Christmas Day Part 3

Okay.

I just discovered that the reason I could not post anything was because I hadn't chosen a font.

How revealing is that, of my non-computer literate status?

Repeat, my computer is actually fine in this respect!

Secondly, I was having trouble with the Telnet task but didn't report it due to both my perceived inadequacies and my ever-present computer problems.

My brother was around today and had a look at my computer and checked the 'ping' rate (apparently something to do with whether your computer can 'see' another computer, so you can figure out what the problem is).

I have Internet Explorer 7, which can't communicate with Telnet, so I need to make some changes to what my computer is doing (thank you also to Kelly 9/12 post for your helpful notes).

I'm going to save my computer files to an external hard drive after I've finished reading all the discussion board posts on Telnet. Then I'll have a go at the task.

My previous attempt (a couple of weeks ago) shut my computer down again and we had to rebuild everything for the umpteenth time (grrr ASUS is meant to be a reputable brand, but although I only bought it in March this year, It has already had the hard drive replaced due to corruption in June, and some sort of bug or virus from Vista Service Pack 2 that eventually shut it down again at the end of November...plus some new thing that keeps shutting it down by itself so I again lose all my data), but I think my brother has fixed this (who knows what I did, or even if it was something I did in the first place or just my computer complaining again!).

Stay tuned - before the Festive Season is over, I'm hoping to have this task achieved :)...but yeah, a huge THANK YOU to everyone that has helped with a posted problem on the Discussion Board. I now know that it won't be looked upon as a silly question...and luckily my brother is on holidays from teaching until January 5 so will be able to help fix my computer if it crashes again - he used to work in IT a long time ago and helped with things like preparing a large Aussie Bank for Y2K (which was a real non-event by the way)...but computers have come a long way since then!!!