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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / July 2007Vista, my new computer & newsgroups
Well, I got me a new computer. Thank you to all who counseled me. Lot's of excellent and interesting advice. Much of it was encouraging me to build my own computer, but I chickened out on that plan. After I got the laptop and set it up I had toI call Dell technical support for some questions . I got excellent help. Three separate technicians. One was in India. Hard to understand but a nice guy and very helpful. He said it was really hot in India. One from Canada, and he too was helpful. And the gal, I didn't ask her where she was. Dell Enspiron/Inspiron laptop. 17 inch screen and I think the thing is actually a desktop replacement cause its heavy and fairly large. Got the upgrade graphics card and 2 gigs of ram. So finally I am playing Half-Life 2. Graphics are excellent. Not sure yet if I like it as much as Half Life 1 or Heart of Evil or They Hunger. But, it is getting better. I am in Ravenhorst or whatever its called. I have a question, if you wouldn't mind? - is how can I get to aghl through Vista? It has a newsgroup feature, but it looks as though the only newsgroups available concern discussions of Microsoft products. Vista doesn't offer Outlook Express which is the program I have been using to read newgroups. By the way, I get car sick playing HL2. Particularly using that air boat. Thanks again for your help. Scott in Austin MN > Well, I got me a new computer. Thank you to all who counseled me. Lot's of > excellent and interesting advice. Much of it was encouraging me to build my [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > There are many newsreaders out there to choose from: Xnews, Free Agent, Mozilla Thunderbird (which is an e-mail client as well). Plus others. They're all fairly similar to OE and many would say superior. If you're a modern fellow you should be using Firefox and Thunderbird as your browser/e-mail/newsreader combo. All work fine in Vista. I'm typing this on a Vista machine and using Thunderbird.  Signature"Out here on the perimeter there are no stars" Steve --Inglo-- >> I have a question, if you wouldn't mind? - is how can I get to aghl >> through Vista? It has a newsgroup feature, but it looks as though the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > All work fine in Vista. I'm typing this on a Vista machine and using > Thunderbird. I don't think his problem is a newsreader (Windows Mail is supposed to have a decent one) but a subscription to a news service. Who were you with before on XP Scott? Was it a free or subscribed service? Are you still with them? Have you put all their server details into the newsreader you're using now? If so you should then be able to subscribe to all the groups available on that server including AGHL > All work fine in Vista. I'm typing this on a Vista machine and using > Thunderbird. Lyman, I used Mozilla firefox for a while on a Windows XP machine with an HP Deskjet 9800 Printer. Mozilla crashed the printer every time I tried to print from the browser. I'd get thirty pages of nothing and had to reset the printer between each page. Got so annoying that I removed Mozilla and vowed never to go back. Did you ever have printing problems from thunderbird? Squat ... > Mozilla crashed the printer every time I tried to print from the browser. > I'd get thirty pages of nothing and had to reset the printer between each > page. Got so annoying that I removed Mozilla and vowed never to go back. > Did you ever have printing problems from thunderbird? I've never had the problems you describe with FireFox, although I print on an IBM laser and an Epson inkjet. All of which suggests you've abandoned a good, non M$ browser based on a print driver fault....? > .... >> Mozilla crashed the printer every time I tried to print from the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > on an IBM laser and an Epson inkjet. All of which suggests you've > abandoned a good, non M$ browser based on a print driver fault....? I've had printing difficulties with Firefox on Linux, so I went back to Mozilla which works flawlessly! Civilian_Target >> .... >>> Mozilla crashed the printer every time I tried to print from the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I've had printing difficulties with Firefox on Linux, so I went back to > Mozilla which works flawlessly! I've had no problems printing from Tbird or Firefox. == Thad > ... >> Mozilla crashed the printer every time I tried to print from the browser. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > an IBM laser and an Epson inkjet. All of which suggests you've abandoned a > good, non M$ browser based on a print driver fault....? Well, the printer works fine with every other program (Office word/excel/visio/powerpoint, outlook express, AutoCAD 2000, autoCAD 2004 and Adobe Acrobat) Thus I concluded that since it crashed ONLY with firefox, that was where the fault lies. If the printer failed with any other program on a routine basis, I'd call the HP tech support wizards in New Delhi and sit on hold for 3 hours. (I will say that HP makes the worlds worst printers but they also make the ONLY affordable printer capable of printing on 11x17 sheets of paper. So, I am stuck with an HP9800. I'd toss this thing from the roof in a heartbeat if I had a decent alternative.) I liked Mozilla's ability to download multiple files and manage them. This is a feature that I used frequently, however, I would forget that I was using Mozilla and print a page from the web browser (I print from the browser a lot for work purposes) and spend the next 30 minutes clearing a stupid print job from the print memory. This often required shutting down the PC, unplugging the printer and then re-booting everything, clearing the print job from memory and rebooting a 2nd time. I've come so close to tossing this god damn printer out of my 3rd floor window, it should be listed as a hazard to pedestrians.... So, Firefox is toast. Problem solved. Squat <snip hardware brag post> heehee > I have a question, if you wouldn't mind? - is how can I get to aghl through > Vista? It has a newsgroup feature, but it looks as though the only > newsgroups available concern discussions of Microsoft products. Vista > doesn't offer Outlook Express which is the program I have been using to read > newgroups. I guess if you are looking for a news server there are free ones. I use news.sisna.com which is some ISP's news server that doesn't require a login. It's up mostly and I believe it carries all the posts. Doesn't have any binary newsgroups but that's not why we are here is it. :-) SignatureJethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Pinger Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com >Well, I got me a new computer. Thank you to all who counseled me. Lot's of >excellent and interesting advice. Much of it was encouraging me to build my [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >Scott in Austin MN You can use the newreader in Vista - the one you are probably uising for e-mail, called "windows mail". By default it shows you Microsot related newsgroup - but if you go to Tools --> accounts ---> Add ---> newsgroup .... Then you can set it to read any other newsgroup server. HTH Personally - I use Agent Cheers |
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