Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
Not at all practical, but the routine was funny. I found this link to three versions of the bit for those who don't know what we are talking about. Warning - he is quite profane. http://bobsfunnies.blogspot.com/2008/03/sam-kinison-ethiopia-sketch.html Matthew On Feb 4, 2009, at 12:06 PM, C

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Feb 4, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: At 10:18 AM 2/4/2009, you wrote: Agreed - with the caveat that part of the distribution problem is that in some areas the locals can not price compete with subsidized imported food, and so leave the farms and head for the cities. Yes a

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Feb 4, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Not particularly true. What is not true? Statistics have shown there is enough food produced in the world to feed everyone. Agreed The problem is with distribution. Also very HUGE problem corrupt governments that would rather

Re: [CGUYS] Groupwise on Itouch or Iphone

2009-02-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
This might not help much but here goes. I don't think you can out of the box. Groupwise will speak IMAP and POP, which the iPhone/touch can handle, but it also uses a security certificate which I am not sure they can handle. For push email there is a company called Notify (first link) tha

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
And yet they do this because it is clear that their own publics would not support paying market prices directly. And it also helps keep third world farmers at starvation level because they can not compete with European (and American) subsidized agriculture. Good job. Oh, and then we send

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
It seems to me that there was an actionable tort against the owners of the land where the service station was, and the owners of the station at the time of abandonment. Were they made to pay costs for remediating the pollution they caused? What did the municipality consider more important

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
Clearly in your first paragraph you identify part of the problem - not charging what it costs to provide the service now and going forward. You came on board and had the needed spine to push for what had to be done - I commend you. My question is why should municipal governments not bear al

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Feb 2, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: One of the biggest problems in any society is what level of regulation is proper. Very true. You can under regulate and over regulate. DMA can be seen by many (except for the RIAA and others) as over regulation. However the SEC

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
I am not sure that there is anywhere that I put my trust. I have met some of the gold is god congregation, as well as the temple of sports types. I don't understand them. I know folks who live and breath politics - they strike me as needing a life. By your first and foremost maxim then

Re: [CGUYS] Fedora and a Mac home network

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
I can confirm that both LINUX and OS X do SAMBA well to share with each other or Windows systems. Matthew On Feb 2, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: (Tom can correct me if I'm wrong) that Mac OS X can natively share files with Windows. And Linux can use a package called Samba to share (a

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
Now that is an interesting assertion. Also an interesting definition of "god"? Could you elaborate please? No one has ever told me I believed in God before, though many appear to have assumed I was of their or similar faith based on our association. Matthew On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:15 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
Dynastic succession to power under law, to classic privilege (private law is the root as I recall) is undemocratic. There is nothing undemocratic about allowing a holder of wealth to give that wealth to the party of their choice, be it their children, a homeless shelter, the SDS, the NAACP

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
And completely fails to address your silly sharing toys analogy. On Feb 2, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Really Tom, what is this analogy of sharing toys about? When you share toys, it is with the understanding that 1. Some party owns the toys and 2. that party expects them to be retur

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
Do you need a lecture on positive vs. negative liberties? There is a big difference between what I must do, and what I must not do. As said earlier, and you keep ignoring, protection from predation is a key role of limited government. Matthew On Feb 2, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
Really Tom. When a neo-con, or trad-con, or blue-dog Democrat runs into a burning building (an honor I have not had) are they opting out? When vastly greater numbers of conservatives serve in uniform than liberals, are they opting out? Are the service groups throughout the land opting ou

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
He was a politician - same thing. No doubt Tom "Oh, that 140K in taxes" Daschel is your idol. On Feb 2, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Then why didn't you vote for Bob Barr? He supported all your views. Bob Barr is a hypocrite. While in Congress he was constantly meddling in the

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Feb 2, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Why? Were you under the impression I was a diest? Choosing Gold over God is a good indicator of avarice. Can't do the former if you don't believe the existence of the latter is proven. False distinction. By definition excessive taxation wo

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
Necessity is entirely subjective. What is necessary for me might not be for you. It is therefore not a useful principle for the ordering of society - it is pure ends justifying means. "It was necessary" has been the excuse of many an oppressive government over the years. I am all in favo

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
In what way is a parent giving assets to a child undemocratic? Has any parent been denied the same opportunity, equal before the law? It makes no sense that an individual is free to give their money away, so long as they don't give it to their kin. I really do not understand the principl

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
If not labor's by right, then who's? Who is left but the government? Not voluntary associations, as they are composed of individuals who might not share as you see fit. Really Tom, what is this analogy of sharing toys about? When you share toys, it is with the understanding that 1. Some

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
S AND SNARK remark. I won't throw the same. Jeff M On Jan 31, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote: You need to drop the platitudes and snark and make a logical argument. If what labor produces does not belong to labor, to whom does

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
tween this and wealth redistribution. Matthew Taylor wrote: He just said they should spread it around as I recall. On Jan 31, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: And the other part of this is the conservative media myth that Obama said that the government should redistribute wealth. In

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
Not really - it was originally to make the wealthy pay a higher share of government costs, not to simply enact transfers of wealth. Big difference. Matthew On Feb 1, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: The purpose of our Keynesian progressive tax code is already to "spread the wealth

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Feb 1, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: You need to drop the platitudes and snark and make a logical argument. If what labor produces does not belong to labor, to whom does it belong? Here we are back at the lessons of kindergarden. Red faced, with nostrils flaring, nobody but nobod

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
It implies that necessity is the highest principle, that is what is wrong with it. If all a human deserved is what they need, what is the motivation for the human animal to produce more than they need if they will be prevented by government from keeping it? Christian theology as I recall

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
Very silly you indeed. My answer was to Stewart regarding European distaste for impatience. How is wanting to be able to receive what you can lawfully pay for on a mutually agreed schedule immoral? On Feb 1, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: If I can lawfully pay for it, and you can l

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
He just said they should spread it around as I recall. On Jan 31, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: And the other part of this is the conservative media myth that Obama said that the government should redistribute wealth. In fact, he has never said any such thing... *

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
The tax code should be for raising necessary funds for the operation of government. Clean, simple, fair. I do not mind progressive taxation if you mean those with more pay for more of what the government provides, and they consume. I object if you mean take from A to transfer to B for no

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
Who gets to determine what we deserve? If I can lawfully pay for it, and you can lawfully provide it, what should prevent us from making a deal? On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: One of the things socialism does interfere with is the concept of I want what I want w

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Jan 31, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: It has everything with who the primary producer of wealth is. You have to get past this notion that all the toys belong to you. You need to drop the platitudes and snark and make a logical argument. If what labor produces does not belong to

Re: [CGUYS] Taxes and good life

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Jan 31, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Jordan wrote: Matthew Taylor wrote: On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Jordan wrote: John Emmerling wrote: Some general observations (I make some assertions without proof, feel free to provide contradictory data): 1.) Compared to other western countries, Americans

Re: [CGUYS] Taxes and good life

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
Actually, that was the Deputy Director - the Director was a political appointment by the governor. Nothing short of going back to court, at heavy expense in time and money, could have moved him. They do not like to loose. Matthew On Jan 31, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] Taxes and good life

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Jordan wrote: John Emmerling wrote: Some general observations (I make some assertions without proof, feel free to provide contradictory data): 1.) Compared to other western countries, Americans are significantly more religious. Religious folk seem to see life

Re: [CGUYS] Google weirdness and Firefox on Windows?

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
I saw it under Safari this morning. On Jan 31, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Kyle R. Graybeal wrote: I've seen the warning about the sites harming my computer just this morning. Kyle Graybeal At 10:48 AM 1/31/2009 -0500, you wrote: I have been running Ubuntu the last couple of days and just switched

Re: [CGUYS] Taxes and good life

2009-01-31 Thread Matthew Taylor
I would like to see the source data they used for tax levels, and if they included corporate taxes as well. Americans (and Europeans) pay a lot of layered on (sales, gas) hidden taxes (basically taxes that were paid by a provider) they don't really see, but do effect them. On Jan 31, 2009

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-30 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Tax Cuts are only spending to folks who presume that all funds which could be potentially collected via taxation belong to the government Bullshit! It has nothing to do with the notion of what belongs to who. It has everything with who the prim

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-30 Thread Matthew Taylor
No, I only accept answers that actually address the question as answered. You seem to live in a world of no principle beyond perceived necessity. On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Riiight. Another non-answer. You will only accept answers that regurgitate the neocon mantra.

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-30 Thread Matthew Taylor
No one has made that claim. If however, taxes are more closely related to the services provided by government perhaps there would be much less tendency to fund every Tom, Dick, and Harry's pet cause. On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Lower all taxes to zero and somehow all t

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-29 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Jordan wrote: How do you think we got out of the last depression? By selling the tools of war to the British and French for the most part, then by full mobilization for WWII. The WPA, Civilian Conservation Corps, and the National Recovery Act created jobs and

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-29 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Is this the most efficient use of the taxpayer's money to meet the enumerated responsibilities of the federal government? Tax cuts are probably the least efficient form of government spending. Tax cuts are not spending. The money is not the go

Re: [CGUYS] Lie Online, Go to Jail

2008-12-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
Lying on line *with malicious intent to inflict harm via fraudulent means* with resultant actual harm inflicted is not a thought crime. It is, and a jury agreed, an actual crime. Matthew On Dec 1, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Wow, this even tops the DMCA's thought crimes... MySp

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-28 Thread Matthew Taylor
As long as they are authorized by the artists they are legit. Many artists release more than one version of a recorded work, be it music, video, whatever. Any deception if it exists is on the part of the artist. Matthew On Nov 26, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Richard P. wrote: Are the edited vers

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-28 Thread Matthew Taylor
Tom; The issue here is freedom of two business corporations (or a corporation and individual in the rare case of the unincorporated artist significant enough to warrant space on the shelves) to contract. No one would dream of telling a store they must sell a particular pattern or wallpap

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7

2008-11-23 Thread Matthew Taylor
Unstable, as in needs to be rebooted after most patches. Unstable, as in needs to be rebooted about one a week just to clear the memory leaks (I "grew up" with uptimes measured in months, and in one case, years, not days). Unstable, as in two server side applications can not be run simult

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7

2008-11-23 Thread Matthew Taylor
As a long time user of both (Windows long before Mac) on the desktop, and of Windows and various *NIX's on servers (*NIX's before Windows), I would say the below sounds about right, substituting HPUX, AIX, Solaris, BDS, etc. for Apple on the server side. My progression was DOS, *NIX, Window

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-03 Thread Matthew Taylor
You might try moving all the messages out of the inbox into another local folder (you can always move them back if you want). With your inbox zeroed out, rebuild the mailbox. Use the web interface for your mail account to make certain the headers or entire messages are not still on the se

Re: [CGUYS] seagate drive failure

2008-10-05 Thread Matthew Taylor
Who is "They"? AFAIK, Seagate and Maxtor are the same company, but ISTR that the Seagate's typically had a better warranty. Is the warranty on the replacement drive as good as the original, or is this covered under a system builder's warranty, which is typically shorter. Matthew On Oct 5

Re: [CGUYS] CD/DVD player half broken

2008-10-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
That is an old machine. Do you KNOW that it had a CD/DVD player rather than a CD only player? What does the profiler say? A really cheap fix would be an inexpensive eternal player / writer. Matthew On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:06 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: My friend Helene has a graphite CRT iMac, G3/50

Re: [CGUYS] Comcast DVR

2008-10-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
Which model do you have? For a long time Comcast was using Scientific Atlanta DVR's that had all of the standard recording outputs disabled in the firmware (USB, firewire/1394) precisely to keep customers from archiving. I do not know how a Panasonic digital recorder works - is a DVD wri

[CGUYS] When AOL was ...

