Re: [CGUYS] Apple's Mobile Mess

2008-07-26 Thread mike
Macbreak weekly 98 had Merlin Mann nearly beside himself and going on a tear about Apple's crappy migration. At one point he admitted he no longer felt comfortable slamming MS as he had the last fifteen years because clearly things got more difficult for companies when scaling was involved. Leo

Re: [CGUYS] Apple's Mobile Mess

2008-07-26 Thread b_s-wilk
I dumped Dot Mac when they started charging for services that I could get free from Yahoo or elsewhere. .Mac was slow and not particularly reliable. MobileMe is not up to prime time either. More about MobileMe's failure to launch: MobileMe Fails to Launch Well, But Finally Launches,

[CGUYS] Ripping off American consumers [was Re: T-Mobile?]

2008-07-26 Thread b_s-wilk
I think the 7-11 SpeakOut phone service uses Rogers in Canada. Canada does not have as big a problem as we do as they have less vendors covering their cell phones. (Rogers and Bell are the two biggest if I remember) Plus we pay more for our cell phone coverage because we get discounts on our

Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)

2008-07-26 Thread Tom Piwowar
top-post Oh no! You won't get me to argue top vs bottom posting. Might as well join the battle of big-endians vs. little-endians. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy,

Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)

2008-07-26 Thread Brian Jones
Original Message - From: Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE) Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all been taught to read from the top of the page to the bottom of page. Please clarify... am I bottom quoting or top

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-26 Thread Brian Jones
- Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CGUYS] esata I just hooked up a new 500 gig esata II drive to my vista 64 box. I have the correct driver installed but the drive isn't showing up in the list for drives available to be safely removed. Am I missing a

Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)

2008-07-26 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message - From: Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE) Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all been taught to read from the top of the page to

Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)

2008-07-26 Thread Eric S. Sande
Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all been taught to read from the top of the page to the bottom of page. Please clarify... am I bottom quoting or top quoting in this message? Top quoting. See how this flow thing works? :-)

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-26 Thread mike
Unlike PATA, both SATA and eSATA are designed to support hot-swapping. However, this feature requires proper support at the host, device (drive), and operating-system level. In general, all SATA/devices (drives) support hot-swapping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-swapping (due to the

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-26 Thread Fred Holmes
SATA is just a new way of attaching fixed drives. E-SATA is an external connection that is shielded (uses shielded cable), while internal SATA connections are unshielded. While in principle, one could make such connections removable (or whatever), I don't think it is done by default. Is