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

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Fri Mar 12 14:56:33 PST 2004


Call the phone company and tell them you hear noise in your phone
conversations.  Keep calling.   Keep calling.
Never mention internet, data or fax.  Just keep complaining about noise.

They will eventually fix your line.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David A. Laughead Jr." <daljr at bright.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OK boys, I need help!! OT Computer stuff


> 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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