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Archive through May 25, 2003
Zachsmom | Monday, May 12, 2003 - 10:07 pm     Juju..what software do you use to burn your CDs? I've used Nero and it can be kind of confusing for a newbie. I use NTI FileCD 2000..it's very very simple to use and helps with the burn speed etc. Here is the website for a trial..go down to bottom where it says NTI FileCD If you like the software..I can burn you a copy and send it to you Let me know if you are interested! |
Draheid | Monday, May 12, 2003 - 10:09 pm     Juju: Yes, it is good to organize. Yes it is common when you're first starting out to 'flub' a burn. No, it shouldn't matter how big a folder is as long as you're comfortable with the layout. I think you mentioned that you're using Nero to burn your CDs with. Here is a screen cap from my copy of Nero where you select the speed:
Select the Burn tab then pull down the "Write Speed" window and select the appropriate speed for your disc. Also note, if you ever download image files, this is where you need to be sure to set it to "Disc At Once" since most burners won't support any other mode. However, some image files try to change that. This isn't a common problem, but I remembered fighting with that once so I thought I should point it out while it's here. Hope this helps. |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 - 01:37 pm     Zmom, and Dra, I have Nero software. Zmom, thanks for the tip. I'll try to get over there and check it out. Dra, for right now, I am just experimenting with saving my photos. For starters, I have never seen the screen above (that I know of). When I first started experimenting with saving my photos, I tried checking the box that says video/photos when it asked what type of file I wanted to save. That didn't seem to work, so I next checked Data, and that one seemed to work. I probably should spend more time trying to figure it out myself before I ask any more questions and waste people's time here. Thanks for the help so far. |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 10:41 pm     Zmom, I downloaded NTI FileCD but when I tried to use it, it said it did not detect a writing device or something like that. My instructions that came with the CD writer cautioned me (in fractured Engilsh [sic]) NOT to install another CD writing software. I did a bit more experimenting with Nero tonight and successfully wrote some pictures to a couple CD's as data. Yay! Progress. |
Zachsmom | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 10:58 pm     Well that stinks! LOL NTI FileCD is very easy to use..it's all drag and drop, push button and GO! YAY Juju for making progress!! Waa Hoo!!! |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 09:53 am     Draheid, I was just looking at the screencap you posted above. I still do not get that screen, but it brought up another question. I see there is a tab marked ISO. After I am done writing my disk and closing out, a dialog box pops up asking something like ISO___________? I think I chose Yes once and it gave me some options I did not understand (that has been days ago, I might understand them now), so I have been choosing No. What does ISO_________? mean? |
Draheid | Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 11:25 am     Juju: ISO is the acronym for International Organization of Standardization as seen at the ISO Website- As you can see at their What is ISO page, they coordinate the ability for everyone to have access to information in a standardized form. The specific ISO standard for CD-ROMs is known as ISO-9660, the definition of the volume and file format which will be compatible with any machine which support the format which is pretty much every optical disc reader avalable today. Here is their definition:Abstract Specifies the volume and file structure of compact read-only optical disks (CD-ROM) for the information interchange between information processing systems. Defines: the attributes of the volume and the descriptors recorded on it; the relationship among volumes of a volume set; the placement of files; the attributes of the files; recorded structures intended for input or output data streams of an application program when required to be organized as sets of records; three nested levels of medium interchange; two nested levels of implementation; requirements for the processes provided within information processing systems. I know, probably TMI. Basically it's just a setting that makes your discs readable on any other machine with a CD-ROM installed. I would have to guess you're seeing a box asking you to change the default setting which you do NOT want to do so answering No is most likely the correct response. |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 02:43 pm     Thanks, Dra. |
