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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 6:33 am
Busy morning today. No, not plugged into same outlet. Fridge and "la machine" are almost back-to-back with wall in between. Cheap strip? Hmmmm. Don't really know. Don't remember where I got it. Is there a way to know? Say something on the strip?
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 7:26 am
Well, Bob, if you had told me about the 'frying' thing, uh, I would never have attempted to install it!!! Ack! Luckily, I guess, it did not. Cuz everything is really zipping along! (I did purchase one of those anti-static wrist things that Crucial offered online, too. As I am such a chicken and was afraid of killing the hard drive. And I used it, too.) The funny thing is, now that Ed finally landed a job (as of a week ago) and is OUT OF THE HOUSE (celebrating here!! Ha!) and out of my hair, he no longer has the need to use the computer. So, no, we haven't done the 'log off' 'log on' switching thing yet. (He will want to, eventually, but I just installed this last night.) I am THRILLED with the speed now. Everything loads quickly, multiple windows open in the wink of an eye, and even AVG runs faster! (Somehow, the setting for 2 a.m. got lost and it ran at 9 this morning; I'll just have to reset it.) No more donkey-like behavior from this computer! Guess I can stop cursing at it now, huh? If I were nearby, you'd be wearing a crown of laurels and eating some home-made oatmeal cookies! Thank you again, Bob! ETA: Oh, the stores nearby were charging double the price, which is why I went ahead and ordered it online, as you had suggested. Never even thought of Dell at that time, ttytt!
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 8:26 am
Colordeagua: If the outlets are exactly back-to-back on opposite sides of the wall, then they very likely share the same wiring. Even if they are close together there is a good chance they are on the same circuit. Builders always look for ways to save labor and money, and less/shorter conduit runs are one way of doing that. Did you ever live in a place where the lights dimmed whenever you ran the microwave? That would mean the lighting and the outlets were on the same circuit, which is not the best design. If you have been running with this setup for several years without problems, then you are probably fine. Post if it does it again, otherwise it looks like you are done.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 9:02 am
Yeah, it's possible the sockets the fridge and "la machine" are plugged into are back-to-back. I've been in here almost 23 years and first got a computer eleven years ago. Computer has always been plugged in / located in same place. Never have had a problem that I know of. Even though they're back-to-back, I think they could be on different circuits. I don't know what all the stuff in the circuit box is. Dad, where are you? (Long gone.) The building is all electric if that would matter -- for cooking and heat too. Sometimes it seems the building is a little touchy on the whole (or at least not just individual units) about electricity. How 'bout this . . . I'm in a one bedroom unit. Electric can go out in half of the unit and not the other (bedroom, bathroom, living room half and kitchen, dining room half). Not only me -- happens to others too. My funny story. We were on vacation in a strictly fishing resort cabin in Minnesota. NOTHING fancy. Had just heard a story about rats on TV. Heard a noise under my bed!! OMG!! "DAD. DAD. There's something under my bed?!" There was. It was a frog. Whew!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 7:08 am
How do I get rid of the old non-working monitor? Can I just put it in the garbage? I wouldn't think so? But then what? Village collects electronics once a year. Guess I could put it in a plastic bag and keep it in my indoor parking space until that happens. Anything else I can do with it?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 8:09 am
Contact your local dump and ask them where you can dispose of electronics. They'll know. I would NOT store it in a plastic bag; at the very least put it in a box that protects the thing from breaking.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 9:57 am
Color, check with your city's garbage collector company. They often have e-waste events advertised on their websites. I have a TV sitting in my storage unit waiting for the next e-waste event, LOL.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 2:12 pm
Reading about your electrical issues involving your p.c.s, I wonder what can be done to make my system more reliable. Our house was built in 1863, is virtually a pile of crumbling bricks and was wired in the 1930s and 1960s. Very little of the wiring is any newer than that, and we still have a 30 or 60Amp (?) fuse box in the laundry room (gas dryer; can't hook up my electric stack unit unless we get 100Amp service back there) and a 100Amp breaker box (I think) out on the enclosed back porch. Since you guys are just full of info, I would love to ask a few questions: 1. Whenever the gas furnace kicks on, the lights in the entire house dims and I lose my dial-up internet connection. The computer is on a separate circuit from the newer circuit breaker box, but this happens anyway. What can fix this? 2. The roof over the enclosed back porch leaks HORRIBLY, literally, and water pours in over electrical wires that run to the light switches that are located there. The areas of the worst leaks are a mere five feet or so from the circuit breaker box. How dangerous is this? 3. Does anyone know who will fix a slate roof these days? The roof is very steep and it leaks like a sieve over my son's bedroom and in the kitchen, too. 4. Oh, and there's a creepy scratchy noise in my son's bedroom ceiling and in the masonry wall next to the chimney in the kitchen. There are some sort of critters there, although I don't know if they're birds or rats. My son has been refusing to sleep in his room lately because he's scared! The five house cats have caught nothing bigger than a mouse in the past couple of months. Any idea how to trap these mystery creatures?
