On 06/13/2010 08:35 PM, David B Teague wrote:
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I remember dial-up. And remember ordering CDs to avoid downloads that
lasted 3 days and more. I blessed the day when I discovered the
download manager. I was even happier when DSL finally came to the
boon-docks and that gloriously faster connection.
Thanks for you kind words.
David Teague
My first online work was before the Net with an old 14,400 modem. 12
hours to update
my virus protection data files. 56K was a blessing. Had DSL till they
told me I had to
buy the next modem when the fee was including modems. After 2 flaky
ones, I was not
going to buy one of theirs, which was required. Now I have Time Warner
Cable's RoadRunner.
5, then 10, now 15 or more megs of download speed. Wish upload was
better/faster, but
I do not upload many larger files.
Since I have a lot of people who still would not like to download new
software via broadband
with 10meg download speeds, I offer to create a "new computer" DVD with
the latest version
of all the software that I would need on my next new Windows computer.
Security, Office,
Video, and whatever else I can fit onto a 4.7 gig DVD. If they still
use a CD-only computer,
which I have one myself, I can either look into CDs or bring with me an
external DVD drive,
and now a new 1TB external drive.
BY the Way, do anyone of you know any free Defrag software that works
"WELL" with a
NTFS 1 TB USB drive - one partition. The two I have tried will not show
the "standard"
boxes they show when defraging the internal smaller drives on my
laptop. I need to "see"
what my drive looks like as with the other Win systems, but with this
larger drive. I now
use Linux for every system except my Vista laptop and I do not have the
option to have the
drive formatted to a Linux format, which I am told never needs
defraging, and get a Windows
computer read it through the USB connection, instead through the Linux
system's network
connection. Seeing the colors to see what is going on while it is
defraging or how much
of the drive needs work done on it, is what I prefer, but not seeing at
this time. When you get
more than 80% full, you need to keep it defraged or it gives you problems.
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