Re: Screenlock causes black screen

What graphics card are you using? Have you updated it's drivers? Also
LVTravel, when there is only the starting message in a thread, there is
no need to quote that message. It only takes forum space.


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Karmic Koala

 

Hi, Koala.

In spite of the pretty face that some forums put on it, this is actually a
Usenet newsgroup. Your "forum" simply relayed your post, via the "vBulletin
USENET gateway", to the Microsoft public news server, where it went into the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general newsgroup for all the world to see,
not just those in your exclusive(?) password-protected forum.

In this particular case, we newsgroup readers DID see Rich's original post,
since it was posted to the MS server, not to your forum. But in far too
many cases, we see only the Reply forwarded from the "forum" without seeing
the OP or the rest of the thread. We very much appreciate the copying of
the relevant parts of the thread so that we are not getting into the middle
of the story.

If you'd like to see what I mean, just click here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

Unless blocked by something like a corporate firewall, that one click will
start your default newsreader (OE or WM or WLM - or other); create a News
Account for you on the Microsoft public news server, which is free and does
not require you to log on; connect you to THIS Vista newsgroup; download the
300 latest posts here; and display the newest message for you to read in the
Reading Pane. You should see your own post, as well as Rich's OP and the
replies by LVTravel and me.

After a little familiarization with the UI, you can click View or Tools |
Options and customize the newsreader in many ways to fit the way YOU use it.

Try it. I think you'll like it better than the "forum" interface. If not,
you can keep using what you are familiar with.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 RC 7100

"Karmic Koala" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:a632d0a416a8ff5c2755dfbfd484bfc9@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> What graphics card are you using? Have you updated it's drivers? Also
> LVTravel, when there is only the starting message in a thread, there is
> no need to quote that message. It only takes forum space.
>
>
> --
> Karmic Koala

 

R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Koala.
>
> In spite of the pretty face that some forums put on it, this is actually
> a Usenet newsgroup. Your "forum" simply relayed your post, via the
> "vBulletin USENET gateway", to the Microsoft public news server, where
> it went into the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general newsgroup for
> all the world to see, not just those in your exclusive(?)
> password-protected forum.
>
> In this particular case, we newsgroup readers DID see Rich's original
> post, since it was posted to the MS server, not to your forum. But in
> far too many cases, we see only the Reply forwarded from the "forum"
> without seeing the OP or the rest of the thread. We very much
> appreciate the copying of the relevant parts of the thread so that we
> are not getting into the middle of the story.
>
> If you'd like to see what I mean, just click here:
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
>
> Unless blocked by something like a corporate firewall, that one click
> will start your default newsreader (OE or WM or WLM - or other); create
> a News Account for you on the Microsoft public news server, which is
> free and does not require you to log on; connect you to THIS Vista
> newsgroup; download the 300 latest posts here; and display the newest
> message for you to read in the Reading Pane. You should see your own
> post, as well as Rich's OP and the replies by LVTravel and me.
>
> After a little familiarization with the UI, you can click View or Tools
> | Options and customize the newsreader in many ways to fit the way YOU
> use it.
>
> Try it. I think you'll like it better than the "forum" interface. If
> not, you can keep using what you are familiar with.
>
> RC

Of course, you're top posting with a sig so a newsreader like T-Bird
will nuke everything under your sig's delimiter. That would not happen
if you would properly bottom post.

Alias

 

On Thu, 28 May 2009 19:08:39 +0200, Alias wrote:

> R. C. White wrote:
>> Hi, Koala.
>>
>> In spite of the pretty face that some forums put on it, this is actually
>> a Usenet newsgroup. Your "forum" simply relayed your post, via the
>> "vBulletin USENET gateway", to the Microsoft public news server, where
>> it went into the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general newsgroup for
>> all the world to see, not just those in your exclusive(?)
>> password-protected forum.
>>
>> In this particular case, we newsgroup readers DID see Rich's original
>> post, since it was posted to the MS server, not to your forum. But in
>> far too many cases, we see only the Reply forwarded from the "forum"
>> without seeing the OP or the rest of the thread. We very much
>> appreciate the copying of the relevant parts of the thread so that we
>> are not getting into the middle of the story.
>>
>> If you'd like to see what I mean, just click here:
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
>>
>> Unless blocked by something like a corporate firewall, that one click
>> will start your default newsreader (OE or WM or WLM - or other); create
>> a News Account for you on the Microsoft public news server, which is
>> free and does not require you to log on; connect you to THIS Vista
>> newsgroup; download the 300 latest posts here; and display the newest
>> message for you to read in the Reading Pane. You should see your own
>> post, as well as Rich's OP and the replies by LVTravel and me.
>>
>> After a little familiarization with the UI, you can click View or Tools
>>| Options and customize the newsreader in many ways to fit the way YOU
>> use it.
>>
>> Try it. I think you'll like it better than the "forum" interface. If
>> not, you can keep using what you are familiar with.
>>
>> RC
>
> Of course, you're top posting with a sig so a newsreader like T-Bird
> will nuke everything under your sig's delimiter. That would not happen
> if you would properly bottom post.
>
> Alias

OTOH, lots of people bottom post under the sig delimiter. And lots of
others bottom post with " or other quoting characters in column 1.

I imagine that there are other ways to screw up posts as well, but I...
don't... want... to... think... about... them... (poster screams, pulling
hair).

Ya just can't win

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