Does anyone else find Smileys to be insulting?
I mean, a little :-) at the end of a comment to explain that you meant it
humorously/ironically/sarcastically implies the recipient isn't capable of
getting the joke in the first place.
Or maybe I should just switch to decaf today... ;-)
The only contention with other users on FiOS is at the CO and the backbone.
The fiber to the prem is a home run and not a shared medium.
-Mike
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A very nice solution for a small office (30 users) is Cisco Call Manager
Express. It runs on a Cisco router, even their smallest ISR platform, the
1800 series. You can run it on a Cisco 2811, put a PRI interface in it if
you need that many PSTN connections (23) or a four port FXO card and
When I wrote about Cisco Call Manager Express earlier I completely blanked
on Asterisk! Asterisk is a GNU OpenBSD IP PBX application. It's a free
download and supports all the popular VoIP protocols (SCCP, MGCP, H.323 and
SIP) plus it claims to support Cisco phones. From Asterisk's website
The dirty little secret of T1 is that in the Bell Atlantic footprint most
T1s are DSL in drag. Verizon uses big optical circuits for their trunks and
peel off T1 T3 from OC-3/OC-12/OC-48 SONET fiber circuits. The T1 is
actually an SDSL (Synchronous DSL -- same speed upstream and down) circuit.
Tony,
When I was selling this for Verizon, it was so expensive only businesses
(and of course your government) could afford it. It's basically a 1,000Mb
(Gig-E) Ethernet handoff from the carrier. You actually would have to buy a
second circuit to connect to your ISP like this:
You
The uptime guarantee might be useful for mission critical circuits; more
appropriate is having the same bandwidth upstream and down. For us home
users the big traffic is mostly downstream; we're willing to endure slow
uploads because unless you are constantly submitting videos to YouTube,
uploads
Qwest has been Ma Bell's red-headed step child since divestiture. They have
the largest geographic footprint to cover and the smallest customer base to
pay for it of the Big Three wire line carriers. It's not surprising your
DSL sux. If you are happy with your cable Internet, stick with it.
Punt.
Religion politics dictate whether PC or Mac, and you'll get plenty of both
on this list. You didn't mention the size of the hard drive or the
processor model, but if you're going to run WinXP you need a gig of RAM. So
before you spend money upgrading a 6-year-old machine, check out the
You can use foreign cash or your credit card though your card company may
charge you a conversion fee. If you bank with one of the large money center
banks like Citi you can use your US ATM card at a Citi ATM in England or
Germany or wherever without a conversion fee.
Stay away from conversion
I've used it for domestic and International calling. I was in China last
summer and Skype kept me in touch with my family n the US with no problems
at all. Also, I used the Skype account option where I transferred $10 into
Skype to use for computer-to-landline calling. IP calls
Sounds like what you need is a guest network. Your friend can probably
cobble something together with multiple home office routers (Linksys,
Neatgear, etc.) wired back-to-back but a better, although pricier, solution
is a purpose-built security appliance like the Juniper SSG-5. Your friend
can
Just to pile on...
I have a daughter moving to Seattle next fall and I want to get her a
portable GPS for her car. Any recommendations?
She's not very computer-literate so it doesn't need to interface with her
Dell laptop, just get her across town with reasonable accuracy.
Thanks,
-Mike
For my daughter I assume a mapping GPS is the best? She's lived in Northern
Virginia all her 21 years with the past winter in the Milwaukee area so she
has no idea where anything is in Seattle.
I don't know anything about the different models. Do maps cost extra?
Are there any models to stay
He knows when you are sleeping,
He knows when you're awake.
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
I know I'll sleep better knowing Big Brother is watching over me.
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The question was does a POTS line still supply power? The answer is
unequivocally yes. If you have a POTS line to your house and your power
goes down -- pretty common occurrence here in Western Loudoun lately -- the
power on the POTS line will stay up and you can plug your 1970s-vintage
Princess
Be aware that you may not even require any type of plug adapter. When I was
in China last year I found the outlets in my hotel rooms had a cross-shaped
slit capable of connecting Chinese appliances (horizontally oriented plugs)
AND American plugs through the vertical slits. I used a Canon camera
Plenty of home owner associations still put antenna restrictions in but it
must be just boilerplate. I've also heard the restrictions are
unenforceable. Any lawyers on this list?
-Mike
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Not much of a point, really. The question posted was how come so many
people use NAV if it's such a poor product. My post pointed out that people
use the stuff the PC comes shipped with whether it's the best solution or
not. NAV is shipped preinstalled on lots of PCs unless you custom-order it
Millions use NAV because the manufacturers ship you their PC with it already
installed.
rant You will also find links to game sites, AOL, and lord knows what all
else pre-loaded. If you are computer literate you delete all that junk.
Most consumers just keep using -- and paying for -- whatever
Check your monitor cable at both the monitor and your video card. I've had
what I thought was a CRT with a bad gun, turned out to be a loose cable.
Plugged her in, the colors went back to normal again.
If the cable is still tight Richard is probably right -- time for a new
monitor.
-Mike
That's affirmative. FiOS is safer from a lightning strike/surge point of
view since, as you say, all it is sending is light. Unlike the copper wires
it replaces the transmission medium does not conduct electricity.
-Mike
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Loaded fine with IE 7.
