Re: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
Didn't France just start some effort to ban Diesels? -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:44 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA At first glance didn't see any reference to Mercedes.. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/automobiles/as-the-world-embraces- diesels-americans-still-play-hard-to-get.html?ref=energy-environment_r=0 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Greenest and Meanest for 2015 Model year from Greencars.org
Isn't that the reason you have MB wagons? So you can toss the groceries in the back. RB On 06/02/2015 10:43 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: Agree - they are quite impractical, but I am tempted to get one as a single occupant commuter car. Could toss the groceries in the back. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Lame that the two meanest were both work trucks. You can't haul much with a Smart... -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 11:01 AM Subject: [MBZ] Greenest and Meanest for 2015 Model year from Greencars.org Mercedes tops the list for the Smart electric but has two on the meanest list as well. GreenestModel Year 2015 Make and model Specifications Emission standard a MPG city MPG hwy Green Score Mercedez-Benz Smart Fortwo Elec. Drive Convertible / Coupe 1, b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.61 2.77 61 Chevrolet Spark EV b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.81 3.24 59 Fiat 500E b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.63 3.21 59 Toyota Prius C 1.5L 4, auto CVT SULEV II / Bin 3 53 46 57 Nissan Leaf b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.75 3.01 57 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid 2, c Electric (Li-ion bat.) / 1.8L 4, auto CVT PZEV / Bin 3 3.90 / 51 3.04 / 49 54 Lexus CT 200H 1.8L 4, auto CVT SULEV II / Bin 3 51 48 54 Honda Civic Hybrid 1.5L 4, auto CVT Bin 3 44 47 54 Honda Civic Natural Gas 1.8L 4, auto [CNG] PZEV / Bin 2 27 38 54 Mitsubishi Mirage 1.2L 3, auto CVT Bin 5 / LEV II 37 44 54 Ford Focus Electric b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.27 2.94 53 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid 1.4L 4, auto [P] PZEV / Bin 3 42 48 53 [CNG] denotes compressed natural gas [P] Denotes Premium Gasoline. Auto CVT denotes continuously variable automatic transmission. a A listing with two emission standards (e.g., Tier 2 Bin 2/ PZEV) denotes a single vehicle carrying both a federal and a California emission certification. Green Scores for such listings reflect the cleaner of the two certifications. b Fuel economy for electric vehicles is provided in miles per kilowatt-hour. c Fuel economy for plug-in hybrids is provided in miles per gallon for gasoline operation and in miles per kilowatt-hour for electric operation 1. The gasoline-powered version of this vehicle scores a 53 2. The non-plug in Prius also earns a Green Score of 54 - See more at: http://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/greenest#sthash.hc0PhKlF.dpuf Meanest Model Year 2015 Make and model Specifications Emission standard a MPG city MPG hwy Green Score Ram 2500 (CLASS 2B) 1, 2 5.7L 8, auto 4wd LEV II 12 17 17 Chevrolet G2500 Express / GMC Savana (CARGO CONVERSION) (MDPV) 3, 4, 5 6.0L 8, auto Bin 8 / ULEV II 10 15 18 Bugatti Veyron 8.0L 16, auto Awd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 8 15 19 Bentley Mulsanne 6.8L 8, auto stk [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 18 21 Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG 5.5L 8, auto 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 14 21 Mercedes-Benz G 550 5.5L 8, auto 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 15 22 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe 6 6.7L 12, auto stk [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 19 23 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster 6.5L 12, auto Awd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 10 16 23 Toyota Sequoia FFV 7 5.7L 8, auto stk 4wd Bin 5 13 17 23 Lexus LX 570 5.7L 8, auto stk 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 17 23 Ferrari FF 6.3L 12, auto 4wd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 16 23 Nissan Armada 5.6L 8, auto 4wd Bin 5 / LEV II 12 18 23 auto stk denotes manually adjustable automatic transmission a. A listing with two emission standards (e.g., Tier 2 Bin 2/ PZEV) denotes a single vehicle carrying both a federal and a California emission certification. Green Scores for such listings reflect the cleaner of the two certifications. 1. The 2wd version of this vehicle earns a Green Score of 18 2. The ULEV version of this vehicle earns a Green Score of 21 3. The Tier 2-only versions of these vehicles (bin 8 ) also earn a Green Score of 18 4. The passenger versions of these vehicles earn a Green Score of 19 5. The 3500 version of these vehicles earn a Green Score of 19 6. The Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB also earns a Green Score of 23 7. The non-FFV version of this vehicle also earns a Green Score of 23 - See more at: http://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/meanest#sthash.vKgvzAUe.dpuf ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
Re: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
T Boone Pickens wants USA to invest $$billions converting heavy duty trucks and diesel trucks to LNG. Would help emissions and wipe out the trade deficit. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Seems like they might want to re-think diesel trucks, buses, construction equipment etc. Those engines tend to be bigger and dirtier than most cars. I think a lot of the newer big diesel trucks are better than they used to be but there still seems to be a fair amount of black smoke coming out of trucks, buses, trains etc. RB On 06/02/2015 1:47 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: Here it is: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/12/01/france- planning-to-eliminate-diesel-powered-cars/ I also read London plans to follow suit. In the US, taxes are much higher on Diesel (reverse of Europe), which explains much. -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Scott Ritchey via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 2:38 PM To: 'Andrew Strasfogel'; 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA Didn't France just start some effort to ban Diesels? -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:44 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA At first glance didn't see any reference to Mercedes.. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/automobiles/as-the-world- embraces- diesels-americans-still-play-hard-to-get.html?ref=energy-environment_ r=0 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] LNG Was: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
Andy sez: T Boone Pickens wants USA to invest $$billions converting heavy duty trucks and diesel trucks to LNG. Would help emissions and wipe out the trade deficit. If T Boone wants it done, he can use his own money to convince some big fleets to convert. I don't care to have money taken at gunpoint (taxes) to set up a system for T Boone, or anyone else to make more money. T Boone (not so Slim) Pickins I like the real Slim Pickens ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
Here it is: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/12/01/france-planning-to-eliminate-diese l-powered-cars/ I also read London plans to follow suit. In the US, taxes are much higher on Diesel (reverse of Europe), which explains much. -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Scott Ritchey via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 2:38 PM To: 'Andrew Strasfogel'; 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA Didn't France just start some effort to ban Diesels? -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:44 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA At first glance didn't see any reference to Mercedes.. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/automobiles/as-the-world- embraces- diesels-americans-still-play-hard-to-get.html?ref=energy-environment_ r=0 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
It is really no different if you buy a dell, etc. The restore discs are specific to that hardware. What Curt said. There is no downgrade path. Point of reference for the Mac folks out there: I bought a Late 2008 MacBook from someone this week. They wanted to wipe it before they sent it to me, so they tossed an OS X 10.6.4 CD in it it (it was running OS X 10.6.6), booted from the CD and ran the installer. Every time they tried this, the installer would fail, saying that Cannot install OS X on this system. I had them erase and partition the drive, etc., all to no avail. So Wednesday night, after a good hour of email exchanges with the guy, who wanted to pull the plug and call off the sale, I asked him if the CD he was using was the original restore disk for the MacBook. No, it's from the iMac I'm emailing you from. head slap Restore disks for Apple products are hardware specific, that is, you typically can't use a restore disk from a laptop to restore a desktop and vice-versa. The image is unique and has drivers for the type of hardware only. The only media you can use cross hardware are retail installers. I told him to pack up the machine and send it and I would install a new OS. Oy. Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
At least until they can figure out a way to tax them more --R On 2/6/15 2:37 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: Didn't France just start some effort to ban Diesels? -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:44 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA At first glance didn't see any reference to Mercedes.. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/automobiles/as-the-world-embraces- diesels-americans-still-play-hard-to-get.html?ref=energy-environment_r=0 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED
I use Acronis Trueimage, and have used it several times. It's pretty user friendly and can shrink or expand volumes to suit a new drive. It also can do automated backups, but I don't use that feature. I think you can get a free trial perion, although I bought it on sale for about $10 IIRC. Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dan Penoff via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 6:36 AM To: Mercedes List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED Randy, There are any number of programs out there for free that will allow you to clone a hard drive. CloneZilla is good as are others. Most of these have walk throughs that show how it's done. I haven't cloned a personal (PC) drive in some time, so I can't offer specifics as far as software recommendations. I clone Mac drives regularly using Carbon Copy, a Mac program for cloning that's been around for years. I also use Disk Utility to make compressed image files for archive and backup purposes as well. Disk Utility is a native program that's been a part of the Mac OS for years, and it's probably one of the best things they ever put together in that regard. The PC work I've done has been enterprise level stuff, so the tools I used aren't typically available to the general public, or they're rather expensive for the average person. There have got to be some list members out there with PCs that are cloning drives. ?? Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote: So, can you tell me in simple terms how to do this? I have a portable hard drive and would like to do essentially a clone of the hard drive on my computer. I understand there is a way to do it by booting from a flash drive so that the whole of C can be accessed to copy it. I assume I could use something like ghost or clonezilla to make the copy. The question is - exactly what do I need on the flash drive to make it bootable and let me make the copy? It is Windows 7 Home Premium. My IT guy says it is simple and he will do it for me but he is busy and despite a number of reminders, has yet to do so. He is good however, in the sense that when I had a hard drive going bad, he came and got my computer and copied and replaced it all within about 2 or 3 hours. Part of the business is a backup service that copies changes to files in the night and stores it off site. However, that would not recover the whole C drive if it was needed. Thus, I would like to have something that could put this back where it was pretty quickly if a problem arose. I understand it would need to be redone pretty regularely in order to be of much use. Part of the problem is that over time we tinker with programs etc and then if we do a clean install, things don't look or work like they did before. I am pretty happy with the machine right now and would like to be able to preserve that look and feel. RB On 04/02/2015 5:28 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Of all the times I've tried, I never got Windows to roll back using the native recovery utility. I'm not bashing, just relating my experience. I am a great believer in clean installs. Keep a clean image and good, regular backups, and when something like this occurs you just nuke and start fresh. It makes life so much easier. Dan On Feb 4, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: A bit late since you have fixed it, but is there not a means of telling Windows to go back to an earlier date in order to avoid issues like this that crop up? RB ___ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
Seems like they might want to re-think diesel trucks, buses, construction equipment etc. Those engines tend to be bigger and dirtier than most cars. I think a lot of the newer big diesel trucks are better than they used to be but there still seems to be a fair amount of black smoke coming out of trucks, buses, trains etc. RB On 06/02/2015 1:47 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: Here it is: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/12/01/france-planning-to-eliminate-diesel-powered-cars/ I also read London plans to follow suit. In the US, taxes are much higher on Diesel (reverse of Europe), which explains much. -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Scott Ritchey via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 2:38 PM To: 'Andrew Strasfogel'; 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA Didn't France just start some effort to ban Diesels? -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 10:44 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA At first glance didn't see any reference to Mercedes.. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/automobiles/as-the-world- embraces- diesels-americans-still-play-hard-to-get.html?ref=energy-environment_ r=0 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
I have been prompted many times for updates so I probably have done this already... On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: It is really no different if you buy a dell, etc. The restore discs are specific to that hardware. What Curt said. There is no downgrade path. Point of reference for the Mac folks out there: I bought a Late 2008 MacBook from someone this week. They wanted to wipe it before they sent it to me, so they tossed an OS X 10.6.4 CD in it it (it was running OS X 10.6.6), booted from the CD and ran the installer. Every time they tried this, the installer would fail, saying that Cannot install OS X on this system. I had them erase and partition the drive, etc., all to no avail. So Wednesday night, after a good hour of email exchanges with the guy, who wanted to pull the plug and call off the sale, I asked him if the CD he was using was the original restore disk for the MacBook. No, it's from the iMac I'm emailing you from. head slap Restore disks for Apple products are hardware specific, that is, you typically can't use a restore disk from a laptop to restore a desktop and vice-versa. The image is unique and has drivers for the type of hardware only. The only media you can use cross hardware are retail installers. I told him to pack up the machine and send it and I would install a new OS. Oy. Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case
Having lived in Mid East for quite some time.. I happen to have a good command of Arabic curses I suggest you may find Neek Hallack useful.. it involves a physically impossible sex act with yourself.. if you get the meaning... The standard progression of a word fight is to always insult your women first.. then you.. then knives and blood.. Lovely culture.. once you get used to the open sewers, disease and violence. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: So every coupla days I am working and along about 4-430 I get a call from Technical Services or 'Technical Department or computer services or some such and the Indian/Paki tells me my Windows computer has a virus and I need to type in some IP address to get it working. Of course this is complete BS but no matter how nasty I am to them they keep calling. So the last coupla times I start in yelling wasalaam aleikum Muhammed! and asking where the bomb is, if it is in Washington DC and throw a few Obamas and allahuwa akbars in there for good measure. Usually the guy is so surprised he doesn't say much so I repeat it a few times more. The other day one started saying something in some language I could not understand, and after he tells me in English what insults he was saying about my wife. I threw in a few more bomb, Obama, Washington DC, allahuwa akbars, etc. He finally cussed me in English and rang off. So I'm thinking this ought to get NSA's attention monitoring inbound phone calls from that part of the world. I'm giving them plenty to work on. I'm hoping a coupla black Suburbans show up soon, and together we can find out who these guys are! Get some use out of them! --R (whose Windows computers got enough viruses to die) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case
I had a couple at work this week with the bill collector scam where they say there's legal action being taken against you and give you the case number so you can call them and settle up. I called one back today and told them I was from the County's Security Department and I wanted the caller's name, their supervisor, information about their business, etc., so I could forward the information to the legal department for possible prosecution. The guy very hurriedly said, I have removed your number from our list! and hung up. Hee. Dan On Feb 6, 2015, at 4:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I don't get those ones, I get the This is a very important call about your credit card bill which it of course isn't... At one point last year I had them all stopped for awhile I was so nice to the people calling, I'd ask for their callback number in case we got disconnected, then when they told me they didn't do that I commiserate with how people are mean to them. One lady I kept on the phone for maybe half an hour. If you waste enough of their time in the right way apparently they don't call back for awhile. Actually the best thing I've done is to get rid of the answering machine. We get way fewer of the calls now that half the time nobody picks up. -Curt From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 4:45 PM Subject: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case So every coupla days I am working and along about 4-430 I get a call from Technical Services or 'Technical Department or computer services or some such and the Indian/Paki tells me my Windows computer has a virus and I need to type in some IP address to get it working. Of course this is complete BS but no matter how nasty I am to them they keep calling. So the last coupla times I start in yelling wasalaam aleikum Muhammed! and asking where the bomb is, if it is in Washington DC and throw a few Obamas and allahuwa akbars in there for good measure. Usually the guy is so surprised he doesn't say much so I repeat it a few times more. The other day one started saying something in some language I could not understand, and after he tells me in English what insults he was saying about my wife. I threw in a few more bomb, Obama, Washington DC, allahuwa akbars, etc. He finally cussed me in English and rang off. So I'm thinking this ought to get NSA's attention monitoring inbound phone calls from that part of the world. I'm giving them plenty to work on. I'm hoping a coupla black Suburbans show up soon, and together we can find out who these guys are! Get some use out of them! --R (whose Windows computers got enough viruses to die) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
Guided install which was like a disk image but slower... -Curt From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED Not for HP. They shipped a disk with the basic Windoze OS on it and a second one with the froo-froo garbage they wanted you to load. They might have done it at one time, or now, but 4-6 years ago they were pretty generic. I know because I'm a former HP certified tech, and I've got stacks of the things Dan On Feb 6, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: It is really no different if you buy a dell, etc. The restore discs are specific to that hardware. What Curt said. There is no downgrade path. Point of reference for the Mac folks out there: I bought a Late 2008 MacBook from someone this week. They wanted to wipe it before they sent it to me, so they tossed an OS X 10.6.4 CD in it it (it was running OS X 10.6.6), booted from the CD and ran the installer. Every time they tried this, the installer would fail, saying that Cannot install OS X on this system. I had them erase and partition the drive, etc., all to no avail. So Wednesday night, after a good hour of email exchanges with the guy, who wanted to pull the plug and call off the sale, I asked him if the CD he was using was the original restore disk for the MacBook. No, it's from the iMac I'm emailing you from. head slap Restore disks for Apple products are hardware specific, that is, you typically can't use a restore disk from a laptop to restore a desktop and vice-versa. The image is unique and has drivers for the type of hardware only. The only media you can use cross hardware are retail installers. I told him to pack up the machine and send it and I would install a new OS. Oy. Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case
NSA will, inshallah! --R On 2/6/15 5:43 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: The better way, however, would be to put these people out of business and in jail where they belong. Can you help me do that? Thanks, Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case
