Sipsey Street Irregulars: One more irritation.

Friday, February 10, 2012

One more irritation.

Can't get my emails to reply. When I click on reply, the template comes up without the address I'm replying to. Then when I cut and paste the address into it, it won't accept the message I try to type in the body.

LATER: I also can't send an original email. The body won't accept text. This is getting really old. Will the person whom I owe shipping to send me an email (I can still read them) indicating amount and snail mail address so I can reimburse you? Please indicate item sent so I'll know it is you.

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Dedicated_Dad said...: Are you using AOL mail in a web-browser?

Which browser?

Have you tried another (Opera? Firefox? Chrome? Safari?)

Are you using some other stand-alone mail-client?

Need specifics to help you!; February 10, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Anonymous said...: Mike,

I don't know what platform you are using, what OS, what versions of software, etc. But my blanket advice as someone who has done IT for the last 15ish years privately, for corps, and the DOD without that info is fairly simple: most older Microsoft OSes suffer from what I call congestive software failure... As you run the system, there are small random errors, usually in stuff like install logs.. and over the months, these errors compound... this is how you get upgrades and patches that don't want to install even though they should, etc. This assumes you aren't using a web client, but most older windows OSes really need a format/reinstall about once every year or so to clear out the accumulated junk. There are a few more caveats, but I won't go into that beyond advising to avoid "upgrade" packages like upgrading from Windows XP to Vista, or a upgrade from one version of office to the next...; February 10, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Anonymous said...: Continued from the last: it is cheaper to buy these upgrades, but the principle of not building on a crappy foundation still applies. Also, your concerns with virus stuff lately points me to the format/fresh install path too. Unless you have something really nasty like BIOS resident stuff or something that has attached itself to any documents you elect to save, this should wipe any infection out. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about BIOS virii short of buying a new machine, but for the others, get a bootable CD that runs your A/V with the latest definitions on it, boot from that CD and let it scan.

Hopefully that wall of text helps out a bit. Wish I was closer to your AO, but I'm about a 10-16 hour drive out.; February 10, 2012 at 1:40 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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