> In short, the upgrade question is
> intimately tied to MS's credibility. You can agree with Tom or not,
> and perhaps is style is needlessly off-putting, but MS "bashing"
> is completely on topic. It is an opinion on whether MS marketing claims
> are credible.
I would aggree with
There is no guarantee as to whether a power outage is short or not. I
do remember seeing generators chained to posts for a few days after
the hurricane passed through. A week without power is not that
unheard of in some areas of the country.
It is my plan to keep a POTS line in addition to a FI
Your service in metro DC is wonderful compared to where I live on the
eastern shore. There's no competition. Speeds are slow and slower. Wow!
I'll take that 30Mbps FIOS. How much does it cost?
We're not likely to see FIOS around here for at least another 5 years,
if ever. We have no choice but
Quentin Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
If you're near the router, try hard-wire connecting to it. If you still can't
connect then its a Vista bug. For my new Dell Vista Llaptop, I found it was a
refusal by Vista to communicate with the router.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233
Ha
I'm still an amateur at 3D, but this is my understanding of what's
going on.
You're not an amateur at anything Vicky, as far as I'm concerned.
You're right. It's about polygon count (thousands, not hundreds),
antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, shading, textures, et al.
The GPU is a dedicate
As sympathetic as I
I go away on vacation and all heck breaks loose...
As sympathetic as I am to call for more respect on this list,
I think Chris has missed one important point about the Vista upgrade issue.
It is NOT a purely technical question in terms of evaluating features and
performance
Ed Whipple
> iTunes (I think), Picasa2, Adobe Lightroom, and whatever
> ships with Vista all manage your images and allow limited
> global editing. They do not change the underlying image
> files instead they maintain a record of the edits in a
> separate data base so they can be undone anytime.
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Looks to me like you are describing brute-force calculation. The beauty
of things like JPEG and MPEG is that they only render what the human eye
perceives. That greatly reduces the computational burden. Looks like the
game developers don't take such an appro
iTunes (I think), Picasa2, Adobe Lightroom, and whatever ships with Vista
all manage your images and allow limited global editing. They do not change
the underlying image files instead they maintain a record of the edits in
a separate data base so they can be undone anytime.
Adobe Bridge (Photo
I'm a bit surprised that no one has brought up the issue of security in this
discussion (excuse me if I missed it). Given that XP is generally
considered to be a less than robustly secure operating system, and given
that Vista's code is generally reported to be better written, from a
security stan
Some research shows humans can see 10 million or more different colors. A
Digg article I saw referencing a Pittsburg story said some lucky women can
see as many as 100 million.
This is not unlike the MP3 argument...some say they can tell between 192 and
256bit. Some can't tell between 128 and 31
Looks to me like you are describing brute-force calculation. The beauty
of things like JPEG and MPEG is that they only render what the human eye
perceives. That greatly reduces the computational burden. Looks like the
game developers don't take such an approach.
>To expand on Art's very good an
A good, if not old primer for the basics of what is going on in you video
card and it's RAM.
http://www.dansdata.com/gz014.htm
Mike
On 8/8/07, Vicky Staubly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Art Clemons wrote:
> > Tom Piowar:
> >> What could they be possibly doing with so much R
If you're near the router, try hard-wire connecting to it. If you still
can't connect then its a Vista bug. For my new Dell Vista Llaptop, I
found it was a refusal by Vista to communicate with the router.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233
Quentin Fisher
Bethesda, MD
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I have to agree completely. As the one who started this last (XP vs Vista)
thread, I have to say that the banter and the bashing has always been here, and
most of the time I find it amusing (as long as the barbs are not directed at
me!). Sometimes I find it frustrating, and sometimes I just shak
I still had my copper intact when I had FIOS because my local telco was
MCI, not Verizon. But I also have a backup generator for my home, so I
would not have to run off the local battery even if I had been on
Verizon for phone. The TV picutre and channel selection was far better
than Comcast,
Point made and taken. That was indeed not an entirely fair comment.
Thanks for your synopsis as well. I think I am pretty much persuaded by the
responses that I shall just stick to XP for now.
Michael
John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you are being unfair.
I never responded to y
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Art Clemons wrote:
Tom Piowar:
What could they be possibly doing with so much RAM?
A 1680 x 1050 screen that is 48 bits deep = 11 MB. 512 MB = 46 screens of
data if totally umcompressed (which would be silly). Moderately
compressed this would hold 500 to 1000 screens.
