Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

Vacation? The mind boggles. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:42 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM, TPiwowar wrote: > > > Where did all this money come from that they can so cavalierly pass on > $4.7 > > billion. Are we being overcharged? > > Of course we are being overch

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

> Another perspective on why Zune HD is a failure... A failure that hasn't been released yet? Interesting point of view. Perhaps we should wait just a bit. Reminds me of Dave Barry, who starts referring to new administrations as "failed" on about January 21. **

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

Wow I did! It ain't exactly news. http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2008/03/30/fairpoint_verizon_deal_comes_to_a_close_on_monday/ No comment, I'm just sayin'. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote: In case you missed this: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/05/13/Verizon-Frontier-agree- to-86B-sale/UPI-64691242244299/ Wow I did! "Approximately 11,000 Verizon employees will switch to working for Frontier, Verizon said." Verizon is

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

Another perspective on why Zune HD is a failure... "Bad Idea #5. Go one better. As the rise and fall of Friendfeed indicates, copying the basic functionality of a successful application (Twitter, in this case) and adding a few new features -- doing the same thing slightly "better" from some

Re: [CGUYS] Consumer Level Rechargeable Battery Technology

At 12:41 PM -0400 8/18/09, John Settle wrote: I'd lie to get some advice. I am running a wireless mouse/keyboard combination. Mouse uses two AA's; Keyboard a single AAA. I'd like to reduce the batteries I send to the recycle by switching to rechargeables. I have not had any first had experienc

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM, TPiwowar wrote: > Where did all this money come from that they can so cavalierly pass on $4.7 > billion. Are we being overcharged? Of course we are being overcharged. I am sure that you already know that. To wit, we pay, on average, five times what users in the

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

In case you missed this: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/05/13/Verizon-Frontier-agree-to-86B-sale/UPI-64691242244299/ No comment. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

Well mr moneybags, 2500 dollars to listen to a ten dollar cd is cost prohibitive to a lot of people. OK, I'll accept that. But consider it from a different perspective. If you bought one $10 CD a week for 30 years, you'd have 1500 CDs, which is a respectable but not even close to impressive co

[CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

Looks like rural America will get to keep its guns and religion, but it ain't gonna get no DSL. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/ AR2009081302433.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter "The Obama administration made a national priority of spreading high- spe

Re: [CGUYS] Disk geometry error - solved but not cured

On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Tony B wrote: Maybe I'm just misunderstanding, but I think you're wrong here. In the old days disk imaging may have done bit for bit clones, but these days they use compression, and they ignore empty spaces on the disk. So they have no trouble copying a partition

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 17 Aug 2009 to 18 Aug 2009 - Special issue (#2009-787)

> > Date:Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:18:31 -0400 > From:Tony B > Subject: Re: Disk geometry error - solved but not cured > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > I've seen lots of disks with extra partitions for manufacturer stuff. >

Re: [CGUYS] Consumer Level Rechargeable Battery Technology

The Lacrosse BC 900 and the Maha MH-C801D are both smart chargers and are often paired with the Sanyo Eneloops (AA or AAA) NiMH batteries. The batteries are known for their long shelf life/slow discharge capacity and when used with a smart charger make a good combination. The Lacrosse chargers le

Re: [CGUYS] Disk geometry error - solved but not cured

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding, but I think you're wrong here. In the old days disk imaging may have done bit for bit clones, but these days they use compression, and they ignore empty spaces on the disk. So they have no trouble copying a partition to a different size disk. i.e., Last week I 'rest

Re: [CGUYS] Subject: drupal for only 10 million

On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:31 AM, mike wrote: Hold on, you need to give some warning so I can get my hip boots on before you start shoveling this much high end shite. You just go wallow in it. The rest of can go on with the work of good government. P.S Don't miss utah.gov for eye-popping good

Re: [CGUYS] Disk geometry error - solved but not cured

On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Tony B wrote: I guess what I'm saying is this explanation doesn't make sense to me. Do you have a link for further reading? Or is this just another reason not to use Acronis? Nothing wrong with Acronis. Different methods of copying are appropriate in different ca

Re: [CGUYS] Consumer Level Rechargeable Battery Technology

On Aug 18, 2009, at 12:41 PM, John Settle wrote: Anyone have any charger/battery technology (Brand) combinations that work well? LSD NiMH... Sanyo Eneloop Rayovac Hybrid Kodak Pre-Charged Dur

Re: [CGUYS] Consumer Level Rechargeable Battery Technology

You want the NEW type nimh batteries. They will come pre-charged, and will say something like "holds 80% of the charge for a year". You want a charger that isn't simply a timer. It needs to actually measure the voltage and cut off when the battery is actually charged. These can be tricky to find.

Re: [CGUYS] Consumer Level Rechargeable Battery Technology

NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) rechargeable batteries in AA and AAA format abound for use in digital cameras. Made by various manufacturers. Generally they are used and recharged in pairs, which makes the use of a single AAA in the keyboard a bit problematical. I have used them in cameras, but ge

[CGUYS] Consumer Level Rechargeable Battery Technology

All, I'd lie to get some advice. I am running a wireless mouse/keyboard combination. Mouse uses two AA's; Keyboard a single AAA. I'd like to reduce the batteries I send to the recycle by switching to rechargeables. I have not had any first had experience with rechargeables this century. Anyon

Re: [CGUYS] Subject: drupal for only 10 million

Hold on, you need to give some warning so I can get my hip boots on before you start shoveling this much high end shite. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:01 AM, TPiwowar wrote: > Looks like the price tag ($18M) is for 5 years of work with an ambitious > mission statement and new content constantly adde

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

I have a computer hooked up to a pioneer receiver with svideo and digital audio, I've put all my cds and some dvds on the computer and can play anything with my ipod touch working as the remote. Since it's controlled via wifi, I don't even have t be in the same room. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:48

Re: [CGUYS] Disk geometry error - solved but not cured

I've seen lots of disks with extra partitions for manufacturer stuff. But usually it's a simple matter to just ignore it and toss in a newly copied hard drive. I guess what I'm saying is this explanation doesn't make sense to me. Do you have a link for further reading? Or is this just another reas

[CGUYS] Disk geometry error - solved but not cured

In case anybody was wondering, I did figure out what I did wrong with the 100->500GB disk upgrade. The original disk in a Dell notebook came with a host protected area (HPA). Dell uses this area to store extra features, which in this case was Media Direct. The cloning process (Acronis True-Image)

Re: [CGUYS] Subject: drupal for only 10 million

Looks like the price tag ($18M) is for 5 years of work with an ambitious mission statement and new content constantly added. Our cons/neocons had made it sound like it was for a weekend's work. They lied to us for 8 years and I guess it is hard to break a habit. "Agencies are starting to se

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Eric S. Sande wrote: >> A lot people of any generation, the cost is prohibitive. > > Beg to differ.  One of the fastest growing and most innovative areas > of hi-fi is in headphone systems.  The youngsters all ready use Ipods > and Zunes, they all ready have comput