Text 53136, 68 rader
Skriven 2009-01-31 10:59:16 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 53130 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
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Alan, good morning, off-line ???

 AZ> I just gave it a bit of a test on my Mac laptop at work-- unplugged from
 AZ> the Net I was able to read a 'new message' that was sitting in my
 AZ> Inbox-- very quick-loading, not having to download the content! Compose
 AZ> a new message, delete a message...

 AZ> When I plugged the network cable in, restoring the connection, all the
 AZ> changes happened 'for real'.

	At the moment, I have no need for going off-line in my email. I can see August
doing this as he is on DUN. Remember that the OLR came into use when DUN was
the THING, then it did fine but with the Ethernet and NICs now, we can do
without.

 AZ> Although I have Win7 installed on 2 systems- this Mac, and my Dell
 AZ> laptop, I don't actually use it very much.

	I turn my on in the good spirit if a tester, most every day. It is definitely
quicker in many aspects, I should time the booting which has been advertised as
being faster. I can wait another 15 seconds to see VIsta booted, not a problem
here.

 AZ> but my big effort for the past 2 weeks has been to set up
 AZ> the school systems- at least in my computer lab- to dual boot to Ubuntu,
 AZ> and to find ways for the kids to get their work done and access their
 AZ> network shares, in that environment.

	I can see why you would like to jump on that wagon, for the average user, it
is very usable, no denying this.

 JP>     Also, my on-going fight to use my Lexmark printer, this one, a Z33,
 JP> is installed, I set it to default and it took this, all the other
 JP> indications are proper but no print output at all. It ran good on XPP
 JP> and I do understand that there might be an "OS broken link" but then why
 JP> show it as being installed ?

 AZ> This is why it's a beta !!!


	I rather think that the Z33 is considered obsolete, even on U'u, I can not get
it installed, pity as it is a good printer. I run it as my travel printer on
the Thinkpad as my IBM portable 5183 died on me last summer and the Z33 is
smaller than the average printer.

 AZ> Windows.old will NOT be rejuvenated in August... There are probably ways
 AZ> to reinstall XP or Vista over top of it, but don't expect anything to
 AZ> 'automatically' happen (other than the beta timing out and turning your
 AZ> computer into a doorstop if you haven't got a valid OS installed at that
 AZ> time!)

	MS has to do a better job than this, some must have jumped on this beta as it
was a freebie. They might be stuck with a dead system in August if it does not
get rejuvenated from Windows.old.

 AZ> If all you need is password protected PDFs, there are various free
 AZ> PDF-creators that will do that.

	For the moment, that is all that I need and A5.0 does it all. I am comfortable
using it too, I did a bit of work with it and will stick with it. My daughters
are good suppliers of free SW, not my son and you know why.... ;-) The girls
are both engineers and none of the PRGs that they use have replicas on the
other OS, the toy. ;-)

	Have a tremendous WE.

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