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  #61  
Old July 1st 15, 12:31 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:17:49 +0200, "s|b" wrote:

When I say "Old Geezers" I mean that with the greatest respect. ;-) I've
learned much thanks to Usenet (and it has improved my English, I think).
It breaks my heart how Google has destroyed Deja News; it was a true
goldmine of knowledge.

I think your generation was
responsible for inventing Facebook and reality TV........ ;-)


Yes, I have a FB account, I've got a smartphone,



I have neither.


but I think I missed out a bit on that generation.



I work hard at missing as much as I can of that generation! g

I don't want Facebook, but I wouldn't mind having a smart phone. But
I'm not willing to pay those monthly fees.


I guess I'm in the middle. Mother bought a
Commodore 64 when I was 12yo. I used Windows 3.11,




Just a guess, but I'll be you never ran Windows 3.11, and what you ran
was Windows for Workgroups 3.11. There are only a few people who
realize that they were two different things.


then switched to
Performa 475, then Pentium I and from then on I stayed with Windows.

Unlike my older brother (42yo) and sister (41yo) and don't have a single
LP or single. My first CD ever was 'Violator' by Depeche Mode and it
still works! That's /my/ generation.



Having never heard of "Violator" nor "Depeche Mode," it's clearly not
*my* generation.

I have several hundred LPs, almost all of Renaissance, Baroque,
Classical, and Romantic period music.

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  #62  
Old July 1st 15, 01:39 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Drew[_8_]
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On 6/30/2015 11:38 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:58:04 -0700, Justin Tyme
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:59:36 -0700, XS11E
wrote:


I do use it often. When I was a young kid of only 75 I managed lots of
things I'm too lazy to do now that 75 is a distant memory... sigh


This newsgroup seems to have a 'lot' of old guys. lt appears to be
one of the last stops before a person kicks the bucket. Kind of like
an Elephant burial ground.

BTW, I am an old guy too.



It's not so much an "elephant burial ground" as it is that many of us
"old guys" are so old that we've been in the computer field for a long
time, and are therefore here because we know enough about computers
that we are often able to help others. For example, I'm 77, and I
started working with computers professionally in 1962.

Speaking as a late bloomer I guess, 59 this yr. I started with WinME.
Never had much problem with it.. Toasted more than one xp machine just
seeing how far I could push it. Beta tester for Vista, no problems with
that either but had the horsepower to run it. Loved win7 and still run
it on some machines. Hated 8.0 but built a new i7 with 16gigs of ram and
a good graphics card, installed win 8.1 with start8 after reading the so
called old guy advice. I have always had the utmost respect for all your
experiences and help you have given me over the years. I for one hope
you guys are here for a long time yet. Just to help us rookies!
  #63  
Old July 1st 15, 01:46 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:31:50 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:17:49 +0200, "s|b" wrote:

When I say "Old Geezers" I mean that with the greatest respect. ;-) I've
learned much thanks to Usenet (and it has improved my English, I think).
It breaks my heart how Google has destroyed Deja News; it was a true
goldmine of knowledge.

I think your generation was
responsible for inventing Facebook and reality TV........ ;-)


Yes, I have a FB account, I've got a smartphone,



I have neither.


but I think I missed out a bit on that generation.



I work hard at missing as much as I can of that generation! g

I don't want Facebook, but I wouldn't mind having a smart phone. But
I'm not willing to pay those monthly fees.


I guess I'm in the middle. Mother bought a
Commodore 64 when I was 12yo. I used Windows 3.11,




Just a guess, but I'll be you never ran Windows 3.11, and what you ran




Typo, of course; that should be ...I'll bet..."


Ken
  #64  
Old July 1st 15, 02:03 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ken Springer[_2_]
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Default Anti-virus program?

On 6/30/15 4:52 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 30/06/2015 22:35, R. C. White wrote:
Hi, Ken.

Yep, I'm still 79 - for 10 more days. Then I'll join those "Old Guys".

The neat thing about it is that I'm still learning! ;)


So in 10 days time we'll have another octogenarian looking for smoke and
mirrors to amuse himself with Windows 98 and Windows XP and telling us
youngsters how wonderful Windows 98 was and all that crap. Chances of
getting any more replacements here is almost nil.

Do we need to start a clock to see how long you guys have on this
planet? Statistically 86 is the most males live and 88 for women. *Don
Guillet* pass away last week according to the Excel Newsgroup I
subscribe to. God knows how old was he but he wasn't young as far as we
know as he was retired.


You just really are a jerk and an ass, aren't you... And that's about
the best I can say.


--
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Firefox 36.0.4
Thunderbird 31.5
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"
  #65  
Old July 1st 15, 02:11 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:03:24 -0600, Ken Springer
wrote:

On 6/30/15 4:52 PM, Good Guy wrote:


Do we need to start a clock to see how long you guys have on this
planet? Statistically 86 is the most males live and 88 for women. *Don
Guillet* pass away last week according to the Excel Newsgroup I
subscribe to. God knows how old was he but he wasn't young as far as we
know as he was retired.


You just really are a jerk and an ass, aren't you... And that's about
the best I can say.



Please do *not* reply to trolls, for two reasons:

1. If they get replies, it just stimulates them to troll more.

2. Many of us have trolls like Good Guy killfiled, and we don't have
to read their crap--not unless someone replies and quotes their
messages, as you just did.

  #66  
Old July 1st 15, 02:37 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ken Springer[_2_]
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On 6/30/15 7:11 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:03:24 -0600, Ken Springer
wrote:

On 6/30/15 4:52 PM, Good Guy wrote:


Do we need to start a clock to see how long you guys have on this
planet? Statistically 86 is the most males live and 88 for women. *Don
Guillet* pass away last week according to the Excel Newsgroup I
subscribe to. God knows how old was he but he wasn't young as far as we
know as he was retired.


You just really are a jerk and an ass, aren't you... And that's about
the best I can say.



Please do *not* reply to trolls, for two reasons:

1. If they get replies, it just stimulates them to troll more.

2. Many of us have trolls like Good Guy killfiled, and we don't have
to read their crap--not unless someone replies and quotes their
messages, as you just did.


I usually don't, but at some point the BS just gets too much. And at
some point, people like this need to be called exactly what they are.


--
Ken
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 36.0.4
Thunderbird 31.5
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"
  #67  
Old July 1st 15, 02:49 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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Default Anti-virus program?

On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:37:38 -0600, Ken Springer
wrote:

On 6/30/15 7:11 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:


Please do *not* reply to trolls, for two reasons:

1. If they get replies, it just stimulates them to troll more.

2. Many of us have trolls like Good Guy killfiled, and we don't have
to read their crap--not unless someone replies and quotes their
messages, as you just did.


I usually don't, but at some point the BS just gets too much. And at
some point, people like this need to be called exactly what they are.



Just killfile them. You won't see their BS and it will never get to be
too much.
  #68  
Old July 1st 15, 05:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ron
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On 6/30/2015 6:52 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 30/06/2015 22:35, R. C. White wrote:
Hi, Ken.

Yep, I'm still 79 - for 10 more days. Then I'll join those "Old Guys".

The neat thing about it is that I'm still learning! ;)


So in 10 days time we'll have another octogenarian looking for smoke and
mirrors to amuse himself with Windows 98 and Windows XP and telling us
youngsters how wonderful Windows 98 was and all that crap. Chances of
getting any more replacements here is almost nil.

Do we need to start a clock to see how long you guys have on this
planet? Statistically 86 is the most males live and 88 for women. *Don
Guillet* pass away last week according to the Excel Newsgroup I
subscribe to. God knows how old was he but he wasn't young as far as we
know as he was retired.



I don't know why you aren't still in my killfile, you HTML posting
asshole, but welcome back. You are a total POS.
  #69  
Old July 1st 15, 10:06 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Jenny Telia[_2_]
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Default Anti-virus program?

On 27/06/2015 19:47, Slimer wrote:
On 2015-06-26 9:47 PM, T. Asgard wrote:
On 26-Jun-2015 21:08, Slimer wrote:
On 2015-06-26 8:35 PM, Justin Tyme wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:16:08 -0400, Slimer wrote:

On 2015-06-26 5:11 PM, Good Guy wrote:

Big snip

Mcafee? I don't use any products that come as PUP's. Mcafee is close
to being malware. Anything but Mcafee!

Since we're not all USENET veterans, care to explain what a PUP is?



http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PUP.html


Thank you, however I can't help but wonder what the "unwanted" programs
in Mcafee's suite are. After all, if all that you want is the
anti-virus, you're free to install that alone. In my case, I like the
anti-virus, the firewall and the vulnerability scanner (which lets me
know if some of my programs have updates available) which is why they
are the only ones I install.


Slimer, Mcafee is not only NOT free (maybe to you, but not to the rest
of us), it is also one of the worst products available in the field. It
seems you are not only a USENET newbie but also a greenhorn when it
comes to anti-virus programs. We get it, you figured out how to work
it. That does NOT make it a good anti-virus program. It is crap. Live
with it.
  #70  
Old July 1st 15, 10:10 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Jenny Telia[_2_]
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On 27/06/2015 15:57, Ron wrote:
On 6/26/2015 8:35 PM, Justin Tyme wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:16:08 -0400, Slimer wrote:

On 2015-06-26 5:11 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 26/06/2015 21:34, wrote:
Hi. I'm looking for a new FREE antivirus program. I've been using
AVG. I
recently installed it on a new machine and all was going well until
I tried
installing a program called aTube Catcher, which lets you download
and save
YouTube videos. I have aTube Catcher on one machine and it works
fine. I try
installing it on a new machine and AVG keeps finding a file and
stopping me from
installing the program. I looked it up online and there are quite a
few
complaints, all pointing at AVG. I've also noticed on the new
machine, AVG is
finding fault with downloads of other programs I have been using on
the old
machine. AVG just seems to have gotten very choosy lately, so I'm
wondering if
there's another goor freebie out there. Thanks.


You say free so why not uninstall AVG and re-activate Windows Defender?
It is already on your windows 8/8.1 machine and all it needs is to
re-activate it and then download all the updates since it was last
updated. In most cases you will need to go to Windows update and
select
all Windows Defender updates and download them.

IMHO, it is time to get a paid subscription to either McAfee and/or
Symantec Endpoint protection. I have used McAfee before and now I am
using Symantec Endpoint because I get both free of charge because I buy
corporate license and so Home use becomes free for employees.

Good luck.

I vouch for Mcafee. I get it free with my ISP and frankly, I feel very
secure with it installed. Windows Defender isn't good enough to be
anything but very basic protection.


Mcafee? I don't use any products that come as PUP's. Mcafee is close
to being malware. Anything but Mcafee!



There is absolutely nothing wrong with McAfee OR Norton. People that
continue to say that haven't used either program in the past 2 years or so.


Forget and forgive? "There is nothing wrong with dictatorship. People
who continue to say dictatorships are bad have not tried it in the last
2 years or so". What a moronic sentiment.
  #71  
Old July 1st 15, 02:33 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Vitalic
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snip
Who else would cling to Usenet??? I'm 80-2/3 y.o. ;-)



I am 81 and still learning stuff on Usenet.



You guys (and RC, who I think is 79) are making me (only 77) feel like
a kid.

I'm 45 and discovered usenet when I was in my 30s guess I'm a
youngster around here
  #72  
Old July 1st 15, 03:14 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ron
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On 7/1/2015 5:06 AM, Jenny Telia wrote:
On 27/06/2015 19:47, Slimer wrote:
On 2015-06-26 9:47 PM, T. Asgard wrote:
On 26-Jun-2015 21:08, Slimer wrote:
On 2015-06-26 8:35 PM, Justin Tyme wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:16:08 -0400, Slimer wrote:

On 2015-06-26 5:11 PM, Good Guy wrote:
Big snip

Mcafee? I don't use any products that come as PUP's. Mcafee is close
to being malware. Anything but Mcafee!

