Re: [CGUYS] RAID n' MS security updates

2008-04-25 Thread Tony B
Not if it's working properly. On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Christopher Range [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can a RAID setup block MS security updates from being installed? * ** List info, subscription management, list

[CGUYS] IDC hits 6%

2008-04-24 Thread Tony B
Just a followup to the IBM story. Clearly, if MS doesn't fix the Vista debacle soon, this tiny 6% market share could quickly snowball. Assuming Steve kicks the bucket and the OS is allowed to be installed anywhere, and assuming MS takes more than 10-20 years to release another good OS.

Re: [CGUYS] IBM Tests: 86% Ask to Keep the Mac

2008-04-22 Thread Tony B
Yes, I read the story. The numbers speak for themselves. Out of a company presumably of thousands, 19 wanted to run Windows on Mac hardware. But the hilarious part is Tom's (and Dan's) spin on the whole thing, making it sound like the Mac was taking over or something! Again, what the story

[CGUYS] ISPs' Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web

2008-04-20 Thread Tony B
Yet another reason to use OpenDNS. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/isps-error-page.html * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at

[CGUYS] DropMyRights

2008-04-19 Thread Tony B
http://nonadmin.editme.com/DropMyRights Apparently the only two solutions to the recent Flash security problems are either a) running your browser sandboxed or b) lowering your browser's privileges. I've tried using the free sandboxie, but it presents problems like incompatibility with Roboform.

Re: [CGUYS] Anyone get an email from Reunion.com saying someone is searching for you?

2008-04-11 Thread Tony B
Well, no, that's not good advice for any of us that make public contact. We have to check all our email because you never know where a legit email will come from. I got one from somewhere last week (not reunion.com). I opened it. I appreciate the heads up, and they weren't asking for money or

Re: [CGUYS] Disc vs. Disk

2008-04-08 Thread Tony B
What a wacky idea. Cite Wikipedia as an authority on word usage! Just try that stunt in school. For all we know you might have made those entries yourself! I gave you a link to 20 different modern dictionaries, most of which either support the interchangeability of the words or don't mention it.

Re: [CGUYS] Disc vs. Disk

2008-04-08 Thread Tony B
Yes, I imagine in your world of fantasy languages, dictionaries aren't used a lot, and you find yourself embarrassed quite a bit. What bemuses me is why you'd want to use a user-written encyclopedia but not a user-written dictionary. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:55 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CGUYS] Disc vs. Disk

2008-04-07 Thread Tony B
Or by the pleasantly ignorant that never bother to read dictionaries or have any understanding of how living languages evolve. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=disc On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always used disc for optical media and disk for

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Now #1

2008-04-04 Thread Tony B
Interesting, but maybe old news already. http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWEN358320080128 I just had reason to need a couple tunes last week, and was happily surprised to find them at Amazon.com in DRM-free .mp3 format (though the one-click purchasing wasn't working). I probably

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Now #1

2008-04-04 Thread Tony B
The last version of itunes I installed (last summer I think) was malware. It took over lots more than it should have without asking me. Perhaps they've fixed that by now. But now it's nagware. Every week or so I get a desktop popup reminding me to update Quicktime with itunes, and that box is

Re: [CGUYS] Updater Mess

2008-04-04 Thread Tony B
The only two annoying updaters I have to deal with these days are Apple and Adobe. Firefox has the good sense, like most apps, to only check on startup. And nothing extraneous is included by default in the updates (like Quicktime + iTunes). On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL

[CGUYS] april fools around the web

2008-04-01 Thread Tony B
Gmail to allow you to set a custom time when your emails were sent. Internet explodes. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** **

Re: [CGUYS] Vista home premium disk management query: is unallocated space recoverable for use ??

2008-03-31 Thread Tony B
Doesn't Vista do disk partitioning operations? Regardless, I wouldn't wish gparted on my worst enemy until it gets a decent GUI. http://vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-windows-vista/ On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:32 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] solar battery chargers

2008-03-28 Thread Tony B
You are mistaken. Current technology requires a LOT of light to generate usable amounts of electricity. It's hard to find real data, so let's just take an example from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EQ8WKA#moreAboutThisProduct From the ad copy: Charging 2 AA (or AAA) batteries in

Re: [CGUYS] solar battery chargers

2008-03-28 Thread Tony B
, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are mistaken. Current technology requires a LOT of light to generate usable amounts of electricity. It's hard to find real data, so let's just take an example from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EQ8WKA#moreAboutThisProduct Tony

Re: [CGUYS] bittorrent with Opera

2008-03-28 Thread Tony B
It gets back to what I said a while back about torrent downloads speeds being limited to your upload speed. As Mike explained, you may occasionally come across a particularly fast uploader, but much more common is that you connect with a bunch of users like yourself, thus limiting your download

Re: [CGUYS] Assigning permanent letter to external drive

2008-03-27 Thread Tony B
Actually, it was the OP that mistakenly believed shuffling drive letters was his problem. So far this thread has gone off on a completely useless tangent, certainly not helpful to him at all. His question: How can I get my J external drive to show up in the [Win XP File and Settings Transfer

[CGUYS] solar battery chargers

2008-03-27 Thread Tony B
Aren't we generalizing a bit? I'm under trees here, there's not nearly enough sunlight to charge batteries. People in apartment buildings would have the same trouble. On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Photovoltaic solar panels are the sensible answer to

[CGUYS] drive labels

2008-03-27 Thread Tony B
WTF are you talking about? My point was clear - if you want to discuss drive labels then just change the subject. I don't know of anyone that particularly _likes_ the Windows way of labeling drives with single letters of the alphabet, so if you're trying to rile up controversy I doubt it will

Re: [CGUYS] Assigning permanent letter to external drive

2008-03-27 Thread Tony B
One of our laptops has a similar issue. Four reserved drive letters that do nothing at all. Just ignore them. At least until you use z: and really _need_ to free one up. I already told you a way around it. If you're dead set on using that brain-dead wizard, just save the files to eg c:/tmp/ then

Re: [CGUYS] sata card

2008-03-26 Thread Tony B
You're lucky your mobo does that. My Intel doesn't. After some research I read many won't; Nvidia chipsets (presumably) will. What's yours? I _did_ find a hot swap program on the web, but that didn't work for me either, so it's long gone and I don't remember what it was called. On Wed, Mar 26,

[CGUYS] shared bandwidth

2008-03-25 Thread Tony B
I'm wondering how you've identified the problem? Or are you just blowing smoke? PS I doubt DSL would help much since all the wires come to a head a bit upstream anyway. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:42 PM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my case, there isn't always enough pie to go around. In

Re: [CGUYS] shared bandwidth

2008-03-25 Thread Tony B
I bet you didn't know bit torrent is *already* throttled to their upload speed? You can blame your slow service on a lot of things, but neighbors running bit torrent isn't one of them. OTOH, legal downloads like the site mentioned earlier, and Netflix, etc., can support much faster downloads.

Re: [CGUYS] classic movie downloads

2008-03-24 Thread Tony B
Now we're getting somewhere. These guys have links to download the movies alongside a viewer. I wonder how long it will take me to download Night of the Living Dead (4.1gb mpg2) from them? If I read it correctly, their mpeg2 files are at full DVD resolution also. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:59 AM,

[CGUYS] tv viewer cams

2008-03-24 Thread Tony B
I recall seeing this idea at least 20, maybe 30 years ago. It's not a new idea at all. When Nielsen found people blatantly cheating in their diaries (who *didn't* say they watched all the Star Trek episodes - we'd seen them all 5 times already anyway), they started installing tuners that actually

Re: [CGUYS] XP Reinstall

2008-03-24 Thread Tony B
There won't be any real limit. Buy whatever you can afford. But remember - 2 drives is safer than one. Your daily backups need to be to a second physical drive. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I find out what the largest usable internal HD is for

Re: [CGUYS] classic movie downloads

2008-03-23 Thread Tony B
. It is a Windows only service. On Mar 22, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Tony B wrote: I was helping a neighbor with her new broadband today and she's into classic movies. So I started telling her about the internet. But everything we could scare up on a Google search seems to want you to watch

Re: [CGUYS] XP Reinstall

2008-03-23 Thread Tony B
No. A disk image is a snapshot of ALL the data on that disk partition. An image _is_ a backup, but a backup only saves selected data. Norton Ghost, Acronis, a freeware imager: http://www.download.com/DriveImage-XML/3000-2242_4-10443230.html On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Richard P. [EMAIL

Re: [CGUYS] XP Reinstall

2008-03-23 Thread Tony B
I'm not sure that's better, just somewhat convenient. Or is it? I'd just hang the old drive on there long enough to image it to the new drive (overnight, 0 labor), then disconnect it. Then you'd have the browsable image right there. When you haven't referred to the image for a few weeks, delete

Re: [CGUYS] classic movie downloads

2008-03-23 Thread Tony B
Yesterday when I was with the client I had her google free movie downloads and public domain movies and we had no problem finding lots of classic movies. Try it. But I couldn't see any way to easily burn them to DVD. On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious

Re: [CGUYS] XP Reinstall

2008-03-23 Thread Tony B
P. Tony B wrote: No. A disk image is a snapshot of ALL the data on that disk partition. An image _is_ a backup, but a backup only saves selected data. Norton Ghost, Acronis, a freeware imager: http://www.download.com/DriveImage-XML/3000-2242_4-10443230.html On Sun, Mar 23

[CGUYS] gray weekend

2008-03-22 Thread Tony B
Hagiography? I had to look it up too. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hagiography Basically it's what Apple fanboys are clamoring for. Or seem to be. I see it all the time on this list. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/business/22online.html?themc=th Another interesting article in the

[CGUYS] classic movie downloads

2008-03-22 Thread Tony B
I was helping a neighbor with her new broadband today and she's into classic movies. So I started telling her about the internet. But everything we could scare up on a Google search seems to want you to watch stuff on their site. Is anyone aware of any sites that are geared toward downloading and

Re: [CGUYS] XP Reinstall

2008-03-22 Thread Tony B
Yes, just buy a new hard drive and install to that. Keep the whole old drive as a backup. Monumental waste of time keeping track of the programs you installed. You should have the programs you USE on your C partition and that should be imaged daily. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Richard P.

Re: [CGUYS] MAJOR hard drive problems

2008-03-20 Thread Tony B
I always point out when discussing good backups that hard drives can and do fail suddenly and without warning. Not what I would consider 'archival' storage at all. But they're great for the day to day backups; still much faster than the internet. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:07 PM, cindy brandt

Re: [CGUYS] Web Politicking

2008-03-10 Thread Tony B
FWIW, I don't see anything but my IP at that url. On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed a small Obama 08 badge in the corner of the home page at whatismyip.org. I have not seen such politicking on non-political web sites before. Have others

[CGUYS] rampant piracy

2008-03-06 Thread Tony B
Either we should abolish the library system and jail all the librarians, or abolish the laws that enable terrorist groups like the RIAA MPAA to operate with impunity. I couldn't miss the contrast of books vs. software. Doing any of the above with software would be criminal. Should doing

Re: [CGUYS] New south wales law allows all computers on a network to be searched

2008-03-06 Thread Tony B
Why, yes it does. The Bush fascists here would have thought of it first, but I guess it must be assumed they're already doing it, so they don't care. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:24 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/06/2182021.htm From the article:

Re: [CGUYS] New south wales law allows all computers on a network to be searched

2008-03-06 Thread Tony B
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fascist fascist: a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views. *You* might want to look it up before accusing _me_ of cracking a party joke about the Bush regime. It may have had a different meaning in the past, but in a living language word

Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras

2008-02-28 Thread Tony B
This may not work as planned though. If the kid gets hurt on your mailbox, his parents can sue. Not to mention if their car gets damaged they'll be back to let you know how happy that makes them! For now, I prefer my 'breakaway' box that's relatively easy to attach back. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at

Re: [CGUYS] gmail replies

2008-02-28 Thread Tony B
Correct. But for people coming from the Dark Ages of Eudora or (gasp) Outlook, we just don't believe our email *worked* unless we actually see our own returned email from the list. Yes, this means you have two copies. Yes, it's inefficient. And yes, I've gotten used to doing it the new way. I

Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras

2008-02-27 Thread Tony B
It's hard to compare the security of a cam in a school with that of a cam out in the woods. The one has all sorts of law enforcement protection, the other doesn't. Not to mention in a school setting even a blurry image might be recognizable. Of course, if you just want the cams to deter, then you

Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras

2008-02-26 Thread Tony B
Good point. The local security guru hereabouts likes to tell the story how they got an email from their system (in WV) when they were in Australia. They immediately logged onto the web to take a look and saw a guy standing on their front porch. He didn't seem to be doing much and they watched him

Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras

2008-02-26 Thread Tony B
This is part of the problem with our trash-cam (which btw, would also overlook a communal mail area). If we put it far enough up a tree or telephone pole to make it vandal-resistant, we won't be able to get to it ourselves! Mounted in the right position it could be just the answer.

Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras

2008-02-25 Thread Tony B
As you point out, this is a nice indoor webcam, but useless for perimeter security. Add another $85 just to get wireless. From my own limited research, it seems to me the cameras need a few basic things: 1) 802 wireless, with a web address 2) weatherproof 3) vandal proof 4) long self-contained

Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras

2008-02-25 Thread Tony B
I thought we were just discussing the subject in general. There's no way the OP is going to give us a detailed map. That's great if you have windows overlooking your doors. But I'll admit my interest was more towards cameras *in the neighborhood*, not inside my house. We have a little money to

[CGUYS] gmail replies

2008-02-25 Thread Tony B
Are you new to gmail? I hate this feature too and wish they gave us the _option_ to see our own replies. But I gotta admit I'm getting used to it. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My posts don't seem to get through lately. Would someone please just comment if

Re: [CGUYS] A windows 98 question

2008-02-25 Thread Tony B
I haven't been paying attention, but it would probably be easier to run his software in WinXP than to try to get wireless working in Win98. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** **

Re: [CGUYS] gmail replies

2008-02-25 Thread Tony B
It's a feature of gmail. Nothing you can do on any list will make it work, I guess because Gmail's smarter than the lists. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM, John A. Newitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5:35 PM -0500 2/25/08, Tony B wrote: Are you new to gmail? I hate this feature too and wish

Re: [CGUYS] Neighborhood security cameras

2008-02-25 Thread Tony B
Post o the week if he wasn't _trying_ to be funny. :) . On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My posts don't seem to get through lately. Would someone please just comment if you see this? What a waste of bandwidth. It would be much more efficient to ask for

Re: [CGUYS] gmail replies

2008-02-25 Thread Tony B
Yeah, well, don't confuse them. First we'd like the ability to do offline backups (and no, I don't mean emailing all my saved messages to a POP account)! On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:33 PM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm surprised that the Google tech people are thinking in such fuzzy ways...

[CGUYS] gmail inbox

2008-02-20 Thread Tony B
I didn't know that was an optional label. But if I turn it off, where is my unclassified mail going to sit? Don't even suggest All Mail because that would be a real chore to sift through! If you are lazy, you can still use Gmail labels like filters. Turn off the inbox label and it isn't in

Re: [CGUYS] gmail inbox

2008-02-20 Thread Tony B
under the CGUYS label. And yes, if you simply take off the Inbox label, you can't easily browse through the list of messages. You then have to search to find it. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't know that was an optional label. But if I turn it off

Re: [CGUYS] expanding archives

2008-02-19 Thread Tony B
Firstly, make sure you aren't subscribed to the digest. It makes no sense to subscribe to a digest (that combines messages) and then break the messages apart later. You are not saving bandwidth or anything, you're only delaying delivery, making timely participation impossible. Not to mention

Re: [CGUYS] Memory upgrade advice sought

2008-02-18 Thread Tony B
You've got a bigger problem. To _really_ come up to speed, she needs all the niceties in WinXP (or Vista). You can throw a gig or two of ram at that Win2k install but you'll never get it up to today's standards. This system would make a nice internet enabled backup for guests, but it's too aged

Re: [CGUYS] CGUYS.ORG Footer Updated

2008-02-16 Thread Tony B
Cute fish. The more serious question: If email lists in general can survive. On Feb 16, 2008 2:45 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The footer at the bottom of every post was getting a bit long and not covering everything that needed to be covered so I put up a page at CGUYS.ORG. Let

Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet

2008-02-16 Thread Tony B
The other year when the cartoon thing was an issue I asked one of our users to take down the image. I dunno, it just seems Islam is in a Very Bad Place right now, and, unlike the thousands of years when the Christians were in it, now they can do real *planetary* damage. On Feb 16, 2008 8:01 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install

2008-02-08 Thread Tony B
Bzzzt. The system drive (or boot drive, as MS calls it right now) cannot be changed. Once H:, always H:. Unless you reinstall. If you can prove me wrong, I have two systems with boot drives other than C:; the users have no trouble with them, but I'd consider changing them. On Feb 8, 2008 5:36

Re: [CGUYS] find tracking device on truck

2008-02-08 Thread Tony B
I should add that the only reason he should care about this is if he's up to something. My wife is welcome to check my location if she just wants to see me go to work every morning and back home every night. On Feb 8, 2008 8:13 AM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My god that would have to cost

Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?

2008-02-07 Thread Tony B
I think it's a given that converting to Excel format will flatten the heck out of this db. In a way that might require custom coding to recover from. But maybe they just want to use Excel for output/conversion to web format? Nothing wrong with that, as long as the db is intact. Access should be

Re: [CGUYS] i think i'm in big trouble!! pls read respond!!!

2008-02-07 Thread Tony B
I see there are removal instructions. I can't say though whether I might not just format and reinstall Windows; probably depend on how bloated I'd let it get. Presumably all your personal data is safe in a recent backup, but you don't have images? Remember, you can format and reinstall in 2

Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro installation update

2008-02-06 Thread Tony B
Since you asked specifically for *any ideas*... Forget it. Get a cheap ATA drive and use it for the boot drive. You'd have been finished with it a week ago. On Feb 6, 2008 12:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas?

Re: [CGUYS] .org sites

2008-02-04 Thread Tony B
There's no approval process; just get one. These days, many hosts will throw in the name for free with your hosting package so you may just want to sign up with a host and then get the name with them. On Feb 4, 2008 8:24 AM, Jay Montero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering how one goes

Re: [CGUYS] AVG Trojan Detected?

2008-02-04 Thread Tony B
Run all the free online virus checkers you can find. http://www.google.com/search?source=ighl=enrlz=q=free+online+virus Call me paranoid, but at least once I've just reinstalled Windows rather than deal with possible trojans. I do a lot of important stuff from this machine.

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

2008-02-01 Thread Tony B
External devices would take lots more abuse. Heck, just forgetting to properly disconnect, or losing power/connection, can cause total data loss. FWIW, I haven't seen this price disparity. Externals are always $30 or more for the case. Unless you count sale prices, in which case it may be

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows XP

2008-01-31 Thread Tony B
. There's nothing wrong with having two externals for your monthly backups, just remember to keep alternate ones off-premises. If one loses formatting, chances are it won't matter. On Jan 31, 2008 8:18 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony B wrote: I can't recommend much else because I have

Re: [CGUYS] Odd paper CD label question

2008-01-30 Thread Tony B
I have no personal experience, but I know (non-printable) CDs are constructed with the reflective layer right on the top. So the labels will be stuck right to the important part, making removal virtually impossible. I'd just copy off the data to DVD, which you should probably do anyway after a few

Re: [CGUYS] Idle question: CPU usage in Windows

2008-01-30 Thread Tony B
I'm not sure I understand the question. Not the way you put it, anyway. In the scenario you describe, there should be no CPU 'slowdown' at all, since the CPU isn't being used completely. Maybe you're having some trouble with a specific program? On Jan 30, 2008 8:04 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CGUYS] Hotel WiFi advice? (put up again cuz I didn't see any answer)

2008-01-28 Thread Tony B
I saw a few, mine included. did I miss the answer?? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows XP

2008-01-26 Thread Tony B
What a mess. I'm allowed to call it that because at one point you actually admit I can't remember WHAT was on that drive!. Hard drives are only temporary storage. Especially removable (external) drives will lose formatting from time to time. Not a big deal, especially if there wasn't anything

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

2008-01-26 Thread Tony B
However, in my experience, this has never been the case with external drives, which a lot of his seem to be (I don't remember if this one was). This was a BIOS limitation only evident on EIDE internal drives. On Jan 26, 2008 10:03 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drive Z: thought it was

Re: [CGUYS] website parked

2008-01-25 Thread Tony B
Right now that link is just parked at godaddy as you said. It's showing their standard parking page. Change the nameservers to point to her host, and have her create an index.html page of her own and place it in her public_html directory. PS I can't get through to .com either. It's asking for a

Re: [CGUYS] Hotel WiFi advice?

