Topic 4 of 40: Dumb and stupid internet questions - the place to ask
Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (15:28) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Ask any question about the Internet that comes to mind and don't worry if
it seems dumb, stupid, inane or whatever. This is the place for
beginners and old pros to ask that question that's nagging at them but
they are afraid to ask. Don't be afraid to ask and don't make fun of
anyones question. Anything goes.
45 responses total.
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Response 1 of 45: Gopal (krisg) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (19:00) * 7 lines
I have both Internet Explorer 3.0 version and Netscape 3.0 version browser
on my windows disc. Netscape is a default browser. But anytime I
download from netscape, the file attaches to Microsfot file, and when I Open
the dowloaded file, the explorer browser opens, asking if I want to change
the default browser, and I have stated no, but now the downloaded file is
still attached to microsoft logo. What can I do to correct this.
Thank you for your assistance.
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Response 2 of 45: FOLKARTIST (folkartist) * Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (18:46) * 1 lines
I would like to know how to put a homepage up on the internet. I found the Spring while doing some research. I don't even know how to get the answer to the question I am asking except to tell you that I have an email address with the Spring which is folkartist@204.211.35.25 and another email at folkartist@hotmail.com and I know how to retrieve a message there. Can you help me, Terry?
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Response 3 of 45: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Feb 19, 1997 (03:26) * 4 lines
First, that's not really a spring email address. That's the default that the system
trieds to guess when you don't enter your actual email address. And regular
contributors to the conferences get their home pages listed. What kind of stuff did
you want to have on a home page?
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Response 4 of 45: Gerard van Der Leun (boswell) * Sat, Mar 14, 1998 (01:46) * 8 lines
Why is it, that even after we have so many useless
and worthless virtual communities as it is, someone
like terry has to go ahead and start yet another
one up?
Maybe he's trying to outdo the worst--and at that,
he is definitely succeeding.
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Response 5 of 45: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Mar 14, 1998 (03:05) * 4 lines
Welcome boswell, so good to hear someone take a counterpoint. We tend to
be self congratulatory around here. But I don't think we take ourselves
that seriously, the only measure is whether the folks here have a good
time, and they seem to be doing that. And you're about four years too late.
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Response 6 of 45: orange (orange) * Sat, Mar 14, 1998 (14:46) * 12 lines
it has a similar odor/scratch that
fragrance
but i havent seen that capitalization scheme.
and terry, i seem to recall the emails are not verified on registration at
spring?
more likely maj.
hi maj!!!
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Response 7 of 45: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Mar 15, 1998 (01:58) * 6 lines
I'm singing in the rain,
Just singing in the rain,
Such a wonderful feeling,
I'm happy a-gain...
And, hiya, boswell...
Why not?
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Response 8 of 45: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (10:32) * 5 lines
I have been in communication with the real Gerard Van Der Leun this
morning. The above post is a fake.
We have a means of finding out who the imposter may be.
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Response 9 of 45: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jun 10, 1999 (11:58) * 1 lines
What does HCI stand for?
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Response 10 of 45: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Thu, Jun 10, 1999 (12:19) * 3 lines
It's "ich" spelled backwards. "Ich" = "I" in German.
Not the answer your looking for, huh?
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Response 11 of 45: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Thu, Jun 10, 1999 (12:23) * 6 lines
How about this:
"Human-Computer Interaction is a field of ergonomics concerned with the design of computer technologies. The goal of HCI is "Getting users interacting with computers to perform effective work." (Long).
Found it using the search tool on the main menu.
More here: http://www.ergohci.ucl.ac.uk/
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Response 12 of 45: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jun 10, 1999 (14:48) * 3 lines
THAT would be the correct answer!
thanks!
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Response 13 of 45: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Sat, Jun 12, 1999 (05:30) * 1 lines
There's also a phone company in the US called HCI...
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Response 14 of 45: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (14:04) * 3 lines
heard of MCI...
never heard of HCI...
(am i walking into a trap or WHAT?)
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Response 15 of 45: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (14:22) * 2 lines
depends on if you can define the difference between
internet, intranet, and extranet...
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Response 16 of 45: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (15:46) * 1 lines
exe
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Response 17 of 45: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (15:54) * 1 lines
mouse
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Response 18 of 45: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (16:11) * 1 lines
cat and?
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Response 19 of 45: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Wed, Jun 16, 1999 (02:57) * 1 lines
Ball of yarn.
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Response 20 of 45: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jun 16, 1999 (09:28) * 1 lines
grandma perkins
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Response 21 of 45: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Wed, Jun 16, 1999 (16:06) * 1 lines
Perkins, Perkins - is she Carl Perkins granny?
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Response 22 of 45: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (09:43) * 2 lines
could be...
she's not my granny
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Response 23 of 45: humain being (casanova) * Sun, Jul 11, 1999 (10:07) * 1 lines
is there any server in the toronto called spring it works like aol
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Response 24 of 45: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul 11, 1999 (10:30) * 1 lines
hmmm...
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Response 25 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sat, Feb 5, 2000 (10:46) * 1 lines
I've just switched from IE5 to Netscape. Is there any way I can import my 'favourites' to the bookmarks of Netscape without having to select each and every file. Can I import a folder somewhere? I'm getting desperate.
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Response 26 of 45: (sprin5) * Sat, Feb 5, 2000 (11:56) * 1 lines
You can sign up for Visto on http://tvnight.org and it will store your booksmarks on their website via an import mechism, then load them in to your other browser. That's what I use to share bookmarks between browsers and it works great. Just click the banner on http://tvnight.org that says visto and it will tell you how to do it after you sign up.
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Response 27 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (03:02) * 1 lines
Thanks, I was getting quite desperate.
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Response 28 of 45: (sprin5) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (06:32) * 1 lines
Let me know about your progress on this, ok? I can share more advice on using Visto if you need it. Were you able to sign up ok?
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Response 29 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (13:42) * 1 lines
Sign up was fine. I've transferred over a few files and that's OK too. I downloaded the sync assistant but it didn't like me very much and insisted I shut my browser, and still didn't like me after I did. It also didn't seem to recognise I had IE5 as well as Netscape. Ideas?
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Response 30 of 45: (sprin5) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (15:15) * 1 lines
You're going to have to set change your default browser most likely and tell Visto in preferences which browswer to import/export bookmarks to/from.
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Response 31 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (16:52) * 4 lines
I have just found another solution tonight. I found a site called my bookmark
http://www.mybookmarks.com
I can download all my bookmarks into that in their present folders and access them via netscape or IE5. I'm trying it out.
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Response 32 of 45: (sprin5) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (18:56) * 1 lines
You can do the same with Visto, they keep your bookmarks on their website and you can access them there.
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Response 33 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (13:00) * 1 lines
I found it difficult to transfer them in folders. I use visto for file storage but also found it difficult to store files using my present folder system, so I only stored the vital ones. (I've got zip backup too)
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Response 34 of 45: Alexander (aschuth) * Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (15:13) * 1 lines
(You do,eh?)
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Response 35 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (13:40) * 1 lines
(Yes I have, so you can stop worrying about me :-)
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Response 36 of 45: Alexander (aschuth) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (16:54) * 1 lines
(You use Zip Rescue yet? Like, create a rescue zip, so you can restart your machine if it ever crashes? Great tool! Downloadable from Iomega.com!)
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Response 37 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (12:58) * 1 lines
(Yeah, I got the tools disk with the machine. so far I haven't had to do a rescue since I got the zip drive. What do you know about 'click of death'? Should we switch this conversation to 'computers' somewhere or is it OK to talk here?)
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Response 38 of 45: Alexander (aschuth) * Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (15:49) * 1 lines
(Who wants to sue us? But ok, pick a better topic, and tell me. I *HAD* Click of Death last year. I know all you can find in the WWW.)
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Response 39 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (16:29) * 1 lines
I guess since no-one's complaining we can carry on! Can you email the URLs of what you found? I haven't experienced it yet - but I must admit to waking up dreading it!!!! I've got a double zip back up of my data just in case - plus visto. It's at the point now where it wuld be very difficult to repeat if it all got scrambled. I still have printer problems with the zip - I'm using parallel and route the printer through the zip. Usually I just have to clear the connection once by trying to print something and then clearing it. I find that easier than the official solution which is much more involved. However, recently I found the zip drive kept removing itself when I closed down and I've had to reinstall it severaL times. It's behaving itself today, so perhaps I've done something right.
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Response 40 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (04:16) * 1 lines
Not quite an internet question - but a wierd thing happened today. My modem when dialling my ISP rang the emergency services - we got a call from the police once i got off the phone line saying they'd received a silent call from us!!! Cannot figure how it happened. If it keeps happening I'm in trouble!!!! I cannot figure how my modem configured to dail only my ISP rang the emergency services - they traced the call to my landline. Ideas?
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Response 41 of 45: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (13:12) * 1 lines
All I can think of is to check and double check the phone number you entered in your dial-up program and make sure it is the ISP and not one of the emergency services. Should they be the same, you need to contact your ISP tech staff and tell them about it.
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Response 42 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (11:48) * 1 lines
Happened again today. wierd or what. doesn't happen every time, double checks done. Must be something to do with the intermediary phone provider (we have a smart box attached to the main phone line to divert national and international calls to them). Have sent an urgent email. Police are being very nice about it, and they tried to contact our provider for us, but only us are allowed to report it.
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Response 43 of 45: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (14:08) * 3 lines
There should be some national (like our FCC) organization which could bring out the big guns to make the ISP fix the problem ASAP.
Tough time coming. I am sick of shredding my stuff for him. Gave him an ultimatum to find elsewhere to live or live with it.
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Response 44 of 45: Alexander (aschuth) * Mon, Apr 24, 2000 (05:40) * 3 lines
Perhaps somebody changed the number in the dial-up settings to make using the modem more, ah, interesting? As in a prank?
What operating system do you use?
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Response 45 of 45: Maggie (sociolingo) * Thu, Apr 27, 2000 (13:04) * 2 lines
Win 98.
I seem to have solvd it for now by removing the 'Quip' smart box. I think the problem is likely to have been that with so much traffic on the ine and the difficulties of getting through it's only dialing part of the Quip prefix number (1250),and therefore getting 112 sometimes. It's the only explanation I can think of, and expecially since it's now stopped. I'm loath to reconnect the quip box while the ISP is still settling down to the masses of new subscribers folling the free phone calls to the net offer (which is why i joined them!). Once it looks like they can carry the load easier, I'll try again and see if we get the same problem. Trouble I is don't know how many 'nuisance calls' to the emergency services you are allowed before you get charged with an offense. So I'm scared.
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