Anybo
>Uh Tom, by now I'ld have expected you to note that video cards have to
>do more than remember screens, they also have to render them from the
>data presented by the computer, and also convert them from digital form
>to analog
Shading and rendering don't require that kind of RAM.
Back when I was
On 8/7/07, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I spoke to someone who got FIOS, hated it--not as promised, and was told
> that he couldn't go back to POTS. Since FIOS isn't even necessary for
> high speed broadband, and is very expensive, it appears to be a really
> bad deal. His phone/broadban
I think you are being unfair.
I never responded to your original query. I think you only got 2 or 3
responses to your original query.
I responded to someone making snide remarks about someone else's snide
remarks.
The people who responded to you did a fine job - no one really knows of
anything
This list has been an ongoing source of informative postings that, over
several years, have never failed to be useful, insightful, and sometimes
amusing; rarely has anything been distasteful. I, for one, am grateful for
all the trouble many have gotten me out of neatly and with tolerance of my
ent
I agree, it is fantastic. However, I was only able to discover this after
finally biting the bullet and upgrading to high-speed internet (FIOS)
Otherwise, Google (and the other new-version) maps take too long to download
over dial-up lines.
***
>> Anybody know what all this RAM is used for?
>Fragging bad guys and watching millions of tiny objects get thrown around
>the screen.
I don't think so. First you would not visually see the difference between
hundreds and millions of "tiny objects" so if they programmed "millions"
they are just
Tom Piowar:
> What could they be possibly doing with so much RAM?
>
> A 1680 x 1050 screen that is 48 bits deep = 11 MB. 512 MB = 46 screens of
> data if totally umcompressed (which would be silly). Moderately
> compressed this would hold 500 to 1000 screens.
>
> Anybody know what all this RA
I pay $238 for four cells with 2100 prime minutes, 30Down/5up FiOS
two land lines with no extras and Primus Long Distance. Happy with
this and it meets the needs currently of the family and business.
It does average out to be more than the cost of electricity, but
less than gas heat in the drafty
Tom-
Thanks for the advice. This is an Intel Mac,
so I followed the instructions from the PMU reset Knowledge Base
article and unfortunately it didn't make a difference.
It's not a big deal unless this is indicative of a deeper problem.
-Mike Moser
On Aug 6, 2007, at 12:18 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L
>This is an external two drive enclosure, not a tray. Why bother with
>eSata? Speed...being able to hot swap if you wanted. As far as
>incompatibilities go, I'm on windows so SATA is fine.
You go ahead and hot swap the drive that the OS is running from. I'll
watch and try not to bust a gut lau
Fragging bad guys and watching millions of tiny objects get thrown around
the screen.
Mike
On 8/8/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >The absolute minimum for a
> >current DX9C game would (to be playable at a decently high resolution) be
> 2
> >gigs of main memory and at least 512 meg
>I tried iPhoto and think it's awful. All the pictures always
>seem to remain in the library even after they are categorized.
>I do edit some of the pictures, cropping and resizing (make
>some for web shots, some for thumbnails for bigger links - sort
>of like story boards, etc. for how I think)
>
Do the Vista OS media also have XP on them for downgrading purposes?
Tom Piwowar wrote:
If I don't have the original computer, am I completely forbidden to use
it on a different computer?
My reading of the MS EULA is that an OS that is bundled with a computer
is only for use with that co
Re: Memory question.Tom?
But, would the flash things running overnight on a Mozilla type
browser cause OSX to close?
Looks like there may be more than one thing amiss. Need to clear
things out to get a better picture of what is causeing your CPU
problem.
This shutting down of OSX is ha
>If I don't have the original computer, am I completely forbidden to use
>it on a different computer?
My reading of the MS EULA is that an OS that is bundled with a computer
is only for use with that computer. If you own a retail version of the
OS, that retail version can be installed on any co
>The absolute minimum for a
>current DX9C game would (to be playable at a decently high resolution) be 2
>gigs of main memory and at least 512 megs of dedicated graphics memory
>serving a fast (ATI 1900 chipset equivalent or above) graphics card on a 16
>lane PCIE bus
What could they be possib
Did they purchase XP, or did the laptop mfg do a free downgrade?
This empirical evidence may contribute to the discussion:
My son is starting freshman year at college. Two of his friends
ordered new laptops through their Universities, which were delivered
with Vista. Both students are Comp.
I don't know, what does your lawyer say?
