Re: [CGUYS] Gulag?

2009-11-26 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:44 PM, betty b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: Unlike people who are captured and forced into slavery, the high tech workers choose that for themselves because they're too proud, short-sighted, uninformed, disconnected, to organize. Hotel workers organized and improved their

Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia

2009-11-26 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Richard P. richs...@gmail.com wrote: Some argue that Wikipedia’s troubles represent a new phase for the internet. Maybe, as some believe, the website has become part of the establishment that it was supposed to change. Were Twitter, Facebook, or Myspace

[CGUYS] Moto droid by Andy ihnatko

2009-11-26 Thread mike
suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/1867831,ihnatko-verizon-droid-iphone-110509.article Good review/comparison of the new moto droid with the usual comparisons to the iPhone. * ** List info, subscription management, list

[CGUYS] Maybe Now the Feds Will Pay Attention to Cybercrime?

2009-11-26 Thread tjpa
Terror Attacks Now Funded Mostly by Online Fraud http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=183952f_src=ieupdate * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a

Re: [CGUYS] online storage --HIJACKED!!

2009-11-26 Thread mike
Carbonite works with Apple so I expect you to be dropping apple of course. On Nov 3, 2009 11:48 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:47 PM, mike wrote: BTW, lemme know when you stop using Apple products sinc... Details please.

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

2009-11-26 Thread tjpa
On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:39 PM, John Emmerling wrote: This is arguably irrelevant. How many years ago was XP released? You can reasonably expect a version of any operation system from that far back in history to run faster than the latest version because the latest version assumes up-to-date

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of flash drives

2009-11-26 Thread tjpa
On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:56 PM, mike wrote: Hang on I gotta throw up a little after this propaganda piece. You live on another planet. It is a dark and dangerous place where everyone preys on everyone. * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

2009-11-26 Thread tjpa
On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:17 PM, mike wrote: Again your ignorance is showing. Ten years eh? Laporte has been at it longer and fits your criteria of MFB so his reviews are pretty solid. Keep dancing. Laporte is not on my list of smartest guys. After listening to a few of his shows I hit

Re: [CGUYS] Apple fixes your wagon...and yours

2009-11-26 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
How many software companies have done the same thing? I can think of a few that come to mind. It is called Ethics which there are few of left in American business. Stewart At 08:13 AM 11/3/2009, you wrote: M$ took a different business tack in the early 1980's. Bill's motto was Knife the

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

2009-11-26 Thread mike
Where are they fighting losing control of their hardware in respect to how you are framing it? Psystar is not a threat to compatibility, who cares if they are compatible, it's a threat to Apple's money making machine, the hardware. And I don't say that in a negative way, of course any company is

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of flash drives

2009-11-26 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Than where do I shop? The local Walmart supports all the community activities there are[, plus gives back thousands and thousands of dollars to our community. Plus they employee a large number of folks from the community. Don't support the one business in town that gives a huge amount back

Re: [CGUYS] Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear

2009-11-26 Thread David K Watson
According to what I've read, part of the impression that Win7 is faster than XP and Vista is a hangover from the fact that many of the Win7 betas really were faster because they were more streamlined. That stopped being the case as Win7 moved closer to RC status and MS started adding back more

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of flash drives

2009-11-26 Thread Constance Warner
As far as I can see, you're pretty much stuck. If you live in a place where Walmart is the only place to buy stuff, you buy stuff there. In the town next to my uncle's farm, for example, there are no grocery stores or clothing stores, so everyone goes to Walmart, 30 miles away. Many of

Re: [CGUYS] Please Help! Scores (maybe hundreds) of emails have disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox

2009-11-26 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Not unless you are running the penelope extension. Stewart At 09:38 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote: Thunderbird does this too I believe On Oct 28, 2009 7:22 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Score another one for Eudora. Stewart At 10:04 PM 10/28/2009, you wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread Tony B
Sounds perplexing to me too. But of course I have no idea what type of 'mirroring tool' you're using, or how it handles duplicate, private, or open files. And you should still have explorer set to hide system files, so maybe that accounts for the 'ghosts'. Even more perplexing to me is why you

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread mike
I said I wasn't using any tool. These files were moved by hand. I wrongly muddied the issue by bringing up the two drives, this is the context in which I found the problem. So I'll restart to be clear. I have a drive in which when I manually open folder XYZ it shows me 13 files. When I get

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread Tony B
Hidden files may be shown, but system files shouldn't be. IMHO, anyway. You can enable showing them, but it's probably not a good idea for most people. ANyway, if they were hidden they shouldn't be counted anyway.? You sure can't use windows explorer or perl scripts to do decent comparisons; what

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: I wrongly muddied the issue by bringing up the two drives, this is the context in which I found the problem. So I'll restart to be clear. I have a drive in which when I manually open folder XYZ it shows me 13 files. When I get properties on the folder it says

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread mike
That's why I emailed the list...to remind me of any brain farts I may have had. I hadn't checked to show hidden system files. Thar she blows. I have a file .onetoc2 all over the place on this drive. Apparently this belongs to an office app. Why would this be a hidden SYSTEM file let alone a

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread Tony B
And this still doesn't answer the question why your properties is counting these hidden system files. Mine certainly isn't. I mean, assuming I have an extra desktop.ini in virtually every folder, it's not showing up in my file counts. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:29 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] microsoft pays to pla...er screw us

2009-11-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:08 AM, mike wrote: Well it's not a dirty trick, friend of mine on irc said it was unethical. It's not either, it's paying for a job to get done. But as I said, they are just screwing users in the end. I figured your moral sense would not be up to perceiving that it

Re: [CGUYS] outlook 2003 bcc question

2009-11-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Andy Gallant wrote: I want the received TO field to be empty. But, when I send BCCs only and leave TO (and CC) empty, somehow the received messages show the TO field filled in with the same value as the FROM field. This happens inside Outlook and that's not

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread Fred Holmes
Are the hidden files some sort of deleted files in some sort of hidden trash folder? But still being counted as existing because they are there and are recognized by the OS? Fred Holmes At 02:40 AM 11/26/2009, mike wrote: I've got two drives I should have been using a mirroring tool

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread Fred Holmes
.onetoc2 sounds like an indexing file. Fred Holmes At 02:29 PM 11/26/2009, mike wrote: That's why I emailed the list...to remind me of any brain farts I may have had. I hadn't checked to show hidden system files. Thar she blows. I have a file .onetoc2 all over the place on this drive.

Re: [CGUYS] two drives, two folders, two results.

2009-11-26 Thread Fred Holmes
IIRC, desktop.ini exists only if certain features of the OS have been enabled (which features have their options recorded in desktop.ini). The drive isn't full of empty desktop.ini files. One of the features that uses desktop.ini is specialty icons for explicit folders. Fred Holmes At 02:55

Re: [CGUYS] Gulag?

2009-11-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Tony B wrote: Around here it's got nothing to do with extra hours. It's construction jobs being lost to 'Mexicans' (anyone that speaks spanish). I've heard it from both sides though - the employers complain the local guys just won't show up on time consistently (or

Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia

2009-11-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Nov 25, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: That is what Fox and the rest of the denier community wants you to think, but it is not at all what the emails said. Unfortunately, this isn't the right place to discuss it. Fortunately Fox and the WSJ are soon to be walled off from reality

[CGUYS] Apple Magic Mouse

2009-11-26 Thread t.piwowar
I just got to spend a day with a new Mac with the new Magic Mouse. It only took a few minutes to get used to operating the screen by gliding my fingers across its surface. Today I'm back to using an Apple Mighty Mouse and I must say I'm annoyed. The Magic Mouse makes computing so much

Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia

2009-11-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Richard P. wrote: Wikipedia shows signs of stalling as number of volunteers falls sharply I'm not surprised. Wikipedia has matured and really does need fewer hands to maintain it. Meanwhile lots of new opportunities have emerged. Some of the new venues have

Re: [CGUYS] Dead desktop computer -- what is likely the matter?

2009-11-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Tony B wrote: Dreamweaver only needs a key and the original disks to reinstall. But it's also fairly useless these days for modern CMS-driven websites. Unless she's taking web design courses, in which case she would need the newest DW. I'd say don't obsess about it.

Re: [CGUYS] microsoft pays to pla...er screw us

2009-11-26 Thread mike
I've been on this list far too long to not feel more at ease if my moral sense does not match yours. On Nov 26, 2009 3:10 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:08 AM, mike wrote: Well it's not a dirty trick, friend of mine on irc sai... I figured your moral sense would not

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Magic Mouse

2009-11-26 Thread Tony B
Looks interesting, but I'm still leery of touchpads in general. Anyway, since there's no version available for Windows yet, it's useless on most systems. I'm not sure what you mean about 'growing' gestures. All the ones I've seen are gestures that have been used for ages. Either by moving the

Re: [CGUYS] Gulag?

2009-11-26 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I cannot speak to the construction industry but can tell you about the food processing industry. When I worked for a major animal processing plant they had a 100% turn around of personnel every year. Of that number the immigrants were the ones who stayed while the Anglos and African

[CGUYS] Dreamweaver (was: Dead desktop computer -- what is likely the matter?)

2009-11-26 Thread Stephen Brownfield
t.piwowar wrote: However if you are still in a position to exercise your freedom, Dreamweaver is just peachy. How hard is it to learn and use Dreamweaver? I currently use Contribute to manage a web site, but at time find it a little lacking. I have never really worked with HTML. Thanks,

Re: [CGUYS] Dreamweaver (was: Dead desktop computer -- what is likely the matter?)

2009-11-26 Thread Tony B
For basic HTML it's got a steep learning curve. But for todays CSS-laden sites, it's got a massive learning *overhanging cliff*. Tom seems to want to disparage CMS's uniformity, but that's why people like them so much. Trying to program that much CSS by hand is a daunting task not for the