There are a number of wizards you can use, but I just asked my ISP to
publish it for me, since they handle our DNS as well.
http://www.openspf.org/
http://old.openspf.org/wizard.html
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/
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What
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I used to be buried in spam because I get all the misdirected mail sent
to my company's domain. I now route all of that to GMail and it passes
the ham on to me. Now I only get a couple of spams a day. So I would
say
that GMail is especially good at spam filtering.
I'm seeing today that I didn't get several messages. I was wondering what
Constance was talking about, with the free images and all, until I realized
I never got the original post.
Grumble grumble Comcast grumble dipsticks mutter...
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I used to be buried in spam
Unfortunately, spammers are causing perfectly rational companies to lose
their minds when it comes to blocking spam. Caution is out the door and
down the road. I could shift things over to my gmail account, but that gets
over 5,000 spam/month. I don't even bother going through the spam folder
No matter how you look at it, Apple is outperforming Windows.
Just as long as you don't look at overall market share, where Windows
machines outperform Mac by a factor of 20 or so.
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immediately and
didn't wait for me to presssave to disk. I guess it's always been
that way, but I never noticed it before.
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wrote:
I thought power boost was only for the first 12 MB?
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/thedarkknight
MS pulled it back from wide distribution because of a very limited set of
problems, but you can still get it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-
BE08-1E1555D4F3D4displaylang=en
http://tinyurl.com/4qvth5
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Well, it seems
Can you post the exact error message? RAID shouldn't make any difference at
all.
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MS is saying I have updates, that have not been installed. When I try
to install them, I get an error message saying that they cannot be
installed. That is why I asked the question
And they gave 1 day's notice AGAIN.
I would love to take advantage of this event, but they do a piss-poor job at
promoting it. I need more than a day to pull the necessary resources
together.
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Despite the rain, there are scores of folks standing at the curb at
I saw one ad in the Post, yesterday, and I read it daily.
Like most of the people in the DC area, I don't read the Express version of
the Post.
They were large display ads daily in the Post's Express for the last
two
weeks. Probably other papers too. And it is an easy to remember annual
Secunia Personal Software Inspector
https://psi.secunia.com/
Windows only.
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Is that also for third party software on mac? I think that's what he
was
getting at.
That I have not seen on either Mac or PC. Websites like VersionTracker
try to keep up on all such
eFax?
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I might was well ask: Any suggestions about light-duty fax software?
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I have a TomTom One, which I don't have any complaints about it other than
the battery life, which is about 2 hours. Other models I've seen are rated
longer. But, I don't use it that much, so it's not a big deal. I do have
to say that it's odd that it's Bluetooth won't pair up with a
Not sure what you mean by that. Can they route and re-route if you miss a
turn? Yes. Although, I have found that its routes aren't necessarily the
best routes. Just playing with it, it has sent me on routes in areas I'm
familiar with and I think its nuts for selecting the routes that it does
You can buy other maps for this and download them, not that expensive
at all. (Plus if you must have celebrity voices give you directions
you can do this also.)
Rev.--You didn't go for the Mr. T voice, did you? C'mon, be honest.
You can tell that the TomTom is a UK product by its
Modem driver issue?
http://www.google.com/search?q=BCCode%3A+10b8rls=com.microsoft:*ie=UTF
-8oe=UTF-8startIndex=startPage=1
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Every few weeks, I get the blue screen notifying me of a crash dump.
Maybe the computer has diarrhea:) Anyway, it restarts the computer.
We got some in at my work. I blacklisted them.
Here's what others are saying:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=reunion.com+spam
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Anyone here get an email recently from Reunion.com, saying that someone
is searching for you there?
No, he means disc, as in CD or DVD. Talking about backing it up.
I would never do that.
I back up to disk, not disc. The days of disc are nearly gone.
That's a very premature assumption.
USB flash drives are far too unreliable for anything other than
sneaker-netting. (One of my users
And he gave some good ol' anti-Apple DRM FUD, too, considering many
songs (maybe a majority or all now -- I haven't looked), are available
at higher bit rates with no DRM from iTunes.
Michael--You may want to read what I wrote again. Nowhere did I say
anything about DRM, mostly because I
Royalty free?
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page5977.cfm
A good list of sites with search engines at the bottom of the page.
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I know that there are a few photographers graphic designers here, so
this is a question.
What is the best way to
And QuickTime *still* installs the Apple Updater application, even when you
explicitly deselect the option to do so during the install. You have to go
and uninstall it afterwards.
I used to think it was a bug, but it's been going on long enough that it's
clear that Apple considers this dishonest
www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSWNAS680520080403
That may drive the last nail into the RIAA's coffin.
A good thing, no doubt, but the article isn't clear on what it is measuring:
Apple said its announcement was based on consumer data collected in January
and February by market
Yep. Vista *should* have been an greatly improved XP, but no.
And not just discount computers, but ultra-portables as the Eee, which will
choke on Vista. I plan on getting one of those for work soon.
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Every responsible software vendor includes updaters as part of the
package these days. With rapidly spreading malware it is especially
important to keep front-line software patched. To criticize any company
for doing this is just plain silly. To refuse to install or
Not sure yet. I may get one of each, since I doubt that any of my users
would grok Ubuntu all that well. You never know tho'.
The XP model would be good to have around for presentations and the like.
My boss needed to have something small and light to carry around the office
with him. He's
I heard Microsoft has free software too! Not a deal breaker, right?
Why should I buy anything through Apple when I can get it through Amazon for
less money, in a more widely supported format and more easily?
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Scary; free software required! What other free things
To restate your words: The government decreed that there would be an
oligopoly with only two players. They kept other players out. They
created an $80,000,000 barrier to entry.
No kidding. I didn't disagree with you. Maybe the FCC shouldn't be trying
to make money by shaking down media
Calling their market segment entertainment option is disingenuous.
You
might as well call its market segment business entity. Sure we have
plenty of those.
Calling it a monopoly is even more disingenuous. See your list below to
see their competition and tell me how a single satellite company
John--I'm not giving the banks a pass on this, but I've grown weary of the
violin strings played for adults who didn't even begin to have the resources
or were in any sort of position to buy a house, but absolutely had to have a
house, well, because everyone else was getting one. If you want to
I'm not willing to accept this machinery of death.
I'm also not willing to accept crummy and expensive broadband.
I'm confused here. Who's killing whom? Is this when robots become
sentient, enslave mankind and viciously take over the world? If it weren't
for the cheap and ultra high speed
Who is objectively supposed to assess which applicant's
can and cannot afford a home? The banks always have before
(is it a legal mandate or fiduciary responsibility, or both?)
Seems a little simplistic to pin it on home buyers,
especially since they have the least resources and
no surfeit
In today's news we see the DOJ declaring that merging the only two
satellite broadcasters into one would not be anticompetitive. I guess
their logic is that a duopoly has been so anticompetitive that a
monopoly
could not be much worse?
Yet one more example of why the USA is so far behind
Most of the rights they want granted are necessary to permit them to
operate their service. The only odd one is about letting Google use
your
content in its advertising. It is overly broad and could be a problem
for
someone selling photography as a business. But a business would not be
What are the list folks experience with dell outlet?
I've bought many a system from there. Both servers and laptops; only one
problem and the warranty took care of that PDQ. I recommend it to anyone.
What do folks think of the above processor ?(what os are you using?)
The Core 2 Duos are
Maybe this?
Your Rights
Google claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or
displayed by you on or through Picasa Web Albums. You or a third party
licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any
Content you submit, post or display on or
That option has been there since at least v. 5. I have no idea why IE is
implemented this way, but it's trivial to turn off.
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weird message...
went to link from email ad from known vendor...
got this
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I'm sure when your users sit down to their freshly de-linted seat and their
ass slides effortlessly across it, your face is the first thing that comes
to mind.
Seriously Thomas, it was a throw-away line. Next you'll reading my palm and
telling my why I have DNS issues.
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Call me crazy, but none of those steps seem like a good hardware repair
regimen.
And, I draw the line at seat de-linting.
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To:
These are probably laptops still made with the s-l-o-o-o-w 4200 RPM hard
drives. Stuff all the RAM you can in one of these laptops, it'll still be
slow.
I wouldn't get anything less than a 5400 RPM drive, but would try for the
7200 RPM drive. I've put 7200's in 6 year old P III laptops and
I bought a refurbed Vostro last year and I'm pleased with it.
I highly recommend the Dell Outlet.
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You will not need the XPS for a student.
One of the better Inspirons (not the entry level, but one of the
better ones) or an Insprion would be good.
We got an
Axis makes good LAN/web cams. Not exactly cheap, but not too expensive
either.
http://www.axis.com/
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Someone tried to break into our house last week so I have been
researching this and other security stuff recently. There are many
options.
