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I wanted to get people's feedback on which model they prefer and why do they
prefer the model. I prefer actually paying for software then using too much software that is supported by ads especially because of the problems with adware in this day and age. Please respond with comments to this post about if you prefer the pay for software model or the software model that is "free" and supported by ads as well as having the chance to mess with your computer. You can see my bias here but I would like feedback from everyone if they get a chance. Please try and use thoughtful comments and don't just rant and rave as I have been guilty of in the past in this newsgroup if you can avoid it. Thank you and have a great new week. |
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"Dan" wrote in message
... I wanted to get people's feedback on which model they prefer and why do they prefer the model. . . . if you prefer the pay for software model or the software model that is "free" and supported by ads as well as having the chance to mess with your computer. Better repost saying more clearly what you mean. You are likely to find answers from people who play games on PCs differ from those who never play games, people who earn their living with PCs differ from those whose use is unpaid, and so on. E.g. for writing (a common function) most people use either WordPerfect or MS Word although they never use most of the features of this office software (designed for bulk production of brochures etc.) I prefer instead a text editor with separate formatting functions (built on emacs). The difference is fundamental but has nothing to do with the categories of freeware/patented software etc. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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=?Utf-8?B?RGFu?= wrote in
: I wanted to get people's feedback on which model they prefer and why do they prefer the model. I prefer actually paying for software then using too much software that is supported by ads especially because of the problems with adware in this day and age. Please respond with comments to this post about if you prefer the pay for software model or the software model that is "free" and supported by ads as well as having the chance to mess with your computer. You can see my bias here but I would like feedback from everyone if they get a chance. Please try and use thoughtful comments and don't just rant and rave as I have been guilty of in the past in this newsgroup if you can avoid it. Thank you and have a great new week. I have a lot of freeware and some shareware which I rarely use and I have seen MAYBE one opening screen of an upgrade offer in a few of them. So you must be using the wrong kind of free/shareware, the kind that also installs all sorts of "interesting" things in your machine. When I use something that will run indefinitely in free or share mode ALL the time and consider it indispensable, I pay for it, sometimes even when it's completely optional. I have bought some software not available as share of free but not much. There is almost always a free/share option, often much better. And if it's a program that costs $300 and I need to use it ONCE, I get a crack. Decent software companies make their software free for home non- profit use, as it all should be. |
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What programs do you use and like, thanatoid. Thanks in advance for your
response. Have a great week. |
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Thank you for your thoughts Don and Canadians do rule and are so cool. My
brother in law James is originally from British Columbia in Canada I think and I know it is Canada and he is an awesome guy. I know run on sentence -- :- |
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=?Utf-8?B?RGFu?= wrote in
: What programs do you use and like, thanatoid. Thanks in advance for your response. Have a great week. I listed my "core programs" in my "t's computer is ten years old" post. I probably have nearly a hundred other programs/utilities which are more or less useful, if only once every 3 years. But I am not going to list them all. That would be just silly. If you are interested in what I think (FW*t*W) is a good program for something, be more specific and I'd be happy to recommend something. |
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Thanks, I will let you know in the future after I get my motherboard back
from ASUS because it is being repaired due to a power surge that fried the Marvell Ethernet Port and potentially other stuff also. The CMOS battery is also being replaced. "thanatoid" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?RGFu?= wrote in : What programs do you use and like, thanatoid. Thanks in advance for your response. Have a great week. I listed my "core programs" in my "t's computer is ten years old" post. I probably have nearly a hundred other programs/utilities which are more or less useful, if only once every 3 years. But I am not going to list them all. That would be just silly. If you are interested in what I think (FW*t*W) is a good program for something, be more specific and I'd be happy to recommend something. |
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"Dan" wrote in message
