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Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.

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    #302
    Ramette
    Registered Users Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Ramette


    Batistuta9 - thanks a million for the very prompt reply.. have changed my password to all my systems ... i saw my recent login activity.. i have apparently logged into my email from france, japan and poland...:eek:

    Is it as simple as changing my password to stop any more of those funny emails???

    How did they get my password in the first place? (the fact they got it - does it mean they have access to my pc?)


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    #303
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    Ramette wrote: »
    How did they get my password in the first place? (the fact they got it - does it mean they have access to my pc?)
    Could have, run Malwarebytes to check for keyloggers.

    If it was a simple password eg apples1 then a bot (computer) could have used a dictionary attack (program that runs through every word in the dictionary) on it and got it that way.

    Have a look at using lastpass for your passwords.

    You could have got phished, ie, you could have received an email from a site you bought something from, that may not have come from that site at all, if you logged in through that email they'd get it that way.

    ^^^Shocking some of the people that get caught out this way or something similar to this.

    Ramette wrote: »
    Is it as simple as changing my password to stop any more of those funny emails???
    It can be, if it's a bot you'd be cutting access and that'd be the end of it.


    Or it's not coming from you at all and your email address was spoofed.

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/253305/minimize_your_exposure_to_email_spoofing.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing


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    #304
    Ramette
    Registered Users Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Ramette


    thanks Rucking Fetard.. i ran that software, it detected some thingies and removed them... i will be a lot more reticent in accessing sites in future and i will make sure i check my log in history too!


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    #305
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    This has been a good thread for me as I've got great advice on speeding up my computer which is running great at the moment (fingers crossed). So hearty thanks to those experts for helping me out. Sadly, I have another question. I have created a very simple spreadsheet and have a couple of thousand entries (its a big project). I checked each page after I typed it but am now doing another thorough check and have discovered about three or four instances where actual formulas are showing. Now I cleared everything off before I started because I wanted to be in complete control of what I type and made sure of the settings but I've no idea why these forumlas (formulae?) are turning up as I didn't enter any. I have everything set to 'General'. Any help would be appreciated.


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    #306
    joedared
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭joedared


    my flash player and plug-ins keep freezing. Its very difficult to watch any videos. What may be wrong? I use the firefox browser


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    #307
    franc 91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭franc 91


    I have the same problem - apparently there is a financial conflict between Adobe and whoever - I have Free.fr and I can't watch anything on YouTube or listen to the radio on-line. Meanwhile, it's a pain in the neck srl :mad:


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    #308
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    Fine for me on Firefox, I'd delete it from your Control Panels and reinstall if I were ye. That usually does the trick when it gives bother.


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    #309
    franc 91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭franc 91


    Well I'll translate what says -
    Your Google Chrome navigator already includes Adobe Flash Player. Google Chrome will automatically install (?) updates when the new versions of Flash Player will be available.
    So apart from that load of waffle - tada :rolleyes:


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    #310
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Hope someone can help me. Some websites in foreign languages have a translation button included on them. However I have also come across some foreign websites that don't. Is there a way of getting the 'puter to translate them automatically for me?


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    #311
    Blowfish
    Registered Users Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Hope someone can help me. Some websites in foreign languages have a translation button included on them. However I have also come across some foreign websites that don't. Is there a way of getting the 'puter to translate them automatically for me?
    I don't know of an automatic way that'll do it as soon as you visit the site (though there probably is one), but if it isn't translated for you, you can just stick the address in here and it'll do it for you.


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    #312
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Thanks Blowfish, but I need the whole website translated, not just the address so doubt if that would be enough for me. Seems like a lot of work though to put whole pages of text into that Google box.


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    #313
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    What browser are you using? Chrome has an addon that'll let you do it on the site page anyway. Firefox probably has it aswell.

    I cant link or look properly as on phone at the min and my internets gone to hell.

    Google Tanslate addon should get you it.


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    #314
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    You can translate the whole page with google translate aswell. I think you just put in site address instead of bits of text.


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    #315
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/translate-this/?src=ss

    This is an add on for Mozilla Firefox that i use for translating pages or bits of pages. Works just fine.


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    #316
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    ken wrote: »
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/translate-this/?src=ss

    This is an add on for Mozilla Firefox that i use for translating pages or bits of pages. Works just fine.

    Will try that add-on. Never knew what they were all about. Thanks.


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    #317
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Hi,bought a new Asus laptop,anyone got any idea why it give of a load of screeching feedback when i am closing it?


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    #318
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    it sounds as if the mic is coming into contact with the speakers, what laptop is it and do you have any programs open when your doing this. Its new and you've broken it already ha ha


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    #319
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    tipptom wrote: »
    Hi,bought a new Asus laptop,anyone got any idea why it give of a load of screeching feedback when i am closing it?
    Closing the lid? loose connection probably but as its new, send it back i say.


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    #320
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Question for you. My landline has been down for a couple of days. I had to travel to a village a fair way off (about ten mins drive on the expressway) to find a public phone to report the fault.

    This morning my broadband is back so I am pleased with that. But my phone is still out of action.

    How can I have my broadband back but still have no phone??


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    #321
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    I dont know what set up you have,but did you check the micro filter? It looks like this http://www.eircom.net/accessories/broadband/broadbandtab/filterssplitters/


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    #322
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Yes the filters are fine. It is an outside fault. So if I am not around too much it will be for the broadband being down too. Took 3 1/2 hours to get online tonight. :(


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    #323
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    That's a shame Rube. If it were me, I'd have a nervous tick by now, without me internet.


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    #324
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    That's a shame Rube. If it were me, I'd have a nervous tick by now, without me internet.

    I can sometimes get online, so I can survive Jellybaby. It is the loss of my phone that is getting to me just now. I use it to keep in touch with my father, who is very old and housebound, and too far to visit regularly.


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    #325
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Hope you get sorted soon Rube.


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    #326
    Kat1170
    Registered Users Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    Can anyone advise how to download a You Tube video safely. Last time I tried I ended up with a virus :(:(


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    #327
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    Kat1170 wrote: »
    Can anyone advise how to download a You Tube video safely. Last time I tried I ended up with a virus :(:(
    Youtubefisher
    nirsofts videocacheview
    j downloader

    ^^^have worked in the last wk.

    Youtube constantly change how they show vids lately to stop people copying them


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    #328
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    Kat1170 wrote: »
    Can anyone advise how to download a You Tube video safely. Last time I tried I ended up with a virus :(:(
    This works now, just checked it their.

    Read this before you install it, it uses something like no2 when you're installing it trying to get you to install a toolbar or something so just watch what you agree to. It's fine though, no viruses.


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    #329
    annieoburns
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭annieoburns


    Do you use skype? It can be used to dial landlines at a small cost.


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    #330
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Thank you all for your helpful advice, it is all fixed now. Apparently the exchange was hit by lightening and it blew the box up, Some damage and some ok bits (explains the broadband I suppose) Anyway thanks again everyone. :)


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    #331
    joedared
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭joedared


    just printed an excel doc. Image was not sharp, but was legible. looked blurry with a shadow around each caracther. anybody know why this is?


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