Re: [CGUYS] What? Me Worry? - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! -- OT! POLITICS! or something like it

2009-02-20 Thread Eric S. Sande 

Chrysler is just feckless.  The sooner it dies the better.


They've been bailed out before.  But I think you're mostly right.

There are US manufacturers that are still alive and are doing
things right.  Unfortunately too few.

You don't see them in the news because they aren't in trouble.

I happen to know bicycles and audio.  US (all onshore) companies
like Waterford and Magnepan are more than world class.  Yes
they are small but they are making product that is universally
desired at competitive prices.

In other words they can sell everything they make, ship product
that is worth paying a premium to get outside of the US, and run
businesses that stay in the black for decades, many decades.

Well respected US product.  That people in Australia, Europe
and Japan are willing to pay top dollar for.  Our manufacturers
ARE capable of doing this.

These brands (that you may never have heard of, OK) can do
it.  They don't have a lot of people, capitalization, etc.  But they
get the job done.

Nobody disputes that well made US products aren't world class, 
but we are not going to get out of this mess by supporting

companies that make bad decisions.

I'm not inclined to reward bad behavior.




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Re: [CGUYS] What? Me Worry? - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! -- OT! POLITICS! or something like it

2009-02-20 Thread Jeff Wright 
> As I said, I don't know.  It does strike me though that if the market
> was so obvious, the demand so strong, that Fiat et. al. would already
> be shipping them here.  That they are not indicates that there is a
> business reason for not doing so, as businesses will not typically
> long ignore pent up demand.

The market here is odd.  Japanese and Korean small cars sell well, but
little is available on the lower end from Europe. Other than VW, it's mostly
high-end cars from Europe.  That may be changing now.

The Big 2.5 made lots of decisions that seemed "obvious" at the time.  Now
we get to watch the political theater of 1.5 of them squealing at the public
trough as a result.

GM finally got religion (too) late, being that almost all of the their new
US models are re-vamped (and much better) Vauxhall/Opel models from Europe.
Ford shows *some* promise with the Fiesta, but is at least designing
interesting cars finally.  Chrysler is just feckless.  The sooner it dies
the better.  


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Re: [CGUYS] What? Me Worry? - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! -- OT! POL

2009-02-20 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall 

This is a better video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s

The Hummer was originally designed for the Military and off road 
use.  It has a wider track and was not really designed for civilian 
use on the highway.  (In other words, it was not made to be a hauler 
of things, but a mover of people.)  It also has a number of 
configurations it can be used as (Ambulance, pickup, High Pickup, 
stake truck, people hauler etc.)


A Smart Car I would use for local driving but not for highway, but as 
that above video shows it is a fairly safe car.


We have the technology to make very safe cars.  Anyone who has 
watched car racing has seen horrific accidents where the drivers come 
out with little to no injuries.  But as with all technology it costs money.


Another thing to make driving safer is to better equip drivers, and 
that involves way more training than what they normally get.


My local Kiwanis Club is striving to get a Crash Avoidance Technology 
school started locally to train teenagers (and oldsters) in better 
driving techniques to avoid accidents.


As with any technology you can make it as great as you can but it is 
always the nut behind the wheel that is the final key to making it work.


Stewart


At 07:15 PM 2/20/2009, you wrote:

The Escalde is just the Hummer junior.

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Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 19 Feb 2009 (#2009-192)

2009-02-20 Thread Marty Toombs 
Note that if you are like me and want to use POP that doesn't stop you 
from using Gmail. I have all my e-mail forwarded to Gmail from the 
various addresses I  have and then use a POP connection to download the 
mail to my desktop. I just check the Gmail spam filter every few days 
(it does a good job).


It has the added benefit that I can access my e-mail from anywhere or 
find an old one that I've deleted from my desktop, without forcing me to 
do web-based e-mail which I don't prefer.




Subject:
Re: Spam Blocker
From:
Jeff Wright 
Date:
Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:01:14 -0500



Except we have seen Comcast blocking good mail as spam. Turning up your
settings will probably make that problem even worse. I would not trust
Comcast at all.



Agreed.  Even with the spam filtering turned off, they still filter email
and incompetently at that.  I switched to Gmail and never looked back.

If you decide to stay on POP3 email, Spampal is a good filter. Thunderbird
has a good native filter as well.  Do yourself a favor and dump OE.
  




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Re: [CGUYS] What? Me Worry? - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! -- OT! POL

2009-02-20 Thread John Duncan Yoyo 
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:09 PM, rleesimon  wrote:

> wouldn't wanna have it out with an escalade in that smart ...not smart
> then!


Them Smart Cars are pretty tough.  <
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwk8f_5Yw00>

The Escalde is just the Hummer junior.


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Re: [CGUYS] I Bought a BIG Mistake

2009-02-20 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall 
Both Motorola and Blue Ant make good products.  I have an older 
Motorola (looks like a hockey puck) that I clip onto my 
visor.  Charge about once every two weeks.


Works great.

Newer ones even have caller ID on them and yes they will play music 
from your phone or Blue tooth device.  Some even allow concurrent 
connections by two devices.


Stewart




At 07:02 PM 2/20/2009, you wrote:

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:19 PM, rleesimon  wrote:

> motorola now makes a bluetooth for your fone that clips on visor and also
> will bt your music to your radio speakers all in one ...motorokrS9 ...some
> like it, some don't...
>

This works with bluetooth phones and clips to the visor.  It is supposed to
have a really good battery life.



Updated version here 


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Re: [CGUYS] Windows Vista download

2009-02-20 Thread John Duncan Yoyo 
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:47 PM, mike  wrote:

> You should slipstream those SP's into your windows install...very very
> handy.
>
> http://www.nliteos.com/
>
> Fantastic free tool to slipstream SP's or drivers or anything you'd like.
>


I've got the lovely choice of the recovery partition or burn your own
recovery discs from HP.  I'm not sure I want to even try to shoe horn
anything else in there.  It is easier to have the SP's burned on a disc and
ready to roll.  If I was using something more standard It might be a more
worthwhile use of my time.  I'd rather ghost the whole mess after I get it
all setup the way I want it.


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Re: [CGUYS] I Bought a BIG Mistake

2009-02-20 Thread John Duncan Yoyo 
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:19 PM, rleesimon  wrote:

> motorola now makes a bluetooth for your fone that clips on visor and also
> will bt your music to your radio speakers all in one ...motorokrS9 ...some
> like it, some don't...
>

This works with bluetooth phones and clips to the visor.  It is supposed to
have a really good battery life.



Updated version here 


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Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-20 Thread John Duncan Yoyo 
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Jeff Wright  wrote:

> > Except we have seen Comcast blocking good mail as spam. Turning up your
> > settings will probably make that problem even worse. I would not trust
> > Comcast at all.
>
> Agreed.  Even with the spam filtering turned off, they still filter email
> and incompetently at that.  I switched to Gmail and never looked back.
>
> If you decide to stay on POP3 email, Spampal is a good filter. Thunderbird
> has a good native filter as well.  Do yourself a favor and dump OE.
>

You can get gMail via POP.

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Re: [CGUYS] shared printer

2009-02-20 Thread Art Clemons 
> I have a shared printer (Brother HL 2040) on my home network.  My Macs can 
> print to it with no problem.  I have just added a Linux machine (Fedora 10) 
> to the network.  It can see the printer but can't print to it.  I believe 
> that this is because it does not have the print driver. Is there a way that I 
> could find a driver that would work or is there some other work around?  The 
> printer is attached to my iMac running 10.4.11
> Thanks, 


Assuming you're running cups and have the cups daemon running, try
opening http://localhost:631 in the browser of your choice.  After the
webpage opens, select "Administration" then "Find New Printers".  A word
of warning, it's likely to ask you for the user and password, easiest
solution is to use root and the root password otherwise as the superuser
you'll have to add your user to a group authorized to administer Cups.

If it sees it, select Brother and then the HL2060 driver.  Then tell
cups to add the printer as configured.  It prints slightly off center
horizontally which can be corrected once the printer is working reliably.



http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2040

details how to align the horizontal axis.  Incidentally, the HL-2040 and
HL-2070 also can use the HP Laserjet PCL 6 cups driver too, but the 2060
driver works better for the 2040, while the 1250 driver works better for
the HL-2070.

Continue


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Re: [CGUYS] shared printer

2009-02-20 Thread Andy Gallant 

Did you try the brother web site?  Maybe this link will help:

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html


Stephen Brownfield wrote:
I have a shared printer (Brother HL 2040) on my home network.  My Macs 
can print to it with no problem.  I have just added a Linux machine 
(Fedora 10) to the network.  It can see the printer but can't print to 
it.  I believe that this is because it does not have the print driver. 
Is there a way that I could find a driver that would work or is there 
some other work around?  The printer is attached to my iMac running 
10.4.11

Thanks,

Steve




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Re: [CGUYS] Windows Vista download

2009-02-20 Thread mike 
Only works for one of dozens of target configs?

Can you explain?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Brian Jones wrote:

> I have avoided slipstreaming until now... quite involved to produce one,
> and it only works for one of dozens of target configurations.
>


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Re: [CGUYS] Windows Vista download

2009-02-20 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall 

I am the same way.  I fiddlefart with a lot of computer stuff.

Recently my son brought me his old Toshiba Laptop and as soon as I 
booted it up, it said you might be a victim.  I checked to see what 
he had done, and he had not installed the appropriate key for his 
laptop.  (Printed on the base of the unit.)


All I needed was the correct disk to install and give it the right 
key number to get it activated again.


I am given a lot of old systems, that have Key numbers on them.  I 
get these back up and running.  (Usually bad Hard Drives and they 
want to upgrade anyway so I slap a new HD in them and get it running again.)


They no longer have the disks etc.  It is a pain to load Windows XP 
SP1 in them because you have ti run each SP package separately and 
then wait for it to download all the upgrades etc.


I will be looking at the link to see who to slipsteream.

Stewart


At 10:03 AM 2/20/2009, you wrote:
I have avoided slipstreaming until now... quite involved to produce 
one, and it only works for one of dozens of target configurations. 
Mark Minasi mentioned that he could download slipstreamed versions 
(each SP release), and that caught my attention.  Well, I am not a 
VIP, so I guess I will resort to making my own slipstreams.  Maybe 
with the VLite, it will be easier (but it only works with Vista).


Thanks for the Microsoft Store link, but my objective is to obtain only the
binaries, not the keys, since most of the machines I repair already have a
license (sans disc).

 - Brian


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Re: [CGUYS] Windows Vista download

2009-02-20 Thread Brian Jones 
I have avoided slipstreaming until now... quite involved to produce one, and 
it only works for one of dozens of target configurations. Mark Minasi 
mentioned that he could download slipstreamed versions (each SP release), 
and that caught my attention.  Well, I am not a VIP, so I guess I will 
resort to making my own slipstreams.  Maybe with the VLite, it will be 
easier (but it only works with Vista).


Thanks for the Microsoft Store link, but my objective is to obtain only the
binaries, not the keys, since most of the machines I repair already have a
license (sans disc).

 - Brian

- Original Message - 
From: "mike" 

Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Windows Vista download



You should slipstream those SP's into your windows install...very very
handy.

http://www.nliteos.com/

Fantastic free tool to slipstream SP's or drivers or anything you'd like.



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Re: [CGUYS] Spam:Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-20 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall 

They obviously have set some sort of spam filter, be it hardware or software.

Stewart


At 07:57 AM 2/20/2009, you wrote:
Unfortunately, half of the email I get from this & other listservs 
is marked as Spam.  Our IT people have no answer--except they're 
quick to bring up that no internal email is being marked as 
Spam--whoop de do.  We also have a weekly newsletter distributed by 
an outside source, & even it comes in marked as Spam (no matter that 
I've tagged it as a Safe Sender in Outlook).


   david


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Re: [CGUYS] Spam:Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-20 Thread David Turk 
Unfortunately, half of the email I get from this & other listservs is marked as 
Spam.  Our IT people have no answer--except they're quick to bring up that no 
internal email is being marked as Spam--whoop de do.  We also have a weekly 
newsletter distributed by an outside source, & even it comes in marked as Spam 
(no matter that I've tagged it as a Safe Sender in Outlook).

   david


-Original Message-
From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:computerguy...@listserv.aol.com] On 
Behalf Of Matthew S. Taylor
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:11 PM
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Spam:Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

GMAIL

Seriously - unless you are running your own server, and you clearly  
are not if you are using OE, you can't block the spam from coming in  
to your client.  You can redirect it to other folders.  You can run  
certain security programs that will intercept it, but you still have  
to download at least the headers.

I do believe you can get on Comcast's website and tweak up your level  
of filtering, but they should already be doing that to a degree.

It is also possible that your machine is compromised and advertising  
itself as a target.  Do you run active ant-virus?

Matthew

On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Gail.Miller wrote:

> Hi ...
> I'm drowning in SPAM in my Outlook Express mail program. Can anyone  
> recommend a reliable cheap (better yet, free) anti-spam program? As  
> always, thanks in advance!
> Gail Miller
>


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