Hi all,

Does anyone know if there is a device that may be attached to a usb
port that enables/disables a power strip so that my external drives
and other toys turn on and off with my computer? I am running xp pro

Thanks for all your help in the past,
Terry

Terry <nonewhatsoeveratnonewhatsoever.cam> wrote in
news:00a0o29ithb7j592uhsrkmggt9u3sk1rkr@4ax.com:


Something like this:

http://podular-pc.com/shop06/powerminder-mini-p-57.html



Best wishes to all for a safe and joyous holiday season.

--

He was a spy, all right! And he knew that everybody knew it...
He'd walk into a room and people would go "Hey, who is that guy, a spy?"
He'd laugh to himself, maybe pull out his gun and show it to the people,
to kind of impress them - but *not* to show off.
Sometimes spying was dirty work.
Sometimes he'd kill a guy, then paint a clown face on his face.
Nobody said he had to do that, but he did it anyway.
So, dirty work *can* be entertaining and educational!

On 13 Dec 2006 16:58:46 GMT, Bucky Breeder
<not.here.today@nd.gone.fishing.tomorrow.bye> wrote:

course refuse to sell to me because I won't give them my email
address. Sooner or later I will find it at a more customer friendly
supplier.

Thanks again,
Terry

"Terry" <nonewhatsoeveratnonewhatsoever.cam> wrote in message
news:00a0o29ithb7j592uhsrkmggt9u3sk1rkr@4ax.com...
If it's for mains devices, try www.oneclickpower.co.uk , retails at around
£30, and controls upto 5 devices, using the pc.

P.

Terry <nonewhatsoeveratnonewhatsoever.cam> wrote in
news:b4g0o2p806ir11ml7sbirbq7h4b6n5psik@4ax.com:


Shop online much? (o;! You could get a disposable e-Mail address, if that
were the only problem... But, then again, I never heard of cost/product-
comparing "too much." I like to hear the Buffalo bellow on nickel before I
let go of it. My dad kids me, and my mom is embarassed because when I get
gasoline, I hold the hose up and shake it before giving up...

Do like me, I go to Circuit City mainly because their product description
are so thourough with part numbers, etc., and gather all the information to
a text file...

Then I Google-Froogle-Yahoo-Price~Watch the heck out of my desired prey
until I find the deal I like the best.

Best of luck.

Best wishes to all for a safe and joyous holiday season.

--

He was a spy, all right! And he knew that everybody knew it...
He'd walk into a room and people would go "Hey, who is that guy, a spy?"
He'd laugh to himself, maybe pull out his gun and show it to the people,
to kind of impress them - but *not* to show off.
Sometimes spying was dirty work.
Sometimes he'd kill a guy, then paint a clown face on his face.
Nobody said he had to do that, but he did it anyway.
So, dirty work *can* be entertaining and educational!

Terry wrote:
Fer crissakes. Just get an address you don't care about from Yahoo or
someplace and use it for your online purchases.

--
Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

On 13 Dec 2006 19:04:39 GMT, Bucky Breeder
<not.here.today@nd.gone.fishing.tomorrow.bye> wrote:

You can tell that I am one of the older ones.

I'm just to the point of fustration. They claim not to sell the list,
but everytime I buy something, here comes the spam relating to
whatever I buy. I feel companies are now placing more importance on
building mailing lists rather than customer service.( they leave that
to the folks in India and that is a complete failure as far as I am
concerned.)

Here awaile back, Radio Shack refused to do business with me because I
woulkn't give them my ss number when renewing my Verizion contract to
get my new phone. Verizion, of course, already had my number. Rat
shack has no business with ss numbers, especially since the don't
encrypt their transmissions.
Merry Christman all,
Terry

Terry wrote:
But you will give them your bank information? I think someone got up on the
wrong side of trite today?

http://www.pookmail.com/

http://www.dodgeit.com/

http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/faq.jsp

http://www.spambob.com/

http://www.tempinbox.com/english/






--

Let the unseen day be. Today is more than enough.

___Sador the carpenter to Turin
Tolkien, The Unfinished Tales

Ellis_Jay

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:22:22 -0600, "ellis_jay"
<ellis_jay@firstbase.coma> wrote:

BTW, my gripe is with spam as well as smart a-- answers.

I do appreaciate all the "good advice I most always recieve here.

Have a nice day anyway.
Terry

Terry wrote:
Sorry to have sounded smart assy. That was not my intent. If that was
the goal I wold not have pasted some links. I was just merely pointing out
some incongruence in some habits of "internetting".

--

Let the unseen day be. Today is more than enough.

