[TheForge] OT- for computer geeks OT OT OT ( sounds like seals)

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Good advice Dave;
But I did that already, well, last year.
Gotta admit that Win XP is a heck of a lot more stable than '98 and it's 
predicessors was.
A lot of the frustration seems to arise out of B Gate's screwing with 
the competition and me rooting for the underdog in the face of it.
I knew another smith who was like that once......pF

Dave Mudge wrote:

>Well after all that you are still stuck with Windows '98 and lots of
>headaches and a day or two or a week of your time spent cussing the old
>system. Your wife is mad at you and your kids won't talk to you and even
>your dog is afraid to be at your feet. Take a visit to www.tigerdirect.com
>and see the miracles that you can get for $500. I had a similar problem in
>that way back in the late '90's I had the top of the line, state of the art
>big bopper of a computer system with over $2k invested in it.
>I found out that computer years are sortta like dog years, only worse. 
>7 or 8 years for a computer system is equivalent to 70 or 80 people years.
>Now I know that some of our group will have all sorts of arguments to the
>contrary, I'm not talking to them, I'm talking to the folks that have a
>love/hate relationship with their computers. $500 in today's market will get
>you a much faster, smarter, easier to use, bigger hard drive, more memory,
>and updated everything than 2 grand would buy 8 or 10 years ago.
>
>dave mudge
>dave at magichammer.net
>http://www.magichammer.net
>http://www.metalsmithinghowto.com
> 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Darrell
>Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 10:48 PM
>To: artgawk at thegrid.net; Sponsored by ABANA
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT- for computer geeks OT OT OT ( sounds like seals)
>
>IT HAPPENS!!
>I just spent the last 12 hours fighting with this computer. The mother board
>died. No problem, I'll just put in another one. HAHAHA. Old software doesn't
>like new computers and windows 98 didn't have drivers for new board either.
>Ended up going to the scrap yard and getting an old computer like the one
>that died and installed my hard drive in it. Then it only took 2 hours to
>get the old drivers out and the ones I needed back in.
>
>Darrell
>
>http://www.machinemaster.com
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 8:21 PM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT- for computer geeks OT OT OT ( sounds like seals)
>
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>>oops
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>>GHS wrote:
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>>>A Word of caution.
>>>When they give you instructons about not installing one version over
>>>another, LISTEN.
>>>When they say if you do that you WILL have trouble, BELIEVE.
>>>
>>>Mike Graf / who did not and just finished up reformatting his computer
>>>to get rid of the storm of page faults.
>>>
>>>terry l. ridder wrote:
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>>>>hello;
>>>>
>>>>not sure which version/release of thunderbird you are using but in
>>>>theory you should not have to do anything to migrate from mozilla
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>e-mail
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>>>>to thunderbird.
>>>>
>>>>please refer to the below urls.
>>>>
>>>>How do I migrate my Mozilla mail and settings to Thunderbird?
>>>>http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.2
>>>>
>>>>where is the profile folder?
>>>>http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/edit.html#profile
>>>>
>>>>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>peter> peter> I got that far, thanks Darrell;
>>>>peter> My problem was exactly where the the address file and the mail
>>>>file
>>>>peter> resides in this program. It ( Mozilla  1.5) doesn't have an
>>>>"export" only
>>>>peter> "Import".
>>>>peter> Thunderbird 1.0 does have  an import function but I need to
>>>>direct it to
>>>>peter> the Mozilla mail file.....which i can't find.........PF
>>>>peter>
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