Re: [CGUYS] Win7 walk-through

2008-11-05 Thread Jeff Wright
On the other hand, if W7 is working as well as you say, it strengthens the suspicion that W7 is just Vista warmed over. Um, even MS has said that Win7 isn't anything but a vastly improved Vista. That's kinda, sorta, ya know, why it looks like it. We still patch, patch, patch. By this

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread betty
I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox folder is empty. ...snip... 2) You should never allow any antivirus program to mess with your

Re: [CGUYS] Comcast internet speed question

2008-11-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
That is the one thing that disappoints me lately. Sites that have not kept up. with the bandwidth. Stewart At 07:48 AM 11/5/2008, you wrote: We have basic DSL. It's fast enough for viewing and downloading most files. For Netflix streaming movies, we have to wait for buffering about 15

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
This is the best argument I've seen for avoiding Apple's Mail program--the data structure is complicated, as in OE. It's not so complicated in Mozilla's Thunderbird, so fewer things are likely to go wrong. I dumped Apple Mail ages ago after using it for only a couple of weeks. Went back and

Re: [CGUYS] Comcast internet speed question

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Sure you'll like the faster speed, but I hate the outrageous price for higher speed. If I hadn't been places with 15-20Mbs service for $30 I wouldn't be so annoyed, but I can wait for more reasonable prices. Good point and prices will not come down if sheeps pay big bucks for what costs the

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
What version changed the way they do it? I have simply gone into the right directory and restored mailboxes in Outlook with out a problem. having sid that I do not use it and prefer Eudora, the old Eudora not the new one. Stewart At 09:11 AM 11/5/2008, you wrote: Not fair and not

Re: [CGUYS] comcast internet speed question

2008-11-05 Thread rlsimon
I got the 768 option and can change it upward if I'm not satisfied ...the price is too good! ...thanks for the good advice from everyone! -Original Message- From: Rev. Stewart Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:33 PM Subject: Re: comcast internet speed

[CGUYS] terabyte

2008-11-05 Thread rlsimon
If I buy a 1tb external usb drive, will it have the same 120gb limit due to my motherboard or what? If yes, then I would hafta divide it up into many partitions? My internal drive is a 160gb pata drive which had2 have 40gb partitioned off to see it. There's a 2nd hdd internal slot open ...if I

Re: [CGUYS] terabyte

2008-11-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Two solutions (really three) 1.) Partition it up into 120 GB partitions and have 8 120 and one smaller (maybe you will not get a full 1TB but maybe 960 GB) 2.) Use an overlay program which will allow your computer to see the full drive. 3.) Buy a controller card that will allow you

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
One of the reasons I like the old Eudora (7.1) Recently I had a major failure on my desktop system. I ran something stupid and it corrupted my C: drive. Since I had recently upgraded my drives I still had my old drive handy. Not having time to get to it, I got the old drive and attached it

Re: [CGUYS] terabyte

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
If I buy a 1tb external usb drive, will it have the same 120gb limit due to my motherboard or what? No it will not. An external drive comes with its own disk controller in the drive's box. You are not using the controller on your motherboard so those limits do not apply. However, you OS may

Re: [CGUYS] New Chip Technology Poses Threat to Homeland Securi

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
http://www.infopackets.com/news/government/2008/20081103_new_chip_technol ogy_poses_threat_to_homeland_security.htm Several months ago we had this discussion about the problems with RFID in passports. Looks like RSA Labs has now discovered what was obvious to us back then. Maybe RSA should be

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
I have simply gone into the right directory and restored mailboxes in Outlook with out a problem. Nobody mentioned Outlook and with so many flavors of Outlook out there I don't have a clue about which Outlook you are referring to. Anyone want to clue us in to the formats various Outlooks use

Re: [CGUYS] terabyte

2008-11-05 Thread John DeCarlo
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I buy a 1tb external usb drive, will it have the same 120gb limit due to my motherboard or what? No it will not. An external drive comes with its own disk controller in the drive's box. You are not using the controller

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Thanks, David, I rebuilt the individual account inboxes and the ghosts vanished instantaneously! Gosh, that was simple! Why didn't I think of expanding the Inbox?! Alvin On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:43 AM, David K Watson wrote: You are right that you can't rebuild the inbox. However, expand

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Michael, Thanks for the ideas. I tried the previous suggestion first (from David K. Watson) and it worked. Alvin On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:46 AM, Michael Lewis wrote: Alvin Auerbach sez: Mathew, Thanks for the idea, but when I try to move the messages, they just bounce back to the Inbox.

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Tom, Thanks for your suggestions. I'll turn off ClamXav. David K Watson sez: You are right that you can't rebuild the inbox. However, expand the inbox (click on the right-pointing triangle next to the inbox) and you should be able to rebuild each of the single account inboxes under the main

Re: [CGUYS] terabyte

2008-11-05 Thread b_s-wilk
Buy a PCI controller card. The new bus won't have the same size limit as the old one. My old Mac's internal bus limits drives to 128GB. The new card allowed me to use the 250GB drive internally instead of in an external case. If it's a PC, make sure it has adequate ventilation/fan. Might be

Re: [CGUYS] terabyte

2008-11-05 Thread Fred Holmes
It is the interface (SATA or PATA) physically in the external drive case that determines what the computer sees when it looks at the hard drive in the external case (unless you are exceeding the limit of the OS). If it is a newly manufactured external case, you should have no problem. But if

Re: [CGUYS] terabyte

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Buy a PCI controller card If I buy a 1tb external usb drive, Hey folks, this is a question about an *external* drive. You keep providing answers for *internal* drives. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] terabyte

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
In fact, I saw a recent article on this. Infoworld or CNET or something. The writer went back to his original XP disc to reinstall on the new 1 TB drive. Apparently, the original XP could not see anything bigger than 120GB or so. So he had to create a slipstreamed XP disk with SP 2 on it. That

Re: [CGUYS] Help! Apple Mail Ghosts

2008-11-05 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Betty, Thanks for your suggestions. This is the first time that I've had such a problem. I'll try Thunderbird when I have some time. Have you backed up your email files this month? week? ever? I use Time Machine, so backups are made every hour. Do you know where the preference/data files

Re: [CGUYS] Odd Time Stamp Problem

2008-11-05 Thread Quentin A. Fisher
Allen - You are exactly right; and MS's support forums show a lot of queries on this bizarre piece of engineering! Question - Can I use convert.exe in Vista to make the WD external drive an NTFS? Will it save my data? The drive is about 2/3 full. Thanks Quentin Fisher Bethesda, MD From: