Dumb and stupid internet questions - the place to ask

I have both Internet Explorer 3.0 version and Netscape 3.0 version browser on my windows disc. Netscape is a default browser. But anytime I download from netscape, the file attaches to Microsfot file, and when I Open the dowloaded file, the explorer browser opens, asking if I want to change the default browser, and I have stated no, but now the downloaded file is still attached to microsoft logo. What can I do to correct this. Thank you for your assistance.

I would like to know how to put a homepage up on the internet. I found the Spring while doing some research. I don't even know how to get the answer to the question I am asking except to tell you that I have an email address with the Spring which is folkartist@204.211.35.25 and another email at folkartist@hotmail.com and I know how to retrieve a message there. Can you help me, Terry?

First, that's not really a spring email address. That's the default that the system trieds to guess when you don't enter your actual email address. And regular contributors to the conferences get their home pages listed. What kind of stuff did you want to have on a home page?

Why is it, that even after we have so many useless and worthless virtual communities as it is, someone like terry has to go ahead and start yet another one up? Maybe he's trying to outdo the worst--and at that, he is definitely succeeding.

Welcome boswell, so good to hear someone take a counterpoint. We tend to be self congratulatory around here. But I don't think we take ourselves that seriously, the only measure is whether the folks here have a good time, and they seem to be doing that. And you're about four years too late.

it has a similar odor/scratch that fragrance but i havent seen that capitalization scheme. and terry, i seem to recall the emails are not verified on registration at spring? more likely maj. hi maj!!!

I'm singing in the rain, Just singing in the rain, Such a wonderful feeling, I'm happy a-gain... And, hiya, boswell... Why not?

I have been in communication with the real Gerard Van Der Leun this morning. The above post is a fake. We have a means of finding out who the imposter may be.

What does HCI stand for?

It's "ich" spelled backwards. "Ich" = "I" in German. Not the answer your looking for, huh?

How about this: "Human-Computer Interaction is a field of ergonomics concerned with the design of computer technologies. The goal of HCI is "Getting users interacting with computers to perform effective work." (Long). Found it using the search tool on the main menu. More here: http://www.ergohci.ucl.ac.uk/

THAT would be the correct answer! thanks!

There's also a phone company in the US called HCI...

heard of MCI... never heard of HCI... (am i walking into a trap or WHAT?)

depends on if you can define the difference between internet, intranet, and extranet...

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mouse

cat and?

Ball of yarn.

grandma perkins

Perkins, Perkins - is she Carl Perkins granny?

could be... she's not my granny

is there any server in the toronto called spring it works like aol

hmmm...

I've just switched from IE5 to Netscape. Is there any way I can import my 'favourites' to the bookmarks of Netscape without having to select each and every file. Can I import a folder somewhere? I'm getting desperate.

You can sign up for Visto on http://www.spring.net and it will store your booksmarks on their website via an import mechism, then load them in to your other browser. That's what I use to share bookmarks between browsers and it works great. Just click the banner on http://www.spring.net that says visto and it will tell you how to do it after you sign up.

Thanks, I was getting quite desperate.

Let me know about your progress on this, ok? I can share more advice on using Visto if you need it. Were you able to sign up ok?

Sign up was fine. I've transferred over a few files and that's OK too. I downloaded the sync assistant but it didn't like me very much and insisted I shut my browser, and still didn't like me after I did. It also didn't seem to recognise I had IE5 as well as Netscape. Ideas?

You're going to have to set change your default browser most likely and tell Visto in preferences which browswer to import/export bookmarks to/from.

I have just found another solution tonight. I found a site called my bookmark http://www.mybookmarks.com I can download all my bookmarks into that in their present folders and access them via netscape or IE5. I'm trying it out.

You can do the same with Visto, they keep your bookmarks on their website and you can access them there.

I found it difficult to transfer them in folders. I use visto for file storage but also found it difficult to store files using my present folder system, so I only stored the vital ones. (I've got zip backup too)

(You do,eh?)

(Yes I have, so you can stop worrying about me :-)

(You use Zip Rescue yet? Like, create a rescue zip, so you can restart your machine if it ever crashes? Great tool! Downloadable from Iomega.com!)

(Yeah, I got the tools disk with the machine. so far I haven't had to do a rescue since I got the zip drive. What do you know about 'click of death'? Should we switch this conversation to 'computers' somewhere or is it OK to talk here?)

(Who wants to sue us? But ok, pick a better topic, and tell me. I *HAD* Click of Death last year. I know all you can find in the WWW.)

I guess since no-one's complaining we can carry on! Can you email the URLs of what you found? I haven't experienced it yet - but I must admit to waking up dreading it!!!! I've got a double zip back up of my data just in case - plus visto. It's at the point now where it wuld be very difficult to repeat if it all got scrambled. I still have printer problems with the zip - I'm using parallel and route the printer through the zip. Usually I just have to clear the connection once by trying to print something and then clearing it. I find that easier than the official solution which is much more involved. However, recently I found the zip drive kept removing itself when I closed down and I've had to reinstall it severaL times. It's behaving itself today, so perhaps I've done something right.

Not quite an internet question - but a wierd thing happened today. My modem when dialling my ISP rang the emergency services - we got a call from the police once i got off the phone line saying they'd received a silent call from us!!! Cannot figure how it happened. If it keeps happening I'm in trouble!!!! I cannot figure how my modem configured to dail only my ISP rang the emergency services - they traced the call to my landline. Ideas?

All I can think of is to check and double check the phone number you entered in your dial-up program and make sure it is the ISP and not one of the emergency services. Should they be the same, you need to contact your ISP tech staff and tell them about it.

Happened again today. wierd or what. doesn't happen every time, double checks done. Must be something to do with the intermediary phone provider (we have a smart box attached to the main phone line to divert national and international calls to them). Have sent an urgent email. Police are being very nice about it, and they tried to contact our provider for us, but only us are allowed to report it.

There should be some national (like our FCC) organization which could bring out the big guns to make the ISP fix the problem ASAP. Tough time coming. I am sick of shredding my stuff for him. Gave him an ultimatum to find elsewhere to live or live with it.

Perhaps somebody changed the number in the dial-up settings to make using the modem more, ah, interesting? As in a prank? What operating system do you use?

Win 98. I seem to have solvd it for now by removing the 'Quip' smart box. I think the problem is likely to have been that with so much traffic on the ine and the difficulties of getting through it's only dialing part of the Quip prefix number (1250),and therefore getting 112 sometimes. It's the only explanation I can think of, and expecially since it's now stopped. I'm loath to reconnect the quip box while the ISP is still settling down to the masses of new subscribers folling the free phone calls to the net offer (which is why i joined them!). Once it looks like they can carry the load easier, I'll try again and see if we get the same problem. Trouble I is don't know how many 'nuisance calls' to the emergency services you are allowed before you get charged with an offense. So I'm scared.

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