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[flemmings]

1. I've made my peace with XP, more or less, except for two things. I can't run ipconfig-- a screen appears and blinks away before I can even see what's in it. And the damn thing keeps trying to install important updates!!! every time I log out, without telling me what they are.

2. mvrdrk, the flash cards came and they are soooo keeeyoot! though when did the Japanese buy Campus, I ask me. I thought it was a Canadian company. And I must have been asleep when I asked for the Word update because I didn't register it was Word 07 and not 03. I shall, ahem, be sending it back to you by return of post, with apologies for putting you to the trouble, and continue with my unimproved '97. I might include your copy of Journey to the West that I've had for lo these eight years, is it?

3. I have lost my copy of Casting Fortune. It was in the bedroom on Saturday and is not there now, not even in the bed where I, like my mother, regularly lose things even though I don't read in bed.

4. I shall never be able to read Chinese. Which is a pity, not just because of bb shousetsu written in period Ming style, but because of stuff like this. Hatsu Akiko never did akogare no bookmarks but of course the Chinese would.

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[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Re: 1 - try running "cmd" from the run menu first, and then run ipconfig from the command line. That should keep the window open.

Auto-updates feature should be disable-able (erm...) but you probably have to go to Windows Updates web site (link should be in your start menu, or in Explorer). There should be an option to turn off the big green shield that tells you you're "protected". :p

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thank you and thank you. Auto-updates disableable through the control panel, no less. And in Win98 I could release and renew my connection through winipcfg when I started running slow, which I can't in XP, boo hiss.

Meant to ask you guys, do you want copies of the last two Gaiden eps? I have them but don't have an address for you.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, figuring out the ipconfig thing was a PITA when we upgraded Kiro's computer to XP. >.> Stupid windows.

You can do release/renew from the command line (had to look it up (http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet/windows/ipconfig/) to double-check). Type "ipconfig /release" and then "ipconfig /renew" and it should do the trick.

Will check with Kiro. Been meaning to email you as well, to arrange picking up at least the heavy boxes before we run out of car at the end of the month.

[doire]

I teach Office 2007 and use 2003 at work, but I've not found any reason to move on from 97 on my own computers. And I still prefer the handling of contents fields in Word 6 - I set that format because that was what I wanted. Why have you reset it for me?

Heigh ho; off to work where IT have upgraded us all from Thunderbird to Outlook with a consequent 75% drop in internal email volume. Apparently we will receive training "when it's all set up".

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Not even sure what contents fields are. Word is just a glorified typewriter AFAIC, one that removes errors easily. Probably what I think I'm missing from my Word03 is actually the resolution of my old machine that made all the boxes larger.

Office 2007 is an abomination. I am Too Old to figure out what's effectively a new WP system. And Outlook is an abomination too. OE is OK; otherwise...

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

LOL! Isn't there a setting in 07 to set it back to the old style menus? I like the newer releases because every release gets smarter about Japanese and Chinese character handling. The new user interface on the other hand ...

Did you find the summaries for 3k? Let me know if you want more flashcards, there are lots more animal shapes, if they please you. I will happily take back anything you want to send, but I've no time to read. I've even given up reading the newspaper at this point.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

There's that about Vista, but that's the only thing about Vista. And the user interface in Word is... what I simply can't be doing with. Three bands of icons at the top of the screen, dear god.

I found the summaries, which are almost as dull as the novel. Shall keep on ploughing through the original so I can say I read it, or part of it. Though I was sniggering somewhere in ch 13 or thereabouts where the translator says 'the author nods for several pages here, so if you like here's a summary of what happens and now you can skip to the last paragraph of the chapter.' I read the section anyway and found it no more dreary than any other passage before it and a lot more compelling than many. Maybe it was a yawn a minute in Chinese, but I fancy Moss doesn't realize how yawn a minute he's made everything else.