This is interesting. It's a sort of one-stop shop for finding alternative
software, with customer ratings, filterable by OS (Mac, Windows, Linux):
"Think of it like forever evolving blog posts about good alternatives to the
software that you're not satisfied with."
E.g., someone here was looking f
Quoting "Eric S. Sande" :
I was surprised the first time I tried it. Windows blows less when
running on good hardware.
That's hardly news, what's your point?
My guess would be that his point is that Windows is not such a bad OS
after all.
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>And you're calling other people idiots?
What do you want to call someone who gets involved in a highly technical
business in which they are going to spend real money without informing
themselves about the technology?
I suppose some would gleefully call them "sheep waiting to be shorn."
A good
Tom part of the problem is that you intimate someone is an idiot if
they do not agree with you.
There are plenty of folks who graduate and get into the industry and
know as much as you do or more and they make different choices and
choose different OS's and hardware does that make them idiots
Using your hint (but still no links) I searched the database for posts
with "7 Windows" or "Windows 7" and "M$", but I came up dry. I can't find
any evidence that the offensive event ever happened.
When I search on "I have no major arguments with the content" I get just
one hit and that is your
>The real result with the MacBook: Two OS for the price of ONE notebook. In
>businesses that have site licenses for their software, the Mac is the best
>deal. Otherwise, choose whichever is best for you, but comparable machines
>have comparable prices.
Time and time again we have magazines and
>You should be blogging and/or get back on radio (or podcast) about your
>technological/social/political views.
Have you located us a rich sponsor?
Add in Chris and Jeff and we could be as obnoxious as the McLaughlin
Group. It would be much better than the tiresome "Cranky Geeks."
>>I was surprised the first time I tried it. Windows blows less
>>when running on good hardware.
>
>That's hardly news, what's your point?
The point should be hardly news too, but seems to be much in dispute
here. Cheap hardware yields cheap results. The computers bought by Lauren
and "G" were
>Tom part of the problem is that you intimate someone is an idiot if
>they do not agree with you.
To me, your use of the word "intimate" means that the association is
something being created in your mind. I certainly do not think that I
typically call people idiots. You are jumping to conclusi
You call people names on this list often, then you complain when others do
it who have not. I don't say this to be argumentative, I say it because
over the last few months you have become worse in this area. I think we can
all agree that the Rev is hardly a flame thrower
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at
What was I wrong about. You and I have some fundamental differences
on perspective on wether or not Washington is going to save us from themselves.
I happen to disagree with you.
Stewart
At 09:07 AM 4/16/2009, you wrote:
To me, your use of the word "intimate" means that the association is
s
> Using your hint (but still no links) I searched the database for posts
> with "7 Windows" or "Windows 7" and "M$", but I came up dry. I can't
> find
> any evidence that the offensive event ever happened.
>
> When I search on "I have no major arguments with the content" I get
> just
> one hit and
> What do you want to call someone who gets involved in a highly technical
> business in which they are going to spend real money without informing
> themselves about the technology?
>
> I suppose some would gleefully call them "sheep waiting to be shorn."
>
> A good friend would say to them "Hey,
> >You should be blogging and/or get back on radio (or podcast) about
> your
> >technological/social/political views.
>
> Have you located us a rich sponsor?
>
> Add in Chris and Jeff and we could be as obnoxious as the McLaughlin
> Group. It would be much better than the tiresome "Cranky Geeks."
> Time and time again we have magazines and blogs that tear down and price
> Mac PCs vs. Windows PCs and demonstrate exactly that: comparable machines
> have comparable prices. Yet the WFBs keep insisting that they are cheap
> and that cheap is a virtue. So wrong and so tiresome.
Only someone dedi
You are reaching; your splitting hairs, fishing for excuses to attack
are evident. Sheesh: "dedicated to weaselly ways."
Why not give this topic a rest?
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
> Time and time again we have magazines and blogs that tear down and
> price Mac PCs vs. Wi
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
wrote:
> My brother has a BS in engineering. Has worked IT for many many, years and
> uses Windows. He has also used proprietary systems from the airline
> industries. He still uses windows at work and at home.
Ditto my brother. He wor
> You are reaching; your splitting hairs, fishing for excuses to attack
> are evident. Sheesh: "dedicated to weaselly ways."
Are you applying for an internship to Weaselly Ways? We think you
have what it takes.
I'll just put you down for a "yes" on Book Cooking, but it's
over-subscribed right n
>This is completely unfair. Why did you omit Mike?
He has an Equity card and I don't want to pay scale.
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This is intolerable.
Yes! What an outrage!
If I were you I'd quit this list!
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>This is intolerable. You don't know how to search your own archive, nor are
>you apparently aware that MARC does not provide a usable link from search
>results. And then you pretty much say that I am making this up.
I use mail-archive.com and it does. There is just one hit (well now there
are 3)
Ah, a flame-thrower speaking down to his critic using first-person
plural. I tremble at the pomposity.
By Book cooking you must mean: anything that results in conclusions that
do not agree with your preconceived notions.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
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Are you applying for
> By Book cooking you must mean: anything that results in conclusions that
> do not agree with your preconceived notions.
Have you audited this course before? I see no need to bore you at the
introductory level course. We're moving you right up to the advanced
level course to take advantage of y
> My brother has a BS in engineering.
And I have a BEE, which I think outranks a BS. So what?
>My brother is apparently so severely wedded to his work situation that he
>sees no choice but to stick with Windows 24/7 lest he possibly go hungry.
>One could almost say that he is currently a bit e
> The MARC goes further back. I see it. That is a 4 year
> old post! Well now we all know that you can carry a
> grudge for years and years. So everybody be careful of Chris.
As I've mentioned several times, all I did was make a comment that this had
occurred. You're the one who created the "tem
What he does in private stays in private.
Stewart
At 11:11 AM 4/16/2009, you wrote:
Now even I would not use such inflammatory language. Though I find the
picture of Ballmer as slave master quite intriguing. He's wearing a black
hood and carrying a cat-o-nine-tails.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
> > This is intolerable.
> Yes! What an outrage!
> If I were you I'd quit this list!
I hope Tom never calls you a liar when you aren't. You might feel differently.
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Thank you,
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> By Book cooking you must mean: anything that results in conclusions
> that do not agree with your preconceived notions.
Have you audited this course before? I see no need to bore you at the
introdu
I don't know about Tom, but I followed those directions and did one
better: I actually went back to look at the offending post (previous
in thread). The person who offended you so much quotes your
entire post WITHOUT ALTERATION, in which you talk about
"MS-bashing for its own sake", then he star
>Still no apology for calling me a liar, I see.
There you go again. I did not call you a liar. I was merely skeptical. I
asked for a link, which is a very common request around here. You did not
provide one. I also went to research it myself, but came up dry. Saying
that I could not find what y
Chris Dunford wrote:
This is intolerable.
Yes! What an outrage!
If I were you I'd quit this list!
I hope Tom never calls you a liar when you aren't. You might feel differently.
Honestly, I think you've been a bit thin skinned and over-reactive on
this. Or maybe angry and a li
> The person who offended you so much ...
You (and Tom) are blowing my rather mild comment all out of proportion. I
mentioned it because it came to mind in the context of the discussion. This
isn't something I spend every night stewing about; I simply remember that it
happened because it is so unu
> There you go again. I did not call you a liar.
OK, so when you say, "The folks who run the archive tell me there is no way
to delete posts once they have entered the archive. So strange. It is as if
the whole thing never happened," that's not an implication that I made it
up? Seriously? Are you
When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar, balloons pop up that
provide words to explain what the icon is. For example, when I mouse over the
Internet Explorer icon, a balloon pops up that states, "Internet Explorer".
How do I get rid of these balloons?
Thanks,
Michael
Michael S. Altu
Saying Chris parts his hair on the [pick one: left | right] would deeply
offend him. And continue without abatement for years.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
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>Still no apology for calling me a liar, I see.
There you go again. I did not call you a liar. I was merely skeptical.
OK this is going a little too far for anyones liking.
Tom made a comment and made an insinuation and someone caught him at it.
He does not need anyone from the peanut gallery (me or you) making
their own side comments on this.
To be honest if I had been a moderator on this list (which I am on
Interesting story at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30229181/
We know the about caps and metered usage plans that the cable companies
are trying to institute. This story goes a little further to speculate
why.
The point is that as online video content grows (YouTube, Hulu, etc), the
Internet is f
> Way too casual to be so offended about MS vs. M$.
See, that's the thing. I'm not offended about MS vs. M$. I don't care how
anyone else refers to MS, and I never said that I did. I just didn't think
someone should have altered MY text to read that way, and I mentioned this
pretty casually. Th
A quick Google search gave this:
http://malektips.com/windows_xp_0009.html
PS If you're using IE, I hope you're using the newest version 8.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Michael S. Altus wrote:
> When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar, balloons pop up that
> provide words to expla
Digital camera folks! Which manner of "viewfinding" do you use
and/or prefer? Camera held out in front of you at arms length as you
stand or walk about looking like a zombie, or to use the actual
viewfinder if your camera has one?
