British or English :-)
Martin
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Bored Borg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:19:38 +0000, Nova wrote
>> (in article <[email protected]>):
>>
>>> In the lower portion of the windows under "Language" select
>>> "English (United States)"
>> shouldn't that be English OR United States ??
>>
>> (ducks timidly and sneaks out in the confusion)
>
>
> "... In America, they haven't spoken it for years!"
> --- Prof. 'Enry 'Iggins (My Fair Lady)
>
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:37:44 +0000, cm wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):
> I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my NG's. I
> think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I switch to
> engrish?
>
> cm
>
>
It's Microsoft. The simplest solution would be to sell up, move to France and
learn to live with the language.
Seriously though, ditch the Outlook and replace it with something that will
make usenet a comfortable experience - maybe on of the Agent series or..
anything really.
I don't know the current incarnation of Outlook, but all of then so far have
been virus magnets, if only for the default configuration. I keep separate
e-mail addresses for writing to known Outlook users because I _know_ that
once my address goes into an Outlook address book, it will only be a matter
of time before I get assailed with spam from the Trojans and encapsulated
nasties that will have sucked off my details from the recipient's system and
broadcast it God-knows-where.
If you don't know how to change the dictionary defaults then you'll certainly
not have set things up to make you immune from the timebomb you're using.
Ditch it, please.
Sorry that wasn't apparently much direct help and I'll probably start some
kind of war on her, but my intention isn't to be troll provocateur, it's to
advise you from direct experience and try and make things easier in the long
term.
Years ago, MS dictionaries had to be dragged into the active, executable
directory. There's probably some gaily animated icon thingie to do it now....
More MS savvy users than me will surely tell you what it is you think you
need to know :-)
er... I accept I may have a personal bias here.
--BB (Mac user since 1986)
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:15:55 +0000, J. Clarke wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):
> Years ago you had to start Rolls-Royces with a hand crank after
> manually presetting the ignition timing too, so I guess that that's a
> reason for somebody who's driving around in a new Phantom to sell it.
>
>
Surely one gets one's manservant to do these things?
I believe the new Phantom has a switch to start the engine - it's a bell push
which alerts one's footman of the need to reprime and hand crank the power
producifier.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:19:38 +0000, Nova wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):
> In the lower portion of the windows under "Language" select
> "English (United States)"
shouldn't that be English OR United States ??
(ducks timidly and sneaks out in the confusion)
> I have 5 Macs. The oldest a G-3 (B&W) which is my mail server and
> printer manager.
>
> (Since '84. 128K of whopping RAM and an outboard.....wait for
> it.....external floppy.)
A Lisa? All Hail the in at the groundfloor user!!! My first was a Plus - IMb
of memory eventually upgraded to 4MB with 4 simms at £100 each and a 20Mb
external Rodime that was the envy of everyone on the block.. Cost about a
year's salary, I think. Screen was black and white, of course. No greys, just
black and white, about 7 inches across.. Fantastically easy to read, which
may surprise anyone who never used one.
Now got a G5 (my main machine), G4 for mail and music mounted alongside,
running about fifteen hard drives between them, then there's two 7100s, three
LCs (in loft somewhere) a Translucent iMac for the kid and a Performa as a
print server
Incidentally, the best word processor I ever used was Word 4 which ran on the
Plus, LCs and 7100s. Accurate wysywyg, fantastic tools including spell
checkers for most languages (no grammar checker) which did EVERYTHING one
could ever want in a word processor. It didn't pretend to be a magazine
layout program and it wasn't bogged down with drawing modules or the travesty
of an HTML editor which subsequent releases enabled untutored users to spew
bastardized proprietory tagged and unreadable non-standard mark-up all over
the internet. It had industrial-strength mail merge capabilities and was
fast, even with a formatted 1000 page document. Glorious software. Compare
that with the current Office.. which takes about 20 times longer to load,
runs at about 1/2 the screen speed , has about 1/3 of the screen taken up
with unintelligible icons, won't read documents produced with its own earlier
versions and requires infinite disc space to run along and STILL chokes on
long documents.. Yep, Word 4 would fit on a 720k floppy, along with the
operating system and enough document space to process and format a King James
Bible or two.
Progress?
Yeah, we've got coloured dancing icons now...
Think I'll go and make some sawdust...
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 06:14:27 +0000, cm wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):
> Thanks guys. The only choice is French, Damn, no engrish. I'll try a third
> party
There was a good one down our street last week but it was mainly reggae music
and Red Stripe. There was nothing but Bordeaux at the two earlier, though...
Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in
news:f34434f8-7898-4bdf-8639-7dd36df29d92@t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
> On Dec 4, 6:02 pm, Puckdropper <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny, I've been able to get my Mac to crash a few times. Usually
>> what happens is the application all of a sudden goes away. At least
>> with Windows I get an error message that lets me guess at the cause.
>
> In all fairness, I do not consider myself an average Mac user. I'm
> pretty comfortable with the platform.
>>
>> Maybe I'm just trying to be too PC with my Mac.
>>
> PC... as in Politically Correct? *G*
>
lol... no. PC as in Personal Computer. Instead of getting most my
stuff from Apple or an Apple-friendly dealer, I do strange things like
run open source software or find the OS X drivers for hardware.
I'm definately note your average computer user.
Puckdropper
--
On Usenet, no one can hear you laugh. That's a good thing, though, as
some writers are incorrigible.
To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm
"J. Clarke" wrote
> cm wrote:
>> I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my
>> NG's. I think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I
>> switch to engrish?
>
> I don't think they have one for engrish (I assume you mean the
> language discussed at http://www.engrish.com/). Now if English comes
> close enough for your needs it should be tools/options/spelling.
>
Actually, on my copy of Outlook Express, the desired menu selection would be
tools/options/read/international settings.
Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:a91abca6-3e85-49c0-9b7c-
[email protected]:
*snip*
>
> I do have a 1 TB LaCie external, which backs up my office Mac and
> MacBookPro automatically through Time Machine, and I partitioned it
> off to take total back-ups from my Compaq. So my ass is covered.
Backing up nowadays is getting to be so cheap and easy to do it's almost
harder NOT to do it. I put a second drive in my Mom's machine to back up
her data just in case the primary one failed (again.)
> In short, Vista is sortakinda better than I thought. XP-Pro has yet to
> crash and I have been mucking with it on my Mac and it is a a LOT
> faster than my Compaq with Vista, even though the Compaq has a higher
> clock-speed. Could be that my Mac has a video card which unloads the
> two monitors from the CPU.
Cheap machines often have integrated video cards that share system RAM.
That might account for quite a bit of your feel. It doesn't help that
Vista is ahead of the technology curve, either.
> But don't get me going on 'feel' and 7 years without a system crash,
> virus, spyware or other such horror stories. Because when it comes to
> my Macs...."from these cold dead hands"
>
Funny, I've been able to get my Mac to crash a few times. Usually what
happens is the application all of a sudden goes away. At least with
Windows I get an error message that lets me guess at the cause.
Maybe I'm just trying to be too PC with my Mac.
Puckdropper
--
For the record: This post was made without spell checking at all.
To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm
On Dec 1, 8:45=A0pm, "J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Larry C wrote:
> > "Bored Borg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:19:38 +0000, Nova wrote
> >> (in article <[email protected]>):
>
> >>> In the lower portion of the windows under "Language" select
> >>> "English (United States)"
>
> >> shouldn't that be English OR United States ??
>
> >> (ducks timidly and sneaks out in the confusion)
>
> > CM
>
> > It is a known issue with Outlook Express. =A0If you Google Outlook and
> > spell check and French you will see you are not alone. =A0Most of the
> > fixes involve a 3rd party spell check. =A0I don't think MS has
> > released
> > a fix yet.
>
> The fix is called "Vista".
>
> --
> --
> --John
> to email, dial "usenet" and validate
> (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
On Dec 2, 7:07=A0am, Bored Borg <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 06:14:27 +0000, cm wrote
> (in article <[email protected]>):
>
> > Thanks guys. The only choice is French, Damn, no engrish. I'll try a th=
ird
> > party
>
> There was a good one down our street last week but it was mainly reggae m=
usic
> and Red Stripe. There was nothing but Bordeaux at the two earlier, though=
...
Thanks, dammit. I now have 10cc's Dreadlock Holiday in my head...
(Of course, that's not the 10cc from the early days..one of the most
brilliant bands of the 70's. Unsung giants)
"Don't like Jamaica... oh noo, I love her..uhhh"
*reaches for the phone..there has GOT to be a deal on a flight...*
On Dec 2, 6:43=A0am, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
> [email protected]:
>
> > Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>
> Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely (Vista
> Home Basic). =A0Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD reader/CD riter wi=
th
> DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo T7200 (~$170). =A0
> Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista SP2 installed. =A0My =
time
> was mine to do with what I wanted ..........
>
> --
> Best regards
> Han
> email address is invalid
I bought a laptop (HP) just to run G-code to my CNC. I had to play
with it to try to find out what all the hubbub was about Vista.
I already had XP-Pro installed on my Mac (Really easy to do under
LeopardOS)
I didn't find XP all that hard to work with, has yet to crash.
Vista on the HP, however, is a slug. It is trying too damned hard to
be cute, just too much lipstick. Turning off all that pageantry-style
plastic glam, helped a little bit.
I know, I know, a Timex keeps time just as well as a Rolex... but I'd
rather have the Rolex. Call me silly.
These days, there isn't as much difference as there used to be between
Mac and MS, thanks to what Bill Gates seems to do best: steal ideas.
But I have gone toe-to-toe too many times with Windoze proponents to
want any more of that interaction. So I'll call it quits right here
and now. As long as we're all getting the job done, who cares?
r
On Dec 1, 9:52=A0am, Bored Borg <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:37:44 +0000, cm wrote
> (in article <[email protected]>):
>
> > I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my NG's=
. I
> > think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I switch to
> > engrish?
>
> > cm
>
> It's Microsoft. The simplest solution would be to sell up, move to France=
and
> learn to live with the language.
>
> Seriously though, ditch the Outlook and replace it with something that wi=
ll
> make usenet a comfortable experience - maybe on of the Agent series or..
> anything really.
>
> I don't know the current incarnation of Outlook, but all of then so far h=
ave
> been virus magnets, if only for the default configuration. I keep separat=
e
> e-mail addresses for writing to known Outlook users because I _know_ that
> once my address goes into an Outlook address book, it will only be a matt=
er
> of time before I get assailed with spam from the Trojans and encapsulated
> nasties that will have sucked off my details from the recipient's system =
and
> broadcast it God-knows-where.
>
> If you don't know how to change the dictionary defaults then you'll certa=
inly
> not have set things up to make you immune from the timebomb you're using.
> Ditch it, please.
>
> Sorry that wasn't apparently much direct help and I'll probably start som=
e
> kind of war on her, but my intention isn't to be troll provocateur, it's =
to
> advise you from direct experience and try and make things easier in the l=
ong
> term.
>
> Years ago, MS dictionaries had to be dragged into the active, executable
> directory. There's probably some gaily animated icon thingie to do it now=
....
> More MS savvy users than me will surely tell you what it is you think you
> need to know :-)
>
> er... I accept I may have a personal bias here.
> --BB (Mac user since 1986)
Mac users, in most cases, don't need spell checkers. Most know how to
spell already.
I have 5 Macs. The oldest a G-3 (B&W) which is my mail server and
printer manager.
(Since '84. 128K of whopping RAM and an outboard.....wait for
it.....external floppy.)
In article <[email protected]>,
Bored Borg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:19:38 +0000, Nova wrote
> (in article <[email protected]>):
> > In the lower portion of the windows under "Language" select
> > "English (United States)"
> shouldn't that be English OR United States ??
> (ducks timidly and sneaks out in the confusion)
:-)
I was also thinking along those lines.
--
Stuart Winsor
Don't miss the Risc OS Christmas show
http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/mug/show08/MUGshow.html
Thanks guys. The only choice is French, Damn, no engrish. I'll try a third
party
cm
"cm" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my NG's. I
>think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I switch to
>engrish?
>
> cm
>
"Bored Borg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:19:38 +0000, Nova wrote
> (in article <[email protected]>):
>
>> In the lower portion of the windows under "Language" select
>> "English (United States)"
>
> shouldn't that be English OR United States ??
>
> (ducks timidly and sneaks out in the confusion)
>
CM
It is a known issue with Outlook Express. If you Google Outlook and spell
check and French you will see you are not alone. Most of the fixes involve
a 3rd party spell check. I don't think MS has released a fix yet.
Larry C
J. Clarke wrote:
> Han wrote:
>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
>> [email protected]:
>>
>>> Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>>>
>>
>> Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely
>> (Vista Home Basic). Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD
>> reader/CD
>> riter with DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo
>> T7200 (~$170). Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista
>> SP2 installed. My time was mine to do with what I wanted ..........
>
> And it's actually the answer to the assertions that Windows is not
> secure. Vista comes locked down and a lot of software vendors are
> having trouble dealing with that.
>
Well, it is locked down, but not necessarily for what most people would
define as "security". The lock-downs that have given the software and
driver folks fits has been the Digital Restrictions Management "security"
built into Vista. The only real security there is for the MPAA and RIAA.
--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough
he he he!
cm
"Bored Borg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 06:14:27 +0000, cm wrote
> (in article <[email protected]>):
>
>> Thanks guys. The only choice is French, Damn, no engrish. I'll try a
>> third
>> party
>
> There was a good one down our street last week but it was mainly reggae
> music
> and Red Stripe. There was nothing but Bordeaux at the two earlier,
> though...
>
Han wrote:
> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
> [email protected]:
>
>> Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>>
>
> Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely (Vista
> Home Basic). Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD reader/CD riter with
> DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo T7200 (~$170).
> Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista SP2 installed. My time
> was mine to do with what I wanted ..........
>
Funny!
The Acer Aspire 5520 that I'm typing this on, came with 2GB Ram, a DVD
burner, etc... and it runs GREAT with Vista Home Basic on the stock AMD
processor.
The machine is 99% Free of charge and/or open source software, like Open
Office, T-Bird, Firefox, AOPA Flight Planner... I did pay for Cutlist+
and Norton Anti-Virus, which run great on this computer.
I paid $399 + $3 shipping from Newegg.com last June.
Did you use it much before the upgrades, or did you start "tuning" it
the moment it arrived.
Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
[email protected]:
> Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>
Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely (Vista
Home Basic). Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD reader/CD riter with
DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo T7200 (~$170).
Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista SP2 installed. My time
was mine to do with what I wanted ..........
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> Han wrote:
>>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in
>>> news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
>>> [email protected]:
>>>
>>>> Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely
>>> (Vista Home Basic). Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD
>>> reader/CD
>>> riter with DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo
>>> T7200 (~$170). Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista
>>> SP2 installed. My time was mine to do with what I wanted ..........
>>
>> And it's actually the answer to the assertions that Windows is not
>> secure. Vista comes locked down and a lot of software vendors are
>> having trouble dealing with that.
>>
>
> Well, it is locked down, but not necessarily for what most people
> would
> define as "security". The lock-downs that have given the software and
> driver folks fits has been the Digital Restrictions Management
> "security" built into Vista. The only real security there is for the
> MPAA and RIAA.
>
I have the AUC/UAC/whatever turned off.
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
B A R R Y <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Han wrote:
>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
>> [email protected]:
>>
>>> Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>>>
>>
>> Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely
>> (Vista Home Basic). Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD reader/CD
>> riter with DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo
>> T7200 (~$170). Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista
>> SP2 installed. My time was mine to do with what I wanted ..........
>>
>
>
> Funny!
>
> The Acer Aspire 5520 that I'm typing this on, came with 2GB Ram, a DVD
> burner, etc... and it runs GREAT with Vista Home Basic on the stock
> AMD processor.
>
> The machine is 99% Free of charge and/or open source software, like
> Open Office, T-Bird, Firefox, AOPA Flight Planner... I did pay for
> Cutlist+ and Norton Anti-Virus, which run great on this computer.
>
> I paid $399 + $3 shipping from Newegg.com last June.
