[CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts
From Steve Gibson (and his recommendation of a reply to read): The iPhone 4 Antenna Controversy: Given all the evidence, here's my theory in my most recent blog post: http://wp.me/pV3mA-22 -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help
Beeps indicate a hardware problem. Google your motherboard manual and the beep codes so you can interpret them. Or call the manufacturer for support. On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Marcio m...@ix.netcom.com wrote: My friends Guess what happened. When I needed my computer the most it froze on me. Then, when I tried to start it I got this continuing beeping without stopping. I put it off and after a few seconds it would start again alone with the beeps.I had to keep pressing the off button for while for it stay quiet. Waited for a few minutes, tried to start it the same thing What do I do? Many thanks Marcio * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] security softward - trendmicro - any information?
I like the free Comodo products. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Mother Geek g...@mothergeek.com wrote: Hi - I have a tech guru who wired my house who suggests dumping McAfee (even before last week's difficulty) and use Microtrend instead www.trendmicro.com Have any of you used this successfully? Is there something else you'd recommend? -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] McAfee vs. MS Security Essentials
Far better than those two choices is to run Comodo On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Alvin Auerbach alvin.auerb...@verizon.net wrote: Which is best for Windows 7: Run McAfee, run MS Security essentials, or run both? Thanks -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] FCC wants to measure
Sounds like a spam email to me. Especially with the tinyurl. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:33 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: The FCC Wants You to Test Your Broadband Speeds The FCC is asking the nation’s broadband and smartphone users to use their broadband testing tools to help the feds and consumers know what speeds are actually available, not just promised by the nations’ telecoms. http://tinyurl.com/yet2zns * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal
If I were those worried parents, I would start a movement to prevent the school from using any taxpayer money to defend themselves. That is the rip-off, not the class action lawsuit. It doesn't help anyone in that school district to pay lawyers. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Are USB Drives Dangerous?
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM, tjp t...@tjpa.com wrote: http://gcn.com/blogs/quick-study/2010/02/to-usb-or-not-to-usb.aspx?s=gcndaily_230210 Those little USB thumb drives are very helpful little critters for transporting data easily between one computer and another, you have to admit. However, they are also very useful for introducing malware into a system. That was that the reason the Pentagon banned their use in November 2008, declaring that “Memory sticks, thumb drives and camera flash memory cards have given the adversary the capability to exploit our poor personal practices and have provided an avenue of attack ... malicious software (malware) programmed to embed itself in memory devices has entered our systems. Why don't they simply ban Windows? I could easily put together a USB drive, especially a U3-type that presents as a CD drive, with stuff for Mac OS, Windows, Linux, and others. All you need is a curious but clueless user to mess up any of those Operating Systems. Plenty of stories out there about people losing a handful of USB drives, and finding 80+% of them were inserted in people's computers and clicked on, compromising the computers. People who wouldn't click on a dangerous web site are likely to think that the USB they found or borrowed must have something interesting on it. Just more user education, really. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Cell phone radiated power
For those who are Google-impaired and will no doubt complain: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/cell-phone-exposure-reverses-alzheimers-and-boosts-memory-mice On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:02 AM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote: There was a lengthy (for Popular Science) article on this this month. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:02 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:21 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Oh no! Here we go again. Microwave RF can most certainly damage human cells. If you can defeat the safety switch, stick your hand into a microwave oven and turn it on if you think this is but an urban myth. Of course, cell phones produce such RF at far lower power, but the FCC decided to limit the amount of RF absorption levels in the interest of public safety. Would cell phone providers like to be able to radiate at higher power levels? Probably so, because they could then get by with fewer cell tower sites if for no other reason. However, the FCC, in conjunction with the FDA, determined what was perceived to be a safe level and mandated that it not be exceeded by cell phone handsets. No one here on this list has said, to the best of my knowledge, that cell phone use has been proven to cause any health problems other than by killing and injuring folks when they crash their cars while using one or hurt themselves by falling over or running into things as they walk about talking or playing games on them. There is more than enough danger right there. The facts of the matter are as originally stated. Make you own decisions. If you want aluminum foil, be my guest. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * -- John Duncan Yoyo ---o) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Meat as an iPhone [iPad?] stylus
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:57 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: Snack sausages sales are on the increase in South Korea because of the cold weather; they are useful as a meat stylus for those who don't want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones. Leo Laporte thought this was crazy, shortly after recording Dr. Kiki's science show. He didn't have any sausage, so he brought out a cheese stick. It worked perfectly on the iPhone. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:55 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: Drawing problem: You need to draw some text, freehand, into a box that is 1/4 inch high by 2 inches long. Better results using a finger or using a fine stylus? I don't know if you realize it, but you are arguing for a large set of stylus/styli, just as an artist would have a large set of brushed for different purposes. You need: - a range of stiffness, from soft and bendy to fairly solid - a range of fineness, from blunt to superfine etc. What others are arguing, is that the physical nature of painting with a brush, or drawing with a range of pens and pencils, can be duplicated using a computer to change the characteristics of the single drawing implement you use. And therefore, the implement doesn't matter that much. You need something 5 microns away from something else? Change the scale to be microns or sub-microns and draw it that way. (Substitute inches or millimeters or whatever you want for microns.) Unless your fingers are, like Homer Simpson's, too fat to dial the phone. P.S. Your only real hope to convince someone is to say I don't like using X, I like using Y, and there is nothing else to say. P.P.S. Especially when there are artists who draw very detailed drawings on an iPhone with their fingers. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:06 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Still waiting for that example of fine brush work on an iphone.. I know that tjpa gets annoyed with people who can't use Google, but I don't mind. If you check through these first couple of results from a search like art on iPhone, you will see some that require lots of precision, along with many that are more impressionistic. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/5559769/Amazing-iPhone-Art.html http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2009/02/submissions_iphone_art And there are plenty more results you can find, if you are at all interested. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Gigabit Broadband To Your House?
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net wrote: You want private telecom to deliver universal broadband in the US, you are going to have to pay for it. My main complaint in this area is that there seems to be little money spent to refresh technology. The hardest part about Gigabit to the home is really getting fiber to the home. For Verizon to complain about how hard it will be to update their infrastructure to handle the increased traffic is a big load of cr*p. There is no reason for telecoms not to have kept up with technology at fairly low costs over time. We saw how the telecoms were complaining how much it costs to provide consumers with *the advertised bandwidth* (we thought they would only use 1% of it, so we could clearly pretend to offer a lot, sniff!). As so many have mentioned, if they put some of the profit to keep the infrastructure upgraded as technology improved, they would have higher profit today. But the executives who depend on stock price would have seen a tiny decrease in their compensation, maybe, so it didn't get done. Sad commentary. So now it is Boo hoo, we don't have multi-terabit optical switches anywhere, and it would cost us money to upgrade all at once just for consumers to get more bandwidth. Boo hoo, give us more money. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] win7 to phone home - comments?
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Andy Gallant a...@agallant.com wrote: Any comments or perspectives? - I suspect you already know what at least half a dozen people on this site will say. And how likely it is that you will get technical answers and comments on this list. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Gigabit Broadband To Your House?
