Re: [CGUYS] Adobe update messed up printing PDF files
Wayne Dernoncourt My wife said that the printing on a PDF file was squished. Squished? I couldn't tell what was going on so I looked at it, the copy on the screen is fine, when she prints out, it's wrong. The original text was italicized, the printed is bolded. I don't know much of anything else about fonts, Helvetica from Times, etc. I updated her Acrobat this past weekend, I have to figure that this is related. Does anyone have a clue on how to figure out what got whacked and how to unwhack it? All help is gratefully appreciated. Responding to my own message... It also seems that the kerning is messed up, the text height may as well but that could be an optical illusion going from italics to bold, etc. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Taglines for sale, see our red tag sale *** ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO** ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ***
[CGUYS] Adobe update messed up printing PDF files
My wife said that the printing on a PDF file was squished. Squished? I couldn't tell what was going on so I looked at it, the copy on the screen is fine, when she prints out, it's wrong. The original text was italicized, the printed is bolded. I don't know much of anything else about fonts, Helvetica from Times, etc. I updated her Acrobat this past weekend, I have to figure that this is related. Does anyone have a clue on how to figure out what got whacked and how to unwhack it? All help is gratefully appreciated. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Taglines for sale, see our red tag sale *** ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO** ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ***
Re: [CGUYS] iphone apps
I think you have to be in OSX environment for IOS development. I would love to be wrong. This clown speaks for himself On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:01 AM, D Freye dfr...@fastmail.fm wrote: My friend wants to develope iphone apps on his $3000 desktop quadcore win7 machine. It runs VM at all times. Can you suggest anything in terms of soft or hard wares to get him started. Be at Peace. *** ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO** ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ***
[CGUYS] LaserJet M1522nf drivers...
I'm getting frustrated. My wife's printer on her computer has had issues for the past 4 or 5 months, she keeps getting new copies of the printer (HP1522, HP1522 copy 1, etc.), I'm trying to get this to work before we go off on vacation... I heard the solution was to delete and reinstall the most current version of the driver from HP. By now, I think I've tried installing every version of the driver that HP has. Some versions of the driver will look like it's expanding the executable and then it quits with no error messages. Hmmm, some of the versions will expand, start running, tell me to plug in the USB cable and the app never gets the cable insertion signal, the computer starts going through the balloons saying it found new hardware. Right now I'm waiting for my wife to show up where she stored (aka hid) the disk that came with the printer to reinstall the driver from that. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Very good, Einstein - but next time show your work *** ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO** ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ***
Re: [CGUYS] Thoughts on Flash
b_s-wilk snip Regarding Flash, Adobe has a knack for buying good programs and breaking, discontinuing, or overpricing them. Have they created any of their own products lately [in the past 15 years]? Apple didn't entirely ban Flash anyway. They require that apps for touch screens be developed using the Apple SDK. Adobe refused to use the SDK or to make Flash more open--it's totally proprietary. There's no guarantee that Flash will work properly without interfering with the underlying system. I don't know if there's a distinction there or not... I don't like Flash. It's overused unnecessarily. It doesn't belong on most web pages where simpler non-proprietary code works better and faster--contributes too much to the World Wide Wait and crashes. I agree with this 100%. I also note the bit of hypocrisy where the Apple web site uses flash. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly The darn thing works better if you plug it in * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 21 Mar 2010 to 22 Mar 2010 (#2010-38)
tjpa On Mar 23, 2010, at 2:48 PM, mike wrote: Yeah I covered that too in the past. I'm not arguing you are not safer on a mac, I'm arguing the same thing Miller is verifying, macs are safer because they are such a small portion of the market and the hackers don't spend time going after them, not because they are coded by perfect beings up on a mountain top. This is such a ridiculous assertion. If Macs were attacked less often this type of assertion might have some merit, but it completely fails to explain why the number of exploits is zero. Uhhh, raises hand in the past, the Mac marketplace was much smaller, the likelihood of finding a Mac to infect was equally likely small. If there was three chances in a hundred systems of infecting a computer, would aim for the three systems? Also, the most infectious varieties seem to be peer based, that is they spread between like architecture machines. In our current environment, how many companies have a preponderance of Mac's (except for Apple, etc.)? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Press any key to continue or any other key to quit * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] PDF creation application
Fred Holmes At 07:30 PM 3/15/2010, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: I shoulda mentioned that she's firmly stuck in the 1980's and uses WordPerfect. She's talking about moving to Word but _really_ doesn't want to. She uses WP for everything including file management. WordPerfect is a far superior product to Word. WordPerfect was very late migrating to Windows and had very poor marketing. Thus MS already had the market share. And Word is good enough for 99% of the people, so they didn't consider trying something new. /RANT A good virtual PDF printer (puts print to PDF as an additional printer on the print menu) is CutePDF Writer. Freeware. http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp snip I'm reluctant to put anything from cuteanything - they have a history of putting spyware in the program. At least now they seem to ask/insist on putting on your computer - at least they now _seem_ to ask. I'm still wary. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly COBOL: Completely Obnoxious Because of Length * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] PDF creation application
I've showed my wife how to use PDF Creator, it seems to have at least a few limitations: - has to be run as an Administrator - it only will print one page, there's no error message, it's just that nothing happens until you cancel the print job and get a dialog and get a single page I did print out an 8 page document on Valeries PC one page at a time, transfer them to the Mac with a stick and then used my Mac to combine them into one file. Obviously this is horrible. Does anyone have a good, inexpensive piece of PDF file creation s/w that doesn't need admin priv's, etc. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Back Up My Hard Drive? I Can't Find The Reverse Switch! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] PDF creation application
Rev. Stewart Marshall Mac or PC? I use Software 995. (Paid version.) PC Valerie insists on a PC with WordPerfect. Me, I use a Mac that includes PDF creation as a service. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Me hav'em heap trouble - Tonto the programmer * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] PDF creation application
John Duncan Yoyo Open Office lets you print directly to PDF and it is free. I shoulda mentioned that she's firmly stuck in the 1980's and uses WordPerfect. She's talking about moving to Word but _really_ doesn't want to. She uses WP for everything including file management. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I used to have a handle on life, then it broke. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] PDF creation application
Rev. Stewart Marshall PDF995 (Part of Software995 Suite) Installs as a print drive and when you click print select PDF and you have it. Love the program. It is not expensive and you get some nice utilities with it. It will work out of any program even Word Perfect. I looked at the website and liked it. I plan to install it this weekend. PDF Creator also installs as a printer driver, unfortunately there are issues... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Very good, Einstein - but next time show your work * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad
Stewart Marshall He is up tight because I said it is not reality yet until it hits the shelves. I thought the MS slate/pad/tablet thingie was called the Courier, last I heard it was very much in the prototype stage. I don't know if they're going to run Windows Mobile 7 or Windows 7 on it. I say that about anything until it hits retail shelves. The Windows Mobile 7 phone is not reality until it hits store shelves. In my opinion the phone I most want to look at the Motorola Devour is not reality until it hits store shelves. (All I can find is a stupid dummy phone to look at.) Yup -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly My reality check just bounced * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal
Chris Dunford Hardly. You're blowing this all out of proportion. A better comparison would be that we're all aware we can be filmed while on that bridge. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy on the bridge. You do in your bedroom. If the school system was going to violate that reasonable expectation, it had a duty to inform, but it did not. From the available facts, what the school system did was horribly wrong, and there's no way around it. I don't know if it was the school system or some pervert... I wonder if the VP might get thrown under the bus? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Be vewy vewy quiet...I'm hunting tagwines! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal
Art Clemons On 03/04/2010 01:48 PM, John Settle wrote: Don't sue the school district. Prosecute the people who did the deed. They should not be allowed to hide behind the school district. Hear! Hear ! Well said. You are supposing that the school district wasn't responsible for the actions of its employees and contractors in this situation. For example, why did the laptops have the commercial equivalent of Adeona if not as part of employees attempting to protect the property and rights of the school district? I don't think this is going to go away, I believe the FBI has been called in, child porn?? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Part-time musicians are semiconductors * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] charlie miller speaks (he's the security expert taking macs and windows down at pwn2own)
