[CGUYS] avg

2008-11-18 Thread gerald
i had 7.5 on the last computer. now all i can find is 8.0. i have heard that 8.0 comes with a lot of baggage. can the baggage be avoided. have vista OS. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives,

Re: [CGUYS] dual core vs quad core processors

2008-11-17 Thread gerald
i bought an ACER 5100 with an AMD quad-core. was under $600 delivered, with most everything on it. came with good set of bells and whistles and an acceptable video card.. have little use for the quad core, or the speed, but at that price, it is difficult to buy much of anything for much

[CGUYS] xm radio

2008-11-14 Thread gerald
can xm radio track my listening habits? do they know how many are listening to howard stern? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at

Re: [CGUYS] xm radio

2008-11-14 Thread gerald
AM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can xm radio track my listening habits? do they know how many are listening to howard stern? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy

Re: [CGUYS] flat sound

2008-11-10 Thread gerald
depends upon your definition of decent. to a guy with a Klipsch theater system, nothing is close. flat or thin speakers and boxes tend not to do well. maybe somebody makes a flat panel with some electorstatics in it, but i doubt it. would be big At 09:50 PM 11/9/2008, you wrote: what flat

[CGUYS] Circuit City files for Chapter 11 protection

2008-11-10 Thread gerald
now them routers are going to be cheap. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

[CGUYS] Back Up website

2008-11-02 Thread gerald
my website consists mainly of scanned antique boat catalogues, listed by page. how would i back up the entire site? would probably fit on a dvd. could i do this in a single pass? regards jer * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Considering Verizon fios

2008-11-01 Thread gerald
sites. At 06:04 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:50 PM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the upload does not sound fast enough Yep, I wonder what is up with that. This is a Mac computer wired directly into the hub with about thirty feet of cat Cat5- Could the Cat 5

Re: [CGUYS] Considering Verizon fios

2008-10-31 Thread gerald
the upload does not sound fast enough At 04:17 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:10 PM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: up does not sound correct. i show 7.93/2.59mbps. Oh yeah I pay $10 for faster speed. Forgot about that - I just got 10.9/1.75 but my wife is working

Re: [CGUYS] Power Supply.. weight=robust?

2008-10-30 Thread gerald
my old 286 or 8088 or something weighed about 40 lbs. wife's first computors weighed over 100, and came in pieces. the hard drive weighed a hundred. was about 1.5' in diameter. my new quad pole, double wizzie, ka-zing, bang bang hardly weighs 10 lbs. jer At 04:10 PM 10/30/2008, you wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] new comcast install

2008-10-27 Thread gerald
you want their coax everywhere. i was surprised when FIOS came in and said that the cable in the house was the same as their cable, and did not recable the house. i presume they would have recabled if i requested. FIOS dug a new trench from about 2-300 feet west to someplace to the far east

Re: [CGUYS] what router?

2008-10-25 Thread gerald
i did not know komkast had modem/routers. if you get one, make certain it is komkastick approved. i bought one a few years that was not approved. since people are very unhappy with comcast and switching to fios(we did it for cost -$50 a month), there should be tons of modems on ebay. N

Re: [CGUYS] Nerd Boy

2008-10-21 Thread gerald
a nerd is a most honorable god position. just below zeus and helios, but above all the rest. have yet to see an mit man person who did not proudly consider himself a nerd. (bernake didn't go to mit, did he?) At 12:54 PM 10/21/2008, you wrote: Today I passed a van for Nerd Boy Computer

Re: [CGUYS] Windows Media Player question

2008-10-17 Thread gerald
you would need some program to fit in spaces, otherwise the frequency of the audio drops. sort of like an old vinyl starting up. mooo..up. they make one that speeds up speech by cutting out pieces of the advertisement. At 07:05 PM 10/17/2008, you wrote: A friend

Re: [CGUYS] LCD monitor problems

2008-10-17 Thread gerald
i had a big problem with the voltage in my house(lost the neutral). the constant voltage box did not work correctly. did not beep very often. house voltage was at 175-200V. got a plug in volt meter from radio shack little thing that centered at 120, and went from 90 to about 150. almost

Re: [CGUYS] FIOS-tastic

2008-10-17 Thread gerald
At 12:44 PM 10/17/2008, you wrote: I was talking about FIOS with someone in Reston and was told an interesting story... The distribution point for the neighborhood was a green box out in a wooded area adjoining the property where the installation took place. The FIOS installer ran the cable

Re: [CGUYS] Strange biases [was: Re: GPS advice]

2008-10-14 Thread gerald
japanese car. very hard to get parts from chrysler. later mitisubishi were not reliable. At 11:40 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote: The day I knew Consumers Reports was totally biased and clueless was when they reviewed an odd little car we owned, the 1980 Dodge Colt [Plymouth Champ]. We enjoyed

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread gerald
buy a disposable(cheap) one. get a larger than the smallest screen. look at the refurbs at ecost and buy.com 90-100 bucks. they work. we have a tom tom 1. works just fine. my syster has a $1500 unit that came in the car. it works. her's does traffic. i would worry about paying for

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread gerald
in dc, one must use the hands free phone. how you get the map through your earpiece? At 08:05 PM 10/12/2008, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Piwowar The one on my phone costs $3.50(??) a day, but you almost have to pre-arrange for

Re: [CGUYS] MS Access problem

2008-10-03 Thread gerald
: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gerald Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:55 AM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] MS Access problem how big is the database portion of this file, and how big is the whole file

Re: [CGUYS] Diagnosis: noise of death or ?

2008-09-23 Thread gerald
and all the bad jokes when i said i saved the box on my externals so return would be easy. in maryland, the warantee sort of starts over. they cannot keep patching to get you through the two years or whatever. At 03:26 PM 9/23/2008, you wrote: Contacted seagate and they were all too ready to

Re: [CGUYS] Why Small business's and Non_profits buy PC's and W

2008-09-23 Thread gerald
this article is the biggest joke i have ever seen as an argument to put micks in to a biz app environment. 1. get the files transfered for free woopee 2.lepard is intuitive my wife has run OS's since before os existed(cpm), through all the xerox systems(alto,star,), windoz systems, . she

Re: [CGUYS] Why Small business's and Non_profits buy PC's and W

2008-09-23 Thread gerald
At 04:59 PM 9/23/2008, you wrote: On Sep 23, 2008, at 4:33 PM, gerald wrote: this article is the biggest joke i have ever seen as an argument to put micks in to a biz app environment. 1. get the files transfered for free woopee This can be a big deal for someone switching. At the end

[CGUYS] Lightning fast FIOS died again

2008-09-18 Thread gerald
Verizon has some major downtown hardware problems. couple months ago TV and telephone stayed, but internet died for 4 days. the tele and tel stayed on again, but internet died for 2 days. verizon is not too swift about it, they had 4 guys out here for better part of a day, and they could not

Re: [CGUYS] Hard Drive manufacturers?

2008-09-12 Thread gerald
i have come to like maxtor. their turn around time on the failures is very short. we buy drives of the same physical shape, as maxtor wants the returns in the original packing * ** List info, subscription management,

[CGUYS] Making Video Settings Stick

2008-09-10 Thread gerald
i have an ati radon 1200 with 256 meg of ram. run vista. both latest upgrades. have a V7 22 wide screen monitor. cheap Acer with quad core. installed ATI CCC(catalyst control center). i set the display to 1440 x 900. all is fine. when i shut down the computer and reboot, the display

Re: [CGUYS] On-board Ethernet Connection (was:Re: Hard Drive Failure?)

2008-09-09 Thread gerald
i should recommend that you congure up michelson and morley, as the defined the non existance of ether. At 05:59 PM 9/9/2008, you wrote: Thanks for all the helpful tips. I now have the computer up and running, but a different problem has emerged. The on-board Ethernet connection doesn't work. It

Re: [CGUYS] Data backup question

2008-09-08 Thread gerald
that's called dilution. got 1 billion share out. issue 100 mil to purchase a new hot yacht, and a hot honey for decoration, and the stock depreciates by 10%. At 11:42 AM 9/8/2008, you wrote: If a company comes in low for the quarter they are having a problem and it leads to stock sell off,

Re: [CGUYS] Back ups on computer if backing up on external drive?

2008-09-07 Thread gerald
you may want to back up to something that is 99.9% pure. that is not a single HD, and it is not using MS software. failure rates on hd's are much higher than the 0.001% per year claimed and MS software does not transfer from one os to another. a lot of fragments of the

Re: [CGUYS] Out of sync

2008-09-05 Thread gerald
is this an automated device, or one that must be adjusted by a human? i watched an event on tv last night that was off sync by close to a full second. At 06:51 PM 9/4/2008, you wrote: Yes, and it can be had for less than $8,000. Peanuts in the broadcast budget. See product notes below signature.

Re: [CGUYS] Comcast Internet Cap

2008-08-30 Thread gerald
how much for the 5gb? how much to 250gb? heard that a single hd movie is around 25gb. comcast has a problem. internet sells of $40, cable sells for $100. At 09:31 PM 8/29/2008, you wrote: 250gb/mo is at least realistic. The local phone company (Frontiernet) is talking about 5gb/mo. On Fri,

Re: [CGUYS] eSnipe failure. need replacement

2008-08-27 Thread gerald
i disagree. some things are higher. some are an excellent value. high end men's shoes xerox consumables faucets power boats boat parts some software can all be excellent value. lot of stuff, like power tools, computers, are lousy values there are also a lot of scams now on ebay. ebay

Re: [CGUYS] eSnipe failure. need replacement

2008-08-25 Thread gerald
i just got this answer from a real person at eSnipe: The problem was that when you updated your bidding password on one of our servers our system did not update your status on our alternate server. I have done this for you now. eBay has verified your bidding information on both servers and

Re: [CGUYS] eSnipe failure. need replacement

2008-08-25 Thread gerald
i don't know what is an RL auction. there are many types of auctions. this eBay system is one of the common ones. each auction i have ever been to has had a set of rules, but there does not seem to be a standard set of rules. At 11:48 PM 8/24/2008, you wrote: Of course, this is an absurd

Re: [CGUYS] PCI slots

2008-08-25 Thread gerald
a lot of the services that required PCI slots are now contained on the MOBO, so the makers do not think you need 4. http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/powerSearch.jsp?SecondCategoryCode=1112 it looks like you can use the additional filters on the left side to look at mb's with at least 4 pci slots.

Re: [CGUYS] eSnipe failure. need replacement

2008-08-25 Thread gerald
rasmus.com has the 5 minute extension. but while at it, why not complain about the minimum next allowable bid being to large or small. in most online auctions that i have seen, the next allowable minimum bid gets larger as the price goes up. in most live auctions i have attended for real

Re: [CGUYS] JPG Images imbedded in Eudora with Vista

2008-08-25 Thread gerald
are jpgs a danger? i found that the images are being downloaded into the message, just not opened. how do i get the jpgs to display? my Special does not have a Settings. nor is there a Fonts anywhere in Special. also no Display. eudora 7.1.0.9 sponsor mode. At 08:35 PM 8/15/2008, you

Re: [CGUYS] my wife fixed it

2008-08-25 Thread gerald
right click the shortcut to eudora run as administrator toolsoptionsextra warningsrun eudora and it is not the default programCLICK THE BOX!!! REBOOT. At 10:07 AM 8/25/2008, you wrote: are jpgs a danger? i found that the images are being downloaded into the message, just not opened. how

[CGUYS] eSnipe failure. need replacement

2008-08-24 Thread gerald
i have used eSnipe for a couple three years. about 6 months ago, i started to get log on errors for my bids from them. eBay Username or Password Problem eBay reports that the password or username you provided is not valid. It is too late for this bid, but you can fix it before your next bid.

Re: [CGUYS] eSnipe failure. need replacement

2008-08-24 Thread gerald
tom, i have been to many an auction where bidding fever takes over. if he is willing to pay at least one million dollars(lets be serious), i decide i am willing to pay 1mil,10and 20 and thirty, etc clear up to two million, because did not someone else think the item worth that

Re: [CGUYS] eSnipe failure. need replacement

2008-08-24 Thread gerald
i should also point out to you that a very large number of these auctions end at 9 or 10pm..pacific time. i am a very elderly person living in gmt-5. i am long in bed when these auctions end. still jer At 01:57 PM 8/24/2008, you wrote: Handy not always necessary but can make the

Re: [CGUYS] Amazon.com

2008-08-22 Thread gerald
i placed and received 2 orders during the past week. i logged a return (broken sink top) and printed the barcode sheet for return. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy,

Re: [CGUYS] Images imbedded in Eudora with Vista

2008-08-15 Thread gerald
/2008, you wrote: At 9:45 AM -0400 8/14/08, gerald wrote: when someone like circuit city,ecost, buy.com include images in their emails, i get the images. when my email friends send pictures that they have imbedded, i get the area marked off, and a small red x in the upper left hand corner

[CGUYS] wash post on laptops

2008-08-14 Thread gerald
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303480.html guy is sort of a pc leaning person, really dumps on Vista. if i knew now how big a pain vista would be, i would have purchased a mac, in spite of the very large price difference.

[CGUYS] Images imbedded in Eudora with Vista

2008-08-14 Thread gerald
when someone like circuit city,ecost, buy.com include images in their emails, i get the images. when my email friends send pictures that they have imbedded, i get the area marked off, and a small red x in the upper left hand corner of the box. eudoria 7.1.xxx , foxfire 3 and vista with latest

Re: [CGUYS] FiOS installation

2008-08-06 Thread gerald
order the fios. see if they will talk about install. then cancel. At 12:51 PM 8/6/2008, you wrote: I live here in Arlington and will be moving into an apartment from a single family home. I want to get Fios (TV, internet, phone) service and wonder if its available in apartment complexes (all,

Re: [CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives

2008-08-05 Thread gerald
we subscribe to blockbuster. i have a hundered dollar player that has a chip that upgrades the dvd to fill in some of the dots. dvd failures are less than one in a hundred. At 06:20 PM 8/5/2008, you wrote: I have been having lots of bad luck viewing DVD's sometimes straight out of the box

[CGUYS] Eudora 8.0 beta in Vista

2008-08-03 Thread gerald
i tried to open eudora 7 help in vista, and it would not open. went to the eudora website, and see V8beta is available. is this a good choice to put in vista? or is it too early. when i loaded it, i was surprised that v8 did not overwrite 7, and it did not pick up filters, addresses, options

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-01 Thread gerald
the home depot in oxon hill has had signs and cameras for about 6 months. they have cleared the loiters out of the store so they no longer approach customers when shopping, however, during any weekday, there are 20 to 30 day laborers loitering on the edges of the lot. they also have a single

[CGUYS] Eudora in Vista

2008-07-30 Thread gerald
i am running my new econoAcer with Vista. How long does it take before the typical 70yo stops hating Vista? The pictures imbedded in Eudora (terminal version) messages do not appear. is there a toggle somewhere for this? i do not seem to have an attachments folder in vista. xp had

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-29 Thread gerald
one of my biggest complaints with google is that they frequently do not produce the website of the searched name. cuil does not seem to do any better. At 11:04 AM 7/29/2008, you wrote: The stuff I was searching for was a little esoteric (my own website, my husband's name) but Cuil found none

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile?

2008-07-25 Thread gerald
go here for information overload: http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?s=253b9c041bc57e66c559bcf81663c3c0forumid=34 they know more about cell phones than cguys know about macs. and they are even more anal than cguys, if that is humanly possible(both groups may be a sub specie of

[CGUYS] iTunes mess

2008-07-23 Thread gerald
i loaded itunes and do like it. it took all my mp3 files and converted them to itune format. i got my new acer econobox, and loaded everything i could. the folder with the mp3 files transfered, as did the file with the itune format files. itunes.exe did not transfer in an executable form,

Re: [CGUYS] Secure IT Inventory accounts DB record keeping software?

2008-07-17 Thread gerald
does this company have any size? how many accounts, how many skews, what is a business IT inventory? how many daily orders? how many daily transactions? does it need pos? want credit card processing? what's the password thing? what I'm really asking is how big is this company? almost

Re: [CGUYS] Secure IT Inventory accounts DB record keeping software?

2008-07-17 Thread gerald
kind of law software specialized. i just had a generic business. At 05:27 PM 7/17/2008, you wrote: No, it is just a small law office, 2 servers, 8 computers, some networking hardware etc. I think they do have quikbooks. Does that have a template for such? db gerald wrote: does

Re: [CGUYS] installing itunes or firefox ... which one should I do?

2008-07-15 Thread gerald
i use foxpro 3 as a browser. have been using those products since ver 0.XXX days. like it a lot better than explorer, but am used to it. i loaded earlier iTunes, and thought it sucked. my wife convinced me to load the latest version of iTunes. safari did not load onto my pc. the latest

[CGUYS] Ebay Scams..how do they do that?

2008-07-13 Thread gerald
I do not understand how the listing part of the scam works. An item is offered for BUY IT NOW price of say $5000. item trades at say $7-8000. item is sitting at bid price of couple hundred dollars. not many bidders. the seller seems completely legal. has 98-100% favorable rating, 100-200

[CGUYS] XP or Vista

2008-07-13 Thread gerald
i just purchased a new ACER AMD econobox. it came with Vista. do i want to keep Vista, or do i want to reformat and load XP? i have run xp machines since day one, and have yet to run a vista machine. the only thing i have done so far is decrapify the box to the best of my ability. some

Re: [CGUYS] When to buy a new PC?

2008-07-13 Thread gerald
At 09:35 PM 7/12/2008, you wrote: 1gig of RAM isn't likely enough and is the primary cause of your delays. Double it or remove some of your startup stuff. you are at least 1 gig short of a full deck, maybe more. you may have to buy a pair of 1 gig chips if that machine only has two slots.

Re: [CGUYS] XP or Vista

2008-07-13 Thread gerald
At 11:41 AM 7/13/2008, you wrote: That depends on you (and the machine). There's nothing wrong with Vista per se, it's a good OS, but it's biggest crime is just being underwhelming for a 5-year effort. It can be frustrating at times to find where MS has moved functionality, but as with any new

[CGUYS] transfering programs and data from one to another

2008-07-13 Thread gerald
ok, i'm sold. now, what are my choices to transfer programs and data from a compaq with xp to an acer with vista. is there a way to transfer them without reloading them(registry problems), or do i just copy eveything onto an external, then load what i want onto the new machine? i have

Re: [CGUYS] Where's my computer?

2008-07-10 Thread gerald
At 07:46 PM 7/9/2008, you wrote: I thought Tom's recent post was even more derisive than normal. It felt to me, as if it touched some sort of nerve with him. My writing that Mac owners are more emotionally attached to their computers and therefore less likely to be careless with them was hardly

Re: [CGUYS] Where's my computer?

2008-07-08 Thread gerald
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147739/laptops_lost_like_hot_cakes_at_us_airports.html_ the study was funded by dell, who is introducing a new laptop tracking system!! * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] Where's my computer?

