For the most part they are. Most people know less about buying real
estate than they know about buying computers. Just look at how many
people buy Windows because somebody told them to. If they knew what
they
were doing they would never do that. Do you really think that people
wanted to get
Once again you cherry pick examples and omit the critical part of the
big
picture.
I cherry picked nothing, which would be tough if I did seeing that I was
giving a very broad and general overview. How exactly do you cherry pick
for a 10,000 foot view?
The major part of the housing crisis
You keep on and on, again and again, cherry picking and ignoring the
full
picture so you can make more bizarre points.
You should not buy a house that you cannot afford.
Dear god, you're right, the crazy in that sentence practically strangles you
as you read it.
When someone goes to buy a
Google borked this AM.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/01/google-broke-the-internet-malwa
re-detector-went-haywire.ars
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I have been running Ubuntu the last couple of days and just switched to
Windows.
Two weird problems with Google on Firefox (3.0.5):
No greedy like the bankers who told them they could afford it.
Greedy like the appraises who gave an incorrect value for the house.
Greedy like the bankers who foreclosed instead of correcting the original
error.
Greedy like the bankers who flooded the market with empty homes, forcing
the
Greedy like the bankers who flooded the market with empty homes, forcing
the market into a death spiral.
I see you've bought into the Paulson/Bush plan, hook, line and sinker:
high prices good, low prices bad.
Repeat as needed.
PDF is a vector format derived from PostScript. If you had the original
document file, not a scan, then saving it into PDF would be a good
idea.
The PDF would contain the font information, the text (coded as ASCII or
UTF), and geometry infomation about how the text is positioned on the
page.
OS X's print to PDF feature is great, by the way. I use it regularly
when sending documents that the recipient doesn't need to edit
because that way I don't have to worry whether or not they can
read it. Leopard gained the ability for PDF's to have working
hyperlinks, at least for PDF's
This list is not about being stupid.
I couldn't agree more. Doing things the way we've always done it
and expecting everyone else to conform to your expectations is quite
stupid.
I prefer to use what works for non-techies so they can go about their
day, unconcerned with the sausage making,
That is an excessively pessimistic response to the idea of repairing the
Mall as one recovery project. I would not think that looking around for
items of public importance that are suffering neglect is reckless, the
way the post implies.
Not at all. There is a distinct difference in saying
I didn't have that problem...neither did my non-computer oriented wife.
Under this scenario, no one should switch from windows to mac, how will they
figure it out?
Preference in UI is largely subjective. What works for one person may
not for another.
The author slams the UI changes in
Tax cuts are probably the least efficient form of government spending.
It
is randomly tossing money to the winds. There is no direction to it. It
gets spent on things like $50,000,000 airplane toys, liquor and other
drugs, whores, mink coats, and general bling.
Really? I need to hang out
did you post this during the bush adm?
I dunno. Did it come up?
why you out of the woodwork today?
I think I've been out of both the woodwork and the closet for a couple
decades now.
compare this mess to the bush printing press?
It's all the goodness of that, plus hope and change. I just
Again, TARP was a loan, Economic Recovery Package is spending.
It's all spending and TARP is not a loan. It's an outright purchase
troubled assets and equities. It's also a blank check for the POTUS and
Treasury Secretary to spend on any damn thing they want.
Why is no one suggesting that he send it as a pdf? Is that an option for
you Marcio?
A good number of the included scanning software I have come across has an
OCR app and/or the option to scan as a pdf.
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You may not have done anything wrong, except perhaps using JPEG
Yeah, but it's a document; PDF was made for documents. We don't know if it
needs to be edited or not.
FWIW, I hate it when people send us documents in tiff format, because: a)
the attachment is much larger than it needs to be, taking up useful space in
the mailbox and b) I always get the call
True that. But, I'm talking about signed documents and the like in hard
form.
Ya, but good thing you don't have to open the darn thing up and spell
check it! Virtually impossible with pdfs, unless you have expensive
software installed.
CEO of Cononical in an interview with The Register said windows 7
'looked great' after spending several hours with it.
It gets even better.
Mac friendly, WSJ tech columnist Walt Mossberg fawns over Windows 7 as well.
The title says it all:
Even in Test Form, Windows 7 Leaves Vista in the
You most likely need a BIOS update. If you haven't already, pull out the
new CPU and install the original CPU.
According to this page, this CPU might work, but maybe not. That depends on
the model of the CPU: http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/A8M2N-LA.html.
HP/Compaq says it will support an
Vista has a network wizard for such a situation, but I've never used it.
Try the connect to a network in the Network Sharing center. You should
be able to set up multiple network connections there.
