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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / October 2005Update Computer Problems OT
Thanks to the people who responded to my earlier post. I don't seem to be able to answer posts owing to something odd with OE. When I hit reply a window from Incredimail comes up without the ng. addy on it. The machine has been away again and now is minus the sound, more groans. However I am going to buy a new computer - the cost doesn't bother me, I want a machine that will do everything but sing, lol. Think I'll replace the old monitor with the largest one available. I'll replace my printer with one that will do copying as well, any thoughts on this would be appreciated. I have 7-year-old Epson at the moment. Think I'll also get broadband. I have dreaded the hassle changing computers which is the reason I haven't done so earlier but seeing I have lost a lot of precious data and am at sea with everything anyway I might as well go for it now. My old machine is a Intel Pentium 11 Celeron 400 CPU originally with 64 RAM and 6.4 hard disk. I had it upgraded a year or so back to 256 DDR Memory. I guess I need heaps more room on hard disc as I want to get a CD burner and get some decent music. In the meantime I am also minus Yahoo Messenger as I don't seem able to sign it so my ng contacts are out at the moment. Bev > Thanks to the people who responded to my earlier post. I don't seem > to be able to answer posts owing to something odd with OE. When I [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Bev I think whatever you get you'll be happy with. As for broadband, once you have it you'll wonder what you did without it ;-) Personally I'd go for a seperate printer and scanner, though a combo would of course take less room. Purrs you get it all sorted soon then we can read more stories of B & C and Fluffy SP.  SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) A House is not a home, without a cat. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >I think whatever you get you'll be happy with. As for broadband, once you >have it you'll wonder what you did without it ;-) Personally I'd go for a >seperate printer and scanner, though a combo would of course take less room. >Purrs you get it all sorted soon then we can read more stories of B & C and >Fluffy SP. Well, we can all have problems. I cannot talk to my website or alter anything on it via broadband. I do have an old dial-up account and that is the only way to talk to my website. Ludicrous. SignatureDavid Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.com/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK <cat2@blakjak.com> Emails welcome Nanki Poo: SI O+W B 12 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P+ B+ PA+ PL SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 3 Y L W+ C++ I T A- E H++ V++ F- Q- P B PA+ PL+ SC- Adrian, I have now mastered the reply problem. I noted your comment earlier about a DVD burner - it might be worth considering, although I don't have a DVD player yet. bev > > Thanks to the people who responded to my earlier post. I don't seem > > to be able to answer posts owing to something odd with OE. When I [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > A House is not a home, without a cat. > http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk -- Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer. Bruce Graham > Adrian, I have now mastered the reply problem. I noted your > comment earlier about a DVD burner - it might be worth considering, > although I don't have a DVD player yet. > > bev Bev, I ordered a DVD+/-RW drive for the purpose of doing backups. DVD's hold a lot more data than CD's and the price has come down, but it will write to CD's too. Once I get the blank DVD's I ordered I'll tackle replacing my existing CD-ROM drive with this one. Then I'm going to back up my data and reformat the hard drive and restore the opsys with the recovery CD that came with the machine. Regarding the printer, I have a Dell combo printer/scanner/copier and I love it. There's not a lot of room for me to have separate components for scanning and/or copying. The price on the combos has come way down, too. Good luck! Jill >>> Thanks to the people who responded to my earlier post. I don't >>> seem [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> A House is not a home, without a cat. >> http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk Regarding the printer, I have a Dell combo printer/scanner/copier and I love it. There's not a lot of room for me to have separate components for scanning and/or copying. The price on the combos has come way down, too. Good luck! Jill ======================================== Bev, this is what I have too. My compuret is a Dell too. So far the computer and printer etc., work well. Suz > Regarding the printer, I have a Dell combo printer/scanner/copier and > I love [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > computer and printer etc., work well. > Suz (My computer is also a Dell.) Prior to this Dell printer I had an Epson combo printer and it worked fine, too, until I got a little heavy-handed on the release lever for the black ink cartridge and broke it :( Jill > > Adrian, I have now mastered the reply problem. I noted your > > comment earlier about a DVD burner - it might be worth considering, [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > reformat the hard drive and restore the opsys with the recovery CD that came > with the machine. We bought a DVD writer recently too for the same reason - backups. Nice to know that I won't lose all my cat pics if something goes wrong ;) But seriously, it is a real pain when something dies, you can lose so much stuff.... > Regarding the printer, I have a Dell combo printer/scanner/copier and I love > it. There's not a lot of room for me to have separate components for > scanning and/or copying. The price on the combos has come way down, too. > Good luck! > > Jill We have two "combo" (including fax) machines. One of them "lost" the fax component when a lightning storm caught us unawares. (We had just moved in and hadn't put the lightning protector in place - Murphy's Law). Anyway, it worked out cheaper to buy a another, smaller combo machine than repair the big one, so DH uses the bigger one, (cos everything else still works) and I use the smaller one. I find them really convenient. If you need to make a quick copy of something, or send a fax, it saves a lot of time. The scanning facility is also useful. Ours are both HP, BTW. Cheers Cathy(xyz) |
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