2008-07-08 Thread gerald
could you elaborate on that for me, as in my opinion, the whole purpose of advertising is to sell people what they don't need. At 01:53 PM 7/8/2008, you wrote: That fact has not gone unnoticed. However, since laptop tracking systems are going to fast become one of the new things to opt

[CGUYS] cancelling Comcast

2008-07-07 Thread gerald
anyone have experience cancelling comcast. both internet and TV. I have had comcast since the day they arrived in my area a few years ago. it finally works. i have decided to go to FIOS. i had verizon high speed internet at my factory. they answered the phone better than comcast. lead

Re: [CGUYS] Where's my computer?

2008-07-07 Thread gerald
that number sounds about right. i get to DCA an hour ahead of my flight. i hear the call for the passenger to pick up their computer at tsa once every 2 or 3 times i sit. i have never heard a call for abandon computer at DFW(dallas). At 02:38 PM 7/7/2008, you wrote: Study says more than

Re: [CGUYS] Where's my computer?

2008-07-07 Thread gerald
i think that to be incorrect. the life of corporate individual is within the carried computer. At 06:36 PM 7/7/2008, you wrote: On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: A Mac owner would not do this, but not so if you are lugging around a misbehaving PC that some driod in IT decided you

Re: [CGUYS] AVG Error

2008-07-03 Thread gerald
i still use 7.5, and it visits me automattically. At 01:24 PM 7/3/2008, you wrote: Sounds like too many people trying to upgrade / update all at once and overloading the server. At 12:56 PM 7/3/2008, Richard P. wrote: I just checked again and it finally went through OK. It's been down since

Re: [CGUYS] Cable Fights FIOS with Lies

2008-06-29 Thread gerald
some dlp units require factory replacement of the bulb. others are a do it your self. the do it yourself cost is around $1-200. bulb life is frequently only 2-3000hrs. 1000 hrs is 6 weeks. you turn your tv on first thing in the morning and turn it off when go to bed, the bulb lasts less

Re: [CGUYS] Cable Fights FIOS with Lies

2008-06-28 Thread gerald
Wimbledon is currently on nbc hd and espn2hd. nbc is probably 1080p espn is maybe 540. i can see the net strings clearly on nbc. the scoreboard is clear when looking from 100' away. fine looking images. on espn, the net is a gray smear, and the scoreboard is fuzzy. the two feeds are

Re: [CGUYS] Cable Fights FIOS with Lies

2008-06-28 Thread gerald
broadcasts yet. Mike On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:14 PM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wimbledon is currently on nbc hd and espn2hd. nbc is probably 1080p espn is maybe 540. i can see the net strings clearly on nbc. the scoreboard is clear when looking from 100' away. fine looking images

Re: [CGUYS] Cable Fights FIOS with Lies

2008-06-27 Thread gerald
Let the product do the talking and let the marketplace decide is my philosophy. Here in the united states, the entire effort of the advertising industry is to convince the marketplace that an inferior product is the product of need. get a logo, a color, and a jingle. start with GM and ford,

Re: [CGUYS] Cable Fights IS with Lies

2008-06-27 Thread gerald
At 09:50 AM 6/27/2008, you wrote: I haven't been paying attention, but I think it's a bit of a leap to say that FIOS is inferior to cable (if anyone has?). Cable seems capable of faster speeds, but will they offer those better speeds at better prices is the question. maybe faster internet in the

Re: [CGUYS] Cable Fights FIOS with Lies

2008-06-26 Thread gerald
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/03/31/comcast-degrades-hd.html http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1008271 i have comcast in dc. my sister has fios in dallas, which was very much better. the differences i saw in the tv images was considerable. almost the same as the spread

Re: [CGUYS] third party xp-Vista backup software

2008-06-22 Thread gerald
i see Genie Backup Manager 8 is the recommended software from pc magazine anyone have any comments on it, or some other program that: 1. does not do backup written to the sky(i want cd/dvd/tape in hand) 2. costs less than 100 bucks 3. does not do an image backup(i have Acronis and dislike

[CGUYS] Internal HD for backup

2008-06-21 Thread gerald
I would like to put a second internal HD in my desktop pc and connect it for backup. Once the backup is complete i would disconnect it. Machine has easy to remove side plate, and it is easy to connect the hd. no external connections, no external boxes, etc. sata to sata is very fast. What's

[CGUYS] third party xp-Vista backup software

2008-06-21 Thread gerald
I have used Backup myPC software for windows machines for about 10 or 15 years and through 10 name changes and a half a dozen owners. it is fast, easy, and ran on everything from windows 95 to xp. it was cheap. it does not seem to run on Vista. what is the backup software of choice to run

Re: [CGUYS] DOS system Help

2008-06-19 Thread gerald
i still have an addonics external CD reader. think it is a 1 speed. it connects through the parallel or serial port. i forgot which. i do not know if i threw the interconnect cable away or not. i used it in the past to load operating systems on laptops that did not have a floppy drive.

Re: [CGUYS] FireFox 3 download day starts at 13:00 ET

2008-06-17 Thread gerald
these people are pretty competent. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=831611 At 12:27 PM 6/17/2008, you wrote: If you plan to download Firefox 3 today, I would appreciate reviews. XP or OS X, please specify. I will wait awhile before updating the FF running in XP on my company's

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

2008-03-20 Thread gerald
there are a lot of counterfit cashiers checks out there. if a bad one comes from out of the country, the bank has about a year or so to cancel funds in your account. wire transfer should be clean. At 09:46 AM 3/20/2008, you wrote: The bad grammar points I agree with. The Gallery page has the

[CGUYS] CGUYS] Investment Tracking Recommendations?

2008-03-19 Thread gerald
i have my accounts and my wife's accounts with etrade. i get in with password and rsa time code device. i can get into mine, or my wife's account, but not both at once. since the passcode for her account seems to be about twenty digits or so, it is a real pain to log out and log back in.

[CGUYS] 6% md tax

2008-03-15 Thread gerald
the wall street journal weighs in: High Tech Tax March 15, 2008; Page A10 In the cinematic classic, Revenge of the Nerds, a group of college outcasts fights back against the local campus bigshots to regain their place in the world. A real-life sequel is playing out in Maryland, where a new tax

Re: [CGUYS] Investment Tracking Recommendations?

2008-03-11 Thread gerald
i think the best known fund that tracks that is the Vangard index 500 fund. i think it is the sp 500 marketbasket, less about a half % annually for expenses. since '76, shows 11.6% annual return. 10 year, however, shows only 3.99% return. i do not recall exact numbers, but only a modest

Re: [CGUYS] Investment Tracking Recommendations?

2008-03-11 Thread gerald
most trades in T-bills to the common man require a very large spread/discount. the difference between the buy and sell price for modest quantities(under 100k) cost one close to 1% of interest. certainly 1/2% interest. the best place to lookand buy for smallest spread i have found is:

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

2008-03-06 Thread gerald
Merriam-webster definition: 1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social

Re: [CGUYS] New south wales law allows all computers on a netwo

2008-03-06 Thread gerald
would the USA invade Iran using internet invasion as an excuse?North Korea?,(probably not, no oil), Canada(maybe, have oil), Cuba(sure, nice beaches) At 03:50 PM 3/6/2008, you wrote: Would Venezuela invade Columbia if their internet was invaded? Why not global?

Re: [CGUYS] More memory needed?

