[CGUYS] Firefox Prism

Has anyone tried Prism yet? http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Mozilla_Brings_Webapps_to_the_Desktop__Challenges_AIR__Silverlight I'm trying it with gmail, but it seems odd - I keep looking for my other tabs. * ** List info, sub

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

> Windows 7 Raises Complaints... > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346691,00.asp The wealth of damning detail in this article is just overwhelming. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privac

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

> ...If it weren't for the monopoly and misbehavior by MS, IE would > have died long ago. IOW, the market worked. The market didn't work at all. MS's monopoly prevented the market from working. Without competition, IE was everywhere. When competition was allowed, through lawsuits and legisla

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

At 3:11 PM -0400 5/11/09, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Richard P. wrote: There is equipment that they can use to manually synch up the signals. It requires the signals to be monitored by a person and adjusted as needed. Because of the human cost, they will p

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

At 3:59 PM -0400 5/11/09, Jeff Wright wrote: Intersting story about a DOE managed research project. Not too bad; only "more than 600 percent over budget and at least eight years behind schedule," and given an award for project management. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

What might change the situation will be people rejecting the poor lip synch programming and stations. Until then, it will continue as usual. Without sufficient $ or legal motivation, the problem will continue. I do know that our neighbors to the north have much higher standards than us. Last I hear

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

>Think of the 60 years, of the thousands of homes, broiling in the >Miami sun, and paying, and paying, and paying, for electricity to heat >their water! That's what happens when governments abdicate their responsibility to govern. The so-called "free market" is full of such outrageous example

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

Believe me, this is far from the truth. I just finished reading yet another article in TV Technology (a trade mag) about lip sync problems and what can (and can't) be done to fix them. Some fascinating new software that can actually read faces/lips to try to determine if sync is bad. However, the p

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

In 1949, the money to be made from the widespread CONSTRUCTION of solar water heating was modest and diffuse. Shortly after, the money to be made SUPPRESSING solar water heating was large and concentrated and continuous: We had plenty of solar heated water (free heat): My parents' modest 2 be

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Richard P. wrote: > There is a standardized approach but they have chosen not to implement > it throughout the production line due to costs. In their reply to me onthis issue, WETA says that there is no standardized approach to the problem of audio and video no

Re: [CGUYS] apple app store bonehead move

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-rejects-bittorrent-control-app-from-app-store-because-it-m/ sure. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, db wrote: > Could you send a non Tiny.URL too. > Tiny URLs are blocked by my firewall... > Thanks, > > db > > mike wrote: > >> http://tinyurl.com/qleja6 >

Re: [CGUYS] apple app store bonehead move

Could you send a non Tiny.URL too. Tiny URLs are blocked by my firewall... Thanks, db mike wrote: http://tinyurl.com/qleja6 Apple has a strange baffling approval process. * ** List info, subscription management, list ru

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

>Bottom line: if you're depending on a politican for >science, you've got bigger problems to worry about. Even when the politican appoints respected scientists and technologists to fill science and technology posts? Maybe you are stuck in the past? The cons/neocons are no longer running the sho

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jeff Wright wrote: > I can bet you that if someone were able to make money off of > widespread use of solar, they would have done it by now. Up until sometime in the 70s or 80s, and perhaps even later, a number of natural gas utilities, including the one that s

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

>You should read up on those lawsuits in the EU...really ridiculous stuff. >Kinda hard to claim IE has an monopoly when their marketshare is on a >spiral...DOWN. Windows 7 Raises Complaints... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346691,00.asp "Our initial review suggests this is a blatant use o

Re: [CGUYS] apple app store bonehead move

>Apple has a strange baffling approval process. Apple does seem to be overly conservative. Nevertheless M$ did launch a PR attack against Apple over "offensive" apps. Top 11 iPhone offensive apps www.msnbc.com/id/30522704

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

There is a standardized approach but they have chosen not to implement it throughout the production line due to costs. In an all Digital production world which doesn't yet exist, the video and audio can be locked together so it will always be in synch. In the real world, they have chosen not to imp

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

A slight correction and addendum: It is Thorsten Lemke, not Thorsen, and the asterisk on the "practically without any restrictions*" part tells about the delay on starting up and batch mode being disabled. Go back to GraphicConverter's developer's website, , and pay a

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

100% vulnerable? Really? By 100, you mean *just* the data on the disks...right. So not really 100% since you aren't using it as a backup and have all that data over there while it rebuilds. So really it's not vulnerable at all... On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Tony B wrote: > What they do

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

> That EU lawsuit against Microsoft started in the last century when IE was > pushed onto Windows users and Netscape was dying because of it didn't have > that kind of access. Ten years later IE market share is down because IE is > an awful program and there are finally alternatives that aren't hid

