OK, I can open the case and try to find the battery. If I remove the
battery to see what it is, will everything be lost from the BIOS once
again? If not, how long do I to replace it without losing the BIOS
settings?
BTW, I ran Lavalys Everest and it reports no battery info. My computer
is
that suddenly became
unformatted) with a newer 750 GB drive. I will wait until I see if the
reformat and restore of my F: drive goes OK, or if not I will replace it.
On Jan 26, 2008 7:16 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A week or more ago, I noticed that the desktop icon for internal drive F
Here is a curiosity question about CPU usage in Windows XP -- not
important, just wondering. This question shows my ignorance of the
computer.
I notice that the computer execution speed seems independent of the CPU
usage. For example, suppose that two processes are running
simultaneously,
Followup on a suddenly unformatted drive. I have decided that the
internal hard drive F: that Windows reports as being unformatted is
reported by BelArc advisor as this one:
Maxtor 6Y120M0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 2, s/n Y3KTK99E, rev
YAR51EW0, SMART http://www.belarc.com/smart.html
A week or more ago, I noticed that the desktop icon for internal drive F
was missing. I reinstalled the shortcut using My Computer (Windows XP
SP 2).
Now trying to access the drive F, I get this message from Windows: The
disk drive in F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
I
OK, here comes the voice of ignorance.
Whereas the number of forests might have increased, surely the acreage
of forests has decreased. In the 1800's and 1900's in America, the
population increased dramatically in America. Today there are many
urban and suburban communities where none
Wonder of wonders -- the software showed up today in the mail. This is
more than a month after purchase, and three weeks after eBay closed the
store.
Robert wrote:
I purchased a software program from a Buy it Now sale at an eBay
store. The store had 100% positive rating. The software
At 06:12 AM 1/4/2008, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No virus found in this outgoing message.
This is a lie.
Well, you got me there, Tex. But it wasn't a very BIG lie, now, was it?
That entire post was a virus.
You say that as if it was a BAD thing.
Bob
At 04:35 PM 1/3/2008, William Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please discontinue my subscription.
Hell, no! You're not running out now. WE tell YOU when you leave. YOU
don't tell US. Who do you think you are, anyway?
Thank you,
Your superficial display of politesse doesn't
My desktop computer recently began displaying a message that my battery
power is weak and advises to switch to AC power. I am connected to AC
power. The message comes from Windows XP, I think.
What causes the message?
I am connected to AC power thru a battery backup that comes on when AC
I think you must be right. As an experiment, I pulled the plug on the
computer. The PC went into standby even tho the battery backup should
have powered the system. After plugging back in, a critical battery
message appeared.
The communication link between the computer and the APC quit
My two cents:
If I were doing this, I would first copy cassette or records to the WAV
format using a high-quality computer sound card. The sound card might
have its own WAV program, or you could use Audacity.
Next, I would use an audio clean-up program to remove hiss, pops, and
scratches.
You might be right, that manufacturers have a date to stop manufacturing
analog TVs, but I thought that the end date referred to the broadcasting
of commercial analog TV. That date is on February 17, 2009.
The manufacturers would not make many analog TVs after that date even if
there is no
One possibility is that you checked the statement on the web site
https://www.dtv2009.gov/ApplyCoupon.aspx that says All or some of the
TVs in my house subscribe to one or more pay services, such as cable or
satellite.
According to the rule, copied below, you are eligible for a coupon only
This question is answered at
http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html#faq8
It says therein:
*How do I know if I already have a digital TV (DTV)?*
Many DTVs and digital television equipment will have labels or
markings on them, or statements in the informational materials that
came with them,
I purchased a software program from a Buy it Now sale at an eBay
store. The store had 100% positive rating. The software is ADOBE
PHOTOSHOP CS2 FULL GENUINE SOFTWARE SEALED, which is an older version of
Photoshop. The price was about $140. The seller didn't accept Paypal,
but only personal
check was made out to him:
Robert Huack
1057 shaw #149
Fresno Ca. 93710
But, I still need the software. My daughter is in high school taking a
course, and the teacher wants the parents to buy Adobe Photoshop which
retails for about $1000.
I found this link by searching the web on Google
I probably have complained before about IT managers, but I am in a
special case. I belong to a major university in the DC area, and my
school has a small but deficient computer service facility that must
cope with a very small budget. After the IT director, there are only
inexperienced
I have decided to give my college-age daughter a Canon point-and-shoot
camera for Xmas. She has a Macbook Pro (15 inch?) laptop and a PC
desktop that she intends to give to her younger sister because she
doesn't use the PC any more.
