At 02:09 PM 1/10/2009, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>The only thing that does not work for me is the ToDo list. Tasks go in,
>but just accumulate.
Sounds like a personal problem, not a "computer" problem. I procrastinate on a
lot of stuff mys
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s per year on it.
Fred Holmes
At 11:20 AM 1/11/2009, Alvin Auerbach wrote:
>There' s been a great deal of discussion here about unlocking used
>cell phones, and I assume that this means using the phones for several
>years. Correct?
>
>But what about obtaining batteries? My
While there seems to be no permalink, there is a "previous joy" button (which
is a picture thumbnail) that will take you to prior editions of "The Joy of
Tech." There is a row of thumbnails underneath the main pane. It appears that
they post a new one every two or three da
popping up a window on your computer.
What is the long-term monthly/annual charge for Vonage service? For Magic
Jack, it's very cheap, less than $15 per year IIRC. This may be an
introductory price, but they have solicited payment for 5 years worth, which
faster
than a 56kb dialup modem, but a very small fraction of the bandwidth available
from any kind of broadband connection.
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e by 3/4 inch thick. There is no separate
"dongle" (password device) required in my setup. Is that what everyone else
has? I would not call it a "large device." Maybe early adopters got a large
device and hardware version 2.0 is the "dongle"?
Fred Holmes
At
at my "desk" and often using the computer anyway. At less than $20 per
year, the cost of Magic Jack is very low in the noise of my finances.
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emphasis mean?
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Has the window gone oversize or moved partly off the top of the screen? Move
the window. Alt-spacebar to show the "control" menu and then use the "move"
command with the arrow keys. Fix any size errors in the same fashion.
Fred Holmes
At 04:44 PM 1/16/2009, Marcio V.
In the classic "Yellow Pages" I believe it was/is policy to list every business
for free as a simple one-liner. The cost came when the business wanted a
graphic m x n advertisement on the page.
At 05:23 PM 1/21/2009, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>>I suspect businesses have to pay to have their locations
;Properties" is commanded. It is an editable text box, labelled "Label:".
Other windows OS's should be similar.
Fred Holmes
At 05:00 PM 1/24/2009, mike wrote:
>http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php
>
>On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:51 PM, jsutter wrote:
>
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install to a freshly formatted hard drive.
Fred Holmes
At 03:01 PM 1/26/2009, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>In the last little while I have been getting screen remnants.
>
>I will pick some command from something either a program or a menu command
>from an icon, and it stays on the scr
What you want to use for the volume label is: drive_c_xp
Fred Holmes
At 02:46 PM 1/26/2009, jsutter wrote:
>hi
>getting noplace.
>
>the volume label that i see on the my computer screen is: drive_c_xp(c:)
>which will not be accepted nor will variations, such as c_xp, c:, c:\
ing.
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d image for display purposes.
That being said, let's assume that a resolution of 400 x 300 pixels (adjust for
aspect ratio) will do pretty well on most computers. It needs to be small
enough to display in the message window of the mail client; don't use th
t have the diacriticals
in its stable of characters, then the problem you describe is likely to occur.
I.e., don't try to import individual characters, try to import a typeface that
has the necessary individual characters in its character set. You not only
have to import the graphic of the requ
At 04:10 PM 1/31/2009, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>Interesting point. If that is the case why does an income-producing
>property go into foreclosure? Did all of the tennants in these areas get
>whiped out in a cataclysm that the government is keeping secret?
>Something else must have happened to cause t
(copy) error messages when the Windows copy command doesn't work.
Structurise has been in business for a long time. I have Kleptomania 1.0 from
1998.
All of the above only for making legal copies, of course.
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an wireless client.
Fred Holmes
At 01:58 PM 2/7/2009, Mike Sloane wrote:
>I have an office with an 8-port Ethernet router on a broadband cable
>connection. I have been requested the ability to provide some wireless
>capability temporarily (for outside auditors). I have a spare 4-por
If I were buying a complete
computer over the web, I think I'd want to have some sort of phone conversation
with the vendor, but maybe some vendors don't allow that??
Fred Holmes
At 04:39 PM 2/7/2009, John Emmerling wrote:
>When buying a new computer, how can you tell whethe
leasing the ZIF lever?
Did ZIF sockets go out of style at some point because they were unreliable or
for some other reason?