So every coupla days I am working and along about 4-430 I get a call from Technical Services or 'Technical Department or computer services or some such and the Indian/Paki tells me my Windows computer has a virus and I need to type in some IP address to get it working. Of course this is complete BS but no matter how nasty I am to them they keep calling. So the last coupla times I start in yelling wasalaam aleikum Muhammed! and asking where the bomb is, if it is in Washington DC and throw a few Obamas and allahuwa akbars in there for good measure. Usually the guy is so surprised he doesn't say much so I repeat it a few times more. The other day one started saying something in some language I could not understand, and after he tells me in English what insults he was saying about my wife. I threw in a few more bomb, Obama, Washington DC, allahuwa akbars, etc. He finally cussed me in English and rang off. So I'm thinking this ought to get NSA's attention monitoring inbound phone calls from that part of the world. I'm giving them plenty to work on. I'm hoping a coupla black Suburbans show up soon, and together we can find out who these guys are! Get some use out of them! --R (whose Windows computers got enough viruses to die) More likely they would label you and toss you in the clink. You represent a target that is much lower risk to themselves, than any real tea roar rist. Same as the po lice only want to hand out speeding tickets to productive citizens. Much lower risk to them than chasing bad guys. Net result is the buy guys walk free. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case
In my state, anyone making collections has to have a special license to do so, so the first question that gets ask is What is your license number for your company registered with the state? That cuts right to the bone quickly.. most are not... but most people don't even know the requirement for license. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I had a couple at work this week with the bill collector scam where they say there's legal action being taken against you and give you the case number so you can call them and settle up. I called one back today and told them I was from the County's Security Department and I wanted the caller's name, their supervisor, information about their business, etc., so I could forward the information to the legal department for possible prosecution. The guy very hurriedly said, I have removed your number from our list! and hung up. Hee. Dan On Feb 6, 2015, at 4:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I don't get those ones, I get the This is a very important call about your credit card bill which it of course isn't... At one point last year I had them all stopped for awhile I was so nice to the people calling, I'd ask for their callback number in case we got disconnected, then when they told me they didn't do that I commiserate with how people are mean to them. One lady I kept on the phone for maybe half an hour. If you waste enough of their time in the right way apparently they don't call back for awhile. Actually the best thing I've done is to get rid of the answering machine. We get way fewer of the calls now that half the time nobody picks up. -Curt From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 4:45 PM Subject: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case So every coupla days I am working and along about 4-430 I get a call from Technical Services or 'Technical Department or computer services or some such and the Indian/Paki tells me my Windows computer has a virus and I need to type in some IP address to get it working. Of course this is complete BS but no matter how nasty I am to them they keep calling. So the last coupla times I start in yelling wasalaam aleikum Muhammed! and asking where the bomb is, if it is in Washington DC and throw a few Obamas and allahuwa akbars in there for good measure. Usually the guy is so surprised he doesn't say much so I repeat it a few times more. The other day one started saying something in some language I could not understand, and after he tells me in English what insults he was saying about my wife. I threw in a few more bomb, Obama, Washington DC, allahuwa akbars, etc. He finally cussed me in English and rang off. So I'm thinking this ought to get NSA's attention monitoring inbound phone calls from that part of the world. I'm giving them plenty to work on. I'm hoping a coupla black Suburbans show up soon, and together we can find out who these guys are! Get some use out of them! --R (whose Windows computers got enough viruses to die) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list
Re: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:45:13 -0500 Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: So every coupla days I am working and along about 4-430 I get a call from Technical Services or 'Technical Department or computer services or some such and the Indian/Paki tells me my Windows computer has a virus and I need to type in some IP address to get it working. I have occupied them a few times by playing dumb. Because I sing tenor, they think I am a woman. Last time their next-level-up person asked me what operating system I was using. I know I use Linux, but I asked him, How do I find that? He started having me do something, but since I had been sitting there awhile, I told him I needed to go to the bathroom (which was true!). He said he would wait. I came quietly back and pressed the mute button on my phone and went back to the computer work I had been doing. After awhile of waiting, he gave up. **BUT**, they had previously had me go to a special website of theirs to log in (which NoScript prevents me doing) and then, when that failed, download indirectly through their website from legitimate companies which make desktop sharing software. I dutifully download the executable files, but for some strange reason, I always get the message, Cannot execute binary file. :-) After the conversation was over, I looked up their website with whois and then contacted their website or DNS provider. The first time their DNS was provided by GoDaddy. I fired off an email to their abuse address. The second time their website was hosted by jimdo.com a website operator in Germany which provided ewss.jimdo.com. At their page http://support.jimdo.com/contact/inappropriate-content/ , I sent them this following message: Message: I have been repeatedly contacted by people who say they are from the Computer Technical Support Department who say my computer has told them it has problems. They want me to run applications on my computer to give them access to it. They have me go to the website at ewss.jimdo.com and tried various things to get a desktop-sharing program to run. (That page lists the following contact information: PHONE: (815) 123 4567 ADDRESS: 123 A Street, Miami, FL 38297 ) They have three levels of personnel with Chinese accents and I am passed up the chain when the previous level cannot get the desktop-sharing program to run (which it won't because I run Linux). I succeeded in wasting an hour of their time (and, unfortunately, an hour of my time as well), keeping them from harming someone who isn't as knowledgable about computers. The better way, however, would be to put these people out of business and in jail where they belong. Can you help me do that? Thanks, Craig I got the reply, Hello Craig, The website that you reported has been blocked. Thank you for reporting it. I have also reported them to the Internet Crime Center at http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx So I'm thinking this ought to get NSA's attention monitoring inbound phone calls from that part of the world. I'm giving them plenty to work on. I'm hoping a coupla black Suburbans show up soon, and together we can find out who these guys are! Get some use out of them! Yes, indeed. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case
I don't get those ones, I get the This is a very important call about your credit card bill which it of course isn't... At one point last year I had them all stopped for awhile I was so nice to the people calling, I'd ask for their callback number in case we got disconnected, then when they told me they didn't do that I commiserate with how people are mean to them. One lady I kept on the phone for maybe half an hour. If you waste enough of their time in the right way apparently they don't call back for awhile. Actually the best thing I've done is to get rid of the answering machine. We get way fewer of the calls now that half the time nobody picks up. -Curt From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 4:45 PM Subject: [MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case So every coupla days I am working and along about 4-430 I get a call from Technical Services or 'Technical Department or computer services or some such and the Indian/Paki tells me my Windows computer has a virus and I need to type in some IP address to get it working. Of course this is complete BS but no matter how nasty I am to them they keep calling. So the last coupla times I start in yelling wasalaam aleikum Muhammed! and asking where the bomb is, if it is in Washington DC and throw a few Obamas and allahuwa akbars in there for good measure. Usually the guy is so surprised he doesn't say much so I repeat it a few times more. The other day one started saying something in some language I could not understand, and after he tells me in English what insults he was saying about my wife. I threw in a few more bomb, Obama, Washington DC, allahuwa akbars, etc. He finally cussed me in English and rang off. So I'm thinking this ought to get NSA's attention monitoring inbound phone calls from that part of the world. I'm giving them plenty to work on. I'm hoping a coupla black Suburbans show up soon, and together we can find out who these guys are! Get some use out of them! --R (whose Windows computers got enough viruses to die) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
True story. Junior Johnson was a moonshine runner and early champion stock car racer. He was sitting in a bar talking to one of the revenuers who had tried to catch him without success. The revenuer suggested that he go to one of race tracks in NC and sign up as a driver. He did, and was so successful, he gave up running moonshine. Not sure if he was a Baptist: Johnson was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, the fourth of seven children of Lora Belle Money and Robert Glenn Johnson, Sr. His father, a lifelong bootlegger, spent nearly twenty of his sixty-three years in prison, as their house was frequently raided by revenue agents. Junior spent one year in prison in Ohio for having an illegal still, although he was never caught in his many years of transporting bootleg liquor at high speed.[1] In 1955, Johnson began his career as a NASCAR driver. In his first full season, he won five races and finished sixth in the 1955 NASCAR Grand National points standings.snip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Johnson#Presidential_pardon Gerry Rich Thomas wrote: All them ol boys were the ones who had already started drankin and runnin shine --R On 2/5/15 12:02 PM, Randy Bennell wrote: No, I think Baptists love stock car racing. The south is full of Baptists and that is where stock car racing came from. RB On 05/02/2015 8:17 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote: Stock car racing could lead to dancing, perhaps even drinking and s-x, so it is verboten. --R On 2/4/15 9:46 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: Had no idea there was a stock car race track. I guess baptists don't do stock cars? ___ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4281/9062 - Release Date: 02/05/15 -- arche...@embarqmail.com arche...@embarqmail.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
Not for HP. They shipped a disk with the basic Windoze OS on it and a second one with the froo-froo garbage they wanted you to load. They might have done it at one time, or now, but 4-6 years ago they were pretty generic. I know because I'm a former HP certified tech, and I've got stacks of the things Dan On Feb 6, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: It is really no different if you buy a dell, etc. The restore discs are specific to that hardware. What Curt said. There is no downgrade path. Point of reference for the Mac folks out there: I bought a Late 2008 MacBook from someone this week. They wanted to wipe it before they sent it to me, so they tossed an OS X 10.6.4 CD in it it (it was running OS X 10.6.6), booted from the CD and ran the installer. Every time they tried this, the installer would fail, saying that Cannot install OS X on this system. I had them erase and partition the drive, etc., all to no avail. So Wednesday night, after a good hour of email exchanges with the guy, who wanted to pull the plug and call off the sale, I asked him if the CD he was using was the original restore disk for the MacBook. No, it's from the iMac I'm emailing you from. head slap Restore disks for Apple products are hardware specific, that is, you typically can't use a restore disk from a laptop to restore a desktop and vice-versa. The image is unique and has drivers for the type of hardware only. The only media you can use cross hardware are retail installers. I told him to pack up the machine and send it and I would install a new OS. Oy. Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
Jewish for sure! --R On 2/6/15 5:45 PM, arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: He did, and was so successful, he gave up running moonshine. Not sure if he was a Baptist: Johnson was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Greenest and Meanest for 2015 Model year from Greencars.org
Andrew wrote: Agree - they are quite impractical, but I am tempted to get one as a single occupant commuter car. I have always wanted Smart. I guess I gotta wait another decade and then they might be affordable. Scratch that - I wanna make sure I am dirt long before then. I like you guys too much to hang around another decade. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Cloning Windows Drives [was: Re: Korean malware FIXED]
Dan Penoff wrote: There have got to be some list members out there with PCs that are cloning drives. I cloned drives for Windows machines at the Lab by using my Linux Personal Computer and the dd command, once from the source disk to free space on a disk in the Linux PC, and then from the image on the PC's disk to the target disk. It worked great; no muss, no fuss. I used the xcopy command: xcopy c:\*.*d:\ /c/h/e/k/r (on run) to clone disks on the old (86?) based MS OS's. Haven't tried it on the later versions. Gerry ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] On way back
Making some progress on way back with neu computenmachine. 'Like the progress;'Don't like das computenmachine. Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] Very OT: One that got away
Watch how the tables are turned in this ice fishing clip. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2942312/The-one-got-away-Ice-fisherman-left-humiliated-outsmarted-catch-wriggles-water-taking-rod-attached-it.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] W123 multi-purpose stalk
Has anyone on the list tried/succeeded to rebuild their W123 multi-purpose stalk (turn signal, headlight flasher, windshield wiper/washer, and cruise control stalk)? I've obtained a replacement and will hopefully install it tomorrow . . . cross your fingers that the replacement works. TIA. G. M. Brown Brevard, NC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] LNG Was: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
TBP has all kinds of schemes that generally involve getting money, somehow, from the gummint to support them and make him money. He had some big thing with wind machines a coupla years ago if I recall. I have met his boy, Tom I think, a coupla times, who appears to have fallen far from the tree, and hit every branch on the way down. --R On 2/6/15 4:12 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: Andy sez: T Boone Pickens wants USA to invest $$billions converting heavy duty trucks and diesel trucks to LNG. Would help emissions and wipe out the trade deficit. If T Boone wants it done, he can use his own money to convince some big fleets to convert. I don't care to have money taken at gunpoint (taxes) to set up a system for T Boone, or anyone else to make more money. T Boone (not so Slim) Pickins I like the real Slim Pickens ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] OT Getting NSA on the case
So every coupla days I am working and along about 4-430 I get a call from Technical Services or 'Technical Department or computer services or some such and the Indian/Paki tells me my Windows computer has a virus and I need to type in some IP address to get it working. Of course this is complete BS but no matter how nasty I am to them they keep calling. So the last coupla times I start in yelling wasalaam aleikum Muhammed! and asking where the bomb is, if it is in Washington DC and throw a few Obamas and allahuwa akbars in there for good measure. Usually the guy is so surprised he doesn't say much so I repeat it a few times more. The other day one started saying something in some language I could not understand, and after he tells me in English what insults he was saying about my wife. I threw in a few more bomb, Obama, Washington DC, allahuwa akbars, etc. He finally cussed me in English and rang off. So I'm thinking this ought to get NSA's attention monitoring inbound phone calls from that part of the world. I'm giving them plenty to work on. I'm hoping a coupla black Suburbans show up soon, and together we can find out who these guys are! Get some use out of them! --R (whose Windows computers got enough viruses to die) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] LNG Was: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:26:56 -0500 Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: TBP has all kinds of schemes that generally involve getting money, somehow, from the gummint to support them and make him money. He had some big thing with wind machines a coupla years ago if I recall. I have met his boy, Tom I think, a coupla times, who appears to have fallen far from the tree, and hit every branch on the way down. Fallen far or fallen not far? Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] LNG Was: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
TBP has all kinds of schemes that generally involve getting money, somehow, from the gummint to support them and make him money. He had some big thing with wind machines a coupla years ago if I recall. I have met his boy, Tom I think, a coupla times, who appears to have fallen far from the tree, and hit every branch on the way down. --R Funny how the rich guys seem to be able to get the gummit goobers to rob the populace for them. (at gunpoint) Big topic here and now is if texas oil bazillionaires can use eminent domain to run a pipleline for their enrichment. Same for some other rich folk to run a DC powerline to the East, with no usage in state. It has been likened to allowing eminent domain to be used to build a private toll road parallel to I-80 with no on ramps or off ramps in the state. Put that way, it seems obviously wrong. As a pipeline or powerline, it does not seem so wrong, unless it is your land they want to tear up. They have found some loophole that will allow them to become a public utility with no customers, but then they can use eminent domain for personal enrichment. From personal experience, 2 overland highlines and one LP pipeline ran over our land when I was young. In each case, the company lied about what they would do and what they would not do. The contractors ran through muddy fields and made a huge mess each time. The companies did not pay restitution like they promised. Contractors/transmission companies will run through the fields and damage crops as long as the highline or pipeline exists without compensation. In theory, we need to move crude from ND to refineries. That is in the national interest. However, the landowners should get a piece of the action, not be screwed on installation, and screwed evermore. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] OT Airplane pR0n
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-story-of-the-ultrasecret-a-12-oxcart-father-of-the-1684070908 --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED
Clonezilla works well but is not super intuitive. Make a bootable USB with unetbootin, then you've got a choice, if you've got another drive of the same size you can clone your disk to that drive. Otherwise you can make a disk image which will be much smaller.Last I played with it a Win7 disk image (just the OS, not backing up files) was around 9GB. A 64GB USB drive should cover you well for the OS and some media (documents, images and whatnot). The interface is utilitarian and since I don't do it often it always takes me a few fits and starts to get going. I've got a script for the computers at work that saves everything off to a network location. Taking a disk image to a Windows share is fairly slow but effective, its considerably faster to a USB drive. -Curt From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED Randy, There are any number of programs out there for free that will allow you to clone a hard drive. CloneZilla is good as are others. Most of these have walk throughs that show how it's done. I haven't cloned a personal (PC) drive in some time, so I can't offer specifics as far as software recommendations. I clone Mac drives regularly using Carbon Copy, a Mac program for cloning that's been around for years. I also use Disk Utility to make compressed image files for archive and backup purposes as well. Disk Utility is a native program that's been a part of the Mac OS for years, and it's probably one of the best things they ever put together in that regard. The PC work I've done has been enterprise level stuff, so the tools I used aren't typically available to the general public, or they're rather expensive for the average person. There have got to be some list members out there with PCs that are cloning drives. ?? Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote: So, can you tell me in simple terms how to do this? I have a portable hard drive and would like to do essentially a clone of the hard drive on my computer. I understand there is a way to do it by booting from a flash drive so that the whole of C can be accessed to copy it. I assume I could use something like ghost or clonezilla to make the copy. The question is - exactly what do I need on the flash drive to make it bootable and let me make the copy? It is Windows 7 Home Premium. My IT guy says it is simple and he will do it for me but he is busy and despite a number of reminders, has yet to do so. He is good however, in the sense that when I had a hard drive going bad, he came and got my computer and copied and replaced it all within about 2 or 3 hours. Part of the business is a backup service that copies changes to files in the night and stores it off site. However, that would not recover the whole C drive if it was needed. Thus, I would like to have something that could put this back where it was pretty quickly if a problem arose. I understand it would need to be redone pretty regularely in order to be of much use. Part of the problem is that over time we tinker with programs etc and then if we do a clean install, things don't look or work like they did before. I am pretty happy with the machine right now and would like to be able to preserve that look and feel. RB On 04/02/2015 5:28 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Of all the times I've tried, I never got Windows to roll back using the native recovery utility. I'm not bashing, just relating my experience. I am a great believer in clean installs. Keep a clean image and good, regular backups, and when something like this occurs you just nuke and start fresh. It makes life so much easier. Dan On Feb 4, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: A bit late since you have fixed it, but is there not a means of telling Windows to go back to an earlier date in order to avoid issues like this that crop up? RB ___ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The
Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED
Randy, There are any number of programs out there for free that will allow you to clone a hard drive. CloneZilla is good as are others. Most of these have walk throughs that show how it's done. I haven't cloned a personal (PC) drive in some time, so I can't offer specifics as far as software recommendations. I clone Mac drives regularly using Carbon Copy, a Mac program for cloning that's been around for years. I also use Disk Utility to make compressed image files for archive and backup purposes as well. Disk Utility is a native program that's been a part of the Mac OS for years, and it's probably one of the best things they ever put together in that regard. The PC work I've done has been enterprise level stuff, so the tools I used aren't typically available to the general public, or they're rather expensive for the average person. There have got to be some list members out there with PCs that are cloning drives. ?? Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote: So, can you tell me in simple terms how to do this? I have a portable hard drive and would like to do essentially a clone of the hard drive on my computer. I understand there is a way to do it by booting from a flash drive so that the whole of C can be accessed to copy it. I assume I could use something like ghost or clonezilla to make the copy. The question is - exactly what do I need on the flash drive to make it bootable and let me make the copy? It is Windows 7 Home Premium. My IT guy says it is simple and he will do it for me but he is busy and despite a number of reminders, has yet to do so. He is good however, in the sense that when I had a hard drive going bad, he came and got my computer and copied and replaced it all within about 2 or 3 hours. Part of the business is a backup service that copies changes to files in the night and stores it off site. However, that would not recover the whole C drive if it was needed. Thus, I would like to have something that could put this back where it was pretty quickly if a problem arose. I understand it would need to be redone pretty regularely in order to be of much use. Part of the problem is that over time we tinker with programs etc and then if we do a clean install, things don't look or work like they did before. I am pretty happy with the machine right now and would like to be able to preserve that look and feel. RB On 04/02/2015 5:28 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Of all the times I've tried, I never got Windows to roll back using the native recovery utility. I'm not bashing, just relating my experience. I am a great believer in clean installs. Keep a clean image and good, regular backups, and when something like this occurs you just nuke and start fresh. It makes life so much easier. Dan On Feb 4, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: A bit late since you have fixed it, but is there not a means of telling Windows to go back to an earlier date in order to avoid issues like this that crop up? RB ___ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] Greenest and Meanest for 2015 Model year from Greencars.org
Mercedes tops the list for the Smart electric but has two on the meanest list as well. GreenestModel Year 2015 Make and model Specifications Emission standard a MPG city MPG hwy Green Score Mercedez-Benz Smart Fortwo Elec. Drive Convertible / Coupe 1, b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.61 2.77 61 Chevrolet Spark EV b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.81 3.24 59 Fiat 500E b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.63 3.21 59 Toyota Prius C 1.5L 4, auto CVT SULEV II / Bin 3 53 46 57 Nissan Leaf b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.75 3.01 57 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid 2, c Electric (Li-ion bat.) / 1.8L 4, auto CVT PZEV / Bin 3 3.90 / 51 3.04 / 49 54 Lexus CT 200H 1.8L 4, auto CVT SULEV II / Bin 3 51 48 54 Honda Civic Hybrid 1.5L 4, auto CVT Bin 3 44 47 54 Honda Civic Natural Gas 1.8L 4, auto [CNG] PZEV / Bin 2 27 38 54 Mitsubishi Mirage 1.2L 3, auto CVT Bin 5 / LEV II 37 44 54 Ford Focus Electric b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.27 2.94 53 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid 1.4L 4, auto [P] PZEV / Bin 3 42 48 53 [CNG] denotes compressed natural gas [P] Denotes Premium Gasoline. Auto CVT denotes continuously variable automatic transmission. a A listing with two emission standards (e.g., Tier 2 Bin 2/ PZEV) denotes a single vehicle carrying both a federal and a California emission certification. Green Scores for such listings reflect the cleaner of the two certifications. b Fuel economy for electric vehicles is provided in miles per kilowatt-hour. c Fuel economy for plug-in hybrids is provided in miles per gallon for gasoline operation and in miles per kilowatt-hour for electric operation 1. The gasoline-powered version of this vehicle scores a 53 2. The non-plug in Prius also earns a Green Score of 54 - See more at: http://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/greenest#sthash.hc0PhKlF.dpuf Meanest Model Year 2015 Make and model Specifications Emission standard a MPG city MPG hwy Green Score Ram 2500 (CLASS 2B) 1, 2 5.7L 8, auto 4wd LEV II 12 17 17 Chevrolet G2500 Express / GMC Savana (CARGO CONVERSION) (MDPV) 3, 4, 5 6.0L 8, auto Bin 8 / ULEV II 10 15 18 Bugatti Veyron 8.0L 16, auto Awd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 8 15 19 Bentley Mulsanne 6.8L 8, auto stk [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 18 21 Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG 5.5L 8, auto 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 14 21 Mercedes-Benz G 550 5.5L 8, auto 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 15 22 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe 6 6.7L 12, auto stk [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 19 23 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster 6.5L 12, auto Awd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 10 16 23 Toyota Sequoia FFV 7 5.7L 8, auto stk 4wd Bin 5 13 17 23 Lexus LX 570 5.7L 8, auto stk 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 17 23 Ferrari FF 6.3L 12, auto 4wd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 16 23 Nissan Armada 5.6L 8, auto 4wd Bin 5 / LEV II 12 18 23 auto stk denotes manually adjustable automatic transmission a. A listing with two emission standards (e.g., Tier 2 Bin 2/ PZEV) denotes a single vehicle carrying both a federal and a California emission certification. Green Scores for such listings reflect the cleaner of the two certifications. 1. The 2wd version of this vehicle earns a Green Score of 18 2. The ULEV version of this vehicle earns a Green Score of 21 3. The Tier 2-only versions of these vehicles (bin 8 ) also earn a Green Score of 18 4. The passenger versions of these vehicles earn a Green Score of 19 5. The 3500 version of these vehicles earn a Green Score of 19 6. The Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB also earns a Green Score of 23 7. The non-FFV version of this vehicle also earns a Green Score of 23 - See more at: http://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/meanest#sthash.vKgvzAUe.dpuf ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
Looks like they stopped supporting this printer beginning with Mavericks (OS X 10.9). You can buy a copy of VueScan to support the scanning side of it, but I think you're out of luck on the printing side from the looks of things. Look at Apple's support thread on this at: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495385 There may be a workaround in there. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: I connected it up but no go as there is no driver supported by the Mac. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: You need to look in Preferences to see that it's installed first. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I obtained a Canon Pixma MP780 color all in one machine but I can't find it on my IMac menu. Ideas? On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, Curly McLain wrote: From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED Date: February 4, 2015 2:39:07 PM PST I'm thinking of investing $70 in Eset, an antivirus program that was top rated in Consumers Reports in 2010. Either that or really biting the bullet and switching to a Linux program or Apple. Gerry -- I think the Mac is worth the money. I am tired of fighting with M$ so even though XP was pretty decent. I have been struggling all afternoon to install a HP 2840 CLJ in Mac 10.6.8, XP or ubuntu with no success. on the mac, it starts up a HP setup assistant, which can't find the printer. end of the show... no way to install it manually that I can find. the printer add thing does not find the printer. XP problems, and ubunto is requiring a bunch of command line stuff I don't understand at all. Jury is still out on ubuntu. HPLIP 3.12.2 has to be removed, and 3. 15.2 installed. Who know what happens after that... just found out. got to where I can launch a gui interface. Now it can't find the printer. Same as on the Mac. Stupid HP. Overpriced, and crappy and make you buy a new printer because they won't update the drivers. --- Curly, I just installed an HP printer on my Mac (after the ink nozzle failed on my previous one). Have you tried going to System Preferences/ Hardware/Print Scan? On my Mac, that window has a +/- thing on the left side of the window that allows adding or removing a printer. When I did + it gave me a new screen to add in the new printer. Hope you have good luck. It can be frustratingŠ Regards, Addison Yes, that was the first thing i tried. no printer showed up. Finally unplugged the USB cable at the printer and plugged it in again, and the printer showed up. (Both mac and ubuntu machines.) Now it only prints blank pages. 'Nother problem. It wasted the first half day cleaning itself and trashing cartridges. Before that, I had to take out the memory and plug it back in to get rid of the 79 error after several unsuccessful restarts. Wasted most of the day and still have no working color printer. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual
Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 09:35:47 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: There have got to be some list members out there with PCs that are cloning drives. I cloned drives for Windows machines at the Lab by using my Linux Personal Computer and the dd command, once from the source disk to free space on a disk in the Linux PC, and then from the image on the PC's disk to the target disk. It worked great; no muss, no fuss. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
The best workaround for me is to install Mavericks so I can at least print from the MP780. What is Mavericks and how to I install it? How would it affect my other applications? My IMac is running OS 10.9.5 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Looks like they stopped supporting this printer beginning with Mavericks (OS X 10.9). You can buy a copy of VueScan to support the scanning side of it, but I think you're out of luck on the printing side from the looks of things. Look at Apple's support thread on this at: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495385 There may be a workaround in there. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: I connected it up but no go as there is no driver supported by the Mac. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: You need to look in Preferences to see that it's installed first. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I obtained a Canon Pixma MP780 color all in one machine but I can't find it on my IMac menu. Ideas? On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, Curly McLain wrote: From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED Date: February 4, 2015 2:39:07 PM PST I'm thinking of investing $70 in Eset, an antivirus program that was top rated in Consumers Reports in 2010. Either that or really biting the bullet and switching to a Linux program or Apple. Gerry -- I think the Mac is worth the money. I am tired of fighting with M$ so even though XP was pretty decent. I have been struggling all afternoon to install a HP 2840 CLJ in Mac 10.6.8, XP or ubuntu with no success. on the mac, it starts up a HP setup assistant, which can't find the printer. end of the show... no way to install it manually that I can find. the printer add thing does not find the printer. XP problems, and ubunto is requiring a bunch of command line stuff I don't understand at all. Jury is still out on ubuntu. HPLIP 3.12.2 has to be removed, and 3. 15.2 installed. Who know what happens after that... just found out. got to where I can launch a gui interface. Now it can't find the printer. Same as on the Mac. Stupid HP. Overpriced, and crappy and make you buy a new printer because they won't update the drivers. --- Curly, I just installed an HP printer on my Mac (after the ink nozzle failed on my previous one). Have you tried going to System Preferences/ Hardware/Print Scan? On my Mac, that window has a +/- thing on the left side of the window that allows adding or removing a printer. When I did + it gave me a new screen to add in the new printer. Hope you have good luck. It can be frustratingŠ Regards, Addison Yes, that was the first thing i tried. no printer showed up. Finally unplugged the USB cable at the printer and plugged it in again, and the printer showed up. (Both mac and ubuntu machines.) Now it only prints blank pages. 'Nother problem. It wasted the first half day cleaning itself and trashing cartridges. Before that, I had to take out the memory and plug it back in to get rid of the 79 error after several unsuccessful restarts. Wasted most of the day and still have no working color printer. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible
Re: [MBZ] Cloning Windows Drives [was: Re: Korean malware FIXED]
As I think Clonezilla is just a head-end for dd my experience is that the image just plops onto whatever size partition you have leaving the free space in that partition usable. There might be a parameter in Clonezilla for that which might also allow you to make the free space another partition but I don't recall. The space is not lost forever at any rate. -Curt From: Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 11:30 AM Subject: [MBZ] Cloning Windows Drives [was: Re: Korean malware FIXED] On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:06:11 -0700 Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 09:35:47 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: There have got to be some list members out there with PCs that are cloning drives. I cloned drives for Windows machines at the Lab by using my Linux Personal Computer and the dd command, once from the source disk to free space on a disk in the Linux PC, and then from the image on the PC's disk to the target disk. It worked great; no muss, no fuss. When one copies the image of a smaller disk onto a larger disk, is the excess space on the larger disk lost and gone forever or can it be recovered by resizing the image to fit the new disk or making a new partition on the new disk? Crai ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
Since I have an updated MacOS 109.5 how would I go back to 10.8? On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:07:37 -0500 Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The best workaround for me is to install Mavericks so I can at least print from the MP780. What is Mavericks and how to I install it? How would it affect my other applications? My IMac is running OS 10.9.5 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Looks like they stopped supporting this printer beginning with Mavericks (OS X 10.9). You didn't understand what Dan said. Dan said they STOPPED supporting your printer with Mavericks (which he defined as 10.9). You need MacOS 10.8.x. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] NOT CHEAP 300TD WAS RE: 300td pretty cheap
Someone should ask the seller to explain these anomalies. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:38 AM, MG via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Don't know about the euro part but it does have a turbo, you can see the intake bow. It does have SLS as you can see the pump on the front of the engine and you can also see the hoses going to and from the pump just behind the radiator on the left side. Also just a little bit of the SLS reservoir is visible at the extreme left of the picture. There is however no AC or electric fan on the front of the engine and a strange looking vacuum driven cruise control activator. Never seen one like it on an 83 300TD. I have 3 of them and have looked a about 5 more. Also never seen one on an 83 300D. Manfred Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:42:17 -0600 From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Probably EUro or RTW version. Probably made without SLS, probably NON-turbo, as Euros were NA. I think turbos were mostly NorteAmerika and Japan markets. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Law Enforcement I can embrace
'Was in Copenhagen couple weeks in Dec 78; missed the speed regulators, but it WAS cold and rainy Dec. Wilton Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 12:39 AM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: -Original Message- Makes one wonder how this goes down with the local Islamic population. From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 9:15 AM http://ffwww.youtube.com/embed/CPwW1HlAPys --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
Well, there's always Freecycle. I can give it away. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: You'd reinstall everything. The problem will be fixing yourself up with a bootable copy of 10.x since you've likely got no install media. Apple makes this VERY difficult for you. They don't want you going to an older OS, they want you to upgrade like a good little droid. -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Craig diese...@pisquared.net; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED Since I have an updated MacOS 109.5 how would I go back to 10.8? On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:07:37 -0500 Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The best workaround for me is to install Mavericks so I can at least print from the MP780. What is Mavericks and how to I install it? How would it affect my other applications? My IMac is running OS 10.9.5 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Looks like they stopped supporting this printer beginning with Mavericks (OS X 10.9). You didn't understand what Dan said. Dan said they STOPPED supporting your printer with Mavericks (which he defined as 10.9). You need MacOS 10.8.x. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT Airplane pR0n
Thanks, those aircraft have always fascinated me. -- Max Dillon Charleston, SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
I obtained a Canon Pixma MP780 color all in one machine but I can't find it on my IMac menu. Ideas? On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, Curly McLain wrote: From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED Date: February 4, 2015 2:39:07 PM PST I'm thinking of investing $70 in Eset, an antivirus program that was top rated in Consumers Reports in 2010. Either that or really biting the bullet and switching to a Linux program or Apple. Gerry -- I think the Mac is worth the money. I am tired of fighting with M$ so even though XP was pretty decent. I have been struggling all afternoon to install a HP 2840 CLJ in Mac 10.6.8, XP or ubuntu with no success. on the mac, it starts up a HP setup assistant, which can't find the printer. end of the show... no way to install it manually that I can find. the printer add thing does not find the printer. XP problems, and ubunto is requiring a bunch of command line stuff I don't understand at all. Jury is still out on ubuntu. HPLIP 3.12.2 has to be removed, and 3. 15.2 installed. Who know what happens after that... just found out. got to where I can launch a gui interface. Now it can't find the printer. Same as on the Mac. Stupid HP. Overpriced, and crappy and make you buy a new printer because they won't update the drivers. --- Curly, I just installed an HP printer on my Mac (after the ink nozzle failed on my previous one). Have you tried going to System Preferences/ Hardware/Print Scan? On my Mac, that window has a +/- thing on the left side of the window that allows adding or removing a printer. When I did + it gave me a new screen to add in the new printer. Hope you have good luck. It can be frustratingŠ Regards, Addison Yes, that was the first thing i tried. no printer showed up. Finally unplugged the USB cable at the printer and plugged it in again, and the printer showed up. (Both mac and ubuntu machines.) Now it only prints blank pages. 'Nother problem. It wasted the first half day cleaning itself and trashing cartridges. Before that, I had to take out the memory and plug it back in to get rid of the 79 error after several unsuccessful restarts. Wasted most of the day and still have no working color printer. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
