Re: [CGUYS] Decent SIP phone

2008-04-12 Thread b_s-wilk
> Need a decent VOIP phone. > > Needs to take power over ethernet. > > Are there phones out there that people > really like? Or, not really like? Do you want a VOIP phone to use at home or VOIP for mobile phone? Vonage sells a VOIP home phone. Nokia has several mobile/VOIP phones [E51, N95, N8

Re: [CGUYS] Signs of the arrival of FIOS

2008-04-12 Thread Eric S. Sande
My guess would be the phone companies, realizing that demand for such a plan was likely to skyrocket, quietly worked with their congressional-critter friends to have it outlawed (in the consumer interest, of course.) Wrong. It's available, it's used. In the District it costs $3.00 a month. It

Re: [CGUYS] Gartner - Windows Collapsing

2008-04-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
>"Calling the situation "untenable" and describing Windows as >"collapsing," a pair of Gartner analysts this week said Microsoft must >make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a >has-been." I don't think the Windows fan boys will ever have such an epiphany. Instead it is more

Re: [CGUYS] Signs of the arrival of FIOS

2008-04-12 Thread Ralph
I remember seeing such a plan described, in the telephone directory, some years ago - It offered 50 calls a month (outgoing, unlimited incoming IIRC). My guess would be the phone companies, realizing that demand for such a plan was likely to skyrocket, quietly worked with their congressional-critt

Re: [CGUYS] Signs of the arrival of FIOS

2008-04-12 Thread Eric S. Sande
In the past I have tried to get info on this kind of service and found nothing. I wanted to get it for my 90 year old Mom who never uses the phone and should not be wasting her social secutity check on enriching the phone company. I think "lifesaver" is an urban myth disseminated by Verizon to

Re: [CGUYS] Signs of the arrival of FIOS

2008-04-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
> Personally I'ld suggest anyone >worried about losing connectivity after the UPS for FIOS runs out, get >or keep a 2nd line with as minimum a service as possible (look up >lifesaver line on Verizon's website for an idea of what I mean). Googling in "site:verizon.com lifesaver line" or "site:ve

Re: [CGUYS] Anyone get an email from Reunion.com saying someone

2008-04-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
>I can understand an Outlook or Thunderbird address book, but how does it get >the addresses from your GMAIL accountThey are stored on line aren't >they? How did they get into your Gmail account? Do you have your Gmail account password protected? Did you give them the password? I can't see h

Re: [CGUYS] Norton SystemWorks

2008-04-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
>You probably still ought to get a second opinion from a different >virus scanner. I suggest going to www.ubcd4win.com to get the fixings for a boot CD (that's "disc" withe "c") with several antivirus and anti spyware programs. Use it to build a disk image and update to the latest definition fi

Re: [CGUYS] Norton SystemWorks

2008-04-12 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
You probably still ought to get a second opinion from a different virus scanner. On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Christopher Range <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Duncan Yoyo wrote: > > > > Could be you are already infected and that is blocking Norton from > starting. Try an online virus scan

Re: [CGUYS] Anyone get an email from Reunion.com saying someone is searching for you?

2008-04-12 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
Reunion.com is a valid but annoying service. They are one of Classmates.com competitors. I've been signed up for years but recently they have been working it like crazy. They seem to have absorbed a search service and are pedaling that more vigorously. An old college GF searched for me last yea