Subj : That time of year! To : Ed Vance From : Barry Martin Date : Mon Jan 29 2024 08:57:00 Hi Ed! I thinkthis is a new message: over the weekend my hard drive decided it had too many bad clusters or something and so 'good bye, cruel world!". Good news: had a spare hard drive in stock. Also found restoring a disk's worth of files isn't as easy as clicking [restore]. EV> After taps on two of the icons at the bottom of your post I am EV> able to make a reply here. Yup: those buttons sometimes need to be configured -- sometimes that's configuring the computer, sometimes the human! EV> Using Web Based BBS Forums is new to me. EV> In the past I've always used FTP to grab and send messages. EV> Then read everything offline with MultiMail. EV> So logging on this way is all new to me. Yes: each method has it's good points and bad points, so need to find what works for you. And as a sid enote i thing FTP is being depreciated in favour of SFTP (Secure File Transfer Proocol) EV> The other new thing here is this Android phone which shows icons EV> that don't have CAPTIONS under them to tell me what they are for. EV> I will have to go to the Library and find an Android Phone Book EV> to help me get around this device. This came up with a friend: both of us sometimes get confused by those pictures -- give me words!! "Click on the hamburger"!! I don't see any food on the screen -- maybe go to the McDonald's site?? (The 'hamburger' is the three horizontal lines, something like ð.) And I think what you're calling 'captions' are called 'labels', though captions to me is more accurate. EV> I don't know how long I will be in Kindergarten Stage before I'm EV> able to use this thing like I see many others use their cellphone EV> to get information. Personally I rarely use my cell phone for getting infromation: for me a lot easier to not have o put on reading glasses, to stare at a 5" screen when I can use a 27" one. ...Of course I will admit it's easier to haul around a cell phone than a monitor, computer, keyboard... ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... Don't give up on your dreams: go back to bed! --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .