My PC is working again, mostly

Glad to see you back again CATherine! We've missed you. How are you?

Hugs,

CatNipped

"CATherine" wrote in message
...
Hiya, folks!! It has been a long time. Several things were going on
all this time; but I am mostly back in business. My son explained what
he was sure was the trouble with my PC. As usual, when he speaks the
foreign language known as Techie, my eyes glaze over and the valves
between my ears open wide so the meaningless language can pass right
through! ;-D But I did retain a few words about "old version of Direct
CD driver" and we can't afford newer right now. He also mentioned
"instability" and up-dating on certain web-sites that didn't like IE
and OE from ME as well as WIN98.

BTW, I am now on WIN 98 v2. Wonderful! But IE and OE had problems, so
he installed Mozilla. I have been learning all about using it. It
works great, even on the things that bogged down IE and OE. But I
still use Forte Agent for newsgroups.

In the meantime, when he was re-installing, he couldn't find the old
cd for ZoneAlarm. Don't know what happened to it. Of course, his room
looks like a rat's nest! But I went and bought the latest version of
ZoneAlarm Pro. It was on sale with a $10 rebate!

He still has some tweaking of settings going on from time to time and
all my extra programs to install. The bad thing about WIN 98 is that
it doesn't have my favorite Solitaire game--Spider. But my sister is
sending her cd of games that has it.

But without the newest version of the Direct CD Driver, he said don't
view any movies. Media Play won't work, I guess; or maybe it will
cause the blackout/reboot again.

So now, if other problems with mundane life don'r interfere, I can
start posting again. But I won't even try to reply to the thousands of
posts i missed! I will just send blanket purrs for all.

--
CATherine

CATherine wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes

Hiya, folks!! It has been a long time. Several things were going on
all this time; but I am mostly back in business. My son explained what
he was sure was the trouble with my PC. As usual, when he speaks the
foreign language known as Techie, my eyes glaze over and the valves
between my ears open wide so the meaningless language can pass right
through! ;-D But I did retain a few words about "old version of Direct
CD driver" and we can't afford newer right now. He also mentioned
"instability" and up-dating on certain web-sites that didn't like IE
and OE from ME as well as WIN98.
It's good that you are back. And I am glad that you are using firefox.
One big advantage to FireFox is that you pick up less spyware with it.

But, you should be aware that there are firewalls as good as, or better,
than Zone Alarm, and are free. I use Sygate Personal Firewall, and you
can also purchase a version which allows you to do more configuration.

--
Dick #1349
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~Benjamin Franklin

Home Page: dickcr.iwarp.com
email:

CATherine wrote:

Hiya, folks!! It has been a long time.

I was wondering where you were! Glad to see you back. Commiserations for
your computer troubles. Mine is getting a bit old, and I don't have a
resident geek, so I'll probably end up losing all my stuff if mine goes pop.


--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

CATherine wrote:
Hiya, folks!! It has been a long time. Several things were going on
all this time; but I am mostly back in business. My son explained what
he was sure was the trouble with my PC. As usual, when he speaks the
foreign language known as Techie, my eyes glaze over and the valves
between my ears open wide so the meaningless language can pass right
through! ;-D But I did retain a few words about "old version of Direct
CD driver" and we can't afford newer right now. He also mentioned
"instability" and up-dating on certain web-sites that didn't like IE
and OE from ME as well as WIN98.
snip

Welcome back.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

Purrs for your work load to not be too heavy and especially strong purrs and
best wishes for you to drive safely,
--
Polonca & Soncek

"CATherine" wrote in message
...
I am glad to be back; although I won't have much time for a few weeks.
One of the girls at work quit without notice and we were short-handed
anyway. So I will be putting in some long hours. During these cold,
dark days. I don't like to drive after dark. And I don't like to drive
on slick icy roads...after dark. snip

CATherine wrote:

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:53:41 +0200, Marina
wrote:


CATherine wrote:


Hiya, folks!! It has been a long time.

I was wondering where you were! Glad to see you back. Commiserations for
your computer troubles. Mine is getting a bit old, and I don't have a
resident geek, so I'll probably end up losing all my stuff if mine goes pop.


I am very grateful for my resident geek. He has taught me a lot, and
at my own pace. And he sets up security on my pc to a high level. I
have never (since i got off alo several years ago) had the problem
with spam and porn that so many people talk about here. Now, with
Mozilla, I won't even have those annoying pop-ups and spyware.

As for your saved things, I recommend backing up everyhting on cd's,
just in case. Here, at least, cds are cheap. How are they there?

I don't know, since I don't even have a cd burner. I have thought of
getting one. Just think, I might lose all my F&N piccies! Maybe I'll get
one for myself as my Yule present. I've started using Mozilla Firefox
and Thunderbird, too, and I like them.

Of course, where I work everyone else is a computer geek, so I might go
there for advice. I'm not very good at asking for advice, though. Need
to figure things out by myself.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

On 2004-12-02, CATherine penned:

Actually I am using Mozilla Suite--firefox and thunderbird together. I
really like it. So far, all I have done on the Internet is read the daily
soap operas, pay a few bills and view a few pictures some of the group
posted. And not one pop-up showed up!!! And thunderbird is so intelligent.
It already has my junk mail figured out...not that I get much, anyway.