Halfunit | Saturday, May 17, 2003 - 06:18 pm     On the lighter side.... For all of those who experience computer problems on occasion, at least the monkeys can't figure them out yet!! LONDON (May 9) - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess. Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word. ``They pressed a lot of S's,'' researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. ``Obviously, English isn't their first language.'' In a project intended more as performance art than scientific experiment, faculty and students in the university's media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques. Then, they waited. At first, said Phillips, ``the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it. (Who hasn't been there at one point?) ``Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard,'' (I've spilled water, but that's it - I swear!!) added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies. Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in. The notion that monkeys typing at random will eventually produce literature is often attributed to Thomas Huxley, a 19th-century scientist who supported Charles Darwin's theories of evolution. Mathematicians have also used it to illustrate concepts of chance. The Plymouth experiment was funded by England's Arts Council and part of the Vivaria Project, which plans to install computers in zoos across Europe to study differences between animal and artificial life. Phillips said the results showed that monkeys ``are not random generators. They're more complex than that. ``They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there.'' 05/09/03 12:52 EDT Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. |
Sia | Saturday, May 17, 2003 - 09:18 pm     Half, if I had big enough cajones, I'd apply for a research grant to study something like monkeys producing great works of fiction with a typewriter, LOL! |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 07:57 pm     Okay, who can tell me what I have done to my Winzip that it no longer shows me images like it used to? It must just be a setting, but darned if I can remember doing it, lol. Let's take for example the stopsmoking archives that Dra put in the quit smoking thread, and I downloaded them today. At some time previously, maybe a year or more ago, I downloaded the archives of Game2 from this site. I looked at them briefly a year or so ago, and they looked just like they do when I am looking at the board right now. I just clicked on the file, and it looked exactly like the tvch screens look. Today, when I downloaded the quitsmoking archive and unzipped it, when I click on it, it looks like this:
So I went to my old Game2 unzipped file to compare and it now looks like that too!!! Ack! I know it is probably simple, but I sure don't remember changing anything. |
Draheid | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 09:35 pm     Juju, you have to extract the files to a folder (such as \Archive) then open the index.html file in your browser and it should look similar to the board. The file I created is NOT an 'official' archive so it's not 100% exactly the same as other archives on the board. I was just trying to get the information to Daisymae in a form she could read and print out if she chooses. Your screen cap looks exactly how my Winzip screen has always looked as far as I can remember. I hope that helps. |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:52 pm     Okay, so let's say from the screen above, I choose Extract and I extract the files to C:\My Download Files. I do not understand the terminology "open the index.html file in your browser." Where am I when I open the index.html file? In Internet Explorer? In My Download Files? I am also completely baffled as to how I opened the tvch game and game2 files that I downloaded a year ago and unzipped, and they worked perfectly fine. Wait a minute. I just found them in a file in C:\unzipped, and there are both the zip files and neat little folders in there labeled game and game2. Winzip did that for me, I am sure. I did not ever see the above screen when I unzipped those. I just unzipped them, and Winzip put them in those files. I guess I want Winzip to do the same thing now, and it is not doing it. LOL. |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:58 pm     I might have figured it out. From the above screen I tried clicking on Wizard, and it took me to a Winzip configuration screen which let me select using the Wizard and gave me the option to use the Wizard next time. I think that is the setting I am asking about. I used the Wizard before, so I never saw the very colorful screen above, and the Wizard did those neat little things for me. I will mess with it some more tomorrow. |
Bob2112 | Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 11:19 pm     Dawg, I think you got it. You were running in Wizard Mode before as a default startup and now you were running in Classic Mode. I may be running an older version of WinZip than you, but I found the check box under Options->Configuration... and it was called "Next Time Start With Wizard Interface". If you are running in classic mode, you can switch to Wizard Mode by clicking the last button which is labeled Wizard. If you are in the Wizard and want to switch back to Classic Mode, click the WinZip Classic button. |
Whoami | Friday, May 23, 2003 - 12:34 am     I have a hotmail account that I rarely use. I have NEVER given it out except to a couple of family memebers. I am flooded with disgusting porn spam. Things with all sorts of offensive stuff even in the subject line. The subject lines alone make my blood curl (I don't open any of them, just hit delete, delete, delete...). I heard advice (probably here) that if you block it, it just lets the sender know they got an active account. The standard junk mail filter doesn't get it, and I heitate using the enhanced, cause all those filters do is put it in another folder to read and make sure you didn't get something else (a real mail) in there by mistake. I don't want this junk in ANY folders. I tried e-mailing Hotmail and they just sent a form letter back saying they can't do anything unless it comes from another Hotmail account. Am I SOL? Shall I just delete my Hotmail account? Is this a typical assault on Hotmail? Is there a good free e-mail account out there? I have one on iWon, and Excite too. Maybe I should just go with those. |
