Re: [CGUYS] Google Voice

2009-03-13 Thread Jeff Wright
It will be interesting to watch Google terrorize complacent telecom providers. Do you think they will suddenly find they need to manage Google's traffic? This explains why Google quietly changed their position on net neutrality in December, despite PR-numbed statements otherwise.

Re: [CGUYS] Google Voice

2009-03-13 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Eric S. Sande esa...@erols.com wrote: It will be interesting to watch Google terrorize complacent telecom providers. Do you think they will suddenly find they need to manage Google's traffic? Probably not, it really doesn't make sense to be the traffic

Re: [CGUYS] Relinquishing copyright on Wikipedia photo

2009-03-13 Thread b_s-wilk
chad evans wyatt cewyattph...@yahoo.com escribió: ...One of my photos was used in a sweater ad in the Czech Republic, with neither compensation nor attribution. Everyone knows Kafka, right? The Czech courts are very much in that stream. Another image was taken by a small French company to

[CGUYS] March CPCUG General Meeting: Dennis Courtney on Degunking Your Operating System, Sat., Mar. 28, 1:00 pm

2009-03-13 Thread Barbara Conn
-- NOTE: For CPCUG event schedule updates throughout March 2009: http://calendar.cpcug.org/309events.html -- CPCUG General Meeting Saturday, March 28, 2009,

Re: [CGUYS] Windows Mail ???? - switching folders issues

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Drabick
Terry, Thanks, but I know how to sort them in the individual folders. It is when I switch back and forth between the folders that I have problems. When you switch between folders in Seamonkey it takes you to the message you were viewing when you left the folder. Windows Mail takes you to

[CGUYS] MS Office for Mac--Corrupt fonts

2009-03-13 Thread David Turk
A co-worker, who is Mac-based, keeps getting a font is corrupt when opening MS Word for Mac. I had him delete what I thought were the right preferences, but no luck. His Excel hangs on opening, too. Just delete the whole suite re-install? tia. david David Turk Manager, Preservation

[CGUYS] sxsw

2009-03-13 Thread mike
I know this isn't quite a computer topic but it does relate to digital music so.. The South by Southwest music festival takes place soon and this link is to torrents to download almost 6 gigs of music to fill up your ipod...or really cheap player you may regret buying. I got all of it last year

Re: [CGUYS] Can't print -- OS X Leopard

2009-03-13 Thread David K Watson
Have you checked to see if the firmware has been altered? Security measures (including blocking USB ports) are often implemented by making changes in the firmware, and this won't be fixed by wiping the drive and reinstalling OS X. The problem is, if the bank altered the firmware, they likely

Re: [CGUYS] sxsw

2009-03-13 Thread Judy Cosler
what is a 'torrent'??? On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:23 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this isn't quite a computer topic but it does relate to digital music so.. The South by Southwest music festival takes place soon and this link is to torrents to download almost 6 gigs of music to

Re: [CGUYS] What's a torrent? (Was: sxsw)

2009-03-13 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Judy Cosler jfcos...@gmail.com: what is a 'torrent'??? Wikipedia can explain it much than I can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.torrent * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **

Re: [CGUYS] sxsw

2009-03-13 Thread Tom Piwowar
what is a 'torrent'??? She asks innocently. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

Re: [CGUYS] Google Voice

2009-03-13 Thread rleesimon
there's no place to hide anymore ...soon they will link all that to google earth and while speaking on the fone with clients or whatever those people would be able to pinpoint you marching down the block to the strip joint!! -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [CGUYS] Google Voice

2009-03-13 Thread Tom Piwowar
And what is their agenda? And what is their [hidden] agenda? I knew that would get a rise out of you. ;) Is there a connection with the Illuminati? I thought it was the Gomorrah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hky53gXyjX0 * **

Re: [CGUYS] Google Voice

2009-03-13 Thread Tom Piwowar
This explains why Google quietly changed their position on net neutrality in December, despite PR-numbed statements otherwise. This reflects their assessment that the bad guys have won and it is time to sue for peace. Perhaps it is not too late for BHO's new CTO to save the day? One can only

Re: [CGUYS] March CPCUG General Meeting: Dennis Courtney on Degunking Your Operating System, Sat., Mar. 28, 1:00 pm

2009-03-13 Thread rleesimon
will attendees have rights to cpug-degunk.msi version 0.0.0.1 ? ...will there be a standard set for sludge, and further, will a sample of the index sludge be available for distribution ? ...if not, I will volunteer my system as the sludge standard to aspire to !! ...will Tom be paying the drinks

Re: [CGUYS] sxsw

2009-03-13 Thread rleesimon
it is a fast way to download as the file you get comes in multiple parts simultaneously (torrents) and is assembled as it goes along ...in return for that, your part is to let the file be simultaneously uploaded to others who request it ...I do it sometimes ...there are stand alone torrent clients