My question is: does the Macbook Pro have a built-in SD or
I had my eye on three models of digital cameras (a Sony and two Canons)
for a gift. Searching for the best price for each last week, I decided
to wait until today before buying to see if the prices fell on Black
Monday. The result: today's Sony price is $20 higher, one Canon is
$10 higher,
Tony B wrote:
You can spend
days trying to track down the intermittent error, or you can offload
important data (1 billable hour) and reinstall (2 hours). I'd have the
laptop back in a couple days with a DVDR containing the old Documents
folder. Let them reinstall their apps.
I'm not a repair
This page opens OK for me using Firefox v. 2.0.0.9.
Looking at the html source code, there are some obvious errors. First,
there are two head sections, one embedded in the other. One head
section is all that should be there. Second, there is no /body
statement before /html.
Immediately
Jeff Miles wrote:
Excuse after excuse, it sounds like the person who refuses to buy
a new car because the old one only has 250,000 miles on it.
What's wrong with that?
I think it all depends on what the car (or the computer) is used for.
My father kept an old beat up car, torn seats,
that out to see if would be helpful for a Mac OS
newbie.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
From: Computer Guys Announcements and Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:01 PM
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject
The university where I work leases PCs (they're Dells) and replaces them
every 3 years. The replacements are staggered so that every year about
1/3 of the computers are replaced.
An unusual feature of my university -- the university offers to sell the
used computer to the person who used it
Gosh, so many replies about serial ports and floppy drives on laptops.
I'm thinking of buying a Mac PowerBook Pro (college daughter bought one
and loves it), but I am a Windows person and don't know how to select
and I've never had a laptop. The one that I am considering is a 15.4
screen,
Tom Piwowar wrote:
My God, you must be right! Who in their right mind would by Cisco or
Nortel telcom equipment, or Sun, IBM, or HP enterprise servers and
SANs! The horror, the folly!
Fifty year old bald guys wearing white socks, skinny ties, and pocket
protectors.
Oh, my! How
Is the new SD card exactly the same as the other cards that work?
I found out that the new, faster, SD cards (the ones that say they are
50x or more faster than standard) won't always work with my old card
reader. What happened to me is just as you describe. I bought a new
card reader and
I reported a possible fake message from eBay to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In
reply, I received this message from eBay:
To enable a more complete investigation of this situation, please email
me a full copy of the message you received including the full headers.
Headers are required as they allow me
I am a webmaster for a local non-profit organization that has previously
had its web host supplied to the organization by a third party. That
party charges the organization for hosting but does not reveal any
details at all, such as the bandwidth supplied or used. I'm thinking
that the
Hear, Hear!
I'm not a fan of cell phones either. They are frustrating to use, voice
quality is poor at best and non-existent at worst, the battery is dead
in a day (from my house) or in an hour (when I'm on vacation in the
mountains), the contracts offered boil my blood, the phones break
Thank you for your reply.
As I mentioned in my original message, the domain registration belongs
to the web host -- registered by it. If we were to switch web hosts,
how could we retain the same domain name?
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Two separate questions.
Web hosting
Domain
Tom Piwowar wrote:
Given the choice of three hospitals and knowing only that one was run by
a government agency, one was run by a for-profit corporation, and one was
run by a religious-charitable organization, which would your choose?
Depends on the government agency. If it is a hospital
I have an external DVD burner that has Lightscribe version 1.1
capability, which I use occasionally. The new version 1.2 of
Lightscribe is available. I have not tried these new DVD+Rs.
My present understanding is that a monochrome image is burned onto a
colored surface in the new version
At 06:41 PM 9/7/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have I been banned from the list?
No, but make it worth our while, and we'll see what we can do for you.
What's happened is that you've been getting what is known as the
Paul McCartney Treatment. That is, you've been banned
At 08:08 AM 9/4/07, Tomás de Torquemoderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This list is moderated. If I don't like your posts we send thugs to your
house. [snipparoonie] In any event, the offending party is never heard
from again.
So! Youse gonna send your thugs around, or what?
I got
At 06:01 AM 8/22/07, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did not take particular offense to your rant
Mazel tov. Neither did I. Possibly because, your characterization
notwithstanding, it wasn't a rant.
and thought it reasonably harmless given that the person in question had
left
At 03:39 PM 9/4/07, chad evans wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, everyone. We've heard all of bob's variations.
Ignorantly and erroneously spoken. Boo!
Time to ignore him.
Arrogantly and presumptuously spoken. Yay!
It appears that you have taken it upon yourself to decide
At 04:43 PM 8/25/07, Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because of my Brobdingnagian package, I've never been in what you could
call a contest. All other entrants got beaten like a Sunday boner.
Are you talking about your ego?
No, I'm not. However, for a modest additional fee,
is based on shopping at local stores on
the IEEE article.
The lamp warranty was a big factor in my daughter's choice of the DLP
TV, as well as her desiring a very large screen.
Robert wrote:
My two cents.
If it is a choice between an LCD or a plasma, I would choose LCD.
This opinion
I am not a great expert on this, but I have the same problem
time-to-time with Thunderbird. Here's what I do (altho you might
already have tried these with no luck):
First, I reboot the computer -- Windows XP -- twice. Often this solves
the problem. If not,
(2) I unplug the cable modem
At 07:02 PM 8/21/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess then you were only kidding about that 100 moderators comment.
Not in the slightest.
You don't want to be moderated,
1. I don't want listmembers to attempt to censor others, but label
such behavior moderating the
At 08:48 PM 8/19/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bob, can I call you Bob?
Well, they often call me Speedo, but my real name is Mister Earl.
As someone who's probably been over the top on more than one occasion in
my years on the list,
I don't remember you being over the
At 05:46 PM 8/19/07, Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thinking clearly and logically is hard. If it were easy, everyone would
do it.
He's signed off, so he didn't see any of that.
What a waste of effort.
Thanks for your comment and your sentiment, Eric, but, if you look
closely
I have a Dell XPS desktop PC that is about 4 or 5 years old. I believe
in keeping the computer running all the time (because this household
computer has multiple user profiles, is used frequently, and takes about
10 minutes to boot up in Windows XP Home).
Lately, a fan is making some noise.
Occasionally I notice missing messages, but more frequently a reply to a
message shows up well before the original message arrives.
Steve Rigby wrote:
On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:51 AM, mike wrote:
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users
from the
population. It's too
\Startup
Mike
On 6/7/07, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have PC with Windows XP Home. Installed a new external DVD burner.
There is a Liveupdate item that appears whenever I boot up that
requests registration info to be sent for the burner. The problem is
that when I fill in the info and click
the startup menu. I
will now see if this works -- if not, I am at a loss.
Robert wrote:
I checked the startup folder of all users profiles, including All
Users and Administrator, and do not find this program there.
The program executes about 60 seconds after bootup is completed.
mike wrote
I am reluctant to enter into this discussion, since I am conflicted
about the issues.
Were I 40 years younger, I would completely agree with Tom Piwowar that
we all need to be honest as well as obeying the law -- all the stuff
taught in Civics course in High School (never mind that my high
About 6 weeks ago, I asked this listserv about a laptop for my daughter
in college, now a junior. She didn't know whether to get a Mac or a PC
laptop, and her friends were giving her dubious advice. Thanks to all
who responded -- I copied each response and emailed them to her as well
as the
This is a fair question. Since you ask, I will answer.
I have a LOT of software on my PC computer and I use most of it
frequently. The software includes mathematical engineering design
programs, graphics design, video editing, music composition, CD DVD
burning and ripping software, and
Recently I had to delete the registry entry for WordPerfect on my PC and
reinstall same. When the new installation (including the new X3, so
named because it is version 13 that superstition won't allow) my ability
to search WP files for text strings was no more. The WP newsgroup said
that
I learned CSS at http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
Fred Jones wrote:
Hello everyone
I have always coded my webpages using a text editor, but now find I
just can't keep up with everything, especially CSS. I will probably
purchase Contribute which I think should be adequate for my needs -
The battery charger is never really switched off when the battery is
fully charged unless there is a timer which switches off the charger.
For those without timers, there is a trickle flow of current needed to
measure the charge of the battery. Some kinds of rechargeable battery
is more
I don't know the answer to your question -- it seems today that only a
few DVD-RWs are needed. I've almost quit using them.
But, several years ago the DVD write once was very expensive, and the
success rate of writing to them was not too good. I adopted the
practice of always writing to a
My Norton Internet Security program is no longer working correctly. It
is a version that expired several years ago.
Is there a free firewall still available?
* == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following
is a lie.
Robert Jacoby
Reference/Electronic Services Librarian
University of Toledo LaValley Law Library
-Original Message-
From: Computer Guys Announcements and Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of b_s-wilk
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:51 AM
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L
This might not be the best newsgroup to answer this question, but here goes.
I was asked to make a compilation of selected music from several CDs for
a single new CD. (These were locally recorded, not copyrighted, and a
single master CD was made of each performance.) So I used Exact Audio
Do not use the microphone input unless your source in monophonic. The
microphone input accepts only monophonic input.
Elaine Zablocki wrote:
At 05:52 PM 4/29/2007, b_s-wilk wrote:
Have you tried using Audacity for recording? I've had excellent
results with it. Windows/Mac/Linux
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