Hermione69 | Friday, May 23, 2003 - 04:23 am     I remember from BB3 that some people downloaded the archives from the entire season. Is there a way to do that for a thread? I really want to download the Clay Aiken Fan Club thread before it gets shelved. It is climbing up towards 1000 posts! Whoami, I have a Yahoo account and don't get too much of those spams or porn emails. In fact, I rarely check this account and when I do I am always surprised at just how little spam I have received! Have you given them a whirl yet? Maybe what happened in the first place is a "cookie" with your email was sent to some perfectly inncocent site that you visited, but your email was then forwarded to all sorts of unsavory places and businesses. Anyone know if this can actually happen? I seem to remember reading somewhere that it can. |
Sia | Friday, May 23, 2003 - 04:32 am     Whoami, does Hotmail have a specific filter protocol you can go into in order to itemize things that you want sent to the "delete" file before you ever see them? I mean the filter set-up that lets you define a bunch of if/then situations, for example, "If Sender/From/Header/Subject contains Viagra/P*nis/S@x then delete message." I'm sure some folks who are more computer-literate than I am can give you better and more specific instructions. |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, May 23, 2003 - 08:55 am     Spongie, I haven't had the opportunity to look at it again, but that's got to be it. I certainly was not a sophisticated enough user a year ago to figure out how to open index.html files, so it had to be something real simple. Whoami, in my experience, Hotmail seems to be worse than others at attracting Spam. I have had to abandon Hotmail accounts because of overwhelming spam. I just open another in its place. And I intend to abandon it if it gets spam-laden. |
Froggiegirl621 | Friday, May 23, 2003 - 10:54 am     I have two Hotmail accounts and one Yahoo account. I get LESS mail in both Hotmail accounts than I do in my one Yahoo account! If and when I get spam in Hotmail I do use the block feature, and more often than not it works! Now with Yahoo, it's another story...no matter how much I try to "block" or change the filter settings I keep getting spam (mostly porn)! I've just gotten used to it, and now I just go into Yahoo about once a week and delete everything without even reading the subject lines. I love Hotmail and wouldn't be without it! |
Myjohnhenry | Friday, May 23, 2003 - 12:06 pm     I get tons more spam on my Yahoo account than I do on my Hotmail account...probably because of the way I have used them as I use the Yahoo one more for registering for things. The filters on Yahoo seem to be pretty worthless as far as I can tell although it does seem that finally I have most of the spam going to the bulk mail folder though. Of course the spammers get smarter all the time too with slight little changes in the address to overcome the block. I have recently discovered another portal that I really like...better than others like Yahoo. It is MYWAY.COM. I like the personal page options, it has a cool toolbar (I have one click buttons for favorite sites, plus the features it automatically comes with), and so far I have received no spam in the email box.  |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, May 23, 2003 - 10:13 pm     MJH, thanks for the myway tip. I opened an account with them today. Like I really needed another e-mail account, lol. I should also mention I have had one Hotmail account for three years and don't get spam in it. But another one I opened around the same time got nothing but spam. And, of course, the reason I have these other accounts is so that I can be less guarded with how I use them, just in CASE my use of them is going to cause me to get spam. For example, I might allow Amtrak and Southwest Airlines to have my real e-mail address to send me ticket confirmations, but I am not going to enter a sweepstakes at bozos.com using my real address. |
Hootyhoot | Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 08:10 am     I am trying to set up Outlook Express on my Imac. I can't seem to figure out how to make separate accounts, so that my daughter's mail will be separate from my mail. I seem to have created three accounts but the mail all ends up in the same place. Any hints for me? |
Sia | Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 10:39 am     Hootyhoot, I have a p.c., not a Macintosh, but I would think that Outlook Express would work about the same way for both. In OE you can have things go to different folders; is that what you mean? My ISP lets me designate as many as five different folders for incoming mail for different recipients in the family, although I've never used that feature. I'm sorry I'm not much help, but I didn't want you to think that no one had read your message. Hopefully, somebody here who can really help will post you an answer quickly. |
Grannyg | Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 12:31 pm     . dang . |
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