Computer issues, Viruses, trojans, crashes, install problems etc Options

[Decrepit]

Woot! FF looks to be back to normal again. All my add-ons re-enabled themselves. I did need to manually enable my 'theme' of choice, but that too might have taken care of itself had I given it more time.

[mirocu]

YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!! Firefox works again!!!


My hopes got up reading Decrepit's post but when I checked, it still didn't work. But then I remembered I didn't have Studies enabled and after waiting awhile, it's all back now!! What better b-day present could I get?

[mALX]

YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!! Firefox works again!!!


My hopes got up reading Decrepit's post but when I checked, it still didn't work. But then I remembered I didn't have Studies enabled and after waiting awhile, it's all back now!! What better b-day present could I get?

WOO HOO!!!! Happy Birthday then !!!!

[Decrepit]

Just read one of the emails appearing in my in-box overnight. Photobucket rears its ugly head once again. I'm informed of its new policy. A policy that supposedly affects only a 'small' percentage of users. As of 1 Jun 2019, Free Accounts now have a 25mb storage limit! 25mb!!!!!! Users in excess of that will have all their images watermarked and blurred.

I gave up on PB years ago. Haven't uploaded a new image there in ages. But...a decent portion of images in my long neglected official Minecraft forums Hill Fort thread are hosted at Photobucket. As are many images found throughout my many various Oblivion posts at the old official Bethesda forums.

So far as I know I have originals for all those images stored locally, so I lose nothing of sentimental value. Still, it's yet another sad sign of the way the internet seems to be heading.

[Acadian]

Decrepit, I got the same em from pb yesterday. Happily, I do keep all my hosted screenies on a thumbdrive in my desk as well. I hope they go down the tubes - even when they were totally free I fired them years ago and went to imgur.

[mALX]

I have no clue how many pics would be in 25 mb; but I'm sure my account is over that. I can't retrieve mine because I've changed emails several times and can't remember my password with them. So my images there are lost. When Renee let me know they had unlocked the images they were holding hostage a while back, I copied as many of them as I could to my hard drive; but I'm sure a lot of them will end up lost anyway. I did notice that the images of Maxical now say in big letters across the front "Proudly displayed by Photobucket" on them. I agree with Acadian, I hope they crash and burn. When they were active before all this started they were loading adware on our PC's and had so many ads taking over their page that we couldn't see the pics we were trying to see.

What they could have done was limited our accounts to that 25 mg and only open up more space if we got paid accounts = that would have been fair; and much better than letting ads over run them to the point we couldn't use the site = then hijacking our pics. It is the way they handled everything that turned me off them.

Imgur is starting to show the same early issues that I should have taken as warning signs when they happened at PB; so I'm planning to take a preemptive strike and copy them to an external hard drive too. Thanks for that tip, Acadian!

[ghastley]

I host my images on my own server, but I still keep a backup copy on another machine. Same with the web pages for the mods and stories.

That's in addition to the regular server backups. I need to start keeping one at a different location, in case the house burns down or blows away.

[mALX]

I host my images on my own server, but I still keep a backup copy on another machine. Same with the web pages for the mods and stories.

That's in addition to the regular server backups. I need to start keeping one at a different location, in case the house burns down or blows away.

HOLY COW!!!

Ghastley's House:



https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q...A3i3gVEq5E7DjGG

[Decrepit]

Just got a call from "Cardholder Services." It was a dude!!!!!!!!!!!

[mirocu]

Sounds like a poker site.


Trying to get files for a DOS bootup disk. Downloaded something that I will try on the now non-functional 3.1 computer. Doesn't hurt.

[mALX]

Just got a call from "Cardholder Services." It was a dude!!!!!!!!!!!

Males can be scammers too!

[Decrepit]

Just got a call from "Cardholder Services." It was a dude!!!!!!!!!!!

Males can be scammers too!

<nods> As many of these Cardholder Services calls as I've gotten over the years, I believe this was the first time it wasn't a female's voice.

[Decrepit]

YouTube video on Google (search engine) vs DuckDuckGo (search engine).

[mirocu]

Just bought some diskettes. Ten in an unopened box and a few old ones because one of them had drivers for Windows 95 and one which had drivers for DOS!


Also bought a Windows 98 computer. Should work wonders with my DOS games!

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 17 2019, 11:45 AM

[Decrepit]

Doh!

[Sakiri]

Good luck bird.

[mALX]

Doh!

Urgh.

[mirocu]

Doh!

"goes back to 2011"


Good thing I bought mine in 2009 then

Good luck bird.

Thnx!

[Decrepit]

Not really an issue, but...

...I'm putzing around with Brave Browser again. On a lark I decided to watch ep16 of my YouTube TpF series. To my surprise, viewing it at 1080p Full Screen with Brave seems less affected by compression degradation than when I watch via Firefox. Thinking it a fluke I watched ep13, then ancient ep5. My opinion held. Not sure what's up with that. Most likely I simply misremember what they look like on Firefox.

[Decrepit]

A day late, an order short.

Putzing around at NewEgg the other day I noticed two-packs of the DD4-3000 15CAS RAM housed in my primary computer, priced $79US! I paid $120US when assembling the PC mid 2017. Considering how expensive RAM has been for quite some time, and that my original intent was to install 32gb, I thought it over and decided to take the plunge. Researched yesterday to insure these are indeed the exact same modules as mine. Logged on NewEgg this morning to order. SOLD OUT! Oh well, it's not as if a really need those extra 16gb. But boy would I like 'em, at the right price.