Whew.... ! ! ! ! ! I thought I might never see you all again (this month)..... Answered

Yeah, I am back, but now I can't get my camera to connect AAAARRRRGH!!!!!

Darn... What are you going to do?

I fiddled with it for about an hour or so, and got the pics off, but it still doesn't connect "normally" like it should *sigh*. I may have to uninstall and reinstall the software. It might just be a corrupted driver or something.

Oh dear... Hopefully you can get your camera working properly soon.

Well, the camera seems to work. And since I was able to extract the pictures using a utility, I am assuming my USB port is ok too. I am thinking rather that the software or some component thereof got corrupted. Time to try an uninstall reinstall.

Well, I certainly do not have the resources to "switch out" for awhile :-) I have to deal with it ... After my restore, my connection speed seems to have dropped to near Dial up levels.....I am starting to really be upset with MS...

whats your spec? also are you using xp or vista?

I am using XP......my spec? BTW: after a defrag, and one adjustment to my Boot.ini, I am back to normal speeds now (I can load videos again ! LOL).

well, sounds like you kno what your doing! so i will leave it to you! (by spec, i meant specification as in what speed/ram etc)

Not really, I thought the change I made might help, but I have no idea if it really DID help :-)

I converted! I'm trying to download the fedora version of linux after trying dern small linux. I'm hooked! I'm addicted! I'll never use a piece of microsoft junk again!

I can't teach my wife the necessary things concerning MS, how would I get her to use an whole new OS? :-)

Goodhart, what does she have trouble with? I work with-ahem-electronically challenged people a whole lot. People who don't know how to do anything other than boot up a computer-if that. But I always manage to get them where they need to go (not to brag). If you and she would like, I could write up an ible.

Sadly, she has a more generalized problem: lack of enthusiasm. That is, she lacks any desire to learn new things as this needs effort to do so, and she seems unwilling to put forth the effort. As long as I am here to answer the questions, she is satisfied with not knowing. It is a defeatist attitude in my opinion, but I have no way to changer her, so I have to try to work with it.

Hmmm...I have been known to motivate the most hard core of technology haters...want me to try anyway? Would she like to know how to get music off the net (legally) ? Watch movies and tv? Check out audio ebooks from the library? Play brain games? Would she like to know how to find sites that would interest her? Like sewing, or cavies, or whatever it is that is her "thing"?

Opps! Sorry, I didn't mean that the way it sounded... Oh, well, I guess you'll have to be the techie of the household...

No need to be sorry, I was just explaining what I meant :-) Yeah, and I am on call 24/7 it seems :-)

Just switch: will she even notice a difference? :P

Yeah, she would. Any little thing she would have to do differently, she would freak. :-)

Keep the MS for cad or work programs. You should be fine without it 99% of the time

Heh. My only question is, will it run Roller Coaster Tycoon 3??

Ew, DSL(inux), IMO, is pretty bad, especially if its your first time using linux, and obsolete in today's world, now that you can get a 1GB thumb drive for under $20. As for RCT3, well... sort of, with work. You could use a Virtual Machine, to run windows inside linux, and you'd probably get that to work. However, some people have had some problems running it in linux. Notably, it appears no one has gotten background music to work. It will require a bit of work to get it working, (finding DLL's, &c) but it might be playable. Oh, and no one has gotten any of the expansion packs working, either. Roller coaster 2, on the other hand, sounds like it works nicer.

Well, it was perfect for me, I have a reeeeeeeeeealy old laptop with a 6 gb hard drive. Works on that and a coulple of old old old computers. I'm a linux newbie, and I just wanted to try it. But I'm trying to get the full OS now.

I've found RCT3 buggy overall, I'm starting to wish I hadn't got it in some ways. Can't get the expansion packs to work at all, this is apparently a very common problem. :( Stupid atari...

I couldn't get out through Ubuntu either, but I haven't much practice there....

Well, my modem showed traffic to and from the NET, but none of my browsers could "find" any pages out there *sigh*

after 5 restores and nothing seemingly working still, I was in a bit of a panic really. :-) It is nice to know my presence is appreciated to some point.

To the point where we'll send you a t-shirt ;-)

But that's as far as it goes.

_{(we don't want it going to your head!)}

No, it would never go there, my head is already too full of garbage to allow anything in that would enlarge it appreciably ;-) _{although a TV-B-Gone would be nice.....just teasing !!!}

It does? :P I guess you added that... clever. Bonus points if you used regex :P

&aposlego&apos,&aposrunescape&apos,&apos!!!!!&apos,&aposkillerk&apos,&aposrubber band gun&apos,&aposrbg&apos,&apossoe op&apos,&aposgrenade&apos,&aposmegatron&apos,

Ah, I remember that now. Nachomahma thought of those.

Yeah, see, I'm not so clever. *sniff*

Oh, I hadn't known that....

Aww.. You're the best goodhart. Figure out what was wrong?

Not yet, it was one or more of the "critical updates" that were auto loaded into my machine from MS, I have yet to have the time to go back and load them one at a time manually. Once I do that, I will know which one it the culprit.

Yeah, one piece of MS malware it now gone and so is the virus that my wife downloaded.....

Your wife? Not me? Hmm, okay, let's go with that.

It was determined that she "executed the program she downloaded" from an email at the time of the infestation. :-)

Hmmm.... okay. There was no way, not in a million years, that I was trying to hack your computer system with the 6z_32 Hack-O-Matic exclusively from Instructables worker randofo, and I failed when your computer unexpectedly turned off. NO chance.

Now, if you were using: Kaboodle, and Technitium MAC addy changer, you may have a chance with a wireless, but not mine :-)