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Originally posted by Sparrow:
A real idiot's question this one. I have a lot of music on my PC that I have copied off of CDs, now given away. If I want to burn some of the tracks on to another CD for listening on a hi fi system, what format do the tracks have to be in?

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Wav or AIFF should do the trick.
If the tracks are on your computer as MP3 files, they can be converted to WAV or AIFF format (AIFF is a more Apple-specific term) to run on a CD player, but the sound quality will only be as good as the MP3 file.

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Originally posted by Emma Louise:

... I can load the main page, and status updates, but when I click on anyones picture or name it doesn't go there, I can't comment on anything or change my status update (I type it in and click post but the little status at the bottom of the page just says done and nothing happens).

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Strangely this now works, links work when clicked on etc. Hmm freaky. I wonder if Mr Facebook himself has been reading the ship?!

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... I can load the main page, and status updates, but when I click on anyones picture or name it doesn't go there, I can't comment on anything or change my status update (I type it in and click post but the little status at the bottom of the page just says done and nothing happens).

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Strangely this now works, links work when clicked on etc. Hmm freaky. I wonder if Mr Facebook himself has been reading the ship?!

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Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
Here's one for you.

I'm into Formula 1, and enjoy the stores and news articles on the website run by ITV
www.itv-f1.com

the problem is that they have a very sneaky advertising set-up thing, whereby quite often when you click on a link to view a story, or a picture - it opens up a whole new browser window with an advert for barclays, or Dell, or something else.
these are not pop-ups, so are not blocked. I've ended up at one point with about 9 or 10 extra windows running adverts.
Any idea how to stop 'em ?

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Originally posted by BroJames:
Emma, it doesn't sound good, what kind of laptop is it?

If I were you I'd be putting all my urgently needed or important stuff onto a CD or memory stick in case the laptop fails. At least that way you can access it via another computer while the laptop is being sorted.

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Excellent advice there. - Sounds like a screen problem. Is the machine running during screen black-outs? (You could find out by playing some music or a DVD.)

Again, as BroJames says, slap the files you urgently need on a USB stick or CD-R/RW, or most sensible of all, do a complete backup on an external harddrive as well. Good luck!

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Originally posted by Wesley J:
I've just upgraded to Norton Internet Security 2009, but seem to encounter the occasional sudden system freeze now (WinXP SP2).

Anybody else got NIS 2009? Your observations very welcome. Thanks.

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My poor computer (iBook G4) is suffering terribly in general, ...

\Now, for some reason that confuses the hell out of me, when I'm on the Ship, Safari has begun loading archived copies of board main pages.

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My poor computer (iBook G4) is suffering terribly in general, ...

\Now, for some reason that confuses the hell out of me, when I'm on the Ship, Safari has begun loading archived copies of board main pages.

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I don't know of any settings specifically in Safari but have you tried with Firefox or Camino (the other browsers for Mac)?

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Sorry, Wet Kipper: I'm not quite sure which of my (or someone else's) post you're referring to. Or are you asking a question? - Thanks muchly for clarifying.

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Mrs Eutychus' laptop normally has a French AZERTY keyboard. For some reason, in Word 2007 only, it has taken it into its head to have a QWERTY keyboard setting (everything else apart from Word still seems to work as AZERTY).

Can anybody tell me how to unfix this (ie set Word 2007 keyboard settings back to French settings)?

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Sorry, Wet Kipper: I'm not quite sure which of my (or someone else's) post you're referring to. Or are you asking a question? - Thanks muchly for clarifying.

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I can see what Wet Kipper means. he is referring to this post of yours

I'm using Firefox 3.0.3 and I get exactly what he describes when clicking on the links on that page mentioned in his recent post.

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Goodness! Thanks, Gracious rebel. Sorry about that. And no, still not a single pop-up for me there at all. Try downloading and installing the free add-ons I mentioned earlier. I'm only very very rarely getting pop-ups now.

The first thing to do, however, which I omitted to say above, is to turn on Firefox' built-in pop-up blocker. In the navigation toolbar (at the top), go to Tools -> Options -> Content -> Block Pop-Up Windows -> OK.

A further useful trick is to automatically make Firefox delete your cookies when it closes. This makes tracking more difficult for baddies. Go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Accept cookies 'Until Firefox closes' -> OK. This means you'll have to log into the Ship again once you closed Firefox (and retype all other passwords!), but that's a minor problem I think. Main issue here is surfing hygiene, I'd say.

A third point then could be this: Go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Private Data -> tick 'Always clear my private data when I close Firefox'; then in the same tab, right of this, go to Settings -> 'When I ask Firefox to clear my private data, it should erase': Tick all EXCEPT (I'd suggest) browsing history, download history, offline website data -> OK -> OK.

