Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Have you ruled out hardware issues for the above? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
Alan Bourke wrote: My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Have you ruled out hardware issues for the above? Chet's long history with equipment? Will Linux will also suffer? Stephen Russell DBA / .Net Developer Memphis TN 38115 901.246-0159 A good way to judge people is by observing how they treat those who can do them absolutely no good. ---Unknown http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.4/644 - Release Date: 1/22/2007 7:30 AM ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
Nope. Gonna take it in and hope it's fixable. I did load up Knoppix and it seemed to find my USB stuff ok -- I think... Alan Bourke wrote: My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Have you ruled out hardware issues for the above? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
I have two other machines. One is running Win2K -- MUCH more reliable and effecient. I'm also 98% retired from Foxpro work...any I get now will be an accident from an old client... Adam Buckland wrote: But how will you do you FoxPro work if you don't have Windoze? ::a -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chet Gardiner I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
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Chet: If you are retired from FoxPro work, what are you working with these days? What types of apps and what development language - if I may ask. Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chet Gardiner Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ??? I have two other machines. One is running Win2K -- MUCH more reliable and effecient. I'm also 98% retired from Foxpro work...any I get now will be an accident from an old client... Adam Buckland wrote: But how will you do you FoxPro work if you don't have Windoze? ::a -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chet Gardiner I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/x-pkcs7-signature --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
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Basses, Guitars, audio recording equipment and Vocals... No more computer work. I did 42 years of it, that's enough!! (Plus, the mouse/trackball messed up my hands) Jeff Johnson wrote: Chet: If you are retired from FoxPro work, what are you working with these days? What types of apps and what development language - if I may ask. Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chet Gardiner Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ??? I have two other machines. One is running Win2K -- MUCH more reliable and effecient. I'm also 98% retired from Foxpro work...any I get now will be an accident from an old client... Adam Buckland wrote: But how will you do you FoxPro work if you don't have Windoze? ::a -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chet Gardiner I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/x-pkcs7-signature --- [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
[NF] PC or Apple or ???
I've had it! My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Now it won't recognize ANY external USB devices (my main backup drive and Printer -- goody!) I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! I do lots of email. I do some video and lots of audio processing. The Audio processing is at a PROFESSIONAL level -- two-track WAV multi-track mixes to CD. I do some word processing (but often have to read word files)... I need iTunes too. I guess I'm landing on Apple but what about it??? My reservation about Apple is a response to not being able to get rid of the requirement to enter the main password to unlock the keychain on my girlfriend's iMac. We upgraded the memory, installed Tiger (10.4.8) and ran the keychain first aid and no joy. I found another keychain file in the top level library folder (called system) -- deleted it and then it worked -- no need to enter keychain password... Until next bootup then --- back to the nonsense. All OS's suck. Some suck more than others!!! ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
Go ahead and buy a new computer with MS Vista. It will solve all your problems! John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chet Gardiner Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:42 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] PC or Apple or ??? I've had it! My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Now it won't recognize ANY external USB devices (my main backup drive and Printer -- goody!) I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! I do lots of email. I do some video and lots of audio processing. The Audio processing is at a PROFESSIONAL level -- two-track WAV multi-track mixes to CD. I do some word processing (but often have to read word files)... I need iTunes too. I guess I'm landing on Apple but what about it??? My reservation about Apple is a response to not being able to get rid of the requirement to enter the main password to unlock the keychain on my girlfriend's iMac. We upgraded the memory, installed Tiger (10.4.8) and ran the keychain first aid and no joy. I found another keychain file in the top level library folder (called system) -- deleted it and then it worked -- no need to enter keychain password... Until next bootup then --- back to the nonsense. All OS's suck. Some suck more than others!!! [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
