Re: Since the list is so quiet....

I strongly recommend buying laptops new since they all seem to die
within three years max. Now they can be resurrected, but at a huge
relative cost.

Pam

Michael Koch-Schulte wrote:

> Get a new (or two year old off lease) laptop with the wireless (wifi)
> connection. Chances are you can get free internet from a neighbour's
> unprotected wireless network....just my two cents ;^) (It'll also work
> at Starbuck's, probably.)
>
> ~m
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Judy Seigel <mailto:jseigel@panix.com>
> *To:* alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> <mailto:alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:38 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Since the list is so quiet....
>
>
> Since the list is so quiet, I figured I might be able to appeal to
> the
> leashed brain power & expertise for advice on a problem that arrives
> suddenly after more than 10 years of dial up... So I'm hopelessly
> backward, but that's well known -- who else would take up gum
> printing in
> old age?
>
> My problem is -- I'm still doing e-mail by dial up --which
> actually has
> many advantages, including that I get to spend the oodles of money
> saved
> on more intellectual pursuits (although the real reason I do it is
> (a)
> stubborness... and (b) simplicity, I have enough systems, services,
> contrivances, and "service providers" in this house for an army).
> Besides
> which I can really excuse myself from web hopping, which makes me old
> before my time.... So what's the problem?
>
> A couple of weeks ago I started getting an intermittent "no dial
> tone"
> message from my attempts via terminal emulator (Z-term) to log on...
> though I could lift up the phone and get a dial tone. Trying an
> hour or
> two later, I did get a tone, so I figured there was just too much
> traffic... somewhere.
>
> But today I couldn't get a dial tone all day, so tonight
> (12:30-ish AM) I
> plugged into an extension of my husband's office phone which is
> nearby (I
> mean sometimes I HAVE to use touch tone, since my dearly beloved
> white
> antique wall phone is rotary... And, I'll have you know, I could
> get $45
> for that on e-bay. I think folks use them as planters, or ash
> trays, or
> something.)
>
> So there is a dial tone out there & the problem is... something in
> the old
> phone? (Sob !)... That's intermittent? The demons got tired of
> Carmen and
> found me? Sliding down the telephone wire?
>
> But how could my rotary phone be working, give me a dial tone and
> calls in
> and out but say it has no dial tone for a connection? And some time
> later, with the same configuration, same connections, etc.,
> decides to
> work, then maybe the next week won't? A loose connection? A
> flaky thumb
> plug?
>
> Verizon has lately been taking an overdose of dumb pills and was
> absolutely no use at all... they for instance left me one of those
> robot
> messages to say a non-working outlet was due to my faulty phone,
> when it
> belonged to somebody else in the house who had already had it
> fixed -- by
> verizon.
>
> So verizon said this problem was caused by my service provider,
> but it
> seems rather to be lodged in my old phone, a split personality of
> some
> sort. Anyway, I suppose that old phone which doesn't hear as well
> as I do
> any more is due to be replaced (ash tray anyone?). Can you still
> buy a
> landline phone? Anyway, thanks for listening, if anyone has a
> suggestion,
> that would be even better...
>
> Judy
>
Received on 08/10/06-03:39:19 PM Z