Re: [H] bummer :(

2005-10-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:46 PM 10/1/2005, FORC5 typed: slowing the burn rate down on modern high speed dvd/cdr does not guaranty a successful burn, sometimes it makes it worse IME Ditto that especially if they try to slow it down too far. I can see burning at 12x instead of 16x but many people that do this drop

Re: [H] Recommended hosting site?

2005-09-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:52 AM 9/29/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Didn't hear about the ruckus or even see the ad. Care to elaborate? Go Daddy inquired about running their ad on ABC during the SB that Fox ran in the last SB ABC told them that the Go Daddy ad didn't live up to their standards. The ad

Re: [H] XP standby button greyed out

2005-09-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:43 AM 9/29/2005, warpmedia typed: Interesting, does it survive a safemode boot edit of startup to remove it? Don't remember if I tried that or not as it's been quite awhile. Got a link to it? http://viceroy.web1000.com/secscr.htm Secure Screen Change Log

Re: [H] Recommended hosting site?

2005-09-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:17 AM 9/29/2005, Ben Ruset typed: Dreamhost. Use me as a reference too. :) No use me, use me. lol Whatever but if you decide to go with 1 1 you can use either Joe User or myself as a reference. FWIW I have a referral link at the bottom of my XpPe.com website. --+--

RE: [H] AMD CPU question

2005-09-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:25 PM 9/29/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: When you decide to be a small computer place, you take on the challenge to be better than any of the big, uncaring stores. Getting the best product for your customers, even if it means a lot of work for you is just part of the job. Why

Re: [H] XP standby button greyed out

2005-09-28 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:03 AM 9/28/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: If your computer is located where unauthorized people may use it, first hit the Windows Key quickly followed by the L Key (before you switch the monitor off) and you get an instant log off. Whoever switches your monitor on gets the password

Re: [H] XP standby button greyed out

2005-09-28 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:43 PM 9/28/2005, warpmedia typed: How does this prevent an admin user (the only other person who can) on that box from logging in forcing you off? the Secure Screen that I was talking about is NOT a screen saver but a separate stand alone app if one puts it in the Admin StartUp

Re: [H] Recommended hosting site?

2005-09-28 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:01 PM 9/28/2005, Winterlight typed: Godaddy ... very good deals, reliability, and service. You can even have your own personal wide open server if you want to pay for it. I use Go Daddy to register my domain names but I have my sites hosted on 1 and 1 like Joe User does. While I'm not

Re: [H] XP standby button greyed out

2005-09-26 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:22 PM 9/26/2005, joeuser typed: BIOS? APCI? Personally I discourage the use of stand by. I don't use it on my desktop machines as I just turn the monitor off walk away but with my laptop standby works great. I do like Gary close the lid to go from room to room. I also have the power

Re: [H] XP standby button greyed out

2005-09-26 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:00 PM 9/26/2005, joeuser typed: and I also avoid and discourage the use of hibernation. Makes more sense to put monitor and drive to sleep or turn it off. To me anyway. I use hibernation in lieu of powering down because the startup is much faster besides it brings you back to the apps

Re: [H] DVD burners ?

2005-09-26 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:49 PM 9/26/2005, FORC5 typed: Have a Pioneer dvr-108, been very happy. Maybe one bad burn in 50 and who knows if burner or disk. Love mine also my 105 external 107. ;-) looking at a dvr-110d, any suggestions or opinions. ( we all have them {}) Gee, I never knew that. Thanks for

Re: [H] AD Watch

2005-09-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:27 AM 9/25/2005, GM typed: Wife's Laptop gave a AD Watch warning that she blocked (shouldn't have) and now no EXE will open. The block had something to do with Open command. Anybody know how to fix with out me having to do a clean install?? The only way I know to handle a case like

Re: [H] Texas highway cams

2005-09-23 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:58 AM 9/23/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: The roads are a lot more empty than I thought they'd be. Usually they are very crowded at this time of day but it looks like a ghost town. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Burning ISO Images and/or a Recovery CD or DVD.

2005-09-18 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:02 AM 9/18/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In several past attempts to Ghost a C Drive load from my computer's hard drive to another hard drive and then boot into Windows from it, XP would not boot. I assume that Microsoft has things rigged as to where if you change hard drives you must

Re: [H] Comcast Cable's Speed

2005-09-18 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:39 PM 9/18/2005, warpmedia typed: Giganews will! =) So won't SuperNews. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Comcast Cable's Speed

2005-09-18 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:48 PM 9/18/2005, warpmedia typed: Dunno, you tried them? I was on Buzzard and use to have Newsfeeds, neither gave me that much speed. I was with them for 4 years was very happy with retention download speeds. I had to drop cable go to Verizon DSL after my wife lost her job when the

Re: [H] Burning ISO Images and/or a Recovery CD or DVD.

2005-09-18 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:45 PM 9/18/2005, warpmedia typed: Why would you need to partition or format, it's a partition image and just going to overwrite it? Also why bother with wasting a HDD long term when a DVD-R can hold a full install of windows XP from a 4-6GB partition compressed using True Image? I only

Re: [H] Label dvd discs

2005-09-17 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:39 AM 9/17/2005, Greg Sevart typed: Went to CompUSA today to pick up a R200 on sale...and the Overland Park store was OOS. The salesperson suggested I try going to Best Buy (across the street) and doing a PM, but I figured my chances were pretty low, so I just went home... Oh well,

Re: [H] Burning ISO Images and/or a Recovery CD or DVD.

2005-09-17 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:19 PM 9/17/2005, FORC5 typed: not any help but I have done this with Ghost with very good results but it has been awhile and not sure what switches the ghost 8 supports, mine were done with a bootable floppy to start the restore process. I boot my XpPe Cd run Ghost 8 from there burning

RE: [H] Label dvd discs

2005-09-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:28 PM 9/16/2005, Winterlight typed: Price is good through Friday the 17th. There is no Friday the 17th the rest of this year. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Toshiba questions

2005-09-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:56 AM 9/14/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Now it's my understanding if a head is dragging, then a)it keeps dragging, and b)no software is going to recover the damaged data. I've also never heard of current laptops with Pentium-M processors not being able to be run all day long.

Re: [H] LiveCD question

2005-09-11 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:03 AM 9/11/2005, Brian Weeden typed: But you might also want to take a look at this article which uses WinPE to do an XP install on a USB thumbdrive: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050909/index.html Sorry but it's not WinPE but rather Bart's PEBuilder aka BartPE. Bart goes thru

RE: [H] activation of XP questions

2005-09-11 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:18 PM 9/11/2005, rls typed: The only reason I am trying to avoid this is that I have already reactivated the box 3 times this year, and I heard on the 4th you have to explain yourself which I would like to avoid. Yikes. I never heard of anyone having to do it more than twice til now.

RE: [H] activation of XP questions

2005-09-11 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:16 PM 9/11/2005, Chris Reeves typed: They don't grill you. The automated system informs you there is a reason why you can't activate online (like you normally would) and that it cannot activate you by phone. So, it passes you off to a customer rep. You briefly explain why you're

Re: [H] More RAID stuff

2005-09-08 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:42 PM 9/8/2005, Brian Weeden typed: Can I swap this controller card out for another one without losing all my data? Or would simply changing the card manufacturer (keeping the drives and array the same) force me to reinitialize the array and wipe it? The reason I ask is that I have

Re: [H] Eudora question

2005-09-07 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:04 AM 9/7/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Thanks, I'll give that a try. BTW, having a Eudora guru on this list rocks! Why thank you for the compliment coming from you sure beats when this is said by a nOOb. ;-) When I first started on the net my isp send out free copies of Netscape

Re: [H] Eudora question

2005-09-07 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:16 AM 9/7/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: This doesn't seem to work with mailing lists. My name isn't in the recipient list. What if I use: Header: Personality Is: Receiver Action: Make Personality - Sender You should have a filter already for the mailing lists in that case just

Re: [H] Eudora question

2005-09-07 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:36 AM 9/7/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: slaps forehead I never thought of adding the personality switch to my other filters. :) I think it's easier to have a separate filter for the personality switch, as when I start teaching this to my users, I have to keep this as simple as

Re: [H] new Eudora

2005-09-07 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:35 AM 9/7/2005, JRS typed: Ditto for Agent. Everything's in one folder you can just pick up and move. :) Even with the new Agent 3.0 fwiw 3.1 is in beta testing as we speak. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Eudora question

2005-09-07 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:25 AM 9/7/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: This doesn't seem to work with mailing lists. My name isn't in the recipient list. What if I use: Header: Personality Is: Receiver Action: Make Personality - Sender This seems to work. For Receiver I assume that you're filling in an email

Re: [H] GA-K8N Pro-SLI ?