There are several
Or go to Amazon and pay no premium for DRM-free tunes. Their entire library
is DRM-free and is priced very competitively.
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On an exciting note Walmart's Music download page offers MP3 files for
an added $0.06 which rids us of that intrusive DRM. I found that my
Didn't know about that one.
Have you looked at Team Apps yet? The services they are offering for a fee
(free and/or reduced for .edu and .org) are quite intriguing. If I didn't
already have that sort of infrastructure already in place, I would consider
using them.
www.google.com/apps
Because many companies will whitelist based on domain and/or return to:
address. That, and they need some address to look legitimate enough for
people to click on them, assuming they get through the spam filter.
I've been seeing quite a few spam lately that are targeted specifically at
our
The beauty of xcopy is that it also copies access control lists of the files
and folders. I use it when moving large numbers of files/folders between
servers and I don't have to reapply permissions when I'm done.
I just wish it copied the share information too.
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I do
Same here with Outlook.
Tom, is the page from Google Team Apps?
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I can't put a hyperlink in a text-only message.
If you put the full URL, http://www.cguys.org/ , or at least put
www.cguys.org, my Eudora will automatically convert it to a real,
working hyperlink
I have. Nothing found, so nothing to report.
You have to invoke a scan manually and check for updates, though it doesn't
seem as there have been any in the past year or so.
Take a look at Threatfire (free): http://www.threatfire.com/ It looks to
be a better product for blocking rootkits and
True, but only 2 brief outages in a year. That's many times better than my
electrical service.
FWIW, I saw the connection of my BB server bouncing up and down late
yesterday afternoon. However, I continued to receive messages and didn't
even know there was an official outage until I read about
I loved my Treo 600, but my Blackberry 8700 *never* needs to be reset. It's
rock solid hardware and never crashes. And I do mean *never.*
I just spent some time trying to get a Treo 700w to sync up with Exchange
2003. I agree with the assessment of Windows Mobile (this was v. 5). Ugh.
It was
#5 on a Google search:
http://www.pcthreat.com/parasitebyid-6657en.html
I've used smitfraud.exe successfully on my boss' computer:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic123050.html
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i think my problems started when I joined Grouply
then Malware Crush
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 burned by this.
It's very hard to find SATA I drives any longer.
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Loose
That's correct. WD has the same thing, but dear god did I have to dig on
the WD site to find the correct jumper setting.
Not that it made any difference. The motherboard still ignored the drive.
I ended up getting an inexpensive SATA to IDE converter and running it that
way.
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My backup problem may affect few today, but I think that it will become
more common as hard drives expand their capacity and people use their
computer in greater ways. At present, I think that very large SATA
hard
drives of 1 Terrabyte (does Windows XP support these?) or BluRay disks
are
I wonder what would be left of Yahoo! if MS did gobble it up. The
services offered by Yahoo! and MSN are for the most part identical. It
would make no sense to offer identical services for very long. So MS
would be paying $45 Billion to merely eliminate a competitor. When that
happens would
What's your point? Apple has 10% or so of the market and doesn't have a
monopoly in computers or software, has an underlying open source OS.
Microsoft has 80-90% of the market and is close to a monopoly, with a
closed, proprietary OS. So you buy the monopoly product, and avoid the
company
Which only goes to show that you can cry monopoly over just about
anything by how you define the market -- the gerrymandering of market
share.
To have any meaningful conversation, you need to have a concrete and agreed
upon definition of what you are talking about. Otherwise, it's just
Of course, you are correct. Which is precisely why I don't buy Apple
products.
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Point is simple. You don't have to be liberal or socialist to have
big problems with monopolists.
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Do you have the OEM host adapter drivers from Adaptec on a floppy and have
you inserted the disc after pressing F6? Windows setup needs those to
install. Otherwise, no hard drive has been found.
I checked the Adatpec site for your model and found nothing. Are you sure
that's the correct model
I had a Xerox 2135 color printer that was a straight path printer and what a
piece of junk it was.
Now I have an HP 5550 color LaserJet, without a straight path, and it has
been rock solid. The Xerox would break every 3 months or so.
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the bigger xerox printers
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarti
cleId=9058360source=rss_news10
or
http://tinyurl.com/3dknz6
Microsoft Corp. on Monday dropped its prohibition on running the
least-expensive versions of Windows Vista in virtual machines, doubling the
choices for
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161
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I haven't seen anything like this.
By DNS, perhaps he means a whois record? Do you have any domains registered
under your name?
