Re: [CGUYS] paypal phish

2007-10-04 Thread gerald
I received an offer from paypal to get a PayPal security key for $5. I have security keys similar to these on my bank and stock accounts. https://www.paypal.com/securitykey I have been spoofed a large number of times by psuedo-PayPal emails, but never had an intruder that was noted. I have

[CGUYS] iMac memory

2007-10-04 Thread gerald
wife has a new 24 imac 2.4. she plans to do some video edit, and does have XP running on it. I have a 2gig chip coming(bought a wrong 2gig to start the week). will give her 3gig. will another 1gig (swap out the 1gig with a 2gig) improve performance much? by the way, I found an old copy of

Re: [CGUYS] OT:Cell phone do not call

2007-10-04 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
You may be able to get at those messages by calling yourself on a land line and accessing them that way. I can do that on my Verizon wireless phone. On 10/3/07, Sue Cubic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:19 AM 10/03/2007 -0400, Harvey Simon wrote Just one question, Sue. Do you ever try to reach

[CGUYS] PayPal Phishing warning

2007-10-04 Thread John Settle
Heard about this site and thought it might be helpful. http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/quiz/index.html Clear skies, John J Settle (longitude 76W 56' 30.34, latitude 38N 57' 22.06) * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND

[CGUYS] Tom Predicted That...

2007-10-04 Thread Alvin Auerbach
July 7, 2005; the Computer Guys on the Kojo Namdi Show Tom said: I'm expecting that somewhere down the road I'll be carrying an iPod that answers to the telephone ringing. I imagine it will not be long before you guys are carrying cell phones that play music. John Gilroy laughs at these

Re: [CGUYS] paypal phish

2007-10-04 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
They paypal security key is part of Verisign's open id program. If any of your other security keys are from Verisign you can use them with paypal and vice versa rather than getting a dozen of the things. The Paypal one is cheap at $5 You can learn more about the program from a Security Now

Re: [CGUYS] paypal phish

2007-10-04 Thread Judy Cosler
don't understand how this works.How does PayPal know what the security key is??? And, how did you get these for your bank and stock accounts? gerald wrote: I received an offer from paypal to get a PayPal security key for $5. I have security keys similar to these on my bank and stock

Re: [CGUYS] Tom Predicted That...

2007-10-04 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I'm pretty sure I had a cell phone that played music files by that time or at least within months of that date. I still do a VZ8100 which has stereo speakers on the top. On 10/4/07, Alvin Auerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: July 7, 2005; the Computer Guys on the Kojo Namdi Show Tom said: I'm

Re: [CGUYS] iMac memory

2007-10-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
I have a 2gig chip coming(bought a wrong 2gig to start the week). will give her 3gig.will another 1gig (swap out the 1gig with a 2gig) improve performance much? Hard to say in theory, but there is a way to check it in practice. With the Mac running in a typical manner, start Activity Monitor

Re: [CGUYS] paypal phish

2007-10-04 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
The security key creates password numbers using a clock in the key and algorithm that makes random looking non random numbers based on the time. These numbers are unique to your key and your account. Every 30 seconds you have a new one off pass-number that you use in conjunction with a password

[CGUYS] [Fwd: XP Lives Until 2010]

2007-10-04 Thread b_s-wilk
Original Message Subject:XP Lives Until 2010 Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:54:02 -0400 http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=455 *Microsoft extends Windows XP to 2010 * Microsoft had earlier announced the end of availability of Windows XP in retail and OEM

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-04 Thread chad evans wyatt
Betty - I am comfortable with several keyboard configurations (Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, French, etc). They are all available to me on my OSX platform (as they were in OS9), and I draw upon them frequently (flags in the menu bar activated). How does one go the extra step to embed, I thought

Re: [CGUYS] web hosting question from a newbie

2007-10-04 Thread gerald
register your own domain name. In the old days, register services acted like they owned the name, and made it extremely difficult to free the name. there is not much value in reregistering a name now, so the services do not fight so hard. I use godaddy.com. now that they sponsor racer

Re: [CGUYS] OT:Cell phone do not call

2007-10-04 Thread Sue Cubic
At 06:37 PM 10/02/2007 -0400, Robert wrote These were a snug pocket for watches on the right side of pants just underneath the belt -- all men's pants had them until about 1955. My father reluctantly had to switch to a wristwatch when the watch pocket was removed from pants. Is THAT what

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-04 Thread db
In order to control what gets put in a pdf and how, you have to use a full featured pdf tool like Acrobat Distiller. It let's you embed fonts etc while trading off with increased file size. db chad evans wyatt wrote: Betty - I am comfortable with several keyboard configurations (Czech,

Re: [CGUYS] paypal phish

2007-10-04 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 12:33 PM -0500 10/4/07, Judy Cosler wrote: don't understand how this works.How does PayPal know what the security key is??? Each key has an external unique serial number, which you must supply the first time you use the key to sign on. After that, they know from your user id what

Re: [CGUYS] OT:Cell phone do not call....tech pockets

2007-10-04 Thread Paula Minor
Robert said: Today, there ought to be a separate pocket in everyone's clothes each for the cell phone, the GPS device, the iPod, the subcompact digital camera, the pocket PC (if it still exists), the digital passport, and a portable radio/tv. I think I have missed an important device

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-04 Thread b_s-wilk
I use Adobe InDesign. InDesign gives lots of choices for export, including prepress, crop marks, compressing images, embedding fonts [default], compatibility with earlier versions of Acrobat Reader. Only Postscript fonts can be embedded [? maybe]. A PDF/X file embeds lots of extra information

Re: [CGUYS] Acrobat .pdf file durability

2007-10-04 Thread chad evans wyatt
Distiller, OK. I have that, and will learn to use that in my record-keeping. Thanks! Chad Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html

Re: [CGUYS] Oddball

2007-10-04 Thread b_s-wilk
I have an ancient 7500 Mac, and would like to have a last look at its harddrive before oblivion. Also have a G3 tower running 9.2, how do I do this? I haven't connecting wire to do this any normal way. Chad Wyatt Chad Connect the two Macs via Ethernet cable. Follow instructions to set

Re: [CGUYS] OT:Cell phone do not call

2007-10-04 Thread b_s-wilk
These were a snug pocket for watches on the right side of pants just underneath the belt -- all men's pants had them until about 1955. My father reluctantly had to switch to a wristwatch when the watch pocket was removed from pants. Is THAT what that little pocket is for??? I always wondered!