Re: [CGUYS] mac people say no to porn too..trojan on the loose

2007-11-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
This is not news. Anyone at anytime can write a malicious program that will do bad things to your computer if you are stupid enough to run it and enter the admin password. Would you stop driving after reading that someone had driven through roadblocks and past signs that said bridge out and

[CGUYS] cloning iMac drive

2007-11-04 Thread gerald
bought wife an iMac last month. bought a copy of 10.5 for her to load. she wants to clone her drive with the 10.4.X on it before install of 10.5. there is a recommendation of using an external firewire drive instead of an external USB drive. I have a couple USB drives around, but do not have

Re: [CGUYS] Trying something new...

2007-11-04 Thread gerald
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/wirelesstips.mspx the laptop may also have a place to plug in an external antenna, which would be an easy resolution to the problem. I gather the built in is built in, and not removable. At 10:06 AM 11/2/2007, you wrote: My daughter now has a new

Re: [CGUYS] cloning iMac drive

2007-11-04 Thread Stephen Brownfield
My back up drive is a firewire drive. What is nice with the firewire drive is that you can boot from it in an emergency with no problems. The USB is fine for backing up files, but if you want to make a bootable clone of your hard drive I recommend using a Firewire drive. If you have a

Re: [CGUYS] Cymphonix Speed-O-Meter has disappeared

2007-11-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
Uninstalling an re-installing doesn't fix it. Apparently the registry code isn't removed. I guess I could run a registry cleaner in one of its forms, but every time I do, something breaks. There is your answer. The program's screen coordinates are stored in the Registry. You must edit them

Re: [CGUYS] Reliable, free broadband speed test sites?

2007-11-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
Over here, they have a more thorough test: http://myvoipspeed.visualware.com/ Cicso.com has a nice essay on UDP jitter (Google UDP jitter). This measures the consistency of the packet's speed, which is important for streaming. Negative jitter means the packet arrived sooner than expected,