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   Ed Vance to August Abolins   
   Need a Chromebook Helper   
   24 Mar 20 21:10:00   
   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   MSGID: 2023.windowsb@1:2320/105 22dff54c   
   REPLY: 2:221/360.0 5e7a1d00   
   PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux  Mar 14 2020 GCC 7.4.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.152 Mar 14 2020 GCC 7.4.0   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   03-24-20 16:45 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Need a Chromebook Helper   
   Howdy! August,   
      
    AA> @MSGID: <5E7A5951.2021.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net>   
    AA> @REPLY: <5E796A59.2019.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net>   
    AA> On 23/03/2020 10:02 p.m., Ed Vance : All wrote:   
      
      
    AA> G'day Ed!,   
      
    EV>A Friend of Mine who lives in the next County has a Acer   
    EV>Chromebook. He calls (or Email's) me and asks how to do things   
    EV>like:   
      
    EV>1. How do I find Windows Games I can Play Online? - Play not   
    EV>Download.   
      
    AA> I have seen some sites that offer games via Java.  They work well.  No   
    AA> download required.   
      
   My Friend may get confused if I mention Java to him.   
   He's heard me talk about WINE being a Windows Emulator for Linux and knows   
   WINE is a computer program.   
      
   Really, I am not knowledgeable about Java.   
   I use NoScript to allow some websites just so the Page I am wanting to look   
   at displays correctly.   
      
   On some web pages before I "Temp. Allow" any sites with NoScript I sometimes   
   see a notice at the top of the page about not having Java enabled   
      
   Someone here in a Windows echo told me about using CTRL-U in Firefox to   
   to open a Tab to see the Pages SOURCE CODE.   
      
   After I open the SOURCE Page I usually hit the F3 Key to open a Find window   
   on the botton left of Firefox so I can type some of the websites NoScript   
   shows in the list of Recently blocked sites that I'm not sure need to be   
   Allow, Temp. or Otherwise.   
   When I see the Name of a website in the SOURCE Page I Temp. Allow it then.   
      
   It doesn't hurt to be very careful.   
      
    EV>2. How do I find DOS Games I can Play Online?   
      
    AA> Many BBSes have fine DOOR GAMES.  Would that fit the bill?   
      
   He isn't a BBS User.   
      
   Years ago when This BBS (CCO) could be Dial'd-Up I gave him the phone number   
   of the Prism BBS he could get on using Dial-Up.   
      
   He used it for a while and didn't continue calling it.   
   That may have been because Janis moved away from this area.   
      
    EV>3. How do I find Linux Games I can Play Online?   
      
    AA> The Java-based sites ought to be the same as for [1] above.   
      
      
    EV>He know I have been playing with computers, (and getting whipped   
    EV>by them) since 1984 when I bought a C=64, and considers me   
    EV>his 'Tech Person' but I don't know it all, I just act like I do.   
      
    AA> The technology often moves along a lot faster than it is possible to   
    AA> "know" everything.   
      
   I'm still using XP but I'll still try to keep on learning things as I become   
   interested in learning about it.   
   By my logging on to a BBS ran on a Windows (DOS probably) pc when I had a   
   Commodore 64 I learned enough about Windows 3.1 to try to help a man at   
   Church from what I read in the Windows (and later WIN95) echos.   
      
   And then where I work got rid of the Texas Instruments Terminal and got the   
   Boss'es old used XT with DOS 2.11 - WITH ALL THE BOOKS FOR IT! when a 286   
   was put in His Office.   
      
   I was in Hog Heaven on the Night Shift using BASIC, after all, BASIC was on   
   my C=64 and a lot of things I could do at Home I could write in DOS-BASIC   
   now.   
      
   And Then I learned to write simple .BAT Files...   
      
   I added Your Initials to the TAGLINE that You used in a message over in   
   the DOVE echo.   
      
   When I saw it mention Geneology I thought of Nancy Backus who writes in   
   another echo I read and JUST HAD TO write her a message using That TAGLINE.   
      
   I didn't know if You created the TAGLINE or Stole it as I did today, but   
   anyway I added it to my TAGLINE File with Your Initials.   
      
   See Below           | | | |   
                       v v v v   
      
   73 de Ed W9ODR    .                       .   
      
      
   ... Genelogy: chasing your own tale. - A. A.   
   --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49   
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