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Fred Holmes
At 06:44 PM 3/21/2011, Jordan wrote:
>Turn the volume down all the way or set it to mute.
>
>On 3/21/11 11:37 AM, Tom Chambers wrote:
>>List members -
>> I hate computers that talk to me , so when I'm setting up
>>a machine for my own use I alway
d have not generated a single reply, let alone an
answer.
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have a yahoo address.
Note that I am using f...@his.com on both the AOL and the Yahoo LISTSERV
accounts.
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At 03:49 PM 6/13/2010, John Emmerling wrote:
>Not exactly. I meant to be signed up for the Yahoo group but be able to
>participate in discussion from the e-mail account I
At 03:45 PM 6/12/2010, tjpa wrote:
>I sent instructions to the old list about how to subscribe to the new
>list.
Resend, maybe? (See http://www.cguys.org/)
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Well, if the AOL Listserv is back up, this message should be distributed.
I've joined the Yahoo group, but have been only lurking.
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will increase signal strength to the modem.
etc.
Fred Holmes
At 11:47 PM 5/8/2010, Richard P. wrote:
>During the last week, my cable modem for Cox Cable loses its Internet
>connection about once or twice a day. When troubleshooting, the light
>that indicates the cable connection on the Li
Fwd: [Slashdot] Stories for 2010-05-05
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x27;m running a backup
to that drive with third-party backup software.
I suspect that this automated indexing (which presumably might proceed to
automatically launching files) is the process that allows viruses to propagate
on flash drives that are moved from one computer to another?
Thanks,
At 01:46 PM 5/1/2010, tjpa wrote:
>Almost cool enough to convince me to buy a car.
How do you visit clients [clients' sites] if you don't have/drive a car [or
truck]?
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It's actually up and running on a working, plugged-in DOS machine. But then,
I'm a total pack rat.
At 05:42 AM 4/26/2010, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>I still have a dual 5.25 and a 3.5 drive that supports 360/1.2/1.4 meg
>diskettes.
>Maybe I should keep it fo
I still use floppies for certain purposes, but I would never need to purchase
any. Have enough old ones available that can be used at any time.
Fred Holmes
At 08:28 AM 4/26/2010, John Emmerling wrote:
>At the store where my wife works, they just replaced a Windows98 based
>POS syste
coded for it, and, apparently for IP reasons, other video players won't play
it. Your Apple Software Update likely keeps it current.
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More info:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175928/The_McAfee_update_mess_explained
http://service.mcafee.com/faqdocument.aspx?id=TS100969
Fred Holmes
At 09:07 AM 4/23/2010, tjpa wrote:
>So I restored the missing svchost,exe file and restarted. All the many
>missing fun
This evening's Slashdot offering provides the following:
http://brianseekford.com/index.php/2010/04/21/how-to-fix-the-mcafee-svchost-crash-from-the-virus-definition-update/
http://bit.ly/cbg4rm
Fred Holmes
At 06:45 PM 4/21/2010, tjpa wrote:
>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap
at the Irfanview installation process does not establish this
relationship automatically. Or you ran by it when you installed Irfanview.
Fred Holmes
At 07:53 PM 4/13/2010, Robert Carroll wrote:
>The second problem is that Windows XP does not have a link to open Irfanview
>when a NEF file is do
At 03:36 PM 3/15/2010, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>Anyone want to talk about New Orleans and the aftermath of Katrina. (Problems
>essentially caused by fouled up Corps of Engineers projects.)
And substantially all of those foul-ups were caused by lack of Congressional
appropriations to fund t
Later versions of WordPerfect have a print-to-PDF function built into it. I'm
not sure which version that started with. It's certainly true of the most
recent version.
Fred Holmes
At 07:32 PM 3/15/2010, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
>Valerie insists on a PC with WordPerfect. Me,
saying "no" persistently
during the installation.
See if you can download version 2.28 (2.xx). However, the one that I have is
from back when it was issued. They may have added the annoyware to it since.
Works like a charm once installed. You have to also download ghostwriter from
is worth 90% less], spudger is less than $5, and you save the rest
>by doing it yourself, just like any other computer repair. We'll have to see
>who has OEM batteries.
>
>That leaves you with $52 for a nice dinner and a bottle of wine.
The $50 battery is "making
At 10:25 PM 3/14/2010, Robert Michael Abrams wrote:
>http://vpike.com
>
Each of the [two] addresses I have typed in, both with odd street numbers, show
the house across the street instead of the numbered house???
I can get to the house I've selected by using the mouse to rotate the view by
180
At 07:18 PM 3/1/2010, tjpa wrote:
>If bad doctors and hospitals were closed down, insurance rates would
>go down (provided that the insurance companies did not simply pocket
>the money).
And the _government_ is going to do a better job of closing down bad doctors
and hospitals? They could do
can't do?
Fred Holmes
At 07:13 PM 3/1/2010, tjpa wrote:
>Bad math. Government run heath care (here and abroad) has overhead of
>around 3%. Private insurance companies in the US have overhead of
>around 30%. That difference is 27% of total premiums. Quite a big
&g
At 05:06 PM 3/1/2010, Robert Michael Abrams wrote:
>And, since we don't live in a culture that's wandering in the desert for 40
>years,
Are you sure of that?
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Without even watching the video, of course only two will do. Jesus said so.
1. Love thy God. . .
2. Love thy Neighbor. . .
Fred Holmes
At 11:27 AM 3/1/2010, Reid Katan wrote:
>You don't need ten. Apparently Two will do.
>
><http://www.youtube.com/wa
ry difficult to make work well. So the
government wants to trade in ten(? or more) insurance companies for one huge
organization that covers everybody, and pay the CEO of that how much?
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or kill patients, and bad hospitals, are still in business when they
>should be shut down and have medical licenses taken away. That could reduce
>insurance costs for everybody.
This says to me that real-world regulation doe
ot tired of chiseling into stone when
>he got to ten.
Now there's a real scholar!
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Yeah, but how **significant** a difference? Quantitative measure is what I'm
looking for. Surely some think tank has run the numbers?
Fred Holmes
At 08:44 AM 3/1/2010, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>Enough to make a difference in cost and practice.
>
>Stewart
>
>
>At
At 02:14 AM 3/1/2010, Jeff Miles wrote:
>And I'm sure you're not one of those uneducated who will bring up the lack of
>tort reform as a reason for high insurance costs.
So how much does liability insurance / damage claims add to the cost of
healthcare? As a percentage of overall costs?
The law that was cited by the guy that drove his airplane into the IRS building
in Austin, Texas.
At 01:23 AM 3/1/2010, b_s-wilk wrote:
>Examples please.
>
>>Except sometimes the regulation is used to do the screwing.
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>Lest we forget, the Ten Commandments is "regulation."
But, at least in this case, the "regulator" is divine.
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carcinogens must be eliminated from products down to
infinitesimal levels of presence, no matter how much good the product is doing
nor how costly the elimination is. There is no presentation of the "science"
to the user and allowing the user to decide his own risk tolerance.
Fred Holmes
At
At 11:28 PM 2/28/2010, Jeff Miles wrote:
>How long has that taken? Legality is one thing, changing a mindset is
>something completely different.
When you try to "change a mindset" you often run up against fac
ve
Welcome to the club, Steve.
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ntial customers can't read the
advertising?
Fred Holmes
At 10:36 AM 2/25/2010, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
> Sounds lIke a case could be made not to implement any expansion of
>internet access, and even to curtail, limit or eliminate a lot of what
>already exists. I'd have to think
Q'est-ce que c'est? ??
At 10:41 AM 2/23/2010, Stewart Marshall wrote:
>"Quis que se?"
>
>At 08:21 AM 2/23/2010, you wrote:
>>On Feb 22, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
>>>Everybody would be required to learn Chinese and French. We
>>>plan to export this.
>>
>>Why French?
ck my Skype, Magic Jack,
or other independent VOIP that I install? Other bandwidth-limiting practice?
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Maybe that was the purpose of the patch?
Fred Holmes
At 12:53 AM 2/21/2010, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
>> Word is that this patch may have unmasked a rootkit that casued the BSOD.
>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450052/posts
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red, or it could be a second, additional password.
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At 07:13 PM 2/20/2010, Eric S. Sande wrote:
>Don't kiss me now, mike, just be glad your freaking phone works.