2005-09-02 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:17 PM 9/2/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: At 11:14 AM 02/09/2005, FORC5 wrote: opinions on this MB, in the add today with a 3000 cpu for $249. OK deal, not great. how is GB's RMA on RMA ? Not sure on RMA. Have had a hell of a time with BIOS upgrades, web support, and some issues with

Re: [H] VHS to DVD

2005-09-02 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:31 PM 9/2/2005, Robert Turnbull typed: CNet has just done a comparison of leading VHS to DVD recorders. http://reviews.cnet.com/4521-6531_7-5021437-3.html?tag=nl.e404 Looks like the Lite-On LVC-9006 has come out on top of those tested. That's a very limited # of specimens tested. May

Re: [H] VHS to DVD

2005-09-02 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:07 AM 9/3/2005, Wayne Johnson typed: That's a very limited # of specimens tested. May I suggest you try http://www.videohelp.com/dvdrecorders Oops! No VHS to DVD at that link just DVD recorders. Sorry about that. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http

Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina

2005-09-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 04:07 PM 9/1/2005, Christopher Fisk typed: I played online poker last night. How dare I gamble while thousands are dying and homeless! I suppose BC was playing with interns. The reason we don't have an energy policy is because Monica was playing with his cigar. I've got an idea, why

Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina

2005-09-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:08 PM 9/1/2005, j m g typed: Ah, republican penis envy. BC had a Rep congress the whole time and new we've got a Rep pres and congress. If stuff is broken now, guess what - it is their fault. I'm sure that the Dems didn't filibuster anything that was worth doing either? If it were up

Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina

2005-08-31 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:53 PM 8/31/2005, Al typed: Not to prevent hurricanes, but to prevent the depth of the disaster caused by it. The casinos in MS were supposedly designed for level 5 hurricane look what happened to them. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805

Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina

2005-08-31 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:15 PM 8/31/2005, Al typed: We've been aware of New Orleans' inevitable horror for decades, and absolutely nothing sufficient was done about it. The levees, now broken and filling the city, were supposedly designed to protect against a Category Three hurricane, yet Katrina was only a Two

Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina

2005-08-31 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:48 PM 8/31/2005, jeff.lane typed: Another good trick Didn't you know the federal gov't is suppose to build a sea wall all along the Gulf Atlantic coast without raising our taxes that can withstand the worst case scenario hurricane. I don't know what

RE: [H] Outlook 2003 Qwirks

2005-08-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:51 PM 8/29/2005, Carroll Kong typed: Issue 1 is mitigated since if I reply, Outlook WILL intelligently match the name and put down the proper signature. I kind of like making whole brand new messages, but at least this will not be too bad. Issue 2 isn't too big a deal as I can always

RE: [H] Outlook 2003 Qwirks

2005-08-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:24 PM 8/29/2005, Carroll Kong typed: Haha, I used to use Eudora but it had horribly slow IMAP support and crashed a lot for me as well while doing some nasty graphical corruption for my system usually requiring a full reboot to fix. Not surprisingly, Microsoft Outlook 2003 is the fastest

RE: [H] Outlook 2003 Qwirks

2005-08-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:54 PM 8/29/2005, Carroll Kong typed: Ah no kidding, eh? I usually did use those mailboxes, so no wonder. The big3 [In, Out Trash] are loaded into memory when Eudora loads making it more prone to crashing but if one filters all incoming outgoing email like I do there is no problems.

Re: [H] RAID stuff

2005-08-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:48 PM 8/29/2005, Brian Weeden typed: Okay so I have been messing with my RAID 5 setup as most of you know and ran into a snag tonight. I had a boot HD with a system partition and a data partition. I have a RAID 5 array on an LSI card. Everything working great BUT I had some sort of error

Re: [H] SATA Plextor ?

