[CGUYS] Neat Receipts portable scanner for road warriors?

2009-10-15 Thread db
Can anyone recommend a portable scanner w. software package for scanning biz cards, trip receipts and OCR'ing the text while on the road? Neat Receipts is one... has anyone used one? db * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] Snail Mail

2009-10-15 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:27 AM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: I just kept all my mail on gmail after I signed onto to VZ. I have GMail too, but retrieve it with Thunderbird or online through Yahoo. I don't like the online interface. Much harder to sort than basic Yahoo, or Thunderbird

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever

2009-10-15 Thread tjpa
On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Mike Sloane wrote: [This is going to put a crimp in the efforts to convince people that computing in the cloud is a good idea. MS] UPDATE: Microsoft Says It Has Recovered Lost Sidekick Data http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091015-710685.html

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever

2009-10-15 Thread mike
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Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever

2009-10-15 Thread Fred Holmes
, tjpa wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Mike Sloane wrote: [This is going to put a crimp in the efforts to convince people that computing in the cloud is a good idea. MS] UPDATE: Microsoft Says It Has Recovered Lost Sidekick Data http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091015-710685.html

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever

2009-10-15 Thread tjpa
On Oct 15, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Fred Holmes wrote: Well, it's great that the data is being recovered, and likely will be mostly / entirely recovered, but it's been gone for about two weeks now, and is being recovered progressively. A two-week plus interruption in service is not a very good

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever

2009-10-15 Thread Fred Holmes
At 02:42 PM 10/15/2009, tjpa wrote: Blaming the cloud for this disaster is very wrong. There is no reason to believe that M$'s major competitors are as bad as managing their infrastructure as M$ seems to be. M$ did not make proper backups. That is not a cloud problem, that is a facilities

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Dunford
Some bloggers have speculated that this outage was engineered to put the scare into us about cloud services. M$ is not ready to compete in this arena and anything to slow down acceptance would certainly be to M $'s benefit. There's always a conspiracy theorist. MS probably can't produce its

Re: [CGUYS] Snail Mail

2009-10-15 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:54 PM, db db...@att.net wrote: What is it you are doing with Agent other than reading newsgroups? Agent handles your local email? I have a mail account that is pretty much limited to what I say on usenet. I figure that account is going to be a major spam trap and I

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever

2009-10-15 Thread mike
Even if they did produce it, there would still be wackos that denied it was real. While not taking any blame from MS, this was outsourced to a third party who did the deed. I'm thinking Google doesn't outsource it's could based stuff like picasa etc? Or does it? On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:46

[CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread Sue Cubic
I want to know---what is the cloud? Does it refer to storage sites on some server somewhere? Or something more esoteric than that? Am I using it and don't know? The best thing I've found in a long time is X-Marks, considering I'm often using public computers. Is my Earthlink webmail in the

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread Judy Cosler
so glad you asked that Q! On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Sue Cubic scu...@earthlink.net wrote: I want to know---what is the cloud? Does it refer to storage sites on some server somewhere? Or something more esoteric than that? Am I using it and don't know? The best thing I've found in a

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread Robert Carroll
mike wrote: I really wouldn't start telling these old folks about the cloud... On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote: At 05:25 PM 10/15/2009, Sue Cubic wrote: I want to know---what is the cloud? Why not? Old folks are simply old, not stupid. Some

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Sue Cubic scu...@earthlink.net wrote: I want to know---what is the cloud? Does it refer to storage sites on some server somewhere? Or something more esoteric than that? Am I using it and don't know?  The best thing I've found in a long time is X-Marks,

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote: At 05:25 PM 10/15/2009, Sue Cubic wrote: I want to know---what is the cloud? It is wherever your data is when it isn't on your own equipment and you haven't the foggiest idea where it really is.

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread b_s-wilk
At 05:25 PM 10/15/2009, Sue Cubic wrote: I want to know---what is the cloud? It is wherever your data is when it isn't on your own equipment and you haven't the foggiest idea where it really is. Heh heh, FOGGY, heh heh, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Hah! The cloud! Foggy! Cloud changes its name every

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Continue to preach the word Betty some folks might even listen. The only good backups are ones where you know that they are and can get at them when needed. Any other type is asking for trouble. Stewart At 07:30 PM 10/15/2009, you wrote: Heh heh, FOGGY, heh heh, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Hah! The

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread Fred Holmes
At 07:14 PM 10/15/2009, mike wrote: I really wouldn't start telling these old folks about the cloud... Hey, I resemble that remark! Fred Holmes * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread Fred Holmes
At 07:45 PM 10/15/2009, Robert Carroll wrote: When you're old (best outcome that you can ever hope for), do you want some young stranger telling you that information should be withheld from you because you're too old to think straight? I don't listen to young folk. I do as I please. Fred

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread mike
The smart way to go for sure. On Oct 15, 2009 5:57 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote: At 07:45 PM 10/15/2009, Robert Carroll wrote: When you're old (best outcome that you can ever hope ... I don't listen to young folk. I do as I please. Fred Holmes

Re: [CGUYS] Plain English, please...

2009-10-15 Thread chad evans wyatt
I agree with the Rev that Betty has it right, at least for my needs.  Here is an exhaustive article that might be of some interest http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14search-t.html?scp=1sq=magazine%20infrastructure%20issuest=cse --- On Thu, 10/15/09, Rev. Stewart Marshall