Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Digest for misc.consumers.frugal-living@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 2 topics

Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net>: Oct 30 06:23AM -0700

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 9:26:41 AM UTC-4, John Weiss wrote:
 
> For the boot drive, you can either boot from an external drive and run
> Eraser from there, or re-install the OS from scratch with just a generic
> account and run Eraser over the rest of the drive.
 
I would think there are plenty of programs that will wipe the boot drive
without doing anything special. The OP should just look for free disk
wipe programs. The other alternative is to just smash the drive with
a hammer, if it's a real old PC and of no use anymore.
"tb" <nospam@example.invalid>: Oct 25 06:04PM

I live in the U.S. and would like to get Spectrum (the cable company)
Internet and Voice plans.
 
As for the Voice plan, Spectrum offers Spectrum Voice International
(SVI) that would allow unlimited calls in 70 countries or
low-per-minute rates in the rest of the world.
 
Back when people had a traditional telephone landline (copper wires),
one could choose a long-distance provider of his choice. That would
also include international calls. Typically such providers charged
lower rates than the telco (such as AT&T).
 
Does anybody know if such choice exists when getting a Voice plan
through Spectrum? Spectrum peoples told me NO!, but I'd like to make
sure that I am not given wrong info...
--
tb
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net>: Oct 30 06:20AM -0700

> anymore. It's all (or nearly all) VOIP.
 
> -bruce
> bje@ripco.com
 
+1
 
You could use one of those prepaid calling cards though, if it's less
expensive than Spectrum's rate for where you need to call. They were
less than most carriers back 25 years ago, IDK how they compare now.
It is another step, but if it saves enough, could be worth it.
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