Not to treat your concerns lightly, but if your average
kidnapper/terrorist in a third world country can't spot an American
tourist 100 yards away, he must be pretty pretty blind. I am willing to
bet money that the average 10 year old urchin in
Khartoum/Baghdad/Bogotá/Tehran/etc. could tell
I did a quick search and found
http://www.racksandstands.com/CD-and-DVD-Storage-C14T3.html?refid=G87.cd+towergclid=CNyHxuKqp40CFQl_Hgod3As5sg
I get the impression that most folks are keeping the liner notes and the
CD itself in special three-hole punched plastic sleeves that are then
kept in
Fascism: Doctrine; collection of concepts; and dictatorship by
government of a country, often involving hostile nationalistic
attitudes, racism, and private economic ownership under rigid government
control. A fascist regime is often militarily belligerent.
There are many in this and other
I have several Windows XP Pro machines running FireFox, but one, an old
IBM Thinkpad, shows all the text as weird characters that don't look
like any known language. The options/tools show that it is set for US
English. The images and the rest of the HTML stuff are fine, just the
text. I have
I just took a closer look, and it looks like a bunch of arrows and other
wingdings. Some text seems to be OK, while most of it is not. Very
weird.
Mike
John DeCarlo wrote:
It could be set up to use a font that isn't on your computer anymore.
On 7/21/07, Mike Sloane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
that could have happened (I rarely use that system - it is
just a backup machine to use when the power goes out), and now I need to
figure out how to restore it.
Mike
Mike Sloane wrote:
I just took a closer look, and it looks like a bunch of arrows and other
wingdings. Some text seems to be OK, while
I have the font in the /windows/fonts directory, but FireFox doesn't see
it as one of the choices, and its size and date stamp matches my other
machines. Very strange. Maybe I should delete it and install it from
another machine.
Mike
Tom Piwowar wrote:
I think I fixed it - I changed the san
I routinely us a free dead link checker application that I found
somewhere - it goes through your bookmarks and tries them all, pointing
out 404 and other problems, as well as duplicates. This keeps the list
somewhat cleaner, but it doesn't help with the useless links placed
there for long
That's odd. I have a similar display that I bought from Staples, and the
blue LED is quite dim and not at all annoying. But I agree with the
uselessness of the speakers. I was back to my regular speakers within
minutes of setting up the display.
Mike
Tom Piwowar wrote:
First, they
don't
The problems with this situation is that the whole discussion centers
around interpretation. On one side is the fact that fundamentalists
center their beliefs on the King James translation of ancient Hebrew
texts (which were, of course, transcriptions of even more ancient oral
tradition). And
Now you are getting close to home - I live very close to Shades of Death
Road, in Allamuchy NJ, and the next towns over are Hope and Tranquility.
All three were written up in the Weird New Jersey book. :-)
Speaking of weird, I took about 50 images over the weekend, at my wife's
50th high
If you ever had a Cortland apple from upper NY state, you would know
which is the best. :-)
Mike
John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
No the vote on apple split three ways. Fuji, Granny Smith and
Gravenstein with a few outliers for Winter Banana, Macoun and
McIntosh
On 9/26/07, mike [EMAIL
I wouldn't have anything to do with Norton. I have been running AVG Free
for the last several years on half a dozen machines and have yet to see
one indication of a virus. The very few email messages that come through
past Verizon's filters get caught immediately. Then again, I don't visit
I am not usually big into conspiracy theories, but I have to wonder
about this one.
http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/09/28/a-microsoft-windows-linux-conspiracy-theory/
Mike
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Try unplugging the reader and then plugging it back in. Just a thought...
Mike
David Turk wrote:
I'm having problems getting an SD card to show up in Windows
Explorer. My Kodak multi-card reader has worked with other SD cards;
this card was just formatted in-camera. The card reader shows up
AVG Free from www.grisoft.com gets my vote.
Mike
Site Guy wrote:
Hi Folks,
What do you consider the best free Anti Virus Software?
Thanx
Bart
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While the interface for AVG is clumsy, I like the fact that it just
sits there and does its thing without my having to get involved. It
updates itself daily, and I have not had an incidence of a virus or
malware in the several years I have been using it. (I have half a dozen
machines running
I lost most of the pictures I had taken of my wife's high school
reunion, so in desperation, I downloaded a program called CardRecovery
from www.cardrecovery.com, and it worked for me. I cannot promise that
it will work for you, but the Website claims that it supports Canon
stuff. It isn't
Among others, I have an old IBM Thinkpad, and it runs very slowly
because it doesn't have much memory - it spends a lot of time using
virtual memory, unless I shut down all but the most essential
applications. Since I only use that machine for emergencies and Email on
the road, I can live with
I looked at it, and it appeared to be only re-defining their privacy
policy. Most likely it is something for *their* protection, not yours.
Mike
Admiral Harris wrote:
I got notice today that there were changes in my terms of service from
Verizon.
I read through the TOS briefly, but didn't
For hardwood floors, I suggest either Teflon glides or felt pads that
come with peel-off paper to reveal adhesive. Both are readily available
at hardware store or big box home improvement centers like Home Depot
or Lowe's. The rubber feet are OK, but they make it hard to move the
machine when
I have often wondered if those people who wander around yakking on their
cellphones in the middle of stores, traffic, etc. were mindless idiots
before they stuck those things in their heads, or did they become
babbling fools afterwards.
(When people near me start talking out loud, I make it a
I permitted MS update to install IE 7, and I cannot get it to work.
Since I don't use IE for my Web browsing, that isn't a problem for me,
but it might be for other folks. I guess I might think about removing IE
7 and re-installing IE 6, if I should ever need to use IE. I prefer Firefox.
Mike
I have Verizon DSL in northwestern NJ, and the service is excellent, no
problems with voice interfering with date or visa versa. Neither Cable
nor FIOS are option in my rural area, but I am more than satisfied with
the line speed (about 1.5 mb/sec down and about half that up). And since
I get
You do realize that the filter goes on the voice line, not the data
line, right? I am not trying to be sarcastic - it is an easy mistake to
make.
Mike
mike wrote:
I've tried 3 different filters. No go.
Mike
On Dec 11, 2007 12:36 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have DSL but
I don't believe what you wrote is 100% true. What can happen with copper
pairs is that interference (water, squirrels chewing, corrosion, etc.)
or noise causes damaged and or dropped packets, and these create
requests for re-sends of those packets. So your throughput in terms of
packets per
A friend sent me this message, and I am stumped as to the reason for, or
the solution to, his problem. Any thoughts?
I've got a question about a problem I've been having with my computer.
I can't open larger photo (jpeg) files anymore . . . I get a blank
screen, and depending upon which
At the suggestion of another member of this group, I had him increase
his swap file size, and he just replied that trick seems to have solved
the problem. Thanks!
Mike
Tom Piwowar wrote:
I've got a question about a problem I've been having with my computer.
I can't open larger photo (jpeg)
I pretty much assumed that it was a function of my being on satellite
and assumed that folks using cable or off the air didn't have that
problem. Does anyone know why something like that should be happening?
TV never used to be that way in the old days.
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan
Our county uses Sequoia machines that run on Windows 2000. They produce:
a count on the hard drive, a CD-R, a count on a memory stick, and a
paper ballot (that is stored in a sealed bin). The paper ballot can be
viewed through a Plexi-glass window prior to the voter pressing the key
for the
I completely agree! (I was only pointing out that the electronic
machines we have do work, even if they are pretty well kluged up.) The
previous system was a very simple system using optical scanning of a
simple marked paper ballot. It produced the original voter-marked
ballot, a tape count,
No government entity ever pays any tax - not towns, counties, states, or
federal. So you cannot charge the tax. You may have to get a piece of
paper from the customer - a sales tax exemption certificate. They do
this all the time, so it should not be a hassle.
Mike
Rev. Stewart Marshall
To my knowledge, Panda is heuristic, but AVG depends on daily downloads
of specific virus signatures. If your AVG definitions are out of date,
it will not detect a brand new offender, whereas Panda's design (claims
to) detect viruses by their behavior.
Mike
Richard P. wrote:
This morning,
I have had very good luck with AtBatt http://www.atbatt.com/, although
I have never tried to get batteries for Compaq equipment.
Mike
Richard P. wrote:
Looking for any reputable vendor recommendations for Compaq V6000 Li-Ion
laptop batteries. Also, does it make sense to go with the 12-cell
Has anyone taken the time and trouble to figure out what all this really
means? Is it important?
Mike
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I had a similar problem just today - I couldn't get an older 3Comm
PCMCIA card to work in an HP laptop I picked up cheap. The system said
everything was working, but it wouldn't connect. I was using Windows
default installation and the Win98SE CD. Then I downloaded the drivers
from the 3Comm
I didn't catch the first message from Mr. Jones, but it is completely
wrong. Ethernet runs on a Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection (CMSA-CD) scheme, and the problem with long cables is that the
number of packet collisions starts to increase dramatically over about
100
I hope you meant to write 15mbps down and 2 mbps up. That is the way
that most asynchronous services work.
Mike
John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
The internet comes into the house to a Verizon wireless router through
an ethernet cable and you can distribute it either wirelessly or
through a wired
When you start up an application in Windows, the operating system needs
to know where to find the various components. If you happen to locate
some components in other than the default locations, changing drive
letters will cause those components to be not found. Other than that,
it probably
It should be understood that, in the electronics/electrical industry,
the law is very clear: even if the only thing that happened to a device
is that the package was opened or the tape ripped, it cannot be sold as
new. And that includes ALL of the contents of the device. So it goes
back to a
Although I have not tried it, I believe there is a way to bring Gmail
messages into your machine's Email application. I purposely don't do
that because I like having my Gmail account available when I am having
problems with Thunderbird (most recently with an inbox that mysteriously
ballooned
I was given two relatively new (for me) PCs - a Dell Optiplex GX60 and
an HP Pavilion 563W, each with stickers indicating that they have
Windows XP Home installed. But, while they appear complete inside,
someone pulled the RAM out, and I don't have any PC2100 DDR RAM handy. I
tried to power
Thanks, Stewart. I ordered a 512 meg RAM card, and if everything is OK,
I will just get three more (two each all these machines will accept),
and that will be fine for WinXP. If they are truly dead, I suspect that
I will be able to use the memory eventually (and it is only $20).
Mike
Rev.
T1 is literally technology from another century and is only good for
1.544 m/sec, required specially conditioned dedicated leased circuits,
and is extremely expensive. I cannot imagine what possible value it
would have in today's data communications environment. And, unless I am
wrong, is
It is off topic, but I think that you are incorrect - Mr. Iacocca
graduated from Lehigh U. as an engineer and began his career with Ford
as an engineer. While he spent much of his time at Ford in sales and
marketing, he had a much better grounding in automotive engineering than
most of his
I installed AVG Free 8.0 new on a rebuilt machine, and it took three
tries for the update to work. It finally did but it took a while.
Mike
Richard P. wrote:
Anyone else having trouble with updating AVG Free this morning? I am, as
is a relative 1000 miles away. Just looking for verification.
I have been following this thread, and I found the number of 10,000 per
month just astounding. But if you figure that is 333 per day, that
probably comes out to something like one a day at every airport around
the country. And then when you figure out how many business travelers
are late for
I was going to suggest swapping the position of you memory boards and
see if you don't end up with errors in other applications - a sure sign
that you have one bad memory board.
Mike
Fred Holmes wrote:
Flaky memory? Some memory will pass a test that reads the memory
address immediately
I heard a report from a technology reporter on CBS radio yesterday -
he was not at all impressed. Apparently the GUI is nice, but the rank
order is something of a mystery.
Mike
Tom Piwowar wrote:
Has anyone tried the Google-killer site cuil (cuil.com)?
All I get is No results because of
Years ago, it took a specially equipped trailer with clean room grade
equipment to splice fiber. Now the tech can do it with a simple kit and
virtually no technical skills. it isn't as easy as splicing copper wire,
but not a big deal either.
Mike
Robert wrote:
Eric S. Sande wrote:
Fiber
Don't confuse the published corporate tax rate with the amount of
corporate income that ends up actually paid to the IRS - there are
thousands of loopholes that result in half the US corporations paying
no tax at all and the rest paying very little.
Mike
Steve at Verizon wrote:
Not so. It
refurbished is a technicality used in the the consumer goods business.
Legally, they cannot sell something as new if the produce was offered
for sale (i.e. sold to a retailer). So if it comes back to the
manufacturer for any reason, even if the package was never opened, it
has to be sold as
This is the kind of food fight that nobody can win. But there is a BIG
difference between the nominal (35%) corporate tax rate and the amount
of taxes actually paid by most corporations. There are loopholes and
deductions in the tax code that make the effective tax rate very much
less than the
If the HD is set to cable select (CS), then the Zip drive has to be
set the same way. If the HD is set to master, then the zip drive has
to be slave).
Mike
rlsimon wrote:
I got the new maxtor drive in and restored the image using EZGigII software
which worked just fine ...however, the thing
I rescued a Gateway ATXSTF Performance 1400 machine from the dumpster
at the town's clean-up day Saturday. The owner said that he thought
something was wrong with the motherboard. It had a Staples repair
sticker and another sticker on the back announcing that it was
refurbished - I suppose
That sounds like good news for me - one of the reasons that I have no
intention of moving to Vista is that I would have to buy new hardware to
accommodate the memory requirement just to run the operating system. I
still don't understand why MS systems are such memory hogs - the Linux
distros I
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but they do use the Arbitron system to get ratings - that is based on
polling and listeners filling out forms and mailing them in. (I did that
for a week.)
