[CGUYS] Must Be Embarasing to Be Steve Ballmer

2009-10-17 Thread tjpa
In a recent interview I saw on CNET-TV Ballmer keeps repeating that Apple only has 3.5% of the market. http://cnettv.cnet.com/cnet-conversations-microsoft-steve-ballmer/9742-1_53-5004.html I knew that was way wrong so I checked on recent stats. Ballmer should be embarassed because Apple

Re: [CGUYS] Must Be Embarasing to Be Steve Ballmer

2009-10-17 Thread mike
I figured you were way wrong on your assertions. Apple market share sits under 5% worldwide which was the top number Ballmer used when he spoke about Apple vs MS marketshare the ONE time he talked about after being asked specifically about Apple/MS marketing. In your anger I imagine you kept

[CGUYS] Mac keyboard.

2009-10-17 Thread Reid Katan
Just got a Mac Mini and realized I don't have a USB keyboard to jack into it. Other than it being a nice keyboard, is there something about a Mac keyboard that's worth the $35 or so premium? If I run Parallels, should I expect any problems with Windoze (probably Win7)? Thanks

Re: [CGUYS] Mac keyboard.

2009-10-17 Thread tjpa
On Oct 17, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Reid Katan wrote: Just got a Mac Mini and realized I don't have a USB keyboard to jack into it. Other than it being a nice keyboard, is there something about a Mac keyboard that's worth the $35 or so premium? If I run Parallels, should I expect any problems with

Re: [CGUYS] Must Be Embarasing to Be Steve Ballmer

2009-10-17 Thread tjpa
On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:36 PM, mike wrote: I figured you were way wrong on your assertions. Well it wasn't Rush who told you that, so it must be the other America- basher guy. But we have a transcript. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30966_3-10366826-262.html Starts off saying it 3 times without

Re: [CGUYS] Must Be Embarasing to Be Steve Ballmer

2009-10-17 Thread mike
So you are saying he said something true...twice or thrice in a sentence after they asked him about MS/Apple marketing..interesting. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: Ballmer: What do you want me to say? They've done a very good job of marketing to their 3.5 percent

Re: [CGUYS] Must Be Embarasing to Be Steve Ballmer

2009-10-17 Thread mike
So if your alternate reality distortion field hits his reality distortion field, do we have life ending results or do the both of you just kinda blink out? On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: He talks crazy about Google and Zune too. Talk about an alternate-reality

[CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread Gail.Miller
Hi ...I have my C drive waaay too full of stuff and I keep saying I'm going to purge it and purge the email folder but so far I haven't done it. Today the computer was running especially slow so I shut it down (the normal way) and when I rebooted, all this email was missing from my Inbox. I

Re: [CGUYS] Must Be Embarasing to Be Steve Ballmer

2009-10-17 Thread tjpa
On Oct 17, 2009, at 4:58 PM, mike wrote: So if your alternate reality distortion field hits his reality distortion field, do we have life ending results or do the both of you just kinda blink out? The Times wasn't very nice either... Forecast for Microsoft: Partly Cloudy

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

2009-10-17 Thread Fred Holmes
When you say, The text disappeared exactly what happened. The .htm file still exits but is zero bytes? the .htm file is gone altogether? The text has been stripped out of the .htm file? How long is the period of time? A few minutes? After one or more reboots? After some discernable

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

2009-10-17 Thread Jordan
Some of us suggested saving pages as a PDF. It's really the best alternative to printing out a web page. (it's a far superior solution to me) Is this not possible with Windows? computerg...@att.net wrote: Hello all: Thank you everyone who replied to my post a while back. Briefly, I am

[CGUYS] Apple attempts to one up MS in account data deletion..possibly good job

2009-10-17 Thread mike
Via Digg and engadget. Apparently under snow cat if you go into a guest account all your data from your main account can be deleted..*poof*. The theme of the story, disable guest account on snow cat machines and wait for apple fix. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2194729

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

2009-10-17 Thread Fred Holmes
At 07:36 PM 10/17/2009, Jordan wrote: Some of us suggested saving pages as a PDF. It's really the best alternative to printing out a web page. (it's a far superior solution to me) Is this not possible with Windows? It's quite possible with windows, although up through XP it's not a built-in

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-17 Thread b_s-wilk
Cloud changes its name every few years. The new idea is not cloud. I have drawing templates from 30 years ago (pre-internet) for drawing clouds. The new idea is storing all your data in the cloud. Previously we lacked enough bandwidth to do such a thing and storage costs were too high. When

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread Chris Dunford
You didn't even mention what email program you were running It's in the subject line. Outlook Express. Where you running Outlook? This looks like a typical Outlook problem. If so, stop using Outlook or it will eventually happen again. Oh? I've been using Outlook for over a decade. I must

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread Chris Dunford
Google: outlook express lost (emails OR messages) You'll find a number of relevant pages. I don't use OE, so I can't tell you if any of the techniques will work, but it's worth a shot. -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:computerguy...@listserv.aol.com]

Re: [CGUYS] Mac keyboard.

2009-10-17 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: Should you expect any problems with Win7? ROFL! Right. What was I thinking? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and

Re: [CGUYS] Mac keyboard.

2009-10-17 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Jordan jor17...@gmail.com: Maybe it's just my opinion, but once you use the Apple low profile keyboard, every other keyboard feels clunky. Once you go Mac, you never go bac? (-: * ** List info, subscription

[CGUYS] android takes on iphone

2009-10-17 Thread mike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPYM-XTqcecfeature=player_embedded Not sure if this is Verizon or Moto or both, but they seem to be going head to head with Apple on their new phone. Whomever their marketing team is, it's safe to say it's not the same one MS uses.

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: You didn't even mention what email program you were running It's in the subject line. Outlook Express. Where you running Outlook? This looks like a typical Outlook problem. If so, stop using Outlook or it will

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread Chris Dunford
Part of the Outlook problem that all your emails are in one tarball of a file. When something goes wrong it goes really wrong. Backup. :) But I've never needed mine. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-10-17 Thread mike
I think in OE there are several tarballs..so it allows you to have multiple instances of something really going wrong. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:10 PM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: Part of the Outlook

Re: [CGUYS] android takes on iphone

2009-10-17 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPYM-XTqcecfeature=player_embedded Not sure if this is Verizon or Moto or both, but they seem to be going head to head with Apple on their new phone. Whomever their marketing team is, They're also going after ATT. Showing