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Hi Marty,
I have to agree with you on both points--antivirus and broadband.
In 2000, when we got our first computer, it had Mcafee antivirus installed. Everyone said Norton was far superior--and I was going to switch--then a friend showed me his Norton program on his computer. Was Norton ever complicated!!! I suppose I could use it with no problem now, but to a beginner, Norton was scary!
If you're satisified with dialup internet, wait for broadband until they offer better deals! In the States, there are deals where you can get a free modem if you sign up for broadband at certain Tech Supply stores.
Our cable company started offering broadband about 3 years ago. They offer 3 different speeds, we have the lowest speed (which is plenty fast!) at $39.99 month. Now the cable company is advertising the highest speed broadband for $19.99 month for 6 months (new customers only, we can't get the deal).
The longer an area has broadband, the harder it will be to find new customers, so they start offering bargains!
Play the waiting game and wait for the deals to come to your area. Liz
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thanks for that liz.
the isp i use, ive been with for 4 years
and they
informs me of the deals.
and
they have to deal with the the
company that allots the bandwidth
which they get under contract.
after reading your post
it looks as tho the cost is universal
and i agree as
less people use the service
the cost comes down .
this has been the lowest ever
but like you im using the waiting game .
the trouble in my country
there isnt enough competetion
it revolves around 4- companys
and these companys vie for the contract.
to deliver the service .
it wouldnt be viable for any bizness to come into the market
right now
becuase as we only have 4 million people
to many would deplete
profits
tho our gov
is for broadband
im not sure how they can get round this problem
marty
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hi team look what i found,
this is very interesting,
as it has been tried before,
and hasent worked,
tho this may work in the long run
marty
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marty,
I have broadband and use AVG.
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yo team the reason i asked
they have the latest nortons scanner
and watching them i feel nortons is to complicated
some one who knows nothing about compts.
it keeps blocking certain programs and downloads
and they do not know how to unblock them
neither do i
they get conned into accepting nortons at a reduction price
and i found it was only $5, a year savings
so i suggested avg .or avast.
ive used only avg and housecall web scan
in all the years ive had a compt
and apart from a coupla worms
ive been reasonably clean.
ive just has a deal sent to me by my isp
broadband at $39.59
a month
but buy my own modem.$122
and another offer at $59.59 a month
but the modem free to use
but hand it back when ive finished with it
at the momen im happy with dial up
but looking to the future
broadband is an option when longhorn comes on stream.
marty
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Whenever you download a program, as bozodog said, choose save to disk.
That way if you ever have a problem, it's just a matter of falling back to a previous version.
This is the way I do it:
In the My Documents folder, I have a folder named Installers.
In the Installers folder, I have I, II & III.
(I try to limit the size of these folders to around 600MB. That way I can burn the whole folder to a disk.)
In each of those folders, I have folders for each program; Firefox, Ad-aware, Spybot, Irfanview, etc....
In each of these folders, I have a folder for each version; Firebird v0.7, Firefox v0.8, Firefox v0.9, Firefox v0.9.2, etc...
In each of these folders, I put the installers, and a Notepad document.
In the Notepad document, I put all the important info about the program, that I copy & paste from the website, such as program name, version #, URL of the site, how to install/uninstall, system requirements, features, etc.
Then you can burn your Installers folder, when you burn your back-up disks.
That way, if you ever have a problem with a newer version of a program, or have to reinstall your OS, you have all of your programs on disk, and ready to install.
No need to waste time re-downloading all of your programs (especially if you're on dial-up).
I hope this isn't too confusing.
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i agree with tg1911
i save all mine as well tho havent had update problems
it is always convenient to blame win up date
and not other reasons.spybot has been a problem with blocking
other downloads in the past
ive only ever used it once
and i got rid of it.
ask pete_c and chappy
the heading alone of the problem post
makes it looks as tho up date is the problem
that is why i opened the post.
and for some one with 7 posts
its a bit rich to start pointing the finger
marty
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hi team
i just watched the chanel dse [german]
and it seems the japanese are developing a compt monitor
which can be used by 2 people
at once
and they can see 2 different screens
ive tried to research it by google
but im not sure what to type in the research box
apperently it is already in use in the usa- jap- and- ger
in tv where watchers can see 2 different tv screens .
any one see this article
a friend said CNN
has aired it but i missed it.
as it is 2 in the morning here i will try and find the article tomorrow.
marty
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hi team well we got the broadband
email thing sorted out and
irregularjoe
was right
it was a matter of getting the address right
an we finally got it going
by following joes info
so thanks all
and the family concerned would like to thank you all
as i printed it out and showed them the result .
i would like to ask for my own interest.
what sort of virus scanner would you use,
on
this broardband sys .as
all the info is relayed, to your sys is very fast.
would any of the free scanners like avg. avast.
ect.be able to handle the speed of this sys .
or would you have to get somthing like nortons. housecall.
panda. symantics .
im just curious
thats all
again thanks.
marty
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Good Luck.
Let us know how it works.