2008-01-25 Thread Tony B
Use any browser but MS Internet Explorer and you'll be fine. No need to disable file sharing, but I wouldn't type ANY passwords while on a public network, most especially online banking. On Jan 25, 2008 1:32 PM, rlsimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year I went to a hotel using their wifi and

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-24 Thread Tony B
It's not something I ever need to do, but if you do a lot of printing on thick paper, I would buy a printer designed around that feature, not a 'multifunction' that, at best, might be jerry-rigged to do it. On Jan 22, 2008 1:37 AM, Alvin Auerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in

Re: [CGUYS] WSJ Disses IT

2008-01-23 Thread Tony B
The big question is: With Apple's stock tanking again, who's going to bail them out this time now that Bill's (almost) gone? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email

Re: [CGUYS] website parked

2008-01-22 Thread Tony B
Opinion: All that stuff should be in a sub directory. A home page named after your family should have a message to the ages, and contact information for today. Hi! Welcome to the S family. We're from x and I can be reached at y. Right now there's nothing there that you couldn't store at any

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Tony B
It's not valuable to most people. What are you printing so much of that needs to be on really thick paper? It's nothing you can do at Staples? As I recall, most of the printers I've owned won't print when open. Yes, it might be a switch you could easily duck tape, but it seems to me if the

Re: [CGUYS] List Spam?

2008-01-21 Thread Tony B
I'd be more interested to know how we're supposed to use someone's DNS to get their credit score? That's not scary, it's humorous. On Jan 20, 2008 3:25 PM, Roger D. Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the following message, ostensibly in response to a posting I made on this list. While

[CGUYS] email reliability

2008-01-18 Thread Tony B
These days this has nothing to do with server logs. It's mostly people's onerous spam filters, which they often don't even know exist. On Jan 18, 2008 11:00 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Washington beltway area is the shallow South, my northern Virginia (Annandale) area

Re: [CGUYS] Internet Web Cam

2008-01-18 Thread Tony B
Many of our video projects are weddings, so I keep on top of this. The biggest problem isn't getting the audio video mixed ($), it's the internet connection. Few churches have a wireless network handy. I hate to travel too (and it's no small expense for some people), and I hate pomp and

[CGUYS] SMTP server app?

2008-01-16 Thread Tony B
I recently discovered on my online forum that email no longer works user-user because the host's SMTP server requires a valid From: addy. The only solution presented so far has been to set up my own SMTP server. But googling has been fairly fruitless, only turning up a ton of Windows apps and

Re: [CGUYS] SMTP server app?

2008-01-16 Thread Tony B
Yes, my host has smtp. But like pretty much ALL hosts these days, they no longer allow 'relaying' or whatever it's called. I can create 1000 email accounts and they'll all work fine. But when a forum member clicks a button send email to this (other) user, PHP mail() sends it with *their*

Re: [CGUYS] SMTP server app?

2008-01-16 Thread Tony B
Thanks, but these are both forum functions and they don't seem to be options (nor mods) in vBulletin. 1. Set up PHP or whatever to invoke people's local email (like a mailto: link will) to send to that user's email address on your hosting site. 2. Set the Sender: field to be a local

Re: [CGUYS] Optical drive firmware questions....

2008-01-14 Thread Tony B
Yes, I suppose any kind of memory can get corrupted, though ROM (well, EEPROM) would be much less susceptible than RAM. The bigger question is why are you burning so many different types of DVDs? I burn several per week and all of them are UDF, no multisession, DVD-R, which the company buys in

Re: [CGUYS] Optical drive firmware questions....

2008-01-14 Thread Tony B
Probably just a hardware failure then. Maybe intermittent; a dust mote on the laser, or a crack on the circuit board. May come back soon, may not. I personally doubt the firmware upgrade was responsible for 'fixing' the drive. Again, you've gone to much more effort than I would have. I'd be more

Re: [CGUYS] High quality brand (non SDHC) SD card?

