From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 02 Jun 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , TJ wrote:   
      
   >Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >> Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >>> What have you got against "Reduced Taste" and "No Flavor"?   
      
   >> If that were all there were to it, I might tolerate such things.   
   >> But they are usually accompanied by chemical-feast ingredients to   
   >> compensate for the stuff taken out, and that can turn foods into   
   >> low-grade toxins, or possibly worse.   
      
   >Since my brother and I grow much of our own food and make things like   
   >tomato sauces ourselves, we get "Reduced Calorie" by not putting in   
   >so much of the extra stuff in the first place. Homemade baked goods,   
   >using Mom's recipes for things like cookies and pumpkin pie, are   
   >notable exceptions.   
      
   For me, the "Reduced Calorie" is more about portion control - but I   
   know what you mean about the older (no, "better") recipes.  Julia   
   Child seemed to always start with a LOT of butter in the pan.   
      
   >a guy brought a 2009 18.5-inch Memorex TV with VGA and HDMI jacks on   
   >the back, with a price of $20. I was in the market for a spare   
   >monitor anyway, so I bought it. Works fine as a TV, once I got the   
   >brightness/contrast/etc. adjusted. Also works OK as a second monitor   
   >in "PC mode" with the VGA cable, though I didn't take the time to   
   >change things from the prior settings.   
      
   Does it have a "HDMI" mode?  The TVs we've got are all multiple mode   
   (TV, composite, RGB, HDMI and media), selected manually (though if I   
   punch "PLAY" on the HDMI connected DVD/BluRay player, the TV turns on   
   and auto-selects).   
      
   >Main problem is that my video card has both a digital and a VGA port,   
   >but considers the VGA port to be the primary. I'm wondering now how   
   >it would work with a DVI-to-HDMI cable, but I'll have to buy one of   
   >those to find out.   
      
   Just adding the cable - probably not.  Your X video setup has to be   
   tweaked for "multi-headed" operation.   
      
   >> When we moved here, I spent several days installing 1 inch plastic   
   >> conduit in the walls of each room, and thus have (currently) CAT5   
   >> pulled in to each.   
      
   >When I moved here, I was probably wrapped in swaddling clothes and   
   >carried in by my mother, as my father would be afraid I might break.   
   >Consequently, wiring the house for Ethernet was out of the question.   
      
   I think you're a bit older than Ethernet ("The Ethernet" "A Local   
   Area Network" version 1.0 which was Thicknet dates from September   
   1980).   
      
   >When the time came to have more than one computer, with one on   
   >another floor, wireless was the least expensive and easiest way to   
   >go. My main computer, however, still uses the wired connection to   
   >the router.   
      
   The expense/effort of dragging in cables can be significant. This is   
   Phoenix, Arizona, and we moved here in August.  The attic is...   
   rather warm at that time of year.  (I installed eave fans to move   
   more air through the attic at the same time - they're thermostatically   
   controlled, and the set-point is 130F/54C - in summer, they turn on   
   around 9-10 AM and don't shut down until after sunset.)   Depending   
   on the topography, 100BaseT is likely to be faster than wireless,   
   but the bottleneck is the hose to the world.   
      
   >Windstream keeps telling me I should quit cable and take their   
   >package deal for dish, phone, and dsl. I'm not buying, as they can't   
   >possibly match the price I'm now paying for my present systems - free   
   >OTA TV, fixed wireless Internet with a deal as a host for some of my   
   >ISP's equipment, and basic, no long distance landline phone. Long   
   >distance, on those rare times when I use it, is with my cell phone.   
      
   Oh, but you are missing the 350 channels of crap television!!![1]  The   
   local phone and cable companies are having a wonderful advertising   
   war over services, with the phone company claiming "no price increase"   
   for the 25 Mb/s DSL service for _five_ years (``$19.95'' per month,   
   but as usual, that neglects the other fees and taxes and B/S), while   
   the cable company is offering a combined phone tie-in with Verizon.   
   While paying my phone bill last month, I see a small included notice   
   that the base telephone charges are going up July 1st (about 10%). As   
   the fees/taxes/BS combine to double the base phone charge, I wonder   
   how much the total phone bill is going up.   
      
           Old guy   
      
   [1] College graduation party for a neighbor's son, and some of us   
   older guests got into a minor discussion of television when we were   
   young.  In my case, that was 1948 when WNHC in New Haven (CT) started   
   broadcasting - we could also get the six channels from New York City,   
   and one from Newark.   Choices!!!   But then we noted that there was   
   really only a couple of choices for our radio serials listening...   
   Didn't everyone listen to "The Lone Ranger", "Tom Mix and his Ralston   
   Straight-Shooters", Roy Rogers, Gene Autry (at Melody Ranch)...  while   
   the older kids were getting frightened out of their minds by "The   
   Shadow", or "The Whistler".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)