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The wife takes her laptop to work where she must enable DHCP to
CEO of Cononical in an interview with The Register said windows 7
'looked great' after spending several hours with it.
That's plenty of time, Now rush off to 'Vegas to get married by Elvis.
Just to put this in perspective, the CEO of Cononical is Mark Shuttleworth,
the founder of Ubuntu, a
You're going to make me fisk you...so much for change.
I've read about this estimate and this number was derived from looking at
results in the worm's code itself, making this calculation dubious. I'd
place that number somewhere between WAG and spot-on.
What's odd about the percentages of OS
Forgot one path:
4. USB thumb drives -- which is still dependent on 1-3.
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Is John Stewart upset that George Bush is no longer in the White House?
Let's see how funny he he'll be now that he has to actually work for a
living. Besides, I'm more worried about Olberman. That rightous
indignation isn't going to raise itself, ya know.
Besides, Messoparedmond just doesn't
Microsoft's executives have made no secret of the fact that Windows 7
is an incremental improvement to Windows Vista, with CEO Steve Ballmer
calling it Windows Vista, a lot better, and saying, Windows 7 is
Windows Vista with cleanup in user interface [and] improvements in
performance.
To
Download and run Secunia Personal Software Inspector. It scans for MS
patches as well as other apps.
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
That, or go to Windows Update and have that scan your system. Also:
1. Don't run as admin; and
2. Don't have a lame, easy-to-guess admin
You can also d/l the patch directly here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-067.mspx
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What's not really clear is: Since I have auto updates on, am I safe?
How can I tell for sure? I really don't want to turn off autorun.
Didn't our WFBs already inform us last week that this was nothing to
worry about and the 9,000,000 infected PCs I mentioned were just a
hallucination generated by my intolerance of defective operating
systems?
Wasn't there a call for change on the list?
I always figured you as a McCain
I make it a point to ask cab drivers about their GPS systems on trips
in Northern Virginia. I get uniformly good reports. However, on a recent
trip when we got within about 100 yards of my destination the GPS
ordered a sharp right turn that would have taken us far afield. The driver
did
not
Right now if I punch in the street address for my church it sends me
1.5 miles down the road. Reason for this is that 6 years ago they
redid all the street addresses for E911. Before they were a
mess. If I put in the old street address it finds it dead on. Just
this past summer I saw a
Tom is saying Jeff pulled a 'Tom'.
Bingo.
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Huh, Jeff, WTF?
Mark--It's very simple.
Tom operates under the RDF'd delusion that Apple is some kind of
warm-hearted, sweet-little-aunt-who-bakes-you-pies company that only behaves
badly when backed into a corner by the mean men outside the loving confines
of Cupertino. I choose the
And, as Jordan noted, the best approach is to delete the posts of
everyone who has a rating higher than 10 Toms, unread. Once you get in
that
range, there is no longer useful content to accompany the ranting.
I think John is right. In the interest of lively discussions and the
sharing of
Forcing anyone to use IE is certainly a crime. I went one step further
to say that any company who can't figure out how to do a job using open
standards is advertising that they have very poor engineering skills.
Hence I would expect to be otherwise not too hot.
It's OK, katan, I can say it.
I wonder if the Tom/Jeff pair are different personalities in
the same body?
Now, that's just mean.
They both denigrate the other and proclaim
their's is the correct side. Both companies are using methods
to make their company grow. It's not like Microsoft isn't
above arm-twisting and
You, sir, have an extraordinarily limited perspective, if that's all you can
divine.
Generally, Tom talks about issues, jeff and the boys talk about Tom.
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Anybody want to discuss the downandup worm? Nine-million served.
Another MS non-success story. Their inability, after years of
promising, to produce a secure operating system is a significant failure.
No I
don't want to see more lame excuses.
Sure, I'll bite.
It looks like that MS did make
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Google News gives me one hit for downadup (in Turkish) and 249 hits
on downandup (mostly in English). But you have far more experience with
malware than I so Turkish it is. You tell those other pubs to
straighten up.
Here's what I got: Results 1 - 10 of about
I would call it a dirty trick to force you to look at Apple's Mail
program at least once. A bit coercive, not the way Apple typically does
business.
Of course not. Has Apple trademarked bricked and jailbroken yet?
No? That'll probably come with the iPhone PlusT line.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10140575-17.html?tag=mncol
And after downloading the Windows 7 beta and immersing myself in its
environment, I think I can say, both as a Mac user (I'm writing this on my
iMac) and what some may call an Apple nut (I own just about every Apple
product released
I highly recommend crucial; very good service and excellent quality of
memory. I have probably bought about half a terabyte of RAM from them over
the past 5 years or so. Out of that, I think I had one bad stick, which
they replaced.
