Re: [H] quickbooks question ?
Wow. Must be mostly lurkers... On Jan 10, 2008 12:34 AM, Rick Glazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No problem. As far as other answers, there were none, so it does not happen much, or nobody tried it... We have 3078 members... (Not a typo, yes - it is up +8 since this morning, grin) Rick Glazier From: FORC5 BTW thanks for the invite to the user group. I will take advantage of it. fp Rick had said: If you have additional questions, please join... (It will be faster for you... grin) (I just sent a slipstreamed invite.)
Re: [H] quickbooks question ?
We have 269 to 867 messages a month... (Based on a period starting in 2005 after list was well established.) It is almost? totally un-moderated. (Thank goodness!) Rick Glazier From: Brian Weeden Wow. Must be mostly lurkers... We have 3078 members...
[H] CompUSA site
Look at the monitors - the faces of those laid off. http://www.compusa.com/specials/sales/071230sale/default.asp?pfp=fodprod_group_category_id=3560 T
Re: [H] PC boots Windows 2000 CD but not XP PRO CD?
Didn't try that yet, but the Winternals ERD 2005 disk did work. We will be trying WinPE today or tomorrow when we boot it up to ghost the image. I guess it's possible, but I've never seen it before. Can you boot from a BartPE CD? T -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... ...Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult...
[H] Auto call forwarding
I'm going to be spending the better part of a month traveling in the US for 2 weeks and then Austia for a week. Right now I have a Canadian cell phone. So I plan on getting prepaid SIM cards for the US and Austria so I don't have to pay roaming charges. But this introduces the problem of letting people know my new numbers. Instead of spamming my new numbers to all my contacts I'm looking for a more elegant solution. One way would be to record a voicemail greeting on my Canadian cell saying that I'm traveling and list my new number. But I think there could be a better solution. My dream solution would be to have calls made to my Canadian cell number automatically routed to whatever prepaid card number I am currently using. Since I am going to be taking the Canadian SIM out of the phone to swap in the prepaid it needs to work without the actual phone being on. I've heard a lot about GrandCentral and was wondering if anyone on the list had experience with it: http://www.grandcentral.com Can anyone think of another way to solve my little dilemma? --- Brian
Re: [H] Auto call forwarding
Do I have to base everything off the Grandcentral number? I would prefer to have a system that used my current number instead. I guess I could get a US Grandcentral number and then forward that to the prepaid number. The problem with that is people that are in Canada and call my Canadian cell would not get forwarded. On Jan 10, 2008 4:34 PM, Robert Martin Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Grandcentral. If you give out a grandcentral number to everyone you can forward it to mulitiple phones, or to single phone and change which number it forwards to whenever you like. While your gone forward to your cell and when you get back change forwarding number to home phone again. This is nice because if you move residence you still use grandcentral as the number and forward to the new phone. It's been very reliable. I use grandcentral paired with gizmo on PBX-in-a-Flash from nervittles, to provide a separate free number (VOIP) for my step daughter that goes to her room. All the phone calls every evening were bugging me and now they can talk all they want (incoming is free, outgoing is cheap via Callcentric Les.net) lopaka Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be spending the better part of a month traveling in the US for 2 weeks and then Austia for a week. Right now I have a Canadian cell phone. So I plan on getting prepaid SIM cards for the US and Austria so I don't have to pay roaming charges. But this introduces the problem of letting people know my new numbers. Instead of spamming my new numbers to all my contacts I'm looking for a more elegant solution. One way would be to record a voicemail greeting on my Canadian cell saying that I'm traveling and list my new number. But I think there could be a better solution. My dream solution would be to have calls made to my Canadian cell number automatically routed to whatever prepaid card number I am currently using. Since I am going to be taking the Canadian SIM out of the phone to swap in the prepaid it needs to work without the actual phone being on. I've heard a lot about GrandCentral and was wondering if anyone on the list had experience with it: http://www.grandcentral.com Can anyone think of another way to solve my little dilemma? --- Brian
Re: [H] Auto call forwarding
I've used them in a couple countries, New Zealand and China. Yes, they are just as expensive for international calls but local calls are much cheaper. And that's what I will be using them for. Spending 2 weeks in the US working I will need to use my phone and won't always have Skype. Most of the calls will be to US numbers so if I have a US SIM it will be great. Ditto for the week in Austria. I've used Telestial in the past for getting foreign SIM Cards and they do list some US ones: http://www.telestial.com On Jan 10, 2008 4:35 PM, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be careful with pre-paid SIM's. When I was in Aruba, admittedly this was in 2003, I was seeing US$1/min rates with them. I don't think I've seen a pre-paid SIM in the USA. Brian Weeden wrote: I'm going to be spending the better part of a month traveling in the US for 2 weeks and then Austia for a week. Right now I have a Canadian cell phone. So I plan on getting prepaid SIM cards for the US and Austria so I don't have to pay roaming charges. But this introduces the problem of letting people know my new numbers. Instead of spamming my new numbers to all my contacts I'm looking for a more elegant solution. One way would be to record a voicemail greeting on my Canadian cell saying that I'm traveling and list my new number. But I think there could be a better solution. My dream solution would be to have calls made to my Canadian cell number automatically routed to whatever prepaid card number I am currently using. Since I am going to be taking the Canadian SIM out of the phone to swap in the prepaid it needs to work without the actual phone being on. I've heard a lot about GrandCentral and was wondering if anyone on the list had experience with it: http://www.grandcentral.com Can anyone think of another way to solve my little dilemma? --- Brian
