[CGUYS] Print Problems
Everytime I try to send anything to any printer, network or local, I get Spooler Subsystem App has an error and must shut down. Can anyone suggest a cure? brr...@aim.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] droid self-photography?
These ad folks are pretty savvy and do a lot of market research before they put together these ads. That is what they are paid for. Occasionally they drop a bomb (pun not intended) but usually they do a very good job. When I first saw the commercial I was intrigued then when they did the drop thing I understood totally. It looks like an alien, a robot otherworldly. So why not bring up transformers, war of the worlds etc. Apple pays big bucks for their ad people to do their job and they came up with some really good ones. Stewart At 09:34 AM 11/10/2009, you wrote: This is exactly like marketing that flowery phone on verizon that looks like a compact to young girls. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: For people in my sons age group it is perfect. He is a huge transformers nut. Stewart * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
To what restrictions do you refer? Which network is preventing you from reaching which service? If you are referring to reaching an SMTP server on the well-known port 25, most providers are restricting access to only those IPs on their own network, in an attempt to limit/reduce spam. Most are also permitting cross-network access to their SMTP servers if the access is authenticated, by submitting authorized credentials (usually your email address and password) to a different port (I obviously do not remember the port right now). Some are also supporting SSL-encrypted access, which uses yet another different port number. This is a relatively recent change on the part of Verizon, I believe. -- Roger Lovettsville, VA * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Print Problems
That's an awfully vague question. To give any useful answers we need to know things like what printer, what computer, what OS (and is it updated), and the exact error word for word. Most importantly we need to know all the things you've tried already to fix it (verified printer works from other computer, reinstalled Windows, restored backup images, etc.). On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Barry Reff br4comp...@aol.com wrote: Everytime I try to send anything to any printer, network or local, I get Spooler Subsystem App has an error and must shut down. Can anyone suggest a cure? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
You're right. It's whining. How would it even be possible to own a network connection? And if your primary ISP is so bad that you had to keep your old dialup and ever need to use it, then you need a new primary ISP. I mean, I can count on both hands the hours that broadband goes down here in a year. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net wrote: Formerly I was happy to have access over a different network that didn't relate to my primary ISP. This would be in keeping with my belt and suspenders approach to most technology. I reasoned that a backup strategy would be preferred in the event, etc. So I have a dialup account which I have maintained religiously for many years. In fact I was among the first 1000 subscribers to what was then erols.com. The TV store that became an ISP and then got bought out by what is now RCN. With some changes along the way. I think PEPCO was involved at some point. Anyway, my question is why do I not own the network connection if I pay for it. I pay to access RCN and I pay to access VZ. I'm sorry if this looks like a whine, but it was transparent up until recently. I could access RCN servers over a VZ connection with no problem. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: You think a $4000 HD video recorder is an appropriate investment for entry into video production??? I was thinking in a more aspirational way. You can get the same effect by toting around a PC/Mac and connecting camera via firewire and recording directly from the . Note that the reason most shooters still prefer tape is because it's a good *archival* storage format. Don't bother sitting around comparing the cost of *temporary* storage like flash or HDDs or SSDs with tape. Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time. Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of data and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to hard drive starts to look better and better. It's apples and oranges. Apples and oranges are both fruit off of a tree very similar in many respects. Now apples and anacondas there is a big difference. You can get both of them off a tree and even eat both of them with proper preparation. Of course the anaconda may try to eat you back. -- John Duncan Yoyo ---o) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
I haven't seen any great evidence that tape is going away any time soon. Not for several years anyway. It has too many _perceived_ advantages. Real or not doesn't matter to someone shelling out big bucks *today*. Note I said _shooters_, not companies. The expense to maintain tape is a big factor for bean counters; the danger of losing an entire day's work to a file system glitch scares the bejeebers out of shooters (on tape it would likely just be a momentary dropout). I think you're wrong about compression. Of course, there are good ways to compress and bad ways. All current direct to hard drive methods I'm aware of use *some* sort of compression, simply because uncompressed is just too wasteful. Even older SD DV cams have always used 5:1 compression. Also, it's hard to tell the difference between 'flash cards' and hard drives as it relates to digital video. The P2 cards Panasonic is selling like hotcakes are flash, but internally resemble more of a SSD RAID. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote: Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time. Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of data and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to hard drive starts to look better and better. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Program start OS X
