Who knows. These days I use and recommend MS Security Essentials. It too has
to update occasionally, but it's nowhere near as annoying as any of the
other free AVs that try to use the occasion for advertising.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM, John Emmerling jpemmerl...@gmail.comwrote:
I have
Wow, maybe in Paranoia-land this is an issue, but there is no way in heck
anyone could figure out when I wake up from my power usage. Or much else
around here. Perhaps if one were in the habit of adjusting the thermostat
twice a day one might deduce these things to within a couple hours. But then
With all the protections I have these days (UAC, Spybot immunize, safe
browsing warnings, etc), I don't feel the need for this, but if you must you
can see where these shortened links go before you click on them.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8636 . Equivalents available
in other
I don't disagree. But most software patches really aren't *absolutely*
needed by everyone, so while trying to sell their new product this guy
isn't really saying anything new. e.g. I noticed notepad++ updating
earlier today. I'm not sure exactly what it updated, as it required
virtually no
What a laugh. The story reads like an ad for FC Studio, not surprising
since it's in Cnet's Apple section. But in fact what it says is that
most of the nominees did *not* use FCP.
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:19 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
And Adobe will be pissed off. Apple's FCP entered the
at 9:55 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
What a laugh. The story reads like an ad for FC Studio, not surprising
since it's in Cnet's Apple section. But in fact what it says is that
most of the nominees did *not* use FCP.
What other computer section would an article about an Apple product
Hardly. You're blowing this all out of proportion. A better comparison
would be that we're all aware we can be filmed while on that bridge.
Well, *I'm* aware of that, and I won't do anything while on the bridge
that would embarrass me. And I would most certainly tell one of my
kids that received
What victim? What crime? Some of you are getting ahead of yourselves.
There are no victims, and nobody has been charged with a crime. By
your own admissions, the worst that happened here is that somebody in
the school district failed to make it more clear that monitoring would
be taking place.
Or maybe the parents that don't own a post-it could just refuse to
accept the free laptop.
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:27 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
So the only crime so far is they should have told the boys and girls they
would be watched remotely in their bedrooms? Maybe they failed to
That's a bit of a reach considering these were free laptops handed out with
specific instructions leading one to know the cams could be used at any
time. I don't recall anything like that happening during Jim Crow.
I'm with the parents. You can't accept a free tool and then sue because it
came
Of course, if they lie about one thing they probably lie about others, which
is why we can't just poll people to find out what types of computers they're
using. BTW, if anyone cares, I'm responsible for about 14 PCs now, but only
5 of them connect to the internet.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM,
If I was dumb enough to take a free laptop from my neighbor and not wipe the
drive before giving it to my pubescent daughter then I would sue *myself *for
being too stupid to have procreated.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:15 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
So your neighbor gives you a
The question is: Why don't *you* consider yourself paranoid? Or are you
actually doing something in front of the camera that's even remotely
interesting? And why void a warranty when a little piece of tape will work?
Or are you concerned there's a way to remove your tape remotely? :)
On Thu, Mar
That's an okay deal. But here's a better one:
Dellhttp://www.fatwallet.com/redirect/bounce.php?afsrc=1mid=14722401url=http://www.dell.com/Studio
17 Laptop Intel Pen Dual Core T4300 2.1GHz, 17 Win 7 Prem $399 ($377
w/ DPA) + $13 S/H
Of course, if you add enough stuff (4gb ram, bigger hard drive)
More accurately, some specific subset of web use share. If they've got a
single mac-centric website in the mix like 2-pop then all the figures could
be skewed. All current figures I've seen show Mac holding at around 5%, and
I just checked my own AWstats and that's still pretty much the case with
These days you don't actually create web pages any more, now you 'blog'.
Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/ ) is good for beginners, especially if
you'll be the only user.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Marcio m...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
I want to go back to create web pages. I used to work
Yes, this is why I usually recommend formatting and installing the OS clean
once any compromise takes place. I mean, who wants that nagging feeling that
everything you type is being sent to east europeans?
Of course, as has already been pointed out, this presupposes that you have a
good backup
You haven't given us much to go on. Like a name or something. If you can run
them, try an online virus scan.
http://www.google.com/search?q=free+online+virus+scan . Once you have a name
you should be able to google removal techniques.
And no, whatever you do, don't install anything else from this
Someone already suggested you try the BitDefender Rescue CD. Have you? If
you can't download and burn that on your machine, maybe you can borrow
someone else's computer? At any rate, don't spend hours and days trying to
figure this out. Just reinstall Windows and you'll be back up in an
afternoon.
