Re: [CGUYS] AVG free "update" attack?

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 wrote: > I have installed AVG free on

Re: [CGUYS] TinyURLs [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC wants to measure]

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 b

[CGUYS] Power meter paranoia

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 w

Re: [CGUYS] Too many patches

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 interven

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

Right. That's 9 out of how many movies nominated? Or eligible for nomination? I'm not going to count them all, but I'll just remind you that Documentaries are only a small part of the Oscars. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:40 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010

Re: [CGUYS] CNET News.com: Final Cut Pro the Apple of Oscar's eye - CNET News

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 wrote: > And Adobe will be pissed off. Apple's FCP entered the market late and

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

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 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 make it > clear b

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

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. Fi

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

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 th

Re: [CGUYS] Recommendation for laptop computer advice sought

That's an okay deal. But here's a better one: DellStudio 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 driv

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

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

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

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 wrote: > So your neighbor gives you a laptop...two weeks later yo

Re: [CGUYS] What's the name of that Firefox Ad-on?

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,

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

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 wit

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Market Share At 11%

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 4

Re: [CGUYS] Netscape Composer

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 wrote: > I want to go back to create web pages. I used to work with Netscape > Compo

Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!

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 str

Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!

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.

Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!

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

Re: [CGUYS] Creepy or what?

"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. ***

Re: [CGUYS] Creepy or what?

...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 wrote: > > http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2010/02/spy-at-harrington-high.html > ***

Re: [CGUYS] Anybody else find all tom's post in gMail spam?

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 wrote: > 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. > ***

Re: [CGUYS] Password Keeper == Login King -- thoughts?

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 wrote: > That brings to mind, how come banks (now they use 2 different passwo

Re: [CGUYS] Password Keeper == Login King -- thoughts?

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 at

Re: [CGUYS] Password Keeper == Login King -- thoughts?

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 wrote: > Hi ... I'm looking for something that will

Re: [CGUYS] Science Friday: Facial Recognition

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 beca

Re: [CGUYS] Science Friday: Facial Recognition

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 s

Re: [CGUYS] Science Friday: Facial Recognition

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 signific

Re: [CGUYS] Science Friday: Facial Recognition

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 wrote: > I am dubious ab

Re: [CGUYS] Snow Removal and disposal.

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.

Re: [CGUYS] Snow Removal and disposal.

rage 363 days a year. I wonder what that costs them? On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:48 PM, tjpa 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, wh

Re: [CGUYS] Snow Removal and disposal.

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 devices

Re: [CGUYS] Snow Removal and disposal.

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 fro

Re: [CGUYS] Better Late than Never

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 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 update."'

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop flicker and dying battery

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 manag

Re: [CGUYS] Troubleshooting Win7 Devices and Printers

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.

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop flicker and dying battery

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 Ubun

Re: [CGUYS] Digital goes awry, or a scare tactic?

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 wrote: >  As it was snowing here in the DC area last night, I tuned

Re: [CGUYS] ipad vs Clarke

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. *

[CGUYS] ipad vs Clarke

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 become

Re: [CGUYS] Quality vs the Easy Button [Was: Dreamweaver version correction]

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 loo

Re: [CGUYS] Dreamweaver version correction

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 gr

Re: [CGUYS] A Is for Amazon, B Is for Best Buy…

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 wrote: > Here's another game. How few characters are needed to get y

[CGUYS] digital picture resizing

e you may need special apps is when you try to *enlarge* pics. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Fred Holmes 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 b

Re: [CGUYS] YouTube videos

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 siz

Re: [CGUYS] digital camera shutter lag

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 digi

Re: [CGUYS] Google: Damned if you do; damned if you don't

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 wrote: > An interesting dilemma... > > "How Google's Nexus One censors cuss words" (and why) > http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-1044

Re: [CGUYS] Networking Issue

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 would

Re: [CGUYS] Cell phone numbers to be made public?

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 wrote: > I've received a few emails stating that starting next month cell phone > companies will be given access to per

Re: [CGUYS] Time Watching TV Linked to Greater Risk of Death, New Study Says - WSJ.com

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 lo

Re: [CGUYS] digital camera shutter lag

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

[CGUYS] digital camera shutter lag

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 poi

Re: [CGUYS] Better than a UPS

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 wrote: > Battery alone will never work. > > Just tonight I went outside to take my son to work, and my garden lights

Re: [CGUYS] Better than a UPS

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 reference

Re: [CGUYS] Better than a UPS

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

Re: [CGUYS] OK Computer Mavens likes dislikes

I've used TurboTax for years. It works, mostly. Aren't some of the websites doing a lot of this for free now? On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Stewart Marshall wrote: > I am getting ready to purchase my tax software for taxes. > > Pro cons on Turbo Tax versus Tax act? **

Re: [CGUYS] An internet pioneer rethinks his position

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 Tiern

Re: [CGUYS] epson workforce 610

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 wrote: > In contrast, every HP color laser I have encountered has a warm up tim

Re: [CGUYS] epson workforce 610

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 wrote: > I know this is anecdotal, but I do have one friend who refuses to buy third > party

Re: [CGUYS] Cars and the CES...

