Re: [H] Duncan

At 12:25 PM 3/14/2015, DSinc wrote: To the List, I am now happily at home and completed the 2d phase of life; Iam now 67yrs old. It is indeed good to see that you're back. From another 67 year old guy who's been on the list for 20 years, Bill C.

Re: [H] SAMSUNG 850 EVO-Series

At 01:24 PM 12/8/2014, FORC5 wrote: any one have any info on the new Samsung ? http://techreport.com/review/27464/samsung-850-evo-solid-state-drive-reviewed

Re: [H] Duncan

I send you my best wishes for a complete recovery. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Bill Cohane New York City

Re: [H] Memorial Day

At 04:09 PM 5/26/2014, Jeff wrote: And for your service Thanks to all you guys. Bill Cohane LTjg USNR Newport, RI; Norfolk, VA; Brooklyn Navy Yard; San Juan, PR; Gitmo, Cuba; Naples & Augusta Bay Sicily, Italy; Nice, France; Monte Carlo, Monaco; Athens, Souda Bay Crete & assorte

Re: [H] WTF?

At 02:12 PM 8/22/2013, DSinc wrote: ...is chronic port blinking normal on Netgear switches??? A returning user wishes to know! Hi Duncan! All the Netgear switches that I used eventually did the chronic blinking (after a few years of use). In each case it was that the power supplies had gone ba

Re: [H] ?small problem

At 13:00 02/03/09, DHSinclair wrote: Bill, I have read thru your share several times. Many years ago FORC5 schooled me in the use of removing old ghost devices in the Safe Mode and the use of the "View Hidden Devices" switch in the CP/Device Manager. I now plan to view and decode all the items

Re: [H] ?small problem

At 17:37 02/02/09, DHSinclair wrote: Have what seems to be a small problem. WXPproXP3.. Was an Upgrade from W2KproSP4. Otherwise works superb! But, Can Not boot to Safe Mode...Hangs at "mup.sys". Do have reading for this, but, am wondering if there may be something else going on

Re: [H] OT Inclined planes

At 20:42 07/13/08, Harvey Best wrote: Thanks! I had been searching for a formula when I should have run a search like you did. How long does a ramp have to be to raise a plane 8 degrees from horizontal to a hight of one foot... One shouldn't have to find a formula to solve this. It's simpl

Re: [H] xp sp3 ?

At 17:52 04/29/08, FORC5 wrote: looking for the dl at MS and can only find sp3 overview. anyone have a link ? and is tt final. Want to dl it separate for streaming. When I goto live update they want to install the new wga and I say no. on a side note what was the dll causing the reboots ? I nee

Re: [H] UPSes

At 02:18 04/18/08, Joe User wrote: Have you bought and used "APC" batteries to compare vs these? Last few times I got bargain batteries the lifetime was horrible. Yes. I did replace with APC batteries (in my old BackUPS models) at first. I didn't see any difference between the APC batteries a

Re: [H] UPSes

At 02:12 04/18/08, Joe User wrote: Hello Bill, Thursday, April 17, 2008, 9:22:56 PM, you wrote: > I replace the batteries in my UPS when they die with generic > replacements from > . I guess I'll check these guys out. My replaceme

Re: [H] UPSes

At 22:32 04/17/08, Bobby Heid wrote: Hey, My old APC Back-UPS Pro's battery finally died. I run my monitor, router, and a few other pc related items off of it and I have an APC Back-UPS 1000 for my PC and external drive. Hi Bobby I replace the batteries in my UPS when they die with generic r

Re: [H] test (sorry)

At 22:58 03/25/08, Jeff Lane wrote: Nice try, Bill Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:41 PM Subject: [H] test (sorry) Trying to see if I can post to the Hardware Group Hi Jeff Thanks for replying. This seems to have been the first message of mine that made it to the list in over a year. For s

[H] test (sorry)

Trying to see if I can post to the Hardware Group

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

At 00:53 03/11/08, JRS wrote: I use a 1200 watt APC Smart UPS for my computer gear. True sine wave output. :) Three computers here (each with 10 internal SCSI drives)...three APC SmartUPS 1500 (computer, external drives, monitor for each UPS). Plus one SmartUPS 1000 for the little stuff: two

