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Why Light Blink ?
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OFSO » Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:40 pm
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I have just fitted a five-port Ethernet switch (bought at Corte Inglis for €10.95 and not at FNAC for €24.95) to cater for my ever-increasing number...
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One of our routers is in my study which doubles as a spare room, and where I sleep if I can't handle the snoring.
The purpose of the blinking lights...
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Last post by Capetonian
Thu Dec 08, 2016 2:50 pm
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Messages in gmail activating avast
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Rwy in Sight » Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:55 am
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Since last night, every time I open a message on gmail, avast indicates a possible contamination. I thought it would go away overnight but it seems...
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OK - we are no closer. Personally I would now go through the email headers that Gmail has downloaded and see if there is anyone looking 'dodgy',...
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Last post by Boac
Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:59 am
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Barclay's Pin Sentry Device
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ian16th » Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:10 pm
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Anyone a Barclay's Bank customer, and use the Pin Sentry device?
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Skype gets calling +44 800 from outside the UK just about right, eating your credit a reasonably miserly rate. This was a life-saver when sorting a...
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Last post by emjay
Mon Oct 31, 2016 11:43 am
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Major internet outage
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by Capetonian » Fri Oct 21, 2016 8:24 pm
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Apparently there's been a massive DDOS attack on a DNS server in Hampshire which has knocked a number of major websites (unfortunately not Faecesbook...
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Looks like my synopsis was fairly on the ball. Amongst the cognoscenti it's known as DynDNS
From the Beeb today:
Dyn is a DNS service - an...
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Last post by admin
Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:21 pm
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Copying text from a pdf file
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Rwy in Sight » Sun Oct 09, 2016 6:57 am
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I have a largish pdf file almost 100% text (no pics, no graphs). I like to take some parts as words not images and use them on an open office file. I...
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I have an Adobe subscription though one of the Companies that I work for, about £16 a year I think.
I use it extensively to convert MMELs, MPD and so...
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Last post by om15
Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:36 pm
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Windows 10
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by
angels » Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:42 pm
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I run my lappie on Windows 7HP. I got message from Windows telling me to reserve Windows 10 but I don't have the icon at the bottom. I tried...
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Updated to add that for reasons of paranoia I have given my two lappies fixed IPs and removed 'Everyone'.
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Last post by Boac
Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:46 am
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Microsoft has agreed to pay a Californian woman $10,000
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OFSO » Tue Jun 28, 2016 12:22 pm
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Microsoft has agreed to pay a Californian woman $10,000 (£7,500) after an automatic Windows 10 update left her computer unusable.
Teri Goldstein...
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Micro$oft should pay everyone who has Windows running on their computers $10,000
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Last post by unifoxos
Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:12 am
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LG Monitor
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OFSO » Thu Sep 08, 2016 8:07 pm
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LG Monitor. About six or eight years old. Blue light indicates on, changes to yellow when on standby. But now ! Blue light blinks when on standby,...
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Went down to MediaMarkt this morning and bought another LG microwave, slightly smaller but has a grill in it. I cannot find a manufacturer's date on...
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Last post by OFSO
Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:36 pm
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W10 updates
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Boac » Thu Sep 15, 2016 7:21 pm
There is an update (a 'Cumulative') sculling around that is known to 'hang' at various percentages - 45/65/95 - on download or install. M$...
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Last post by Boac
Thu Sep 15, 2016 7:21 pm
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Dropbox
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by Capetonian » Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:45 pm
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What a useful beast it is.
I've just learned something about it that I didn't know. Someone wanted to email me some photos but it would have been a...
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Dropbox just admitted it got hacked in 2012 and had millions of address and passwords stolen. Not by coincidence I just received an e-mail...
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Last post by OFSO
Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:56 pm
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Sneaky Chrome
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OFSO » Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:50 pm
The wife's laptop (used only for internet TV) started stuttering audio/and video last night when we returned from Mu-Mu land and turned it on. My...
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Last post by OFSO
Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:50 pm
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USB driver uninstalled
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om15 » Sat Aug 27, 2016 12:31 pm
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Computer seems to be playing up, - Windows 10, it did an update and the speakers stopped working and wouldn't play youtube videos, another up date...
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Good news.
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Last post by Boac
Wed Aug 31, 2016 6:50 pm
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WIN 10 update turns camera off (sort of)
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OFSO » Tue Aug 23, 2016 12:01 pm
A Windows 10 update has stopped many popular webcams from working.
The update, released earlier this month, stops many cameras being used for Skype...