Don't disable the camera is not the same thing as Don't put a post-it
over the camera lens. The latter specifically implies they'll be watching
you. The former just means they don't want you playing with the hardware or
software.
...leading to the question: How stupid would a lot of high school students
have to be to *not *cover the camera with a piece of tape?
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:47 PM, phartz...@gmail.com
phartz...@gmail.comwrote:
http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2010/02/spy-at-harrington-high.html
No. Are you sure you didn't mark one as spam at some point?
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:22 PM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote:
I just found the last couple of days worth of Tom's posts in the gMail Spam
folder. Both the tjpa and the t.piowar email addresses were there.
These days you really have to have *some *sort of password manager. However,
I don't see where this one is worth $10 more than Roboform (which I use).
Unless maybe they allow more than one install.
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Gail Miller gail.mil...@comcast.netwrote:
Hi ... I'm looking
No, clipboard entry is no more secure than typing on the keyboard since it
uses the same routines. Virtual keyboards such as you describe can help.
Roboform has the option to use one for my master password, but it's usually
just cumbersome enough that I don't bother with it. But I would if I was
Because people really hate that. I don't know what banks you're talking
about, because none of mine have ever used 2 passwords or any type of
'pictogram' (whatever that is?).
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:52 PM, rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com wrote:
That brings to mind, how come banks (now they use
In the US you don't need permission for anything that takes place outside,
including filming bystanders.
Modern searches use indexes to speed things up. 'Black or white' cuts the
search in half. 'Lives near Baltimore' narrows it more. etc. etc. Then
again, by the time any of that science fiction
You are incorrect. A better example would be reality shows like Cops or
Cheaters, where we aren't taking about bystanders or news, but shows filmed
for entertainment purposes. These shows will blur principals that refuse to
sign releases, but not because it's illegal to film them; rather, it's
Define most purposes. For arranging SoccerMom's 134 snaps of the family
reunion, it's perfect. If you're talking about law enforcement, they never
intended to use the tech as a form of ID, only an assist. It's too easy for
a criminal to disguise his face.
Still, an error rate of 1-2% is
Interesting. But you forgot to mention what apps you've tried. At least
Picasa I assume? Did it actually give you a lot of false hits? I've found it
to be absolutely uncanny in picking faces out of some of the worst shots.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Robert Carroll
I think the biggest problem with weather control has been demonstrated with
Chaos Theory. If you were to deflect a storm out to sea, it would have
ramifications across the whole planet. You can bet the guy 5000 miles away
that has a drought will sue your pants off for contributing to it.
First, plows don't pick up snow, they only push it, so your idea won't work
for plows. Shopping centers often go to the extra expense of trucking out
snow, but it's sure not cheap. Usually they just find a far part of their
own parking lot to take it to. Would you really expect a truck to drive
Oh yes, in northern climes they often invest in this type of heavy
machinery. The latest craze is snow melting machines, which can eliminate
the need for trucking it away. But the OP was talking about Washington,
D.C., a southern city. Nobody this far south invests in dedicated snow
removal
a year. I wonder what that costs them?
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:48 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Feb 12, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Tony B wrote:
Oh yes, in northern climes they often invest in this type of heavy
machinery. The latest craze is snow melting machines, which can eliminate
the need
Congrats to Mr. Ormandy for finding it after 17 years, and kudos to MS for
fixing it within a month.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8499859.stm
A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest
security
I suppose it depends how you define 'flicker'. I imagined it to look more
like a loose wire - a random jumping of the picture. Anyway, we know film
doesn't flicker at 24fps so it would have to be set lower than that, and I
doubt that's possible.
Could it be that in his display properties, he
Unlikely, but then I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a flicker -
presumably a video problem. Anyway, if it's plugged in what difference
would it make. Also, you don't need to reinstall the OS to test for a
video problem - simply sitting in the BIOS might tell you, or a disk
based OS like
You can try running chkdsk and defrag. You don't have any old network
printers that have been removed that it could be looking for? Also
some info at
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9063060/How_to_prevent_Windows_Vista_s_green_ribbon_of_death_
.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Quentin A.
Good question. I know these infrared thermometers are all the rage in
baby thermometers right now. Presumably if those things are 15 degrees
off we would have heard something?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, phartz...@gmail.com
phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
As it was snowing here in the DC area
Only in the sense that anyone working for a newspaper needs to buy
their own printing press to put out a quality product. I disagree. A
few should, but the vast majority of writers shouldn't have to know
anything at all about a printing press or CSS.
