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He mis-spoke. Dongle is a term used for software anti-piracy
devices. What he meant to ask is if you used a USB wifi receiver.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEDescription=usb%20wireless%20adapter
On Sat, Nov 28
6:28 PM
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A usb device that has a wifi antenna attached.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEDEPA=0Order=BESTMATCHDescription=usb+wifi+donglex=0y=0
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Marcio m...@ix.netcom.com wrote
Sent: Nov 27, 2009 6:19 PM
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If you hook it up to the router it becomes wifi, if the router is wifi.
Stewart
At 06:45 PM 11/27/2009, you wrote:
I gave up trying to connect my laptop to the network where I have a
desktop connected
On Nov 28, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Marcio wrote:
I am so sorry for taking so much of your time. The problem is that
the router is in another room where the TV is... and the Network
Epson will connect to it only via cable (it is not wireless).
Best option is to move the printer next to the TV.
On Nov 27, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Marcio wrote:
I gave up trying to connect my laptop to the network where I have a
desktop connected to a Epson Printer (network).
Oh, the joys of having a PeeCee. I would not give up so quickly as
that is really your best option. Have you tried getting a USB
Hi ...
I'm running Windows xp media center edition and I have a Hauppauge box that
allows me to see tv on my computer screen. This has become my favorite way to
watch TV and now, suddenly, I'm getting a video error message when I try to
turn on the Media Center.
I don't believe there have
There comes a point when searching for what might be wrong would take longer
than just reinstalling. Check and make sure drivers are all loaded ok.
Have you tried watching tv from the Hauppauge application and not through XP
media center? I don't know if there is a way to reinstall just media
On Nov 28, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Gail.Miller wrote:
A friend (who just loves to reformat HDDs) told me the only way to
go is with a clean install by starting over with the recovery disk.
A good opportunity to buy a new, much bigger and faster, hard drive
for not a lot of money. That way if
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Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 3:22 PM
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There comes a point when searching for what might be wrong would take
longer
than just reinstalling. Check and make sure drivers
is a Dell
Dimension E510 with 2 GB RAM.
I really look forward to hearing back from you. Many thanks again!
Gail Miller
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Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Please
You should be certain that the problem isn't with Comcast. I've heard
they are switching more and more analog channels to digital thus
requiring the use of their rented cable converters or cable cards.
Just a thought.
YMMV
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:01:41 -0500
From: Gail.Miller
What is exactly a USB Wifi dongle?
Marcio
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Sent: Nov 28, 2009 9:25 AM
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On Nov 27, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Marcio wrote:
I gave up trying to connect my laptop to the network where I have
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Sent: Nov 28, 2009 9:25 AM
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On Nov 27, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Marcio wrote:
I gave up trying to connect my laptop to the network where I have a
desktop connected to a Epson Printer (network).
Oh
is exactly a USB Wifi dongle?
Marcio
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Sent: Nov 28, 2009 9:25 AM
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On Nov 27, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Marcio wrote:
I gave up trying to connect my laptop to the network where I have
I gave up trying to connect my laptop to the network where I have a desktop
connected to a Epson Printer (network). Just was not able to do it. Now my next
choice is to connect the printer to the wireless network. It had a cable
connection. Can I use some kind of Wi-fi to hook the printer to
If you hook it up to the router it becomes wifi, if the router is wifi.
Stewart
At 06:45 PM 11/27/2009, you wrote:
I gave up trying to connect my laptop to the network where I have a
desktop connected to a Epson Printer (network). Just was not able to
do it. Now my next choice is to connect
Not unless you are running the penelope extension.
Stewart
At 09:38 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote:
Thunderbird does this too I believe
On Oct 28, 2009 7:22 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
Score another one for Eudora.
Stewart
At 10:04 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote:
At 12:00 AM 10/29/2009, you wrote:
Date:Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:14:01 -0500
From:Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net
Subject:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Score another one for Eudora.
Stewart
I have been using Eudora since
On Oct 28, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Elaine Zablocki wrote:
I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm using Eudora is that each email
folder has its own file on my hard drive. I back up that drive
every few days to an external drive. If there's a failure, at most
I lose a few days' email.
