On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:33 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
I wasn't arguing that if you offered someone a free Mac but said
they could
never use Windows again, that they would switch immediately.
My point was that while there are people afraid to switch or just
don't have
the time to learn
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bugmenot doesn't store your personal
logins now, does it? I use it to log in to the odd site that still
demands logins just to read a blurb, but those have mostly disappeared
in the last couple years.
You are correct, but no these types of bozos haven't
You are correct, but no these types of bozos haven't disappeared yet.
Bozos like the Washington Post. It is sad that the best newspaper in the
area has such backward online management. All that Post seems to be able
to do these days is round after round of staff cuts.
The folding Palm infrared keyboard is quite nice to type on but the
infrared would rule it out. Other manufacturers make blue tooth...
does the eepc have that?
db
Constance Warner wrote:
I tried a full-size folding USB plug-in keyboard and it worked, but
the more gear you have to carry
Steve, good point. I agree that getting someone to switch from one thing to
another is generally difficult. That's where Microsoft makes their money.
Microsoft Office is a good example - I run into businesses that say they
don't like Office that much, but they have to have it for compatibility
Thanks for checking, but did you try Satellite mode?
No matter what zoom level I try, it gives me the we don't have that zoom
level message.
Tony B wrote:
Working real snappy here. Try clearing your browser cache.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has
Hmmm, I don't recall seeing that commercial. Are you sure you aren't
confusing it with the Microsoft Corp in your head?
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve, good point. I agree that getting someone to switch from one thing
to
another is generally
I think it is blue-toothless.
Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org
--- On Tue, 7/22/08, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: db [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] The blessed ones [and more Eeepc info]
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 11:02 AM
Or, like me, happy with what they have and see no need to go to another
platform.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There are still Windows users who actually fear anything else.
BUT you're just saying that because you're afraid to go to Mac. Admit
it. You're afraid, aren't you?!?!?? :-j :-P
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When I start typing an address in Firefox 3.0, it not only displays
previously visited websites, but divulges detailed information about
what the site was used for. For instance, a previous user used Firefox
to log into their work's webmail and now each of their email's heading
is displayed
Or, like me, happy with what they have and see no need to go to another
platform.
Mac sales up by a whopping 41% year over year.
iPhone sales up by a whopping 300% year over year.
Not bad during a major recession.
iPod sales up by a 12% year over year.
Not bad for a market considered saturated.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I start typing an address in Firefox 3.0, it not only displays
previously visited websites, but divulges detailed information about what
the site was used for. For instance, a previous user used Firefox to log
into
Has anyone else seen this? Firefox's improvements and undocumented
features are starting to make Internet Explorer look like a better
choice :-(
Most people run FF with Always clear my private data when I close
FireFox enabled. Won't this suffice for you?
iPhone sales up by a whopping 300% year over year.
And exactly how many years has the iPhone been selling? Tom has never
met a 2 data point, straight line trend that he didn't like.
Not bad during a major recession.
Sez who?
In regard to your points 1, 2, 3: Agreed. As for 4, for the future, I'll
advise them to use separate accounts to insure some semblance of privacy.
I didn't know this was an advertised feature. My last paragraph was in
reference to the other issue I had with FF3.0 in regards to browser
links
Thanks for checking, but did you try Satellite mode?
No matter what zoom level I try, it gives me the we don't have that zoom
level message.
Nice and clear. I can even count the windows in my office building.
I only get blocked when I zoom in on the nude beach.
At 02:47 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote:
Date:Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:17:07 -0400
From:Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor
and
everything sent to you will be gibberish.
Ah Ha!, Now I know why a lot of what I read on CG is gibberish.
Because it was
That might be a viable option and I'll look into it. For the moment,
I've turned off all history which seems to have resolved the issue.
Richard P.
Most people run FF with Always clear my private data when I close
FireFox enabled. Won't this suffice for you?
You want to share those coordinates so we can all try? :-)
Stewart
At 02:53 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote:
Nice and clear. I can even count the windows in my office building.
I only get blocked when I zoom in on the nude beach.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Prince of Peace
I call BS on this post. Major. Give us that commercial Tom, that ad in the
monthly pc mag...something, back this shtuff up once.
Mike
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Microsoft has been very effective at marketing by fear. Their message is
that
What? Of his office building? :-)
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Google Maps slow or stopped?
