I wrote
PC computer running Windows XP. I have BounceBack software that directs a
C-drive backup to a Seagate external drive. How can I get the desktop to be
backed up as well?
John DeCarlo replied:
Your desktop is on the C: drive. So you are almost certainly backing it up
already.
On my des
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Michael S. Altus wrote:
I wrote
PC computer running Windows XP. I have BounceBack software that directs a
C-drive backup to a Seagate external drive. How can I get the desktop to be
backed up as well?
John DeCarlo replied:
Your desktop is on the C: drive. So you are almost
On Sep 3, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Tony B wrote:
It's not just you. It's a big problem today. I complain about it all
the time, as do broadcast engineers. Not at all sure why all the new
video formats separate audio from video.
Experience with this has proven to me that the problem is much
worse
On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Could be just your TV that is out.
I have fixed this by turning the TV off & on.
Nope. Not at all in my case. In fact, one can experience time
shifts in the amount of delay between audio and video as a program
progresses. It may be more
>Nope. Not at all in my case. In fact, one can experience time
>shifts in the amount of delay between audio and video as a program
>progresses. It may be more or less out of sync at varying points
>in the program.
That is true, but that does not address my question. Changing channels or
r
>The iPhone camera is lame, and it doesn't do video. I need a new camera. Nokia
>[and other] phones have 5+ megapixel cameras and do very good video.
No they do not do "very good" video. Have you been watching too much of
the political conventions? The lenses in these phones are of miserable
qua
>At what price? I understand that we are talking 3-4 times what we
>pay over here for those phones, plus you need to figure in the exchange rate.
Prices are comperable. My cousin (in Italy) was dying to get one and was
convinced that he could get a better deal in the USA. After looking at
the
In the broadcast world, audio/video sync can vary depending upon how
much digital video action is taking place. The more "movement" in the
video (action scenes), the longer it takes to process, compared to the
audio stream. The sync difference is measurable in a piece as short as
one minute long.
On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
The main reason to get one in Europe is to
have it unlocked from the start.
H.
When I was looking over phones during my stay in France I was
informed that the rule was: locked for the first 6 months, then
French law insists that they must
All;
Time for the Taylor household to do an audio-visual technology
refresh, and to do that I need a refresher from the knowledgeable
folks on this list.
What I currently have:
Comcast digital cable - the only broadband choice here in the sticks.
Don't really want to go satellite for TV
This is an assumption. Windows is *often* installed on the c drive,
and if it is, then the desktop is *probably* on the c drive. But if
e.g. any removable drives were in the system when Windows was
installed, then it would install itself to a later drive letter. I
have a system now where the deskto
> > Your desktop is on the C: drive. So you are almost
> > certainly backing it up already.
>
> This is an assumption. Windows is *often* installed on the
> c drive, and if it is, then the desktop is *probably* on
> the c drive
Right, and it can even go further than that. I've seen systems whe
It's not surprising that quality control issues are showing up now, and
that all the bugs haven't been worked out yet. But the conversion to
digital wasn't really in the interest of consumers.
Switching to digital frees up the very valuable frequencies that analog
TV now uses.
Compared to the up
Actually I don't think this is right. Hardware RAID does crc on the data,
so corruption is almost impossible, the RAID would drop the bad drive off if
it started returning errors. Of course this is moo as joey says if he is
doing soft RAID. So the question is...hard or soft?
Mike
On Wed, Sep
On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
That is true, but that does not address my question. Changing
channels or
restarting the set can often bring things back into sync. Remember
that
the least expensive box in the chain is the one you own.
Your suggested solutions have never wo
On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Richard P. wrote:
The problem can be caused/corrected by equipment, source material,
editors, and uplink/downlink operators. A transmission can have more
than a dozen hops in it, with each hop introducing its own set of
errors. However, there is no guaranteed solutio
The main reason to get one in Europe is to
have it unlocked from the start.
H.
When I was looking over phones during my stay in France I was informed that the
rule was: locked for the first 6 months, then French law insists that they must
be unlocked. That 6 month wait when I was there le
>The iPhone camera is lame, and it doesn't do video. I need a new camera. Nokia
>[and other] phones have 5+ megapixel cameras and do very good video.
No they do not do "very good" video. Have you been watching too much of
the political conventions? The lenses in these phones are of miserable
q
While everyone is talking cellphones..I'd like input on which
ones have the clearest sound on a call. I'm on Verizon and have been
using the original LG Chocolate for a couple of years and I HATE it.
