[AT] OK boys, I need help!! OT Computer stuff

[David A. Laughead Jr.]

Agreed Farmer,

Of course, can I really justify a powerhouse super system to be stuck on a
14,400 bps dial up connection?

Phone Co. has been out here, he wouldn't do anything.
I use a US Robotics Modem.

Maybe someday that wireless internet(cell phone techonology?) will make it
big and I can get hooked up on that.

Satellite is far too out of my range $600setup/$60month or
$100setup/$100month

Dave Laughead


----- Original Message -----
From: Robinson <robinson at svs.net>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OK boys, I need help!! OT Computer stuff


> David A. Laughead Jr. wrote:
> > Gee guys, I only have a 3 gig HD, and when I checked last night I was
only
> > useing 730 meg of that. Up until about 3 months ago I had win98se
running on
> > a pc with a compressed 200 meg drive.(something happened to the
motherboard
> > or video card, not sure which might doo more testing with that this
weekend)
> > Ok so I am a lil out dated
> >
> > As for XP.... I from what I have used it, I hate it. Gives me a headache
> > just trying to look at it.
> > Just had a guy 3 days ago have me get rid of his XP and put on 98se
> >
> > I have been running 98se for a few yrs now and it has been rock solid.
> > Yep, gotta have that DOS ability for me
> >
> >
> > Dave Laughead
> >
>
>
>
>
> I too find windows 98 SE to be entirely satisfactory for my purposes.
> Of course I don't do a lot of elaborate stuff. Most of my use is email,
> surfing and genealogy research. I sometimes go for a couple of weeks
> without rebooting, most of my reboots are from adding or changing
> software. I am always looking at stuff and trying it out. This week I
> changed over to Mozilla in place of IE and Outlook. I just did that for
> the spam control capabilities since I want to get off of my ISP's
> system. It is taking a lot of tinkering to get everything set the way I
> like it but that just makes for good brain exercise.
> Like most people I would love to buy a new state of the art system but
> just like the way I farm, my priorities just won't allow me to do it. I
> look at the money involved and think "Hey, with that much money I could
> buy another old project tractor"...   :-)
> While I don't buy and sell used computers anymore (no money in them) I
> still get one in now and then to reconfigure for some family member or
> friend. Never tell anyone that you can do that...  ;-)   I'm not good
> enough to do it on the spot but if I have it a few days to putter with I
> can get them all sorted out. I usually find them a real mess. There too
> many things out there making changes and too many people not doing the
> basics like disk clean-up, defragging, registry cleaning or running
> something Like Spybot Search and Destroy/AdAware.
> There a lot of really good sites out there that can guide most folks
> through computer problems and get a sluggish system back up to speed and
> many times make it a little faster than the original setup. There are
> also a lot of good tweaking programs now that can guide you through in
> reasonable safety.
> I keep 3 desktops and a laptop running on a LAN (local area network)
> all sharing one internet connection and that really helps me in the
> genealogy work. I can run any program that is installed on any of the
> computers from any of the other computers. I have two desktops on one
> desk and one on the other. I like to prowl the web on one while having
> Legacy Family Tree up on another. I have two keyboards mounted one above
> the other kind of like an organ and I can enter stuff and save notes and
> pictures and stuff as I find them. No switching back and forth. I rarely
> use the third desktop but Diana can sit down and do email anytime or
> look something up on the web while I have the other two tied up. She and
> my grandson play games on it a lot too. I like to keep the family tree
> files and my writing stuff current on the laptop. I often take it along
> when I am wandering about in cemeteries. Sometimes if I get in a writing
> mood in nice weather I toss it in a vehicle and drive back up on the
> high hill in the back field and park where I can look out over the
> neighborhood. No ringing phones, no TV, nobody asking me questions etc.
> Just me and the wind and sometimes a red tail hawk.
>
> Here is one help site, click on "How to".
> http://www.pcnineoneone.com/index.html
>
> Another:
> http://www.pcguide.com/topic.html
>
> This one is a Windows 98 clean install page, large site:
> http://www.hexff.com/win98_install.php
>
> One more:
> http://www.annoyances.org/
>
> There are literally hundreds of sites like these.
>
> Speaking of converting to Mozilla... I find it absolutely amazing that
> one of the very first words that you have to add to most spell checkers
> is "internet"...   :-)
>
>
> farmer
> Keep our friends in Spain in your thoughts...
>
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