Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: He also was given a Nobel peace prize after only 12 days in office. Way, way off topic. Just the slightest reference about our President and America-hating neocons can't help themselves. Fellow Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explains it

[CGUYS] Saving Web Pages with Firefox-Followup

2009-10-12 Thread computerguys
Hello all: Thank you everyone who replied to my post a while back. Briefly, I am trying to save web pages in my computer, rather than print them out and have lots of paper laying around. Per the advice here, I updated my Firefox to the latest version and was able to save the complete

Re: [CGUYS] Saving Web Pages with Firefox-Followup

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 6:05 AM, computerg...@att.net wrote: Thank you everyone who replied to my post a while back. Briefly, I am trying to save web pages in my computer, rather than print them out and have lots of paper laying around. Per the advice here, I updated my Firefox to the latest

[CGUYS] Saving Web Pages with Firefox-Followup

2009-10-12 Thread Jordan
I've been away and I don't know if anyone suggested this, but I think for some circumstances making a PDF of a web page is the best way to save the info. It's perfect for receipts. * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] Oh, my...partitions...

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Marcio wrote: My computer came back from the shop and is working OK. But the guys made me the user and the administrator, which I don´t like. First question: is there a way to separate these two after WindowsXP is installed? That is the typical way to set it up.

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye

2009-10-12 Thread mike
I don't know how your neomicrosofticons feel or conservatives, but I felt bad for Obama, the committee made him look like a fool by giving it to him. I suppose they could just keep repeating Ghandi was just a community organizer and hope it sticks. Oh...Ghandi never got one, that's right. On

[CGUYS] Windows 7 review

2009-10-12 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
The Washington DC Fox outlet, WTTG, on their morning newscast today, had a review of Windows 7. Some Windows expert, I failed to get his name, was on-air offering his opinions of Windows 7. He was less than enthused about the product. While saying it seemed to be better than Vista, running

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 review

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:44 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: The Washington DC Fox outlet, WTTG, on their morning newscast today, had a review of Windows 7. Some Windows expert, I failed to get his name, was on-air offering his opinions of Windows 7. He was less than enthused about the product.

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 review

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Dunford
he said it presented a few new issues that will need to be addressed through Service Packs. Well, he didn't actually say that there were specific issues that would need to be addressed by service packs. He just said that there would eventually be one, which I don't think is really big news

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:53 AM, mike wrote: I don't know how your neomicrosofticons feel or conservatives, but I felt bad for Obama, the committee made him look like a fool by giving it to him. Can you read the subject line? This thread is about a big M$ fail caused by not backing up critical

Re: [CGUYS] Saving Web Pages with Firefox-Followup

2009-10-12 Thread Mike Sloane
I used the scrapbook add-on to FireFox, and it worked very well. It saves the pages as html files wherever you want to put them. Mike Jordan wrote: I've been away and I don't know if anyone suggested this, but I think for some circumstances making a PDF of a web page is the best way to save

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Gives the Cloud a Black Eye

2009-10-12 Thread Mike
Can you not read the topic, this is not about America bashing. Try to stay focused. Sent from my iPod On Oct 11, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: He also was given a Nobel peace prize after only 12 days in office.

Re: [CGUYS] Saving Web Pages with Firefox-Followup

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Mike Sloane wrote: I used the scrapbook add-on to FireFox, and it worked very well. It saves the pages as html files wherever you want to put them. I have not tried Scrapbook, but I worry about any archive format that uses HTML to save its files. How does

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 review

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: It was pretty obvious that he didn't really understand libraries. It was Rob Pegoraro from the Post, by the way. Rob has had this beat for a long time and is one of the most tech savvy writers around. Are you calling him an idiot because he is

Re: [CGUYS] glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
I just noticed that Carbonite is a major sponsor of Beck. So there is one back up solution I won't be considering. Is it good/bad to buy/not buy a company's product/service because it does good/bad things with its revenues?

Re: [CGUYS] glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral

2009-10-12 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: I just noticed that Carbonite is a major sponsor of Beck. So there is one back up solution I won't be considering. Is it good/bad to buy/not buy a company's product/service because it does good/bad things with its revenues? I

[CGUYS] Windows 7 review

2009-10-12 Thread Sue Cubic
Well, here's a review from a run-of-the-mill user, who decided to have Win7 evaluation installed on the new computer I had built about a month ago. I think I may represent the majority of home users. I find it does appear to be slower to boot, but that may be because it just doesn't even

[CGUYS] T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever

2009-10-12 Thread Mike Sloane
[This is going to put a crimp in the efforts to convince people that computing in the cloud is a good idea. MS] Posted: Monday, 12 October 2009 9:47AM T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever NEW YORK (AP) -- Owners of Sidekick phones, made by a Microsoft subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA, may

[CGUYS] Snail Mail

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
An email I sent October 7th just showed up on the List. Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at

[CGUYS] Snow Leopard bug deletes all user data

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
Not to be outdone by M$, Apple has got its own catastrophic bug... Snow Leopard's home directory -- the one sporting the name of the Mac's primary user -- is replaced with a new, empty copy after users log-in to a Guest account, log out, then log-in to their standard account. All the standard

Re: [CGUYS] glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Dunford
I just noticed that Carbonite is a major sponsor of Beck. So there is one back up solution I won't be considering. Is it good/bad to buy/not buy a company's product/service because it does good/bad things with its revenues? Well, O'Reilly seems to love boycotts. He boycotted France, as I

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 review

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Dunford
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: It was pretty obvious that he didn't really understand libraries. It was Rob Pegoraro from the Post, by the way. Rob has had this beat for a long time and is one of the most tech savvy writers around. Are you calling him an idiot because

Re: [CGUYS] Snail Mail

2009-10-12 Thread Robert Carroll
No, but I know who coined the term snail mail. Edward Lear, who depicted a letter written on a snail's shell in 1864: http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/snail.html Tom Piwowar wrote: An email I sent October 7th just showed up on the List. Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing?