Re: [H] Auto call forwarding
Not neccessarily. What you want to do is possible to do but you'd need an asterisk box or vmware image configured to recieve and forward calls from home to the new number. Setting this up could be a major project though, if you haven't used asterisk/freepbx before. You might be able to have the phone company do a temporary call forward to the new number during your trip lopaka Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I have to base everything off the Grandcentral number? I would prefer to have a system that used my current number instead. I guess I could get a US Grandcentral number and then forward that to the prepaid number. The problem with that is people that are in Canada and call my Canadian cell would not get forwarded. On Jan 10, 2008 4:34 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: I use Grandcentral. If you give out a grandcentral number to everyone you can forward it to mulitiple phones, or to single phone and change which number it forwards to whenever you like. While your gone forward to your cell and when you get back change forwarding number to home phone again. This is nice because if you move residence you still use grandcentral as the number and forward to the new phone. It's been very reliable. I use grandcentral paired with gizmo on PBX-in-a-Flash from nervittles, to provide a separate free number (VOIP) for my step daughter that goes to her room. All the phone calls every evening were bugging me and now they can talk all they want (incoming is free, outgoing is cheap via Callcentric Les.net) lopaka Brian Weeden wrote: I'm going to be spending the better part of a month traveling in the US for 2 weeks and then Austia for a week. Right now I have a Canadian cell phone. So I plan on getting prepaid SIM cards for the US and Austria so I don't have to pay roaming charges. But this introduces the problem of letting people know my new numbers. Instead of spamming my new numbers to all my contacts I'm looking for a more elegant solution. One way would be to record a voicemail greeting on my Canadian cell saying that I'm traveling and list my new number. But I think there could be a better solution. My dream solution would be to have calls made to my Canadian cell number automatically routed to whatever prepaid card number I am currently using. Since I am going to be taking the Canadian SIM out of the phone to swap in the prepaid it needs to work without the actual phone being on. I've heard a lot about GrandCentral and was wondering if anyone on the list had experience with it: http://www.grandcentral.com Can anyone think of another way to solve my little dilemma? --- Brian
[H] Program to simulate RAM load
Does anyone know of a program I can use to simulate a load on RAM (not read/write, but just to use up a block of RAM so I can bench test a program in various RAM sizes without physically changing the RAM in a PC?) T
[H] Free AV ?
As far as free AV goes, been using AVG but was playing with Avast. Opinions appreciated. ( for customer boxen ) fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why.
Re: [H] Free AV ?
I use avast on my x64 system, avg on my laptop and clamav on servers. lopaka FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as free AV goes, been using AVG but was playing with Avast. Opinions appreciated. ( for customer boxen ) fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why.
Re: [H] Free AV ?
On Jan 11, 2008 6:10 AM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as free AV goes, been using AVG but was playing with Avast. Opinions appreciated. ( for customer boxen ) Avast detected better those pesky viruses you get from USB drives that's why I shifted.
Re: [H] Program to simulate RAM load
Is it windows? If so, why not just use the /maxmem=xxx boot.ini switch? It'd be a far more accurate test, too... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:59 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Program to simulate RAM load Does anyone know of a program I can use to simulate a load on RAM (not read/write, but just to use up a block of RAM so I can bench test a program in various RAM sizes without physically changing the RAM in a PC?) T
Re: [H] Free AV ?
Forc5, No experience with AVG or Avast. Have been using latest free AntiVir : http://www.free-av.com I have AntiVir on the one last machine that is not p/o my eset license for nod32. It is a bit weird because they keep building new installers. If you get an installer-pak today, it may not work again 15-30days later. I gave up trying to archive it, because each time I tried to re-use my archived copy, I ended up going back and getting a new installer. I believe the free license only lasts 6 months to 1 year; before having to be renewed. Somewhat odd, but that's how these Germans are. :) I can't speak to speed, bloat, or footprint. I do not run the machine much, and, it has little on it other than the Win2K OS I forced on it... :) But it is reasonably quiet and has not caused problems yet. So, far, I am pleased with it, being free, but the ads during updates can get old. I suppose I do not surf enough questionable sites to see just how strong AntiVir really is. All I can report is that the two machines I have it on appear to be bug-free. I've never seen any activity out of it. It does get a good rating from the tweaks on the Wilders Security Forum. Best, Duncan At 15:10 01/10/2008 -0700, you wrote: As far as free AV goes, been using AVG but was playing with Avast. Opinions appreciated. ( for customer boxen ) fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why.
Re: [H] Free AV ?
Lopaka, What is clamav? Best, Duncan At 14:11 01/10/2008 -0800, you wrote: I use avast on my x64 system, avg on my laptop and clamav on servers. lopaka FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as free AV goes, been using AVG but was playing with Avast. Opinions appreciated. ( for customer boxen ) fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why.
Re: [H] Free AV ?
DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lopaka, What is clamav? Best, Duncan http://www.google.com/search?q=clamav google is your friend :) regards, al
Re: [H] Program to simulate RAM load
Hello Thane, Thursday, January 10, 2008, 3:59:26 PM, you wrote: Does anyone know of a program I can use to simulate a load on RAM (not read/write, but just to use up a block of RAM so I can bench test a program in various RAM sizes without physically changing the RAM in a PC?) T Yes, I use it for my older games on XP and ram exceeding 1GB. Back channeling it to you - it's small. 14.3 (14,703) actual -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] Auto call forwarding
You have one cell phone and you were going to switch the sim during the trip correct? Grab a pay-per-minute phone (Fry's has cheap ones for $14 every other week). Put the sim from your phone in the cheapie and plug it into the charger and set it to forward all calls to the new number. Leave it turned on a plugged in while your're gone and all calls should go to the new number until you get back and change it back. lopaka Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked at Asterix before and never got around to setting it up. The problem is that I don't have a landline - just my cell phone. And the SIM card will not be in that cell phone as it will be traveling with me and have another country SIM. So I'm not sure how Asterix would get the calls and forward them as I am under the impression that it needs to be connected to POTS somehow to do that. Maybe I'm wrong. And normally I would just have the phone company forward the number but I am guessing that forwarding my Canadian number to an American number would cause some sort of sizeable fee. I'm discovering quite a few snags with trying to be internationally mobile in this modern world. Most of these snags seem to come from this antiquted notion of national borders and that people decide to live inside one and never leave. And that the world is a completely different place once you cross said national borders even if you just moved across a bridge. For example, my car insurance rates went from $500/6 mo to $1000/6 mo when I moved to Canada (for 2 cars with 2 drivers). Part of the reason is that I have no driving history in Canada and for some reason the 14 years of driving without filing a claim in the US doesn't count. Guess they assume you go stupid when you cross the border. On Jan 10, 2008 4:47 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: Not neccessarily. What you want to do is possible to do but you'd need an asterisk box or vmware image configured to recieve and forward calls from home to the new number. Setting this up could be a major project though, if you haven't used asterisk/freepbx before. You might be able to have the phone company do a temporary call forward to the new number during your trip lopaka Brian Weeden wrote: Do I have to base everything off the Grandcentral number? I would prefer to have a system that used my current number instead. I guess I could get a US Grandcentral number and then forward that to the prepaid number. The problem with that is people that are in Canada and call my Canadian cell would not get forwarded. On Jan 10, 2008 4:34 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: I use Grandcentral. If you give out a grandcentral number to everyone you can forward it to mulitiple phones, or to single phone and change which number it forwards to whenever you like. While your gone forward to your cell and when you get back change forwarding number to home phone again. This is nice because if you move residence you still use grandcentral as the number and forward to the new phone. It's been very reliable. I use grandcentral paired with gizmo on PBX-in-a-Flash from nervittles, to provide a separate free number (VOIP) for my step daughter that goes to her room. All the phone calls every evening were bugging me and now they can talk all they want (incoming is free, outgoing is cheap via Callcentric Les.net) lopaka Brian Weeden wrote: I'm going to be spending the better part of a month traveling in the US for 2 weeks and then Austia for a week. Right now I have a Canadian cell phone. So I plan on getting prepaid SIM cards for the US and Austria so I don't have to pay roaming charges. But this introduces the problem of letting people know my new numbers. Instead of spamming my new numbers to all my contacts I'm looking for a more elegant solution. One way would be to record a voicemail greeting on my Canadian cell saying that I'm traveling and list my new number. But I think there could be a better solution. My dream solution would be to have calls made to my Canadian cell number automatically routed to whatever prepaid card number I am currently using. Since I am going to be taking the Canadian SIM out of the phone to swap in the prepaid it needs to work without the actual phone being on. I've heard a lot about GrandCentral and was wondering if anyone on the list had experience with it: http://www.grandcentral.com Can anyone think of another way to solve my little dilemma? --- Brian
Re: [H] Free AV ?
Lopaka, TNX. I'll go look into it.. Best, Duncan At 18:14 01/10/2008 -0800, you wrote: Actually the win32 version is called clamwin. Clam Antivirus is open source I believe and will run on many OSes including windows 2000 2003 server. The only drawback is no realtime scanning so I generally set it to scan the system folder and download folder daily, and full system scan every few days lopaka snip
Re: [H] CompUSA site
Yes, that is the really depressing part. Interesting, but depressing. What I find more telling is that for a company getting ready to disappear, they do not offer better fire sale prices. I was hoping for a really good deal. Guess not. Carlos wants to keep as much as possible.even in pesos.. Best, Duncan At 10:51 01/10/2008 -0400, you wrote: Look at the monitors - the faces of those laid off. http://www.compusa.com/specials/sales/071230sale/default.asp?pfp=fodprod_group_category_id=3560 T