If you can sit down at DW and design a good
Whoa. The book was written by Arthur C. Clarke, not Kubrick. It's been
many years since I read it, but as I recall the thing in the picture
you show wasn't a pad, it was the surface coating of the console
itself - the paint, if you will. Probably not too far off, once
flexible e-ink displays
I would have to check the book again. But I thought it was Clarke that
was predicting flat surface displays, not Kubrick. I recall being
somewhat disappointed that Kubrick made them look more like TV screens
built into the console rather than curving around the edges and
things.
My co-admin recently got a new computer, forcing me yet again to
recommend a solution for him to manage his legacy html website. two
years ago I recommended Dreamweaver as the only game in town, but
these days I'm really doubting that's the case. I understand for some
high-end coders DW might be
The Youtube encoding Help seems to start around
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55744 .
In general, you want to encode to .mp4 640X480 *progressive* (this may
be wrapped in a .mov on the Mac, I dunno). Unless there's a lot of
fast movement, you can save a lot of file
may need special apps is when you try to *enlarge* pics.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote:
At 09:19 AM 1/24/2010, Tony B wrote:
none of them even know how to resize a digital
photo for posting, much less how to adjust a lens.
What is the best process for resizing
I don't show up no matter how much I type. Hard to believe I've kept
myself that well hidden all these years. BTW, yours takes me 4 - piwo.
Apparently it's using my gmail cache or something.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:26 PM, tjp t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Here's another game. How few characters are
Is THAT what burst mode is good for? I read about it when I got my
camera but it seemed useless.
Agreed on the ridiculous number of people getting DSLRs these days.
This past christmas we had several more local housewives get them as
gifts, and of course none of them even know how to resize a
Weird. We recently turned off the cuss filter on our forum, only to
have one of our *moderators* begin to cuss like crazy. :(
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:44 PM, tjp t...@tjpa.com wrote:
An interesting dilemma...
How Google's Nexus One censors cuss words (and why)
Sorry, but this makes no sense as written. Don't we all have a 100%
chance of death? How can someone have a 101% chance of death? As
professional reporters are replaced with amateurs, I'm afraid we're
going to be seeing lots more of this type of nonsense in the years to
come.
In a provocative
Your belief that cell phone numbers are now, or have ever been,
private, is mistaken.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Ranbo ran...@gmail.com wrote:
I've received a few emails stating that starting next month cell phone
companies will be
IMHO, there is no way in hell you're going to fix a wireless issue
with WinXP by remote control. In fact, even if you had it I wouldn't
recommend wasting a lot of time with it and instead would just
reinstall WinXP clean in an afternoon and be done with it (hopefully).
An even better solution
Excellent link! It shows my Panasonic as having a .45 second shutter
lag. This is the same camera I just posted *has no shutter lag*. Why
the discrepancy?
As the article states, it's measuring the delay between pressing the
shutter button and the camera recording the picture. It is NOT
measuring
I'll argue it. I've only owned two cheap (~$100) digital cameras - a
Kodak and a Panasonic and neither had any shutter lag at all. The few
earlier cameras that had this problem got a lot of press.
Fred you will get no argument from me on those issues.
One of the real problems with today's point
Yet another example of really bad reporting. The only reference it
gives is a click through to a Gizmodo story that actually words it
MUCH differently. Instead of telling us Panasonic is launching this
battery, Gizmodo tells us they are only now launching a joint venture
aimed at *developing* a
I dunno. Again, we're talking a question of size, and none of these
articles can begin to guess. One article used the word massive, but
that's probably a guess. Certainly if it's as big as a lithium car
battery, you would need a lift to move it around.
Actually the Gizmodo article references
Ah, but this depends on location. If you lived say, in the southwest
desert around Las Vegas you probably wouldn't complain.
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
Battery alone will never work.
Just tonight I went outside to take my son to
One of the worst book reviews I've read in a long time. Quickly
devolves into some sort of editorial.
A provocative article in Tuesday's Science Times (the New York Times Science
pages, http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/):
The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion by John Tierney
Whoa. My el-cheapo HP 2600n 'warms up' in seconds. I don't print too
many color pages, and never color photos, but I've never noticed it
being particularly slow. Works great.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:41 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
In contrast, every HP color laser I have encountered has
That's the going price these days - Staples is also $99. As with all
inkjets, where they make their profit is by selling you the ink
cartridges. I can't imagine wireless setup would be easy if you
couldn't do it via a control panel over USB. I mean, I can't imagine
myself standing there and trying
At least Ford had the decency to disable some functions while the car
is in motion. But I hear some others haven't even bothered with that.