Can Apples run 2 monitors? Chet Gardiner wrote: I've had it! My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Now it won't recognize ANY external USB devices (my main backup drive and Printer -- goody!) I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! I do lots of email. I do some video and lots of audio processing. The Audio processing is at a PROFESSIONAL level -- two-track WAV multi-track mixes to CD. I do some word processing (but often have to read word files)... I need iTunes too. I guess I'm landing on Apple but what about it??? My reservation about Apple is a response to not being able to get rid of the requirement to enter the main password to unlock the keychain on my girlfriend's iMac. We upgraded the memory, installed Tiger (10.4.8) and ran the keychain first aid and no joy. I found another keychain file in the top level library folder (called system) -- deleted it and then it worked -- no need to enter keychain password... Until next bootup then --- back to the nonsense. All OS's suck. Some suck more than others!!! [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
Hi Chet ! Just a thought - D/L burn a Knoppix CD (or DVD - a lot more goodies) and pop it into your pc re-boot. If USB printer work - you know for sure it's WinBlows that is the problem ! Knoppix is a live CD/DVD that runs completely off the cd - no need for hd, and it's excellent at picking up hardware. (Ubuntu is based on Knoppix ...) You might have to use another pc to d/l burn a good copy - http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html There's a ton of software already there - and an easy installer, if you want to put it on the hard drive. Audacity might do for your audio work and there's a VM already there too, for VFP and K3B will burn cd's dvd's ... -- ..bobp http://www.prosumers.ca http://bpatterson.qhealthbeauty.com http://apatterson2.qhealthzone.com ---orig.- On Saturday 20 January 2007 02:42, Chet Gardiner wrote: I've had it! My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Now it won't recognize ANY external USB devices (my main backup drive and Printer -- goody!) I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! I do lots of email. I do some video and lots of audio processing. The Audio processing is at a PROFESSIONAL level -- two-track WAV multi-track mixes to CD. I do some word processing (but often have to read word files)... I need iTunes too. I guess I'm landing on Apple but what about it??? My reservation about Apple is a response to not being able to get rid of the requirement to enter the main password to unlock the keychain on my girlfriend's iMac. We upgraded the memory, installed Tiger (10.4.8) and ran the keychain first aid and no joy. I found another keychain file in the top level library folder (called system) -- deleted it and then it worked -- no need to enter keychain password... Until next bootup then --- back to the nonsense. All OS's suck. Some suck more than others!!! [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
I would download the Mepis ISO (http://www.mepis.org/node/1462) file and give it a try as a live CD. You could check out the sound card, browsing the Internet, etc. all without reformatting the HD. Mepis is built on top of Ubuntu, but it uses the KDE UI. I think KDE is a bit more like Windows in it's conventions than GNOME is (Ubuntu comes with GNOME) but they're both good UIs. For email: Thunderbird For Internet browsing: Firefox For file browsing: Konqueror For video: Kino (it's rough around the edges but the price is right) For audio recording: Audacity For audio playback: Amarok For word processing: OpenOffice.org For spreadsheets: OpenOffice.org For HTML Editing: Quanta+ (my favorite HTML editor ever!!!) For CD video and data burning: K3B For DVD video and data burning: K3B For keeping everything updated: Synaptic and the command line tool apt-get Linux Windows however. That's a key thing to remember. But I really, really like Linux. Some things are a challenge, but freedom is worth that challenge! I would think that trying out a live CD is much better than plunking down some $$$ for new hardware, if the hardware is still good. I even took my live CDs with me to BestBuy and tried them out on the laptops in the store before I purchased. I ended up giving the store sales kid the CD to try out at home. He'd never seen Linux before. Kids these days!!! Sheesh. g Chet Gardiner wrote: I've had it! My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Now it won't recognize ANY external USB devices (my main backup drive and Printer -- goody!) I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! I do lots of email. I do some video and lots of audio processing. The Audio processing is at a PROFESSIONAL level -- two-track WAV multi-track mixes to CD. I do some word processing (but often have to read word files)... I need iTunes too. I guess I'm landing on Apple but what about it??? My reservation about Apple is a response to not being able to get rid of the requirement to enter the main password to unlock the keychain on my girlfriend's iMac. We upgraded the memory, installed Tiger (10.4.8) and ran the keychain first aid and no joy. I found another keychain file in the top level library folder (called system) -- deleted it and then it worked -- no need to enter keychain password... Until next bootup then --- back to the nonsense. All OS's suck. Some suck more than others!!! [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
