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Strix - May 31, 2007 4:28:07 pm PDT #1773 of 25496

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Ok, crazy stupid question, but I feel slightly ill and rather dumb, so bear with me. Is there any kind of Internet I can get hooked into that doesn't involve a phone? I want a medium-speed DSL thing...do I have to have a land-line to get one?

I'm trying to scope out the cheapest deal in Kansas City, and I keep coming up with ATT, or Time-Warner (who I owe some, er, money) and that's about it. What AM I looking for, and how do I find it?

Fred Pete - May 31, 2007 4:29:58 pm PDT #1774 of 25496

Ann, that's a ferret.

Erin, we use cable modem (through Cox, the local cable company, about whom I have a story or two, but I digress). Cox Net generally works well for us, but I don't know if they do business in Kansas City.

Strix - May 31, 2007 4:37:29 pm PDT #1775 of 25496

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Is it pretty fast? Not like Save-the-world fast, but efficient?

Dana - May 31, 2007 5:24:13 pm PDT #1776 of 25496

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I believe, on average, that cable is actually faster than DSL. We have cable internet, and it's certainly zippy.

Strix - May 31, 2007 6:20:23 pm PDT #1777 of 25496

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Hmm. I wonder if there's a Cable provider other than the dreaded Time-Warner. Must check.

Thanks, guys.

tommyrot - Jun 01, 2007 6:15:02 am PDT #1778 of 25496

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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40MB HD, only $40,000. In 1985. Kinda' big, too.

I paid $300 for a 30MB HD in 1991. Which is $10/MB. The 1985 drive would be $1000/MB. Now you can buy a 500GB drive for $140, which is .028 cents/MB.

DXMachina - Jun 01, 2007 7:21:36 am PDT #1779 of 25496

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

We paid $5,000 for a 5MB hard drive for a Trash 80 in 1985, and at some point ('91, or so) we spent $1600 for a 600MB SCSI drive for a file server

le nubian - Jun 01, 2007 10:32:28 am PDT #1780 of 25496

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ilounge is on the job with a list of iphone accessories:

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tommyrot - Jun 02, 2007 6:31:15 am PDT #1781 of 25496

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So, are there any Mac experts who might be around in an hour or so?

I'm going over to an acquaintance's to try to fix her Mac. She says Word is acting all weird (I don't quite understand what it's doing). I don't have Word for Mac. Anyway, this woman is legally blind, so she's using some of the Accessibility features of the Mac - I don't know if that's related.

Anyway, I might poke my head back in here in an hour with questions....

tommyrot - Jun 02, 2007 8:41:05 am PDT #1782 of 25496

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, how do you restore the normal template in Word on a Mac? This is Word 2004.

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