tjpa On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Judy Cosler wrote: what is the issue with Flash? Probably because it is not Silverlight. That would be consistent with the rest of his comments. Not that I want to defend either Flash or Silverlight. HTML5 will go a long way to making them both superfluous. I think Flash has other issues, for example Flash cookies that store information about you even if you have cookies disabled as long as Flash/javascript are enabled. I hope that HTML5 fixes everything, but I have to wonder what holes are exposed. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I am always exact and precise, more or less. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Bill Gates saves the world...well some of it
Chris Dunford Knife the baby??! Good Lord, he must be doing something I haven't heard about. He's a war profiteer, maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists? snip This is a reference from the antitrust trial. See http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_3533/ai_53185748/ for ... the details. Yes, I know. My point was that Gates was being explicitly compared to people who made the money they gave away from war profiteering and the like. Gates sells computer software. I think this is more about market control than a free market for software. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly On a clear disk you can seek forever * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Better Late than Never
Chris Dunford Microsoft is to pull out all the stops in a bid to lock down security on its products, considered by many as the company's Achilles heel. Chairman and founder Bill Gates has called for a fundamental shift to focus on improved security against hackers and viruses. In a memo sent to the US firm's 47,000 employees, Mr Gates said that locking down Microsoft's products, a strategy he has dubbed 'trustworthy computing', ... Yes, a focus on improved security obviously means We will find and fix every possible vulnerability in millions of lines of code, and, from now on, no security issues will ever be reported. A 17 year old bug should've been code that's undergone repeated inspections and testing. I don't know what the details are, but I wonder if it's a typical buffer over-run flaw? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly When in doubt, form a committee * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Bill Gates saves the world...well some of it
Chris Dunford Doesn't justify how they got that money. And Gates goes from Knife the baby to savior... Knife the baby??! Good Lord, he must be doing something I haven't heard about. He's a war profiteer, maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists? snip This is a reference from the antitrust trial. See http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_3533/ai_53185748/ for ... the details. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] UNIX help needed
tjpa I'm stumped. The dear folks from Adobe have produced a file on my Mac (OS X.5) named Icon\r which I can't delete or rename. rm -i * does prompt me with the file name, buy when I reply y it says no such file or directory. Any suggestions for deletion? Re-reading this, does the filename include the quotes? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly My reality check just bounced * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] UNIX help needed
tjpa On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:03 AM, John Emmerling wrote: rm -i Icon\\r rm -i 'Icon\\r' rm -i Icon\r rm -i 'Icon\r' Maybe rm -if ./Ico* You may have to drop the i part and wipe out Icoa, Icob, etc. I thought there was an option to delete by the inode, but I don't see it mentioned on the man page. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Science is a collection of successful recipes * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days
Rosenberg, Alan [USA] The old days?? The old days were when an IBM 7094 (the powerhouse of its day) filled a room with a raised floor, dedicated air conditioning, and a crew of operators, cost megabucks to buy (or lease) and maintain, had a cycle time measured in microseconds, and a maximum memory capacity equivalent to 32KB. My first system was a PDP-11/40 with a max memory of 124kw (248kbytes, 8kbytes were devoted to I/O and CSR) with a 66mb disk drive and a tape drive - that was in 1979... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I am always exact and precise, more or less. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Right computer OS [was: [CGUYS] Consternation...]
t.piwowar Creative accounting and refusing to admit the real costs. When you lock down a computer you have greatly reduced its functionality. People can't do as much with a locked down computer. Their productivity is lower. Their creativity is lower. It is not a fair comparison when that cost is ignored. Locking down a community machine is expected. Doing anything else is ridiculous. I might like my desktop one way, you another, somebody else, etc. The purpose of the machines might be to provide some limited means of providing editing and printing. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly My reality check just bounced * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Android feedback
mike I've had no regrets with my android phone, got the hero, no keyboard and it's great. I've not been wanting for apps in the least, everything I've gone looking for, I've found. There are a couple things snip My boss at work (as opposed to the boss at home...), his girl friend now has a Droid (ATT coverage is non-existent in the area). The boss is a self-admitted and unashamed MFB, he reports that the GF is having problems with butt dialing and a poor user interface. From all of the reports I've seen none of that is reported. Are others having the same sorts of issues? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Part-time musicians are semiconductors * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] A Tale of Two Hard Drives: Apple's Secret Wea pon?
mike More crap from Tom. Top 17 macbook pro runs 2500 dollars For under 1800 I can get a system with 17 display (1680 x 1050) as opposed to apple's 1920 x 1200 intel i7 1.73 cpu to apple's older 2.8 core 2 duo intel mainboard on both machines 4 gigs ddr3 memory on both machines geforce 250m with 1 gig of ram to Apples 9600m with 512 bluetooth, webcam, hdmi out..no hdmi on apple 500 gig 7200 HD opposed to apple's 500 gig 5400 drive 8x dvdrw gigabit network adapter So for 700 dollars less I get a smaller resolution for my screen. Much better graphics, faster HD..HDMI. 1 year warranty on both machines. Apple has the advantage of stores which may be lcoal to you. So in the end it's up to you to decide if the 700 dollar difference is worth it. But...there is a 700 dollar difference. I think the biggest thing you get for $700 is support, local support. I hate to sound like a bigot, but I've gotten support from people whose accents I couldn't understand. I actually got a Mac for different reasons, I got tired of the refrain from MS - well, we will fix _all_ of the mistakes we made in this version of Windows and next time it _will_ be enterprise ready and then watching them not deliver. With Windows 7, they may actually be able to claim that they succeeded. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly An optimist is a guy without much experience * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] It's monotheist versus pagan (It's a Windows Mobile killer)
Rev. Stewart Marshall trying to drag this back to 'puters - sort of Verizon also did not want to be stuck with the problems. From what I understood Apple wanted everything but was willing to give nothing. Verizon said we wont play that game. I'm not so sure that it wasn't more that Verizon and Apple wanted opposite ends of the control spectrum. They both wanted to control the platform, I don't know who walked or if ATT wanted the same thing and blinked first. So Apple approached ATT and ATT jumped at the deal because they needed a way to bring more folks in. (Sounds a lot like deceptive marketing to me). How much worse was ATT's network that Verizon's at the iPhone intro? As I understand it, the iPhone eats data service like candy. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Whip me, beat me, make me write BASIC! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Pogue Feeling Sorry for M$
Chris Dunford http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/technology/personaltech/17pogue.html?8dpc Zune's reputation as the player for weirdos and losers. Among the under-25 set, Zune is a punch line Wow! Boy, you really had to hunt for something negative in that review, didn't you? How strange that you didn't quote the very next sentence: snip The one thing I miss about the Zune is a version of the s/w for the Mac. Don't get me wrong, my slightly less than a year-old iPod is fine, but I want competition! Few actual MP3 players begin to measure to the iPod and those that will work with a Mac don't do very well. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Taglines for sale, see our red tag sale * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Intensive Care Unit...
Jeff Wright OK on the Mackey thing. Yes I did read it, and he has some great things to say, HOWEVER. You must have government mandate minimums. If they do not many companies will try and fly through with a bunch of worthless insurance. snip Rev, now you miss his point. If you allow companies to compete over state lines, removing their captive audience, you won't *need* mandates. That's what competition is best at providing: choice. I'm behind on my email, but one problem is that anymore there are few actual insurance companies. The big ones keep buying the smaller ones to limit competition. It's also good at providing lower cost alternatives. H, it seems that they are good at dropping people who actually need to use their services. See examples of recision by the health insurance companies. If someone gets sick and starts costing them money hurting the profit potential of the company, the insurance company finds a way to ditch the person/company. snip What we need is more health plans like this right No, what we need are more companies to provide competitive pressure. Your company doesn't provide it? That's OK, these 6 others do. Let markets do what they do best: weed out the losers. Hmmm, update - 4 companies, the other two were bought out. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I parked my Hard Disk and now I can't find it. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Intensive Care Unit...