2005-08-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:57 PM 8/29/2005, FORC5 typed: What am I missing? I think the system still needs a regular rom for booting. Do newer mb sata controllers allow booting to ? Yes one can boot HDs with SATA controllers as I boot my system from a SATA Raid controller but could do it without the raid

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:42 AM 8/25/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: At 12:35 PM 25/08/2005, FORC5 wrote: not a good reason to make these products legal. same argument for giving kids condoms. a society needs standards to live by So better to keep using an idea that doesn't work can costs a fortune rather than

RE: [H] Best DVD disc with Drive

2005-08-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
Mwave has them even cheaper. http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=AA32950 no rebate to deal with. At 01:18 PM 8/25/2005, Bobby Heid typed: I was looking for something on Buy.com and came across what looks like a good deal on a Pioneer DVD writer. Unfortunately, they are

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:29 PM 8/25/2005, 007 typed: I am not sure if Puberty is when people are the horniest. Perhaps it has to do with access, supply and demand. Medical fact that women don't mature sexually until their mid 30's while males it's 19-21 at that age many females are trying to figure out how

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:30 PM 8/25/2005, Hayes Elkins typed: What happened to moonshiners and the whiskey running mafia filth of the 30's? The Kennedy's still have most all of their money.. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:32 PM 8/25/2005, Hayes Elkins typed: Marijuana laws send a mixed signal because two drugs that are more harmful, alcohol and chemically treated tobacco, are allowed to be sold over the counter. You ever hear about a raging pot head beating his wife? No, but we see plenty of violent drug

Re: [H] Real hardware guy

2005-08-23 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:47 AM 8/23/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Instructions (and video) of home made flamethrower. Isn't this what we all need? :) http://carpetmonster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fj.htm no permits needed I wonder how much it would've cost him to build something like this that runs on a

Re: [H] Real hardware guy

2005-08-23 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:50 AM 8/23/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: At 09:05 AM 23/08/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: I wonder how much it would've cost him to build something like this that runs on a cheaper fuel like gasoline? Now that's something you didn't think you'd hear today, gasoline being cheaper. lol I

RE: [H] Best DVD disc with Drive

2005-08-23 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:10 PM 8/23/2005, FORC5 typed: I was using Ritek g04's but had trouble with g05's, had good luck with memorex. went to TDK from Costco, just got 200 for $.023 ea ( on sale ) no trouble with them yet (bought + 8x, burn at 16 in my Pioneer ) I've never had a problems with Ritek G04s or

Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-19 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:47 AM 8/19/2005, FORC5 typed: tried those, hope u have better luck then me, mostly they didn't last and I got tired to the not instant on. Ditto that how about the poor saps that can't afford the initial capital outlay? I would like to invent a bathroom fan switch with a built in

Re: CFLs was [H] Gas prices

2005-08-19 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:33 PM 8/19/2005, Analyst typed: On 19 Aug 2005 at 6:47, FORC5 wrote: tried those, hope u have better luck then me, mostly they didn't last and I got tired to the not instant on. That was the first generation models. The current ones are instant on. Check out Home Depot, they have

Re: [H] Re: CFLs

2005-08-19 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:53 PM 8/19/2005, Analyst typed: The newer generation are smaller. They utilize a dual-spiral that is actually smaller than a standard 40W bulb. I haven't found anything they won't work in. They're not going to replace those small globe bulbs, but those have a smaller socket. I was

Re: [H] What's the best version of Norton Utils for Win2k?

2005-08-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:57 AM 8/16/2005, W. D. typed: Also, what other utilities will keep Windows 2000 (Svc Pak 4) in shape? I use Norton Utils 2001 on my Win2k machine without any problems. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Inexpesive blank DVD media

2005-08-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:40 PM 8/16/2005, Greg Sevart typed: Spend a bit more money and get some actually good discs. The Ritek/Ridata stuff is pretty crappy anymore. They were good when their G04 media first came out, but have been plagued by quality control and poor dyes ever since. I use Ritek DVD-R G05 8x

[H] The Red Sox Reversed the Curse

2005-08-11 Thread Wayne Johnson
After an 86 year drought the Red Sox won the World Series. I can die a happy man as I've seen all of Boston's major sports teams at the top of the world. Now what did I do with my happy pills. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

RE: [H] Laptop suggestions needed asap!

2005-08-11 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:20 AM 8/31/2004, Bobby Heid typed: A friend at work just got Dell laptop that has the WSXGA+ that has a native resolution of 1680x1050. That makes the text a little too small for my tastes. One can go to Control Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced button in the lower right then the

Re: [H] The Red Sox Reversed the Curse

2005-08-11 Thread Wayne Johnson
, jeff.lane typed: Delayed euphoria is a great thingeh??? - Original Message - From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WinHome/SOHO WIN-HOME@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:49 PM Subject: [H] The Red Sox Reversed the Curse After an 86 year drought the Red Sox

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

2005-08-11 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:10 AM 8/11/2005, Mark Dodge typed: I don't know if this is a result of some server crap but I've been getting messages from zaske and Wayne dating back to 2004. Me too. lol --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

RE: [H] A new version of Forte' Agent has been released.

2005-08-06 Thread Wayne Johnson
Here are a few that were listed as being in use news.yottanews.com, free.teranews.com, news.bubbanews.com Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:03:40 -0400 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [H] A new version of Forte' Agent has been

Re: [H] A new version of Forte' Agent has been released.

2005-08-06 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:16 PM 8/6/2005, warpmedia typed: Been using NewsBinPro here for about 4 years, He keeps adding things to the new beta that I like and it's real good about handling .par's .nzb's to get the missing pieces from cross post groups multiple servers. I tried that Newsleecher a few others

RE: [H] something new ?????

2005-08-05 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:00 PM 8/5/2005, FORC5 typed: I must be getting lazy, in the old days would have just wrote a batch file to do this :-D Now a days aren't they called scripts? rotflmao --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] A new version of Forte' Agent has been released.

2005-08-05 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:48 PM 8/5/2005, warpmedia typed: If you're looking for binaries, keep dreaming, nothing is free. Buzzardnews Giganews are 2 paid sevices I'd recomend. AstraWeb is good fairly cheap they don't count header retrieval against your downloads. Another nice thing is if you buy the 10g

Re: [H] A new version of Forte' Agent has been released.

2005-08-05 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:13 PM 8/5/2005, Steve typed: And IMO if your mainly into binaries then Forte is well behind the pack...I dropped it awhile ago and now use Newsleecher exclusively And for servers, I find Usenetserver.com good value @ $40/3mths unlimited. Reasonable retention rate also. I don't care for

Re: [hardware] [H] Linux

2005-08-05 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:15 PM 8/5/2005, FORC5 typed: do not know what knome and kde are whats the difference ? nom d since they both start with k end in e They are both GUIs --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Cracked Already

2005-08-04 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:39 AM 8/4/2005, Ben Ruset typed: XP OEM needs to be sold with a non peripheral part. That's about as unabmbigious as they put it. They are OK with it being sold with a mouse. I've seen it sold with an IDE ribbon cable as well. I think you meant ambiguous which is Open to more than one

Re: [H] synchronizing files ?

2005-08-04 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:47 AM 8/3/2005, FORC5 typed: Have been manually keeping these in synch. I just use Total Commander to sync the drives /or folders. Sandisk makes an Cruzer Sync app for their thumb drives. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Cracked Already

2005-08-04 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:07 AM 8/4/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I have the CD to install SP2 on an installation that either has or does not have SP1. My point was that Microsoft from time to time should release a catch up CD that updates you to the date that catch up CD was released. There are many updates

Re: [H] Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Cracked Already

2005-08-04 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:14 PM 8/4/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Yall holler every time one rolls out. I want it! I know of none for XP since the SP2 CD. No Update Rollups since Sp2 but for the record there was an Update Rollup 1 for Xp that came out between Sp1 Sp2

Re: [H] A new version of Forte' Agent has been released.

2005-08-04 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:55 PM 8/4/2005, JRS typed: Multiple connection downloads now too, I think it only allowed 2 connections before? It was only 2 connections only from one server. There are all kinds of other upgraded parts to it I will be glad to answer as many questions as possible as I worked on the

RE: [H] Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Cracked Already

2005-08-03 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:33 AM 8/3/2005, Chris Reeves typed: At the same time, I have a big problem with the idiocy of the method which they use during a pre-install; if I do a sysprepped factory pre-install, I should be able to do windows update without activating. I don't want to activate windows before I

Re: [H] Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Cracked Already

2005-08-03 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:32 AM 8/3/2005, Ben Ruset typed: To get the free licence you need to file a piracy report against the OEM and provide a receipt for your PC. That's their ammo to go after the black market OEM's. From there it all rolls uphill. They WILL find the people distributing pirated XP into the

Re: [H] Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Cracked Already

2005-08-03 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:15 PM 8/3/2005, Ben Ruset typed: Yeah but most people buy their PC's from OEMs, which will have Windows already loaded. Why would they buy another copy? Maybe because they know that their buddy loaded the FCKGW version they want to upgrade. ;-) --+-- Wayne D.

