Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
You lost me. If you suspect a bad install, I'd re-do it... That is the chief advantage of NOT having it embedded in the OS... Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: "DHSinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:57 PM Sub

Re: [H] Just Wondering?

2008-08-25 Thread Winterlight
At 05:08 PM 8/25/2008, you wrote: Viera's are good, but Pioneer Elite Kuro's are arguably the best plasmas to be had, but then again, they do cost 4-5-6 grand. :) They are the best, the new PRO-151FD 60" price actually came down a grand to 6500 but it is a fantastic display. Of course, my ne

Re: [H] Just Wondering?

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
So, Bro's choice is a "Viera?" I have not kept up with "trade names." I Am a Pioneer Elite sorta person. Only because I OWN one now. Not, because I can drop 6Large on my LAST TV. But,. :) I'm open to opinion...I'm no dead yet. My current choice has trouble. I can spend ~$500 to try

Re: [H] Just Wondering?

2008-08-25 Thread John R Steinbruner
Viera's are good, but Pioneer Elite Kuro's are arguably the best plasmas to be had, but then again, they do cost 4-5-6 grand. :) I spent weeks reading on the AVS forum, http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/index.php . Bought a nice 50 inch Samsung last weekend. Not as good on blacks as the Pan

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
Rick, The "plug-ins" I listed were 'added' during the base install of FF. Perhaps why I raised this thread. I can certainly look at many those plug-ins and see links to 'stuff' I already HAD in place. I took this as "OK, Let me spooge myself INTO with what is already there." and let FF go f

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
OK. Understand, I have not seen any pop-whatevers for AVG. Perhaps I am still a noob. I am going to keep asking questions. I do really like the FF browser; NOW; (w/tabs turned off). Duncan At 19:20 08/25/2008 -0400, you wrote: Compared to (technical) people I know of, my list is meager... AVG. a

[H] Just Wondering?

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
So, My Brother has bent his plastic on an HDTV. He choose the Panasonic TH-42PZ85U. http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Televisions/VIERA-Plasma-HDTVs/model.TH-42PZ85U_11002_7005702 Says it is "i" and "p" capable. Looking for opinions? (to share) I will be

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
I'll jump in. Start FF/Tools/Add-ons. Highlight your "items" one at a time and choose Disable (for testing only) or Uninstall... BTW I did not list my Plug-ins. I have around 15 of those, but "the system/program" added them on my behalf. (I did not personally pick them, go and get them, and manua

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
Compared to (technical) people I know of, my list is meager... AVG. added itself. I do custom installs and never allowed the e-mail crap, but this one worked... Rick Glazier From: "DHSinclair" WOW, you have more extensions that I even believe I need.

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
JRS, You always do amaze. Curious. I like these choices. How do I get here too? Best, Duncan At 13:40 08/25/2008 -0700, you wrote: Mine's even more stripped down, just IEView Lite and FireFTP. :) -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
WOW, you have more extensions that I even believe I need. I will look more. I do not do AVG here. I do ESET and do not find (yet) a FF plugin. Perhaps, .. :) Best, Duncan At 16:30 08/25/2008 -0400, you wrote: I keep my FF pretty stripped down "all the time". On my "Add-ons page" (E

Re: [H] Dumb question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
You are screwed dude. Fess up. And go foward. Or, just wash all of it again! Problem solved. Best, Duncan At 16:11 08/25/2008 -0400, you wrote: My wife won't let me touch her stuff, so I'll have to confess and get her to do it. This was a real cheap CD-R, so likely was Aluminum and dye. The che

Re: [H] AV receiver question

2008-08-25 Thread Brian Weeden
No problem, glad to be of help. I guess the big question he has to answer is the following: what's the native resolution of the display he is planning on using (probably either 720p or 1080p) and what are the resolutions of the sources he is planning on hooking up? Also, do all his sources suppo

Re: [H] AV receiver question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
At 14:24 08/23/2008 -0400, you wrote: Many receivers do not do any video processing, they just pass through and switch. The only processing an A/V receiver will normally is conversion between sources. So if your TV is native 720p you want to output only 720p signal. If you hook up a DVD player

Re: [H] Local Web Filter

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Thane Sherrington wrote: Is there a good program that I can run on a computer and set it to whitelist certain sites and block all others? T http://www.cyclope-series.com/internet-filtering/internet-content-filtering-software.html Use local policy to force the proxy. -