>
> Did you use it much before the upgrades, or did you start "tuning" it
> the moment it arrived.
>
I bought the 2GB RAM right away, then soon bought the DVDwriter since
backing up cost too much time and CD's.
I fought with the machine quite a bit, then found the upgrade path to the
newer-better processor and decided to give it a go. Around the same time
I couldn't instal SP1, so decided to do a clean reinstall. All the
fiddling takes a lot of time, but I also enjoy it.
Much of my software is payware, but there is a break in getting it from
work (I have a job at a NYC medical school playing professor).
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Han wrote:
>
>> Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]:
>>
>>> J. Clarke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Han wrote:
>>>>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>>> news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
>>>>> [email protected]:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely
>>>>> (Vista Home Basic). Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD
>>>>> reader/CD
>>>>> riter with DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo
>>>>> T7200 (~$170). Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista
>>>>> SP2 installed. My time was mine to do with what I wanted
>>>>> ..........
>>>>
>>>> And it's actually the answer to the assertions that Windows is not
>>>> secure. Vista comes locked down and a lot of software vendors are
>>>> having trouble dealing with that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, it is locked down, but not necessarily for what most people
>>> would
>>> define as "security". The lock-downs that have given the software
>>> and driver folks fits has been the Digital Restrictions Management
>>> "security" built into Vista. The only real security there is for
>>> the MPAA and RIAA.
>>>
>>
>> I have the AUC/UAC/whatever turned off.
>>
>
> It's more than UAC, it's some very specific internals to prevent you
> from
> possibly copying copyrighted high-definition digital content.
> Unfortunately, the restrictions also prevent you from copying
> high-definition digital content you have made yourself (at least that
> was the case shortly after Vista was released):
> <http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/10/Vista-prevents-playing-high-
> def-content_1.html>
>
> <http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html>
>
> Since I've gone to Linux, I've not kept up with how well this scheme
> is
> working; I decided to get off that merry-go-round.
I am not up to snuff with that stuff, yet. I'll deal with it when the
need arises, but thanks for the heads up!
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
"cm" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Thanks guys. The only choice is French, Damn, no engrish. I'll try a third
> party
>
> cm
Do you have Microsoft Office or Word installed? They share the spell check
dictionary.
On Dec 3, 3:48=A0pm, B A R R Y <[email protected]> wrote:
> Han wrote:
> > =A0I fought with the machine quite a bit, then found the upgrade path t=
o the
> > newer-better processor and decided to give it a go. =A0Around the same =
time
> > I couldn't instal SP1, so decided to do a clean reinstall. =A0All the
> > fiddling takes a lot of time, but I also enjoy it.
>
> The reason I ask, is that lots of the complaints I hear come from people
> who immediately started screwing with things from the moment they opened
> the box, before they actually had a feel for the actual operation of the
> OS. =A0Kind of the old "manual over the shoulder" syndrome... =A0Where th=
e
> complaints start because things aren't exactly as the user expected them
> to be, rather than taking a moment to try it as things arrived.
>
> When I bought this computer, I almost passed because of the Vista horror
> stories repeated ad-nauseam. =A0I even looked at Apple notebooks. =A0Sinc=
e
> this machine gets tossed in a flight bag, which gets wet, frozen, baked,
> crammed into tiny baggage compartments, sat on, etc...
>
> I wanted CHEAP, so I wouldn't cry when it breaks. =A0Since all I need is
> wireless Internet access, basic office type stuff, ITunes to keep the
> Podcasts up to date, and to run some not so taxing flight planning and
> weight / balance / performance calculating software, so I wasn't looking
> for killer performance.
>
> Cheap quickly eliminated Apple, and even eliminated competing, more
> prestigious branded notebooks that came factory loaded with XP.
>
> This notebook, and the Vista load have been a wonderful pickup! =A0The
> soft plastic case has easily scratched, but otherwise, I'm super happy
> with my $402 purchase! =A0The power management works well, the resume
> feature has worked well for me, surprising...