Mike
gerald wrote:
can xm radio track my listening habits? do they know how many are listening to howard stern?
Based on my observations of the quality of service at the big box
electronic chain stores, you might as well fold your money into the
shape of a boat and set it adrift on the Potomac. Those folks are in the
business of selling you new Stuff, not repairing anything. You would be
much better off
I have everything on power strips. When I am done for the day, I just
turn off the power strips and then turn them on the next morning. It has
worked perfectly that way for several years. It also insures that the
equipment is off when I am not around, thus isolating it from power line
surges
From a legal standpoint, suicide is a crime in most jurisdictions
(the purpose is really to give the police the power to detain someone
who attempts it). So assisting/abetting in a suicide is also considered
a crime (which is why Kavorkian went to jail). But it is up to the
prosecutor to
For converting 78's to digital, I used to use an old Miracord changer
that had a GE VRII cartridge, coupled to an equally ancient Marantz
audio consolette preamplifier that has equalization for various old 78
recording curves. I go from the single tape output (remember this is all
monaural) to
All of the messages I have sent in the last two days to recipients with
comcast.net IDs are bouncing back with the explanation: Reason: Illegal
host/domain name found Remote system: dns;mx2.comcast.net
TCP|206.46.173.3|51451|76.96.30.116|25
Has anyone else had that problem? Or is it
Follow up: I went to Comcast's help site and found out that they use
TrendMicro for a spam filter, and it has identified verizon.net as a
spam source and blocked everything. Now I don't know what to do.
Mike
Mike Sloane wrote:
All of the messages I have sent in the last two days to recipients
. You can set up most
services like gmail to appear transparent to the people you are emailing,
they can still email your comcast account and you can send out via gmail,
with reply to still @comcast.
Mike
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Mike Sloane mikeslo...@verizon.net wrote:
Follow up: I
When I installed Ubuntu, the installer just found all the drivers it
needed without any help from me. The only thing I had to do was tell it
whether I wanted multiple partitions and assign some passwords. On the
other hand, the machines I have installed Ubuntu on have all been
wintel type
One of the advantage of using Crucial is that they will offer to run an
automated scan of your computer and tell you *exactly* what you have and
what can be added/substituted.
Richard P. wrote:
Crucial also offers a range of discounts, depending on whether you are
a repeat customer,
As a Verizon subscriber, I have had repeated issues with Comcast
(Optonline) and a few other ISPs rejecting all of my mail with very
little explanation. Only by pushing on Verizon service people can I get
them to contact the ISPs and have them turn of the spam filters that are
rejecting
I have been running half a dozen wired and wireless machines behind a
Linksys router for several years, with NO software firewalls running. I
have yet to have any problems. When I ran a test with one of those
websites that tries to find a way to break in, they reported that I was
fully
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The Senate voted on Monday to delay next month’s transition to digital
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The voice vote followed a call
I guess a lot of folks want that guide - I am downloading it now, and it
will take about 25 minutes for a 2 meg .pdf file. I have two machines
running Ubuntu, and I am always looking for something new to learn about it.
Thanks,
Mike
Michael Fernando wrote:
Ubuntu Pocket Guide
For the details, see
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Mike
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
House voted it down. No delay.
Stewart
At 09:08 AM 1/27/2009, you wrote:
Senate Approves Digital TV Delay
If there is a fuse in the power supply (and they are not easy to get
at), and it is blown, replacing it probably won't help - they are so
cheaply built these days that a component failure is final. Assuming
that your power supply is a standard form factor (size, mounting screws,
connectors,
One of my computers (running XP) tries to update, but I get a message
control (something) incorrect. A half dozen other machines running
Win98SE and XP have no problem. I am just going to re-install AVG on
that machine and see if that helps.
Mike
katan wrote:
At the risk of turning this
February 4, 2009, 5:01 pm
House Votes to Delay Switch to Digital TV
NY Times By Brian Stelter
Television owners appear to have four more months to upgrade their old
sets before they are rendered obsolete.
