Re: [CGUYS] dtv converter box choice

At this point I wouldn't bother with a digital tv box for a VCR but would look for a DVR/DVD recorder with a new digital tv tuner. If you get one with a hardrive to capture TV and a DVD burner to save what you want you should be in good shape. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:28 PM, rlsimon <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [CGUYS] Online storage solutions?

You can hear a review for Jungledisk at episode 123. Thanks, John. Somehow I"ve missed that episode. Skydrive from MS looks promising, inludes 5 gigs free, public, private and shared folders. Thanks Mike. I"ll have to check to see if it works with a M

Re: [CGUYS] Online storage solutions?

No, but Mozy is excellent depending on what you needs are. Mozy has a decent interface, free for 2 GBs, $4.95 for unlimited storage, Really? UNLIMITED storage? I'm talking maybe 600 gig of photos. Another 500 gig if I back up my iTunes folder. I don't need file sharing. Mozy.com??? Thanks

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

I have two technical legal points to make about dealing with this scam: 1. If you are ambushed or blind-sided by the appearance of the cashier's check for MORE than the amount of the sale, that is, they led you to believe the check would be for $5,000 (or whatever the cost of the good

Re: [CGUYS] ubuntu and gnucash

Did someone say food fight? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yldqNkGfo > -Original Message- > > red or white? > > > > > We now return you back to the Windows vs. Mac food fight. * ** List info, subscription mana

Re: [CGUYS] ubuntu and gnucash

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Judy Cosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > red or white? > We now return you back to the Windows vs. Mac food fight. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy *

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

On Mar 20, 2008, at 8:14 AM, David Turk wrote: My partner has a website advertising his artwork for sale. He received this email Monday. We're trying to ascertain whether this is a real person, & if the offer is legit. There are several aspects that make it sound questionable (moving to

Re: [CGUYS] MAJOR hard drive problems

I probably was not very clear. THe replacement 500 GB drive which is the secondary drive is recognized just fine. THe primary drive was originally recognized as 500 GB but then I used Safety Drill to clone the original 160GB drive onto it. So it created 2 partitions (actually there are 2 other sma

Re: [CGUYS] MAJOR hard drive problems

Are you sure that there isn't a short circuit _inside_ your Dell? or Mac? That's a lot of drives to lose in such a short time. Maybe the UPS is faulty--or surge suppressors--or a bad circuit. One or two power surges aren't likely to knock out all those drives, especially at different times. W

Re: [CGUYS] ubuntu and gnucash

red or white? Michael Fernando wrote: I'm considering moving my mom from windows xp pro to ubuntu. She has just one too many friends forwarding her every email they find on the web I believe and I can't seem to get her to stop opening them. The only app I'm not sure about replacing is her quic

Re: [CGUYS] MAJOR hard drive problems

I always point out when discussing good backups that hard drives can and do fail suddenly and without warning. Not what I would consider 'archival' storage at all. But they're great for the day to day backups; still much faster than the internet. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:07 PM, cindy brandt <[EM

Re: [CGUYS] MAJOR hard drive problems

Check the motherboard site to see if there is an update to support larger drives. If not you may have to use a pci IDE/SATA expansion card to get the drives recognized. Mike On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, cindy brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After these drives died, I was getting w

Re: [CGUYS] ubuntu and gnucash

> I'm considering moving my mom from windows xp pro to ubuntu. She has > just one too many friends forwarding her every email they find on the > web I believe and I can't seem to get her to stop opening them. The > only app I'm not sure about replacing is her quicken. I've read on > the gnucash

[CGUYS] MAJOR hard drive problems

THis is a long email describing my computer meltdown and a warning to everyone about hard drives. I recently lost 3 hard drives in 9 days. First I lost my backup drives for both my Dell XP system and my intel MacBook. THe XP drive was a 2 1/2 month old Seagate internal drive which was used to ba

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

One correction. There are bogus money orders out there. DO TAKE IT to the bank. They can check their sources and see if it is bogus. Cashiers checks can be bogus and can also be cancelled. Stewart At 03:26 PM 3/20/2008, you wrote: >Subject: [SPAM] Artworks purcahse The subject line starts

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

>It is also offensive, imo as someone who represented artists over >the years. Art can be bargained, but would you bargain your dinner >at a restaurant or your new suit at the department store? Depends on which country I was in. In some countries everything is negotiable. In the US most things

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

>Subject: [SPAM] Artworks purcahse The subject line starts with "[SPAM]." If you look at the email's headers (which you did not provide us) you will probably find some lines that begin with "X-Spam" that have a score from your ISP's spam filters. When that score is high enough many ISP's will a

Re: [CGUYS] Online storage solutions?

