Re: [CGUYS] DVI vs VGA [was: LCD Monitor and color fringing]

To me it would be a limitation of the video drivers to set the proper resolution. I actually have my 19" Samsung set at a larger resolution (1024x768) than it's native and it is far clearer in that resolution than it is in the native resolution (1280x960). Stewart At 10:50 PM 7/22/2008, yo

Re: [CGUYS] DVI vs VGA [was: LCD Monitor and color fringing]

At 10:57 PM -0400 7/22/08, Tom Piwowar wrote: >Get a video card with a digital output, and use the digital cable to connect the LCD monitor to the video card. The color fringing is almost certainly caused in the part of the circuitry where the signal is analog.  Could even be caused by a poor

Re: [CGUYS] LCD Monitor and color fringing

> This is a 24" monitor. My wife's computer with a 20" monitor doesn't do > this. Any relation? I don't know what the problem is, but I can tell you that I also have a Dell 24" Ultrasharp, and there's no color fringing. I like it a lot. ***

Re: [CGUYS] LCD Monitor and color fringing

>Get a video card with a digital output, and use the digital cable to >connect the LCD monitor to the video card. The color fringing is almost >certainly caused in the part of the circuitry where the signal is analog. >Could even be caused by a poor quality analog (VGA) video cable. I am surp

Re: [CGUYS] LCD Monitor and color fringing

Swap them and see what happens if it occurs on her computer it is the monitor does not check the video card. Do you have the latest drivers installed? have you optimized the card for your display? Stewart At 09:36 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. However, I actually tried

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

>Are you really trying to say that you have never, in >your vast experience, come across the acronym FUD >or any of the many things Microsoft has done that >this label has been applied to? Are you implying that Windows is the preferred platform for the grossly uninformed? I certainly hope not. Th

Re: [CGUYS] LCD Monitor and color fringing

Thanks for the suggestion. However, I actually tried it both ways (VGA and digital), with no recognizable difference. I am using the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 video card, so digital support should be pretty good. This is a 24" monitor. My wife's computer with a 20" monitor doesn't do this. Any rela

Re: [CGUYS] LCD Monitor and color fringing

Get a video card with a digital output, and use the digital cable to connect the LCD monitor to the video card. The color fringing is almost certainly caused in the part of the circuitry where the signal is analog. Could even be caused by a poor quality analog (VGA) video cable. Fred Holmes

[CGUYS] LCD Monitor and color fringing

I recently bought a Dell "Ultrasharp" color monitor and have been surprised ( = disappointed) at its tendency to put red or green fringes around high contrast areas, most notably black text. My older CRT seemd to give a much sharper and accurate image. Is this normal behavior for a n LCD monito

Re: [CGUYS] Recovering lost Word file

With Word 2007, the folder is C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\Word One correction to my response is if he chose not to save the file when exiting Word, it seems there is nothing to recover. If he closed Word with Task Manager, then the Autosave (or AutoRecover) information

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 4: Price competitiveness

Personally I've never thought macs in general as 'too expensive', just too expensive for me. With their increase in market share, their obvious success, they are not priced too high. But with their margins, increase in market share, price reductions could keep sending Apple up the market share la

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 4: Price competitiveness

Now you're talking. COBOL is THE pure essence of computers :-) -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David K Watson Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:41 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: [CGUYS] Macs in business...tak

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

I really have. I can't recall any marketing from MS implying or saying outright what Tom says. On the other hand, in a humorous way, Apple is spreading FUD about MS with their new ads. Seriously, show me, I'll recant gladly if there is some example of MS marketing doing this. Mike On Tue, Jul

Re: [CGUYS] Recovering lost Word file

Any chance said client is working in a network'd environment and only searched the local hard drives? Could the file be on an external drive and the drive isn't mapped or connected to the system? When was the last time he accessed the file? If it's recently, Word should have it in the list of

[CGUYS] Macs in business...take 4: Price competitiveness

Speaking of debating ploys, another good one is to change the subject. :-) After Strong Quarter, Apple Signals Changes in Its Prices "...Apple executives hinted during a conference call about Apple’s third-quarter