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote: At 05:22 PM 2/11/2010, tjpa wrote: viz. previous comment on brainwashing. Why did you not bring up death panels? That's the surest way to keep costs down. The death panel is a Democratic Party concept. Only the name came from the Republicans. The Democrats had the concept buried in the Health Care bill in very obscure language, but they didn't succeed in hiding it from the public. Man, I almost snorted my drink through my nose. Either you have your tongue planted firmly in cheek, or you have had some sort of brain hemorrhage. You used to occasionally try to keep close to reality. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] A visit from NSA
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:54 PM, chad evans wyatt cewyattph...@yahoo.comwrote: Anyone know about this? New, or simply more transparency? -- WARNING: Due to a Presidential Executive Order, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant or notice. This is years and years old. Telephone companies as ISPs providing everything that went across their networks to the Feds. Terabytes a day. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Rootkits and earlier request for help from Gail
Hello, I just got an email with an ad for a free rootkit buster (I think from Trend Micro, based on the ad). http://free.antivirus.com/rootkit-buster/ I don't usually reboot into Windows, so I haven't had a chance to test this, but thought others might be interested. I'm sure we could all benefit from any experience trying to use this. Thanks. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] bug
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Christopher Range lcms0...@comcast.netwrote: When I am in Firefox and, I do a search on Google, when I click on one of the links in the search, it goes to an entirely different address than, the address shown with the link. What could be the reason for this happening? We don't have enough information, really, to tell you. Here are some possibilities: 1. You don't understand how the links are displayed in Google. 2. The link you go to is the same one, but it redirects you to another link. 3. There is some problem with your DNS. 4. You aren't really at Google, but a phishing site. 5. You have some malware on your system. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] bug
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Christopher Range lcms0...@comcast.netwrote: The address shown with the link, after the search, is not the address that comes up in the URL Locator, when clicking on the link. You claimed this earlier, but provided no evidence. Without any evidence, your answers to my questions are also suspect. Try this Google search: panjandrum continental Click on the first result, described as a Continental Army And tell us where you end up. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN
I beg to differ, fdisk /mbr is still used all the time to fix the Master Boot Record. I agree when it comes to doing disk partitioning - few would rely on fdisk for that any more. On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: Fdisk was rendered unneeded long ago. Since WinXP (or maybe Win2k?) the Windows install routine allows you to do all the partitioning you want. Without floppies or a floppy drive. A bit cumbersome, but it does the job. Gail, I hope you're ignoring 90% of what you're reading here. They're agonizing over old and nonexistant problems. Just reinstall the OS, doing a full format if it makes you feel better. On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 8:25 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Dec 23, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Stewart Marshall wrote: The old utility Fdisk would really come in handy here. He has to wipe out all partitions, seen and unseen (that is why Fdisk) to get rid of this monster. Yes it would. Scroll back on this thread to where I posted about the Ultimate Boot Disk. I has lots of malware fighting tools including a DOS command line. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] RAID Revisited
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Like I said, you've never had to work in enterprise level areas. You need a LOT of I/O when 300 users are all hitting the same sql database, reading and writing to it all at once. A hard drive? The network would grind to a halt and no work would get done. Except that modern benchmarks don't show any appreciable performance improvement from RAID. Maybe 1-3%. It used to be a huge difference when hard drives were slower and more expensive. And please don't use enterprise as if it were an example of good engineering. I work at the enterprise level and have for years and I see more stupid things done by big enterprises with big IT staffs than in most SMBs. So many people there want to use the old, reliable methods. Even when it no longer makes much sense. Remember when this first came up? It was mostly because organizations like Google and Amazon (cloud, EC2, etc.) can't afford to use RAID any more. Too expensive, too unreliable, too many failures, and not much benefit, even potentially. Enterprises can certainly afford to do their own benchmarks. Have your enterprise done one lately? In fact, if you want high availability and high performance, you are either massively redundant, like Google, or not even having hard drives in every machine. Too much work to replace a machine with a hard drive in it with little benefit. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days
My wife was working for a company that had ported its database to the IBM PC. So we got a loan from the credit union and bought a PC for $5,000. It had: - 10 MB HD (but we saved money by adding one to a PC, not by buying an XT) - 640K of RAM (maxed out, and more than $1000 of the price was bumping it up from 64(128?) K) - Ergonomically superior orange on black monitor with Hercules graphics card to do graphics, like pie charts and such. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days
At work, we had a nice lab. An Apple Lisa (got the Mac when it came out later), Amiga (already did graphics and true pre-emptive multitasking), then one of the first IBM PCs. I don't know how much that cost, but it had *two* cases. A *huge* cable connected the two, and there was an additional hard disk in the second one. On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:54 PM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote: I got to work on the original 128K MacIntosh under System 1. My favorite app was the font editor. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS?
Stewart, I don't know where you shop, but I have not seen even *one* netbook being sold with more than 1 GB of RAM, and many with less. Maybe you are confusing regular notebooks and netbooks. On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Earlier machines were thought to have enough ram on them, but then found out they did not. I think most first machines had 1 or 2 gig on them. Later machines started being out fitted with 3 GB as standard. (My sons Dell came with 3 GB, and the one I bought also did.) But this is much like WinXp machines that came outfitted with 256 and 512 GB of ram on them. I just added RAM to an older WinXP machine that they said was running slow. It only had the minimal amount of ram in it. Stewart -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS?
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: Quoting Gail Miller gail.mil...@comcast.net: 1) How would he get rid of a boot sector virus? Brian says that a format should take care of it. Make sure he's formatting and doing a *clean* install. *Then* install anti-virus, *then* install that warez program he's using. (: I don't know about Win 7, but XP and earlier would sometimes do a quick format behind the scenes during a reinstall. Thus leaving the boot sector untouched. Maybe Win 7 has something equivalent to the old fixmbr program to reload the master boot record and wipe out anything else there? Just a thought. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Physical vs. Virtual
I agree with Mike. I do all my Windows stuff in a VM inside Ubuntu, and it works much nicer in 64-bit, IMHO. But here are some other thoughts. a. Another option is to look at VMware. The newest Virtualbox (3.0?) is very nice, but you can also do a lot with free VMware products like vmplayer. One or the other will have some feature you like better. I am pretty darn sure VMware can give a VM direct access to hardware. I have only done this with like an EVDO modem or the like. b. Both Virtualbox and VMware also support some sort of direct integration, where you don't have to be in the VM, but just running an application from the VM on your Ubuntu desktop. This seems just right for running one key application like video streaming with IE. c. Have you ever tried to see if Wine can run your IE video streaming? That might be the best performance overall. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Physical vs. Virtual
?? Using 32 bits gives you the ability to directly address up to 4 GB of memory. Many OSs will do the same thing that Windows does - namely, reserve address space for graphics, BIOS, etc. Not that you couldn't use all 4 GB, but not directly. But my experience so far is that you might need to do a little more work with the 64-bit OS, but you aren't prevented from doing everything you want. Unlike a year ago. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: No, 4g is the limit for 32 bit Windows. To use most versions of Windows with more than 4g you need to go 64 bit. This is not a hard limit, it's a business decision by MS. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Michael Fernando michael@gmail.com wrote: (I must run 64-bit OSes, at least as the host OS, to take advantage of all 4Gigs of memory, correct?) -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] US Military Ignoring Encryption
Among the many trade offs involved: You will only get half as much bandwidth for video if you encrypt. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: All he other data feeds are encrypted. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] LG Flatron W2053TX driver disc problem
You might try: http://www.lge.com/us/support/product/support-product-profile.jsp?customerModelCode=W2053TX-PFinitialTab=documentstargetPage=support-product-profile On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Christopher Range lcms0...@comcast.netwrote: I had to re-format my hard drive and, when I tried to install the driver, from the driver disc, it told me the disc was damaged. When I went on LG's website, I couldn't find, where the drivers are located. Any help would be appreciated. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Google free DNS
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote: Who would you rather have tracking every IP address you visit? OpenDNS? Google? Certainly not your ISP, they are much lower on anyone's list. When I first read the subject line, I was hoping that free modified Google as in Google doesn't have its hooks into this. Google is a Democrat conspiracy to track everything anyone does on the Net. Fred, good one. I laughed pretty hard about this. As if there could ever be a Democratic conspiracy about *anything* - first they would have to work together on something. Remember, you can always ask the ISPs, since they already provide all kinds of things to government and business. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] christmas lights
I know you can load multiple addresses and have it plot the route. Then you can change the order yourself to optimize. You may not know that determining the best route takes exponential time to work out. Check out the Traveling Salesman problem in Wikipedia or Google. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:42 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: OK...silly holiday question. If I have a list of addresses, is there a way to load them into google maps and have it tell me the best route? Best scenario I can load this on google maps on my phone.. Any ideas appreciated. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Will Postfix talk to Thunderbird?
