Re: [CGUYS] Optical drive firmware questions....

2008-01-19 Thread D.L.H.
I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of return on investment resolution choices. The firmware upgrade took about 10 minutes. During this time: no donning the LED headlamp ( that terrifies my kid almost as much as when I wear tall white crew socks with shortssee it on Amazon here :

Re: [CGUYS] Sun Buys MySQL

2008-01-19 Thread Jeff Wright
It's not uncommon for competitors to buy one another. I used to use St. Bernard's Update Expert for centralized patch management on my LAN. It was a good product until the most recent version. After that, it was basically unusable. I was considering scrapping it and getting another system (but

Re: [CGUYS] Time Warner pay based on Data Usage?

2008-01-19 Thread Tom Piwowar
I heard it and am tempted to write to Marketplace about a very poorly researched story. The assertion that there is a shortage of capacity is false. One of the two experts she interviewed was actually just another reporter. So I did... I was saddened to hear yesterday's report Time Warner

Re: [CGUYS] State taxes [WAS: What to charge for contract to develop web content?]

2008-01-19 Thread MrMike6by9
Even for the Fed Gov, when the vendor is located in 2 states, somewhere in the west/southwest IIRC, the contract must include state tax for that vendor's good or services. YMMV Subject: Re: What to charge for contract to develop web content? Interestingly, the University of Washington... a

[CGUYS] Program installation question (under Vista)

2008-01-19 Thread Michael Wosnick
Some very well written programs upon installation ask you if you want to install for all users or just one user. Most do not ask. I noticed in Vista32 (which I just got on my new machine and am trying to familiarize myself) that ALL programs are installed for all users. I prefer to see selective

Re: [CGUYS] Sun Buys MySQL

2008-01-19 Thread Michael Fernando
So Sun paid $1,000,000,000 for MySQL in order to kill it? What a theory! Do these companies really have that kind of money to burn? Larry Ellison does. And that is Dvorak's conspiracy theory. I think, there's a hole in that theory. MySQL is an open source product. For the sake of the

Re: [CGUYS] What to charge for contract to develop web content?

2008-01-19 Thread Kevin and Roni Breza
I just caught the original thread about how much to charge a client. As a freelance graphic designer, I used to design the artwork for websites and sometimes I would work with writers and programers to create websites for various clients. At first I charged an hourly rate that was approximately