Re: [CGUYS] first iMac question ug Vista

2007-09-23 Thread E. Riley Casey
Any particular wife or just one of the bunch ? I have just loaded XP onto a new MacBook Pro and it's running quite well - now. I'm using Bootcamp which is the Apple provided software for making their computers bootup with Windows. Parallels on the other hand allows the Mac OS the Windows

Re: [CGUYS] controlling IP address access

2007-09-23 Thread John DeCarlo
I couldn't tell from web sites what the Apple routers can do. My Netgear MIMO allows me to schedule when blocking occurs and to use patterns for blocking (like runescape, or even rune to block runescape.com and rune-hq.com). I would think that if you couldn't find it via the web configuration

Re: [CGUYS] [ OT WARNING!!!!

2007-09-23 Thread Charles Ballinger
What I can't get past is that we, or society is gov't. The federal gov't was built only very specific powers. What it wasn't given remained with the states.. more specifically the people. It's still up to us. So again, what I don't understand is why we seem to want out of our obligations

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 21 Sep 2007 - Special issue (#2007-671)

2007-09-23 Thread rlsimon
Decision made ...I bought a WD-1200VE 5400 120GB which NewEgg had bundled with Apricorn kit (chickened out on the 7200 as some posts said the thing is a real heater, and chickened out as my Norton Ghost 2003 refuses to auto update and Norton site says I need ver 775 to do it via USB2, also, can

[CGUYS] x31 HDD upgrade

2007-09-23 Thread rlsimon
...oh yeah, why did I choose WD ?? ...postings said it's the quietest of all. In my Dell 4400 desktop the WD (which was so quiet I had to look at the light to see if the box was running) failed after over 5 yrs and I replaced it with a Seagate Barracuda which is noisier, not real bad but not

Re: [CGUYS] x31 HDD upgrade

2007-09-23 Thread mike
What is the warranty on the WD? Mike On 9/23/07, rlsimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...oh yeah, why did I choose WD ?? ...postings said it's the quietest of all. In my Dell 4400 desktop the WD (which was so quiet I had to look at the light to see if the box was running) failed after over 5

Re: [CGUYS] first iMac question ug Vista

2007-09-23 Thread Rich Schinnell
At 04:12 PM 9/23/2007, you wrote: Date:Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:41:51 -0400 From:Wayne Dernoncourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: first iMac question ug Vista gerald does she want to load Vista, or would she be better off with XP? again, will a new UG work? From everything I've read,

[CGUYS] first iMac question ug Vista

2007-09-23 Thread Harvey Simon
Vista is more than XP with security turned on. It's built in. Since security, or the lack there of, is one of XP's major flaws, I say that's sufficient reason to choose Vista. If you're going to use Parallels, keep in mind that you must buy a business edition of Vista (vs one of the home

Re: [CGUYS] first iMac question ug Vista

2007-09-23 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
There are four flavors of Vista. Home, Home basic, Business and Business Premium. Of the four the upper two are the best of the bunch and from what I understand the only ones MS Legal to run on parallels. However you will also pay a premium. Also note that when you get into Vista there are