Re: [CGUYS] dtv converter box choice

[John Duncan Yoyo]

You can apply to get two $40 coupons for converter boxes at
.  It takes a while to process.  There is a
long list of approved boxes on the site.

One of the things to look for is a box that will pass through the RF
signal when the box is off.  This will allow you to use the current
tuner for non digital signals.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've seen no reports yet, but then none have yet been spotted in the wild.
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Re: [CGUYS] dtv converter box choice

[Kyle R. Graybeal]

Just curious. If you have a antenna with more than one TV connected 
to it through a splitter, do you need a converter for each TV or will 
one suffice?


Thanks

Kyle Graybeal

At 05:21 AM 3/19/2008, you wrote:

You can apply to get two $40 coupons for converter boxes at
.  It takes a while to process.  There is a
long list of approved boxes on the site.

One of the things to look for is a box that will pass through the RF
signal when the box is off.  This will allow you to use the current
tuner for non digital signals.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've seen no reports yet, but then none have yet been spotted in the wild.
>
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[CGUYS] ubuntu and gnucash

[mike]

I'm considering moving my mom from windows xp pro to ubuntu.  She has just
one too many friends forwarding her every email they find on the web I
believe and I can't seem to get her to stop opening them.  The only app I'm
not sure about replacing is her quicken.  I've read on the gnucash website
that it can import all quicken files and it appears to have a similar
interface.  Does anyone have experience with this program?  Or thoughts on
another program of this type?  All she needs is a small program for home
register entry, nothing business oriented.

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[CGUYS] Recommendation

[Marcio V. Pinheiro]

I am becoming interested in Home Networking. I wonder which book I 
should read first that will teach me how to
set the network, connect to the Internet, share a printer, etc. I 
have 3 computers with Windows XP, one with
WIndows ME and a lap top with Windows Vista, all connected to the 
network with a Lynksis Router G.


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Re: [CGUYS] Recommendation

[Matthew Taylor]

The Lynksis manual would be a good start ...

Beyond that some probable useful texts here:

http://safari.oreilly.com/browse?category=itbooks.network.home

On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Marcio V. Pinheiro wrote:

I am becoming interested in Home Networking. I wonder which book I  
should read first that will teach me how to
set the network, connect to the Internet, share a printer, etc. I  
have 3 computers with Windows XP, one with
WIndows ME and a lap top with Windows Vista, all connected to the  
network with a Lynksis Router G.


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Re: [CGUYS] Recommendation

[Fred Holmes]

I'd start with a Google of "home networking" and read what the on-screen 
articles provide.

go to  http://www.howstuffworks.com/ and search on "home networking"

Do you have a bookshelf with room for another book on it?

Fred Holmes

At 12:08 PM 3/19/2008, Marcio V. Pinheiro wrote:
>I am becoming interested in Home Networking. I wonder which book I should read 
>first that will teach me how to
>set the network, connect to the Internet, share a printer, etc. I have 3 
>computers with Windows XP, one with
>WIndows ME and a lap top with Windows Vista, all connected to the network with 
>a Lynksis Router G.
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Re: [CGUYS] ebook readers - end of story for now

[Andy Gallant]

Thanks for all the replies and the interesting reading - sorry to take 
so long to sum up.  In brief:  I gave a bunch of good books.  I wanted 
to try a Kindle but they're not in stores, they're back-ordered, and the 
same amount of money buys a lot of books.  Also, the "giftee" prefers 
books to electronics, but I had to physically partition the new 
translation of War and Peace (very painful, since I like books too) to 
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[CGUYS] CGUYS] Investment Tracking Recommendations?

[gerald]

i have my accounts and my wife's accounts with etrade.  i get in with password 
and rsa time code device.  i can get into mine, or my wife's account, but not 
both at once.  since the passcode for her account seems to be about twenty 
digits or so, it is a real pain to log out and log back in.  

what is a reasonable workaround?  if i partition the hd(i have plenty of room) 
and put one account on each 

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Re: [CGUYS] CGUYS] Investment Tracking Recommendations?

[Fred Holmes]

Use something like password safe (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/) to 
store your password and copy/paste the username and password to log on.