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 very

Re: [CGUYS] epson workforce 610

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

Re: [CGUYS] Rootkits and earlier request for help from Gail

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

Re: [CGUYS] Removing a program item

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 t

Re: [CGUYS] Reality

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 wrote: > Mac sales figures dispute your theory. While just about everybody else in > the industry had n

Re: [CGUYS] Rootkits and earlier request for help from Gail

This isn't the free rootkit scanner we've been using for years? I admit, it's been over a year since I ran it last. And now I see at this link it won't work on any newer systems. >Note: x64 operating systems are not supported. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:40 AM, tjpa wrote: > On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:4

Re: [CGUYS] a new word?

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

[CGUYS] a new word?

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 o

Re: [CGUYS] PC Magazine

All my trade mags have been trying to jettison print for a year or more. Every time I re-subscribe or take a survey I'm very careful to say I do *not* want the digital edition. I have way too much reading to do at the computer; what I need is stuff I can take to bed with me. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at

Re: [CGUYS] Windows God Mode

Takes me one key more - Winkey+change cur . Oops, correction! Winkey+curs does it. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:09 PM, mike wrote: > Doesn't everyone?? > > Actually of course I didn't. > > But looking it's obvious...it's called 'change cursor blink rate'. > > Of course by the time you get to 'chang

[CGUYS] Windows God Mode

It works, but oddly, it seems particularly useless. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** poli

Re: [CGUYS] bug

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 r

Re: [CGUYS] sound machine advice

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 most

Re: [CGUYS] sound machine advice

You mean in the morning recently? Probably just deer season. Depending on your state, chances are they can't hunt on Sunday. And the season doesn't last long. Regardless, I'm sure it's illegal to shoot close to houses, so don't get a noisemaker; call the police! They will talk to them. What bother

Re: [CGUYS] bug

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 wrote: > When I am in Firefox and, I do a search on Google, when I click on one

Re: [CGUYS] sound machine advice

I've seen clock radios with noise built in. I noticed something recently - our Walmart humidifier, on a fan level of 2/3, hums along nicely and covers up a lot of noise. Of course, it's only useful in winter. * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] MagicJack: a VoIP question

Actually, I have and occasionally use Skype, and that's not true. Only computer-to-computer Skype calls are free; fairly useless as a telephone replacement. Currently the only thing cheaper than MagicJack is Google Voice, which will presumably leave beta and open to the public this year. However, i

Re: [CGUYS] MagicJack: a VoIP question

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 ph

Re: [CGUYS] Kill it!!!

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 li

Re: [CGUYS] Kill it!!!

This is one of the worst trolls I've seen on the list in a while. Not quite as bad as Tom's RAID rants, but right up there. ATT hasn't petitioned anyone to do anything, they were just answering an FCC query. Even when you were called on it and asked to provide links, you still didn't apologize for

Re: [CGUYS] RAID Revisited

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 tolerance

Re: [CGUYS] RAID Revisited

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 the

Re: [CGUYS] RAID Revisited

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 wrote: > There is actually a website

Re: [CGUYS] bing vs google

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 some

Re: [CGUYS] bing vs google

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. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, pri

Re: [CGUYS] Correct way to burn a video DVD

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 mig

Re: [CGUYS] recovery boot device

Yes, but not completely ignorant, as some can lay claim to. On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:44 AM, t.piwowar 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

Re: [CGUYS] NTFS file system go poof.

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 c

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again

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 miss

Re: [CGUYS] recovery boot device

dea what you're talking about. You certainly can't install a Mac OS on any hardware. Please elaborate. On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, tjpa 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 >>

Re: [CGUYS] rain in the Cloud

Yes, I've read it now. the content certainly seems to disagree with the title, as it's a love-fest for clouds. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, an

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN

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 wrote: > If I may. let me point out that to flash

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN

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 troub

[CGUYS] recovery boot device

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

Re: [CGUYS] rain in the Cloud

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

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon SMS

re out where to make time for it by cutting > something else from my day. > > Fred Holmes > > At 10:18 AM 12/25/2009, Tony B wrote: >>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 l

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon SMS

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. * ** List info, subscription management,

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon SMS

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 wrote: > telephone num...@vtext.com > > Stewart > > > At 09:21 PM 12/24/2009, you wrote: >> >> My b

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN

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 wrote: > I beg to differ, > > "fdisk /mbr" is still used all the time to fi

[CGUYS] Verizon SMS

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 te

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN

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 agonizing

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