vista, firefox, tbird, big computer with lots of free space.
once every couple weeks i get a tbird upgrade. seems even more
agressive than MS improvements. i get to the computer in the morning,
and it's there. a couple weeks ago, i got a sidebar calendar from
them. did not have much use
program. anyone know what is wrong, or what the fix is.
vista home, amd quaddraport in an acer, tons of memory, ati video, panda
antivirus.
it also happened about the same time i installed a usb 3.0 card and
seagate 3.0 drive(3.0 is not MS approved)
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i bought a 1T WD drive, and a 2T seagate. the WD is terrible. it is
hard to load. once loaded, it is difficult to find. there is
supposed to be software with it, but i cannot get to it. i
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i bought a 1T WD drive, and a 2T seagate. the WD is terrible. it is hard
to load. once loaded, it is difficult to find. there is supposed to be
software with it, but i cannot get to it. i decided to send it back. i
downloaded the WD upgrade, and software
machine. had to buy the
800 f/w seagate interconnect. was only $20, and with only 100 for the
drive, all seems pretty reasonable to me.
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promo letter from Comcast for their triple play for
$99. anyone have this package? any ideas what is in the package in the way of
speeds and feeds and HD channels?
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, and they are not selling them
for $10 each.
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i own a domain site ppiusa.com, that i no longer use. someone seems
to be interested in purchasing it, and has asked how much i want for
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broken screen; second TV was also damaged; third is fine. He's lucky that he
could arrange his job so that he could be home. You may not be so fortunate
when you're not home to receive and inspect a delivery.
Cost is much higher also.
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as an aside, last i recall, marcio was running windows ME on that machine
At 01:42 PM 3/17/2009, you wrote:
You do not need to screw with manually saving your favorites. Just get
any bookmark synchronizer like the freeware Foxmarks
(http://download.foxmarks.com/download/all) and your Favorites
I think i would contact the owner of the copyright and get a written release
from him. there is a copyright problem if you are to profit from this image,
unless he releases the image.
copyright law for artistic items is really screwed up. you may need a release
from the guy who made the
thank you stevie. screwed up my pc bigtime. did not do any favors to my
wife's MIC either. great bogger(bugger?)
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TOOLSOPTIONSADVANCEDencryption in certificates, uncheck ASK ME EVERY TIME
by checking select one automatically
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in the past, (3.0.1,2,3) if i typed in google, or yahoo, or ebay or somesuch,
firefox found or made a guess at the site i was looking for. in 3.0.6 and now
3.0.7, i get a response of :
i have a canon D680. it is a 3 in 1(i do not think it scans) . this is close
to a comercial grade machine. it is built on a hefty little printer. ink is
big bucks if you buy canon. i also had a canon mf 3240(maybe) would not feed
two pages. piece of junk.
circuit city(rip) and best buy
in the world of dot matrix, epson is tough to beat. they never established a
trash line (HP,Brother, compaq,lexmark,xerox) to sell on the cheap at bestbuy
and circuitcity.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/ProductCategory.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yesoid=-8182
they also have a clearance center.
some of the laser cartridges, particularly canon, or color are extremely
expensive. probably charge enough to make them more expensive than inkjet. i
know hp decided to get into that mode, and xerox one upped them. a full set of
full color cartridges cost more than the machine.
At 06:26 PM
you probably should make certain the machine has HDMI switching. then you can
plug the dvd and the cable box into the back of the receiver on the way to the
tv and switch. a second feature that may not be necessary is that the receiver
can have the upscaling chip and software(converting dvd
jar:file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.propertiesrds.yahoo.com
i get this love note a lot. did not get it a few months back. i also loaded
foxit at about the same time.
any new page seems to take a while thinking about it before it
the dropout gamer kids are making the best drone pilots. much to the dismay of
the college educated highly trained TOP GUNS.
At 01:37 PM 2/22/2009, you wrote:
just think of all the high school dropouts who will be sitting looking at
the stored crap for the almighty gov fishing expedition (of
how does one keep these records? it would be one thing if i sat on utube all
day, but i bounce through probably 10-20 sites an hour. my wife uses the same
router, and does even more. when our service goes down, we get on the server
next door. since they don't do security very well and are
i use allmail.net as an email host for my virtual sites.
http://www.allmail.net/old/?MLS=MB-*;Ust=7445fd21!ab1041ac;SMB-CF=890833;UDm=491;MSignal=OP-*S-1.N-1
for very little money, they throw in a 3 level spam blocker, antivirus for
email, and a place in the sky(web support)
i slice my email
i thought they were going to run on methane from cow manure
At 03:34 PM 2/18/2009, you wrote:
There were political reasons to force us into using our food for fuel.