But, using DNS to get a SSN? BS.
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I'd be more interested to know how we're supposed to use someone's DNS
to get their credit score?
If the drive itself (not the DVD disc) doesn't show in both device manager
nor explorer, then what the Rev said, the drive is most likely shot.
Has HP improved their design since I last owned one and made the drive
removable or is it part of the chassis? I had to literally disassemble my
HP
It's not uncommon for competitors to buy one another. I used to use St.
Bernard's Update Expert for centralized patch management on my LAN. It was
a good product until the most recent version. After that, it was basically
unusable.
I was considering scrapping it and getting another system (but
I'm not surprised that MS is backing down; it would have been an easy
prediction that they would offer a fix toot sweet. You'd think, though,
they'd get tired of all the ice cream cone to the forehead events.
We weren't affected by it, but I could see it coming up eventually as people
with SP3
I was looking at the Lumix (I can't help but read that as lummox) and the
Canon S5. Both are very nice cameras and are priced about the same.
I ended up getting the Canon as it has the hot shoe and uses AA batteries,
as opposed to the proprietary battery that Panasonic uses. Also, after
reading
I forgot to mention the variable, camcorder-like LCD screen that the Canon
has. It can fold into the camera altogether and present the plastic back of
the screen, letting you use only the view finder.
I liked that feature over the fixed screen on the Panasonic. It helps
protect the screen and
It really depends on the hardware. I have some laptops at work that won't
reconnect their integrated Intel NICs coming out of sleep in XP. My laptop
at home has a Netgear wireless card and it reconnects automatically out of
sleep just fine; same with the Nvidia NIC on my home PC. I've seen
I use Keepass.
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In order to keep this from happening again, is there a recommendation
for a good and secure program to keep track of usernames/passwords by
using a master password?
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In an announcement posted to AOL's blog for the browser, Tom Drapeau, the
director of the company's Netscape brand, said the team is ending
development and would cease issuing security updates as of Feb. 1, 2008.
Given AOL's current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation
has had
Are you sure that the RAM is compatible with your motherboard?
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I keep getting this message and, it only disappears when I put the
(2)256MB RAM back in the computer. The (2)512MB just loops at that
message and, goes nowhere else. I am asking because, almost every
Hoo boy, that's an antique. Not even eBay has anything for that model right
now. You could try a vendor that specializes in Compaq parts.
Here's a couple I googled:
http://www.impactcomputers.com/compaq-deskpro-ep-desktop-parts-power-supply.
html
Start Run
Type cmd Enter
At the command prompt, type without the quotes: 'convert [drive_letter]:
/fs:ntfs' (ex: convert C: /fs:ntfs)
Reboot the system
Windows will convert the drive during the boot
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/fatntfs.php
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I installed
You should have the option of activating over the phone. Evidently, the
phone number will appear in the activation process. At least, here you
should be able to get assistance with the problem.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA012334341033.aspx
Activation Center numbers are not listed
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I found this link by searching the web on Google -- the link is a
featured link:
http://bargainsoftwaredownload.com/index.html
According to them, the latest version of Photoshop is $150 and the
earlier version is $80. It is a download, with no registration key
Never seen one, probably never will. I really enjoyed browsing in
CompUSA back in the early days of the internet. Now I tend to shop
first at Newegg and Pricewatch.
The DIY section of Micro Center puts CompUSA to shame. It's like comparing
the hardware section at Target with Home Depot. They
The seller didn't accept Paypal,
but only personal checks, cashier's checks, and direct wire transfer.
Therein lies the mistake. I avoid those sellers like the plague.
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Only because I found the flyer in my bushes, by accident, while cleaning my
gutters yesterday, Micro Center has opened a new store in Rockville, MD
where the old CompUSA was. Huzzah!! They're giving away 2 GB USB thumb
drives (or 2 GB SD cards) to lure you in, which is fine by me. Not sure if
My d/l rates with Comcast have been fairly consistent over the years. It's
rare that I find a large d/l much below the advertised 6 MB rate, unless
it's a server I know to throttle their outbound bandwidth.
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I have never seen any DSL connection speed presented as an
http://tinyurl.com/329zg5
An orderly and expedited wind down and asset sale process is the best
option for CompUSA and its creditors at this juncture, Mr. Weinstein said.
We are focused on assuring that CompUSA's creditors, landlords and other
key constituents are treated properly during this
Where do you store your off-site backups?