Re: [CGUYS] Saving Web Pages with Firefox-Followup

2009-10-12 Thread computerguys
Thank you. Yes I remember being referred to Scrapbook and PDF files. I was not able to locate the scrapbook add-on for some reason and Adobe looks like an expensive option. After some success at obtaining what I needed I thought I was in the clear, but to my dismay, all the text vanished,

Re: [CGUYS] Saving Web Pages with Firefox-Followup

2009-10-12 Thread b_s-wilk
On Oct 12, 2009, at 6:05 AM, computerg...@att.net wrote: Thank you everyone who replied to my post a while back. Briefly, I am trying to save web pages in my computer, rather than print them out and have lots of paper laying around. Per the advice here, I updated my Firefox to the latest

Re: [CGUYS] formats web archive vs page source

2009-10-12 Thread b_s-wilk
I want to save some images from the web and the options safari gives me are save as web archive or page source Advantages to either? I can see disadvantages to both. If you save as Page Source, all you have is the HTML code with no images, animations, etc. Save as Web Archive in Safari and

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 review

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: These comments are about Snow Leopard. Sounds kinda fermiliar... And he would be right. I always tell my clients that we will do better sitting [it] out, at least until [there is] a bug-fix update or two for it. He is neither a shill for M$ nor

Re: [CGUYS] glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral

2009-10-12 Thread mike
Did it do any good...or bad? Never occurred to me to boycott wackos like Beck or Olbermann etc, can't say I ever notice I've bought anything they advertise anyway. Do I have to sit thru these guys to figure out what not to buy? I mean these guys aren't doing Evil with a capital letter, they

Re: [CGUYS] glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: Well, O'Reilly seems to love boycotts. He boycotted France, as I recall. I'm still gorging on those Limbaugh Fritters. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 review

2009-10-12 Thread mike
You know you keep having to make this claim...maybe you should start to wonder why. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Like me, he sees things as they are. * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral

2009-10-12 Thread mike
What is a limbaugh fritter? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: Well, O'Reilly seems to love boycotts. He boycotted France, as I recall. I'm still gorging on those Limbaugh Fritters.

[CGUYS] I've Just Done Something Really Stupid! Clicking on a Link...

2009-10-12 Thread Gail.Miller
Hi ... I've just done what I've told others for years NEVER to to and that is clicked on a link that I received in an embail from a stranger. The email's 'from' line listed the name Kia. I have a friend by that name who often sends links to his friends inviting them to go see movies he's

[CGUYS] Funding Evil [Was: glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral]

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:44 PM, mike wrote: Never occurred to me to boycott wackos like Beck or Olbermann etc, can't say I ever notice I've bought anything they advertise anyway. Do I have to sit thru these guys to figure out what not to buy? I mean these guys aren't doing Evil with a capital

Re: [CGUYS] glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Dunford
Did it do any good...or bad? Probably not. The growth rate of French exports to the US dropped, but so did everyone else's. It was probably more the US reaction to 9/11 than anything O'Reilly did. Not that that stopped him from claiming victory, of course...

Re: [CGUYS] glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com Goes Viral

2009-10-12 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Pom Frittes? Stewart At 07:00 PM 10/12/2009, you wrote: What is a limbaugh fritter? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: Well, O'Reilly seems to love boycotts. He boycotted France, as I recall. I'm still

[CGUYS] awesomeness

2009-10-12 Thread mike
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Re: [CGUYS] Oh, my...partitions...

2009-10-12 Thread Marcio
Thank you Tom. I used an old Partition Magic to resolve the partition issue. Version 7. Worked fine! Insofar as administrator I am not sure what to do but I noticed that when I enter in Safe Windows they gave me a choice of Administrator or Marcio. But when I go straight it is only Marcio and

Re: [CGUYS] Oh, my...partitions...

2009-10-12 Thread Marcio
I tried that but I ended up with unassigned space..., not a partition. I had to use Partition Magic to add it to C: Marcio -Original Message- From: Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. acker...@astrecg.com Sent: Oct 12, 2009 12:16 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Oh,

[CGUYS] And Now Something for every FanBoy

2009-10-12 Thread Art Clemons
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10373251-1.html In case you miss the obvious, read the last line! Note that fanboy is an OS neutral term! http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10373251-1.html * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Oh, my...partitions...

2009-10-12 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Marcio wrote: Insofar as administrator I am not sure what to do but I noticed that when I enter in Safe Windows they gave me a choice of Administrator or Marcio. But when I go straight it is only Marcio and I am the administrator. That's great. Looks like

Re: [CGUYS] And Now Something for every FanBoy

2009-10-12 Thread t.piwowar
On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:06 AM, Art Clemons wrote: In case you miss the obvious, read the last line! Note that fanboy is an OS neutral term! Cool! (but expensive) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

[CGUYS] nostalgia [was: awesomeness]

2009-10-12 Thread b_s-wilk
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