I struggle to u nderstand what people are saying on it and it has
nothing to do with
Wifi kind of narrows it down a little with Verizon.
The newer Samsung (I think SCH-i830) is a wifi phone.
However Verizon locks many features and you cannot use it as a skype
type phone on WIfi.
I had good luck with my Samsung 730 but found it bulky. I am now on
a Motorola Q9C. Smartphone
One of the ways the audio and the video can get out of sync is because the
video is fed directly to the screen while the audio is routed through a home
theater receiver (or the equivalent), for example. Better HTR's may have
audio delay circuitry the user can invoke to try re-sync the two. I have n
I would bet that viewership will drop off after the transition due to
the fact that many houses that are able to receive usable VHF analog
transmissions right now will no longer be able to receive a reliable
UHF digital signal.
Richard P.
>
>
>> The problem can be caused/corrected by equipment,
In Belgium there is only GSM service on networks operate in the 900 MHz or
1800 MHz bands. Some countries (including Canada and the United States) use
the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands because the 900 and 1800 MHz frequency bands
were already allocated*.
In the time I spent in the EU this summer, I
I think the clear sounding phones were called ANALOG :( I have yet to
hear a decent digital phone signal over here. My relative's digital
cellular phone in the UK is perfect. I'm not sure why we can't have
the same quality of service over here. By the way, their phones and
service are also cheaper
We believe you! But be aware that reports are surfacing in the wild
that with different TVs, everything else being the same, one will show
bad audio sync and one won't.
Presumably this is the result of a bad component (or firm/software),
and not an inherent design flaw with that entire model line.
Remember there are like 7-8 types of RAIDs these days. I really can't
remember now what the OP eventually decided on.
The RAID controller itself adds a whole separate layer of complexity
to controlling a disk, regardless if it's hard or soft. Don't forget -
while RAIDs are rebuilding, they can be
Tell me whoever is asking, is the wifi desire to use vonage or something or
is it to surf?
-Original Message-
From: Rev. Stewart Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: WiFi mobile phone
Wifi kind of narrows it down a little with Verizo
Apparently the Motorola V9 has some kind of clear talk scheme in it that is
supposed to be great for clarity and noise abatement ...I'm sad to say my
brother had a Moto v710 which was clear (imho as recipient) on verizon
...poor reception though in li ny and dwntn chicago ...he went for the ifone
3
I never could figure out what the dual sim thing allows ...my razrV3
apparently will support "dual nam" but that,of course, would be on the same
service. ...is it that the dual sim allows you to do it with say a couple
of gsm cards from different providers? ...like if one is for your work and
one
In Belgium, both the razrV3 and the SamsungSync had reception and
transmission CLEAR AS A BELL with pegged 5 bars in every tiny town behind
hills and under overhead wires ...of course, there's one detrimental aspect
...the beautiful countryside in the ardennes that was so terribly deforested
in the
This is valuable reporting. But explain to me why my Nokia n75 3g works in
stellar fashion in Central Europe with local sim cards, and here in the US. I
assume an offset of 50mhz or 100mhz ought to disable my phone. I'm just a
simple foot soldier, making calls, text messaging, my phone works
On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Tony B wrote:
Anyway, as someone else already pointed out I think, you need to power
cycle everything in your chain, not just the TV. Even if it likely
won't do any good.
Perhaps so, but such maneuvers should not be required in our
enlightened times and with suc
On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Richard P. wrote:
I would bet that viewership will drop off after the transition due to
the fact that many houses that are able to receive usable VHF analog
transmissions right now will no longer be able to receive a reliable
UHF digital signal.
As for my particul
A friend went to use their trial subscription of Office 2003 and found
that it had expired. The program offered an upgrade to Office 2007.
They went through the process, gave their CC# and got a Product Code
which when used, was said to be invalid. They then went through the
process again, only to
Mirroring. Data loss can happen at a lot of stages. A mirror isn't going
to increase your chances of losing data in itself. He had three drives, all
with the same data...seems reasonable to me.
Mike
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Remember there are like 7
They got ripped off. MS does not sell a product code without disks
for 2007 for retail.
Stewart
At 03:22 PM 9/4/2008, you wrote:
A friend went to use their trial subscription of Office 2003 and found
that it had expired. The program offered an upgrade to Office 2007.
They went through the pr
FYI, there's a simple piece of commercial equipment in use today to
adjust for lip sync errors. All it requires is someone to input the
signal into it, adjust it, and then monitor the output. Master control
at the final broadcast point could do this if directed to. That would
take care the simple s
Two Verizon sales guys were out today selling FIOS. During the
conversation, they announced that that analog Cox cable TV was going
to go away as of February 2009. I told them that I didn't think this
was the case but they insisted that this was so, even though Cox is
constantly running commercials
You aren't missing anything except you should keep a more critical view of
sales people. They were lying to you.
Mike
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Richard P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two Verizon sales guys were out today selling FIOS. During the
> conversation, they announced that that a
I don't mean to start at the beginning- but WHAT upgrade? They did NOT have
a valid 2003 copy and they tried to upgrade? That does NOT justify two
charges- but it also sounds like they may have had a bootlegged version (one
from overseas) that led to the financial conversion charge.
I have had N
On Sep 4, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Richard P. wrote:
FYI, there's a simple piece of commercial equipment in use today to
adjust for lip sync errors. All it requires is someone to input the
signal into it, adjust it, and then monitor the output. Master control
at the final broadcast point could do this
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Richard P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two Verizon sales guys were out today selling FIOS. During the
> conversation, they announced that that analog Cox cable TV was going
> to go away as of February 2009. I told them that I didn't think this
> was the case but th
Yes, and it can be had for less than $8,000. Peanuts in the broadcast
budget. See product notes below signature. Most stations already have
this but use it for other things.
Richard P.
Leitch Technology has introduced the X75 HD, a versatile up-, down-
and cross converter and HD frame synchronize
Perhaps I should have used the word convert is describing this issue.
What was offered was them was to convert to Office 2007. This was the
only option the MS Office program offered them when they tried to use
the program. In their subsequent conversation with Microsoft, MS said
that the seller was
There still needs to be some media involved. 2003 Office cannot
magically be changed to 2007 with the inputting of a number.
They are drastically different. There has to be some media involved
or at least a very large download.
My church bought a new PC last year and we got office 2007 with
Vicky Staubly
In this case, appearances can be deceiving. Try this. Open up your C drive,
then "Documents And Setting". In there, you should see a few folders, one for
"All Users" and one for each user that logs into that computer. Open up the one
corresponding to the username you use. Inside t
>Switching to digital frees up the very valuable frequencies that analog
>TV now uses.
They needed the money to finance foreign wars. I wonder if there will be
any money leftover.
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The MS omission was just an error on my part and not intentional. More
information is better. Sorry.
Richard P.
> There still needs to be some media involved. 2003 Office cannot magically
> be changed to 2007 with the inputting of a number.
>
> They are drastically different. There has to be s
Appreciate it.
They are still owed a hard disk from the vendor they bought it
from. Plus a refund for the extra. Bad system as far as I am concerned.
At present I have seen home and student 2007 office's suites for sale
at Big box office stores for less than $100.00 his week.
Stewart
At
I had good luck with my Samsung 730 but found it bulky. I am now
on a Motorola Q9C. Smartphone not PPC. The Samsung is a PPC.
Daughter has a newer Choclate but those are now defunct. Son-in-
law got LG Venus, and they like them.
Stewart
Stewart, I'm mainly concerned with the clarity of
I too would like to hear about any phone/service that has a clear
sound. Ours isn't and we are using Nokia on Cingular.
ahhh,Richard. Thanks for that disappointing input. I guess. I had
heard Nokias had clear sound but apparently that isn't the case? The
Nokia E71 sounded great but it says
Tell me whoever is asking, is the wifi desire to use vonage or
something or
is it to surf?
It was to surf and do email without having to also buy a data plan
from Verizon. I wouldn't be using it enough to warrant the data plan.
Paula/IN/USA
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> Actually I don't think this is right. Hardware RAID does crc on the data,
> so corruption is almost impossible, the RAID would drop the bad drive off if
> it started returning errors. Of course this is moo as joey says if he is
> doing soft RAID. So the question is...hard or soft?
You keep w
I refuse tog et a data plan from Verizon, over priced for what they are.
29.95 for web and email per month??? Come on
Check out Samsung, I know it is a Windows based phone but I think
ther eare som Mac interfaces for those type phones.
Also note Palm is coming out with a centro style
Wifi will give you that ability. Palm I believe does not have Wifi
and I do not think that Palm has a browser on their system.
Palm's do work good with the Verizon.