Wasn't Charlton Heston involved in that?
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two towers cover the whole country. one in french, one in flemish
At 01:48 PM 2/17/2009, you wrote:
visited my family in a little tiny town in the backwoods of belgium where I
connected dialup to local isp and got extremely fast response even there
...also, 3g cell coverage is almost 100% so you
read about the experiences of prince william county va. they got rid of all
them illegals. they also have no factories.
we have fios here where i live. comcast cable was more reliable and same smoke
for same dollars.
fios was down for 4 hrs today. just came back up at 130pm. hasn't been
my fios basic internet(which is very fast when working), 2 basic telephones,
and tv(have to pay for hd) is around $170 now that the promo has worn off. tv
and phone are rock solid. verizon is still learning how to stay connected to
the internet. hope you don't want to do something at noon
i'm a senior citizen, maybe they screwed me. that 99.95 rate only lasts til
the sun goes down.
you got a friend that can get me a better rate? or 24 hr service?
At 03:00 PM 2/17/2009, you wrote:
my fios basic internet... is around $170
$170 a month! They and you are out of your minds. That
i have no interest in the politics being discussed on this list. could the
political discussion crowd agree on at least one thing. use a topic subject so
i can dump all this stuff into spam before i have to trash it and them dump it.
my recommended subject heading would be rush.
took the wife about 20 hrs to resolve the problem.
data is written from the sd chip to the tomtom memory and stored there. the
tomtom runs on the data stored in the memory. the backup is created from the
sd chip to a computer. wife had done that.
apparently, when tomtom builds these
At 07:44 PM 2/6/2009, you wrote:
Over time people have gotten better at working together in an organized
if imperfect fashion. The cons/neocons call that big government.
neocons want democracy but in the name of democracy their incompetence and
religion beliefs have created anarcy.
sorry to interupt, but this really is computer related:
my wife's tomtom 510 died a slow death. she tried to add a feature, and the
only map that showed up was Guam(apparently a common problem). after she spent
the day with it she gave up and called and got through to tomtom tech support.
they
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tom, i'm not going to dig it up, but the wash post had a large story about
the poor lady in woodbridge who has a house in foreclosure. and is now
owned
by fnm.
she upped the mortgage
go to a document. right clik. choose open with. should be a box somewhere
to check to say always open this type program with wp()
what's wp?
come back if wp does not show up in the open with column.
At 02:00 PM 2/3/2009, you wrote:
I'm having the same problem with OS X since the
what is the easiest way to get a quote from a pdf into a microsoft cut and
paste format.
i want about half a page from a 250 page document. i do this fairly often.
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The actual number is likely a fraction of the 21,800 foreign workers the banks
sought to hire because
that's a request of 4000 a year. they may have had a special skill(speak
farsi?). that ended in 2006. there were a shortage of skilled bank employees
during the big boom loan times. grow
it is a document of public record the FannieMae 10Q(quarterly report). i
presume it is made with Adobe software as the feds have long been a big
supporter and user of the pdf format and usually do not allow funny programs
into house.
i cannot imagine they would lock it. however, when i try
At 02:39 PM 2/1/2009, you wrote:
Special skills?
Read closely some of the positions they recruited for. for positions that
included senior vice presidents, corporate lawyers, junior investment analysts
and human resources specialists.
Many of those jobs do not require special language skills,
At 01:23 PM 2/1/2009, you wrote:
I have no complaint with a progressive tax system. The difference is that in
the past we collected less income tax from the poor and now we don't collect
any income tax from the poor but give our income tax money to them.
until recently, i owned a small business
document is protected all locked up. as suggested by above, wife opened it
in mac preview and can copy it. so much for protection thanks. for info.
At 04:44 PM 2/1/2009, you wrote:
I just downloaded a doc from the Fannie Mae web sit called q12008.pdf
and was able to cut and paste freely.
At 10:30 AM 1/31/2009, you wrote:
If there is a fuse in the power supply (and they are not easy to get at), and
it is blown, replacing it probably won't help - they are so cheaply built
these days that a component failure is final. Assuming that your power supply
is a standard form factor
yep. had to use ms ie explorer.
At 10:48 AM 1/31/2009, you wrote:
I have been running Ubuntu the last couple of days and just switched to
Windows.
Two weird problems with Google on Firefox (3.0.5):
gmail would not load all the way in standard mode (html mode is OK). The
progress bar goes to
I am pretty sure 90% of those who lost their homes worked very hard for them
and got screwed and the full weight of the law must come down on the swindlers
who call themselves mortgage brokers and bankers.
wrong wrong wrong.
a very high percentage of the houses being foreclosed are not
tom, i'm not going to dig it up, but the wash post had a large story about the
poor lady in woodbridge who has a house in foreclosure. and is now owned by
fnm.
she upped the mortgage and took the cash to get a better house.(the house was
valued around 225-250k). i do not know what she
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090130/fannie_mae_virus.html?.v=5
is it not a bit difficult to put that much data in a place and in a way for it
ALL to be destroyed in one shot by one contract guy?
the wiper has been sitting for 90 days.
this data is about 3 trillion dollars worth of loans. about 30%
i just went in and asked my wife about fannie. she was the xerox analyst for
fannie. she said they were very smart. very smart is the best the fed govt
gets, and fed govt does computer very well. overall, they are much smarter
than most any large company, as they are not cost limited by
i forgot to mention that you should then have yourself cleansed, which will
require a trip to india.
At 07:10 PM 1/30/2009, you wrote:
A friend has an older Dell laptop with Windows XP that won't connect
wirelessly to internet. Maybe other problems, don't know. He knows nothing
at all about
he should burn the computer. but prior to the fire, he should contact and warn
all in the neighborhood that he is releasing live viruses into the area.
the alternate, which is probably better, is to put the thing into a plastic bag
with a large rock. take it to a religious place and have them
then shop Costco or BJ's. they are so much better.
i think you will have much difficulty living and shopping in USA and not
finding the same porblems.
what percentage of your beloved MAC products are produced offshore, by slave
labor?
At 11:49 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:
b_s-wilk wrote:
I
the mall is one of the showplaces of the estates united. the mall has been an
embarrassment for the past couple of years. no reason to maintain the mall,
the whitehouse or lawn the capitol grounds, ect, as the usa has been a
tremendous embarrassment to itself for quite a number of years.
800's will work fine, if they fit in the space.
there are a lot of counterfeit batteries out there. the counterfeit Nokia
batteries even come with the nokia holo.
batteries need cobalt to be high quailty. cobalt is expensive. cheap
batteries = no cobalt. other than buying directly from
most of the landscaper employees that i have seen have appearances of some
Hispanic origin. pulling them all to the mall should give TSA an opportunity
to hire dozens of new field agents to check papers. again, good for the
economy.
by the way, tom, have you ever been checked for
i think my windows programs are quite happy to open tiffs.
i have received a number of pdfs that idiots create with word(?) i think, send
them to me, then ask me to edit them. in the first place, it is a bastard form
of pdf, and not happy to open. second place, i am not too good with
the landscape area around the tidal basin is aggressively maintained. the
beds are dug up at least 4 times a year and the plantings replaced. the spring
bulbs are removed and dumped. i knew a landscaper who used to go to the
dumping site and take whatever he wanted. i do not know about
during summer season, prior to the Cheney administration, the mall was damaged
daily. not only did people walk on it, but there were about 50 softball games
a day, daily volleyball, rugby, soccer,basketball and whatever else needed a
field. weekly there was a polo(yeah, with real horses).
Clearly, you've never been in Asia, where slave labor provides money to
families who would otherwise lack it or otherwise starve or sell their
children into the sex trade of the slums as an alternative.
i do believe tom's neocon would want to know what was wrong with that picture,
and could
tha
When you apply for a job have you been asked to present a Social Security
Card and a driver's license? That is a citizenship check.
that is totally incorrect.
No state requires citizenship, for a drivers licence, not even texas.
drivers licence in many states, MD included does not
At 12:53 PM 1/29/2009, you wrote:
What percentage of everything you consume is produced offshore by slave
labor ?
excluding food(we eat a lot of food from mexico and south america) and wine, i
would guess well over 50%, and maybe even over 75%.
last i heard, japan and korea allowed most all of
did you post this during the bush adm?
why you out of the woodwork today?
compare this mess to the bush printing press?
did you call imholf or whoever your republican senator is when he did this?
did you write ugly letters to the wsj and scream bluddy murder when they
cheered on the trillion
the sodding was pulled from the bill to appease the republicans. they still
voted 100% against.
