On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:37 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Does she have local backups?
Oh, yes. She has all that deleted data. She is just quite annoyed
about having to restore it on her Classmates site and does not
understand why or how Classmates decided which of her images to retain
What is a WFB?
R
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 16:28 -0700, mike wrote:
Um..yeah. Once again he's talking without looking. Technically a 'wfb' if
you can find one, can run the magic mouse. Drivers are out there.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 8, 2009, at
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What is a WFB?
Anybody that doesn't agree with Tom.
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On Dec 8, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Ranbo wrote:
I uninstalled Zone Alarm Pro (after activating the Windows
firewall). So
far, things are better - loading web pages and documents. FF still
seems a
little sluggish at times, with IE being somewhat faster.
Don't you have a router which provides you
On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:36 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, yes. She has all that deleted data. She is just quite annoyed
about having to restore it on her Classmates site and does not
understand why or how Classmates decided which of her images to retain
and which to delete. I'll have to ask
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Have you checked the service agreement? Some sites have free and pay plans
with different limits.
I dunno if she has taken a look at the service agreement or not. It
may be one of those essentially indecipherable legalistic
Anyone know of a PDF redaction utility that works? E.g., one chooses (selects)
a rectangle to redact, and the execute command replaces all pixels in the
rectangle with white, in all layers, and deletes any accompanying text data
(i.e., that which provides text searchability / copyability)?
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:32 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Marcio wrote:
Thanks to both of you, each one in his own way and sorry for the
misunderstandings. But to this date I have this Google Blogg with a domain
that is good until Feb 13 and I am not sure if
This is a very misleading subject line, as we have no evidence or
indication that this data was stored in a cloud. Thus we also have no
evidence it was a failure of cloud storage that caused information
loss.
I just worry a couple of the luddites on the list will actually
reference this event in
It is in realty loosing your data to a data aggregator.
Classmates.com gets data in from every classmate that registers and
then aggregates that date for everyone to see.
They are a for profit company wanting you to register and pay
them money for all this stuff to be seen.
The cloud is
I have not found one, per se. What I do is redact using Adobe and then print
(not save as) to PDF, which then makes the PDF as redacted.
Eschew Obfuscation
This is a reply from:
Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.
Financial, Managerial, and Technical Services
for the
On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:06 PM, mike wrote:
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2009/11/14588/
Looks good. Oh joy!
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On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Fred Holmes wrote:
Anyone know of a PDF redaction utility that works? E.g., one
chooses (selects) a rectangle to redact, and the execute command
replaces all pixels in the rectangle with white, in all layers, and
deletes any accompanying text data (i.e., that
On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. wrote:
I have not found one, per se. What I do is redact using Adobe and
then print
(not save as) to PDF, which then makes the PDF as redacted.
Details here...
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2006/10/acrobat_8_new_f_1.html
Acrobat 8
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:06:37 -0500, Tony B wrote:
If you don't use add-ons, what's the point of using Firefox? You may
Umm. Because?
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a very misleading subject line, as we have no evidence or
indication that this data was stored in a cloud. Thus we also have no
evidence it was a failure of cloud storage that caused information
loss.
I just worry a
Some like to run outgoing firewalls to be...extra careful.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:05 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 8, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Ranbo wrote:
I uninstalled Zone Alarm Pro (after activating the Windows firewall). So
far, things are better - loading web pages and documents.
That is more accurate since Tom has called known mac users 'WFBs'.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote:
Quoting Rob robfl...@ix.netcom.com:
What is a WFB?
Anybody that doesn't agree with Tom.
My method takes much less time than that one.
Eschew Obfuscation
This is a reply from:
Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.
Financial, Managerial, and Technical Services
for the Professional, Non-Profit, and the Entrepreneurial Organization
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CFS57G0show_article=1
We need to educate the customer ... We've got to get them to understand
what represents a megabyte of data, de la Vega said. We're improving all
our systems to let consumers get real-time information on their data usage.
That's a
Now try uninstalling FF and reinstall it and see if there is yet more
improvement.
db
Ranbo wrote:
I uninstalled Zone Alarm Pro (after activating the Windows firewall). So
far, things are better - loading web pages and documents. FF still seems a
little sluggish at times, with IE being
NAT SPI router's firewall's are not so very difficult to defeat and they
functionally offer 0 protection the first time someone logs a laptop on
to your router. (which of course no one thinks of at the moment they
are logging on...)
Good Security is provided by layers of protection so that
No. You have misinterpreted my point completely.
