RE: [H] Ot - prank callers
http://www.ospenterprises.com/phone/ Nope. From: Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Ot - prank callers Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 05:38:11 + GMT Ok second time in a couple weeks had someone call my house around midnight private number and play back mp3 'bits' over the phone at me. Honestly very 'howard stern' esque kind of stuff... I sure love being woken up with bs :( So even if it is 'private number' is there anything that can be done to report it? CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless
Re: [H] Getting WMP to play dvds or movies
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: On a fresh PC, how do you get windows media player to play movies (DVD, .avi) without installing PowerDVD or WinDVD? Thanks. I still use AcesMegaCodecPack (Or is it AceMegaCodecPack) either way, I've yet t run into a video I can't view, although there was one codec that was incompatible with the in game player for oblivion that I had to disable. Christopher Fisk -- BOFH Excuse #374: It's the InterNIC's fault.
Re: [H] Ot - prank callers
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Chris Reeves wrote: Ok second time in a couple weeks had someone call my house around midnight private number and play back mp3 'bits' over the phone at me. Honestly very 'howard stern' esque kind of stuff... I sure love being woken up with bs :( So even if it is 'private number' is there anything that can be done to report it? Reporting them? No, but you can disable the ability of people to call you if they have caller id information off. You'll have to contact your phone company. Christopher Fisk -- Brian Griffin: She's a whiney little runt isn't she? [Lois gasps] Brian Griffin: What? I said runt.
[H] New Business Ideas
After being retired (mostly) for a few of years from the remodeling biz, I'm looking for something to do. Here's what I came up with. Please pick it apart and/or offer ideas. - I'd like to do something with computers/networking. (I already have all my friends and their friends calling me for help) - The competition is tough. - I don't care to deal with Microsoft, so building new boxen will be kept to a minimum. The other day I walked around the block looking for unsecured wireless networks with the lappy. I was amazed how many there were. As a way of building clientele, I was thinking about covering neighborhoods with fliers listing these open nets, and offering to secure them for a nominal fee. I believe it's OK to search for open nets, as long as I don't actually connect to one. I could turn my van into a rolling lab; scan a block; plug in the names of open nets; print up some fliers; etc. Add a little FUD to the flier like: someone could commit online crimes from your open net, to stimulate responses. BTW, some of the names of wifi 's are most amusing. (don't_steal, etc.) Anyway, just thinking out loud... TIA, al
[H] Laptop Internet Connections
Let's say your LT has a wireless lan connection and a wired lan connection. Assuming the are both on, which gets used and how do you know? If you start out wireless and then plug in, does the wired lan then take over? Can the bandwidth on both be shared (downloading one file on wireless while getting another on the wired line)? Is this obvious?
[H] OT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is live now...
I have seen some interest in space related stuff on this list so I thought I'd let you all know that [EMAIL PROTECTED] went live on August 1. http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu I can't get to the site at the moment, but if you remember, the StarDust mission tried to capture cometary matter in aerogel collectors (isn't that some cool stuff?). They then took many images with a microscope to create thousands of approximately 500 micron X 500 micron movies where you adjust the focus (the images were taken by focusing at different depths) and look for tracks that show where a particle may have been captured. Anyway, check it out if you are so inclined. Bobby
Re: [H] Laptop Internet Connections
my understanding is the last one to log on is the used. I have cable here but if I do a dialup connection to test something the dialup takes over. fp At 12:35 PM 8/3/2006, Anthony Q. Martin Poked the stick with: Let's say your LT has a wireless lan connection and a wired lan connection. Assuming the are both on, which gets used and how do you know? If you start out wireless and then plug in, does the wired lan then take over? Can the bandwidth on both be shared (downloading one file on wireless while getting another on the wired line)? Is this obvious? -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
Re: [H] Laptop Internet Connections
Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Can the bandwidth on both be shared (downloading one file on wireless while getting another on the wired line)? You would need to create routes based either on port # or destination IP. AFAIK there isn't anything out there to make this easy.
[H] Funny Customer Story #15,231
Here's another one: We had a customer purchase an Enermax external HD case and an 80GB hard drive. I assembled it and formatted the drive as NTFS since I figured that would be beyond her. She called the next day to say the case was falling apart and the green stuff was coming out. We had her bring it in, because, honestly, I had no idea what the green stuff would be. So she brought the drive in today. I was really interested in seeing a)how the case could be falling apart, and b)what the heck the green stuff was. As those of you who have seen the Enermax external HD cases, you know it comes in a rather classy looking cardboard box. She took the box out of her back pack, and showed us the torn cardboard on one corner, through which the green plastic packaging inside was showing. She was concerned that the carrying case was falling apart already, and the green stuff was coming out. It took me a second to compose myself and avoid saying You ripped the cardboard packaging and you think that's a product flaw?!? I explained the metal case was enough to protect the hard drive. Users. Thank god they make sure I'll always have a job. :) T
[H] Karaoke
Does anyone have any suggestions for playing Karaoke CDs on computer or on XBox? My DVD player died, so I'm down to my HTPC or my XBox. T
[H] Vista AV SW ?
Installed Vista so I can beta test Standby Disk backup software. everything
works but my toys :{( (tweak and powertoys )
and my AV SW
do not trust things like spywareblaster and CCleaner ( removed them )
Did a upgrade first, part of the testing process, computer is slow as hell.
Just a amd at 11 x 166 currently with 512 megs ram. May need to do something
about that.
suggestions ? for free I wonder if one care is still available.
fp
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Tallyho ! ]:8)
Taglines below !
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Women's clothes: Go to extremes, seldom to extremities.
Re: [H] Vista AV SW ?
Nod32 works and avg free is also vista ready. Norton 2006 and Mcafee will f*!!
You up
CW
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-Original Message-
From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:42:10
To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Vista AV SW ?
Installed Vista so I can beta test Standby Disk backup software. everything
works but my toys :{( (tweak and powertoys )
and my AV SW
do not trust things like spywareblaster and CCleaner ( removed them )
Did a upgrade first, part of the testing process, computer is slow as hell.
Just a amd at 11 x 166 currently with 512 megs ram. May need to do something
about that.
suggestions ? for free I wonder if one care is still available.
fp
--
Tallyho ! ]:8)
Taglines below !
--
Women's clothes: Go to extremes, seldom to extremities.
Re: [H] Karaoke
You should be banned immediately. 8P Thane Sherrington wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for playing Karaoke CDs on computer or on XBox? My DVD player died, so I'm down to my HTPC or my XBox. T -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
Re: [H] Funny Customer Story #15,231
Please, next time, just put her out of her misery... ;) _ Julian Zottl CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff the right packets -- Original Message -- From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:22:40 -0300 Here's another one: We had a customer purchase an Enermax external HD case and an 80GB hard drive. I assembled it and formatted the drive as NTFS since I figured that would be beyond her. She called the next day to say the case was falling apart and the green stuff was coming out. We had her bring it in, because, honestly, I had no idea what the green stuff would be. So she brought the drive in today. I was really interested in seeing a)how the case could be falling apart, and b)what the heck the green stuff was. As those of you who have seen the Enermax external HD cases, you know it comes in a rather classy looking cardboard box. She took the box out of her back pack, and showed us the torn cardboard on one corner, through which the green plastic packaging inside was showing. She was concerned that the carrying case was falling apart already, and the green stuff was coming out. It took me a second to compose myself and avoid saying You ripped the cardboard packaging and you think that's a product flaw?!? I explained the metal case was enough to protect the hard drive. Users. Thank god they make sure I'll always have a job. :) T