2008-01-14 Thread Tony B
Last I heard was that SDHC was developed to break the 2G barrier. Doesn't SD use like FAT which was limited to 2G? Surely someone knows of a quality 4GB 60x or better SD card that is not SDHC? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND

Re: [CGUYS] Final Cut vs. Premiere

2008-01-11 Thread Tony B
FCP is your only real choice if you're on a Mac. On the PC I'd recommend Sony's Vegas for most people. I've used Premiere and it's just... obtuse. And a steeper learning curve than Vegas (PC). On Jan 11, 2008 2:05 PM, David Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I get some feedback on which of these

Re: [CGUYS] Problem with File Manager on PC

2008-01-11 Thread Tony B
Have you tried Folder OptionsViewReset all folders? Or toggling the view in that folder? Toggle ViewRemember each folders view settings. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of

Re: [CGUYS] Problem with File Manager on PC

2008-01-10 Thread Tony B
To get an accurate answer we need more info. *) Which OS? *) Do thumbnail file names show in other folders? *) Do thumbnails appear correctly in other apps (eg Picasa, Irfanview)? *) What have you tried to solve the problem (can we at least assume some web searches?) On Jan 10, 2008 5:19 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] Digital TV

2008-01-10 Thread Tony B
I'm not sure I believe this story. Do they cite references? We didn't even get a link to the newspaper story. It just seems to me once the new owners of the old frequencies start using them, they're going to be awfully upset if some TV station, low power or not, is stepping on their signals.

Re: [CGUYS] OpenDNS weirdness

2008-01-10 Thread Tony B
for me. Probably a temporary glitch at Open DNS. On Jan 10, 2008 7:42 PM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we're taking a poll, I can't reach them either when I change to OpenDNS. Makes me want to go back to Comcast DNS because I wonder how many others are broken? On Jan 10, 2008 6:52 PM

Re: [CGUYS] DTV future

2008-01-08 Thread Tony B
Unlikely. Stations are licensed by the FCC for a specific power on a specific frequency, and getting approval for more power is almost unheard of since they'll always be stepping on someone else's toes. They're spending small fortunes to buy new transmitters, and it seems unlikely they'll buy one

Re: [CGUYS] Building Your Own TIVO

2008-01-07 Thread Tony B
I think this topic is wandering now and I'm getting confused with several different people talking about different systems.? Anyway, if you've been watching the news from CES, it looks like several manufacturers are showing wireless HDMI, and I don't think any of it requires gigabit. But details

Re: [CGUYS] Upgrade the video card?

2008-01-07 Thread Tony B
I forget the details now too, but in general: A new video card might help 3D games. For office apps and internet browsing, you will see no improvement at all. On Jan 7, 2008 2:46 PM, Quentin Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A delayed update. I got rid of Spysweeper which I long suspected of

Re: [CGUYS] Building Your Own TIVO

2008-01-06 Thread Tony B
Yes, but so does this device featured in the NY Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06novel.html At $200 (street) it would probably be cheaper than trying to upgrade that old computer in the closet, not to mention the hassle of trying to get Linux working yourself. Probably

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 5 Jan 2008 - Special issue (#2008-25)

2008-01-06 Thread Tony B
in that one spot.? On Jan 6, 2008 10:12 AM, Jay Montero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I watch on my Samsung 42 DLP connected through a HDMI port. :-) on Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Tony B wrote: So do you have to watch this material through the 6200? Or the HD5000? Or is it easy to watch it all over the house

Re: [CGUYS] Building Your Own TIVO

2008-01-05 Thread Tony B
So do you have to watch this material through the 6200? Or the HD5000? Or is it easy to watch it all over the house? On Jan 5, 2008 12:07 PM, Jay Montero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I've got working. Note that for recording less than HDTV, you can get by with way less hardware in

[CGUYS] measuring dpi

2008-01-04 Thread Tony B
That's interesting, because I'm not aware of any format that reliably keeps track of this figure. Did you have to start scanning at that or did you find software that would just change the value? On Jan 4, 2008 2:34 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS dpi is a printing term, not _really_

Re: [CGUYS] Recovering encrypted data?

2008-01-04 Thread Tony B
Ya. Old Fred's finally passed on, but do you mind if we borrow the body long enough to open his flash drive? On Jan 4, 2008 2:17 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to keep this from happening again, is there a recommendation for a good and secure program to keep track of

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