You want to
iPhone sales may be up but what does the raw data say? Some percentage
of that number are people who are buying the latest Cool thing from
Apple. For instance, there was a story (I can't find it right now to
cite the reference) of someone who bought an iPhone 1.0 two days after
they were first
Microsoft has been very effective at marketing by fear. Their message
is that deviating from their products will make you an outcast. Your
computer will break, nobody will be able to read your files, and
everything sent to you will be gibberish.
Which ads were those?
I do remember some ads
On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Mac sales up by a whopping 41% year over year.
Macintosh portable computers outsold desktop units by almost 2 to 1.
Steve
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That is pretty much the trend on all computers Windows or Mac.
Stewart
At 05:18 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote:
Macintosh portable computers outsold desktop units by almost 2 to 1.
Steve
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Ozark, AL SL
Are you really trying to say that you have never, in
your vast experience, come across the acronym FUD
or any of the many things Microsoft has done that
this label has been applied to?
I'm not saying you should believe all of those things,
though some are quite believable. I am just wondering
I refer to a client who lost a Word file. He said that he either did not save
them correctly or misplaced his edited version since he can no longer find
it.
I do not know what Word version. I assume that it is a Windows computer.
The client added that he did a desktop search using a Google
Files also disappear due to hard disk errors. No big deal, she can
just recover it from backup. But she should run chkdsk manually and if
she sees a lot of errors I'd consider replacing that drive.
Windows Desktop search in Vista is probably equivalent to Google
Desktop Search, depending on what
Can we assume that he looked in Recent Documents and in Word's list of
recently opened files?
I refer to a client who lost a Word file. He said that he either did
not save them correctly or misplaced his edited version since he can
no longer find it.
There is also a directory in which temp files produced
by autosave get placed. I think this directory is
specified in the registry, the last time I had to
figure this out I googled.
Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org
--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of debating ploys, another good one is to
change the subject. :-)
After Strong Quarter, Apple Signals Changes in Its Prices
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/technology/22apple.html?nl=techemc=techa1
...Apple executives hinted during a conference call about Apple’s
third-quarter
Any chance said client is working in a network'd environment and only
searched the local hard drives? Could the file be on an external drive
and the drive isn't mapped or connected to the system?
When was the last time he accessed the file? If it's recently, Word
should have it in the list of
With Word 2007, the folder is C:\Documents and Settings\user
name\Application Data\Microsoft\Word
One correction to my response is if he chose not to save the file when
exiting Word, it seems there is nothing to recover. If he closed Word
with Task Manager, then the Autosave (or AutoRecover)
I recently bought a Dell Ultrasharp color monitor and have been
surprised ( = disappointed) at its tendency to put red or green fringes
around high contrast areas, most notably black text. My older CRT seemd
to give a much sharper and accurate image. Is this normal behavior for a
n LCD
Get a video card with a digital output, and use the digital cable to connect
the LCD monitor to the video card. The color fringing is almost certainly
caused in the part of the circuitry where the signal is analog. Could even be
caused by a poor quality analog (VGA) video cable.
Fred Holmes
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I actually tried it both ways (VGA
and digital), with no recognizable difference. I am using the NVIDIA
GeForce 8600 video card, so digital support should be pretty good.
This is a 24 monitor. My wife's computer with a 20 monitor doesn't do
this. Any
Are you really trying to say that you have never, in
your vast experience, come across the acronym FUD
or any of the many things Microsoft has done that
this label has been applied to?
Are you implying that Windows is the preferred platform for the grossly
uninformed? I certainly hope not. That
Swap them and see what happens if it occurs on her computer it is the
monitor does not check the video card. Do you have the latest
drivers installed? have you optimized the card for your display?
Stewart
At 09:36 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I actually
Get a video card with a digital output, and use the digital cable to
connect the LCD monitor to the video card. The color fringing is almost
certainly caused in the part of the circuitry where the signal is analog.
Could even be caused by a poor quality analog (VGA) video cable.
I am
This is a 24 monitor. My wife's computer with a 20 monitor doesn't do
this. Any relation?
I don't know what the problem is, but I can tell you that I also have a Dell
24 Ultrasharp, and there's no color fringing. I like it a lot.
At 10:57 PM -0400 7/22/08, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Get a video card with a digital output, and use the digital cable to
connect the LCD monitor to the video card. The color fringing is almost
certainly caused in the part of the circuitry where the signal is analog.
Could even be caused by a poor
To me it would be a limitation of the video drivers to set the proper
resolution.
I actually have my 19 Samsung set at a larger resolution (1024x768)
than it's native and it is far clearer in that resolution than it is
in the native resolution (1280x960).
Stewart
At 10:50 PM 7/22/2008,
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