Yeah, but when they come to sell me FIOS, they will at the same time sell me
VOIP, which dies four hours after the power grid goes down [frequently].
Fre
ion. How well is the audit
performed. Even a professional auditor only audits something like 10% of a
year's transactions. And the audit is not focused on detecting fraud. The
audit is focused on presenting a financial statement that fairly represents the
tru
even more compromise-proof.
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ny as you want. You have to do a deliberate copy / paste (is not
integrated) which I think is a good thing from a security standpoint. No
automated logon. Has room for notes of all sorts, including e.g., the URL of
the direct link to the logon page, etc.
Works for me.
Fred Holmes
At 12:00
n** webcam. I think I'd be very suspicious of
a school system that issued computers with them.
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At 04:54 PM 2/18/2010, tjpa wrote:
>You need to take a class in logic.
You're probably right. I've been a global warming denier since day one.
Which text book to you recommend? Is there an on-line class?
At 07:31 PM 2/18/2010, b_s-wilk wrote:
>That's what unregulated corporate power does. From your comments, that's what
>you want. You are either an unrepentant corporatist, or very confused.
That's your strawman. It's not
on't have a
whole lot of influence. The dirty work of the regulators is done by unelected
bureaucrats.
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o a wireless network much cheaper than to a wired network, I would
think. But adding cell phone towers to a sparsely populated area that is
already served with a telephone land-line network likely isn't profitable.
And cell phone circuit bandwidth isn't nearly real broadband Internet
ction, and you will get
what the voters really care about.
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At 02:01 PM 2/18/2010, tjpa wrote:
>False! Do your homework before you start betting with my money.
Don't understand. I'm not betting and I'm not touching your money.
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Not a false premise at all. It's a corollary to "Power corrupts . . ." The
power to regulate is the power to destroy. People appointed as regulators are
very powerful.
Fred Holmes
At 02:00 PM 2/18/2010, tjpa wrote:
>On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Fred Holmes wrote:
&
e population that live "in the country," where it is very
expensive to provide broadband on a per drop basis.
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if every country were a clone of the next one, and
all of the countries were "perfect."
We are the best country in the world in terms of ability to create wealth.
Everything done to redistribute wealth seems to stifle incentive, and thereby
reduce total wea
ily legislate that ISPs provide physical service to everyone in
their geographical area at "reasonable" rates. Feel free to start an interest
group to make it happen.
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ot; "at a reasonable
rate." The phone company that does business in a geographic area must
provide/offer phone service to "everyone" in that geographical area at a
"reasonable" (price controlled) rate. We haven't yet done that with Internet
access.
Fred Holmes
No, and I made no such allegation.
At 12:53 PM 2/15/2010, tjpa wrote:
>So you think this was a "deep cover" spammer who has been plotting
>since 1999 to send us this one load of crap?
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I didn't recognize Jack Hand (the sender) as a poster to the list. I keep
"everything" stored in my Eudora mail client. I find only five postings from
him since 2005, and the most recent prior post being on 9/4/2006. He made
several postings in 2004, but not a whole lot.
Fred
ove-listed
characteristics) that I've seen.
It could have had a benign/misleading subject, rather than no subject, and
still the spam filter would have nothing to work on without opening the link
and evaluating the web page's content.
Fred Holmes
At 09:26 AM 2/15/2010, tjpa wrote:
per-right
intersection of a tic tac toe pattern drawn on the state) has gotten only a
nominal amount of snow, and one of their big storms was all rain.
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The laws of physics tell you that you can't afford the necessary energy to
significantly change the path of a storm, even if you were to invent a
convenient mechanism for implementing it.
Fred Holmes
At 12:15 PM 2/13/2010, Ranbo wrote:
>*Whatever happened to the efforts to (somewhat)
What you missed is than it's not environmentally sound to dump snow in the
river. Ask the greens for the logic. Has to do with the sand and salt mixed
in with the snow.
Fred Holmes
At 07:55 AM 2/12/2010, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>FWIW:
>
>I still can't figure out why th
f2fd1/#e9b28c45-635c-4adf-8d24-817bf39c207b
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Be sure to read the whole thing. The first (manual) script contains syntax
errors (typos) that are corrected in later posts.
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Nah! It's clearly Windows NT V. 7.0. That's exactly what it is named.
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At 06:48 PM 2/11/2010, John DeCarlo wrote:
>You used to occasionally try to keep close to reality.
I'm getting to old to worry about that any more.
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At 04:36 PM 2/11/2010, tjpa wrote:
>Their supporters, who vote against their own interests, are so deeply
>brainwashed that they are oblivious to facts. If you try to clue them
>in they attack you with blind range. There is really nothing to do
>about it. They will never wise up.
I don't thi
ot_ recorded as an infant mortality
statistic. The U.S.'s infant mortality statistics are high because we do try
to save preemies, but don't always succeed. Dunno if this is true, but I'll
bet there are a lot of things like this. And, I'll bet most government cook
these kin
I don't give much credence to picks by "judges." The judges generally give
different weighting factors to the quality of life attributes. What's the
relative emigration / immigration between the U.S. and France?
Fred Holmes
At 02:42 PM 2/11/2010, tjpa wrote:
>>The
better job of running industry in this country than anywhere else. At scale.
A big factor is corporate management reward systems.
The liberals just want to make everyone equally miserable.
Fred Holmes
At 10:47 AM 2/11/2010, tjpa wrote:
>If it is liberal to notice that corporate managers
Gee, you can't plan ahead *four hours*
BTW, what is the resolution and time duration of this four-hour download?
760p? two hours?
Who is your ISP?
On Cox Cable in Annandale, VA I get 20 mbs if the server can provide it, i.e.,
on occasional downloads.
Fred Holmes
At 11:40 PM 2/10
ong enough for my use, which is admittedly very light.
Fred Holmes
At 01:22 PM 2/8/2010, rocky lee wrote:
>I have a cell phone battery that is gasping it's last. What do you suggest as
>a source for replacement? It's a motorola razr v3 (part is BR50) Through the
>phone's
ent organization. The IT department has no
concept of what the primary mission personnel do in a research and development
organization, and simply stand in the way of the primary mission personnel
doing their primary mission.
Fred Holmes
At 04:03 PM 2/7/2010, tjpa wrote:
>On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:18
io content only in digital mode.
"iBiquity Digital claims that the system approaches CD quality sound and
offers reduction of both interference and static;[9] however, some listeners
have complained of increased interference on the AM band (see AM, below)."
Fred Holmes
At 06:55 AM 2/7
So that the government can snoop more easily?
Fred Holmes
At 09:43 AM 2/2/2010, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
>Why would we want to go from megabits to nanobits per
>second, in a comparative sense, along with lost packets and lots of
>RFI for everyone, everywhere? I can think of but two r
At 12:01 PM 1/28/2010, George Carr wrote:
>But even here I bet there will be a tech solution to preventing
>car collisions with ANYTHING, humans, animals, trees, ice patches. Even now
>there are (infrared?) sensors that can pick out warm people on a dark night,
>warning a driver of their presence.
I know this isn't Windows, but can you _move_ the file via drag/drop to a
miscellaneous unused flash drive, and then reformat the flash drive to really
kill it?
Think out of the box.
Maybe the OS (or some invidious hacker) really doesn't want you to remove the
file?????
Fred Holmes
I don't recall its name, but there was an "infrared" film that was used to
detect camouflage (or items that were being camouflaged). While the camouflage
fooled the naked eye, it didn't fool this film. It could also be used for
"special effects."
Fred Holmes
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job, but what if someone doesn't want to spring big bucks for CS and its ilk?
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Had one of those myself. ca. 1950. Marvelous camera. Took lots of good
pictures on Kodachrome, Ektachrome, and B/W. B/W was called Pan-X, Plus-X and
Tri-X IIRC, but I'm having trouble really remembering it.
Fred Holmes
At 08:28 PM 1/20/2010, Marcio wrote:
>Back thereI received
At 11:19 PM 1/19/2010, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
>> While I haven't actually tried it, I presume that manual focus is like
>> manual zoom -- overshoot, >overshoot, overshoot, or if there is a speed
>> control on the motor, approach the setting very slowly.
