| Friday,
August 27, 2004 I still owe you an essay on education and
schooling, and I suppose I should take another look at computers and the
war, but it's hard to do on the road.
And Aleta says this one says it all:
http://www.klydemorris.com/strips.cfm
There is an implied question here:
Word 2003
Jerry: This article paints a dismal picture of MS Word
2003. I'm still using Office XP (at work). I'm not looking forward to being
"upgraded", personally I think Office (and especially Word) peaked at Office
'97. Do you have any experience with Word (Office) 2003?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/MS_word_commentary_pcmag_040824.html
<http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/MS_word_commentary_pcmag_040824.html>
Chris C
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
Stephen Wright
Which I have not had a chance to get to; I have had no problems with Word
2003 and I will read the above later today. I like much of 2003 including
the "reading" view. Anyone with comments on this?
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One thing I fail to understand is why, when you boot with Norton
AntiVirus, it cannot find the C: drive and thinks it is the A: drive; and it
scans only itself, which is pretty useless. Why can't it scan the C: drive
which is what you need done?
But it will not see the c: drive at all. Invalid drive spec. Is
this because Norton can't afford a boot OS that can see NTFS?
And: I uninstalled Norton. Then reinstalled. It says that msnmsg.exe and
teekids.exe are both infect: and does not delete them (although it did
delete msblast.exe and a couple of others). Only I cannot FIND msnmsg.exe in
safe mode so that I can get rid of them.
Now what? Do those files exist or not, and why does Norton think it sees
them when I can't find them?
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I think by uninstalling Norton Anti-Virus then reinstalling I have got it
fixed. Was testing when it was time to leave. We had a nice dinner at
Chadwick's in Alexandria. First time I think I have ever been there. Right
on the Potomac at the foot of Duke Street. (Well, it's a left turn,
actually, onto the Strand)
Now we are back at Homestead where I get "limited or no connectivity"
trying to connect to their wireless net. I was going to research some of the
things I have learned from trying to unvirus Phil's computer, but of course
the execrable Homestead has not enough IP addresses, so I didn't get one. I
presume everyone in the place has attempted to use this. I rather dislike
this. I suppose I will have to connect through dialup and have done with it.
I never had this situation, being able to connect to a network but
getting "limited or no connectivity" before. It doesn't assign an IP
address, and I presume that is the fault of the network, and Homestead.
Bloody hell. I am paying for high speed. But of course I don't get it. I
suspect it's just lots of people using this.
So it goes. One of the hundreds of reasons I no longer like to travel.
Now it has assigned me an IP address, but I can't log on to it. The
server is probably busy, but until I can supply a user name and password,
meaning that it intercepts an open browser and returns that request, I am
still off line. This is not fun. But then travel in general is not fun. When
wireless works, as with the Admiral's Club at American, and a few places
like that, it's pretty neat. but for the most part it's like this, like the
early days of the net, nothing happens, and you feel somehow it must be your
fault, you must have done something wrong, when it is the incompetence of
people who are providing you with "services" that is at fault. The West
hands us marvels with one hand and stomach aches with the other.
Disconnecting and reconnecting gets similar experiences. A couple of
tries before I can get an IP address, but then no way to log on and thus
nothing I can do with that address. I can't actually go out and view web
pages or get email.
And that's the way it is, at Homestead in Fairfax.... (Clearly by the
time you see this I will have found another way, probably by dialup.)
If the design here is to get me to give up on Microsoft and look for some
other way to work on the road it may work. Now opening Outlook gets a
mandatory 10 minute check of the horrid outlook.pst file that may not have
been closed properly. Another way to waste my time.
I hate small computers and I hate travel just now. And I rather hate that
I am so compulsive that I can't just say to hell with it and go to bed. It
is clearly not going to work and it is clearly the fault of the Homestead
wireless network.
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As indeed it was.
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