wolferd1

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wolferd1 replied to the Christian Fools board. 10:44 PM

Re: Pro-choice Christians

I would venture to say that if a survey was taken of the inmates in our nation's prison system, the vast majority would be amoral atheists--some even pledging allegiance to the devil--with a sprinkling of believers who went [more]

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wolferd1 replied to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 10:27 PM

Re: Online backups

But my experience has been that a backup cannot backup a file that is open, even if it has been saved.

Starting with XP, windows began using a system that created read-only copies of open files. Many backup programs can read those [more]

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wolferd1 replied to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 1:55 PM

Re: scanner

I bought one of these at Costco for $275 late last year:
http://www.brother-usa.com/Scanners/ModelDetail/24/ADS2000/O......

It did a very good job and the task [more]

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wolferd1 posted to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 1:42 PM

scanner

I have hundreds, no, I am sure it is several thousand, of very old family snapshots, many of which go back over 50 years. I would like to scan many of them. I can not afford to have it done professionally, so I am looking to purchase a good [more]

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wolferd1 replied to the Improve the Fool board. 4:16 PM

Re: Something new

Of course, if I had messed it up in the first place and quietly fixed it later, I'd not want the spotlight on me either.

One of the nighttime janitorial staff remembered that he left his jacket in a server room hanging on one of the [more]

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wolferd1 posted to the Improve the Fool board. 7:53 AM

Something new

From NC.

After a month or two of whole thread mode not working, ever, all of a sudden it seems to be working fine.

For a number of weeks all I have gotten is time outs on any active board when I tried to view the whole thread. For [more]

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wolferd1 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 7:56 PM

Re: Fed Ex Stinks

6:30 p.m....... nothing yet....

Well, you could just had down to the 7-11 and pick up a bottle of Ripple or Mad Dog to hold you over.

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wolferd1 replied to the Improve the Fool board. 10:02 PM

Re: More time out issues

I'm accessing the boards from Portland, OR, over decent DSL. I wish I could see the problem so I could help troubleshoot from this end, but I just can't get stuff to misbehave ;-)

I access TMF via Road Runner Cable, Windstream DSL, [more]

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wolferd1 posted to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 1:39 PM

LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Trying to decide which to use - does anyone use them? I used OO years ago, but not in recent history.

Does one have any advantage over the other? I am going to use one of them and I am trying to decide which one to [more]

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wolferd1 replied to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 5:26 PM

Re: zip files

We still don't know how the OP hosts his website; I posted a message asking, but he never replied.

My personal site is hosted at 1and1. Our work site is hosted by Netfronts.

I am sure there are folks who host their own. I [more]

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wolferd1 replied to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 5:41 AM

Re: external hd

I'm using the drives for backups and keeping them off-site

That is exactly what I've been doing for a number of years.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll probably go ahead and and put it in service. My concerns may well be [more]

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wolferd1 posted to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 4:42 AM

external hd

I just recently purchased a 1tb wd passport hd to do back ups on, replacing the 100gb one I have been using for several years. I did not read the specs close enough to notice that it does not have a separate power connection and instead draws the [more]

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wolferd1 replied to the Improve the Fool board. 4:28 PM

Re: Houston We Have A Prob

For now, please try deleting your browser cache to see if that helps.


I have the problem on two home computer and two work computers on two different systems in two different parts of town. The problem is not the computer.

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wolferd1 replied to the Improve the Fool board. 2:24 PM

Re: Not Fixed

Which thread?

Trying to get the two post thread that you asked the question in, it timed out.

I live in the same part of the world as grouse.

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wolferd1 posted to the Apple User's Group board. 3:18 AM

parallels and bootcamp

New Macbook user with a question. While I may eventually completely wean myself off of Windows, I still have a desktop running several windows programs that I use. I was thinking about trying to run them on the Macbook Pro using either parallels or [more]

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wolferd1 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 1:39 AM

Re: OT: Medicare covers skilled home care

Thanks Wendy, that is interesting, at least for those of us with parents at that age.

I wonder how they distinguish between "custodial care" and skilled care . . . needed simply to preserve a patient's current functioning or [more]

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wolferd1 posted to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 2:00 PM

zip files

Is there a limit to how many files can be zipped together? I am still working on sharing a bunch of pictures via my website and the thought crossed my mind that I could zip a bunch of them together and just send links out to the zipped [more]