Re: [H] OT: Mobile Phone Tools

2007-07-24 Thread j maccraw
There are also free P2K tools if have a usb cable want to do more than transfer pics ringtones. google for p2kcommander or motox. On the other hand if you want to sync with outlook backup your phone book you really need to buy MPT. FORC5 wrote: FWIW I bought a USB Bluetooth adapter and

Re: [H] Dead hdd--freezer!

2007-07-24 Thread j maccraw
hmm, I have a lappy drive that died mysteriously only chirps without spinning. Will have to try this! Scott Sipe wrote: So I posted awhile ago that I had had a new Seagate drive die (not recognized by computer, made a weird chirping noise). I finally got around to trying something I had

Re: [H] IP stuff?

2007-07-24 Thread j maccraw
TCPView - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Networking/TcpView.mspx Though no one other than local processes can access the loopback IP. From: DHSinclair Is there any way for me to query a given machine to find out who is camped out listening to 127.0.0.1? I am playing with

Re: [H] IP stuff?

2007-07-24 Thread Rick Glazier
Opps. I should not have given my answer as a question... That address is internal to your own computer, so it is trying to talk to itself... ??? I can't explain it too well, that is why I quoted Karen (of Karenware)... Who-Is is a couple things, depending on how the term is used. When I do a

RE: [H] Looking for advice on new system.

2007-07-24 Thread Mark Dodge
It may be, I was going on when I bought my house in Phoenix, which was 94. I thought that it was then. I was beta testing Win95 at the same time I think. I had a 486DX50 at the time. I may be thinking of a different OC list, or BB that was then tho... Mark -Original Message-

RE: [H] Dead hdd--freezer!

2007-07-24 Thread Harvey Best
I have done this with a desk top hdd, Someone on the list here told me about it. I coudn;t read the drive and there was data I had to have. I put the drive in the freezer for about 4 hours. Popped it in the computer and could read the drive for about 10 minutes. When it stopped reading put back

Re: [H] OT: Mobile Phone Tools

2007-07-24 Thread Ben Ruset
My phone came with MPT and it's the biggest piece of crap out there. The best software I have ever seen for phones is Float's Mobile Agent, which is freeware for Sony Ericsson phones. j maccraw wrote: There are also free P2K tools if have a usb cable want to do more than transfer pics

RE: [H] Dead hdd--freezer!

2007-07-24 Thread Tim \The Beave\ Lider
Chirping means the spindle motor is damaged or the Heads had landed on the platter and have been Affixed to the media surface. I don't think Freezing it will work. Freezing only works if there is an issue with heat and Thermal Recalibration. Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN:

Re: [H] IP stuff?

2007-07-24 Thread DHSinclair
OK. let me answer all of you collectively, sort of. I suspect I asked a shotgun question. What I have gotten back are laser beams. I am still confused. Hopefully, some of my answers will let you all know where I am. I freely admit that there is much about a server and the www that I do not

Re: [H] IP stuff?

2007-07-24 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, DHSinclair wrote: Is there any way for me to query a given machine to find out who is camped out listening to 127.0.0.1? To be more specific, in any IPv4 TCP/IP stack, the whole class-A subnet 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 is your PC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost So,

Re: [H] IP stuff?

2007-07-24 Thread DHSinclair
Christopher, Thank you. I do have and have been using TCPView. Yes, you have correctly got it! Now. I have run TCPView on my server. I see nobody camped out on 127.0.0.1. I do see many internal windows components camped out on 0.0.0.0:. So I suppose my next question is:

Re: [H] Looking for advice on new system.

2007-07-24 Thread Ben Ruset
Wasn't THG originally started by Tom of Toms Hardware Guide? I've been on and off the list since about 97. JMaccraw (aka Warpmedia) was a friend and co-worker and turned me on to it. DHSinclair wrote: Mark, We all get foggy about the past. I do recall that you were one of the first

Re: [H] OT: Mobile Phone Tools

2007-07-24 Thread j maccraw
Eh, depending on the acquisition cost it does the job for moving pics/sounds syncing. The heavy lifting software to tweak the phone is all free though! Upped my RAZR's firmware (cingular had no facility to do so), loaded a custom skin ringtones, enabled engineering menu, disabled the

AMS makes junk, avoid! was Re: [H] Dead hdd--freezer!

2007-07-24 Thread j maccraw
All I know is it was in a laptop on my desk running 24/7 and one day I found it dead. It's less of a loss than the drive I just lost due to over voltage from a design flaw in the AMS Venus Dock laptop cooler. I had just started using a spare laptop drive in it as near-line storage to work on

Re: [H] IP stuff?

2007-07-24 Thread j maccraw
You're welcome for the link. There's not just an IP involved here, but also a port. Something else likely is using a port that homer needs to use. You run into this when you try to run more that one of the same kind of client or server software the needs a specific port on a machine. A simple