[CGUYS] Question about Lightscribe version 1.2

2007-09-14 Thread Robert
I have an external DVD burner that has Lightscribe version 1.1 capability, which I use occasionally. The new version 1.2 of Lightscribe is available. I have not tried these new DVD+Rs. My present understanding is that a monochrome image is burned onto a colored surface in the new version (in

[CGUYS] minimum space required...

2007-09-14 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
Harvey Simon > When I partitioned my MacBook hard drive to install Windows > Vista (Home Premium), I tried to not allocate more space > than necessary. I don¹t store files on this part of the > drive and, with rare exceptions, don¹t install programs. > But over the months, with software updates an

Re: [CGUYS] Opinions on this?

2007-09-14 Thread Sue Cubic
At 12:49 AM 09/14/2007 -0400, b_s-wilk wrote Sometimes I set updates to download but not install, then run them later. Maybe the stealth update on your computer is downloaded at one time and run later automatically. The firewall won't prevent downloading something when your system is set to a

[CGUYS] Digital future

2007-09-14 Thread chad evans wyatt
Tom - Time for something a little more cosmic from you. Give us some words about Stuart Parkin's idea of racetrack storage. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11storage.html My abiding disappointment in adjusting to digital DXcapture is the utter weak soup that it is, compared to even

Re: [CGUYS] Opinions on this?

2007-09-14 Thread chad evans wyatt
Amen, Tony. Ever since the CS series made its debut, I've had nothing but trouble remounting photoshop when, for example, I changed the motherboard on my powerbook, or when I've added new hardware. CS2 doesn't play nice, disables, and it's back to Adobe to ask permission. Photoshop7 never was a pr

Re: [CGUYS] Opinions on this?

2007-09-14 Thread Sue Cubic
At 11:01 PM 09/13/2007 -0500, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote Ah but it does. It is not unusual that I will find my computer has rebooted over night when MS sends out update Tuesday. It burns me to no end as I usually had something working that got stopped by MS's need to reboot the system after

Re: [CGUYS] Opinions on this?

2007-09-14 Thread Tony B
This all gets back to these ridiculous licenses we're forced to agree to when we install software. We buy a car, we own it, to do with as we please. But we buy software, the publisher retains ownership and can do with it as _they_ please. **

Re: [CGUYS] Opinions on this?

2007-09-14 Thread Jeff Wright
I have the same issue with Quicktime. I explicitly do *not* choose the Apple Updater software when installing QT. It installs it anyway and then I have to go uninstall it after I'm done installing QT. After doing this a couple dozen times, you get sick of it. > -Original Message- > Tom