Is there any way--I'm sure there is--to automatically start a program at boot time in OSX? I've found my desktop clock solution for X.5*, and I'd like to have it start up at boot time. Also (I don't remember if I asked this already), is there a way to assign keyboard short cuts to start programs? Yeah, I know there's the Dock, but for me it's easier to poke out a few key strokes than it is to reach for the mouse, figure out where the cursor is on the screen, scroll it into position and aim. Especially if I'm using a track pad. Thanks. *SimpleFloatingClock http://www.splook.com/Software/Simple_Floating_Clock.html It has the usual features. You can change the opacity, add date, day of the week, make it digital or analog, 12 or 24 hour, you can add an additional time zone (a dot on the face that shows the hour of another time zone). Oops. I see a Launch at Login item on the right-click-menu (but I'd still like to know about programs start at boot). Probably the best feature though, is Pass Clicks Through so you can leave it on top of everything and still be able to click on the *useful* stuff behind it. It adds a clock icon to the menu bar that you click on to be able to access the clock itself. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
Check out the Red cams, these things are shooting and putting out 4k. No, tape is not going anywhere, but the guys on the fringe, the guys who are doing new things have already switched to HD...especially on the web. Also of note, more vaporware that you can actually buy came out earlier this year6gbit SATA. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't seen any great evidence that tape is going away any time soon. Not for several years anyway. It has too many _perceived_ advantages. Real or not doesn't matter to someone shelling out big bucks *today*. Note I said _shooters_, not companies. The expense to maintain tape is a big factor for bean counters; the danger of losing an entire day's work to a file system glitch scares the bejeebers out of shooters (on tape it would likely just be a momentary dropout). I think you're wrong about compression. Of course, there are good ways to compress and bad ways. All current direct to hard drive methods I'm aware of use *some* sort of compression, simply because uncompressed is just too wasteful. Even older SD DV cams have always used 5:1 compression. Also, it's hard to tell the difference between 'flash cards' and hard drives as it relates to digital video. The P2 cards Panasonic is selling like hotcakes are flash, but internally resemble more of a SSD RAID. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote: Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time. Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of data and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to hard drive starts to look better and better. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Program start OS X
Right click on the app in the dock and choose open at login. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: Is there any way--I'm sure there is--to automatically start a program at boot time in OSX? I've found my desktop clock solution for X.5*, and I'd like to have it start up at boot time. Also (I don't remember if I asked this already), is there a way to assign keyboard short cuts to start programs? Yeah, I know there's the Dock, but for me it's easier to poke out a few key strokes than it is to reach for the mouse, figure out where the cursor is on the screen, scroll it into position and aim. Especially if I'm using a track pad. Thanks. *SimpleFloatingClock http://www.splook.com/Software/Simple_Floating_Clock.html It has the usual features. You can change the opacity, add date, day of the week, make it digital or analog, 12 or 24 hour, you can add an additional time zone (a dot on the face that shows the hour of another time zone). Oops. I see a Launch at Login item on the right-click-menu (but I'd still like to know about programs start at boot). Probably the best feature though, is Pass Clicks Through so you can leave it on top of everything and still be able to click on the *useful* stuff behind it. It adds a clock icon to the menu bar that you click on to be able to access the clock itself. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Check out the Red cams, these things are shooting and putting out 4k. You keep talking about 4K. Pardon an ignorant question, but. . .what's that? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Program start OS X
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Right click on the app in the dock and choose open at login. Okay, well that was just *too* easy. Thanks. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
PS...don't get the idea that I know much about this, most of what I know was from reading about the Red camera line coming out. I know the basics but that's it. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:27 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: 2k has slightly higher resolution than 1080p you'd find on most widescreen tvs. 2k is 2048x1536 pixels...4k is twice that, so over twice the resolution of 1080p at 4096x3072...there are other resolutions that fit this class but you get the idea. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Check out the Red cams, these things are shooting and putting out 4k. You keep talking about 4K. Pardon an ignorant question, but. . .what's that? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
