On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:02:53 -0700, Scribner wrote:

Before you try to open it, why not rename it to something short (ie
shortname.rar)?

What causes and what is the cure for a monitor that takes much much
longer to go from no display when sleeping to normal bright display.
This slowdown started about a week ago. Normally when it is awoken
the bright display comes on almost immediately. Now it takes about 15
or more seconds and goes through slowly changing from black to very
dark display and very gradually becoming normal bright.

One of the newsgroups that I have been writing to, aus.politics, has
disappeared from my subscribed list in Outlook Express. It also is not
showing up in the list of all newsgroups so that I can subscribe to it
again...any ideas?

When I try to access any adult news groups I can see the messages on the
screen but a msg pops up that says the group is not available.
Dale

When I try to use my floppy drive to access old programs, the drive
grinds noisily but nothing happens. The only way that I can turn the
damn thing off is to shut down the computer. I imagine it is the
drive, but the diskettes are all very old. Any opinions?

Thanks

dunc@example.com wrote in
news:l79q74t69ogfla3m398kj5r9nfkj23hvmp@4ax.com:

See my reply to Mr. Martell, but if and when you can find a way
to get at the data on those disks, I would strongly suggest you
copy them all to a HD and then make one or more CD-R's. If the
floppies are not dead yet, they will be very soon.

But I'll bet almost anything that if they /are/ just programs,
you can replace almost everything from various vintage web and
ftp repositories. For free. And there are old warez newsgroups,
too.

Ron Martell gmail.com> wrote in
news:7fbq74lr1imegcudablf494qkuoqidjaus@4ax.com:

Please can you help

I have forgotten my password - have just bnought a laptop and want to
connect to the internet - what password do i have ?

Catherine Bath wrote:

Your password is: *********

First, fix your clock.