Re: [CGUYS] Recovering lost Word file

There is also a directory in which temp files produced by autosave get placed. I think this directory is specified in the registry, the last time I had to figure this out I googled. Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Chris Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] Recovering lost Word file

Can we assume that he looked in Recent Documents and in Word's list of recently opened files? > I refer to a client who lost a Word file. He said that he either did > not save them correctly or misplaced his edited version since he can > no longer find it. **

Re: [CGUYS] Recovering lost Word file

Files also disappear due to hard disk errors. No big deal, she can just recover it from backup. But she should run chkdsk manually and if she sees a lot of errors I'd consider replacing that drive. Windows Desktop search in Vista is probably equivalent to Google Desktop Search, depending on what i

[CGUYS] Recovering lost Word file

I refer to a client who lost a Word file. He said that he either did not save them correctly or misplaced his edited version since he can no longer find it. I do not know what Word version. I assume that it is a Windows computer. The client added that he did a desktop search using a Google sear

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

Are you really trying to say that you have never, in your vast experience, come across the acronym FUD or any of the many things Microsoft has done that this label has been applied to? I'm not saying you should believe all of those things, though some are quite believable. I am just wondering if

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

That is pretty much the trend on all computers Windows or Mac. Stewart At 05:18 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote: Macintosh portable computers outsold desktop units by almost 2 to 1. Steve Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Mac sales up by a whopping 41% year over year. Macintosh portable computers outsold desktop units by almost 2 to 1. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, lis

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

> Microsoft has been very effective at marketing by fear. Their message > is that deviating from their products will make you an outcast. Your > computer will break, nobody will be able to read your files, and > everything sent to you will be gibberish. Which ads were those? I do remember some a

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.0 bug or bad "feature"

John, Your comments gave me something to think about (yeah I should have done it before posting here) The cut and paste password problem is only with the new Firefox 3.0 and 3.0.1 MS IS 6.0 still works file. QuickBooks still works fine. I tested it some more. To make a long story short, it

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

iPhone sales may be up but what does the raw data say? Some percentage of that number are people who are buying the latest "Cool" thing from Apple. For instance, there was a story (I can't find it right now to cite the reference) of someone who bought an iPhone 1.0 two days after they were first

Re: [CGUYS] Google Maps slow or stopped?

What? Of his office building? :-) -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rev. Stewart Marshall Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:04 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Google Maps slow or stopped? You want to s

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

I call BS on this post. Major. Give us that commercial Tom, that ad in the monthly pc mag...something, back this shtuff up once. Mike On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Microsoft has been very effective at marketing by fear. Their message is > that de

Re: [CGUYS] Google Maps slow or stopped?

You want to share those coordinates so we can all try? :-) Stewart At 02:53 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote: Nice and clear. I can even count the windows in my office building. I only get blocked when I zoom in on the nude beach. Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace Oz

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.0 History

That might be a viable option and I'll look into it. For the moment, I've turned off all history which seems to have resolved the issue. Richard P. Most people run FF with "Always clear my private data when I close FireFox" enabled. Won't this suffice for you? *

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

At 02:47 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote: Date:Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:17:07 -0400 From:Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor and everything sent to you will be gibberish. Ah Ha!, Now I know why a lot of what I read on CG is gibberish. Because it was

Re: [CGUYS] Google Maps slow or stopped?

>Thanks for checking, but did you try Satellite mode? >No matter what zoom level I try, it gives me the we don't have that zoom >level message. Nice and clear. I can even count the windows in my office building. I only get blocked when I zoom in on the nude beach. *

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.0 History

In regard to your points 1, 2, 3: Agreed. As for 4, for the future, I'll advise them to use separate accounts to insure some semblance of privacy. I didn't know this was an advertised feature. My last paragraph was in reference to the other issue I had with FF3.0 in regards to browser links in

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

> iPhone sales up by a whopping 300% year over year. And exactly how many years has the iPhone been selling? Tom has never met a 2 data point, straight line trend that he didn't like. > Not bad during a major recession. Sez who?

