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The EADD Windows Technical Gibberings Thread

Surely no one here is actually paying good (drug) money for software let alone OSs 8o

Aye, bollocks to that. ive never paid for a thing

Technology is fascinating. although im not too clued up on the latest stuff and latest phones etc
 
anyone know if its possible to merge firefox internet bookmarks. :?

I save them off at a restore point every now and then, when i think of it, or if ive re-arranged them, or been through them deleting dead links and stuff. I have recently used a restore point from several months ago after i did such a thing, but that means ive lost all my recent bookmarks, unless i go through all my recent internet history and bookmark things that way, that seems a very tedious thing to have to do though. :\
 
You realise this statement is utter nonsense, like so many prodcust nboth hardware and software is may share common core parts but it clearly not the same thing
The statement you describe as nonsense compares different things, so is not nonsense on your own terms. Debian 7 is a development of Debian 6, Windows 2000 is a development of Windows NT, and is codenamed NT 5.0, this is visible to users in certain locations.

I'll grant you this - a more accurate comparison would be with Debian 2.1, which had no support for Logical Volume Management, and Debian 5.0, which has full support including a graphical admin tool. Of course, basic non-graphical LVM has been available since Debian 2.2, but Windows 2000 LVM (or rather LDM as Microsoft have Not Invented Here syndrome) is graphically managed, so I'm being good to you.

If I was being good to me, I'd look at stability and performance rather than the availability of a GUI to determine suitable points of comparison.


anyone know if its possible to merge firefox internet bookmarks. :?

I save them off at a restore point every now and then, when i think of it, or if ive re-arranged them, or been through them deleting dead links and stuff. I have recently used a restore point from several months ago after i did such a thing, but that means ive lost all my recent bookmarks, unless i go through all my recent internet history and bookmark things that way, that seems a very tedious thing to have to do though. :\

I'm surprised that people still use bookmarks. I have three or four bookmarks on the bookmark bar. For everything else, both firefox and chrome search your history as you type in the address bar, I just use that. So if I need the bin collection calendar i just type bins and up it pops.
 
if your operating system crashes you're gonna be fucked though.

I guess Im a bit anal with bookmarks, i have thousands of them all organised into folders and subfolders, and sub sub folders etc etc, i bookmark everything thats even remotely interesting, after i restored my bookmarks i did what you do and just searched my history for Kratom, as i knew those were some links id found recently but definately wanted to keep. Ive yet to complete the task and place them in my vendors folder though. I have dozens of bookmarks for BL threads i found particularly usefull or interesting. I also have loads of bookmarks for drugs forums, man there's so many of them there's no way id be able to remember or find them otherwise.

Also there's so many vendors of RCs, how could you remember what search terms to use to find all of them ? Even though i only regularly use about 3 of the vendors, i like having loads of them as fall backs, and to compare prices and product ranges and stuff.
 
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you can back up your history just like you can back up your bookmarks, so no you won't be fucked.
you can back up your entire firefox profile in fact and take saved passwords etc.

it's not search terms that are saved in history, rather the url and the page title, so it's not perfect, true. i can't just type "vendor".

but if I want to remind myself of some rarely used vendor i search my email for the term "invoice" or "payment" or "discount".

I also have vendors listed in my password database (passowrd gorilla). but they're not grouped or anything.

I frequently find posts and threads for members here by using my memory, member profiles and the search systems. I don't keep bookmarks.
 
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True, Id never thought of backing up my history, thats one thing ive never done.

But whatever works for you, i find my own system works for me, and your system wouldnt work for me. Ive had so many email addresses and lost access to so many of them that many old receipts and stuff have been lost for ever.
 
True, Id never thought of backing up my history, thats one thing ive never done.

But whatever works for you, i find my own system works for me, and your system wouldnt work for me. Ive had so many email addresses and lost access to so many of them that many old receipts and stuff have been lost for ever.