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Last post by OFSO
Tue Aug 23, 2016 12:01 pm
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Noisy Cooler Fan
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OFSO » Fri Aug 19, 2016 6:55 pm
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The fan cooling the CPU on my fairly-new computer is initially extremely noisy when the PC is switched on after being off for a few days, an unusual...
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Back in '94 one of the UK newspapers was doing a promotion for the cross-channel flying fan, offering day trips to Calais from Dover for a quid. Just...
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Last post by Alisoncc
Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:35 pm
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Outlook mail on Windows 8.1 after downgrade
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Rwy in Sight » Mon Aug 15, 2016 4:55 pm
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About 3 weeks ago, I ventured for about four days into W10 and I returned quite fast ti the previous W8. The return was successful with one fairly...
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BOAC,
You are right. Here are the answers:
The outlook page is the site of outlook.
Outlook used to be pinned in the blue rectangular box up until...
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Tue Aug 16, 2016 8:12 am
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Bluetooth not working
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Rwy in Sight » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:12 pm
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I have connected my smartphone (Android 6.0.1) and my laptop (W8.1) using the bluetooth. It worked and pictures were moving smoothly from one to the...
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Thanks ian16th.
My thoughts exactly although I was too tired to do it last night and I solved the problem via the dropbox route.
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Sun Jul 31, 2016 3:07 pm
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why is microsoft so bloody irritating
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dubbleyew eight » Wed Jul 06, 2016 12:30 pm
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I just bought a hp laptop with windows 10 on it.
do you think it is possible to get the damned thing to actually do what I want?
I bought an...
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.....can anyone help?
Madame has an address book and it's very clunky (it is about 100 years old).
Any ideas for an address book which will contain...
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Last post by ian16th
Sat Jul 30, 2016 1:45 pm
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Anyone understand servers?
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Boac » Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:32 pm
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My sites are hosted on a 'CloudLinux' server. I would like to be able to inspect my files to see when they were last called from the server. I cannot...
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I don't want to go all the way to Spain! Surely the point of Brexit is that we can control our own abuse?
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Last post by Boac
Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:54 am
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Logging in from an iPad.
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admin » Wed Jul 06, 2016 12:48 am
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Posted on behalf of ExSp33db1rd:
Has anyone else had difficulty signing in i.e. login using an iPad ? I hadn't until last week,when although I...
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The suggestion of an ISP provider may be the answer. I have been using the local library WiFi as provided by the local council, and they do prevent...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:27 am
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Ethernet splitter
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by Capetonian » Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:00 pm
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Last week my second router gave up the ghost, so I've moved the existing one into a place where the WiFi covers most of the house, but coverage in my...
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Indeed - I missed 'the geography' !
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Last post by Boac
Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:09 pm
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Will an Apple Keyboard work on a Windows 10 computer?
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by Capetonian » Tue May 31, 2016 10:55 am
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Will an Apple Keyboard work on a Windows 10 computer?
I've looked on Google but none of the answers I can find are straightforward, they're all...
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Anybody wanting a good solid keyboard, and is willing to pay for it might consider one of these.
They are supposed to as good as the original IBM...
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Last post by ian16th
Thu Jul 07, 2016 7:57 pm
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No internet.....
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Tall Bird » Thu Jun 02, 2016 4:29 pm
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The icon is there on my PC but when I click on it now nothing happens. In the drop down menus all Internet Explorer options are ticked. I've looked...
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Last post by Alisoncc
Tue Jun 14, 2016 11:40 am
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Microsoft buys Linked In
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by Capetonian » Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:19 pm
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They already own Nokia, Skype, Hotmail, Outlook ............. and much else.
They are presumably the world's largest software and o/s supplier.
I...
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Apparently they no longer own Nokia.
Why would you.
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Last post by 500N
Mon Jun 13, 2016 10:45 pm
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Firefox being a pain
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frostbite » Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:39 pm
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I have recently had to download the latest (44.061) FF and find it most annoying.
Having set up a lot of bookmarks I find it is 'forgetting' them....
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I stopped upgrading FF a while back. My main Win 7 machine has a fairly old processor and every time I upgraded FF found they had added even more...
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Last post by Alisoncc
Wed Jun 08, 2016 5:14 am
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Long USB leads
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OFSO » Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:19 am
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Having just hidden my new PC in the bookshelves I discovered my bluetooth keyboard won't wake it from sleep, I guess because it's asleep and quite...
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Max length for USB 2.0 is 5 meters. Max length for USB 3.0 cables is 3 meters. This is based on signal timing. Many cables don't meet the minimum...
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Tue Jun 07, 2016 3:34 pm
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