Re: [CGUYS] sxsw

2009-03-13 Thread rleesimon
torrentially! -Original Message- From: Tom Piwowar [mailto:t...@tjpa.com] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 1:03 PM Subject: Re: sxsw what is a 'torrent'??? She asks innocently. * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] March CPCUG General Meeting: Dennis Courtney on Deg

2009-03-13 Thread Tom Piwowar
will Tom be paying the drinks ? ...any spiked sludge ? Macs lack sludge. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

Re: [CGUYS] Relinquishing copyright on Wikipedia photo

2009-03-13 Thread Tom Piwowar
People sometimes don't respect the ownership of audio/video/arts because often when you pay the distributors, the money doesn't trickle down to the artists. That may not be so in this case, but the bad attitude remains. So creators are finding better means of distribution.

Re: [CGUYS] torrent, was: sxsw

2009-03-13 Thread Fred Holmes
Torrent is a process for defeating the normal throttling (individual bandwidth) of the Internet by downloading [large] files in several (more than one) parallel streams, each individual stream being normally throttled, but the resulting composite stream being Nx faster than a single stream.

[CGUYS] mac towers

2009-03-13 Thread mike
I was looking through the apple store at the new mac towers. I was wondering if anyone knows off hand if the motherboards on the bottom line towers use the same motherboard as the top of the line tower? * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Windows Mail ???? - switching folders issues

2009-03-13 Thread Terry Kilburg
Mike The only way i know of is to flag the message before leaving. Look next to the From column above the simple email headers you will see a flag. The column extends all the way down...left-click in that column next to the message and a flag will appear! Terry Kilburg - Independent Reliv

Re: [CGUYS] Google Voice

2009-03-13 Thread Jeff Wright
BHO's CTO is home on leave pending resolution of the mess in his old DC government office. IS BHO's CTO a BOFH? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member

Re: [CGUYS] MS Office for Mac--Corrupt fonts

2009-03-13 Thread David K Watson
The thing you tried will not work if a font is in fact corrupt, and reinstalling Office may not fix it either. To check for corrupt fonts, open the Font Book application, select all the fonts and use the Validate Fonts selection under the File menu. Also, drag the Fonts folder from the Office

Re: [CGUYS] MS Office for Mac--Corrupt fonts

2009-03-13 Thread David Turk
Thanks! David Turk Manager, Preservation Imaging Indiana Historical Society 450 W. Ohio St. Indianapolis, IN 46202 dt...@indianahistory.org From: Computer Guys Discussion List [computerguy...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of David K Watson

Re: [CGUYS] MS Office for Mac--Corrupt fonts

2009-03-13 Thread db
If you validate the fonts, what happens when you validate corrupt fonts. They get repaired or identified as needing to be replaced? db David K Watson wrote: The thing you tried will not work if a font is in fact corrupt, and reinstalling Office may not fix it either. To check for corrupt

[CGUYS] Windows Media Player sound

2009-03-13 Thread Tourbus Rider Stuart Carlow
Sometimes when playing a .wmv file using Windows Media Player 11, I get no sound at all (although if I play the same file using VLC media player the sound works fine).? And sometimes I do get sound.? Any solutions to this puzzle so that audio will always work?? Thanks in advance. --Stu

Re: [CGUYS] Windows Media Player sound

2009-03-13 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Update codecs. Stewart At 08:16 PM 3/13/2009, you wrote: Sometimes when playing a .wmv file using Windows Media Player 11, I get no sound at all (although if I play the same file using VLC media player the sound works fine).? And sometimes I do get sound.? Any solutions to this puzzle so

Re: [CGUYS] mac towers

2009-03-13 Thread b_s-wilk
I was looking through the apple store at the new mac towers. I was wondering if anyone knows off hand if the motherboards on the bottom line towers use the same motherboard as the top of the line tower? They look the same. See for yourself: http://www.apple.com/macpro/design.html

Re: [CGUYS] Windows Media Player sound

2009-03-13 Thread Eric S. Sande
Sometimes when playing a .wmv file using Windows Media Player 11, I get no sound at all (although if I play the same file using VLC media player the sound works fine).? And sometimes I do get sound.? Any solutions to this puzzle so that audio will always work?? Thanks in advance. --Stu Any

Re: [CGUYS] Google Voice

2009-03-13 Thread Eric S. Sande
I thought it was the Gomorrah. (the video) Inefficient. A waste of human capital based on a bad business model. Looks like the Mexican drug wars. But I guess that was your point? * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] Google Voice

2009-03-13 Thread mike
If I'm not mistaken, google has brought this topic up before several years ago. On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote: This explains why Google quietly changed their position on net neutrality in December, despite PR-numbed statements otherwise.