[Boatanchors] BAMA

[rbethman]

Larry,

Try Thunderbird by Mozilla.org.  Outlook AND Outlook Express, (Which you 
are using.), Leave you at the mercy of windows update and Microsoft's 
idiocy.

Bob - N0DGN

Larry WA9VRH wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> I am not sure this will help or fix your issue but everything I have 
> uploaded to the BAMA website was done with Adobe 4.0. I used that 
> because the scanning software that I use supports the Adobe 4.0 for 
> the conversion from TIFF to PDF. You might try installing Adobe 5.0 or 
> something around that. I keep getting bombarded with Adobe trying to 
> shove version 8 down my throat and I keep resisting. At work version 8 
> got downloaded automatically and we needed to get our I.T. guy to get 
> rid of it so we could work.
>
> Billy Gates thugs downloaded something to this pc that I can't seem to 
> get rid of and when I want to send a message I have to select "send 
> later" as just plain send it never happens. This kind of stuff just 
> aggravates the crap out of me and one of these days the Windows XP 
> will come off this thing and I will go back to Win 2000 where I didn't 
> have this issue.
>
> Good luck hope this helps.  Next step will be to a MAC that will be 
> used for the outside world and this pc will never see the internet 
> again so I can keep things working!
>
> 73 Larry WA9VRH
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <bonddaleena at aol.com>
> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 6:14 PM
> Subject: [Boatanchors] BAMA
>
>
>>
>>
>> Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct site for this question, so 
>> here goes.
>>
>> I LOVE BAMA and the 'mirror site'.
>> Recently, I was downloading Manuals for some Tek equipment. Some 
>> downloaded perfectly, yet others would get 'hung' at the exact same 
>> page every time. I can't tell you how many times I tried. I even 
>> tried printing one page at a time! I was able to go to Aligent's Web 
>> Site and download the entire set (YIKES!!) of Manuals for my HP 
>> 8640B... There's a couple of trees gone!
>>
>> I had NO problens there, so I doubt there is anything on my end 
>> causing a problem..... But I dunno.....
>>
>> Let's just say for example, it would get to page 63 of 230. The PC 
>> would show a prompt that said 'Adobe 9.0 has encountered a fault and 
>> has to close'.
>>
>>
>> Has anyone else had this experience?
>> I tried sending an email to an address on the site, but it came back 
>> as undeliverable.
>>
>> Please (!!) understand I ain't complaining about a 'free lunch', just 
>> frustrated...
>>
>>
>> tnx
>>
>> ron
>>
>> N4UE
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Bob - NØDGN