No, I haven't seen a huge desire to surf the web while driving. But if
you widen the definition to include voice and text then yes, people
fell for these
That's right, these things are under some pressure, aren't they? This
Epson comes with full cartridges, but it tells you half of the first
is needed for 'charging'.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
I know this is anecdotal, but I do have one friend who refuses to
I dunno, sorry. But I feel your pain. My Kodak scanner doesn't work in
Win7 x64, and there's nothing on their site for Win7 yet. Tech support
is all too happy to have me move cables around and reboot, but have to
admit they don't yet have Win7 certified software. As we speak, I'm
supposed to call
Actually, we have a rule on our forum No back and forths. Don't argue
with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference,
and at best you'll win an argument with an idiot.. While I'm not
going to take sides or go as far as actually calling anyone an idiot,
I *will* say that you
Since this thread is now about reality, I gotta ask: If this is
true, how many years will it take to reach 100% of the market? How
many to rise above 5%?
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Mac sales figures dispute your theory. While just about everybody else in
the
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words. I've never in my life heard the word
wireline before today, and really can't see the need when landline
works so well. Unless maybe we're talking about wired lines in the
air? Even underwater lines lay on
This actually makes a degree of sense. I never really thought of what
to call FIOS. Obviously we can't call it wireless, even though it
really has no wires. We can't call it a landline because it has no
wires. And now we can't call it wireline because it has no wires.
Wait. I'm still confused.
PS
It works, but oddly, it seems particularly useless.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20
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Time for you to run some malware scans.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-free-online-malware-and-virus-scanners/
. Install Spybot as suggested and do the Immunize thing.
I think the ultimate cause of this was that you probably invited it
onboard. i.e., it wasn't some virus payload. You need to be
Is it sending you to one site, random sites? Spam sites or what? When
you hover in your browser does the address displayed match the address
you go to when you click?
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Christopher Range lcms0...@comcast.net wrote:
When I am in Firefox and, I do a search on Google,
No, no, no. There are very strict laws against discharging firearms
within x feet of a dwelling. You're no farther in the woods than I am
in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and nobody around here would stand
for that. There are very valid reasons not to allow this behavior.
Jan. 1, 2010: Boy
No, you're thinking of the old landlines of the 50's and 60's. Today
they're over-shared the same as everything else and are probably about
as reliable in an emergency. I mean, there are different types of
emergencies. A 9/11 event will clog all the services. But an accident
in your bathroom can
Actually, that's two questions. First, you may use your existing
telephones with MJ, but you don't have to. It comes with an interface
that easily switches to headset so any headset (or mic and speakers)
can work.
No, pulse dialing is ancient history. You could not dial a number from
a rotary
Except that they don't actually argue against RAID, only the RAID-F's.
The article I read actually advocates RAID10.
Conclusion? For safety and performance favor RAID10 first, RAID3 second,
RAID4 third, and RAID5 last!
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:17 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
There is
I can't speak for Tom, but I don't believe he ever actually said this.
Even he will admit that the only way to get extra speed from a drive
is RAID. His objections, like mine, have more to do with fault
tolerance and backups. With the new RAID configs, the problem is being
addressed. Then again
For raw speed, RAID is the way to go. The P2 cards Panasonic is
selling so well these days are just blocks of SD cards strung together
in a RAID. The more SD's, the faster the transfer speed (as well as
capacity). http://www.dvxuser.com/articles/P2/ . Of course, there's
virtually no fault
I keep both Google and Bing in my Firefox search dropdown and these
days I use them about equally. But I'm not sure I want to use them
both at the same time.
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Since you quoted me, I'll answer. But actually, I didn't say Bing was
'better', only that I've found I use them about equally now. The
reason I think is mostly for searches where I'm just not sure of the
correct search terms. i.e., when guessing at search terms that might
yield good results, I
Most DVD players can only play mpeg2 files, either as standard .vob or
as plain .mpg files. A few can play Divx or xvid encoded .avi files
(Philips). So the short answer is you need to find a program to
convert the file, and also (if desired) make a standard DVD.
The newest WIndows Movie Maker
Yes, but you and a few others that think boot sector viruses are
common are either deluded or just ignorant. Did you even bother to try
to find a common Windows 7 boot sector virus before you posted this
statement?
The shame is that with so much noise in the thread she got totally
swamped and
I would just format the disk and either restore your last image or
install Windows clean. Then restore your documents from backup. At
some point, I'd check the drive's SMART status.
Drives sometimes go unformatted like that. Hard to say why; presumably
one important byte value might shift due to
Yes, but not completely ignorant, as some can lay claim to.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:44 AM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 26, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Tony B wrote:
WTF are you talking about? Compressed data isn't any harder to recover
than non-compressed; just the opposite, since
We're really beginning to stray here with all this talk of rare BIOS
and boot sector viruses. And now a question about backups.
Disk imaging is the way to go, with some level of compression to save
space. Ghost, Acronis, and many freeware apps will do this. They all
have basic Windows PE cds that
Actually, if we ignore the old time BIOS viruses that were targeted to
specific hardware, the modern (but still only theoretical I think)
BIOS virus will likely simply render the machine *dead*. Replacing the
BIOS chip would bring it back to life, but realistically nobody would
go to all that
Huh? So a mac-based Windows machine has this lock? That's nice. Many
other companies have various schemes to prevent BIOS flashing as well.
I'm sure if this ever becomes a real problem many more will join in.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
If I may. let me point out
about. You
certainly can't install a Mac OS on any hardware. Please elaborate.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 26, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Tony B wrote:
Disk imaging is the way to go, with some level of compression to save
space.
Backups should never
Well, I finally got an answer from him this morning at the vtext.com
addy. As I suspected all along, he was just being a luddite about the
whole SMS thing. And will probably continue.
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Have you actually read the article? I admit, I printed it out but have
not yet had a chance (it's long). But I like the summary near the end:
This isn't the first time a new information technology has offered profound
benefits while raising potentially intolerable security risks. The advent of
Or maybe because nobody can understand the question? :)
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:50 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been
waiting...months? A year? for the answer about what does what RAID does to
replace it if it's so bad? Still no answer. I suspect because there is
none.
Fdisk was rendered unneeded long ago. Since WinXP (or maybe Win2k?)
the Windows install routine allows you to do all the partitioning you
want. Without floppies or a floppy drive. A bit cumbersome, but it
does the job.
Gail, I hope you're ignoring 90% of what you're reading here. They're
My boss has a Verizon cell phone and I would love to send him an
email. He texts within his family all the time, but doesn't understand
the concept of email. My few attempts at test emails, using addys I've
found on web searches, have been ineffective.
So. Can someone with a Verizon plan please
Spoken like someone that has never heard of Windows XP, or all
subsequent versions of Windows. Do you still have a floppy drive in
your computer? :)
http://tinyurl.com/ot3wc
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM, John DeCarlo johndeca...@gmail.com wrote:
I beg to differ,
fdisk /mbr is still used
I've tried that. They claim to have not gotten it. I'm confused.
They're Luddites, is it possible they're getting it and just don't
know it?
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
telephone num...@vtext.com
Stewart
At 09:21 PM 12/24/2009,
There's no need to send it back; it's not a hardware problem. Now I
forget - has he tried formatting the disk and reinstalling the OS?
What disks, if any, did he get with the machine (or make himself)?
It really doesn't sound like any virus I'm familiar with. I mean,
creating partitions and
Please elaborate. Is there a defect in the Win7 install routine? Linkage?
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
A simple format and reinstall will not solve it.
Yes it is malware, but he will never be able to wipe it out unless he
totally
Google shows a reference to a
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_w32_agent_bcd.shtml
, but it's an adware downloader, not something that would destroy
McAfee. Which sounds like a story in itself.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gail Miller gail.mil...@comcast.net wrote:
Not so.
The bottom is getting crowded, so I have my ObjectDock on the left side.
But Tom and Betty both say the Dock *works better* (not has more
functions, but is more user friendly) on the side. And IIRC, Tom
intimated that no serious user would leave the Dock on the bottom. So, what
up widdat.
Defragging shouldn't cause crashing at any rate. But most users don't
need to defrag but maybe once or twice a year. I use MyDefrag
(formerly JKDefrag) (freeware) on some machines; on my own I use
PerfectDisk (pay).
I'd sure want to get to the cause of the crashes while the unit is
still under
Oh, good point. Win7 comes out of the box with very agressive power
saving features. These can all be adjusted in Control PanelPower. But
it's normal to come back to a machine and find it off.
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:02 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Check your power options along with
There's no benefit at all to someone that doesn't *need* Apache. Are
you a web developer? Do you write php code?
If not, then no, the average person doesn't need Apache. If yes then
you want to install 64 bit if you have a 64 bit system. I mean, define
benefit.
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:41 AM,
Relax. You only need the forms if you wrote a registry cleaner that
couldn't clean in one pass.
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote:
I need to justify maintaining my computer?! To who? I don't even know where
to get the proper forms!
No, 4g is the limit for 32 bit Windows. To use most versions of
Windows with more than 4g you need to go 64 bit. This is not a hard
limit, it's a business decision by MS.
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Michael Fernando michael@gmail.com wrote:
(I must run 64-bit OSes, at least as the host
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