Re: [CGUYS] DRM

2009-01-08 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com: The thing is, I don't have many (or even any) songs that would sell for $1.29 if I bought them after the switch. The newest thing I have The question to ask is: what would MS do? With the Zune store they abandoned all their previous customers so Ya see,

Re: [CGUYS] P3 450 [Was: COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest...]

2009-01-08 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com: One of these days I'm going to replace it. I'd like to put together a Hackintosh. That would be fun, but definitely something done for entertainment purposes. If you have several computers you can easy tolerate having one weird one. What's so weird about a

Re: [CGUYS] DRM

2009-01-07 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Stephen Brownfield steveei...@verizon.netwrote: I was given the option of upgrading a number of my songs for $.30 each. Some still aren't DRM free yet. That should be what happens when Apple gets it's DRM

Re: [CGUYS] PC and MAC interchanges

2008-12-26 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Michael Wosnick mwosn...@rogers.com: Hi all, ---8--8- In short, if I bit the bullet and went Mac, what will be the advantages and what will be the hurdles I will face in needing to stay fully compatible and connected to my PC-based world out there?

Re: [CGUYS] MS Share Drops 19% YOY

2008-12-14 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: I've helped half a dozen users with their home systems, reinstalling os's etc...If I've changed IE from the msn home page I'm told their machine is still brokenor at least IE is. THAT'S RIGHT! And don't you go messing with such vital system functions like

Re: [CGUYS] Help fuddy-duddy with VCR question

2008-10-08 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Question: can you tell an old fuddy-duddy where to learn about what options might be available for digital VCRs, that are actually owned by me instead of rented, to record off the satellite and off the coming digital signals? An ability to play analog VHS

Re: [CGUYS] IVR cheats (was: just one..)

2008-09-30 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A google search brought up a list of IVR cheats on this site: http://www.widowpc.com/2005/11/bypass_phone_tr.php (scroll down past the white space) Not sure how accurate it is but have found that trying some combination of these things works on most

Re: [CGUYS] (no-spam) Test

2008-08-14 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There's nothing hostile about educating people on how mailing lists work. How are they supposed to learn if no one tells them? He _sent_ spam to the list, I _told_ him he sent spam to the list, and offered suggestions how to avoid same in future. No hostility

Re: [CGUYS] Test

2008-08-13 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just checking to see if this is coming through. Will someone please reply so I know that this is working? No. It failed miserably. Katan * ** List info, subscription management,

Re: [CGUYS] FiOS installation

2008-08-06 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Bill L'Hommedieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I live here in Arlington and will be moving into an apartment from a single family home. I want to get Fios (TV, internet, phone) service and wonder if its available in apartment complexes (all, some or none) or only single family homes. I'm doing my

Re: [CGUYS] Forced to Vista?

2008-06-17 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah. Get a Mac. I realize that many folks think they are forever bound to a MS operating system of one flavor or another. Such a burden. Nobody suggested this. It's that the get a Mac response to almost any Windows question is old, tired, and

Re: [CGUYS] Forced to Vista?

2008-06-16 Thread Reid Katan
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a strategy for avoiding Vista? Yeah. Get a Mac. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** **

Re: [CGUYS] Comcast bundle feedback

2008-05-12 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Bill L'Hommedieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'll be moving into an apartment (don't know which yet) in Arlington from a single family home and wonder what options for cable/satellite exist. I suspect the Comcast is the only choice. If that's true, what's the service like on the bundle of TV,

Re: [CGUYS] Slate website

2008-04-10 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting David Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I should have specified...I can get the home page to load, but frequently have trouble getting the various story pages to load. -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reid Katan

Re: [CGUYS] Shared calendar?

2008-04-10 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting db [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone have any personal experience or recommendations for sharing Google calendar or other calendar with several XP and Vista computers and a windows mobile 6 phone? I'm looking for a low cost or reasonable cost solution that has minimal overhead. I don't

Re: [CGUYS] Slate website

2008-04-09 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Mason Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Snapped right up here at home. I am using Verizon FiOS (yipee!).. Mason On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:58 PM, David Turk wrote: Does anyone have problems accessing Slate's website? I'm using Firefox, have no problems with other sites. Slate just seems to

[CGUYS] Firefox shortcuts (Was: Re: [CGUYS] Web Politicking)

2008-03-11 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In Firefox, Alt-Enter automatically adds the http://www. at the beginning and the .org at the end to what ever is in the address bar. In this case, all I had to type in was whatsmyip instead of the whole URL. Richard P. no matter which i do, I get the

Re: [CGUYS] Computer Guys Whopper Contest

2008-03-05 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's from when Kojo took over the show and they stopped calling it Public Interest. It originally said The Computer Guys First Tuesday of every month at 1 p.m. on Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi The Sharpied in a 2 to make the time 12:00 and scratched out

Re: [CGUYS] Computer Guys Whopper Contest

2008-03-04 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 8) First prize: A brand new and out of date Computer Guys mouse pad will be mailed to the first prize winner. My mouse is currently ashamed to be rolling around on a Computer Guys mouse pad. It's from when Kojo took over the show and they stopped

[CGUYS] Torchwood (Was Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!)

2008-02-09 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood? Me me me. I don't like it as much as Dr Who. Cap'n Jack was so much better in his couple of Dr Who episodes. He's too serious now. I liked the one where them three people came through the rift from WWII era.

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-01 Thread Reid Katan
Well that didn't work as planned. What I *meant* to say was: Quoting Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes Can't Find Files Problem?

2008-01-15 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is the proper/best sequence to get the music into iTunes so that it will stay there? WinXP, iTunes 7.5.0.20 Well, to start with, an exclamation point means that iTunes couldn't find the tune in the location that it's looking. So if you copied your

[CGUYS] Quickbooks and MD taxes

2007-12-31 Thread Reid Katan
Many of you living in Maryland know that the sales tax rate is going up from 5% to 6%. Those of you that don't: SURPRISE! I've been tasked with changing the rate in Quickbooks. While I can change the rate--it's easy enough--Maryland's tax table doesn't exactly jibe with a real 6% rate.

Re: [CGUYS] Millennial Computer Guys Archive Online

2007-12-29 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How about the first post ever? Does someone still have that one? I still have my email when I joined the list with my current email address, but I had an AOL account for several years before that. I'm sure I still have mine. I keep all my welcome

[CGUYS] Finally joined the 20th century.

2007-04-11 Thread Reid Katan
I know this has been covered ad nauseum, but hey, look at the bright side. Now it'll get archived. Somebody finally recognized North Beach as a town worthy of broadband access (Comcast), and I got myself hooked up. Yay! Rather than rent Comcast's modem (Motorola SurfBoard), I'd rather buy

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