Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator
AdmitMac is a useful crutch when faced with clueless Windows system admins. Rather than fighting with them to configure their network correctly we install AdmitMac and get the Mac to mimmic whatever mistakes they are running with. Orwell lives! Incorrect? Only if you're one of the 3 percenters. The other 97% gets along just fine with these **cough** mistakes. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance
Which only proves the point that Windows security is poor and that you are so sold on the MS way of doing things that you can't get your brain around the concept of better security. All it proves is how ignorant you are of things other than those blessed by the Glorious Leader. Windows' biggest problem is installing the default user as the admin. Don't run as an admin and security problems vanish. Now, if we can only get these idiot developers to stop coding their products to only run if the user is an admin. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance
Windows' biggest problem is installing the default user as the admin. Don't run as an admin and security problems vanish. Now, if we can only get these idiot developers to stop coding their products to only run if the user is an admin. The problem is only partially idiot developers. I would say a bigger problem is idiot 'softies: 1) pretending they have a mulit-user OS when they really don't. This is demonstrated by your complaing of too many steps. Windows does not need these steps because there is no real security there. It is like a kid's computer you buy for $10 at Toys-R-Us: lots of dials and buttons, but nothing inside the box. 2) not providing a proper API for developers A good example is font management software because it has to heavily interact with the OS. Compare features in Suitcase for Mac with Suitcase for Windows. You can't argue that Extensis doesn't know what features are needed because they are in the Mac version of Suitcase. Yet the Windows version of Suitcase is bare bones. The reason is that the Windows API is severely deficient. Extensis can't get at the functions they need to program a decent product. On the Mac a regular user can run Suitcase -- not so on Windows. I use Extensis as an example because they are a leader in this category. If you test the other Windows font managers (as I have) you won't find these missing features there either. Font management under Windows is a decade behind the Mac's due to API defects. It is not just a problem with developers. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] Security Ignorance
On 10/14/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which only proves the point that Windows security is poor and that you are so sold on the MS way of doing things that you can't get your brain around the concept of better security. Windows' biggest problem is installing the default user as the admin. Don't run as an admin and security problems vanish. OK, maybe you should take some basic security courses. This is one of the silliest and most ignorant statements about Windows security I have ever heard. And I have heard a lot. Now, if we can only get these idiot developers to stop coding their products to only run if the user is an admin. Yeah, those fools follow the Microsoft guidelines for coding. What idiots they be. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
[CGUYS] UPS Question
I know UPS issues have been covered in the past. As many of you may know, I'm an advocate of using them. Recently (within the past 2 weeks!) we have begun having UPS issues: To wit: Sometimes, in the middle of the night (2 am - 4 am), two of our UPS's begin to click / beep. Not sound an alarm, mind you, just to click / beep quietly in a rhythmic pattern. I cannot find reference to what this might mean, though I think it means that the circuit being used is browning out power and the UPS is making up the missing power. Last night this happened at about 11 pm!!! Eventually, the UPS's (we have many, but only two are involved in this situation) begin to blare. Then everything shuts down and they continue to blare until reset and recharged. This is a very frustrating situation as it only affects two of our 4 UPS units (all in the same room, but possibly on separate circuits). It is also happening to a neighbor! Same scenario. Only our UPS's are far enough away that they don't wake us. Hers, sadly, wakes her when it begins to scream. (Please don't ask about the 2 am - 4 am thing. I sometimes work late into the night/morning.) We can tell when this scenario has occurred because a telephone answering machine ceases to work, and because my iMac is turned off. There are two UPS units involved. One has only the telephone answering machine plugged into its battery back-up sockets, and the other has only my iMac connected to its battery back-up sockets. Dedicated UPS's if you will. It is unclear if these are on the same circuit breaker or not. It's also weird that sometimes one of the UPS's is affected, and sometimes both of them are affected at the same time. I have searched for references to sounds made by APC UPS units without success. These units are all relatively new (a higher capacity one was purchased last week for my computer in the hope that would help resolve the problem with my computer shutting down, but to no avail), and their batteries should be in good condition. Any help / advice / would be appreciated. Mical Wilmoth Carton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] UPS Question
A UPS will also get unstable and noisy if the voltage goes up. appliances and electronics will be unhappy also. get a line meter from radio shack(i am not a part of radio shack). If the meter is bouncing up, and up a lot, call the power company, and tell they you have lost your neutral. very big, and very dangerous problem. keep punching buttons at power company till you get a human. they should have people out within a couple of hours. the way AC works is it is pushed on one wire and pulled on the other. each run between +/-110 and ground. if the neutral goes, that is one of the two wires, and the circuit is run between one of the power wires, and the ground(water pipe) it is not a great conductor, so the +110 push can get up to 2-300 volts. it kills electrics, and it kills people. yes, we lost ours. I got through at 7pm. pepco showed up at 9 pm with a crew of 6-10, 2 backhoes, etc.etc. they stayed for 3 days, destroyed the front lawn and driveway. they pay for all killed equipment. Any help / advice / would be appreciated. Mical Wilmoth Carton [EMAIL PROTECTED] * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?
Uncle Ben? thestraightdope.com reports that there really was an Uncle Ben -- a rice farmer from Houston. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance
Absolutely, don't login as admin, etc. It shouldn't be needed for day to day use for normal office applications. Would MS Office need to be admin to be usable? No. Every staffer runs as a lowest permission user at my .org. Office runs just fine. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] boot G4 or Intel Mac from flash drive?
Techtool Protoge is on a FireWire, not USB drive. http://micromat.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=34Itemid=49 Haven't seen a tiny FW drive like that before. Can I get one without the TT software? Can I boot a PM G4 from a USB2 flash or micro drive? How about an Intel Mac? Or a Gen 4 iPod with FW? TechTool has a version that comes on a USB drive. Need to check which models it works with. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance
1) pretending they have a mulit-user OS when they really don't. This is demonstrated by your complaing of too many steps. Windows does not need these steps because there is no real security there. It is like a kid's computer you buy for $10 at Toys-R-Us: lots of dials and buttons, but nothing inside the box. Here ya go Tommy. Learn something. http://www.it-observer.com/pdf/dl/windows_vista_security.pdf * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header X-No-Archive: yes will not be archived