I'm a viewfinder person myself if for no other reason than an
I use both. I prefer the view finder, but their are times I want to
actually pay attention to what I also want to get a picture of. A good
example of this is a whale watch I went on in Hawaii. Had I used the
view finder exclusively I'd have missed a lot of great viewing.
Jeff M
On Apr 16
I like to be a viewfinder person but I have noticed they are
discontinuing them on lower end cameras.
To be a real professional you have to be a DSLR person.
I have a few 35MM SLR's (My dads old Exakta vintage 1955, Pentax
MESuper, and Minolta)
Looking through the viewfinder always helped yo
> A quick Google search gave this:
> http://malektips.com/windows_xp_0009.html
>
> PS If you're using IE, I hope you're using the newest version 8.
I think this is talking about the ones I mentioned in my reply, the
notification balloons in the system tray.
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> When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar,
> balloons pop up that provide words to explain what
> the icon is. For example, when I mouse over the
> Internet Explorer icon, a balloon pops up that
> states, "Internet Explorer". How do I get rid of
> these balloons?
I'm not aware of a w
> Digital camera folks! Which manner of "viewfinding" do you use
> and/or prefer? Camera held out in front of you at arms length as you
> stand or walk about looking like a zombie, or to use the actual
> viewfinder if your camera has one?
>
> I'm a viewfinder person myself if for no other re
I've been looking at the nikon d60, any opinions? I need a mid level DSLR
for my wife.
Thanks
Mike
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Jeff Miles wrote:
>I use both. I prefer the view finder, but their are times I want to
> actually pay attention to what I also want to get a picture of.
I wrote:
When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar, balloons pop up that
provide words to explain that the icon is. For example, when I mouse over the
Internet Explorer icon, a balloon pops up that states, "Internet Explorer".
How do I get rid of these balloons?
Tony B replied:
A quick
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
> We know the about caps and metered usage plans that the cable companies
> are trying to institute. This story goes a little further to speculate
> why.
I have a cap because I use HughesNet. The cap is about 480 or so
megabytes per day as I
While I prefer the viewfinder, the digital zoom only shows up in the
LCD screen. I've seen people miss their zoomed-in shot by only looking
through the viewfinder.
Richard P.
> Digital camera folks! Which manner of "viewfinding" do you use
> and/or prefer? Camera held out in front of you at
Aren't you the one I specifically warned about arguing with a box of
rocks? I said it would only give you a headache. Feeling it yet?
>Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the
>difference.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
> Who is attacking who
I still haven't figured out why anyone would want to turn off the
*systray* balloons. What in the world could be the point of turning
off the *taskbar* titles?
I ask not to upset you, but because there may be a different solution
to whatever problem you're having.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM
The newer point and shoot cameras have a lot brighter LCD's and are
doing away with the viewfinders so as to be able to maximize LCD size.
The newest cameras on the brink of coming out will have touch screen
LCD's and features for use with focal targeting etc. (touch a figure on
the screen and
What kind of speed do you get with that?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:45 PM, phartz...@gmail.com
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>
> > We know the about caps and metered usage plans that the cable companies
> > are trying to institute. This story goes a little further
Never use digital zoom. It only removes resolution you can use later
when you zoom in.
Oh, I'm with the "use both" crowd. I'm not going to lay on my belly to
get low shots, so I try to guess what's happening with the LCD. Ditto
macros. But I probably just point and shoot (and crop later) more than
>When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar, balloons pop up that
>provide words to explain that the icon is. For example, when I mouse over
>the Internet Explorer icon, a balloon pops up that states, "Internet
>Explorer". How do I get rid of these balloons?
Doesn't TweakUI have an option
> While I prefer the viewfinder, the digital zoom only shows up in the
> LCD screen. I've seen people miss their zoomed-in shot by only looking
> through the viewfinder.
I'd like to suggest that you avoid digital zoom if you can (the first thing
I do when I get a new camera is to disable it). If
From:Chris Dunford
This is intolerable. You don't know how to search your own archive,
nor are
you apparently aware that MARC does not provide a usable link from
search
results. And then you pretty much say that I am making this up.
I will give you explicit instructions.
From:
> I have a cap because I use HughesNet. The cap is about 480 or so
> Steve...in the boonies
My daily average is about double your cap so I'm happy to be downtown.
