Re: [CGUYS] flash

2008-05-03 Thread Tom Piwowar
What I didn't understand was that the pages referenced below were pages that controlled options on my computer. Now I understand - thank you all. This is triple scary. First, you are going to a web site that displays controls for making changes to your computer. There does not appear to be any

Re: [CGUYS] flash

2008-05-03 Thread Tom Piwowar
A simple but hard (for me!) to find link to Test Adobe Shockwave Flash Players is: I don't know why Adobe makes this very useful page so hard to find. I have never seen a link to it on any of Adobe's Flash pages. I keep a bookmark to this page, but when I don't have the bookmark handy I have

Re: [CGUYS] LCD monitor question

2008-05-03 Thread Tom Piwowar
Well, I agree with you in principle. Some things DO last almost forever. Or have a service life that is is measured in many decades. Are you referring to CRT monitors? It really pains me to be discarding so many 10 year old monitors that were working just fine and replacing them with LCDs

Re: [CGUYS] Cash in the EU

2008-05-03 Thread Tom Piwowar
I think my atm card limits to $300 per day per atm visit while credit cards have $500 limit but that may be varying depending on the bank issuing ... www.xe.com will get you Euros and deliver them to you at your home at a pre-agreed midmarket rate which is not 2 bad ...of course, you need to be

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox and PDF

2008-05-03 Thread Tom Piwowar
Interesting, since most people and references on this indicate the opposite problem is most common. I hate having it slowly display and eat up Firefox resources. People who say that puzzle me. A web server that does page-serving (e.g. Apachee) will display the first page of the PDF very

Re: [CGUYS] LCD monitor question

2008-05-03 Thread mike
I know samsung has some. Mike On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience is that 3+ years is pushing it as far as backlights are concerned. That's the most common failure mode as far as I can tell. At that point the monitor can be repaired but it's