Re: OT - need computer help

Handsome Jack Morrison wrote:
    so maybe Lia's husband (as a computer geek and faithful companion)

would be kind enough to download it and install it for her?

If not, I think a visit to a good divorce lawyer is in order. 


I've considered that daily for 18 years, but he's good in bed.  Besides,
we're not married.


I currently have open office on the same computer that runs mozilla for
the Internet. I can use open office whenever he's not on the Internet. Before that, I had star office. Some of my old files are on star office. Neither of us remembers how to access star office anymore. Maybe those files are on a disk somewhere. It might take Jim as much as half a day's work to find the disk and figure out how to install it on one of the computers in order to find out that what I'm looking for isn't there afterall and might be somewhere else. There are also files with pictures from the digital someplace. I wouldn't hazard
a guess where. The quilt pictures are mixed up with vacation pictures,
and the pictures from the first digital are numbered differently from
the ones from the current digital. Each time available disk space fills
up, my Internet access screws up. And there are some neatly labeled
floppies but nothing to run them on.


At the moment I can send to usenet fine and receive mail, but my ability
to send email is limited to a window in time when things will go through
but not usually. I can get to usenet, but only when I first log on so
if I'm reading the group for any length of time or if I stop to write a
letter (as now), I have to put the letter in a draft folder, log off,
long back on again, then continue. This means that Jim is working
furiously (or, I suspect, not so furiously) on the basement computer
trying to upgrade such that I can send from there but not transfer files
from here, and I'll probably lose scads of saved stuff when it finally
gets fixed. I was hoping that if I started from scratch on something
that has nothing to do with graphics, the Internet, Jim's files, disks,
ancient software, etc. I might be able to write, organize, etc. I swear, the cardboard boxes where I've been throwing collected correspondence from the last 30 years is in better order. At least there's a date on the top of each letter and a signature on each. I've just finished reading letters sent to me in 1978. Now there's material for a novel.


None of this was a problem until I threatened to get my own computer and outside help. Now Jim has accused me of moving over to the Dark Side (Microsoft), and things have gone speedily downhill from there.


I agree that touchpads are annoying.  In fact, every laptop I've ever
tried has been annoying, and since I don't want to walk around with this
thing, that's one of the reasons I've rejected Jim's offer to rig up
something from the spare parts in the house.


There is a Freecycle group. I learned about them when I was trying to unload books and fabric. I'll look into it again. I was hoping for new so I wouldn't have to deal with someone else's configuration, but I can see that I'm not going to find exactly what I want so this might be a good option. The same goes for thrift stores. Come to think of it, I can see where I may have a choice between buying new and dealing with something with too many bells and whistles or getting used whether from Freecycle, thrift shops, ebay, and dealing with learning how to set up after someone has already played with it.


Someone mentioned a Mac.  That might be the way to go.  I'll look into that.


--Lia



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