Re: [CGUYS] Camera Memory

2007-09-18 Thread Fred Holmes
, which, at the resolution I use, is good for 500 pictures. It's really difficult to take 500 pictures before you have an opportunity to move them to a computer. It's a "High Speed" card that I got at Wal Mart (but a brand name one, I forget which brand) for $40. Fred Holmes At 12

Re: [CGUYS] Camera Memory

2007-09-18 Thread Fred Holmes
ot;disk" (card) to ensure that all sectors are writable and readable. Fred Holmes At 07:36 PM 9/18/2007, gerald wrote: >although I may format the thing to some microsoft format, olympus has its' own >bastard format, and so if I stick it into the camera, I have to wait while i

[CGUYS] Fwd: NYT: Altered iPhones Freeze Up

2007-09-29 Thread Fred Holmes
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?th&emc=th ... ***

Re: [CGUYS] undelete Canon pix on Canon SD card?

2007-10-29 Thread Fred Holmes
s from removable media, one is trying to recover usable space. When you move stuff from its folder to the trash folder you don't recover any usable space. You have to empty the trash to recover the usable space. That's when Search and Recover is handy. Fred Holmes At 01:50 PM 10/29/2007

[CGUYS] Cymphonix Speed-O-Meter has "disappeared"

2007-11-03 Thread Fred Holmes
elect 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 '

Re: [CGUYS] Reliable, free broadband speed test sites?

2007-11-03 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Computer Clock settings (was [CGUYS] iMac problem)

2007-11-08 Thread Fred Holmes
ript 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

[CGUYS] Short USB "extension cord"

2007-11-16 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Short USB "extension cord"

2007-11-16 Thread Fred Holmes
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) >>ext

Re: [CGUYS] case feet

2007-11-18 Thread Fred Holmes
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? &

Re: [CGUYS] FIOS and surge protection

2007-11-19 Thread Fred Holmes
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 > >__ >Mich

Re: [CGUYS] FIOS and surge protection

2007-11-20 Thread Fred Holmes
se 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 actu

Re: [CGUYS] Opportunity for a Mac Fan

2007-11-24 Thread Fred Holmes
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=64

Re: [CGUYS] MS IE 7

2007-12-03 Thread Fred Holmes
MS likely has learned that there are some problems, and is offering free support for IE7 so it can determine exactly what the problems are (and perhaps try to fix them). If too many folks have problems with a new product, word gets around and people stop using it, stop trying to use it. That's

Re: [CGUYS] MS IE 7

2007-12-03 Thread Fred Holmes
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 fo

Re: [CGUYS] MS IE 7

2007-12-03 Thread Fred Holmes
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-COM

Re: [CGUYS] No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-03 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Programmer's Test Editor for Windows?

2007-12-03 Thread Fred Holmes
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 thin

Re: [CGUYS] Reader for SDHC media cards

2007-12-08 Thread Fred Holmes
xplicitly 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 4&8 gig media. they are formatted differently. > >when I plug the schc ca

Re: [CGUYS] Reader for SDHC media cards

2007-12-08 Thread Fred Holmes
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 li

Re: [CGUYS] Dual boot question for Vista and XP on separate drives

2007-12-08 Thread Fred Holmes
provided manually. What are the URLs you have read about this? boot.ini is the boot selector used by WinXP, Win2K and WinNT. It's a simple text file with a straightforward format, that you can create/edit with a text editor (after removing the system/hidden attributes). Fred Holmes

Re: [CGUYS] Internet Radio Beats Digital

2007-12-10 Thread Fred Holmes
Does the device have an Ethernet cable connection as well, or is WiFi the only way to obtain a signal? I use a wired router at home, and the only place (for now) that I would use such a device is in the room with my computer. Thanks, Fred Holmes At 09:22 PM 12/9/2007, Steve at Verizon wrote

Re: [CGUYS] Internet Radio Beats Digital

2007-12-10 Thread Fred Holmes
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 PRO

[CGUYS] Fwd: The Elite Apple Corps

2007-12-10 Thread Fred Holmes
In case you missed this... - The Elite Apple Corps A Hundred Million Strong, Every One of Them Cool. By Hank Stuever Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 9, 2007; Page M01 Whatever it is (Radio Shack for rich people? The Sharp -est Image?), the Apple Store isn't what it used to be

[CGUYS] MS Office 2007 SP1 is available for download.

2007-12-11 Thread Fred Holmes
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-A997-25DA01F388F5&displaylang=en http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/8/1/08186057-e110-49fb-b455-17899cf082d8

Re: [CGUYS] External hard drives: brand comparison

2007-12-12 Thread Fred Holmes
ng 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 wro

Re: [CGUYS] External hard drives: brand comparison

2007-12-12 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox runaway web page problem ?

2007-12-13 Thread Fred Holmes
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 >re

Re: [CGUYS] Upgrade the video card?

2007-12-26 Thread Fred Holmes
han 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 0

Re: [CGUYS] Can't open larger images

2007-12-26 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Upgrade the video card?

