Vanity: New FR Ping List "TechSupport"

2006-04-24 | N3WBI3

[BJClinton]

Aright, add me to the ping list but my first response will always be PIBKAC.

[Straight Vermonter]

Great idea you can add me. I won't be able to help anyone but I will undoubtedly learn from the misfortunes of others :-)

Maybe someone can tell me why I can't get my win98 machine to connect to my home network?

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

It'd be nice to have one program do it all, tho.

Yunz'll like it an'at < /Pittsburgese>

[FDNYRHEROES]

Please add me to the ping list. Thanks

[martin_fierro]

Maybe someone can tell me why I can't get my win98 machine to connect to my home network?

• Make sure Win98 is networking with TCP/IP
• Make sure when you power up your Win98 machine that you log on using the same password as the rest of your network uses.
• Look here

[martin_fierro]

I'd sign up for this Ping list, but don't know how many "I have a virus -- is that a Bad Thing?" or "How do I make a picture appear on FR" questions I could put up with before going on a shooting rampage.

so it's probably better that I'm not on your list

[Tijeras_Slim]

Win98? Twenty five years is a long time to wait for a sequel...

[bwteim]

Great suggestion, but don't hold your collective breaths...

[martin_fierro]

Well lookie here.

[bwteim]

Apparently a frustrated FReeper added a keyword for the technology challenged some time ago..."FRismypersonalITdept"

Martin, was that you, by any chance?;)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=frismypersonalitdept

[tubebender]

Can a lowly home bound consumer join this group...

[Quix]

Martin is right, CDL.

A tiny little envelope appears in the lower task bar when there's email.

In terms of Eudora crashing, I've had lots of problems over the years with that--especially with my AMD dual CPU motherboard--if that is the issue, I don't know.

Got ANTICRASH software from Dachshund--great stuff.

Eudora personnel told me that Norton and a lot of others refuse to work with them to make Eudora and their software decrease crashes. Their attitude seems to be, reportedly, that Eudora is too small to bother with. Very snooty.

I tried Thunderbird several iterations ago and found it too clutzy and bothersome to put up with.

I still prefer all the features of Eudora.

Been up to Colo seeing JimRob et al. Sorry for slow response.

Thx.

[Quix]

May check it out again.

But need to get Norton reinstalled and Anticrash fixed first. LOL.

[martin_fierro]

Lord knows, "Children ate my computer. Need help!!" IS News/Activism.

that said, it's a pretty funny keyword

[Quix]

True, but I think one of the best benefits is to avoid piece mealing things out one on one and let everyone learn from other's questions as well as reduce hassle of experts.

[Quix]

Gads. That was a long time ago.

As I recall, 3.1 crashed plenty for me! lol.

[ShadowAce]

I think one of the best benefits is to avoid piece mealing things out one on one and let everyone learn from other's questions as well as reduce hassle of experts.

Good point. I like that approach.

[bwteim]

It is indeed, I wish I could claim credit;)

[zeugma]

Although for some reason Eudora has been crashing in a large way over the past 24 hours or so. So much so that I downloaded Thunderbird & am considering making the switch.

Martin,

I Eudora uses  the same file format they used to, your change to Thunderbird should be fairly painless. I don't know if there is a conversion utility out there, but it may well be possible to just copy your mbox files to Thunderbird and have them see them. When I made the move from Eudora, it was a pretty clean move, but I lost a little mbox meta information IIRC. I really liked Eudora. It was pretty clean software as long as you used the purchased copy. The adware stuff was obnoxious IMO.

[zeugma]

Type "rm *" into the command line.

But it is so much fun watching your machine die!

Note I said your machine, not mine. :-)