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Computer questions you'd be embarrassed to ask any where else!

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  • #502
    Eeden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    In fact I haven't really tried anything. Just have to find that lead, I suppose. and no, nothing sinister.... yet! ;)


  • #503
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    haha, try that so and let us know how you get on :D


  • #504
    Javan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Javan


    Eeden wrote: »
    This one is unbelievably embarrassing. I have never uploaded a photo from my phone, and wouldn't mind a quick tutorial? :o

    If you have set up your Google account on the phone then you can configure it to automatically upload your pictures to Google+.

    Go to Settings app / Accounts and Sync / Google, then check the box marked 'Sync Google+ Photos'. One you do that then next time you log in to GMail look for the Apps button and you will see an item for Photos. Your images from the phone will be there.


  • #505
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Ah yes, I have yet to upload photos from my fancy yancy phone. I can do it from my camera but haven't tried the phone yet. I prefer using the camera for photos. I expect its the exact same procedure anyway.


  • #506
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    I have dropbox installed on my phone. Whenever I connect to the wireless in my house, it automatically uploads all my pictures. This was a default setting of dropbox. Very convenient.


  • #507
    cobham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭cobham


    I send photos as attachents to an email even to myself then they are there in your email on main laptop and can be put somewhere else if need be.


  • #508
    cobham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭cobham


    Prompted by this thread I got the wee wire that came with phone and hooked it up to laptop..... yes that is way to go, now all photos are transferred and I can clear stuff off the phone to make space.

    I am pleased to report that I have now managed to transfer music collection from an old MP3 mini music player onto the fancy phone using a laptop as a go between.

    I have 'dropbox' on laptop... must see about putting on smartphone, something else useful for it to do :)


  • #509
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I think you are losing the run of yourself cobham! There is nuttin' you cannot do!! :D Good old O & O's!


  • #510
    annieoburns
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭annieoburns


    Onward and upward... now with Dropbox on smartphone, it automatically saves any new photo/video. Pity I did not have that on last phone that got stolen :(

    Any more clever tricks for smartphone to do?


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  • #511
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    Another ''Linkedin'' question.

    I have about 80 '' connections'' or whatever they are called.
    usually someone in a similar occupation as myself, or an interest in my area of activity. I find it useful to read any contributions they might make, and if I have a question, I will get replies from someone in my Industry.

    Anyway recently some of these Guys have been ''endorsing'' my achievements, or qualities,
    none of them, actually know me, or have seen any of my work, other than perhaps pic's on my F/B Page.

    I am also getting messages from Linkedin asking me to return the favour, and endorse those among my connections.

    What's this all about??

    It's like a reference on a CV, from someone who does not know you.


  • #512
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    martinn123 wrote: »
    recently some of these Guys have been ''endorsing'' my achievements, or qualities, none of them, actually know me, or have seen any of my work, other than perhaps pic's on my F/B Page.

    I am also getting messages from Linkedin asking me to return the favour, and endorse those among my connections.

    What's this all about??

    Yes, Linkedin is a pain.
    It's a kind of online CV database, much frequented by employment agencies and idle surfers. The "endorsements" are a joke, usually bestowed by buddies on buddies. I wasn't aware that strangers could endorse your skills but perhaps the deliberately confusing architecture of linkedin's website is to blame.

    Alternatively, you could bask in the glory of praise from the great unwashed. For a nominal fee, I could be persuaded to endorse you too!


  • #513
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Yes, Linkedin is a pain.
    It's a kind of online CV database, much frequented by employment agencies and idle surfers. The "endorsements" are a joke, usually bestowed by buddies on buddies. I wasn't aware that strangers could endorse your skills but perhaps the deliberately confusing architecture of linkedin's website is to blame.

    To clarify, they are connections, but have not seen anything I have done.
    If it's a CV database, who could rely on endorsements like this, on my CV
    BrensBenz wrote:
    Alternatively, you could bask in the glory of praise from the great unwashed. For a nominal fee, I could be persuaded to endorse you too!

    Sound like an idea, how much for an unwashed endorsement.?


  • #514
    fleabag
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭fleabag


    Hello, another question.

    Our old Dell computer runs with Windows XP. I've heard that this will no longer be supported by Windows after the end of next month and to be honest I haven't a clue what the implications of this are. Can anyone advise what this means and what I need to do?? Thank you!


  • #515
    Bogwoppit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    I have a Dell PC about 8 years old running windows xp I think.
    I went to turn it on last night and all I get is an amber flashing light on the power switch, won't turn on at all.
    Any ideas? Is it kaput?

    Thanks

    Bw


  • #516
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,003 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I am waiting to see the same thing myself, along with millions of other people I guess :-) As far as I can see it does not mean much more than, carry on as you are, but if things go wrong there will be no patch to fix it. I am about due a new computer at this stage anyway so I am not proposing to do anything till I upgrade.


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  • #517
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    looksee wrote: »
    I am waiting to see the same thing myself, along with millions of other people I guess :-) As far as I can see it does not mean much more than, carry on as you are, but if things go wrong there will be no patch to fix it. I am about due a new computer at this stage anyway so I am not proposing to do anything till I upgrade.

    This is a decent enough article on what to do when support for XP finishes next month:

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/2102606/how-to-keep-your-pc-secure-when-microsoft-ends-windows-xp-support.html


  • #518
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    fleabag wrote: »
    Hello, another question.

    Our old Dell computer runs with Windows XP. I've heard that this will no longer be supported by Windows after the end of next month and to be honest I haven't a clue what the implications of this are. Can anyone advise what this means and what I need to do?? Thank you!

    Here's a link to Windows on this subject.

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx

    I guess they want us all to buy something new.

    Security updates will not be available, so we will all be ''hacked'' to death, we will all catch a ''virus''

    It's the Y2K all over again.......We are Doomed.

    Alternative view..........carry on as before, it will break down eventually, and then buy a new one.


  • #519
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    martinn123 wrote: »
    we will all be ''hacked'' to death, we will all catch a ''virus''

    It's the Y2K all over again.......We are Doomed.

    Yep, you're right! My XP-powered laptop burst into flames last night and a herd of those pesky, nine-legged dibbity dibbity worms hid in the smoke, laughing hysterically. Their laughter fanned the flames and the laptop burned through my desk and set fire to the carpet, the woof's tail and on through to the basement and beyond. Minutes later, black gold oozed into the basement but the methane cloud exploded, casting the dibbity dibbity worms through the windows and levelled the street.

    When the fire brigade left, I found that all of my life's work had been consumed in the fire. I am now stateless, roaming the planet, an outcast.

    Upgrade immeejitly or you too will be cast into the vastness of.....this dark.....place....like.....totally.


  • #520
    fleabag
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭fleabag


    Ha! ha! I thought as much myself. A clumsy ploy to get people to spend money. I would have thought an 'old' operating system would be less vulnerable to viruses and hackers anyway as I imagine they would be using/targetting the newest versions. Anyhoo, thanks for the replies, one less thing to worry about ...:)


  • #521
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    fleabag wrote: »
    Ha! ha! I thought as much myself. A clumsy ploy to get people to spend money. I would have thought an 'old' operating system would be less vulnerable to viruses and hackers anyway as I imagine they would be using/targetting the newest versions. Anyhoo, thanks for the replies, one less thing to worry about ...:)
    It's the opposite really. The fact that so many people are still on XP is a golden opportunity, there'll be lots of people targeting it and any vulnerabilities found will be deliberately held back on being exploited until after support ends as then they know it'll never actually be patched.

    Holding onto XP is a bad idea.


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  • #522
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,003 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Blowfish wrote: »
    It's the opposite really. The fact that so many people are still on XP is a golden opportunity, there'll be lots of people targeting it and any vulnerabilities found will be deliberately held back on being exploited until after support ends as then they know it'll never actually be patched.

    Holding onto XP is a bad idea.


    Ha ha, Blowfish you are new round here aren't you? :cool: An agent for Windows no doubt! :eek:

    (You may well be right, but we would prefer not to know about it till its too late :))


  • #523
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    This more a printer problem. There are lines printing across the page. Someone told me 'the heads are the problem' and the printer is knackered. I don't know what that means but I don't want to dump it as its not that old. I usually get the cartridges refilled, could that have been the cause? Any way I can save it?


  • #524
    Javan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Javan


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    This more a printer problem. There are lines printing across the page. Someone told me 'the heads are the problem' and the printer is knackered. I don't know what that means but I don't want to dump it as its not that old. I usually get the cartridges refilled, could that have been the cause? Any way I can save it?

    What type of printer? (Laser or inkjet?)

    If it is an inkjet then you probably just need to clean the print heads. The printer controls should have an option to clean print heads.
    If that does not work try new cartridges (and clean the heads again with the new cartridges for good measure).
    If that does not work then depending on the printer model you might be able to replace the print heads without replacing the entire device, but you are getting close the the point where it would be cheaper to replace the printer.