Fred Holmes
At 02:21 PM 2/15/2009, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>I have a computer question and it is aimed at the Do It Yourselfer.
>
>I was replacing a coolin
inter becomes a thin line
drawing that is hard to pick up.
Fred Holmes
At 09:18 PM 2/15/2009, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
>I've recently started playing with Linux/Fedora. In it I can locate the
>pointer/cursor by pressing the control key. Is there anything like this for
>loca
or XP into a virtual machine on XP and run legacy apps that
way? Including legacy hardware such as older printers?
Fred Holmes
At 01:13 PM 2/28/2009, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>>B) Not so very long ago you mentioned that you couldn't use (or knew people
>>who couldn't use) Vista bec
e time. I'm sure I could make stuff look good using a high end graphics
package on Windows, but I don't want the cost nor the learning curve for that.
WP 5.1 does just fine.
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DOS machine is still working, I haven't yet paid the cost for one of these apps
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new programming language (or user interface
to a program) requires a significant investment of time. To invest that time,
I have to take it away from something else. What? In many instances one just
can't justify the trade-off.
"The better is the enemy of the &#
hat
run without any connection to household electricity, i.e., you still have hot
water for a shower even if the electricity has gone off in a storm (or some
idiot hitting a pole).
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Can you switch the display into 132-column mode in the DOS box?
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At 12:38 PM 3/2/2009, rleesimon wrote:
>funny you talkabout 5.1 ...I just downloaded 5.1forDOS which is posted4free
>and works perfectly on my xpSP3 machine in a dos window...now, I hafta
>remember all
In order for that preference to be displayed, WP 5.1 must "see" a video
card/driver that is capable of 132-column text mode. That has long since been
dropped in Windows, I believe. It's one of the the things that keeps my DOS
machine alive.
Fred Holmes
At 08:04 PM 3/2/2009,
If you can temporarily set the processor speed to something lower than 1 GHz in
order to install the driver, do so, and then set the processor speed back up.
The software was probably written when 500 MHz was top-of-the-line.
Fred Hlmes
At 05:18 PM 3/2/2009, Ellen Rains Harris wrote:
>A friend
You can buy a "bare case" for an external hard drive, and install the drive of
your choice in it. There is a wide variety of cases for sale, with a wide
variety of interfaces, including combination interfaces. (USB, Firewire,
e-SATA, SATA, even SCSI, etc.)
Fred Holmes
At 04:00 P
is a bit longer. (I've never had/used one
of these specialty keyboards with extra functions.)
Fred Holmes
At 07:39 PM 3/6/2009, Eric S. Sande wrote:
>Found the problem, thanks.
>
>I'm kind of embarassed to report the cause.
>
>The keyboard has a row of buttons across t
"Dreamweaver is dying"
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/05/dreamweaver-is-dying/
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For a single length of cable, computer to peripheral, the computer end is an
"A" connector, and the peripheral end is a "B" connector. Cameras and such
have a miniature "B" connector.
"A" to "A" is used as an extension cable. You plug the extension cable into
the computer, and the far end of
than a single stream. BitTorrent
(spelling?) is a particular implementation.
Fred Holmes
At 12:19 PM 3/13/2009, Judy Cosler wrote:
>what is a 'torrent'???
>
>On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:23 AM, mike wrote:
>
>> I know this isn't quite a computer topic but it does
At 01:18 PM 3/13/2009, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>Perhaps it is not too late for BHO's new CTO to save the day? One can
>only hope.
BHO's CTO is home on leave pending resolution of the mess in his old DC
government office.
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visible, the third monitor is for progress dialogs on background processes, etc.
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At 12:10 AM 3/18/2009, Steve at Verizon wrote:
>And for you Firefox (and Thunderbird) users, MozBackup is a very easy
>backup/restore utility. I use it to sync with my laptop (does not only
>bookmarks, but your Bookmark Toolbar, saved logon passwords, etc.)
The Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey bookma
Won't a "normal" Windows search find it? Maybe that's why I keep using Windows
2000 and have it show all files including system and "hidden" files.
Fred Holmes
At 11:29 PM 3/23/2009, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>I thought so too, but I had a heck of a time fin
st good applications have the option of
using a legacy interface for the application.
