On 08/12/2011 09:47 AM, gerald wrote:
vista, firefox, tbird, big computer with lots of free space.
once every couple weeks i get a tbird upgrade. seems even more
agressive than MS improvements. i get to the computer in the morning,
and it's there. a couple weeks ago, i got a sidebar
On 03/21/2011 11:37 AM, Tom Chambers wrote:
I hate computers that talk to me , so when I'm setting up
a machine for my own use I always set it to no sounds in
the control panel. That works for most sounds , but in XP I still get
the standard beep when I change volume or get a new
On 01/11/2011 01:26 PM, Mike Sloane wrote:
LibreOffice http://www.documentfoundation.org/ does appear to be an
effort at an evolution of OpenOffice, but it seems to come from a
different organization not related to Oracle (formerly Sun).
LibreOffice has most of the main former non Sun/Oracle
On 11/21/2010 04:03 PM, One Man wrote:
Why can't I be signed into YM and YMail at the same time on the same computer?
I'm running them on Max OS 10.5.8 using Safari 5.0.2
When I click on the mail button on YM, YMail opens, but YM closes. I get
the following error message: You have been
I know there was some discussion here in July about Google Chrome, but any
new feedback? Is it worthwile to switch from Firefox?
I don't know about switching from Firefox, but Google Chrome/Chromium
now functions quite well and reliably as a browser. If there is
something that really
On 09/30/2010 05:56 PM, John A. Newitt wrote:
I use Gmail and download the messages to my computer using POP and read
with Eudora. Most of the time I get attachments just fine, and I have
been doing this successfully for over a decade with various mail hosts.
But for some reason I do not get
On 06/24/2010 09:22 AM, Terry Kilburg wrote:
I meant will I lose the emails that i already downloaded but are in folders if
i switch from Windows Mail to Thunderbird?
You won't lose your prior mail unless you totally uninstall and delete
Windows Live Mail. I played with Live Mail for
On 05/11/2010 03:03 PM, tjpa wrote:
For users in distress and at risk of suicide, mym3 provides a direct,
one-button link to Mental Health America’s National Suicide Hotline...
I was sorely tempted to make a sarcastic remark about the bill for the
Iphone being the cause.
I can't help
On 05/07/2010 09:47 AM, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
It is time for a client of mine to get a new Computer. His adaptive
keyboard works only with a 32-bit OS (Windows or Mac). His screen
reader works only with windows. Thus I need to get a Windows computer
running a 32-bit OS. With the
On 04/15/2010 07:02 PM, Richard P. wrote:
A senior friend went out to a local electronics store and bought a new
Dell, 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium computer to replace his old XP
which has a failing hard drive. Unfortunately, the only program that
he has that will run on the new computer is
On 04/07/2010 08:29 PM, Marcio wrote:
Thank you very much. So I can boot on XP and if there is no wireless
connection I can install the Linksys driver. It says to install the driver
first and then connect the wireless adapter. I guess I will have to
disconnect the adapter (USB) that is
On 04/07/2010 05:21 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
The questions I'm most interested in are: 1) how many people are going
to buy an iPad INSTEAD of a laptop; and 2) how long before having an
iPad is pretty much expected of you, if you're middle class in the
business and professional world--for
On 04/06/2010 04:00 PM, Brian Jones wrote:
Careful there, Marcio! You are sure you are taking about a 'dual boot'
and not 'windows XP mode', right?
Windows XP mode will use the virtual machine software to share your
network adapter with your XP mode virtual machine. It's quirky, but it
Marcio wrote:
Thanks guys. I am now a little scared because the WIndows 7 is working fine and
connects to my wireless network automatically. I am afraid to boot with XP
because it may not connect automatically and I will then have to install the
Linksys Wireless Driver for XP that is already
Just when Firefox had released a new security update, this comes along.
It is possible to disable the root certificate, although it's not really
a good indication that the aforementioned certificate exists without
anyone knowing or admitting knowledge about whom it belonged to.
