Re: [H] VPN

2012-10-05 Thread Brian Weeden
If you are using HTTPS to access those services, you should be ok unless they are proxying all SSL connections. To test if they are, visit a webpage like your bank or email at home and take a look at the certificate (the method of doing so depends on which browser you are using). See who signed

[H] Degraded RAID array question

2010-09-22 Thread Brian Weeden
to confirm it only has 7 drives now, and then expand it? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Degraded RAID array question

2010-09-22 Thread Brian Weeden
, because I know that a second failure can cause me to lose everything. For that reason, I am considering switching to a FlexRAID. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed

Re: [H] Degraded RAID array question

2010-09-22 Thread Brian Weeden
also hit it with Spinrite just to make sure. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.netwrote: On Wed

Re: [H] Degraded RAID array question

2010-09-22 Thread Brian Weeden
DBAN I can do. Array and data are just fine, for now. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net wrote

Re: [H] Mixing MS Office 2007 and 2010

2010-09-20 Thread Brian Weeden
Should be ok but I haven't tried it. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-09-20, at 9:10 AM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: Does anyone know if I can install MS Publisher 2010 without impacting an install of MS Office 2007 (that doesn't have Publisher?)

Re: [H] 2TB Drives

2010-09-20 Thread Brian Weeden
Hot hardware did a big roundup earlier this year: http://hothardware.com/Articles/Definitive-2TB-Hard-Drive-Roundup/ --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-09-20, at 11:34 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar zulfiqar.naus...@siemens.com wrote: What's the concensus on the best low power 2TB Drives.

Re: [H] Google voice calls

2010-09-19 Thread Brian Weeden
GV is not VOIP - you still need a phone to make calls. GV is an advanced way of using that phone. One of the coolest things is the ability to connect multiple phones to your GV account. When people ring your GV number, you have a lot of control over what happens. You can have it ring all

Re: [H] Building a file server?

2010-09-17 Thread Brian Weeden
, that isn't a problem. Just don't use it for your boot drive. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:30 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: In the end

Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes

2010-09-06 Thread Brian Weeden
A good quality 1 TB drive can be had for less than $75. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-09-06, at 8:10 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Freenas won't operate in 64mb now. Driver support does take up a good bit. But think about functionality we just expect. Os/2 wasn't ready

[H] Text parsing problem with Excel

2010-08-23 Thread Brian Weeden
L M N A2 B2 C2 D2 E2 F2 G2 H2 I2 J2 K2 L2 M2 N2 It's easy to do by hand, but with over 2,000 data sets it would be tedious. Thoughts? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756

Re: [H] Text parsing problem with Excel

2010-08-23 Thread Brian Weeden
I managed to figure it out. Turns out Excel has a nice little function called CONCATENATE and then all I had to do was write a macro to delete every 2nd line. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756

Re: [H] AnyDVD

2010-08-11 Thread Brian Weeden
stream everything to it wirelessly using Air Video. Super sweet. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Scoobydo swza...@yahoo.com wrote: I

Re: [H] new system build suggestions or upgrade

2010-08-03 Thread Brian Weeden
Ah. Well, of course 32-bit only supports 4gb. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-08-03, at 6:33 PM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 07:26 PM 03/08/2010, Brian Weeden wrote: Um, I just opened a bunch of programs on my Win 7 Ultimate 64bit system

Re: [H] IPv6

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Weeden
Windows has had IPv6 support since XP SP2, OSX since 10.3 Panther, and Linux 2.6.12: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv6_readiness So unless you are running something older than those, you should be fine from an OS standpoint. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure

Re: [H] Droid X options

2010-07-29 Thread Brian Weeden
If the size of the Droid X is what you are looking for, try the HTC EVO: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/htc-evo-4g-is-sprints-android-powered-knight-in-superphone-armo/ --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1

[H] Sync outlook offline?

2010-07-28 Thread Brian Weeden
My work is moving from Gapps to Microsoft BPOS, as I've brought up on here before. Is there a way to have offline access to all my archived email through Outlook that is synced between my work and laptop computers? I travel a lot so that is a big deal. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone

Re: [H] {Spam?} Re: Sync outlook offline?

