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Typo Boy - Dec 22, 2004 8:42:11 am PST #736 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I have a friend with small (4 computer) XP based network. She has Macfee AV+firewall on each individual commputer, but a router with no hardware base firewall.

Should I suggest she upgrade to one? If so, what is a reasonably priced decent quality product ?

Thanks

Gar


NoiseDesign - Dec 22, 2004 10:27:13 am PST #737 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

But it'll take a bigger audio geek than me to confirm.

FM is not extremely high quality. There is not a true 180 degree split between the stereo channels. If memory serves, it is more on the order of 120 degrees or possibly as low at 100. Also the signal to noise ratio is somewhere around 76 or 86 dB as opposed to 96 dB on a CD.

Even a cassette adapter will give better sounding results in most instances.


CaBil - Dec 22, 2004 11:36:34 am PST #738 of 10003
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

My Sampo DVD player is acting up. When I turn it on, the status screen on the DVD player lights up all the possible setting (the clock, the timer, am, pm, all the forward/back symbols) and nothing else happens. I can't open the the DVD slide to get out the DVD out fo there, and there is nothing on the channel where the on screen controls normally are.

Is the sucker fried?


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2004 11:48:04 am PST #739 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just got an e-mail from a friend with an attachment that said it was 2005Calendar.doc, but prompts me to save it as 2005Calendar.exe. Which is rude. However Symantec knows not of this as a virus.

Does it mean anything to anyone else? She is the sort of person who would send me a calendar (and I'd like it), but I'm suspicious even though my virus scanner didn't find anything.


tommyrot - Dec 22, 2004 11:51:13 am PST #740 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

CaBil, try unplugging it for a minute. That's all I got....


Wolfram - Dec 22, 2004 12:10:50 pm PST #741 of 10003
Visilurking

Anybody know how to use Docs to Go on a Palm? I thought I just had to put some Word Docs into the Palm installer, but that didn't work.


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2004 12:13:06 pm PST #742 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I thought I just had to put some Word Docs into the Palm installer, but that didn't work.

No -- you should have a Documents To Go icon on your desktop, and you use that interface to make a copy for your Palm, which'll happen when you next sync.


Jessica - Dec 22, 2004 12:13:29 pm PST #743 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

There should be both a Docs to Go on your PDA and on your desktop. You add documents to the desktop thingy, and then when it syncs, they go to your Palm.


Consuela - Dec 22, 2004 12:13:41 pm PST #744 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Wolfram, I think you have to use the Docs to Go application, not the Palm installer, for those.

Hee, cross-posty.


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2004 12:32:27 pm PST #745 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You want support? We got support.

Anyone ever used Skype?