OT: If I used my computer instead of webtv, would you love me then?

Exactly. The only time I encountered difficulty was when (years ago!) I would chat and there was some code people could use that would disconnect your unit from the phone line. You'd have to log back on.

But viruses are something we don't need to worry about.

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (ravelation) wrote in news:19482-4325A0D6- snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3332.bay.webtv.net:

The tag makes your browser/newsreader automatically go to a remote site and retrieve something.

Unpatched, insecure newsreaders (OE comes to mind) can be forced to execute malicious code using this device.

And since you are not asked permission before your reader retrieves the item (unlike a clickable link, for instance), it's a dirty trick.

Basically, bad, bad etiquette.

I'm glad we get along and I love your style, but I thought I did the little C&P game as well as the big boys. Hey, I even do it better than most of the 'puter hacks here because I know how to use my DELETE button to get rid of dialogue that isn't pertinent to the current discussion. You guys must get a charge out of scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/scroll/

Ahhh. There's the new verbage. The delete button is your friend.

No, sweetie - I don't mean the C&P - I mean those separators, like >> and such.

Just makes it easier to understand who's talking, but I usually do something like add ** to the other person's comments, as I often do with Richard

Natalie

i make my own.

Re: A computer user ragging on a webtv'er is a bit like ... Group: alt.autos.toyota Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2005, 1:05am (EDT+4) From: snipped-for-privacy@ae86.gts (Hachiroku) On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:36:01 -0400, Charles Pisano wrote: I've had this particular webtv Plus ® for about 4 years now and its needed nothing. My HP 720N computer is 8 months old and they've had to send me a new power supply already. Lemme guess HP is not a snobby enough computer to buy either. "..."   Cut, slice , paste shift

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By 'own' I'll assume you mean computer and not webtv. Nothing wrong with that . I considered it awhile back. But when you add it all up, you are just as well off with one of those packages on the shopping network with all the preinstalled programs. I bought this one in a moment of weakness around Christmas.

I know I could have done better. Too many 'intergrated parts'. Don't even really like HP all that much. But it isn't Webtv and after all THAT is really what is important. Anything but webtv. right??

I almost bought one a few months ago at the SalArmy just to see how they work. Doesn't look too bad, and my mom is 83 and certainly NOT computer literate!

And by building my own I save NO money. I get good stuff: Asus MB, AMD chip, SB audio; the last machine before this on was an AMD400 clocked to

A webtv 'plus' is the way to go. I have a Sony int w200 or w250. Too lazy to turn it around anc check. But those are the best used ones out there. Best place to look is in the under 100 adds in the paper or garage sales.

You can hook them up at the peoples house and check them out in 2 minutes. Keyboards and remotes are still available as are the wires and cables.

A lot of people sell them when they buy a computer and regret it later. Especially when they just want to lay in bed and chat or post on a DB.