Mike Only your misunformation on this one. I doubt when he mentions single payer federal system he is talking about just Illinois. I dont get why the lefties dont want to admit this is the goal, what are they afraid of? It's very difficult to have any real discourse when facts are so easily shoved aside. All you have to do is listen to Obama and others who represent him. Admitting this is the goal would mean we could have an honest conversation about the merits or lack of with this kind of system. We are entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts. What goal? I personally would prefer a single payer, government/non-profit organization based health insurance. Why? Commercial insurance typically has share holders and share holders want profits. Profits are insurance premiums minus insurance disbursements, if a person becomes a patient that will cost the insurance company money, the insurance company will find a way to delay any procedure. Refer to the high school girl in Arizona(?) that needed a liver transplant, the insurance company said the procedure was experimental and declined the procedure. The case attracted attention, eventually the insurance company okayed the surgery, unfortunately the girl died a couple of hours (?days?) after the okay. I'm sure the insurance company was glad they saved the money. Bill Moyers had a show about the topic with a person who was a whistle blower, look up Wendell Potter. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly We all live in a yellow subroutine. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] WSJ.com | Why ATT Killed Google Voice
TPiwowar On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Mike wrote: So you know google is lying...how do you know that? The issue is not Google or Apple lying. It is you trying to insert misinformation into the account of what transpired. GV was not rejected by Apple. It was not approved. The two are not the same. slashdot.org has a link to an article on techcrunch(??) discussing the status of the FCC responses. Some were heavily redacted. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Managing senior programmers is like herding cats! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Brutal Zune Review
TPiwowar On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:10 PM, David K Watson wrote: I haven't read anything about how aged the iPod has become, can you point me to one of those blogs? On the other hand, every day I see several articles about a new or updated iPhone/iPod app. And you CAN customize your iPhone home screen, that came with version 2 of the OS. Of course you didn't. Mike is engaging in the Big Lie Technique, as he often does. I have a MacBook Pro because it does most of what I want it to do the best. I wanted to find an MP3 player to use with it, first I had an Insignia (house brand of BestBuy), total piece of crap. The wheel was flimsy/cheesy and went back a couple of days later. Then I tried a Sansa ?something? - it worked better, but not by much. When I lost it, I didn't look hard for it (returning it to Amazon was to much trouble). I spent a couple of days looking for something else that wasn't iPod and ended up with an iPod. I had given up on Windows when I kept hearing the phrase This time we _really_ did an excellent job and then seeing what they produced... I tried Linux and the version I tried wouldn't play DVD's or rip CD's to MP3's. I didn't have much inclination to fool with it much - I want it to work. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Crime, Sex, Alcohol, Drugs... God, I love Congress. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Brutal Zune Review..and on to winmo
t.piwowar On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:48 PM, Jeff Wright wrote: I maintain that within 5 years, the iPhone will be a bit player in the mobile device market. Way too much competition coming down the pike. With 65,000 apps available for the iPhone and less than a dozen for the competitors it is going to be very hard to catch up. snip Now it looks like places have switched WRT the phone markets. In the desktop/laptop markets, MS had most of the headaches. In the phone markets, it now looks like Apple has that role (the hack from BlackHat with SMS messages taking over your phone). Someone else found a similiar vulnerability with WM phones, but it does seem like the iPhone market has become a big target for the bad guys. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I used to have a handle on life, then it broke. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Turbo Tax help
My wife and I are finally trying to do our 2008 taxes (long aggravating tale of woe). We also got married last year and now we need help in getting Turbo Tax to fill out the tax return (I have 401K contributions, they don't show up on the tax return, etc.) We imported her information since we are using her address as the mailing address. The automated assistant seems to be little more than worthless. I'm thinking we should go to a tax person to deal with this. I don't see a relevant newsgroup beyond the broad us.taxes newsgroup. Can anyone point in the right direction? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly An optimist is a guy without much experience * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Turbo Tax help
b_s-wilk On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: I'm thinking we should go to a tax person to deal with this. Yes you should. I found that fighting the software distracted me from other important tax issues, causing a mess. I filed and then had to hire a human to refile a correct form. We do our own taxes, small business and all. Tax software isn't particularly efficient, but having everything in a database/spreadsheet at the end is convenient. It often takes more time to use software or an accountant than to fill out forms yourself. Most of the work is gathering all of the pieces of paper, records, notes, numbers, statememts, forms. I use my own Excel spreadsheet, then sometimes TurboTax. Yes, keeping track of all of those stinking little pieces of paper drives me crazy. Usually I just put all of them in a folder and pull it out when it's time to do taxes. This year, I got smart, I gave them to my wife - she's the organized one and _she_ lost them for awhile (most was found). Filling out the forms is easy once you gather the numbers. Not making careless mistakes is the best reason for using tax software or a pro. Turbo Tax is best, IMHO; didn't like TaxCut. IRS has the info you need about 401k, http://www.irs.gov/retirement/article/0,,id=119625,00.html. I use Turbo Tax so the printing is clear, etc. and the right numbers get entered into the appropriate boxes and catch goofy mistakes. I usually start doing taxes by downloading all the publications and forms I need, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/, using http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p17.pdf and http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p334.pdf as guides. Mine is dead simple, Sweetie knows more about her return and she doesn't want/need my help in getting information. I NEVER file online. We use snail mail with confirmation. Same here, I tried it once and lost the fee with issues I had. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Measure with micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with axe * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Road runner cable access with a third party router
Art Clemons Security isn't high on the list of concerns, cows out number people at least 5 to 1, the town does have a stop light and it works. I wasn't really concerned with being safe as much as not breaking the Internet for our hosts. The mom there is talking about getting a laptop/netbook eventually. Security when connected to the internet is always a concern. I didn't say it wasn't a concern, I did say that security came after not breaking things. After I made sure the internet still worked, _then_ I would worry the security issue. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly My reality check just bounced * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Road runner cable access with a third party router
Art Clemons Does any of that make sense? I understand that the local cable office does have a WAP version as well as a non-WAP version of the modem. One other approach when the cable company or other broadband ISP doesn't want to open up its firewall setup is to have a DMZ IP address which is assigned to your router. Set up the router to do its normal IP filtering, NAT and SPI functions, and you're just as safe as if you had the router connected to a dumb modem. This assumes of course that you use WPA2 with AES and a relatively long password/pre-shared-key. Security isn't high on the list of concerns, cows out number people at least 5 to 1, the town does have a stop light and it works. I wasn't really concerned with being safe as much as not breaking the Internet for our hosts. The mom there is talking about getting a laptop/netbook eventually. Most ISPs will detail how to setup a DMZ IP address or range for folks like gamers. Just remember to use the router and not your computer as the interface. I haven't talked to the ISP, I might do that eventually. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly If this were an actual tagline, it would be funny. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Road runner cable access with a third party router
I was visiting my sister brother in-law in NY this past weekend for a baby shower (oh, the joys...). They do have cable (road runner). My niece, aka the new mom, says that as she understands it, if you disconnect the PC from the cable/modem to try and insert a router/WAP, things get screwed up. She wasn't sure why or how, I tried to talk to a sales droid at a Best Buy ~25 miles away (it's in the wilds of NY) and she seemed pretty clueless about the situation. Since I had no desire to cause anybody any problem, I was without email/newsgroup access for ~4 days... Does any of that make sense? I understand that the local cable office does have a WAP version as well as a non-WAP version of the modem. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Part-time musicians are semiconductors * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Healthcare
Rev. Stewart Marshall Talk about rationing. When I hear those commercials that rail against rationing, I wonder which insurance company paid for it, and if the CEO has the same coverage that all his employees are offered. I think the congress critters must be made to live under the same rules that they set for everyone. I heard about one proposed amendment that would've put Congress under the same plan as everybody else. I'm pretty sure that was laughed away...sad -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Whip me, beat me, make me code in COBOL!! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Bing FAILS on Big News
t.piwowar I bet Mozart's contemporaries said the same things about him. I also bet that long after Bill Gates is forgotten, people will still be thrilled by MJ. Could be BTW, without Googling it, who invented the transistor? the microprocessor? the 1st programming language? First transistor was by a team headed by William Shockley at ATT, Intel had the first microprocessor (depending on definition), the first programming language is also based on definitions - in some ways an assembler is a programming language (macro's, etc.) -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Managing senior programmers is like herding cats! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Bing FAILS on Big News
Robert Carroll Don't forget ALGOL. Predecessor of Fortran. Contemporary of Cobal. Hmmm, I thought FORTRAN pre-dates COBOL which pre-dates ALGOL. ALGOL was the predecessor to Simula. Checking wikipedia says that FORTRAN was from 1953, COBOL 1959. Wikipedia says that ALGOL is from 1958... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Be vewy vewy quiet...I'm hunting tagwines! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Has Apple Crossed the Line?
Stephen Brownfield I didn't know there were so many B5 fans on the list. John Duncan Yoyo wrote: Great now I get hear all Toms posts with Londo's accent. It is to late for pebbles in the stream to vote... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Do Not Attempt to Traverse a Chasm in Two Leaps. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Win7 Stampede?
Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. Tom: There is a BIG difference between network connectivity (i.e., server connections) between Home and Business. Absolutely, but more than a few businesses don't require server connections, etc. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Recursive, adj. - see Recursive. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Has Apple Crossed the Line?
Jeff Wright I know I'll regret asking...how do you link your made up political bogeymen to this? I was wondering the same after reading the linked article, since it doesn't even touch on ideology at all. But, it has a simple explanation: Tom is green. Anyone putting forth an idea that doesn't fit within his epistemological template is purple. (Babylon 5 fans will understand this analogy.) Yeah, but who is going to grab the scarf from around your (or Tom's) neck?? Yes, this relates to the story where the Drazi purple and green fought - it's amusing in places... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Sprint Requires SSN to Open Acct, buy Pre
One Man It's a deal killer. Â It's an inappropriate use of a form of govt id which was intended for the SS admin, not the convenience of Sprint. Â A private biz cannot require you to divulge your ssn. My power company demanded my SSN to pay my bill! -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Me hav'em heap trouble - Tonto the programmer * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Apple Does it Right
mike Have no idea what you are so excited about. I never said you could upgrade from 98 to w7...that was the point. XP and OS X came out within months of each other, xp a few months after os x. The big technology leap for apple was of course os 9 to OS X, for windows, the big leap is xp to vista..but I think the move from Win98SE/WinME to WinNT/Win2K is closer to OS9 - OSX. If MS would've stuck to their original plan with all of their improvements that got delayed/sidetracked (new fs, etc.) then it would've been a bigger deal. XP-Vista a big pain at introduction, now a much improved security model. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Remember: COBOL can be cured if detected in early stages * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DTV debacle
b_s-wilk We went from getting around 20 stations to 2. We have a new Well, you now almost have the same status I always have had. I used to get (with rabbit ears) a bunch of snowy stations from DC with one slightly better station (channel 4). I live in southern MD (LaPlata/Waldorf). -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Managing senior programmers is like herding cats! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Apple Does it Right
Jeff Wright  Let's put this all into a certain perspective.  Market forces have made it abundantly clear that the Windows operating system and the computers that come supplied with that OS are absolutely superior in every way, shape and form.  The sales figures have made this an indisputable fact according to the marketplace, and the marketplace is the primary criteria by which all such things are determined in our capitalist system.  End of argument? 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong. Look at it another way. If this were a presidential election, what words would you use to describe the voting gap between 1st and 2nd place? Don't tell me you still have McGovern and Mondale bumper stickers tucked away. That's ridiculous! Personal computers (small computers designed to be owned/used by an individual) have been around for what 25-30 years? Microsoft has been in the drivers seat for 20-25 of those years (since DOS 3.something?). MS acquired this dominance more through shrewd business tactics (bundling and discounting DOS and then Windows) -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly When your work SPEAKS for itself. ...Run * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 pain
Rev. Stewart Marshall Most vista drivers are supposed to work out of the box. So far I only found one that did not, and it was HP which is notoriously slow in releasing updates. A friend of mine at work ended up buying another XP system when the scanner vendor wouldn't supply Vista drivers (and didn't have plans to supply them, the machine was no longer being sold, etc.) -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I've seen better legs in a bucket of chicken ... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Apple Does it Right
Rev. Stewart Marshall Never been involved in retail marketing have you? Anything a company does is considered a revenue stream. Some companies make money on the front some make it on the back some make it every step of the way. marketing stuff snipped OSX has come out with how many versions over the past 10 years? Looks to be about 7 or 8 versions... MS has had only three. XP, Vista and later this year Win 7. (I'm a little confused now - there was Windows 3.0, Win98, Windows NT, etc.) XP has had 3 SP and Vista has had 1. Windows did not charge for any of the updates or service packs over the years. Apple also comes out with Service Packs, MS does theirs on a monthly basis with the occasional Oh! Crap! tossed in for good measure. Apple's patches aren't as frequent but they cost the same as the ones from MS (they're free). If a person had purchased XP ,Vista (Home premium) and Win 7. They might have spent as much money on OS as a person buying all the different versions of OSX*.* over the same time period. It seems that if a person buys a Windows upgrade they usually need to buy more horsepower to get performance. Apple seems to be able to deliver OS upgrades without requiring new h/w purchases. So, yes, people running Mac's can upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4 to 10.5 much easier than going from a 2005 era Windows XP installation to Windows Vista installation, but Windows 7 might be acceptable on the XP installation (reported to have acceptable performance on a netbook). I would like to see Win 7 marketed just over the $100 mark to get it out there and into as many hands as it could possibly get into. No matter what type of authentication service you use someone will crack it. So market the crap out of it, price it at the sweet spot and sell the hell out of it. Vista gave MS a bad reputation. After all of these patches, etc. it's probably okay, but the reputation lingers on. A good (read cheap) might remedy some of the reputation. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Managing senior programmers is like herding cats! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Subject: Re: When I think know...
Rev. Stewart Marshall That is not the song playing in my mind. It is old Marshall Tucker stuff and Little Feet. (My first room mate in college was a big fan of them) I'm a classic rock guy as well When I remember the concerts I used to go too way back when and some of the bands I saw I just kind of shake my head and wonder what has become of time. I still want to see a TSO or Mannheim concert in my lifetime, but the closest they come is usually about 3 hours away and it is on weekends which is undoable for me. Do yourself a favor, skip the concert, buy the CD and enjoy that. I took my girlfriend (now wife) to see them and was disappointed - they had a great light show, all kinds of props, etc. big hair and they had an act. I'm not sure how much of their music was theirs and how much was recorded. There are (?were?) an East Coast tour and simultaneously a West Coast tour. I'm not sure which of the two groups did the CD (or was it some of each). They had a couple of songs that weren't on the CD, but it wasn't worth the ticket price (IMHO). -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Tip for device drivers: Don't drink and boot. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Mac or PC laptop?
tjpa On May 28, 2009, at 10:27 PM, rileyca...@espsound.com wrote: Your PC software will not run on a Mac - PERIOD. PC software will run on an Apple made computer if you have installed Windows on it but the Mac OS runs software written to run in the Mac operating system. This uninformed person has never heard of WINE. Or Parallels/VMWare Fusion/Sun VirtualBox. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Part-time musicians are semiconductors * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Win7 Speed Improvement Was M$ B$
Jeff Wright As you pointed out, testing used synthetic benchmarks. Vendors tend to code for these well-known benchmarks. We expect real world experience to be worse. Actually, the expectation is that real-world results will be just be different. Synthetic benchmarks only measure what they were designed to measure. Let's just conveniently forget the hundreds of hands-on reviews that *all* indicated much better performance on the same hardware over Vista. We found the one that says what you want it to say. The only thing I've heard of definitively is that it doesn't require as much in the line of resources (memory, graphics performance, etc.) System performance is still waiting for Release Candidate experience. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly What's 20,000 lawyers rotting in a swamp? A GOOD Start! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Boardwatch magazine t-shirt
I've been doing some hourse cleanning/re-organizing and have found stuff I forgot ever ordering. For example a Boardwatch poster and t-shirt with a picture of Bill Gates with a title of BillGatus in the StarTrek Next Generation type. The poster and T-shirt still have the original box. I'm trying to find out if anyone wants any of this stuff or should I use the t-shirt to wash wax a car and recycle the carboard and poster... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Ignorance is temporary; stupid is forever. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Q: what are current best practices for limiting ema
Tom Piwowar Since the town may also have a website, it sounds like its not unreasonable to have a web form on the site instead of any other email way to get a hold of the government. You can put a CAPATCHA or other bot-obstacles in front of the form. Spammers attack web forms too. They have bots that fill in forms with their messages and submit the forms. You may not need something a complicated/annoying as a CAPATCHA. Just have one form field that asks something that a spammer would not know. As in performing some elementary math what is 3*5, what is the capital of MD (if there is a form, capital of the state where the addressee said they were from on their address)? What other types of questions? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly A clean, neat, desk is a sign of a sick mind * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Microsoft DRM Infects FireFox?
Art Clemons According to a study sponsored by the EU(?ECIS?), MS didn't document the Windows interface so that WP could use it. The document was very interesting. It was things I had all along but never had a strong enough desire to hunt down and document. It also didn't help that WordPerfect got sold several times first to Novell and then Corel. I thought Windows showed up before the Novell Corel, but the sale(s) didn't help. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly My reality check just bounced * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Microsoft DRM Infects FireFox?
Tom Piwowar It also didn't help that WordPerfect got sold several times first to Novell and then Corel. The big failure was that the folks at WordPerfect never figured out how to re-engineer their program for a GUI. They made lots of mistakes. Their menu structure was terrible. The tried to invent their own user interface rules instead of following the operating system's conventions. It was a flop. I thought they tried to use a version of thier DOS interface in the Windows world. At the time, WP was the leader of the word processing packages, they wanted to maintain the same user I/F to make the transition easier. As much as I criticize MS for its user interface foibles, the errors made by WordPerfect Corp were far, far worse. I heard (?somewhere?) the single application that sold Windows to the masses was a give away called Solitaire. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly The darn thing works better if you plug it in * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Microsoft DRM Infects FireFox?
Art Clemons Ubiquitous maybe, but popular I think not. Pushing software down people's throats is no way to win a popularity contest. I remember WordPerfect and WordStar being the dominant word processors, with Lotus and MS being real also rans. WordPerfect at the time was a much better choice for most folks who wanted a word processor. Word became ubiquitous and now is popular, it didn't win because it was a better choice, it won because it was available and WP just couldn't ever quite compete in Windows for snip According to a study sponsored by the EU(?ECIS?), MS didn't document the Windows interface so that WP could use it. The document was very interesting. It was things I had all along but never had a strong enough desire to hunt down and document. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Whip me, beat me, make me code in COBOL!! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Another new Windows ad...
Tom Piwowar Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was made by IBM. And the OS was written by Digital Research. Some say MS stole it. Hmmm, no. As I understand the story, IBM went to Digital Research and the guy there blew off the meeting with IBM for licensing CPM. Next, IBM went to MS, they had a BASIC interpreter for CPM. Gates said Sure, we'll do an operating system for you in (insert number here) months - they went to Seattle Computer Products and bought QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and modified that to run on IBM PC's. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Crime, Sex, Alcohol, Drugs... God, I love Congress. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Another new Windows ad...
Tom Piwowar Oh, boy, here we go. Who exactly says that, and why? MS licensed it, which to the best of my knowledge isn't theft. (Anyway, it was Seattle Computer Products, not DR. DR's OS was CP/M.) I'm sure MS has a division assigned to rewriting history and you have a shelf of their briefing books... Digital Research (Gary Kildall) was livid at the cloning of his OS (and a cheap clone at that). Up to this point he felt snip but seems to have remained bitter about this event. http://www.mackido.com/History/History_DrDos.html I caution anyone following this story to check the source of the information they are reading. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in laboratory rats! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Getting Firefox extensions as non-admin to work
Does anyone have a clue on how to get Firefox to work with extensions as a non-admin on a Mac? As an admin, they work great. BTW, the extensions are noscript, Forecast Fox, flashblock and a few others. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly What's 20,000 lawyers rotting in a swamp? A GOOD Start! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] First Place? [Was: Not cool enough [was re: Laptop Hunters]
David K Watson One box has superior specs, better reviews, and higher customer satisfaction ratings. The other one is cheaper and sells more. Where do you get your figures? I looked on amazon, and the Wii had better customer satisfaction ratings there than any of the Xbox models. That also seems to be the general understanding on the tech sites I visit. Aren't the Xbox's legendary for the red ring of death? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly The darn thing works better if you plug it in * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Ipod Touch question
Rev. Stewart Marshall Here is what all I do on my smart phone. snip This computer has been out of commission for the last week, I currently have 748 messagesgroan Nope this has nothing to do with the current discussion except in the most general of ways. I've been putting together the box o'stuff/junk (as poromisde) and it's getting _heavy_. More specifically: 3 250gb SATA drives of unknown status (they may/may not work) 1 120gb IDE - Spinrite'd and wiped 3(?4?) 80gb IDE - Spinrite'd and wiped 1 30gb IDE - Spinrite'd and wiped 2 15gb IDE - 1 has been Spinrite'd and wiped, the other will be when I get back home 1 DVD reader/writer - gee, it wouldn't work with Windows98 SE who would've guessedg 1 tape drive (Hornet? TR4?) - worked last time it was used, the tapes are long gone Some of the drives are mounted in trays so they can be removed easier as in swapping OS's - yeah, I didn't do that much. I also have keys that will be accompanying the drives. I may take the drives out of the trays and see if they guys that got most/all of the other racks if they want the trays, keys and last rack. I also intend to pack the video card and floppy drive from the system that is doing the wiping along with mice, etc. When I was fooling with the individual pieces, they don't weigh much, but put them together... I'm going to have to see how much this will cost to ship before a decision gets made. I hope you understand. This is in addition to the Windows XP license (I still haven't found two, only one) that I have along with various books, etc. There's also a cordless phone that needs a battery (I didn't see one at Best Buy), there's cell phone cases (my current one) that interfere with it working for me, there's some MP3 stuff (one player working missing the battery cover, a case for a Sansa something, an offer to download some music for the Sansa since I have a Mac, it was of little use to me, I had hoped the Sansa would be a viable alternative to an iPod - it wasn't, very sad. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Remember: COBOL can be cured if detected in early stages * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Ipod Touch question
Wayne Dernoncourt Rev. Stewart Marshall Here is what all I do on my smart phone. snip This computer has been out of commission for the last week, I currently have 748 messagesgroan That wasn't supposed to go to the list!!!arggghh -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Uninitialized pointers can get you in a heap of trouble! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Digital audio recorder
David Turk We have a group that will be doing oral histories, then giving us the files. We'd prefer this stay all-digital, so we don't have to do the conversion from cassette tape. Can someone recommend a device? Also, the ones I've been looking at can save files as both WAV MP3. Would there be a preferred format? These will be voice recordings only, no music. tia. One of the podcasts I listen to is by www.insightcruises.com Last December(??) there was a series 3 podcasts (actually one session that was split into three pieces) and the speaker talks about the equipment that is used and how to produce and make the podcast ready for release (how to make it available for itunes, podcatcher, etc. One of the things the speaker talked about was the equipment that worked well for that application. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly This is NOT Burger King. You do not get it YOUR way. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Digital audio recorder
David Turk The organization will be conducting the interviews on their own, without any assistance from us, aside from telling them what device file format we would like them to use. Hopefully, editing will be kept to a minimum. Thanks for the suggestion. I should've read this before my reply... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] What? Me Worry? - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! -- OT! POLITICS! or something like it
Jeff Wright Ok, so you refute some of my possibilities. Do you have any idea why we don't have them? If it is true that customers want them or it is recognized that they would want them, and their are no impediments in law to selling them then surely there are enough salesmen out their to figure it out and sell them. I agree with you in principle, but I think that the conservative and risk-averse monoculture within US auto companies is the largest factor at work. As long as gas was cheap, they convinced themselves that Americans would never buy small, but well designed cars from Europe, even though the Japanese were eating their lunch with smaller cars. snip I have to agree with you about the monoculture part. How long has VW, Toyota, Datsun/Nissan Honda been selling cars in the US? How long have import sales gone up and domestic sales down? Have often were those two trends reversed? Shouldn't that say something about the success of the Detroit mindset? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Imagination is more important than knowledge! - Einstein * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] I Bought a BIG Mistake
Tom Piwowar You probably need a fair number of amps to drive speakers to a reasonable volume. I have a small portable radio that does more than enough. snip Also, I don't know much specific about Coby mp3 players, but when I've seen that brand name on line, it seems to me it has usually been associated with what I would suspect are cheap products (way too much advertised capability, given the price). Review at Amazon gave it 4 out of 5 stars. I was not expecting iPod quality, but I got far, far less. I'm wondering if those were paid reviews written by someone attached to Coby (like the Belkin reviews). Make sure you put in a review so that other people don't get surprised. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Crime, Sex, Alcohol, Drugs... God, I love Congress. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] I Bought a BIG Mistake