At Iron Mountain's facility.
A bare (not in a case) 3.5 hard drive will fit in a small bank safe
deposit box, and is conveniently used with one of the many available
bare interfaces (no case, just the electronics for data and power),
e.g., USB to
At some point, I imagine most all backup will be done online because of
the obvious advantages.
Currently Amazon's S3 online backup service is one that I am aware of.
Below are S3's rates.
Can anyone recommend others?
Mozy. $4.95/month unlimited storage. Or 2 GB for free, which is what
Air flow is very important if you have passive cooling (for quietness) or
dead spots in your case where air doesn't typically circulate and
electronics provides a heat source.
Being a man of refinement, Tony, I have hunch that you would love this case
for its open design:
While I don't use a wi-fi radio per se, I already do this with desktops
and laptops throughout the house.
As noted in the past, I've all but abandoned terrestrial radio, save for the
occasional AM talk radio. XM, Sirius and MP3s in the car, MP3s and
streaming in the house and at work. I don't
The whole point of my query is to NOT have to install/reinstall XP at
all, but to use the perfectly well-tweaked and up-to-date version I
already have.
Unless your new machine has the same chipset and other hardware that your
current machine has, all you will get, most likely, are blue screens
A complete case on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Antec-KS-188-Full-Tower-Case-Beige-3-fans-13-drive-bays_
W0QQitemZ130180551416QQihZ003QQcategoryZ80166QQcmdZViewItem
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I know I am asking again. I contacted the company about the case feet
problem. They sent me a set of
Ah, found it.
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/compare/
Not sure if it will have that per se, but
http://www.anythingbutipod.com is fairly extensive.
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Are there any websites that have a www.dpreview.com style
that will match a persons needs with an MP3 player?
Not sure if it will have that per se, but http://www.anythingbutipod.com is
fairly extensive.
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Are there any websites that have a www.dpreview.com style
that will match a persons needs with an MP3 player? For
example, no music management s/w, mounts as a USB drive.
I'm giving away 6 year old computers to staff
Giving away these sad-sack computers so you won't get stuck with paying
the $15 recycling fee. You are probably going to take a tax credit too.
You are so unscrupulous.
The staff didn't think so. They knew all the specs going in and I'm turning
I rarely use IE since the last one for Macs was v.5.5. I was at the
public library today looking up some reference information--couldn't
find it in Reference so I looked online. They have IE 6. I've requested
that they get Firefox too, so we could have a choice [of something that
works]. It
http://www.guerrillamail.com/
Haven't tried yet, but it looks like a very cool implementation. Good for
one-use, throwaway sign ups.
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The only thing I noticed were the scattered and scrambled buttons.
MS implemented that badly enough that I have no doubt some people were lost
and needed help.
Other than that, I can't imagine what you would need phone support for.
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Microsoft is pushing its Internet
I've heard the Ion USB turntable does a good job. I'm just waiting for one
to go on sale.
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I'm looking to dub off some albums to CD and wanted to get
recommendations for the best way to do this. I've heard of USB
turntable, USB turntable/cassette combo, and USB
One of them was #343 in electronics. Considering the boggling number of
electronics offered, and the relative niche target of these products, that
isn't too shabby.
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apparently these things are not selling very well.
Last Dec when I was checking Amazon's best
I've used SciTE with good results on large text files.
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
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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.
That's one advantage of the DIY HTPC I'm building: you can always swap out
the tuner card for another.
I have an ATI 550 on the way from eBay, which will complete the parts I
need. The rest are from my recent upgrade to my main PC (which now sports a
dual-core Athlon 5200, 2 GB of RAM and a 36
Upgrade to Vista! (Yes, that was a joke...)
Firefox is showing that the slow and steady might not win the race, but it
makes for a good place. That pays out too at the track.
I'm giving away 6 year old computers to staff (the first batch I bought at
my .org -- :::sigh::: -- that's another way
Good point. XP's and Vista's previous versions are the equivalent on the
Windows side.
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What it does not cover is any situation that corrupts or overwrites a
file and not noticing the problem until after your backup procedure
updates your backups with the bad
Christopher--See here: List archive at
www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/
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Tony, I thank you for replying so soon. I lost the replies to, the
first time I asked(yes, I know I could request the archive for the
group) when, I didn't backup my
Is there text after the error? Ex: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT HANDLED.
Signs are pointing to memory or motherboard issues:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137539
or Symantec A/V: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822789
or rootkits/malware:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/903251
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