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A warning to anybody who has not cottoned on: DO NOT FILL IN YOUR PROPER PAYPAL EMAIL OR PASSWORD. IT'S A SCAM SITE 'cause it's the best way to hurt the scammer!

I recommend you make up the email address though. The email addresses on that fakenamegenerator all seem to be @fontdrift.com which is a bit of a giveaway to the scammer.

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I'm not sure. Will have a look tomorrow when I can get onto his computer.

Ok

He would possibly see this recommendation as "an unnecessary workaround to a problem that should be fixed", IYSWIM

Yeah, kind of my thoughts really. He's a nice chap but very black & white about these things, and expects things to do what he wants if what he wants seems logical/reasonable to him.

Here's a funny one. Seems fundamentally 'expected behaviour' to me, but anyway.. Chappy opens up an Excel workbook. The workbook is flagged that it should be opened up read-only unless vital not to. So the chap clicks "Open as Read-Only" as recommended. He then opens up the same workbook again, but as Read/Write. The idea is that he can refer to the original one whilst working on the editing in-progess one. I'm not 100% why he wants to work this way, but he wants to. The problem is that in opening the workbook for a second time as Read/Write, the initially opened workbook loses its read-only status, meaning he can accidentally save the original over his work in progress. I tried googling, but it's a tough one to pin down with search terms. The worksheet is held on a Windows Server, so CIFS/SMB share, in an Active Directory environment. XP Pro client. I'd guess and say it's pretty expected behaviour and could at worst be called a limitation in either Excel's or NT's file locking. More likely the former (Excel's method of flagging something as RO/RW, rather than NT's which I'm sure would flag each occurrence with a session ID or something). Anyone ran into this before? It's not something I've had cause to look into before. My feelings are that he should not work this way, and should make a copy of the file and work on that.

Is that eTerm as in the terminal emulator from the enlightenment window manager of ages ago? I remember first using e and it looked super but was pretty slow on my hardware at the time (Pentium-II 266 or something). Other than that a terminal has always just been a terminal to me.. xterm, eterm, rxvt, gnome-terminal.. I don't do anything advanced enough to notice any differences. I think eterm might have been one of the first ones to let you use a bitmap as a background to give the effect of translucent windows or something. I just tried out the Lego StarWars demo and was really surprised to see it runs almost 100% under WINE. They have really done wonders with the DirectX -> OpenGL wrapper whatsit.

Cars imported then, not cars made then.

Depends when it was imported. If it was imported recently then you might be in for big tax bills.

Nice colour. That's not RSP is it?

The salesman should have known that PATA is the post-SATA term for IDE, since IDE = ATA, so SATA is serial ATA and PATA is parallel ATA e.g. not-serial-ATA.

They can be reasonably priced on some things. Printers, but then that's always been the case, and erm, some other things.. what are they... I think big brand (3com, Netgear) routers can be reasonably priced. Cables are the thing you should not go to PC World for.

I really didn't realise they were this cheap/affordable. I only paid 1p less than that for my Nokia E65, although my E65 does do 3.5G (HSDPA) etc.

Fedora already has them showing, but Google just turned up this: See here: https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/desktop-tips.html

That'd be with a £35/month contract though wouldn't it?

either save things there.. or find something in the menu and right-click -> add launcher to desktop

no, wait.. 152.50

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Here's an example, a common occurrence on some Toshibas:

oops, wrong thread! ignore me.

If it's overheating, it's usually caused by dust turning into fluff and blocking the heatsink. Most laptops have a fairly fine-finned heatsink. Access to the CPU fan/heatsink is easy on most laptops and the fluff is usually on the innermost edge of the heatsink where it comes into contact with the fan.

I don't like the brown. I much prefer Fedora's "clearlooks" theme which is blue. I also use the Gartoon icon set. These are all downloadable from http://art.gnome.org All this is changeable through System -> Preferences -> Look & Feel -> Appearance. If you click the Install button there, you can give it an Icon theme-part, or Window borders theme-part, or a whole theme. If you just give it an icon set, you you would click Customise to customise one of the existing themes and just change the icons. Clearlooks: http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity/1009 Gartoon Icons: http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon/1001 Quick screenshot: http://www.css-networks.com/Desktop.jpg

Sky might be the exception. They have some fairly untypical requirements for doing mail from a normal MUA, encryption might have been one of them.