New Laptop - which flavour of Windows? (and other issues)
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From: John Doue on 13 Mar 2010 15:50 On 3/13/2010 10:12 AM, Adrian C wrote: > On 13/03/2010 13:18, John Doue wrote: >> On 3/13/2010 5:56 AM, Adrian C wrote: >>> >>> Need to find round tuits. >>> >> You lost me here. What does your last sentence mean? >> > > Sorry, it's uk.x parlance. It's an expression of my admitted laziness :-) > > http://everything2.com/title/round+tuit > Thanks. I had not tried to pronounce it ... :-) -- John Doue
From: John Doue on 13 Mar 2010 16:02 On 3/13/2010 11:15 AM, Roger Mills wrote: > In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Barry Watzman > <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote: >> Re: "But why? My attitude is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"!" >> >> Because it is broken, only the cracks are not on the surface. >> >> There is NO support by Intuit for anything over about 3 years old. >> There are security issues. And once you get more than about 6 years >> old, you may not be ABLE to migrate from the old version to a current >> version. > > Sorry, you've lost me! > > I've used Quicken 98 for 12 years or so to do the accounts for my own family > and for two voluntary organisations with which I am associated without > requiring any support from Intuit. So why should I need any *now*? > > *What* security issues? My use of it never goes anywhere near the internet! I assume Barry refers to downloading data from banks over the Internet through Intuit services. Which does not affect you (nor me, I never use this service eventhough my version is recent). As long as you are happy with Quicken 98, keep it. Still, I suggest you *try*, preferably on a different machine, a more recent version to explore its features. You might find some of them interesting. Personally, I am using the 2007 version. I tried all the more recent versions but sticked with 2007 which I find to be more balanced in terms of features and clarity. Remember, once your data has been converted to a more recent version format, there is no going back. If you decide to go back, you have to use a backup of the data files, all operations entered with the more recent version will be lost. And before you adopt a newer version, make sure you can print checks the way you use too. That can be tricky. -- John Doue
From: Roger Mills on 13 Mar 2010 17:59 In an earlier contribution to this discussion, John Doue <notwobe(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On 3/13/2010 11:15 AM, Roger Mills wrote: >> In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Barry Watzman >> <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote: >>> Re: "But why? My attitude is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"!" >>> >>> Because it is broken, only the cracks are not on the surface. >>> >>> There is NO support by Intuit for anything over about 3 years old. >>> There are security issues. And once you get more than about 6 years >>> old, you may not be ABLE to migrate from the old version to a >>> current version. >> >> Sorry, you've lost me! >> >> I've used Quicken 98 for 12 years or so to do the accounts for my >> own family and for two voluntary organisations with which I am >> associated without requiring any support from Intuit. So why should >> I need any *now*? *What* security issues? My use of it never goes >> anywhere near the >> internet! > > I assume Barry refers to downloading data from banks over the Internet > through Intuit services. Which does not affect you (nor me, I never > use this service eventhough my version is recent). > Nor do I! > As long as you are happy with Quicken 98, keep it. Still, I suggest > you *try*, preferably on a different machine, a more recent version to > explore its features. You might find some of them interesting. > Personally, I am using the 2007 version. I tried all the more recent > versions but sticked with 2007 which I find to be more balanced in > terms of features and clarity. > Can you get 'evaluation' copies without having to part with hard cash? > Remember, once your data has been converted to a more recent version > format, there is no going back. If you decide to go back, you have to > use a backup of the data files, all operations entered with the more > recent version will be lost. > If I *did* change, I'd do it at year-end and start afresh for the new year rather than importing all the old data. > And before you adopt a newer version, make sure you can print checks > the way you use too. That can be tricky. I don't do that, anyway. With on-line banking and credit card purchases, I only write a handful of cheques each year, and am quite happy to continue to do that manually. -- Cheers, Roger _______ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.
From: tony sayer on 13 Mar 2010 18:05 In article <jaGdnYOIcOtcFAbWnZ2dnUVZ8j6dnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, John Rumm <see.my.signature(a)nowhere.null> scribeth thus >Ryan P. wrote: > >> On 3/12/2010 7:02 PM, John Rumm wrote: > >Ok, with content this time! > >>> Wandering off topic a bit here, but, are you aware of any free solutions >>> that can work in the manner of VNC-SC (i.e. a small prog a user can DL >>> and run that then "phones home" back to me and gives remote control - >>> nicely sidestepping any NAT and firewall issues on the remote end of the >>> setup). While VNC-SC works well controlling XP machines, its painfully >>> slow on Vista and Win7. >> >> I don't have any issues with speed going from my Vista laptop (or the >> Win 7 partition on the laptop) via VNC to my Win 7 desktop upstairs. > >The normal VNC seems ok over a LAN when controlling Vista etc, but the >single click version over a pair of ADSL connections seems to have major >difficulties. > >> Of course, I turn off most of the Aero eye candy, as it does nothing >> except increase power usage and suck RAM. That could be part of your >> speed issue? > >Turning off aero helps - but its still almost postal - e.g. click for a >menu and wait anything from 10 to 20 seconds to see the result etc. > > Dunno what was wrong with WIN 2000 best prog microsoft ever wrote;)).. -- Tony Sayer
From: tony sayer on 13 Mar 2010 18:08
> >I know I sound like a broken record on this, but seriously all these >concerns and many more are non-issues if you try Ubuntu. Linux has a >poor usability reputation, but ubuntu is the distro that's really >changed that. It costs nothing to try, and if for some reason you >still want to get windows you can buy it if and when you find linux >isnt what you want. The days of linux being only for geeks are >history. > Second all that .. try it, you've nowt to loose:))... > >NT -- Tony Sayer |