Re: [H] The Midair Mouse

2007-07-02 Thread j maccraw
Blah blah, 1 word (or is it 2?): Wimote. We already have those gyro mice and there was the ring mouse years back... yawn. Winterlight wrote: > The Midair Mouse > Your brand-new wireless mouse? That solves only half the problem. Sure, > you're untethered, free to drive your PC from afar. But you

Re: [H] SW Firewall..Yea or Nay?

2007-07-02 Thread Winterlight
Should I put a sw-based Firewall on each client prior to re-implementing broadband? I have 2 candidates that come highly rated from wilderssecurity-dot-com. Thank you for your view. Best, Duncan The purpose of a hardware router is to keep undesirable things from coming in. The purpose of a s

Re: [H] SW Firewall..Yea or Nay?

2007-07-02 Thread JRS
When I first got DSL, I used a SW firewall, and I used to get 3-400 hits a day from folks trying to get in or pinging, or whatever. Once I got my router with NAT, hits dropped to ZERO. So after 2 weeks of that, with no hits whatsoever, I finally de-installed my BlackIce Firewall and never bot

[H] SW Firewall..Yea or Nay?

2007-07-02 Thread DHSinclair
I am thinking about doing broadband again. Seems At&T is now offering reasonable rates. Question is about the clients I now have on my home LAN. Each client and the server already has nod32 installed. (and it seems to be doing a stellar job so far...) Should I put a sw-based Firewall on each cli

RE: [H] OT - Eggs in the dirt...

2007-07-02 Thread Bobby Heid
Sorry, thought I was replying to the list. Bobby _ From: Bobby Heid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 6:27 PM To: 'Jeff Lane' Subject: RE: [H] OT - Eggs in the dirt... LOL. I might have heard one the other night... Or, it could have been thunder. Not sure thou

RE: [H] OT - Eggs in the dirt...

2007-07-02 Thread Bobby Heid
Again, I thought I was replying to the list. Bobby _ From: Bobby Heid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 9:38 PM To: 'nobozoz' Subject: RE: [H] OT - Eggs in the dirt... I did rebury them. I'm sure they got moved around before I saw them. I hope that did not do an

Re: [H] Surface computing...

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
well, at this point in time I think it must be...however, what the mind can conceive, the man can achieve Neil Davidson wrote: Yes it does. You have to wonder if it is more gimmick than anything else though :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY -Original Message- From: [EM

Re: [H] Surface computing...

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
well, at this point in time I think it must be...however, what the mind can conceive, the man can achieve Neil Davidson wrote: Yes it does. You have to wonder if it is more gimmick than anything else though :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY -Original Message- From: [EM

Re: [H] OT - Eggs in the dirt...

2007-07-02 Thread Jeff Lane
OT - Eggs in the dirt...I'm not so sure I'd discount those dinos yet..vigilance is key here:) OR, their Mother will come lookig for you, and you will see what SHE is... Message - From: nobozoz Probably turtle eggs. Did you re-bury them

RE: [H] Surface computing...

2007-07-02 Thread Neil Davidson
Yes it does. You have to wonder if it is more gimmick than anything else though :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: 02 July 2007 20:39 To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Sur

[H] Surface computing...

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
seems really cool!

Re: [H] Generating power with an exercise bike

2007-07-02 Thread Al
"Rick Quilhot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First thought would be an automobile alternator run through an inverter. > Take a UPS; disable the buzzer; add a cooling fan, use it as an inverter. Pick one with a 12V batt. and charge it with a car alternator. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls

RE: [H] Generating power with an exercise bike

2007-07-02 Thread Rick Quilhot
First thought would be an automobile alternator run through an inverter. Rick Q -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 12:19 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Generating power with an exe

[H] Generating power with an exercise bike

2007-07-02 Thread Thane Sherrington
We've had a lot of power outages due to thunderstorms this summer, and I was wondering how I could recharge a UPS with an exercise bike. Anyone ever do anything like that? T

Re: [H] Spam tool

2007-07-02 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 08:22 AM 02/07/2007, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Spamsubtract, was one app that did exactly what I want...but they company that offered it will OOB. What else is there? I have Postini through my ISP and it is the best solution I've seen so far. T

Re: [H] OT - Eggs in the dirt...

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Did you put them back or did you eat them? :) Most likely turtle eggs - we have lots of them here Bobby Heid wrote: Since the list is so quiet today, I though I might be able to get by with an OT question. I was digging a trench in my yard yesterday near the edge of my yard to install

Re: [H] OT - Eggs in the dirt...

2007-07-02 Thread Rick Glazier
OT - Eggs in the dirt...OR, their Mother will come lookig for you, and you will see what SHE is... Message - From: nobozoz Probably turtle eggs. Did you re-bury them? You might be lucky enough to see them hatch, and then you'd know for sure. -Original Message- On Behalf

Re: [H] Spam tool

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I currently use Mailwasher. But it works a bit differently in that if you check e-mail, whatever is up on the server will come down. Also, I can see how to get it to auto delete obvious, repeated spams. Well, it does have this autodelete function, but it seems to fla

[H] Spam tool

2007-07-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I'm looking for a spam tool that will flag a message on your mail server and hold it there so that our PC e-mail prog won't download it. Then, you should be able to set it to delete off server so that it never makes it's way to your PC, if it's really spam. One would be able to inspect mails wh