2k has slightly higher resolution than 1080p you'd find on most widescreen tvs. 2k is 2048x1536 pixels...4k is twice that, so over twice the resolution of 1080p at 4096x3072...there are other resolutions that fit this class but you get the idea. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Check out the Red cams, these things are shooting and putting out 4k. You keep talking about 4K. Pardon an ignorant question, but. . .what's that? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] WiFi SD cards
On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Fred Holmes wrote: How does one tell/notice that that is happening? Maybe mine does it too, or does it only happen on Mac USB ports? I haven't read the manual. Leave the camera USB attached and see if it ever powers down. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Hardware Recommendations
On Dec 5, 2009, at 9:29 PM, rocky lee wrote: The weak part of the tapeless system is that leaves open how to archive the footage. You transfer the footage from the memory cards to the hard drive, but then what? The memory cards get wiped and reused but then that leaves the footage... on a hard drive? The memory cards are better for workflow, but at some point I would want the footage stored on tape for long term. You get a stack of SATA drives and a toaster. Stick the drive in the toaster, move your files to it, pop the drive, put it back in its anti- static bag and file it. If you use 2-1/2 inch drives you can store a heck of a lot in a small space. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] droid self-photography?
I suppose because I don't put people in groups and decide I'm better than they are. Silly me I look at individuals. On Nov 11, 2009 5:41 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote: No, I took it the same way I'd react to bumpkin. Why the super-sensitive reaction, response? Thank you, Mark Snyder Original Message- Did you miss the part where anyone not living in a big city was a rube? Just because someone works o... * ** List info, subscriptio... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Hardware Recommendations
Alex Lindsay who works at pixel corp has been around a long time...worked with lucasfilm on star wars for a time. I know from listening to macbreak weekly podcasts this is exactly what this video pro does. He has mentioned several times they have stacks of drives on a shelf each one labeled and read to go. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 9:29 PM, rocky lee wrote: The weak part of the tapeless system is that leaves open how to archive the footage. You transfer the footage from the memory cards to the hard drive, but then what? The memory cards get wiped and reused but then that leaves the footage... on a hard drive? The memory cards are better for workflow, but at some point I would want the footage stored on tape for long term. You get a stack of SATA drives and a toaster. Stick the drive in the toaster, move your files to it, pop the drive, put it back in its anti-static bag and file it. If you use 2-1/2 inch drives you can store a heck of a lot in a small space. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
On Dec 6, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Roger D. Parish wrote: If you are referring to reaching an SMTP server on the well-known port 25, most providers are restricting access to only those IPs on their own network, in an attempt to limit/reduce spam. Most are also permitting cross-network access to their SMTP servers if the access is authenticated, by submitting authorized credentials (usually your email address and password) to a different port (I obviously do not remember the port right now). Some are also supporting SSL-encrypted access, which uses yet another different port number. I posted about this last September. In August VZ decided to block port 25 and posted a notice in an obscure place where nobody would see it. They then implemented the block in a lackadaisical way so sometimes my email worked and sometimes it failed. This made tracking down the problem particularly entertaining. Now I'm using port 587 to reach the SMTP server on my ISP's network. It has been working fine since then. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Tony B wrote: You think a $4000 HD video recorder is an appropriate investment for entry into video production??? A business person would not do this. They might rent such a camera for a special need, but the ROI on such an investment would be terrible. Some people claim to be in business so they can justify purchasing toys. When going this route it is especially important to have rich, doting parents. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time. Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of data and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to hard drive starts to look better and better. I've had many hard drives fail, but not tapes, especially if we only use them once, then archive them. Besides, when a hard drive fails, recovery is tedious. When tapes fail, they don't fail entirely. Usually it's only one point. No biggie to lose a few seconds of video by repairing the tape. A failed hard drive will lose most, if not all of your data. When you record video on SD cards, is it always compressed? How about on HD or SSD? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
Formerly I was happy to have access over a different network that didn't relate to my primary ISP. This would be in keeping with my belt and suspenders approach to most technology. I reasoned that a backup strategy would be preferred in the event, etc. I absolutely understand network diversity, I'm a professional manager or supposedly so at this. But my perspective is necessarily limited by what I do and where I work. Any insight would be welcomed, this situation is a major pain. Are you referring to the gateway server, DNS, or mail servers? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
If someone that is buying hardware to record to HD media, and they are stupid enough to not back up, they deserve to lose their data. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:02 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time. Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of data and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to hard drive starts to look better and better. I've had many hard drives fail, but not tapes, especially if we only use them once, then archive them. Besides, when a hard drive fails, recovery is tedious. When tapes fail, they don't fail entirely. Usually it's only one point. No biggie to lose a few seconds of video by repairing the tape. A failed hard drive will lose most, if not all of your data. When you record video on SD cards, is it always compressed? How about on HD or SSD? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
Maybe not own it in the sense that you seem to have taken my statement. There's nothing wrong with the primary ISP. I just want the flexibility to adjust servers as appropriate. The dialup is valuable because it's portable, almost infinitely if that's not a contradiction in terms. Anywhere there's a phone line. Diverse routing has value. It's an eggs in baskets issue, why would one not prefer to distribute risk? I'm not ticked off at VZ, they are what they are. I'm mostly ticked off at RCN, at this point. They've made it impossible for the average user to implement a distributed server model. It's their way or the highway. Pretty high handed for a pissant cable company (that I actually like better than Cox or Comcast). * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
Mail servers. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:27:21 -0700, mike wrote: 2k has slightly higher resolution than 1080p you'd find on most widescreen tvs. 2k is 2048x1536 pixels...4k is twice that, so over twice the resolution of 1080p at 4096x3072...there are other resolutions that fit this class but you get the idea. Well, not completely, but it has to do with resolution, which is good enough. Thanks -- R:\katan - SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Print Problems
Uninstall and reinstall the printer you're trying to use? It's a corrupted dll from one of your printer packages. - Original Message - From: Barry Reff br4comp...@aol.com To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:08 AM Subject: [CGUYS] Print Problems Everytime I try to send anything to any printer, network or local, I get Spooler Subsystem App has an error and must shut down. Can anyone suggest a cure? brr...@aim.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
Mail servers. Within the past year, most of my email accounts have changed ports for both incoming and outgoing servers. Verizon changed for some, but not all of our email accounts: incoming.verizon.net - port 110 outgoing.verizon.net - port 587 SSL My Yahoo email through the yahoo.es, yahoo.co.uk, yahoo.ca servers have these settings: pop.correo.yahoo.es [pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk] - port 995 SSL smtp.correo.yahoo.es [pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk] - port 465 SSL I can use just the login for some accounts, but need to use the full email address for other accounts. I sometimes use Verizon SMTP for sending Yahoo mail. I can do the same with Google servers, however, GMail changes my ID to my GMail account address as it passes through their servers. Neither Verizon nor Yahoo do this. I also had to verify all the email addresses that would be using foreign servers before they would accept my email. It's fun when the 'foreign server' is also in a foreign language. Glad I didn't get the Greek or HK account. Betty * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:05 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: I also had to verify all the email addresses that would be using foreign servers before they would accept my email. It's fun when the 'foreign server' is also in a foreign language. Glad I didn't get the Greek or HK account. Google's translation service is quite good. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] silly Recommendations
Actually, this doesn't always apply to huge video files, which can take ages to copy. When it does, it introduces all kinds of workflow problems, and of course can double the expense as you duplicate drives. Nothing insurmountable, but not as simple as telling someone to back up their documents. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:09 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: If someone that is buying hardware to record to HD media, and they are stupid enough to not back up, they deserve to lose their data. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
Having two made it easier for me to figure out that it was VZ messing with my email. That would be the common factor, yes. I all ready know that they have certain policy elements that would tend to suggest that off network operation is not encouraged. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Program start OS X
By the way, if you go to System Preferences-Accounts and click on Login Items, you can see what's loading at startup and add or remove programs. I don't know a specific answer to the shortcuts question, but I think I read that more of this capability was added to Snow Leopard. Again, in System Preferences, take a look at the Keyboard and Mouse section and click on Keyboard Shortcuts. Reid Katan wrote: Is there any way--I'm sure there is--to automatically start a program at boot time in OSX? I've found my desktop clock solution for X.5*, and I'd like to have it start up at boot time. Also (I don't remember if I asked this already), is there a way to assign keyboard short cuts to start programs? Yeah, I know there's the Dock, but for me it's easier to poke out a few key strokes than it is to reach for the mouse, figure out where the cursor is on the screen, scroll it into position and aim. Especially if I'm using a track pad. Thanks. *SimpleFloatingClock http://www.splook.com/Software/Simple_Floating_Clock.html It has the usual features. You can change the opacity, add date, day of the week, make it digital or analog, 12 or 24 hour, you can add an additional time zone (a dot on the face that shows the hour of another time zone). Oops. I see a Launch at Login item on the right-click-menu (but I'd still like to know about programs start at boot). Probably the best feature though, is Pass Clicks Through so you can leave it on top of everything and still be able to click on the *useful* stuff behind it. It adds a clock icon to the menu bar that you click on to be able to access the clock itself. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Spys on Customers Finds 5% Unworthy, Gives Them the Boot
On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Tony B wrote: Until the technique is explained, there's not much to comment on. It's only half a story. The report on MSNBC says that swapping in a larger hard drive was enough to get you banned. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33866696/ns/technology_and_science-games/ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions
I would aver that Google Translate is getting better. Not yet quite good in Slavic languages and Hungarian. But a great help. --- On Sun, 12/6/09, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: From: tjpa t...@tjpa.com Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Server restrictions To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 4:29 PM Google's translation service is quite good. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Spys on Customers Finds 5% Unworthy, Gives Them the Boot
On Dec 6, 2009, at 9:09 PM, tjpa got this email that he sent: Date: November 11, 2009 8:09:07 PM EST This is quite annoying. But don't think I'm responding to ancient emails. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Program start OS X
Quoting Jordan jor17...@gmail.com: By the way, if you go to System Preferences-Accounts and click on Login Items, you can see what's loading at startup and add or remove programs. Thanks. That's good to know. I'm sure I ran across it at some point while I was looking around the System Preferences window. I don't know a specific answer to the shortcuts question, but I think I read that more of this capability was added to Snow Leopard. Cool. My Mini came with X.6 (X.5 installed and a disk for X.6) and after I get done playing around for a while, I'm going to wipe the system and install it. Again, in System Preferences, take a look at the Keyboard and Mouse section and click on Keyboard Shortcuts. I've looked through there and didn't see anything obvious. I'll look through there again. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Program start OS X
I type slowly and only take my hand off the mouse when necessary, so I'm no authority on keyboard shortcuts. But in 10.4.11 at the bottom of keyboard Shortcuts, it appears as though you can add Apps and maybe assign shortcuts to them. Just guessing. Reid Katan wrote: I've looked through there and didn't see anything obvious. I'll look through there again. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Program start OS X
OK, if you want it harder, go to Accounts in System Preferences, select your user account, click on the Login Items tab, and add your application there. This is also how you can remove login items if you want to (and the real reason I'm telling you this). From:Reid Katan ka...@his.com Subject: Re: Program start OS X Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Right click on the app in the dock and choose open at login. Okay, well that was just *too* easy. Thanks. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Spys on Customers Finds 5% Unworthy, Gives Them the Boot
Quoting t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com: On Dec 6, 2009, at 9:09 PM, tjpa got this email that he sent: Date: November 11, 2009 8:09:07 PM EST This is quite annoying. But don't think I'm responding to ancient emails. I've noticed what look like a few old threads re-occurring over the last couple of days. Must have been a few emails stuck at AOL? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Program start OS X
Quoting Jordan jor17...@gmail.com: But in 10.4.11 at the bottom of keyboard Shortcuts, it appears as though you can add Apps and maybe assign shortcuts to them. Just guessing. It looks to me (OSX.5) that those are for menu items within programs. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Speaking of 2.5 drives. . .
