I really hate computers

[LordBrain515]

After a long period of having a non-functional computer, I have returned. I have absolutely no idea why it wasn't working...but it's all better now. I have to get use to typing again. It's been over a week since I've typed anything, although I've gone for longer....

[FaeLuna]

Welcome back LordBrain!!! Sorry your computer flipped out on you, glad it got mysteriously better though!! Just take it slow on the typing and you'll get the hang of it again... I get sore when I type too much after I've been away from computers for a while!! I guess my finger muscles get all "flabby" haha!

[Helén]

Welcome back James. :classic:

I think that is your name after that Josh has said it and it's your signature as well.

I'm looking forward to get to know you too.. :classic:

[ManagerJosh]

Originally posted by LordBrain515
After a long period of having a non-functional computer, I have returned. I have absolutely no idea why it wasn't working...but it's all better now. I have to get use to typing again. It's been over a week since I've typed anything, although I've gone for longer....

Glad Your Back James!! :)
Better get started now on post catching up....lots of people passed you :p

[timz2rules]

welcome back lordbrain!

[Helén]

Time to close this one??

[FaeLuna]

yep, although it looked like it had died out "naturally" ;)

[PhilipTarbuck]

I think we ought to create a club for people who hate computers - but can't live without them.

[Helén]

Lol Philip. :laugh: Good idea!

[Bryan]

lol...can I be the crazy dude?

[Helén]

Lol Bryan. I think you already named yourself that . ;)

[timz2rules]

Bryan is crazy....but then again...so is his partner in crime ;)

[Helén]

Lol Tim.
Heh somehow I do agree. But you are nicely crazy.. ;)

*thinks she's crazy too*

[PhilipTarbuck]

I was just about to post my comments when my computer decided that I had not been my usual cheerful self this morning and so it decided to pull the plug. It 'stuck' and I had to go out of it and back in again - twice!! Control+Alt+Delete does not work under those circumstances.
How can you not hate the computer under such circumstances? At the same time you have to live with it - I have no alternative because I play too many games and because I type. I love typing - it is about the only thing that I do really well, except that on some occasions, I have noticed, that I do not type perfectly.
I think a club for people who hate and also love computers would be quite popular. I would think everyone (almost) would want to be a member.

[timz2rules]

because computers just don't work with certain things installed and running on them.... o 0 (now if only next summer i can design a repair program for the computer...and if it works...even better...)

[FaeLuna]

ooh yes, you can work and learn how to make a program to solve ALL our computer troubles tim!!! ;) :D

[lewdini]

Great idea Timz!!!

[Droz]

Fae: I've found three programs that when used together, very effectively do that. I use ZoneAlarm to keep people from messing up my computer, Lavasoft Ad-Aware to get rid of them if they get in, and Norton AntiVirus to get the stuff I inadvertantly let in. That leave only the problems that I create and, luckily, they fix most of those too (mainly Norton does). Lavasoft Ad-Aware is free at www.download.com, and the others are commercially available, but if you don't feel like paying for them, they're available other ways too.

[FaeLuna]

We DID have zone alarm installed and running... but when we changed operating systems to win xp pro and it turned out to have a built in firewall that messed up how we had it and we haven't figured how to reinstall it and make it run again yet... actually it's still installed on the OTHER hard drive that doesn't have the operating system on it... I've heard good things about the ad-aware program. I'll have to look into that. We've got Norton Antivirus up and running at least! ;) :D

[Helén]

*Nods in agreement with Droz*

We have a firewll built into the router. Then it's Norton Antivirus always running in the back plus is scheduled for a thourough search once a week, plus it notify me when there is upgrades to get. On top I can start up Zone alarm as well. I can really recommend zonealarm Fae.
Now I also have Ab-adware too. So I do feel pretty safe. :classic:

I don't either use Outlook as mailprogram at all - it's thrown out. I use Agent Forté but I know there are other programs as well. Outlook is the most vulnerable for viruses as far as I'm told. Simply because most viruses are written to go into mail that opens by Outlook.:classic:

[PhilipTarbuck]

I used to have a computer that was completely (I mean completely) reliable. You never lost anything - largely because the computer itself did not have a memory. There were very few hard discs and 10 GB was a great big magical figure. There was very little software and virtually no internet. You kept the programme you were running on a small 3 and a half inch floppy inserted into one drive and the disc you were writing on in the other drive. There were no scanners, cameras, etc, etc, etc. Nothing ever went wrong. It never crashed and I am sorry, now, that I ever got rid of it.
That is life. I suppose I will have to put up with the beast in my room that thinks it is a computer.
I am having a few teeth pulled. I am having the CD-RW and the DVD drive both removed and replaced by a 'simple' CD-ROM. I hope that that my reduce a bit on the things that can go wrong.

[FaeLuna]

heh I don't believe that ANYTHING that involves humans working with it is COMPLETELY reliable!! ;) I remember my dad telling me about his friends at NASA that had all their computer punch cards lined up right to run their program when it was their turn on the computer, and they tripped and DROPPED the whole box and had to rearrange them ALL OVER again!! aaah!!! Did you ever work with the punch cards? I used to color on the old punch cards my dad had around, I thought they were cool..... :p I guess they weren't for home computers though....

[lewdini]

punch cards? what are they?

[FaeLuna]

Punch cards were how they ran programs through the really OLD computers that were about the size of rooms... I think it was binary, so if a hole was punched it was either positive or negative, and an unpunched space was the opposite. They would feed the cards into the machine, and it would read them in the order fed into them, and that would tell the computer what to do.... I think it was mainly doing calculations. I don't think there were ANY word proccessing applications!! :p :D

[Helén]

Yes Fae you're basically right. My first computer didn't even have 3½ inch discs. They were truelly "floppy" and in the size of 5 1/4 inches. I still have such drive and games to it. The very first PC's had 2 such floppys. One with the peratingsystem and one with the program. No HDD at all. My first 286 had 20 mb HDD and a 12 mhz processor. wich was a real WOW at the time. It had CGA graphics as well. A lil bit later EGA graphics and 16 colours came. Well what else is there to say? Other than : DOS were the days.

[FaeLuna]

aaah hahahahahaaaaaHEEHEEHEEHAHAAAAAHAHAHAAAaaaaa.... gasp! oh I love the PUN Nina!!! heeheehee.... *tears of laughter* :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[lewdini]

Ah...the days of floppy

[alapokeygirl]

I got my first computer as a gift from my father-in-law back in 1993. We had DOS games and a few other windows games. I am now on my third computer! It is a lot of trouble to keep things up and running! Mostly things like getting the settings that you want with the internet servers.

[PhilipTarbuck]

I heard a story about a big firm that was putting in a quotation to get a particular job. They had attorneys (solicitors); etc., etc., with them. They were, naturally working on a computer. Someone asked for coffee so a solicitor (it must have been U.K.) said that he would get some. As he got up he tripped over the mains lead and, naturally, the computer crashed. There was no back up and no saved copies.
My computer now does that for me without my asking.
Really - my first Apricot computer really was reliable. It never ever went wrong. Why on earth did I ever get rid of it?

[lewdini]

probably because it was outdated?