2008-09-23 Thread Matthew Taylor
Tom; Don't you mean to say "before broadband"? Matthew On Sep 22, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Wasn't AOL referred to as the "internet on training wheels"??? Once again. The spread of Internet access changed the game for AOL. Before the Internet, AOL was the one who got it right. AO

Re: [CGUYS] Why Small business's and Non_profits buy PC's and W

2008-09-22 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Sep 22, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Not always the case. I have a lot of stuff that is quite old and is still chugging along. So do I (and come to think of it so am I). ;^) Want a 386? Got one in my garage. No thanks - I did run one (under LINUX) up until a few yea

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 21 Sep 2008 to 22 Sep 2008 - Special issue (#2008-629)

2008-09-22 Thread Matthew Taylor
Get them a macbook from one of the catalog houses that will also pre- install XP under boot camp. That way you get two for a tad more than the price of one. They can do their Windows stuff under windows, the rest under OS X. I can recommend an Apple wireless base station as being real simpl

Re: [CGUYS] Why Small business's and Non_profits buy PC's and W

2008-09-22 Thread Matthew Taylor
Stewart; The thing is, if I have to constantly step in to keep toy A working smoothly, and toy B is likely to be still working and in great shape, such that I can pass it on to the next one who will use it long after toy A is in the trash, I am buying toy B as it is a much better deal. Th

Re: [CGUYS] Another RAID data point

2008-09-21 Thread Matthew Taylor
Amateurs. In no particular order 1. The OS and data should never reside on the same disk or controller in a production system. 2. If proper backups are maintained, that is to say available on local disk as well as archival tape, restoration should be quick and trivial. 3. For a host

Re: [CGUYS] AV Technology Refresh & Refresher

2008-09-06 Thread Matthew Taylor
A Tivo is high on my possibility list. I have heard though that they won't work so well with the variety of cable cards that Comcast uses. Anyone have any knowledge on that? Anyone know if TIVO can offload to external hardrives beyond the one Tivo sells? I am still not sure how I get pre

Re: [CGUYS] AV Technology Refresh & Refresher

2008-09-05 Thread Matthew Taylor
ct your TV provider for those solutions, and expect to pay well for the service. On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Matthew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone have any thoughts or recommendations at all? On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Matthew Taylor wrote: All; Time for the Taylor househol

Re: [CGUYS] AV Technology Refresh & Refresher

2008-09-05 Thread Matthew Taylor
Anyone have any thoughts or recommendations at all? On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Matthew Taylor wrote: All; Time for the Taylor household to do an audio-visual technology refresh, and to do that I need a refresher from the knowledgeable folks on this list. What I currently have: Comcast

[CGUYS] AV Technology Refresh & Refresher

2008-09-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
All; Time for the Taylor household to do an audio-visual technology refresh, and to do that I need a refresher from the knowledgeable folks on this list. What I currently have: Comcast digital cable - the only broadband choice here in the sticks. Don't really want to go satellite for TV

Re: [CGUYS] iPhoto (Was: Interesting quotes about using a Mac)

2008-08-26 Thread Matthew Taylor
Doh; Obviously (I hope) that should be: /Users//Pictures/iPhoto Library/Data unless you happen to be blessed with a similar name. Matthew On Aug 26, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote: I can access the photo's directly from within finder on my Mac. Just go to: /Users/mt

Re: [CGUYS] iPhoto (Was: Interesting quotes about using a Mac)

2008-08-26 Thread Matthew Taylor
I can access the photo's directly from within finder on my Mac. Just go to: /Users/mtaylor/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Data and then into whatever subdirectory you have your photo's stashed in. Matthew On Aug 26, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Constance Warner wrote: It's true--iPhoto has a number of annoyin

