Been outta sorts and offline the last couple, three days.

The solution to most of these problems, I'm sorry to say, is to dump Microsoft and its bloated, buggy, spaghetti code and move to a stable, reliable and virtually bug-free platform. Since I moved from Windows to Macintosh, I have never looked back. Take a look and you might be surprised at how simple, intuitive and easy to learn it is. Think different. ;)
 
Mr.BadExample said:
I use Mozilla browser and get no popups or adware junk. I reverted to Zonealarm 4.5 and things seem ok for now. Thanks for the oldversion.com link, that is a great site.
If you have trouble with Windows Media Player, I recommend "Media Player Classic" which is old version 6.4 with some new things added- kept as a lightweight program that only does what you tell it to...
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I just finished downloading the Firefox Browser at:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Based on the recommendation from Kim Komando's computer newsletter and I cannot believe the speed I now have. Its only about 4.8 MB's and OH_OH_OH it's sweet. Goodbye Internet Explorer I am gone!


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While getting a mac or linux "box" (macs arent really boxes) is a great way to avoid virii and other nasties, macs code is no more clean or secure than microsofts. There are simply much less people looking for the bugs, glitches, and holes in their software.
BTW how big is a OSX install? XP runs about 2 gigs and last time I played with linux (red hat and mandrake) it was a little over 2 gig. + 200 mb upgrade.
Routers are nice. Most allow you to open up specific ports very easily. I actually have a couple of programs that require me to open ports and once I actually read the help files with those programs that told me which ports to open I was set.
Mozilla programs are great. I was using their browser until I found opera and even then I was using their mail client for about a year. I recently found that they had just a mail client "thunderbird" for download and I love it. Along with IE, Outlook is commonly targeted by hackers and spyware. switching from them is easy enough as most others allow you to import bookmarks, mail, and contact lists.
 
The reason IE and Outlook are attacked is that they have the largest user base. Putting together an attack (of any sort) is a lot of work...why spend the effort to mess with a smaller group of targets?

You can set up a very secure system quite easily and fairly cheaply. The way it works is that you connect the router (wired or wireless, makes no difference) to your Internet Point of Presence (POP) - no matter if that is a dialup modem, cable modem, whatever. The attacker sees your POP (that's what it's there for and how you are seen to the web itself), then hits the router itself and hits a brick wall (properly configured). That's as far as they can get...and since a router is not a computer, there's nothing they can do to it (commonly, let's not worry about super hackers, they have better things to do than mess with your shopping lists). The router then essentially sets up it's own private network that you connect your computer to, away from all of the nonsense happening outside. This is basically what the government does at installations around the world.

This is what it looks like (stolen picture)
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So this is how computers come to reign and rule our lives. They make us angry and happy and we do not understand them.... wait - this sounds like a description of the typical female :D

Good to see you back online Yvsa!

Andreas
 
Sometimes having the latest patch isn't such a good thing. However, the latest patch may fix an exploit or bug in the program that needs to be there.

Dunno. :confused:
 
OK...those of you who understand the magic....

Is there a free photoeditor online somewhere?

My windows 98 had a neat one (I still have the disc, can I just down load that?)

The one that came with this Dell wants money to let me crop and mess with stuff.

I don't want to make dancing Bruises or anything, just crop and watercolor filter and stuff.

Thank you verymuch.


Kis
 
Kismet said:
OK...those of you who understand the magic.... Is there a free photoeditor online somewhere?

Kis
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Kis, I like this one. Blues turned me onto it many a moon ago and even with a low grade photshop I still use it once in a while.:D
I probably need to check for any updates myself as it's been awhile.:rolleyes:

http://www.irfanview.com/
 
not to hijack this thread, but I do also have some issues with the windows media player. it is not able to download new codecs for avi files. i have a file that i would like to watch, but unfortunately even with a different player it always lacks behind, like my computer was too slow. weird thing is, i can watch other avi's (or DVD's for that matter ) perfectly well, even with the same resolution. anyone has experience with that kinda stuff ?

thanks, keno
 
Other browsers are nice to have and routers. Great stuff! :D. When I'm not running Windows 98 and IE 5.0 I am usually running some version of Linux and hopefully soon Suns Solaris Unix OS. (Am getting a newer computer so this one will probably have Linux or Unix on it soon).

yoippari, a full install of Linux is around 2 to 4 GB because of all the Networking, developing and server software along with games that are installed. I used to run Slackware and used around 500MB of space. Running SUSE I use 500MB to 1GB. If you do selective installs you can get the size way down. That's just one of the many nice things about Linux. :D

Ever tried the BOS? I have BeOS 4.5 and 5.0. Way sweet. Small clean efficint OS. Installs in minutes and runs multimedia apps like no other. :D

Heber
 
I have heard of BeOS but never tried it. I have a 40 gig hard drive that is usually full to the limit (too many large games), so I dont have enough space to install a new OS right now. My mom's computer does have a 160 in it. She wont miss a partition ;). When I installed linux it was with a lot of the extra programs like C/C++ compilers and other goodies. I need the noob versions of linux since I have never really taken the time to figure out how to use it. I kept on getting hung up on trying to get decent drivers for my radeon 9500. At the time there wasn't any drivers that supported 3d for it.
Back on topic: router and alternative browser will save you hours of heartache and wasted time.
 
Kismet said:
I don't want to make dancing Bruises or anything, just crop and watercolor filter and stuff.
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In that case...

If you gots XP, the paint program allows you to do simple stuff like crop and adjust sizes.

Startmenu/all programs/accessories/paint
 
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