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Lamb Chopped
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Not you indeed, who was it who failed to google and just assumed (making an ass of me but not you)? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
That'll teach me. English scholar indeed! ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Lamb Chopped
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Okay, me again. We went back in to check the power supply but for whatever reason, Mr. Lamb took another whack at the power switch issue. He shorted out two of the pins it plugs into on the motherboard (have I said that correctly?) with the result that the fan started running and the computer made the booting up sound. Does this tell us anything?
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Lamb Chopped
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Dang we're freaks here. God only knows how, but after Mr. Lamb had been messing around shorting those pins ten or twelve times, it decided to boot and STAY booted. And what's more, allow us to turn it off and ON again.
I am currently rubbing my eyes in disbelief and doing a full backup.
In the "here's a nuisance" category, the keyboard has now died.
d'ye think we need an exorcism?
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Utterly socially unrealistic
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Heh, sometimes they go like that. One of our clients had a machine where every single component tested out fine when done with full soak tests, but periodically the whole thing would refuse to work. Solution was to take each bit out and plug it back in firmly. Obviously something was building up/crudding up somewhere, and only the re-seat sorted it, but pinning down exactly what proved impossible.
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The5thMary
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I have a problem and I haven't read through this entire long-ass thread to see if anyone else has had this problem... so, forgive me if this is a common problem and it's been addressed before!
I have an iMac G5. It was used when I bought it and used from the person before that too but in really good shape. However, about a year ago it started to develop weird horizontal and vertical lines on the screen. These are lines that flicker on and off and then some of them stay and some of them just come and go whenever they feel like it. Someone at the Apple store said that since my computer was bought used I had no warranty for it and that they could look at it but I'd have to pack it up and haul it in to the store. I don't want to do that as I don't drive and would have to get someone to give me a ride etc., etc., etc.
Anybody know what might be causing this?
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lilBuddha
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It is an LCD screen, right? If so, I would think it is the video card.
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BroJames
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Sadly, this appears to be a common problem with some iMac G5s. Try Googling iMac G5 screen lines - or similar.
It is specifically known to affect machines with certain serial numbers, and Apple did run an extended warranty repair scheme. I don't know whether it is still active.
Some people with politeness, persistence and good research appear to have persuaded their local Genius Bar to repair free of charge, many have been told that it will cost them $500+.
I have seen one post where someone identified the problem as faulty capacitors and replaced them, but this is a level of technical ability well beyond me
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lilBuddha
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The genius bar is maddeningly random in what they will do.worth a try though.
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Firenze
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Memory.
Yesterday, Photoshop seized up on me - opened, but then went into Not Responding. It's OK today. No point asking Adobe, since it's Elements 8 and they're on to 10.
However, it's caused me to look at my memory, since the application is a massive memory-hog. At startup, the profile is thusly -
Physical Memory
Total 4061
Cached 2004
Available 2654
Free 727
Kernel Memory
Paged 159
Nonpaged 56
With PS open, the Free physical memory halves (the other parameters remaining in roughly the same ballpark). Does this seem to you still adequate for running PS + Firefox (and the usual shedload of background processes)?
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lilBuddha
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I run photoshop on only 3 gigs. I generally am also running Firefox with, and I kid you not, 15 to 20 tabs open; iTunes and windows explorer. I am often running processing filters while playing music and updating apps. iTunes sometimes freaks out, but PS rarely.
Two things that may help..
1. % memory photoshop uses can be set in photoshop's preferences.
2. Set PS to NOT export clipboard upon closing.
3. (three things that might help) clear your firefox cache and clean up your temp files.
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Jessie Phillips
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I'm curious about the recent media kerfuffle about the Blackberry outage. Particularly the plethora of blog post comments where people say they're fed up of Blackberry and they might get an iPhone or Android phone instead.
What I'm wondering is - what exactly were Blackberry phones able and not able to do during the outage?
