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Speaking of stress, I like this StressBunny, too.

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"Of course, it was giving all kinds of signs of being dead BEFORE we paid 5 gazillion dollars for the new Tiger operating system (yes, that was dumb) and then paid The Mac Doctor $500 to reformat the hard drive. (Plus whatever it was we spent on the New Memory & the USB hub.....)"

As much as I dislike Gates, I am quite happy with my sparkling, powerful new Windows xp laptop I got for under one thousand.

Sometimes it pays off to be conventional.

-- CharlesH - 23 Aug 2005

Ooh, Charles, ouch. Don't kick the woman: she's down.

Besides, Mac users would rather fight than switch.

Catherine, can you transfer the tiger os to the new machine if it doesn't come with it (and I guess it probably will, right?)?

department of one-upmanship

I have a sparkly new Pentium laptop that I got last year for under 700.00 that runs Linux. So I can have my nice machine and still be a true blue Bill-Gates-disliker,

Oh, speaking of which, I have to remember to post about our trip into the Belly of the Beast (i.e. Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA) last week.

-- CarolynJohnston - 23 Aug 2005

Catherine, I like that stress bunny too!

Do you know what EFT stands for?

-- CarolynJohnston - 23 Aug 2005

Well, believe me, I am CONTEMPLATING a return to Windows.

Unfortunately, I'm severely hooked on Macs at this point--hmm.

The stress bunny comes from a web site about hypnosis & stuff...I have no idea what EFT stands for!

Here's the URL (I can't even find the bunny on the web site--it came up on a Google search).

http://www.magicofthemind.co.uk/

-- CatherineJohnson - 24 Aug 2005

The Mac Doctor has been driving me NUTS.

His whole approach to my problems has been on the order of, 'Don't drive so fast you have to use the brakes. Coast to a stop.'

Every time I talk to the guy he warns me off another of the programs I use ALL THE TIME.

He seems to have no idea whatsoever that NOT USING THE PROGRAMS I NORMALLY USE isn't an answer.

FIXING THE MACHINE is an answer.

-- CatherineJohnson - 24 Aug 2005

Plus naturally there's been a double-teaming situation with Ed repeating Mac Doctor's sage advice: don't use Adobe. Preview works just as well. This from Ed, who has never used Adobe OR Preview (well, rarely) and has no idea how I use them.

-- CatherineJohnson - 24 Aug 2005

I can't wait to hear about Microsoft!

-- CatherineJohnson - 24 Aug 2005

Is it true that these days you can avoid getting viruses on your PC by using Firefox??

-- CatherineJohnson - 24 Aug 2005

EFT comes in handy when having trouble with computers. It stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques (whatever that means).

-- CharlesH - 24 Aug 2005

Catherine, I am afraid the Mac Doctor has to go. It's really unacceptable for a computer fixer to say "Don't use all your programs at once"; it's more his role to say, "Your computer is insufficient for your requirements; you need an upgrade".

-- CarolynJohnston - 24 Aug 2005

I don't think using firefox is a complete guarantee against getting viruses, but it doesn't leave you as wide open to windows viruses as Internet Explorer does.

Last year we gave Al a PC laptop for his graduation. When he came to visit at Christmas, it was so full of viruses and spyware that he wanted to get rid of it. Bernie estimates (conservatively) that he cleaned 6000 programs off of it. Most of them came in through IE.

-- CarolynJohnston - 24 Aug 2005