On 8/8/07, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any way to use a Dell XP Pro installer on a Compaq notebook? Thx
The Dell is gone. All that's left is the disk. Hmmm. That's odd. I can
use the same installer on my Macs. The licensing dark forest is re
>This shutting down of OSX is happening EVERY night now but doesn't
>occur when I leave the same things running all day. Again this a.m.
>I had the transparent box telling me OSX had shut down and to turn
>off the computer. I don't know of anything that I've set to run over
>night. Do any
>Where do I find the logs?
Run Console from the Utilities menu.
Click on the "Logs" icon in the toolbar.
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>Vista?"; your response was that
>(a) MS needs the money and (b) hasn't had an original idea in years.
Go over to the archive and reread the thread from the top. You will not
see anyone saying "Windows sucks." I said they copied Widgets, but I did
not have anything good to say about Apple in the
0pen a Finder window and search for logs.
There are some in Mac HD/Library/Logs and others in (your name)/Library/Logs
Paula Minor wrote:
Have you checked your logs to see what time it's doing it? Same time
every
night? What programs are running, any errors before it shuts down in
the
log?
After about ten years, it qualifies as whining (or has the same effect):
"Stop posting unfriendly posts..."
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
Nobody's whining, Mark, unless you consider a request for better
behavior to be "whining."
>The list is what it is, has been this way for many years, and
>whining will not change it.
Nobody's whining, Mark, unless you consider a request for better behavior to be
"whining."
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Have you checked your logs to see what time it's doing it? Same
time every
night? What programs are running, any errors before it shuts down
in the
log?
Where do I find the logs?
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive
http://lunapark6.com/vmware-fusion-for-mac-10.html
A review of the new Fusion for mac...VMWare answer to Parallels. Looks good
at least from the review.
Mike
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You gotta pay to play on this list, folks. Most of the bantering here
is fairly tame stuff with few hard core flamers. If you can't take
_that_ perhaps you want the we all think the same list. Those who are
now complaining want to discuss windows issues without
unhelpful/unfriendly interruption.
At this point I would start by letting it run all night with NO
applications running. If it still has problems , then you've eliminated
a lot of questions.
If it did still have problems, I'd install OS X on an external HD and
see how that runs. I have a little partition on a Firewire HD just in
I have to concur with this in spades. I can't recall the last post that was
a simple bash at Apple for no reason. Or a post containing blatant
misinformation about Apple to try and make them look bad. Some users on
this list put out a constant never ending flow of BS about MS/windows.
They don't
Have you checked your logs to see what time it's doing it? Same time every
night? What programs are running, any errors before it shuts down in the
log?
Mike
On 8/8/07, Paula Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> But, would the flash things running overnight on a Mozilla type
> >> browser cau
I had this problem when i tried to connect a laptop i was troubleshooting on
my own network. Then I remembered I had mac filtering turned on in the
router. After I turned that off I was fine.
Mike
On 8/8/07, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> My husband picked up a 'hot' deal on a new Comp
They won't run well. You're better off dual booting linux and then just
using windows for games.
Mike
On 8/8/07, John Mealey III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> One of the stumbling blocks for some folks switching to
> Linux is the Microsoft Windows OS games don't run.
>
> Can they be run in Linu
>If someone wants to start "Windows sucks" threads, fine. Start as many as
>are wanted; that causes me no heartburn. What makes me crazy is the "Windows
>sucks" responses when someone asks a purely Windows question. It's such a
>waste of everyone's time.
--
>And in a society (ours) that encourages partisanship, conflict,
>and intense competition in every corner of the business environment
>it's not surprising that people take one side or another with
>something as important as computers.
Constance, you are quite right. What I've been trying to do
Have you tried to run X on another account? As admin, you'll be
able to use your files. Does the second account crash? Which
maintenance utilities have you used? I've fou
No I haven't tried that Betty. I will make a new account and see
what happens.
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journ
But, would the flash things running overnight on a Mozilla type
browser cause OSX to close?
Looks like there may be more than one thing amiss. Need to clear
things
out to get a better picture of what is causeing your CPU problem.
This shutting down of OSX is happening EVERY night now but do
This empirical evidence may contribute to the discussion:
My son is starting freshman year at college. Two of his friends
ordered new laptops through their Universities, which were delivered
with Vista. Both students are Comp. Sci./Engineering majors. Both
have since gotten downgrades.
My son
I don't know, what does your lawyer say?