Fred Holmes
At 10:29 AM 3/24/2009, Chris Dunford wrote:
>I wasn't going to say anything, but since you did: I agree with this
>completely. The ribbon interface is a little disconcerting the first tim
is hot requires more manual dexterity
than I have.
And F1 help is mostly worthless. You have to know the lexicon of the
application's author. If you call a feature by a generic name, it won't be
found. So one wastes a whole lot of time guessing alternative ways to denote
the process
ways very small and is not representative of "the public."
One size does not fit all. All applications need to be highly configurable,
and the configuration process needs to be "intuitive."
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economies now depend on exporting oil. Why do we want to do that?
Fred Holmes
At 07:23 AM 3/26/2009, Chris Dunford wrote:
>"The global warming alarmists refuse to engage
>in the debate, that's how I know it's a hoax." Since climate scientists
>consistently r
for cut, copy, paste look
like. Most icons are not "intuitive" to me on first use.
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re, I think.
I use the same formatting all the time to write letters, minutes, reports, . .
. I don't need a lot of options "at my fingertips."
I'm always suspicious of someone else's document that has "too much formatting."
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At 09:33 AM 3/26/2009, Jeff Wright wrote:
>but anyone that uses it regularly for long
>periods of the day will adjust
Many, most of us don't (use it regularly for long periods of the day). How do
you accommodate those who don't? Hire "secretaries" to do everyone's word
processing?
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off all of that automation -- such automation is
just one more way for hackers to do something malicious.
Fred Holmes
At 11:48 PM 3/26/2009, mike wrote:
>I understood libraries couldn't do more then aggregate folders not file
>types? So when I open the Pictures library, it opens all fil
At 09:58 PM 3/26/2009, katan wrote:
>The "Libraries" folder seems pointless. It's just a rehash of some of
>the folders in "Username" (My Pictures, My Music, My Documents, and My
>Videos).
This sort of data storage arrangement has always seemed to me to be the wrong
way to go. The first thing th
I don't mind if Bush's NSA reads my e-mail, but I don't want Obama's NSA doing
it.
Fred Holmes
At 01:44 PM 3/27/2009, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>>WARNING: Due to a Presidential Executive Order, the National Security
>>Agency may have read this email without warn
>++
>| TomTom Settles With Microsoft |
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>| http:/
At 01:12 PM 4/2/2009, Chris Dunford wrote:
>during which Dubya thanked her for helping to celebrate our
>Bicentennial in 1776. The Queen is getting on in years, but she's not quite
>THAT old.)
Obama makes a lot of speaking errors, but the press just doesn't report them.
At 12:11 PM 4/2/2009, mike wrote:
>That's funny cause I heard she already had one.
According to news reports, she did.
I guess it was the content loaded on Obama's gift that was the present.
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Roosevelt (or something like that).
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necessary. Help that is not only indexed on what the
jargon of the application is, but on all of the terms a user might think up to
put into the search text looking for a way to do something. I've never seen
the latter done.
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Use of OpenDNS is also recommended as a Conficker preventive.
http://www.opendns.com/
Nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.
If you register/open an account [free] they analyze your traffic and will
report traffic that gives evidence that you may be infected with Conficker.
Fred
At 07:55 PM 4/5/2009, Robert Carroll wrote:
>(1) Is there some further test to do on the speakers before deciding that
>they have failed and need to be replaced? (They are out of warranty.)
Plug them into another computer, or even into an iPod headphone jack?
ible
through a shortcut. I don't want any registration of file extensions to
automatically open with Open Office apps.
Yes, I'm running Win2k or XP on the various machines the portable hard drive
might be plugge
;ve uninstalled it because of its annoyance. When I
uninstalled it there were various warnings that certain things would break, but
I ignored the warnings.
TIA
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The first thing I thought of was the right-click menu, but didn't find anything
recognizable. I will reinstall it and see what happens this time. Thanks for
the info on what should be there. There was lots of other stuff for
customizing the Task Bar on the right-click menu.
Fred Hlmes
At 11
r sees what you will get, although
I've never checked if the borders are exact. My digital zoom is cropping after
the picture is on the computer. The memory card is plenty big enough to shoot
all the pictures I want using the entire CCD array.
Fred Holmes
At 04:35 PM 4/16/2009, db wrote:
yes _are_ bad. Thank God for autofocus. The only way I can judge a
picture is at 100% resolution on my computer monitor. It's the best I can do
at my age.