My son likes ZoneAlarm because our computers are net-worked. Also, he is
into some Security groups that he says the concensus is they trust Zonealarm
the most. My son says some of them are sort of paranoid about security; I
think my son is, also. But I would rather he be that way than careless and
trusting and credulous like so many people I meet, including my own
siblings.


Sorry to butt in here, but he's probably not paranoid, just realistic.
Security is a trade-off of convenience versus risk. The safest thing to do is
to keep your computer offline; short of that, everything is a compromise.

Just as an example, computers can be taken over and used to store illicit
materials, like kiddy porn, or if you're lucky, just mounds of illegally
copied music and movies. Good luck proving that you're not the one who put
it there. Some spammers have started hijacking personal computers to mail
their spam, saving their computers work and setting you up for the fall. Then
there are the ones who redirect banking sites to their own machines so that
they can collect your username and password ...

It's not paranoia if someone's out to get you. Just like real life, the more
defenses you have, the less likely the common criminal is to choose you as a
victim. They'll go find an easier target.

--
monique, caretaker of Oscar

On 2004-12-02, Marina penned:

I don't know, since I don't even have a cd burner. I have thought of getting
one. Just think, I might lose all my F&N piccies! Maybe I'll get one for
myself as my Yule present. I've started using Mozilla Firefox and
Thunderbird, too, and I like them.

Of course, where I work everyone else is a computer geek, so I might go
there for advice. I'm not very good at asking for advice, though. Need to
figure things out by myself.

There are supposedly easy-to-use "one touch" external hard drives you can use
as backup. Here are some (disclaimer: I've never used 'em):

http://www.maxstore.com/searchcat.asp?search_id=3

--
monique, caretaker of Oscar

Monique Y. Mudama wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes

On 2004-12-02, CATherine penned:

Actually I am using Mozilla Suite--firefox and thunderbird together. I
really like it. So far, all I have done on the Internet is read the
daily soap operas, pay a few bills and view a few pictures some of the
group posted. And not one pop-up showed up!!! And thunderbird is so
intelligent. It already has my junk mail figured out...not that I get
much, anyway.

My son likes ZoneAlarm because our computers are net-worked. Also, he
is into some Security groups that he says the concensus is they trust
Zonealarm the most. My son says some of them are sort of paranoid about
security; I think my son is, also. But I would rather he be that way
than careless and trusting and credulous like so many people I meet,
including my own siblings.


Sorry to butt in here, but he's probably not paranoid, just realistic.
Security is a trade-off of convenience versus risk. The safest thing to
do is to keep your computer offline; short of that, everything is a
compromise.

Just as an example, computers can be taken over and used to store
illicit materials, like kiddy porn, or if you're lucky, just mounds of
illegally copied music and movies. Good luck proving that you're not
the one who put it there. Some spammers have started hijacking personal
computers to mail their spam, saving their computers work and setting
you up for the fall. Then there are the ones who redirect banking sites
to their own machines so that they can collect your username and
password ...

all this is true, but I am not convinced that Zone alarm is the best
out there. On the other hand, Symantic seems to do just fine for
stopping most things, and avoiding IE as much as possible helps alot.
My wife fires up IE from time to time, and I have to come along and
clean up after it. On the other hand, Microsoft just announced a
major upgrade to IE to plug up some security holes to help prevent that
sort of thing.


It's not paranoia if someone's out to get you. Just like real life, the
more defenses you have, the less likely the common criminal is to choose
you as a victim. They'll go find an easier target.

Actually, the saying is, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean
someone isn't out to get you.


--
Dick #1349
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~Benjamin Franklin

Home Page: dickcr.iwarp.com
email:

CATherine wrote:

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:53:41 +0200, Marina
wrote:


CATherine wrote:


Hiya, folks!! It has been a long time.

I was wondering where you were! Glad to see you back.
Commiserations for your computer troubles. Mine is getting a bit
old, and I don't have a resident geek, so I'll probably end up
losing all my stuff if mine
goes pop.


I am very grateful for my resident geek. He has taught me a lot, and
at my own pace. And he sets up security on my pc to a high level. I
have never (since i got off alo several years ago) had the problem
with spam and porn that so many people talk about here. Now, with
Mozilla, I won't even have those annoying pop-ups and spyware.

As for your saved things, I recommend backing up everyhting on cd's,
just in case. Here, at least, cds are cheap. How are they there?

I don't know, since I don't even have a cd burner. I have thought of
getting one. Just think, I might lose all my F&N piccies! Maybe I'll
get one for myself as my Yule present. I've started using Mozilla
Firefox and Thunderbird, too, and I like them.

Of course, where I work everyone else is a computer geek, so I might
go there for advice. I'm not very good at asking for advice, though.
Need to figure things out by myself.

If you have a USB or Firewire port, an external hard drive is usefull
for backups, and thet're getting cheaper all the time.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.