You need to look in Preferences to see that it's installed first. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I obtained a Canon Pixma MP780 color all in one machine but I can't find it on my IMac menu. Ideas? On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, Curly McLain wrote: From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED Date: February 4, 2015 2:39:07 PM PST I'm thinking of investing $70 in Eset, an antivirus program that was top rated in Consumers Reports in 2010. Either that or really biting the bullet and switching to a Linux program or Apple. Gerry -- I think the Mac is worth the money. I am tired of fighting with M$ so even though XP was pretty decent. I have been struggling all afternoon to install a HP 2840 CLJ in Mac 10.6.8, XP or ubuntu with no success. on the mac, it starts up a HP setup assistant, which can't find the printer. end of the show... no way to install it manually that I can find. the printer add thing does not find the printer. XP problems, and ubunto is requiring a bunch of command line stuff I don't understand at all. Jury is still out on ubuntu. HPLIP 3.12.2 has to be removed, and 3. 15.2 installed. Who know what happens after that... just found out. got to where I can launch a gui interface. Now it can't find the printer. Same as on the Mac. Stupid HP. Overpriced, and crappy and make you buy a new printer because they won't update the drivers. --- Curly, I just installed an HP printer on my Mac (after the ink nozzle failed on my previous one). Have you tried going to System Preferences/ Hardware/Print Scan? On my Mac, that window has a +/- thing on the left side of the window that allows adding or removing a printer. When I did + it gave me a new screen to add in the new printer. Hope you have good luck. It can be frustratingŠ Regards, Addison Yes, that was the first thing i tried. no printer showed up. Finally unplugged the USB cable at the printer and plugged it in again, and the printer showed up. (Both mac and ubuntu machines.) Now it only prints blank pages. 'Nother problem. It wasted the first half day cleaning itself and trashing cartridges. Before that, I had to take out the memory and plug it back in to get rid of the 79 error after several unsuccessful restarts. Wasted most of the day and still have no working color printer. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
I connected it up but no go as there is no driver supported by the Mac. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: You need to look in Preferences to see that it's installed first. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I obtained a Canon Pixma MP780 color all in one machine but I can't find it on my IMac menu. Ideas? On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, Curly McLain wrote: From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED Date: February 4, 2015 2:39:07 PM PST I'm thinking of investing $70 in Eset, an antivirus program that was top rated in Consumers Reports in 2010. Either that or really biting the bullet and switching to a Linux program or Apple. Gerry -- I think the Mac is worth the money. I am tired of fighting with M$ so even though XP was pretty decent. I have been struggling all afternoon to install a HP 2840 CLJ in Mac 10.6.8, XP or ubuntu with no success. on the mac, it starts up a HP setup assistant, which can't find the printer. end of the show... no way to install it manually that I can find. the printer add thing does not find the printer. XP problems, and ubunto is requiring a bunch of command line stuff I don't understand at all. Jury is still out on ubuntu. HPLIP 3.12.2 has to be removed, and 3. 15.2 installed. Who know what happens after that... just found out. got to where I can launch a gui interface. Now it can't find the printer. Same as on the Mac. Stupid HP. Overpriced, and crappy and make you buy a new printer because they won't update the drivers. --- Curly, I just installed an HP printer on my Mac (after the ink nozzle failed on my previous one). Have you tried going to System Preferences/ Hardware/Print Scan? On my Mac, that window has a +/- thing on the left side of the window that allows adding or removing a printer. When I did + it gave me a new screen to add in the new printer. Hope you have good luck. It can be frustratingŠ Regards, Addison Yes, that was the first thing i tried. no printer showed up. Finally unplugged the USB cable at the printer and plugged it in again, and the printer showed up. (Both mac and ubuntu machines.) Now it only prints blank pages. 'Nother problem. It wasted the first half day cleaning itself and trashing cartridges. Before that, I had to take out the memory and plug it back in to get rid of the 79 error after several unsuccessful restarts. Wasted most of the day and still have no working color printer. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] OT- Wildlife/Game Camera Offer
During our recent discussion regarding the issues my HOA has been encountering with vandalism in our park, someone contacted me privately and offered an old wildlife camera. I know I responded with an offer to cover postage, but I don't recall hearing back. If it's someone on the list, would you drop me a PM? I would really like to try this out... Thank you, Dan Sent from my iPad ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] OT: NY Times article about diesel cars in the USA
At first glance didn't see any reference to Mercedes.. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/automobiles/as-the-world-embraces-diesels-americans-still-play-hard-to-get.html?ref=energy-environment_r=0 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
According to what you're telling us, you're running Mavericks right now if you're on OS X 10.9.5. There is a combo update you might want to install if you haven't already. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: The best workaround for me is to install Mavericks so I can at least print from the MP780. What is Mavericks and how to I install it? How would it affect my other applications? My IMac is running OS 10.9.5 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Looks like they stopped supporting this printer beginning with Mavericks (OS X 10.9). You can buy a copy of VueScan to support the scanning side of it, but I think you're out of luck on the printing side from the looks of things. Look at Apple's support thread on this at: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495385 There may be a workaround in there. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: I connected it up but no go as there is no driver supported by the Mac. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: You need to look in Preferences to see that it's installed first. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I obtained a Canon Pixma MP780 color all in one machine but I can't find it on my IMac menu. Ideas? On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, Curly McLain wrote: From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean malware FIXED Date: February 4, 2015 2:39:07 PM PST I'm thinking of investing $70 in Eset, an antivirus program that was top rated in Consumers Reports in 2010. Either that or really biting the bullet and switching to a Linux program or Apple. Gerry -- I think the Mac is worth the money. I am tired of fighting with M$ so even though XP was pretty decent. I have been struggling all afternoon to install a HP 2840 CLJ in Mac 10.6.8, XP or ubuntu with no success. on the mac, it starts up a HP setup assistant, which can't find the printer. end of the show... no way to install it manually that I can find. the printer add thing does not find the printer. XP problems, and ubunto is requiring a bunch of command line stuff I don't understand at all. Jury is still out on ubuntu. HPLIP 3.12.2 has to be removed, and 3. 15.2 installed. Who know what happens after that... just found out. got to where I can launch a gui interface. Now it can't find the printer. Same as on the Mac. Stupid HP. Overpriced, and crappy and make you buy a new printer because they won't update the drivers. --- Curly, I just installed an HP printer on my Mac (after the ink nozzle failed on my previous one). Have you tried going to System Preferences/ Hardware/Print Scan? On my Mac, that window has a +/- thing on the left side of the window that allows adding or removing a printer. When I did + it gave me a new screen to add in the new printer. Hope you have good luck. It can be frustratingŠ Regards, Addison Yes, that was the first thing i tried. no printer showed up. Finally unplugged the USB cable at the printer and plugged it in again, and the printer showed up. (Both mac and ubuntu machines.) Now it only prints blank pages. 'Nother problem. It wasted the first half day cleaning itself and trashing cartridges. Before that, I had to take out the memory and plug it back in to get rid of the 79 error after several unsuccessful restarts. Wasted most of the day and still have no working color printer. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
What Curt said. There is no downgrade path. Point of reference for the Mac folks out there: I bought a Late 2008 MacBook from someone this week. They wanted to wipe it before they sent it to me, so they tossed an OS X 10.6.4 CD in it it (it was running OS X 10.6.6), booted from the CD and ran the installer. Every time they tried this, the installer would fail, saying that Cannot install OS X on this system. I had them erase and partition the drive, etc., all to no avail. So Wednesday night, after a good hour of email exchanges with the guy, who wanted to pull the plug and call off the sale, I asked him if the CD he was using was the original restore disk for the MacBook. No, it's from the iMac I'm emailing you from. head slap Restore disks for Apple products are hardware specific, that is, you typically can't use a restore disk from a laptop to restore a desktop and vice-versa. The image is unique and has drivers for the type of hardware only. The only media you can use cross hardware are retail installers. I told him to pack up the machine and send it and I would install a new OS. Oy. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: You'd reinstall everything. The problem will be fixing yourself up with a bootable copy of 10.x since you've likely got no install media. Apple makes this VERY difficult for you. They don't want you going to an older OS, they want you to upgrade like a good little droid. -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] NOT CHEAP 300TD WAS RE: 300td pretty cheap
Don't know about the euro part but it does have a turbo, you can see the intake bow. It does have SLS as you can see the pump on the front of the engine and you can also see the hoses going to and from the pump just behind the radiator on the left side. Also just a little bit of the SLS reservoir is visible at the extreme left of the picture. There is however no AC or electric fan on the front of the engine and a strange looking vacuum driven cruise control activator. Never seen one like it on an 83 300TD. I have 3 of them and have looked a about 5 more. Also never seen one on an 83 300D. Manfred Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:42:17 -0600 From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com Probably EUro or RTW version. Probably made without SLS, probably NON-turbo, as Euros were NA. I think turbos were mostly NorteAmerika and Japan markets. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Greenest and Meanest for 2015 Model year from Greencars.org