Modern
The nice thing about Eudora is that it also strips attachments out of
emails and sores them in a separate folder.
If I want an attachment, I open the attachments folder and get
it. No need to open the email.
Plus all the settings for Eudora are stored in files so if I upgrade
a computer
Not sure if you saw this Tom.
http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:07:42AM -0400, tjpa wrote:
On Oct 28, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Elaine Zablocki wrote:
I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm
On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Paul Cannon wrote:
Not sure if you saw this Tom.
http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx
One of the comments reads:
The PST file is one of the biggest problems with Outlook. Why would
On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Stewart Marshall wrote:
The nice thing about Eudora is that it also strips attachments out
of emails and sores them in a separate folder.
If you insist on restricting comparisons to just Eudora and M$
products there is no argument that M$ is inferior. However
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, tjpa wrote:
On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Paul Cannon wrote:
Not sure if you saw this Tom.
http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx
One of the comments reads:
The PST file is one of the biggest
I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm using Eudora is that each email
folder has its own file on my hard drive. I back up that drive
every few days to an external drive. If there's a failure, at most I
lose a few days' email.
At 10:31 AM 10/18/2009, tjpa wrote:
Sorry that we are not more
Score another one for Eudora.
Stewart
At 10:04 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote:
I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm using Eudora is that each email
folder has its own file on my hard drive. I back up that drive
every few days to an external drive. If there's a failure, at most
I lose a few
Thunderbird does this too I believe
On Oct 28, 2009 7:22 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
Score another one for Eudora.
Stewart
At 10:04 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote: I'm using Eudora, and one reason I'm
using Eudora is that ...
On Oct 17, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
Oh? I've been using Outlook for over a decade. I must have received
well over a hundred thousand emails by now, and, to the best of my
knowledge, I've never lost one. My primary contact at one of the
companies I consult for told me a couple
On Oct 18, 2009, at 12:10 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Part of the Outlook problem that all your emails are in one tarball
of a
file. When something goes wrong it goes really wrong.
Precisely. It is engineered to fail catastrophically.
Sorry that we are not more helpful Gail, but what you have is a big
mess. When OE failed it rolled you back to the last time a maintenance
backup was made, which in your case is very long ago. There are 3rd
party utilities that will try to recover a corrupt mail database or at
least
Oh? I've been using Outlook for over a decade. I must have received
well over a hundred thousand emails by now, and, to the best of my
knowledge, I've never lost one. My primary contact at one of the
companies I consult for told me a couple of years ago that he had
over half a million in
Hi ...I have my C drive waaay too full of stuff and I keep saying I'm
going to purge it and purge the email folder but so far I haven't done it.
Today the computer was running especially slow so I shut it down (the normal
way) and when I rebooted, all this email was missing from my Inbox. I
You didn't even mention what email program you were running
It's in the subject line. Outlook Express.
Where you running Outlook? This looks like a typical Outlook problem.
If so, stop using Outlook or it will eventually happen again.
Oh? I've been using Outlook for over a decade. I must
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Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:51 PM
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Subject: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have
disappeared from my Outlook
Express Inbox
Hi ...I have my C drive waaay too full of stuff and I keep saying I'm
going
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
You didn't even mention what email program you were running
It's in the subject line. Outlook Express.
Where you running Outlook? This looks like a typical Outlook problem.
If so, stop using Outlook or it will
Part of the Outlook problem that all your emails are in one tarball of a
file. When something goes wrong it goes really wrong.
Backup. :)
But I've never needed mine.
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I think in OE there are several tarballs..so it allows you to have multiple
instances of something really going wrong.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:10 PM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
Part of the Outlook
Vista is not so bad unless you want to run legacy software..
Of course I want to run legacy software. Workflows have been developed
over many years, sometimes decades. I don't want some punk programmer
telling me I have to re-engineer my business.
Does this sound like a good plan?
Get a new fast Vista machine because that is what is out there. Load XP on
a virtual machine running under Vista to handle legacy software.
Of course I want to run legacy software. Workflows have been developed
over many years, sometimes decades. I don't
Vista is not so bad unless you want to run legacy software..
Of course I want to run legacy software. Workflows have been developed
over many years, sometimes decades. I don't want some punk programmer
telling me I have to re-engineer my business.