Joe
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thanks joe. yes i will post back ,
the problem.! they no nothing about compts ,
and i cant explain to them over the phone. i have to go to the compt
and show them.
but thanks for your input
marty
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lol sorry about that guys, im such an idiot. i put a space between my friends addy and the @ sign. and i also put an extra "o" at the end of yahoo. hhahahahaha
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dont know about bubba bob
but i did it when i first got my compt
so your not alone
marty
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can some one tell me why i got all these duplicate posts
i pressed the back button
and it gave me these duplicate posts
ive tried to delete them but like harry potter they keep comming back
can some one help here.
aw im off to bed see ya all tomorrow
i need to thank a few people
but ile do that tomorrow
when i feel better
marty
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ok i found the trouble. i was coping and paste
a thank you
to joe
and when i pasted it must pasted the whole post
instead of just joes user name.
so sorry bout that.
ok back to the thread
i thought the email on broadband .
was configured
differently than dial up
as when we pressed send and recieve
it gave us an error message
i think the message said wrong user name or password.
ok so we need to get the user an PW
right
thanks guys
i appreciate your help
especially joe
tho thanks to all
marty
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yes very likely the email address
it was sent to, was wrong
check that address and make sure it is
exactly.as you were given.
is the address in your address book.?
if so check it and make sure it is the right one.
marty
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im posting this to show how wonderful and innocent children can be
i love this story
it was told me me originally by an x school mistress
.years ago but has emerged again
marty
Show and Tell
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By an Anonynous 2nd grade teacher:
I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth-story I know is the one I saw in my own second-grade classroom a few years back.
When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it to school and talk about it, theyre more than welcome. Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater. She holds up a snapshot of an infant. "This is Luke, my baby brother, and I am going to tell you about his birthday. First mom and dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then dad put a seed in moms stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrealla cord."
Shes standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement. "Then about two saturdays ago, my mom starts saying and going "Oh, oh, oh!" Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. "She walked around the house for, like a hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!"
Now the kid's doing this hysterical duck walk, holding her back and groaning.
"My dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesnt have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my mom to lie down in bed like this." Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.
"And then, pop! My mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!"
This kid has her legs spread and with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!
"Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push, and breathe, breathe.' They started counting, but never even go past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff, they all said was from moms play center, so there must be a lot of stuff inside there."
Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat. I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then it its show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another Erica comes along.
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well i had a really bad day testerday
it seems i was to hasty with my send finger
i did this in another post as well
so i went to bed and had a good sleep
and i feel better now.
so im back cleaning up my errors
marty
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can some one tell me why i got all these duplicate posts
i pressed the back button
and it gave me these duplicate posts
ive tried to delete them but like harry potter they keep comming back
can some one help here.
aw im off to bed see ya all tomorrow
i need to thank a few people
but ile do that tomorrow
when i feel better
marty
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Good Ones! <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
hey BB i love that smiley
M
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hi team a friend has just subscribed to broadband
and weve configured it
on the net which is working
but cant seem to get it to work in the email
outlook express
his os is xp
and his browser is IE6.
i havent had experience with broadband im lost
as far as email goes
i keep thinking of dial up when trying to
configure the email which is pop3
but in the config box
the other .options is
imap and http
can i get any help.
thank you
marty
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Yeah, computers with about 333 meg processer, and 16 meg of RAM.
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or cut out his breeding apperatus
so he dosent pass his talents on.
i must mention.
there were several who said
if it wasnt for people like him.
the compt industry wouldnt progress .
that was at g4 and i think techtv
but when i said
what about the innocent people who didnt know how to maintain
a compt
i did not recieve a reply.
there were a coupla of posters on this board who think like this.
i didnt get the sasser or the blaster worm
because at the time i was a member of trendmicro
and i used to get news letters
and they warned me and showed me how to blocked the hole
were this virus was comming through .
so i was one of the lucky ones.
so now when ever i reinstall win. that is the first thing i do. block that hole.
now i think
windows has the block in sp2
marty
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Thanx Handplane and Marty. Now where did I put all those blank DVD's?
I really *LOVE* your sig, handplane. Very kewl.
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me to.bozodog, i believe hand plane is a carpenter by trade.
and that sig is appropriate.
i love it
marty
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Actually, i have windows Longhorn's test OS on CD, but no CD key....if only i could find a crack
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i woudnt min trying it out .
do you have a key logger
i dont know how to use key logger my self
but i once saw an episode of call for help
and an ex cracker was interviewed
and he said he used a key logger
to generate the cd key
i havent a clue what that means .
but when i came to g4 i posted it on the board
and some called cat i cant remember his full user name posted back
and explained.
i wouldnt be game to try it my self.
he went on to say keyloggers were dangerous
because some times V writers
used them to
generate a virus.
if some one can explain this to me
ide appreciate it
marty
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any one keeping up with longhorn news. here are some screen shots .
i havent scanned this yet
tho it came from a reliable site
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Funny Quotes
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"If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come
I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?"
"How come we choose from just two people
for president and 50 for Miss America?"
Ever notice that people who spend money on beer,
cigarettes, and lottery tickets are always complaining
about being broke and not feeling well?
On my first day of school my parents dropped
me off at the wrong nursery.
There I was...surrounded by trees and bushes.
Why is it that most nudists are people
you don't want to see naked?
"Old" is when the porn movie you bring home
is "Debby Does Dialysis."
I mixed Rogaine with Viagra...
now I've got hair like Don King.
I earn a seven-figure salary.
Unfortunately, there's a decimal point involved.
The next time you feel like complaining, remember:
Your garbage disposal probably eats better than
thirty percent of the people in this world.
Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.
The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in high
school was my blood alcohol content.
"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with
'Guess' on it. I said, 'Thyroid problem?'"
Sign In Pet Store: "Buy one dog, get one flea..."
Regular naps prevent old age.....
especially if you take them while driving.
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hey chappy i loved those .
do you know were i can get a sex change
ha ha ha
marty
Happy Birthday Jeff (besttechie)!
in Open Chat
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happy B day beluga
sorry i cant get used to this jeff thing.
wished i was your age again .
like the others i i thank you for allowing us to be a memebr of this board
take care and i hope you have heaps and heaps of birthday greetings
marty