Re: OT: Telus is dropping their news server.

[Frank Kurz <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/10/2010 10:01 AM, Jim wrote:
> On Oct 24, 11:32 pm, tourman<robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> On Oct 24, 10:10 pm, Frank Kurz<t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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>>> On 24/10/2010 3:18 PM, Jim wrote:
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>>>> On Oct 24, 12:56 am, Frank Kurz<t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
>>>>> On 23/10/2010 5:29 PM, Jim Rojas wrote:
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>>>>>> nick markowitz wrote:
>>>>>>> On Oct 23, 2:53 pm, Jim Rojas<jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
>>>>>>>> Frank Kurz wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I haven't had access to the group for about fifteen days now. This
>>>>>>>>> morning I get a message that states that Telus is dropping their
>>>>>>>>> service
>>>>>>>>> from October 1. Some more notification would have been nice!
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>>>>>>>> I use Teranews.com
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>>>>>>>> Jim Rojas
>>>>>>>> Technical Manuals Online!http://www.tech-man.com
>>>>>>>> 8002 Cornwall Lane
>>>>>>>> Tampa, FL 33615-4604
>>>>>>>> 813-884-6335
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>>>>>>> You can get to this group thru Google news groups as well
>>
>>>>>> Yes, but I like to use my mail program to respond to emails as well as
>>>>>> usenet.
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>>>>> I tried Google groups.  Royal pain.  I'll try Giganews for a couple of
>>>>> months and see how that goes.-
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>>>> I use Google. It's kinda messy at first,  trying to find this group,
>>>> but once I did, I just bookmarked the sign-in page and now it just
>>>> takes a couple of second to sign on. They don't require any personal
>>>> info and I can keep a low profile and this is all I use it for anyway.
>>>> Works for me.
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>>> I prefer using a news reader.  I happen to like using Thunderbird.
>>
>>> On a side note...  I figure as an official "beta tester" for Microsoft
>>> 2010 Office, I'd receive a "thank you" in the form of either a free
>>> upgrade to the full version or a deeply discounted price to do so.  MS
>>> isn't even offering an "upgrade" version (except to those individuals
>>> that bought Office 2007 as part of a new computer purchase - and then
>>> you have to activate it in a very narrow "window").  That just plain
>>> sucks.  I use Professional because I write a lot of Access apps.  Would
>>> have been nice to upgrade to 2010.  Glad I saved everything I did as a
>>> "2007" file.
>>
>>> Rant mode "off".
>>
>>> --
>>> Frank Kurzwww.firetechs.net
>>
>> RHC: Frank, why bother spending any money on new versions of Office
>> (rhetorically speaking....I'm sure you have your reasons). I'm still
>> using an old copy of Office 2000 that does everything I could want to
>> do with this program.  I get severely pissed with programs such as
>> Quick Books where they keep trying to get you to upgrade to get some
>> minor upgrade I wouldn't use anyway.
>>
>> Until recently, I was still using Quick Books 2000 but did decide to
>> buy the latest version (2010). That one should keep me going for the
>> next decade at least.....:))-
>
> Problem is, ( and I feel the same as you) the operating systems change
> and when you buy a new computer, the old applications are not
> compatable with the new operating system. I use Word Perfect, word
> processor and  have for about 20 or more years ( before it was even
> called Word Perfect) I Never  use Word in spite of the fact that they
> stole most of their functions from WP.  This computer I have now will
> be the last one that I can use my old version on. I'll have to get a
> new version of WP for my next computer. And .... I don't even know if
> I'll be able to convert all of my old saved files to the new WP
> format. I'm having some trouble with this computer converting some old
> files.

The wife has used Word Perfect since the 5.1 and DOS days.  I just
loaded WP X-4 on her new computer.  She's not having any problems
opening the older files.  Quattro Pro and Presentations are both far
superior to Excel and Powerpoint.

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Frank Kurz
www.firetechs.net