Postfix doesn't do POP or IMAP, just SMTP and such (AFAIK). http://www.postfix.org/addon.html shows several options for Postfix addons to do POP/IMAP. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:37 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: I need a dumb demo of sending and receiving email on a Mac (Unix) that is not connected to a network. I have Postfix running fine. Can Thunderbird pick up mail from the var/spool/postfix folder or do I need to add something? Telnet localhost 110 does not connect. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of flash drives
Google U3 Removal. There are ways to get that space back. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jordan jor17...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new to flash drives. The SanDisk flash I have loads a separate volume called U3 System which is clearly meant for Windows users. Is there a way to get rid of this on the Mac? -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Small computing devices
So what do people think about the Zipit Z2? Especially with Linux on it. http://www.target.com/Z2A-Zipit-Wireless-Messenger/dp/B00115PR2O/sr=1-1/qid=1209333723/ref=sr_1_1/602-3094878-8595003?ie=UTF8index=targetrh=k%3Azipitpage=1 http://hunterdavis.com/archives/201#more-201 -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] USB hub question
Constance, I think you are violating list policy by actually answering the OP's question. That has been my experience, too. Perhaps because my powered USB hub has lights to indicate which ports are in use. Perhaps not. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote: When I tried to make a USB hub with a power supply work WITHOUT the power supply--it wouldn't. Period. As we all know, computers are weird, devices are built to different factory specs, and almost anything is possible in the wonderful world of electronics. However, I would never buy a powered hub on the expectation that it might work without plugging in the power supply. --Constance Warner On Sep 21, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Fred Jones wrote: Hi Guys - I would appreciate some info. I was wondering if a USB hub that comes with an AC adapter would work without the adapter? I was wanting a NON-powered USB hub for use with a laptop, but I was thinking if the powered hub would work both ways then it would be better to buy a powered hub. Thanks for any information. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: Ubuntu 9.04 Installation]
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rob robfl...@ix.netcom.com wrote: When I choose to boot Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Splash Screen appears and I get the following: Boot from (hd2,0) ext 3 eb309597-f711-458-b3b7-0a281dae6281 How many hard drives do you have in the system? (hd2,0) means the first partition on drive 3 (hd0 is first hard drive, hd1 is second). When it is booting, you can use the arrows to select one, then press 'e' to edit. I would try changing (hd2,0) to (hd1,0) or (hd3,0) and see if that works. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: Ubuntu 9.04 Installation]
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Vicky Staubly vi...@steeds.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Rob wrote: Installation Attempt # 2 Again, the installation appears to be proceeding normally to the external 500 Gig drive with Grub installed to HD0. Once again, after installation completes and the machine is rebooted the following is observed: GRUB Loading Stage 1.5 GRUB Loading, please wait Error 2 My only alternative is to reboot using the Super Grub CD to run XP. Would anyone have any ideas what may be going wrong here. BTW the Ubuntu CD I am using came from Linux Format magazine so it was not downloaded or burned by me and I have no reason to suspect it is faulty. Is your internal hard-drive IDE or SATA? I ask because Linux seems to assign both USB and SATA drivers as pseudo-SCSI (i.e. /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.), and I'm wondering if your external drive might be showing up as /dev/sda during install, but as /dev/sdb when you're trying to boot from Grub on the internal drive. When booting from the Super Grub CD, can you get into a shell? If so, cat you send the contents of /etc/grub.conf (or grub.lst which I think is what Ubuntu uses (I use Fedora)). And maybe /etc/fstab? Vicky has the solution for you. I have done this half a dozen times or more. The order of the drives when you boot from CD is different than when you boot from the HD. The trick is to figure out the change needed, which is why Vicky is asking for the contents of files. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Sharing Thunderbird
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, johnmen...@aol.com wrote: We have nine computers tied together that can all access a Dell that stores all of the data for my company. Is it possible to install Thunderbird on the server and have access by anyone to a unique address book stored with Thunderbird and be able to send email from the server using Thunderbird? I understand that there will probably be a restriction of one user at a time, but that is acceptable. 1. Typically, Thunderbird will store settings and email and newsgroups for each user in user-specific folder. 2. Sharing a central address book is usually done by having an LDAP server that Thunderbird will use to look up addresses. Or something similar. 3. You could store Thunderbird on a server folder, and each user would be running it on their own computer's memory. So no real restriction on one user at a time. 4. You could probably push out the Thunderbird settings for the central address book, the SMTP server, etc. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Invisible folder tag
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: Realistically? Win98, WinME, WinXP. But also maybe Win95 or Win7. Ken was pointing out that we know what OS the OP is using - MS Windows. What you should have asked was something like I figure you are using Windows, but what version? -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Wolfram Alpha
Tom, Answers.com has been doing this for a couple of years. I don't know the details, but they often give context for the answer. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Actually Google is already doing something close to this. You can put queries of that type into Google Spreadsheets and it often does return an answer. Having this capability in a spreadsheet makes the results even more useful than what Alpha is described to be. However both Alpha and Google's feature suffer from a problem of context. When I get a number I want to know where that number came from so I can judge the quality of the answer. I also want to check that the computer is actually answering the question that I think I'm asking. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Make Disk Image In Mac OS 10 Use It In Win XP; How Can I?
