Running XP and I somehow managed to completely stuff up Outlook Express, which no longer works. What’s a good free email client with which I’ll be able to use my existing email addresses?
Thunderbird?
https://www.mozilla.org/EN/thunderbird/
Ha, with the help of Wikipedia, I managed to fix Outlook Express. It stuffed up during “compaction” yesterday, but it actually backs up all the .dbx files in the Recycle Bin before doing the compaction. So all I had to do was rename those files from .bak to .dbx and send them to the Outlook Express folder. It’s all working again.
Ta bourke. People can still give their recommendations here, for when I next break OE :)
thunderbird
use cloud mail … having mail on your pc is so 1990s
Dropbear said:
use cloud mail … having mail on your pc is so 1990s
Those were the days ay? Newsagents were full of big fat computer magazines with free CDs stuck to the cover, and thousands of glossy ads for PCs & big fat CRT monitors and other shiny stuff.
I is a thunderbird user.
Bubblecar said:
Dropbear said:
use cloud mail … having mail on your pc is so 1990s
Those were the days ay? Newsagents were full of big fat computer magazines with free CDs stuck to the cover, and thousands of glossy ads for PCs & big fat CRT monitors and other shiny stuff.
The newsstand at work still has that stuff…it is completely out of control and there is not enough room for all the crap that is there. I often have to throw away 8 copies of last months magazine and replace it with 8 copies of this month’s. Only to do it again next month :/
Ha. Don’t think I’ve bought a computer magazine this century. I’m surprised they still publish them.
Bubblecar said:
Dropbear said:
use cloud mail … having mail on your pc is so 1990s
Those were the days ay? Newsagents were full of big fat computer magazines with free CDs stuck to the cover, and thousands of glossy ads for PCs & big fat CRT monitors and other shiny stuff.
I could never afford the shiny stuff, I had to settle for the matt beige stuff.
i bought that woodgrain contact and stuck it on the tower. very retro.
Even the expensive stuff was beige. I’ve still got the tower from my top-of-the-range Peripherals Plus pc somewhere, which is not just beige but two-tone beige.
My current laptop is beige. Most laptops are still black for some reason.
There was more computing power in a beige slide rule than the early computers as a rule but they never went that extra yard and made an email client for a slide rule and that’s why you don’t see beige slide rules on desks much any more.
I’ll have more to say about this at a later time.
Our PC is two-toned. Black and light brown.
You learn to live with the dust from the desert…I swear I cleaned it off last week.
Anyone else remember CompuServe?
That was e-mail on the cloud, before there was even a cloud.
CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS) was the first major commercial online service in the United States. It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major player through the mid-1990s, when it was sidelined by the rise of services such as AOL with monthly subscriptions rather than hourly rates. Since the purchase of CompuServe’s Information Services Division by AOL, it has operated as an online service provider and an Internet service provider. The original CompuServe Information Service, later rebranded as CompuServe Classic, was shut down July 1, 2009. The newer version of the service, CompuServe 2000, continues to operate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
kii said:
You learn to live with the dust from the desert…I swear I cleaned it off last week.
I wonder how big a fan it would take to very slightly pressurise the house and prevent the dust infiltration?
I’m thinking something like a ducted system with filtering on the intake and a heat exchanger to heat/cool the air, if required, that runs all the time.
Rule 303 said:
kii said:You learn to live with the dust from the desert…I swear I cleaned it off last week.
I wonder how big a fan it would take to very slightly pressurise the house and prevent the dust infiltration?
I’m thinking something like a ducted system with filtering on the intake and a heat exchanger to heat/cool the air, if required, that runs all the time.
It worked on Mars in Total Recall.
I wonder how big a fan it would take to very slightly pressurise the house and prevent the dust infiltration?
Isn’t dust mainly decomposed human (& pet) skin cells?
bourke said:
bq. I wonder how big a fan it would take to very slightly pressurise the house and prevent the dust infiltration?Isn’t dust mainly decomposed human (& pet) skin cells?
thats right.. it isn’t