2008-03-05 Thread gerald
we talking memory chips here? Is that how fast the chips run, or how fast they are capable of running? i thought memory chips did not run, but only responded. At 03:46 PM 3/5/2008, you wrote: The board is capable of running both 33 and 400 with the 400 being the upper limit. The AMD chips

Re: [CGUYS] LCD TVs

2008-03-04 Thread gerald
this is where most of the avs geeks live: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/index.php if it don't say hd, it ain't. besides that, I think 720i(integrated) qualifies as hd. then there is 720p and 1080i p. integrated means the gun paints every other line, then goes back and paints the in

Re: [CGUYS] LCD TV

2008-03-04 Thread gerald
the $100 dvd upconverter boxes are amazing. the tech GuRu at the WSJ said he could not tell the difference between regular dvd up converted(to 1080p), and bluray. from comcast, you have to rent the box and pay for hd content. I am not certain but what you do not have to pay extra to get

Re: [CGUYS] RAM

2008-03-01 Thread gerald
it's a free download, should do it unless you are not allowed to muck with the machine. i At 04:00 PM 2/27/2008, you wrote: It doesn't have the latest software. Christopher -- Original message -- From: gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] do you have the latest video software

Re: [CGUYS] RAM

2008-02-27 Thread gerald
I have a couple of machines that have video chip on board. One cheap compaq and one cheap ACER. I stuck a couple of cheap memory chips in both, and both work quite nicely. the compaq I am using right now has an ATI radon express 200 and is happy doing 1600 x 1050 32bit at 60hertz. must go

Re: [CGUYS] RAM

2008-02-27 Thread gerald
do you have the latest video software in it. the big thing about later versions of video software is conflict resolution. At 02:35 PM 2/27/2008, you wrote: It is utilizing on-board video. I would love to boost the video, along with do a bunch of other things to it. Christopher --

[CGUYS] No call list

2008-02-18 Thread gerald
the two canidates in my district, wynn and donna ? got about 2.5 million dollars for the house primary campaign, they spent most of it on deamon dialers to call residents in the area, and bad mouth the other guy. we got 8-10+ calls a day. all from 877(800) numbers and with a recorded

[CGUYS] hijacking address for spam

2008-02-17 Thread gerald
My address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was hijacked for spam. wher xxx is a varitey of both names and nonsense. why do spammers need an address? one of my addresses gets hijacked about every 8 weeks. tg * For

Re: [CGUYS] Using Laptop in England -Thanks for the reassurance

2008-02-13 Thread gerald
buy the thing here. you'll spend too much time in uk trying to find one. if you are just going to use the laptop for generic purposes, there are a huge number of large compounds to connect and monitor email. easy comes to mind. the plug is quite big. you can look at one on ebay by

[CGUYS] is isass.exe a virus?

2008-02-13 Thread gerald
i have a process named isass.exe at 1252kb running. is it a virus. google replies seem to think maybe. avg does not see it. when i download the download this program soultions to remove isass, they go through my registry and state 500 bad entries and want to delete all 500 entries. i am

Re: [CGUYS] is isass.exe a virus?

2008-02-13 Thread gerald
. This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not be terminated. - Brian - Original Message - From: gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CGUYS] is isass.exe a virus? i have a process named isass.exe at 1252kb running. is it a virus. google replies

Re: [CGUYS] is isass.exe a virus?

2008-02-13 Thread gerald
this I/lsass falls between explorer and MDM..exe. that is an i and an L in that first word. i am certain that mac does it better...maybe they use a different alphabet. At 07:46 PM 2/13/2008, you wrote: Or put it in alphabetical order.. Mike On Feb 13, 2008 4:00 PM, gerald [EMAIL

Re: [CGUYS] .org sites

2008-02-04 Thread gerald
I do/did own a number of dot orgs, including slawecki.org,ppiusa.org, photoframes.org, thegerald.org and a bunch more. did them on godaddy as it was easy and i had an account. i think most of them have expired, as i did not use them. you can also register to foreign countries, if you really

Re: [CGUYS] Not reconizing the slave drive

2008-01-31 Thread gerald
to beat it to death, set the jumpers on the master to master, the slave to slave. plug the master into the end of the tape and the slave in the middle connector. At 11:24 AM 1/31/2008, you wrote: I recently installed a second h/d on my pc and it is not reconizing it also it not in the BIOS.

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