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Techy question
« on: Apr 18th, 2006, 12:05pm » |
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Ok I know how to post a URL, but I would like to know how to post a URL and make it say what I want...
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #1 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 12:45pm » |
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url=http://www.clusterheadaches.com]Like this?[/url
Of course, you'll need the first and last brackets. The above example would look like this...
Like this?
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #2 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 1:41pm » |
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #3 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 5:57pm » |
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Another question.
I got my puter back today, with a nice new hard drive (I lost ALL my data]
How do I make the icons on the desktop larger?.....its been so damn long since I had to do simple shit like that I forget.
Thanks for that first tip, Drk, I never knew how to do that either.....LOL
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #4 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 6:22pm » |
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Jonny
Right click the center of your screen, then click properties.
Click the tab at the top labled "apperance"
click the "advanced" button
The "item" drop down menu, you want to change that to "icon"
You will see a size box to the right. I recommend raising it 10 units at a time, until you get the right size.
Let me know if this helps
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #5 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 6:31pm » |
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That worked, Lance, Thanks!
Now all I have to work out is keeping font at the right size. every time I start my browser (Opera) I have to click "view" then "zoom" and up it to 150% to get what I want.
Any way to get to stay that way, Bro?
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Opera 7.54:
Tools / Preferences / Page style / Default zoom <--- set it to 150
Opera 8.54:
Tools / Preferences / Web pages / Page zoom <--- select 150
(It's all in the Help pages  )
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #7 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 8:17pm » |
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on Apr 18th, 2006, 7:24pm, Ueli wrote:
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YOU are the U-Man!!!....thanks Bro, worked like a charm
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #8 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 8:23pm » |
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Just while we're on the subject would someone please tell me what a URL is and how it all fits together?
I've looked it up in a few places and can't make head nor tail out of it.
Thanks from a nerd-gin.
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #9 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 8:25pm » |
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Bri dude,
A URL is the internet address to a website, this is the URL for my website...... http://www.a-dzign.com/jonny/
Edit to add: Sorry, I dont know what URL stands for words wise....LOL
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #10 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 8:45pm » |
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Thanks Jonny. I'd got about that far but it's all those bracketty things and associated gobble-de-gook that I know are important, especially posting pictures and the like, but I fare better reading latin than that stuff.
Just for the moment we've got some interesting weather closing in so my internet connection's up and down like a bride's nightie. Will be back as soon as I can but just for now I'm off to put the beer supply in the vault.
Head's down,
Brian.
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #11 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 8:55pm » |
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[url][/url] ....URL brackets
[img][/img] .....Pic brackets
[quote [/quote] ....quote brackets
Just put the URL between the brackets and hit "Preview" to see if it took.
Save that damn beer, Brian!!!!....LOL
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #12 on: Apr 18th, 2006, 8:59pm » |
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on Apr 18th, 2006, 8:45pm, AussieBrian wrote:| up and down like a bride's nightie. |
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AcronymFinder quotes for "URL":
Upper Range Limit
Underground Race League
Universal Republic of Love
Universidad Rafael Landivar (Guatemala) - that's where some of our doctors promoted 
and (what you want to know)
Uniform Resource Locator - read all about URL's here
Each chunk of information travelling over the Internet has an Uniform Resource Locator, indicating the protocol to use and the IP address of the receiver.
Example:
If I request a page from this site, a message is sent to the IP 66.154.42.184 (the permanent address of CH.com). The CH.com server will then send the requested page to the IP 213.230.55.7 (my current IP address, that will change the next time I log in to the net).
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #14 on: Apr 19th, 2006, 3:39am » |
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Hi Jonny,
Yyou mentioned you lost your data on the disk from your old PC?
Do you still have the disk?
Is the data the stuff you wouldn't want to lose?
I had my laptop die recently but had most of the stuff backedup on to a desktop - except a lot of family photos that I really didn't want to lose.
The hard drive was dead. I fitted it into USB and diagnostic cradles - no response.
Then I took it to Andre, an American friend in another town who runs a PC repair business in the Phils. The guy is a wizard. He has a string of tools to read even a dead hard drive right at the disk level.
I got all my data back...
Andre tells me the local computer stores regularly send him customers who have a hard drive die, buy a new one, and need the data. Most times he can somehow extract it. In every case the techs at the shop could not recover the data as it is a specialist task.
Check Google for a wizard like this in your area. There are some in the USA where you FedEx the drive and they send you back a CD ROM with your data.
Price can vary but some stuff is really irreplacable...
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #15 on: Apr 19th, 2006, 7:00am » |
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on Apr 18th, 2006, 8:55pm, Jonny wrote:| Save that damn beer, Brian!!!!....LOL |
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Thanks Jonny. Always nice to know a bloke who understands priorities.
Things have eased for the moment so I've taken a six-pack out and put a thousand cash back in, but I'll leave the rest as is for now until we're sure which way Cyclone Monica's gunna go. (I never trust the girlie ones.)
Thanks also to everyone else happy to assist the computer-retarded. I'll get the hang of it yet and it's important to me.
Cheers.
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #16 on: Apr 19th, 2006, 9:02am » |
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If I had a clean room, I'd take a shot at gettin' your data for ya... Most hard drive crashes just need the heads reset, but in order to do that, you must open the hard drive case, and to do that, you must have it in an enviroment where no particles are in the air. Even a smoke particle is too big. Maybe when I have the resources to build a repair lab for myself, I can install a big exhaust fan over a bench in the corner and advertise myself as a data recovery expert... LOL
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #17 on: Apr 19th, 2006, 9:31am » |
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Hi Drk^Angel,
My friend doesn't open the drives as he doesn't have a clean room - although a lot of the State-side guys do. It's just that the average repair shop has limited tools and experience - they're good all rounders on a range of PC problems - but not data recovery experts. If they plug a drive into Windows and it won't read it - then it's dead in their view.
Andre has focused on data repair and uses some proprietary software tools that extract data, sometimes in painfully slow fragments. I've known hm to take a few hours on a drive - or a 30 hour marathon. With the tools and the skill he gets 80 to 85% win rate as most drives are not physically damaged and has carved a little niche business here.
I've seen guys advertise in the US for both this type of recovery and the full blown clean-room rip'er open stuff. All depends on whether the data you have is valuable to you or not. May be worth Googling for a company to get a quote.
As for me, after the last crash I'm a redundancy freak. Two hard drives in the box and an external USB for good measure!
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Re: Techy question
« Reply #18 on: Apr 19th, 2006, 9:47am » |
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Yeah... It is possible to extract data from a crashed hard drive without opening them sometimes. The problem in these cases are that the OS will time out trying to read the disk. If you bypass the OS, or boot into an OS that won't time out while trying to read the tables, you can slowly copy the data to another drive. I had to do that once back in the bygones... Luckily it was only a 200 MB HDD, but it took forever...
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