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 2:17 pm
Wanted to add that the washer changing cycles will also cause my dial-up internet connection to be disrupted, and I can spend HOURS just trying to read my e-mail because I can get disconnected dozens of times within an hour. I hate dial-up, but high-speed DSL is not an option where we live (too far from a switching station or whatever AT&T calls it) and satellite high-speed is horribly cost-prohibitive.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Sia, I won't address your concerns separately because I'm not an electrician...however, it sounds to me like you are in a firetrap. You need an electrician, and you need one NOW. Water and electrical wires touching should be all you need to see to know how dangerous this is!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, March 28, 2008 - 3:48 pm
Sia, what about cable? Also, it could be roof rats in the attic, you need to call an exterminator person who can help you run them out and then close the holes they slip through.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 6:28 am
What do they say about the cobbler's children having no shoes? My Daddy is a retired electrician. I haven't asked him to wire anything here at the farm since he survived kidney cancer two years ago, but I have had him wire some stuff at the cottage. Can't wait for spring so the kids and I can go there! It's much more pleasant than our farmhouse. As for holes, you couldn't stop up holes the size we have in our porch ceiling. It's stunning. If there is any up-side to all this, it's that we own the home and don't have a mortgage payment. With so people facing the prospect of foreclosure in the US, I feel lucky to have no house payment--and with DH not working since he fell down drunk and broke his leg, I'm glad to have a little of money in savings. Good news: he stopped drinking.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 10:15 am
Sia, it's called a central office (for DSL). You may want to check to see if you are still too far. Another option (and my father uses this one) is satellite. I think WildBlue.net is a very reasonable price for high speed connection and they are (mostly) satisfied with the service. For electricity, I dunno but I'm not sure I'd want to live in a home where there are so many problems. I'd be afraid of electrical fires or other Bad Things happening. Honestly, it doesn't sound like it's a safe place to live. To need to get it up to code. Fast.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 5:58 pm
That's the term, Costa: central office. We are not within 1000 feet. In fact, we live out in the country and nothing is close at all for AT&T (partnered with Yahoo! DSL) like I was able to get at the park last year for $19.99/month--in addition to paying for phone with AT&T. I think when I priced WildBlue it was $60 or $80 per month, and I just haven't been able to wrap my head around a payment that high for internet service. My Internet was $14.99/month for dial-up and is now $17.99, and I'm up in arms about that. I think they believe I still have Surf-Boost for the additional amount, yet I had to uninstall that when it made my firewall alert me constantly. The place is unsafe, but it belonged to my husband's grandparents, his mother grew up in this house and he spent a lot of time (and a lot of overnights) here as he grew up, too. We only kept 13 acres of the original 120 acres when the other heirs wanted to settle up the estate in '04, so we don't have much of value here to sell now. The house is appraised at $35,000 by the guy I had look at it when my m-i-l died. (DH was executor, but I had to do the work.)
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 6:57 pm
I can understand the sentimental value, but if the house is gonna burn down from an electrical fire, where's the sentimentality in that? I also understand it would be expensive to rewire the house, but goodness Sia!! At least fix the leaks so water doesn't pour down on exposed wiring!!! 
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Luvmom
Member
10-17-2000
| Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 8:30 am
Please!!!I need big help,quickly!!My DH started up the computer this morning and I had changed something in the startup window last night.So he got the sign telling him that.I stupidly forgot to tell him.He changed our setting to normal startup and everything went down hill from there.He was able to get on the internet but couldn't open the mail.Now we can't get on the internet,go into msconfig or into the system folder as well as other places.I went into safe mode and changed our startup back it didn't work.I also did a system restore to a couple of days ago and that didn't work.This is the sign I am getting, "Windows cannot access device,path or file.You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I am the administrator.I have windows XP.Can anybody help me?? Please!!!!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 7:35 pm
Dear Bob, I finally hit "send" to order my computer. Here it is exactly what I ordered except it doesn't say I ordered it to partition the HD into two equal ones, and also I ordered it with XP home for what I am used to. Since you giggled at me getting me getting a 400w power supply, I got a 550. No turning back, I already hit "Pay" on paypal. I hope I did ok.

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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 5:26 am
Bob, I accepted a freelance writing job (online) to create a business wiki name. What I did first was to learn what wiki was (before I bid on the job). As I did, I discovered this site called wikimatrix where many wikis are listed in alphabetical order. I suggested in my bid that I make a list of 'all' existing business wikis first so we did not duplicate names. So, I landed the job, but I am not educated enough (without reading every single word of description that is written in plain English) to separate out business wikis from all wikis. Course when the copy SAYS that, I'm fine. But when it doesn't, I'm not so sure. For example, so far, I've done a 'strikethrough' on the following wiki sites (on my list) as they APPEAR to be non-business types of wikis: @wiki bLADEwiki butor wiki canvaswiki daisywiki erfurtwiki flex wiki Friki Gazest GeboGebo Giki Groupswiki Ikewiki My question is this: Is there a term or descriptive line that will cue me which are and which are not business wikis? Bob, as you can see, I think you know everything. So I figure this is something you can pull out of your hat, too. I'm going to keep working and check back here. Thanks again!
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 5:27 am
Wow, loving the recommended free software list! (Click list link at top of page) That's new, right? How wonderful!!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 7:40 am
NOTE: Irfan is free ONLY for personal use. If you use it AT ALL for commercial purposes, even if you are using it for a picture on your Web site, you must pay the shareware price. Also last I heard, the ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall is no longer provided free While some of these state they are "free" it's worth your while to donate $$ so the developers can continue to develop the product. Finally, I STRONGLY think a caveat should be added that these are programs that some TVCH MEMBERS recommed and to use at your own risk.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 7:46 am
The list was last updated in March of 2006. We provided it to be helpful, and so people had one place to go to the things that were continually recommended in this thread; and they did not need to be continually reposted. There is a disclaimer at the top of this page, where the link to programs is listed. It says that the programs were recommended in THIS THREAD ("in here"), and that TVCH does not endorse or support these programs.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 9:05 am
I think it's better to say that I have an opinion on everything and I'm not afraid to try something and make corrections/adjustments as I go along. When asking for help in this thread, I think it is best to post the request without any specific name attached to it. Some people won't respond if they feel the request is directed to a specific person. Others don't care and will jump in anyway. When replying to a specific request, I will usually start with that persons name so they can find the responses more easily. I try to respond to different people with separate posts so their name shows up in new messages.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 9:11 am
Herckleperckle: I'm not really a "content" person. There are plenty of other people at TVCH who could probably better respond to your request. This may not be the best thread to reach those people. Maybe the "question thread" directly under General Discussions would reach more people who don't venture into this area.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 9:30 am
Thx, Bob. I think I solved it, anyway, cuz I found a site which identified each site listed by type. So I'm okay now. Good advice. I realized later I'd probably posted it in the wrong spot, but by that time I was buzzing along.

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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 9:45 am
I keep getting page errors when I try to check my yahoo mail. What I mean is that the page won't fully load and it will show the little caution sign in the corner and say "error on page" By the way I am using internet explorer, any help so I can read my mail would be great!
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