Hope that helps. Looking forward to your comments.

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Originally posted by Eutychus:
Mrs Eutychus' laptop normally has a French AZERTY keyboard. For some reason, in Word 2007 only, it has taken it into its head to have a QWERTY keyboard setting (everything else apart from Word still seems to work as AZERTY).

Can anybody tell me how to unfix this (ie set Word 2007 keyboard settings back to French settings)?

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What Jengie Jon says. Try this and possibly this. I've googled 'word 2007 language settings' as I work with OpenOffice.org myself.

That language switch happens to me, too, and when I get e-mails or documents in different languages, or work on them, the default system language may temporarily change to the one in the document, which actually makes sense.

I've got keyboard shortcuts for 3 languages (which means that that keyboard virtually changes), and you can install and deinstall those as follows: In Win XP, go to Start -> Control Panel -> Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options -> Add other languages -> Languages -> Details -> Settings -> Add -> choose as appropriate -> OK; in the same tab, then go to Preferences -> Language bar -> tick 'Show the language bar on the desktop' -> OK; back to Preferences, go to Key settings -> Advanced Key Settings -> choose as appropriate ('Switch between input languages', etc) -> OK -> OK -> Apply -> OK.

The fun thing is that you can toggle your keyboard layout between the languages you've chosen, using keyboard shortcuts or by clicking on the Language Bar on your desktop - ok, in fact in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen. Should also work as a short-term solution for your problem, Eutychus.

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I keep being tempted to put my keyboard into Dvorak, but I haven't dared yet.

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I made the switch to Dvorak a couple years ago, when Mr. Otter decided to (finally!) learn how to touch-type, and also decided to do so with in Dvorak. I decided I'd just switch, too, and not worry about which way the keyboard is set.

Working in Dvorak is enormous fun when somebody else sits down at your computer, tries to type, and gets total gibberish. But I'd never do that to an annoying know-it-all from the IT department. No, never never never...

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Originally posted by Wesley J:
I've looked around a bit and it seems that "Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware" appears reasonably efficient for removing your nasties.

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I checked your site, Wes ... hmmm

My problem is that I simply don't know if I've ever had one of these nasties. My Norton, which so many people love to hate, ticks quietly in the background, and I renew it annually. Admittedly chapter five of my thesis suddenly disappeared yesterday, somewhat traumatically, but so far as I know there is no "eat chapter five of PhD thesises" viruses circulating.

Should I be afraid? Or is this like one of those pentecostal tricks ... you didn't know there was something wrong with you, but they see a demon, and if you ask (and pay) nicely they'll fix it?

I was eventually and miraculously able to restore Chapter Five, thanks be to God, and my back-ups are now more thorough.

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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Hi guys, I'm getting a freebie netbook with my mobile upgrade. Apparently, it'll be an elonex webbook - not a make I'm familiar with. Does anyone have any expereince using these mini-laptop thingies, or this one in particular ? What should I be looking forward to / cursing about ?

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Looks as if it's one of these, according to their website. However, I also found this one. If you get the first model, that looks quite reasonable: go to 'Specs' to find out more. The second model, oneT, is possibly the one intended for schools, with only 1 or 2GB of storage.

I guess the decisive factor is the keyboard and how much at ease you feel with it. I've been to the shops and tried out the Asus EEE and the HP2133, and much preferred the latter. I just can't type on the EEE, keys being much too small and the screen isn't exactly huge either. I haven't yet decided on a webbook really, should I ever need one, but then I'm also waiting for the new DELL mini laptop and reviews of it.

[ETA: I've just noticed that the Elonex Webbook VIA C7-M hasn't got an optical drive and the battery life is 2.5 hrs, so not exactly high. Other than that, it looks ok to me. ]

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My main plan is to sit in bed wiv it plugged in vaguely surfing and using bbc iplayer to listen to BBC radio 7 - preferably whilst quaffing decaff coffee and the odd chocolate.

Maybe also a bit of skype.

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I recently got an Acer Aspire One netbook, and it's great for basic use of Internet, iPlayer, word processing and so on. The keyboard is pretty usable for the size. Because it's so small (around half the size of a conventional laptop) it's really easy to carry around. For extra geek points, I got the Linux option

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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Anyone else having problems accessing the BBC websites and BBC radio on the web? All seem down to me; various UK and international sites, like npr.org though are ok. Prolly the sheer load of traffic...

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Pinging www.bbc.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk CNAME www.bbc.net.uk
www.bbc.net.uk A 212.58.253.67

PING www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.253.67) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=115 time=98.5 ms
64 bytes from www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=115 time=98.5 ms
64 bytes from www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67): icmp_seq=3 ttl=115 time=98.6 ms

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3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 98.571/98.587/98.618/0.021 ms

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