[CGUYS] new web site about MD. computer service tax

2008-01-27 Thread Gayley Knight
The Maryland Technology Council has built a website to inform us about the recently passed 6% sales tax on computer services, including website development, website maintenance, and programming. http://www.FightTheTechTax.com/index.cfm /gayley -- -- Gayley Knight Mother Geek Productions

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows XP

2008-01-27 Thread John DeCarlo
On Jan 26, 2008 7:16 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now trying to access the drive F, I get this message from Windows: The disk drive in F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now? I recommend going to grc.com and buying SpinRite - you can just download it and run it. You may

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

2008-01-27 Thread Tom Piwowar
However, in my experience, this has never been the case with external drives, which a lot of his seem to be (I don't remember if this one was). This was a BIOS limitation only evident on EIDE internal drives. It depends on the disk controller that is in the case. You make a good point that the

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

2008-01-27 Thread Tom Piwowar
I recommend going to grc.com and buying SpinRite - you can just download it and run it. You may well find that it recovers the drive for you completely. Without a general idea of what needs to be fixed it is not a good idea to run any repair utility. If it is a hardware problem, the data on

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows XP

2008-01-27 Thread Robert
Followup on a suddenly unformatted drive. I have decided that the internal hard drive F: that Windows reports as being unformatted is reported by BelArc advisor as this one: Maxtor 6Y120M0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 2, s/n Y3KTK99E, rev YAR51EW0, SMART http://www.belarc.com/smart.html

[CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Steve Rigby
In the news these days are stories about how our current administration is desperately trying to protect telephone companies from lawsuits that may be or are being filed as a result of their illegal participation in monitoring and wiretapping activities. I just paid my phone bill

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows XP

2008-01-27 Thread mike
Right click my computer and select manage. Select disk management. See if the drive shows up. If it does right click it and see if it gives you any options like convert foreign disk or convert to dynamic...anything but format unless you want to lose your data. Sometimes when I connect internal

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Whoa there hoss. You are mistaking two different sets of privacy. 1.) The privacy of your information as a customer and your financial information you share with them. (As just evidenced as you made you payment on your phone bill using a financial instrument.) 2.) You extrapolate this

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Eric S. Sande
It was the As always part that got to me the most. Pure horse manure. Verizon is committed to the privacy of communications. In the absence of a court order we will not divulge subscriber information or traffic details. That is how our front line forces are trained to operate.

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Fred Holmes
Privacy has gone the way of the dodo. Technology rules. Get over it. Fred Holmes At 07:32 PM 1/27/2008, Steve Rigby wrote: In the news these days are stories about how our current administration is desperately trying to protect telephone companies from lawsuits that may be or are being

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Steve Rigby
On Jan 27, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Whoa there hoss. You are mistaking two different sets of privacy. I do not think I am mistaking two different sets of privacy. Privacy guarantees as pertaining to my personal information is exactly what could have been violated

Re: [CGUYS] Security suite recommendations

2008-01-27 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
eeye's Blink does it all as well. http://www.eeye.com You can get a free copy to review for a year. On Jan 25, 2008 7:11 PM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you google all the security suite reviews, you will see that Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite gets the best overall reviews. I have

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread chad evans wyatt
I was unaware that Verizon had resisted executive orders (sidestepping the relevant court required under FISA) to allow wiretaps on US citizens. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Whatever you want to believe. It has always amazed me that people want privacy but leave it all hang out (so to speak) In this day of technology you leave so many digital footprints out there. Kind of reminds me of the Head of google getting all bent out of shape when Cnet googled his info

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

2008-01-27 Thread Tom Piwowar
Without a general idea of what needs to be fixed it is not a good idea to run any repair utility. If it is a hardware problem, the data on the disk could be fine now and could get scrambled by the repair utility. That happens not to be the case for SpinRite. Could be for other utilities.

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Steve Rigby
On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Collusion with NSA? If the feds come up to me and say we need this, my first reaction, when and how soon! They are the government and I am responsible to them. I think the opposite. I, and you, are the most dominant and

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Steve Rigby
On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I grew up being taught that ex post facto laws were prohibited by the Constitution (Article I, section 9). Or is this just another of those inconvenient truths? Some would say that you grew up in a different generation, that things are

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Tom Piwowar
In the news these days are stories about how our current administration is desperately trying to protect telephone companies from lawsuits that may be or are being filed as a result of their illegal participation in monitoring and wiretapping activities. I grew up being taught that ex post

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Steve Rigby
On Jan 27, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Fred Holmes wrote: Privacy has gone the way of the dodo. Technology rules. Get over it. Yeah, well, I'm pickin' my nose right now, but you still can't see me do it, can you? Steve *

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I have been married for 27 years. No longer a reason to worry. :-) Stewart At 09:21 PM 1/27/2008, you wrote: Really? Even to your most intimate and perhaps revealing of conversations? Steve Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace Ozark, AL SL 82

Re: [CGUYS] Now...what is this?...

2008-01-27 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
Many thanks Richard. It worked! Marcio At 11:38 26/1/2008, Richard P. wrote: Did you try defragging in the safe mode? Richard P. Computers are forever surprising me... Now I am trying to defragment my C: drive and guess what shows in the lower bar? PROGRAM (C:) Paused for Volume

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Steve Rigby
On Jan 27, 2008, at 8:42 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote: Verizon is committed to the privacy of communications. In the absence of a court order we will not divulge subscriber information or traffic details. That is how our front line forces are trained to operate. But, it was not the front line

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Eric S. Sande
I do not think I am mistaking two different sets of privacy. Privacy guarantees as pertaining to my personal information is exactly what could have been violated by Verizon in their collusion with the NSA. Could have? That's a weak argument as far as evidence that Verizon colluded with

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Steve Rigby
On Jan 27, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote: I do not think I am mistaking two different sets of privacy. Privacy guarantees as pertaining to my personal information is exactly what could have been violated by Verizon in their collusion with the NSA. Could have? That's a weak