[AT] NOT entirely off topic WOW!

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Wed Mar 18 04:26:13 PDT 2009


Sorry for the chit-chatty nature of my last too posts.  I was half asleep 
and for some reason I thought I was talking to Farmer off list.

Charlie
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From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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> Man they really have a big selection of gismos don't they?
> I'll check them out later when I'm not about to fall asleep.
> Thanks!  I've been messing with Google Sketch-Up for about a year now and
> I'm starting to get pretty good at it.
> It's amazing what some architect types with higher powered computers than
> mine are doing with sketch up.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] NOT entirely off topic
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM, charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Thanks Mattias. It seems to me that it might be worth the cost just for
>> the
>> data backup it provides. Unfortunately I run some software that I don't
>> believe is compatable with Linux so it won't do me much good.
>>
>> Charlie
> =======================================
>
>
>
> Charlie, if you go to the Google main page at
> www.google.com
> and click on the drop box at the top left marked "More" and then
> scroll down it to the link "Even more"...
> Unless you have been there lately I think you might be surprised at
> how many on-line services they have for free and they are windows
> program compatible. I use Google  "Docs" quite a bit to write
> articles. I can be working on 6 to 10 at a time and use any on-line
> computer I want much as if I was using a LAN. I don't have to sync
> anything since I am always working on the one central copy. Sometimes
> things just don't "look" right in an article and I just let it sit and
> ferment for while and check back on it making changes a little at a
> time.
> I don't believe I would want to keep really sensitive stuff there but
> my articles go public anyway so it doesn't concern me.
> I am really happy with the Google Picasa photo site.
> Google's browser (Chrome) isn't bad either but I much prefer Firefox.
> I'll never use MS-IE again. Never... BTW, the apple browser, Safari,
> will now run on Mickey-slush and is real nice too.
> Linux is actually rapidly approaching  mainstream. It is just a matter
> of one of the 37,000 distributions coming to the top so they don't
> overwhelm the public. My current favorite is Simply Mepis. Next is
> Mandriva then Ubuntu. I see a lot of laptops coming with Linux now. Of
> course you can always dual boot and keep Windows too.
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer"
>
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