On Oct 8, 8:50*am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:58:28 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I have a gmail account, and Firefox. What more do I need?

Nada except maybe for Agent newsreader. * If you set up your AOL mail
to forward to GMAIL, you won't have to worry about your AOL inbox
filling up.

Well actually Wayne, i like having the AOL account and I know you can
swing the emails over using a reader, but that's the point. for the
friends that like to shotgun out emails of jokes and cute stories etc,
I'd just as soon not let them have my Gmail acct. If I feel like
answering them I'll do it on AOL. It keeps my gmail a lot cleaner and
even though it's not SPAM, I dont' have to wade through all the crap.

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:58:28 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



But there was a time when I actually thought Aol *WAS* the internet.
I thought that AOL was the actual name of the internet.


I should have canceled them, but i kept paying their monthly extortion
fee till they came out with the "free" edition a couple maybe three
years ago. that upgrade took out some of their features but not enough
to justify having them.

You were young enough to break away.
My dad and stepmom are still handcuffed to it, and can't imagine
living without it since they have so much stuff tied to it.
I think AOL's further survival is closely related to actuarial
mortality tables.

--Vic

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:15:40 -0400, Tosk
wrote:



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

On Oct 8, 5:41*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:15:40 -0400, Tosk

wrote:

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.

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

wrote:

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.

--
Birther-Deather-Tenther-Teabagger:
Idiots All

On Oct 8, 5:57*pm, H the K wrote:
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

*wrote:

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.

--
Birther-Deather-Tenther-Teabagger:
Idiots All- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Maybe there was enough creabbuing going on that the mfj's quit it. I
haven't seen any cd mailings either, but usually and occasionally
there will be a bin full of them at the grocery store for free. The
last update I new of was AOL 9.0 which was jsut a glorified version of
8.0 which was a glorified verson of 7.0 etc. And I thought the 7 was
better than the 9!

But my wife has an old lappy which still has AOL 3.0 on it....

somewhere

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:13:17 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Oct 8, 5:57*pm, H the K wrote:
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

*wrote:

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.

--
Birther-Deather-Tenther-Teabagger:
Idiots All- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Maybe there was enough creabbuing going on that the mfj's quit it. I
haven't seen any cd mailings either, but usually and occasionally
there will be a bin full of them at the grocery store for free. The
last update I new of was AOL 9.0 which was jsut a glorified version of
8.0 which was a glorified verson of 7.0 etc. And I thought the 7 was
better than the 9!

But my wife has an old lappy which still has AOL 3.0 on it....

somewhere

The CD mailings may have stopped because someone finally realized what
a drain they were on the worldwide supply of natural resources.

wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:57:33 -0400, H the K
wrote:

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

wrote:

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?

wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:57:33 -0400, H the K
wrote:

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

wrote:

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.

That's 'cause you're used to it. I used to have an offline reader for CIS
that did email as well, and I thought *that* was the cat's meeow. Same was
true with ReplayTV, and after 2 years with it, had to learn TIVO when I went
to DirecTV. Now DTV has their own brand of DVR, and since I'm finally used
to it... it's the best. g

All software has it's good an bad. Whatever floats yer boat...

--Mike

wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:12:34 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:57:33 -0400, H the K
wrote:

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

wrote:

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?


Yet to be seen. I know it is a lot better than Comcast because I am
running DSL now but let's see how they do after a hurricane. Comcast
got the TV back in 3 days after Charlie and Wilma but the broadband
was down over a week both times. Power was out a day after Charlie, a
few hours after Wilma. I didn't even have time to move over to my
propane fridge on the last one..

DSL from your phone company should be as reliable as dial tone. Let's
hope we don't have to find out!

I'm in central Florida so the huricane threat is not quite as bad as the
coastal areas. Although a tornada touched down about a mile from our
home a few years ago a did a real number on the area.