Finally after uninstalling the driver in Windows XP and boot in Windows 7 and
I was able to connect it to the network. It is working fine now. But I am
afraid of booting on Windows XP and messing this up. Even more afraid to
install the Linksys driver in Windows XP and this creating
On 03/15/2010 02:38 AM, mike wrote:
Considering how frequently unintended consequences of regulation (when we
have yet to see any true problems with the current internet system) wreak
havoc on things I don't see the rush to go into giving FCC the power over
the internet. It is non-centralized
On 03/15/2010 01:16 PM, mike wrote:
This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the real
world.
No, I stated that there is a cost to disdaining government being
involved in the provision of services. You're trying to produce a
binary situation where there isn't one.
Not
On 03/12/2010 01:31 PM, Reid Katan wrote:
How about: They have a picture of a student, upon which, they spied?
But you're conceding that at first they didn't know who had the picture.
It appears that the IT guys probably lacked access to student records,
which means that the student in question
On 03/12/2010 04:13 AM, Jeff Miles wrote:
And this is comparable to visually spying on children in their bedrooms
how? I think you're trying to compare apples with oranges here.
You are assuming something here, something which none of the parties in
the legal dispute seem to be
On 03/12/2010 03:06 PM, John Emmerling wrote:
What real purpose does tinyurl really serve nowadays? Don't
up-to-date mail readers handle URLs of any arbitrary length with no
problem?
No, they don't, in fact many wrap at 72 characters. Actually tinyurls
and similar services can be safer with
On 03/11/2010 10:13 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Usually, said
permission requires a warrant in any jurisdiction. The school system
has neither claimed or established that it had obtained any form of
legal permission to enter into the surveillance that was undertaken.
It begins to appear
On 03/11/2010 11:44 AM, Stewart Marshall wrote:
Art I agree with you, but it does raise some pretty significant legal
issues.
Was the school within it's rights to have this type of tracking system?
(Apparently not according to PA law.)
Funnily enough despite PA statutes, this is probably
On 03/11/2010 04:28 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
From what I have recently read about this, the parents of the
student in question have requested a copy of that photo but the school
has declined to provide it thus far.
If the lawyers involved haven't already gotten all of the pictures
On 03/11/2010 05:08 PM, Rich Schinnell wrote:
Time for you to reline your tinfoil hat.
If you have a work computer, you might want to review your terms of
usage. If you have an assigned work laptop, you especially want to
review what you agreed to.
There is no need for a tinfoil hat if the
On 03/11/2010 10:59 PM, Reid Katan wrote:
In this case though, I gave Steve the benefit of the doubt and followed
his TinyURL. Nothing spammy about it. In fact, go straight to the FCC
site: www.broadband.gov
if folks are really paranaoid, every tinyurl created can have the phrase
preview
On 03/11/2010 01:15 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Of course the school knew who had the computers. This assertion that
they didn't is insulting to schools and to teachers. When any kind of
electronics are borrowed from schools by teachers or students there are
records of who has the equipment. Lower
mike wrote:
You seem to not understand that after finding who had the 'stolen' laptop
they spent zero time in telling the parents the boy had taken it without
permission. It never came up. They just called the kid in and tried to
accuse him of doing drugs. Then they had to backtrack and
mike wrote:
No, that's not right, the administrator said explicit the software was used
narrowly only to recover stolen/missing property. His words.
Wait a moment, a laptop is supposed to be in school, it's not there and
nobody has permission to remove said laptop from school. What is the
On 03/09/2010 01:03 PM, mike wrote:
Trouble is from what was said they knew who had it.
Nope, they knew after they had pictures from the webcam, not before.
Suspecting someone has something and having proof that same individual
has it are two different things and usually two different sets of
On 03/08/2010 01:06 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
The question is though is did the kid get in trouble initially for
taking the computer home without insurance? We know he was tagged for
the eating of illicit candies.
Actually I remind everyone that he and his parents claim that he was
On 03/08/2010 01:28 AM, mike wrote:
*The district says it turned on the camera in Robbins' computer because,
since he had not paid a $55 insurance fee, he should not have been taking it
home.
It's not likely the administrator had the recovery software activated
just because he wasn't supposed
On 03/06/2010 09:23 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
If any pictures of an underage child were taken let alone viewed they are
likely open to prosecution for kiddie porn. This happened in Pennsylvania
where they prosecuted a teenage girl for taking pictures of herself and
emailing them to her
On 03/06/2010 09:23 PM, mike wrote:
If this was it, why wasn't he accused of stealing it? Why did school
officials continue to watch this kid when they knew he had it? Why did they
further accuse him of selling and taking drugs? This software was clearly
not used to track a stolen laptop,
On 03/06/2010 10:05 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Technical, schmechnical. Give the parents a call, for goodness
sake. That's what you do when a school fee has not been paid. What
do we have here, the KGB or something? Is this the sort of behavior
that technology can breed?
Did the
On 03/07/2010 11:20 PM, mike wrote:
I haven't seen it, but perhaps you have..a definitive statement that the
school thought the laptop was in fact stolen? I keep seeing vague things
like 'security was used in case it was missing or stolen', but never that in
this case they had turned it on
On 03/05/2010 08:11 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, according to that very article, the computer camera was
activated in the Robbins case for a reason other than specified by the
school system. According to the school system, the camera in that
case was turned on because a $55
On 03/06/2010 08:27 PM, mike wrote:
So the only crime so far is they should have told the boys and girls they
would be watched remotely in their bedrooms? Maybe they failed to make it
clear because any sensible parent doesn't want their kids spied on by sick
perverts.
The situation is more
On 03/04/2010 07:14 PM, Tony B wrote:
The question is: Why don't *you* consider yourself paranoid? Or are you
actually doing something in front of the camera that's even remotely
interesting? And why void a warranty when a little piece of tape will work?
Or are you concerned there's a way to
On 03/04/2010 08:03 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
If I were those worried parents, I would start a movement to prevent the
school from using any taxpayer money to defend themselves. That is the
rip-off, not the class action lawsuit.
What you're suggesting is not legally possible. If an entity or
On 03/04/2010 06:53 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Eh, the school board never told the parents about any strings
attached. The school system never revealed the fact that those
cameras would or could be activated remotely. This fact has been
verified by the school system, but they have yet
missing or stolen, or if an employee entered the wrong data for
a particular laptop, and that laptop's camera was activated.
Incidentally note that if for example laptop a1 was listed as going
to Art Clemons and instead someone else got said laptop, if Art Clemons
suddenly reports his laptop stolen
Despite what the wing nuts at the Supreme Court would have you believe, the
school district is not a person. It does not have the ability to reason. It
does not know about good and evil. That is the province of people who work
for the school district.
Unfortunately, we are stuck with the
WHAT I DON'T KNOW is whether the signal is actually usable in large parts of
the National Capitol area, which is why I asked this question. I sort of
figured that the signal wasn't very good, or I would have heard of it; but it
would be nice if it did work.
Finding a working portable HD
I think you are under a misunderstanding. HD radio is NOT digital. It is a
proprietary format analog signal with a digital adjunct. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Radio
Both IBOC signals are truly digital although on AM, it's a Hybrid
Digital system. Please note that your quoted
I've received a few emails stating that starting next month cell phone
companies will be given access to personal cell phone numbers and that one
must call a special number to request that your number not be given out.
Can anyone verify whether this is correct or just another rumor? If the
But if the electric car is only good for local computing, it then must be (in
most cases) economic as an _additional_ car, not as a replacement for a car
currently owned.
Liquid fuels aren't going to go away for a long time yet.
Hydrogen cars have approximately the same problem, there isn't
The Peugeot 888 by Oskar Johansen in the 2009 Peugeot Design Contest is a
small electric car that converts from small and high to larger and low
depending on whether it's in the city or suburbs. It has solar panels on the
roof to recharge the batteries. Batteries are getting smaller while PV
Tony B:
Yet another example of really bad reporting. The only reference it
gives is a click through to a Gizmodo story that actually words it
MUCH differently. Instead of telling us Panasonic is launching this
battery, Gizmodo tells us they are only now launching a joint venture
aimed at
So I extrapolate that it will run an average US house for about 6 hours.
I'm not sure about real time frames. Japan is fourth on the list of
energy usage per individual. From what I can figure, that would allow
the typical US household slightly more than six days.
On 01/08/2010 01:22 AM, mike wrote:
But the point is they are all insecure, windows isn't more or less secure
than say OS X, it just appears that way because OS X isn't attacked. Which
of course is security by obscurity, but that wasn't what we are talking
about.
I'm not sure that OS X is
On 01/04/2010 11:55 PM, Tony B wrote:
Every time I re-subscribe or take a survey I'm very careful to
say I do *not* want the digital edition. I have way too much reading
to do at the computer; what I need is stuff I can take to bed with me.
I'm sorry but I have to suggest you take a human
The phrase “Penny wise and Pound foolish” comes to mind. Did the first
client end up saving money because she bought a PC?
Uh, I note that apparently both machines used the same brand drive, it
could even have been the same model for all we know.
It's troubling to me that the alleged
FWIW, I've been using the new MS AV since I installed Win7. Not bad.
But it only works with Vista Win7.
No, the Security Essentials program although designed for Vista will
install and run on both 32 bit WindowsXP and Windows 7.
I don't think it will run on the 64 bit version.
You really believe that? Think about it harder.
Comcast likely faces legal scrutiny if it is caught lying either by a
court or the FCC. The other point to consider is that presently Comcast
among other large ISPs is treading on thin ice regulation wise. I
suspect undisclosed monitoring would
, Art Clemons wrote:
The other point to consider is that presently Comcast
among other large ISPs is treading on thin ice regulation wise. I
suspect undisclosed monitoring would more likely than not be a better
argument for real net neutrality.
Comcast is about to acquire the NBC television
My bet is that if you are using torrents or other services that compete with
Comcast business they will pepper you with notices to such as extent that you
won't be able to use the service. Effectively a DOS attack in sheep's
clothing.
So far, the folks at Comcast don't seem to have
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10373251-1.html
In case you miss the obvious, read the last line! Note that fanboy is
an OS neutral term!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10373251-1.html
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I agree, and yet am unable to verbalize why I feel this way. Perhaps the
feeling that demand will always expand to meet or exceed supply. For example,
the ever-increasing speed of CPU chips; there is always something that will
suck them dry.
I'm not sure that metering is really a
I stayed out of the last fight over RAID. I have no great love for it,
and have had more than one oops with RAID, but I also know that lots of
folks especially those in IT desire it. Apparently it's not just those
using Reiserfs who suddenly find that an Array has to be rebuilt or that
something
I guess when I posted the original, I left out the URL that attracted my
attention. I noticed it on Slashdot so no, I don't normally read said
publication:
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3839636
I used to do all my computing at a data center, 40 years ago. I remember
being liberated. I don't want to go back to those days.
The only thing worse than being at a data center was having a single
terminal quite some distance away from a data center and discovering
that your phone line was
You say, ...were a geek toy... Are you claiming that they are no
longer geek toys? I say they most certainly are geek toys, which is
why it is mostly guys who are driving around with them as far as I can
see. Travel around a bit as a passenger so you can have time to look
around and
(I have a theory about the ask-for-directions issue, by the way: Most of the
time, we don't think we're actually lost. Whatever we're looking for is just
over the next hill or around the next bend,
and, if not, our sense of direction will find it eventually. Women's
navigation does not
I therefore find it quite amusing to discover what appears to be the
fact that GPS devices in cars are almost exclusively used by guys. In
fact, these guys try as hard as they possibly can to make sure that
everyone knows they are using GPS units by mounting them as
conspicuously as
So far I have resisted getting a cell phone for myself. Wife daughters
insist on having one, so that I am paying about $150/month for same. Don't
want to add on to my plan since it requires another 2-year contract, plus
wifey will be constantly calling me for help, for chitchat, and for
What's the security issue with using a document file format based on XML?
http://soa.sys-con.com/node/1061373
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/08/researchers_xml_security_flaw.html
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No, there's nothing inherently insecure about XML. These flaws aren't in XML
itself, they're in some of the code libraries that developers use to process
XML.
