Re: [CGUYS] wo questions about Macbook Pro -- card reader bac

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
Time Machine is not really a substitute for a full drive backup. Each backup strategy has its strong and weak spots. Together they are complementary. So I'm considering recommending both. With drives so cheap these days it is worth the small cost to get the added security. If you have to pick

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 29 Nov 2007 to 30 Nov 2007 - Special issue (#2007-848)

2007-12-01 Thread Josie Leyman Elias
Hi Andy, Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I tried your idea this morning and I was unsuccessful. The clean up tool thinks .NET has been removed (all three versions) but it still will not let me reinstall, nor does windows update think it needs to be. L From: Computer Guys

Re: [CGUYS] Two questions about Macbook Pro -- card reader ba

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
Stuart's suggestion of a single format, dual function device is short-term most practical, but may need replacement when the camera is replaced. Jeff'f suggestion of a multi-format adapter will let her take pictures from other cameras too. That might be handy for working with friend's

Re: [CGUYS] Two questions about Macbook Pro -- card reader backup

2007-12-01 Thread b_s-wilk
Buy a SD USB reader, that doubles as a USB thumb drive. It has a slot in the back where you plug the SD card into it and then you plug it into your system like a Thumb drive. I have a very small card reader that I keep in the [very small] camera bag pocket with extra cards and battery.

[CGUYS] Christmas cards Mac address book

2007-12-01 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
I've switched from the PC and the kluge of MS Word/Mail Merge to print Christmas card envelopes to a Mac with Address Book and ... what. For example, my cousins, Debbie John Smith live in GA and have two kids. I have the address entry as Debbie John for the first name, etc. I would like the

Re: [CGUYS] Blue tooth radiation?

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Meyer
If anyone listened to the public health academic who wrote The Secret History of the War On Cancer some of the most quoted studies done on cell phone radiation have severe methodological flaws and even if they were good might been inadequate for assessing the brain cancer risk 20 or 30 years

Re: [CGUYS] Two questions about Macbook Pro -- card reader ba

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
I had no issue with transferring pictures directly from the camera to my computer. Until i realized transferring pictures this way was the fastest way bar none to draining batteries. All the cameras I have tried this with got their power over the USB wire, not using their batteries. One of my

Re: [CGUYS] Christmas cards Mac address book

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
How do people do Christmas cards using a Mac? Do they still write them by hand? I send everyone an individual eCard via email. I did something like what you need for a cleint using FileMaker. The script had to figure out fairly complex family relationships: married, not married but living

Re: [CGUYS] Two questions about Macbook Pro -- card reader ba

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Miles
I agree with your comment on being bulkier. However, one thing I've found is bulkier isn't always a bad thing. I bought a 5 pack of flash drives from Costco for around $30 about a year ago. I can now only find one. God only knows where the other 4 have gone. They were to damn small to

Re: [CGUYS] Blue tooth radiation?

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
If anyone listened to the public health academic who wrote The Secret History of the War On Cancer some of the most quoted studies done on cell phone radiation have severe methodological flaws and even if they were good might been inadequate for assessing the brain cancer risk 20 or 30 years

Re: [CGUYS] Two questions about Macbook Pro -- card reader ba

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Wright
Good point. XP's and Vista's previous versions are the equivalent on the Windows side. -Original Message- What it does not cover is any situation that corrupts or overwrites a file and not noticing the problem until after your backup procedure updates your backups with the bad

Re: [CGUYS] Two questions about Macbook Pro -- card reader ba

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
The Mac just refused to recognize the camera. And Samsung's software driver download site was no help. No software drivers for Macs! This was probably one of those weird and far in-between situations. That is why it is important to make sure the camera manufacturer complies with PTP. Getting

[CGUYS] Vista Hate

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
but at least being funny about it... http://www.youtube.com/v/oXcimfzLLoY http://www.youtube.com/v/ZRAUlK8_2VE http://www.youtube.com/v/PxLgBx3W9Ss http://www.youtube.com/v/sfCHuVrWHPk * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE -

Re: [CGUYS] Blue tooth radiation?

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Meyer
Tom, respectfully a UofPittsburgh professor of Public Health is not a crank, and her claims and arguments were quite reasonable when interviewed on NPR. Flourescent lighting does not broadcast its energy an inch from your brain (actually I doubt the UV doesn't penetrate your skin). Furthermore, I

Re: [CGUYS] Blue tooth radiation?

2007-12-01 Thread Randy
I did hear her on a few show while on her book tour and noted her concern about the potential harm from cell phones and about the research on this to date. Re. bluetooth, is it definitely the case that it gives off much less radiation than cellphones? Even if so I wonder about the effect of

Re: [CGUYS] Stop Error Fixes?

2007-12-01 Thread Richard P.
Update: the new drivers seem to have taken care of the stop errors. I have put it through its paces all week and was able to severely overload the system without being able to make it fail. It goes back to its owner tomorrow for the real test but for now I think its fixed. Many thanks to all

Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: NOTICE]

2007-12-01 Thread mike
Tell him to stop what he's downloading illegally and walk away slow. These type of notices seem to be more of the friendly reminder type then get out your checkbook type cause we're going to scare you into paying us lots of cash. Mike On Dec 1, 2007 10:56 PM, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: