[CGUYS] Firefox 3.03: Report Broken Website Broken?

2008-10-14 Thread Richard P.
I am having some trouble opening some PDF's in Firefox at Cannondale's Tech Center: http://www.cannondale.com/tech_center/accessories/cyclinggear.html The links open up fine in IE8. Other PDF's have no trouble using FF. When I went to report this using Firefox's Report broken website tool, I find

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
What auto industry? Are you even paying attention? You mean they aren't going to make any more? Gone the way of the 9-inch floppy? I guess we should take good care of the ones we have (like in Cuba). * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Strange biases [was: Re: GPS advice]

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
The day I knew Consumers Reports was totally biased and clueless was when they reviewed an odd little car we owned, the 1980 Dodge Colt [Plymouth Champ]. We enjoyed our Champ too. Very nice, reliable car. * ** List

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
BTW, Dell said they only sell refurbished batteries. The cost is only $1.99, but wonder how long this will last. I ordered an extra for a back up. This sounds suspicious. In my experience batteries do not get refurbished.

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
As I see it, such a car would be owner-driven except when on the highway. This way, the motorist could potentially enjoy all the testosterone-driven thrills associated with today's model, but would also enjoy improved safety, reduced insurance costs, and an enjoyable commute during which they

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread John Emmerling
I don't follow. As I would envision it, the car merges into the outermost lane of the highway. While in this lane, the system that controls traffic on the highway takes over, and the driver relinquishes control. The system will then move the car into the inner lanes according to some algorithm.

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Ranbo
When I turn computer on I get a message that the voltage battery system is low. Today got this about a dozen times before finally got it to boot up. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Marcio V. Pinheiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: So, what makes you think that the vbattery is low? What are the

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Rigby
On Oct 14, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: The central traffic authority would route you in a way that would minimize congestion for the greater public good and keep you out of zones in which your presence was unwanted. Sounds like a plan that would go over big-time with

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Ranbo
How do I do this? When this low battery message comes up, except for one time, nothing happens when I hit any key, so have to turn off, then on again, repeatedly. Randall On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as all the fans are functioning there's no

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Having to reboot the computer 10 times to get it to come up is not the MB battery. That sounds more like Motherboard or Harddrive. How old is this computer that the MB battery is dying? Stewart At 11:09 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote: Guy at Batteries Plus said I should just take out the CMOS

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
So, what makes you think that the vbattery is low? What are the signs? I always used the date and time changes... Marcio At 21:18 13/10/2008, you wrote: I imagine it could stop for a while, then start again, which might simulate running slow. But as someone mentioned, simply ensuring a time

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread Constance Warner
Couldn't tell you right now, because I'm not home--I can look it up for you when I do get home. We prowled around the Big Box stores, reading boxes and asking questions, until we got a VCR that worked with an analog TV and that had a digital tuner in it. --Constance -Original Message-

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread b_s-wilk
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The auto industry will have to undo decades of pushing the concept that driving is an enjoyable experience and is part and parcel, perhaps even most of the reason for choosing one car over another for purchase. That'll be

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
Could it be the Power Supply? I had this once. If its not the battery - after it is changed - then it must be the power supply. Dell must have a replacement. Marcio At 01:16 PM 10/14/2008, you wrote: Having to reboot the computer 10 times to get it to come up is not the MB battery. That

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
Open the case, look atthe MB, see where the battery is. Look at the battery and see its number. Go to any place, buy one and replace. Mine are usually 2025, 2032 or similar andthey are found any place. Marcio At 01:09 PM 10/14/2008, you wrote: Guy at Batteries Plus said I should just take

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread rlsimon
Got a walmart special and hooked it up to analog tv (sony kv25xbr) and to amplified uhf+vhf antenna on 40' tower pointed toward philly 1h away by car. Get lots of nice analog stuff for years incl. cbs,abc,nbc,whyy,njn,wybe,wb,fox,cw but don't get much on the digital ...initially got 3.x and no

Re: [CGUYS] Strange biases [was: Re: GPS advice]

2008-10-14 Thread gerald
japanese car. very hard to get parts from chrysler. later mitisubishi were not reliable. At 11:40 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote: The day I knew Consumers Reports was totally biased and clueless was when they reviewed an odd little car we owned, the 1980 Dodge Colt [Plymouth Champ]. We enjoyed

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.03: Report Broken Website Broken?

