2 questions and 2 gifts

[Mayayana]

|
| Unfortunately the free version will only work on partitions up to 8G.

Yes, but if you have any kind of partitioning software
it doesn't matter. you can convert and then resize.

|
| I notice that Firefox have removed the "View | Source" option

Interesting. That's one reason that I avoid updating
Firefox these days. They've gone commercial with the
Google funding and can't be trusted.

 

[thanatoid]

Except a CD (or even DVD) will not hold everything.

"Yes, I want you to hold it [the mayo] between your legs."
Jack Nicholson in "five easy pieces".

So get a tape backup system, or buy a 20-pack of BluRays.

BTW, relying on a HD for backup is stupid, no offense. CD/DVDs
do not crash unless hammers are applied. *ALL* HDs crash, it's
just a matter of WHEN.

Well, you may get there some day.

I doubt it. My longest work is just under 1.5 hrs, and I have
it on VHS, since the 3/4" UMatics became truly obsolete and I
was not conceited enough to have it transferred to Digital
Beta or anything. There is no point in making the image larger
that 320x240 or something.

Plus, I have been thinking about it for only about ten years,
and 2 years ago I finally got an analog capture card, and I
still have to capture anything except a 1 minute test to see
the card wasn't defective out of the box.

And then what? Again,
with NTFS, there is no limit, whatsoever. It becomes a
non-issue. And the backup image is all simply and
conveniently stored in ONE file on another hard drive
(which I much prefer over CDs or DVDs). Actually, I have
several generational images on that backup drive, so I can
roll back to different dates if needbe.

For someone like me that's too much trouble. I just make a
backup, and the previous backups are somewhere to be searched
in if necessary.

Because some of it is useful. Ever try looking at a
decent medical page, for example, with all Javascript
disabled? It's useless.

Define "decent" medical page.

Obviously, if JS is needed, I use Opera. My point is unless it
IS ABSOLUTELY needed, it's ****ed and a result of a misguided
and greedy web designer. And it should NOT be needed, because
that's what ****ing HYPERLINKS were for! Don't even get me
started on having to load up a ****ing Flashit to be able to
see ten still images!

It's kinda like using an
encyclopedia with no pictures in it whatsoever - just text.

Sound VERY GOOD to me.

<snip>



--
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your
loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must
be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and
every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to
you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will
again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!'
Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse
that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything
more divine'?
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[thanatoid]

|
| Unfortunately the free version will only work on
| partitions up to 8G.

Yes, but if you have any kind of partitioning software
it doesn't matter. you can convert and then resize.

| I notice that Firefox have removed the "View | Source"
| option

Interesting. That's one reason that I avoid updating
Firefox these days. They've gone commercial with the
Google funding and can't be trusted.

Ha! I didn't know that. And to think there was a time when
*MS* were the Most Evil ones...

I tried FFuck when the big PR campaign hit [even] me a couple
of years ago and I thought it was the most overrated app since
Photoshop. Just awful.

Opera and OB1. Period.

I wonder if a time will come when people will simply UNPLUG
for good... I am getting pretty damn close.

One can always dream, until one finally joins Cthulhu in HIS
dreams...



--
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your
loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must
be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and
every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to
you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will
again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!'
Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse
that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything
more divine'?
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[thanatoid]

thanatoid wrote:

And user recordable CDs and DVDs will fail too - it's just
a matter of time.
Whatever.

As for HD crashing, it kinda depends on how often you're
using it, too (i.e. if you're just keeping it as a backup
drive, for example, then it's going to last a pretty long
time).

Keep me posted.

I don't see the "trouble".

AGAIN:
FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME THAT'S TOO MUCH TROUBLE.

Except you probably don't have a complete system, programs,
and user data backup (because if you did, we're likely
talking about at least 10 GB of stuff or more), collected
over time.

And why the **** would I? thought I told you how I felt about
what I do in this chair?

<snip>



--
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your
loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must
be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and
every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to
you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will
again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!'
Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse
that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything
more divine'?
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Mayayana]

| > Interesting. That's one reason that I avoid updating
| > Firefox these days. They've gone commercial with the
| > Google funding and can't be trusted.
|
| Ha! I didn't know that. And to think there was a time when
| *MS* were the Most Evil ones...
|

http://www.favbrowser.com/98-of-mozillas-revenues-come-from-search-deals/

At one time FF was a lean browser designed for
the people who use it. The first sign of change
that I was aware of was when they removed the
options setting to block 3rd-party images (ads)
*and* changed the about:config setting that
controls that behavior. Mozilla was being almost
entirely funded by the Web's biggest advertising
company... and all Google/Doubleclick ads are
3rd-party images.

All Mozilla/Netscape browsers still have a great
deal of flexibility, having retained the about:config
page connected to the prefs.js file that originated
with Netscape. Mozilla browsers also allow for very
detailed control over HTML/CSS via App Data.....
Chrome\userContent.css. And of course it's open
source...blah, blah, blah. But all of that configurability
is nearly useless except to the tiny fraction of people
who understand how it works. If settings are not
easily and clearly provided in the options window
they don't exist for most people.

 

[Hot-Text]

Hi gang,

As one or two of you who remember me from an occasional
previous appearance may know, I have been using 98SELite for
about 3 or 4 or 5 years. Before that, I used 95B and was
perfectly happy with it. But 95B does not do ethernet
properly. (Or at all, whatever.) So I switched to 98SELite.
(IMHO, 98SE without the Lite is unusable, but that's another
subject that no one in an XP group would care about. Still,
FYI, there /is/ Lite for XP: www.litepc.com, and there are
other customizers out there as well.)

Alas, I was hit by a harmless-yet-infuriating joke virus,
AGAIN, in fact for the 4th time in about 11 years, and *I have
had enough*.

Neither MBAM, ESET, Avira nor BitDefender could find it,
identify it or get rid of it, nor did a full reformat and
Acronis image restore do anything. I am too old for this.

So I have switched to XP. I figure once MS considers an OS
dead, it's a good time to start using it.

Anyway:

Mr. Thanatoid

This harmless-yet-infuriating joke virus kill my XP too,
i did all the same things to my Xp pus more!

How hope you get no more virus, but i get 2 to 3 a year, with XP,
i had no virus on my Win98 se for 2 year now!

 

[thanatoid]

(e-mail address removed) (Hot-Text) wrote in

Mr. Thanatoid

This harmless-yet-infuriating joke virus kill my XP too,
i did all the same things to my Xp pus more!

How hope you get no more virus, but i get 2 to 3 a year,
with XP, i had no virus on my Win98 se for 2 year now!

Nice to hear I am not the only person who is cursed.
Still, my sympathies.


--
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your
loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must
be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and
every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to
you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will
again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!'
Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse
that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything
more divine'?
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Jim]

|
| Unfortunately the free version will only work on partitions up to 8G.

Yes, but if you have any kind of partitioning software
it doesn't matter. you can convert and then resize.

|
| I notice that Firefox have removed the "View | Source" option

Interesting. That's one reason that I avoid updating
Firefox these days. They've gone commercial with the
Google funding and can't be trusted.

In Firefox do a right click on the web page and look at the pop-up.
Near the bottom of my popup is "View Source".

Jim

 

[Mayayana]

| >|
| >| Unfortunately the free version will only work on partitions up to 8G.
| >
| > Yes, but if you have any kind of partitioning software
| >it doesn't matter. you can convert and then resize.
| >
| I have a C partition of about 30G, which is half full, and a D one of
| about 113G, of which about 70G is used. Are you suggesting I split these
| down into 2 (for C) and 9 (for D) partitions, convert them to FAT (even
| assuming I could get Windows XP running after such a thing), and then
| combine them back somehow?

I'm not suggesting anything. It's up to you.
I wouldn't try anything without making a current
disk image first, if it were me. If I were going to
try then I guess I'd move 8 GB from C drive to D
temporarily. If you have a 15 GB C drive with XP
that means you probably have about 13 GB of
data and/or junk. It shouldn't be hard to make
room for the conversion. Then you shrink C drive,
and then you can enlarge it again after conversion.

Your D drive is also NTFS? I guess you could just
copy that to an external disk, delete D drive, then
remake it as FAT32 and copy the data back. There
wouldn't be much point in risking conversion for plain
data.

But it's up to you, of course. My only stake in it is
that I'd love to hear how it works out if you do it.

I wouldn't normally take a position that one shouldn't
pay for shareware, but the price of N2F is ridiculous.
The $30 version is apparently only licensed for a
single PC. Just getting a license that can be used *only
within a single company* is $70!

This is all making me curious. Microsoft seems to have
made NTFS -> FAT32 conversion difficult for the sake of
security, yet there is software that claims to do it. Maybe
it's not so hard to write such software.