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Jim

D.Duck wrote:
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:12:34 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:57:33 -0400, H the K
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On 10/8/09 6:52 PM, Tim wrote:
On Oct 8, 5:41 pm, Vic wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:15:40 -0400, Tosk

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Yes, after a very deliberate insinuation that they were "the
internet".
It made many older folks afraid to leave them.. Years ago when I
built
computers, I used to put it right in the contract "installing
anything
AOL voids the warrantee, period".
My dad's computer was running out of memory when I was down there
so I
disabled all the startup items with msconfig.
Think he has 2gb memory.
Didn't bother looking at the list, but it was long.
Probably AOL's fault. But it could be a Bush or Obama doing.

--Vic
If you shut down AOL, occasionally it would stop the shut down so it
could clean out a bunch of it's "artwork" which was a real pig on
memory space.

i wonder how much AOL pays computer mfj's to still pre load AOL on
new
machines.

i know there were lots of people crabbing about trying to find a new
machine that didn't have AOL preloaded on it.
I haven't seen a new computer with AOL on it for some years. Even
the CD mailings have stopped.
AOL does not have much proprietary content anymore. They want to be
Google, just selling ads and making the service free. I think they
would be just as happy to get out of the software
business.
I still think the AOL 7 (the version I run) still has the best Email
client around. It beats Thunderbird and all the various microsoft
crap.

They may be one of the few places that still support dial up tho and
that is worth something to me.
Broadband is always the first thing to go in a hurricane but I have
never lost the phone. During and after Charlie I was on my PC, running
off an inverter in my car, looking at the Florida weather radar and
the NHC at NOAA.

DSL?

Yet to be seen. I know it is a lot better than Comcast because I am
running DSL now but let's see how they do after a hurricane. Comcast
got the TV back in 3 days after Charlie and Wilma but the broadband
was down over a week both times. Power was out a day after Charlie, a
few hours after Wilma. I didn't even have time to move over to my
propane fridge on the last one..

DSL from your phone company should be as reliable as dial tone. Let's
hope we don't have to find out!

I'm in central Florida so the huricane threat is not quite as bad as the
coastal areas. Although a tornada touched down about a mile from our
home a few years ago a did a real number on the area.
Embarq has been known to have DSL outages that last days. A power
failure will knock your DSL off line as well, unless you have a generator.