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Jengie Jon
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Originally posted by Balaam:
When I start up my netbook I have to wait for Skype and Spotify to load up.
I don't use either programme all the time, but want to keep them both, but I don't want to have to wait for a program to load if I'm not using it.
Is there a way to stop them loading when I boot the computer?
Assuming it is a Windows 7 machine, then you just need to remove the link in the startup folder.
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Further to Jengie's post, they may not be in the Startup folder, but could be registry entries, services etc.
So on (most) Windows machines you can type "msconfig" in the Run box (or the search box on Win 7), then go to the Startup tab and de-select whatever you don't want to run at Startup.
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This isn't a question but a little blurb about my new Dell laptop. We got it two weeks ago and so far it's great. It's a big laptop with a 17.3" screen running Windows 7. Wow! Windows 7 is quite a leap from XP, which is waht I've been using at my volunteer job. I'm sure I will have many questions for you computer geeks as time passes. It's been several years since I used anything other than a iMac G5.
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balaam
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Originally posted by Snags:
So on (most) Windows machines you can type "msconfig" in the Run box (or the search box on Win 7), then go to the Startup tab and de-select whatever you don't want to run at Startup.
Yup. That worked. Thank you.
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balaam
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I posted my query just after shamwari's, noe we're on another page, don't want it to be lost. quote:
Originally posted by shamwari:
Anyone on the Ship invested in an Asus Transformer Prime?
Any good?
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Originally posted by shamwari:
Anyone on the Ship invested in an Asus Transformer Prime?
No, I'm not really interested in Pokemon.
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Wesley J
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After my recent desktop HDD crash and successful recovery, I've reinstalled my e-mail software, via Outlook Express (looking into Thunderbird, though), and have retrieved all the previous messages from my back-ups.
My ISP seems to offer two ways of downloading my webmail now: like before, via POP, or new, with IMAP. The latter meaning that e-mails are primarily stored on the ISP server, and are regularily being synchronised between OE and webmail.
Personally, I still seem to prefer the POP e-mail system: Main e-mail storage on puter HDD (with backups, as above), and possibly leaving a copy on the webmail, for access on the road if needed.
Which system are you using? As you can access webmail (e.g. via lappie) in both, is it just a question of preference? - Thanks for your wise words. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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I would stick with POP. My experience has been (others may disagree) that Microsoft Outlook does not play well with IMAP.
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Alisdair
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Someone better informed than I may have more to say, but basically IMAP uses your ISP's/domain name host's server to hold your mail, where you can create folders, sort, store and delete mail as you would on your own computer. The advantage being that you can access all your mail anywhere and any time you have an internet connection, and use the remote server as a backup (so long as you keep copies of wanted mail on your own computer). Personally I tend to only keep current mail on the IMAP server, and archive want I want to keep locally and to backups.
With POP, once you have downloaded the mail it is deleted from the POP server.
As for playing nicely with IMAP, don't know about Outlook Express, but I've never had any problems with Thunderbird.
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Outlook is a fairly ropey IMAP client, but isn't too bad if you can live with the quirks.
Outlook Express is more even-handed, from memory, although that's a long time ago.
Thunderbird is fine as an IMAP client.
In terms of choosing IMAP v. POP, these days it's mostly down to how you access your email (always from one place, with the same device, or from various places on various devices) and how good you are with your local backups. And, I suppose, how much you trust your ISP/mail provider. Back in the day ISPs used to get the hump about too much mail on the server, but these days you tend to get scads of space bundled in, so there's not a lot to choose in the average situation.
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As a mail provider we vastly prefer our users to use IMAP because there is far less trouble with users who download their mail, lose it, and then come bleating to us to restore it from backup.
Also IMAP can do everything that POP does anyway, so if you want to download everything in one go you still can - and you get to decide whether to delete the server copy at that time or not.
So the advantages of IMAP are that it is safer, faster, and gives more control to the user. As well as letting you see mail from pretty much anywhere you want.