Re: [H] Problem setting up a wireless router with a DSL modem

2005-08-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:09 PM 8/1/2005, Winterlight typed: Versizon DSL, for example, gives away a Linksys wireless router to people that sign up for a year. If not, I would call tech to ask them exactly is required for hookup. Gee they gave me a Westell wireless router/modem unit that the bridge mode does

Re: [H] Which laptop?

2005-08-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:23 PM 8/1/2005, Gary VanderMolen typed: My Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop is going on three years, and has been the most dependable PC I've ever owned. It's my daily workhorse. I can see that as a desktop replacement but I certainly wouldn't want to lug the thing around especially thru

Re: [H] Firewire issues

2005-07-31 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:53 PM 7/31/2005, Jim McQueeney typed: This may be a camera 'problem.' My Sony HandiCam allows moving video from my PC to the Hi8 tape through the 4-pin firewire port - but not vice versa. To transfer video from the HandiCam to my PC, I have to use the 'video out' jack and a 'special'

Re: [H] Running Windows with no services

2005-07-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:14 AM 7/29/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Apparently, it's possible to run Windows with no services and still be able to surf and run apps. http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/07/running-windows-with-no-services.html There is a stripped down version of Xp Pro w/ Sp2 that loads no

Re: [H] Backing up 95-2K3 registries

2005-07-28 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:27 AM 7/28/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: I know that I can backup the 9X registry by copying the system.dat and user.dat files. Is there a similar manual way to back up NT, 2K, XP, and 2K3? I just want something simple so I can make a backup of a system's registry without doing a

Re: [H] How to make a MP3 CD

2005-07-26 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:10 AM 7/26/2005, Winterlight typed: folders? I had everything in the root directory! How many should I try per folder? I don't know as this info should be in you user's manual but even my truck's factory installed mp3 player can handle folders. I would try 25 as then a folder might be

Re: [H] How to tell when out of RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:40 AM 7/26/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Is there a simple program or procedure for end users so they can tell when they have run out of RAM and are paging data? I have a lot of people get RAM upgrades and then say it made no difference. It's be nice to have some utility that would

RE: [H] Vcore Adjustments

2005-07-26 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:03 AM 7/26/2005, Mark Dodge typed: If I set my thermostat to 70 here in Phoenix, my electric bill would be 400 bucks, 75 for me. I'm looking forward to getting out of this heat to the Seattle are and having to put up with the few weeks of unbearable 80's..LOL Here in North Central Ohio we

Re: [H] How to tell when out of RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:11 AM 7/26/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: CacheMan or CacheManXP? Either will work. CacheMan is only $10 Shareware while CacheManXp is $25 it's has many more features while being optimized for the NT kernel I would go with it. I get the feeling that they'll be dropping CacheMan anyhow

Re: [H] Anyone with SCO OpenServer 5 Advice?

2005-07-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:20 AM 7/25/2005, Ben Ruset typed: Either way, Knoppix has a boot floppy image that you can write out to a floppy, boot from that, and then the rest will load from CD. According to the specs on their website, 32mb of RAM is required for text mode, and 96 for KDE.

Re: [H] Good College student laptops

2005-07-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:10 PM 7/25/2005, Mesdaq, Ali typed: Whats everyones opinions on good lap tops for college students? I been out of the laptop game for a while. And my mind works in I don't care how big and heavy it is I want power mode and students aren't really on that wavelength lol. So any suggestions

Re: [H] How to make a MP3 CD

2005-07-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:34 PM 7/25/2005, Winterlight typed: Then I looked at Nero 6.6 and realized that there was an mp3 CD so the next time I used Nero's mp3 CD to make the burn. Now neither the Toshiba or the Sony can read the CD?? What am I doing wrong?? I don't see where in Nero 6.6 that there is a

RE: [H] RE: FFL

2005-07-22 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:22 PM 7/22/2005, Chris Reeves typed: However, for those that did not participate, if you are wanting to, now is a good time to get in. This is not a high pressure league full of people who put way to much stress in it. It does require your general involvement, but not a fantastic amount.

Re: [H] How do I get the index of a DVD/CD disk to file, what is the command?

2005-07-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 04:32 AM 7/21/2005, Henrik Tived typed: I want to take the content of a disk and print it ontoit, for archiving. I think there are as many ways as there are preferences the thing we sit on. I have a reg hack that I use that adds to the explorer context menu a Dir command it places a

[H] Beam Me Up

2005-07-20 Thread Wayne Johnson
Scotty has been beamed up http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20050720/D8BFCA3G1.html as James Doohan died today of pneumonia. It's amazing how SciFi has inspired technology vice a versa but it's too bad one of the icons of many geeks is now gone. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson

RE: [H] Disposable computers

2005-07-19 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:15 AM 7/19/2005, Christopher Klein typed: It all depends...every system is different. This is why I don't like to quote a per hour fee as I'm not a plumber. Many times I'll only charge $50 for cleaning a system maintaining their data intact while the other shops are charging several

Re: [H] Disposable computers

2005-07-19 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:14 AM 7/19/2005, warpmedia typed: They're charging a set fee (and insane one) and getting it for REPEATED bad work on a daily basis. So yes, those of you charging less or feeling you need to give a customer a break are ripping yourselves off. Are you kidding? We're killing HP. lol See

Re: [H] Disposable computers

2005-07-17 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:48 AM 7/17/2005, Ben Ruset typed: Or, you know, stop using IE and clicking on EVERY popup that comes up. And stop surfing porn too. Oh no, anything but that. ;-) You sound like the doctor that told his patent that he had nothing wrong a healthy diet exercise wouldn't cure but the

Re: [H] Disposable computers

2005-07-17 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:28 PM 7/17/2005, Ben Ruset typed: I wonder how he'll feel when he has the same problems with his $400 low-end PC in a week. I guess we have to remember it's there money even if we don't approve of the way they want to spend it. I know I can't earn $400 fast enough justifying buying

RE: [H] WinPE for recovery

2005-07-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:07 AM 7/16/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Have you tried EasyBoot http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/index.html Works great for me. I have a boot DVD that has: WinPE; ERD Commander; Ghost 2003; Bart; etc. all on one disc. Easy to make, nice menu to chose what you want.. good stuff. The

RE: [H] WinPE for recovery

2005-07-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:41 AM 7/16/2005, Chris Reeves typed: I use EasyBoot with a Bartpe+XPPE (Nu2 as well, I seem to still have some issues making some plugins feed into XPPE, so I keep the NU2 shell as well). I'll be glad to assist you with any issues you have with those plugins. I do integrate in Ghost8,

RE: [H] Cool Idea

2005-07-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:28 PM 7/15/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Still not allowed to leave the house? I thought that was over now. :) ROTFLMAO --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] WinPE for recovery

2005-07-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:07 PM 7/15/2005, Mark Dodge typed: We had a discussion about this a little while back and I think Wayne said that he had a way to get to a restore point with the PE Cd I was saying that I don't use restore points even when a system is running correctly that with my XpPe

RE: [H] WinPE for recovery

2005-07-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:33 PM 7/15/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Yep. Bart has been a good friend. Thanks to all the plugin repositories, it's possible to build bart into almost anything. Hell, I finally screwed around and built Bart on a bootable DVD just so I could fit all the tools I wanted recently :) I've

Re: [H] Shouldn't your keyboard reflect your status as one of the elite?

2005-07-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:52 AM 7/16/2005, Al typed: Shouldn't your keyboard reflect your status as one of the elite? http://www.daskeyboard.com/ If you ask me these should be for typists not necessarily for geeks except for the kewl factor. I don't know about you but I don't invite peeps over to see my

Re: [H] Open Source Heretic

2005-07-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:28 PM 7/14/2005, Ben Ruset typed: That's what's killing Microsofy with Office. Office 97 does everything that most casual office workers need to do. There really is no compelling reason to go to a newer version of Office unless you need some really obscure feature. And who is going to

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