Dang computers!!

[Harry]

I've been battling with a DSL modem that doesn't want to stay connected. My ISP says it's the computer and the computer manufacturer says its the modem. I love the way they point fingers at each other while I'm in the middle stuck with the problem.

Computers! Pshaw!!!

[Allen]

I've been battling with a DSL modem that doesn't want to stay connected. My ISP says it's the computer and the computer manufacturer says its the modem. I love the way they point fingers at each other while I'm in the middle stuck with the problem.

Computers! Pshaw!!!

I've been in that exact situation.

[Kat]

Santa brought me an early gift!

A Jury Summons!
(for January).
I wouldn't mind so much but it's *be there at 8 AM!*
Yikes!

[Audrey]

Teenage children can be a good thing when it comes to computer problems.....

Not being a citizen can be a good thing when it comes to jury duty....

[1bigsteve]

Don't get me going about computer problems, Harry!

I just spent the last 2 months trying to fix mine. I first noticed a problem when my Audrey Hepburn screen saver started acting strange. It went down hill from there and began acting as if it was loaded with bugs but the scans said everything was fine. Then my "Agre modem", the one I downloaded from MS, started taking a full minute to connect (it always was slow). I finally got smart and copied all of my important stuff onto floppy (still don't know how to burn a CD) and did a full smash. I brought the computer back to the point it was in when I first pulled it out of the box and knocked the styrofoam crumbs off the monitor. Now it runs like a dream! Well worth the effort!!

Should have hired a teenager I guess. When I was a kid the only computers I heard of were the main frames they used to shoot the Mercury capsule into orbit. How times have changed. By the way, whatever happened to President Kennedy?

-1bigsteve (o:

[Smudgeman]

Well, My computer is at the Manufacturers for repair. The only way I can check the forum is at work, and it makes me nervous to be typing this when I should be working!
Anyway, a power surge blew my keyboard and mouse ports out - and YES I have a surge protector! Luckily, the warranty was 4 days from expiring, so the repair will cost me nothing. Hope to be back soon.

Scott

[Harry]

Sorry to hear that Scott. I always had my doubts about surge protectors.

This article has our Lizzie "fixing a computer".

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ ... 687481.htm

[Kat]

It sounds like that Y2K came true only a bit late.
I'm getting the sneaking suspicion everyone's computer was preset to break from September 2005 to January, 2006.
There must be 5 or 6 people I know who have had to replace their computer in that time.
It's a conspiracy!
Where is Arnold Brown?

[FairhavenGuy]

Our new Dell was hooked up last Thursday. A week earlier our old HP running Windows ME (Gah!) kicked the bucket. It died just 12 hours after I'd copied the completed February issue of our magazine to a CD for our printer.

Fortunately our computer guy saved all our data and the new one is working fine. We've got Windows XP now so we're part of the real world again. I just had to remember a bunch of passwords for various things. . .

[Harry]

Good luck with the Dell, Chris. I'm thinking about getting one myself as my next machine. Please let us know what you think of it.

XP is vast improvement over ME. Micro$oft is coming out with the Vista OS in July and has already announced the next version after that, tentatively identified as Vienna.

Someone on another board posted sarcastically that they should fix Windows 2000 first.

[1bigsteve]

My previous HP computer was giving me a lot of headaches before it finaly quit. I had Norton System Works on. Little did I know that Norton was deleting important components that my computer needed to operate when it told me it was "fixing" problems. Everytime Norten "fixed" something my computer got worse. I finally had to put the Restore CD in the drive and restore the computer to it's original begining but half-way through it told me it was unable to restore because important code was missing. I was forced to buy a new HP.

I have this HP running without Norton's System Works. Oddly enough my Outlook Express recently started giving me trouble downloading my email. It would just stop downloading. This got worse until it stopped working all together. I traced the problem to Norton's Internet Security. I erased Norton from my hard drive, restarted my computer, then re-installed Norton Internet Security and now Outlook Express is running fine.

I'm tempted to go with McAfree. I hate add-ons that try to play GOD with my computer.

-1bigsteve (o:

[1bigsteve]

Vienna? Well, better than Salzburg. Vista sounds OK, better than Long Horn. What kind of name is Long Horn for an operating system? It make's me feel like I'm getting the long horn right through my wallet. "Watch out for the cattle, folks, Long Horns' coming. Moooooo."

I would like to see Microopoly come out with a system called something like "Works Right" that actually did. I'm happy with HP itself but I think I will switch to Dell next time.

-1bigsteve (o:

[Harry]

Good one Steve. I like the "WorksRight".

It's kinda scary when they are talking about the next version after Vista when Vista is still another six months away.

I'd rather see them double and triple check Vista before it comes out rather than have some 12 year old discover the holes in the system. Either that or they should hire all the people who create and spread the viruses. They obviously know more about the system than Micro$oft.

[1bigsteve]

Good idea, Harry. I think Microoploy ought to hire Kevin Poulsen and a bunch of other hackers and let them find all the bugs in the operating system (they will) long before it ever hits the market. Save all of us a bunch of grief. But of course they won't.

-1bigsteve (o: