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

I didn't mean that, just buy new and buy the manufacturer's insurance
policy. I've used nothing but laptops for about 10 years now, love them.

Pam

graeme.lyall wrote:

> No, please, not a laptop. I have wasted a lot of money on those
> things. Never again. Pam is quite right, they go wrong and cost a
> fortune to repair which is uneconomic.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Niedermayer" <pam@pinehill.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:38 PM
> Subject: 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 08/10/06-07:11:59 PM Z