Backup, backup!

[The Daring Dufas]

Unless I'm mistaken, there is a compatibility mode that can be selected for running programs. I've never had to use it so I'll have to check it out. o_O

TDD

[Robert Green]

Part of the benefit of old-fashioned text research is that you invariably learned a lot just looking for something and skimming over lots of material to find it. I find that though most people can find what they are looking for on the net but they're not always good at evaluating the quality of that material. It used to be people would quote Wikipedia and get dissed, but Wikipedia looks downright scholarly compared to Yahoo Answers or Answers.com.

[Stormin Mormon]

Oops, that is a bit of a surprise. I'll pass the word.

. Christ> Quit hanging around with dumb people.

[clare]

Firefox and IE works better than thunderbird and IE. If you can't or won't use a REAL newsreader like Agent.

[clare]

The beauty of the internet is there is so much information available. The bad part is sorting truth from falsehood is like sorting flyshit from pepper.

[Winston_Smith]

Says our favorite self-described victim. Just your asinine behavior, ol' son.

[Winston_Smith]

I don't see how OE and IE are connected.

It's hard to understand why you can't update IE or anything else. You say it's a new install and it doesn't work. Literally millions upon millions of people have done a generic install with no problems.

I see you ignored some clues I gave you that are free and low cost.

That should do the job. What's the problem? Details would help us.

What Oops. Get the converter. Done.

Is there something in your religion that says you can't do the same thing? Or does it take away your victim status?

[Winston_Smith]

I have OE6 here on my machine, right now, working with IE8 just fine. I don't see how IE and OE are related.

Live Mail sucks even more than OE but ADAIK, Live Mail came in with Vista. Where ARE you getting your information? Upgrading you internet browser and your email reader are completely separate and in dependant operations.

Once again. How are they related ????? IE6 will have trouble with many web sites. It has zero to do with OE as far as I know.

I think XP shipped with IE6. IE7 and IE8 are available as free upgrades. There never was and IE9 for XP.

In any case, what's wrong with FireFox, Chrome, or Opera. You have choices coming out the proverbial kazoo.

[Winston_Smith]

There is such a thing but I've never had to use it even with some pretty ancient DOS and Win 3.1 stuff running under XP.

Like the poster above you, I'm running XP-SP3, OE6, Outlook2003, and IE8 just fine. FireFox works fine with that combo as does Forte Agent in both usenet and email functions.

This is not rocket science.

[Winston_Smith]

So why did you do it.

[Tomsic]

OE was built into IE as I recall. I think IE8 (2009) was the last version that had it which is what I use now.

Tomsic

[Gunner Asch]

Why bother using either? They both suck. Hotmail and Gmail cover 99% of everything you need to do..and Firefox or Chrome..or even Opera work nicely for those. If your internet account comes with an email account.....simply download Pegasus Email for free

Hell..Gmail can be set up to check your regular ISP email account..so you dont even need to log into it..simply use Gmail. So can Pegasus Email IRRC. Ive used it for years on the kids and grandkids computers.

Doing newsgroups..I already sent you a good copy of Forte Agent which you acknowledged receiving. Using lame software known to be problem children for years...shrug...you really should know better than that.

Its not rocket science Norman...you simply have to do stuff properly. Like checking to see what voltage that blower motor is. Is it 110vt or

220? Simply stuff. No brainer stuff.

Ive got a puter thats been up for 7 yrs, 24/7. Windows XP too. Im waiting for the drive to fail one of these days...so I keep regular automatic backups with a external USB drive. $50 brand new at the MicroCenter. When it goes..Im not going to fix it..Ill replace it with a P4 Ive got sitting on a self as a hot spare.

[Gunner Asch]

My son paid for a "computer technicians" course in Utah. They ripped him off badly. Seriously badly. And the poor bastard thought they were teaching him something worth money.

[Gunner Asch]

And I sent him Agent and the cheat codes last week. Which he acknowledged getting

[rbowman]

Over the past year or so, I've interviewed several people with recent CS degrees. They did not get their money's worth. We are not looking for skilled programmers with impressive resumes, just entry level programmers with enough background to not require extensive handholding. The two hires in that time did not have degrees.

[rbowman]

Or vice versa. gmail is my burner account. They have an excellent spam filter any anything that survives gets delivered to my ISP's POP3 server.

[The Daring Dufas]

I'm going to write about what I've done soon because I had a major system GRONK caused by MS Antivirus but I'm recovering everything. ^_^

TDD

[Gunner Asch]

Ayup...it can be used to work both ways. And Gmail can take up to IRRC..a 200 meg file transfer as an email attachment. Most ISPs allow 5 megs at best

Good only for photos and that sort of thing

Gunner

[pyotr filipivich]

I'm finding that my "mechanical drafting" in high school, and the intervening decades, gave me the "smarts" to know what needs to be done, so that the technical training in the software is more along the lines of "how do I do what I want to do, in this software?" Of course some things - couldn't really be done "by hand". Not as precisely and not nearly as quickly.

[Vic Smith]

I saw a piece of a Senate hearing this morning about "for-profit" schools getting gov backed student loan checks to the tune of something like $52 billion a year. The loans default at +40% and the student is forever on the hook to pay back. I knew this was going on about 10 years ago when I chatted with some youngsters who were on break from a "culinary" school. This one. Check the prices.

One kid told me he was in hock for $35,000 for an 18 month program. Felt sorry for them. My wife is a chef in a corporate kitchen, with

20 years experience. Makes $14 an hour. She's in the "elite." I didn't tell them anything. They had enough problems already. These kids will be lucky to get a job for $10 an hour. Making a decent living cooking is a rarity. There's no money in food service, and besides that all the schooling in the world won't make you a good cook. Wife has had some of these kids come into her kitchen. So far they have all been useless.