>
> The only real issue I had was getting it into my home network, but
> adding a patch to the XP machines (to recognize the Vista machine)
> easily fixed all that. =A0My only real complaint with Vista on this
> machine regards how MS dumbed down the backup routine. =A0I like the stoc=
k
> backup program in XP much better. =A0But hey, it's a cheap laptop that
> works really well.
>
> You can't beat those educational software prices, eh? =A0 I use my wife's
> teaching certificate to buy. =A0Killer prices!
I HAD to buy a Windows machine to make my CNC work (General,
btw...http://tinyurl.com/57dk73) and I didn't want to spend any money
on 'speed' and 'killer' video...G-code is not that hard on a
processor.
I bought a Compaq (HP) slaptop at Future Shop for 500 Canuckistani
Sheckels. It has Vista. Now my Mac at the office also runs XP Pro, on
a license I swore I would NEVER buy.
But, because first and foremost, it was in my interest to make the CNC
fly, so I wasn't going to stick my snobby Apple head up my ass trying
to make a point.
Hell, I have even rented Chevy's on business trips, so I'm a slut
anyway.
Now... the Vista on my (easily scratched) Compaq slaptop is not at all
the demon I was preconditioned to hate. It is still awkward in terms
of file handling and 'natural' feel of computing , but as a novice in
Windoze Land, I was pleasantly surprised. No, it is NOT a Mac, but the
gap has been narrowed considerably since the days of Windoze 95.
I actually LIKE that little HP/Compaq slaptop... and if it breaks, I
will throw it out and buy another. The BIC-lighter of puters.
I do have a 1 TB LaCie external, which backs up my office Mac and
MacBookPro automatically through Time Machine, and I partitioned it
off to take total back-ups from my Compaq. So my ass is covered.
In short, Vista is sortakinda better than I thought. XP-Pro has yet to
crash and I have been mucking with it on my Mac and it is a a LOT
faster than my Compaq with Vista, even though the Compaq has a higher
clock-speed. Could be that my Mac has a video card which unloads the
two monitors from the CPU.
But don't get me going on 'feel' and 7 years without a system crash,
virus, spyware or other such horror stories. Because when it comes to
my Macs...."from these cold dead hands"
On Dec 4, 6:02=A0pm, Puckdropper <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Funny, I've been able to get my Mac to crash a few times. =A0Usually what
> happens is the application all of a sudden goes away. =A0At least with
> Windows I get an error message that lets me guess at the cause.
In all fairness, I do not consider myself an average Mac user. I'm
pretty comfortable with the platform.
>
> Maybe I'm just trying to be too PC with my Mac.
>
PC... as in Politically Correct? *G*
In article <[email protected]>,
Bored Borg <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:19:38 +0000, Nova wrote
>(in article <[email protected]>):
>
>> In the lower portion of the windows under "Language" select
>> "English (United States)"
>
>shouldn't that be English OR United States ??
>
>(ducks timidly and sneaks out in the confusion)
"... In America, they haven't spoken it for years!"
--- Prof. 'Enry 'Iggins (My Fair Lady)
cm wrote:
> I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my
> NG's. I think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I
> switch to engrish?
I don't think they have one for engrish (I assume you mean the
language discussed at http://www.engrish.com/). Now if English comes
close enough for your needs it should be tools/options/spelling.
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I had to download a free spell checker and install it to change to English
"Bored Borg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:37:44 +0000, cm wrote
> (in article <[email protected]>):
>
>> I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my NG's.
>> I
>> think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I switch to
>> engrish?
>>
>> cm
>>
>>
>
> It's Microsoft. The simplest solution would be to sell up, move to France
> and
> learn to live with the language.
>
>
> Seriously though, ditch the Outlook and replace it with something that
> will
> make usenet a comfortable experience - maybe on of the Agent series or..
> anything really.
>
> I don't know the current incarnation of Outlook, but all of then so far
> have
> been virus magnets, if only for the default configuration. I keep separate
> e-mail addresses for writing to known Outlook users because I _know_ that
> once my address goes into an Outlook address book, it will only be a
> matter
> of time before I get assailed with spam from the Trojans and encapsulated
> nasties that will have sucked off my details from the recipient's system
> and
> broadcast it God-knows-where.
>
> If you don't know how to change the dictionary defaults then you'll
> certainly
> not have set things up to make you immune from the timebomb you're using.
> Ditch it, please.
>
> Sorry that wasn't apparently much direct help and I'll probably start some
> kind of war on her, but my intention isn't to be troll provocateur, it's
> to
> advise you from direct experience and try and make things easier in the
> long
> term.
>
> Years ago, MS dictionaries had to be dragged into the active, executable
> directory. There's probably some gaily animated icon thingie to do it
> now....
> More MS savvy users than me will surely tell you what it is you think you
> need to know :-)
>
> er... I accept I may have a personal bias here.
> --BB (Mac user since 1986)
>
Lee Michaels wrote:
> "J. Clarke" wrote
>
>> cm wrote:
>>> I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my
>>> NG's. I think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I
>>> switch to engrish?
>>
>> I don't think they have one for engrish (I assume you mean the
>> language discussed at http://www.engrish.com/). Now if English
>> comes
>> close enough for your needs it should be tools/options/spelling.
>>
>
> Actually, on my copy of Outlook Express, the desired menu selection
> would be tools/options/read/international settings.
That sets the fonts and encoding, not the spell check language.
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Bored Borg wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:37:44 +0000, cm wrote
> (in article <[email protected]>):
>
>> I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my
>> NG's. I think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I
>> switch to engrish?
>>
>> cm
>>
>>
>
> It's Microsoft. The simplest solution would be to sell up, move to
> France and learn to live with the language.
>
>
> Seriously though, ditch the Outlook and replace it with something
> that will make usenet a comfortable experience - maybe on of the
> Agent series or.. anything really.
>
> I don't know the current incarnation of Outlook, but all of then so
> far have been virus magnets, if only for the default configuration.
> I
> keep separate e-mail addresses for writing to known Outlook users
> because I _know_ that once my address goes into an Outlook address
> book, it will only be a matter of time before I get assailed with
> spam from the Trojans and encapsulated nasties that will have sucked
> off my details from the recipient's system and broadcast it
> God-knows-where.
>
> If you don't know how to change the dictionary defaults then you'll
> certainly not have set things up to make you immune from the
> timebomb
> you're using. Ditch it, please.
>
> Sorry that wasn't apparently much direct help and I'll probably
> start
> some kind of war on her, but my intention isn't to be troll
> provocateur, it's to advise you from direct experience and try and
> make things easier in the long term.
>
> Years ago, MS dictionaries had to be dragged into the active,
> executable directory. There's probably some gaily animated icon
> thingie to do it now.... More MS savvy users than me will surely
> tell
> you what it is you think you need to know :-)
>
> er... I accept I may have a personal bias here.
> --BB (Mac user since 1986)
Years ago you had to start Rolls-Royces with a hand crank after
manually presetting the ignition timing too, so I guess that that's a
reason for somebody who's driving around in a new Phantom to sell it.
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(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
Larry C wrote:
> "Bored Borg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:19:38 +0000, Nova wrote
>> (in article <[email protected]>):
>>
>>> In the lower portion of the windows under "Language" select
>>> "English (United States)"
>>
>> shouldn't that be English OR United States ??
>>
>> (ducks timidly and sneaks out in the confusion)
>>
>
> CM
>
> It is a known issue with Outlook Express. If you Google Outlook and
> spell check and French you will see you are not alone. Most of the
> fixes involve a 3rd party spell check. I don't think MS has
> released
> a fix yet.
The fix is called "Vista".
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Han wrote:
> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
> [email protected]:
>
>> Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>>
>
> Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely
> (Vista Home Basic). Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD
> reader/CD
> riter with DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo
> T7200 (~$170). Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista
> SP2 installed. My time was mine to do with what I wanted ..........
And it's actually the answer to the assertions that Windows is not
secure. Vista comes locked down and a lot of software vendors are
having trouble dealing with that.
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--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> "cm" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Thanks guys. The only choice is French, Damn, no engrish. I'll try
>> a
>> third party
>>
>> cm
>
> Do you have Microsoft Office or Word installed? They share the
> spell
> check dictionary.
