>All of this shows the fallacy of, I think, software-commanded power off.
>Most people think that in order to turn something off, you have to throw a
>switch. If no switch was thrown, it can't possibly be "turned off".
Instead, I think it shows the fallacy of giving designers too much input
a
OS X is not, I think to blame for an ill-placed power button. My G5's
power button is on the front of the desktop chassis. My G4 Powerbook's
power button is to the right of the keyboard. The eMac, a reduced cost
iMac, is out of production. I have not visited Apple recently - are the
power butto
>After reading your response and Mike's this thought occurred to me:
>Everyone who seems to know much about computers seems to advise that
>everyone regularly back up their computer. The same for running antivirus,
>spyware, adware and whatever else ...
Actually, the first thing they recommend
On 5/8/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would have said that the same was true in the other direction -
everything
>is digital, after all.
Not entirely true.
Converting to digital can add distortion if the signal level are too high
and the A-D conversion starts to clip.
There are
I don't know her, but in general these are often also some of the
worst photographers - taking 100 pics and keeping all 100 of them!
Of course, with digital cameras it's sometimes advisable to overshoot,
but if I can't delete 90% of the pics I take I feel I'm doing
something wrong.
On 5/9/07, mi
Lucky or unluckily for me, she's semi pro. She's started earning money by
word of mouth by taking pics of kids in cilents homes. These of course we
don't keep but she still shoots a lot of pics here at home of our own kids.
On top of that, I can't throw them away even if they are of iffy quality
I have not visited Apple recently - are the
power buttons hard to find on the current models?
The power button on my iMac is on the back, the same white color as
the case. When I first got it I had to search a while for it.
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the inte
My son has been trying to set up a wireless network in his
homeand I've tried to help him too. We've run the set up several
times and get connected just fine but once the computers are turned
off or the top is put down and it sleeps, they can't get it to
reconnect. But they are easily
I know some people have had bad experiences with them, but I've gotten
some good advice from them: Fry's Electronics in Fishers, just off 96th
St.--http://www.outpost.com/.
Don't call--they do have crappy phone service. Go to the store, the
computer section way in the back, & look for a sales
The power button and its indicator light on my Dell 8300 computer are on the
front panel, easily accessible. However, the light is extremely tiny and I
often find it difficult to tell if the indicator is on or not. This has
long struck me as a design flaw - make the indicator larger or somethi
My husband, who sells and fixes Macs at macUpgrades, gave me the
following report on whether or not a new Mac needs to be patched when
you take it out of the box:
"The latest Macs would ship with 10.4.9. There have been updates since
then.
Of course if the store is not moving stock very fast the c
I have an Actiontec DSL modem/router set up with 128 bit WEP. For that, I just
type in a 26-digit hex key. I am now trying to connect a Netgear wireless
printer driver, but the WEP screen has four keys, the option to type in a
passphrase to generate the keys, and the option for public or share
What three-finger command are you talking about? My XP Pro desktop at
home is "locked" but running 24/7. I merely click on my USERID icon
and enter the password. My work machine uses a CAC. Once again no
three-finger command. To power up any of these machines, including my
MBP, I depress the power
I could manage without Windows, but why not have it there, just in case?
Especially since you can. As of yet I can't put a Mac OS on my
machine, but I'd pay for it and do it if I could. It would be a good
tool to have in the box.
**
On 5/9/07, Thomas Philip Clouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an Actiontec DSL modem/router set up with 128 bit WEP. For that, I
just type in a 26-digit hex key. I am now trying to connect a Netgear
wireless printer driver, but the WEP screen has four keys, the option to
type in a passphra
Oh please do underestimate me. There are plenty of things that have
not worked that I attempted.
I am not sure how this thing works, but it is a little quirky. You
must have contact with the item being soldered in order for it to heat!
I read a review, done by MSNBC I think, in which an aud
Does Google Docs back files up online? If so, how safe are they and how
reliable or permanent? I'll look it up. Have been concerned about this for
using web-based email as well. Also whether Google search engine will
index any of this so someone can bring it up in a search. Thinking here o
$45 for 10 minutes to diagnose the trash was so full the computer
could not start up. Should have charged more just for time on the
road but it was interesting to experience the incredulity I felt at
someone owning a computer and not having grasped such a basic
concept. I later discovered
Re: LCD TV's and how to feed them
Tivo and other DVRs get their scheduling information from services
like Tribune. If the programmer doesn't give them updating
information, then these services will not have it either. I like to
check sites like Titantv and Zap2it for my regular "tv guide" info. My
My 8400 has the little green vertical poser light which flutters when there
is HDD activity too! While it's small, it's unobtrusive. Now I have a flat
screen from iInc which has an annoyingly large blue power button that shines
in my eyes ...the world is imperfect!
-Original Message-
Fro
I was at a geek gathering this weekend. One fellow told us of a poor
soul who only used WEP to secure his wireless network and someone
cracked it and used his connection to download child porn. The upshot
was that the owner of network was sentenced to 5 years per image. The
object lesson is that W
>You need to reread the facts.
>http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/25/qthack/index.php
1) This was not a hack of the Mac OS. This was a hack of QuickTime. The
same method of attack works on both Macs and PCs, thus demonstrating
further that this is not a hack of the Mac OS. It is a hack of Q
WEP has been a problem since it was created really, but recently it had
gotten worse.
Mike
On 5/9/07, MrMike6by9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was at a geek gathering this weekend. One fellow told us of a poor
soul who only used WEP to secure his wireless network and someone
cracked it and used
One can only imagine the enterprise-class tape backups they must have.
If you base things on past history, Google is 100% loss free. So am I
at home, but most people would rather just not bother with it.
On 5/9/07, Randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does Google Docs back files up online? If so,
At 10:51 AM -0400 5/9/07, Paula Minor wrote:
My son has been trying to set up a wireless network in his
homeand I've tried to help him too. We've run the set up
several times and get connected just fine but once the computers are
turned off or the top is put down and it sleeps, they can't
Philips/Sony Red Book standard for digital audio is AIFF, not WAV. There
are slight differences in byte order and compression for raw AIFF and
WAV files. The settings should be uncompressed 44.1KHz, 16-bit, stereo,
PCM for the original recording. Does EAC make an exact copy, or does it
convert
There was an article in the Wall St. Journal about a week ago concerning how
hackers cracked the point-of-sale network of TJ Max, that was only secured
using WEP, and downloaded a huge number of valid credit card numbers and have
done a huge amount of fraud with them.
Fred Holmes
At 03:49 PM 5
On 5/9/07, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Philips/Sony Red Book standard for digital audio is AIFF, not WAV. There
are slight differences in byte order and compression for raw AIFF and
WAV files. The settings should be uncompressed 44.1KHz, 16-bit, stereo,
PCM for the original recording. Do
At 10:53 AM -0400 5/9/07, Paula Minor wrote:
I have not visited Apple recently - are the
power buttons hard to find on the current models?
The power button on my iMac is on the back, the same white color as
the case. When I first got it I had to search a while for it.
Isn't the power butto
On 5/9/07, MrMike6by9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was at a geek gathering this weekend. One fellow told us of a poor
soul who only used WEP to secure his wireless network and someone
cracked it and used his connection to download child porn. The upshot
was that the owner of network was sentence
Power button placement:
It is NOT a mistake. It DOES serve the user by reducing the
likelihood that a child or child-like adult will "experiment" with
the power switch.
The manufacturer of a device as expensive and complicated as a
computer has a right to expect the purchaser to RTFM (Read T
Ahh, Another Mother -in- Law story .. She shuts off her flat
panel iMac with the wall switch that controls the plug the computer
gets its power from. The switch also controls the light in the room
so it makes perfect sense to her. She has been doing this for a
couple of years. Amaz
Or to place it somewhere for pure aesthetic reasons.
Mike
On 5/9/07, Alvin Auerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Power button placement:
It is NOT a mistake. It DOES serve the user by reducing the
likelihood that a child or child-like adult will "experiment" with
the power switch.
***
At 11:19 PM 05/08/2007 -0700, mike wrote
My wife has made it clear to me I will pay dearly for the rest of my short
life if our digital photos are lost. Therefore I have them backed up on my
system, backed up to the white box I built to play movies on our tv and I've
also uploaded all of them to
At 10:35 AM 05/09/2007 -0400, Tony B wrote
I don't know her, but in general these are often also some of the
worst photographers - taking 100 pics and keeping all 100 of them!
Of course, with digital cameras it's sometimes advisable to overshoot,
but if I can't delete 90% of the pics I take I fe
On Wed, 9 May 2007, MrMike6by9 wrote:
I was at a geek gathering this weekend. One fellow told us of a
poor soul who only used WEP to secure his wireless network and
someone cracked it and used his connection to download child
porn. The upshot was that the owner of network was sentenced to
5 y
Unless you are receiving/sending over 100,000 messages daily, you overpaid.
A lot.
Our volume is relatively low, but we use a Windows 2000 P4 server I built
myself over 2 years ago and XWall. Cost about $1,600 total and there are no
maintenance fees. It could scale much higher than the volume it
(part 1, original was rejected as too long)
Thanks, a lot to chew over. I'm stuck for now
with my Dell Dimension 8300 PC, which was supposed to be a pretty good
computer based on the research I did and opinions I got on it when i bought
it 3-4 years ago. I don't have the Office 2007 i
(part 2)
One thing a computer should be good at - certainly better than a person -
is
monitoring and keeping track of things - upgrades, changes, differences in
performance today vs. 6 months ago, what should be done, when, etc. As much
as possible, it would be nice to have thes
I've just about filled up the 60G hard drive that came on my Thinkpad. I'm
looking at upgrading to a 160G replacement but I have a couple of qualms. I
use Danz Retrospect backup software and have a complete system backup to
restore from. My plan was to install Win XP, then Retrospect, then resto
Acronis True Image Home 10.0 and a USB adapter for the new drive.
Stewart
At 09:31 PM 5/9/2007, you wrote:
I've just about filled up the 60G hard drive that came on my Thinkpad. I'm
looking at upgrading to a 160G replacement but I have a couple of qualms. I
use Danz Retrospect backup softwar
True, that's why all my system logins are password protected. I access
the machines at work with a smartcard.
Yes you can set up Windows to bypass security, but is this a good idea?
--
"So it goes"
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
*
More on bees and cellphones: on the BBC News Hour, a discussion about
colony collapse syndrome and cellphones. One of the interviewees was
some kind of officer of Vodaphone, and he didn't think that
cellphones were involved. (Quelle surprise.)
Tomorrow (Thursday): more bees on WAMU, on th
At 10:35 AM 05/09/2007 -0400, Tony B wrote
I don't know her, but in general these are often also some of the
worst photographers - taking 100 pics and keeping all 100 of them!
Of course, with digital cameras it's sometimes advisable to overshoot,
but if I can't delete 90% of the pics I take I fe
I've just about filled up the 60G hard drive that came on my Thinkpad. I'm
looking at upgrading to a 160G replacement but I have a couple of qualms. I
use Danz Retrospect backup software and have a complete system backup to
restore from. My plan was to install Win XP, then Retrospect, then rest
More on bees and cellphones: on the BBC News Hour, a discussion about
colony collapse syndrome and cellphones. One of the interviewees was
some kind of officer of Vodaphone, and he didn't think that
cellphones were involved. (Quelle surprise.)
Tomorrow (Thursday): more bees on WAMU, on the Dian
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