Alvin, I am confused. Not sure I can figure out what you are trying to do. So, here is my guess: 1. The netbook has no internal DVD drive, and you don't have an external one you could hook up. 2. You want to make the DVD available as a DVD to the Windows XP netbook. 3. In which case, you are correct that XP, unlike the Mac or Linux, can't natively mount a disk image (usually distributed as a .ISO file for cross-platform compatibility, or many other formats that are used by specific software or the like). 4. I don't know enough about Windows to say if there is decent freeware to do this. I know there are products out there you can buy. Probably a Google search, or someone more knowledgeable on the list. 5. I suspect that if you just transferred the file structure to the netbook hard drive, that it would more or less act the same as if you had mounted it as another drive. So that may be worth trying. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Alvin Auerbach alvin.auerb...@verizon.netwrote: I purchased a MSI Wind U100-432US netbook, mainly for use as a jukebox using iTunes. [It works great!] I've never had a Windows machine before, having used Macs since they were a Lisa. There is a data DVD that came with the netbook, that I'd like to put into the netbook. I tried using both Mac OS 10.5.6 Disk Utility and Toast 7 to make a disk image compatible with Wind XP, but nothing I've done seems to work. Can someone please tell me how to do this? The Help file in XP has nothing about disk images. Does this mean that unlike the Mac, in which the OS makes, mounts, and reads disk images; that XP has no native support for disk images, and external software must be obtained? Could it be that the disk images that I made were okay but XP didn't know what to do with them? BTW, I've been transferring files from the Mac to the netbook using a Transcend 16 GB SDHC card [14.96 GB formatted]. It came with a reader, which I use with the Mac, and the netbook has a built in reader. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] wireless - no WEP or WPA / no VPN / SSL
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Fred Jones fredjone...@softhome.netwrote: I am trying to advise my Dad about using his laptop while traveling, but I am still confused about using a wireless connection in situation where no encryption is available. Here is the scenario I am trying to understand: Traveling and using a wireless connection in a hotel Hotel does NOT provide WEP or WPA encryption No VPN is being used No protection at all so far. My Dad's webmail account thru network solutions has an option to use SSL for logging in to email. Whenever you use SSL/TLS: the traffic between your computer web browser and the web site you are talking to is encrypted. Mostly on the Internet, the server keys are used in each direction, because most Internet users don't have their own keys. The tech told me that transmitting username and password is protected using SSL while logging in, but all else would be in the clear. Your Dad needs to know what to look for. If the web site continues to start with https://;, then the traffic is still being encrypted. Sometimes just the login page, sometimes all the email. It could change at any time. Also, your browser will usually have a lock icon on the bottom somewhere. Is the tech correct or will the username and password be able to be picked up in the clear since no encryption or VPN is being used? HTTPS protocol uses SSL/TLS to encrypt what is going between your browser and the web site. How can transmitting anything over a non-encrypted connection without using a VPN be protected even if using SSL to login to an account? see above. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Why Apple Will Prevail
Tony, Tony, Tony, I have tried to ignore your useless rants, but this one caught me. If you don't understand how going from 8% to 10% is a 25% increase, I am even sadder. I thought you had some small amount of technical knowledge. This is basic elementary school stuff. The market is divided into 100 shares, each 1% of the total. Stevie started with 8 of them, and now has 10 of them. What was the percentage increase in Stevie's market share? On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: Ah. So a 2% increase in share is a 25% increase in your fantasy world? On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: So you are bad at math too? 8 -- 10 is a 25% increase. 2 is 25% of 8. 8 + 2 = 10. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] The Cloud
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: Implementation of cloud computing hasn't really been possible until recent broadband penetration. But you insist on talking about 'many years' as if you've been avoiding a cloud by choice all this time. One can certainly quibble about the cloud, but distributed computing, where you don't have to know where the computing is taking place, and it could take place anywhere in the world (or Solar System), is a very old concept. Scientists have implemented this for many years. Fifteen years ago I was involved with grid computing where you sent off executiable code to be executed somewhere else for you. Even before that there were other efforts to use many different computers across the world. You don't really need broadband for cloud computing, unless you need fast interactive responses with lots of graphics. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] cut and paste a pdf
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:52 AM, gerald ger...@slawecki.com wrote: what is the easiest way to get a quote from a pdf into a microsoft cut and paste format. i want about half a page from a 250 page document. i do this fairly often. I didn't see anyone mention the Snapshot Tool in Adobe Reader. Sometimes you don't really have to have the text, just something readable in your document. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Fw: Help with installing new Extermal HDD
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Gatewayone gmil...@gatewayone.com wrote: The drive does not show up in My Computer. So, following the instructions in the leaflet that came with the case, I went to the Device Manager and there it is -- the Western Digital drive (along with the internal drive and a second external Maxtor drive). But it does not show up in My Computer. Gail, Typically drives sold for internal use are not formatted. You can partition and format it in one of the Manager areas. Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management, then go to the Disk or Storage area. Once you see the drive there, right click and make it one partition. Then right click and format it NTFS. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Mac Mail: Redirect vs. Forward
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote: Tom is saying Jeff pulled a 'Tom'. Bingo. In fact, Jeff's Tom rating is currently 100 Toms and going up. Tom remains the yardstick at 1 Tom. And, as Jordan noted, the best approach is to delete the posts of everyone who has a rating higher than 10 Toms, unread. Once you get in that range, there is no longer useful content to accompany the ranting. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2009 - Special issue
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah...more FUD from Tom about windows. Big shock... Windows has that little control panel where you can turn off updates. He might not have realized you have to do more then just yell at it. Well, Mike tries harder to spread FUD about Windows. Makes the threads less about technical issues and more about FUD. Anyway, turning off Windows Update in the Control Panel works most of the time. Microsoft decides to ignore that setting from time to time. To *really* turn it off, you have to make Registry changes and regularly scan the Registry to make sure the value(s) is still correct. At least that's what many big organizations do for their Windows machines. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Zunepocalypse
Besides, most people expect Microsoft products to be bricked from time to time. As Chris and Jeff noted, not a big deal to be bricked by Microsoft. It usually doesn't last forever. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Zunepocalypse
Latest news is that the software glitch should resolve itself on Jan 1. We'll see. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Usage terms
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net wrote: I do not use them for storage at all. But note the limit of 5GB of downloads a month! Quite low. I read that as a limitation on Newsgroups: Clearly they don't want anyone using binary newsgroups. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Linux Drivers
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Stephen Brownfield steveei...@verizon.netwrote: I am about to enter the Linux world by installing Ubuntu on my wifes old PowerBook. Is there a central place I can look for drivers or do I have to go to the manufacturer's website? Any other advice as I enter this world? I would Google Ubuntu and the PowerBook model for the experiences of others. My guess is there will be no problem, but each type of computer has its own possible issues. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Linux Drivers
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Stephen Brownfield steveei...@verizon.netwrote: I am about to enter the Linux world by installing Ubuntu on my wifes old PowerBook. Is there a central place I can look for drivers or do I have to go to the manufacturer's website? Any other advice as I enter this world? The other advice is to try booting off the Live CD for a Mac. You can see if there are any pieces of hardware not immediately detected, before doing the install. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] External Firewalls
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Judy Cosler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are they necessary? desirable? recommendations? I would recommend the Astaro gateway, from www.astaro.com It is free for home use and does more than just a firewall. It is on my list of things to learn about, putting it on an older computer. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Vista Hosts file query
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: ::1 is the IPv6 equivalent to 127.0.0.1, always the local machine. Does this mean the Vista's IPv6 implementation leaves something to be desired? Does -what- mean that Vista's IPv6 implementation leaves something to be desired? If having IPv6 addresses in the hosts file causes problems (at least sometimes) in Vista, it implies that you have to be careful with IPv6 in Vista. Just having localhost in your hosts file should not cause any problems. So it seems like this is one of those times where there is probably some bug in Vista related to IPv6 - one of those that may be hard to duplicate. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Vista Hosts file query
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: There was a thread on Mac-L a while back where people were having some slow internet response times that were fixed by disabling the Configure IPv6 in the Network control panel of Mac OS X from Automatically to Off. Does this mean the OS X's IPv6 implementation leaves something to be desired? Probably. My guess it is similar to the problems various Linux versions had as well. It turns out that having IPv4 and IPv6 coexist together is tougher in practice than most people thought. I expect Vista will figure it out soon. I know a year or so ago, it was a reasonably big problem for Linux. So I expect that Vista is just 6 months to a year behind OS X and Linux in working out the IPv6 coexisting with IPv4 issues. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] winCE wifi settings
Like any other complicated question, the answer is going to be it depends. Good information from Stewart. Here is my summary: 1. Security protection mechanisms need to be weighed against risk. 1.a. If there are sophisticated people nearby who might want to use your wireless network (maybe you are in an apartment building with lots of computer users, next to a college dorm, or have other concerns, then you need more protection. And it is not just using your network, but seeing the traffic going by, like bank passwords and accounts. The latest WPA is probably required, then. 1.b. If there isn't much nearby, and you don't worry about people parking near your house with laptops to capture your data, then WEP is probably good enough. 2. As others have already noted, you can only have one security mechanism per household router. 2.a. If you end up only needing WEP, you should be able to connect your handheld and your laptop to the same wireless router using WEP. 2.b. If you need WEP for the handheld and WPA for the laptop, then you will need two wireless routers, one for each. 3. My handheld with Windows Mobile (don't like it much, but can live with it) has a section on setting up an Internet connection. You may have to type in the hex characters directly. I set up the WEP on the router, cut and paste from the web interface into a document, then put the document on the SD card for the handheld. Then cut-and-pasted it from there. But this doesn't always work. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Acer beeping
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to get back to business, does anyone know which set of beep codes is used by Acer? This site may have some clues: http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/laptop-support/163870-acer-aspire-5100-three-beeps-no-screen-boot.html I recommend the original poster count carefully and look for text that may indicate whether it is AMI, Phoenix, or some other BIOS. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34091576500ref=mf * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] How to forward email message to gmail?
