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July 22nd, 2008

ethelmer said :

Thanks

June 30th, 2008

Rotwang said :

thanks

June 20th, 2008

rkirktn said :

Thanks! I’ve googled, but didn’t know about the filetype:ppt…
I’m going to try it now. Appreciate it.

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• July 10th, 2008

  Would it be helpful to provide a "commonly used resources" list for Fluther?

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• June 13th, 2008

  What will we do without Tim Russert?

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• June 11th, 2008

  Kudzu ethanol...would you buy into it?

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• June 4th, 2008

  How do you pronounce your username?

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• April 23rd, 2008

  Anyone familiar with Video Conferencing over IP?

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• June 11th, 2009

  IN GENERAL, do you feel it's getting harder and harder to find anyone anywhere that knows the solutions to your computer issues?

  now that i think of it, i do think that many tech support for computer companies are lacking. i worked for Dell long ago for about a year and they didn’t really require you to have a degree of any sort. as long as you could answer a 10 question over-the-phone test, you were hired…unless you have other issues. the training we had mostly included teaching us how to troubleshoot, research and tear down their systems..but you could easily slip through the cracks because they need people to answer the phones. and they moved me around 3 times to different departments before i quit. (not because i didn’t know what i was doing——they moved people around a lot to fill needs)…and i quit because i hated being on the phone all day. and now that more people are buying computers, that means more people will call tech support, so there is a bigger need for warm bodies to answer a phone.
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• June 11th, 2009

  IN GENERAL, do you feel it's getting harder and harder to find anyone anywhere that knows the solutions to your computer issues?

  i forgot about Wolfram…bing has become a helpful resource as well
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• June 11th, 2009

  When I put my PC (running Windows XP) into hibernate mode at night, I find that it spontaneously awakens by the morning.

  some bios’ allow a computer to turn back on automatically after a power outage without any user interaction. so, it might be a power issue…you might be having brownouts or something like that. try plugging it directly into the wall or a different surge protector. i’ve never tested this with hibernation, so i don’t know if the bios setting would affect the system the same way.
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• June 11th, 2009

  IN GENERAL, do you feel it's getting harder and harder to find anyone anywhere that knows the solutions to your computer issues?

  not to be redundant, but i agree that it is easier to find answers to problems on the internet than it used to be. it’s all about knowing how to search for things. i’m a network admin and google is my best friend. you just can’t know everything! it is nice to be able to lean on the knowledge of others….there are more things to know about than there used to be, so one person can’t be expected to know it all.
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• June 11th, 2009

  Why did the temperature stop appearing in my taskbar with Weatherbug (Vista 64 bit).

  the app may work, but it may not be able to get the temperature if there is a problem with firewall settings.
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