2010-07-28 Thread Brian Weeden
6 GB I'm a gmail person - I don't delete email and find it extraordinarily useful to have everything I've ever sent/received. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-07-28, at 11:47 AM, Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Brian Weeden wrote: My work

Re: [H] {Spam?} Re: Please I beg!

2010-07-22 Thread Brian Weeden
Which is why I love gmail. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 10:02

Re: [H] {Spam?} Re: Please I beg!

2010-07-22 Thread Brian Weeden
NAS, which is then mirrored to my Amazon S3 account. Belt and suspenders --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Thane Sherrington

Re: [H] Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite

2010-07-09 Thread Brian Weeden
. However, it seems that I'm not able to demo it. Can anyone confirm that statement? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, tmse

Re: [H] BB and Google Apps question

2010-06-29 Thread Brian Weeden
with Google Apps? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:47 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Pretty much that's what works for me. Sent via

[H] BB and Google Apps question

2010-06-28 Thread Brian Weeden
the sync software installed just like my iPhone. They are also saying that at least one of the new models of BB doesn't support Google Apps, which sound pretty unbelievable to me. Am I missing something here? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http

Re: [H] BB and Google Apps question

2010-06-28 Thread Brian Weeden
That's what I figured, but how can I prove it? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:51 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Someone is trying

Re: [H] BB and Google Apps question

2010-06-28 Thread Brian Weeden
Calendar, contacts, and email. I don't have a Blackberry handy so I can't do it myself, but if you ask Google they just just go to m.google.com and it works. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756

Re: [H] Steam on two PCs

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Weeden
You just need to log in / log out on each machine. And it should sync all your settings and saved games between the two. it's very handy. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683

[H] Computer turns itself off under load

2010-06-11 Thread Brian Weeden
? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Computer turns itself off under load

2010-06-11 Thread Brian Weeden
I use handbrake as an easy way to take video content and re-encode it to the proper format for my iPhone. It works very nicely for that. I will look into the CPU temp and BIOS issues and get back to you guys. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Computer turns itself off under load

2010-06-11 Thread Brian Weeden
So, after a little investigation it seems that when I installed the new HD I accidentally left a cable blocking the CPU fan from spinning. That sorta makes it hard to keep things cool --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http

[H] Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite

2010-06-04 Thread Brian Weeden
in the home office in Colorado. 6 of us (including me) travel extensively so offline access and sync is really important. So should I be concerned? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202

Re: [H] Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite

2010-06-04 Thread Brian Weeden
conversations, no labels, having to put emails in folders (!), and I dread searching my 20,000 emails through that interface. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Jun 4

Re: [H] Networkable ToDo List/Calendar

2010-06-01 Thread Brian Weeden
I would second that - I love Google Calendar. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.netwrote: On Mon

Re: [H] Networkable ToDo List/Calendar

2010-05-31 Thread Brian Weeden
I use Remember the Milk for all my task list needs and it simply rocks: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ It integrates with Google Calendar, has a sweet FF extension which adds it as a side-bar in Gmail, and nice iPhone app. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World

Re: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Weeden
and then saving the document on which track changes was used. Seems to solve the problem. Vincent Winterling Vineland, NJ -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:36 PM

[H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Weeden
this before I tear my hair out? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

2010-05-26 Thread Brian Weeden
Not that I know of. When I open a document and it does this, if I go into the Word Options, Trust Center, and Privacy Settings, the box for make hidden markup visible when opening or saving is checked. So somehow Word is ignoring its own options. --- Brian Weeden

Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?

2010-05-23 Thread Brian Weeden
Known problem, usually solved by a firmware update or using an OS that actually supports TRIM. The core problem is that SSDs are completely different technogy from spinning disks and you can't treat them the same. You shouldnt defrag SSDs or do anything that does more writes than

Re: [H] Open question?

2010-05-13 Thread Brian Weeden
is a huge benefit. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Open question?

2010-05-13 Thread Brian Weeden
If you are using WPA2 encryption on your WiFi then you have nothing to worry about in terms of someone cracking it, especially if you use a 64 character password generated by this site: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World

Re: [H] Open question?

2010-05-13 Thread Brian Weeden
. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 01:23 PM 13/05/2010, DSinc wrote: Brian, TNX. Yes, am

Re: [H] Google chrome ?

