ing until after the holidays.
Like I said, when the judge said the lawsuit has to argue whether Vista
Basic is still Vista, that's a win for Microsoft.
-
Brian Weeden
Technical Consultant
Secure World Foundation
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro
I don't agree. It's still the Vista code base. It has more "features"
and changes from XP.
A BMW 3 series is still a BMW, despite it not having all of the features
of the 7 series.
Vista Basic is designed for cheap/low-end PC's, so it's not like they'd
be able to run Aero. Is a cheap home PC
How is Vista Basic *not* Vista?
Brian Weeden wrote:
In this case there also happens to be an internal memo from a Microsoft VP
who bought a "Vista Capable" PC instead of a "Premium Ready" one and got
burned. His memo asks the (rhetorical) question, "if we don't understand
our own marketing, wha
1st
place especially since they likely bought low-end
systems consisting of Celeron
& integrated RAM stealing video.
Ben Ruset wrote:
This is absolutely the most retarded thing I've ever
read:
"These common issues ... are whether Vista Home
Basic, in truth, can
fairly be called &
You have the Vista code base minus some features at a low price point.
Chris Reeves wrote:
I've often wondered how they can call Home Basic Vista also, though.
Let's see, missing features:
* No Aero
* No backup to anything but local
* No DirectX10
* Doesn't come with new Vista games and themes
This is absolutely the most retarded thing I've ever read:
"These common issues ... are whether Vista Home Basic, in truth, can
fairly be called 'Vista' and whether Microsoft's 'Windows Vista Capable'
marketing campaign inflated demand market-wide for 'Windows Vista
Capable' PCs," she wrote.
Your Mac is doing it because you have Windows file sharing turned on.
If you're not sharing anything on the Mac to Windows clients then you
shouldn't need to have it turned on.
One thing that you could do to get around the browser issues would be to
not rely on NetBIOS for name resolution. You
Be careful with the so-called "hardware" encryption devices. It turns
out that some of them aren't really quite good:
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Enclosed-but-not-encrypted--/features/110136
j maccraw wrote:
Bottom line is time has come for *affordable*, faster,
dedicated hardware
I think Knoppix will let you write to an NTFS file system. Try booting a
Knoppix live CD and delete the directory using that.
Joe User wrote:
Hello,
I have a system that has so many files in a dir the system just hangs
for HOURS while I try to do anything in there. I'm using Wayne's XPPE
disc
Yes, AFAIK you need to log the machine into a domain, have it accept a
group policy that sets the update repo path, do the updates, and then
disjoin it from the domain and pray that the GP doesn't stick around
after that.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 09:48 AM 20/02/2008, Greg Sevart wrote:
T
It's not routable from your subnet. You talk to your local gateway
(which is on the same subnet -- your router) and that forwards traffic
on to the internet.
DHSinclair wrote:
Harry,
Thanks for the reply. I thought so, but since the isp's default gw addy
never changes (well, cuz it is Scenic
the left side of page below headline articles. If you just click the link
on the page and are not signed in, you will be required to sign in before
the download will be initiated.
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I went looking on MSDN (we have the basic membership - Visual Studio +
MSDN) and I couldn't find it.
Greg Sevart wrote:
Confirmed on MSDN too.
I love the MSDN blog post announcing the availability:
"We heard you."
Greg
I wonder how much overhead encrypting the system partition puts on the
system.
Brian Weeden wrote:
I've been using TrueCrypt for a while to do encrypted data partitions and
this is very welcome news. Free, open source, very strong encryption for
Windows, Linux, and OSX:
http://www.truecrypt.o
OEM.
DHSinclair wrote:
Just rcvd 2 Intel Server Nics. They came in brown boxes w/lots of bar
codes. Made in Malaysia. Like Malaysia; good life from here from my
experience.
Is this the new 'retail' packaging?
Thanks,
Duncan
Why, on 2/3 did you send a much nicer message, and then on 2/4 get nasty
with me?
DHSinclair wrote:
Ben,
I do appreciate your bold position. I even acknowledge that you have a
greater grasp on this OS business. Perhaps I am not so paranoid, but
rather I am very curious about what goes on with
Duncan,
If I may be so bold, and please don't take this the wrong way, but
you're very paranoid about your systems, to the extent of being a bit
ridiculous. Just leave it alone and enjoy your working PC.
Even if you could remove them without damaging something, is it worth
the time and effor
In XP the dialog says "Signal Strength: " where foo = Excellent,
good, weak, poor.
You can't get an 11mb/s connection on a "weak" signal. Hence why it
would say that it's poor. Poor in both signal strength and speed.
I suppose you could test by cranking down the speed on the AP (if it
suppor
The Intel 2100 is an 802.11b NIC, with a max speed of 11 Mbit/s. Hence
why XP was saying the connection was excellent.
Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 03:59 PM 1/29/2008, Joe User typed:
Already redid their network drivers? The software they use to manage
wireless (and they all have their own crap) is
Where might I find it?
j maccraw wrote:
Delete the OEM inf file for that device?
Ben Ruset wrote:
I seem to remember that there is a way to remove
"cached" drivers in XP.
I have an HP Laserjet 1020 printer that is having
some print quality
issues, and apparently a downgr
I seem to remember that there is a way to remove "cached" drivers in XP.
I have an HP Laserjet 1020 printer that is having some print quality
issues, and apparently a downgrade of the drivers helps. The problem is,
even when I load the "old" version of the driver, it doesn't fix the
problem, a
What I like about them is a single vendor to go to for support.
If I have RAM go bad, I call up Dell and I have a replacement the next
day. If I have RAM go bad in a whitebox, I have to remember where I
bought the RAM, then either go to them (if it's generic) or go to
Crucial, Corsair, Kingsto
What gives you the right to attach non-company owned equipment to a
company owned PC? What happens if your flash drive caused a voltage
spike and ruined the USB ports on the machine? Who is responsible?
There are plenty of good reasons to not let people bring removable media
into work. Viruses
You clearly have no experience working in corporate IT. Corporate IT has
a responsibility to enforce policies set by the company.
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
IT is generally charged with making sure corp. stuff works, not to lord
over employees like gods.
The only thing that I can find that comes close is "Printer Location
Tracking" in AD, but that doesn't really do what you want to do.
There's no automatic way of having it print to the "nearest" printer,
since physical distance is not a factor in IP Networks.
Tharin Olsen wrote:
Hey guys, ju
Yes you most certainly prevent people from attaching any sort of device
to a computer.
How is this playing God if these are corporate PC's? Users plugging in
ipods, flash drives, etc. is a security risk. End users should not be
using their company owned computers for anything but doing work.
One of the problems is that Windows is not made up of 100% Microsoft
code. Plus you'd need some sort of free compiler to build it - I don't
think gcc will build Windows.
Winterlight wrote:
So when Microsoft announces that it will be soon dropping all support
for Windows XP
If they don't w
Shouldn't matter.
DHSinclair wrote:
Subject says it all. I've flashed/re-flashed my old router for the 3rd
time.
Yes, the old pw has been reset. Yes, the old IP addy has been reset.
Good forward progress. Thank you AL, JRS, Tharin, All...
Now, Getting ready to plug it in again to see if th
You don't want netbios traffic coming in from the outside world, but
netbios traffic between the windows hosts on your LAN is perfectly
acceptable.
DHSinclair wrote:
Thankyou Ben,
This makes sense to me. Yes, I do still have netbios enabled on the
network, each client. I do still recall, fr
If you're just trying to ping something to see if it's alive, you don't
need to touch any files on your PC.
You shouldn't really need to touch hosts/lmhosts unless netbios isn't
enabled on your network, or you want to reach a device on your network
that doesn't use netbios and you want to use
Why would you need to touch your lmhosts file at all? You should only
touch hosts, and even then you don't need to change that if you're just
bringing something you want to telnet to on your network.
DHSinclair wrote:
If I believe I need to bring another device (an old router) on to my LAN
for
Be careful with pre-paid SIM's. When I was in Aruba, admittedly this was
in 2003, I was seeing US$1/min rates with them.
I don't think I've seen a pre-paid SIM in the USA.
Brian Weeden wrote:
I'm going to be spending the better part of a month traveling in the
US for 2 weeks and then Austia fo
Wow, that's both incredibly awesome and incredibly sad at the same time.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
Look at the monitors - the faces of those laid off.
http://www.compusa.com/specials/sales/071230sale/default.asp?pfp=fod&prod_group_category_id=3560
T
My Inspiron E1505, which is a Core2 Duo, only supports a max of 2GB of RAM.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Figured it out. Macbooks only support a max of 2GB while the Macbook
Pros support up to 4 GB Intel chipset they are using but it does seem
weird to me that a Core 2 Duo chipset can't handle 4 GB runn
The Macbook takes the same memory as a Intel/PC laptop. There's nothing
special about it.
Brian Weeden wrote:
I'm upgrading the memory in my wife's Macbook from the original 1GB.
I wanted to go with 2x2GB but after looking on Newegg, Crucial, and
Pricegrabber all I seem to be able to find is 1G
You could probably connect it to a PC that is running a packet sniffer
(Ethereal, for example), and sniff the ARP traffic it makes when it
boots up.
DHSinclair wrote:
OK. I am stupid. Back in 10/06 I believe I re-admin'd my old NAT router
to a NEW IP Address. I write 'believe' because I have
Duncan,
http://rapidshare.com
-ben
DHSinclair wrote:
Ben,
Thanks. Is there a better way?
I was beginning to think so too. Perhaps I am expecting more of this
'new' xdsl world.
I know that if I had somewhere to put the file (temp), and, just have my
Bro go get it from there, it may work. But
That's a pretty big file to try to send through email.
DHSinclair wrote:
I am trying to send my Brother a dot-wmv (2374KB) via my xdsl connection.
Eudora seems to slow down to a real 'crawl' processing the send!
Maybe a Eudora tweak I need? Anyway, the eventual response I get is:
, 1 message le
There's no VM in what he was talking about.
His setup is the same as if you had a desktop with two monitors. Windows
handles driving the two monitors.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Ah - mine already has dual DVI outs. So maybe it will work for the
purpose. Sorry for asking the dumb questions but I ha
Ben Ruset wrote:
There's no concept of assigning physical hardware (beyond a nic) such as
a video card to a VM (at least in the x86 world. You can in Solaris
Logical Domains.) Each VM gets a virtual console, which you connect to
with an app, or in the case of VMWare Server 2.0 beta,
Brian Weeden wrote:
I wanted to pick everyone's brain a bit about building a
virtualization machine (vm).
Questions I need to get answered before I can pull this off:
- If you install some new software or have another reason to reboot
one of the VM instances
can you just restart it and avoi
I have a VMWare Farm at work - 15 boxes all running VMWare Server 1.0.3
under CentOS 4.4. They all talk to a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 8 x 7200
RPM 500GB SATA drives, backed by a Dell Perc5/i hardware RAID controller.
I have the RAID configured as RAID5 with a single hot spare, so I have 7
spin
For one, many Exchange admins don't allow IMAP access to their servers.
Secondly, with Exchange you'd also sync your calendar and contact lists
as well.
It's really more useful if you're using Exchange for collaboration with
colleagues at work, and you want to replicate the functionality of
O
t exchange servers on my blackberry.
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-Original Message-----
From: Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:27:51
To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Is the Zune really back?
Sure, if you want to pay for BES. We have no corporate
Sure, if you want to pay for BES. We have no corporate owned mobile
phones, so people use what they own.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can make blackberries work with exchange right off the bat with BES, Redirector or the new BIS.
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From: Ben
This is one area that Windows Mobile shines. OTA syncing with Exchange
over HTTP. You can even do quasi-push email by having the phone keep
it's HTTP connection open for a long time, and if there is new mail that
shows up while the connection is open, the server sends it on down to
the phone.
You are correct. The few iPhone users (as well as people with
Blackberries) in my office are using Secure IMAP and SMTP auth to
send/receive mail.
Brian Weeden wrote:
AFAIK the iPhone doesn't support exchange servers, only basic IMAP or
SMTP functions.
e they improved
on it since then.
j maccraw wrote:
M is not W, flat out Zen W has the bigger screen and
slightly less annoying
software to load files with.
Ben Ruset wrote:
I bought a Vision:M and within 2 days sold it and
bought a 5th Gen iPod.
For me nothing is better than iTunes + i
I bought a Vision:M and within 2 days sold it and bought a 5th Gen iPod.
For me nothing is better than iTunes + iPod.
j maccraw wrote:
LOL, I'd buy another Creative ZEN Vision:W then a
Archos or something before I'd
buy a Zune. Hell I'd buy an Ipod before Zune and I'd
NEVER buy an Ipod...
Th
Your biggest problem is management. Whoever is in charge of IS and can
tolerate a week long outage of email should be fired. That's simply
unacceptable for any organization.
If I were you, I'd look at an outsourced Exchange solution. (Google for
it, I have no specific recommendations.) That wa
Use "root" with no password.
Brian Weeden wrote:
I have a lot of experience using standard HTML and CSS web design
stuff but figured it was about time I learned the database driven
dyanmic stuff with php and MySql. I have XAMPP installed and working
on one of my windows machines and can access
Yes, definitely.
Steve Tomporowski wrote:
And...oh, yeahcan you install Office 2003 on it?
I mean, yes, you can choose anything and it will work. I would stick
with either ".local" or ".int". The only reason why I went with ".int"
is because it's less characters to type.
Yes, ".int" is short for "internal"
I know you meant to reply to J Maccraw but I felt compelled to answer. :)
DH
No, you can continue to ignore IPv6 like I do. :)
DHSinclair wrote:
Do I need to study what is going on in the IPv4 and IPv6 stuff?
Or it that stuff still NRFPT? (I expect it is in test spaces).
Thanks,
Duncan
At 23:42 11/03/2007 -0400, you wrote:
You can do that. My own internal DNS uses .int
You can do that. My own internal DNS uses .int.
So, for example, my laptop is katamari.225swan.int
DHSinclair wrote:
OKay. I recall the r2l read thing. So, I could do something like:
oaktree.local (domain)
and end up with my clients on the LAN as:
ofc.oaktree.local (client pc)
gam.oak
No, a "colo" is an abbreviated term for "co-location" which is a
datacenter that many companies and individuals rent space, power, and
sometimes bandwidth from.
I rent 1U's worth of space, 15a worth of power, and 10mb worth of
internet bandwidth from a company in Manhattan to host my server.
If you own a domain, you can either host DNS yourself or have a provider
do it. Most web hosts will host your DNS for you, although generally you
have little or no ability to make/change your own DNS entries.
I own my own domain, and manage all of the domains my company owns. I
have my own DNS
If your PC's and the printer are on the same subnet, remove the default
gateway from the printer and it will stop trying to access anything
outside of your local subnet.
DHSinclair wrote:
WAN link is up! List mail is delivered where I need it!
The LAN seems happy! Even Eudora seems to work!
Li
First thing that jumps out at me is why your PC is dhcp'ing a routable
address (5.159.128.140). Your router should have a public IP and a
private IP, and all of your workstations should get private IP's.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Moved into the new house a couple weeks ago and got my network setup
a
Try an Ubuntu/Knoppix live CD and see if the mouse works better there.
If it does then you know it's an OS problem, and you'll want to reload
XP on it.
nobozoz wrote:
I have a Dell Precision 350 that My Dad bought off Ebay. The O/S is
WINXP/PRO SP2. There is no indication that the O/S even kno
Well, I'm assuming that you want to view what attachments you have based
on the timestamp. So you would want to go into the attach directory,
sort by timestamp, and you'd be able to see the attachments sorted based
on the date that you got them.
DHSinclair wrote:
Ben,
I do not understand. Wh
Why don't you just sort by date in Explorer? Seems like less work than
manually editing the source of your messages, which doesn't even seem to
work.
DHSinclair wrote:
Eudora stores email attachments in a default directory called "attach"
in the
EudoraPro main directory. I like to create and
You should get either an email or a sheet with that info. Alternately,
they probably have a website with that information, or you could ask
someone on DSLReports.com.
DHSinclair wrote:
Can I assume that part of the xdsl install kit will be a sheet that
lists the
various IP addys for the serve
I also think Windows Updates get pushed through Akamai's network as well.
Tharin Olsen wrote:
Akamai is a dot com business that has thousands of caching servers that
act as a media delivery system whether its a file mirroring, videos,
banner ads, etc.
You will stumble across them mainly on ad
I've been on laptops since c. 2000.
I've never owned an AGP video card (except ones that were embedded
onboard my laptops.)
I always have problems with telling the difference between PCI-X and
PCI-Express.
Greg Sevart wrote:
..and will be again by year's end. :(
Nature of the beast. It's
I picked up a 1GB PC2-5300 SO-DIMM from Newegg for $27 yesterday. I
can't believe how cheap RAM is thesedays. I remember scrounging up to
buy 4MB of RAM for the first PC I built for myself - a 486 DX/2 66. I
think it cost several hundred dollars.
Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 22:44 09-17-2007, FORC
Well, for fast access to Exchange, they could setup all of their Outlook
clients to connect to the Exchange server using HTTP rather than MAPI.
That will at least reduce the overhead of the VPN.
As for Autocad, how many users do they expect to use the thing via RDP?
Will Autocad even install a
Potentially, but I also have another TZ170 down at my colo that needs to
be rebooted every 1-2 weeks. And all it's doing is protecting a DNS and
a web server, both of which are pretty inactive.
Joe User wrote:
Hello Ben,
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 8:27:03 PM, you wrote:
The thing would *
The thing would *constantly* drop my VPN tunnels. I also ran into a
problem where if it was plugged into my switch while it booted, it would
lock up during boot. When I had to reboot it (which was frequent) I had
to unplug my ethernet cables.
Oh, and QoS was fatally broken.
Joe User wrote:
H
Fortinet. I got a pair of clustered Fortigate-60's. They're OK,
certainly not great but they do a good enough job.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 08:00 AM 12/09/2007, Ben Ruset wrote:
I had a similar experience with Sonicwall support. I ended up
replacing all of our Sonicwall gear
No, I wanted them gone for other reasons as well. My TZ-170 was a piece
of crap.
JRS wrote:
I hope you let Sonicwall know they lost a whole account due to their poor
out-of-country support??
I had a similar experience with Sonicwall support. I ended up replacing
all of our Sonicwall gear
If I have an IBM server die, they don't accept any other diags besides
their own. This is hardly a Dell specific thing.
Joe User wrote:
Hello Ben,
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 6:01:35 AM, you wrote:
Well, go try to get a drive replaced by Maxtor, WD, etc. without running
their diags and se
Well, go try to get a drive replaced by Maxtor, WD, etc. without running
their diags and see how far you get.
Does it really kill people to boot the Dell diags and run through the
stupid thing?
Joe User wrote:
Hello j,
Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 4:19:11 PM, you wrote:
Of course most HDD
I had a similar experience with Sonicwall support. I ended up replacing
all of our Sonicwall gear because of their terrible support. My company
is located in the "Penthouse" of our building. Sonicwall support was so
confused by this, and thought I was saying "Tent house."
Two years later it's
I have had drives that start throwing SMART errors and I'm able to get
data off before they fry.
It's anecdotal evidence, though, since I don't have a lot of drive failures.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 05:19 PM 11/09/2007, Ben Ruset wrote:
When a drive has SMART errors, Dell
When a drive has SMART errors, Dell diags will pick it up as failed, and
you'll get your replacement part. I don't see what the problem is.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 04:39 PM 11/09/2007, Ben Ruset wrote:
Right because the diags that come with DIY parts (if any) are
any better
Right because the diags that come with DIY parts (if any) are
any better.
Unless you're running something to monitor your SMART status from within
Windows, you won't know if you're having problems until you've started
to lose data.
Rick Glazier wrote:
Reminds me of the only Dell I ever had.
AFAIK, the diag cd is the same as what's on the diag partition. I think
Dell started putting the partition there to help their techs out:
"Ok. reboot the computer and when it says Dell, press the F12 key"
works better than:
"Ok, find the blue Dell disc that says "drivers and diagnostics" - oh,
iMac is still better than eMac was. :)
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 10:45 AM 06/09/2007, Ben Ruset wrote:
I think iPod sounds better than just "Pod" or "Apple Music Player."
Those are the only options? :)
iPod is better than Zune, but iMac is stupid (it's a comput
I think iPod sounds better than just "Pod" or "Apple Music Player."
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 09:58 AM 06/09/2007, Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 04:18 09-06-2007, Anthony Q. Martin typed:
the itouch version is way pricey!
Why does everything begin with the letter "i"? I equate the letter
"i" w
And destroy their hardware biz.
JRS wrote:
I agree, I think if Apple offered OS X for PC's they would make a killing
and jump to #2 overnite in the PC world.
I don't think it would lead to a drive to linux. But it contnues to kill me that Apple has OSX which could easily run on anything, and
Dell is selling Ubuntu powered Desktops. Sure it's not a plague of
locusts or guys with swords coming out of their mouths, but it's pretty
damn close.
Gary VanderMolen wrote:
OTOH, people have been saying that for years, yet I don't see
a mass exodus to Linux. I have no problem with Windows Up
Microsoft does the best job of evangelizing Linux on the desktop. :)
Rick Glazier wrote:
Funny thing is though...
About the only thing I CAN'T get from his site is the WGA thing...
(Can't connect to that specific file...)
I'm sure MS will make sure I get it,
I'm guessing it won't even boot in it's degraded state?
Are these non-SCSI drives? You *should* be able to mount one in another
box and get at the data that way, as well.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 03:13 PM 28/08/2007, Ben Ruset wrote:
You're better off using har
You're better off using hardware RAID.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
As a second question - am I better off using the software RAID or the
hardware RAID on the motherboard?
comfortable
viewing height.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought the same a while back. But their lcds and laptops are great and good support.
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From: Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:49:19
To:The Hardware List
Su
It's a funny world when Acer can make things better.
I still remember them when they were extreme bottom of the barrel crap.
I had a 5x CD-ROM from them (probably 5x because it wasn't able to
reliably do 6x.)
DHSinclair wrote:
Just heard on npr that Acer plans to buy Gateway Comp.
Hmm, more
You want to go down one level, and into another directory?
Thane Sherrington wrote:
Is there a command to change directory to go down one level of the
folder structure - the reverse of cd.. basically? I have a folder that
only has one subfolder, but I don't know the name of that subfolder
b
I am pretty sure that it should work. Compare the connector here:
http://nxn.netgate.net/dellls.html
to the one here
http://www.powerbrixx.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=406
Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 20:44 08-21-2007, Ben Ruset typed:
All of the D series replicators work
Wayne Johnson wrote:
I just rec'd a small windfall & I'm buying a Dell laptop because Dell
will finance the thing. Please no Dell bashing but otherwise I'd like
your opinion on the specs below.
Latitude D830
Intel® Core 2 Duo T7700 (2.40GHz) 4M L2 Cache, 800Mhz Dual Core
Genuine Windows® XP P
You probably have to script something to go through every users hive and
change it. I just looked at Group Policy and didn't see anything like
"force home page to X", unfortunately.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
Is there a way to set all the users' homepages in IE to specific page
without logging i
Only when paired up with a Netgear AP or router that supports 108Mbps.
Veech wrote:
ok thanks, I think the Netgear was the more expensive one but I may go
with that one anyway since it has the higher throughput capacity.
If you want, send me a copy of a document saved in the template and I
can try printing it against a HP Laser and a Canon Laser and see if I
get the halftone or not.
I suspect it's the printer driver.
DHSinclair wrote:
Another Odd One,
I have a Word template (dot) that I use for all my general
Why not just download the official Sun Java installer?
http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Brian Weeden wrote:
I have version 1.42 installed now but I am trying to get GCALDaemon to
work so I can sync with Google Calendar and it says I need Java
version 1.5 or later. Through all the normal
OK, so go grab a copy of Filezilla and a webhosting account and upload
it manually.
Winterlight wrote:
That is exactly what I don't want to do. I don't want to share,
automate, or schedule anything. I just want to upload three 2-3GB zip
files manually, preferably by FTP, once or twice a mont
You could find a web host that will give you SSH access, setup shared
secrets between your PC and the webhost, and use Windows Scheduled Tasks
to launch pscp (part of PuTTY) to move the files up to your host on
whatever schedule you want..
Winterlight wrote:
All I want to do is upload three
I know a lot of people who get Dreamhost accounts and use them for
online backup. $9.99/mo for 14gb plus you get your own domain, webspace,
email, etc.
Winterlight wrote:
Anybody try XDrive? It is a online FTP drive, this has been done before,
but never 5GB free and 50 GB for 100 a year. Plus
Have the same user/password on each machine.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
I have two XP Pro machines. I'm sharing a folder on one and mapping it
on the other and drive N: - it wants a username/password (which has to
be entered each time.) I know I've setup XP Pro like this where it just
remember
then backed it all up for a
rainy day for free. Of course
the Verizon version can't do most of this which is why
switched from them.
Not happy with current Motorola offers, but also not
excited by other brands.
The RAZR^2 looks like Motorola might finally be
getting serious again.
Ben
Wasn't THG originally started by Tom of Toms Hardware Guide?
I've been on and off the list since about 97. JMaccraw (aka Warpmedia)
was a friend and co-worker and turned me on to it.
DHSinclair wrote:
Mark,
We all get foggy about the past. I do recall that you were one of the
first contacts
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