Stewart
At 08:35 PM 9/4/2008, you wrote:
ahhh,Richard. Thanks for that disappointing input. I guess. I had
heard Nokias had
For clarification, it is a Nokia 6010. Don't know what other Nokia'
phones sound like. I've always assumed that the poor sound had more to
do with the service than the phone.
Richard P.
>> I too would like to hear about any phone/service that has a clear
>> sound. Ours isn't and we are using Noki
I mispoke I think he has a voyager, but to answer your question,
crystal. (It is the touch screen with slide out keypad.)
We have a large coverage by Verizon in this area, and they pretty
much have the best service here.
Stewart
At 08:31 PM 9/4/2008, you wrote:
Stewart, I'm mainly concer
So you are suggesting to take the illegal route? Interesting...
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Would you know off the top of your head which ones?
>
> Most of them. In France and Belgium it is illegal to lock phones. In
> Italy carriers are not allowed
That's what CRC does...why do you think it won't? You could possibly argue
that if you have a bad controler that still functions 98% AND a bad hard
drive that still gives the illusion of working that this could
happen...otherwise this makes no sense. And under your way, with one drive
in the box
Combination of the two.
Check out Cnet reviews they usually put the phones through their
paces and will let you know if they get clear or bad reception.
Stewart
At 08:54 PM 9/4/2008, you wrote:
For clarification, it is a Nokia 6010. Don't know what other Nokia'
phones sound like. I've alway
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>The iPhone has a SIM card slot that can be accessed with the traditional
>Apple "special tool". It doesn't have a memory card slot, and that's the
>big deal breaker. Most other phones in the same class have memory card
>slots. The iPhone is fine for local use, but I wouldn't want it to be my
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>Wifi will give you that ability. Palm I believe does not have Wifi
>and I do not think that Palm has a browser on their system.
My Palm Tungsten C has WiFi.
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But it is not a phone.
Why pal did not include it on the treos is beyond me.
Stewart
At 09:21 PM 9/4/2008, you wrote:
>Wifi will give you that ability. Palm I believe does not have Wifi
>and I do not think that Palm has a browser on their system.
My Palm Tungsten C has WiFi.
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Okay. Now I understand the RAID fetish. You are not worrying about the
logical structure of the drive. You are focusing on the hardware and
testing bits and bytes as they go by. CRC has nothing to do with the
logical structure of the drive, just the bits and bytes as they are being
transferred.
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Thanks (I think).
This is a mighty strange review. The guy spends much of his report
ranting against Flash. He says IE is better than other
Palm T/X has wi-fi, bluetooth, sync for mac, and allows browsing the web.
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] WiFi mobile phone
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Date: Thursday, September 4,
>But it is not a phone.
Good point.
I am happier keeping these two functions separate for now. There is no
monthly fee for using my PDA and my pay-go cell phone costs me about $70
per year.
And the number of features I must have on my digital camera will not be
available on a cell phone for y
>So you are suggesting to take the illegal route? Interesting...
That is not illegal. It may or may not break a contract, but it is a
contract that I did not sign.
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I have a hard time thinking that you can get a good camera into a
good phone. The resulting appliance would be too bulky and too big.
Lenses are the key. Any good camera has good lenses. Cheap lenses
give you bad results. To put a good set of lenses into a phone would
require a decent amou
I never could figure out what the dual sim thing allows ...my razrV3
apparently will support "dual nam" but that,of course, would be on the same
service. ...is it that the dual sim allows you to do it with say a couple
of gsm cards from different providers? ...like if one is for your work and
on
So then how do you correct soft errors? You seem to have a soft fetish...I
want to protect both, you don't seem to feel the need to protect the
hardware side. Hence why you keep talking about mtbf.
Are not we better off trying to do our best protecting all types of errors?
If I hire a IT manager
h under the hood
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> Thanks (I think).
>
> This is a mighty strange review. The guy spends much of his report
> ranting against Flash. He says IE is better than other browsers be
Two Verizon sales guys were out today selling FIOS. During the
conversation, they announced that that analog Cox cable TV was going
to go away as of February 2009.
Analog BROADCASTS are going away as of February 2009.
I don't know if this means analog cable is going away.
I suspect that it is,
I have a hard time thinking that you can get a good camera into a good phone.
The resulting appliance would be too bulky and too big.
Lenses are the key. Any good camera has good lenses. Cheap lenses give you bad results. To put a good set of lenses into a phone would require a decent amount
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