___Sador the carpenter to Turin
Tolkien, The Unfinished Tales

Ellis_Jay

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:03:34 -0600, "ellis_jay"
<ellis_jay@firstbase.coma> wrote:

university, I had to look up incongruence. I think I may know now
what you meant. There is no offense taken. The first impression was
that financial information is one thing and spam is entirely another.
I just recieved a disclosure from a major department store about their
not sharing my email address with anyone outside of their family of
stores. When I checked who belonged to their "family", it contained
some real flaky firms, and there is where the leaks come from. Spam
programs are great, and I thank you for sharing, but you still have to
wade through the rejects to look for legitimate email. My wife is on
several websites with her artwork and thus gets tons of spam.
Bonifide buyers often use words in their subjects that get them
booted, so I still have to wade through several hundred each day
before going to work. There is at least one pony per week underneath
all the horse sh--. Hope you can understand my point.
Again no offense taken.
Tery

Terry <nonewhatsoeveratnonewhatsoever.cam> wrote in
news:tes2p2pr0c3lk2f76d9752etf4uostas78@4ax.com:

<SNIP>

I have bought a lot of stuff on the internet, and I have NEVER
received spam traceable to any of those purchases. Major firms
like Amazon or CDUniverse or whatever don't NEED to sell your
address to make 3 cents. As for department stores, WHY would
anyone buy something they sell on the internet? Just because you
CAN do something on the net, doesn't mean you SHOULD. No dept.
stores or good drug stores near where you live? Can you try on a
shirt or a pair of shoes on the web? Not yet!

Personally, I get about 3 or 4 spams a month - if that - (and
they all started when some ASSHOLE gave my address to someone
unknown to me WITHOUT my authorization, so it is in fact all
related to one isolated incident - I got virtually NO SPAM at
that address for several years before that - 2 or 3 a year at
most) but it is a POP email address which I only give to people
I trust (as stated, the above had nothing to do with me, it was
an unauthorized action by a senile octogenarian) AND to
reputable companies when they ask for it (like CDUniverse). For
most of the internet shit, I use a spamcollector from hotmail.
They and others like them are useless for anything else.

--
Disagreements and the usual insults expected and welcomed.

On 28 Dec 2006 05:25:16 GMT, thanatoid <waiting@the.exit.invalid>
wrote:

department stores, but was just quoting from their disclosure
statement. I am located in a small town and set up internet security
for smal business and local government. So, I am not only looking at
my situation, but across a broad selection of situations. I agree
with everyone that a "throwaway email address" is the answer. However
I am from the old school and still want to complain that it just isn't
right even though I can't do anything about it. Here in Ohio, the
government records are public so it is fair game for both snail mail
and email. Can't even register a vehicle without getting offers of
"extended warrenties" even years later. I should be able to do
business with the state and business with my email without fear of
getting spammed. One county in southwestern Ohio still publishes your
SS number and can't figure out how to kill that column on their
website.
A data security manager from a large company was requesting refills
from Walgreens by email and would be emailed when they were ready.
All of a sudden the emails came from a company in China. He did a
search and found that Walgreens uses them for data processing and
storage. Doesn't that make one feel good to have all their records
with SS number and email stored out of the country.
My point is there is so much of intermingling of companies resulting
in loss of control of the data.

BTW, last week I called my Visa card company with a question about a
charge on my account. The customer service is now located in India.
I also called DirectTV up upgrade my account and talked to someone in
Manila.

The other consideration which everyone seems to pass over, is doing
business on a web site like my wife is. You still have to wade
through the mess to sniff out legitimate buyer inquires.

Hope I am not boring anyone.

Terry

Terry <nonewhatsoeveratnonewhatsoever.cam> wrote in
news:k5h7p2tvrfd2ke9pimvlja5uvt3ojgvsr4@4ax.com:

Well, I don't know if anyone else has read the above, but I did
not find it boring. I totally sympathize, but as a life-long
pessimist and ultra-cynic and nihilist, I have quite some time
ago "adjusted" to the facts (many will call them theories or
paranoid ideas) that:

a)
The world is run by about 500 people who only care about making
more money. WHAT the fuck they do with it is beyond my
imagination... The 50 richest persons in the world (not to
mention the multinational corporations they are in charge of)
could probably pay off all of the 3rd world debt {which is
largely fictitious, as much of "banking" is, but that's another
topic} and end world hunger etc, but instead they do WHO THE
FUCK KNOWS WHAT with their trillions. (Rant, rant...)