... . . . after I get my motherboard back from ASUS because it is being repaired due to a power surge that fried the Marvell Ethernet Port and potentially other stuff also. The CMOS battery is also being replaced. There may be more here than Dan assumed, chiefly: 1. Replacing a CMOS battery is or ought to be no more difficult than replacing the battery of a flashlight. Because the (disc-shaped) CMOS battery lies parallel with the surface of a motherboard it may in many configurations be covered by a device card (so that the card must be removed before the battery cover can be unlatched) but once that has been done replacement is easy. 2. In order to restore a Win98 PC, this user prefers to pay for factory repair of a MB rather than buy whatever is in the stores (presumably only MBs designed for XP or Vista.) Where I live, stores that handle upgrades usually sell "obsolete" Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 PCs for $200 or less, as at http://www.fedacom.com/MainPage/MainPage.htm -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Don, this motherboard recently sold on Ebay for over $200 and a second one
later on sold for well over $100 and so I am very happy with my decision. Thanks for your input, anyway. |
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Please do not take offense Don Phillipson from Canada but do you build your
own computers and having help is allowed. My friend Raymond from Tucson, Arizona helped me to upgrade my Falcon Northwest Mach 5 computer with a new motherboard from ASUS, 2 hard drives from Western Digital, a new Intel 2.4 Ghz. CPU, etc. In addition, I now have my friend Jeff in Albuquerque, New Mexico who will help me with the upgrading of my current machine which has 98 Second Edition and XP Professional. The biggest mistake that I recently made was to install VPN without understanding what it does. I will now stay away from it because apparently Cisco Networks VPN (Virtual Private Networking) had some vulnerabilities and it seems to be only as strong as the weakest link in the computer network of APS and so I will take Chris Quirke, MVP advice and unistall it ASAP and realize that was what hurt my computer so much, allowed someone to hack the system and made it so Windows 98 Second Edition and XP Professional were confused. I also need this newsgroups help to fully understand BING and what it does. Perhaps, Gary S. Terhune, MVP, Chris Quirke, MVP and/or PCR could email me about it and have a good indepth discussion about BING. Thanks in advance for your help and support. Please see the following links to understand more in my discussion with Chris Quirke, MVP on this area. (Note: I am not responsible if these links somehow are messed up and bring you somewhere else so please use common sense and precautions and copy and paste into a new tab or link and temporarily set Internet Explorer settings to a strong security custom setting if you are concerned about the web links but still want to see them) https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?bl...9281909187 46 https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...D-9827B1A109B8 http://cquirke.spaces.live.com/ http://cquirke.wordpress.com/2007/09...bers/#comments http://cquirke.wordpress.com/2007/09...orld/#comments http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/dod.mspx http://secunia.com/product/14068/?task=advisories http://www.us-cert.gov/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ and below the video on how important male elementary school teachers are to our children and how few there are in America: http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&bran...-1:ind:1:ff:8A Dan Weiser currently APS educational assistant plan to be 3rd to 5th grade elementary school teacher no desire to be stuck behind an office desk all day In addition, I don't know if Canada is lacking male elementary school teachers but according to statistics the male elementary school teacher is at a 40 year low in the U.S.A. and children need good male role models. I am honored to have been chosen for this profession. Please be more careful with your replies in the future and hopefully this does not dampen our on-line relationship. BTW, my brother-in-law James is a Canadian so I highly honor and respect our neighbor to the North and I hope that you will more highly respect the U.S.A. in the future. Have a good week if you can manage it. BTW, I am done with lying and I greatly apologize for lying in the past and I will try and be more truthful in the future. I realize I will fall back into lying again but I must restore the TRUST in this newsgroup and I am willing to do what it takes to restore that trust especially with the cool, awesome and caring Gary S. Terhune who I see as my teacher and myself as his student who does stupid and terrible things sometimes with selfish ambition and thoughts only for myself and not truly caring for my neighbor and loving the higher power with my full being. I must try and pray for my enemies and help thus that I can but I now realize I must first help myself and get my life in order which is slowly but surely happening and I am now longer mad, depressed and cynical because the thyroid hormone that I am taking is now adjusted to the proper dose and I just need to have my blood levels especially thyroid hormone checked every three months. I am also glad to be on paid leave and staying with my parents in Santa Fe, NM for a while where I am safe. My rental is currently in Albuquerque and I moved from Tucson, Arizona in 2006 and it was because of my mom, Toni and her faitfulness that she understood that I needed to get away from the terrible summer heat of Tucson and move into a New Mexico which is the Land of Enchantment and has the truly awesome Green Chile. BTW, Don, are you convinced yet that I know a little about computers? |
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