[muglo] Re: The latest from Kathryn
- From: Eurogarth <eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Muglo@Freelists. Org" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:11:02 -0500
Once again at the risk of being pilloried at the suggestion of doing
business with the most evil empire known to mankind, Microsoft, their
optical USB wheel mouse works great and was on sale here in KW for 14.99
last week after rebate.
> Dear Muglo-ites:
>
> You may recall a while back the despairing e-mails from me about my
> brand-new G4 PowerBook - and the various suggestions from MUGLO members
> as to what to do.
>
> Well, I have mostly happy news to report. My friendly techie ran an
> examination of my HD with Norton Disk Doctor, and we found major
> problems with Catalog B-free errors affecting the location and saving
> of files, plus minor problems with MS Office, Appleworks, Extra
> Languages, the Colour Sync Profile, Library Core Services, Mac Help and
> TechTool Deluxe.
> Disk Doctor fixed all these, fortunately. I was lucky I lost only one
> file before this was all remedied.
>
> I also upgraded to OS 10.3.2 as per Eric's instructions. However, my
> attempts to install downloads of upgraded versions of MS Office for
> Macs did not work; I kept getting the message "Could not find Office X
> for Macs", and it was sitting right there in my applications. I expect
> it's because I have the educational version, and so I am not allowed to
> have downloads of the updates. The only way around this, I guess, is to
> buy the regular version at several hundred dollars - which I am not
> willing to do.
>
> I am still having problems with selecting items so I can copy and paste
> them, or drag to them to another folder or to my snazzy new flash drive
> (Kensington 128 MB) which I now use for storage rather than disks. I
> suspect I need a new mouse; the one I have is a trackball and although
> I clean it regularly it still gets gummed up quite easily. I went to
> Future Shop to look at possible mice and was overwhelmed by the choice.
>
> Can any of you give me advice now that's a good reliable mouse? I've
> read other messages from muglo-ites saying that Logictech is good, but
> what kind of mouse should I get? What features should it have?
>
> Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kathryn
>
>
>
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