The idea that it was completely impossible to use email or web browsing on Blackberry phones during the outage strikes me as a bit far fetched. It seems to me that quite a lot of the basic functionality of Blackberry phones that you find in pretty much any phone these days was unaffected by the outage; you could still make phone calls, send SMS messages, play MP3's off your microSD cards, and take photos. And you could still install silly ringtones.
It seems that the way that the Blackberry Internet web browser operates is that it uses Blackberry's server infrastructure to partially render and compress HTML web pages, thereby minimising the processing load on end-user Blackberry devices - although, in addition to this, it also encrypts the connection between the end-user Blackberry devices and the central Blackberry servers. That's why the Blackberry Internet web browser won't work if Blackberry's server infrastructure falls over.
However, you'd have thought that the WAP browser would be unaffected - although I realise that WAP is a dying protocol.
But I think Blackberry phones can also run Java ME apps. If that's right, then you'd be able to use other Java browsers on your Blackberry phone, such as Bitsream Bolt, UC, and Opera Mini. And I guess these browsers would have been unaffected by the Blackberry central server outage. Here's a YouTube video from a few years ago that shows a simple comparison of the performance of the Blackberry browser with the BOLT browser - which I suspect would have continued to work during the outage, although, unlike the Blackberry Internet browser, the data transfer between your phone and their central servers is not encrypted.
But I don't know. I'm only guessing. So can anyone confirm what Blackberry phones were and weren't able to do during the outage?
Reason I mention it is because the people who say they're now going to give up their Blackberries, seem to be cutting off their noses to spite their faces. I can't see that any of these other phones can do anything that the Blackberry phone can't do. Even during outages like the one that happened earlier this week. Throwing away your Blackberry phone because the web browser doesn't work, strikes me as a bit like throwing away your car because the sat-nav doesn't work. But I could be wrong. Thanks.
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
... 15 to 20 tabs open ...
Wimp! I've only got twelve Firefox browser tabs open right now but there are also seven in Opera and nine in Chrome.
Four SSH sessions in Putty, seven files in a text editor (unusually low, I usually have more), two email messages, two Windows command lines, itunes, Windows Explorer and a couple of local applications...
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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quote:
Originally posted by Jessie Phillips:
But I think Blackberry phones can also run Java ME apps. If that's right, then you'd be able to use other Java browsers on your Blackberry phone
Perhaps, but how are you going to download them if you can't get onto the internet!
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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by ken:
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
... 15 to 20 tabs open ...
Wimp! I've only got twelve Firefox browser tabs open right now but there are also seven in Opera and nine in Chrome.
Four SSH sessions in Putty, seven files in a text editor (unusually low, I usually have more), two email messages, two Windows command lines, itunes, Windows Explorer and a couple of local applications...
Sissy, I did not wish to brag, but I have open...( cue four Yorkshiremen homage)
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Anyone know what to do when locked out of Facebook by their request to perform a security check? Sorry if this seems a bit of an onerous story, but I am stuck for a solution.
I received an obvious spam Email on my Instant Messenger account from a family member in another province.
Concerned that his account may have been hacked and used to deliver spam, I tried to reach him by telephone, without success; he works long hours, however.
Knowing that he checks his Facebook fairly often throughout the day, I copied the spam Email and sent it as a message to his Facebook account.
The instant I hit send, my Facebook page disappeared, and a Facebook screen came up asking for a security check; I was asked to provide a cell phone number, to which Facebook would text a code, then enter that code on the screen, and my account would re-open.
I do not have a cell phone, so they can not text me, and there seems to be no way to contact Facebook directly; their Help section provides answers to why they do these things, but no way to reach them and let them know that I can't perform their security check without a cell phone.
If anyone is still reading after all this, can you suggest a way to get my Facebook account re-opened?
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Drifting Star
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I'm afraid that I don't think there is a way out other than asking someone else to allow you to give their phone number so that they can pass the code on to you.
I know a number of people who have fallen foul of this (not neccesarily because they don't have mobile phones, but because they aren't prepared to give the number to FB), and as far as I can tell there is no way around it. If you do find one, please let me know!
