Re: [CGUYS] Light Bulb Life (Stewart)
The 60 watt light bulb that they make a cost comparison with has a light output in the rage of 700 lumens. It puts out a whole lot more than the 30 to 60 lumens of the 2 watt led that it is compared with. Energy saving is obtained as much by reduced light as by increased efficency. At 10:59 AM 4/13/2007, mike wrote: http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/index.aspx Most of those have lumen ratings. Mike On 4/13/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be suspect of anyone not providing a lumens rating or a =x watt bulb. -Original Message- I found a 1.3 watt bulb for $15.38. That might be worth it in electrical savings alone. They didn't specify a life span but ccranes 60,000 hours translates to 6.8 years of continuous use. I like these things for places that are just too much of a pain to change frequently. Nobody seems to provide a lumens rating. http://www.saveateagle.com/18-led-clr-http://www.saveateagle.com/18-led-clr- v04.html?ovchn=OTHERovcpn=Froogleovcrn=18-LED-CLR-V04ovtac=CMP Whoops here is a cheaper one. $12.95 for 0.5 watt bulb. This one is rated at 100,000hours or 11.4 years. http://store.advancedmart.com/11acsc18whle.html * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] gmail.com vs. googlemail.com
A friend of mine gave me an e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not having seen this before, I sent a test message with two addressees, the one given and another @gmail.com. Neither one has bounced. Am I correct in assuming that one is just an alias for the other? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] gmail.com vs. googlemail.com
At 08:47 PM 4/17/2007, Art Clemons wrote: Google lost the rights to gmail in the EU and adopted googlemail in Europe. I just sent an email to my gmail via the apparent googlemail alias and it worked. It's not advertised but seems to work that way. And in the EU, who is gmail? Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] OpenDNS, was: Apple Issues Patches for 25 Security Holes
At 04:06 PM 4/20/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: Regarding OpenDNS: But they don't say if they are using a MS or xnix box. Does anyone know how to get the server to tell us? Don't know how to get the server to tell us, but a request to tech support elicited an immediate response. Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:31:40 + From: OpenDNS First Responders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OpenDNS #JMT-67509-893]: Fred Holmes Reply-To: OpenDNS First Responders [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We wrote our own DNS server. Runs on Debian Linux. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Border for Certificate of Appreciation in MS Word
Running MS Word 2000. Where can I find, how do I import into a document a fancy page border suitable for a certificate of appreciation? The borders offered in the Borders and Shading dialog for the page border are simply straight and dotted straight lines and a few minor variations. Thanks, Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Usenet server recommendation?
His.com has just announced that it is discontinuing its Usenet servers. Any recommendations on a good Usenet server to switch to? I don't mind paying a reasonable subscription fee. I've seen that Google provides free access, but I won't use it if it's only web access. I hope they have servers that can be accessed using Forte Agent (sort of parallel to the fact that Google mail can be accessed by a POP e-mail client such as Eudora). Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Fwd: Today's Headlines: In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly
In Today's New York Times: In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly By BRAD STONE Sophisticated Internet users have joined up to distribute a code used to prevent piracy of high-definition movies. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/technology/03code.html?themc=th * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] DVD-RW
I suspect that some folks who haven't yet gone to TiVo, etc., use today a DVD recorder in place of the VCR of a few years ago to occasionally record a program they want to keep. DVD-RWs make sense if you plan to re-use the media. Might want to have enough stock to be sure that you always have a blank one when a need suddenly crops up. Don't want to have to decide quickly which disc to re-use. Fred Holmes At 09:46 AM 5/17/2007, Steve Rigby wrote: On May 16, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Mike Sloane wrote: So why didn't the two of you go halves on the 10 pack and split them up? Funny you should ask, because that is what I was thinking about but only after having left the store. Even five disks DVD-RWs would have been more than I needed. I only have two rewritable CDs, and that is enough for any of my purposes as far as CDs go. Steve * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Strange problem
Because the Zip drive came up as C:. That's the way things work. Do not ever install a Zip drive until after the hard drive has been _completely_ prepped. If you are working on an existing computer, disconnect the Zip drive before installing a new hard drive. And the CD drive came up as D: You might get away with first formatting and partitioning the hard drive, so that the drive would be recognized by the boot from the OS product CD, and it would then come up as C:, but the Zip drive likely would then come up as D:, before the CD drive comes up as E:. On the other hand, having the boot drive as E: is likely to make it more difficult for any Trojan to compromise it. And having the boot drive as E: works just fine. Why does it do that? Because it is designed that way? Why was it designed that way? Dunno! Fred Holmes At 04:43 PM 5/21/2007, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Here I am messing with another computer for someone. I installed a new HD and it is drive E: not C: Windows will not allow me to chage the letter designation. How in heavens name did it get named e:? Stewart Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace Ozark, AL SL 82 * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Sanity Check before installing Ubuntu
At 08:56 AM 5/23/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no intention of changing the boot disk in the BIOS every time I want to switch OS. The motherboards that I have that are less than about four years old (all ASUS) all have an option to press a keystroke during POST and pop up a menu to select the boot device (for this startup only). (It does not involve entering BIOS setup and changing the default boot device.) The feature is not obvious; I had to stumble on it to realize it was there. Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Now...what do I do?
All kinds of problems are cleared by a re-boot. At 10:09 AM 5/25/2007, Marcio V. Pinheiro wrote: Yes, it is a working computer. But...guess what. This morning when I started the computer After booting I tried again and the shelf opened out... Go guess... * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Memory stick / flash drive with U3 -- get rid of U3
Some time ago I bought a 2GB USB memory stick /thumb drive / flash drive from Micro Center, and it was a plain 2GB flash memory drive that just worked. Just what I wanted. Today I bought another one. The case is a different color and slightly different configuration -- not a problem. The device has U3 pre-installed on it -- i.e., it has an autorun.inf file and a LaunchU3.exe file that is called and presumably installs drivers and such on my computer from files in a Launchpad.zip file on the flash drive. I don't want the U3, but I don't seem to be able to just erase it. The device mounts as a 4 MB (MB, yes, not GB) CDFS which presumably means compact disc file system which is read-only. It mouts this way even though I disabled autorun.inf by holding down the shift key while the drive mounted. If I launch disk manager, the device shows up as a 4MB CD drive (CD drive #3, after the two conventional CD/DVD-RW drives that I have attached to the second IDE cable), and no format facility of the Win2K diskmanager will recognize the 2GB capacity and format it as a simple drive. The device has the Micro Center house label. Is anyone aware of a software utility that will reformat the device as a simple FAT-32 flash memory drive? I not only don't care for the U3 features, I don't want to load up my system with any more drivers. Many thanks, Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Memory stick / flash drive with U3 -- get rid of U3
U3 USB may not install drivers on the local machine in the sense of not putting commands in the registry to load drivers (whether the U3 drive is attached or not) and not writing the driver files to the local machine hard drive, but the U3 package does have drivers (dlls, etc.) in it which are surely loaded from the memory stick into the computer's main memory when the U3 drive is inserted into a USB port. Fred Holmes At 07:25 PM 6/3/2007, Chris Dunford wrote: I not only don't care for the U3 features, I don't want to load up my system with any more drivers. Just to clarify, U3 drives do not (or should not) install any drivers on the local machine. The whole point of U3 is that it's completely machine-independent. When you install a U3-compliant program on it, you can cart your U3 drive to any PC and run the program without installation and without affecting the local registry, etc. It's really a pretty neat idea, and in my experience it works very well indeed. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Google Street View
Nah, it's actually purple, not pink, and it's smog coming out of the tailpipe of a car. Fred Holmes At 11:13 PM 6/6/2007, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: I was tooling around Vegas and found a giant pink seashell floating down the street. It is either proof of UFOs or a pink petal on the lens. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qhl=enq=boulder+damsll=43.834527,-84.023437sspn=35.431324,90.791016ie=UTF8ll=36.126437,-115.140667spn=0.039586,0.119476z=14om=0layer=ccbll=36.114573,-115.143257cbp=2,304.7755948553055,0.5,0 -- John Duncan Yoyo ---o) * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Printing from a DOS legacy app running at a command prompt under WinXP
The only problem I have with these instructions is the need to go into the printer (driver) properties and change the printer input data mode from RAW to TEXT. That's easily done, but the computer in question will have both this DOS app on it and several regular Windows apps. Presumably the printer mode will have to be manually switched back and forth depending upon the application doing the current printing job. That's a lot to expect of a clerk who doesn't have a whole lot of computer savvy. If the Googled app does the whole thing seamlessly, i.e., it makes the necessary changes automatically depending upon the application that is printing, it's worth it. Again, many thanks, Fred Holmes At 01:32 PM 6/7/2007, Michael Drabick wrote: It actualy links the lpt1 port to the printer you want to use and it goes through the print drivers so it is useable by the printer See this site for more details. http://www.decompile.com/dataflex/tips/usb_printer.htmhttp://www.decompile.com/dataflex/tips/usb_printer.htm Fred Holmes wrote: The below instructions, if I understand them, just connect the DOS application directly to the printer port (LPT1). But the DOS program only knows how to print to a DOS printer, i.e., a printer that has the rasterizing CPU in the printer, i.e., has, e.g., HPPCL in the printer. Modern printers are only raster printers, and the rasterizing is done by an application (.dll perhaps?) resident on the computer, using the computer's CPU chip and memory. I need to get the DOS application logically connected to the rasterizer, and _not_ connected directly to the printer. The rasterizer application presumably is already connected to the printer port. Fred Holmes At 12:02 PM 6/7/2007, Michael Drabick wrote: Fred, Save your money. If you capture a printer port anything printed to LPT1 will go to the printer you desire. I have done it in the past. It is easy to set up. I found these instructions which look correct, I have not tried it. http://support.riverdeep.net/techtips_detail.asp?id=156http://support.riverdeep.net/techtips_detail.asp?id=156 Windows® 2000/XP * Log into Windows® as an Administrator. * Click the Start button and choose Run. The Run dialog will appear. * Type CMD into the Open field and click the OK button. The command prompt window will appear. * Type NET USE LPT1 \\SERVER\PRINTER /PERSISTENT:YES and press Enter. Replace server with the name of the server and printer with the name of the printer. If necessary, contact the network administrator to confirm this information. * Type EXIT and press the Enter key. The command prompt window will close. * On Windows® 2000, click the Start button, choose Settings, and choose Printers. On Windows® XP, click the Start button and choose Printers and Faxes. * Click the Add a Printer link. The Add Printer Wizard will appear. * Click the Next button. * Ensure that the Local Printer Connected To This Computer setting is selected. * Ensure that the Automatically Detect And Install My Plug-and-Play Printer setting is not selected. * Click the Next button to continue. * Choose LPT1 from the Use The Following Port drop-down menu. * Click the Next button to continue. * Choose the printer's manufacturer from the Manufacturer field. * Choose the printer's model from the Printers field. * Click the Next button to continue. * Type the desired name for the printer in the Printer Name field. * Choose Yes when prompted to make this driver the default. * Click the Next button to continue. * Choose whether to share this printer as desired. * Click the Next button to continue. * Click the Next button to print a test page. * Click the Finish button to complete this procedure. * Close any open windows to return to the desktop. * Print from the desired program. The program should print correctly. See also Microsofts page How to print to a network printer from an MS-DOS-based program in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314499http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314499 My google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=capture+lpt1+printer+portbtnG=Google+Searchhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=capture+lpt1+printer+portbtnG=Google+Search Mike Fred Holmes wrote: Can anyone recommend a particular solution to printing from a DOS legacy application running in a console box under Windows XP? The top Google hit is: http://www.printfil.com/english.htm I don't mind the price (about $100), but I would like to get the easiest to use, and something that really works, based on a recommendation from someone that has actually used it for production work. I'm not interested in workarounds that take a lot of computer savvy to implement. I need to set this up for a clerk and not have to be a help desk. Thanks, Fred Holmes -- Mike Drabick HDH Construction Consultants, Inc 200
Re: [CGUYS] Help! Something is Changing my System Date
Modern motherboard batteries last a whole lot longer if you leave the computer plugged in, even though it is turned off (using the power switch/software on the computer). If the power supply has 110 volts, the 5 volt DC circuit always produces power, even when the computer is turned off. This 5 VDC power will run the clock, instead of running down the battery. And it will also keep the capacitors in the circuits charged, making them less likely to leak (electric charge) and cause problems. Fred Holmes At 10:47 PM 6/8/2007, Tom Chambers wrote: Wow! thanks for the detailed instructions! Usually words like motherboard cause me to feel deeply uneasy, but you make it sound as if I might actually be able to handle this operation (with some help from my buddy Tom!). I've run two different antivirus programs and two antispam programs, thinking that might be the problem, but they didn't seem to help, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that it's the battery. Will let you know, Anne Fred Holmes wrote: Most motherboards of the past five years or more use the CR2032 button battery for the motherboard battery. They are sold everywhere because they are commonly used in the keyless lock zapper on modern automobiles. They are about the size of a quarter, shiny white metal, and sit in a round holder on the motherboard. One side of the holder has spring-loaded fingers and the other side has a small slot into which you insert a small flat-bladed screwdriver to twist and pop out the battery. The twist displaces the battery sideways against the spring-loaded fingers until it clears the lip on the holder and can pop up. Insert the new battery by pressing it against the spring-loaded fingers until it clears the lip on the screwdriver side and drops in place. Fred Holmes At 03:39 PM 6/8/2007, John DeCarlo wrote: But one of my first steps would be to find out where your CMOS battery is for your computer and see if you can Google how hard it is to replace. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Fwd: Today's Headlines: Apple Releasing a Windows Browser
Where did you get (presumably download) a copy? I'd like to try it. I suppose I should just Google Windows Safari? At 06:57 PM 6/12/2007, John DeCarlo wrote: On 6/12/07, Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apple Releasing a Windows Browser Looks nice -very fast. Faster than IE. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues
At 03:37 PM 6/14/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: The instructions amounted to going to the web site of the manufacturer of the particular brand of U3 software and downloading the applet to remove the U3 CD drive and reformat the stick as one drive for the whole stick, FAT32. Have you tried right-clicking on My Computer and selecting Manage, then Disk management and then delete partitions from there? I seem to recall that I tried that first and found that the CD ROM partition was write protected or that removal wasn't straightforward to do. Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] USB stick issues
At 11:48 PM 6/15/2007, Jeff Wright wrote: But, in between the time when I couldn't read the text and finally could, it gave me the idea of how cool it would be if you could carry around your OS and apps on a chip, maybe data too. Imagine being able to walk up to any computer with the right slot and just plug in *your* computer. Work on it, pop it out when you're done and nothing left behind except the hardware to run it. I can't be the first to think of this. Anyone know of research going on in this regard? I'd love to be able to do this with today's external hard drives, just plugging into the USB (or FireWire) port. The reason you can't do this is because of Microsoft's policy. They would lose a lot of sales of the OS if what you advocate above would work. The real reason for the Registry is copy prevention. For those applications that don't require registry entries to run, you can run the app from an external drive just fine. My Eudora mail client is a prime example. I suspect you can boot from an external hard drive with modern motherboards, although I haven't tried it. Of course, to move around, you have to have drivers loaded for all the hardware (or at least the video cards) you will encounter wherever you may plug in your portable hard drive. Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Fwd: NYT: Microsoft Will Alter Vista Operating System
In today's New York Times Microsoft Will Alter Vista Operating System By STEPHEN LABATON The changes are in response to a complaint by Google that a feature of the operating system is anticompetitive. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/technology/20soft.html?themc=th ... * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Boot process cycles back to logon/password prompt
All of a sudden, for no apparent reason (I didn't make any significant change to the system, and no change at all that I can recall), my Win2k SP4 system cycles back to the Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to begin. prompt instead of continuing to boot to the desktop. My password is good/accepted. If I attempt an invalid password, I get the Windows could not log you on . . . (or whatever) error message. This recycle to the Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete prompt occurs with both the Administrator account and the fholomes user (administrator privileges) account. It also happens if I try to boot into Safe Mode (Press F8). Booting into Safe Mode requires the same logon, and after entering the password, it processes for a while and then re-displays the logon prompt, just as with an attempt to boot normally. Any idea how to diagnose / fix this problem? I'd rather not star over with a formatted hard disk if I can help it. Thanks, Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] DOSBox
At 02:51 PM 7/22/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: A while back someone was asking about how to run old DOS programs. I don't remember if a solution was found, but I just ran across DOSBox at Sourceforge. DOSBox runs on many platforms like OS X and even XP. This looks very promising. It appears to have CGA (Color Graphics Adapter) video emulation, which is necessary, and, in fact, is the reason that an ordinary command prompt box won't do. It's a work in progress, aimed at running games, and, e.g., printer support is rudimentary. I'll have to work on that. Many thanks, Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Backup App for PC
Don't know what the Mac programs really are, but for backing up data files (not for cloning / imaging a hard drive) Karen's Replicator (http://www.karenware.com/) is good for small and medium jobs and is free. For large jobs, SyncBackSE (http://www.2brightsparks.com/) is more efficient and will take less time to perform a job. Fred Holmes At 08:18 PM 7/24/2007, David Cowdrill wrote: After many years of procrastination I have finally (with the help of Take Control of Mac Backups and SuperDuper!) installed a backup system for my two Macs. Question: My wife has a PC. Would someone recommend a simple, low- cost backup application comparable to SuperDuper! for the PC. TIA david * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] iPhone cracked
At 12:02 PM 7/26/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: Interesting to note that Apple shares dropped 7% on Tuesday on a bogus news story that iPhone sales were not up to expectations. On Wed shares were up 10% on news that the story was bogus and news that Apple profits were up 78%. So you are right, we have to be circumspect about every news report. So who is going to get nailed for manipulating the market? Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Problem
First thing to try is to power down everything. Then 1) Power up the cable modem. 2) power up the router. 3) powerup/start the computer. Presumably you have tried this already? Fred Holmes At 11:10 AM 8/30/2007, Marcio V. Pinheiro wrote: Perhaps some of you could help me. I am connected to the Internet via Cable Modem. In the last few days I have been noticing a strange behavior when trying to access web sites. Let me explain. I get to Internet Explorer and I have no problems acessing Google (for instance). But when I click a link in Google I don´t go there. It says: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage Most likely causes: * You are not connected to the Internet. * The website is encountering problems. * There might be a typing error in the address. What you can try: [] Diagnose Connection Problems More information More information This problem can be caused by a variety of issues, including: * Internet connectivity has been lost. * The website is temporarily unavailable. * The Domain Name Server (DNS) is not reachable. * The Domain Name Server (DNS) does not have a listing for the website's domain. * If this is an HTTPS (secure) address, click Tools, click Internet Options, click Advanced, and check to be sure the SSL and TLS protocols are enabled under the security section. This is happening with a lot of site. My e-mail is working fine. Many thanks to all Marcio * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Problem
At 03:27 PM 8/30/2007, b_s-wilk wrote: Meanwhile, I'm guessing that it's a DNS issue. When I find the IP address for the web site [I usually use netcraft.com] and use that, I can access the site/link. If you think it is a DNS problem, try setting your DNS servers to OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 See http://www.opendns.com/ If you have a home network / router, put the above settings into the _router's_ setup dialog, and leave the computers attached to the network set to obtain DNS services automatically. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Jing Project?