Fred Holmes

At 03:09 PM 3/19/2008, gerald wrote:
>i have my accounts and my wife's accounts with etrade.  i get in with password 
>and rsa time code device.  i can get into mine, or my wife's account, but not 
>both at once.  since the passcode for her account seems to be about twenty 
>digits or so, it is a real pain to log out and log back in.  
>
>what is a reasonable workaround?  if i partition the hd(i have plenty of room) 
>and put one account on each 
>
>never mind put one in mozilla and one in ms ie.  they don't see each other. 


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Re: [CGUYS] dtv converter box choice

[Steve Rigby]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Kyle R. Graybeal wrote:

Just curious. If you have a antenna with more than one TV connected  
to it through a splitter, do you need a converter for each TV or  
will one suffice?


  The converter box accepts an antenna connection via a standard  
television RF connector.  The video output is by means of either an  
RF feed to the antenna terminal of the TV set, or by way of an RCA  
type cable to the video input jack on the TV if it is so equipped.   
If using the RCA type video cable, then you will also need to use RCA  
type cables for the audio as well.  If using the RF means of getting  
the output to the TV, the audio and video are combined, and no  
separate audio input is required.


  So, that means that more than one TV can be connected to the same  
converter box by splitting the output signal(s), with the provision  
that they will both be displaying the signal from the same station  
because the tuning is achieved by the tuner within the converter box,  
not by the tuner in the television set(s).


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Re: [CGUYS] dtv converter box choice

[rlsimon]

www.dtv2009.gov

I have read these things:

Walmart has one listed by thompson/RCA that stands up on its edge and has a
better remote for the same price but not in stock at any walmart around
here...magnavox they have some say the remote is flimsy and not full
featured.

Others say if you are gonna use more than one if say you have a vcr with a
tuner to supply you should not get brandmates as the remote may make both
boxes change the channel.

I have been unsuccessful at finding the thompson/RCA (which is the one I
want) at a WalMart in the Delaware valley...they only have the magnavox
which is also sold at radioshacks.  I see reviews of it on the walmart
website so they must have sold them before.

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From: Judy Cosler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: dtv converter box choice


what coupons are these?
from where?

John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
> I got my coupons last week but I haven't had a chance to run out and 
> use them.  I needed three however and I picked up the Magnavox at 
> WalMart.  It seems to work OK with an indoor antenna.  I get all the 
> major networks.  It is spotty on 26 WETA and sometimes it drops it. I 
> have an outdoor antenna that I need to put up for the rest of the 
> channels.  I want to try and get Baltimore.  I can pull that in on 
> rabbit ears in the kitchen with a standard tuner.
>
> My favorite feature is the toggle switch on the side.  You can use the 
> remote to switch it on and to standby but the switch turns it all the 
> way off.
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Our local Walmart has a stack of them, but then again I have not  
>> received my coupons yet.
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>>  Stewart
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>>  At 05:05 PM 3/18/2008, you wrote:
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Re: [CGUYS] dtv converter box choice

[Kyle R. Graybeal]

Steve,

Well that's not the answer I was hoping to hear, but thanks for the info.

Kyle

At 04:40 PM 3/19/2008, you wrote:

On Mar 19, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Kyle R. Graybeal wrote:


Just curious. If you have a antenna with more than one TV connected
to it through a splitter, do you need a converter for each TV or
will one suffice?


  The converter box accepts an antenna connection via a standard
television RF connector.  The video output is by means of either an
RF feed to the antenna terminal of the TV set, or by way of an RCA
type cable to the video input jack on the TV if it is so equipped.
If using the RCA type video cable, then you will also need to use RCA
type cables for the audio as well.  If using the RF means of getting
the output to the TV, the audio and video are combined, and no
separate audio input is required.

  So, that means that more than one TV can be connected to the same
converter box by splitting the output signal(s), with the provision
that they will both be displaying the signal from the same station
because the tuning is achieved by the tuner within the converter box,
not by the tuner in the television set(s).

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Re: [CGUYS] dtv converter box choice

[Steve Rigby]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Kyle R. Graybeal wrote:


Steve,

Well that's not the answer I was hoping to hear, but thanks for the  
info.


  I understand.  Simply put, it will work the same for you as it  
currently does.  Each TV set will have to be independently tuned to  
whatever channel you want to view, which in the case of a converter  
box will mean a separate box for each TV if the desired outcome is to  
be able to watch different channels on each TV.


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Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

[Fred Holmes]

At 01:56 PM 3/17/2008, Rich Schinnell wrote:

>POTS no longer supplies your phone power as they can't figure out a way
>to pump electricity down the fibre line.  :)

This is a real bummer.  During hurricane Isabel my neighborhood in Annandale 
lost power for just under three days (66 hrs o/a).  The POTS phone worked the 
entire time.  Cell phones didn't as the towers didn't have power.  So there 
will be no way to call 911 under these new circumstances.  What happens to 
public safety then?  We will need fire call boxes in the neighborhoods just 
like we had sixty years ago???  Some other kind of emergency radio?

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Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

[katan]

>At 01:56 PM 3/17/2008, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>
>>POTS no longer supplies your phone power as they can't figure out a way
>>to pump electricity down the fibre line.  :)

Well that doesn't sound right. I don't plug *any* of my phones into an
electric outlet, and they work just fine. So either they're pumping the
electricity down the fiber, or the fiber ends at the CO where the
batteries are, and the copper goes from there.

When they run fiber to a neighborhood, don't they have to keep some
copper connected for the luddites, or do they just force everybody to
fiber? Now if they ever get around to running fiber in North Beach,
they're going to have to keep my one lone copper wire connected because
the electric goes out on my side of the street too often for me to go
fiber.

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Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

[John Duncan Yoyo]

If you have FIOS there is a box that plugs into the wall that powers
the box that converts the fiber to phone,
and passed power to your local phones.


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, katan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >At 01:56 PM 3/17/2008, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>  >
>  >>POTS no longer supplies your phone power as they can't figure out a way
>  >>to pump electricity down the fibre line.  :)
>
>  Well that doesn't sound right. I don't plug *any* of my phones into an
>  electric outlet, and they work just fine. So either they're pumping the
>  electricity down the fiber, or the fiber ends at the CO where the
>  batteries are, and the copper goes from there.
>
>  When they run fiber to a neighborhood, don't they have to keep some
>  copper connected for the luddites, or do they just force everybody to
>  fiber? Now if they ever get around to running fiber in North Beach,
>  they're going to have to keep my one lone copper wire connected because
>  the electric goes out on my side of the street too often for me to go
>  fiber.
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Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

[katan]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:23:31 -0400, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:

>If you have FIOS there is a box that plugs into the wall that powers
>the box that converts the fiber to phone,
>and passed power to your local phones.

I know. I don't have FiOS. It looks to me that Rich was saying that
even copper POTS was no longer supplying power for my Princess Phone.
Thusly:

>> >At 01:56 PM 3/17/2008, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>POTS no longer supplies your phone power as they can't figure out a way
>>  >>to pump electricity down the fibre line.  :)

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Re: [CGUYS] Verizon DSL Service Dry Loop

[John Duncan Yoyo]

No the POTS has power.  Having gotten a shock or two from a phone line
in my time.


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:38 AM, katan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:23:31 -0400, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
>
>  >If you have FIOS there is a box that plugs into the wall that powers
>  >the box that converts the fiber to phone,
>  >and passed power to your local phones.
>
>  I know. I don't have FiOS. It looks to me that Rich was saying that
>  even copper POTS was no longer supplying power for my Princess Phone.
>  Thusly:
>
>
>  >> >At 01:56 PM 3/17/2008, Rich Schinnell wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  >>POTS no longer supplies your phone power as they can't figure out a way
>  >>  >>to pump electricity down the fibre line.  :)
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Re: [CGUYS] Investment Tracking Recommendations?

[b_s-wilk]

I open different browsers together to get into different accounts with 
the same company. Helps with viewing credit card transactions where we 
both have cards, different acct #s, at our CU and Chase. Works for me 
using Safari, Firefox and SeaMonkey simultaneously. It's in the cookies.


[_these_ cookies are for Mac OS X users, 
//usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/COOKIES ]


Betty

gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:

i have my accounts and my wife's accounts with etrade.  i get in with password and rsa time code device.  i can get into mine, or my wife's account, but not both at once.  since the passcode for her account seems to be about twenty digits or so, it is a real pain to log out and log back in.  

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