Tom will tell you they are more expensive, but when I check,
I just installed iTunes on an Acer netbook and it listed Bonjour
along with QuickTime, Safari and (of course) iTunes. I just unchecked
Bonjour. Safari was already unchecked. I can't think of a witty
simile about feet and furniture right now.
It's been a while since I installed iTunes, but I
With mDNS many network services just work for PC users, just like
they just work for Mac users. Several times people have asked me why
some
things were so easy to set up on some of their PCs while they could not
get them going on other PCs.
What network services, other than what I already
Kinda like iTunes insisting on turning on iPod and iPhone services,
even though you've never had either connected to your computer.
I'm so sick of uninstalling Bonjour after every update. I keep hoping that
Apple will do the polite thing and ask me if I need to network my iTunes,
but no, it
I do think this is all smoke to obscure the real issue: piss-poor
software engineering on the part of MS. Of course you don't want to
respond to that.
All this sturm and drang over a very minor glitch in a driver for a
1st gen product, no longer produced, and made by a 3rd party. You'd
think
Turn-about is fair play...
Pssst...Don't tell anyone, but it's called competition. It's a funny
trick that businesses do with one another to get the other guy's business.
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After reading this from Tom, I
downloaded and installed chrome..gmail loaded the first time.
All things being equal I'd say it's simply a windows burp but who
knows...
Gmail isn't done, until IE won't run.
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Another puff of obscuring smoke: now the Zune is not even an MS
product. It was really made by those other guys.
What are you smoking?
You were complaining about MS quality control. Now, I have no idea who
wrote the driver in question, but it may be that not a single hand from MS
touched this
Only you could take what -looks- like a fairly minor software glitch
and understand that it is actually a massive MS conspiracy. Those are some
evil, evil dudes, Tom; it is good that we have you to show us the truth.
It could have been much worse. Just think what it would have been like if
Thanks. Your comment is a useful Rosetta Stone for calibrating your
world to mine. When you describe a total, paralyzing meltdown as a
fairly minor software glitch I see that you have a much higher
threshold of pain than I. When Apple had a similar problem with the
iPhone we called it
Some call it Z2K9 others Zune Hara-kiri. I like Zunepocalypse. Time
is up for the 30GB Zune models and they are all performing synchronized
suicide.
You can just Google on Z2K9 for the details.
I did. And imagine that, the non-hysterical explanation and fix right here:
I have used something like this for Windows, SpaceMonger. I do remember
that it was not such a good a user interface. I would google on disk
space analyzer for a better one (then let me know what you found).
WinDirStat. Free.
http://windirstat.info/
We recently covered this topic. Check the archives.
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Windows XP: Delete key stopped working in Outlook Express. Cannot
delete from Edit either. Any ideas?
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There's about 2GB worth of stuff that may need
to be kept. I divided that up into 625-700MB directories and
the plan was to burn this stuff to CD's, make sure those are
readable and then nuke the drive. Win98SE can start Roxio
Easy CD Creator, but when I hit burn, I'm told incompatible
Also, how do I log in as administrator? There is only one profile on
this computer, and it boots up with me listed as administrator.
I provided links in a previous message as to how to enable the admin
account.
As I mentioned in an earlier message, I found a way to turn off UAC,
and the
I always switch to the Classic Start menu as well. The non-classic seems to
be a random jumble of links, rather than a simple hierarchical and
expandable lists of functional areas.
In Vista, it works the same as in XP and 2000.
However, I will say that I like the design philosophy behind the
How then do you launch your apps? Do you have a giant quick-launch toolbar
or a desktop littered with app shortcuts? Don't tell me you're one of those
geeks who does everything from the run line. ;-)
I've used the search feature about 5 times. I use Windows Desktop Search at
work for Outlook
I thought the same thing at first, but no, you really are a standard user
with limited rights until you elevate the user to admin rights with UAC.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691.aspx
MS didn't do a very good job publicizing this aspect of Vista's security.
Come to think of
It pretty much says it in the first few paragraphs, but no, it isn't
explicit.
Weirdly, it's very difficult to find something that states this explicitly.
This is as close as I can find:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=245
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That's a really long article. Does it make
When setup runs, it _should_ automatically prompt you to run as
admin (mine does). Accept that and you're good to go. Alternatively,
cancel setup and find it on the disk and right click it and run as
admin. Or, like John said, just log in as admin until you've
installed it.
