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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack of All Trades who wrote (5398)	6/19/2000 3:25:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 7434

It's not too bad, it's a good thing I did not get it 6 months ago. The harder core programs run on it, but older ones do not. Tradestation 4.0 will not for example. Tradestation 2000 will. I have a major issue with QCharts. No one over there knows what my problem is.....they say it runs fine. Meanwhile, I can get programs written by QFeed developers (like Atin, for example) to work fine. So the data is coming in, but the program appears to run as a "Process" in the background. Not as an Application on the Task Bar. LeoWeb took a bit of time but that's okay. Snagit works. Quicken does not. RealPlayer works, MS Internet Exploder and Netscape work. Iomega's ZipCD does not but their Zip Drive does....... I was afraid to try out anything more complex than the above. Maybe a program here and there, but at this point I'm guessing that I can use a notebook or the machine I just granted to mmy wife for anything else I need. Gawd help me, I just started to create a huge Alpha 4 database. I sure hope that works.....it was to link to various other programs on this machine. The GHraphics display is a bit weird as well. I thought it could be this Matrox card that came with the machine, but Dell does not know how to fix it either. Seems that I can get the programs to "stay" on their own separate monitors, but the occasional "instruction" comes up which is split across the two monitors. In other words, there isn't a manner of forcing one of the two monitors to be the Primary Monitor. When new programs are launched, they launch in the middle of the two. Then I decide what monitor to force them to use as their permanent home and it's okay. But System Alerts, such as a Shut Down Screen for example, pop up half in one monitor and half in the other. Sort of like having bifocals on sideways.