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to extend the transition to
digital
I have an office with an 8-port Ethernet router on a broadband cable
connection. I have been requested the ability to provide some wireless
capability temporarily (for outside auditors). I have a spare 4-port
wired/wireless Linksys broadband router, and I was wondering if I could
daisy-chain
The office in question is our local little municipal building
http://www.allamuchynj.org and the Ethernet wiring and router are only
used for access to the Internet (Comcast gave us a free port in exchange
for renewing their charter) - none of the individual PCs are set up for
sharing - they
OK, I agree that I need to turn off DHCP on the slave router and give
it a different ID from the master. But now you are suggesting that I
go from the WAN port on the wired/wireless slave to an in port on
the router. While that sounds logical, I am wondering if the electronics
on the WAN port
Interesting experience. I bought two Dell OEM XP Pro CDs, and I had no
trouble with installing them, one on a home-built machine with an Asus
board and another on an IBM ThinkPad. And both were verified as being OK
by MS when it came time to load service packs, etc. At one point, I had
a hard
I tried it with my home office - I just changed the IP address by one
digit and turned off DHCP and it worked fine. As you suggested, with
DHCP turned off, it didn't seem to matter which port I used, nor did it
need a crossover cable.
Thanks to all who responded. Now back to political
Friday February 20, 2009 02:00 pm
Republican Bill Would Require Home Owners To Retain Internet Access Logs
By Jamie
http://crooksandliars.com/jamie/republican-bill-would-require-home-owners-re
Chalk this up as forcing you to become big brother:
Republican politicians on Thursday called for
You can join the FMtuners Yahoo group and discuss this with the
members, but I suspect that you will be told that your old Denon, if it
is still working well, is as good as anything new out there, unless you
are willing to invest some Big Bucks. In the case of audio gear, newer
isn't always
I agree with the concept of what you wrote, but when I lose power, the
DSL service AND the voice line goes out about 15 minutes later (I have a
backup generator that keeps my house power up). It seems that I am
served by a local repeater that has its own battery backup - one that is
supposed
Plain Old Telephone Service
Mike
Judy Cosler wrote:
POTS??
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Actually, the incentives for the telephone company to replace copper
pairs with fiber throughout their service area (urban or rural) are
there - the outside copper plant is aging rapidly and becoming an
expensive nightmare to maintain. I suspect the maintenance cost per
cable mile of copper is
Before doing that, I would seriously consider using a USB connection
device, instead of the sound card. They are not expensive these days and
provide better sound quality than the average sound card.
Here is an excellent example that works with Audacity:
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Before doing that, I would seriously consider using a USB connection
device, instead
If what the page is telling me is indeed true/accurate, I guess I am a
happy camper!
Mike
Tom Piwowar wrote:
http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html
That is very clever. Conficker is known to block access to certain help
sites and this is an easy way to see if
The problem I see with CR is that they have two completely different
approaches to products. One approach is to stress test products in a
controlled laboratory environment, while the other is to have
reviewers just play with products and report on how they
liked/disliked them. If you want to
When Verizon applied for to the state of NJ for permission to install
FIOS, the approval was given on the condition that they had to give all
customers served by a central office with FIOS the service, not just
those nearby. I am 10 miles into the country from the local CO, but the
techs told
Oh, that's just wonderful. Now, in addition to texting, sexting,
twittering, web surfing, and general yakking, we can look forward to
drivers and pedestrians using their hand-held devices for watching soap
operas, reality TV, and ball games instead of paying any attention to
their
I just found out that Yahoo is closing down Geocities (where I have my
Website www.geocities.com/mikesloane). The big advantage to me of
Geocities is that it is *free*. Does anyone have a suggestion for
something comparable at the same price? I don't need technical support,
just some minimal
I had a similar question as Randall's and picked up a copy of Warman's
American Record that was being remaindered by Hamilton Bookseller for a
couple of dollars. That will give you a feeling for some of the prices.
(I now have several hundred LPs, 78's, and 45's that I paid almost
nothing for
I think it is a vain waste of time for people who nothing else to do
with their lives. I do.
Others may differ, and they can put it on their blog that I won't read. :-)
Mike
Constance Warner wrote:
1. Do you blog? What's your blog like?
2. Do you get anything out of it (besides the
I guess my question, after reading all the various specifications and
comparison charts, is: why should I upgrade from XP? It looks as if I
would have to buy a new machine with more memory and faster processor
speed, when the machines I have now work just fine with under 1 GHz and
under 1 gig
be careful what you wish for...
Stephen Brownfield wrote:
Is anybody out there? I have not received a single email from the
Computer Guys list today.
Steve
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In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google is expected to
announce on Wednesday that it is developing an operating
system for a personal computer based on its
Although I had heard rumors for a while, I was just officially notified
by Yahoo that my Geocities website (www.geocities.com/mikesloane will
be history effective 10/26. I have no desire to pay them $150 a year for
a Yahoo! Web Hosting account, as my site isn't for business or
anything like
Truly amazing!
We has a somewhat similar problem. I am the chair of our county mosquito
control commission. Every summer we hire seasonal workers, usually
college science students, to do field work - surveying for breeding
sites, etc. This year we found that we had to develop and promulgate a
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