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-21 Thread Matthew Taylor
That is why the original assertion is scary. The assertion was made that profits not collected via taxation were a subsidy. A subsidy is when you give something that is yours by right to another party to encourage action by that party. For profits not claimed via taxation to be a subsid

Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our mone

2008-08-21 Thread Matthew Taylor
The argument was over the analysis of the GAO report by the AP. The claim is that the AP misrepresented the GAO report. But then the press never errs. Matthew On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: After careful review of the AP's story, Tax Foundation economist Josh Barro found

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-20 Thread Matthew Taylor
You make several unsupported or undefined assumptions below: 1. Modern business depends on modern government. Please define these terms? The limited liability corporation dates to at least the 16th century, possibly before. When do you date the beginnings of "modern government"? What i

Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...]

2008-08-20 Thread Matthew Taylor
And some more: http://taxfoundation.org/press/show/23469.html Washington, D.C., August 12, 2008 - An AP article today on the GAO's new report on corporate tax liabilities contains a serious error that undermines the story's thesis. The AP reported that, according to the GAO study comparing

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-20 Thread Matthew Taylor
This a really scary conclusion, regardless of the questionable accuracy of the premise. How do you conclude that corporate income belongs to the state via taxation, and any reduction in the tax take is a subsidy? As an aside, what data do you have to support the accuracy of the premise?

[CGUYS] Data protection Server

2008-08-16 Thread Matthew Taylor
You ever look into the stuff from NetApp? On Aug 16, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Jeff Wright wrote: I'd like to purchase a data protection server that takes hourly snapshots of all the local servers, * ** List info, subscripti

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Anti-Virus software and Final Cut Pro?

2008-08-13 Thread Matthew Taylor
ClamXav On Aug 13, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Larry Sacks wrote: Any recommendations on A/V software that won't interfere too much with Final Cut would be greatly appreciated. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...chinese ban lifted apparently...

2008-08-03 Thread Matthew Taylor
Lessened a bit, but not lifted. On Aug 2, 2008, at 5:47 PM, mike wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/02/china.internet?gusrc=rss&feed=technologyfull * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archi

Re: [CGUYS] Need ?mail server?

2008-08-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
I am pretty sure Pegasus mail will do what is needed. It has a redirect (called bounce as I recall) that will send the mail to a new recipient as from the original sender, not as a standard forward (which is a separate option in Pmail). Pegasus has a command line scripting tool that I thi

Re: [CGUYS] Tyro Word (was Newbie Excel)

2008-08-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
There is always i-work, or Open Office. On Aug 1, 2008, at 4:13 PM, chad evans wyatt wrote: My G3's harddrive finally gave up, and it's not worth replacing it, in order only to use my beloved WordPerfect formatings. Is there anything out there to use - aside from Word - to gain ease in fo

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business

2008-07-18 Thread Matthew Taylor
The few times I needed RedHat support a while back I picked up the phone, called them, and had an answer real quick. Using Solaris in the enterprise the answers are usually quick, except when they are very, very, long workthroughs do to obscure third party vendor application conflicts. Ne

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop LCD screen resizing

2008-07-18 Thread Matthew Taylor
It should be a setting. Right click on an empty part of the desktop, select properties, settings, and then adjust the screen resolution to match the native display size of the laptop. HTH Matthew On Jul 18, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Richard P. wrote: A relative has a laptop in which the bottom of

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Pricing on Par with HP, Dell (PC World)

2008-07-10 Thread Matthew Taylor
Does that HP laptop have the same quality of components and workmanship? Will it be as reliable? Those are factors which need to be considered when doing the comparison, else you are doing apples and oranges. Matthew On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:54 PM, mike wrote: If he'd compared low end mac

Re: [CGUYS] OMG! Gates Agrees With Tom

2008-07-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
BSD UNIX is widely recognized as one of the most stable, secure, robust OS's out there. I am sorry if you can't find a GUI built on top of CP/M. Matthew On Jul 1, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: OS X sucks because it is based on BSD Unix, which sucks. ***

Re: [CGUYS] US is access loser

2008-07-01 Thread Matthew Taylor
Have and have nots? When did broadband become a fundamental right? There are lots of things that we all would like, price not considered, that do not rise to the level of a fundamental right. Most adults want to be able to drive, but driving is not a right, no matter how inconvenient not b

Re: [CGUYS] US is access loser

2008-06-30 Thread Matthew Taylor
Rural and small town America has outsourced the fire departments for years - it is called the local volunteer fire department. We also outsource part of the police force - the local volunteer auxiliary police who do crowd control and general event security. It seems to work just fine, tho

Re: [CGUYS] US is access loser

2008-06-30 Thread Matthew Taylor
And I look forward to the nether regions freezing over before I see a Verizon FIOS truck in my area of central MD of 1 - 5 acre lots mixed in with 100+ acre family farms. I still don't have reliable cell coverage (which is not a bad thing when the boss wants to reach me ...), and Comcast's

Re: [CGUYS] DOS system Help

2008-06-19 Thread Matthew Taylor
As a work around, you could pull the hard drive and USB mount it on another computer with a working A drive. On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Michael Drabick wrote: A NEC Versa V/50 laptop has a disk drive that no longer works. This machine is used as an interface with a machine that does bloo

Re: [CGUYS] Forced to Vista?

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Taylor
And if it (the software) still works, defined as doing what you need it to do, it should be possible to replace the hardware without replacing all the apps, etc. Matthew On Jun 16, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Sue Cubic wrote: It would make me very happy to be able to continue using what I already

Re: [CGUYS] T1 vs DSL?

2008-06-13 Thread Matthew Taylor
I think thins line from the Wikipedia article is significant: ""T1" now seems to mean any data circuit that runs at the original 1.544 Mbit/s line rate." So, I would want to know just what is being sold as a "T1" line. I don't think it is old infrastructure per se - you can get a T1 line

[CGUYS] OT: Job opening in DC

2008-06-10 Thread Matthew Taylor
Anyone with W2k3, LINUX, & Apache skills can contact me off list if interested in learning more about an opening in DC. Matthew * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmn

Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages

2008-06-09 Thread Matthew Taylor
I am confident, but too lazy to check, that their access agreements state something to the effect that email is free service they offer to their cable modem customers and that it comes with no guarantee that it will actually work (or that their net connection will actually work for that mat

Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages

2008-06-09 Thread Matthew Taylor
I don't know that there is a good alternative right now. Are messages bouncing because of AOL policies, or are they never reaching AOL because the ISP's blocked them on send? If they bouncing at AOL we could change list hosts. Things are sub-optimal here. That said, they are still quite

Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages

2008-06-09 Thread Matthew Taylor
If you mean something like a PHP forum, no. On Jun 7, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: To revive a question that I raise from time to time: Is it time for CGUYS to move from a primary mail-based delivery system to a primary http- based delivery system? ***

Re: [CGUYS] PC Speaker

2008-06-06 Thread Matthew Taylor
Unless I misunderstand the situation or your terms, you just plug the speakers in to the speaker port (often has an earphone symbol). Matthew On Jun 6, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Jay Montero wrote: I thought I posted this earlier but did not see it. So forgive me if I have double posted. What I a

Re: [CGUYS] Excel ?

2008-06-06 Thread Matthew Taylor
What is the result you were hoping for? If you want a text cell to be ignored, you can accomplish that by nesting the formula with a logic check to see if the cells are text or numbers, and ignore the text. Matthew On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A very simple but

Re: [CGUYS] FYI: Safari on the Windows Platform

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
Apologies to you Mark - don't know where my head was. You were not even replying to me, leet alone the author of the below. Time for this old crank to take a nap I think... Matthew On Jun 4, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Snyder, Mark (IT Civ) wrote: Don't suppose your problems; examine them. Aside f

Re: [CGUYS] FYI: Safari on the Windows Platform

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
Snarky? I think your post qualified as you assume you know where and what I read and that it was all hobbyist. I read your suggested article (earlier) and others. They all boil down to it was a non problem if Windows did not allow such arbitrary code execution. Matthew On Jun 4, 2008,

Re: [CGUYS] FYI: Safari on the Windows Platform

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
erent experts in the field instead of deferring to hobbyists for my information. Mike On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Matthew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:13 AM, mike wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145985-page,1/article.html?tk=synd_macwo

Re: [CGUYS] FYI: Safari on the Windows Platform

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:13 AM, mike wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145985-page,1/article.html?tk=synd_macworld A good explanation of the problem from a mac source. The bottom line is this apparently: The problem arises "because the Safari browser cannot be configured to obtain th

Re: [CGUYS] FYI: Safari on the Windows Platform

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Taylor
Is it really a flaw? As I understand it from what I have read on the web, Safari will download what you tell it to where you have told it to. In the case of Windows, the default is the desktop, a fairly common choice. Unfortunately for windows users, the desktop is an unsafe location bec

Re: [CGUYS] failure notice

2008-06-02 Thread Matthew Taylor
Have not tried. On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: My posts to the list are bouncing. Anybody else with such problems? : Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1) I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long. *

Re: [CGUYS] OMG! Apple US Market Share for "Premium" PCs Hits 6

2008-05-22 Thread Matthew Taylor
They introduced their first PC in 1980. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/timeline/hist_80s.html On May 22, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Snyder, Mark (IT Civ) wrote: Ever seen a 1980's HP PC? HP did not sell PCs in the 80's. They were a company that bought companies to get into the market.

Re: [CGUYS] OMG! Apple US Market Share for "Premium" PCs Hits 6

2008-05-22 Thread Matthew Taylor
Ever heard of Hewlett Packard? On May 22, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Snyder, Mark (IT Civ) wrote: Historically, PC makers have all (except Apple) migrated down to the low end of the market, squeezing the middle into oblivion, before going under themselves (or getting bought-out and subsumed by a larg

Re: [CGUYS] kaspersky?? is it safe - is it better than Norton

2008-05-05 Thread Matthew Taylor
I don't know Kaspersky, but I am a big fan of Tred Micro. http://us.trendmicro.com/us/home/ On May 2, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Michael Drabick wrote: I need to renew a couple of computers AV software currently on Norton AV. After reading CNET's review of Norton ( it is a pig, 300MB in size and mo

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-24 Thread Matthew Taylor
It is not perfect, but Acrobat will take a web page, including links however deep you specify, and convert to a readable PDF that anyone with a reader can read. Yes, the formating will be fixed - a good thing, since you will know how the person you send it too will see it. With MHT, what

Re: [CGUYS] MHTML: what's up with that?

2008-04-24 Thread Matthew Taylor
PDF. On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: There are no standards that I'm aware of for a single file containing a fully self-contained web page. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archi

Re: [CGUYS] french

2008-04-22 Thread Matthew Taylor
Bet you could get one from a retailer / catalog shop in Quebec pretty easy ... On Apr 22, 2008, at 3:54 PM, rlsimon wrote: I want to buy a notebook with french keyboard layout (azerty) and french language version of windows (probably xp pro) to take with me as a gift for a family member i

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes blues (in the beginning. . .)

2008-04-21 Thread Matthew Taylor
I think you need to separate the problems. 1. Deal with the HD problem. 1a. Shut your system down to cold state. 1b. Disconnect the HD. 1c. Start up Windows in administrative mode (not safe mode, just as an administrator account). 1d. Go to the device drivers control pane

Re: [CGUYS] "OpenMac" / Missing?

2008-04-18 Thread Matthew Taylor
Since the insides of an Apple machine are mostly COTS stuff anyway, and run Windows really, really well in most press reports, it would seem logical that Dell or some other player would wrap a case around those parts and let it loose in the world. I suppose the problem is that because Appl

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