2010-05-13 Thread Brian Weeden
The way chrome sandboxes each tab as a separate process helps as well. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-05-13, at 3:13 PM, Mesdaq, Ali ames...@websense.com wrote: I use both Chrome and Firefox myself. Chrome is definitely targeted less in attacks and overall has not had many

[H] Word 2007 track changes issue

2010-04-29 Thread Brian Weeden
is checked to show track changes by default. Any idea what could be overriding this and causing the default view to shift? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Weeden
(trusted) LAN and public (untrusted) WAN at the same time. Not sure tho. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Hunter, Gary gary.hun

Re: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Weeden
Sorry, you're right. I use this VPN for my WAN traffic so that's what I was thinking of, but of course you can also use a VPN to connect two LANs as well. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756

Re: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Weeden
That's not the same. Your router us doing NAT and translating your private IP address to a public one. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-04-27, at 4:16 PM, Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Greg Sevart wrote: They (RC1918 addresses) absolutely

Re: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Weeden
on that? --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-04-27, at 4:37 PM, Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Brian Weeden wrote: That's not the same. Your router us doing NAT and translating your private IP address to a public one. Not really. It doesn't break RFC because road

Re: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN

2010-04-26 Thread Brian Weeden
. Both computers are running Windows 7. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.netwrote: On Mon, 26

Re: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN

2010-04-26 Thread Brian Weeden
this up to a Windows feature. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.netwrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010

[H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN

2010-04-25 Thread Brian Weeden
and can still connect to other clients on the LAN. I've double checked the VPN settings are they are exactly the same on both machines. Any ideas? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1

Re: [H] iPad

2010-04-07 Thread Brian Weeden
It depends on definitions. If you define the market as OSX, then of course Apple has a monopoly. But if you define the market as laptops, then there isn't any monopoly. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1

Re: [H] iPad

2010-04-07 Thread Brian Weeden
as their customers feel they are getting value. And we are free not to pay for that content if we don't want to. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Apr 7

Re: [H] iPad

2010-04-05 Thread Brian Weeden
Gotta love Apple's version of the razor and blades strategy with all those must-have accessories, Apps, and content (music and video). Except in Apple's case, they make a ton of money on BOTH the razor and the blades. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World

Re: [H] TV calibration

2010-04-03 Thread Brian Weeden
- using those techniques incorrectly can really screw up your display. Just before Christmas I bought a Panasonic 50 V10 and love it, and it only needed minor tweaks with DVE. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org

Re: [H] Blu-ray DVDs

2010-04-03 Thread Brian Weeden
Most blurays have about 30gb of content. This is usually a video track encoded at 1080p resolution and often have multiple audio tracks, some lossless at high bitrates. You can re-encode the video to 720p and audio to flac or mp3. Then your file size can drop to less than 10gb and

Re: [H] Blu-ray DVDs

2010-04-03 Thread Brian Weeden
It's only accurate if anything in disc form that contains a movie shall be called DVD. Look up Bluray on Wikipedia for the differences. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-04-03, at 8:02 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote: BTW, bluray DVD is an oxymoron.

Re: [H] Suggested HTPC Setup

2010-03-25 Thread Brian Weeden
sources are. If you are a satellite TV customer like me you are basically SOL. OTA is the safest bet, with cable TV it really depends on the company and how amenable your setup is to CableCard. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http

[H] Advice on an important piece of hardware

2010-03-20 Thread Brian Weeden
I'm in the market for a new chair for my office/computer. For many years now I have just used cheap (about $150 or so) chairs as I couldn't rationalize spending more. But seeing that I spend 8-10 hours a day (or more) in that chair, I probably should make a substantial investment. My

Re: [H] Advice on an important piece of hardware

2010-03-20 Thread Brian Weeden
that. :) Greg -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:47 AM To: hwg Subject: [H] Advice on an important piece of hardware I'm in the market for a new chair

Re: [H] blu-ray DVD

2010-03-19 Thread Brian Weeden
(4096x2160) at 30fps for a pretty amazing price: http://www.red.com/ --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Christopher Fisk chr

Re: [H] blu-ray DVD

2010-03-19 Thread Brian Weeden
will probably rage on forever because it is by definition subjective. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net wrote

