Re: [CGUYS] error message makes plugin installation fail

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Is the error likely because I'm missing atl71.dll? Does Windows XP Home come with this DLL? No. It looks like it is part of some Microsoft Runtime package. So it is needed by something else you have installed in the past and was probably installed without informing you. Perhaps a demo of

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
The government is not supposed to be sticking a wetted finger into the air every hour to see which way the popular wind is blowing. Read the Wikipedia article on The Wisdom of Crowds It will make you feel better about all this. Or maybe worse.

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Chris Dunford
Yeah, I know about that. However, the crowds twice elected a certain individual whose name I won't mention but whose initials might include the letters G, W, and B. In my view, this fact disproves the entire premise. Read the Wikipedia article on The Wisdom of Crowds

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Larry Sacks
In all this talk about the definition morality, I've always found it interesting how groups use their own definition of it to justify their cause. This might not have made the national news but Perpetrators must be stopped using whatever means necessary, and the use of force is a morally

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Jeff Wright
In all this talk about the definition morality, I've always found it interesting how groups use their own definition of it to justify their cause. This might not have made the national news but Perpetrators must be stopped using whatever means necessary, and the use of force is a

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
whatever means necessary People just need to jet their extreme-o-meters properly calibrated. Anyone using phrases like that scores 100. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** **

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Yeah, I know about that. However, the crowds twice elected a certain individual whose name I won't mention but whose initials might include the letters G, W, and B. In my view, this fact disproves the entire premise. Lots of money was expended on feeding the crowds misinformation and the press

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Larry Sacks
What's the frequency Kenneth!! -Original Message- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Piwowar Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 1:13 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm... Yeah, I know about that.

Re: [CGUYS] Meaning of ZoneAlarm message?

2008-08-05 Thread Robert
Thank you for the detailed information. Here is the info: My computer: ipaddress 192.168.1.3; subnet mask 255.255.255.0; default gateway 192.168.1.1 Daughter's computer ipaddress 192.168.1.2; other addresses same. Looking at ZoneAlarm Log Viewer on my computer, each instance is either my

[CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives

2008-08-05 Thread Paul Meyer
I have been having lots of bad luck viewing DVD's sometimes straight out of the box (these are either poorly manufactured or being resold from somewhere like Netflix). I have to assume it the quality of the DVD's because I try them on two different drives and some dvd's work okay. It does make

[CGUYS] Aside-Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Paul Meyer
Regards the connection between pornography and politics, historically in Europe there was often a conflation of the p-word and political diatribes (often anti-clerical). Of course I guess there aren't too many sites like that these days..

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread mike
You mean getting canned for using known false docs to get ratings? Then getting outed within minutes by people who use those fancy computer things? On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lots of money was expended on feeding the crowds misinformation and the

Re: [CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives

2008-08-05 Thread Tony B
I've never had any trouble with pressed DVD's, and rarely have trouble with burned DVDs (I never put pressed DVDs in my computer though). Maybe both of your drives are bad. On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having lots of bad luck viewing DVD's

Re: [CGUYS] Meaning of ZoneAlarm message?

2008-08-05 Thread Tony B
I never worry about internal network connections. I only worry that when I add them to the trusted zone, but that's all you can do if you don't want to be bothered. PS Be sure to use 'immunize' in Spybot, and make sure her browser is not running with admin privs. On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:22 PM,

[CGUYS] [Fwd: Rejected posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-08-05 Thread db
I take it you are using AVG antivirus with the free ZA firewall? Your ZA zone settings seem appropriate but you shouldn't use AVG if you are using the ZA Security Suite which contains an antivirul program Port 137 is Netbios NAME, 138 is Netbios DATAGRAM. Port 445 is SMB (Server Message

Re: [CGUYS] Meaning of ZoneAlarm message?

2008-08-05 Thread mike
Well there is one thing to worry about internal connections. What if one of the systems on his network is infected and trying to infect the others? This would be my worry. Mike On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never worry about internal network connections. I

Re: [CGUYS] Meaning of ZoneAlarm message?

2008-08-05 Thread db
My reply posting has strangely been rejected twice by CGUYS so far... I'll cc it to you Robert this time also... --- I take it you are using AVG antivirus with the free ZA firewall? Your ZA zone settings seem appropriate but you shouldn't use AVG if you are using the ZA

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
You mean getting canned for using known false docs to get ratings? Then getting outed within minutes by people who use those fancy computer things? OMG you drank the KoolAid. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-05 Thread mike
i guess dan drank too since he apologized. On 8/5/08, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean getting canned for using known false docs to get ratings? Then getting outed within minutes by people who use those fancy computer things? OMG you drank the KoolAid.

Re: [CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives

2008-08-05 Thread gerald
we subscribe to blockbuster. i have a hundered dollar player that has a chip that upgrades the dvd to fill in some of the dots. dvd failures are less than one in a hundred. At 06:20 PM 8/5/2008, you wrote: I have been having lots of bad luck viewing DVD's sometimes straight out of the box

Re: [CGUYS] Movies on PC DVD drives

2008-08-05 Thread Vicky Staubly
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, gerald wrote: we subscribe to blockbuster. i have a hundered dollar player that has a chip that upgrades the dvd to fill in some of the dots. dvd failures are less than one in a hundred. We've only had problems a few times, on Netlfix DVDs that had seen better days. I