2008-10-14 Thread Richard P.
Thanks for the tip. I tried saving it and then opening it and it worked just fine. I'm surprised by this. Is this just because of this website or is it standard operating procedure to save them first? I've never had to do this before when viewing a PDF. Richard P. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:13

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread Eric S. Sande
HAL? HELLO? I'm sorry, but I don't know what you mean by Pull over for a pee break. And no, we aren't almost there yet. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness,

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.03: Report Broken Website Broken?

2008-10-14 Thread Jordan
I sometimes use a Firefox extension called PDF Download which asks what you want to do when you click on a pdf: view as html, or download. It usually works pretty well, but it would not view the one I tried at the Cannondale site. Firefox 3 Mac OS 10.5 Richard P. wrote: I am having some

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread Richard P.
Have you run and compared your antenna system on www.antennaweb.org? You can always call the station's engineering department for help. They'll know if things will get better or if it's going to stay the same after Feb. I think that your antenna amplifier transmitter is supposed to be as close to

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Fred Holmes
At 11:40 AM 10/14/2008, Marcio V. Pinheiro wrote: But as someone mentioned, simply ensuring a time sync periodically would prevent you from ever noticing it. A decent time synchronization applet will provide a warning if the correction required is large, say two minutes by default and generally

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Fred Holmes
At 07:22 PM 10/13/2008, Robert wrote: Batteries -- actually a cell in a computer -- are strange. I had to replace my CMOS cell a few months ago in a Dell desktop about 4 years old. But some will last 10 years as they do in my watch. Replacement time generally depends upon the explicit quality

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Fred Holmes
At 11:53 AM 10/14/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: This sounds suspicious. In my experience batteries do not get refurbished. Likely is a unique battery type that is no longer in production because no new equipment uses it. Very low demand item. But Dell would provide it for its own computers on

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
Funny, the batteries in my generic computers ate 2025 or 2032 and they are found everywhere. Are we talking about the same batteries. Or you are speaking of power supply?... Confused... Marcio At 11:41 14/10/2008, you wrote: Today it took turning the computer on and off about 10 times (and

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Fred Holmes
If it were a hard drive problem with a good motherboard, one would normally get an error message from the boot ROM, Operating System Not Found or similar. Fred Holmes At 12:16 PM 10/14/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Having to reboot the computer 10 times to get it to come up is not the MB

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
Anyone buy one yet? Do they get decent signals? Am looking at a list of converters, but don't know which to choose. We live 25-50 miles from broadcast towers and have 2 analog TVs. Wikipedia has a great chart of CECB units with details about their innards. I have an RCA DTA800B1 because my

Re: [CGUYS] OpenOffice Goes Native on Intel Macs

2008-10-14 Thread David K Watson
StarOffice 9 (beta) is also out and has a native version for intel macs. It will supposedly be coming out of beta in November. Also NeoOffice is Mac-only and will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel macs. All three share the same code based on StarOffice, but StarOffice is commercial while

Re: [CGUYS] Firefox 3.03: Report Broken Website Broken?

2008-10-14 Thread Tony B
I only tried one; it opened fine in Foxit Reader. Remember, FF doesn't actually display pdf's, so it may not be a FF problem. Did you try saving them before opening them? On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having some trouble opening some PDF's in Firefox

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread db
Remove all USB devices and as many adapter cards as you can (sound card, modem, NIC card). If it boots up without a problem then, odds are the power supply is starting to fail. They cost about $100 to have a local shop replace one. But you could also grab your data files while you have it

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread Richard P.
Which model? Does your VCR have both analog and digital outputs? Richard P. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Constance Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may not be exactly a propos, but we bought a new VCR with a digital tuner in it. Much to our surprise, we picked up digital signals as

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
Keep in mind that the frequency the the stations are currently transmitting their digital signal on may change in Feb, 2009. There is now talk of a 30-day delay. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Tony B
As long as all the fans are functioning there's no danger in leaving the machine on all the time. It's just a waste of power. But you really shouldn't have to do that. At worst, you might have to go into the BIOS and select load safe defaults on each boot. Bad idea ordering the extra. As you've

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Ranbo
Bought it in March 2004. Naturally past the 4 year Dell warranty I got. What about that low system battery warning I get when I turn it on? Randall On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having to reboot the computer 10 times to get it to come up is

[CGUYS] Fwd: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Ranbo
Could this be why sound via speakers hooked to computer has recently been significantly less volume no matter what I set the volume at? Randall On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:31 PM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove all USB devices and as many adapter cards as you can (sound card, modem, NIC

