Re: [CGUYS] Drive Image Backup

2009-07-21 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Tony B wrote: Alas, for daily backups the app MUST be able to keep x number of images, and delete the old ones. This is very tricky for apps to do, and I'm unaware of a freeware app that will do it. Even Acronis wouldn't do it last I tried it. Well if you had a

Re: [CGUYS] Drive Image Backup

2009-07-21 Thread Q. Fisher
I have been using Acronis for daily incremental back-up (not the same as drive imaging) for my data folders. It is convenient and fully automatic, but has a substantial disadvantage. You cannot groom the files to selectively eliminate older versions, so the backup disk eventually fills up with

Re: [CGUYS] Drive Image Backup

2009-07-21 Thread mike
If he had a billion dollars he could just hire little chinese kids to make copies of his drives by hand with crochet needles and silk. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:15 AM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Well if you had a Mac, either Carbon Copy Cloner (free) or SuperDuper (free or $28) will make

Re: [CGUYS] Drive Image Backup

2009-07-21 Thread Fred Holmes
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ BootItNG and other products. At 11:23 PM 7/20/2009, Ari M. Goldberg wrote: Has anyone used anything else besides Norton Ghost to perform backup images of a single desktop? A quick search took me to a product called Clonezilla and some other free Open Source

Re: [CGUYS] Drive Image Backup

2009-07-21 Thread Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.
I have been using a product for years to clone hard drives successfully- have not been happy with Acronis or Ghost. This one is simple- it copies partitions or drives- period. EaseUs DiskCopy 1.0 Eschew Obfuscation This is a reply from: Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.

Re: [CGUYS] WFB's Hatred of Apple Knows No Bounds

2009-07-21 Thread rleesimon
Wow...I live in the land of the goombas ...where can I get one of those? -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:xha...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:10 PM Subject: Re: WFB's Hatred of Apple Knows No Bounds I think your headline should be more like 'rabid apple user goes

Re: [CGUYS] CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L robert.hol...@gmail.com

2009-07-21 Thread Robert Holzer
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Re: [CGUYS] Drive Image Backup

2009-07-21 Thread t.piwowar
I have used SecondCopy (http://www.centered.com/) to get this kind of incremental backup. Of course SecondCopy is not the fancy, enterprise- level product as Acronis, but it can certainly handle needs like you describe with no frustration. On Jul 21, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Q. Fisher wrote: I

[CGUYS] Foxconn employee suicide [CGUYS] WFB's Hatred of Apple Knows No Bounds

2009-07-21 Thread mike
http://shanghaiist.com/2009/07/21/foxconn_employee_committed_suicide_1.php I can't say that anyone over at MS or their contractors ever lost their life over leaked zune stuff. Imagine the headline from Tom if this was MS...

Re: [CGUYS] Drive Image Backup

2009-07-21 Thread Jeff Wright
I have used SecondCopy (http://www.centered.com/) to get this kind of incremental backup. Of course SecondCopy is not the fancy, enterprise-level product as Acronis, but it can certainly handle needs like you describe with no frustration. Excepting that SecondCopy isn't imaging software as

Re: [CGUYS] WFB's Hatred of Apple Knows No Bounds

2009-07-21 Thread Jeff Wright
Oh look! Another hateful WFB: http://www.cio.com/article/497443/Apple_Secrets_Lead_to_The_Great_iPhone_Chase_?page=2taxonomyId=1436 http://tinyurl.com/m385g3 --- I think your headline should be more like 'rabid apple user goes nutball' since he is an

[CGUYS] Hp Hulk Monitor

2009-07-21 Thread One Man
The display on the monitor of my hp pavilion f1703 running windoze xp has transformed its insipid blue background to hulk green.  Anything I can do or is it time to buy a new monitor, preferable made my macintosh? ;)  With thanks in advance ...

Re: [CGUYS] Hp Hulk Monitor

2009-07-21 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
And another one bites the dust. Stewart At 05:18 PM 7/21/2009, you wrote: The display on the monitor of my hp pavilion f1703 running windoze xp has transformed its insipid blue background to hulk green. Anything I can do or is it time to buy a new monitor, preferable made my macintosh? ;)

Re: [CGUYS] Hp Hulk Monitor

2009-07-21 Thread Tony B
I'd certainly want to swap monitors before I declared that one dead. I mean, it could also be a bad cable or video card. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:18 PM, One Manone911...@yahoo.com wrote: The display on the monitor of my hp pavilion f1703 running windoze xp has transformed its insipid blue

Re: [CGUYS] Hp Hulk Monitor

2009-07-21 Thread Judy Cosler
so, how does swapping monitors help if it's a bad cable or video card??? On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote: I'd certainly want to swap monitors before I declared that one dead. I mean, it could also be a bad cable or video card. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:18 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] Hp Hulk Monitor

2009-07-21 Thread Tony B
Careful swapping will narrow the problem down. If he disconnects the cable at the back of the monitor and puts another monitor right there, and if it looks good, then it's a bad monitor. If it's still green, it may be the video card. Or his video control panel (the Nvidia control panel allows you

Re: [CGUYS] Hp Hulk Monitor

2009-07-21 Thread Stephen Brownfield
By swapping monitors with one you know works, you will then be able to tell if the problem is the monitor or something else. If the monitor works fine it is the monitor problem. If you still have the problem it is something else like the cable or video card. Judy Cosler wrote: so, how

Re: [CGUYS] Hp Hulk Monitor

2009-07-21 Thread rleesimon
It's obviously the dreaded green virus ...a plot by treehuggers to force hp to become green in every sense of the word!! -Original Message- From: One Man [mailto:one911...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:18 PM Subject: Hp Hulk Monitor The display on the monitor of my hp

Re: [CGUYS] WFB's Hatred of Apple Knows No Bounds

2009-07-21 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
The best quote on Apple people I have read in a while is this strips punchline- http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2324 On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote: Oh look! Another hateful WFB:

Re: [CGUYS] need help with wifi problem in a large art center

2009-07-21 Thread cindy brandt
Tom, Very interesting suggestions. I will forward your suggestions to the wifi contractor who has not yet had a chance to come to our site to check out the problems. Would the interference just affect the connection without affecting the signal strength? We do have some welders in the

[CGUYS] possible hacked web page

2009-07-21 Thread cindy brandt
Just by luck we just found some strange code on the bottom of the index page html on my web page. It starts like this but then goes on and on and on: dd4font style=position: absolute;overflow: hidden;height: 0;width: 080rfskihhr6a

[CGUYS] Build from scratch [was: Switching, and why]

2009-07-21 Thread b_s-wilk
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Re: [CGUYS] Switching, and why

2009-07-21 Thread b_s-wilk
From:t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com Do I get you right, you are saying that there is nowhere for Windows to go but down? An increasing number of people switching from PCs to Macs doesn't necessarily mean that Microsoft market share will decrease in the same proportion when you consider that

Re: [CGUYS] Build from scratch [was: Switching, and why]

2009-07-21 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:16 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: You think you can build a mac from scratch? Do you solder your own motherboards? There are configurations of standard PC hardware that will run MacOSX5. http://www.adrenaldesign.com/blog/09/07/11/hackintosh-hardware-list