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>I don't know about Tom, but I followed those directions and did one
>better: I actually went back to look at the offending post (previous
>in thread).
Thanks David. That makes me feel better about it.
I resolve to not reply to crazy posts from certain people. Feel free to
remind me if I fall o
All the viewfinders on point and shoot (non SLR) cameras do not function
thru the lens so they do not and can not in fact tell you where the
borders of your shot will be.
The LCD image does do that I believe...
db
Tony B wrote:
Never use digital zoom. It only removes resolution you can use
>Digital camera folks! Which manner of "viewfinding" do you use
>and/or prefer? Camera held out in front of you at arms length as you
>stand or walk about looking like a zombie, or to use the actual
>viewfinder if your camera has one?
Mainly depends on the camera. With some cameras "zombie mode"
Tom Piwowar wrote:
Yes, and it makes it increasingly difficult to create filters that
filter out the off topic or tech philosophy discussions. Every change
of topic requires a new filter...
So you only want the whiney posts like "I installed the service pack and
now have no audio output
Some of my best pictures of people were taken using neither the viewfinder
nor the LCD screen. You point the camera in generally the right direction,
talk to your subject, smile perhaps, all the while maintaining eye contact,
then shoot when an appealing facial expression appears. Later, in Photosh
-Original Message-
>From: mike
>Sent: Apr 16, 2009 4:07 PM
>To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
>Subject: [CGUYS] D60 was: Re: [CGUYS] Camera query. Just curious.
>
>I've been looking at the nikon d60, any opinions? I need a mid level DSLR
>for my wife.
>
>Thanks
>Look at the new D5000 (A
I've had a D60 for about 10 months. It's a very nice camera even with my 61
YO eyes. I obviously must use the viewfinder in this DSLR but I Nikon has
several high-end units using their live (pre)view technology (D3, D300,
D700). The D90 now has live (pre)view as well. It can also record motion as
w
>And Tom, you couldn't click on [prev in thread] at the top of the
>archived message to find what the original offense was?
I had already invested too much time. I has *assumed* it was not going to
be that simple to find the original offense. Thank you for being more
patient than I was. I res
>Some of my best pictures of people were taken using neither the viewfinder
>nor the LCD screen. You point the camera in generally the right direction,
>talk to your subject, smile perhaps, all the while maintaining eye contact,
>then shoot when an appealing facial expression appears.
How do you s
>Don't know what the solution is.
The more general discussions are useful too and I learn from them. If you
want folks around to answere the fix-it questions you need to have
something else too so they keep reading the list.
I resolve to ignore posts or blow the whistle when things get out of
He must use the force..
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
> >Some of my best pictures of people were taken using neither the viewfinder
> >nor the LCD screen. You point the camera in generally the right direction,
> >talk to your subject, smile perhaps, all the while maintainin
I wasn't replying to your first comment in this thread, but to
the more recent ones.
Yes, your first recent comment was mild, but you used it and
Tom's somewhat snarky response to it as the basis for a
fair amount of hectoring over whether or not it was OK to
misquote someone, a question that ans
How do you support the camera? Do you wear the camera bolted to your head?
Um... I hold it in my hand?
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Tom Piwowar wrote:
Don't know what the solution is.
The more general discussions are useful too and I learn from them.
One can learn from anything but one does not necessarily have the time
to do so. The reason I set up filters is because I do not have the
time and attention for such
I wrote:
When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar, balloons pop up that
provide words to explain that the icon is. For example, when I mouse over the
Internet Explorer icon, a balloon pops up that states, "Internet Explorer".
How do I get rid of these balloons?
Tony B replied:
I still
another solution:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,7449,00.asp
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Michael S. Altus wrote:
> I wrote:
> When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar, balloons pop up that
> provide words to explain that the icon is. For example, when I mouse over
> the
> I
>>How do you support the camera? Do you wear the camera bolted to your head?
>Um... I hold it in my hand?
You were telling such a good story. I was not expecting such a boring
answer.
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One could always go into the Task Bar Properties and select "Always
Hide" for each item in the task bar. A second way is to "Autohide" the
TaskBar in properties. Just a couple of options...
Richard P.
> I wrote:
> When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar, balloons pop up that
> provide
> You feign outrage (or perhaps you really are outraged)
> that Tom can't find the post on the basis of the scanty
> evidence you provide, and you provide better directions
> and demand an apology from Tom. It is that crazy post
> that I responded to, not your "rather mild comment" at
> the b
> One could always go into the Task Bar Properties and select "Always
> Hide" for each item in the task bar. A second way is to "Autohide" the
> TaskBar in properties. Just a couple of options...