Again, an overstatement (the original, not
Does this sound like a good plan?
Get a new fast Vista machine because that is what is out there. Load
XP on a virtual machine running under Vista to handle legacy software.
Most users won't need to.
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Can that virtual folder be readily backed up? I.e., is the location of the
virtual folder obvious? Or does vista provide a new backup program that can be
readily used to back them up?
Fred Holmes
At 09:54 AM 8/11/2008, Chris Dunford wrote:
For the most part, the ones that have problems are
You still run software from OS 8 on your mac os x machine?
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vista is not so bad unless you want to run legacy software..
Of course I want to run legacy software. Workflows have been developed
over many years, sometimes
If Tom were to use virtualization, he'd be better off doing it
on a Mac or Linux machine, because virtualization is notoriously
buggy and runs with too much overhead on Vista. However,
if he is running the legacy software as one of his primary
applications, he would be adding a layer of
Can that virtual folder be readily backed up? I.e., is the location of
the virtual folder obvious? Or does vista provide a new backup program
that can be readily used to back them up?
E.g., you can't write to Program Files any more, but a lot of old
programs try to. For those, Vista puts
At 12:46 PM 8/11/2008, David K Watson wrote:
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1132588.html
California state computers can't handle pay cut, controller says,
It turns out that the California payroll system is a legacy
COBOL system being held together with spit and baling
wire.
The article is
You still run software from OS 8 on your mac os x machine?
Look at my email headers.
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You still run software from OS 8 on your mac os x machine?
Look at my email headers.
I think the point was, can you run ALL of your OS 8 stuff?
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I think the point was, can you run ALL of your OS 8 stuff?
Why would I want to do that? I'm not running a museum here.
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Just a cupboard with some old figurines. I can't think of any apps that I
miss so much I'd run in an emu just to keep active after ten years of being
out of circulation on mac or windows.
BTW, no offense here if Gwen is being held captive by tiny trolls but...what
happened to her? She seemed
I think the point was, can you run ALL of your OS 8 stuff?
Why would I want to do that? I'm not running a museum here.
So, Vista is useless because I have to run legacy software. OS X is fine
because I'm not running a museum.
OK, that makes sense.
OK, that makes sense.
Thank you.
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love.
(not as nice as a Mac, but not as expensive either)
Please tell us which model you purchased.
- Brian
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From: Gwen Garfinkle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CGUYS] please help with VISTA
I'm so frustrated with my new computer that I could scream. I know you
At 12:56 AM -0400 8/9/08, Eric S. Sande wrote:
New computer - VISTA - and I feel like I am living in the dark ages.
The make and model of the computer and the version of Vista
would be helpful information.
As would the amount of RAM installed. The quickest and easiest cure
for sluggish
As would the amount of RAM installed. The quickest and easiest cure
for sluggish computers is usually more RAM.
(Actually the best cure is a better operating system.)
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I'm so frustrated with my new computer that I could scream. I know you
must talk about this all the time. New computer - VISTA - and I feel like I
am living in the dark ages. Everything takes forever to do and I get a lot
of (not responding ) at the top of the screen while the computer is
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As would the amount of RAM installed. The quickest and easiest cure
for sluggish computers is usually more RAM.
(Actually the best cure is a better operating
Actually, 32 bit Vista doesn't get better with more RAM; 64 bit does.
How do you figure that?
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32 bit can only address 3 gigs of ram for the OS.
Mike
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Actually, 32 bit Vista doesn't get better with more RAM; 64 bit does.
How do you figure that?
Actually, 32 bit Vista doesn't get better with more RAM; 64 bit
does.
How do you figure that?
32 bit can only address 3 gigs of ram for the OS.
Well, that's an oversimplification, but even so it's not the same as saying
that 32-bit Vista doesn't get better with more RAM. Vista with 2 or 3
I was over simplifying what he meant, not explaining what he said.
Mike
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Actually, 32 bit Vista doesn't get better with more RAM; 64 bit
does.
How do you figure that?
32 bit can only address 3 gigs of ram for the
New computer - VISTA - and I feel like I am living in the dark ages.
The make and model of the computer and the version of Vista
would be helpful information.
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