[CGUYS] WinXP Freezing

I've got a Windows XP Pro computer which freezes when left idle. Any ideas why this should suddenly start happening? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em

[CGUYS] another type of google map

Heard this on FM oldies radio. Interesting. http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php /gayley knight businessherway.net * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows XP

My backup problem may affect few today, but I think that it will become more common as hard drives expand their capacity and people use their computer in greater ways. At present, I think that very large SATA hard drives of 1 Terrabyte (does Windows XP support these?) or BluRay disks are

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

I wonder what would be left of Yahoo! if MS did gobble it up. The services offered by Yahoo! and MSN are for the most part identical. It would make no sense to offer identical services for very long. So MS would be paying $45 Billion to merely eliminate a competitor. When that happens would

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

The head on today's NY Times story is A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is and it reads like an obituary. Curiously, Google is not always my first choice for search. Many times I go to Wikipedia instead. In my book Wikipedia is #2 in search.

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

My backup problem may affect few today, but I think that it will become more common as hard drives expand their capacity and people use their computer in greater ways. At present, I think that very large SATA hard drives of 1 Terrabyte (does Windows XP support these?) or BluRay disks are the

Re: [CGUYS] OS 10.5 Firewall question and recommendations for a

The cable modem should be connected to a router. This router will provide NAT to allow you to connect multiple computers and also acts as a hardware firewall. Such routers cost $50 to $200 depending on features. The same router can also provide you with WiFi. Since you have a Mac an Apple

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

Why will timemachine greatly reduce it? Mike On Feb 2, 2008 12:38 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My backup problem may affect few today, but I think that it will become more common as hard drives expand their capacity and people use their computer in greater ways. At present, I

[CGUYS] Remembering 01-31-07

Make magazine got a comment from one of the artists: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/mooninites_from_one_of_th.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE -

[CGUYS] RSS reader for Firefox?

Any suggestions? Thanks, Jeff Myers * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name *

Re: [CGUYS] RSS reader for Firefox?

Sage is generally regarded highly as a plug in for firefox. I don't use it myself but have used it in the past. I prefer to read rss in thunderbird for that wholly email experience. Mike On Feb 2, 2008 3:58 PM, Jeff Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions? Thanks, Jeff Myers

Re: [CGUYS] RSS reader for Firefox?

Jeff Myers: Any suggestions? There is the collection of plugins for Firefox, I can live with the RSS Ticker, Simple RSS Reader (SRR) and the Wizz RSS Reader, which are all available from the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox URL or at least I think that's the right URL. If you click

[CGUYS] Word XP and 2007

I just came accross this surprise. Sent a Word XP file to another computer and the Word2007 was not able to read it... There must be a way... Many thanks Marcio * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following

Re: [CGUYS] Word XP and 2007

Two things: They may not have installed the filters for bringing in older formats. Also note MS did a real stupid (idiotic, dumb, fill in your best derogatory term here) and disabled the ability to bring in older formats in a recent (within the past month or so) and you must download and

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

Why will timemachine greatly reduce it? Mac's TimeMachine uses a filesystem technique called Copy-on-Write (COW). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write Say you created a file 5 days ago and haven't touched it since. That means all the daily and hourly backup snapshots of that file have

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

When that happens would the public and advertisers migrate to the MSN product or the Google product? This particular public will certainly be migrating to the Goolge product. I've spent a *lot* of time avoiding Microsoft products except for OSes because I'm too lazy to learn Linux and too