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

>But RAID for home-use is almost always a bad idea. 1. It is not likely >to be properly configured. 2. The home-user is not likely to understand >how to manage it. 3. That user will have a false sense that the data is >secure. 4. Because it adds complexity, the home-user is more likely to >lose

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

> RAID is for uptime, nothing else. addendum: Excepting RAID 0, which is for performance. No fault tolerance at all. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a membe

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>What they don't warn you about in RAID school though, is that after a >failure, when the RAID is being rebuilt, your data is 100% vulnerable! >And this striping process can take 24 hours or more for large disks! RAID was designed back when 100MB (That's Mega, not Giga) was considered a very larg

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Rich Schinnell wrote: > No you are not a criminal, just a free loader. Eh, not exactly. This is an older application and I never even ran across it until the original author had apparently sold the rights to the app to another party that no longer supports it.

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

> What they don't warn you about in RAID school though, is that after a > failure, when the RAID is being rebuilt, your data is 100% vulnerable! > And this striping process can take 24 hours or more for large disks! > > How _likely_ is it that you'll have two failures in a row? Well, the > drives *

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: > I have found that I can sometimes fix this by powering my digital > converter box off and on. I have never found that to be the case. I have three different converter brands, a Zenith, an Apex and for my computer, EyeTV, which uses an LG

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

Go back to GraphicConverter's developer's website, , and pay attention to the testimonials animation on the left margin. Eventually you'll see "I used GraphicConverter for free for two years before buying a license." Follow the link to the GraphicConverter product page,

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Richard P. wrote: > There is equipment that they can use to manually synch up the signals. > It requires the signals to be monitored by a person and adjusted as > needed. Because of the human cost, they will probably never do this. I understand what you have p

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

What they don't warn you about in RAID school though, is that after a failure, when the RAID is being rebuilt, your data is 100% vulnerable! And this striping process can take 24 hours or more for large disks! How _likely_ is it that you'll have two failures in a row? Well, the drives *are* likely

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

At 10:13 AM 5/11/2009, you wrote: Date:Mon, 11 May 2009 09:39:45 -0400 From:"phartz...@gmail.com" I have an image processing app that was a trial demo, and when it opens it tells me that images saved will be watermarked. However, I have discovered that only the JPG saves get watermar

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

That EU lawsuit against Microsoft started in the last century when IE was pushed onto Windows users and Netscape was dying because of it didn't have that kind of access. Ten years later IE market share is down because IE is an awful program and there are finally alternatives that aren't hidden

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

I'm not familiar with GraphicConverter, and I don't see a copy of the shareware license on the GC site, but my *hunch* is that this "nonpaid mode" is actually a violation of the license agreement after a certain allowable trial period. Shareware licenses almost always allow you to use the software

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

Jeff, I agree that RAID is fine for an enterprise data center where it is likely to be properly configured, understood and managed by storage professionals. But RAID for home-use is almost always a bad idea. 1. It is not likely to be properly configured. 2. The home-user is not likely to underst

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

> In the previous 8 years not a single action was brought > by the government on this basis. That's a feature, not a bug. Oh, you mean that's a bad thing? Who knows, maybe they'll finally nail Apple for it's abuse of anti-trust laws regarding OS X and iTunes. **

[CGUYS] apple app store bonehead move

http://tinyurl.com/qleja6 Apple has a strange baffling approval process. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

> That is just silly. You must have never takes a statistics class.With > RAID probability of failure is higher and recovery is more complex. But > the bigger problem is that RAID does not provide any real data security. Yes, RAID is more complex and it's not fool-proof. RAID isn't supposed to ha

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

There is equipment that they can use to manually synch up the signals. It requires the signals to be monitored by a person and adjusted as needed. Because of the human cost, they will probably never do this. Richard P. > >> When I started with my first LCD TV & a receiver, I read of complaints ab

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files#chapter_18 Good response to the 'death of science' question from a self described left wing member of the liberal party. The whole show is good, regarding pluto and it's planetary status, Dr. Tyson is very entertaining. *

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

You should read up on those lawsuits in the EU...really ridiculous stuff. Kinda hard to claim IE has an monopoly when their marketshare is on a spiral...DOWN. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: > >You bought that one? > >> As BHO recently announced, "Science is back." > > Well I

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

>For most home system even a NAS type of device could be a good means of >backup. Useful in a home where there are multiple computers and you want to share files among them. Otherwise KISS backs no NAS. * ** List info, su

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

>Some will even continuously monitor your data directory for changed files >and perform the backup "immediately." That may be a hazard, as a >corrupted file could overwrite a good backup. I have seen several cases where having that delay saved somebody's cookies. Boy did they scranble to shut

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

>Do not use the RAID array as the backup. Have a separate regular backup >to external hard drives. (or tape or CD/DVD if you wish). A good backup >medium these days is a SATA hard drive mounted in one of these "bare drive >docking stations" that has a USB (or Firewire, or E-SATA, or ..) interf

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

>But not at the same time. That is the failure that RAID is designed to >mitigate. If you have multiple, simultaneous drive failures, you have much >bigger problems than worrying about your RAID controller. Read the Wikipedia entry on RAID. They say the opposite. >All of the multiple safety sy

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

>It is for fault tolerance/uptime in case of a drive failure. If you are >depending on RAID for backup, you will be sorely disappointed. Jeff and I agree! One of the dangers of using RAID outside of the data center is the false sense of security it creates. The data center uses it because they

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

>I just cannot stand out-of-sync audio and video. I have found that I can sometimes fix this by powering my digital converter box off and on. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** p

Re: [CGUYS] Photo editing software

>Over a long IT career, I did go from knowing exactly which volume and >track numbers had my data, to letting the OS manage the data, not caring >where or even what type of media it was on. But that was within one >responsible enterprise. Thank you. Good example. >I guess I AM having problems

Re: [CGUYS] Revealed Truth

>You bought that one? >> As BHO recently announced, "Science is back." Well I was it was gone for 8 years and now I see it again. Doesn't that count as "back"? As the little kids say "Back Obama." Today BHO is announcing that the government is back into enforcing the antitrust laws. In the prev

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

>Exactly, I await your case to be made. It's so nice when we agree. I don't have to make any case. You are advocating using something other than a standard disk drive. So you have to make the case for doing something abnormal. If there is no good reason to jump through all the extra hoops to i

Re: [CGUYS] Photo editing software

>I have yet to see a backup program offer to backup all the pictures >'in' photoshop. Reason? It's a stupid concept. Bad comparison. Photoshop is not a photo manager. The closest it comes to that is Bridge with VersionCue and there I would say the pics are in VersionCue. Adobe sells a photo mana

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: >>   I have an image processing app that was a trial demo, and when it >> opens it tells me that images saved will be watermarked.  However, I >> have discovered that only the JPG saves get watermarked, not the TIFF >> saves.  I use TIFF anyw

Re: [CGUYS] Photo editing software

If you are not a regular user of Picassa, you may not know that a right mouse click on a photo provides an option to Locate On Disk which pops up the folder in which the photo resides. John Duncan Yoyo wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Did no one read my post of

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

> Possibly. However, in the past, and even now to some extent, some > shareware packages have clearly indicated that it is okay to use the > application even of the fee has not been paid. Most do ask that one > make a "donation" if they like the app and use it. > > I have an image processing

[CGUYS] Fire Fox Problem , redux -

List group - When I joined this list I had a 286 PC ($2500) , and had just moved to a 486 PC($800) , and nobody knew what these machines could do . We had to talk among ourselves just to make the d**m'd things work ! I recently asked for help with a Fire Fox prob

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:36 AM, MrMike6by9 wrote: > When I started with my first LCD TV & a receiver, I read of complaints about > audio/video being out of sync. One solution that seems to work is to ensure > that both the audio and video signals go through the AV receiver that then > feeds the

Re: [CGUYS] Appleworks problem

I wasn't really saying his printer driver could be his problem, (although it's generally good to update the driver software once in a while) just that Appleworks can be cranky old software and it gets confused. As others have said, trashing the pref file might help clear the confusion. Stephen

Re: [CGUYS] Photo editing software

Jeff Miles escribió: Graphicconverter is great. And it doesn't take a half minute to open. I'm still using it in nonpaid mode and it only takes about 10-15secs. to open. Due to Graphic Converter I've pretty much stopped using Photoshop, which does take about a full minute to open. GraphicCon

Re: [CGUYS] Photo editing software

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: > >Did no one read my post of a few days ago? > >The pictures are not "in Picassa". > >They are in: > >Tools=>Options=>General Save Imported Pictures in ... > > You are not letting go of the old way of seeing things. The pictures are > "in

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: > The failure of audio sync is due to the separate processing of audio and > video.  Apparently there is nothing to tie the two streams together. Come now. Surely there must be something to tie them together. Other broadcasters can do i

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

When I started with my first LCD TV & a receiver, I read of complaints about audio/video being out of sync. One solution that seems to work is to ensure that both the audio and video signals go through the AV receiver that then feeds the TV rather than having the video directly connected to the TV

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: >> I have run across a number of shareware apps over >> time that are actually fully functional and completely >> unrestricted in any way even if a fee is not paid. > > Right, but even if the software is fully functional, the user could still

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

> I have run across a number of shareware apps over > time that are actually fully functional and completely > unrestricted in any way even if a fee is not paid. Right, but even if the software is fully functional, the user could still be in violation of the license agreement. My point is really

