Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-31 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-31 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-31 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Google weirdness and Firefox on Windows?

2009-01-31 Thread Jeff Wright
Google borked this AM. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/01/google-broke-the-internet-malwa re-detector-went-haywire.ars -Original Message- 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):

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-30 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-30 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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,

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves

2009-01-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

2009-01-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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. -Original Message- You may not have done anything wrong, except perhaps using JPEG

Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

2009-01-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Scanned

2009-01-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Another...or the first..Re: [CGUYS] Win 7: A Clear-Eyed Review

2009-01-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] AMD Processor upgrade problem

2009-01-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Vista networking query

2009-01-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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. -Original Message- The wife takes her laptop to work where she must enable DHCP to

Re: [CGUYS] Another...or the first..Re: [CGUYS] Win 7: A Clear-

2009-01-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] (CERT) Computer Emergency Response Team, US Govt. I

2009-01-22 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] (CERT) Computer Emergency Response Team, US Govt. I

2009-01-22 Thread Jeff Wright
Forgot one path: 4. USB thumb drives -- which is still dependent on 1-3. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

Re: [CGUYS] (CERT) Computer Emergency Response Team, US Govt. I

2009-01-22 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Win 7: A Clear-Eyed Review

2009-01-22 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] (CERT) Computer Emergency Response Team, US Govt. INFO

2009-01-21 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] (CERT) Computer Emergency Response Team, US Govt. INFO

2009-01-21 Thread Jeff Wright
You can also d/l the patch directly here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-067.mspx -Original Message- 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.

Re: [CGUYS] (CERT) Computer Emergency Response Team, US Govt. I

2009-01-21 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows Active X]

2009-01-21 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows Active X]

2009-01-20 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Mail: Redirect vs. Forward

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
Tom is saying Jeff pulled a 'Tom'. Bingo. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Mail: Redirect vs. Forward

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Mail: Redirect vs. Forward

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Mail: Redirect vs. Forward

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] yardsticks [Was: Mac Mail]

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
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. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives,

Re: [CGUYS] yardsticks [Was: Mac Mail: Redirect vs. Forward

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Wormz [Was: yardsticks]

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
-Original Message- 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

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Mail: Redirect vs. Forward

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

[CGUYS] Will Windows 7 stymie Mac OS X's growth?

2009-01-13 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Where to buy PC memory?

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Wright
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,

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2009 - Special issue (#2009-6)

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] mDNS [Was: COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest...]

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 2 Jan 2009 - Special issue (#2009-6)

2009-01-04 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Zunepocalypse

2009-01-02 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Google Strong-Arms MS

2009-01-02 Thread Jeff Wright
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. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] Google Strong-Arms MS

2009-01-02 Thread Jeff Wright
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. * ** List

Re: [CGUYS] Zunepocalypse

2009-01-02 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Zunepocalypse

2009-01-01 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Zunepocalypse

2009-01-01 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Zunepocalypse

2008-12-31 Thread Jeff Wright
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:

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

2008-12-31 Thread Jeff Wright
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/

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 28 Dec 2008 - Special issue (#2008-866)

2008-12-29 Thread Jeff Wright
We recently covered this topic. Check the archives. -Original Message- Windows XP: Delete key stopped working in Outlook Express. Cannot delete from Edit either. Any ideas? * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] PC and MAC interchanges

2008-12-28 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] New Vista computer experiences

2008-12-28 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Vista interface..

2008-12-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Vista interface..

2008-12-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] New Vista computer experiences

2008-12-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] New Vista computer experiences

2008-12-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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 -Original Message- That's a really long article. Does it make

Re: [CGUYS] New Vista computer experiences

2008-12-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] New Vista computer experiences

2008-12-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] New Vista computer experiences

2008-12-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Good Time to Buy Zunes

2008-12-18 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Good Time to Buy Zunes

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] MS Share Drops 19% YOY

2008-12-11 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] LP to CD turntable?

2008-12-03 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Steve Mobs was: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-12-01 Thread Jeff Wright
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 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-12-01 Thread Jeff Wright
I see you did not read my entire response. How convenient. Convenient? Like...WAL-MART? And don't forget their low, low prices! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy,

Re: [CGUYS] Adobe Reader Form Fillin

2008-12-01 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-29 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-28 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-28 Thread Jeff Wright
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,

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-28 Thread Jeff Wright
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?

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-27 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] MS Herding the Sheeple [Was: Windows 7]

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] MS Herding the Sheeple [Was: Windows 7]

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Help - very slow loading....again!

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
If you have cable or DSL, you need to change DNS settings in either your router, if you have one, or their modem. -Original Message- okay, I went to the site below; how do you change the DNS setting? * ** List

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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 things. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

Re: [CGUYS] EFF chastises Apple

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] MS Herding the Sheeple [Was: Windows 7]

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] MS Herding the Sheeple [Was: Windows 7]

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] MS Herding the Sheeple [Was: Windows 7]

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] MS Herding the Sheeple [Was: Windows 7]

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] MS Herding the Sheeple [Was: Windows 7]

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7

2008-11-24 Thread Jeff Wright
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,

Re: [CGUYS] news fyi: Microsoft to offer free consumer securit

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] news fyi: Microsoft to offer free consumer securit

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Wright
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,

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] is this update safe XP-KB958644-x86-ENU

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] news fyi: Microsoft to offer free consumer securit

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7

2008-11-23 Thread Jeff Wright
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.

Re: [CGUYS] better

2008-11-19 Thread Jeff Wright
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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