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Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Mame, it depends on your phone, I think. It's easy enuf to test... email me your cell phone number and I'll call you while you are playing a game on it! :-)

My RaZR receives calls no matter what I'm doing. Even watching video streaming from another site.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
My cell gets calls while the kids are playing games. Doesn't happen often but it does happen (there's only a very small handful of people who have my cell number.)

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 12:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Thanks Costa & War! I just called my cell from my landline and yep - I can certainly get calls while playing. Now how cool is that? GRIN.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 12:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
You're welcome! I'm far more likely to have one of the kids playing games on my cell than getting calls cuz like I said I don't give my number out to too many people (family, the kids school, the doctors office.) But I have gotten a few calls while they are playing.

Heyltslori
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09-15-2001

Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
I recently did a defrag on my pc. The instructions that I followed had me disable my start-up programs and screen saver first, do the defrag, and then go into msconfig and check "Normal Startup" which I did.

After all of that I went in and unchecked some of the things that I didn't want to automatically load at start up.

Now after my computer starts up, I get a pop-up window that asks "Would you like to install Microsoft OLE Automation" Yes or No.

I've been clicking No, because I have no idea what that is. Any ideas?


Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding. OLE automation is used primarily in scripting. OLE automation is also used within Microsoft Office apps to manipulate the applications -- for example, you can insert an Excel spreadsheet as an OLE object inside of a Word document. I don't know what OS you are running, or what apps you are running, but I would definitely go ahead and install it. Without knowing exactly what's on your computer, or how you use it, it's really hard to say. But it *is* a common bit of programming used by all sorts of things.

Heyltslori
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09-15-2001

Monday, January 29, 2007 - 8:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
Thank you Costacat!

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Friday, February 02, 2007 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
Anybody using Vista yet?

As part of an IT Department, I'm beta testing the OS for a rollout later this year...

Was just wondering if anyone else got to use it yet....I'm liking some stuff....not so much other stuff...

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Friday, February 02, 2007 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
here's an article about it in the Atlanta paper today:

Vista

we have no plans to purchase it in the near future. probably not until we need new computers.

i am not sure about work though. they are usually slow about buying the newer versions too.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Friday, February 02, 2007 - 2:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I'm a lab tech for my university, and we aren't using it, but a guy came in with a brand spankin' new lappy with Vista on it. It looks pretty sweet, from an interface standpoint. As for applications and intuitive-ness (yes I know, not a real word), I didn't get to play with it for that long.

I think I'm just impressed with the visual or it, maybe because it's novel rather than impressive.

I'm getting my 2007 Office on Monday, so it will be interesting to play around with that. A few co-workers already installed their new copies, and they are saying it's quite different. One guy said, "You ever hear that 'if you move the dog dish, some will starve?' Those people won't like the new Office." I took a look, and they've changed up a bunch of the menu features and layouts.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, February 02, 2007 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
All the articles I've read warn that you have to have enough power to actually run Vista and you'll need quite a lot more than the listen minimum qualifications.

Also many of your peripherals won't run with Vista, yet, as the companies supporting them aren't ready yet.

Toshiba worked extensively with Microsoft and their new systems are built to work with Vista very well.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 2:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Actually, many computers can run various different versions of Vista. I've got a year old Dell Optiplex that is running Vista Enterprise right now. I can't run Vista Ultimate, and that's where the really cool new UI resides (the Aero features).

Vista's requirements aren't really "power" at all. Although I've read reviews that the "minimum" requirements will give you fits using Vista Ultimate, the minimum requirements are an 800 MHz processor, half a gig of memory. The real requirement is the graphics processor, and many systems at least a year old don't have it.

When you install Vista, you get a list of hardware and software items that may not function. Of course, this list is accurate only if the vendor worked with Microsoft to test their products.

You can find out if you system is Vista-ready, and what version of Vista you can run, the Windows Upgrade Advisor.

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Monday, February 05, 2007 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
I've been given a new Dell Optiplex 745 that we've just loaded Vista Enterprise on....

...Vista is beautiful...such nice eyecandy....I love the Office 2007 as well...very NICE...

My mission is to load as much of our corporate software as I can and try to make it crash...but I manage to get in the good stuff (desktop, screensaver, color schemes, etc)too. All work and no play makes IT Techs very cranky!!

we are planning to begin a company rollout later this year...

I personally like it... especially love the bubbles screensaver!!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, February 05, 2007 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
The UI takes some getting used to. Especially if you're the type who immediately flips WinXP-style UI to "Windows Classic"! :-)

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Monday, February 05, 2007 - 4:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
that is so true Costa....and I'm thinking a lot of my users will most likely switch the vista style to Windows Classic as well...

Too bad...

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, February 05, 2007 - 5:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
What's gonna really stink? I'll be using BOTH Windows XP and Windows Vista. (As well as a Macintosh.) Ask me how confused I'm gonna be! :-)

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 4:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
HEY.. I switched my machine to the classic style in Vista, just for S&G....

..it is very familiar...but has very cool gui aspects...

Even the classic style is pretty!!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Which Vista edition are you using Kep?

My Vista Ultimate system is shipping out to me today. So far, I've only been using Vista Enterprise.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 11:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I'm so jealous of you Kep and Costa!!!! I want the pretty stuff!!!!

I feel like I'm the only one that WANTS Vista though....

Hey Costa, it would be even funnier if on your Mac, you started dual-booting Vista too. THEN track the confusion!!!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Ohgawdno! I hate Macs, and use it only under duress! (Really, to test the product to document it, and then to test the help once I've moved it over from my Windows laptop.) That Mac is staying "pure" as the driven snow, thankyouverymuch! ;)

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    


Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
Mama get to Lingo!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 7:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
For those of you interested, Microsoft has released their "official" list of Vista-compatible applications ( HERE). If you plan to move to Vista, be sure the apps you use are fully supported on the OS. Some of the main apps I use in my job are not (or you need to jump thru hoops to get the stuff installed).

Landi
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07-29-2002

Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
there's not a single adobe/macromedia product on it. well there goes my upgrading to vista. that's BS!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
LOL Landi. I've been having this discussion on the help authors list... Most Adobe products will "work" on Vista, but you have to do certain things in order to get 'em to work. I was a bit surprised to read how many issues there are with Adobe's products, since their products are so prevalent. I mean, I use Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Framemaker, and even RoboHelp (although the latter two are soon out the door). Adobe claims that all of their products will have updates to fully support Vista in the "first half of 2007." Needless to say, I'm a bit underwhelmed by their response.