Re: [CGUYS] Female gamers

2007-05-04 Thread Jeff Wright
But I've seen very few (well I have seen some but it depends on who you hang out with) women who will obsess over hardware tweaking to the extent that guys will, I never talked with a woman who would eat Ramen for a month to achieve a marginal video card upgrade. Only a month? Bah!

Re: [CGUYS] Female gamers

2007-05-04 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jeff Wright wrote: But I've seen very few (well I have seen some but it depends on who you hang out with) women who will obsess over hardware tweaking to the extent that guys will, I never talked with a woman who would eat Ramen for a month to achieve a marginal video card

[CGUYS] USB Flash drive

2007-05-04 Thread Stewart A. Marshall
I have been given a chore. The JROTC department at the local high school has a USB flash drive. Somehow the end (Connector) of the Flash drive has been broken off, and they need to recover the contents of the flash drive. What I have considered doing is opening the Flash Drive, and getting

Re: [CGUYS] Comparing Mac and PC laptops

2007-05-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
Best to see what the professors are using. Ask what software they find the most valuable and make sure she can run that. My son, with a BFA and MFA in theater and a number of stage productions to his credit, is a Mac user and is convinced that all the best software for the stage runs on Macs.

Re: [CGUYS] Landscape Object in Word

2007-05-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
I followed the instructions in Word: select pages - format - document - page setup - landscape icon - OK - apply to selected text. Are you sure you did the last step, this is critical. To repeat: 1) In the Settings pop-up menu select Microsoft Word 2) In the Apply... to pop-up menu select

Re: [CGUYS] USB Flash drive

2007-05-04 Thread Josh Byrd
it sounds like it should work keep us posted on how it goes. On 5/4/07, Stewart A. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been given a chore. The JROTC department at the local high school has a USB flash drive. Somehow the end (Connector) of the Flash drive has been broken off, and they

Re: [CGUYS] Mapping a folder

2007-05-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
I inherited a folder on one of our network drives that was created maintained by 2 ex-co-workers. There are 1,750 files 160 folders. I found stuff all over the place, with not much rhyme or reason. I've tried using PrintFolder to print the contents of the folders, but it won't show the

Re: [CGUYS] Switch from dial-up to broadband

2007-05-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
The place where I work, a small shop, is moving to broadband from dial-up. As this new broadband hookup will use the ethernet port previously used to network two computers for point-of-sale purposes... Most broadband routers include a 4 port hub/switch. Will that suffice? The two POS

Re: [CGUYS] Comparing Mac and PC laptops

2007-05-04 Thread Paul Meyer
I recommended a Linux laptop but given that she is studying management, you really want something that runs Excel, and unless you are going she is comfortable doing something like Codeweavers to support windows programs (vmware or a dual boot setup for the hard-core), you probably have to go with

Re: [CGUYS] Switch from dial-up to broadband

2007-05-04 Thread Paul Meyer
Here, here. Wireless is a pain in many ways. Btw, don't use WEP it can be hacked. Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hardwired has a whole lot less problems involved than Wireless. Too many things can and do interfere with Wireless. If I could I would rather do a whole house with

Re: [CGUYS] USB Flash drive

2007-05-04 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I finally had a chance to take the flash drive apart. The connector was literally taken off the board. I might be able to solder the contacts, connector back on to the board itself and get it to work. I will sit down when I have the time to do this and not feel rushed. Otherwise I will

Re: [CGUYS] USB Flash drive

2007-05-04 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I googled fix broken Flash drive and here is a wonderful website that gives me the info I needed. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/267 Stewart At 04:16 PM 5/4/2007, you wrote: I finally had a chance to take the flash drive apart. The connector was literally taken off the board. I

[CGUYS] Landscape Object in Word

2007-05-04 Thread Harvey Simon
Stupid me. For some reason I was looking for the text to be rotated, the way it looks, e.g., when it's rotated in Preview. Instead the page itself rotates and you have to just notice that the margins changed; the text doesn't appear as though it's changed orientation, though it has. So I

Re: [CGUYS] Switch from dial-up to broadband

2007-05-04 Thread Steve Rigby
On May 4, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Most broadband routers include a 4 port hub/switch. Will that suffice? I am not really in the loop as pertains to decisions in this situation. I am asking these questions just to see if the powers that be are going to make the right

Re: [CGUYS] Switch from dial-up to broadband

2007-05-04 Thread Steve Rigby
On May 4, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: hardwired has a whole lot less problems involved than Wireless. Too many things can and do interfere with Wireless. If I could I would rather do a whole house with prewired outlets in rooms, than doing wireless. Also note so that you

Re: [CGUYS] Comparing Mac and PC laptops

2007-05-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
SSD is going to be expensive for a while. HHD is more interesting in the short term. With memory prices dropping the hard drive cache is increased to as much as 1 GB. This shouldn't add much to cost. Of course the data loss will be much worse when computers crash. First, you may want to wait

Re: [CGUYS] USB Flash drive

2007-05-04 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Would that it be so easy. This one pulled the contacts straight off the PCB and all that is left is spots where the contacts were soldered. I have salvaged all the contacts, so will attempt to solder them back on (after having soldered the wires to them) and connect it, get the data off of

Re: [CGUYS] USB Flash drive

2007-05-04 Thread db
If you heat that chip up, there is a chance you may wipe the memory... I am not sure but I would think twice about soldering directly... Have you thought about holding probes firmly to the contacts while someone else salvages the data? db Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Would that it be so