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2. February 2017, 15:13:32
Chimera 
Subject: pale moon
Has anyone used the pale moon browser? What did you think of it?

10. January 2017, 15:00:54
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Podcasts
beach: They sound interesting. I've seen a few of them on youtube. One I like is This American Life. A short one is Two Guys On Your Head.

6. January 2017, 14:45:09
Chimera 
Subject: Podcasts
are something I've started listening to a little lately. So I got to wondering if anyone knew of any they liked?

12. March 2014, 20:49:27
Chimera 
Has anyone tried a dish as their ISP? If so how did it work out for you? Would you recommend it?

9. August 2008, 20:06:01
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
diogenysos:thank you I may borrow a pair and try that As long as the thunder isn't a warning that my computer is about to explode I'm not too worried.

7. August 2008, 20:47:32
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
diogenysos: didn't find anything. So waiting for that rain

31. July 2008, 20:54:50
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
diogenysos:thanks :) sounds like it is time to run my spybot and ad-aware.

30. July 2008, 22:20:50
Chimera 
Why do I occasionally hear thunder from my computer speakers?
I remember reading an article a few years ago that said if you heard different strains of music they meant different things. For example one meant your fan had stopped working. So I was wondering if the thunder meant anything and if so what and if not why is it doing it. It has nothing to do with the weather outside.

8. July 2008, 02:24:28
Chimera 
Subject: Re: MSNTV2 USERS or ANYONE:)
Darla_P: on your profile page top left it should say My Profile and just to the right of that a link that says Edit which will take you to a new page.

30. March 2008, 01:02:41
Chimera 
Subject: Re: You Tube
Fencer: thank you 

29. March 2008, 02:45:21
Chimera 
Subject: You Tube
Is it possible to download a video from you tube to your computer?
What I really want to do is get one from you tube to Photo Bucket.

6. February 2008, 02:07:17
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
MadMonkey: I missed the spider but they may have added him since I set it up. I've a tab for recipes, images tools and the main one for news and Garfield cartoon You can choose a different Theme for each tab if you wish.

5. February 2008, 23:05:26
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
MadMonkey: I set it up once and wound up with about 4 tabs but I don't really use it. Even thoug it has some nice things.

28. November 2007, 22:41:17
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Firefox spellchecker
coan.net: yeah! you solved it. Was just a question of getting out of the rich text editor. That's great :) thanks

28. November 2007, 16:30:15
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Firefox spellchecker
Puckish: thank you I'll have to look into that!

28. November 2007, 16:29:14
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Firefox spellchecker
Rose: hehe me too that's why I like it so much :)

28. November 2007, 16:10:45
Chimera 
Subject: Firefox spellchecker
Firefox has a spellchecker that underlines misspelled words in red. It works for me almost everywhere but here. I was wondering if it works here for others or not?

6. August 2007, 01:09:37
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
Family Man: have you tried the No Fonts version of BK?

6. July 2007, 18:55:39
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Monkey XP tip of the day (year....whatever)
MadMonkey: thanks for two great tips. 

14. June 2007, 18:16:18
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
jadarite:

quote "this is a game server"

Yes it is, so play some games.
You have been here for 2 weeks. In that time you have resigned 1 game after 0 moves, resigned a second game after 3 moves and are playing 1 game. In the same 2 weeks you have made over 60 posts. And most of them were to complain and let us know how we are doing everything wrong and how you could do it better.

I suggest you go play a few games and rethink your attitude for you will never meet a nicer bunch of people than the ones who play here.

25. May 2007, 20:26:14
Chimera 
Subject: Re: DSL vs. Broadband
rod03801: I've had the AT&TYahoo DSL for a couple years. They gave my the modum and an ethernet card that had to be installed in the computer plus 5 (widgets) You must plug a widget into any phone jack in your house you use for a phone and then plug the phone into the widget. Plus one widget between the computer and a phone jack. One plus over some local dial up is the abiliety to use the computer and the phone at the same time. It made peace in my house. Can you believe I was accused of being on the computer all the time so the phone could never be used

11. March 2007, 15:13:36
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
Rose: mine did 

23. February 2007, 20:38:11
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
King Reza: I wonder if pressing F11 might possibly bring it back.

7. February 2007, 04:40:33
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: thank you, I thought that sounded too easy :) It's good to know.

6. February 2007, 17:34:14
Chimera 
Just curious: How would it work to get a free Hotmail or Yahoo account and email the files to yourself there?

7. July 2006, 16:40:11
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Registry Cleaner
temo: thank you for your help 

6. July 2006, 21:06:55
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Registry Cleaner
Hrqls: thank you

6. July 2006, 17:08:28
Chimera 
Subject: Registry Cleaner
Is a Registry Cleaner a good thing to have?
If so which one is good and which one should be avoided?

29. May 2006, 17:24:51
Chimera 
Subject: Re: email & Firefox
Thank you for your suggestions. I will sure look into them.

28. May 2006, 21:09:59
Chimera 
Subject: email & Firefox
My ISP is associated with Yahoo. So the email account my ISP provides is very much like a Yahoo email account. When I type or cut & paste a URL into an email it does not come out clickable. When I'm using Firefox but it will be clickable in IE. Does anyone know of a change I can make to Firefox so any URL I place in an email will be clickable?

23. April 2006, 18:25:43
Chimera 
HP recalls 15,700 notebook computer batteries

Reuters

5. April 2006, 22:42:24
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
Don't get anything when i right click around here. When i checked the little box, show context menu, is allready checked.

8. March 2006, 03:01:48
Chimera 
Subject: Re: computer speed
WhiteTower:

6. March 2006, 20:15:52
Chimera 
Subject: Re: computer speed
WhiteTower: thank you.

6. March 2006, 17:41:47
Chimera 
Subject: computer speed
The last few days my computer has been running slower than a snail. I did one of the speed tests offered on the net and got, download = 611bps & upload = 273.78 kbps. It seems to be back to normal today. This has happened a couple times in the past and I always assumed it was my ISP working on their equipment but now I wonder. My question is, would this be my ISP or could it be my computer. It's a Dell running windows ME.

10. October 2005, 20:54:04
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
ScarletRose: it's amazing how good manufacturores (sp) are with their timing of things breaking down just out of warranty.

11. August 2005, 18:35:27
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Thunderbird
Fencer: thank you

11. August 2005, 01:43:30
Chimera 
Subject: Thunderbird
Can anyone help? After downloading Thunderbird it went out and picked up an old email account I haven't used in 19 months instead of my current one. I changed ISP's. I removed Thunderbird and re-downloaded it but this didn't help it still shows up with my old email account folders and address book in tow. Is there any way to wipe Thunderbirds memory?

13. July 2005, 17:53:58
Chimera 
Virus exploits London tube bombs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4671111.stm

16. May 2005, 20:58:47
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
temo and danoschek thank you for all your help

16. May 2005, 17:15:19
Chimera 
Subject: system restore
Modified by Chimera (16. May 2005, 17:19:35)
Was looking around in my puter and found that system restore is disabled. No idea how, why or when this happened. Does anyone know a reason why I shouldn't turn back on system restore?

*edited to add*
I have a couple system restore points that I have set myself. Last week I tried to use system restore to fix my puter by using one of these points. It told me that it could not restore my puter to this point. Does anyone know a reason it would refuse to restore my puter.

27. March 2005, 22:04:20
Chimera 
Subject: WinPatrol
One of the things I like about Firefox is that you can tell it not to let certain sites put cookies on your puter. I've always wished IE had this option. This tool, WinPatrol gives you that option. Plus it does a few other tricks. Avoiding start page hijacking for one.
http://www.winpatrol.com/

27. March 2005, 21:57:45
Chimera 
Subject: Stupid Computer Tricks

25. March 2005, 02:45:43
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Re:
MagicDragon: that sounds handy.

20. March 2005, 15:49:23
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Re:
MagicDragon: With a Dell you should have an 800 number to call when something isn't working as it should.

15. February 2005, 18:36:27
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Screen Resolutions
Rose: 800x600

10. February 2005, 00:34:51
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
Rose: I once made the mistake of clearing out my Firefox cache and it went back to it's shuffle for a while after that.

9. February 2005, 22:31:47
Chimera 
Subject: Re: Firefox
Rose: yes Firefox did that for me in the beginning, talk about annoying, but it settles down and stops after a few days. Sorry no idea why it does it.

9. February 2005, 17:21:45
Chimera 
Subject: Re:
Aragon: thanks i'll try taskmanager next time it starts doing it's odd thing again. But if i remember correctly it gives you a list of everything that is using power and won't necessarely indicate what the puter is up to. And i don't know enough to pick the righ one out of the list. I will try the other task manager you suggested it will probably give more information. Thank you

9. February 2005, 17:05:07
Chimera 
Subject: Is there a way to find out what your puter is doing?
My puter has started something new. When i'm just playing games the puter makes an internal noise periodically, indicating that it's doing something. It only lasts a few seconds. While it is doing whatever it's doing i can't do anything. For example if i'm typing the cursor freezes in place and then after it stops the letters i've typed appear. I'de sure like to know what it's doing. I use windows ME

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