I am unfamiliar with what was lost because as soon as I saw it was a
question about classmates.com I knew I know nothing about them so I
stopped reading. Would that more people on this list did the same!
Anyway, after the thread got bumped for a
On Dec 9, 2009, at 2:25 PM, db wrote:
Good Security is provided by layers of protection so that you don't
have a single failure point.
I'm so, so glad to be using a Mac. I actually have time to do
productive work on my computer.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, after the thread got bumped for a few days I just thought I
would comment on the subject header, and point out that we really
don't know if classmates.com *uses* cloud storage.
Okay. However, Classmates.com, being
In that it is a remote server administrated by someone other than you yes.
Stewart
At 01:50 PM 12/9/2009, you wrote:
Okay. However, Classmates.com, being accessible by users only by
way of the internet is, in fact, in and of the cloud, is it not? I
stand ready to be corrected.
Steve
No, it most certainly is not. Thanks for helping to clarify.
Word definitions change, but generally the cloud refers to a bunch
of computers connected via network where your data is kept. It also
implies that there's no way of finding a specific copy of your data on
one hard drive; you really
No, data on a remote server is definitely *not* in a cloud. I mean, my
website is on a remote server which is on a shared host so I don't
administer the server. But if I FTP a file to it, I haven't put the
file in a cloud.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Stewart Marshall
From this morning's Washington Post article:
officials said that the manual was posted online in a redacted form
on a federal procurement Web site, but that the digital redactions
were inadequate. They allowed computer users to recover blacked-out
passages by copying and pasting them into a new
Seems a distinction without a difference. Or at very list the splitting of
very fine hairs. How is it your website is not in the cloud but gmail is?
What is the difference? I can download an app that basically allows me to
FTP files to my gmail account...when I run this app does that mean it is
I am seeing a relatively new Windows 7 ad that touts how quickly a
computer can awaken from sleep mode under the new OS. In the ad, this
awakening issue appears to be such a big deal that Toshiba, along with
MS I suppose, flies a user all the way fprm the United States to Japan
just to show her
First, remember I pointed out I'm not completely sure if gmail via the
web is cloud-stored or not. Certainly if you use POP with gmail it's
not cloud.
But now I think we're all on the same page. Your revised definition
below is in line with my own. I could drive to my host and physically
take the
Sounds like more MS bad advertising ideas...make a problem that wasn't
really a problem seem like it's been fixed. Who knows, the only time I've
seen this issue is either when malware etc is on the machine or in network
situations where the admin has written bad scripts that run on login.
So your host will let you walk into their server room and physically remove
the HD?
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
First, remember I pointed out I'm not completely sure if gmail via the
web is cloud-stored or not. Certainly if you use POP with gmail it's
not
The cloud means you really don't know where it is. If your data is anywhere
nebulous it is in the cloud. If you can't tell me where the drive is
physically located- it is in the cloud. There is very little I could tell
where the server is and I mostly don't care where it is.
It doesn't matter
On Dec 9, 2009, at 4:35 PM, mike wrote:
Sounds like more MS bad advertising ideas...make a problem that wasn't
really a problem seem like it's been fixed.
Some companies will say absolutely anything to get the rubes to part
with their dollars.
I suppose, if I paid them enough. It's certainly *possible*, if
somewhat unlikely. Unlike driving over to Carbonite and trying to take
a hard drive with your backup on it.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
So your host will let you walk into their server room and
Yeah this one is really odd. The ad campaign with the guy talking about
running 7 on his laptop and his home computer and his kids laptop and they
all share the media together without any problems is far better. This one,
is just weird.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:
The cloud means you really don't know where it is. If your data is anywhere
nebulous it is in the cloud. If you can't tell me where the drive is
physically located- it is in the cloud. There is very little I
How can FireWire be superior to eSata?
I thought eSata made your external essentially
the same as one installed inside the case.
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On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Paul Meyer wrote:
How can FireWire be superior to eSata?
I thought eSata made your external essentially
the same as one installed inside the case.
SATA, eSATA, PATA, USB all depend on the constant attention of the
CPU for their operation. With SCSI and FireWire
I bought Cyberpower a number of years ago
and am gratified to hear they are still in business.
I once bought a Mac mini and though it is a nice
little machine, I did resent the hard sell to sign
up for Apple support plan (I don't consider that
an anectdote because it undoubtedly reflects
a
Recently got a G1 and returned it for a Cliq (much
more usable with navigation keys and a better
keyboard). How are people feeling about
their android phones? I really am glad I have
an alternative to the touch screen and the apps
have been really cool so far. Is that what iPhone
people feel?
