Grooch | Monday, May 14, 2001 - 10:42 am  Thanks Gail! I am enjoying it, when I can get my husband off it! LOL! Funny you should mention the monitor. I went and turned it on this morning before leaving for work, and I couldn't get it to turn on. I was in a rush so I didn't really get a chance to look at it. Hmmmm. |
Gail | Monday, May 14, 2001 - 11:02 am  It might have just been sleeping. Most computers come with a powersave feature already activated. Whe you leave the computer idle for a while (30 minutes or more depending on the setting) the monitor (and sometimes the computer) go to sleep mode. Possibly the computer was sleeping and the monitor was on but in sleep mode. To wake up, sometimes you need to move the mouse or push a key on the keyboard. If it doesn't work, just ship it to me and I will test it out for a year or 2. |
Moondance | Wednesday, May 16, 2001 - 06:45 pm  Whoohoo I just got my cable modem hooked up and I am out of control... it is soooo fast! |
Gail | Wednesday, May 16, 2001 - 07:16 pm  Congratulations Moon!! I got Sprint Broadband back in November. I love the speed. For the record, I would not recommend Sprint Broadband to anyone. Very unreliable. But, when it works it is great! (and in case anyone from the grouching thread is reading - YES - I have complained a bunch of times!) |
Tess | Wednesday, May 16, 2001 - 09:21 pm  LOL Gail |
Moondance | Wednesday, May 16, 2001 - 09:25 pm  Thanks Gail... it is fabulous! This would have helped playing in the Game 1  |
Ocean_Islands | Thursday, May 17, 2001 - 06:42 am  Congrats Moon! It is great to have a cable modem. Mine is finally restored after being out for four weeks. I complained and got two months free! But now I'm off on vacation and will probably be off line. |
Grooch | Thursday, May 17, 2001 - 05:18 pm  Moon, Congrats on cable. I have that at work and now at home I have the phone line. I feel like I'm in the dark ages at home. When I bought this computer. I got a free year of internet. I assumed it meant through the phoneline. Now I'm thinking, could it be free cable internet? What do you guys think? When your standing outside a huge appliance store after being attacked by salespeople, and you're talking on a payphone, being grossed out by what germs could be on it, it's hard to think straight. (Hey, I'm making my own perpetual sentence here.) |
Moondance | Thursday, May 17, 2001 - 05:21 pm  LOL Grooch! Thanks... it is like night and day! Have a wonderful time Ocean! |
Gail | Thursday, May 17, 2001 - 06:15 pm  Grooch, I think free internet just gives you access to a free internet service provider - like for some lucky folks, they get free AOL for a year with their computer. How they get to AOL is up to them - be it phone line or cable modem or whatever. |
Grooch | Thursday, May 17, 2001 - 06:21 pm  Oh, so then my cable company can charge me extra then for the service. I see, it's a racquet. Thanks, I don't feel so bad now. (But my phone company better not be charging me extra!) |
Nancy | Thursday, May 17, 2001 - 06:25 pm  grooch--nope only if its a long distance call ;-) |
Gail | Thursday, May 17, 2001 - 06:28 pm  Grooch - the way I am doing it is - I have had AOL since about 1993 and was not willing to give it up. I got my Sprint Broadband in Novemeber and it came with Earthlink for $45 a month. I am still paying for my AOL even though I access it with my cable modem. Before my cable modem, I accessed the internet with my company's dial in connection which was free. I did not use AOL phones lines but I still had to pay to keep my aol email, etc. |
Nancy | Friday, May 18, 2001 - 05:53 pm  humm milk in laptop computer keyboards does not bode well...sighhh ;( back to the BIG machine for a bit..my laptop makes me type like this.. sdsappy dfay to y78ou(or close to that LOL) |
Tess | Friday, May 18, 2001 - 06:17 pm  Oh, dear Nancy--I think you need more than just one little hug from me today! Saturday will be much better---I'm sure!! |
Grooch | Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 05:15 pm  Hi Gail, I am going to post this here, but then I will try to send you an email asking the same thing. Can you rename this thread Computer Questions. I think it would be more appropriate and this way people may feel more comfortable asking if they have any. I saw that you put a tip here one time, and I am sure many people would appreciate more tips (like me). Right now, after having the computer for a week, I am working on getting my email set up to work. It would not have been so hard, but I needed to call the company (and time), and the hardest part was finding the phone # to call. After that it was a one minute problem. Anyway, thanks. |
Grooch | Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 05:19 pm  I just got my email to work. The problem was that it was originally set up to run from the computer, but with my internet server, it is a web-based email. I was wondering what you guys thought of a web-based email. Is it safe, or is it very easy to be hacked into or get viruses? Interested in your opinions from a person who downloaded a file from a newspaper and had their credit card ripped off for $1.98. |
Zeb | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 07:55 am  Never signup for any service that asks you for a credit card number if you don't intend to be charged for something...including breathing while you're on their website. |
Dilligaf | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 08:01 am  Zeb is BACK!!!!!!!!! Man, that was a long vacation. Let me know when you're done reading all the stuff posted under Big Brother. Would love to hear your take on some of the BS that has happened.....LOL |
Grooch | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 08:26 am  Once again, when I write something I don't make it clear. The newspaer charged me $1.98 for the article I downloaded. I knew about that, the article was archived. What I didn't expect was a phone call from my credit card company asking me if I had visited any casinos recently. Someone had ripped off my credit card from the "secure" newspaper internet site and had tried to use it on some gambling internet sites and tried to get cash advances at some real casinos. I was lucky because they had gotten the wrong expiration date, so no charges ever went through. This was a credit card that I hadn't used in almost a year, so I am certain this is where the # was ripped off from. The lady at the cc company was laughing at me because $1.98 was the smallest amount anyone got screwed over for. She also told me that there really are no secure websites concerning cc's and it is giving the cc industry some huge headaches. Needless to say, that was the first and the last time I will ever order over the internet. |
Kady | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 11:44 am  I have Road Runner cable service through my local cable company which is Time Warner. I remember when I first got it, boy it seemed fast. Now I am so used to it, it seems slow. I am now having flashbacks to the old dial up days. Yuck!!! Grooch, I have ordered things over the internet and never had a problem. Your post reminds me that I need to be careful with whom I am dealing with. A person can never be too careful.  |
Debi4514 | Monday, June 11, 2001 - 03:22 pm  Help! Big Bro is just around the corner, and i am stuck with web t.v.! I really want to get the live feeds, so I need a puter, but I have no idea what to get, and not a lot of $$ to spend, maybe even something used??? anyone out there have some advice? Thanks! |
Ryn | Monday, June 11, 2001 - 03:27 pm  If the most demanding thing you want out of your PC is Real Video feeds, then I would suggest almost any Pentium class USED system and a 56 K modem (you aren't gonna be able to get any faster connection than that in a short time). It all depends on how much you do have to spend and how comfortable you are setting up a system. good luck |
Moondance | Monday, June 11, 2001 - 03:28 pm  I know I will get bagged with this but they have wonderful imacs you can get for $799.... You can also go to any computer store and they usually have used or refurbished ones for cheap |
Kady | Monday, June 11, 2001 - 04:09 pm  Moon...you will have Karuuna here to back you up I'm sure. She sure makes an Imac sound good. If I didn't have the cash, I have seen nice systems for very low monthly payments. I don't know details about computers. Heck I can't even tell ya what I got. My hubby bought it and showed me how to operate it. We have a perfectly fine computer in the bedroom but he wanted something bigger, better and faster. |