Thunderbird is better than any Outlook version ever. Main reason for me is that it makes it much easier to use more than one email at the same time. You can add as many external email servers as you want. So I can simultaneoualy see my work email and personal email.
Second reason, which is a bit geeky, is that local folders and backups are kept in more-or-less plain text files, which are easy to read from or restore to other mailers. Or even to read ore modify without a mail client at all. Outlook has those crappy .PST files which get lost, break, slow things down, and generally cause no end of trouble.
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Just posted to say how cheesed off I am with AVG. Some of the updates have lasted c. 45 minutes, slowing the pc to a crawl, and removing the trial version once it had expired took a good 20m.
Any recommendations for a free firewall and anti-virus that isn't AVG, and doesn't hog resources on an old pc with Windows XP (SP3)? I'm thinking of going back to Avast, but if there is an alternative that's good and quick, and not resource-intensive, recommendations would be welcome.
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No ideas, but I share the cheesed-offness. And it's not just with XP - my wife has the same problem and she's on Vista Home Basic.
She keeps saying "there's something wrong with the computer" and shouts at it. When I say that there isn't, it's just AVG, she shouts at me instead, and says, "Surely there's something you can do". Which there isn't.
PS This is with the "free" version - which are you on, Ariel?
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I had the free trial version of AVG which then reverted to basic free. It used to be good. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I used to use ZoneAlarm before I paid for Norton 360. It worked ok for me. We use AVG at work without problems, though. YMMV
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Anyone here know much about YouTube? I've been using it to upload various homemade videos with no problem for several years. Since we got our newer, better, faster computer everything works better, except that I can't upload videos to YouTube anymore -- they get hung up partway through the uploading process. Anyone got any clues as to what we might be doing wrong?
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Question for the Kindle users out there: is it possible to "hide" a collection on Kindle so that it doesn't show to the casual user? I want to be able to lend mine to a friend who is interested in getting one, but I have a lot of personal stuff on there I would rather he didn't see!
I know I could always delete it all and put it back afterwards, but I'm lazy ... ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
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The Kindle user in my life says "No"; apparently collections are really just tags, rather than actual containers, so it looks like you be stuffed :/
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Another Kindle question...
There're a few old threads I'd like to read, but that are rather long, and I was thinking it'd be good to have a Ship of Fools file on my Kindle. I tried to put the Dead Horses 90-page epic about homosexuality & Christianity onto it earlier, using the USB connection between it and my MacBook, but it didn't format very well. What's the easiest way of popping Ship threads onto my kindle in a nice readable format?
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Alex Cockell
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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Another Kindle question...
There're a few old threads I'd like to read, but that are rather long, and I was thinking it'd be good to have a Ship of Fools file on my Kindle. I tried to put the Dead Horses 90-page epic about homosexuality & Christianity onto it earlier, using the USB connection between it and my MacBook, but it didn't format very well. What's the easiest way of popping Ship threads onto my kindle in a nice readable format?
Can the Kindle read PDFs? If so - get a PDF Creator tool, go to the printer-friendly view, print to PDF then move that?
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PeteC
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Sometimes, not often, I wish to look at a video - there is this annoying box which keeps popping up wanting to use local storage on my computer. Many organisations want to do this. I keep pressing deny and it still pops up becoming an annoyance. I am reluctant to let any public organisation have access to my computer. bbc,UTOOB, whatever.
Is there any danger implied in allowing access?
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I think that's probably all covered in this link Pete. Personally I wouldn't just trust just any old site requesting it, but I tend to err on the side of caution.
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luvanddaisies
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Originally posted by Alex Cockell:
quote:
Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Another Kindle question...
There're a few old threads I'd like to read, but that are rather long, and I was thinking it'd be good to have a Ship of Fools file on my Kindle. I tried to put the Dead Horses 90-page epic about homosexuality & Christianity onto it earlier, using the USB connection between it and my MacBook, but it didn't format very well. What's the easiest way of popping Ship threads onto my kindle in a nice readable format?
