Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-12 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
Yes,,, they always go, How do I know? The date and time in the computer keeps falling behind... Keep a couple of batteries at home and learn how to find it in the MB. Marcio At 00:50 13/10/2008, you wrote: Thanks for all the advice. Do these batteries always eventually go? Randall On Sun, Oc

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-12 Thread Ranbo
Thanks for all the advice. Do these batteries always eventually go? Randall On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Marcio V. Pinheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > First open the case and look the MB where you will find the battery. > Identify the > battery and buy the same. Replace. No pain. > > Marci

Re: [CGUYS] Strange biases [was: Re: GPS advice]

2008-10-12 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
For the last thirty years that I know of their bias toward anything other than American cars has been obvious. You can see where they will give it good marks, but they trash it in their reviews. Pointy headed twerps is all I can say about them in that area. However in home appliances and some

[CGUYS] Internet Radio Devices

2008-10-12 Thread Jeff Myers
Hi! I'm thinking of purchasing an internet radio device like the Aluratek AIRMM01F Internet Radio Alarm Clock with Built-in WiFi, for radio reception is especially bad at my house. I've never understood, however, how these things work. I know you need a wireless lan, which I have, and the computer

[CGUYS] Strange biases [was: Re: GPS advice]

2008-10-12 Thread b_s-wilk
>They're a start, they do have a built-in bias against Mac's, >it's silly but just realize the bias exists and try to account >for it. Watch the opinions at cnet & amazon.com as well. They had strange biases long before there were Macs. Way back when I was in college we electrical engineering

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 11 Oct 2008 to 12 Oct 2008 - Special issue (#2008-671)

2008-10-12 Thread Tourbus Rider Stuart Carlow
Oops, my statement that restoring to a previous restore point eliminated the Smitfraud-C.gp and svchost malware was premature.? Running Spybot again identifies those items as still present.? But Firefox appears to be running correctly now.? I still have to eliminate Smitfraud-C.gp and C:\Windo

Re: [CGUYS] Mozilla stopped working

2008-10-12 Thread Tourbus Rider Stuart Carlow
Thanks for your suggestion.? Yes, I did reboot, but that didn't help.? I wasn't aware of the ability to start FF in safe mode, and I'll keep that in mind for the future.? However, when I ran Spybot S&D it indicated that I had the malware Smitfraud-C.gp and an infected C:\Windows\svchost.exe a

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Chris Dunford
> They had strange biases long before there were Macs. Way > back when I was in college we electrical engineering > students used to laugh about the electronics recommendations > in CR. I don't trust CR for computer advice either, but I'm not sure that applies to GPSs, which are pretty much ord

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:20 PM, gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in dc, one must use the hands free phone. how you get the map through your > earpiece? > I sat it on the instrument cluster with one of those sticky pads. The EnV has a speaker phone and it talks the directions. -- John Dun

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
>They're a start, they do have a built-in bias against Mac's, >it's silly but just realize the bias exists and try to account >for it. Watch the opinions at cnet & amazon.com as well. They had strange biases long before there were Macs. Way back when I was in college we electrical engineering st

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread gerald
in dc, one must use the hands free phone. how you get the map through your earpiece? At 08:05 PM 10/12/2008, you wrote: >On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Tom Piwowar >> >> >> The one on my phone costs $3.50(??) a day, but you almost have >> to pr

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Piwowar > > > The one on my phone costs $3.50(??) a day, but you almost have > to pre-arrange for it. It's tough to do while you're lost in > the middle of Va. Beach. Verizon offers a monthly price for their pho

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
Tom Piwowar >>But I know CR has done some reviews and Tom Tom and Garmin >>usually come out the best. > I don't know that I would rely on CR's opinion of anything > technical. They're a start, they do have a built-in bias against Mac's, it's silly but just realize the bias exists and try to accou

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-12 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
First open the case and look the MB where you will find the battery. Identify the battery and buy the same. Replace. No pain. Marcio At 18:35 12/10/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: Eventually the battery will get so low that you will lose the stored data. You can delay this by keeping the computer pl

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-12 Thread Ellen Rains Harris
You have low system battery voltage. You need to change the battery on your motherboard. Likely it looks like a nickel or a quarter on your motherboard. Radio Shack is your pal. If you enter your service tag number into support.dell.com, you can find out what kind of battery you need. -

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
Eventually the battery will get so low that you will lose the stored data. You can delay this by keeping the computer plugged in to power. Delay long enough and the battery will leak and burn a hole through your motherboard. New battery is around $10. Radio Shack carries the common ones. Also e

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
>I also found the high number of users of machines other >than Windows was similarly worthy of mention. Yes indeed. This is a smart group (mostly). * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy *

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Ellen Rains Harris
I got a matchbook-sized Bluetooth GPS receiver about the size of an XM antenna (60 bucks) and subscribed to TeleNav on my Treo 650. As long as you have a scent of a cell signal, you can get postion, directions, compass... it's $10 a month. We also use it on my husband's BlackBerry. We have

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Eric S. Sande
I've used handheld GPS devices and own a Garmin 70CS Sorry, 76C. Bad memory. Old age. But I know where I am, I think. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Eric S. Sande
So is there any advice out there about what to get and what to avoid? I go on trips typically once or twice a year where this would be useful, so I don't see this as being big on features, but it shouldn't be stupid either. I've used handheld GPS devices and own a Garmin 70CS. In bicycle touri

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-12 Thread Tony B
First, go through your BIOS and snap a digital photo of each page. But if the cmos battery needs replacing (http://www.google.com/products?q=cmos+battery), it's probably fairly easy to do, if you're handy with pliers. Yes, if you're really worried about it you can leave it on, but eventually you m

[CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-12 Thread Ranbo
Lately when I boot up my computer I get a warning that says something like: "Warning - low system battery voltage, hit F1 to continue or F2 to run utility" Nothing happens when I hit F1 or F2 and the only way I can get anything to happen is to turn power off and on. Today, I had to do this 3 time

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Jeff Wright
Maybe one of those rocket powered nets they used on Wild Kingdom would work. > Drug him? I suspect that would take quite a tranq dart to take down a > ballmer in it's natrual habitat. * ** List info, subscription managemen

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Rigby
On Oct 12, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I thought the wide variety of computers owned by list members was impressive. Agreed. I also found the high number of users of machines other than Windows was similarly worthy of mention. Steve

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:04 AM, gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > buy a disposable(cheap) one. get a larger than the smallest screen. > > look at the refurbs at ecost and buy.com > > 90-100 bucks. they work. we have a tom tom 1. works just fine. my > syster has a $1500 unit that came in t

[CGUYS] Meeting: Geotagging Your Photos

2008-10-12 Thread Paul L. Howard
Saturday, October 18th, Fairfax County Gov't. Center Presented by: Washington Area Computer User Group A new adventure in photography & computers: Geotagging Your Photos * * Geof Goodrum will demonstrate geotagging, or applying location information to digital photos. Geotagging is becoming

Re: [CGUYS] Mozilla stopped working

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Rebooted? In official Windows speak this is called "restart." It is amazing how often rebooting fixes things and how often people forget to try this first. Next is to try starting FFx in safe mode. Get to this via Start > All Programs> Mozilla FireFox > Mozilla FireFox (safe mode). This will

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread mike
Drug him? I suspect that would take quite a tranq dart to take down a ballmer in it's natrual habitat. Mike On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was surprised as well. Apple is wholly dependent upon Jobs for its > success and MS desperately needs to she

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
>But I know CR has done some reviews and Tom Tom and Garmin usually >come out the best. I don't know that I would rely on CR's opinion of anything technical. You should not just look at the purchase price. Also factor in the annual subscription price and/or the cost of software upgrades. You

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread gerald
buy a disposable(cheap) one. get a larger than the smallest screen. look at the refurbs at ecost and buy.com 90-100 bucks. they work. we have a tom tom 1. works just fine. my syster has a $1500 unit that came in the car. it works. her's does traffic. i would worry about paying for traffi

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Okay, now. I think that I listed my Sinclair along with my Atari. >However, the poll asked about computers that are OWNED, So I should have listed my OSI 100 with 128 bytes of RAM. I thought the wide variety of computers owned by list members was impressive. **

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Check consumer reports. Some of the newer TomTom's plan using the strategy that Gayley mentioned. (plus they learn your habits.) All of the units will replan the route once you deviate from their assigned path. They key is to fond one that does it quickly. But I know CR has done some revi

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Jeff Wright
> I'm surprised that Jeff Bezos beat out Steve Jobs and that Jerry Yang > was as poorly regarded as Steve Balmer. > > My biggest surprise was that Steve Balmer did not score a big negative. > I guess you folks are willing to give a bad manager more slack than I do. > Or is it that you see him as a

Re: [CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Gayley Knight
Wayne - my only advice, having used both, is to get satellite driven GPS. The others are more like mapquest/google maps. Satellite seems to be more accurate, and allows, at least mine does, a choice of routes (quick, short, no freeway, etc.). /gayley Quoting Wayne Dernoncourt <[EMAIL PROT

[CGUYS] GPS advice

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
I got mildly lost a couple of weeks ago, a phone call to my sister (lives in the area) provided no real help (rush hour and construction). I use the term mildly lost in, I knew where I was approximately but not precisely how to get where I wanted to go. I was also looking to get a car but was rel