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Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mr.mark who wrote (13675)	12/4/2000 5:35:53 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

but ie5.0 sure is the superior performer for me LOL...I knew you'd finally come around. Let's see, let me mark (no pun intended) this date down! I understand the attachment to the email program. It's a pain switching to something new and it certainly is a target for virus attacks. Looks like we'll both learn some new stuff. When you make the plunge, here's a link (from Winmag) to an outlook express professional's site. According to them, if this guy doesn't know how to do it, it can't be done. tomsterdam.com I feel really bad about the new machine I ordered for my buddy. I set it up for them Thursday and we haven't been up and running (other than the FAILED download of Aol 6.0 upgrade) for 30 consecutive minutes since. Between crashes I spent thursday and friday teaching them how to operate a mouse and what some of the basic terminology means. They keep asking me if they're doing something wrong to cause the crashes. I'm going over today to take 5.0 out and install a full copy of 6.0 that I put on a zip disk at home. Cable speed sure is nice. So far, I sure wish I had ordered 98SE. Added complication...his girlfriend speaks very little english. tc ps: download failed at 95% because he forgot that he couldn't use the phone while online and was calling me to tell me it was just about finished. Sigh!

To: mr.mark who wrote (13675)	12/4/2000 6:10:06 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

AOL 6.0 update...think I'll wait and read this afternoons article before installation. langa.com "Any time you add any new software to your system, you increase the complexity of what your operating system has to deal with. Sometimes, it's worth it: Even if a new program is (ahem) less than perfect, its benefits may outweigh its drawbacks. Other times, a new program adds so much complexity and/or creates so many problems--- immediate or potential--- that the drawbacks overwhelm any possible benefit. Like any other application, when you add either AOL6 or MSN Explorer to your system, you'll increase your overall system complexity. But while MSN Explorer's changes are minor, AOL6 makes an almost unbelievable number of unnecessary and even dangerous changes to your system's networking setup--- some of them so bizarre even AOL's own support technicians are at a loss as to explain what's going on. (I know: I called them.). At best, AOL6's changes are likely to make your system less stable; at worst, AOL6 may render your system wide-open to hackers, crackers, and other online miscreants. Some of AOL6's changes can be remedied if you know exactly where to look and what to do; other changes AOL6 makes cannot be undone at all without fatally breaking the AOL6 installation. I'll tell you everything I found out about both AOL6 and MSN Explorer--- including how I tested them and exactly what changes they both made to my test system. I'll also tell you which of the adverse changes can be undone, and which cannot. But it's a whole article in itself, and is way too much to cram into a newsletter. Instead, I've made these tests the focus of the new "Explorer" column that goes live around midday today (Dec 04, 2000; UT-4) on the WinMag.Com site. The column will appear under the "Explorer" heading on winmag.com ; if you arrive early, you'll see the previous column "Automatic Update Services -- Yea or Nay?" In that case, just try again a little later. If you want to try a direct link, once the column is posted, it should be at winmag.com . (If you arrive early, the link won't work.)" tc