-Mike
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Brownfield
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 4:59 PM
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It's got nothing to do with sleepy IT staff and everything to do with Cisco,
Nortel, Juniper, Sun, IBM, and I'm probably missing some. All of these
devices, routers, switches, firewalls and servers, brand new 2007 models,
REQUIRE a serial interface to configure them and stomping your feet or
I replaced a 50G Hitachi 5400RPM drive with a 160G WD Scorpio, 5400 RPM in a
ThinkPad with no adverse effects. That was in early May, the laptop runs
most of the day every day. I suspect upgrading capacity would have minimal
effect but upgrading speed to 7200 or even 10,000 RPM might draw more
This reminds me of the one about the new dad worrying about his young kids
finding his nudie mags hidden in the sock drawer. You can't hide anything
from the kids. They will pilfer, investigate, and explore every place you
can imagine hiding stuff -- they WILL find it. I guess the 21st Century
My ThinkPad T61 had a 60G Hitachi in it, also bursting at the seams. I
replaced it with a Western Digital Scorpio WD1600BEVS 160GB 5400 RPM Serial
ATA150 hard drive. I sacrificed the performance of the 7200 RPM drive for
the cost of the 5400 -- my Scorpio cost me $104 from Newegg last May. I
I'm spending about $95/month for Comcast's digital silver package (most
digital channels, HDTV plus HBO). My phone bill from Vz is about $130/mo
which includes two POTS lines (one carries the DSL), Internet, and long
distance. The Comcast sales rep compared my current Comcast service and
quoted
Forgot to add, the $150 price is for a two year contract. The standard
$99/month triple play expires after a year.
-M
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Purcellville, VA
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:21 PM
Arnold,
It all depends on your time and the level of effort you are willing to
expend on managing your own service.
(1) No matter what you use the free server for it will need to be both
accessible and secure. It will need to be physically secure from someone
tampering with it (like accidentally
I've had Comcast for video and am generally happy with it. I've also been a
loyal Verizon customer using them for both voice and DSL. Does anyone on
the list have any experience with Comcast's Triple Play - voice, video and
Internet bundle? I've been pricing the triple play and it looks like I
David,
You didn't give the model of Powerbook but I just looked up Powerbook G4
1GHz on Crucial and they list 500M for $100. So if you can get 2 GB for
$345 installed that sounds like a deal.
Other opinions?
-Mike
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Purcellville, VA
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Lowe
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:22 PM
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Replacing laptop memory
David,
You didn't give the model of Powerbook but I just looked up Powerbook G4
1GHz on Crucial and they list 500M
Jeff,
The easiest way to go is to set up a wireless LAN in your home. All laptops
made in the past few years have wireless LAN support built in; I'm sure the
new Fujitsu does. If your other laptops don't have wireless built in, you
can add it using a PC card or USB dongle solution.
You can get
Dan,
I use Skype with a web cam and it works pretty well. Discounting Skype's
outage this past week it has been extremely reliable. I used it on a recent
trip to China to keep in touch with my family here in the states. Voice
quality suffers if either end has bandwidth constraints and I assume
John,
I just flew to China three weeks ago and while there took two plane flights
within the country. Not only did the US TSA inspect my laptop but so did
the Chinese airport security folks. No one in the USA or China requested a
power on or other proof that the laptop functioned. In the US
Live radio is on a 3 second delay just so they can bleep out objectionable
material. Of course objectionable is in the eye of the beholder. I
assume live TV or web casts have something similar. Some low-level
standards and practices type always has a finger on the trigger in case an
arrant
Generally a cell phone with a car adapter should limp you through a
prolonged power outage. It's possible the cell service itself could be
impacted -- the Florida hurricanes of a couple of years ago come to mind.
The high winds knocked down towers directly in the path of the eye. But as
I recall
FiOS is Verizon's brand for fiber-to-the-premises connectivity. FiOS is not
a generic term or a technology (like DSL) but an actual brand.
If Qwest has a fiber to the prem service it is NOT FiOS. From what I've
heard here in the DC area FiOS delivers outstanding throughput at the speeds
I've already got funny sun glasses. Can I get funny Groucho glasses with
the nose and mustache instead?
-Mike
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Purcellville, VA
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Judy,
Blue screen is short for Blue Screen of Death or BSOD. It is when the
display unexpectedly goes to a DOS-looking text mode, white print on a solid
blue background. The screen is usually covered with helpful memory dump
contents and some equally cryptic error codes that have meaning only
John,
If you can swing three months of no interest credit from Dell jump on it!
Their typical Preferred Customer interest rate is around 21% APR. At Dell,
Preferred strictly refers to their preferences, not yours.
-Mike
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Purcellville, VA
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I vote for encryption. Just don't forget the password or make it too easy
to guess!
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Purcellville, VA
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13,
At this time it will only be available from ATT or someone else, not
Verizon.
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Purcellville, VA
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John McDonald
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Or coming out of the adult theatre!
Or in the company of a young lady not your wife.
Or hanging out on the street when your boss thinks you're supposed to be at
your desk in your office.
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Purcellville, VA
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It might harm your electric bill, but I've always left my laptops plugged
in, even when powered down, with no adverse effect to battery or computer.
On the other hand, I've read that something like 10% of your home
electricity usage is due to the various wall warts that stay plugged in,
sucking
Randall,
I bought a Western Digital external (USB) hard drive, 250Gig. Newegg lists
a Maxtor 500Gig external drive for $150. My WD came with an automatic
backup utility that makes it bootable and even includes a scheduler. The
timer pops every week on Wednesdays and I get a full backup during
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