It may be that
On new installs with one user, the single user (in this case my wife on
her new laptop), is administrator. However, even though she is running as
admin, UAC will continue to prompt when permission is necessary, vista
doesn't assume just because you have admin rights, you want everything
in
OK...so you are saying there is a difference between the default admin
on install and an admin you create? What is that difference? Does it not
have to be *the* admin account if it's the only one there? Because under
that logic, you'd be using a limited user to create a super user, that
If capacity is an issue, the touch does come in a 32 Gb model.
Sure, if you like paying 60% more for 75% less the capacity of an 120 GB
Classic. I have a Blackberry that handles the other PDA features of the
Touch and it does so wirelessly.
I need space for my music and simplicity of
That's a two year old review comparing the now Classic iPod
with essentially the same Zune of today.
Oranges to oranges: comparing comparable models is an honest evaluation.
From what I've seen online and from playing with Zune demos, the Zune is
actually better for the more scratch-resistant
We had this same battle 10 years ago when I said on air that a certain
PPC chip was 200% faster than a Pentium chip. I stick to my language. If
I drink 100% of a bottle of beer I have consumed a full bottle. 200%
means I drank 2 bottles. O% means I'm still sober.
Which only means that you're
some of these are old, old jazz.
I will look online, I guess.
would be way easier!
I had a couple Swimming Pool Q's and Scruffy the Cat albums (definitely not
jazz) I bought off eBay, but was waiting to get an Ion to rip them. This
was music that the labels never recorded to CD
Well then just say Baa.
I think this is the youtube link; watch it before (if) it gets removed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkTMeczyHtE
homer Stupid irony. /homer
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I see you did not read my entire response. How convenient.
Convenient? Like...WAL-MART?
And don't forget their low, low prices!
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The installation of version 9 even killed (deleted, uninstalled)
version 7, even though I specifically specified a different folder for
installing version 9.
Thanks for any elucidation.
We had a similar problem with Adobe Reader v. 9 not working with Adobe CS3's
on-line review process. I
I don't accept your view because it does not lead to anything useful
and I don't think your asking the question is anything more that a cheap
debating tactic, which wastes all our time. It is as simple as that.
Asking questions is now a cheap debating tactic? Is your worldview so
tenuous that
Ahh, so dismissive of Palin's people. If you don't know what it's like
to live in a community where a Wal-Mart forces the closing of many of
the local businesses, then stick with something you might know
something about.
Either those local stores were providing value to their customers or
Walmart did not drive anyone anywhere.
What has happened is that in many small communities the merchants
have been so used to doing what they please they were not ready to
compete against Walmart.
Giant Food and their local union, UFCW 400, colluded few years back to have
the Monkey County,
The problem us that buyers don't have full knowledge of what they are
buying and what the true value of that product is. They don't know that
it will wear out very quickly.
How do you know what other people know, or don't know? How do you know what
you know and how do you know it is correct?
When Apple sells something at the iTunes store, they tell you up front
that it has DRM. Walmart doesn't label their music or movies to tell
you that there are significant parts missing from the products. You don't
know until the package is open and not returnable.
Does Apple really tell you
Apple does not have a history of doing such things unless under duress.
That Apple won't allow anyone to legally virtualize OS X on *any* system is
just another massive coincidence.
Mind you, Apple is free do anything they want with their products or set up
any business model they want, as far
When Windows 7 comes out, it won't include Windows Mail, Windows Photo
Gallery and Windows Movie Maker, which are some of Vista's most useful
applications.
Ed Bott explains this better @ http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=582:
Judging by the comments I've read and heard, many people mistakenly
Walmart and Amazon both have significant libraries that are DRM free.
The near monopoly Apple has(d) on digital tunes seems to have angered some
of the record companies and they have struck better deals elsewhere.
What I don't understand is why anyone would buy Apple's crippled music in
the
I think you mix up freedom for people vs freedom for corporations. I
think one of the biggest mistakes of the radical right is the belief
that corporations should have the same rights as individuals. It leads to
individual rights getting trampled because the powers of corporations
are so much
My shooting a gun is not a problem. My shooting the gun while pointing
it at you is a problem, because you will end up dead. The problem is not
the gun shooting, it is you becomming dead. That is why there are laws
about this.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at such a poor understanding
Maybe this will change as so many demagogic grafters have been
voted out of office.
Do you mean the bill signed into law by the last Democratic administration,
which the current one seems to be intent on stuffing his administration full
of its leftovers? Have faith, brother, have faith.
One
There you go. Thank you for proving my point.
Your point was...that you don't have one other than tin-foil hattery?
You live in lalaland.
