Re: [CGUYS] Google Maps slow or stopped?

2008-07-24 Thread Jordan
I look at all kinds of places with Google maps almost daily. The problems I've had lately are with all areas of this country and others, at literally any zoom level in satellite mode. In other words, even zoomed out to a view of the whole country, it may give me a "zoom level not available" mes

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-24 Thread Fred Holmes
So how does Vista do with removable drives in general? When one gets the message "the drive cannot be stopped now because a program is accessing it" does Vista either 1) tell you what program to shut down so that no program is accessing the drive, or 2) provide an option to force a stop / dismo

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-24 Thread Chris Dunford
> So how does Vista do with removable drives in general? When one gets > the message "the drive cannot be stopped now because a program is > accessing it" does Vista either 1) tell you what program to shut down > so that no program is accessing the drive, or 2) provide an option to > force a stop

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-24 Thread Tony B
The concept of "fixed" and "removable" has never been completely clear. I mean, we've been using removable EIDE drives for years. But they're getting harder to find, thus my experiments with esata. I think the word you're looking for is "hotswap". It's clearly not just an OS issue, but also a chip

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes mess

2008-07-24 Thread Brian Jones
I prefer to set my iTunes to use the MP3 format... more portability in case I decide to use another player. - Brian - Original Message - From: "gerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CGUYS] iTunes mess i loaded itunes and do like it. it took all my mp3 files and converted them to

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-24 Thread Andy Gallant
Maybe something is using it, like Windows Explorer, or maybe something is waiting (or hanging), like Norton Ghost (or an MS Office program that didn't close all the way). Some thoughts on possible culprits/cures: -close any windows showing drives/folders, -blame norton, or indexing, or anythin

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-24 Thread mike
I can use a sysinternals app to show what is still hanging onto the drive. It's usually not a program it's svchost or svhost whatever it is. I think it's the engine that is used to copy/move files. Explorer is the interface for moving files, but explorer doesn't really move them, meaning you don'

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes mess

2008-07-24 Thread mike
Definitely agree with that. I wish iTunes supported FLAC, I don't get why it doesn't. Guess it's just not on their radar. Mike On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I prefer to set my iTunes to use the MP3 format... more portability in case > I decide to use

Re: [CGUYS] Emotional About (Cisco) Hardware?

2008-07-24 Thread Larry Sacks
It gets even better Some of the evidence of malfeasance presented against Childs are modems (analog and DSL) that allowed "backdoor access" to the network. A strong piece of evidence used in obtaining the arrest warrant was Childs' pager that received a message that came "from one of the rout

Re: [CGUYS] DVI vs VGA [was: LCD Monitor and color fringing]

2008-07-24 Thread Tom Piwowar
>And yet I CAN get 1440 x 900 with the VGA connection; that is how I >am running it, at that resolution. That is what is so confusing. Why would you assume that the two would be the same? The analog circuits can easily interpolate data that is not really there. The digital circuits won't exceed

Re: [CGUYS] esata

2008-07-24 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Of course it helps if the chipset is specifically designed for hot >swapping. I've rarely had trouble with USB or 1394 removables, whether >the drive was EIDE or SATA. But I've never been able to hotswap >directly on the EIDE bus, and now am having some trouble hotswapping >on (e)SATA Being able

[CGUYS] T-Mobile?

2008-07-24 Thread Judy Cosler
was it on this list that somebody recently posted about using a cheapie T-Mobile plan? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cg

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile?

2008-07-24 Thread Tom Piwowar
>was it on this list that somebody recently posted about using a cheapie >T-Mobile plan? Yes. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:/

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile?

2008-07-24 Thread Judy Cosler
well, would somebody be good enuf to repeat the info...please! Tom Piwowar wrote: was it on this list that somebody recently posted about using a cheapie T-Mobile plan? Yes. * ** List info, subscription man

Re: [CGUYS] Emotional About (Cisco) Hardware?

2008-07-24 Thread Jordan
Come now, don't try to pass this crap off like that. Admittedly, our current national administration has broken government to a point where more people than ever have no faith in it. But it doesn't have to be like this. What this government has moved toward is "Don't worry, we're the corporatio

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile?

2008-07-24 Thread Jordan
Take a look here: http://www.prepaidreviews.com/bestrated.html I think they give a pretty good rundown of all the services. I just changed my regular Verizon service to pre-pay. Judy Cosler wrote: was it on this list that somebody recently posted about using a cheapie T-Mobile plan? **

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile?

2008-07-24 Thread Richard P.
You might find it doing a search on the C-Guys page. I found this for you which might help: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=t-mobile&l=computerguys-l%40listserv.aol.com In the meantime, you'll have to forgive the previous response Richard P. well, would somebody be good enuf to repeat th

Re: [CGUYS] T-Mobile?

2008-07-24 Thread mike
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/ Hit the prepaid link on the left. That will tell you all about the plan. Mike On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Richard P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might find it doing a search on the C-Guys page. I found this for you > which might help: > > http://ww

Re: [CGUYS] Google Maps slow or stopped?

2008-07-24 Thread b_s-wilk
> I look at all kinds of places with Google maps almost daily. The problems I've had lately are with all areas of this country and others, at literally any zoom level in satellite mode. In other words, even zoomed out to a view of the whole country, it may give me a "zoom level not available" m

Re: [CGUYS] Emotional About (Cisco) Hardware?

2008-07-24 Thread Michael Fernando
> How about being so protective of your hardware that you are willing to go > to jail to keep others from molesting it? This is a fascinating story... I think, there's enough blame to go around for everyone in this story. Terry Childs set up a network by himself, and didn't let any of his collegue

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.0 bug or bad "feature"

2008-07-24 Thread Colin Cody
update. My bug was previously reported on bugzilla so perhaps that's all that can be done at this time. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432415 - Original Message - From: "Colin Cody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Fi

Re: [CGUYS] Emotional About (Cisco) Hardware?

2008-07-24 Thread Eric S. Sande
After all, the systems are not your personal property. No they aren't and this is very hard for some to accept. Mr. Childs would have lasted about 12 minutes at a major US carrier. Maybe less. He got away with a lot because his management was either not there or unaware, apparently. ***