The most important issue is that MS has to stop selling Word with XML
and pay money. In effect, Word has been orphaned unless MS
Fine, but my point is that these are not security issues with XML as you
implied. They are issues with the code that parses and processes XML
documents. It's not valid to say XML has security
issues, because it doesn't.
What's the difference between Microsoft Core Services having an
Guess patents are coming back to bite MS. Apparently another entity had
a patent on XML. So much for XML as a generic standard. Considering
how XML has been a pain in the rear of security, it might not be a major
loss.
Security isn't high on the list of concerns, cows out number
people at least 5 to 1, the town does have a stop light and
it works. I wasn't really concerned with being safe as much
as not breaking the Internet for our hosts. The mom there
is talking about getting a laptop/netbook
Does any of that make sense? I understand that the local
cable office does have a WAP version as well as a non-WAP
version of the modem.
One other approach when the cable company or other broadband ISP doesn't
want to open up its firewall setup is to have a DMZ IP address which is
assigned to
I wouldn't trust any free online company to store my important data. I've
been burned many times by making that foolish assumption. I'll never do that
again. There are storage companies that do primarily storage at a reasonable
price and do it well, but it would never be my only backup.
You don't thnik that you have to go through public affairs to get to
an engineer? I've been associated with the broadcasting industry long
enough to know better than that. Unless one already has a direct line
to engineering, you are going to have to go through a filter.
Aren't you assuming
It is time for legislation to set our cell phones free.
Just making cell phones free or independent of carriers likely won't
really improve things. I point to the up and down ability of the Palm
pre to masquerade as an IPOD with Itunes under windows and on the Mac as
an example of what can be
People steal identities all the time. It does not require reading a
passport rfid. Nor does reading a passport rfid make it any easier.
Ah but it does make it easier. Your place of birth, full name and birth
date are encoded and at the least available for recovery. It's a bigger
risk than you
I wonder if they match the first digits of the zip code. Sounds pretty
close for the East Coast.
Nope, most of the Atlantic states don't have the first digit as their
respective zips. Besides ZipCodes weren't implemented until well after
SS was established.
Yeah but the post office could just as easily followed the SSN scheme.
The postal service used an entirely different scheme so that most of the
information needed to route a letter or package was contained in the
first three digits and even though it finally adopted a nine digit zip+4
scheme,
For a certain age group and younger, who are born in here, perhaps.
Older people and new citizens get their numbers where they are living
at the time.
SSNs are for the most part now assigned as soon as an individual's birth
is recorded and certain activities carried out. They're still
But, in spite of its limitations, I don't want to give these search engines a
hard time for not ranking stories about Michael Jackson's death at the top of
the page, right after it happened. As an event, it's just NOT THAT
IMPORTANT.
Search engines tend to rank based on how users seem to
I don't see how that follows. The router in question uses a wall wart
for power, most of these will say on them what they'll handle and
there are few these days that won't do both power frequencies and
voltages. My computer and camera had no problems in France with
simple power plug
I didn't say anything about murder. Killed at least implies an external
force, like the Verizon guy ran him over, accidentally or not. Dude died of
his injuries (whatever they were).
Tom's usage of killed is likely correct. The customer would still be
alive if events had not caused his
From what I've been reading and hearing from people who bought one, digital
radio is the least attractive choice. I have asked several people who have
both satellite and OTA digital and they told me they stopped using the OTA
digital because the signal was so unreliable. YMMV.
Digital
am asking now, while there are still
plenty of analogue radio broadcasts because it would appear to be the
next band of spectrum the FCC can harvest, that analogue radio will
convert someday. Anyone know differently? Will I be stuck with
satellite radio out in the boonies?
HD radio on AM
Good story, but it did not help. I get 7 but not 9. If this were true and I
had an antenna problem I would get neither station.
You do have an antenna problem. Either your antenna is not aimed to
pick up one of the stations or alternatively your antenna can't deliver
enough signal to produce
The Washington Post today, Thursday, June 11, has a good article
about how the transition to digital television has missed virtually
every single promised advantage over analog TV. The claims made by
broadcasters and their lobbying organizations that were designed to
ensure and garner
The cheapo Win7 releases at Best Buy seem to be 50 and 100 for upgrades. I
heard it was from Vista only.
Apparently you can upgrade from XP, only thing is that win 7 will not
use your apps and settings, it will instead make your old windows folder
into something that is saved (you likely can
Why am I not surprised?
An even better forced upgrade for IE6 users would be a mandatory
upgrade to IE7 or IE8. Neither is great, but IE6 is so full of security
problems that it's not even clear it's really supported anymore.
Besides, consider all of the folks out there with XP who are
Which version of linux are you running?
Slackware-current with the 2.6.29.4 kernel
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I've been sent a .doc form by email that I am supposed to print out, fill
out, and send back via USPS. I don't use anything MS.
NeoOffice shows the document best, but the spacing in the form does not come
out just right, so that the paging, which is important on this form, does not
come
So all in all, this is what I'm leaning to purchasing. I investigated the
MSI Winds, the Samsungs, Dells, Asus, Acer... etc. but found that the HP mini
2140, though on the more expensive end, has features that seem better for me.
It got quite a good review in laptop magazine. It can be
For years I had a Umax flatbed scanner connected by parallel
port to my XP system . On start up , it put an icon in the lower
right corner of my screen .
I've long since changed to a USB scanner on a fast USB port
and deleted all of the old scanner operating
1. I have an iMac PPC. Some (day? year?) I'll buy an iMac Intel.
2. The latest version of NeoOffice is 3.0, and it runs on Mac PPC and Mac
Intel.
3. The latest version of OpenOffice is 3.1, and it runs on Mac Intel but not
Mac PPC.
4. The latest version of OpenOffice that runs on Mac
No. Manufacturers have redefined their too-big notebooks as netbooks to
confuse consumers as to what real netbooks are. A real netbook is 5-8, not
a 10-12 notebook. Those small non-netbook notebooks are not much more
portable than any other notebook, just harder to type on. Redefined cheap
According to a study sponsored by the EU(?ECIS?), MS didn't
document the Windows interface so that WP could use it. The
document was very interesting. It was things I had all along
but never had a strong enough desire to hunt down and
document.
It also didn't help that WordPerfect got sold
No telling where this will end up, but it is interesting that Apple is
doing DMCA takedowns over discussions of how to use its products in an
unapproved manner.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090427/tc_pcworld/appleissuedafterpressuringopensourceitunesproject
Are there radio streams that use Silverlight??? Many radio stations have
alternate streams. Silverlight doesn't work on a lot of computers. I'd
complain to the station and ask them to get something more widely used for
their stream, or to have an alternate stream.
Actually I expect
Silverlight does work on most computers, since most computers run Windows,
but who knows if this is the case here. Now, it's debatable as to how many
computers actually have SilverLight installed on them, but the fact remains
that web developers who code sites that lean towards Windows
Ubiquitous maybe, but popular I think not. Pushing software down
people's throats is no way to win a popularity contest.
I remember WordPerfect and WordStar being the dominant word processors,
with Lotus and MS being real also rans. WordPerfect at the time was a
much better choice for most
(http://tinyurl.com/6spkf), and send them down. With great difficulty
installing them, he was able to get it working over the weekend. But
now it no longer works. Besides the obvious (get a new computer!), is
there something that might help solve this problem?
First did he install the printer
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