Agree - they are quite impractical, but I am tempted to get one as a single occupant commuter car. Could toss the groceries in the back. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Lame that the two meanest were both work trucks. You can't haul much with a Smart... -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 11:01 AM Subject: [MBZ] Greenest and Meanest for 2015 Model year from Greencars.org Mercedes tops the list for the Smart electric but has two on the meanest list as well. GreenestModel Year 2015 Make and model Specifications Emission standard a MPG city MPG hwy Green Score Mercedez-Benz Smart Fortwo Elec. Drive Convertible / Coupe 1, b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.61 2.77 61 Chevrolet Spark EV b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.81 3.24 59 Fiat 500E b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.63 3.21 59 Toyota Prius C 1.5L 4, auto CVT SULEV II / Bin 3 53 46 57 Nissan Leaf b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.75 3.01 57 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid 2, c Electric (Li-ion bat.) / 1.8L 4, auto CVT PZEV / Bin 3 3.90 / 51 3.04 / 49 54 Lexus CT 200H 1.8L 4, auto CVT SULEV II / Bin 3 51 48 54 Honda Civic Hybrid 1.5L 4, auto CVT Bin 3 44 47 54 Honda Civic Natural Gas 1.8L 4, auto [CNG] PZEV / Bin 2 27 38 54 Mitsubishi Mirage 1.2L 3, auto CVT Bin 5 / LEV II 37 44 54 Ford Focus Electric b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.27 2.94 53 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid 1.4L 4, auto [P] PZEV / Bin 3 42 48 53 [CNG] denotes compressed natural gas [P] Denotes Premium Gasoline. Auto CVT denotes continuously variable automatic transmission. a A listing with two emission standards (e.g., Tier 2 Bin 2/ PZEV) denotes a single vehicle carrying both a federal and a California emission certification. Green Scores for such listings reflect the cleaner of the two certifications. b Fuel economy for electric vehicles is provided in miles per kilowatt-hour. c Fuel economy for plug-in hybrids is provided in miles per gallon for gasoline operation and in miles per kilowatt-hour for electric operation 1. The gasoline-powered version of this vehicle scores a 53 2. The non-plug in Prius also earns a Green Score of 54 - See more at: http://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/greenest#sthash.hc0PhKlF.dpuf Meanest Model Year 2015 Make and model Specifications Emission standard a MPG city MPG hwy Green Score Ram 2500 (CLASS 2B) 1, 2 5.7L 8, auto 4wd LEV II 12 17 17 Chevrolet G2500 Express / GMC Savana (CARGO CONVERSION) (MDPV) 3, 4, 5 6.0L 8, auto Bin 8 / ULEV II 10 15 18 Bugatti Veyron 8.0L 16, auto Awd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 8 15 19 Bentley Mulsanne 6.8L 8, auto stk [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 18 21 Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG 5.5L 8, auto 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 14 21 Mercedes-Benz G 550 5.5L 8, auto 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 15 22 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe 6 6.7L 12, auto stk [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 19 23 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster 6.5L 12, auto Awd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 10 16 23 Toyota Sequoia FFV 7 5.7L 8, auto stk 4wd Bin 5 13 17 23 Lexus LX 570 5.7L 8, auto stk 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 17 23 Ferrari FF 6.3L 12, auto 4wd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 16 23 Nissan Armada 5.6L 8, auto 4wd Bin 5 / LEV II 12 18 23 auto stk denotes manually adjustable automatic transmission a. A listing with two emission standards (e.g., Tier 2 Bin 2/ PZEV) denotes a single vehicle carrying both a federal and a California emission certification. Green Scores for such listings reflect the cleaner of the two certifications. 1. The 2wd version of this vehicle earns a Green Score of 18 2. The ULEV version of this vehicle earns a Green Score of 21 3. The Tier 2-only versions of these vehicles (bin 8 ) also earn a Green Score of 18 4. The passenger versions of these vehicles earn a Green Score of 19 5. The 3500 version of these vehicles earn a Green Score of 19 6. The Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB also earns a Green Score of 23 7. The non-FFV version of this vehicle also earns a Green Score of 23 - See more at: http://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/meanest#sthash.vKgvzAUe.dpuf ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such,
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:07:37 -0500 Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The best workaround for me is to install Mavericks so I can at least print from the MP780. What is Mavericks and how to I install it? How would it affect my other applications? My IMac is running OS 10.9.5 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Looks like they stopped supporting this printer beginning with Mavericks (OS X 10.9). You didn't understand what Dan said. Dan said they STOPPED supporting your printer with Mavericks (which he defined as 10.9). You need MacOS 10.8.x. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Greenest and Meanest for 2015 Model year from Greencars.org
Lame that the two meanest were both work trucks. You can't haul much with a Smart... -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 11:01 AM Subject: [MBZ] Greenest and Meanest for 2015 Model year from Greencars.org Mercedes tops the list for the Smart electric but has two on the meanest list as well. GreenestModel Year 2015 Make and model Specifications Emission standard a MPG city MPG hwy Green Score Mercedez-Benz Smart Fortwo Elec. Drive Convertible / Coupe 1, b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.61 2.77 61 Chevrolet Spark EV b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.81 3.24 59 Fiat 500E b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.63 3.21 59 Toyota Prius C 1.5L 4, auto CVT SULEV II / Bin 3 53 46 57 Nissan Leaf b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.75 3.01 57 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid 2, c Electric (Li-ion bat.) / 1.8L 4, auto CVT PZEV / Bin 3 3.90 / 51 3.04 / 49 54 Lexus CT 200H 1.8L 4, auto CVT SULEV II / Bin 3 51 48 54 Honda Civic Hybrid 1.5L 4, auto CVT Bin 3 44 47 54 Honda Civic Natural Gas 1.8L 4, auto [CNG] PZEV / Bin 2 27 38 54 Mitsubishi Mirage 1.2L 3, auto CVT Bin 5 / LEV II 37 44 54 Ford Focus Electric b Electric (Li-ion bat.) ZEV / Bin 1 3.27 2.94 53 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid 1.4L 4, auto [P] PZEV / Bin 3 42 48 53 [CNG] denotes compressed natural gas [P] Denotes Premium Gasoline. Auto CVT denotes continuously variable automatic transmission. a A listing with two emission standards (e.g., Tier 2 Bin 2/ PZEV) denotes a single vehicle carrying both a federal and a California emission certification. Green Scores for such listings reflect the cleaner of the two certifications. b Fuel economy for electric vehicles is provided in miles per kilowatt-hour. c Fuel economy for plug-in hybrids is provided in miles per gallon for gasoline operation and in miles per kilowatt-hour for electric operation 1. The gasoline-powered version of this vehicle scores a 53 2. The non-plug in Prius also earns a Green Score of 54 - See more at: http://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/greenest#sthash.hc0PhKlF.dpuf Meanest Model Year 2015 Make and model Specifications Emission standard a MPG city MPG hwy Green Score Ram 2500 (CLASS 2B) 1, 2 5.7L 8, auto 4wd LEV II 12 17 17 Chevrolet G2500 Express / GMC Savana (CARGO CONVERSION) (MDPV) 3, 4, 5 6.0L 8, auto Bin 8 / ULEV II 10 15 18 Bugatti Veyron 8.0L 16, auto Awd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 8 15 19 Bentley Mulsanne 6.8L 8, auto stk [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 18 21 Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG 5.5L 8, auto 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 14 21 Mercedes-Benz G 550 5.5L 8, auto 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 15 22 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe 6 6.7L 12, auto stk [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 19 23 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster 6.5L 12, auto Awd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 10 16 23 Toyota Sequoia FFV 7 5.7L 8, auto stk 4wd Bin 5 13 17 23 Lexus LX 570 5.7L 8, auto stk 4wd [P] ULEV II / Bin 5 12 17 23 Ferrari FF 6.3L 12, auto 4wd [P] Bin 5 / LEV II 11 16 23 Nissan Armada 5.6L 8, auto 4wd Bin 5 / LEV II 12 18 23 auto stk denotes manually adjustable automatic transmission a. A listing with two emission standards (e.g., Tier 2 Bin 2/ PZEV) denotes a single vehicle carrying both a federal and a California emission certification. Green Scores for such listings reflect the cleaner of the two certifications. 1. The 2wd version of this vehicle earns a Green Score of 18 2. The ULEV version of this vehicle earns a Green Score of 21 3. The Tier 2-only versions of these vehicles (bin 8 ) also earn a Green Score of 18 4. The passenger versions of these vehicles earn a Green Score of 19 5. The 3500 version of these vehicles earn a Green Score of 19 6. The Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB also earns a Green Score of 23 7. The non-FFV version of this vehicle also earns a Green Score of 23 - See more at: http://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/meanest#sthash.vKgvzAUe.dpuf ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] Cloning Windows Drives [was: Re: Korean malware FIXED]
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:06:11 -0700 Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 09:35:47 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: There have got to be some list members out there with PCs that are cloning drives. I cloned drives for Windows machines at the Lab by using my Linux Personal Computer and the dd command, once from the source disk to free space on a disk in the Linux PC, and then from the image on the PC's disk to the target disk. It worked great; no muss, no fuss. When one copies the image of a smaller disk onto a larger disk, is the excess space on the larger disk lost and gone forever or can it be recovered by resizing the image to fit the new disk or making a new partition on the new disk? Crai ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED
You'd reinstall everything. The problem will be fixing yourself up with a bootable copy of 10.x since you've likely got no install media. Apple makes this VERY difficult for you. They don't want you going to an older OS, they want you to upgrade like a good little droid. -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Craig diese...@pisquared.net; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Installing HP Printer was Korean malware FIXED Since I have an updated MacOS 109.5 how would I go back to 10.8? On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:07:37 -0500 Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The best workaround for me is to install Mavericks so I can at least print from the MP780. What is Mavericks and how to I install it? How would it affect my other applications? My IMac is running OS 10.9.5 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Looks like they stopped supporting this printer beginning with Mavericks (OS X 10.9). You didn't understand what Dan said. Dan said they STOPPED supporting your printer with Mavericks (which he defined as 10.9). You need MacOS 10.8.x. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
