What to do, what to do....

[poltr1]

.....while I wait the required 10-15 minutes for the lock on my email program to expire after I've been dropped while in the middle of downloading email to Eudora. Again.

In the meantime, I got questions. My LJ-friends have answers. I hope.

If I got DSL or cable-based broadband, would I still get these damn drop-carrier events?

What is the difference between a no-hitter and a perfect game?

Why is a bass clarinet not called a tenor clarinet? In other words, why does the clarinet family not follow the nomenclature of the saxophone family (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass)?

Has Kate Bush released any albums since "The Red Shoes"? (Oh yeah. "Aerial", which is still on my wish list.)

Does anyone still write code in Ada?

Why do I have such great ideas for songs, but only get to write one or two lines of them?

Who moved my cheese?

Comments

[patoadam]

If I were you, I would go with cable rather than DSL, because (a) cable tends to be faster than DSL, and (b) since DSL, as you know, goes over the phone lines, if you're having strange problems with plain old telephone service you might have problems with DSL.

[poltr1]

But I'm already giving too much money to the cable company for cable TV service. (In 17 years, it's gone up from $20/month to $50/month.) Plus, the local/regional carrier (Time Warner) is outside the jurisdiction of the state public utilities commission.

After noticing that most of my drops happen while I'm downloading email (via Eudora 5.2), I wonder if it's something in the program that's causing these drops. I can read LJ, web-surf, and download megabytes without a problem, but as soon as I bring up Eudora, I get dropped.

[patoadam]

Have you experimented with other email clients? I use Mozilla Thunderbird with no problems.

[poltr1]

I thought about trying Thunderbird. But I'm not sure my system meets the minimum system requirements (I'm running a 6-year-old Athlon 600 CPU and Windows 98), and if it could read the email already saved in Eudora (which would be a major plus).

[patoadam]

Yes, Thuderbird can import email from Eudora.

Here is what they say about system requirements. Despite what they say, I don't see why processor speed would be crucial.

Operating Systems

* Windows 98
* Windows 98SE
* Windows ME
* Windows NT 4.0
* Windows 2000
* Windows XP (Recommended)

Minimum Hardware

* Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
* 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
* 52 MB hard drive space

Have you thought about upgrading to Eudora 7?

[poltr1]

Okay, it looks like I *can* run Thunderbird after all.

As for Eudora 7, I've thought about upgrading, but haven't gone to the local Wi-Fi Cafe to download it yet. I really dislike being forced to "keep up with the Joneses" when it comes to software, even if it's free.

One thing that is missing in Eudora is an archival function. I have email dating back to 1997 in Eudora. It would have been nice to be able to save a whole year's worth of email and have it archived on CD-R.