I will never lose access to my email as it's all held on my own server! You don't need a server though, If you use POP3 or IMAP, you can have all your email held locally too. I can search emails in Thunderbird even though I'm not connected to my server, it downloads a local copy of messages.

But yeah whatever works, I just find my method involves very little effort!
 
My problem with email was/is that i had so many different accounts, some of them were my main accounts that i gave to family and friends etc, but they got over run by spam. Sometimes an account just gets so over run by spam that the best thing to do is just let the account expire by never logging into it. This has lead to me missing some emails, i dont know what emails from family or friends i might have missed like this. I like to have different accounts, i can use one with my name in it for applying for jobs and stuff, but i wouldnt want to use an account with my name on it for any 'dodgy' transactions for obvious reasons. But if you have just one email account and can keep it spam free then your system would work well.
 
I've had the same email address since 2000. I do get spam, but I run tools to get rid of it. I find it's simpler to deal with spam than keep changing email addresses and having to tell everyone what my new address is. That would be a nightmare! It would not only mean having to tell everyone, it would mean losing the ability to search my email, having to keep bookmarks, backing them up, categorising them, AAARRGGHH no I'm not doing that! :D

I've got an answer for everything you say, sorry, it must be pissing you off =D
 
No, im glad you've got an answer for everything i say today. I find the worst thing is when no one has an answer and your post gets ignored or not responded to, that either means it was a boring post, or no one understands, or various other possible explanations. It's allways better to get a reply, as long as its not deliberately annoying or abusive, which of course your posts never are.
 
heh, now that i think about it, i think i have the same email for the last 17 or so years....
 
I have a dual boot machine with Ubuntu (which I'm perfectly happy with) and Windows XP, which I'm unhappy with.

I want to install Windows 7 -- I know I'll lose all my data on the XP partition, but I don't care about this. Can someone answer a couple of questions:
1. Which version of Windows 7 comes with remote desktop? I'm pretty sure at least one cheapo version doesn't
2. Where can I buy a legal copy of Window s7 that'll just work?

I don't want an upgrade CD (my version of XP isn't legal, so any serial number checks will hit a brick MS wall).
I would prefer a digital copy that I can just download -- anyone know where I can get one? Or somewhere I can buy a serial number.

It's really irritating me that I could so easily get a pirated copy, but getting a legal version seems to be an utter ballache. I work on expensive closed source software for a living, so think it'd be morally dubious for me to pirate it, otherwise I wouldn't bother going through so much hassle to get a copy.

I have obviously tried googling it (no luck). Amazon have discs, but a lot seem to have 'it's not a legal copy' reviews, so I'd just like some reassurance.
 
1. Which version of Windows 7 comes with remote desktop? I'm pretty sure at least one cheapo version doesn't

Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate ship with a remote desktop service.

Don't forget VNC.

2. Where can I buy a legal copy of Window s7 that'll just work?

I don't want an upgrade CD (my version of XP isn't legal, so any serial number checks will hit a brick MS wall).
I would prefer a digital copy that I can just download -- anyone know where I can get one? Or somewhere I can buy a serial number.

It's really irritating me that I could so easily get a pirated copy, but getting a legal version seems to be an utter ballache. I work on expensive closed source software for a living, so think it'd be morally dubious for me to pirate it, otherwise I wouldn't bother going through so much hassle to get a copy.

I have obviously tried googling it (no luck). Amazon have discs, but a lot seem to have 'it's not a legal copy' reviews, so I'd just like some reassurance.

I don't know the answer. I have had the same problem. Microsoft do not seem to make it easy to obtain a legal copy of Windows if you are not buying a new computer. This is one of the reasons I avoid their operating systems. The ballache =D
 
Right click the desktop, click on 'Personalize' & you'll see a screen saver icon on the bottom right of the window that opens.... I'm sure you can manage the rest. :)
 
I got some screen savers... if anyone wants to download them PM me ;p

Totaly Legit

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