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Ranbo
Guy at Batteries Plus said I should just take out the CMOS battery; that the chances are 99% that on Desk Top it is just a simple battery that I can pick up anywhere, CVS, Giant, their store, etc. All I have is a Dell part number, which means nothing to him. Should I do this - take out the

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread Constance Warner
This may not be exactly a propos, but we bought a new VCR with a digital tuner in it. Much to our surprise, we picked up digital signals as soon as we installed it, using an old window-mounted analog antenna. Unfortunately, we can't tell whether all of the stations will come in after the full

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
Having to reboot the computer 10 times to get it to come up is not the MB battery. I have run into this several times and it was the battery in all cases. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives,

Re: [CGUYS] Fwd: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread db
No. or very doubtful at least... Did you try that test? db Ranbo wrote: Could this be why sound via speakers hooked to computer has recently been significantly less volume no matter what I set the volume at? Randall On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:31 PM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remove

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
First thing to check is signal strength. Most of these tuner boxes have a signal strength meter function. The meter should give you a reading even for stations that are too weak to lock in their digital signal. Some stations have relocated their antennas as part of their digital TV buildout.

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread Larry Sacks
When they bring in the successful overseas cars that get 40mpg, some will sell well here, especially those with 4 and 5-star EuroNCAP crash test ratings [Aygo, Fiat 500]. Anyone for a Ford Ka? Fiat 500? Ford Fiesta? Toyota Aygo [Peugeot 107, Citroen C1]? Ligier Nova? GM Chevy Matiz? I'm

Re: [CGUYS] digital TV converter box

2008-10-14 Thread Robert
Where did you get it? Constance Warner wrote: This may not be exactly a propos, but we bought a new VCR with a digital tuner in it. Much to our surprise, we picked up digital signals as soon as we installed it, using an old window-mounted analog antenna. Unfortunately, we can't tell whether

Re: [CGUYS] Low battery voltage warning?

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
Guy at Batteries Plus said I should just take out the CMOS battery; that the chances are 99% that on Desk Top it is just a simple battery that I can pick up anywhere, CVS, Giant, their store, etc. That is the right answer. This is a small battery the size of a couple of quarters.

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
I don't understand why you would then throw the driver into prison for leaving the highway. Human control of a vehicle has proven to be extremely dangerous. It has killed more people than all wars put together. We want this dangerous weapon of mass destruction under reliable control as soon as

Re: [CGUYS] Help fuddy-duddy with VCR question

2008-10-14 Thread Robert
A follow-up on my question about finding a replacement device for my broken VCR that will work with both broadcast digital signals and satellite signals. After much searching, I have concluded there is no replacement for a VCR. Searching Google for a VCR with digital tuner there is only one

Re: [CGUYS] Help fuddy-duddy with VCR question

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Rigby
On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Robert wrote: Pundits on the web say that after the change-over to digital broadcasting, copy protection will be extended to broadcast digital signals, disabling recording on any of the above devices for these selected programs. This has long been claimed

Re: [CGUYS] Help fuddy-duddy with VCR question

2008-10-14 Thread Jim
I've recently started using an EyeTV 250 to time-shift TV programs. Have only had it for a few days so am still learning about it.In addition to processing both analog and digital signals it allows me to record my old VHS tapes to DVD. 'course you need a working VHS player to do

Re: [CGUYS] Help fuddy-duddy with VCR question

2008-10-14 Thread mike
Friend of mine at work had a blu ray copy of iron man about a week before it was released. That copy protection scheme worked out well, I'm sure anything else will be just as successful. Mike On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:45 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] Help fuddy-duddy with VCR question

2008-10-14 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Develop a copy protection scheme and someone will develop a way around it. Make a lock that is unpickable and before you know it someone has found a way to pick it. Part of human nature or reverse psychology. Tell us it cannot be done and we will find a way to do it. Stewart At 07:01 PM

Re: [CGUYS] Help fuddy-duddy with VCR question

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
Pundits on the web say that after the change-over to digital broadcasting, copy protection will be extended to broadcast digital signals, disabling recording on any of the above devices for these selected programs. I do not see any progress on doing this. The broadcast flag is largely a dead

Re: [CGUYS] Ars- Future of Driving

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Fernando
With this new technology will there really be a need for personally-owned vehicles? Would it not be better to just call for a vehicle of the type needed for each trip and have it come get you? When the personal ownership goes away, you can have modular cars. So when they are on the highway, a