On 8/8/07, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any way to use a Dell XP Pro installer on a Compaq notebook? Thx
>
> Betty
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] List Etiquette
>The Mac/Apple sucks - Windows/M$ sucks is part of the price you pay for
>getting a list that tailors to both.
Why?
(And parenthetically, I don't recall seeing a lot of "Mac/Apple sucks".)
With items like computers, which are often EXTREMELY AGGRIVATING,
Not sure about Vista, but XP Pro networking has a capability that
disables wifi connections after the computer sees a network via CAT5.
If you look at My Network Places/ View Network Connections in XP you can
see one or the other is disabled & enable the one you want. Perhaps
Vista is simila
>
> Date:Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:03:17 -0400
> From:b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Compaq, Vista doesn't connect
>
> My husband picked up a 'hot' deal on a new Compaq notebook [almost
> free], for basic web surfing and word processing. It connects to the
> Internet OK via ethernet, but
Passions on the list over time influence the culture.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
>The Mac/Apple sucks - Windows/M$ sucks is part of the price you pay for
>getting a list that tailors to both.
Why?
(And parenthetically, I don't recall seeing a lot of "Mac/Apple sucks".)
As stated earlier in this thread, it's a huge CPU hog, among other
things. Turn on a CPU monitor and then go to a web page that has it and
watch you computer work, hard.
Judy Cosler wrote:
er, what's the problem with Flash?
**
>The Mac/Apple sucks - Windows/M$ sucks is part of the price you pay for
>getting a list that tailors to both.
Why?
(And parenthetically, I don't recall seeing a lot of "Mac/Apple sucks".)
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The Mac/Apple sucks - Windows/M$ sucks is part of the price you pay for
getting a list that tailors to both.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
>This list has always included comments like Tom's. Maybe since he
>started the list.
Maybe so, but that doesn't mean we have to like
er, what's the problem with Flash?
John DeCarlo wrote:
On 8/6/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is a Firefox plug-in to control the execution of Flash. Tools >
Add-ons > Extensions > Get Extensions etc.
The big culprit is Flash. I hate it where web sites use Flash when
>This list has always included comments like Tom's. Maybe since he
>started the list.
Maybe so, but that doesn't mean we have to like it, or it has to be that way
forever. I
have no problem with Tom saying whatever he wants, but it sure would be nice if
it were
responsive to the question. This
Any way to use a Dell XP Pro installer on a Compaq notebook? Thx
Betty
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My husband picked up a 'hot' deal on a new Compaq notebook [almost
free], for basic web surfing and word processing. It connects to the
Internet OK via ethernet, but the WiFi has problems. It 'sees' the
network, but doesn't connect. Reception is poor, even when sitting next
to the switch. Recep
This list has always included comments like Tom's. Maybe since he
started the list. You may be better served by a list that is more
Windows specific if that is what you want.
Mark Snyder
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> STAY TO THE TOPIC!
Exactly. Your response to the member's question was NOT on
> STAY TO THE TOPIC!
Exactly. Your response to the member's question was NOT on topic. It was just
more MS
bashing. The question was, "should I upgrade from XP to Vista?"; your response
was that
(a) MS needs the money and (b) hasn't had an original idea in years. How,
exactly, is that
"on topic
One of the stumbling blocks for some folks switching to
Linux is the Microsoft Windows OS games don't run.
Can they be run in Linux with the Wine emulator? Is it hit
or miss? Anyone tried it?
Thanks,
John
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FiOS is Verizon's brand for fiber-to-the-premises connectivity. FiOS is not
a generic term or a technology (like DSL) but an actual brand.
If Qwest has a fiber to the prem service it is NOT FiOS. From what I've
heard here in the DC area FiOS delivers outstanding throughput at the speeds
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Maybe after you tell us what you are talking about we can all laugh. You
might want to go to wikipedia to look up SATA and how it functions. Also
might want to read up on putting OS's on seperate drives, they all don't
have to go on one drive. I'd give you the url for looking up SATA on wiki,
bu
>so I followed the instructions from the PMU reset Knowledge Base
>article and unfortunately it didn't make a difference.
>It's not a big deal unless this is indicative of a deeper problem.
Next thing to try is Repair Permissions.
Then look to see if you have a corrupt Finder plist.
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Here in AZ qwest's best speed for FIOS is 7mbit. If their FIOS is anything
like their dsl then 7mbit is more like 5. I was wondering if FIOS is better
on other carriers? If you want high speed here in AZ the only choice is
cable. I've talked to Qwest reps who admit they have no plans at all
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