Web Mail and POP Mail

I had a question from a reader: I have a small laptop and a PC. My PC email is working fine. My router is working because the laptop is online. Even though I have exactly the same email program in both, Eudora 6.2, and I have checked and rechecked that ALL the settings are exactly the same, the laptop Eudora cannot connect to my mail server. I've tried and tried and it times out.

It's just as well it doesn't work.  You are using a POP mail client, Eudora, and trying to use it with two different computers.  If you want to access a mail account from more than one location, use Web Mail, which means getting it with your browser.

I went to the Qwest web site, www.qwest.com, and found, at the very top, a link called 'check email'.  I clicked it and discovered it requires Windows.  I suggest you get a gmail account and forget Qwest.

Linux for Seniors (and everyone else)

Recently I have installed Ubuntu Linux on five or six home computers.  I have been using Ubuntu at home for some time and think that it is now superior to Windows for seniors.  Now I know, as a woman some fifteen years younger than me had the temerity to say, "Old people don't like to learn anything new."  In this case, it's worth the trouble.

Linux is not troubled by viruses, worms, adware, spyware, or trojans.  Linux does not run slower and slower every year you use it.  Linux does not need complicated maintenance routines.  And, finally, Linux and all the programs that run on it are free.  Linux is open source software, a movement that, after decades of slow growth, is finally moving into the mainstream of personal computing.

For a while, I will try to write about starting with Linux.  The stories will be short, as I have a short attention span.