Re: [CGUYS] Region 2

2009-11-20 Thread b_s-wilk
mike xha...@gmail.com escribió: Check VLC, I think it's region free. VLC, http://www.videolan.org/, works OK with our videos from Spain. Be sure that your default video player doesn't open first when you insert the DVD. Your computer may automatically reject the disk before VLC opens it.

[CGUYS] Fw: [CGUYS] CD differences (?)

2009-11-20 Thread Brian Jones
This is an old Thread (May 09)... But I have a bit of info that was not mentioned. My nephew purchased an audio CD recorder a few years ago to record music his band was playing. I too thought that any CD will do, but this unit looked for some marker on the CD to indicate that it was an Audio

Re: [CGUYS] Fw: [CGUYS] CD differences (?)

2009-11-20 Thread tjpa
On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Brian Jones wrote: My nephew purchased an audio CD recorder a few years ago to record music his band was playing. I too thought that any CD will do, but this unit looked for some marker on the CD to indicate that it was an Audio CD before it would write to it.

Re: [CGUYS] 1and1.com is the best!

2009-11-20 Thread tjpa
On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:12 PM, chrper...@aol.com wrote: After yet another disaster with my mailing list because of a problem that ez webhost had, rather than something I initiated, I took Tom's advice and signed on with 1and1.com despite the fact that my ez webhost account runs through May

Re: [CGUYS] Will Postfix talk to Thunderbird?

2009-11-20 Thread Paul Cannon
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Creating_an_Account Shows another method on how to setup an account to use Movemail. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:27:12PM -0500, tjpa wrote: On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:35 PM, John DeCarlo wrote: Postfix doesn't do POP or IMAP, just SMTP and such

[CGUYS] Death to M$; Death to Apple

2009-11-20 Thread tjp
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/chromeos-announcement.ars Put differently, in more concrete and less aesthetic terms, Apple and Microsoft began decades ago with the PC, and they're currently involved in a slow and painful process of trying to stretch and push the PC out

[CGUYS] Patent Issued For Podcasting

2009-11-20 Thread b_s-wilk
From Slashdot today [here we go again!]: Patent Issued For Podcasting on Friday November 20, @12:14PM from the next-a-patent-on-the-eardrum dept. ...The EFF is reaching out for help after a company called Volomedia got the Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to 'a method for

Re: [CGUYS] Will Postfix talk to Thunderbird?

2009-11-20 Thread tjpa
On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Paul Cannon wrote: Shows another method on how to setup an account to use Movemail. Thanks, but alas... Movemail support has been removed for OSX. The assumption appears to be that if you could configure a movemail account you can create a movemail.rdf file.

Re: [CGUYS] Death to M$; Death to Apple

2009-11-20 Thread mike
Somehow I don't think MS or especially Apple have anything to worry about. Google is going to race to the bottom with this one for a little while I think. Look out for bad sales on win 7 starter in the future...if there ever were a future for starter. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM, tjp

Re: [CGUYS] Death to M$; Death to Apple

2009-11-20 Thread b_s-wilk
It's the stupid cloud again! No. The cloud won't obscure computers. Ridiculous, as in worthy of ridicule, as only in geek fantasies. Computers are changing, but aren't going away any time soon, and neither are Apple or MS, as long as they keep changing as technology evolves. Apple is in a

[CGUYS] syncing google calendar with a WM6 phone

2009-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Myers
Is there an equivalent of MS ActiveSync I can use to sync my Samsung Blackjack II WM6 phone and google calendar through my computer. I want to avoid having to go through MS Outlook. Thanks, Jeff Myers * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Death to M$; Death to Apple

2009-11-20 Thread mike
I get the feeling Betty is that farmer on the side of the road 100 years ago ridiculing his neighbor for using a fancy tractor with one of those engines to plow his field instead of the tried and true mule or team of horses. Sure the next few years...decade...the horse was pretty reliable, but it

Re: [CGUYS] Death to M$; Death to Apple

2009-11-20 Thread b_s-wilk
mike escribió: I get the feeling Betty is that farmer on the side of the road 100 years ago ridiculing his neighbor for using a fancy tractor with one of those engines to plow his field instead of the tried and true mule or team of horses. Sure the next few years...decade...the horse was

[CGUYS] Try Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine

2009-11-20 Thread b_s-wilk
from Slashdot [glad I just installed VirtualBox]: Technology: Try Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine Friday November 20, @09:55PM Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 20, @09:55PM from the that-didn't-take-long dept. itwbennett writes: Some very generous Alpha OS geeks have snagged the

Re: [CGUYS] Death to M$; Death to Apple

2009-11-20 Thread mike
A little less of your ego and you might actually consider what I'm saying. We, you and I have no idea what technology will be here in a decade, two decades, longer..it is presumptuous to assume you are just smarter than the previous generations and will just grok it. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at