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mergency TV set became useless,
with no service or device available to replace it.
Fred Holmes
At 06:39 AM 4/20/2009, Chris Dunford wrote:
>"Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV broadcasts
>for mobile devices like cell phones, laptop computers and in-
in its legacy place) option for
the Office 2007 applications, and all would be well. Too expensive, too much
in a hurry, or too lazy to do that? But then everything I need to do seems to
be a capability of Office 2000 anyway, so I just use it.
Fred Holmes
At 06:55 AM 4/20/2009, Chris Dunfor
it, and make it more likely found.
The more options the better, including the options to use one type of interface
or another. Let the just-upgraded user use the classic interface immediately,
when he has a deadline to meet, and then explore the new interface when he has
time to mess around.
Starting maybe a week ago, spam for "medicine," etc. has gone back up to as
great as it has ever been. Anyone else noticed it? Whoever got "shut down"
has found another way to get "back up" or has been justified in the
that is plugged in, flash drive, hard drive, etc. I gather Windows 7 has even
more automation?
I really don't like any automation that I haven't programmed myself.
Default-enabled automation is usually a hook that a hacker can use to m
Spring for the cost and purchase a router. In addition to being more
straightforward to set up (via a web page), you get the advantage of a
"hardware" firewall. And the Mac mini doesn't have to be turned on for the
MacBook to obtain access to the Internet.
Fred Holmes
At 08
ow the specific frequency bands that are relevant.
Used to know all the frequencies when I was a kid, but I've forgotten them all,
and they have all changed anyway.
HTH
Fred Holmes
At 02:58 AM 5/6/2009, rleesimon wrote:
>I am in sNJ 08320 and have a 40' tower with an uhf/vhf antenna
-SATA, the interface for the
external drive is on the motherboard or on a PCI (or other) interface expansion
card, and the maximum size is thereby determined.
Yes, you can use a large hard drive in an external USB/Firewire case/interface
on your old machine. Even USB-1.
Fred Holmes
At 06:34 P
uld stop using SSAN's for physical identification of people --
only use them for logical identification -- and consider all SSAN's to be well
known (compromised). SSAN's should be used the same way date of bir
While I understand your point, if the amount of data to be transferred is not
huge, and the computer is an old one that doesn't happen to have a USB2/fast
port, you may just want to use the USB1 port as-is, rather than going to the
trouble of installing a USB2 expansion card in the computer. Be
drives.
Schedulers will perform the automatic backup at any time interval you wish.
Some will even continuously monitor your data directory for changed files and
perform the backup "immediately." That may be a hazard, as a corrupted file
could overwrite a good backup.
Fred Holme
up, or at
least the largest/newest one.
Fred Holmes
At 08:25 AM 5/11/2009, Reid Katan wrote:
>Quoting Tom Chambers :
>
>>The computer is working fine , and I can recover
>>the bookmark list from one of my other machines . My problem is that
>>FireFo
e house, it can
accumulate in the box very quickly. I don't really know what an iMac is, but
if it is a tower unit that is kept on the floor, units kept on the floor seem
to accumulate dust much more rapidly than desktop units.
Fred Holmes
At 06:10 PM 5/12/2009, Richard P. wrote:
&
>Reply-To: do-not-re...@marketwatchmail.com
>Subject: WSJ TECHNOLOGY ALERT: Microsoft Expected to Unveil New Search Engine
>Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 18:49:07 -0400
>To: f...@his.com
>From: "WSJ.com Editors"
>
>__
>Technology Alert
>from The Wall Street Journal
>
>
>Mi
/turn on the power, and connect the USB data cable, and it works. And
the bare drive is minimum form factor for storing back-up media.
Fred Holmes
At 02:38 PM 5/29/2009, Jeff Miles wrote:
>Thanks for the assurance and the link. I ended up getting this one:
>"Antec MX-100 3
MSIE in order to run
Windows Update.
Fred Holmes
At 10:24 PM 6/11/2009, t.piwowar wrote:
>So much smarter than those regulators from "Old Europe," M$ has
>announced that the European version of Win 7 will ship with no
>software to access the Internet. Take that you c
Well, will "Windows Update" be installed on the "Spiteful [European] Win7
Release"? If so, then presumably it could be used to download MSIE, and maybe
other browsers as well?