Any experience with, recommendations on Jing Project? http://www.jingproject.com/ Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Weird Sites With Weird Names
That kind of random string of good English words in an e-mail (rather than on a web page) is usually an attempt to sneak past the spam filter. Fred Holmes At 06:10 PM 9/16/2007, Alvin Auerbach wrote: I googled The G rate make-up stamp (an old postage stamp) and came up with several weird sites with weird names (example below) that have in them hundreds of seemingly random words and phrases strung together, as: files dailymotion airport in bulgaria the g rate make up stamp custom made bottles in the philippines emergency... http://r.rqzgu.cn/ulkdxx.html Most of the sites have .cn in their URL. Does anyone have any idea of what they are doing and why? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Fwd: NYT: Altered iPhones Freeze Up
Altered iPhones Freeze Up By KATIE HAFNER A software update to Apple's iPhone on Friday disabled third-party applications and rendered iPhones that had been unlocked completely unusable. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/technology/29iphone.html?themc=th ... * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Cymphonix Speed-O-Meter has disappeared
Is there some way to select an off-screen window that doesn't display a taskbar button? Win XP, SP2 I run a nifty utility called Cymphonix Speed-O-Meter (cymspeed.exe). It's freeware, and the provider doesn't seem to support it. It loads a small transparent window, that shows a one-minute display of the network traffic, i.e., each second it determines the average download and upload speeds for actual traffic (total bytes during the second divided by one second) and displays 60 seconds worth as a line graph. The window has been mysteriously moved off screen. When cymspeed.exe loads, the window briefly appears and then is seen to move off the lower right corner of the screen. With a normal application whose window has gone off-screen, one would select the taskbar button for the open window, then press Alt-spacebar to open the control menu, then select move, and then move the window back on-screen using arrow keys. Done that many times. But cymspeed.exe doesn't display a taskbar button when it is running. There is a systray icon, but none of the options on the menu of the systray icon is useful (On my win 2k machine, with dual monitors, clicking the systray icon closes the cymspeed window on the second monitor, and clicking again reopens the window on the primary monitor -- doesn't help on the single monitor xp machine.) The cymspeed transparent window does have a control menu. There is no icon on the left end of the title bar, but, when the window is properly displayed, if I select the window, and press alt-spacebar, a control menu appears and I can select Move and then move the window with the arrow keys. I know it is running. It appears in Task Manager under Processes (but not under Applications). Uninstalling an re-installing doesn't fix it. Apparently the registry code isn't removed. I guess I could run a registry cleaner in one of its forms, but every time I do, something breaks. Any help on a fix? Is there some way to select an off-screen window that doesn't display a taskbar button? Thanks in advance, Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Reliable, free broadband speed test sites?
In spite of my just-asked question about Cymphonix Speed-O-Meter, it's an excellent way to continuously monitor your actual download and upload speed. Freeware. Not a test site per se. http://downloads.cymphonix.com/netspeed.zip Sorry if this has been mentioned previously. I haven't been following this thread. Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Computer Clock settings (was [CGUYS] iMac problem)
I have a perfectly good fax modem that connects to a serial port, and no reason for buying a new one. The new computer doesn't have a built-in modem. I could connect the serial modem with a USB to serial adapter, but that's a nuisance. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. For me, the cost saving of doing without serial, parallel, floppy is insignificant. Every once in a while there is something I need on an old floppy that hasn't been moved to newer media yet. . . . And, oh yes, I have a perfectly good printer that works off a parallel port. Its PostScript interpreter is a lot better than the one that comes with my newer printer. Fred Holmes At 09:01 AM 11/8/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: Right now I'm trying to convince our dear retro members to stop using serial ports and floppies. I expect my next crusade will concern parallel ports. I think it will be a long time before I get around to stock tips. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Short USB extension cord
Has anyone seen for sale a short (6 or less) USB (A-male to A-female) extension cord, just long enough to get a bulky USB device/adapter/connector a couple of inches away from the chassis connector (where the chassis connectors are closely spaced, and the bulky device blocks several nearby ports)? TIA Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Short USB extension cord
Bingo! Many thanks. Fred Holmes At 03:01 PM 11/16/2007, Andy Gallant wrote: Will this do? http://www.amazon.com/Inch-Fully-Rated-Extension-Cable/dp/B000E5CYW8 Fred Holmes wrote: Has anyone seen for sale a short (6 or less) USB (A-male to A-female) extension cord, just long enough to get a bulky USB device/adapter/connector a couple of inches away from the chassis connector (where the chassis connectors are closely spaced, and the bulky device blocks several nearby ports)? TIA Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] case feet
Go to the hardware store (Home Depot will do) and look for something called bumpers. They come in various sizes and shapes. Make good feet for all sorts of boxes. They generally come in sets of four, so one package will do one box. They already have glue on one side. Remove the protective film and press in place. They are generally in the section with chair glides, etc. Fred Holmes At 09:27 PM 11/18/2007, Christopher Range wrote: Does anyone have any idea on, how I can replace the feet on my full-tower case? Christopher * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] FIOS and surge protection
At 06:13 PM 11/19/2007, Michel Lowe wrote: That's affirmative. FiOS is safer from a lightning strike/surge point of view since, as you say, all it is sending is light. Unlike the copper wires it replaces the transmission medium does not conduct electricity. -Mike __ Michel David Lowe Do you know the actual construction of the Fios cable? While the data transmission medium is glass fiber, there may well be a metal wire or jacket component for tensile strength. If the latter exists, it could conduct a lightening strike or a hit from a broken high tension wire. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] FIOS and surge protection
A quotation from the second citation: The modular design of loose-tube cables typically holds up to 12 fibers per buffer tube with a maximum per cable fiber count of more than 200 fibers. Loose-tube cables can be all-dielectric or optionally armored. The modular buffer-tube design permits easy drop-off of groups of fibers at intermediate points, without interfering with other protected buffer tubes being routed to other locations. The loose-tube design also helps in the identification and administration of fibers in the system. What's the optional armor? Is it metallic? Since it's an alternative to all dielectric, it likely is metallic. You have to be sure that the actual cable in use doesn't have any metal at all in it before you state that it isn't a lightening / high voltage contact hazard. More from the second citation: In a loose-tube cable design, color-coded plastic buffer tubes house and protect optical fibers. A gel filling compound impedes water penetration. Excess fiber length (relative to buffer tube length) insulates fibers from stresses of installation and environmental loading. Buffer tubes are stranded around a dielectric or steel central member, which serves as an anti-buckling element. This paragraph explicitly cites a steel central member which is likely for tensile strength. Admittedly, the multiple-fibre cables aren't going to be used for house drops. But you never know what may be in a specific engineering design. Fred Holmes At 07:09 AM 11/20/2007, Daniel Else wrote: Google fiber optic cable or read: www.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm www.arcelect.com/fibercable.htm Do you know the actual construction of the Fios cable? While the data transmission medium is glass fiber, there may well be a metal wire or jacket component for tensile strength. If the latter exists, it could conduct a lightening strike or a hit from a broken high tension wire. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Opportunity for a Mac Fan
Probably something the lawyers insisted be put into the job description. I would think that risk of back strain (or other injury) would be greater. Light to moderate lifting is occasionally required.?? At 11:46 AM 11/24/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=64930187 Risk of electrical shock * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] MS IE 7
At 09:59 AM 12/3/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: But the community can't move forward if brain-dead Windows users continue to cling to defective old IE 6. Brain-dead users like me cling to Windows 2000 (because it works, and because it supports the applications I use), which doesn't support IE7. So why didn't Microsoft port IE7 to Windows 2000? Then it would be easy (for me to try it). Most of Microsoft's customers are brain-dead by your (Tom Piowar's) standards. MS needs to cater to brain-dead customers. Sure, if I want to figure out the intricacies of VMWare, I can run Win2K in a virtual machine on WinXP/sp2 or Vista, and have both available, but that requires twice the hardware (twice the memory, at least). Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] MS IE 7
How much does the loading of IE7 speed up if you turn off your real-time virus scanner? At 11:50 AM 12/3/2007, Mike Sloane wrote: IE still takes forever to load, but it does seem to work OK. Mike * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]
At 01:05 PM 12/3/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: The alternative is to throw the brain dead overboard: no Internet for you. It might come to that. Gee, I might get a life back. Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Programmer's Test Editor for Windows?
TSE -- The Semware Editor. http://www.semware.com/ Moderately priced. Sammy Mitchell, the one man show who is keeping it going, isn't getting rich on it. Stupendous support. Free and fast and good. Join their e-mail discussion list and someone will answer your question or write your macro for you in a jiffy. Speed is excellent if you can keep everything in memory, or have a flash drive for your swap file. There is a test drive version. I have been a happy user for many years, since perhaps 1990 or so. No financial interest, but a real interest in seeing it not go under. Very capable macro language. Fred Holmes At 03:02 PM 12/3/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: On Windows I have been using PSPad -- a full-featured programmer's text editor. I especially need GREP for search/replace and to extract lines that meet a certain pattern. I'm doing things like log analysis. My problem is that I'm working with some very large files (150 MB). PSPad gets unusably slow. On the Mac I'm using either BBEdit or TextWrangler. These programs have no problems with the large files, but it is a pain to be constantly transferring files between machines. So, does anyone know of a good text editor for Windows that does not bog down with large files? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Reader for SDHC media cards
First thing I'd try is a new (late model) card reader. Just one that attaches externally via a USB port. And new enough that it has address space in its controller chip for today's large media. I'm just guessing that this is a similar issue to the inability of older motherboards and external hard drive cases to address the full size of newer large hard drives, because of the interface, where the issue is the number of bits provided for addressing sectors in Logical Block Addressing (LBA). In purchasing a card reader, I'd look for an explicit specification that it will read/write SHDC media, or at least a right to return it, opened, if it turns out that it won't read them. OTOH, if the formatting is really different, you may need a driver from somewhere. Generally, the special formatting of camera cards is just the addition of special folders and maybe maintenance files after the basic formatting (e.g., FAT-32 or whatever) has been accomplished. If you put a blank, formatted card (i.e., formatted with computer software) in a camera, the camera won't create these folders and files unless you explicitly run the camera's format utility from the camera's menu. Fred Holmes At 09:18 AM 12/8/2007, gerald wrote: I bought a new camera for me. It has capability to use SDHC media. I bought a 48 gig media. they are formatted differently. when I plug the schc card into the correct slot for an SD media on my '06 compaq amd, the computor locks up. screen is wiped. get a message that control panel is not functioning on a cntl alt del. same thing on an 06 ASUS amd. now what?? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Reader for SDHC media cards
At 11:58 AM 12/8/2007, gerald wrote: watch out tom, new technology roaring down the road. you still using that canon FDt from 1970 or do you have a pre war (II) leica rangefinder? Leica rangefinder was great. Would that it were alive today but with a digital sensor. Focusing was sure and as fast as you could twist your wrist or the finger knob. A seasoned photographer could guess the exposure good enough. And the shutter lag was close enough to zero. No missed shots because the subject moved (was moving) when you pressed the button. Manual focus on today's cameras is still motorized (slow) and doesn't have any fine adjustment. The merest tap on the manual focusing control (and the zoom control as well) moves the adjustment a considerable distance, often too far. I have pictures on Kodachrome / Ektachrome that I took in the 1940's and early 50's that I could never take with today's cameras. Or perhaps only with the most expensive ones, which I haven't bought. I never had a Leica, but the good old Argus C-3 did well enough. It was a rangefinder camera, and fairly small and light, although not a pocket camera. Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Internet Radio Beats Digital
At 11:15 PM 12/9/2007, b_s-wilk wrote: Best feature is finding all the stations on its own. Worst feature is finding stations you like out of the thousands it loads. Finding a dozen or so out of thousands of radio stations on a shortwave radio is hard enough. I'd like to see what kind of listening guide or list they provide for WiFi radio--online of course. It sure would be nice if these things had network (or other, e.g., USB) connectivity that allowed setting them up (selection of the small set of stations you really want to listen to) using a computer, with its large screen and full-size keyboard. I would think that sort of capability would be obvious. Sort of like what one does with a PDA, although I don't have a PDA, so I don't really know how they really work. Once the receiver is set up, it surely saves a whole lot of power without having a spinning hard drive or large display needed. Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] MS Office 2007 SP1 is available for download.
MS Office 2007 SP1 is available for download. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9EC51594-992C-4165-A997-25DA01F388F5displaylang=en http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/8/1/08186057-e110-49fb-b455-17899cf082d8/office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe The last URL is a direct download of the file. KB936982 * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] External hard drives: brand comparison
Where do you store your off-site backups? A bare (not in a case) 3.5 hard drive will fit in a small bank safe deposit box, and is conveniently used with one of the many available bare interfaces (no case, just the electronics for data and power), e.g., USB to IDE/EIDE (or SATA). Only the drive is stored. The interface is kept on site and used continually. The nice thing about using a hard drive as backup media is that incremental backups are consolidated (by copying new/newer files) into a directory tree that is current and complete. Copying can be with or without replicating deletions so that old stuff can be preserved in the backup. The backup can be readily tested, since the files appear on an ordinary hard drive. And it is quick to find and restore a single file or two. Fred Holmes At 07:19 AM 12/12/2007, Jeff Wright wrote: I use Mozy at home, of which I haven't had the chance to test the recovery feature yet, and Iron Mountain at work for taking tapes offsite. The Mozy backup is very simple to do. It's a very polished service. I'm considering moving away from tape backups to disk-based with off-site, online vaulting, but I have yet to see the price tag. Needless to say, I expect it to be many, many times that of tape, which could kill the idea. -Original Message- Do you have an off site back up? If you have any critical data on these machines you should rotate backups to a secure location away from the machines in case of flood, fire etc. So that might mean another set of backups or burning an occasional DVD of the most critical stuff and storing it somewhere off site or using a remote backup service. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] External hard drives: brand comparison
At 09:34 AM 12/12/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: All drives should be checked regularly. I use a utility that tests SMART satus every few minutes and will issue a warning if that fails. I also run a disk utility about once a month. I check the backup logs almost every day. Rotating several drives also increases your security. I use HDD Health to monitor SMART status, but it doesn't work with USB drives, maybe because of the specs of the USB to EIDE interface. What utility do you use to monitor SMART status? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Firefox runaway web page problem ?
Why aren't you using Firefox 2.0.0.11 or whatever the latest is now? Maybe this is a bug that has been fixed? Try increasing the size of the system swap file by a whole lot. Maybe Firefox doesn't know how to handle the situation of running out of swap file? (Maybe all programs don't? After all, what does a program do when the loaded data exceeds the available memory? Only a few text editors know how to page through a file and edit the current sector, and splice a new sector into the file. They were back in the days of CP/M and maybe early DOS.) Get a 4GB (or even larger) flash drive and use all of it for the swap file. Fred Holmes At 04:10 PM 12/13/2007, db wrote: I have a large number of web pages that I am working with via Firefox 1.5xx to do various research and they get re-opened (Restore Session) every time I reboot my XP Pro computer. Today I opened a blog page that ran away and crashed Firefox (from looking at Task Manager/ Performance the problem is excessive RAM draw apparently) and now if I restart and choose Restore Session it starts opening web pages Ok apparently until it gets to that page and then runs aways again before I can find that web page's window and close it. I don't want to Start a new session and sacrifice my collection of working web pages in order to get around this problem. Can anybody solution a solution path that will allow me to close that particular Firefox window without killing the Firefox application ? db * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Upgrade the video card?
Get a 4GB flash drive, install it permanently, and put the swap file on it. Use it all for the swap file. For that portion of the swap file, set the min and max sizes of the swap file to be the size of the whole drive (as much as Windows will allow, which is a few megabytes less than all of it). Keep some swap file on the installed hard drive, and set its minimum size as low as possible. Then, early use of the swap file should default to the flash drive, but there is swap file available if the flash drive should fail or become accidentally removed. Fred Holmes At 07:36 AM 12/26/2007, Quentin Fisher wrote: As digital files get larger and more numerous, I find even simple sorting and labeling tasks get more sluggish. I have a Dell Dimension Pentium 4 running XP. I have maxxed on RAM, and installed a SATA hard dive. Would upgrading the video card make much of a difference, or have I gotten near the limits of my processor and bus? Other suggestions? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Can't open larger images
Not enough swap file? Try increasing it a whole lot. At 09:29 AM 12/26/2007, Mike Sloane wrote: A friend sent me this message, and I am stumped as to the reason for, or the solution to, his problem. Any thoughts? I've got a question about a problem I've been having with my computer. I can't open larger photo (jpeg) files anymore . . . I get a blank screen, and depending upon which photo display software I use I either get message cannot create bitmap file (ACD See), or just a blank screen (Explorer). I'm unable to edit the file as well. For example I can see a 800x300 photo, but not a 1500x700. This only began a week or so ago. He is running Windows XP on a generic PC and doesn't have any kind of unusual hardware or software - just normal homeowner stuff. Mike * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Upgrade the video card?
For small files, quite true, but for large files, I suspect that the rotational speed and cylinder-to-cylinder tracking would be the bottleneck. It sure has helped my machine with very large files, and it does get used, as evidenced by the activity light on the thumb drive. It's not very difficult to try and see whether you like it. Fred Holmes At 11:18 AM 12/26/2007, John H. Davis wrote: This seems counter intuitive to me. I would think that writing to the SATA hard drive from the processor would be way far faster than writing to a USB thumb drive. John * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Verifying DMI Pool Data i.e. upgrading (2)256MB to (2)512MB
My take is that the message is perfectly normal when you change the amount of RAM in a machine. Does the machine not function when the RAM has been changed? Is the full amount of the new RAM recognized by the machine? I.e., after booting into Windows, and going into system properties, how much RAM is shown? (or similar procedure for a Mac) The size of a machine's RAM is stored in CMOS RAM, along with all the other CMOS/BIOS settings. Perhaps at day one, it had to be set by the user, or the RAM wouldn't be recognized. With modern machines, the value seems to still be there (witness the message), but the updating of the CMOS RAM occurs automatically, at least in all machines that I have added RAM to for several years. When a change in RAM is detected, the subject message or some similar one is displayed. If the machine is quite old, perhaps there are jumper settings? Or look in CMOS setup? Maybe even a new motherboard battery is needed? Fred Holmes At 09:06 AM 12/29/2007, Christopher Range wrote: I keep getting this message and, it only disappears when I put the (2)256MB RAM back in the computer. The (2)512MB just loops at that message and, goes nowhere else. I am asking because, almost every page I found, concerning that message talked about the hard drive but, I know my hard drive isn't the problem. Christopher * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?
Some systems will lock you out after a small number of consecutive failed authentication attempts. Three? Five? Ten? It would also seem possible to write code that requires the system to wait, say five seconds, before another attempt at a correct password may be made, thus making a dictionary attack impossibly long. I don't think requiring frequent change of password is worth much. Sooner or later everyone will have a CAC card, or at least banks will issue them for on-line banking. Fred Holmes At 09:51 AM 12/29/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: Passwords have to be stored on the computer or network so the OS can verify what is typed in. The secure way to do this is to never store an actual password, but instead a hashed version. So when a password is typed it is hashed by the computer and compared to the stored version. This way there is never a copy of the password that a hacker may find. The hashing programs work only in one direction, so a hashed password can't be unhashed. This can be defeated by a dictionary attack. Every possible combination of characters is hashed and the password-hash pair stored. Then the hacker only has to retrieve the hashed password and look up the real password in the dictionary. This was once hard to do because it took so long to create the dictionary. But today such a dictionary only has to be created once and lookups can easily be made via the Web, often simply Googled. So isn't all the fuss to force us to make up long, complicated passwords and change them frequently, just a silly waste of time? What they call security theater. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?
A CAC card (Computer Authorization Card???) is a ROM that plugs into a USB port and is the authentication for Windows/system logon, and everything else. It's been used for a few years now on military networks. No reason it couldn't be extended to civilian uses. CAC may not be entirely correct, but I believe it is. I don't have one. The user carries it around on his person like an ID card. Password safe http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ is freeware. There are lots of similar products out there. One password opens the safe and all usernames and passwords are used by copy/paste. I haven't done extensive research on them. Some come with security suites. Others are stand-alone products. Fred Holmes At 12:15 PM 12/29/2007, Judy Cosler wrote: what is a CAC card?? what is good s/w for changing storing p/w's? Fred Holmes wrote: Some systems will lock you out after a small number of consecutive failed authentication attempts. Three? Five? Ten? It would also seem possible to write code that requires the system to wait, say five seconds, before another attempt at a correct password may be made, thus making a dictionary attack impossibly long. I don't think requiring frequent change of password is worth much. Sooner or later everyone will have a CAC card, or at least banks will issue them for on-line banking. Fred Holmes At 09:51 AM 12/29/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: Passwords have to be stored on the computer or network so the OS can verify what is typed in. The secure way to do this is to never store an actual password, but instead a hashed version. So when a password is typed it is hashed by the computer and compared to the stored version. This way there is never a copy of the password that a hacker may find. The hashing programs work only in one direction, so a hashed password can't be unhashed. This can be defeated by a dictionary attack. Every possible combination of characters is hashed and the password-hash pair stored. Then the hacker only has to retrieve the hashed password and look up the real password in the dictionary. This was once hard to do because it took so long to create the dictionary. But today such a dictionary only has to be created once and lookups can easily be made via the Web, often simply Googled. So isn't all the fuss to force us to make up long, complicated passwords and change them frequently, just a silly waste of time? What they call security theater. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List
Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?
OK, but what's their reliability? I haven't read anything on their performance in actual practice. There's your national ID once they become very reliable. Fred Holmes At 02:20 PM 12/29/2007, mike wrote: what about fingerprint scanner at the station? Mike * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?
Your SSAN is already a national ID for anyone with even a modicum of financial assets. If banks start offering them, I'll take one. A lot quicker and easier than dealing with passwords. Fred Holmes At 12:47 PM 12/29/2007, Tony B wrote: CAC cards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card) smack more of a national ID card than anything else. I doubt they'll catch on soon, unless maybe Bush declares martial law and outlaws elections next year. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] SD FAT16
Normal maximum size for storage formatted FAT16 is 2 GB. If you format the card using the camera, it should work. If the card is sold by the camera manufacturer, it should already be formatted correctly for the camera. Fred Holmes At 05:29 PM 12/29/2007, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: You are looking for a very small SD card, I cannot remember what the limit is on FAT16 but any 8 MB or similar card will work. Stick it in the camera and format it. Stewart At 04:12 PM 12/29/2007, you wrote: My son's video camera requires a FAT16. Where do I get one? Thanks Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace Ozark, AL SL 82 * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Quickbooks and MD taxes
Not having the full table, I can't answer the question definitively, but from what you have there, it looks like Maryland is rounding up any fraction of a penny whatsoever. (Quickbooks probably rounds to the nearest penny.) I don't know what formula syntax Quickbooks may use, but in Excel (2000) it would be the use of the formula ROUNDUP() instead of ROUND(). TAX=ROUNDUP(SALE*0.06,2) Do you even have access to the sales tax formula in Quickbooks, or is it hard wired into the code? Fred Holmes At 01:35 PM 12/29/2007, Reid Katan wrote: MD says, for instance, that the tax on $1.01-$1.16 is $.07. Quickbooks, however, says that $.07 tax is between $1.09-$1.24. Is there any way to make Quickbooks conform to Maryland's math? Thanks Katan * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Just a silly observation
My guess is the problem is not at the source, but in the buffering on the playback (of streaming video and audio) at the playback computer. The video and audio are buffered separately, and the number of seconds of storage required to be in the buffer before playback resumes is not the same for audio and video. Just speculation, however. I have no idea how it actually works. At 11:12 AM 1/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it was just me! I'll sometimes be sitting with a room full of people gazing at a big sreen and I'll be the only one squirming, covering my eyes and wondering how this can be happening. Frequently certain feeds are no better synched than youtube. Drives me nuts. Mar * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] RIAA
If it's the article I saw yesterday, or maybe Sunday, and followed a few links, it turns out that the individual did more than just rip tracks off of CDs that he purchased. He put the songs up on one of the sharing services for anyone to grab for free. I think it would be tough for the RIAA or anyone to detect someone who simply rips purchased CDs and copies the songs to his personal MP3 player for his own use. Impossible if one does it on a machine not connected to the Internet. But in going after the guy, they have cited him for the ripping as well. Fred Holmes At 06:55 PM 1/1/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: Reports this story is bogus, that it is a simple illegal download lawsuit. The Post has not retracted it (yet) and it is #1 in the list of most downloaded articles in the Arts section where it ran. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Audio Conversion?
Car Talk is currently available as a podcast. So you don't have to record it in real time. You get two weeks to download a performance. Fred Holmes At 02:37 PM 12/30/2007, Steve at Verizon wrote: I was a happy Total Recorder user. I used it to capture streaming audio (like Car Talk on WAMU). * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Photographic slide/negative digitizer?
Anyone have any recommendations from actual use of a photographic slide/negative digitizer? Any experience with http://www.hammacher.com/publish/74083.asp?promo=slide For home use to convert family stuff. Reasonably convenient, but not high volume production. Thanks, Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Foiled and Refoiled by MS Access
At 10:56 PM 1/3/2008, Arnold Kee wrote: Filemaker (for the MAC) seems like it only works on MAC computers I've seen Filemaker / Pro for Windows. Haven't used it recently, though. http://www.filemaker.com/ Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Total Recorder -- was: OpenDNS weirdness
Right now, 1:50 p.m., Friday, January 11,, http://www.highcriteria.com/ works, and the web site that comes up advertises Total Recorder Standard Edition, and Total Recorder Professional Edition v 6.1. Using Mozilla for my browser, and OpenDNS for my DNS server. New Video Capture Add-On seems to indicate that they are continuing to support/improve the product. Likely they had a crash and were down for a while. Registration cost is $39.95 for the Pro version. They also indicate a developer edition. Fred Holmes At 01:10 PM 1/11/2008, b_s-wilk wrote: 207.139.99.99 works cor www.highcriteria.com. You can ping the IP address 208.67.217.132, but there may be no web site there. Maybe they moved the site. Nope. At 1:06am est still erroring out here in Firefox, Opera, and MSIE7. What's even stranger - both tracert and ping work, resolving to 208.67.217.132! No, http://208.67.217.132 doesn't work in a browser. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] OK, I messed up
Do you know for a fact that you accidentally _deleted_ the files? Perhaps you moved them instead of deleting them. Use a global search of the computer to see if you can locate them. Fred Holmes At 11:56 PM 1/12/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I accidentally deleted a folder with lots of sub folders and files. Not in the recycle bin. Any suggestions? Thanks, John * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] audio issues
Sounds like Total Recorder may have gone into demo/test drive mode. Did you enter the registration code or whatever? I haven't used Total Recorder, but I was reading the web site recently, and the trial version puts a bleep in the recording every 60 seconds. Fred Holmes At 06:59 PM 1/13/2008, mike wrote: Windows xp pro system recently reinstalled. MSI motherboard with onboard audio. I use Total Recorder pro to record audio from a leadtek tv card off a directv receiver. This setup worked flawlessly before reinstall. Now every 60 - 65 seconds of recording the level goes 100% for about 2 seconds. I've recorded without the tv card in, I've recorded with the realtek drivers and total reocorders own drivers, I've switched input jacks, jacks that have no incoming sound and I still have the same effect. I detect nothing from the speakers when this happens, only on playback. Also occurs despite which mp3 encoder I use. Any ideas? I'm fresh out.. Mike * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Optical drive firmware questions....
It's always possible that some software upgrade broke something. If it was an MS patch that broke it, the drive manufacturer may have decided the easier route to the fix was to change the firmware of his product. I've had a lot of things get flaky at some point in time, and have often suspected that some MS patch had broken something. If I had the time, I'd try going back to an earlier OS state and see if that fixed the problem. And it may have been the drive manufacturer's fault. Everything may have worked with loose coding of both firmware and driver. MS may have tightened up the driver, and it broke something. The answer was for the drive manufacturer to tighten up the firmware code. Fred Holmes At 04:53 AM 1/14/2008, D.L.H. wrote: Recently a three-year old Lite-On multi-format DL DVD burner in my Windiows XP desktop started balking at some DVD burning jons. DVD-R? Fine. DVD=R? Fine. DVD-DL? Fine. DVD RW variants? Fine. CD and CD-RW? Fine. But it was not happy with DVD-R jobs. At first I suspected Nero, because the current version has some issues. Then I suspected a media brand/batch issue (it would do Memorex fine, but not Sony..for while. Then the problem became all DVD-R jobs). I found a firmware upgrade on the Lite-On USA website. It installed with no problems and seems the DVD-R issue seems resolved. My questions: The burner worked fine from day 1 until it started eliminating DVD-R from its functionality. The firmware upgrade fixed this. Can firmware get corrupted? Was the firmware update the best troubleshooting path (other than the obvious yes, since it fixed it///) I've never had a similar hardware issue over 15 years of computing with optical drives... Thanks * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Internet Web Cam
If the Washington beltway area is the shallow South, my northern Virginia (Annandale) area Episcopal church can't reliably contact all (by a wide margin) of its members via e-mail either. Fred Holmes At 10:07 AM 1/18/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: I wont say that my congregation is a bunch of Luddites, but age militates against it. We cannot rely on Email to contact all the members, if that tells you anything. Remember I am in the deep south which tends to be many years behind on the technology scale. Stewart At 08:40 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote: With an overall market share pushing 10% and an even bigger chunk of the laptop market (I think it is around 16%) I'm amazed that no one in your congregation has a Mac laptop. Maybe they are keeping secrets from the pastor? Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace Ozark, AL SL 82 * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Internet Web Cam
Has nothing to do with servers. The issue is human behavior. Many folks don't have e-mail. Many folks refuse to use e-mail. Many folks have e-mail but only check it once a week or less. Fred Holmes At 11:00 AM 1/18/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: If the Washington beltway area is the shallow South, my northern Virginia (Annandale) area Episcopal church can't reliably contact all (by a wide margin) of its members via e-mail either. So lets see your server logs and figure out what's up. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] OS 9 printer follies
If I understand it correctly, only very old legacy printers have the Postscript engine in the printer itself. Modern Postscript printers do the Postscript interpretation (rasterization) using a driver in the OS of the motherboard, and send only the raster to the printer. (All modern printers are just raster printers.) Hence the fact that Postscript is standard doesn't help. If the Postscript interpreter / rasterizer for the modern printer hasn't been written for OS9, you are out of luck. Only if the raster code for the modern printer is the same as the [or some] legacy printer (and the legacy printer driver would then work) are you in luck. And even then, if the [legacy] driver checks for the hardware signature of the printer and finds something it does not understand, it likely won't process the print job anyway, even if it would work. HP PCL is pretty much standard (at several levels), just as Postscript is (at several levels) and you might get something to work with HP PCL (Hewlett Packard's Page Control Language, o/a) also. In either case (Postscript or HP PCL), if I understand it correctly, with all modern printers, the rasterization of the page is now done by the main cpu using an OS driver, with only raster code being sent to the printer (over the printer data cable or over the network via Ethernet). An outfit call Printerworks (http://www.printerworks.com/) supports HP printers and often has re-built legacy printers available. Fred Holmes At 06:49 PM 1/22/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: Another thing to do is to make sure the printer supports Ethernet and PostScript. These are both long established standards. A new printer that supports them both will work with a standard OS 9 printer configuration. The only problem you are likely to encounter is changes in the format of PPD files. Some of these may not work in OS 9, but if that is the case you can probably just use an earlier version of the PPD from a earlier model of that printer. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Hotel WiFi advice?
Get Zone Alarm Free (Basic Firewall) and set everything (all programs, processes) to Ask (except for what you set to Deny). At 01:32 PM 1/25/2008, rlsimon wrote: Last year I went to a hotel using their wifi and found I had folders installed on my box and lotsa problems which I have fixed. Now, I'm on my way again and I plan to: 1) disable file share, 2) use webmail only, 3) what about banking for bill pay?, 4) is winXPsp2 firewall enuf or do I need2get zone alarm?, 5) is Avast enuf, or what? 6) what else? ...TIA!! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy
Privacy has gone the way of the dodo. Technology rules. Get over it. Fred Holmes At 07:32 PM 1/27/2008, Steve Rigby wrote: In the news these days are stories about how our current administration is desperately trying to protect telephone companies from lawsuits that may be or are being filed as a result of their illegal participation in monitoring and wiretapping activities. I just paid my phone bill online with Verizon and was struck by this little bit of verbiage as I viewed the log out screen: As always, the privacy and security of your personal information is our #1 priority and is backed by our Internet Privacy Policy. It was the As always part that got to me the most. Pure horse manure. Steve * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] USB Malfunction
This seems to be generally true. I've seen this on every computer I have, admittedly all Windows 2000. I suspect that each piece of USB hardware (controller, hub, etc, as well as peripheral) has a unique hardware address, similar to the MAC address that Ethernet adapters and other networking hardware have. If something auto-installs, then it will re-install automatically when plugged into a different USB port, and the installation may be transparent (invisible to the user). If the printer requires manual installation (selection of the printer make/model from a list), then it must be manually reinstalled if you change the USB port that it is connected to. If you disconnect something that doesn't auto-install, be sure to plug it back into the same port. Fred Holmes At 11:09 AM 1/28/2008, John DeCarlo wrote: 1. Port USB0 is different from USB1 - therefore a printer installed on USB0 is not installed on USB1. If the printer gets switched from USB0 to USB1, it is no longer installed/connected for use. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro installation problem
I don't see what's wrong. 1. Press 'Enter' to continue with the installation. seems to be the correct choice, i.e., just proceed. What, explicitly, happens when you do it? How does it not work? If you are expecting to load a third-party (Adaptec) disk/host adapter driver, what's the source of your installation disk? If it came with the machine from a major manufacturer, the necessary driver may have been added to the XP installation disk. Or if the XP installation disk has SP-2 slipstreamed into the installation, your Adaptec driver may already be there. Adaptec drivers that existed at the time the installation disc content was finalized are surely included on the XP installation disc. The second instance of an option to repair a previous installation is different from the first one. I don't know what the difference is in technical terms, but I have had an instance of trying to repair a Win2000 installation, where the first option to repair did not work but the second one did. With my experience in installing XP (a couple of times), if the hard disk is not understood by the installation process, you are prompted for a driver disc (to put in the floppy drive) whether or not you have answered the prompt to press F-3. If your installation disc is defective (can't be read), it should either let you know with an error message, or keep trying in which the drive light will tell you it is trying but you don't get any progress. Fred Holmes At 09:43 PM 1/30/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 147GB U320 SCSI HD w/ an AHA-39320A-R Host Adapter. I have no problem formatting the drive with the SCSI utility but, when I try to install XP Pro, I get a message giving me three choices: 1. Press 'Enter' to continue with the installation 2. Press 'R' to repair a previous installation 3. Press 'F3' to exit. So far(not here) I have been told to press: 1. 'ESC' so it ignores all that 2. 'F12' presumably to see if the drivers are loading properly 3. 'F2' to initiate the ASR during the setup process 4. 'F6' to load a driver from an outside source None of that has worked. I beginning to wonder if my XP Pro Setup disc is defective. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Christopher P.S. I recently upgraded my RAM from 512MB to, 1GB. That upgrade went fine but, could that have adversely affected XP? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows XP
At 08:18 PM 1/31/2008, Robert wrote: I have decided to reformat the F: drive. I still don't know why a good drive should suddenly be an unformatted drive. I am currently restoring all files from 3 months ago from a backup on another (external) drive. Is the F: drive an internal or external (removable) drive? If the latter, have you always been careful to use the unplug or eject hardware applet in the systray, and only disconnected the drive when you get an OK message? Have you always shut down the computer properly? While you can often get away with simply unplugging an external hard drive, there will be times when doing so will trash your drive, and no easy recovery is possible. Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro installation update
OK -- RAID. I have a Dell with SATA drive controllers. In the motherboard BIOS setup the controller operation (collectively) can be set to RAID = ON or RAID/ATA autodetect. In order to install WinXP on a single drive using a generic version of WinXP, one must put that setting to RAID/ATA autodetect. With RAID = ON, and a system installed, it will boot/work ok. Also with RAID = ON, the Dell-supplied installer will install. (but the Dell-provided installer is XP-Home and I wanted XP-Pro) The factory default is RAID = ON, and the help in the BIOS setup discourages one from changing it without good reason. Finding out this good reason was non-trivial. Perhaps some similar setting is the problem with your Adaptec controller? Fred Holmes At 12:17 PM 2/6/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to Google and, started doing a search with the keywords, 'Windows wont install'. While I was perusing the results, I came upon one, that talked about cleaning the disc so, I took out my CD disc cleaner and, tried that. Then I booted the computer with the disc and, F6 for the external drivers since it was no longer recognizing my AHA-39320 with extra help. I put in a floppy disk I had created by downloading the drivers. Well, It recognized the AHA-39320 but, it didn't recognize the drives connected to the AHA-39320. When I go through the SCSI utility software, it has no problem seeing the drives. I could even 'start' to setup a RAID if I wanted to, using RAID-0 or, RAID-1. Any ideas? Christopher * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?
Not everyone is willing to learn how to drive a stick shift. Fred Holmes At 03:44 PM 2/6/2008, Matthew Taylor wrote: You can access / modify the DB one record at a time vs. all or nothing with a spreadsheet. You can create much more useful / easy queries with the DB than with a spreadsheet. Because if they really are that stupid you won't still be working there to help them out, having fled to a better, more sane workplace? ;^) Hope this helps, and that reason three is an option for you. On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Constance Warner wrote: And does anyone else have any talking points on why it's a bad idea to replace a perfectly reliable, crash-proof database with an Excel spreadsheet? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?
At 04:37 PM 2/6/2008, Matthew Taylor wrote: Back to the subject, how is keeping a database IN a database driving a stick shift? The database interface is more difficult to set up and use, although I guess the wizards should be pretty good by now. spreadsheet column headings for the fields and just typing stuff into cells is pretty intuitive. If it's a flat file database, a spreadsheet that works is just as good as a real database. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?
Is this about the database for the Online Buyers Guide that I find on the PRIMA web site (http://www.primacentral.org/), but which is accessible to members only? Or is it something that is for internal use only? Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?
So what is the format that the web site manager/developer/webmaster would like to see the database be in? It's best to make it whatever he/she (thinks it) needs. Fred Holmes At 05:58 PM 2/6/2008, Constance Warner wrote: It's actually about something that isn't yet available for online use, but which is supposed to be available on April 1. It's going to be an online version of a risk management document library, now called PRIMAfacts. (You can see a description of it under the Publications and Resources tab. --Constance Dr. Constance Warner PRIMA Information Services 703-253-1271 Fax: 703-739-0200 PRIMA's Information Services provides samples of various materials from public entity risk management programs. The material provided is offered for informational purposes only and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Association. The material is not intended as a model, and its distribution does not constitute a PRIMA endorsement of the material. As a matter of ordinary prudence, one should always take anti-virus precautions on all incoming documents from any source. -Original Message- From: Fred Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:48 PM To: Computer Guys Announcements and Discussion List Cc: Constance Warner Subject: Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel? Is this about the database for the Online Buyers Guide that I find on the PRIMA web site (http://www.primacentral.org/), but which is accessible to members only? Or is it something that is for internal use only? Fred Holmes * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro installation update
In my SATA case, the hard drive interfaces were on the motherboard, and the settings were in the motherboard BIOS setup. If in your case the hard drive interfaces are on an expansion card (AHA), then the appropriate settings (for detecting the drive and establishing its interface) should be in the BIOS setup of the expansion card/host adapter. Fred Holmes At 07:41 PM 2/6/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred, At first, I would agree with you 100%. The only part that, doesn't quite make it 100%, is that, I had this problem before I decided to set it up as a RAID. I have repeatedly gone into the computer BIOS(not the Adaptec BIOS) to find the option that would allow(or disallow) XP to see the SCSI HD's. I am stumped about, what option is controlling XP from seeing the SCSI HD's because, I know the AHA-39320 is properly set. What that comes down to is, what is the option in the BIOS that will allow the drives to be seen? The only IDE drive I have is, the CD-R/W that is the 'Secondary Master'. Christopher -- Original message -- From: Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK -- RAID. I have a Dell with SATA drive controllers. In the motherboard BIOS setup the controller operation (collectively) can be set to RAID = ON or RAID/ATA autodetect. In order to install WinXP on a single drive using a generic version of WinXP, one must put that setting to RAID/ATA autodetect. With RAID = ON, and a system installed, it will boot/work ok. Also with RAID = ON, the Dell-supplied installer will install. (but the Dell-provided installer is XP-Home and I wanted XP-Pro) The factory default is RAID = ON, and the help in the BIOS setup discourages one from changing it without good reason. Finding out this good reason was non-trivial. Perhaps some similar setting is the problem with your Adaptec controller? Fred Holmes At 12:17 PM 2/6/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to Google and, started doing a search with the keywords, 'Windows wont install'. While I was perusing the results, I came upon one, that talked about cleaning the disc so, I took out my CD disc cleaner and, tried that. Then I booted the computer with the disc and, F6 for the external drivers since it was no longer recognizing my AHA-39320 with extra help. I put in a floppy disk I had created by downloading the drivers. Well, It recognized the AHA-39320 but, it didn't recognize the drives connected to the AHA-39320. When I go through the SCSI utility software, it has no problem seeing the drives. I could even 'start' to setup a RAID if I wanted to, using RAID-0 or, RAID-1. Any ideas? Christopher * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install
Changing the drive letter is really not feasible. If the drive letter of the boot / system drive were changed, then you would have to go into the configuration of every installed program and change the location of the file to be launched and all of the helper files. That's an impossibly large task, only feasible accomplished by reinstalling all of the applications. Might as well start clean. Fred Holmes At 05:23 PM 2/8/2008, John Settle wrote: Greeting! I recently built my own PC for the first time. When I installed the operating system (Windows XP SP2 Home Edition) I made the green-horn error of having a combo floppy drive and 7-in-1 card reader install. Windows wound up lettering the floppy and all the 7-in-1 drives before it lettered my hard drive, hence the operating system is installed on Drive H. I've install the Microsoft Office Suite and a few other pieces of software and non-standard drive lettering does cause some problems. I'd like to correct the drive lettering and was curious to see if there was an alternative to uninstalling, formatting and re-installing the operating system and the other software. After I disconnect the problematic software. Any advice anyone? I suppose if I have to do that, now would be the best time! Thank you in advance. Clear skies, John J Settle (longitude 76W 56' 30.34, latitude 38N 57' 22.06) * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install
I've done that with one machine (different details) and have been able to get everything to work. Requires some tweaking. I've even considered it more secure, since nothing is in its standard location. That being said, the only thing I can recommend for a fix is a Google search. When booted, you can't change the letter for the boot or system drive (which can be different, the boot drive being where ntldr, etc. are, and the system drive being where the WINNT/WINDOWS director is). Rule of thumb is that all drives except a standard floppy attached to the motherboard should be disconnected when installing a Windows OS as the first OS on the machine unless you deliberately want a non-standard configuration. In principle one could install the drive as an extra drive on another machine, and then hack the appropriate portion of the configuration information (maybe just a registry entry), if you knew where it is. I don't. Fred Holmes At 05:23 PM 2/8/2008, John Settle wrote: Greeting! I recently built my own PC for the first time. When I installed the operating system (Windows XP SP2 Home Edition) I made the green-horn error of having a combo floppy drive and 7-in-1 card reader install. Windows wound up lettering the floppy and all the 7-in-1 drives before it lettered my hard drive, hence the operating system is installed on Drive H. I've install the Microsoft Office Suite and a few other pieces of software and non-standard drive lettering does cause some problems. I'd like to correct the drive lettering and was curious to see if there was an alternative to uninstalling, formatting and re-installing the operating system and the other software. After I disconnect the problematic software. Any advice anyone? I suppose if I have to do that, now would be the best time! Thank you in advance. Clear skies, John J Settle (longitude 76W 56' 30.34, latitude 38N 57' 22.06) * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install
Doesn't apply in this instance. It only applies to changing an accidentally-changed drive letter assignment back to the correct/original assignment. Read the article carefully. Fred Holmes At 06:38 PM 2/8/2008, mike wrote: We were both wrong...or right. The way to change the boot volume letter. Note: not for the feint of heart. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q223188 On Feb 8, 2008 3:54 PM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bzzzt. The system drive (or boot drive, as MS calls it right now) cannot be changed. Once H:, always H:. Unless you reinstall. If you can prove me wrong, I have two systems with boot drives other than C:; the users have no trouble with them, but I'd consider changing them. On Feb 8, 2008 5:36 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right click MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE. Select DISK MANAGEMENT in the window that opens from the list on the left. Right click the drive you want to change and the option should be in the menu. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] External HD enclosure question.....
If it's a decent machine: 1. It will still boot automatically from its own boot drive, without user intervention. 2. You could boot from the external drive by accessing the motherboard BIOS boot menu and selecting the external drive from the menu. Modern motherboards can boot from a USB drive. To access the boot menu, press one of the F-keys, similar to going into BIOS setup. If you have the POST set to display progress on the monitor, then you should get a message as to which key to press. (In principle you could also go into the motherboard BIOS setup menu and change the default boot drive, but that wouldn't make much sense in this instance.) 3. If you execute a boot from the old, now external drive, you will have all the wrong hardware drivers, especially the video drivers, and you will get unexpected results. (or maybe you get the expected results which are that the system defaults to 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 display resolution, and the audio card doesn't work.) Fred Holmes At 08:59 AM 2/9/2008, D.L.H. wrote: Situation: -New Vista machine (haven't seen it yet...arrives next week). -Old IDE hard drive inside an USB external HD enclosure. --from recently deceased homebuilt machine that ran XP-- -Can I assume that the new Vista machine shouldn't have an issue with the XP install or presence MBR on the drive in the external enclosure, since I expect the Vista machine not to recognize the USB external drive as a bootable device? Any pitfalls I should know about? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] QuickBooks Pro
I've been told that QuickBooks isn't capable of tracking funding sources, i.e. automatically ensuring that funds received (e.g., a grant) for a specific purpose are being spent for that purpose. I don't use Quickbooks, and it may be possible to add additional fields to the stock accounting database that would accomplish this. Such additional fields may require a higher level of training than most folks get. Fred Holmes At 11:59 AM 2/9/2008, Stephen Brownfield wrote: I recently purchased QuickBooks Pro Mac 2007 for our small non-profit because our account kept telling us that we need to upgrade and we were able to get it through TechSoup at a very reasonable price. I have not installed yet. I recall that there was a thread on the list not that long ago about a problem caused, I believe, by QuickBooks update feature. Has this problem been solved? Could I just turn off the update feature? What advice/warnings do you have before I install it? Thanks, Steve * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Truecrypt Encryption
Can the data which is encrypted/hidden by truecrypt be backed up by an ordinary backup program that catalogs the files on the source and backup drives, and copies new/newer files to the backup drive? Is there special backup software provided to accomplish backups? Fred Holmes At 07:30 AM 2/10/2008, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: David Chessler At 09:49 PM 2/9/2008, Tony B wrote: I'm not sure I believe this. Once it's been determined you've used TC, wouldn't there then be an assumption the outer container was just anouter container? I mean, a robber's purse is not a new concept. Check the documentation. The source code is on line. Basically, random data on your computer, without headers or other obvious ways of identifying it, is a real problem to identify as such. There are ways of identifying steganography because of the way snip Security Now had an analysis and review of TrueCrypt last year and didn't have anything negative to say about it, pretty much a glowing review. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Take my advice, I not using it! * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] USB drivers missing