My Toshiba is claimed to have a 60G SATA drive in it. Assuming so, circa 2005 or so, can I put something like a 250G or more in there? I'm guessing that the SATA spec allows for such things. Or would it be more of a BIOS thing, and if so, how does one find what is supported? TIA * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Google Language Tools [was: Server restrictions]
chad evans wyatt escribió: I would aver that Google Translate is getting better. Not yet quite good in Slavic languages and Hungarian. But a great help. Google's translation service is quite good. I had a guest from Thailand staying with us last week. Her English is very good, but there are many words she doesn't know. I asked her if she wanted pistachio ice cream for dessert. Then I went to Google's language tools and translated it into Thai and showed it to her. She laughed. It was pistachio spelled phonetically using the Thai alphabet. We looked for a photograph that she recognized, the she told me that in Thai [translated again] it's called a smiling nut. I can forgive its mistakes in Thai, but it really should translate Spanish -- English better than it does. Surprisingly the Greek -- English is better. It's also handy in translating Russian, since I don't have the alphabet memorized well enough to use a dictionary. Betty * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ Spys on Customers Finds 5% Unworthy, Gives Them the Boot
I knew you were a secret neomicrosofticon. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Reid Katan wrote: I've noticed what look like a few old threads re-occurring over the last couple of days. Must have been a few emails stuck at AOL? Or we are being dragged into the past by the neocons. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Mac OS upgrade
John H. Davis glenwoodcompu...@verizon.net escribió: My G5 1.8 dual is getting a bit long in the tooth.At !0.39 it did everything I wanted it to but now several apps I want to update require 10.4 or later. Leopard is a better choice than Panther. It has new features and fixes bugs. One annoying thing is that my old printer has to use CUPS instead of its native driver--no big deal. AppleWorks still runs, but I had to replace Photoshop 7 with CS3. A recent TidBITS discussion list topic was Help finding 10.5 Leopard for my iBook G4 http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx?50@@.3cf5bc34, with this tip: Leopard is no longer available at the Apple Store but it is still available for $129 by calling Apple Phone Sales 1-800-692-7753. Yes, it's full price, but most other places charge more. If you have a student in the family, they might give you the student price which is around $69. Betty * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of 2.5 drives. . .
A 2005 computer should be able to handle a 250G drive. But I wouldn't assume it's SATA. You're going to have to open it and make absolutely sure before you order a new one. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: My Toshiba is claimed to have a 60G SATA drive in it. Assuming so, circa 2005 or so, can I put something like a 250G or more in there? I'm guessing that the SATA spec allows for such things. Or would it be more of a BIOS thing, and if so, how does one find what is supported? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Reformatted HDD --big problems still!.