Fred Holmes
At 01:51 AM 6/16/2009, mike wrote:
>Windows update doesn't use IE anymore
er (free or low cost) that might
have it?
I like reading newsgroups using Forte Agent, and want to stick with that. Not
use some alternative means such as a web interface. I'm a Luddite perhaps?
I suppose I could request Cox to add it, but I doubt that they would be
resp
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
At 10:01 AM 7/1/2009, Chris Dunford wrote:
>Does Task Manager show some process that's eating all your CPUs?
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Yes, and in many instances, the "last four" [digist] are publicly displayed, or
at least are less well protected than the entire SSAN. And it's the "first
five" that are easily "guessed" from date and place of birth information.
Fred Holmes
At 09:21 AM
7;s the need to code it into
the DL#?
Fred Holmes
At 05:15 PM 7/7/2009, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>Similar to Wisconsin's DL #s. I was once told the State Trooper could get
>your SSN and a few other things all from your DL#. (I don't mean running it,
>but by reading it,
If you purchase a new drive in a new enclosure (which has a new interface),
then you can use the full 1 or 2 TB of the external drive on your old machine,
via a USB port. It's the interface at the peripheral end of the USB cord that
determines what kinds of drives will work.
Fred Holme
Just pay cash.
At 06:57 AM 7/12/2009, Tony B wrote:
>It may be true in the future that muggers will carry rfid scanners.
>They may be small enough that they could be concealed in the clothing,
>and would perhaps use a projection system to display the data inside
>the thief's retina where no one el
At 02:49 PM 7/12/2009, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>I am not paranoid, are you?
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that you aren't being targeted.
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nually insert the hyperlinked URL? I suppose
that's possible, but would be a real chore.
Again, the name of the game is to save a web page in .pdf file format, with
active hyperlinks that allow the hyperlinked URL to be loaded in the browser by
click
e only separate links for each individual check.
What do businesses do if they want to store check images locally for long term
preservation?
I've tried a Google search for this, with no meaningful results, or I don't
know what the
;background" if the time to execute the script is long.
Thanks for your help.
Fred Holmes
At 08:37 PM 7/15/2009, Vicky Staubly wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, t.piwowar wrote:
>>On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
>>>I'd like to automate the process so that al
anks don't want
individuals or businesses to keep complete records at home/office.
At 07:48 PM 7/15/2009, t.piwowar wrote:
>On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
>>I'd like to automate the process so that all available check images
>>are downloaded by an automat
gt;posted by timothy on Wednesday July 15, @17:06 (Bug)
>http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/15/2050215
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other
electronic copy by scanning the paper copy into a then-current file format on
then-current digital storage media.
And I really don't want to do any electronic transactions until it takes a CAC
card to authenticate the user.
The process must scale to a
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
BootItNG and other products.
At 11:23 PM 7/20/2009, Ari M. Goldberg wrote:
>Has anyone used anything else besides Norton Ghost to perform backup
>images of a single desktop? A quick search took me to a product called
>Clonezilla and some other free Open Source so
right to provide it) in a free will contract between the
contracting parties. No government rationing of health care (procedures,
medicines, etc.).
Fred Holmes
At 10:35 PM 7/26/2009, Marcio wrote:
> I am a physician, I may say a atypical physician. Americans will do the right
> thing after
f course, these notifications can be suppressed by a
choice in the BIOS setup.
The foregoing is totally separate from any multiple boot manager software that
you may have installed on your default boot drive.
Fred Holmes
rt, are fortunate because they or their
parents worked hard and smart to earn.
Fred Holmes
At 07:08 AM 7/28/2009, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
> When I hear all the railing against a single-payer system, with the
>attendant calls for maintaining a system in the United States that is
>si
We aren't digging in our heels to keep it as it is. The Republicans tried to
make all sorts of changes to the health care system in the previous
administration, all of which were filibustered or defeated by Democrats playing
knee-jerk opposition to everything the Republicans did.
Fred H
for other documents that don't feed
correctly un-sheathed.
Fred Holmes
At 06:34 AM 8/8/2009, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 06:34:13 -0400
>Reply-To: Computer Guys Discussion List
>From: Rich Schinnell
>Subject: [CGUYS] HP Drivers Nuts & Time Machine Madn
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