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[Bill Cromwell]

On 08/02/2014 10:46 PM, W2HX wrote:
> I never, ever, ever allow my computer to connect to this internet thingy, because it is an accident waiting to happen. I have no idea how many things that have not come my way since my computer is sans any internet connection.
>
> (tongue firmly placed in cheek)
>
> 73 Eugene W2HX
>
>
Hi There Eugene,

You can relax your tongue. You can easily do that. You don't even need 
an internet connection in your home if you use the computers at the 
public libraries. That will put you a little behind but most of the 
emails are not really time critical. I do have an internet connection in 
my home. I have *one* computer that uses it as does my XYL. My other 
computers are NOT connected to the internet. If I need the text from a 
file that arrives via the internet on one of those I can copy and paste 
just the text to ..well.. to a text file on a USB "thumb drive" and copy 
that onto the isolated computer.

You can also use a Linux bootable CD with a basic system to access the 
internet without ever mounting or writing to your local drives. Your 
more valuable files are not at risk. The system is NOT installed on the 
hard drive and *vanishes* when the computer is turned off. That is not 
an attempt to convert Windows people to Linux. If Windows offered that 
capability it would serve just as well. One of my brothers finds that 
more to his liking. He runs Windows for his daily work and Linux 
bootable CD for playing on the internet with the one laptop computer 
that he owns. I use a variation on that with a basic Linux system 
installed to a thumb drive. The thumb drive can save your config 
settings to make booting up easier than with an inflexible CD but the 
files on the thumb drive can then be corrupted via the internet. Simple 
to overwrite with a new install. Windows might work that way. Anybody 
wanna try Windows that way? Report back?

Just a couple of suggestions that might help a few list members.

73,

Bill  KU8H