From experience the only way you can get anything other than a useless automated response from Facebook 'Customer Service' is by using one of a number of buzzwords - stalker, under-age, that sort of thing - and I'm sure that if you use them inappropriately you'll get blacklisted for good.
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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I guess a cheap mobile with a prepay arrangement would be sufficient for this. I'm thinking of using my old one, which is just that, for similar purposes, when I don't want to give out my 'new' mobile number.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Is anyone running Firefox and Zone Alarm?
FF keeps nagging me to take the upgrade, but also flags that it is incompatible with Zone Alarm. But sometimes you get warnings, install anyway, and it comes back Fine, sorted. But I don't want to take the risk of disabling my security software.
However, FF is behaving oddly at startup - very slow, and, if you check on Task Manager, apparently grabbing 100% of CPU. I may move to Safari.
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lilBuddha
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I've an iPad time machine it appears, since updating to iOS 5. While on the Ship, I will hit the back arrow and be directed to a page several days old. Within the same forum, but definitely not the last page I was on.
Anyone else?
That and Safari randomly crashes.
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Is anyone running Firefox and Zone Alarm?
I have Firefox 7.0.1 and Zonealarm Firewall. I didn't receive any warning when updating, didn't close Zonealarm down, and everything is running fine.
Although, having said that, Firefox has crashed a few times in the past couple of weeks - maybe once every three days. I suspect that has more to do with a particular Facebook app rather than Zonealarm though.
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Eutychus
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OK, cop this one.
I was rereading a Word document and hit some unintended key combination. The result of this was that I lost control of Word and my computer began emitting a series of beeps that sounded like Morse code (not the kind of beep you can get on startup from your tower but a program-generated beep of some kind).
Everything else continued to work fine. I tried hitting Esc to no avail. I closed down everything else and the beeps continued. Eventually I went into task manager (which reported Word as running properly and didn't show anything else untoward) and clicked to force Word to close. When I did, I got the "Word is not responding" prompt, pressed "cancel" (in the hope of not losing everything since the last auto-save)... and got rid of the beeps and regained control of the program.
So what happened there?
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Utterly socially unrealistic
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This is a guess, but could you have somehow filled the keyboard buffer (or convinced Word you had, at any rate)? Either that or got Word locked into a continual end/start of document situation (sticky PgDn key, Scroll Lock on and something weird etc. etc.).
As I say, speculation rather than definitive!
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Eutychus
From the edge
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My impression was that it wasn't that kind of noise. If I'd done that I would have expected incessant Windows-type dings. This really did sound like it was reading my document in Morse or something. Probably just a software crash with a weird result.
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Wesley J
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Perhaps one of the accessiblity options? Beep for every keystroke, for visually impaired users? That or as you say, "a software crash with a weird result".
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If you hold down the shift key for 8 seconds or longer it turns on filter keys and makes that sound. Maybe it was that.
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Laxton's Superba
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Pleaes could anyone help me get my cursor keys to work, and the Pg Down and Pg Up, and the scrolling feature on my touchpad....... I have tried re-installing the driver. Faffed about with num lock and scroll lock, funtion key, etc, but nada.
It is driving me mad and giving me RSI having to manually go to the right hand side of the screen and although this is a nice shiny new-to-me laptop, I miss the old one where all the things worked how I wanted.
It's a Compaq Presario CQ61 if that helps....
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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You can find the pdf-manual for your laptop here here (NOTE: Link opens to pdf file!).
On page 13, there is a picture with description of the touchpad. Apparently, there's a button at the top of the touchpad that enables/disables it.
They also suggest to go to --> Start --> Control panel --> Hardware and Sound --> Mouse, if you want to change settings.
Hope that at least partially answers some of your questions?
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Laxton's Superba
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Thanks Welsey, I hadn't succeeded in finding that .pdf
I do have the touchpad enabled, but the scroll part doesn't work. It did work, when my mother had this laptop, but not now. I will keep trying and googling.
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Jengie jon
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OK
Someone with more basic no how than me. Do I need a new network cable to attach my computer to the router?
Today when I switched on my desk computer it did not find the router. On rebooting it did then it became disconnected from the router. Windows on computer insisted it was a cable problem but when I put in another possibly working cable that did not sort it. However when I switched the computer off and on again that did.
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Eutychus
From the edge
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To Laxton's superba:
Have you done any software or system updates lately? If so, it might be worth trying to do a system restore (look in Control Panel). This will undo any software updates after the most recent system restore, but not affect your documents and so on.
Mrs Eutychus' Dell touchpad is very susceptible to crashing at the slightest provocation. Dell have replaced the touchpad and the motherboard, but neither of those was the problem. Doing a system restore has sorted it out every time though, with no other problems having emerged.
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Barefoot Friar
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I need a geek! I want to put up a phpBB forum on my website. The site is completely blank at the moment. I want to set it to forums.sitename.com, and I also want to point my Blogger.com blog to blog.sitename.com.
If you're willing to teach me how, would you mind PMing me? Or if you'd be willing to do the work, would you also PM me so we can work out details?
Thanks!
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Utterly socially unrealistic
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Jengie: Windows reporting a cable problem just means that it doesn't detect the cable being present. Unless you're really harsh on your cable, normally it's a misleading message, and the problem is somewhere more fundamental ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Swap the cable for one that you know is good (or take the suspect cable somewhere else and use it to see if it's OK). Chances are the actual problem lies either in the router (or more specifically, the switch on the router), or the network port (NIC) in the PC.
If you're not in a position to blag a cable, PM me a postal address and I can send you one (a rough idea of required length would help) but IME it won't be the cable, it'll be either a 'system' issue or a dying socket at one end of the link. Which may or may not be a total PITA.
If the router has multiple ports, try switching to a different one (although on a 4-port switch they'll probably all fritz at once). If the PC is a laptop, cart it to a friend's and try it there. Basically, it's an elimination game ...
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Jengie jon
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Thanks Snags.
That confirms what I suspected. I had swapped the cable with another that I am pretty sure was working. It was plugged in between another PC and the router but had not been used for awhile.
Early indications suggest computer (under guarantee so if it is I will need to contact the suppliers), switching port did not fix, only turning computer on and off did. Another box also attached to the router showed no sign of difficulties. However router had been playing up all day before it so I am not sure.
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Laxton's Superba
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I found yet another driver and installed it, and now the touchpad scrolling works. No joy with Pg Down and the cursors, but I can live with that now. Thanks for all your suggestions!
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Gracious rebel
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Firefox has suddenly stopped remembering what I have previously filled into text boxes; - in the past clicking on a empty box would bring up text strings that had been entered earlier, then I could select the relevant one. I used this as a lazy way to remember my log on name on various sites (including the Church website, for which I am webmaster, so it was rather embarrassing just now when I went to update it and couldn't remember my login details).
How can I get it back to how it used to work? Running Firefox 7.0.1 on Windows XP.
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Sandemaniac
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Can anyone recommend a free program that will convert Word .doc files to pdf format? I know there are plenty out there, but a recommendation from someone who has used and is happy with one would be good.
I've just run across a site that requires me to upload my CV and covering letter as a pdf (trust me, cross-pondians, this is unusual in the UK!)...
Thanks!
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Morlader
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Cute PDF - free version is fine for any normal use.
Installs as a virtual printer, so any printing application can create a pdf.
It will probably need to install a subsidiary app (which converts postscript) but it's all safe - no toolbars, malware, or other nastties.
HTH
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Wesley J
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I use pdf Creator, which is free and which I like a lot.
BTW, from within the free OpenOffice.org software you can directly turn into pdfs any documents you made. It's built-in, and very handy.