I think you're talking about the system tray icons (on the right side). Dr.
Altus is asking about the
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall <
popoz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I like to be a viewfinder person but I have noticed they are discontinuing
> them on lower end cameras.
>
> To be a real professional you have to be a DSLR person.
>
> I have a few 35MM SLR's (My dads old Exa
How is that possible, as they only show up if you hover over a button
for too long? If you use Win+tab or alt+tab you don't see them at all,
and if you just go down and click the one you want you don't see them
for more than a fraction of a second.
Of course, if you only have a single layer taskba
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
> >When I mouse over icons on the Windows XP taskbar, balloons pop up that
> >provide words to explain that the icon is. For example, when I mouse over
> >the Internet Explorer icon, a balloon pops up that states, "Internet
> >Explorer". How do
The setting for taskbar and start menu has an option to enable/disable
balloon tips.
Yes, but I'm not sure that's what is being asked. In XP Pro running
in Windows Classic mode I get little yellow text boxes describing
the running process in that tab on mouse over.
E. g. "REL_T2_TAS_11-07[1].p
Interesting story at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30229181/
We know the about caps and metered usage plans that the cable companies
are trying to institute. This story goes a little further to speculate
why.
snip
After analog broadcasting stops, those who are out of broadcast range may
h
Digital camera folks! Which manner of "viewfinding" do you use
and/or prefer? Camera held out in front of you at arms length as you
stand or walk about looking like a zombie, or to use the actual
viewfinder if your camera has one?
I'm a viewfinder person myself if for no other reason than a
I asked the guy in the Verizon truck. He guffawed. Then he said,
"Never".
That was the wrong answer. Get his name and give it to me off
list.
I live in downtown DC and can't get it either. I'm as much at the
mercy of high cost providers as you are, Betty, and I sympathize.
At least I can get
My Olympus C-750 (admittedly old) frames _optical_ zoom just fine through the
viewfinder. It's not an optical viewfinder. It's a lens focusing on a small lcd
screen, that shows the same thing that the CCD sees, just like the large lcd
screen on the camera's back. The viewfinder sees what you wi
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:14 PM, betty wrote:
>
> We live beyond where digital TV will work reliably. Which digital antenna
> works best for those of us who live 40-50 miles away from broadcast towers?
> Why is the government selling or giving away the analog frequencies when
> they always lease
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, mike wrote:
> What kind of speed do you get with that?
I just checked my speed. Down is 1.42 Mbps, up is 134 Kbps. These
figures change from time to time. I guess it is about the same as DSL
for the most part.
Steve in Fauquier County, VA
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
> My daily average is about double your cap so I'm happy to be downtown.
Thus far I have not exceeded the cap on any day. They will
"penalize" me by inducing slowness for 24 hours following any cap
infraction. FWIW, the only really good thi
Cheap hardware yields cheap results. The computers bought by Lauren >and
"G" were bad mistakes.
Maybe not for what they intended. But I wouldn't buy either one.
I suspect that most people don't actually evaluate and research
what's available at a price point and usually don't have a clue
what
I asked the guy in the Verizon truck. He guffawed. Then he said,
"Never".
That was the wrong answer. Get his name and give it to me off
list.
I won't complain about the guy in the truck. I know he can only give an opinion that has
nothing to do with company decisions. Besides, I like him and
[April 09, 2009 | 4:50:55 PM]
Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/time-warner-cab.html
Time Warner shelves plan to cap Internet use
Capitulation doesn't bode well for the future of metered billing
updated 5:13 p.m. ET, Thurs., Apr
April 09, 2009 | 4:50:55 PM
Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/time-warner-cab.html
Time Warner shelves plan to cap Internet use
Capitulation doesn't bode well for the future of metered billing
updated 5:13 p.m. ET, Thurs., April
Verizon has decided to bypass our county. That's the info from sales.
Treat anything sales says with a grain of salt.
It may be that there's a franchise problem with your county.
I won't complain about the guy in the truck.
Most of us tend to do our job well but I appreciate the input.
Nob
Digital camera folks! Which manner of "viewfinding" do you use
and/or prefer? Camera held out in front of you at arms length as you
stand or walk about looking like a zombie, or to use the actual
viewfinder if your camera has one?
I'm a viewfinder person myself if for no other reason than any
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