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread JRS
Mine's even more stripped down, just IEView Lite and FireFTP.   :)  -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: Rick Glazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Mond

Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Christopher Fisk wrote: Third: Getting rid of the Antivirus 2008 isn't fun. You'll need to scan with multiple things. I've had good luck with putting the drive into a machine and scanning with Avast, then AVG, then trendmicro's housecall, then Malwarebytes Antimalware, th

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
I keep my FF pretty stripped down "all the time". On my "Add-ons page" (Extensions Tab), I list: AVG Safe Search 8.0, DownloadHelper 3.2 (for snatching small WEB videos), FlashGot 2.0.5 (front end for GetRight, or others.) McAfee SiteAdvisor 26.6 (helps with security decisions while browsing), No

Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Joe User wrote: Hello, Have a guy that brought in his Wal-Mart sold HP/Crapaq laptop. He tells me he was surfing pr0n and got a message that his system was infected and he just shut down his system and called me. I asked him if this was possibly a pop up ad and he do

Re: [H] Dumb question

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
My wife won't let me touch her stuff, so I'll have to confess and get her to do it. This was a real cheap CD-R, so likely was Aluminum and dye. The cheap ones are said to be unstable and very water soluble... (FWIW, I always assumed I'd do this to a flash drive...)

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
inline At 15:34 08/25/2008 -0400, you wrote: I'm not sure you wanted to do "anything" right now, so most of your questions can be answered with a simple answer. well I do, if necessary. If I have "plug-ins" I need not, or, may be causing trouble, I'd like to know from the FF wizards

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
I'm not sure you wanted to do "anything" right now, so most of your questions can be answered with a simple answer. Strip it down to the bare FF and then, if that doesn't help, un+re-install. I have so little trouble with FF I don't know for sure If I ever fixed it (on my machine.) (I get an in

Re: [H] Dumb question

2008-08-25 Thread Julian Zottl
If I were you, I'd wash them once or twice just to make sure. Silver is fine for our bodies, but god only knows what else was in there. Julian (Sabre) On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Rick Glazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I washed a pair of cargo jeans with an old damaged CR-R > in one of th

Re: [H] Apologies again!

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
You are most welcome! There comes a time when we will all live up to what our peers perceive! LOL! Even when in dutch, I still learn stuff. I'd love to believe I "own" my LAN. Nope. Nada! Probably will never happen. I am now my LAN's slave. I can hang with this! It does work, after all. Pristin

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
Rick, No problem asking questionssee below. At 13:20 08/25/2008 -0400, you wrote: Two questions: (I hate asking questions to answer one...) Are you using the latest version and build of FF? (Mine claims "itself" that 3.0.1 is the newest released version.) Equal. I am using v3.0

[H] Dumb question

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
I washed a pair of cargo jeans with an old damaged CR-R in one of the side pockets. (Totally lost the coating.) It's probally my imagination, but I think it turned the jeans (light colored ones) slightly green... (At least when wet.) They look fine dry... But it gets worse. My wife followed me a

Re: [H] Apologies again!

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
Thanks for confessing. It is somewhat a lost art that someone will "bother" make themselves "look bad" to help others! Rick Glazier From: "DHSinclair" Well, guess what? This trouble rests mostly with me!

[H] Apologies again!

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
Some months ago I asked the List about a xdsl problem I was having. It had to do with my service going bonkers/out each time I get a rainstorm float through. Solidly, the rcvd comments indicated my service provider (ATT/Bellsouth) was a primary culprit. OK. I do know that my internal phone wir

Re: [H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread Rick Glazier
Two questions: (I hate asking questions to answer one...) Are you using the latest version and build of FF? (Mine claims "itself" that 3.0.1 is the newest released version.) Did you try to disable your plug-ins/extensions? I run all sorts of tabs "all the time" in the same window, and most are o

[H] FF question

2008-08-25 Thread DHSinclair
Perhaps there is something I do not understand about "tabs" in FF. Can anyone explain? I had been allowing the use of tabs, but each time I clicked an internal link, the cpu went to 100% and the already running web radio stream goes bonkers (skip, replay, stutter, etc.) while the "tab" sits there