Holy smokes, it would seem that almost no one or no one in fact knows what they hell they are talking about. Half the messages in here should have PaperPort in the subject line, but they don't. PaperPort has since 1998 and before that presumably been the best Paperless office solution. PC magazine just named it the best document handling system again in their June 8, 2004 issue. Just get an epensive ADF from Visioneer, HP, Brother, or anyone else that provides integration (no, not TWAIN compliant drivers, but a scanner who's buttons and software will actually integrate with PaperPort 9. Make sure it says PaperPort 9, not 7, and not 8, that won't work very well with 9.). If you have to go with PaperPort 7 or 8 then I'd recommend downloading PDFCreator an open source application from SF.net.
Cheers,
Christian Blackburn
Hi Gang,
I just wanted to point out a couple of strengths and weaknesses of Ghost. #1 Ghost's greatest strength is also it's greatest weakness. The program doesn't work in Windows. Sure you can specify what you're going to backup from Windows, but the backup operation must be exclusive. While that is incovenient it also ensures a virtually failsafe backup. One thing I hate about Ghost is it doesn't verify the backup image automatically right after creating it. There isn't a field to type in the password when you're saving an image inside of the DOS GUI. Also the default imaging method doesn't copy the drives boot sector which is really stupid. I don't know why they would do that, but oh well. So if you use ghost and ever find your system isn't bootable just pop in that Win2K, XP, 2003 CD (if you have a cool OS) go to the recovery console and execute the fixmbr and fixboot commands.
Cheers,
Christian Blackburn
Okay that's a load of bull. The only way a particular operating system isn't prone to very many virusses is if it doesn't do hardly anything. The reason MS's OS's have far and away the most security flaws and virusses is two-fold: More people can develop for windows than any other platform More people use windows than any other platform (A huge target) Thanks, Christian
Hey Gang,
Check out this Reuters (New York) article on 43 US states and Commonwealths suing the US recording industry. Basically there's a 67.4 million dollar penalty and then they'll be required to donate 75.7 million dollars worth of CDs to public entities and non-profit organizations. While I think it's great that they're in trouble, paying a penalty of 143.1 million dollars is a drop in the bucket for the companies involved (AOL/Time Warner, Sony, Universal, BMG, EMI, Tower records, Musicland, and TransWorld Entertainment). Is it just me or could these guys afford a couple billion in penalties for decades of price fixing? Furthermore they only have to pay 67.4 million dollars in cash, the rest is going to be 75.7 million dollars worth of CDs. Now who thinks that they'll give the latest and greatest, best-selling CDs to these organizations? Anyone willing to believe that they'll just be disposing of CDs that they overproduced and couldn't sell in the retail market? (like those Spice Girls CDs that came with a case of Pepsi in Europe). Now I wonder will this be 75.7 million dollars worth of CDs at their price fixed MSRP 15-18 dollars for a new CD or will this be 75.7 million dollars worth of CDs at cost? Hmmm... that's a tuffy. Let's do some more math shall we? 143.1 million/43 states = 3.33 million dollars per state. In the past +/-20 years (CDs were patented in 1983) does anyone believe that the citizens of any state in the union were taken for more than 3 million dollars by this powerhouse list of companies? Seeing how the average state has 5+ million people in it I'm willing to believe that every last citizen was overcharged by more than a dollar over the last 20 years related to CD purchases. Who thinks they were overcharged by 10 dollars, 50, 200? So in summary the music industry suffered a minor minor bug-bite and won't be in need of hospitalization any time soon.
-Christian Blackburn
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Holy smokes, it would seem that almost no one or no one in fact knows what they hell they are talking about. Half the messages in here should have PaperPort in the subject line, but they don't. PaperPort has since 1998 and before that presumably been the best Paperless office solution. PC magazine just named it the best document handling system again in their June 8, 2004 issue. Just get an epensive ADF from Visioneer, HP, Brother, or anyone else that provides integration (no, not TWAIN compliant drivers, but a scanner who's buttons and software will actually integrate with PaperPort 9. Make sure it says PaperPort 9, not 7, and not 8, that won't work very well with 9.). If you have to go with PaperPort 7 or 8 then I'd recommend downloading PDFCreator an open source application from SF.net. Cheers, Christian Blackburn
Hi Gang, I just wanted to point out a couple of strengths and weaknesses of Ghost. #1 Ghost's greatest strength is also it's greatest weakness. The program doesn't work in Windows. Sure you can specify what you're going to backup from Windows, but the backup operation must be exclusive. While that is incovenient it also ensures a virtually failsafe backup. One thing I hate about Ghost is it doesn't verify the backup image automatically right after creating it. There isn't a field to type in the password when you're saving an image inside of the DOS GUI. Also the default imaging method doesn't copy the drives boot sector which is really stupid. I don't know why they would do that, but oh well. So if you use ghost and ever find your system isn't bootable just pop in that Win2K, XP, 2003 CD (if you have a cool OS) go to the recovery console and execute the fixmbr and fixboot commands. Cheers, Christian Blackburn
Okay that's a load of bull. The only way a particular operating system isn't prone to very many virusses is if it doesn't do hardly anything. The reason MS's OS's have far and away the most security flaws and virusses is two-fold:
More people can develop for windows than any other platform
More people use windows than any other platform (A huge target)
Thanks,
Christian
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Hey Gang, Check out this Reuters (New York) article on 43 US states and Commonwealths suing the US recording industry. Basically there's a 67.4 million dollar penalty and then they'll be required to donate 75.7 million dollars worth of CDs to public entities and non-profit organizations. While I think it's great that they're in trouble, paying a penalty of 143.1 million dollars is a drop in the bucket for the companies involved (AOL/Time Warner, Sony, Universal, BMG, EMI, Tower records, Musicland, and TransWorld Entertainment). Is it just me or could these guys afford a couple billion in penalties for decades of price fixing? Furthermore they only have to pay 67.4 million dollars in cash, the rest is going to be 75.7 million dollars worth of CDs. Now who thinks that they'll give the latest and greatest, best-selling CDs to these organizations? Anyone willing to believe that they'll just be disposing of CDs that they overproduced and couldn't sell in the retail market? (like those Spice Girls CDs that came with a case of Pepsi in Europe). Now I wonder will this be 75.7 million dollars worth of CDs at their price fixed MSRP 15-18 dollars for a new CD or will this be 75.7 million dollars worth of CDs at cost? Hmmm... that's a tuffy. Let's do some more math shall we? 143.1 million/43 states = 3.33 million dollars per state. In the past +/-20 years (CDs were patented in 1983) does anyone believe that the citizens of any state in the union were taken for more than 3 million dollars by this powerhouse list of companies? Seeing how the average state has 5+ million people in it I'm willing to believe that every last citizen was overcharged by more than a dollar over the last 20 years related to CD purchases. Who thinks they were overcharged by 10 dollars, 50, 200? So in summary the music industry suffered a minor minor bug-bite and won't be in need of hospitalization any time soon. -Christian Blackburn