Hi I rinally (for the first time) reformatted my HDD on my Dell Dimension E510. The procedure went surprisingly well, and I THOUGHT I had gathered all the software, drivers, etc., taht I needed. However, somebody said the drivers would be on the ereformat drive so I wasn't very careful about that I fear! So I can't find the proper sound card driver -- well, I apparently had it because the sound worked for a couple days but then I downloaded Service Pack 2 and now I have a couple issues: There is no sound. I've double checked to be sure the speakers are plugged in and I've looked at the Device Panel to see that my IDE High Definition CODEC has a yellow question mark and when I check it, I'm told that the device cannot start (Code 10). The troubleshooter wants me to uninstall it let the system reinstall it it seems to think all will be well. So I did that and it sstill doesn't work. Upon the found new hardware I'm asked for a disk and then we go back to grund zero. I have to suspect that this came about with the installation of Service Pack 2. And I have two other issues (that i had on my machine before the reformat) which are two error messages at atartup, having to do with my DLINK router that I use to access the Internet through my Comcast Modem. The messages are: AIRGCFG.EXE NOT FOUND (WLANAPI.DLL). The other one is WZCSLDR2.EXE -- driver not found in wlanapi.dll. Those two issues (and a couple more) occurred before the reformat after I onstalled Service Pack 2 on the machine a few months ago. No users except myself are in my little network- on the desktop and the laptop. So long as it's not hurting anything these latter two annoyances can stay but I really need to see what I can do to restore sound to my system. One of the reasona I wanted to reformat the HDDD was so I could get my Media Center up and running again and then watch TV through my Hauppauge USB Box. When iI first got this machine 3 years ago it worked beautifully but , sometime around the time I installed Service Pack 2, it stopped working, Of course until I can get sound it seems silly to test to see if I can get the TV to work NOW THAT i HAVE REFORMATTED THE DRIVE SO so I haven't done that yet. Any help/advaice/ etc you can provide will be MUCH appreciated. I'm eager to get this finished so I can get on with Christmas! Warmest regards, Gail Miller * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Reformatted HDD --big problems still!.
http://tinyurl.com/yggg4y6 That should link you up to the dell driver download page for the e510. Like a lot of dell products they have a couple of choices for drivers. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Gail Miller gail.mil...@comcast.netwrote: Hi I rinally (for the first time) reformatted my HDD on my Dell Dimension E510. The procedure went surprisingly well, and I THOUGHT I had gathered all the software, drivers, etc., taht I needed. However, somebody said the drivers would be on the ereformat drive so I wasn't very careful about that I fear! So I can't find the proper sound card driver -- well, I apparently had it because the sound worked for a couple days but then I downloaded Service Pack 2 and now I have a couple issues: There is no sound. I've double checked to be sure the speakers are plugged in and I've looked at the Device Panel to see that my IDE High Definition CODEC has a yellow question mark and when I check it, I'm told that the device cannot start (Code 10). The troubleshooter wants me to uninstall it let the system reinstall it it seems to think all will be well. So I did that and it sstill doesn't work. Upon the found new hardware I'm asked for a disk and then we go back to grund zero. I have to suspect that this came about with the installation of Service Pack 2. And I have two other issues (that i had on my machine before the reformat) which are two error messages at atartup, having to do with my DLINK router that I use to access the Internet through my Comcast Modem. The messages are: AIRGCFG.EXE NOT FOUND (WLANAPI.DLL). The other one is WZCSLDR2.EXE -- driver not found in wlanapi.dll. Those two issues (and a couple more) occurred before the reformat after I onstalled Service Pack 2 on the machine a few months ago. No users except myself are in my little network- on the desktop and the laptop. So long as it's not hurting anything these latter two annoyances can stay but I really need to see what I can do to restore sound to my system. One of the reasona I wanted to reformat the HDDD was so I could get my Media Center up and running again and then watch TV through my Hauppauge USB Box. When iI first got this machine 3 years ago it worked beautifully but , sometime around the time I installed Service Pack 2, it stopped working, Of course until I can get sound it seems silly to test to see if I can get the TV to work NOW THAT i HAVE REFORMATTED THE DRIVE SO so I haven't done that yet. Any help/advaice/ etc you can provide will be MUCH appreciated. I'm eager to get this finished so I can get on with Christmas! Warmest regards, Gail Miller * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
