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John said:
*MY* COMPUTER IS *MY* PROPERTY!!!!
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******* AMEN **********

Now that my huge family picture archive project is completed, I'm
going to be looking into Linux in earnest.
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Just a tiny little question John - does this mean you've thrown away all
the family cameras? ;)

Susan
 
Thanks, donut.

When M$ decides that it's time to abuse it's customers by screwing
around with their machines without the user's say, then they've
crossed the line. Bill just doesn't seem to get the idea that

*MY* COMPUTER IS *MY* PROPERTY!!!!

It's time for the customers to either stop going online or take other
measures to put an end to this crap. For instance, have two computers
- one of which never goes online.

I'm very glad that I didn't upgrade to XP when I got this computer.
Now I'm absolutely convinced that I'll never get any newer version of
Windows than ME (and this version is questionable.) I'll also stick
with my refusal to allow Auto Update.
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John, this is something I am in 100% agreement with you on.

When I purchased my current computer 2 years ago. XP (eXtreme Pig) was
the default system. I didn't want it, so I had to *pay* $25 extra to
have it loaded with win98se instead. IMO the best $25 I ever spent
(excluding my marriage license of course).
 
Susan said:
******* AMEN **********


Just a tiny little question John - does this mean you've thrown away all
the family cameras? ;)
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I was processing old negatives and photos ranging from the 1840s to
the mid 70s.

The resulting archive contains 2692 images totaling almost exactly 2
gb. I used commercial software to crop and enhance the images, and
IrfanView to sort and rename the pictures. Then I zipped the files
into four sections and used SE Maker:

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/semkr100.html

to make a self extracting executable of each of the zip files. Each
huge (around 500 mb) SE file wound up on a CD for a total of 4 CDs. I
used commercial software to create the master discs and to copy them,
but I'm sure there's freeware out there that would do this.

I mailed sets of discs to a total of 18 family members.
 
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