Can the Kindle read PDFs? If so - get a PDF Creator tool, go to the printer-friendly view, print to PDF then move that?
It can, but when I tell my mac to save the 'printer-friendly view' of that thread as a pdf it seems to lose the will to live by about thread-page 5, and all that remains afterwards is the smilies and lines between the post
Send to Kindle, the Mac version, needs a MacBook with newer OS than mine.
Maybe I need to resign myself to reading it online. Up to page 9 or 10 so far. It's interesting, but would be so much nicer to read on a kindle screen!
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Wesley J
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Anyone know of a reliable, free calculator programme that displays all the intermediate steps? I'd occasionally like to do things where all the numbers entered remain visible, and don't just get to the end result.
The MS XP-own calculator, even if switched to advanced view, doesn't seem to display these. (In advanced mode, it does show the steps, but they get erased as soon as you get to a total.)
My mobile phone calculator, interestingly, shows it all, but it certainly would be handy to have on the puter too.
Thanks.
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Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
Anyone here know much about YouTube? I've been using it to upload various homemade videos with no problem for several years. Since we got our newer, better, faster computer everything works better, except that I can't upload videos to YouTube anymore -- they get hung up partway through the uploading process. Anyone got any clues as to what we might be doing wrong?
I use YouTube a lot, uploading HD sermon videos for church which can be as large as three gigabytes.
Internet connections drop out from time to time, usually when your modem/router loses sync with the ISP. This can derail a YouTube upload, and since I live about 4.5 km from the exchange it happens a lot. Most of the time when this happens it's only for a few minutes, so if I just wait then the YouTube uploader will eventually get going again without needing to do anything.
It's easily fixed if it does stall completely or a misguided multi-tasking effort causes it to be stopped. If you're using the standard upload method (i.e. in a web browser, not an export direct from a program like iMovie) and have the current version of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome you can resume an upload which has not been completed. To fix it in Firefox, close that tab/window (you will get asked if you really want to leave the page, click 'leave page') and then go to the upload page again. Select the same video file you were uploading before, and within a couple of minutes it will pick up where it left off. It should be the same in Chrome but I don't use that so I can't be sure.
Having the Activity Monitor (Mac OSX) or Task Manager (Windows) open and the network page selected is a good way of telling whether it has stopped completely or just running very slowly. You'll be able to see a graph of your internet connection speed. If you get dropouts a lot, try contacting your ISP to find out how to pick a more conservative performance profile which will sacrifice a bit of speed for increased stability.
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Anyone know of a reliable, free calculator programme that displays all the intermediate steps? I'd occasionally like to do things where all the numbers entered remain visible, and don't just get to the end result.
The MS XP-own calculator, even if switched to advanced view, doesn't seem to display these. (In advanced mode, it does show the steps, but they get erased as soon as you get to a total.)
My mobile phone calculator, interestingly, shows it all, but it certainly would be handy to have on the puter too.
Thanks.
Try the Dashboard widget PEMDAS if you're on a Mac.
Try http://www.dreamcalc.com/ if you're on Windows.
Or learn how to enter formulae in a spreadsheet program! Calc (OpenOffice), Numbers (iWork) and Excel (Microsoft Office) all work in roughly the same way for the basic stuff.
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PeteC
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I think that's probably all covered in this link Pete. Personally I wouldn't just trust just any old site requesting it, but I tend to err on the side of caution.
thanks. I cleared out some, but "allowed" a few important ones. The list is long; so I got bored doing it one by one,
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Wesley J
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Originally posted by the giant cheeseburger:
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
Anyone know of a reliable, free calculator programme that displays all the intermediate steps? [...]
Try the Dashboard widget PEMDAS if you're on a Mac.
Try http://www.dreamcalc.com/ if you're on Windows.
Or learn how to enter formulae in a spreadsheet program! Calc (OpenOffice), Numbers (iWork) and Excel (Microsoft Office) all work in roughly the same way for the basic stuff.
Very nice Dreamcalc thingy there. And yes, of course, spreadsheetiness would be an option.
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
[...] Thanks.
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Hi, I have a question/issue and I hope someone knows an answer:
When I run a program- especially when I run a CD or DVD, and sometimes if I am watching You Tube you can hear what sounds like the motor (or fan?)speeding up. It gets louder. If it runs too long the computer shuts down. I suppose it's a safety feature to keep the motor from burning out. I then wait 5 minutes and restart the computer and its ok again. But this is mighty frustrating if I want to watch something!
Is there anything I can do about this? It is a sign that it may be time to think about a new computer? I got it when Vista was new (so I guess about 5 years ago) It is an Acer brand- tower type. Do you think opening it up and cleaning it will make a difference?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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My guess would be it's overheating. Be sure the computer is well ventilated -- not resting on a carpet or in an area where air can't circulate freely around it. You can also open it up and blow out the insides with a can of compressed air -- be sure to blow out any vents in the case as well.
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I'm with Amanda on this. The whirring you hear is probably a fan on the CPU that is increasing its speed to increase airflow, but it's insufficient to keep the temps down. The PC shuts down to prevent heat damage to the CPU.
I'd try to download something like Speed Fan that will give you your temps. If it's a heat problem, you'll see the temps start to climb. You want to be below 50C for sure. I keep mine in the low 30s.
If that 's the case (and your symptoms point to "YES"), you have 2 things to try if cleaning the dust out doesn't work. The good news is that doing the 1st one is not a waste of time, as it should be done anyway when doing the 2nd if you need to go that far.
You either have a problem with the fan, or with something called thermal grease. That metal block under the fan (the heatsink) can't go bad (no moving parts, it's just a block of copper or aluminum). It sits on top of the CPU and works like a car's radiator to keep the CPU cool while that fan blows fresh air over it. The problem is that heat doesn't conduct from the CPU to the heatsink very well by itself. So in between the two on the bottom of the heatsink is something called thermal grease or thermal paste.
Let's start with the easy fix.
1) Replace the CPU fan. Unplug everything from the back of the tower and pop open the case. Some people are sticklers about using an anti-static wrist strap when working inside a PC. I'm not, but get one if you want to. They're cheap and can be found online or at most electronics stores. You're looking for a fan on a block that will be silver of black. If there is more than one fan on a block, this will probably be the largest. Look at how the fan is attached to the metal block. It may be a simple clip, or there may be a couple of screws. Remove it and take it to your local computer/office supply/electronics store and get another one of the same size. Put it on. Don't forget to plug it in to the same place the old one was plugged in. Take a picture before removing the old one if you want. The plugs on the motherboard will probably be labeled "CPU FAN" or "CPU".
fire it back up and watch your temps again in Speed Fan. If that fixes things, you're good to go. The old fan just wasn't keeping up. It happens. I tend to replace all of mine every 3-4 years. Which reminds me....time to order some fans.
If that doesn't fix it, you're on to:
2) Replacing the thermal grease. This one's harder, but not terribly so. Still, you may want to bribe a nerdy friend with some baked goods or some beer to be consumed after the job is done.
Take the fan back off again, and gently remove the heatsink. Be careful with a flat head screw driver trying to pop the latches off. If it slips, you can drive that flathead into the board and you could be done, but not in a good way.
Search You tube for some vids on removing a heatsink and how to clean one and how to apply thermal paste. tons of em out there.
Don't forget to do the cleaning on the top of the CPU, not just the bottom of the heatsink. I'd recommend removing the CPU. That's easy. Pop the arm and it come out. When applying the paste again, don't use too much. Somewhere between the size of a grain of rice and a pea is the right amount. I like something called Arctic Silver.
Plug it all up, and check your temps again.
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To add to the fan comments, it may also be a dead Northbridge fan. That's a much smaller fan on a smaller chip, and they tend to gum up/die after a few years. Not all systems have them - better boards will have passive cooling for the Northbridge chip, but where present after 5 years it's another suspect.