Re: [H] blu-ray DVD

2010-03-19 Thread Brian Weeden
Agree about Sin City. I also find the pure digital stuff like Cars and Up to be some of the most amazing BluRay material out there. Can't wait for Avatar in that regard. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1

Re: [H] [Bulk] If you own a PS3 and it connects to the net DO NOT TURN ON

2010-03-02 Thread Brian Weeden
Sony said earlier this morning that the issue has been fixed and there is a chance users can get their trophy data back: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/01/ps3-clock-bug-apparently-squashed-games-are-playable/2 --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-22 Thread Brian Weeden
years. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com wrote: Have you never been burned by a flawed patch in the last

Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-19 Thread Brian Weeden
I gotta ask - why would you not update a game when there is a patch? I've been gaming for a long time and can't think of a single instance where I didn't want to patch a game. Maybe I'm just getting lucky? --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-02-19, at 6:18 PM, Veech

Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Weeden
view them on my iPhone or laptop while traveling if I want. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Weeden
. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.netwrote: I know my Sony BD player is dog slow...gawd

Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Weeden
. And they occasionally have huge sales. Over Christmas I was able to get Warhammer DOW II for $20, Mirror's Edge for $5, STALKER for $2, Left for Dead for $7.50, and Prey for $2. That's a lot of fun for little cost right there :) --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-17 Thread Brian Weeden
I have tried it and like it, the only question I have is audio. Does it convert to FLAC (my preference) or does it do everything in AC3? This can be an issue for those BluRays that have True HD audio tracks which at the moment can't be properly decoded by PCs. --- Brian

[H] XBMC Live skin question

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Weeden
not work on my system. But the username/password I created when I installed it does work. Maybe that account doesn't have the right privileges? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683

Re: [H] SSD recommendations?

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Weeden
or Samsung NAND chips) is crap. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net wrote: The Vertex is a nice drive. We

Re: [H] SSD recommendations?

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Weeden
$400 is definitely worth it though. The trick is whether or not you can re-arrange your install so that your boot drive can be 80 or 120 GB. No need to have your hundreds of GBs /TBs of data on an SSD. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http

Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition?

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Weeden
notes, annotations, and lookup references. When that arrives, I'm there. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, DSinc dx7

Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition?

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Weeden
a far smoother end user experience than anything else the general public uses to provide multimedia content on a device. Until something come along that is easier to use for your average person, the public is going to be just happy living in Apple's world. --- Brian Weeden

Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition?

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Weeden
Jailbreak FTW. Makes my iPhone twice as useful as before. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net wrote

Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition?

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Weeden
at it. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.netwrote: Isn't it just a bigger iPhone Touch? On 1/27/2010 6:58 PM, Brian

Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition?

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Weeden
Free data on the Kindle is only true in the US, not internationally. And even the US deal is not likely to last forever. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed

Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition?

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Weeden
I don't notice lack of flash support in the 2+ years I've used my iPhone. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:59 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com

[H] SSD recommendations?

2010-01-26 Thread Brian Weeden
version of the same drive. My only hesitation is that AFAIK I only have one internal drive bay so I would need to keep my entire Win 7 install to below 60 GB. That's fine as long as I give up carrying my music collection with me. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure

Re: [H] 3D gaming or tv?

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Weeden
will be able to play 3D Blu Rays: http://gizmodo.com/5442019/sonys-bravia-led-lcd-hdtv-lineup-xbr+lx900-and-xbr+hx900-go-3d-and-wi+fi-abounds A roundup of a lot of the 3D technology shown at CES is here: http://hdguru3d.com/ --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World

[H] Using USB cable extenders with microphones?