I've had no regrets with my android phone, got the hero, no keyboard and
it's great. I've not been wanting for apps in the least, everything I've
gone looking for, I've found. There are a couple things missing like a good
sync app for it, but the phone will mount as a drive and any music and
One more example of Tom, being...Tom.
It also depends on the quality of the controller, you can get cheap esata
controllers that are slower, or good ones that blaze. Has nothing to do
with apple or pc. Different interfaces for different jobs. Note that Apple
and PC's both use USB, SATA..FW.
On
No, don't have a router and am only user on this computer. So no need for
any firewall?
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 8, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Ranbo wrote:
I uninstalled Zone Alarm Pro (after activating the Windows firewall). So
far, things are better -
Tom,
Pardon the ignorant question, is there a direct
channel from the controller to the hard drive?
Otherwise, you bottlenecks somewhere in the
pipe? -PJM
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Subject:
Not that I'm encouraging anyone to use RAID -- I think it is an
obsolete technology -- but if you insist, you should know this...
Detailed info from Western Digital on the difference between their
consumer/desktop hard drives and enterprise drives commonly used in
RAID applications...
On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:51 PM, mike wrote:
Note that Apple and PC's both use USB, SATA..FW.
Yes, even Apple can't resist the industry's race to the bottom. That
does not mean that those of us who can tell the difference have to
like it.
On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Ranbo wrote:
No, don't have a router and am only user on this computer. So no
need for
any firewall?
You probably do have a router. The box between your computer and the
outside is probably a router.
On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Paul Meyer wrote:
Pardon the ignorant question, is there a direct
channel from the controller to the hard drive?
Otherwise, you bottlenecks somewhere in the
pipe?
That would be an incorrect assumption.
The FireWire controller usually talks to a SATA or PATA
Another post from a month ago that just arrived in my in box. Crap!
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In my opinion it is a bad idea to be without a software firewall on your
computer.
The possibilities of a successful exploit and the cost of recovery are
too great.
Fly without that net if you want... but don't complain if you hit the
ground hard...
db
db Ranbo wrote:
No, don't have a
OK ...I just went through this. I looked at the Droid and brethren but
settled on the Motorola Surf a3100 windows mobile 6.1 with a slick overlay
with all those carousel features, etc. The app supply seems endless. It
won my heart cuz it has not only quad 2g but triband 3g (850,1900,2100)
which
Those of us who can tell the difference, use them for what they are
intended. Other just complain as you do and act as if it matters.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:14 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:51 PM, mike wrote:
Note that Apple and PC's both use USB, SATA..FW.
Yes,
7 may wake quickly from sleep but I hear that in practical use it is
even slower than Vista to boot... which because of battery life is what
you will be facing regularly with a laptop.
db
mike wrote:
Yeah this one is really odd. The ad campaign with the guy talking about
running 7 on his
so far so good with software for it ...speed is fantastic ...motorola
overlay makes it great as the homescreen has a carousel that access
everything ...I'm hooked!! I have had windowsCE devices for years (ipaq
3635, mobilepro770) and a palmIIIc which made me realize palm OS is a joke
...I love
so far all is good, except vendor failed to give the 2gb microSDhc card
which came with software, but on a website I found the installer it had and
put it on ...included motonav but I am having trouble getting destinator
maps recognized on it even using the patcher...gps works fine with
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
Word definitions change, but generally the cloud refers to a bunch
of computers connected via network where your data is kept. It also
implies that there's no way of finding a specific copy of your data on
one hard drive; you
The android is a both and phone including a full keypad.
The Eris is a touch only.
Those that have the Droid like it so far.
Stewart
At 06:44 PM 12/9/2009, you wrote:
Recently got a G1 and returned it for a Cliq (much
more usable with navigation keys and a better
keyboard). How are people
Yes, Apple's OS is solidly more productive in almost every way except
its Finder/ Dock multitasking interface. It was revolutionary in the
80's... in the 21st century it's mediocre when compared to Windows/
Linux's windows functionality/ taskbar design.
Work efficiency on an Apple decreases
I'm not sure who you heard this from but it is not true. But then,
Vista isn't slow to boot, so clearly this source is suspect.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM, db db...@att.net wrote:
7 may wake quickly from sleep but I hear that in practical use it is even
slower than Vista to boot...
Part of the problem is how MS approaches touting the features. Part of it
is haters who see 'windows 7 boots faster than vista' as not that 7 is
faster but that vista is crap. Shockingly they don't look at Apple's
advertising the same way, some will never satisfy, better to just ignore
them, nod
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