On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
Continue to preach the word Betty some folks might even listen.
The only good backups are ones where you know that they are and can get at
them when needed.
Any other type is asking for trouble.
The
http://daringfireball.net/2009/10/microsofts_competition_for_windows_7
What if the reason why most PCs are still running XP has nothing to do with
whether Vista is “good” or “bad”, but rather is the result of indifference
on the part of whoever owns these untold millions of XP machines, be they
Hey young fella!
Old people invented the cloud many years ago. Do you remember ARPANET?
I do. I used it. I used punch cards for Fortran programs that I fed into
a Burroughs mainframe that was the 3400 block of Market Street in Philly.
My Mom retired in December at the age of 87 because she
On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:55 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Many applications, both shareware and commercial, have demo versions that
automatically disable after 14-28 days unless you purchase and register
them.
An iPhone app that costs $100 and doesn't work should at least have a demo
version to try
On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:30 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Cloud changes its name every few years.
The new idea is not cloud. I have drawing templates from 30 years ago
(pre-internet) for drawing clouds. The new idea is storing all your data in
the cloud. Previously we lacked enough bandwidth to do such a
I can't help thinking that this whole Sidekick disaster was not just a M$
plot to hurt the competition when I read stories like this...
Sidekick Disaster Shows Data's Not Safe in the 'Cloud' - ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/sidekick-disaster-shows-datas-safe-cloud/Story?id=8840420page=2
On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:44 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
The Washington DC Fox outlet, WTTG, on their morning newscast today,
had a review of Windows 7. Some Windows expert, I failed to get his
name, was on-air offering his opinions of Windows 7. He was less than
enthused about the product.
The below is right on. A contributing factor is that many folks perhaps think
that the improved security of the OS is simply locking down the user even
more for the convenience of the IT department. Windows 2000 still does about
everything I want to do. I do have a second hard drive running
On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:57 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Old people invented the cloud many years ago. Do you remember ARPANET?
I do. I used it. I used punch cards for Fortran programs that I fed into a
Burroughs
mainframe that was the 3400 block of Market Street in Philly.
I don't recall a Burroughs. My
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:57 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Hey young fella!
Old people invented the cloud many years ago. Do you remember ARPANET? I
do. I used it. I used punch cards for Fortran programs that I fed into a
Burroughs mainframe that was the 3400 block of Market Street
At 03:14 PM 10/16/2009 -0400, you wrote:
I don't recall a Burroughs. My decks fed into an IBM 360/30 at that location
c. 1972. You?
_THAT'S_ a blast from the past! I remember my husband installing and
supporting IBM 360's! In fact, I remember us having to move once to
an IBM facility in
Bandwith is still a huge issue for some of us..a friend a few miles away
however will have 60mbit down available early next year. DSL which is still
being fed to us from those idiot telcos still sits.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:30
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