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Thanks. I'll give that a try. Don't know if it's hardware or software at this point... C Bob Patterson wrote: Hi Chet ! Just a thought - D/L burn a Knoppix CD (or DVD - a lot more goodies) and pop it into your pc re-boot. If USB printer work - you know for sure it's WinBlows that is the problem ! Knoppix is a live CD/DVD that runs completely off the cd - no need for hd, and it's excellent at picking up hardware. (Ubuntu is based on Knoppix ...) You might have to use another pc to d/l burn a good copy - http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html There's a ton of software already there - and an easy installer, if you want to put it on the hard drive. Audacity might do for your audio work and there's a VM already there too, for VFP and K3B will burn cd's dvd's ... ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
Thanks... Kevin Cully wrote: I would download the Mepis ISO (http://www.mepis.org/node/1462) file and give it a try as a live CD. You could check out the sound card, browsing the Internet, etc. all without reformatting the HD. Mepis is built on top of Ubuntu, but it uses the KDE UI. I think KDE is a bit more like Windows in it's conventions than GNOME is (Ubuntu comes with GNOME) but they're both good UIs. For email: Thunderbird For Internet browsing: Firefox For file browsing: Konqueror For video: Kino (it's rough around the edges but the price is right) For audio recording: Audacity For audio playback: Amarok For word processing: OpenOffice.org For spreadsheets: OpenOffice.org For HTML Editing: Quanta+ (my favorite HTML editor ever!!!) For CD video and data burning: K3B For DVD video and data burning: K3B For keeping everything updated: Synaptic and the command line tool apt-get Linux Windows however. That's a key thing to remember. But I really, really like Linux. Some things are a challenge, but freedom is worth that challenge! I would think that trying out a live CD is much better than plunking down some $$$ for new hardware, if the hardware is still good. I even took my live CDs with me to BestBuy and tried them out on the laptops in the store before I purchased. I ended up giving the store sales kid the CD to try out at home. He'd never seen Linux before. Kids these days!!! Sheesh. g Chet Gardiner wrote: I've had it! My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Now it won't recognize ANY external USB devices (my main backup drive and Printer -- goody!) I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! I do lots of email. I do some video and lots of audio processing. The Audio processing is at a PROFESSIONAL level -- two-track WAV multi-track mixes to CD. I do some word processing (but often have to read word files)... I need iTunes too. I guess I'm landing on Apple but what about it??? My reservation about Apple is a response to not being able to get rid of the requirement to enter the main password to unlock the keychain on my girlfriend's iMac. We upgraded the memory, installed Tiger (10.4.8) and ran the keychain first aid and no joy. I found another keychain file in the top level library folder (called system) -- deleted it and then it worked -- no need to enter keychain password... Until next bootup then --- back to the nonsense. All OS's suck. Some suck more than others!!! [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: [NF] PC or Apple or ???
Download Ubuntu you don't even need to burn a CD/DVD for it, just run the installer... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/install.exe/Prototype ::a -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Patterson Sent: 20 January 2007 04:26 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] PC or Apple or ??? Hi Chet ! Just a thought - D/L burn a Knoppix CD (or DVD - a lot more goodies) and pop it into your pc re-boot. If USB printer work - you know for sure it's WinBlows that is the problem ! Knoppix is a live CD/DVD that runs completely off the cd - no need for hd, and it's excellent at picking up hardware. (Ubuntu is based on Knoppix ...) You might have to use another pc to d/l burn a good copy - http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html There's a ton of software already there - and an easy installer, if you want to put it on the hard drive. Audacity might do for your audio work and there's a VM already there too, for VFP and K3B will burn cd's dvd's ... -- ..bobp http://www.prosumers.ca http://bpatterson.qhealthbeauty.com http://apatterson2.qhealthzone.com ---orig.- On Saturday 20 January 2007 02:42, Chet Gardiner wrote: I've had it! My windoze PC is going south (AFTER LESS THAN TWO F*CKIN' YEARS)... While it's at it it's taken out my calendar file. It runs like a slug (XP home on a HP a810n desktop. The first thing that went was burning DVDs. Now it won't recognize ANY external USB devices (my main backup drive and Printer -- goody!) I will NO LONGER work in Windows. I'm tired of being a Tech Support programmer (it SUCKS). I'm prepared to buy a new machine for my main desktop. So, should I go Linuz on a PC or Apple -- WINDOZE IS NOT AN OPTION!!! I do lots of email. I do some video and lots of audio processing. The Audio processing is at a PROFESSIONAL level -- two-track WAV multi-track mixes to CD. I do some word processing (but often have to read word files)... I need iTunes too. I guess I'm landing on Apple but what about it??? My reservation about Apple is a response to not being able to get rid of the requirement to enter the main password to unlock the keychain on my girlfriend's iMac. We upgraded the memory, installed Tiger (10.4.8) and ran the keychain first aid and no joy. I found another keychain file in the top level library folder (called system) -- deleted it and then it worked -- no need to enter keychain password... Until next bootup then --- back to the nonsense. All OS's suck. Some suck more than others!!! [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