BTW, I saw and bought a small radio with an adjustable iPod charger/plug for about $30 at Walgreen's. It doesn't sound great, but it's okay for podcasts. It can also take some number of batteries for portable use (it's about 6-8 wide, a couple of inches deep and about 6 tall). -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Redefining history [was: Taxes and good life]
Matthew Taylor You can not ignore what is not there. On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: Ding! You win the prize for the obvious - the bills threatened the availability of abortion without consequences and had to be opposed - even if this meant tolerating infanticide Why are you ignoring the fact that this infanticide was already illegal? Infanticide is legal? Wouldn't that come under the homicide label? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves
Art Clemons Peace is possible the day the Palestinian people want to live in peace. To date the majority has not so chosen. I do not support everything Israel does or has done, but until all their neighbors, including the Palestinians, accept its right to exist and live in peace, the war those neighbors declared continues to their detriment. As the best example of a functioning representative republic in the region we should aid them as we can. It's incredible you dare make this claim. Palestinians aren't occupying and controlling access to Israel, nor do they limit the ability of Israelis to travel. I suggest Israel no more desires peace than you claim the Palestinians do. It's especially apparent if you judge base on actions. (I'm behind on email, out of touch for a week with no email...) But they do get rockets, mortars and explosives into Gaza and the West Bank along with people who will kill themselves with the explosives (hmmm, that hasn't happened recently has it, at least I haven't seen it in the news). The focus of the Israeli's seems to be to stop the flow of weapons. They are talking about giving land up, there are some factions (the settlers) that don't buy it. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly A clean, neat, desk is a sign of a sick mind * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves
John Emmerling Hamas was launching rockets as recently a week ago (I won't vouch for the reliability of this NewsDaily site, so please corroborate for yourself): I was talking about the suicide bombers. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Crime, Sex, Alcohol, Drugs... God, I love Congress. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Resodding the mall, was Re: [CGUYS] Senate Approves
Wayne Dernoncourt But they do get rockets, mortars and explosives into Gaza and the West Bank along with people who will kill themselves with the explosives (hmmm, that hasn't happened recently has it, at least I haven't seen it in the news). The focus of the Israeli's seems to be to stop the flow of weapons. They are talking about giving land up, there are some factions (the settlers) that don't buy it. Thinking about this a little more, it seems that the Israeli military/police are reluctant to evict the settlers from the homes that are in the disputed zones. Disputed in that Israel and the Palestinians have both said it's Palestinians and the settlers that say it's the settlers. It seems that one way to build trust would be to have a team of Israeli soldiers escort Palestinian police to evict the settlers. The role of the Israeli's is to make sure that Palestinians don't go overboard in evicting I'm sure that there is lots wrong with something so simple. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Take my advice, I not using it! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] A Mac user's take on the Windows 7 user interface
Tom Piwowar *Big* difference. One may not agree with the conclusions, but at least there are no incendiary remarks. You don't know incendiary. You want to see incendiary, read this... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10148896-27.html MSN Mobile Music: Worst idea ever? Now here's a recipe for success: Take a brand that your parent company's been on the verge of abandoning for the last four years. Slap it on a new music download store for mobile phones. Encrust all the tracks with DRM, even though the rest of the music download industry is finally snip I believe this is an example of something called sarcasm. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in laboratory rats! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Win 7: A Clear-Eyed Review
Chris Dunford You cut off the rest of my sentence so I would appear unreasonable. snip It's very, very clear: negative reviews are clear-eyed, even-handed, and accurate. Positive reviews are fawning, suspicious, and written by M$'s minions. I get it. cue Fox news... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Measure with micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with axe * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Win 7: A Clear-Eyed Review
Tom Piwowar Okay, Tom, it's time to take off the Apple-colored glasses. . . Post a link to the ad that people are saying they're just a generic PC. I saw it on microsoft.com and later on network TV. There was a good amount of press about how it was replacing the terrible Seinfeld ads. Have you erased that from your brain? Do you remember the sorry Gates-Seinfeld ads? What news shows ran stories about the MS ads? Did they compare the MS ads to the Mac-PC ads? I thought the MS ads were the target of lots of criticism. The info I get from Leo Laporte says that Windows Vista wasn't bad in itself, the user experience was bad because of some stupid design decisions (supposedly they made parts (the UAC??) of it deliberately annoying, I no longer remember the reasoning), but it was better on security, etc. The part that everyone remembered though was the really annoying part and skipped everything else that was really good (from a security standpoint). One set of rumors has Win7 running on a netbook - time will tell. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I've never seen so damn many Indians. --G.A. Custer * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
Tom Piwowar That's why I prefer to use a limited user for everything on a regular basis, it limits my exposure. (I picked up this habit years ago when I was a system manager for a PDP VAX systems. That is correct, except when installing software or making changes to the system. That is what the admin account is for. And that is what I was trying to do - install the flight simulator... Except that it's not a general app, it's special. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Do Not Attempt to Traverse a Chasm in Two Leaps. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
Tom Piwowar And that is what I was trying to do - install the flight simulator... Except that it's not a general app, it's special. The idea of general app vs. special app is totally foreign to me. All apps can do potentially harmful things to a computer so I worry about all apps. If there are no safeguards about any random app running I am concerned. I'm not sure how else to describe the application. The flight sim (X-plane) needs to read/write the prefs (different from Mac OSX prefs, this is the starting location, aircraft, etc.) Standard trouble shooting practice is to delete the prefs directory (file?). A while back Flash was able to update itself without getting intercepted by OS X. I was very unhappy about that and am glad this is no longer the case. We really do need to have the OS able to protect itself. I'd be uneasy with that. I have little snitch running in an attempt to prevent that kind of behavior. One reason I like hardware applicances is because all their code is in firmware. While it can be updated, it is a special process. It sometimes even requires that hardware buttons get pressed a certain way, so the hardware protects the firmware. Yes -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Common sense ain't... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
Tom Piwowar That's in the documentation. They don't directly say not to do it. They do describe why you will be sorry if you do it. That's why I prefer to use a limited user for everything on a regular basis, it limits my exposure. (I picked up this habit years ago when I was a system manager for a PDP VAX systems. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly A mime is a terrible thing to waste! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Mac Mail: Redirect vs. Forward
Jeff Wright Huh, Jeff, WTF? Mark--It's very simple. Tom operates under the RDF'd delusion that Apple is some kind of warm-hearted, sweet-little-aunt-who-bakes-you-pies company that only behaves badly when backed into a corner I wonder if the Tom/Jeff pair are different personalities in the same body? They both denigrate the other and proclaim their's is the correct side. Both companies are using methods to make their company grow. It's not like Microsoft isn't above arm-twisting and stove-piping. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly ROTFL: Rats on Thorazine Feel Lazy * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
Tom Piwowar Actually, I think Tom was saying that Garmin forcing you to use Active X is a Bad Thing. And I'd have to ag. . . agre. . . Ohh, I just can't say it. Forcing anyone to use IE is certainly a crime. I went one step further to say that any company who can't figure out how to do a job using open standards is advertising that they have very poor engineering skills. Hence I would expect to be otherwise not too hot. I believe subsequent posts cleared Garmin of this offense, but raised a new one. To register you had to be running an administrative account. That is not quite as bad as requiring IE, but certainly does not establish their engineering chops. So instead of 0 stars they get 2 stars. Can IWork or iLife be installed as a limited user? Yes, I installed the Garmin program as admin and then switched to the limited user to do the actual registration. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Uninitialized pointers can get you in a heap of trouble! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] yardsticks Re:Tandoori Chicken
Jordan Tandoori Chicken (19+ / 0-) 1 Chicken, approximately 2 pounds (without skin), cut in serving sizes. Ingredients for marinade: 3 tbsp yogurt + 1 tbsp vinegar 1 tsp garam masala --- oh good, alcohol should help of course, it must be sampled to ensure quality 1 cup portland cement --- portland cement?? a, ups the crunch factor!g 1/2 tsp corriander powder 1/2 tsp cumin powder 1/2 tsp ginger powder 1/2 tsp garlic powder Salt Red Pepper to taste Pinch of orange edible color powder Other Ingredients: 1/4 cup oil to brush 1/2 lemon 1/2 tsp cumin powder 1 onion sliced Mix all ingredients for the marinade and add chicken to it.Let marinade set for two hours. On the barbecue grill, grilllike any other chicken. Brush chicken with oil 2-3 times while cooking. To cook in conventional oven, preheat to 375 and bake chicken in shallow dish for 25-30 minutes till done. Discard any excess water and brush chicken 2-3 times while baking. To serve, arrange chicken pieces on a serving platter. Arrange sliced onions around it. Sprinkle lemon juice and cumin powder and serve. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Whip me, beat me, make me code in COBOL!! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
Tom Piwowar Can IWork or iLife be installed as a limited user? Yes, I installed the Garmin program as admin and then switched to the limited user to do the actual registration. No application can be installed by a non-admin user. That is as it should be. Some programs can be installed and used as a non-admin, x-plane for example. It isn't a general purpose application like word processing, etc. To run, it has to open files for read/write from where it was installed. Installing as admin means that is who has to run it. Installing it as a limited user lets me use it as non-admin user (that was my goal). So is the latest version of the story that you were correctly blocked from installing software and that lead to your not being able to register? After you installed the software with proper admin rights you were able to register from a standard account? The latest version? There things I know now that I didn't before changing the results of what I get. If that is the case there is no reason to castigate Garmin. Maybe you should be reading the Little Mac Book? I expect to be learning things my entire life. I've never seen the Little Mac Book. Many things were obvious in use, other things not so obvious. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in laboratory rats! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
Tom Piwowar Some programs can be installed and used as a non-admin, x-plane for example. It isn't a general purpose application like word processing, etc. To run, it has to open files for read/write from where it was installed. They tell you to not install it into the Applications folder. Doing that would cause a password prompt (unless your were user 500 or 501). Actually, I don't remember ever getting a password prompt, just an error dialog about not being able to write to a file. I also don't remember ever being told not to install it as an application. Looks like you give it a directory of its own and it builds everything it needs in there. This would circumvent the OS's password prompt. At most you would get a prompt that you are running something that was downloaded. You can say yes to that without entering a password. I for one would prefer that the OS did require a password for this. I do get the dialog about Downloaded from the internet... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Whip me, beat me, make me write BASIC! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
katan Really? Install our program or run Active X to register the product? That doesn't sound like the greatest customer service. I guess there's always ye olde tried-and-true mail-in card? I didn't see one. I'm guessing they get a lot of configuration information from the Active-X control/Mac app. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Take my advice, I not using it! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
David Newhall On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:35 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: Date:Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:05:21 -0500 From:Wayne Dernoncourt way...@panix.com Subject: Windows Active X I bought myself a Garmin GPS in October. I've been trying to register it on the Garmin site for the last couple of weeks. I say trying because so far I've been failing. They don't really support the Mac so I've been trying to use my wife's Windows XP computer. The Windows version uses Active X for the registration process. For some reason, Active X is being prevented from running, I tried shutting down AVG and nothing still worked. I don't know how to figure out where to go from here. Garmin is one of the few GPS companies that provides decent Mac support. I've registered two on my Mac and love the new tool that sends google map coordinates to the Favorites folder on the device right from Google Maps. Ahhh, I normally use this Mac as a limited user, everything I do is as a limited user. Installing the Garmin s/w didn't do much that way. I tried doing this as a the admin and had lots more success. It's been registered! Thanks much. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly COBOL: Completely Obnoxious Because of Length * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Windows Active X
I bought myself a Garmin GPS in October. I've been trying to register it on the Garmin site for the last couple of weeks. I say trying because so far I've been failing. They don't really support the Mac so I've been trying to use my wife's Windows XP computer. The Windows version uses Active X for the registration process. For some reason, Active X is being prevented from running, I tried shutting down AVG and nothing still worked. I don't know how to figure out where to go from here. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly We all live in a yellow subroutine. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows Active X
Tony B Wild first guess - you _are_ using IE? ActiveX only works in IE. And there should be a blocking notice you'll have to manually approve. Install IE7 (if applicable) and try again. Tom seemed to indicate lack of Mac support seemed to be a reason to not consider Garmin. None of the manufacturers seem to go out of there way to support the Mac. Very sad. This was true with both Firefox and IE. First I used Firefox and then realized it could be an IE thing. I thought I looked at the settings, I didn't see anything to allow/disallow the Active X control. I'll take another look and maybe re-install IE. Thanks for the link to test Active X, Garmin also has a link to test their application with the 'puter setup. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Radioactive halibut will make fission chips * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Family Project
Tom Piwowar Yes, we know Tom, you hate windows. We know, you've flogged it to DEATH...we all know. It's not a secret. Everyone agrees with you now, you've beaten everyone to your side. Windows is horrid and terrible and a scourge. I use Windows all the time. Probably half the time most days. Why is it okay for me to be pissy about Apple's problems, but blasphemy to write similar things about MS? It's how much you heap on MS versus how much you heap on Apple. This doesn't mention the level of the vitriol you have for one over the other. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Very good, Einstein - but next time show your work * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 Public Beta: 1st Major Blooper
Tom Piwowar Tom was trying to make this into a problem with Windows 7, which it clearly is not. You keep slicing and dicing every MS problem to find any way you can to put the responsibility on somebody else. Oh? What somebody else did I try to put the problem on? I don't know. You were very vague on that. That's one of my problems with your defense of MS. Your tack that nobody is responsible for anything. I prefer to work with vendors that take responsibility. I can no longer keep track of who the players are... What, if anything, do the activation keys do for the Windows 7 beta? I am surprised that if they were needed that the MS servers couldn't meet the demand. It's not like they've never had a big release before. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Mercy, Buckets! (As they say in France) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Windows 7 Public Beta: 1st Major Blooper
Chris Dunford Wayne, Tom appears to have confused two different events. There was a technical glitch of some kind, not related to demand, in delivering the activation keys. Subsequently MS decided that it was going to need more hardware to handle the volume of Win7 downloads, so it added more. But these were two separate events. I'm a little surprised by that, given the black eye that MS got from Vista, I thought they would've had a couple of dozen dry runs to make sure that _no_ one had issues in trying the beta. It wasn't a big deal, just a We don't need this crap To answer your first question, the activation key simply allows you to use the beta for more than 30 days. As I understand it the full release is supposed to be sometime in late summer (according to various and sundry tech news sources), correct and they only plan to have one beta release? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Do Not Attempt to Traverse a Chasm in Two Leaps. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Zunepocalypse
Tom Piwowar OK, MP3 players have the same fail-safe requirements as 747s. My bad. Don't know what I could've been thinking. I did not ever use the word failsafe. You are once again trying to drag the discussion to a nutty place. Previously you tried to sell the idea that because it was not possible to test _everything_ then it was okay to be slovenly and not conduct diligent testing and quality control. I think the blame is being placed incorrectly. It seems that the code in question was part of a library licensed/purchased by MS to develop the Zune? That library functionality didn't have enough unit tests to test for correct functionality. I don't see any reason to believe that MS should conduct additional unit tests on a purchased library. This is poor code QA from the original developer, not MS. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Facts, though interesting, are irrelevant * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] PC and MAC interchanges