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Sandemaniac
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Is there a way of using an outside search engine to search Ship text?
Someone's sig came bursting out of my stereo last night, and I'd love to find out who, but can I remember where I've seen it...?
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If you put the text followed by site:http://forum.ship-of-fools.com into Google it will search for you.
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Brilliant - worked just like that. Thank you very much!
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monkeylizard
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Originally posted by Snags:
To add to the fan comments, it may also be a dead Northbridge fan. That's a much smaller fan on a smaller chip, and they tend to gum up/die after a few years. Not all systems have them - better boards will have passive cooling for the Northbridge chip, but where present after 5 years it's another suspect.
This.
The SpeedFan app that I mentioned earlier is a free download. It will help you understand what is overheating. Definitely start there.
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Help!
My Google calendar is broken on my laptop (Windows XP). It won't display anything other than the current week. It will scroll through the months on the calendar on the left, but won't do anything else. All the menu buttons are inactive.
This appears to be a client-side problem, because it all works fine on my PC.
I was recently on a network that required a specific proxy setting. Could this have made a difference? And how can I resolve this??
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Have you undone the proxy setting?
Also, have you tried it in different browsers, checked for updates etc.?
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It's browser-related. Works in IEX and not in Firefox even after removing proxy settings.
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My Google-Fu must be getting rusty. Only thing I can find is a suggestion to clear your Google cookies. Seems to be the standard response to any FF/Google Calendar issue, but doesn't look wildly current ...
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Disabling an extension - AVG security toolbar, which I don't use but which has long been installed and which has never caused problems before - has fixed it though. Thanks for looking!
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quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
Disabling an extension - AVG security toolbar, which I don't use but which has long been installed and which has never caused problems before - has fixed it though. Thanks for looking!
AVG is a pest, and an unfortunately hard to uninstall pest at that.
The only good thing about it is that it's not Norton, over which I would rather have an infected computer.
If you're needing a free security solution and you're not able to use Microsoft Security Essentials, I would suggest using Avast! Antivirus free edition.
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Hi guys, I have - with the sainted Alex Cockell's help - worked out that my cafe access problem is down to my bt homehub 2.
I have found my admin password and managed to find out how to open ports. But. What are the ports I need to open for the cafe ?
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Originally posted by Think²:
Hi guys, I have - with the sainted Alex Cockell's help - worked out that my cafe access problem is down to my bt homehub 2.
I have found my admin password and managed to find out how to open ports. But. What are the ports I need to open for the cafe ?
'Fraid I don't know what ports to open - but you could try opening UPNP ports on demand at the router...
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St Everild
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In faffing around with iCloud (a Mac invention I have discovered I can live without, thank you!) I have deleted the iCal entries from my Mac. They are still on my iPad and iPhone. There must be a way of restoring them to the Mac...somehow.
I use Time Machine as well, but I can't discover how to restore from that, either.
Grrr.
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Originally posted by Alex Cockell:
quote:
Originally posted by Think²:
Hi guys, I have - with the sainted Alex Cockell's help - worked out that my cafe access problem is down to my bt homehub 2.
I have found my admin password and managed to find out how to open ports. But. What are the ports I need to open for the cafe ?
'Fraid I don't know what ports to open - but you could try opening UPNP ports on demand at the router...
Not the safest way to run a firewall...
I think the ports used can be configured on the chat server so the only way to be sure is to ask the admins.
Though if its using DigiChat, the default might be 8396 (I dont know for sure as I don't use the cafe)
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It uses Faverolle and Java - not sure if that's helpful or not.
Not sure how to interrogate my BT Internet router from Linux to see which ports are being used. The obvious bits don't give me the information, so I probably need to download the right programme
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Jengie Jon
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Not sure this is all of them but for JAVAW the remote port is 25424. This was done via my anti-virus
I can't see anything for Faverolle
Jengie
[ 16. June 2012, 18:44: Message edited by: Jengie Jon ]
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Jengie Jon
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Local port is 61156 in case that is what is needed.
Jengie
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