Apparently there are two different problems with similar symptoms, one
coming from doing an upgrade installation of XP over some other MS
operating system and the other from running Office 2007 on XP.
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--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
Han wrote:
> Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> J. Clarke wrote:
>>
>>> Han wrote:
>>>> Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>> news:34b954c5-3339-403c-8a15-
>>>> [email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>> Ahh yes, Vista... the answer to the question nobody asked.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, finally my Acer Aspire 3680-2633 (~$400) is running nicely
>>>> (Vista Home Basic). Upped RAM to 2 GB ($100), replaced DVD
>>>> reader/CD
>>>> riter with DVD/CD writer ($70), replaced CPU with Intel Core DUo
>>>> T7200 (~$170). Reinstalled everything ($25 for disks) to get Vista
>>>> SP2 installed. My time was mine to do with what I wanted ..........
>>>
>>> And it's actually the answer to the assertions that Windows is not
>>> secure. Vista comes locked down and a lot of software vendors are
>>> having trouble dealing with that.
>>>
>>
>> Well, it is locked down, but not necessarily for what most people
>> would
>> define as "security". The lock-downs that have given the software and
>> driver folks fits has been the Digital Restrictions Management
>> "security" built into Vista. The only real security there is for the
>> MPAA and RIAA.
>>
>
> I have the AUC/UAC/whatever turned off.
>
It's more than UAC, it's some very specific internals to prevent you from
possibly copying copyrighted high-definition digital content.
Unfortunately, the restrictions also prevent you from copying
high-definition digital content you have made yourself (at least that was
the case shortly after Vista was released):
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/10/Vista-prevents-playing-high-def-content_1.html>
<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html>
Since I've gone to Linux, I've not kept up with how well this scheme is
working; I decided to get off that merry-go-round.
--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough
I found an old copy of Office 2003 and installed that. All is good now.
cm
"cm" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my NG's. I
>think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I switch to
>engrish?
>
> cm
>
Han wrote:
> I fought with the machine quite a bit, then found the upgrade path to the
> newer-better processor and decided to give it a go. Around the same time
> I couldn't instal SP1, so decided to do a clean reinstall. All the
> fiddling takes a lot of time, but I also enjoy it.
The reason I ask, is that lots of the complaints I hear come from people
who immediately started screwing with things from the moment they opened
the box, before they actually had a feel for the actual operation of the
OS. Kind of the old "manual over the shoulder" syndrome... Where the
complaints start because things aren't exactly as the user expected them
to be, rather than taking a moment to try it as things arrived.
When I bought this computer, I almost passed because of the Vista horror
stories repeated ad-nauseam. I even looked at Apple notebooks. Since
this machine gets tossed in a flight bag, which gets wet, frozen, baked,
crammed into tiny baggage compartments, sat on, etc...
I wanted CHEAP, so I wouldn't cry when it breaks. Since all I need is
wireless Internet access, basic office type stuff, ITunes to keep the
Podcasts up to date, and to run some not so taxing flight planning and
weight / balance / performance calculating software, so I wasn't looking
for killer performance.
Cheap quickly eliminated Apple, and even eliminated competing, more
prestigious branded notebooks that came factory loaded with XP.
This notebook, and the Vista load have been a wonderful pickup! The
soft plastic case has easily scratched, but otherwise, I'm super happy
with my $402 purchase! The power management works well, the resume
feature has worked well for me, surprising...
The only real issue I had was getting it into my home network, but
adding a patch to the XP machines (to recognize the Vista machine)
easily fixed all that. My only real complaint with Vista on this
machine regards how MS dumbed down the backup routine. I like the stock
backup program in XP much better. But hey, it's a cheap laptop that
works really well.
You can't beat those educational software prices, eh? I use my wife's
teaching certificate to buy. Killer prices!
cm wrote:
> I bought a new laptop last night and set up Outlook Express for my NG's. I
> think the spell check language is set to French?? How do I switch to
> engrish?
>
> cm
>
>
In Outlook Express click on:
Tools
Options
"Spelling" tab
In the lower portion of the windows under "Language" select
"English (United States)"
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Buffalo, NY - USA
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