>
> Manual focus can be achieved throu
time required to write the
picture to the camera memory (actually "storage" but that's another story) card
and, perhaps, recharge the flash, etc., and is measuring something different.
They ought to measure "ready" time between pictures.
Fred Holmes
At 09:35 PM 1/19/2010, ch
ment for a car
currently owned.
Liquid fuels aren't going to go away for a long time yet.
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What are they called? How does one determine if a particular camera is one of
them. Spec sheets seem to be short on such information.
Fred Holmes
At 07:20 PM 1/19/2010, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
> You are, at a minimum, mostly correct. There are a number of other
>cameras, those th
, or 10
feet, and snap the picture "immediately" when the couple comes into the "zone."
And not have to keep the shutter button half-pressed while waiting for the
shot to develop. Twisting a lens barrel to match an index marked "6" is easy.
Remembering how to naviga
Mirai from the early or mid 80's. 35mm film, but a good zoom
lens. It had autofocus, and had the same problem because of the time it took
for the autofocus to execute.
Fred Holmes
At 02:59 PM 1/18/2010, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>Because they do not know how to take pictures.
on point-and-shoot digital cameras, are
done with menus and buttons, and are slow and tedious to perform, unlike just
twisting a knob or the lens barrel to match an index mark, which is quickly and
precisely done.
Fred Holmes
At 09:29 AM 1/18/2010, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>I get a kic
What does a kindle do? I
wouldn't want to carry something as expensive as an iPhone or Blackberry
around. I'd just lose it. Mislay it anyway. If I mislay a magazine, I pick
up a different one and read it.
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Your printer will be obsolete and unsupported by then-current software long
before it actually dies. Or they just won't sell toner cartridges for it any
more because the market is too small. (for home / home office use) We are
getting more and more paperless as time goes bye.
At 05:53 PM 1/9/
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A who are
doing it. Nothing you do on the Internet has any expectation of privacy. They
do it whether it's legal or not, and no one (no law enforcement agency) cares a
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This is a foul plot launched by the global warmists to demonstrate that
scientists really do report what they find, even when it doesn't agree with
expectations.
Fred Holmes
At 01:14 AM 1/7/2010, t.piwowar wrote:
>Could Your Cell Phone Help Shield You From Alzheimer's? - Busin
rently because they want me to keep spending.
Thanks,
Fred Holmes
At 02:28 PM 1/6/2010, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>At BofA, I have their visa card and they offer
>ShopSafe® is their free service for Online Banking customers that allows you
>to create a unique, temporary account number for onl
Gee, if people were allowed to do without telephone service, how would the bill
collectors get their work done?
Fred Holmes
At 02:35 PM 1/2/2010, tjpa wrote:
>On Jan 2, 2010, at 12:57 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
>>My position is that they must
>>FIRST be made to provide an
At 02:27 PM 1/2/2010, tjpa wrote:
>It took 10 years for TV to go digital and,
>while not perfect, it transitioned pretty well.
That's an unsubstantiated opinion.
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ch that I could tell what I would actually
be getting if I ordered the item.
I have no real need for cordless / wireless, and if I don't use cordless /
wireless I don't have to worry about whether the cordless / wireless link has
been adequately secured.
Fred Holmes
At 02:24 PM 1/2/20
At 01:27 PM 1/2/2010, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
> A little bit of correction may be in order here. I have moved to
>the country from the city, and I can tell you that while I did hear a
>gunshot or two over my years in the city, I now hear maybe a gunshot
>or two every minute or so on occasion o
ot;.
http://www.white-noise.us/
is the first hit.
I never have any trouble falling asleep, so I can't advise as to what is
actually effective. Exhaustion works for me.
Fred Holmes
At 09:47 AM 1/2/2010, Jeffrey Myers wrote:
>I'm looking for a device that produces a background nois
At 12:57 AM 1/2/2010, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
> I believe the only real fear of change as per this discussion is the
>almost taken for granted thought that at&t, and probably other
>landline telephone providers, will find a way to stick it to the
>public.
That's what most change (e.g. healthca
so much calling requires DTMF signalling for navigating "menus" that pulse
dialing has limited use today anyway.
"Corded handset" and "rotary [pulsed] dial" are two completely different
concepts.
Fred Holmes
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