If Device Manager won't tell you what driver it thinks it is using, then you might use device manager to un-install the USB ports, re-boot, and let the boot process see truly new hardware rather than what it likely sees as old hardware for which the device driver is either missing or unspecified. Maybe you need to do a system repair from the Win XP product disc? This is one good reason to purchase (download) DriverGuide Tookit (Google it). It will store a separate record of all of your drivers, and the drivers themselves in a separate folder on your hard drive. Then keep a backup of that folder on removable (and removed) media. (I am sure there are competitors to this product, but I tried this one first and liked it. Fred Holmes At 01:14 PM 2/13/2008, Robert wrote: This morning an ice storm hit my house and the power went out. After it was restored, my computer wouldn't boot because the setup menu was all changed (hard drives not recognized, etc.) I restored everything but now can't get the USB ports working. The driver is not found in Device Manager. Upon booting Windows XP SP2, a found new hardware message is received. A wizard then tries to find the USB driver on the internet but then reports that none can be found. What do I need to do to restore USB function? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] USB drivers missing
At 07:23 PM 2/13/2008, Robert wrote: OK, I can open the case and try to find the battery. If I remove the battery to see what it is, will everything be lost from the BIOS once again? If not, how long do I to replace it without losing the BIOS settings? The battery is almost certainly a CR-2032 button battery. Same battery as used in automobile door lock zappers. About the size of a quarter. It's been standard for more than five years now. With the machine turned off, but still plugged into the wall, so that there is still 5-volt power to the motherboard, change the battery very carefully. Use a plastic or wooden spatula to dislodge the old battery, instead of a metallic screwdriver. Or use a metallic screwdriver if you have a steady hand and the battery is located where you can see it clearly. The 5-volt power to the motherboard will sustain the CMOS RAM settings no matter how dead the battery is. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] USB drivers missing
It won't help you in this instance, but you can back up and restore your CMOS settings with: http://www.sharewareplaza.com/CMOSSave-download_51631.html I haven't used this version, but I have used an earlier version with good success. Something everyone should do. A Google of CMOSSAVE will find some of the older versions as well. You need a DOS boot disk to provide the OS from which CMOSSAVE.COM, CMOSCHK.COM, and CMOSREST.COM will run. FreeDOS will do. You don't need any drivers because you aren't trying to access any hardware except for the CMOS RAM and the video in 80 x 25 text mode. Since the CMOS RAM holds settings for a lot of things, including processor clock speed/multiplier, bus clock speed/multiplier, RAM timing, etc., it's really important to save these settings in a manner in which you can restore them from backup. Lots of things can blow away your CMOS settings, including installing software that turns out to be incompatible with something already on your machine. I've had that happen many times. Fred Holmes At 06:35 PM 2/13/2008, Robert wrote: Now that my USB problem appears to be solved on my Windows XP desktop, a further question. I earlier mentioned that I had to reset the Setup because after the power failure there were no drives were found, the date and time were wrong, the RAID controller had be switched on, etc. I restored these as best I could, but I'm not sure if I did it correctly. The computer seems to work OK, however. Will you please comment if anything is wrong? This is how I have configured it now. This I don't understand this at all from the setup menu: Hard Disk Drive Sequence: 1. System Bios 2. Unknown device (not installed) 3. USB device (not installed) 4. Unknown device (not installed) This I think is OK, but not sure: Drive Configuration: Diskette Drive A: SATA Raid: Off SATA Primary Hard Drive: On SATA Secondary Hard Drive: On Primary Master Drive: Off Primary Slave Drive: Off Secondary Master Drive: CD-ROM Secondary Slave Drive: CD-ROM IDE Drive UDMA: On The computer has two internal SATA hard drives installed, and two internal optical drives. According to computer specs, it is possible to add a third internal hard drive but not an SATA one. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] CGUYS.ORG Footer Updated
At 02:45 PM 2/16/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: - If I made any errors/typos. and almost no banter ??? And in general I would prefer the longer message trailer. Even for those on dialup, with 56k modems, the trailer takes little time to transmit, and little space on today's disks. I think you have too much time on your hands. Please at least put enough of the link that it shows in the message as an active hyperlink. You also might want to explicitly describe the listserv help command, or will folks learn too much information? Fred Holmes * For information about the list, managing your list subscription, list rules, * * list archives, privacy policy, calmness, and a member map go to CGUYS.ORG. *
Re: [CGUYS] CGUYS.ORG Footer Updated
At 05:50 PM 2/16/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: Please at least put enough of the link that it shows in the message as an active hyperlink. I can't put a hyperlink in a text-only message. If you put the full URL, http://www.cguys.org/ , or at least put www.cguys.org, my Eudora will automatically convert it to a real, working hyperlink after the message has been received. cguys.org all by itself doesn't work. I don't know what other mail clients do. Fred Holmes * For information about the list, managing your list subscription, list rules, * * list archives, privacy policy, calmness, and a member map go to CGUYS.ORG. *
Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet
If you Google it you get the answer in the first item of the Google list of hits, without even having to go to the hit page. I'll bet some folks use it for a password? Fred Holmes At 09:00 PM 2/18/2008, Robert Michael Abrams wrote: There are ALREADY some 5,878,499,814,186.5 websites with graphic images of sex acts on [their respective] home page[s]. Where have YOU been? Oh. I almost forgot: You need to be over 18, and I'll need a valid credit card before we can proceed. Extra credit to anybody who knows the significance of the number I used. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Word
Write a Word macro to do it. It should be straightforward if you are fluent in VBA. Fred Holmes At 08:10 AM 2/19/2008, Jay Montero wrote: Anyone know of a way I could insert a person's name in a Word document and have that somehow trigger the pulling in of related data off some database or spreadsheet? I know this is more of a database function but the final document needs to be in a Word format. So, in other words, say I was to type in a list of presidents names, the function would be to insert their terms directly beneath their names. Can this be done? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Word Doc Spell Check
If the document doesn't have some special formatting that will be lost in a copy/paste process, Select All and copy/paste it into a brand new document file. Even if you lose formatting, that should allow spell check to be run and at least identify the misspelled words for you. Fred Holmes At 08:03 AM 2/27/2008, Jay Montero wrote: Someone at work has a document which was created in Word and will not allow spell check to be run on it regardless of what computer we use. We are trying to figure out how to undo this feature. We are at a loss how the document got that way. Any ideas? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] USB cables
Cables that I have bought recently from brand-name sources have a logo that looks like the middle logo at the top of the page: http://www.usb.org/about/faq/ I would trust such cables to be fully compliant. What you say (the faq says) below is true, but how do you know if you bought fully compliant original USB cables when you bought cables way back when? Do you still have the product literature? . . . Simple physics says that physical cable construction is important for useful bandwidth. Try the old cable and see what happens. You may be all right. Testing will take you some time. The logo is on a piece of label paper (plastic, foil, etc.) that is wrapped around the cable and sticks to itself such that it wings out from the cable. Cables that come with a product such as a hub should be compliant, but generally don't have the label. All this is just observed practice. Fred Holmes At 09:33 PM 2/28/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: Yes. The cable should have a high speed USB label/logo on it. The physical composition of a cable assembly is important for the bandwidth of the signal it is designed to carry. Older USB cables won't carry USB2 / high speed. What does this logo look like? I have never seen such on a cable. The FAQ at www.usb.org/developers/usb20/faq20/ says: Q: Aren't the requirements for cables different at the new higher speed or will Original USB cables work with Hi-Speed USB? A: Fully compliant Original USB cables will work fine at Hi-Speed USB speeds... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] USB cables
I see those ferrite cores on lots of cables. I have several analog video cables (HD-15 connectors) with them. Since there is a connector on each end of the cable but the core is only on one end, it's not clear the purpose. There doesn't seem to be any instruction as to which end of the cable goes where (computer/monitor). I've always guessed that they were spike protection rather than interference protection -- high voltage that manages to get on the data lines starting, e.g., from the cable / telephone line Internet connection. Is there any credible official statement as to their purpose? Fred Holmes At 04:38 PM 3/3/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: Some of the USB cables I get with appliances also include a graphite choke to reduce interference. Some Apple keyboards have a ferrite core on the end of the cable that plugs into the computer. I think that is supposed to limit radiation FROM the keyboard. Not to keep QRN out of the computer. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Problem installing Windows on a system with Linux already on it
With today's cheap hard drives, etc., why not make it easy and put the Windows stuff on a separate hard drive, and use the motherboard's boot manager to select which device to boot from? At 05:34 PM 3/6/2008, John covici wrote: Hi all. I am trying to install Windows XP on a system which has partition 1 as an ntfs empty partition, and other partitions of the disk have Linux on them. When I try to do this, after hitting enter to select the partition, I get a message saying that the disk has no XP compatible partition. I even tried deleteing and creating a partition from the windows setup screen and itdid not do any good along with messing up the partition table. Anyone have a clue? Thanks. John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Problem installing Windows on a system with Linux already on it
There is a key to press at boot time, different from the key to load the bios setup routine, that takes you directly to the motherboard's boot manager and nothing else. The screen is simple: use up/down-arrow to select the device to boot from and press enter. Doesn't change the data stored in CMOS RAM at all. Performs the same function as a software boot manager. Fred Holmes At 07:36 PM 3/6/2008, John covici wrote: This would not work for me as I wold then have to go into the BIOS and change things around and I am not even sure I could do this. on Thursday 03/06/2008 Fred Holmes([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote With today's cheap hard drives, etc., why not make it easy and put the Windows stuff on a separate hard drive, and use the motherboard's boot manager to select which device to boot from? At 05:34 PM 3/6/2008, John covici wrote: Hi all. I am trying to install Windows XP on a system which has partition 1 as an ntfs empty partition, and other partitions of the disk have Linux on them. When I try to do this, after hitting enter to select the partition, I get a message saying that the disk has no XP compatible partition. I even tried deleteing and creating a partition from the windows setup screen and itdid not do any good along with messing up the partition table. Anyone have a clue? Thanks. John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