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Weeden
. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] SSD question

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Weeden
It makes perfect sense. SSD drives are flash drives in the sense that they have a limited number of writes per cell (but virtually unlimited reads). Which is why with an SSD drive you don't want to do operations like defragging, swap files, and run tools like Spin Rite. But most of

Re: [H] SSD question

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Weeden
Duncan - I've been moving my Windows swap file for years now. And under both Windows Vista and Win 7 you can run without a swap file (XP required one). --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada

[H] Can't turn off laptop cell modem

2010-01-07 Thread Brian Weeden
on the side, but that turns off all the wireless radios (WiFi, Bluetooth, and WWAN. Thoughts on how to turn the WWAN off? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Windows 7 Firewall

2010-01-05 Thread Brian Weeden
I use MSE and really like it. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-01-05, at 11:04 AM, Tim Lider timli...@adv-data.com wrote: Wow! At least get Microsoft Security Essentials. Its free and works pretty well in tests I do at work. Regards, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist

Re: [H] Windows 7 Firewall

2010-01-05 Thread Brian Weeden
MSE has two big features that are important to me: free and lightweight/unobtrusive. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-01-05, at 11:37 AM, JRS stei...@pacbell.net wrote: I've had good luck with MSE as well, and it did well in tests I saw against Norton and McAfee, catching

Re: [H] Win7 Super Long Backups?

2010-01-03 Thread Brian Weeden
a large portion of that 350GB is constantly changing, future backups should be fine. It also might make a difference if you have a lot of small files in the backup. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466

Re: [H] Win7 Super Long Backups?

2010-01-03 Thread Brian Weeden
Anthony - Any way to pare down the data you actually need to backup? I mean, are there a bunch of data files (mp3 and so forth ) that you can just copy to a backup HD or LAN location? I always keep my install and data partitions separate so I can have them backed up in each's most

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!/Aspire Revo

2010-01-03 Thread Brian Weeden
But you shouldn't have to deal with that - you install XBMC Live, which boots linux and into XBMC directly. Then you can just use the remote. The only issue with Linux is if something goes wrong. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http

Re: [H] Electricity scam?

2009-12-25 Thread Brian Weeden
Wow. That's quite the scam. Guess it just shows most Americans are just as ignorant about how elecricity works now as they were a hundred years ago. Yay for education. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2009-12-25, at 6:01 AM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote: This

Re: [H] OT: Old Games..................

2009-12-25 Thread Brian Weeden
Just recently replayed Wolfenstein on the iPhone and it was awesome. Also recently tried Golden Eye, a N64 classic party game from the college days, and it didn't hold up as well. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2009-12-25, at 6:00 AM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote:

[H] A/V connection question

2009-12-25 Thread Brian Weeden
. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] A/V connection question

2009-12-25 Thread Brian Weeden
Never mind, I just figured it out. It's because that snake oil cable lacks the circuitry to do the digital-to-analog conversion. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Electricity scam?

2009-12-25 Thread Brian Weeden
: Any company selling them is part of the lie. Okay getting off my soapbox - thank you for your time http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?s=5c199bd383ae45fc7568930297c4074at=91211page=2 --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http

Re: [H] FW: Steam Holiday Sale: Say goodbye to your wallet (PC gaming)

2009-12-25 Thread Brian Weeden
Yep, some great stuff I just bought myself. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2009-12-25, at 4:54 PM, Bino Gopal binogo...@hotmail.com wrote: Btw, since there was an old games thread on the list, I thought I'd send this along. There are insane daily deals, but the overall discounts

Re: [H] SSD Time.............

2009-12-20 Thread Brian Weeden
They will be - IF you can wait. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2009-12-20, at 5:07 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: I'm getting one to replace the hd in my dell Lattitude LT...and also for the boot drive in my desktop. On the laptop, I send a lot of time

[H] Potentially dumb networking question

2009-12-20 Thread Brian Weeden
-port Gigabit ethernet swtich, put the router on the uplink port, and presto, I'm all good, right? Or am I missing something stupid? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Potentially dumb networking question

2009-12-20 Thread Brian Weeden
Putting everything on the switch and running a cable to the router is exactly what I meant to say. These things happen when you mix toddler + pregnant wife + prepping for inlaws visting for Christmas. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http

Re: [H] SSD Time.............

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Weeden
Yep and not usually (if they do they usually come with). --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Winterlight winterli

Re: [H] SSD Time.............

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Weeden
. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.orgwrote: At 06:38 PM 12/18/2009, you wrote: Yep and not usually (if they do

[H] Videoteleconference hardware

2009-12-16 Thread Brian Weeden
The foundation I work for often does small workshops and meetings involving people from around the world. I'm looking into buying a webcam and mic that we can use to have a few people vtc in instead. The setup needs to be portable so we an take it with us to different locations. I'm

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