Re: [H] Video Problems (NVidia related)

the problem was a bad video card, corrupted drivers (fixed by using Drive Cleaner), or if it will return. Regards, Bill ---Original Message--- From: Bill Cohane Date: 1/25/2007 6:28:18 PM Subject: [H] Video Problems (NVidia related) I've been trying to set up one of a new Dell 2007F

[H] Video Problems (NVidia related)

Hi Guys! I've been trying to set up one of a new Dell 2007FP monitor the past two days and I keep having big problems. I'll understand if you don't want to read all the following, but doing so will let you know all the steps that I've tried. Basically, my system boots okay into Win2k "VGA Mode"

Re: [H] Jim >HWG Subscription problem >"Bobby Heid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I sort of have the same problem as Bobby. By sort of, I mean the following. I stopped getting HWG mail to my Verizon address a few weeks ago and had trouble resubscribing. So I subscribed to the HWG using my Road Runner email address. Messages started coming fine to the Road Runner address but I

[H] Is the list quiet or do I have a problem?

Hi Guys I haven't received anything for a couple of days...so please forgive this test message. Regards, Bill

Re: [H] 2k wireless

At 13:40 12/13/06, Winterlight wrote: It is time to clean off the drive and do a new install on my laptop = Thinkpad 1.13 P3M with a GB of P133 and a Hitachi Travelstar. I have XP on it now but I am thinking I would be better off with 2k. For one thing 2k takes a lot less space and horsepower

Re: [H] Laptop Battery Replacement

At 15:56 08/02/06, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 03:37 PM 8/2/2006, GPL typed: Anything anyone can recommend I be aware of? Anything to look for? I assume if I just match up the specs and computer I can find a quality battery replacement. I'v

Re: [H] LCD burn in ?

At 21:40 07/12/06, FORC5 wrote: I have had the same wallpaper on my desktop forever, the other day my son said he could see the image burned to the screen, I thought he was nuts but he is NOT. I did not think this was possible. On boot and booted to a pe disk or a Norton recovery disk it is pla

Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft

At 20:06 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote: Everyone laughed because "raw sockets" is not a real problem. *nix systems have had the ability to generate raw sockets for years. Things like clustering and VRRP depend on the ability to generate packets that appear to come from virtualized (or spoofed!) IP

Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft

At 13:49 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote: I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it would when Windows 2000 was released. Gibson warned about the inclusion of "raw sockets" in Win2k. Everyone laughed. Since then, Microsoft has quietly eliminated the raw sockets with pat

Re: [H] Bad Netgear 314 ?

At 09:59 01/12/06, you wrote: I finally ended up buying a new router for 60 bucks from Office Depot. Problem solved. Lost 2 of these cheap consumer routers in 3 years. I've had three power supplies go bad on Netgear PS105 8 port 10/100 switches. These switch's work for a couple of years, then

Re: [H] Verizon DSL

At 18:28 01/08/06, Winterlight wrote: Do you guys with Verizon DSL have a reliable connection. I have COX cable modem. The first five years it was great...never had a problem... but a year ago I began having all sorts of problems. One day I can't send email, one day I can't receive mail. Seems

Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade

At 22:30 12/15/05, FORC5 wrote: Do you think my Win2k will boot (and allow me to update other hardware) if I upgrade motherboards (PIII board to P4 board, both with Intel chipsets) but move the same SCSI card into the new motherboard? should not be a problem but w2k can be very anal sometimes

Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade

At 22:10 12/15/05, FORC5 wrote: in device manager set hard drive to standard dual channel pci ide controller ( I am assuming not SATA ) I have a reg file to set boot back to default settings. have yet to have a xp mb swap not boot. ( w2k yes but not xp ) should be on THG FTP luck the trick with

Re: [H] USB boot

At 15:13 12/02/05, Winterlight wrote: I have two fairly modern workstations. One is based around a Asus PC DL Deluxe, and one is a Intel 865PERL. Both are around 18 months old, and come with at least six onboard USB2 ports. I can't boot off any USB flash drive, or even leave a USB drive connected

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

At 16:21 12/03/05, Steve Tomporowski wrote: I got the same thing the other day. The key is to type in the wrong password and see if it lets you in. If it does, then it's phsihing I also get these almost every day. I've checked "view source" for many of them and I've seen some where the un

Re: [H] WIFY Encryption ?