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i bought one of these:
http://www.buy.com/retail/usersearchresults.asp?querytype=homequ=samsung+dlpqxt=homedisplay=col
comes with complete mfgr's warranty. it was airfreighted from CA. arrived in
about 2 days. 61 LED DLP. the price is $1200 compared to $2000 at best buy.
i am pretty
i read that XXX??? liquidators bought the merchandise. creditors are out of
the loop. so is CC.
At 10:26 AM 1/27/2009, you wrote:
As far as I know these sales are not administered by the Store themselves but
an outside agency whose job it is to get the biggest bucks possible to pay off
very strange combo, SATA drive and cd for only 98 ME.
i'd go the the wd site and download the mounting(?) software for today, then
run it. the software back when 98 was king was not too very good.
At 10:04 PM 1/24/2009, you wrote:
Hi...
A friend gave me a new Western Digital 200 GB HDD that
I think TV is a wretched source for both entertainment and for news. the main
purpose of TV in the USA is to establish brand name recognition.
about 5-10 years ago, my wife and i bought a tv. we got it along with an
Erol's(now blockbuster) membership. about 3 years ago, i bought the biggest
if that what you got, in addition to the MB, you might want to get some memory.
if you can return the processor, you may want to consider an S3700F from office
depot. 825 845. they delivery free(to me at least)
At 11:12 PM 1/24/2009, you wrote:
I bought an AMD Athlon X2 5200 processor to
screen prompt??
you lucky you don't get smoke and fire from cross threading a wrong processor
in there. i doubt the processors are wired the same.
At 11:39 AM 1/25/2009, you wrote:
I don't even get a screen to prompt anything. I wondered if the BIOS
would be affected but don't know how to
almost every machine is not allowed to leave the building, and most machines
are not allowed to leave a given office. why do they need laptops? they are
less cost efficient than desktops, and not particularly superior in a desktop
environment.
At 02:37 PM 1/23/2009, you wrote:
I feel their
a lot depends on where the kinks are in the pipe between here and there.
from dc area, to nj, 19m x3.8m
to la, 4.9m x 583K. is reproducable.
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?java=1
20 m is about max around here, unless you spend real money.
At 09:39 PM 1/14/2009, you wrote:
I don't really
if AMD' and dual core are ok for online gaming, the Compaqs from office depot
are extremely inexpensive, and a very good start point. an upgrade video card
may be necessary. the very nice price units do not pop up on line, but they
are there when called by part number and only for the week
one can procure oem batteries on ebay. the general discussion on howard's
list is that they are not really oem, but somewhat inferior. the do beat a
blank.
next time, buy brand name(nokia) batteries are readily available.
At 11:20 AM 1/11/2009, you wrote:
There' s been a great deal of
did you poke around in here:
http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?s=forumid=42
yet. this is sort of the definitive nerd phone site.
At 01:23 PM 1/9/2009, you wrote:
I bought 2 Siemens S46 Cellphones from ATT just before the Cingular
merger which unfortunately rendered the cellphones
if i buy a new tomtom with current software, can i transfer the maps to my old
tomtom?
lets skip compatibility issues for the moment. the new rebuilt tomtom is
about the same price as the software ud. if i have 2 identical tomtoms, and
purchase the ud software from the tomtom site, can i use
from another BB.
Modern 3.5 desktop drives are rated to survive a 2ms 300-350G 1/2 sine pulse,
and 2.5 laptop drives ~1000G, when not operating. Server-grade drives have
lower ratings.
really?? 1000G sounds way, way too high. i'm not certain a steel billet
survives a 1000g impact.
i thought leap year was a caesar thing? gergory mucked with the end of century
leap years and divisible by 4 stuff(exercise left to students)
while we're at it, when was the last feb 30, and where did it go?
At 01:37 PM 1/1/2009, you wrote:
424 years later MS is still playing catchup. Will a
i looked into the iphones for me and for my wife. we both in the middle of
very favorable ATT contracts (corporate negotiated holdovers)that i do not
think we can cancel and and reup. to get an iPhone, we would have to either
pay the full price, or buy out, and re up at probably $10--20 a
apple's about a 30bil company. they shipping 100 bil a day on fedex next day?
that is the ultimat just in time mfg and delivery, and an extremely inefficient
method of mfgr.
At 09:27 PM 12/15/2008, you wrote:
Well two tip offs should have made everyone realize this was another
correction 100 mil a day.
At 10:05 AM 12/16/2008, you wrote:
apple's about a 30bil company. they shipping 100 bil a day on fedex next day?
that is the ultimat just in time mfg and delivery, and an extremely
inefficient method of mfgr.
At 09:27 PM 12/15/2008, you wrote:
Well two tip offs
why you got five? so you got one that works??
At 04:24 PM 12/16/2008, you wrote:
Who?
I've got five ipods...I think I touched a Zune once in a Fry's.
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and how else do mfgrs count? could maybe count after cash is on hand.
does apple call each distributor and ask how many did you sell today? or each
retailer?
i had a small business, but i certainly did count items as sold once they
left my factory.
At 09:27 AM 12/15/2008, you wrote:
I was
Large corporations that pay major commissions on big chunks of hardware by the
piece play the installed game, but i really think apple, for example counts
all that iron sitting in MacMall as sold once it goes out the apple door.
MacMall is having a black friday sale this week.
At 09:27 AM
on initial instalattion,the comcast crew put wrong splitter/filters in our
entire neighborhood (only about 10 installs). big problem with dropping off the
internet. the third tech to come out checked signal strength at my modem. he
then replaced the filter/splitter. comcast then sent out
a lot of people back up to a single external drive. i think this not a good
idea. i have not had good luck with external drive reliability. if possible,
back up to cd's or dvd's and grandfather them. for my company, we did a backup
every day just before closing. used append feature. dated
???
At 12:54 PM 12/11/2008, you wrote:
There's definitely _something_ wrong with your results, if your
download speeds are such a small fraction of upload. I assume you
tried different servers? But it's not going to be a problem inside
your house, or anything you
i like backup my pc by stomp. it is the old seagate-veritas-stomp now migo
that has been updated. I think 2005 is the latest version.should be cheap.
it does say NOT that it works on vista. i have not tried it on vista. i think
stomp disappeared.
hold the presses...MIGO just came
my wife wants to spend $40 to UG her parallels 30 to 40. is it worth $40? she
runs a lot of windows apps.
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we got an audio technica
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UKUDSE/ref=s9k2a_c3_at1-rfc_p-3237_g1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DERpf_rd_s=center-1pf_rd_r=1HZAEF4XG1H0TPZ03ERApf_rd_t=101pf_rd_p=463383351pf_rd_i=507846
comes with software. totally cleans up pops and crackles. totally acceptable.
is very
Face it, no matter how good it is, the old records are going to sound
worse than modern digital music.
you should post this comment on the Klipsch bb, where people pay a fortune for
vynal, macintosch,marantz, crown and other tube components. 1960 turntables
are worshipped. large horn
after reading about slow computers, i decided that my computer had slowed down
considerably for no real reason. i have 22 gig on a 500 gig HD, a quad core
processor with 3 meg of ram, etc.
when i had a mess on the last machine, i ran TuneUp, and it repaired a number
of problems. so i did a
the modem and routers i have can be disconnected. in fact, the standard
troubleshoot by the cable company is to have one disconnect the router and the
modem to procure a new connection. yours may be different, so call and ask
them.
At 12:53 PM 11/27/2008, you wrote:
I have a Cablemodem and a
if you just want to buy big and dumb, go to sams or costco. for some reason,
they will have large units at half the price of any where else. they carry
brand names recall trip and apc. look around they probably have an out of box
unit for half of that.
At 03:31 PM 11/26/2008, you wrote:
down from $200 to 20.
At 05:30 PM 11/25/2008, you wrote:
i am about 20 months into my contract, so phone is out of warrantee, and 4
months from free replacement.
So your phone is old enough that it is probably not selling for top
dollar any more. Maybe you can find a new one on eBay for less
do you have photoshop?
At 02:44 PM 11/23/2008, you wrote:
I received some pdf files of pages that were scanned at slightly different
angles. I want to print each page so that it looks straight.
Are there any free or cheap tools (for Vista) that will let me adjust
rotations at angles other
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