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I always felt it was better to raise our daughter to respect the rules. Nothing was blocked but I let her know 2 things. First, that I would periodically check to see what she was doing & second, if I found that what she was doing was breaking the rules then there *would* be punishment. Further, I let her know that the more often I found that she was breaking the rules the more frequently I’d be checking. (I.e. the ‘better behaved’ she was the more freedom she’d have.)

The one difference between our treatment and the ‘real world’ is that in the real world (US) the authorities need to have grounds for suspicion first before they can start checking on you. Of course that’s historically been more honored in the breach than in the practice, and it’s even changing in the law now.

Actually, wouldn’t that be 10 binary?

Actually, wouldn’t that be 10 binary?

A better term than email would be messaging. It’s unfortunate that the term is already used by IM, but it’s really the best term. All email is messaging but not all messaging is email.

Many web pages (but fewer than there used to be) use the mailto: link. This invokes the default email application on the computer you’re using. It can be problematical if the default email application isn’t configured. (I had a customer who strictly used Yahoo mail so never bothered configuring her email application. Was very frustrated why some ’email’ links worked & some didn’t-until I explained the difference. Luckily she had an email account from her ISP-she just hadn’t bothered configuring her email app since she didn’t use it. Now it’s configured to send via her ISP’s email with ‘Reply-To’ set to Yahoo.)

A better term than email would be messaging. It’s unfortunate that the term is already used by IM, but it’s really the best term. All email is messaging but not all messaging is email.

Many web pages (but fewer than there used to be) use the mailto: link. This invokes the default email application on the computer you’re using. It can be problematical if the default email application isn’t configured. (I had a customer who strictly used Yahoo mail so never bothered configuring her email application. Was very frustrated why some ’email’ links worked & some didn’t-until I explained the difference. Luckily she had an email account from her ISP-she just hadn’t bothered configuring her email app since she didn’t use it. Now it’s configured to send via her ISP’s email with ‘Reply-To’ set to Yahoo.)

I got 100%, but I’ll admit that I outright guessed on one.

I got 100%, but I’ll admit that I outright guessed on one.

IMO the key here is the statement that the speed has changed. I pretty much agree about the CPU, OS, NIC, RAM, etc. affecting download speed, but it doesn’t appear that any of these have changed-at least not deliberately. (Hardware degradation over time does occur, but I don’t think I’ve seen it more than once or twice in 20 years where the hardware slowed down rather than breaking down.)

Check for spyware, virus, etc. Also might try another cable & port. I’ve seen those go bad without failing outright (particularly cables). Sort of a long shot though unless something’s been moved/changed recently.

How is overall performance on the PC? If that has also decreased then I’d definitely suspect spyware/virus. Note that the reverse isn’t necessarily true-some spyware isn’t ‘active’ except when you’re using the Internet. Could also be overheating? (Particularly if it’s a P4-IIRC those have builtin thermal protection that slows the processor down when it overheats.)

IMO the key here is the statement that the speed has changed. I pretty much agree about the CPU, OS, NIC, RAM, etc. affecting download speed, but it doesn’t appear that any of these have changed-at least not deliberately. (Hardware degradation over time does occur, but I don’t think I’ve seen it more than once or twice in 20 years where the hardware slowed down rather than breaking down.)

Check for spyware, virus, etc. Also might try another cable & port. I’ve seen those go bad without failing outright (particularly cables). Sort of a long shot though unless something’s been moved/changed recently.

How is overall performance on the PC? If that has also decreased then I’d definitely suspect spyware/virus. Note that the reverse isn’t necessarily true-some spyware isn’t ‘active’ except when you’re using the Internet. Could also be overheating? (Particularly if it’s a P4-IIRC those have builtin thermal protection that slows the processor down when it overheats.)

Or a half-dollar. As for the names, the ‘rest of the world’ is just a bit ahead of the US in this. Think of guinea & florin, IIRC. And the US is getting better-we used to have eagles & double-eagles. (Gold $10 & $20 coins.) I still, occasionally, hear $10 bills referred to as sawbucks-not sure why. $5 bills used to be fins & $20 were double-sawbucks.

Or a half-dollar. As for the names, the ‘rest of the world’ is just a bit ahead of the US in this. Think of guinea & florin, IIRC. And the US is getting better-we used to have eagles & double-eagles. (Gold $10 & $20 coins.) I still, occasionally, hear $10 bills referred to as sawbucks-not sure why. $5 bills used to be fins & $20 were double-sawbucks.

Whew! Thanks-didn’t realize there were so many pieces. I’ll have to check it out but I believe that all they do here is delete/disable wscript.exe-but it’s been a year or two since I was last involved in setting up the PC’s. Now I’m more involved in the programming.

Whew! Thanks-didn’t realize there were so many pieces. I’ll have to check it out but I believe that all they do here is delete/disable wscript.exe-but it’s been a year or two since I was last involved in setting up the PC’s. Now I’m more involved in the programming.

Win95? Man, time just slips away. Must be OSR2 though as, IIRC, FAT was limited to 2GB partitions. Unless he has this 30GB drive partitioned 15 ways? Anyway, saving old versions of the OS doesn’t take up that much space. But FAT might if he does, in fact, have that. Plus, as admitted, it depends on what he’s storing on there.

As for the RAM, I compared 256MB with 512MB before moving to XP. No significant performance difference with my apps. Didn’t try with gaming & video which is mostly what XP seems to be aimed at or used for. (I’m intuiting the target based on what seems to be the most common use. Whether or not that’s what Microsoft aimed at depends on how good their marksmanship was.)

File size, of course, has a huge impact on memory requirements. In my day job I deal with files up to 200MB-and need more than 256MB of memory for decent performance. In my own business (night job) I rarely deal with a file larger than 20MB-and find no need for more than 256MB of memory. And like I said, I’ve tried it both ways.

(BTW, the ‘sharing’ takes place during the BIOS setup. I believe you’re correct that once ‘shared’ the designated memory is available exclusively for use by the video chip.)

Win95? Man, time just slips away. Must be OSR2 though as, IIRC, FAT was limited to 2GB partitions. Unless he has this 30GB drive partitioned 15 ways? Anyway, saving old versions of the OS doesn’t take up that much space. But FAT might if he does, in fact, have that. Plus, as admitted, it depends on what he’s storing on there.

As for the RAM, I compared 256MB with 512MB before moving to XP. No significant performance difference with my apps. Didn’t try with gaming & video which is mostly what XP seems to be aimed at or used for. (I’m intuiting the target based on what seems to be the most common use. Whether or not that’s what Microsoft aimed at depends on how good their marksmanship was.)

File size, of course, has a huge impact on memory requirements. In my day job I deal with files up to 200MB-and need more than 256MB of memory for decent performance. In my own business (night job) I rarely deal with a file larger than 20MB-and find no need for more than 256MB of memory. And like I said, I’ve tried it both ways.

(BTW, the ‘sharing’ takes place during the BIOS setup. I believe you’re correct that once ‘shared’ the designated memory is available exclusively for use by the video chip.)