Re: [CGUYS] Amazon.com

2008-08-22 Thread chad evans wyatt
Ditto.  Three DVD's last week, no problems. Has anyone tried unsuccessfully placing orders at Amazon.com recently? I'm trying to order a few odds n ends but keep getting errors in Firefox and IE6 - for about two weeks now. I ordered two books yesterday, no problems.

[CGUYS] iPhone competition

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Dunford
The Nokia E71 is getting rave reviews, even when compared directly to iPhone: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/08/22.html http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/207654 http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/05/25/nokia-e71-review/ http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/Nokia_E71.php

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
This was taken right off of his public disclosure form Tom don't be so snide! Stewart At 10:20 PM 8/21/2008, you wrote: You should write a book too. Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-22 Thread mike
Public service should be in quotes... On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only that but Obama's income with his wife for last year was listed as 4.3 million not bad for a guy who has done public service most of his life. You should write a book too.

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone competition

2008-08-22 Thread mike
I read three of the reviews. I'm not sure how this phone can be compared directly to the iPhone. That's not knocking either phone, it's just that they seem to be pointed at different markets. The E71 is marketed towards blackberry users IMO, though like the iPhone the E71 doesn't have push.

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone competition

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Dunford
I really don't see any comparison to the iPhone at all. I guess they are saying that it can do the same stuff, more or less, so if you want iPhone capabilities but (for whatever reason) don't want to an iPhone, this is a good alternative? I don't know, since I don't use either of them. Just

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
This was taken right off of his public disclosure form Tom don't be so snide! I wasn't and I didn't disagree. That sum seems to be about average when somebody in the news writes a book. * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] Amazon.com

2008-08-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
Has anyone tried unsuccessfully placing orders at Amazon.com recently? I'm trying to order a few odds n ends but keep getting errors in Firefox and IE6 - for about two weeks now. I have plcaed several orders in that period. No problems. Is Comcast messing with you? You know you can get great

Re: [CGUYS] Amazon.com

2008-08-22 Thread gerald
i placed and received 2 orders during the past week. i logged a return (broken sink top) and printed the barcode sheet for return. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy,

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-22 Thread mike
Unless yer Nancy Pelosi and you have a hard time selling 8 books. Well more then that...but not much. On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was taken right off of his public disclosure form Tom don't be so snide! I wasn't and I didn't disagree. That

[CGUYS] They're talking about us! g

2008-08-22 Thread Fred Holmes
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Re: [CGUYS] Amazon.com

2008-08-22 Thread Tony B
I'm trying to order 3 small items apparently from 3 different vendors, so maybe that's the problem. But the error Amazon is giving me is less than helpful: We're sorry! An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we're working to resolve the problem as soon as

[CGUYS] Linux - it's not just for breakfast anymore

2008-08-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently been playing with Ubuntu. One thing that really surprised me (which shows how wide eyed naive I am) is how with the Ubuntu boot disk my supposedly secured files in XP are wide open. I can take an external hard drive and copy them over - no problem! I was both pleased and displeased

Re: [CGUYS] Linux - it's not just for breakfast anymore

2008-08-22 Thread mike
You can find lists of flaws in every released OS out there by year or quarter. Mac OS X is not immune to flaws including security ones. I find it very interesting that when all three OS's are put on equal footing inside an enclosed space, and security experts are told they can win gobs of cash

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-22 Thread Larry Sacks
Pelosi wrote 8 books?!?!? Larry -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:48 AM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money... Unless yer Nancy

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
Pelosi wrote 8 books?!?!? Wow. Not bad for a grandma. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

Re: [CGUYS] Amazon.com

2008-08-22 Thread Brian Jones
Make sure that your cookies are enabled properly and security is reasonable. Otherwise, you might just need a good cleanup of your operating system. I managed to order a single item just now, so I know they aren't down entirely. Strange.

Re: [CGUYS] Amazon.com

2008-08-22 Thread Tony B
No, eventually I managed to order 2 of the 3 items individually ($shipping hit!). Apparently there was something wrong with one of the items - maybe it had been discontinued or something. I guess I'll never know because that ridiculously vague error message was no help at all! On Fri, Aug 22,

Re: [CGUYS] Linux - it's not just for breakfast anymore

2008-08-22 Thread Brian Jones
Linux and OSX are daughters of Unix. Unix was not designed with security as a priority... it was designed for speed and efficiency to run on a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP computer that happened to be sitting around without any operating system on it. In graduate school, our instructor

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I doubt I could get that much for writing a book. Stewart At 12:00 PM 8/22/2008, you wrote: I wasn't and I didn't disagree. That sum seems to be about average when somebody in the news writes a book. Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace

Re: [CGUYS] What we actually get for our money...

2008-08-22 Thread Jeff Wright
The United States has the lowest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world. That's effectively subsidizing just about all corporations. You are sadly mistaken if think that there is really any such thing as a corporate tax. Go ahead, raise the corporate tax to 80%. Let us know how much

Re: [CGUYS] Linux - it's not just for breakfast anymore

2008-08-22 Thread John DeCarlo
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Linux and OSX are daughters of Unix. Unix was not designed with security as a priority... Well, Very true about Linux. OTOH, OS X is built on Berkeley Unix, which was designed with security in mind. For years and years,

Re: [CGUYS] Linux - it's not just for breakfast anymore

2008-08-22 Thread mike
Openbsd is considered the real security branch, freebsd which is what darwin is, is more open and has more support. On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:11 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux and OSX are daughters of