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Thunderbird at work. They don't enforce quotas with Thunderbird. The work email account is IMAP and when it contains more than 50 MB it is shut down at the source. IMAP still lets you store messages on your hard drive. Just create some local folders and drag the messages you want to a local folder. Now they are on your hard drive and not on the email server. Instead of erasing all my old messages to stay underneath the quota, I want to store them by sending the old messages to gmail for storage. As I said earlier, you can set up a message filter (Tools, Message Filters) for items of high priority only and have the filter forward the messages to your gmail address. Then, select a bunch of messages, mark them as high priority, then go into Tools - Message Filters and run the filter now. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] How to forward email message to gmail?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to find a way to forward multiple email messages from my work email account to gmail for storage. By this, I mean that I want the messages in gmail to appear listed individually in the same way that they are received in my work email. If there are common elements, you can set up a filter on your inbox and then select Run Now. If there is nothing normally in common, you could mark them all Highest Priority (Or Lowest) and then set up a filter to forward all messages with that priority to your gmail address. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] terabyte
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I buy a 1tb external usb drive, will it have the same 120gb limit due to my motherboard or what? No it will not. An external drive comes with its own disk controller in the drive's box. You are not using the controller on your motherboard so those limits do not apply. However, you OS may also place limits on addressability and those limits would apply. In fact, I saw a recent article on this. Infoworld or CNET or something. The writer went back to his original XP disc to reinstall on the new 1 TB drive. Apparently, the original XP could not see anything bigger than 120GB or so. So he had to create a slipstreamed XP disk with SP 2 on it. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Rv: Selection of Browser to Print Entertainment Cou
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What serious problems? Perhaps you have not looked at it recently? Or maybe you are reading reviews written by WFBs? Safari is fine. The same code base (Web Kit) is also used by Google's Chrome. What's a little carpet bombing among friends? Found: 67 Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=safari Nope, no security problems here...nosireenothing to see folks...move along... Are any of those unfixed? Frequent security patches is the sign of a good product you can trust. It is the vendors who don't patch quickly enough that leave their customers in horrible shape. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] RAID Risks Rising
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Larry Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done that with computers. But with a car? Wow... you must really be one of the Glitterati to be able to send a car back because you made a mistake... Haven't you heard of a lemon law? Many jurisdictions implemented them for the very purpose of making sure that a poc could be returned. And it was specifically because of cars. I would think that if you documented a computer blue-screened on you several times a week, needed to be rebooted every day or two to get decent performance, etc.; you should qualify under the lemon law to return it. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] RAID Risks Rising
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really cause it won't make any difference in your opinion of RAID. Z Well, the more evidence people post on here that RAID is less and less useful, riskier and riskier, the more you hew to your RAID is best approach. Perhaps you just need to stop reading the mounting evidence, since it won't change your opinion. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] LCD monitor problems
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I suspect the graphics card (or video component of the main logic board), John. Have you tried connecting one of these monitors to I would, except I can't turn them on any more. Not even the light that shows it is plugged in goes on any more. John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] LCD monitor problems
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would, except I can't turn them on any more. Not even the light that shows it is plugged in goes on any more. Was there come larger conflagration at your house that you neglected to tell us about? Good question. But the answer is No. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] LCD monitor problems
We had an LCD monitor just turn off and not go on again about a month ago. Looks like it is cheaper to replace than repair. We just got a new one, different manufacturer, and within three days, the same thing happened. I Googled around, but didn't see anything specific. Both were plugged into the surge protection part of a UPS. Could it be the computer connection? Some power problem getting through the UPS? Any ideas welcome. Thanks. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The auto industry will have to undo decades of pushing the concept that driving is an enjoyable experience and is part and parcel, perhaps even most of the reason for choosing one car over another for purchase. That'll be a damn hard sell, in my opinion, and perhaps almost impossible to accomplish. What auto industry? Are you even paying attention? -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] just one..
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the technology to deliver gigabit speeds. And I do it, but the cost is way out of line with what a typical residential user is willing to pay. ... As far as the infrastructure, I am building out as fast as I can. Y5,985 is about $54.00 US. I can't do that right now and make a profit. Not every business needs to cover all the costs right away. Sometimes business invest for the future to get the technology or infrastructure and recoup those costs over a year or three. Unfortunately, that kind of approach is not appreciated much in the current short-term business view. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 21 Sep 2008 to 22 Sep 2008 - Special issue (#2008-629)
You have a laptop computer question, and I have some for you! Ha! 1. Will they need to move around with the laptops, or will they be 90% tethered to a desk? (Battery life is more or less important depending on your answer.) 2. Will your students need to do fancy things, like rendering video, playing demanding games, etc.? (Because if so, that changes the answer. Many students can get by with Internet, Office Applications, IM, etc.) Becoming much more popular with students nowadays are the mini laptops that have 5+hour battery lives and can last them the whole school day without plugging in (more or less). And many of those run Linux, which will be around forever and can be upgraded free of charge, if needed. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Richardson, Sharon Y. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, It's me again with a laptop computer question. Background: Family CURRENTLY has a Dell desktop computer (purchased circa 2000 or 2001) running Windows XP (don't groan - entire family is used to it by now). We're happy with this Dell (and we're coping with Windows - we were a Mac family prior to this purchase and don't ask why I have a PC because the answer would take all day). There is a high school senior in the family and a brand-new middle schooler doing some high-school level wok in a specialty program. Because both girls NEED the Internet to do their papers/projects, and because I don't want folks up till all hours trying to do homework and projects and papers, hubby and I are planning to purchase each kid a laptop computer. Situation: We're *probably* going to go with Dell laptops for both girls BUT I don't want Vista on them because I want seamless integration with all of their previous work that was created in XP, plus all of their school work (e.g., they start the work in their respective schools - that are NOT running Vista, believe me - and then are expected to complete the work at home). Further complication is that I want an operating system that will get said high schooler laptop through next four years of college - will Microsoft support XP through 2013??). Are colleges universities running Vista? Now I know that the platform is becoming less and less relevant, and I can't wait for that day because then the whole family is migrating BACK to Macs (desktops notebooks). But we're not there yet, and I need some advice so Santa knows what to order for these two kids, and where to take the presents to get Vista OFF and get XP (or something) ON. Help!! Sharon in Woodbridge P.S. - While you're at it, I'm thinking of installing a wireless hub (is that the correct term?) in my home so that these two laptops can wirelessly communicate with our DSL (through Verizon) and our printer. Any suggestions on an inexpensive, SECURE way to set this up run/maintain it? -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Why Small business's and Non_profits buy PC's
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Rich Schinnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It also makes it much easier to hire IT support people as the ratio is probably 1000:1 of PC-MAC in the local hiring market. Check out Craig's list or the classified. Also many NP's just throw away machines as they crap out beyond repair. Many non-profits depend on second hand donations for a lot of their office equipment and computers. I have not worked with non-profits for the handicapped, but I have worked with other non-profits - about half of them supporting education in one way or another. Second hand donations of computers is not an issue. Clearly those computers will perform better, with fewer support calls, etc. if they are set up with Linux. And then you don't have to worry about whether software licenses were donated with the computers or not. Tech support is a reasonable issue. Especially when you can't afford to hire expensive people, or maybe anyone at all, making do with whatever your staff knows, plus their friends or family who are tech-savvy enough. Plenty of times after I stopped working with a non-profit, they switched back to Windows for tech support reasons. Sure, they had more problems, but they could find someone to help. Sometimes the volunteer tech support messed everything up and they had to start from scratch again. The more people who are educated on FOSS (Free Open Source Software), the better everyone will be, including small businesses and non-profits. I think of these situations as having a rusty, leaky pipe that brings water into your building. You have someone who knows how to wrap more duct tape around bad leaks, and you live with the small leaks. Sure, it would be great to replace the pipe with PVC or something, and it would be cheaper in the long run, but when you can't find the capital to invest in the first place, what can you do? -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Another RAID data point
