Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 and Windows XP mode

2010-07-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Fred Jones fredjone...@softhome.net: Thanks for the replies. The old program I need (want) is called Accpac Plus Accounting. I've had it for about 20+ years and have several different businesses accounting data on it. The program is expensive and I never liked the newer versions that

Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 and Windows XP mode

2010-07-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: But then you have the problems with printers etc. Many modern printers only print from USB ports etc. Or directly over the network. My P3 450 even has a couple of USB ports. Of course, *DOS* probably doesn't do USB very well. (-:

Re: [CGUYS] Cox Modem Troubleshooting

2010-05-09 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Richard P. richs...@gmail.com: During the last week, my cable modem for Cox Cable loses its Internet connection about once or twice a day. When troubleshooting, the light . . . I have also noticed a slight degradation in the analog TV signal from Cox during the last week as well.

Re: [CGUYS] webbugs in webmail?

2010-05-06 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: On May 6, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Fred Jones wrote: 1. If you load a Spam message in webmail to report it to Network Solutions won't any Webbugs identify the IP address and the recipient of the Spam for future Spamming? Good question. If the mail client does not

Re: [CGUYS] Seek advice about removing programs

2010-04-24 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Fred Holmes f...@his.com: At 11:42 AM 4/23/2010, Michael S. Altus wrote: Apple Software Update (Does it have useful downloads for a Windows XP computer?) Do you have QuickTime (for Windows) installed on your computer? Some video is encoded for it, and, apparently for IP reasons,

Re: [CGUYS] Is Apple Readying for a Rematch With Microsoft in Personal Computing? - NYTimes.com

2010-04-18 Thread Reid Katan
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:55 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: *A bigger iPad, with a keyboard? Sounds like a notebook. FWIW. I used an iPad on Tuesday. It's heavy, slippery, can be easily dropped. Keyboard is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i5i3ozyPS8

Re: [CGUYS] FYI: News Alert: Court Rules Against F.C.C. in 'Net Neutrality' Case

2010-04-06 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Mike Sloane mikeslo...@verizon.net: A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks. I heard the tail end of this story on Market

Re: [CGUYS] My download speed

2010-04-05 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net: Betty and Stewart will be waiting for Pedro, Jorge, and their amigos to come along and dig up their neighborhoods. Cheap shot. Well below your usual standard, Reid. Many don't actually buy it, in fact, even if it's available. Hey. I just used

Re: [CGUYS] My download speed

2010-04-05 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net: Face it, the average VZ union employee is very extremely well paid for professional services. That would include the guy/gal who actually does the hookup. Sorry, Reid, I just objected to the tone, I guess. No tone was intended. All I was saying is

Re: [CGUYS] Broadband Speeds Map

2010-04-04 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com: The corporations invented the idea that bandwidth was a scarce resource to be sold to the public drop by drop. They started to throttle services like BitTorrent and block services like Skype. Suddenly the the wide open cables lost their ability to move our data

Re: [CGUYS] My download speed

2010-04-04 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net: I mean, it's easy to say that bandwidth is cheap, but not if you're in the business of building the infrastructure. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20001377-266.html So, some ups and some downs. Let's see. If we combine this: Initially, Wall

Re: [CGUYS] Broadband Speeds Map

2010-04-04 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net: It mainly is based on expected usage. They expect you to use it more so you pay more for it. My church office uses a 1.5 mps connection. We are not a heavy user and do not rely on a super high speed connection for our work. Now if I were

Re: [CGUYS] Cellphone choices [WAS It's an app world, and it could swallow all computing}

2010-04-01 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net: I read this, but again it is a faint rumor. NO one has verified it, and these have been going for a bout a year. I was also struck by the lack of actual sources. It's always people briefed by the company or variations there of.

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Runs Out of iPads

2010-03-29 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: I'm still trying to figure out who said nobody would want one. Everyone knows the apple sheeple ordered two the moment pre orders were put up. That was my thought, too. Most of the dissenters were more about not for me, and, I don't see it as being that big a

Re: [CGUYS] DVD recorder - .VRO file

2010-03-27 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es: I recorded a TV show with a Samsung DVD recorder. The file is VR_MOVIE.VRO located inside a DVD_RTAV folder. How do I convert it on my Mac or on a PC so that it can play on a regular DVD player or a computer? It refuses to even copy to the Finder Wow.

[CGUYS] Somebody's been reading the list.

2010-03-16 Thread Reid Katan
Diane Rehm show Tuesday 03-16 First hour. www.drshow.org. A faster, cheaper and more widely available Internet: How the FCC is proposing to remake the country's communications infrastructure and what it could mean for consumers and the U.S. telecommunications industry.

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-13 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Art Clemons artclem...@aol.com: 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. I'm not conceding anything. Why are they even taking pictures when

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-12 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Art Clemons artclem...@aol.com: 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

Re: [CGUYS] M$'s HD Mess

2010-03-11 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: I am Glad that Mac's do not have this, but they also have been releasing more new releases of their OS that Windows have. Not to mention they control the software *and* the hardware. I'm sure it's a lot easier if you keep it all in

[CGUYS] TinyURLs [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC wants to measure]

2010-03-11 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting John DeCarlo johndeca...@gmail.com: Sounds like a spam email to me. Especially with the tinyurl. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:33 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: http://tinyurl.com/yet2zns TinyURLs always give me the heebies. You can *claim* it's for Something

Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:47 AM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair there are a few surface' platforms out there but not many.  Has anyone ever seen one in use? Yeah, on TV shows and in movies, thanks to CGI and

Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad COMMERCIALS

2010-03-09 Thread Reid Katan
? Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com: Yeah, on TV shows and in movies, thanks to CGI and animation. On Mar 9, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Reid Katan wrote: You mean, like that iPad commercial tat was posted here the other day? No mention of a non-existent iPad

Re: [CGUYS] What's the name of that Firefox Ad-on?

2010-03-04 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Judy Cosler jfcos...@gmail.com: what is a user agent? what does user agent mean? Don't panic. It's just the way web browsers identify themselves. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives,

Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!

2010-03-03 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Ranbo ran...@gmail.com: *In other words, this virus, trojan or whatever it is could still be lurking and hiding from AVG's ability to detect it? I also ran a full scan of Well, I'm no expert (I don't even play one on TV), but no one on the list called me an idiot (at least. . .not

Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!

2010-03-02 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Ranbo ran...@gmail.com: Thanks much for the advice. Before I do reformat and reload my operating system as you suggest, want to be sure I have to go through this. For past 3 days, computer suddenly seems to be working normally, except maybe that I couldn't launch a new anti-malware

Re: [CGUYS] Roger Ebert's Voice

2010-03-02 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com: He is also blessed by virtue of having a huge number of hours of his voice available from having been recorded for all those years that he hosted that movie review show, That is what made the synthesis possible to the best of my knowledge.

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-03-01 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Fred Holmes f...@his.com: At 01:07 AM 3/1/2010, t.piwowar wrote: Lest we forget, the Ten Commandments is regulation. But, at least in this case, the regulator is divine. You don't need ten. Apparently Two will do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRYaMiP4K8 Of course, it's Carlin,

[CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-02-28 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: OK I come from this on both sides. As a theologian I view mankind through both eyes. He is basically good, but there is a corrupt part of him that will screw you whenever he gets a chance. Sorry Stewart, I know you're in the business of

[CGUYS] Thunmb Vs. DVD [Was: Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!]

2010-02-26 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: needed...I keep my bookmarks synced with a firefox extension. I've refined my install process to using a USB thumb drive also..much faster than dvd. Really? I thought USB was comparatively slow. Do you copy program installs from DVD to USB sticks?

Re: [CGUYS] Thumb Vs. DVD [Was: Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!]

2010-02-26 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Judy Cosler jfcos...@gmail.com: I have no idea what this means, Tom! Not completely sure what you're asking here, but I'll try a little something. What Mike is saying, is that after he downloads programs from the Internet, he doesn't keep them on his system drive. He has a second

Re: [CGUYS] Apple App Store Gets Really Silly

2010-02-23 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: I know with your ideological bent you'll never admit a dem can do anything less than pure but for anyone else.. Google Tipper Gore and video game violence. Not surprising. She's one of The Mothers of Prevention that wanted to do away with bad words in music,

Re: [CGUYS] Apple App Store Gets Really Silly

2010-02-23 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: AppleInsider | Swimwear seller hit by Apple's removal of 'sexual' apps It’s just women in bikinis says the guy from the Simply Beach catalog store. I guess this is an answer to your own question of 02-20-10: Do any of you folks who chastised Apple for being

Re: [CGUYS] Are USB Drives Dangerous?

2010-02-23 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjp t...@tjpa.com: Those little USB thumb drives are very helpful little critters for transporting data easily between one computer and another, you have to admit. However, they are also very useful for introducing malware into a system. That was that the reason the Pentagon

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-22 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: Rules regulations ability to transmit stuff. We have a new cable provider coming into town. They have to run a whole new set of lines to serve everyone. Seems like an awful waste of effort, money, and resources.

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net: The Interstate Highway System is pegged at $425 billion in 2006 dollars. So you are saying the unrolling fiber costs almost as much as building a 6 lane national highway system? Basically yes. If you want a chicken in every pot. Every local

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting John DeCarlo johndeca...@gmail.com: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:55 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: Drawing problem: You need to draw some text, freehand, into a box that is 1/4 inch high by 2 inches long. Better results using a finger or using a fine stylus? [ .

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es: Michelangelo did OK with his charcoal drawings. [Forgot...we'd find a stylus to clean our fingernails after using clay.] That may be, but he *wasn't* using an iPad. Fat fingers are no excuse. You can either draw, or you can't draw. No big deal. No

Re: [CGUYS] Better Late than Never

2010-02-07 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com: Microsoft is to pull out all the stops in a bid to lock down security on its products, considered by many as the company's Achilles heel. Chairman and founder Bill Gates has called for a fundamental shift to focus on improved security against hackers and

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop flicker and dying battery

2010-02-06 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting John Emmerling jpemmerl...@gmail.com: The only other explanation that occurs to me is that the problem was due to a corruption of the BIOS or the boot sector, and somehow the installer cleaned it out. Could it be that in his display properties, he managed to set the refresh rate(?)

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop flicker and dying battery

2010-02-06 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tony B ton...@gmail.com: I suppose it depends how you define 'flicker'. I imagined it to look more like a loose wire - a random jumping of the picture. Anyway, we know film doesn't flicker at 24fps so it would have to be set lower than that, and I doubt that's possible. Could it be

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved? [was: You Saw the Demo?...]

2010-02-02 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Tmo US or overseas? I just read an article today that said the micro sim was not in use anywhere in the US. Dude. You got to give as good as you expect. Got Link? * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-02-02 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com: On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:53 PM, mike wrote: Name someone in the US that is using them. Anyone? I'll give you a hint, it's the maker of a GPS tracker for kids. That's it. I never said anything regarding the length of time this has been out...12 years and it's

Re: [CGUYS] Bill Gates saves the world...well some of it

2010-02-02 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) mark.sny...@ngc.com: They too gave away much of their questionable gains to great causes. A cleansing experience, I guess. Doesn't justify how they got that money. And Gates goes from Knife the baby to savior... I thought Balmer was the baby knifer. No?

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-01-29 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting David D Odell waffenf...@atlanticbb.net: Is it just me or does the iPad (finally) look like the flatscreen tablets predicted in Kubrick's 2001? I'm just wondering how long it will be 'til we're all poking and stroking our iDesks (a la LCARS http://www.lcarscom.net/). Tapping on

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-01-28 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Constance Warner cawar...@his.com: Not to be too delicate about it, but for any adolescent or adult woman, something named iPad inspires, at best, discreet laughter. (Not to mention a mental picture you'd rather not contemplate.) Sorry about that, guys. Maybe they can extensively

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-01-28 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com: On the same tangent, I am still trying to find out what the i part of their various names is supposed to refer to. My guess would be iNternet, but what do iKnow. What was the first iName anyway? iMac?

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-01-27 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net: Most of the stuff I have heard this afternoon place it somewhere on a hyper kindle that will have new stiff developed for it. The Apple site, of course, has a video. It strikes me as eminently more useful than an iPod. Certainly easier to

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-01-27 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Gizmodo too http://gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad? I have to agree with most of what they say...it is odd it's not widescreen and no HDMI out. And no multitasking seems a bit of a downer. It would be nice to be able to listen to some

Re: [CGUYS] Reality [Was: Computer Guys ( gal) Show]

2010-01-08 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: I see you are getting closer to my point. Why not make your point perfectly clear and stop beating around the bush? Dude. You've stepped in it now. Good luck getting a direct

Re: [CGUYS] new bank and a mint

2010-01-06 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:40 AM, mike wrote: You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress making 2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to the kid making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their CC

Re: [CGUYS] Buying an iMac Pro

2010-01-06 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote: him reship it, that costs money and time. Anybody out there know of a supplier who will ship it directly to me? Only one I can immediately think of is Santa

Re: [CGUYS] Buying an iMac Pro

2010-01-06 Thread Reid Katan
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote: This is my point. Apple and Amazon *only* ship computers to the continental US. I would not use FedEx or UPS...way too expensive...they charge for shipping to the Caribbean. The USPS charges as if it were the

Re: [CGUYS] Computer Guys ( gal) Show

2010-01-05 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com: This is not totally correct, but it seems as though the WAMU Computer Guys show in the DC area that Tom used to be on has somewhat devolved more accurately into the Cellphone Guys show. They really Gee. Not unlike this very list, eh? We seem

Re: [CGUYS] Upgrade Plan was Mac OS upgrade

2009-12-24 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting John H. Davis glenwoodcompu...@verizon.net: I heard 10.5 no longer supports iphoto, anyone see other problem spots? I have X.5.8 on my Mini and it came with iPhoto. I think it was X.5.4 out of the box. Only used it once, but it seems like it worked okay.

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN

2009-12-24 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net: For BIOS virus download from Dell their updated BIOS and load it. Have fun. I'm guessing if you've got a BIOS virus, you can still get enough control to boot off a CD, but if the virus is *already* in control, couldn't it just take

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN

2009-12-24 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: You must boot to a outside source to gain control of the HD back as it will never show itself unless you do this. What some people do for fun huh? Absolutely. What I don't understand is, if you're trying to infect as many computers as

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN

2009-12-24 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: Reid these are designed to be destructive, not money making. They are made to do as much damage and as much inconvenience as possible. They are done for fun. I know, but you'd think they write the virus to hang out and spread itself for

Re: [CGUYS] Dock placement: [Was: Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation]

2009-12-22 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com: On Dec 21, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Reid Katan wrote: But Tom and Betty both say the Dock *works better* (not has more functions, but is more user friendly) on the side. And IIRC, Tom intimated that no serious user would leave the Dock on the bottom. So, what

Re: [CGUYS] Dock placement: [Was: Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation]

2009-12-22 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Reid Katan wrote: I'm not trying to arm-chair anything. Inquiring minds want to know. What are the obvious improvements? Go try it. Everyone I showed it to, except certain folks on this list, have found it better. What's your

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-22 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Jordan jor17...@gmail.com: Right. I don't know what the Dock does when it gets full. When you've got more icons than can fit in a given space (vertical or horizontal). Do the icons shrink to make more room? start a second row? They shrink. I like mine on the right. Humans

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-22 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Reid Katan wrote: Tom. I tried it. The icons bounce a different direction. Big deal. The right click menu is the same. I see no difference. Biased observer. Do you treat your customers with such contempt? How do you even still

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-22 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Anyone who doesn't back Tom's fascist OS view is biased. Get in line you dolts! I don't even care about OS. I'm not even asking about TaskBar. I just want to know what it is about putting the Dock on the side that works so much better. I'll never get an

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-22 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Reid Katan ka...@his.com: BTW, notice that Jeff Wright finally got tired of Tom's shit. I haven't seen him around for a while. Oops. That not supposed to be a command that everyone take note. Here's what it's *supposed* to say: BTW, *I* notice that Jeff Wright finally got tired

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting db db...@att.net: But only a few saw any sense in what I was asking / saying... I got a whole lot of Mac indignation and we're too smart for such / how stupid are you to be wanting / asking for such. Not exactly an uplifting conversation for me Yeah, well, The List has a

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS?

2009-12-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Gail Miller gail.mil...@comcast.net: My son has a new Dell Mini10 that seems to have a fatal virus. Other than he thinks he has a virus, and he reinstalled Windows, you haven't given much to go on. If he *does* have a virus that keeps reappearing, it might be a boot sector virus

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: about what is already there, but I think if you approach this with an open mind you will find that the Dock really works very well. It is best located it on the left (or right) and kept visible. That is how most heavy users use it. Pardon the noob question, but

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS?

2009-12-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Gail Miller gail.mil...@comcast.net: 1) How would he get rid of a boot sector virus? Brian says that a format should take care of it. Make sure he's formatting and doing a *clean* install. *Then* install anti-virus, *then* install that warez program he's using. (: 1) How would

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? [unhelpful]

2009-12-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: Please stop perpetuating a myth. I am typing this from a mini PC that I got in early November. [. . .] I think that topics that get off track ought to be labeled as such, if not an outright subject change (I know, Stewart, you didn't

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: Pardon the noob question, but what about placing the Dock on the left or right makes it any better? but that ain't me, so I keep mine at the bottom because I am used

[CGUYS] Dock placement: [Was: Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation]

2009-12-21 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: That's just it, this is all opinion, not rules. Heavy user could be someone that has dozens of apps open all the time, or it could be someone who edits video 12 hours a day. People learn best what suits them, but if they don't know the parameters of the area in

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-20 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting db db...@att.net: Not that the Mac Dock, Finder and Menu systems don't work. They do but in my opinion, they just don't work as well as they easily could at this point in the dev cycle. They particularly don't work as well as they should for newbies ... whose icons and menus and

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-19 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting db db...@att.net: That is why OS's need to and will eventually get over their proprietaryness and look and work essentially the same. Is homogenization really a Good Thing? Doesn't leave much room for innovation.

Re: [CGUYS] Freeware registry cleaner

2009-12-19 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tony B ton...@gmail.com: Except that just the other day it took three passes on a machine at work for CCleaner to find no more problems. WinXP. Maybe. But that doesn't excuse anything. Nor does it justify anything. A better question would be: Did you see a marked, measurable

Re: [CGUYS] Right computer OS [was: [CGUYS] Consternation...]

2009-12-19 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: would have people believe. My point isn't that there are no IT managers who are biased, but that I don't think the whole IT field is as underhanded as Tom would have people believe. IT managers also don't control costs, many CFO's don't look years ahead to see

Re: [CGUYS] Brand new Win 7 laptop crashing

2009-12-19 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Joe Tseng joe_ts...@hotmail.com: I took delivery of a brand spanking new Vaio CW with Win 7 Pro earlier this month and for the most part it's been great. Great except for the part where it crashes overnight. I talked to a coworker and he thinks it's due to the defragger running - I

Re: [CGUYS] gawwd ...bluetooth!

2009-12-19 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com: [. . .] as service (not serial port), checked it, told AS to sync via BT and BAM .works like a charm. WTH happened? Was BT ever meant for we earthlings to comprehend, or is it squarely in the domain of the high and holy within 20mi of Redmond or Santa

Re: [CGUYS] Physical vs. Virtual

2009-12-19 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Michael Fernando michael@gmail.com: Option 3: Please suggest. (I must run 64-bit OSes, at least as the host OS, to take advantage of all 4Gigs of memory, correct?) Thanks in advance for suggestions/opinions. Other than the streaming video that requires IE can you do all your

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 19 Dec 2009 - Special issue (#2009-1129)

2009-12-19 Thread Reid Katan
What? Quoting rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com: Huh? From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:computerguy...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 2:14 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest -

Re: [CGUYS] Freeware registry cleaner

2009-12-18 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Christopher Range lcms0...@comcast.net: I need a freeware registry cleaner, THAT IS NOT going to tell me that I need to pay to repair the registry and/or, force me to buy some other product I don't need(which is a devious way of making someone pay for something that is claimed to be

Re: [CGUYS] Freeware registry cleaner

2009-12-18 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tony B ton...@gmail.com: I can't recall seeing that happen since the old Win9x days. As I recall we had this discussion back then - to wit, if [this or that] registry cleaner is so great, why does it keep telling you more and more things need to be cleaned? Either that item needs to be

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-17 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es: Window's windows have Help on the menu bar too. Turns out, you can't hide/minimize *all* your windows in OSX anyway. Just tried it with Com-H and no matter what window way last, it wouldn't go away. Maybe there are other ways to do it, but. . .

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-17 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: The Dock normally displays an icon for every application, click on the icon to get a list of windows for that application. That does the job quite well. Your insisting that it has to function exactly in a particular way is like insisting that your MP3 player has to

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-17 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es: And it's not complicated for you... you have long been an IT who loves to learn this stuff. The fact that IT people think and expect everyone else to be like them is the big geek disconnect that the rest of the world wonders about and makes fun of.

Re: [CGUYS] need lots of PCI slots???

2009-12-16 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: This sounds like someone who had a nightmare experience once and isn't going to allow it to happen again. I don't want to put words in Christopher's mouth...just what I was thinking. Same reason I won't buy Hitachi drives even if they are half the price and

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-16 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Odd because I found the opposite. I didn't find myself looking for anything. Do you have any examples of what you noticed? My wife too is on 7, I installed it one day while she was gone, after two days I finally asked her if she liked it was having

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-16 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: So how do you tell them to access the help menu when there are no windows open? I know I'm biased by knowing already, but my guess would be to click the Start button. Sure, it seems odd to push the Start button to shut down, but if you want to start doing

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-16 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: On Dec 16, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Reid Katan wrote: I know I'm biased by knowing already, but my guess would be to click the Start button. Sure, it seems odd to push the Start button to shut down, but if you want to start doing something. . . Okay, I pressed Start

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-16 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: F1 is the universal help key in Windows. At 05:53 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote: On Dec 16, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Try F1. What does that mean? You need to supply an explanation for a noob. In all fairness, a noob

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-16 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: All my keyboards say 'F1' and 'HELP' underneath the F1...I think even noobs Really? I don't believe that I've ever seen that. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-16 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es: Uhh. Mkay, if you can't figure out where to go from there, perhaps you should not be using a computer. How about clicking on the word Help? I have seven apps open now. Each has Help in the menu at the top of the screen as the last menu item. There's

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-16 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Right, I can see the control panel issue, they took them and grouped em in Actually, I was talking about the Control Panel item on the left side of the Explorer window. Sometimes there. Sometimes not. Vista and it's not clear how to ungroup them in 7.

Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro problems

2009-12-15 Thread Reid Katan
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Christopher Range lcms0...@comcast.net wrote: I installed XP SP2 via upgrade CD and, when I tried to re-boot, the computer will hang right after the XP logo screen. So I thought the upgrade CD was damaged. [. . .] So, I would appreciate all feedback

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-15 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting db db...@att.net: b_s-wilk wrote: The magic and unattached Apple menu make is so much more difficult to train the uninitiated ... and it causes a number of complications re: what's running?, RAM depletion and file backup. Makes more sense to have only ONE menu for each program,

Re: [CGUYS] Consternation over Computer Constipation (including Mac's) - help!

2009-12-15 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es: * What's the usefulness of the Apple menu bar that morphs with each application and leaves apps running and consuming memory and file First time I used Vista, I couldn't find menus in most of the programs. Then I hit the ALT key and the menus

Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro problems

2009-12-15 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Christopher Range lcms0...@comcast.net: I already did update all the drivers. It didn't make a difference. Have you tried Safe Mode? Like Mike said, there should be an option to step through the boot. Just keep on stepping until it stops on you. That should narrow it down. Is

Re: [CGUYS] Users or Programs?

2009-12-13 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Michael Wosnick mwosn...@rogers.com: Hi all, Related to my previous question about swapping boot drives, I suspect I am going to bite the bullet and build in time to do a re-install and not try to band-aid it all. Which leads me to another question. My Win 7 machine will have

Re: [CGUYS] Waking from sleep

2009-12-10 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com: On Dec 10, 2009, at 2:47 PM, mike wrote: Those building homes need better tools than someone putting together a few pieces of wood. Interestingly, when I have a friend of mine over who is a professional carpenter, he doesn't make fun of me because of the saw I

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Magic Mouse

2009-12-09 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Rob robfl...@ix.netcom.com: What is a WFB? Anybody that doesn't agree with Tom. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at

[CGUYS] The reason for all the agita (Was: Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of 2.5 drives. . .)

2009-12-08 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Tony B ton...@gmail.com: Ultra ATA SATA. I'm telling you, you'll be making a big mistake to rely on anything except your own eyes. In most laptops, it's only a 5 minute procedure to open it up and look at it - probably less time than you've taken so far playing with software. And

Re: [CGUYS] The reason for all the agita (Was: Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of 2.5 drives. . .)

2009-12-08 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Andy Gallant a...@agallant.com: FWIW, from a Toshiba web site about that model number (A105-S2712): GB anyway] - 60GB (5400 RPM); Serial-ATA (SATA) hard disk drive; 9.5mm height; user removable [. . .] - Accessory - Toshiba 320GB 2.5-inch 5400RPM Notebook Internal Hard Thanks. I've

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