aa)
One example of a result of what these powers are doing is the
outsourcing of everything to where it is cheapest. Who cares if
the person in Manila can barely pronounce English? The company
is not interested in helping you in the first place, customer
service died long before communism ended. There is no more
quality control either, unless you buy the absolute top of the
line products made in Japan or some Western European country -
which most people can not afford.

aaa)
Who cares if you can't buy almost ANYTHING any more that does
not come from China (and is usually crap, with some notable but
rare exceptions) in spite of the fact that China remains the
most totalitarian and repressive regime in the world (although
the Bush League is playing hard to catch up) and pays starvation
wages to its workers (all the nice glossy photos in "Time" tell
a VERY TINY part of the story)? Apparently, not many people.

aaaa)
50 years ago it was a reasonable assumption of every employed
person in the US that they would some day own a house and a car
or two (not to mention that their job would not be given away to
a third world worker for 1/500 of the cost, sending THEM to the
welfare lines). Well, the best assumption a lower middle class
worker who has just lost his/her job to someone in China can
make is that s/he will hopefully find a bridge to live under
where the bored cops won't visit too regularly!

b) There IS no more privacy. Period. You can read a LOT about
that on the web and the Usenet. Although I must confess that
even the cynical me was shocked at a couple of the things you
mentioned.

Getting back to the subject, I have been thinking of some clever
way to help you/your wife sell her stuff and avoid the spam - I
understand how incredibly frustrating the process can be. The
following is not at all original, but it seems to work for many
people on the Usenet (a PRIME spam harvest territory).

Have you considered putting something like
Terry's_products"AT"NOTCOLDmailDOTcom on the sites? It looks
kind of ridiculous, but it would help. The spam harvesting is
done by machines and artificial intelligence is not progressing
very rapidly. If the address does not work as written, you won't
get spam - except if some person decides to just be nasty and
spends a few moments doing so.

You might consider doing a Google search on avoiding spam while
running an on-line business. There may be some methods I have no
clue about. There are also probably newsgroups dealing with
these subjects. Try privacy, spam, on-line business, etc.

I wish I could be more helpful.

--
Disagreements and the usual insults expected and welcomed.

On 29 Dec 2006 08:34:48 GMT, thanatoid <waiting@the.exit.invalid>
wrote:

move and upgrade and I guess things didn't go as well as planned.

There doesn't seem to be any quick and easy answer to the email
address properties. Everyone today just wants to "click on the
address" and be done with it. Other sites (magazines we advertise in)
want to have the replies go through their website to keep stats, and
in another case, the professional group she belongs to has their
communications go through yahoo groups. (what a bad choice in my
opinion.) Soooooooo, if she doesn't conform with the usual address,
she doesn't recieve the bounced messages.

Today in Ann Landers, a 14 year old boy bragged he could remove "all
traces" of his browsing history in just seconds so his parents
wouldn't know. How wrong he is. That stuff is so deeply embedded in
the system that he will never ever find it. I just recently dug some
of these "files" up for a concerned mother of a 14 year old daughter.
Judging by the reddness of her face, things weren't to cool at dinner
that night.

Even things you discussed in newsgroups and or chat rooms 10 or 15
years ago are still in the mill either on one's own pc or at least in
google's vast database.

Doubleclick is only one of many that records all chatroom
conversations and you can get records for $80. It must be profitable
because according to Wallstreet Journal, he sold last year and got 8
billion in cash and stock. Yup, I already checked and it is indeed a
b,not an m.

They have come up in the world because I noticed when accessing
foxnews.com, it passed through doublecliks site first. (of course I
have them locked out)

Well, so much for blowing off steam.

Happy New Year,
Terry

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:25:37 -0500 in 24hoursupport.helpdesk a thought
sat on Terry <nonewhatsoeveratnonewhatsoever.cam>'s chest like a
vulture, I said "Pluck It! And with the feather I'll tickle your
throat and you can throw it up to me" Said he "I shall" & thus puked:

<snip>
<snip>

Take the time to learn about economics (not that bullshit Keynesian
crap taught in liberal arts colleges)

<snip>
The harvesters grab email addresses outta your sourcecode.
Try copying the below into your website. Obviously change the name &
the isp to reflect your own. You can change the subject too, but leave
the body message alone.

mailto:youraddy[at]yourisp.com?subject=Sell me stuff! &body=Change the
[at] above to the @ symbol


You can also use an email forwarding site like http://www.fanmail.com
and create an email address that suits you and have it forwarded to
your real one, assuming you have an email program with filtering
capabilities, you can then filter all mail being sent originally to
your fanmail account into a folder for that purpose, and have
considerably less crap to dig through.

Frosty
YMMV