Skydrive from MS looks promising, inludes 5 gigs free, public, private and shared folders. Not sure the of the url...believe it's http://skydrive.live.com Mike On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Paula Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone used this service? > http://jungledisk.com/ > I

Re: [CGUYS] dtv converter box choice

For $40 coupon you get a tuner that outputs one channel. Some have passthrough which allows you to get the current analog signal, but you can just get a splitter to put in before the box if your tv has video 1,2,3 etc or aux inputs. I would pay more if I could get a box that is a multi output tun

Re: [CGUYS] Online storage solutions?

Like the previous poster noted - YMMV for whatever service you select depending on your needs. That said, I've used the Gmail extension for Windows (Gmailfs) for 3+ yrs now to store and transparently transfer files between home and the office. If you do decide to use Gmail my suggestion is to

Re: [CGUYS] Online storage solutions?

No, but Mozy is excellent depending on what you needs are. Mozy has a decent interface, free for 2 GBs, $4.95 for unlimited storage, 30 day archiving of deleted files, no file sharing capability db Paula Minor wrote: Has anyone used this service? http://jungledisk.com/ I was just wondering if

[CGUYS] Online storage solutions?

Has anyone used this service? http://jungledisk.com/ I was just wondering if it was reliable for photo storage. I have so many external hard disks stacked on my desk for photo backup that I'm running out of space...and sweating from the heat. ;-) Thanks! Paula IN/USA Life should NOT be a j

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

there are a lot of counterfit cashiers checks out there. if a bad one comes from out of the country, the bank has about a year or so to cancel funds in your account. wire transfer should be clean. At 09:46 AM 3/20/2008, you wrote: >The bad grammar points I agree with. The Gallery page has the

Re: [CGUYS] anyone creating mashups with yahoo pipes or...

I messed with it a little bit but not much yet. I wasn't sure I could output to an aggregator, or if it was web based only. I've never liked web based RSS readers. Right now I'm trying to figure out if an eggdrop could be programmed to output to twitter from an IRC channel. I probably need help

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

Just the format and phrasing raises a host of red flags. It uses very generic wording that can apply to any targeted recipient. The placement of the images of interest looks like a mail merge of some kind. It just smells of an automated bulk email - not something who wants to decorate an apartme

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

Looks like the cashier's check scam. See Snopes on this: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/cashier.asp -SAM -- Quoting David Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: My partner has a website advertising his artwork for sale. He received this email Monday. We're trying to ascertain whether this is a

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

The bad grammar points I agree with. The Gallery page has the artist's phone number. Ask them to call you. I doubt they will. Worst case, take the offered cashiers check. Charles On Mar 20, 2008, at 8:14 AM, David Turk wrote: My partner has a website advertising his artwork for sale. He

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

does not sound to me like a person with English as a first language. maybe a Nigerian who has moved to SA. for the past 20 years, my company sold and shipped to many foreign countries. stuff was a bit bulky, so we frequently shipped to freight forwarders in miami, nj, texas, etc. cash equiva

[CGUYS] anyone creating mashups with yahoo pipes or...

... google mashup or popfly? What marvelous tools. Would be interested in how you are building, if you are. /gayley -- Gayley Knight Mother Geek Productions Business Her Way * ** List info, subscription management, lis

Re: [CGUYS] Email Scam?

The incorrect grammar and misspellings would be enough to make me suspicious. If he does decide to respond, I'd ask for the money order up front, cash it and then send the artwork (plus shipping to Dallas or wherever). It is also offensive, imo as someone who represented artists over the year

[CGUYS] Email Scam?

My partner has a website advertising his artwork for sale. He received this email Monday. We're trying to ascertain whether this is a real person, & if the offer is legit. There are several aspects that make it sound questionable (moving to South Africa, asking for discounts, taking out the s