2007-12-26 Thread Fred Holmes
#x27;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

Re: [CGUYS] Verifying DMI Pool Data i.e. upgrading (2)256MB to (2)512MB

2007-12-29 Thread Fred Holmes
r 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 m

Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?

2007-12-29 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?

2007-12-29 Thread Fred Holmes
ames 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&

Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?

2007-12-29 Thread Fred Holmes
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 th

Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?

2007-12-29 Thread Fred Holmes
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Are Passwords Obsolete?

2007-12-29 Thread Fred Holmes
today). I suspect it's only a matter of time before they write a screenreader/mouselogger that will do the same thing as a keylogger. Fred Holmes * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in

Re: [CGUYS] SD FAT16

2007-12-29 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Quickbooks and MD taxes

2007-12-31 Thread Fred Holmes
t 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 in

Re: [CGUYS] Just a silly observation

2008-01-01 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] RIAA

2008-01-01 Thread Fred Holmes
gh 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.

Re: [CGUYS] Audio Conversion?

2008-01-02 Thread Fred Holmes
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 T

[CGUYS] Photographic slide/negative digitizer?

2008-01-03 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Foiled and Refoiled by MS Access

2008-01-04 Thread Fred Holmes
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.c

Re: [CGUYS] Audio Conversion?

2008-01-06 Thread Fred Holmes
Make and model of the device? At 05:30 PM 1/4/2008, Steve Rigby wrote: > I have recently begun using USB as my audio input path and am very satisfied > with the good results. Better than with my normal built-in audio inputs. > > Steve *

Re: [CGUYS] Total Recorder -- was: OpenDNS weirdness

2008-01-11 Thread Fred Holmes
dd-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

Re: [CGUYS] OK, I messed up

2008-01-12 Thread Fred Holmes
, without a case, are handy for a temporary lash-up like this. Keeping data on a separate partition of the hard drive is a partial solution. It avoids the problem of overwriting lost data by installing Search and Recover. Fred Holmes At 11:56 PM 1/12/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I accidenta

Re: [CGUYS] OK, I messed up

2008-01-13 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] audio issues

2008-01-13 Thread Fred Holmes
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 A

Re: [CGUYS] Optical drive firmware questions....

2008-01-14 Thread Fred Holmes
mware 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 de

Re: [CGUYS] Internet Web Cam

2008-01-18 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Internet Web Cam

2008-01-18 Thread Fred Holmes
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 t

Re: [CGUYS] OS 9 printer follies

2008-01-22 Thread Fred Holmes
sterization 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 pr

Re: [CGUYS] Hotel WiFi advice?

2008-01-25 Thread Fred Holmes
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Telephone companies and privacy

2008-01-27 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows X

2008-01-27 Thread Fred Holmes
The only thing that spinrite does is to locate bad sectors and recover the data, if possible, and then write it somewhere else. It doesn't do anything with messed up drive logic. Fred Holmes At 09:45 PM 1/27/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: >>> Without a general idea of what needs to

Re: [CGUYS] USB Malfunction

2008-01-28 Thread Fred Holmes
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 USB

Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro installation problem

2008-01-31 Thread Fred Holmes
s, 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

Re: [CGUYS] Suddenly a disk drive is not formatted in Windows XP

2008-01-31 Thread Fred Holmes
th 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 <

Re: [CGUYS] Not recognizing the slave drive

2008-02-03 Thread Fred Holmes
hat Windows doesn't understand, it won't show up in "My computer." What does disk management show? (run diskmgmt.msc) Fred Holmes * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands i

Re: [CGUYS] Not recognizing the slave drive

2008-02-03 Thread Fred Holmes
If he's setting jumpers, the drive is PATA, not SATA. At 03:28 PM 2/3/2008, Jeff Wright wrote: >Another thing to consider is that mobos only 3 years old or so will have >SATA I support, but may not recognize SATA II drives, even though they are >supposed to be backwards compatible. I've been burn

Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro installation update

2008-02-06 Thread Fred Holmes
ID = 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: >

Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?

2008-02-06 Thread Fred Holmes
is readily readable without any scrolling. It "emulates" the Access interface. Stability should be mostly dependent upon how much RAM and swap file space you have in the machines that are running the spreadsheet. Fred Holmes At 03:13 PM 2/6/2008, Constance Warner wrote: >Fo

Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?

2008-02-06 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?

2008-02-06 Thread Fred Holmes
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 a

Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?

2008-02-06 Thread Fred Holmes
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? F

Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?

2008-02-06 Thread Fred Holmes
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 availa

Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro installation update

2008-02-06 Thread Fred Holmes
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 R

Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
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 Hom

Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
nfiguration 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 mad

Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
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 boo

Re: [CGUYS] External HD enclosure question.....

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
ed 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 i

Re: [CGUYS] QuickBooks Pro

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
ot;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

Re: [CGUYS] Truecrypt Encryption

2008-02-10 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] USB drivers missing

2008-02-13 Thread Fred Holmes
er 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.