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.0 History

>Has anyone else seen this? Firefox's "improvements" and "undocumented >features" are starting to make Internet Explorer look like a better >choice :-( Most people run FF with "Always clear my private data when I close FireFox" enabled. Won't this suffice for you?

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.0 History

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Richard P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I start typing an address in Firefox 3.0, it not only displays > previously visited websites, but divulges detailed information about what > the site was used for. For instance, a previous user used Firefox to log > into

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

>Or, like me, happy with what they have and see no need to go to another >platform. Mac sales up by a whopping 41% year over year. iPhone sales up by a whopping 300% year over year. Not bad during a major recession. iPod sales up by a 12% year over year. Not bad for a market considered "saturated

[CGUYS] Firefox 3.0 History

When I start typing an address in Firefox 3.0, it not only displays previously visited websites, but divulges detailed information about what the site was used for. For instance, a previous user used Firefox to log into their work's webmail and now each of their email's heading is displayed for

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

I was not talking about people happy with windows. I did not mean to imply that fear is all that holds people to windows. I have seen "windows-happy" people (not on this list) who have not seen another OS in many years (or ever). They fear os x - and even new versions of windows. Thank you,

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

BUT you're just saying that because you're afraid to go to Mac. Admit it. You're afraid, aren't you?!?!?? :-j :-P -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Wright Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:37 AM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

Or, like me, happy with what they have and see no need to go to another platform. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are still Windows users who actually fear anything else. > **

Re: [CGUYS] The blessed ones [and more Eeepc info]

I think it is blue-toothless. Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org --- On Tue, 7/22/08, db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] The blessed ones [and more Eeepc info] > To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 11

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

They got pretty close to that in DOS and early versions of windows. Macs had little trouble with files from MS, but MS had trouble reading files formatted for MS. There are still Windows users who actually fear anything else. Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- This reminds me

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

Hmmm, I don't recall seeing that commercial. Are you sure you aren't confusing it with the Microsoft Corp in your head? On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Steve, good point. I agree that getting someone to switch from one thing > to > >another is genera

Re: [CGUYS] Google Maps slow or stopped?

Thanks for checking, but did you try Satellite mode? No matter what zoom level I try, it gives me the we don't have that zoom level message. Tony B wrote: Working real snappy here. Try clearing your browser cache. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has any

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 3: Fear Factor

>Steve, good point. I agree that getting someone to switch from one thing to >another is generally difficult. That's where Microsoft makes their money. >Microsoft Office is a good example - I run into businesses that say they >don't like Office that much, but they have to have it for compatibilit

Re: [CGUYS] The blessed ones [and more Eeepc info]

The folding Palm infrared keyboard is quite nice to type on but the infrared would rule it out. Other manufacturers make blue tooth... does the eepc have that? db Constance Warner wrote: I tried a full-size folding USB plug-in keyboard and it worked, but the more gear you have to carry a

Re: [CGUYS] bugmenot

>You are correct, but no these types of bozos haven't disappeared yet. Bozos like the Washington Post. It is sad that the best newspaper in the area has such backward online management. All that Post seems to be able to do these days is round after round of staff cuts.

Re: [CGUYS] bugmenot

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bugmenot doesn't store your personal > logins now, does it? I use it to log in to the odd site that still > demands logins just to read a blurb, but those have mostly disappeared > in the last couple years. You are correct, but no these types of bozos haven't disappe

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 2

On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:33 PM, John DeCarlo wrote: I wasn't arguing that if you offered someone a free Mac but said they could never use Windows again, that they would switch immediately. My point was that while there are people afraid to switch or just don't have the time to learn something

[CGUYS] bugmenot

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bugmenot doesn't store your personal logins now, does it? I use it to log in to the odd site that still demands logins just to read a blurb, but those have mostly disappeared in the last couple years. Maybe it's just that sites now offer enough incentive to log in, or

Re: [CGUYS] The blessed ones [and more Eeepc info]

Those flexible keyboards don't really allow touch typing. I've tried to use one in a situation where it would be nice to have a really water proof keyboard but it wasn't good for much more than hunt and peck. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Constance Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried