At 12:07 AM 5/22/00 -0400, you wrote: >What is a "pigtail" board. >All my ports are filled.. Everyone has it's own home, but HP Scanners >demand to be FIRST.. The printer was a piece of cake. The Scanner was >from hell. >My zip was very happy going into it's own slot and didn't care if it was >the last installed.. but, again, the scanner will scream and do nothing >unless all is removed and it is placed FIRST...geesh.. HP is a pain.. > >ginger To find out which order various programs will work, you can do a set up and try, and if that does not work try something else. A better way, is to do a net scan using something like Web Ferret or Copernic to find sites with data to help. On printers, for HP, I am not sure just now where it is, but on the HP site for the scanners, look for faq's, and technical papers. I seem to remember there was a couple of good ones talking about the problem. The scanners have always been touchy. In many cases, it is best to buy Paint Shop Pro, an evaluation is at http://www.jasc.com/download_4.asp and just install the Twain drivers for the scanner, and using the twain import function of PSP, to run the scanner. Some tweeking has to be done, but works. If you have a USB port or two, assuming your computer is new enough, and powerful enough, there are good adapters to plug into the USB, which will give you new, or more Parallel, Serial, NIC and other ports, just according to what you need and how much you want to pay. This is a good time for my standard rant on programs that phone home. Copernic is good, but can phone home, if you do not set it up right. Use Zone Alarm, and you can almost stop it with ZA alone. Here is my Optout rant. How much do others know about your internet use? If you are not now a user of OPTOUT By Steve Gibson, you probably should be. Go to his new site and read about what the sites you visit and the programs you use have placed on your machine, as a part of their programs, to follow you about. Also how they look around for your name, address, and any other information about you that may be on your hard disk. The URL is: http://grc.com/optout.htm Follow from there to find out what others are doing to us. Jack

> >To find out which order various programs will work, you can do a set up >and try, and if that does not work try something else. A better way, is >to do a net scan using something like Web Ferret or Copernic to find sites >with data to help. On printers, for HP, I am not sure just now where it >is, but on the HP site for the scanners, look for faq's, and technical >papers. I seem to remember there was a couple of good ones talking about >the problem. The scanners have always been touchy. In many cases, it is >best to buy Paint Shop Pro, an evaluation is at > >http://www.jasc.com/download_4.asp I have PSP6 and love it... >and just install the Twain drivers for the scanner, and using the twain >import function of PSP, to run the scanner. Some tweeking has to be done, >but works. Ok, I'll give the twain drivers a try.. not sure about tweaking tho..?? >If you have a USB port or two, assuming your computer is new enough, and >powerful enough, there are good adapters to plug into the USB, which will >give you new, or more Parallel, Serial, NIC and other ports, just >according to what you need and how much you want to pay. LOL, you are *shoop* over my head now.. I could not tell you a USB from a SCSI port on the back of my puter.. but do know I'm operating an AMD Athlon 650 with 256 SDRAM, 27gigs, * 2 hdrives, split into 4, the ATI All In Wonder Rage Video, Yamaha sound, internal zip, CD ReWriter, 50X CD ROM, HP DeskJet 895Cse printer and the HP ScanJet 5p.. I think I'm bout filled up in the back.. >This is a good time for my standard rant on programs that phone >home. Copernic is good, but can phone home, if you do not set it up >right. Use Zone Alarm, and you can almost stop it with ZA alone. Here is >my Optout rant. > >How much do others know about your internet use? >If you are not now a user of OPTOUT By Steve Gibson, you probably should >be. Go to his new site and read about what the sites you visit and the >programs you use have placed on your machine, as a part of their programs, >to follow you about. Also how they look around for your name, address, >and any other information about you that may be on your hard disk. Wow, this is scary.. g Mike & Ginger Woodcock/EagleRun Australian Shepherds [email protected] http://www.eaglerun1.com Ginger's WebDesign is here to help with your Web Needs, Give us a call, or email with your questions. Remember, the purchase of an EagleRun Aussie is not the end of a Transaction, it is the Beginning of a Relationship, enjoy!! :-)

At 10:42 PM 5/22/00 -0500, you wrote: >I have PSP6 and love it... Great. It is a powerful program. >LOL, you are *shoop* over my head now.. I could not tell you a USB from a >SCSI port on the back of my puter.. but do know I'm operating an AMD >Athlon 650 with 256 SDRAM, 27gigs, * 2 hdrives, split into 4, the ATI All >In Wonder Rage Video, Yamaha sound, internal zip, CD ReWriter, 50X CD ROM, >HP DeskJet 895Cse printer and the HP ScanJet 5p.. I think I'm bout filled >up in the back.. You have a romping stomping computer. You have at least one USB port, but probably two with the motherboards available to handle the CPU you are using. They are rectangular, about 3/4 inch long by 1/2 inch high, usually one on top of the second. Frequently near the fan for the power supply. >>This is a good time for my standard rant on programs that phone >>home. Copernic is good, but can phone home, if you do not set it up >>right. Use Zone Alarm, and you can almost stop it with ZA alone. Here >>is my Optout rant. >> >>How much do others know about your internet use? > > >>If you are not now a user of OPTOUT By Steve Gibson, you probably should >>be. Go to his new site and read about what the sites you visit and the >>programs you use have placed on your machine, as a part of their >>programs, to follow you about. Also how they look around for your name, >>address, and any other information about you that may be on your hard disk. > >Wow, this is scary.. Be ready for this, this is just the beginning. They intend to know everything you have on your computer, and how you surf the web. The can make a data base then with what you do and where you go. They sell this to anyone wanting to sell you something, wanting to kill your computer for fun, and of course the producers of software, to see if you are using software you did not pay for. Jack

At 5/22/2000 09:02 PM -0700, Jack Henderson wrote: >>>If you are not now a user of OPTOUT By Steve Gibson, you probably should >>>be. Go to his new site and read about what the sites you visit and the >>>programs you use have placed on your machine, as a part of their >>>programs, to follow you about. Also how they look around for your name, >>>address, and any other information about you that may be on your hard disk. >> >>Wow, this is scary.. > >Be ready for this, this is just the beginning. They intend to know >everything you have on your computer, and how you surf the web. The can >make a data base then with what you do and where you go. They sell this >to anyone wanting to sell you something, wanting to kill your computer for >fun, and of course the producers of software, to see if you are using >software you did not pay for. > >Jack I just installed OptOut, and found my system to be clean! Yeah!!!! Sandra Walroth SW Pa [email protected] Carawind Australian Shepherds and Shetland Sheepdogs http://freepages.pets.rootsweb.com/~carawind/ WCOTC: http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/1181 GLASC: http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/1806

>>> >> >>Be ready for this, this is just the beginning. They intend to know >>everything you have on your computer, and how you surf the web. The can >>make a data base then with what you do and where you go. They sell this >>to anyone wanting to sell you something, wanting to kill your computer >>for fun, and of course the producers of software, to see if you are using >>software you did not pay for. >> >>Jack > >I just installed OptOut, and found my system to be clean! Yeah!!!! > > >Sandra Walroth Tell me more about this... OptOut.. g Mike & Ginger Woodcock/EagleRun Australian Shepherds [email protected] http://www.eaglerun1.com Ginger's WebDesign is here to help with your Web Needs, Give us a call, or email with your questions. Remember, the purchase of an EagleRun Aussie is not the end of a Transaction, it is the Beginning of a Relationship, enjoy!! :-)

At 10:59 PM 05/22/2000, Jack Henderson wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* (snip) This is a good time for my standard rant on programs that phone home. Copernic is good, but can phone home, if you do not set it up right. Use Zone Alarm, and you can almost stop it with ZA alone. Here is my Optout rant. How much do others know about your internet use? If you are not now a user of OPTOUT By Steve Gibson, you probably should be. Go to his new site and read about what the sites you visit and the programs you use have placed on your machine, as a part of their programs, to follow you about. Also how they look around for your name, address, and any other information about you that may be on your hard disk. The URL is: http://grc.com/optout.htm Follow from there to find out what others are doing to us. Jack **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************** Jack, thanks for reinforcing what I sent some time ago about Aureate and the "phone home" problem. Yes, Copernic, as much as I love it, is one that will "phone home". Aureate has denied and denied that it's doing anything illegal, but, IMHO, anytime a program sends data from my computer to someone else, it's ILLEGAL! I've used OptOut since it first came out and swear by it. It keeps your system clean of those dreadful Aureate files. SgtGeorge

At 07:59 PM 5/22/00 -0700, Jack Henderson wrote: >and just install the Twain drivers for the scanner, and using the twain >import function of PSP, to run the scanner. Some tweeking has to be done, >but works. > >If you have a USB port or two, assuming your computer is new enough, and >powerful enough, there are good adapters to plug into the USB, which will >give you new, or more Parallel, Serial, NIC and other ports, just >according to what you need and how much you want to pay. > >This is a good time for my standard rant on programs that phone >home. Copernic is good, but can phone home, if you do not set it up >right. Use Zone Alarm, and you can almost stop it with ZA alone. Here is >my Optout rant. > >How much do others know about your internet use? > >If you are not now a user of OPTOUT By Steve Gibson, you probably should >be. Go to his new site and read about what the sites you visit and the >programs you use have placed on your machine, as a part of their programs, >to follow you about. Also how they look around for your name, address, >and any other information about you that may be on your hard disk. > >The URL is: > >http://grc.com/optout.htm > >Follow from there to find out what others are doing to us. Good point! But, as to the using PSP to get the scanner to work, if her problem is the same as what I went through, that won't work either. At least it didn't for me. :( The only way I got it "fixed" was to change the loading at startup. Mari