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My computer problems have got worse rather than better. Once I've made this post though, I'm going to install a new version of Linux. With a bit of look, that will sort things out. Once thats done, backlog and emails will be dealt with. In the meantime, if anybody knows where my phone is, could you kindly let me know?

I thought this was a thread listing all the cute penguins...

Good luck with the computer problems.

I don't see any penguins at all.

You could at least ask Berk Breathed to draw Opus and his friends.

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Paul, I like Opus and his Bloom County friends. Have you seen the new Opus the Penguin comic strip?

Pheloxi, The penguin jokes are cool.

Rat, Did the Linux installation solve your computer problems?

*is attracted by the *
Hi, would anyone like some ?

I love the new Opus comic strip, which runs in our local Sunday paper.

*wonders how successful the Linux installation was in solving that problem*

I had to do a system restore on my pc last week because the software from the cable internet company was just evil. A plain uninstall wouldn't completely remove it, either.

You had evil software?



Where did you find an exorcist?

The evil software changed my IE homepage, the skin for the browser, and added a spinning icon in the top corner that wouldn't go away after an uninstall. It also installed the alexa search engine toolbar that collects private information.

I used the restore utility and the xp cd to reboot my system to how it had been 24 hours previous. I set the boot menu to boot from the cd instead of the hard drive. Then, at the prompt clicked repair instead of reinstall. After forty minutes it was over and all of my saved data as well as desktop settings were still there. The final step was a trip to windows updates to download security upgrades to stop the lewd and crude pop ups that hadn't been a problem until the broad jump software was installed. It's been more than a week since, and everything seems to be okay.

Lewd popoups?

Say it ain't so!

I grew up in a more innocent time, when popups were something that you spread butter or jam on at brunch.

The google toolbar blocks regular pop ups. These were very insidious gray boxes addressed Windows Messenger service alert... which disguises it as something requested. I assure you, I didn't request information on what they wanted to sell.

I prefer the buttery kind of pop ups.

In fact, I've decided that after I retire, I will abandon the present day and go to live in the 1970s. That is to say, I will *pretend* that I'm back in the 1970s. And don't call me a nutter, I know what I'm doing.

Linux was no use at all....what I'd done is install a warez firewall without realising it.....I knew it was a firewall, not warez and it gave them everything they needed to know about my comp

Since I was already running a 'mini'-linux via windoze, they arleady had access to that as well. Three re-installs and five full formats later (and a new funky highspeed broadband connection), I'm back...I think...

I like my new broadband connection. Do not install broadjump, under any circumstances.

BT say you can only use their modem and you can only use their software with BT broadband....however, they are lying.

Their software detected my system setting incorrectly and wouldn't install so I had to do everything manually and guess what? It was fine. The modem they give you is a steaming pile of dingos droppings so I bought another one instead and guess what - that works too.

The only software I'm using is standard Windows 98 dial up software and the device drivers......

The cd that came with the motorola cable modem was enough. The cd from the cable company tried to corrupt my computer. I had to do a system restore to get rid of it.

Sounds about right....

It would be interesting to find out which phone/internet companies are run by and employed by people who have even just a vague understanding of what they're supposed to be doing

If they really know, they probably aren't allowed to admit it.