases. Not sure why... db Mike Sloane wrote: No government entity ever pays any tax - not towns, counties, states, or federal. So you cannot charge the tax. You may have to get a piece of paper from the customer - a sales tax exemption certificate. They do this all the time, so it should not be a hassle. Mike Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Randall, I am not sure but I think a state entity (Anything run by the state) would be tax exempt. Check with them for sure. Stewart At 09:35 PM 1/17/2008, you wrote: Okay, but when the state of MD has this set amount of $ to pay for this contract and we are talking about getting paid X dollars per hour for a certain period, don't think they are thinking they have pay this extra 6%. But first I'll have to verify if this type of service would even be covered. That would jack up the price for $50/hour fee to $53. Randall * == 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * 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] Program installation question (under Vista)
Some very well written programs upon installation ask you if you want to install for all users or just one user. Most do not ask. I noticed in Vista32 (which I just got on my new machine and am trying to familiarize myself) that ALL programs are installed for all users. I prefer to see selective installations tailored to the user. Anyone know how to do this? Michael * == 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * 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] Sun Buys MySQL
So Sun paid $1,000,000,000 for MySQL in order to kill it? What a theory! Do these companies really have that kind of money to burn? Larry Ellison does. And that is Dvorak's conspiracy theory. I think, there's a hole in that theory. MySQL is an open source product. For the sake of the argument, let's say that Sun is able to stagnate the mysql project. But there are several thousand copies of the mysql project source tree out in the internet. As with any open source project, there's a core group of people (whom, I think, Sun has aquired) and there's a larger group of people who follow the devel discussions, participate in hackathons, and submit ideas, hacks, code improvements, feature requests, etc. So, if Sun/MySQL starts to stagnate, a new core group of coders will emerge with the last pre-Sun code base, (call it OpenSQL or some-such) and will move forward. Good bye Larry and Sun. Mr. Ellison should worry more about Postgres, IMHO, than MySQL. Postgres is the heavier-weight of the two and has better authentication integration, etc and, is in a better position to challenge Oracle. In most LAMP implementations, Postgres is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. I think Sun wanted to buy mysql because they are tired of hearing of the LAMP stack. Sun will offer a Sun-branded version of MySQL, just like OpenOffice/StarOffice. (Look in the mysql.com site and you will see that they offer a Community Server for free and Enterprise server for pay.) Sun wants to offer an end-to-end solution stack based on industry standard products, but with their Sparc hardware (they've been doing 32-core systems for years now), Solaris (slow-laris, as some might say), and their own, supported MySQL. Sun also wants to improve on their claim that they've offered more lines of code to the open source community than any other company. They have open-sourced Java and Solaris. They invented NFS. DTrace is in MacOSX and is also in the open community. Apple is going to use ZFS filesystem in OSX. OpenSparc is an open HW reference standard that Sun has put out. So, Sun does not have a track record of squashing innovation. I don't think Dvorak's conspiracy theory is a very good one. Read some of the reader-comments to that article. * == 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] What to charge for contract to develop web content?
I just caught the original thread about how much to charge a client. As a freelance graphic designer, I used to design the artwork for websites and sometimes I would work with writers and programers to create websites for various clients. At first I charged an hourly rate that was approximately double what my hourly pay would be at a full time position. I thought that would account for the non-billable hours of invoicing, phone calls, coordinating with the co-designers, and any unexpected difficulties. After doing this for a couple of years, I realized that my clients started requesting their artwork tomorrow, since I was only going to be spending seven hours on it, not realizing the scheduling aspects. If you have to submit an hourly rate, 2.5-3 times your hourly pay sounds about right, but if you don't have to, then a flat rate is the way to go. Usually, there are classes on how to bill your clients or deal with taxes that are sponsored by your local business development center. You can usually find them through the phone book or your local chamber of commerce. Roni -Original Message- From: Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 19, 2008 12:00 AM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] What to charge for contract to develop web content? Luckily, Maryland may be reconsidering this; according to a news report today On Jan 18, 2008 12:57 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on state law. In the state of Alabama if have not been granted tax exempt status by the state legislature, you do not have it. There is a published list on who has been granted tax exempt status. But it must go before the legislature and voted on to be valid. When I lived in the state of Wisconsin, it was by category. If you fell into a category you had it by being a member of that category. Apply for a receive a tax number from the state and then fill in the paperwork at the business you bought from. Each state has different laws on how it is done. Stewart At 11:38 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote: Interestingly, the University of Washington... a state educational institution ... pays tax on all purchases. Not sure why... db Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 * == 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * 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 -- Please use new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * == 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * 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 from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List
