Re: [CGUYS] find tracking device on truck

2008-02-09 Thread Isa Miller
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will get them to him just as soon as he removes the tracking software she put on his computer or get his work email address. My God that would have to cost her a fortune in texting charges, not to mention filling her inbox. Unless he's exaggerating about the

[CGUYS] External HD enclosure question.....

2008-02-09 Thread D.L.H.
Situation: -New Vista machine (haven't seen it yet...arrives next week). -Old IDE hard drive inside an USB external HD enclosure. --from recently deceased homebuilt machine that ran XP-- -Can I assume that the new Vista machine shouldn't have an issue with the XP install or presence MBR on the

Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?

2008-02-09 Thread Paul Meyer
Can't excel just be setup as the interface to the database which would allow the excel-centric users to be happy without stomping on the structure. --- Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think before I let them flatten it I'd consider online solutions too. Does Google offer a real

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread Paul Meyer
Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood? (I know it's OT but what about all that indecipherable obscureness about Philadelphia and a (?) pig. I am not even going to ask what an iggle is.) --- katan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:56:19 -0800, Paul Meyer wrote: Is that a

Re: [CGUYS] External HD enclosure question.....

2008-02-09 Thread mike
you can assume and are correct...either way you can plug the ext. drive in after the machine is on. Mike On Feb 9, 2008 6:59 AM, D.L.H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Situation: -New Vista machine (haven't seen it yet...arrives next week). -Old IDE hard drive inside an USB external HD enclosure.

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I'm about three quarters of the way through Torchwood season 1 . I thought they were better as the series goes on Some of the earlier ones had these sex oriented plot twists that felt like an HBO comedy where they used to have a topless women in the shot for no particular reason. I liked the

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread Tom Piwowar
Iggle = Eagle in Philadelphian. and we did not even get to the tough stuff... How do you respond to Wid or widout? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread Sue Cubic
At 06:57 AM 02/09/2008 -0800, Paul Meyer wrote Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood? (I know it's OT but what about all that indecipherable obscureness about Philadelphia and a (?) pig. I am not even going to ask what an iggle is.) I think an iggle is a type of bird only found in PA. :)

Re: [CGUYS] How stable is Excel?

2008-02-09 Thread Tom Piwowar
Can't excel just be setup as the interface to the database which would allow the excel-centric users to be happy without stomping on the structure. Excel can import, but read only access may not suffice. They could get read-write access by simply accessing the database directly via a web

[CGUYS] QuickBooks Pro

2008-02-09 Thread Stephen Brownfield
I recently purchased QuickBooks Pro Mac 2007 for our small non-profit because our account kept telling us that we need to upgrade and we were able to get it through TechSoup at a very reasonable price. I have not installed yet. I recall that there was a thread on the list not that long ago

Re: [CGUYS] [IP] Re: U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices

2008-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know about obsessive, but I recently returned from a trip to Spain and had my belief reinforced in the fact that the security procedures in Madrid are better than ours. The difference, to my mind, is that they always have security people who interview each departing person, then even

[CGUYS] Torchwood (Was Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!)

2008-02-09 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood? Me me me. I don't like it as much as Dr Who. Cap'n Jack was so much better in his couple of Dr Who episodes. He's too serious now. I liked the one where them three people came through the rift from WWII era.

Re: [CGUYS] [IP] Re: U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices

2008-02-09 Thread Tom Piwowar
Intrusive security is far better than none. Why do you think this is true? Is this one of those truths that are so obvious that nobody notices its falsity? How about: Security theater is a waste of money. * == QUICK

Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
Changing the drive letter is really not feasible. If the drive letter of the boot / system drive were changed, then you would have to go into the configuration of every installed program and change the location of the file to be launched and all of the helper files. That's an impossibly large

Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
I've done that with one machine (different details) and have been able to get everything to work. Requires some tweaking. I've even considered it more secure, since nothing is in its standard location. That being said, the only thing I can recommend for a fix is a Google search. When

Re: [CGUYS] I Made a Green-Horn Error in Windows Install

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
Doesn't apply in this instance. It only applies to changing an accidentally-changed drive letter assignment back to the correct/original assignment. Read the article carefully. Fred Holmes At 06:38 PM 2/8/2008, mike wrote: We were both wrong...or right. The way to change the boot volume

Re: [CGUYS] External HD enclosure question.....

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
If it's a decent machine: 1. It will still boot automatically from its own boot drive, without user intervention. 2. You could boot from the external drive by accessing the motherboard BIOS boot menu and selecting the external drive from the menu. Modern motherboards can boot from a USB

Re: [CGUYS] QuickBooks Pro

2008-02-09 Thread Fred Holmes
I've been told that QuickBooks isn't capable of tracking funding sources, i.e. automatically ensuring that funds received (e.g., a grant) for a specific purpose are being spent for that purpose. I don't use Quickbooks, and it may be possible to add additional fields to the stock accounting

Re: [CGUYS] [IP] Re: U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices

2008-02-09 Thread John DeCarlo
On Feb 9, 2008 11:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said this, I have to add that I'm tired of hearing complaints about TSA from people who fancy themselves libertarian. As far as I can tell, the TSA people are doing the job they've been given to do, and anyway they

Re: [CGUYS] External HD enclosure question.....

2008-02-09 Thread D.L.H.
Just to be clear I *do not* want to boot from the hard drive external enclosure. At all .I would like to explore it (and copy some software profiles (mozilla, thunderbird and FTP prefs) and a few some data files that are a little more recent than my last backup... On Feb 9, 2008 2:06

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread Sue Cubic
At 10:49 AM 02/09/2008 -0500, Tom Piwowar wrote Iggle = Eagle in Philadelphian. and we did not even get to the tough stuff... How do you respond to Wid or widout? Definitely Wid! My husband used to mow the lawnd every week also. Sue

Re: [CGUYS] [IP] Re: U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices

2008-02-09 Thread David Chessler
At 02:54 PM 2/9/2008, John DeCarlo wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 11:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, considering how easy it still is for investigators to slip bombs, knives, guns, etc. through existing TSA security, it hardly seems worth it. There's a CBS video of someone

Re: [CGUYS] QuickBooks Pro

2008-02-09 Thread Stephen Brownfield
We've been using Quickbooks and it as met our needs. At first we had to run Softwindows to run it on our Mac. Then when they made the Mac version capable of saving a Windows version of our data, we switched to the Mac version. We have been happy with it (QuickBooks Pro 6), but as I said

Re: [CGUYS] [IP] Re: U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices

2008-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm sorry, my post was a direct response to the previous comment regarding airport security in France. I don't recall the original post. I can't recall having personally had any problems with Customs. I think they mostly harass foreigners. However it distresses me that there are people who

Re: [CGUYS] [IP] Re: U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices / US technical work visas.

2008-02-09 Thread db
Border/ travel security is the least of it. The best technical talents from all over the world are looking less and less to the US for jobs because of the disadvantageous work visa and naturalization situation in the US. I have an extremely well educated, and talented Indian friend who has

Re: [CGUYS] [IP] Re: U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices

2008-02-09 Thread David Chessler
At 10:29 PM 2/9/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, my post was a direct response to the previous comment regarding airport security in France. I don't recall the original post. I can't recall having personally had any problems with Customs. I think they mostly harass foreigners.

Re: [CGUYS] Truecrypt Encryption

2008-02-09 Thread David Chessler
At 09:49 PM 2/9/2008, Tony B wrote: I'm not sure I believe this. Once it's been determined you've used TC, wouldn't there then be an assumption the outer container was just an outer container? I mean, a robber's purse is not a new concept. Check the documentation. The source code is on line.