At 19:05 11/11/05, Winterlight wrote: Yes but I believe everything has to be WEP, as 2K does not support WAP. I use WAP on my laptop that runs 2k. (It has an Intel mini-pci wireless card.) I used the Intel driver utility that I downloaded for use with the card to set up the WAP.) Using a generi

Re: [H] Gas prices

At 17:00 08/17/05, jeff.lane wrote: Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several years ago that claimed they had made cold fusion work. That is clean, safe, perpetual, fusion .I don't recall their names but they had the scientific world standing on it's head for sometim

Re: [H] OT: Is this thing on??

At 19:43 08/10/05, JRS wrote: Haven't seen any posts in a couple of days Your post (above) was the first one I've seen today. I don't remember what came yesterday... Regards, Bill

Re: [H] PCI NVidia card

At 12:05 06/28/05, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a computer with a GeForce 5200 PCI card in it (an onboard i810 video) - when I run the NVidia drivers, it tells me that there is no NVidia hardware in the system. Anyone ever see this before? I kept getting the same error message "no nvidia h

RE: [H] hello, test

At 08:03 06/28/05, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 09:02 AM 28/06/2005, GP wrote: Seem to me Jim is never change isn't he, start to worry if this list suddently quiet. You know what Jim, we are getting older ;-) The list is getting quieter. I'm not sure if people are drifting away from the li

RE: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?

At 00:54 04/17/05, rls wrote: If I had the matched PIII cpus laying around then I probably would have headed in that direction. Thanks one and all for your input though. Bill - if you want the m/b around for a spare let me know and you can have it. Thanks. But I don't think it's worth your going to

RE: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?

At 13:10 04/16/05, W. D. wrote: At 01:22 4/16/2005, Bill Cohane, wrote: >Guess I didn't look long enough for the source of that >article! It only took a few seconds. The trick is to put a unique line in quotes like so: http://tinyurl.com/cp5h5 Yesterday, I used the exact same line (in

RE: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?

At 01:26 04/16/05, W. D. wrote: At 00:02 4/16/2005, Bill Cohane, wrote: >I couldn't find this article tonight using Google. Is this it? http://tipperlinne.com/p2b-ds.htm Yes! I forgot that it was Simon E. (from Toronto) who authored the webpage. His other pages about the P2B-D and P2B-DS a

RE: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?

At 00:01 04/16/05, rls wrote: Wow, thanks for all the good info. This board is version 1.05. I was thinking about going with the 8 x 100 PIII. But did not realize that the voltage limit would bite me. It was sort of an attractive way to go for me since I have about 700 mg lying around. But I wante

Re: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?

At 06:32 04/15/05, Bill Cohane wrote: Also, P2B-D boards before revision 1.06 don't all work at 133 MHz. FAB (front side bus). If you have one of these boards, you'd be limited to 800 MHz. (8X100) Coppermines. Oops. You could do 8.5X100. Or even 10X100 MHz if you can find a pair of

Re: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?

At 14:00 04/14/05, rls wrote: I found an old Asus 2B-D with 2 300 mhz Celerons in it. If I can find a pair of PIII 750's or 800's would this thing be worthwhile as a household server? It does have nearly 600 mg of ram on it. 256 + 128 + 128 + 64 Good enough to make into a multimedia server for t

Re: [H] Access GMail through Eudora

At 00:53 04/05/05, Gary VanderMolen wrote: Good lord, is this supposed to be an example of a user-friendly app? Anything requiring that much obscure hacking I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole. Gary VanderMolen The problem is presumably a bug in the way Eudora versions after 5.1 handle SSL nego

Re: [H] Access GMail through Eudora

At 23:29 04/04/05, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 10:10 AM 4/1/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: http://email.about.com/od/eudoratips/qt/et121004.htm Any one get this to work as I haven't been able to ? When I check the Eudora.log it says "Could not connect to "pop.gmail.com"\r\n" & "Cause: connection timed