Re: [CGUYS] USB drivers missing

2008-02-13 Thread Fred Holmes
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-

Re: [CGUYS] USB drivers missing

2008-02-13 Thread Fred Holmes
s 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,

Re: [CGUYS] CGUYS.ORG & Footer Updated

2008-02-16 Thread Fred Holmes
;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 informa

Re: [CGUYS] CGUYS.ORG & Footer Updated

2008-02-16 Thread Fred Holmes
ys.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

Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet

2008-02-19 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Word

2008-02-19 Thread Fred Holmes
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 &

Re: [CGUYS] Do Not Call Lists

2008-02-19 Thread Fred Holmes
With Verizon Wireless you can "decline" text messaging, i.e., turn it off altogether, if that works for you. I did it verbally, i.e., by calling customer service and asking them to turn off all texting to/from my phone. Fred Holmes At 02:02 PM 2/19/2008, David Chessler wrote

Re: [CGUYS] Word Doc Spell Check

2008-02-27 Thread Fred Holmes
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 Holme

Re: [CGUYS] USB cables

2008-02-28 Thread Fred Holmes
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. At 06:26 PM 2/28/2008, Stephen Brownfield wrote: >When connecting

Re: [CGUYS] USB cables

2008-02-28 Thread Fred Holmes
e 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

Re: [CGUYS] USB cables

2008-03-03 Thread Fred Holmes
ial" 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

Re: [CGUYS] Problem installing Windows on a system with Linux already on it

2008-03-06 Thread Fred Holmes
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 >p

Re: [CGUYS] Problem installing Windows on a system with Linux already on it

2008-03-07 Thread Fred Holmes
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 Th

Re: [CGUYS] Problem installing Windows on a system with Linux a

2008-03-07 Thread Fred Holmes
ssing F2 to activate the BIOS setup routine). Fred Holmes At 09:49 PM 3/6/2008, John covici wrote: >I thought you were asking me to put windows on a new drive and then >change the boot sequence? It would be much easier to find an answer >to my original question, if its possible at all.

Re: [CGUYS] start from an external

2008-03-15 Thread Fred Holmes
emory or CMOS RAM that stores this "preference" data, and a motherboard ROM with code to read it and change it. Fred Holmes At 07:09 PM 3/15/2008, Jeff Miles wrote: >It's connected through a firewire cable. And yes, it's a fully >operation OS X. I'd assume

Re: [CGUYS] Cable vs DSL ( was Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop)

2008-03-15 Thread Fred Holmes
would make some difference. Putting the wire/cable underground gives it much better physical security. Fred Holmes At 07:29 PM 3/15/2008, Stephen Brownfield wrote: >All this cable/DSL talk got me wondering: Is DSL any more secure/safer than >cable or vis-a-versa? > > > >Tom Pi

Re: [CGUYS] Intuit is back for more cash

2008-03-17 Thread Fred Holmes
And most financial data can be downloaded in .csv (comma separated variable) file format, which Excel will load natively. Fred Holmes At 07:33 AM 3/17/2008, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: >There is usually a deal for quicken at tax time from Staples if you >buy TurboTax. I think was about $10

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-17 Thread Fred Holmes
you want to put a server in your house you can get the speeds to do it, but you must pay "business" rates for the service. ?? Fred Holmes * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-18 Thread Fred Holmes
Can you notify the power company of an outage with a cell phone text message? Fred Holmes At 10:39 PM 3/17/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: >What I read (and I think it was on this list) is that they disable the POTS >service from the box or father back. > >It is their way of cut

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-18 Thread Fred Holmes
OTS phones are fed by fiber to the neighborhood where it joins the neighborhood copper, the only place that the power-over-copper can be supplied is from the neighborhood connection to the grid, which may be down (unless power copper is in the bundle with the fiber). Fred Holmes At 04:22 PM

Re: [CGUYS] Nat Geo Classroom

2008-03-18 Thread Fred Holmes
Shouldn't all insurance reimbursements be below average? Fred Holmes At 10:42 AM 3/18/2008, Brian Jones wrote: > By the way, Medicare is the leader when it comes to decreasing insurance > reimbursement. When they commissioned the Harvard Study, all the insurance > companies

Re: [CGUYS] Recommendation

2008-03-19 Thread Fred Holmes
I'd start with a Google of "home networking" and read what the on-screen articles provide. go to http://www.howstuffworks.com/ and search on "home networking" Do you have a bookshelf with room for another book on it? Fred Holmes At 12:08 PM 3/19/2008, Marcio V. Pinhe

Re: [CGUYS] CGUYS] Investment Tracking Recommendations?

2008-03-19 Thread Fred Holmes
Use something like password safe (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) to store your password and copy/paste the username and password to log on. Fred Holmes At 03:09 PM 3/19/2008, gerald wrote: >i have my accounts and my wife's accounts with etrade. i get in with password >and rs

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

2008-03-19 Thread Fred Holmes
rs ago??? Some other kind of emergency radio? Fred Holmes * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *

Re: [CGUYS] XP Reinstall

2008-03-24 Thread Fred Holmes
If the drive interface does more than 128 GB (28-bit Logical Block Addressing), then it does the next step which is 48-bit LBA, and is huge. We aren't close to manufacturing drives that will exceed that limit. Fred Holmes At 01:36 PM 3/24/2008, Richard P. wrote: >How can I find out

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