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:23 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can serve 30 users on a 400 dollar box? Send me those specs.. Well, you have to identify how those users are being supported. Is it an email server? A database server? A file server? Are they all using Remote Desktop to run all their applications there? Are they editing documents on the server directly? If you can identify the use, people on here can answer you better. 30 users running programs on their PCs that access a central database regularly can be supported on a MySQL or PostgreSQL machine with 2 GB RAM, dual core, enough disk storage. You can certainly buy something like that new from Dell for under $400, on sale. Servers generally don't need dedicated monitors. If you need it for files that are networked to local PCs as the Z: drive, and the users are editing the files (in Quicken or Word or whatever) directly off the server, then you don't even need that. 1 GB RAM will do just fine. I once setup an old computer as a file server, a couple of years ago. It had 256 MB RAM and maybe a 100 or 250 GB hard drive. I added another network card because network I/O seemed to be the bottleneck. It wasn't used 24/7, but when new versions of the files stored on there were available, over 100 users were accessing it simultaneously, though just to download. Still being used for that purpose with no discernable impact on the users. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Why Small business's and Non_profits buy PC's and W
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:40 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get what? Why is it impossible that there are actually people who don't mind...in fact prefer to use windows? It is not impossible. No one said it was. In fact, it happens to be the case. Among those people who have tried 2, 3, or more different operating systems on the desktop, very few still prefer Windows overall. There are niche areas where Windows wins - if you want to play Crysis, or Far Cry, you will prefer Windows over Linux or Mac. And rightfully so. But overall, for many of us, seeing people use Windows is like seeing them spend money on lottery tickets. Often the ones who are doing either one can afford it the least. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Another RAID data point
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:38 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is the options given in place of RAID have cost more. Well, it depends on what cost you associate with losing data and down time. I still don't believe that extra servers are as expensive as you think - they don't need to be as high powered as the one server for everything approach you like for small businesses. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Update
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Kelly J. Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: When I originally dragged and dropped my data from my Linux partition to the external drive (formatted FAT32), I dragged folders that were created in Linux ext2 but that contained .doc, .txt, .html, .pdf, and .jpg files. When I subsequently saved my Windows folders to the same external HD, they must have overwritten the folders created in ext2. I assume that if I had simply copied all the files, sans folders created in ext2, to the HD, this might not have happened. Doesn't matter what file system the files were on originally. You wrote to the FAT32 drive from both Linux and Windows. There could be more esoteric reasons (like you turned off the hard drive while writing was still happening), the most common reason why the files would be overwritten is because they have the same names. FAT32 is not case sensitive. You are probably safe booting from the hard drive since this is an external, but you might also want to have a few bootable CDs, like the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) or Trinity Rescue ( http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1front_id=12), or one of many others - you should get some good recommendations here. I downloaded TestDisk at http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Downloadand got the version for Linux ext3 to install in Ubuntu 8.041 . The filename is testdisk-6.10.linux26.tar.bz2 and I downloaded it to my Desktop. Ftrom there, I'm stuck. Although everyone says it's easy, I don't have a good track record untarring tarred files. Some step-by-step advice about untarring and installing, begining with Step 2 (Step 1 being Turn on your computer - I got that covered! grin) would be greatly appreciated. 2. Boot to Ubuntu and log in. If you are comfortable with the command line, here is a set of steps. Some of these steps you should do as root, but I forget which ones. If any of them don't work at first, replace x with sudo x and type in your own password when prompted. 3. Start a terminal session (I forget the exact command in Ubuntu, but it should be under System or Utilities, might be called terminal or console). 4. I like to install software in /opt, but it is up to you where you install it, maybe under /home/kelly or the like. In which case mkdir /opt followed by cd /opt 5. Copy the tar file to /opt. cp /home/kelly/testdisk-6.10.linux26.tar.bz2 /opt 6. Untar it - it should create its own directory. tar jxvf testdisk-6.10.linux26.tar.bz2 7. Look for the new directory - it should show up in your screen since I added v for verbose, but just see what you have anyway. ls -l 8. Change to the directory. cd testdisk-6.10/linux 9. Choose whether to run photorec (recover photos) sudo ./photorec_static or testdisk (recover partitions) sudo ./testdisk_static You know, I just looked there, and I don't think it will do what you want, either one. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Making Video Settings Stick
Historically, the refresh rate supported is determined by the monitor. When LCDs first came out, they were limited to operating at 60 Hz. LCDs don't do the same kind of refresh that CRTs do, so it is less of an issue (in theory). I have seen LCDs that support higher refresh rates, but I am not sure what the difference is (to human eyes). On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: manual states max res is 1680 x 1050. so i set the ati card to run at that res. the ati CCC panel only shows 60 hz at that res. when i try to find the specs for my ati card, on the ati website, i get Supports a maximum resolution of 2048x1536 @ 32bpp for an answer. i don't think this tells me anything about the refresh rate at 2048 or 1680. i checked a few other video cards, and refresh rates at a particular resolution does not seem to be speced any more. am i missing something -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Replication (was Re: [CGUYS] Back ups on computer i
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no possible, it is. I suppose someone would run their SAN/NAS as a JBOD (just a bunch of disks), but all that does is give you a little extra storage at the cost of fault tolerance for the drives. Better to have the best of both worlds, if you can swing it. RAID has some possible uses nowadays. Sure. Let's see if we can recap. 1. Those with just a little money or those with a lot of money generally find that the risk associated with hardware RAID is not worth the expense. The small benefit from a possible disk drive failure is far outweighed by the huge risk from a RAID controller failure or any related hardware failure that makes the RAID disks useless. (Just try taking the RAID disk drives out of one machine and putting them in a new one.) 2. New computers spec'ed to just act as a NAS or database server are pretty darn inexpensive. You don't need lots of RAM or fast CPU as a rule (as always, YMMV). Because of this, in most cases it makes more sense today to duplicate storage on multiple disks and computers - not just multiple disks in one computer. Again, if you do the cost-benefit analysis, you have started moving away from RAID in one machine. 3. Large installations, like Google Ad-Sense, go ahead and use software-RAID (for increased reliability and portability) on the distributed computers. Bottom line? 1. RAID controllers fail, causing complete data loss and useless disk drives. Huge risk for small benefit. 2. Software RAID has fewer parts to fail and the disks can be read on other machines. 3. Distributing data among multiple computers and disks is affordable for even the smallest businesses. And it is the current best practice. 4. Backups are always important no matter how you are increasing availability through redundancy. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] LHC
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Vicky Staubly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, mike wrote: Would we have to deal with Al Gore's company selling black hole offsets? Or worse yet, Bush claiming that the black hole is a natural phenomenon, so we don't need to do anything about it. :-) Or Bush could send troops to the black hole, in accordance with previous policy. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Back ups on computer if backing up on external driv
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After all, you want to protect against not just disk drive failure, but also computer failure. Of course, but that is a luxury we can't afford. When you are poor(er), you learn to tolerate risk at a much higher level and deal with the consequences, knowing the risks. That is the point that most people are dealing with today, and that Tom keeps emphasizing. If the likelihood of a computer failure is close to the likelihood of a disk drive failure, how do you minimize the risk? It used to be that disk drives failed ten or a hundred times more often than computer systems. But now they are roughly equivalent - hard to determine which is more likely in general. So spending even $200 on a RAID controller and the same on extra disks just for RAID, is probably not the best way to minimize risk to the small business today. Small businesses are better served by off loading risk among multiple computers, not relying on just one computer with a RAID controller. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Replication (was Re: [CGUYS] Back ups on computer if backing up on external ...)
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Michael Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Any pointers/URLs for how-to documents would be much appreciated. Here you go: MySQL replication: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html http://www.howtoforge.com/mysql_database_replication http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3355201 NAS replication: http://www.techieindex.com/techie/whitepapers/wp_details.jsp?id=580 Plus, check the documentation for any particular NAS product, whether commercial or open source. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Back ups on computer if backing up on external driv
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 5 TB NAS, but only one. You do realize that you don't have to buy a dedicated NAS, but can build one yourself out of any old computer that can run Linux. Same for a MySQL server. For a small business, I would generally recommend using computers they would otherwise discard and set up two, replicated MySQL servers for a reliable database that won't stop if one computer or one disk drive fails. You could do the same thing with two older computers that still work reliably, setting up replicated NAS. After all, you want to protect against not just disk drive failure, but also computer failure. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] miserable was: Re: [CGUYS] Chrome Reflects A Deskto
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Questions to ponder: 1. Did MS make changes in Vista just to annoy customers, or were there good reasons? Some parts had good reasons. Others were simply to have something new, to justify the people who count the number of new features (instead of actually evaluating the new features to see if they are worthwhile). Many find the new UI changes hard to learn and unnecessary. 2. If MS is (rightly) criticized for Windows security, and it makes change to improve security, and because of that a small number of programs that insist on running in an insecure way no longer work, is that a good reason to criticize MS, or would the criticism be better leveled at the software vendors? It depends. There could have been changes made that don't stop quite as many programs from working. Or compatibility modes that trick the old software into thinking it is doing something unsafe, but it really isn't. 3. If a software vendor won't provide updates to work with improved Vista security, is that MS's fault, or is it the vendor's? Does the vendor care about its customers, or is it just trying to sell new stuff? Again, it depends. Largely, it seems that MS felt as you do - who cares how many old programs are broken, they can fix their software to make it better. But not every software vendor has the resources to make the kinds of changes that MS wants for Vista. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Chrome glitches?
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am developing a web site. I found that Chrome -- I downloaded just for testing -- apparently does not recognize the embed statement in html. While embed is not standard html, it is how audio and video gets played on a web site. Firefox, IE, and Opera all recognize embed. You mean that is how it gets played without any action on the person's part. It is a shame that people still try to do this kind of thing - no audio or video should be allowed unless the person browsing the site wants it. This is a huge feature plus for Chrome. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] miserable was: Re: [CGUYS] Chrome Reflects A Desktop In Decline
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:06 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it miserable? Saying it doesn't make it so. No, tens of millions of people saying it tends to have its own weight, though. Over and over again, people using Vista (who also used XP) complain about how much worse it is. And this is even with new computers designed to handle the extra requirements of Vista. I don't understand the defense of Vista - have you worked with people who use it? I have worked with many who have it on home computers, since businesses are pretty much staying away from it. All of them find it much harder to use than XP, and even those who adapt after awhile, still note that they end up with more problems and annoyances than they did with XP. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] miserable was: Re: [CGUYS] Chrome Reflects A Desktop In Decline
Like everyone else, I am entranced by Ms. Palin. And since McCain can't be expected to last more than a few months as President, that is the way to go. Look at all the millions who loved her convention speech. More seriously, Vista desktop could well be a complicated issue. I have not studied it in depth, and defer to your expertise. I don't have any personal experience of someone preferring Vista on a brand new machine with plenty of CPU, RAM, and graphics power. But this is just a sample of about 35 +- 3 people. And there isn't any literature or studies out there I have seen that indicate that Vista is not a failure. And I am not alone with this kind of experience. Of course, I can't argue with your knowledge - it's true that none of the home users I have worked with have Ultimate or Business. I stand corrected. On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I did not know you were running for office- the inflation and hyperbole always sounds so nice- but it's BS. Where are the tens of millions; as a matter of fact, where are the millions. Please announce your political party- I want to avoid it like the plague, since facts are not germane to your discourse. 1. the problem is that MS persists in selling too many flavors. Home Basic SUCKS. Business and Ultimate are good. 2. 64 bit wins hands down over 32 bit. If you have 32 bit, you will suffer (not as much with the Business and Ultimate versions). Eschew Obfuscation This is a reply from: Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. Financial, Managerial, and Technical Services for the Professional, Non-Profit, and the Entrepreneurial Organization 703.548.1343 voice 703.783.1340 fax From thinking to doing, from sales to profits, from tax to investments- we are YOUR adjuvancy -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John DeCarlo Sent: 09/07/2008 4:58 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] miserable was: Re: [CGUYS] Chrome Reflects A Desktop In Decline On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:06 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it miserable? Saying it doesn't make it so. No, tens of millions of people saying it tends to have its own weight, though. Over and over again, people using Vista (who also used XP) complain about how much worse it is. And this is even with new computers designed to handle the extra requirements of Vista. I don't understand the defense of Vista - have you worked with people who use it? I have worked with many who have it on home computers, since businesses are pretty much staying away from it. All of them find it much harder to use than XP, and even those who adapt after awhile, still note that they end up with more problems and annoyances than they did with XP. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Backing up desktop
Your desktop is on the C: drive. So you are almost certainly backing it up already. On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Michael S. Altus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PC computer running Windows XP. I have BounceBack software that directs a C-drive backup to a Seagate external drive. How can I get the desktop to be backed up up as well? -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Linux - it's not just for breakfast anymore
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Linux and OSX are daughters of Unix. Unix was not designed with security as a priority... Well, Very true about Linux. OTOH, OS X is built on Berkeley Unix, which was designed with security in mind. For years and years, it was the most secure and well-built OS. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] No Ghosts (Maybe Spooks)
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:13 PM, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the key words that set off an ISP to block email? The real question is, what kind of uneducated users block mailing lists that they subscribed to as spam? http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-yahoo_alert_trues_biggest_crisis_ever.html -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DVD's vs. External hard drives for archiving
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This part..maybe your terminology is confused..you say they get more realiability with 'redundant disk arrays then with RAID'. Just a point of order, RAID *is* redundant array of independant disks. But RAID is a specific technology. Having multiple, redundant drives does not require using RAID. My understanding is that Google doesn't use RAID technology for anything but that one project (Adwords). While for their search indices and Gmail and the like they simply store multiple copies of the data. Then if one fails, the other copies are still there. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DVD's vs. External hard drives for archiving
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:50 AM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what does company with database access needs and 25 users do to keep as much up time as possible? Depends on the budget, etc. And what the requirements are. A hardware RAID controller has many problems - you have to make sure you have multiple identical controllers, in case it fails. I would guess that something like Google does for Adwords would be fairly reasonable. Software RAID that simply does mirroring - RAID 1 - would be useful, and not dependent on proprietary hardware. The biggest risks are with RAID that does striping or uses a hardware RAID controller. But they will get much higher up time by using Linux and running MySQL or PostrgeSQL, implementing high availability, like data replication to another server, etc. The blog seems to be splitting hairs, instead of hardware RAID on one machine, google seems to be employing hardware RAID across multiple machines. Just because they aren't using specifically expensive hardware RAID controllers, the writer admits google still uses software RAID. I guess you didn't have enough time to read it. It specifically says that Google uses software RAID for Adwords. And that Google uses no RAID at all for any other storage, like for Gmail or for indexing the Internet. Better to have multiple machines and multiple disks - they are relatively inexpensive. If one disk or one machine fails, there is zero impact. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] iPod - Zune
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: My daughter's iPod croaked and she wants to replace it with a Zune. The only problem is her enormous iTunes library. I don't know anything about iTunes (other than that the Windows version crashes constantly). Can she Zune her tunes, or are they locked in the iTunes library forever? It depends. If all her music is in MP3 format, and when it was imported into iTunes, the originals were kept, then she can import all those MP3 files into the Zune library. I am not an iTunes expert, though. There may be ways to export to MP3 whatever is in there, so only DRM would be an issue. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Registry Error
Tony, First you say not to rely on data being on your hard disk. While you did not use numbers, you said: Bytes on hard drives disappear all the time. and just restore last night's image You are implying that you can expect hard drive errors every day. Note: you did not say that exactly. You have to admit that Tom's response to bytes on hard drives disappear all the time was pretty reasonable (No, they don't). You should both be able to agree that losing data on a hard drive is not predictable, but shouldn't happen even once a year per hard drive - unless there is a serious problem (lots of power spikes, hard drive hit end of life and is failing, etc.). Therefore, you can probably both agree that when a file gets messed up in Windows, the odds of it being a hard drive failure (losing bytes on the disk) is miniscule compared to the myriad other ways Windows can get messed up. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DVD's vs. External hard drives for archiving
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:46 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but the logic behind the statement isn't that RAID can have problems but that all RAID is less realiable then just single HD's. Which is ridiculous. No, the logic is that relying on a single hard drive is, for most situations, less likely to result in data loss than relying on a RAID array. There are more failure points in a RAID array, and more catastrophic failure conditions. A RAID card is more likely to fail than a single hard drive (well, shorter MTBF). It is always the case that the more components you have in a system, the higher the chance of any one of them failing. Really, the main point is that for most people, RAID is more likely to result in data loss. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DVD's vs. External hard drives for archiving
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:38 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this being true...why do companies rely on RAID for keeping data safe? Multiple reasons. Inertia is one of them. For instance, Maximum PC has advocated RAID with super-fast disks for gaming performance. Then they did a benchmark test within the last year or two and found that RAID didn't really help as much as it used to. They still often use RAID in their high end machines, but some of them admit that inertia is the main reason. Here is an interesting blog, and you can check the earlier postings as well: http://feedblog.org/2007/06/08/yes-jeremy-raid-really-is-dying/ Today, places with modest disk usage requirements, like Google, get better performance and reliability with redundant disk arrays than with RAID. Google doesn't use hardware RAID at all, period. Which of these people are right about RAID today? You decide. Some people say RAID is still useful for now and for the next three years or so. Others say it lost to other technologies a year or two back. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Excel on Mapped Drive
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Jay Montero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a bit of a puzzler with one user on a LAN for whom it takes 30 seconds to open a particular Excel file on a mapped drive. If I copy it onto her desktop, it opens in a flash. Her coworkers, with same PC specs have no problem. This is a Windows/Novell network setup. Any ideas? I had a problem with Windows and an often-accessed network share. Windows had cached information (you can see this in Explorer when you go to My Network Places and it shows you recently or often accessed network shares) that got corrupted. I would unmap the drive and reboot, then remap and try again. If more drastic action is needed, you will have to search through the Registry and remove all references to the shared drive, like recently accessed documents, my network places, etc. Then reboot and try again. Of course, it could be something completely different. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DVD's vs. External hard drives for archiving
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, backups and archives are different. Archives are accessible. Backups are stored where they are completely protected by an air gap or better -- at least one set should be. Why not just add another network drive or two for the archives? If appropriate, keep the archive drives turned off unless someone needs them. One accesses network drives directly, not on/through a server, or at least such drives exist in many forms. Not that it matters (why would I spend time answering an important question? g), but Typical use of the terms by storage experts is along these lines: Online. Files accessible immediately. Could be local, could be a network drive, could be a SAN, could be on a web page, but immediately accessible without any other steps. Archived. Not immediately accessible. Requires some step to make it accessible. Again, could be stored on almost any kind of media, from tape to DVD to hard drive to SAN to whatever. A request is made to make the archived files or data sets available online for a period of time, so the user can access them. Offloads files which are no longer accessed regularly, reducing load on the online file storage systems. Backup. A copy of some files or data sets that can be used to restore the originals in case of a problem. Orthogonal to the first two. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] AntivirXP08
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Frank Sestir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My brother in law did a video update from CNN this morning and ended up with AntivirXP08 problems. Does anyone have a simple cure? Is this really where the problem came from? Any help in ridding this from his computer (short of reinstalling WinXP, etc) would be appreciated. Sorry, don't know. But it sounds like he got one of those spam emails claiming to be a CNN Alert. Should tell him not to click on links in emails. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora 8.0 beta in Vista
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is what you are saying that Eudora 8 isn't Eudora at all; it's Thunderbird with a Eudora hood ornament? From the README.TXT that comes with Eudora 8 beta: Whereas Eudora is a branded version of Thunderbird with some extra features added by the Eudora developers, Penelope is an extension (also called an add-on) that is used in Eudora and can also be used with Thunderbird. The Eudora installer includes the corresponding version of Penelope along with it so there is no need to install Penelope if you are installing Eudora. Most features in Penelope can be accessed when used with Thunderbird, but there are a few that require Eudora in order to work correctly and it's not something that gets tested. Sometimes in documentation there is a need to differentiate the older versions of Eudora made by Qualcomm from current Thunderbird-based versions of Eudora. This will normally be done by labeling the older versions of Eudora as original Eudora or Classic Eudora. The main web page for Eudora/Penelope can be found at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way some would view secularism as its own religion. And some view Creationism as science. Neither view can stand on its own, not being self-consistent. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sociology 101 Morals = Ethics. In practical terms, ethics have guiding principles, while morals have no need for a basis or any consistency. Thus, morals are more often associated with religion than anything else. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The problem is that often there just isn't enough context to realize that the person is trying to be humorous/ironic/sarcastic. In Yes, I think this is exactly right. Email, forums, listserv posts, IMs, and the like lack the cues and/or the space to ensure that the reader knows you're joking. I resisted emoticons for many years before I came (somewhat reluctantly) to this conclusion. I mostly resisted emoticons because of the need to memorize them and their interpretations. So for years I did things like this: wink, grin, rant mode onrant mode off. I still prefer that approach, but no one likes to type any more. Agree that icons make it a little easier, but they go overboard, too - what does the smiley face with a hat on at a rakish angle mean about the text just preceeding it? angry old curmudgeon mode off -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