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Eutychus
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The latest downloads of PDF Creator are full of bloatware
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Wesley J
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quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
The latest downloads of PDF Creator are full of bloatware
Ooops, sorry, mate. I'm using version 0.9.3. This page on sourceforge has some comments of current version users, who indeed are all but pleased.
When I check the old update function, it does say I've got the latest version. So better ---> DO NOT USE any recent versions. Apologies.
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monkeylizard
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A big +1 to Morlader's suggestion of CutePDF. Any application that can print can print to CutePDF which then creates the output as a PDF. Office, Notepad, web browsers, photo software, etc.
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Sandemaniac
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Muchly appreciated, folks - Cute PDF has been installed and used!
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mousethief
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Ack! I think I have a virus. All of a sudden my computer is asking for passwords for everything. For some avast site, for Facebook, for Skype -- anything that has anything to do with the outside world, it's asking for a password for. This is completely new, and I've never seen the particular dialog box it pops up (it's the same pop-up dialog for everything). Most suspicious!
I turned the computer off by pulling the battery (I'm told this can prevent some passwords from logding into your operating system files), but it still is happening after the reboot.
I tried googling to find a virus that does this but without avail. I'm running an avast full system scan as we speak (typing this from a different computer because I'm afraid to try to log into anything with mine!).
Anybody experienced this?
[ 08. November 2011, 15:04: Message edited by: mousethief ]
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Marvin the Martian
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Assuming it's not an issue with your Internet Provider, it sure sounds like a virus to me. Hope the scan gets it.
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lilBuddha
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I've not experienced that. Avast offers an option to scan as the system is booting. There are some viruses that can hide if the OS is already fully loaded. I would also run an anti-malware such as Spyware Doctor or Malwarebytes.
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The Silent Acolyte
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Composite pdfs:
I'm trying to keep the file size of a pdf as few bytes as possible to sneak past an inbound mail filter. That's why I don't want to scan the whole shebang into one pdf.
I've got a couple of spreadsheets which I can save as pdfs using the OpenOffice save as pdf option.
But then, I've got several spreadsheets for which I don't have the source, so I have to scan them rather than save them as pdfs.
Is it possible to compose these several pdfs to make a single pdf?
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ken
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quote:
Originally posted by The Silent Acolyte:
I'm trying to keep the file size of a pdf as few bytes as possible
You probably already know this but:
- avoid any graphics
- if you must have graphics png is better than jpg which is better than bitmap (which is a disaster)
- avoid Word but if you have to use it save your document using "save as" to a new filename after the final edit, then close Word, then re-open it again.
- use few fonts and only use common typefaces (though there is still no excuse for Arial and less than no excuse for Comic Sucks)
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... I've got several spreadsheets for which I don't have the source,...
Do you mean that all you have are paper printouts?
OCR can help reduce the filesize dramatically, but there might be a lot of tedious proofreading.
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mousethief
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Well, the virus went away after I did the scan. Weird.
Anyway now I have a new problem. Microsoft, sweethearts that they are, pushed a bunch of security updates on me last night. And now I can't print. Does anybody know if this is a known problem, and if there is a workaround?
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help me out, beloved geeks.
The Boy (16) is a big fan of World of Warcraft, and plays it on his dying 2 year old PC. Various hardware and software issues have made it pretty obvious we need to get him a new laptop.
He is asking for something called Alienware, which has all the gadgets and gizmos that game freaks want. However, for the price, I lean more towards getting him a mac (the rest of us have macs) because the damn things just last longer and are less susceptible to viri, etc. The Boy is concerned, however, that he will not be able to play his beloved games (in particular, WoW) on a mac.
my priorities, of course, include more of the ability to do research and write papers for homework type stuff. He is getting into video production at school and the mac abilities in that realm are awesome.
so other than telling him he has to suck it up and never play his games again (which will cause Great Dramas and I'm not that mean) what are my best options and ways forward?
is alienware any good for longevity? it is true that you can't play the "cool" games on macs still? is there any PC that has the durability of a mac that is not outrageously priced?
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