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D.Duck[_3_]

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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:57:33 -0400, H the K
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On 10/8/09 6:52 PM, Tim wrote:
On Oct 8, 5:41 pm, Vic wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:15:40 -0400, Tosk

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Yes, after a very deliberate insinuation that they were "the internet".
It made many older folks afraid to leave them.. Years ago when I built
computers, I used to put it right in the contract "installing anything
AOL voids the warrantee, period".
My dad's computer was running out of memory when I was down there so I
disabled all the startup items with msconfig.
Think he has 2gb memory.
Didn't bother looking at the list, but it was long.
Probably AOL's fault. But it could be a Bush or Obama doing.

--Vic
If you shut down AOL, occasionally it would stop the shut down so it
could clean out a bunch of it's "artwork" which was a real pig on
memory space.

i wonder how much AOL pays computer mfj's to still pre load AOL on new
machines.

i know there were lots of people crabbing about trying to find a new
machine that didn't have AOL preloaded on it.

I haven't seen a new computer with AOL on it for some years. Even the CD
mailings have stopped.

AOL does not have much proprietary content anymore. They want to be
Google, just selling ads and making the service free.
I think they would be just as happy to get out of the software
business.
I still think the AOL 7 (the version I run) still has the best Email
client around. It beats Thunderbird and all the various microsoft
crap.

They may be one of the few places that still support dial up tho and
that is worth something to me.
Broadband is always the first thing to go in a hurricane but I have
never lost the phone. During and after Charlie I was on my PC, running
off an inverter in my car, looking at the Florida weather radar and
the NHC at NOAA.

DSL?