What aisle is that on at Target? I think I saw it for sale on Amazon once,
but they didn't have free shipping, so I passed.
Knowledge--not censorship--leads to freedom.
Knowledge leads to more knowledge. It might lead to servitude if the wrong
parties gain access to the wrong knowledge. Knowledge without a moral or
ethical code to guide it is just data.
Self-important and self-appointed meddlers keeping their
If you have cable or DSL, you need to change DNS settings in either your
router, if you have one, or their modem.
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okay, I went to the site below; how do you change the DNS setting?
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After all the stores in the community were put out of business by
WalMart? Sure.
You should notify the Department of Buggy Whips and Candle Makers about such
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Actually you are not. In many communities WalMart is the only option.
WalMart drove everybody else out of business.
I would argue that these communities already had one foot on the commerce
banana peel if this is all it took.
Ted Stevens can tell you about this series of tubes that is driving
And now IBM.
And of course, Herr Doctor himself. Tom has on many more than one occasion
urged list members to dump their ISP provided email and move to the cloud
via Gmail or the like. An idea with which I agree with whole-heartedly.
A feeble attempt to change the subject. Nothing has been posted in
opposition to cloud computing or even MS's attempt to join the parade.
Which reads as don't try and compete with Google. I suppose then
that since you disapprove of their competing with the non-evil (yet)
behemoth, you would
Then there is also the matter of the class action suit against MS over
the Vista Ready designation. The complaint alleges fraud in that the
most basic version you mention is hardly Vista.
Yep. They let the marketing trolls do their thinking for them again and got
sucked in Intel's whining.
Dirty tricks are not the same as competition. Taking unfair advantage
of a monopoly position is not competition.
Ya think?
You may want to put on your Christmas list for a copy of Who Moved My
Cheese? this year. You seem to have a problem with MS taking on Google on
Google's turf by pissing
If the MS services were not crappy and as wonderful as you say, how do
you account for so many people choosing to change the defaults? Even
offers of money have failed to persuade.
Oh. So, now consumers *can* use something else other than what MS provides?
I could have sworn you told me that
Unstable, as in needs to be rebooted after most patches.
OS X is in the same boat.
Unstable, as in needs to be rebooted about one a week just to clear
the memory leaks (I grew up with uptimes measured in months, and in
one case, years, not days).
This was true for NT and pre-2000 clients,
If we follow Tom's logic to its conclusion, MS shouldn't offer anything
free. It should make you pay for -everything-, otherwise it's engaged
in monopolistic practices. Free stuff is bad on its face, apparently.
I always find it staggering to watch Tom form his logic pretzels when
constantly
Sophisticated folks will also know that putting a free app into the OS
will kill the market for alternatives. That's the EU vs MS over the
media player thing all over again.
Really? iTunes was destroyed by WMP?
SERIOUSLY?
http://tinyurl.com/52qdtu
Do you mean Vista SP-2?
Or, OS 10.x.x?
But, I keep forgetting, when Apple releases a version upgrade to the OS,
it's because of the highly evolved and probing processes that are always
looking to correct existing oversights and build on past successes to refine
and improve the user experience.
As a long time user of both (Windows long before Mac) on the desktop,
and of Windows and various *NIX's on servers (*NIX's before Windows),
I would say the below sounds about right, substituting HPUX, AIX,
Solaris, BDS, etc. for Apple on the server side.
Your experience notwithstanding,
In other words the WFBs do not appreciate your use of logic to
contradict them.
The issue isn't which OS is the better OS; that's beside the point.
The issue is the Macarazzi, and their useful idiots and lapdogs in the tech
press.
I think you're smart enough to understand that.
Recently some folks reported severe problems after installing a
windows update. I'm not sure exactly which update it was... I know
people reported blue screen of death... a lot of the conversation was
too technical for me to follow.
I am running windows XPhome. My computer guy wants me
1) MS already has a history of trying to jigger Windows to shut down
the competition for anti-virus software.
Nope. They tried to lock down the kernel, which didn't affect most a/v
providers, just a few like Symantec that likes to put hooks into the kernel
to do things that causes the problems
I am glad that This Time Microsoft Gets It Right. The issue is how
much we ought to be charged for a successor to Vista. Should be $0. (Apple
did that with OS X.1. It was the honest thing to do.)
That was SP1 for Vista. It's free (which is anti-competitive, right?).
Later. Rinse. Repeat.
Of course it is a cache. Any data that the computer assembles and saves
so it doesn't have to recreate it later is a cache. Cache is defined by
function, not by content.
By that definition, a Word document is a cache. The prefetch is a
series of pointer files that *creates* a cache, but in
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