Rev. Stewart Marshall Often if you go the manufactures web site you can download drivers for the sticks. 98SE was the only one to support USB. I know, if you worked hard enough, you _might_ get them to work work with later service packs of WinNT. My suggestion is this (Suggestion) look up a few of the major manufacturers and see which ones support 98SE. Buy one of theirs and download the driver and see if it works. I have used up to 1 GB size of these sticks with great success. Otherwise if it must be smaller look around on ebay. Someone must be selling a few of these dirt cheap (even compgeeks might have them) with the price of solid state memory coming down they just get cheaper and cheaper. What brand have you used with success? The thought of going to lots of different websites looking through that stuff...shudder I know that even if I can find one that you have used successfully, I may not be successful. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly What's 20,000 lawyers rotting in a swamp? A GOOD Start! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] PC and MAC interchanges
Michael Fernando To copy stuff from an old Win98SE disk ... I have used up to 1 GB size of these sticks with great success. Otherwise if it must be smaller look around on ebay. Someone must be selling a few of these dirt cheap (even compgeeks might have them) with the price of solid state memory coming down they just get cheaper and cheaper. How about a different approach? Buy/borrow an external USB disk enclosure that takes IDE disks. Transfer your Win98SE disk into that. Connect it to your new system which has better USB support. Copy the files over to the new system. Yeah, that might work! -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Recursive, adj. - see Recursive. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] PC and MAC interchanges
Michael Wosnick Hi all, I am posting this with great reluctance. While I am truly wanting legitimate information, I know I am risking a lot of posturing in the PC vs. Mac, MS vs. the world camps, etc and would prefer to just get the straight info without all the politics, posturing, name-calling etc. It gets tiring after a while doesn't it, but the participants never seem to tire... I have been a dedicated PC user since they came out. So has my wife. Both of our workplaces are fully and 100% PC and it is imperative that we are able to connect from home (VPNs etc) and more importantly to have our work products at home be fully compatible with the products that are coming out of the hundreds of PCs that inhabit our professional careers and workplaces. And so our desktops and laptops at home are all PC and windows-based (some Vista, some XP pro). I had a Win98SE system that I used for years. A guy at work gave me a dead Mac notebook (13 Titanium with dead hard drive), I replaced it and got everything working again and finally upgraded it when the optical drive croaked with a MacBook Pro. So a _lot_ of the recent stuff was on the Mac laptop, more old/archival stuff is on the Win98SE system. I now want to pull off the old stuff from the Win98SE system and ditch it. There's about 2GB worth of stuff that may need to be kept. I divided that up into 625-700MB directories and the plan was to burn this stuff to CD's, make sure those are readable and then nuke the drive. Win98SE can start Roxio Easy CD Creator, but when I hit burn, I'm told incompatible media... (it's at home, I'm not) Are there different types of CD media (from Staples) out there? Maybe a session with the Genius bar would help. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly An optimist is a guy without much experience * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] PC and MAC interchanges
Jeff Wright There's about 2GB worth of stuff that may need to be kept. I divided that up into 625-700MB directories and the plan was to burn this stuff to CD's, make sure those are readable and then nuke the drive. Win98SE can start Roxio Easy CD Creator, but when I hit burn, I'm told incompatible media... (it's at home, I'm not) Move it all to a USB thumb drive (or hard drive) and then copy it to the Macbook. Win98 supports USB, tho' it will only be v. 1.1...s-l-o-o-o-o-w. Any decent USB drive should have 98 drivers ready to install. Ahhh, yes, Any decent USB drive..., this is a PNY 4GB stick. Apparently according to the PNY website, they only support the 128MB/256MB sticks. I used to use a 64MB/128MB stick and when it broke, the system didn't seem to want to recognize any other sticks (PNY, same size, etc. - it's been years). -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Do Not Attempt to Traverse a Chasm in Two Leaps. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] parallels 4.0
William McCarthy Having only an anecdote, my own experience, to offer, I would suggest that she wait. My own (attempted) upgrade from 3 to 4 has been terrible. Before version 4, I had been very happy with Parallels. snip I wish I would read this before last weekend when I ordered the upgrade... -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Do Not Attempt to Traverse a Chasm in Two Leaps. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Time Machine
Tom Piwowar Tom didn't mention that a firewire connection is best between the computer and the external hard drive. Sadly, Apple is walking away from FireWire. Their newest laptops omit it. Although FireWire continues to have many advantages over USB2, USB2 is just good enough to get by. FireWire is another great technology destroyed by our WFB's race to the bottom. Yes, Firewire is great. But I think you went a little far with the previous sentence, instead of USB2 is just good enough to get by, I think that should read USB2 is good enough. How much does it cost a manufacturer for Firewire 400/800 versus USB 2? So if you are buying new drives make sure that USB2 is included. It costs a bit more, but everything I have been buying these last couple of years has both FireWire and USB2. Firewire seems to be getting rare. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly I used to have a handle on life, then it broke. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Lie Online, Go to Jail
db Yes, and a good thing too that it was determined to be a crime. Just because the internet is a new frontier does not mean crime and injustice isn't perpetrated by its use. To the contrary. The internet is just a new medium for human beings to use for age old purposes (information, communication, business etc.) and sometimes unfortunately in age old abusive or unfair ways (persecution, fraud, theft, ..) snip Maybe part of the sentence is the prohibition of the use of any on-line electronic device (see Kevin Mitnick) -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind most * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Reviewer Bias [Was: Windows 7]
Tom Piwowar But what I get tired of, is the one sided biases that some folks show when they review stuff. I recently watched a review of the Blackberry Storm done by (Get this) two Iphone users. Built in bias! Pick someone who does not use either phone and have them compare and see what they like. That is a fair comparison. I would prefer to read reviews by people who know what they are writing about. The iPhone created a new category of mobile phone and the rest of the industry is now scrambling to match it. Someone who uses the phone that sets the standard is going to be in a good position to write an intelligent review. I fully understand why MS would prefer to snip You should try listening to some of the podcasts on twit.tv. Leo LaPorte does gobs of tech related podcasts. The techguy podcast is a call-in show trying to help computer users out. A pretty normal question is What kind of phone should I buy? Hmmm, does that format sound familiar? -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind most * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] MS Herding the Sheeple [Was: Windows 7]
Tom Piwowar And of course, Herr Doctor himself. Tom has on many more than one occasion urged list members to dump their ISP provided email and move to the cloud via Gmail or the like. An idea with which I agree with whole-heartedly. A feeble attempt to change the subject. Nothing has been posted in opposition to cloud computing or even MS's attempt to join the parade. My issue is solely with MS's tactic of herding its sheeple to its web properties by removing popular parts of Windows. I think Windows 7 is an attempt to get better performance from peoples computers. The big problem that Vista had was that it needed so much computer. Lot's of systems were sold as Vista Ready when the only version of Vista that would run was the most basic version and they didn't expect anyone to actually use that one. The modular approach lets people pick and choose what is actually installed. How this works should be interesting to watch. I understand (listening to Paul Thurrott) that the guy in charge of Vista development at MS uses a netbook on a daily basis and expects to use that for Windows 7. BTW, Paul T. uses a Macbook Pro w/boot manager for his laptop, he started out using an Amiga and switched sometime after Windows 3.1(??). -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Dirty old modules love to get overlaid! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Glitter [Was: Setting the default browser]
Tom Piwowar Things like this are improvements that MS should be making to the Windows OS, but all that seems to happen is the addition of what I would call glitter, not functionality That is what happens when engineers try to copy a successful competitor's product and they don't fundamentally understand the reasons for the other product's success. They copy the wrong things. The useless glitter. Okay... For example, when the not-so-successful engineers from Next tried to write the successor to OS 9 they missed so much of what made the Mac great. It took years of screaming by their customers to get important missed features put back and even today, 6 versions into OS X, there are still important features that were left behind. The arrogant Nexties could not get their brains around the concept that their ideas were not as good as the ideas that were already there. FTFF is still a sore point with many long-time Apple customers. What important features aren't present? When was the last important brought forward? Are kind of things are these missing features (UI (appearance, etc.), gadgets/mini-apps, system functionality (back-up), the list goes on)? Hmmm, for those of us who are not cognoscenti, what is FTFF? I'm glad to see Windows users owning up to their useless glitter. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Whip me, beat me, make me write BASIC! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
