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Hello TaoOfDow,
I feel your pain. Just a note---several weeks ago I finally bit the
bullet and went about converting my Dell from W98 to Win2k. Worked
fine. and W2k is just sweet. Seems I could go weeks without
rebooting. reintstalling all one's apps is a bit tedious but I spread
it out over a few weeks. but by and large it was easy. thanks
significantly to the great info posted on this list.
--
Best regards,
Jim Johnson mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday, April 08, 2002, 9:26:57 PM, you wrote:
T> Dear Group,
T> Last week was in many ways my week in hell --- with software & hardware
T> problems.
T> The week before, I had bought a Dell P3/500 over eBay. I FDISK'd and
T> FORMAT'd it, then installed Win98 and TS4, but I just could not get it
T> to recognize that peskie TS dongle. I asked for suggestions here and
T> received many. Despite my efforts, attempting virtually all your
T> suggestions (save for installing an auxiliary printer port), I just
T> could not get the Dell to recognize that damned apparatus !!!
T> I then regrouped, deciding to use the Dell for my general purpose
T> computer instead --- and use a clone P3/500 that I have been using as my
T> general purpose computer for my TS computer. I FDISK'd and FORMAT'd it,
T> then installed Win98 and TS4. And, of course, the clone recognized the
T> dongle on the first try. Why the clone did and the Dell didn't remains
T> to be determined --- by someone else.
T> I also had problems in getting a combination of historical and realtime
T> data to plot coherently. Apparently what happened there was that when I
T> downloaded the historical data, the computer on which I did that was set
T> for a date that was the date of the following day. As a consequence of
T> that and the date that daylight savings took effect, the historical data
T> got date-stamped as if daylight savings had already taken effect ---
T> messing up the charting process.
T> I published my woes on this newsgroup, as regards both my dongle
T> recognition and my data sharing problems, and received many replies and
T> suggestions. I just want to take the time to acknowledge the many notes
T> I received and express my gratitude to you all for taking your time to
T> help me with your many and generous ideas. Thank you.
T> Things are back to normal here, more or less, and I am indeed glad to
T> turn my efforts from the intricacies of computers to that of trading and
T> the markets. Thank you again for all your help.
T> Sincerely,
T> Richard
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