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You can save an email as a template.. so you type one out.. then save as.. then select outlook template.. Then you can open that and edit it before you send it out.

HiFi? like sound equipment?

downloaded it.. looks a lot like AOL's browser.. the thing that you get when you install aol.. other than that I didnt see that much of a speed increase between ff and IE 7.

Have you had to deal with snow yet? That is more of the problem that I am thinking about.. Also strong winds moving the antenna out of alignment.. any of those problems?

yeah.. 1.5 does have spell check for linux.. that is true..

The only thing that I can think of is that the ISP is logging you out because your computer goes into stand-by and doenst send the heartbeat packet to keep the connection alive. If you dial back in does it work again?

Here is the deal with insight... They are the lamest attempt at an ISP on the face of the planet.. I am sorry if I am going to hurt anyone's feelings.. Here is my little story about Insuck aka Insight.. I am a college student and unfortunately i was blessed in the dorm with a 25000/1.7 connection and at home home I have Comcast which is at 6000/384. When I moved into my apartment here on campus I was forced to get insight for TV so I also got their Internet package. It was alright.. 4000/384 on an AT&T backbone running to Chicago. I would constantly test at about 4200-4500 no problems.. However, since their upgrade to Level3 I have yet to be impressed. I am constantly running at 3300-3700. Instead of going to chicago i am now going to ATL. Not to mention that their crappy service is plagued by incompetent people who decide to either cut their fiber bundle, turn off the routers, or just decide to not offer service for that day. This summer was the worst performance from an ISP ever! Even worse than dial-up AOL.. To top that the local numbers in the brand new telephone books are not correct.. Which means that contacting them to tell them how much their service sucks isnt even an option. To top that when I requested down-time compensation, the local network was at 1000+ ping before it got to the Level3 router.. they pretty much told me to screw myself and how it wasnt their problem. I said fine and asked for the manager. There I explained that if they decided not to offer compensation I would contact the FCC.. and explain my situation and extreme frustration with the service. The following bill had a sheet for me to fill out to get my compensation.. which ended up to be $5 for about a week of slow/no service. In the end.. I am waiting for someone to swallow Insight. They are prime picking.. I have Comcast 3 streets up and Verizon in the next town over.. Not to mention that Verizon provides most of the telecom services for Purdue. My suggestion it just to hang in there.. Trying to reason with these clowns is just about impossible and is a complete waste of time. I never contact the FCC but I wish I would have. These upgrades have yet to do anything for the consumer. My guess is that AT&T jacked the price for bandwidth up and so Insight moved to Level3 cause they were cheaper.. BTW welcome to the forum! You have hit one of my nerves..

you might want to check the caps on the motherboard.. I remember there was a series of motherboards for the P4s that had the exploding cap syndrome.. I has a dell 270 that had a few that had gone bad and would abruptly restart..

speaking of affordable LCD screens.. you all might want to look at this and add it to you shopping list for the winter holidays.. Dell's new 20.1 Wide screen LCD Monitor: * 1680x1050 pixels resolution for sharp and brilliant images of text and graphics * Offers viewing angle of 160

really... are you running IE 7? I have yet to try the new IE.. Didn't IE 7 finally go public today also?

hmm... Neither sounds ideal.. However, I would be more willing to go with the DSL than the wifi and here is why... DSL is going to be more reliable... Wifi is going to suffer in adverse weather and i dont know if you are going to need line of site or not but if that is the case.. the antenna is going to need to be adjusted if you live in an area with high winds... DSL is going to be faster.. Most of the time the peak speed ranges from about 1.5 - 6.0Mbps.. I would think that the DSL ISP could offer a faster speed than wifi could.. DSL should be cheaper in the long run. Copper is old existing and a tried/tested technology. I would think you are going to have few problems with a DSL line than a wifi installation. It may take longer but once you are up and running less fuss is going to be needed with the ISP to maintain the speeds. I have never used a wifi service.. but that just makes sense to me see how moody 802.11 can be..

Argh... I love this new spell check feature... but how do you un-add entries that you added by mistake?

I was quite surprised that it wasn't included because it looks like that site is more higher end video production equipment anyways.. O well..

I think it is $129 retail right now... Yeah it is cable/dsl.. The only real advantage is that it is QoS'ed in a way so that games are the highest priority.. I dont have one so I can compare the standard performance.. but I am sure that if you sat down with a linksys router or one that supports QoS you could have something pretty similar.

hmm... that is interesting.. I am still more for the full fledged hardware solution... But it looks like a decent product.. would like to see 10/100/1000 interface on it..

depends on what os you have... win32/en-us/ is for the windows xp English version..

yeah memory management does seem to be a bit better... i have yet to try the pdf thing yet.. we will see!

The public release version is now out... http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/ I really like it..

Found this for all the windows users out there.. I guess this is the best photoshop clone out there.. free download and free program.. http://www.getpaint.net/ Requires the .net framework to be installed on your computer.

https://secure.logmein.com/go.asp?page=home or use remote desktop

that is a pretty good resource you have there..

haha.. all that is better than college beer..

Welcome to the Forum gperete! As far as the question goes.. You will not be able to connect to a wireless ISP's network with a standard wifi card.. The reason.. 802.16.. Or long haul wifi.. Pretty much this is 802.11, the wireless for consumers, on steroids.. It is made to go up to 30 miles.. On top of that you need to have line of sight to the antenna for wireless ISPs to work.

If they dont have an rpm based install then you would download the source.. then untar it.. then most of the time you are going to need to be on the root account.. From there most of the time there is a configure file.. so you would run the command ./configure.. this would configure the system for building the program... the make which does a pre-compile i guess of the install files.. then make install..which then compiles the rest of the program and mades it useable for the user. All of this is done with the command prompt.. I would still recommend a gui interface for the beginner.. but try to do most of the stuff in a shell.. The one resource that I found really helpful was the bible series of my distribution.. For $50 it will get you started in the right direction with a solid base of what is going on. From there it is just a matter of using the software...

First shug hit it on the head.. there is really no such thing as a noob on this forum.. Just people who are trying to do something for the first time. I was a "noob" about a year and a half ago.. Now I administrate 2 servers and own a laptop all running SuSE.. So now onto the question.. There are different formats for programs that you would install. RPM and Binary/Source.... First RPM.. this is what I would recommend for someone who is just starting if your distribution supports RPM.. I think most do but not 100% sure. This is the .exe of linux. You run a command or use a GUI to install the program and everything works. There are some drawbacks but it does really effect users that are just getting started. The second is Binary / Source... Source is where you actually download the source code then compile it on your local machine to run. This is normally best for applications that can be highly customized. Two examples would be apache and MySQL.. You can download the source then compile the source to fit your needs. On the other hand binary is a pre-compiled source for your specific distribution. Normally software developers will pre-compile package to eliminate differences between compilers and to speed up the installation time on the actual machine. The only real downside, like RPM, is that these pre-compiled packages are normally not highly customizable. Most of the time they are also compiled to fit the most number of users.. One final thing.. most of the time Source/Binary packages come in tar, tar.gz, or tar.bz2 formats. Tar is pretty much like .zip or .rar for windows. Hope this helps..