Carrie, No he did not install Vista, as he knew that I would hate having to learn something new. I think you can get a patch to make it compatible as we get documents sent to us in Vista and we can read them. Patti
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Hmmmm - I hate having to learn how to cope with something new in the house and I wish (grits her teeth) my darling husband had made sure (I'm not sure I knew Vista existed) xp was on there. x, Carrie
I forget when Vista came out. I don't think it received great reviews. I got my computer in October with Vista and I don't really notice much difference.
Yes it had many flaws (par for the course wit MS) when it came out. I just have to get used too how to find things. They just rename everything! Most of the change is always behind the scenes.
October 2007? Ah, hers in Feb. 2007 we probably got a deal because they were selling off the last of the beta versions. I think there's a patch or something and if only I knew what that was we'd be all set, or maybe it's that she hasn't tried to download MS Office (is that what has Word, Excel and the Powerpoint programs?) . . . but she can't do her homework on her own computer, she has to mail it to me and I have to copy and paste into Word and then print it. Also, her computer (or Vista) and our printer aren't on speaking terms. . . . x, Carrie
The computer we bought my mom for Xmas has Vista on it, because you can't buy any other kind now.
But Eric was able to install MS Office w/o any problems. Are you using Office 2007, or an earlier version? i love Word 2007 - it took me a couple of weeks to get used to it, but i like it a lot now.
You can still find XP on some, but not many. Of course you can always switch it yourself too, but that's a pain.
I don't know, I don't know and i don't know. Victor, do we have to buy XP ourselves? Actually, yes, Word 2007. (I think either DD#2 hasn't tried to install MS Office or DH lost the disc for MS Office . . . either way, someone must die for this!) LOL - if my kid made that joke, I would give a lecture about not joking about death, it's not funny. In fact i say they have "lecture me" signs flashing on their foreheads from time to time.
xx, Carrie
My DH spent a lot of time on the phone with the Lenovo Rep to discuss me getting my new Thinkpad with XP and it was no problem, our choice through the Harvard buying program. So it was easy in mid Dec, if you talked to someone who didn't care which program you bought. Sadly, many dealers are probably trying to flog the new Vista, this guy understood my not wanting to learn a new system. Patti
It's not not wanting to learn a new system, apparently there are some things (gen Q type things) (where gen Q = my children, current teenagers) that it's better at. I've been spending the day sending jpgs to DD#1 which takes FOREVER cause they're too big and take so long to attach and I'm impatient and put too many in the same email. Sigh!!!
x, Carrie
Arlene - I'm actually thinking of getting rid of my cook books. I usually google for recipes or use one from a clipping from a magazine. I want to scan everything into my PC. Then I don't have to have any paper to deal with.
Another item that came to my attention in the search for pc networking knowledge is the Media Center PC. What another fantastic idea. I need to get more info on that as well.
Anita - I'm thinking of getting rid of many of my cookbooks, too.
When DH upgrades or DS does, I will let them pull out their hair and then slide into Vista. I am in the middle of some projects that I didn't want to screw up. I have one old architecture program which I used a lot that I can no longer use on XP. I am having to learn the new upgrade for it, which is great for most things, but I have to drag out my old computer to look at the old files and hope that it doesn't melt down when I need it. I need to redraw the old plans in the new upgrade which takes way too much time. I have hard copies, but it is so much easier to pull them up on the computer.
But it is all a far cry from my first PC bought in 1981 running on dos. It was the same year my son was born, I don't know which was harder. My second big venture into computerizing my bookstore, after setting up the accounting was putting the inventory for ordering on a spreadsheet when I learned Lotus 1 2 3 in 1983. My next jump was a few years later when I purchased a point of sale and integrated inventory system that I could run from home. That made it possible to open a second store in Vt and be able to do the buying and accounting from either place and my staff never knew where I was. Kind of like in the wizard of Oz. They knew I was working as the books kept arriving.
My learning curve now is far simpler. I learn only the applications that I need to at a particular moment and ignore the rest. Don't tell me what I can do, just teach me what I want to do. It is kind of like all the buttons on the new dishwasher. I use on and off only and have no clue what those others are about. Just old, I guess. Patti
So who has filed their taxes already? Getting a refund? I have not started mine. Still have to pick up Turbotax. I expect a decent refund due to the solar installation.
Haven't done mine yet. Good luck Victor.
Mine have to ( personal goal ) be done by Sat. I use Quicken or Quick Books, can't remember which I have and which DH uses, so we can get them off to the accountant next week. Patti
I have a meeting with the accountant on the 20th, 2days later they are done. I sign, and mail them out, then we wait. Have a good refund coming and im very excited.....but it's never enough to do everything i'd like to!
I ALWAYS do ours myself. We never earn enough to make it worth it to pay anyone else to do it, and I really don't mind.
x, Carrie
I started mine with Turbo Tax online. I just have been interrupted by the refurbishing of my office. I try to break even with the tax man - "he" doesn't pay interest on over witholdings!
Yes, that's my goal as well - to be +/- a little bit.
DH does them, mails them on April 15th, and we come close to breaking even.
schickenlady, Who cuts the wood? We heat with a wood stove and a passive solar greenhouse as much as the weather allows. We buy the wood in Vt and make three truck trips a year to haul it down. But $140-160 a cord is a whole lot better than the $550 it cost here. It means a lot of stacking and unstacking. We use a wood stove in the Vt barn (where we sleep), but the old house gets heated with oil and a fire place. I hope to renovate an old attached carriage barn to make it into a new family room with a big wood stove, but I am waiting for the money to fall from the sky.
Here, using the solar part is great but it means that we are cold one day and hot another. Greenhouse is 78 degrees now and so the house is running on that with no backup and it is perfect , but come sundown, I will crank the wood store up to heat the downstairs. We do have backup (propane and electric) and keep the thermostats at 55 or 60. Upstairs, we live colder. But I like a cool bedroom. Today it is sunny 45 degrees outside. The house is at 72 degrees, so today the house has to pay zero for the juice for heat. Love that. But of course we pay through the nose for other electrical uses. That bill makes me cry.
Victor, what kind of solar did you get? I am sure you posted it somewhere, please post the thread reference. We have so many historic commission rules, I don't know if I could find any panels that they would approve, but I would love to hear how yours are working. And about the tax rebate. Patti
Husband cuts wood. DH works in a lumber mill. They work on all hard wood. Rock maple, ash etc. The logs come in and he is the debarker. He cuts the 2 ends off and gets all the bark off. The log leaves and goes to a saw and it makes it some what rectangular. So what they cut off can't make a board. They are called slabs and are considered firewood or goes to the chipper to make sawdust.
He gets all the slabs he wants for free, including real lumber and bark for flower beddings or what ever you would want it for. Those slabs are big. Some can be 2 feet wide by 12 feet long. All depends how the log is shaped to be processed. He brings them home and uses a chainsaw and a wood splitter to get it to the fireplace.
Long story longer....... Wood does not cost nothing.
That is too cool, or toasty warm for free. The best. Patti
My solar is for electricity only, Patti. Working very well. It's net metering so I only pay for the net amount I use (subtract out what I generate). Every state has different rules and incentives. I use a pellet stove for the vast majority of the heating.
Schicken, what a deal! Well, we get free space available air fare - but that doesn't pay for mulch!
x, Carrie
In our "old" house, before we put up the present one, we heated exclusively with wood. The previous owners used the wood stove, too. (Furnace in basement, but was ancient - really.)
We got the wood from our development. DH had a log splitter, and it was my job to gather kindling. Even now, six years later, when I walk down to the mailbox I'm tempted to pick up fallen branches!
I miss it.
Hugs and kisses from my daughter!
the weather UGHHHHHHH
Butterflies
Starry skies
Moon's glow
pure white snow
Tree's n' slugs
Bee's n' bugs
Lot's of wonderful things
Especially the Northeast ring.
The best things in life are free - love, friendship, trust, happiness, smiles, kisses, hugs, etc.!! (But you have to be willing to give these things freely first for them to be given to you) Eleanor
radio programming
tv programming (at least in theory)
your vote
nature
and all that love stuff
Best free medical bargain: helping others
Radio and tv cost you electricity!
No-I have my meter rigged.
Celeste, nice little poem! Are you taking over for DonShirer?
No Sue, he is way better than I when it comes to words. It just kinda popped out!
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