Not surprising, he is also a musician (which
neither confirms nor invalidates his opinion).
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How can FireWire be superior to eSata?
I thought eSata made your external essentially
the same as one installed inside the case.
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I bought Cyberpower a number of years ago
and am gratified to hear they are still in business.
I once bought a Mac mini and though it is a nice
little machine, I did resent the hard sell to sign
up for Apple support plan (I don't consider that
an anectdote because it undoubtedly reflects
a
Recently got a G1 and returned it for a Cliq (much
more usable with navigation keys and a better
keyboard). How are people feeling about
their android phones? I really am glad I have
an alternative to the touch screen and the apps
have been really cool so far. Is that what iPhone
people feel?
Tom,
Pardon the ignorant question, is there a direct
channel from the controller to the hard drive?
Otherwise, you bottlenecks somewhere in the
pipe? -PJM
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Old topic, I know but I am cleaning out my folders.
Basic and Fortran are very different animals from
object oriented languages. Books on design patterns
in those languages will really get you to understand
why o-o is useful. C++ FAQ is a greatly educative
and easier to read book. C# is pretty
Parents who have enough money to spend thousands on their kids
electronics are probably spending ungodly hours at work in the first
place to be able to afford it. Kids of successful parents typically
feel ignored, or worse, don't realize what they've missed. Not a
choice I would make personally.
Dear All,
Mesages to my dad's podunk ISP keep
bouncing saying that the email has a virus.
I am sending text email with no attachments
from gmail. No other email has bounced so
far. Is a real infection possible? AVG is running
as we speak.
(Maybe I'll try mailing from this account).
SSD have to fragment in the same way memory
fragments, due to the Alloc-Delete-Realloc cycle.
I.e., doesn't there have to be garbage collection?
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There are also chording input devices, some of them
are meant to be used one-handed or doubly fast
with two. You have to learn the chords but, iirc
or am just ad-gullible, the chording is supposed
to quite speedy even one-handed.
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To:
for system builders.
I am looking for a shop that
will build a machine to specs.
FYI, I am going to build
a Vista class machine with
Linux compatible hardware
and various bell and whistles.
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I'm wondering, why not build it yourself?
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paulj...@yahoo.com wrote:
for system builders.
I am looking for a shop that
will build a machine
Except that there is no prosecution
in a civil suit. There is a plaintiff, someone
who thinks they need compensation or
some other sort of injuctive relief. No
one goes to jail or has a criminal record
from a civil trial. Go bankrupt? Well yeah.
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). Anyone have any practical experience.
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I am wanting to play video from a set-top dvd player
thru my lcd monitor. (It turns out that the players
do play dvd's much more cleanly/smooth than my
computer/drives -
perhaps the PC is reading in high-def?)
Apparently I need a converter (Dell
Okay, hearing about the CERN astrophysicist who shot
himself in the nose with a spear gun is one of
the funniest (though perhaps I should be disturbed)
stories in a long time. I do have to ask, what is
that rap video?
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Anyone had glitches with chrome?
I had 6-8 tabs open in FF the other day, all
the sites become unreachable, except that I
notice gmail was still up. I decided to
uninstall Chrome (this is XP)and I don't
even think I rebooted and the sites were
all back up. Could be coincidence.
me wonder though if there
is a marginal improvement in reading movie DVD on
stand alone dvd players than in my PC drives.
Is the reverse true? Are they any higher quality
dvd drives that make be able to read more or the data?
Or is it more likely that I am just buying/playing
lemons?
-Paul Meyer
Regards the connection between pornography and politics,
historically in Europe there was often a conflation of
the p-word and political diatribes (often anti-clerical).
Of course I guess there aren't too many sites like that
these days..
.
Need to run over XP, but I could
go with Linux.
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There is also a directory in which temp files produced
by autosave get placed. I think this directory is
specified in the registry, the last time I had to
figure this out I googled.
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I just got my eeepc. High five!
It turn out my Dell E310 (a bargain basement desktop)
was my first Linux box if and only if I installed
Fedora (nothing supported the USB controller). Dell
and Red Hat were once cozy.
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No geeks here, just fan bois and glitterati.
And A intersect B :-
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To:
I like it, it does have a small screen and keyboard.
The Xandros based interface is a little rinky-dink
so I want to try Ubuntu (the common practice
is run that OS off a thumb drive or SD card).
I also have yet to see how it fares as as pseudo-
desktop by connecting to external monitor, keyboard,
does have
two buttons)
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Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 1
. You have never lived unless you try
to delete a failed DVR recording from a FIOS cable box. I don't think the On
demand offerings are as extensive (except in the area of porn).
-Paul Meyer
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Is cable really supposed to have faster speeds? If so,
that has to assume no contention with other users.
Isn't FIOS bandwidth allocated on a per-connection basis?
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Good point Tom. Advertising would not
be a massive industry if it did not affect
market outcomes (all hail the sovereign consumer!)
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I just bought a 500 gb MyBook. Taking it to the counter, the clerk
said he had owned a MyBook for years and was pleased. That's half way there.
It was 150 Cheneys, give or take.
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I don't know if someone else already pointed this out,
but it seems like a really misguided idea.nbsp; For
a number of reasons, Linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint)
would a superior
alternative to OSX on PC hardware. Secondly,
the real advantage of the Mac/OSX combo is the
hardware. If the goal is
The google products search on Nikon D70 turn up listings in the first half
page for about $900 from numerous different stores.
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Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 1:32 PM
I
My In-laws are getting a popup message from AVG that 7.5 is going
obsolete and they should update to 8.0 (which of course is for pay).
Any reason they can't keep using the free version? Should they
download the latest version of whatever's free? -PJM
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I am AVG scan a version of Tex that I downloaded. While the
test is running it claims to have scan over 10K objects in the
directory but Explorer (under XP) claims there are only 1100 files.
What gives? Are files composed of many objects?
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Is disk easier to type because it is under the right middle
finger (as opposed to moving the right index over 'c')?
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Logitech had a large ball trackball that I loved.
They don't sell it anymore, so now I have
kensington which is pretty decent.
Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other suggestion on the trackball:
I used the Logitech one everyone else is recommending and I liked it.
But my thumb didn't like it
Orphan drug availability.
In the EU, Finland,France, Germany and Sweden
supply the most orphan drugs (20-21 out of 22)
affordably.
The UK supplies only 15 and makes patients
pay for up to 94% per cent of the cost.
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I am sorry to hear about your health
Mostly because they could not afford the home on the terms they
agreed
to and thus never should have purchased them.
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
That delivers care of sufficient quality (to those who can pay) that
folks come here to get what they can not get from their national
systems. Did you read the recent study about how many women in labor
had to be turned away from British maternity wards for lack of beds?
high
contaminated food stuffs,
Because those pesky consumers have largely valued low price above
every other consideration.
Makes about as much sense as the idea that smokers freely
express their preference when buying cigarettes. There
is no free choice in the face of inadequate information
and
What is right about the majority voting to tax the minority for the
enefit of that majority? That is the very antithisis of liberty.
The very anti-thesis? I would say the anti-thesis is the minority
voting to tax the majority for the benefit of the minority is
even more anti-thetical (which
Any good sources for getting a sense of the DC job market. I have
spent five years as the stay at home parent and really need
to move back into support myself. Experience is as a software
developer, mainly C++, database apps, Winitel architectures, 15 years
used to have a clearance etc.
Any
For someone who is getting separated and who rather spend
money on computer equipment than TV equipment (and has
access to his old residence in a very friendly arrangement)
Who has experience with the OSD device for snatching video?
Any experience with tuner cards should a live tv feed be
Ausus eeePC. $200-$400. Subcompact. If you can see using linux,
(though
people are loading XP on them).
get a extra keyboard, monitor, external drive and it is a desktop
replacement
(for standard business/school applications - not for graphic intensive
stuff
like games).
If you can get used to
I would be polite and not say anymore on this thread
except I just (season opener?) Torchwood. James Effing Marsters!
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:47:42 -0800, Paul Meyer wrote:
My Who education post Baker is vastly incomplete.
oh yeah, Computers!
Don't
from the Who-ian canon. Still I like it.
My Who education post Baker is vastly incomplete.
... oh yeah, Computers!
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Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood?
Me me me. I don't like it as much as Dr Who. Cap'n Jack
You read my mind. Your description of the travails
of tech people trying to get citizenship made me
think why would the US let people when we have
indentured servitude (i.e., the H1 visa program).
In the past, H-1 was a potentially a threat to my livliehood
and then I worked with H1 visa guys and
Can't excel just be setup as the interface to
the database which would allow the excel-centric
users to be happy without stomping on the
structure.
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I think before I let them flatten it I'd consider online solutions
too. Does Google offer a real
Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood?
(I know it's OT but what about all that
indecipherable obscureness about Philadelphia
and a (?) pig. I am not even going to
ask what an iggle is.)
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:56:19 -0800, Paul Meyer wrote
Is that a Doctor Who quote?
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 00:59:34 -0500, Michael Fernando wrote:
This particular public will certainly be migrating to the Google
product. I've spent a *lot* of time avoiding Microsoft products
except
for OSes because I'm too
I just downloaded the Windows version of GnuCash.
I am still exploring it though it seems to do
much more than budget/checkbook tracking. (I was
going to analyze the household budget but it turns
out we just have more expenses than income...)
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Thanks for
Shucks, Tom. Everything I know I learned on this list... ;-
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I think you could find intellectual honest, economically literate
conservatives who would argue that Gates is a threat to free market
and capitalism in general.
Great analysis Paul. I did
Information asymmetry is 2008 because it is mainstream econ
today. I think the internet was very useful for gathering price
information but I personally found it has been harder and harder
to get price info and firms are almost certainly trying to make it
harder.
There is also price
Point is simple. You don't have to be liberal or socialist to have
big problems with monopolists. Is Tom's obsession with Gates
unhealthy? That's for him an his shrink to decide.
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So Paul, what is your point? That markets aren't perfect? That
Jeff,
There are two arguments that mitigate against the Friedmann pov. One using
1970 economics and one using 2007 economics.
The morality of maximizing profits is based on the idea that markets
do certain things efficiently and so promoting the freedom of business people,
entrepreneurs and
http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/opedne_mark_cri_080116_what_to_expect_from_.htm
Mark Crispin Miller's piece was posted recently about recounts in NH.
You don't have to buy his thesis about the rigging of any particular
election, but his point about the fact that the company
programming the
Alvin I agree you 100% and could make other criticisms
about our electoral/legislative processes, but it is probably
off topic (though not any more so than the history of stuff).
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Alvin you are too cynical and too off topic too.
The problem with the 1/3 number (even if it is accurate, and it may be)
is that it is a highly agregated numbes. It does'nt mean necessarily
that a third of every natural resource is gone, clearly some are more exploited
than
others. Actually her quote about forests is that 4% of the original
Isn't a USB audio interface even a better idea than an internal sound card?
They can be fairly cheap.
Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert,
This looks like a good plan. Thanks for the advice from a voice of
experience.
Richard P.
Robert wrote:
My two cents:
If I were doing this, I
To support Betty, I always understood that the transition from analog to CD
resulted in a loss of details that any fan (for ex of the Beatles) would notice
on DC if they were used to listening to a good condition LP on a decent stereo.
One reason I have been waiting for the high quality DVD's
Tom, I assume NAC's are the same thing as NACK's (neg*ACK).
Do CS and EE tribes use a different abbreviation? -P
Paula Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom P said:
Normally, DSL should not do that. This implies that some bandwidth
is being consumed by NACs. The speed measuring sites do not seem
result in cancer for many years if not
decades, though radiation damage is cumulative so who knows if there isn't
some threshold tipping point.
Randall
On Dec 1, 2007 1:50 PM, Paul Meyer
wrote:
If anyone listened to the public health academic who wrote
The Secret History of the War On Cancer
If anyone listened to the public health academic who wrote
The Secret History of the War On Cancer some of the most
quoted studies
done on cell phone radiation have severe methodological
flaws and even if they were good might been inadequate for
assessing the brain cancer risk 20 or 30 years
Tom, respectfully a UofPittsburgh professor of Public Health is not
a crank, and her claims and arguments were quite reasonable when
interviewed on NPR. Flourescent lighting does not broadcast its energy an
inch from your brain (actually I doubt the UV doesn't penetrate
your skin). Furthermore, I
Don't take my word as gospel but Gutsy is both, according to the Linux Action
Guys,
a standout distro and really easy (comparatively) for installing (available)
proprietary
drivers. If you could get it with Fiesty, I would be really surprised if you
can't get it Gutsy
and in even a more
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Removing the plist files worked. Thanks. Still have
to find the corrupted
but probably won't bother. -PJM
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That is the problem, but I am using a kids PC keyboard on the mini
so I am not how the keys map. The windows button seems
to be the command button, not sure about options. Thanks. -PJM
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Removing the plist files worked. Thanks. Still have to find the corrupted
but probably won't bother. -PJM
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Deleted the file. Restarted. No change.
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From: Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 2:15:12 AM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] mac mini help
My 4yr old was banging on
My 4yr old was banging on the keyboard and
now all the color schemes are messed up, the color
setting in System Preference don't indicate the right
colors. A restart hasn't fixed it. Running Tiger.
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From
The Linux Actions guys tell their entire saga of disaffection from Mac users.
(They were mac developers and had taken over the administration of a mac
community
web site).
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Any UPS units that have self test capabilities?
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I missed
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You have to climb the protocol stack.
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The scriptures say not that money is the root of evil
but the love of money is.
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS]
As much as I like my macmini, computers won't be completely tinker free
until they come with
1)UPS
2) Internet connection
3)Automated backup.
#1 is essential if you live with iffy power,
(which means me even though this is southern Montgomery Co)
#3 you need everywhere
I guess everyone does get
My appreciation of the value of the MacMini would be radically different
if I had bought any of the extra services Apple tried to sell (quite
aggresively too, btw).
I don't advocate integrate the UPS in a PC, but the PC sales guys (like the Dell
reps my in-laws encountered) will pile a dozen
Well, I understand that battery technology (in a UPS) is problematic on a
variety
of fronts (weight, reliability, etc) but apparently necessary (for some people)
until the circuitry,
power supplies and hard drives in PC's become more robust.
The internect connection configuration in OSX is
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 9:23:09 AM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Anti-virus
At 7:11 PM -0400 9/27/07, Steve Rigby wrote:
On Sep 27, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Paul Meyer wrote:
Rather than being consumer driven
changes in software have always been largely done over the objections
of the user base. IMHO
I think Mike is drinking the koolaid on this one.
I don't know about Apple but 15 years of familiarity
with Microsoft makes it clear to me that software
changes (i.e. features) are meant to drive marketing,
except unlike model changes in cars they are more pernicious
in that breaking old versions
I just went with FIOStv solely to screw comcast.
So far it actually works better and costs less. The DVR
is a little funkier but I have dvr playback in two rooms
and more movie channels for 10$ less a month. Though that
is just the cherry on the revenge cake.
(fyi Comcast's on-demand function
Tom,
Are you saying Windows users get satisfaction out of
being members of a great collective?
-P3281
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The obligatory Amiga joke... all's well with the world.
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Good thing I write these on an
] Bill Nye, the anti-God Science Guy
At 06:01 AM 8/22/07, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did not take particular offense to your rant
Mazel tov. Neither did I. Possibly because, your characterization
notwithstanding, it wasn't a rant.
and thought it reasonably harmless given
The command line also allows you to have carnal knowledge with yourself.
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Change in Terminology AND broken iBooks
Tom Piwowar
I
I think the Netherlands, Sweden, West Germany, even France in some ways are
preferable models
but Canada does have something going for it. A national health insurance (with
essentially doctors)
might be more sellable. There is alot of objective evidence that one thing our
government does
Of course it is not socialism, I merely was pointing out that it historically
inaccurate to deny
that socialists deserve the lion share of credit for struggling for it in the
rest of the world.
And that fact is enough in and of itself for people of a not-uncommon mindset
to oppose it.
(Btw, I
reply (rather than getting into a is it or isn't it debate) will be , So
what. Whatever it is, it works.
And it will.
-Paul Meyer
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Subject: Re
Duh, the only reason there can be a Fed Ex is because the Post Office handles
the bulk of the mail.
The PO obviously could be better, but it really needs a more democratic
political system,
so that it's users could pressure it through Congress. The existing system is
just not that democratic.
Also, some ridiculous portion of doctor costs go to navigating all the existing
plans and corresponding forms.
It is like an industry unto itself.
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All health care systems, including the US ration resources on some basis.
The ironic thing about the health care debate focusing on Canada and Britain
as alternative models is that we are familiar with them because of linguistic
and cultural similarities but neither are particularly well funded
The idea that America's health care system is the best is highly dubious,
you can cherry pick diseases (and interpreting them is highly misleading,
eg how many African Americans die of high blood pressure or
diabetes before they get a chance to die of cancer...) but in general
the aggregate
As sympathetic as I
I go away on vacation and all heck breaks loose...
As sympathetic as I am to call for more respect on this list,
I think Chris has missed one important point about the Vista upgrade issue.
It is NOT a purely technical question in terms of evaluating features and
performance
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] swap drives
Another solution, possibly is eSATA, unless you have specific reasons for
wanting internal drives.
Mike
On 8/3/07, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED
(glacial) speeds.
Lately I've taken to moving the DVDR (normally slave) drives to SATA.
Once the removable drives are alone on that bus they work okay.
If I was going to start doing this today, I'd start with SATA drive bays/drives.
On 8/3/07, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have
Box ones (IDE SATA
models combo models) are nice, inexpensive and do not.
eSATA drives are rare and have a different connector than SATA ... you
have to have the card with the eSATA connector and a eSATA cable. Most
external SATA drives are USB2 or 1394 firewire...
Paul Meyer wrote
Anyone have experience with brands of swap-able drive bays. Btw,
if you didn't have this find list to solicit opinions, where
on the web/net is a good place to reliable reviews, feedback etc.
-Paul Meyer
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My problem with overseas support is that they seemed to be sworn on pain of
death to never pass a customer on to a supervisor or some other higher up.
That may be incidental to being overseas. Though companies that are support
oriented tend to want to keep their support operations close to home,
If my mother-in-law is any example, that ones that try hardest
to blend into upper-middle class suburbia and decry all the foul
language on HBO are actually right of the Sopranos. ;
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How do I get control of the log files. I am running out of space
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I can clear out while I am it.
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