I'm conflicted, Eddie. On the one side, everything is written for MS, so it's easy. On the other side, everything is written for MS, so it's easy for everyone else to get into my computer and kill it.
Yeah. He's my hero.
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libkitty - Sep 07, 2005 9:00:00 pm PDT #4407 of 10003
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Fred Pete - Sep 08, 2005 4:06:48 am PDT #4408 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
A question for the tech types.
A couple of months ago, we bought a new computer. Lately, the (Norton) antivirus has been acting up, including preventing us from accessing legitimate stuff.
Hubs has been trying to correct things by uninstalling and reinstalling, but the computer won't let him reinstall the antivirus. We even went out and bought a fullblown Norton Internet Security package, and the computer won't let that install.
Any ideas?
Eddie - Sep 08, 2005 5:40:15 am PDT #4409 of 10003
Your tag here.
Fred Pete: yeah, Norton doesn't really uninstall itself when you tell it to uninstall. Personally, I think it's a scheme to keep novices from switching from their product.
Anyway, they have a tool to really uninstall their product:
For 2003 and prior: [link] For 2004 and later: [link]
This may help [link] and here's a google [link] and another [link]
HTH
amych - Sep 08, 2005 5:42:48 am PDT #4410 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
How-to on installing OS X on an Intel machine: [link]
No, I haven't tried it yet, but the Windows box hasn't been earning its keep lately.
Fred Pete - Sep 08, 2005 5:44:15 am PDT #4411 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Thanks, Eddie. I'll pass the info on to Hubs.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 08, 2005 5:51:38 am PDT #4412 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am a PC idiot, but...
In word I seem to have accidently turned on a setting in which I am seeing paragraph symbols, dots for spaces and arrows for tabs.
I have looked under the views menu and can't find a setting for this.
Help!
Dana - Sep 08, 2005 5:53:05 am PDT #4413 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sophia, there should be a button with a paragraph mark on it somewhere on your toolbars at the top of the application. That toggles whether you see those marks.
tommyrot - Sep 08, 2005 5:55:09 am PDT #4414 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yes, and if that toolbar is not visible, go to Tools - Options - View.
eta: then look at "Nonprinting characters."
Sophia Brooks - Sep 08, 2005 5:59:32 am PDT #4415 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thank you!
I miss my mac....
Zenkitty - Sep 08, 2005 7:18:29 am PDT #4416 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Anyone know anything about BitTorrent? I've dl'd a couple, uhm, documentaries, with no problem, but for the last one, although it says it's finished, I only have a folder with lots of little files in it - there's no completed product. Isn't it supposed to knit all those together automatically? What do I do?
Also, why is it that when I go to the website, there are lots of seeders and leechers listed, but when I go to dl, there are no peers in my list? How come I'm not connecting to the seeders that are clearly there? I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, and this is frustrating.