Since we're not all USENET veterans, care to explain what a PUP is?



http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PUP.html


Thank you, however I can't help but wonder what the "unwanted" programs
in Mcafee's suite are. After all, if all that you want is the
anti-virus, you're free to install that alone. In my case, I like the
anti-virus, the firewall and the vulnerability scanner (which lets me
know if some of my programs have updates available) which is why they
are the only ones I install.


Slimer, Mcafee is not only NOT free (maybe to you, but not to the rest
of us), it is also one of the worst products available in the field. It
seems you are not only a USENET newbie but also a greenhorn when it
comes to anti-virus programs. We get it, you figured out how to work
it. That does NOT make it a good anti-virus program. It is crap. Live
with it.


Who is "us"? I have 2 ISPs and get McAfee and Norton for FREE.

McAfee is crap? Well, AV-test.org says differently. You are full of
wrong. Live with it.

http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/...ows/windows-8/


  #73  
Old July 1st 15, 03:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ron
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Posts: 507
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On 7/1/2015 5:10 AM, Jenny Telia wrote:
On 27/06/2015 15:57, Ron wrote:
On 6/26/2015 8:35 PM, Justin Tyme wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:16:08 -0400, Slimer wrote:

On 2015-06-26 5:11 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 26/06/2015 21:34, wrote:
Hi. I'm looking for a new FREE antivirus program. I've been using
AVG. I
recently installed it on a new machine and all was going well until
I tried
installing a program called aTube Catcher, which lets you download
and save
YouTube videos. I have aTube Catcher on one machine and it works
fine. I try
installing it on a new machine and AVG keeps finding a file and
stopping me from
installing the program. I looked it up online and there are quite a
few
complaints, all pointing at AVG. I've also noticed on the new
machine, AVG is
finding fault with downloads of other programs I have been using on
the old
machine. AVG just seems to have gotten very choosy lately, so I'm
wondering if
there's another goor freebie out there. Thanks.


You say free so why not uninstall AVG and re-activate Windows Defender?
It is already on your windows 8/8.1 machine and all it needs is to
re-activate it and then download all the updates since it was last
updated. In most cases you will need to go to Windows update and
select
all Windows Defender updates and download them.

IMHO, it is time to get a paid subscription to either McAfee and/or
Symantec Endpoint protection. I have used McAfee before and now I am
using Symantec Endpoint because I get both free of charge because I buy
corporate license and so Home use becomes free for employees.

Good luck.

I vouch for Mcafee. I get it free with my ISP and frankly, I feel very
secure with it installed. Windows Defender isn't good enough to be
anything but very basic protection.

Mcafee? I don't use any products that come as PUP's. Mcafee is close
to being malware. Anything but Mcafee!



There is absolutely nothing wrong with McAfee OR Norton. People that
continue to say that haven't used either program in the past 2 years or so.


Forget and forgive? "There is nothing wrong with dictatorship. People
who continue to say dictatorships are bad have not tried it in the last
2 years or so". What a moronic sentiment.




I agree, you have a moronic sentiment towards McAfee.


  #74  
Old July 1st 15, 07:45 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
XS11E
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Stormin' Norman wrote:

Keep in mind, it is your elders who invented digital computers,
the Internet, Usenet, powered flight, space flight, etc....... I
think your generation was responsible for inventing Facebook and
reality TV........ ;-)


+1

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  #75  
Old July 1st 15, 08:09 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
s|b
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:31:50 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

I don't want Facebook, but I wouldn't mind having a smart phone. But
I'm not willing to pay those monthly fees.


I only pay for minutes/megabytes, but I hardly call and most of the time
I use (free) WiFi.

I guess I'm in the middle. Mother bought a
Commodore 64 when I was 12yo. I used Windows 3.11,


Just a guess, but I'll be you never ran Windows 3.11, and what you ran
was Windows for Workgroups 3.11. There are only a few people who
realize that they were two different things.


Then I guess I'm not one of them. I used to go online at one of the
university's computer rooms. Must have been around 1995, I think.

Having never heard of "Violator" nor "Depeche Mode," it's clearly not
*my* generation.


Your loss. g

I have several hundred LPs, almost all of Renaissance, Baroque,
Classical, and Romantic period music.


De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum. ;-)

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