Re: [CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:38 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: > I just cannot stand out-of-sync audio and video. It drives me nuts. > I have written, yet again, to the leader of the pack of out-of-sync > broadcasters in the Washington DC area, WETA television. I had asked > them about this probl

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

For most home system even a NAS type of device could be a good means of backup. With the relative inexpensiveness of hard drives, they should be readily available. Stewart At 07:37 AM 5/11/2009, you wrote: If you like the idea of RAID, use it, but it is mostly for servers that want 100% up-

Re: [CGUYS] A FireFox problem -

And individually back up that bookmarks.html file regularly. There may be multiple bookmarks.html files on your computer, especially if you have been using other mozilla.org browsers, or have updated from them. Use Windows search to find all instances of bookmarks.html, and back all of them up

Re: [CGUYS] A FireFox problem -

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:44 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: > There is an add on called X-Marks formerly Foxmarks that will back up your > bookmarks to the cloud and allow you to share them between machines.  It > looks like they use the bookmark information in the aggregate to determine > website p

Re: [CGUYS] A FireFox problem -

There is an add on called X-Marks formerly Foxmarks that will back up your bookmarks to the cloud and allow you to share them between machines. It looks like they use the bookmark information in the aggregate to determine website popularity, http://www.xmarks.com/about/features -- John Duncan Yo

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

If you like the idea of RAID, use it, but it is mostly for servers that want 100% up-time. If one drive fails, then the other drive will work alone until the failed drive can be hot-swapped. At least that is the way it is supposed to work in that particular RAID mode. Of course, if the RAID c

Re: [CGUYS] A FireFox problem -

Quoting Tom Chambers : The computer is working fine , and I can recover the bookmark list from one of my other machines . My problem is that FireFox still shows all of the original bookmarks (thought they no longer work) and won't let me delete the dead addresses . Any ideas

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: > I'm not familiar with GraphicConverter, and I don't see a copy of the > shareware license on the GC site, but my *hunch* is that this "nonpaid mode" > is actually a violation of the license agreement after a certain allowable > trial period.

[CGUYS] A FireFox problem -

List members - I ran SPYBOT last night and it somehow managed to wipe out two thirds of my FireFox bookmarks . Maybe it deleted a cookie file ? The computer is working fine , and I can recover the bookmark list from one of my other machines . My problem is

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

> RAID increases the probability of failure. Turning a machine on increases the likelihood of failure. > Two drives are more likely > to > fail than one drive. But not at the same time. That is the failure that RAID is designed to mitigate. If you have multiple, simultaneous drive failures, yo

Re: [CGUYS] Shareware {WAS: Photo editing software]

Bits from several different messages: > Graphicconverter is great. And it doesn't take a half > minute to open. I'm still using it in nonpaid mode and > it only takes about 10-15secs. to open. > For the Mac, there is Graphic Converter. It is shareware. > It is an extensive editing package. I

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

> The RAID issue has been debated much on this group. > > As a former institutional information systems manager who oversaw RAID > systems, in my opinion Tony is right that RAID is not the best backup > system in this case when offsite websharing and backup systems are > easily available at at rea

[CGUYS] Audio/video sync problem with DTV broadcasts

I just cannot stand out-of-sync audio and video. It drives me nuts. I have written, yet again, to the leader of the pack of out-of-sync broadcasters in the Washington DC area, WETA television. I had asked them about this problem nearly a year ago, and their answer to me was basically a brush-o

Re: [CGUYS] external hard drives

I kept abreast of storage technologies for about twenty years for a large government contract. RAID is fine for a data center, where corners are not likely to be cut and where people understand how to manage the technology. I shudder thinking about using a RAID for personal use, with almost certa

Re: [CGUYS] Photo editing software

As it happens, I just ran across a new writeup of eight free, lightweight Photoshop alternatives: http://tinyurl.com/qr6dow * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a

Re: [CGUYS] Photo editing software

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Jeff Miles wrote: >        Graphicconverter is great. And it doesn't take a half minute to open. > I'm still using it in nonpaid mode and it only takes about 10-15secs. to > open. Due to Graphic Converter I've pretty much stopped using Photoshop, > which does take

Re: [CGUYS] Photo editing software

Graphicconverter is great. And it doesn't take a half minute to open. I'm still using it in nonpaid mode and it only takes about 10-15secs. to open. Due to Graphic Converter I've pretty much stopped using Photoshop, which does take about a full minute to open. Jeff M On May 9, 2009, at 1

Re: [CGUYS] Are old LPs worth anything?

How about searching ebay to see if any are wanted? The Keep movie sound track on LP was going for about $2500. I almost bought that when it originally came out. Now I wish I had. Jeff M On May 9, 2009, at 11:37 AM, db wrote: I am curious too about this... I no longer have a turntable nor