  • #525
    fleabag
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭fleabag


    Blowfish wrote: »
    It's the opposite really. The fact that so many people are still on XP is a golden opportunity, there'll be lots of people targeting it and any vulnerabilities found will be deliberately held back on being exploited until after support ends as then they know it'll never actually be patched.

    Holding onto XP is a bad idea.

    OK, I'm worried again now. Does this mean that for example, my online banking details, Paypal account and personal details will be vulnerable? :(


  • #526
    Javan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭Javan


    fleabag wrote: »
    OK, I'm worried again now. Does this mean that for example, my online banking details, Paypal account and personal details will be vulnerable? :(

    Everyone's data is vulnerable, even using the latest OS and best protections and practices.
    If you are using XP your data is more vulnerable than most, especially if you are using Internet Explorer.
    After the end of support it is likely that there will be new exploits increasing the risk further.


  • #527
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    This more a printer problem. There are lines printing across the page. Someone told me 'the heads are the problem' and the printer is knackered. I don't know what that means but I don't want to dump it as its not that old. I usually get the cartridges refilled, could that have been the cause? Any way I can save it?
    This really depends on a few things ... like what kind of printer it is for one thing! If you have a make and model that will help.

    On some printers just replacing the cartridge will help. (In fact, low ink/toner can BE the reason for streaks).

    Some printers have "self-cleaning routines" that might help.


  • #528
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    ....the printer is knackered. I don't know what that means ...

    It's a not-very-polite, colloquial term, used in many different contexts, from technical to veterinarian.

    When IT are involved, it is usually delivered over a counter by a child in corporate uniform, accompanied by some techno-verbage and almost always means that the person hasn't a clue what is causing the reported, technical problem but is too pig-headed to admit it. A rule of thumb is that the advisor probably has stock or access to more expensive replacement equipment.

    However, at least that term wasn't directed at you by medical staff. From them, it can be a herald to long spells on hospital food, constant jabs and fizio.

    This, indeed, is bad but, if you were a horse, well........

    The printer was supplied with a disc. My first option would be to delete all of the printer drivers, etc. from your computer and reinstall the software from the disc. Also, there should be a "re-alignment" or "calibration" box, carefully hidden away, somewhere near "fault-finding".


  • #529
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,003 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I used refill cartridges ONCE in an inkjet (epsom) printer, and that banjaxed it for good. Now I have a laser printer and the cartridges are a horrendous price, but seem to last longer, and I have a feeling refill laser cartridges are a better prospect than ink jet refills. I hope.


  • #530
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    BrensBenz wrote:

    My first option would be to delete all of the printer drivers, etc. from your computer and reinstall the software from the disc.

    I think that might be a bum steer,

    Surely if you " delete the driver ".....it will crash.


  • #531
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,314 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    looksee wrote: »
    I used refill cartridges ONCE in an inkjet (epsom) printer, and that banjaxed it for good. Now I have a laser printer and the cartridges are a horrendous price, but seem to last longer, and I have a feeling refill laser cartridges are a better prospect than ink jet refills. I hope.
    List your make & model, and how much you currently pay, and from where.
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    This more a printer problem. There are lines printing across the page. Someone told me 'the heads are the problem' and the printer is knackered. I don't know what that means but I don't want to dump it as its not that old. I usually get the cartridges refilled, could that have been the cause? Any way I can save it?
    Are the lines vertical or horizontal? If it's a HP, there'll be a "Maintain your Printer" option, and then click on "Align your Printheads". Whoever told you that your printer is knackered probably wanted to sell you a new one.


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  • #532
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,003 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    the_syco wrote: »
    List your make & model, and how much you currently pay, and from where.

    Its a HP laserjet1025 colour, I have only bought one so far, black, I think I got it from HP as they seemed to be the best price and I think I paid €80 (you have to remember you are on O&O ;) )


  • #533
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    martinn123 wrote: »
    I think that might be a bum steer,

    Surely if you " delete the driver ".....it will crash.

    Just going on previous, personal experience with a HP printer. No amount of troubleshooting and recalibration helped but when I deleted ALL "history" of the printer from the computer hard drive and re-installed it ("Install new printer") using the software (and probably drivers) already on the installation disk, all was well again, and still is! I don't think I needed to replace "separate" drivers but, if necessary, they're usually obtainable free from Mr. Google.

    I'm no technohead or clairvoyant but I could foresee a scenario where sales staff were preparing to tell me that "it's knackered, mister. Ya need a new wan". That spurred me to hit "delete". Maybe I was lucky.....or maybe I got one over Hewlett Packard!


  • #534
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Just going on previous, personal experience with a HP printer. No amount of troubleshooting and recalibration helped but when I deleted ALL "history" of the printer from the computer hard drive and re-installed it ("Install new printer") using the software (and probably drivers) already on the installation disk, all was well again, and still is! I don't think I needed to replace "separate" drivers but, if necessary, they're usually obtainable free from Mr. Google.

    I'm no technohead or clairvoyant but I could foresee a scenario where sales staff were preparing to tell me that "it's knackered, mister. Ya need a new wan". That spurred me to hit "delete". Maybe I was lucky.....or maybe I got one over Hewlett Packard!
    martinn123 wrote:

    I think that might be a bum steer,

    Surely if you " delete the driver ".....it will crash.


    sorry that was just a play on words, ....steer....driver......crash....

    Must try harder.


  • #535
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    martinn123 wrote: »
    sorry that was just a play on words, ....steer....driver......crash....

    Must try harder.

    Duh, waaaayyyyy too clever for me, a simple country lad with the top of his wellies turned down.

    However, my training is to search for the root cause of problems, rather than applying bandages on symptoms. I think I may have the root cause for most problems on this thread - dunnn de dun dun duuuuunnnnn: IT geeks take perfectly good words and give them new meanings, without permission.

    For example: In our youth, what did the word "application" mean? Or "drive / driver"? Or "domain"? Or "buffer"? Or "windows"?

    It isn't hard to take a word and give it a brand new and obscure meaning - two-year-olds and their great grand parents do it all the time - so it's time to set up an anti-makey-uppy-word police squad, with powers to arrest and torture IT geeks with a tenuous grip on vocabulary. I will gladly assume the position of Chief Commandant Commissioner of this force and look forward to using some of the tools in my shed on these miscreants.

    You're welcome.


  • #536
    JOSman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭JOSman


    All hail the Commandant! :D


  • #537
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Great ideee-er! Can I be in your army Brenz?


  • #538
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    As an IT geek... it must be said that we do take joy in a decent pun or re-use of a word in a different context. Many of them are in an attempt to make the item more recognisable to non-computer people (eg: Windows) but others are just in jokes :)

    We really shouldn't anthropomorphise computers... they *hate* it when you do that.


  • #539
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    DeVore wrote: »
    As an IT geek... it must be said that we do take joy in a decent pun or re-use of a word in a different context. Many of them are in an attempt to make the item more recognisable to non-computer people (eg: Windows) but others are just in jokes :)

    You may not be aware (pharmaceuticals are great) but when you became an IT geek, you became "different". Language, memories, social training, communication skills, etc. were "deleted" and replaced by Geekish. A pun which might render you and your geek buddish helpless with laughter will barely register with the 99.9% of the world's population that have not become geeks. This expains why geeks now have no concept of Plain English and can't even write "help" advice. Come on, tell us: Who really wrote your post?

    Fortunately, medical science has made great strides in curing Nerd Syndrome - it involves an eency weency operation just below your hairline. You could be out of hospital in a few days. The procedure is regarded as successful when you are observed going to "Help" on a website and exploding into a rage..........just like the normal, 99.9% of the population do.


  • #540
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,707 ✭✭✭flutered


    i have downloaded linux mint, also ubuntu on to my very old xp lappy, how do i get either of them to open, thanks in advance.


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  • #541
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    flutered wrote: »
    i have downloaded linux mint, also ubuntu on to my very old xp lappy, how do i get either of them to open, thanks in advance.

    You need to create a bootable cd from that ubuntu '.iso' file.

    If you don't have a cd burner, get a usb stick which can fit the ubuntu installer onto it.

    Once that is done, you need to tell your computer to boot from the cd/usb key. To do that, press one of the F1-F12 buttons while your computer is starting up. It will tell you at the bottom of the screen briefly which one to press as it is starting up. Select cd/usb from the boot menu and the installation should be self-explanatory from there


  • #542
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,333 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    Remember to select try instead of install when you run it*, otherwise you'll install it as the OS and lose anything you havent backed up

    *assuming you only want to try these out


  • #543
    Eeden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    This may have been asked before, but is there an easy way to embed PART of a youtube video into a boards post (instead of the whole thing)? I don't want the whole video, just about 20 seconds from the middle of it. :o


  • #544
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Eeden wrote: »
    This may have been asked before, but is there an easy way to embed PART of a youtube video into a boards post (instead of the whole thing)? I don't want the whole video, just about 20 seconds from the middle of it. :o

    Sorry, can't help - there isn't an easy way to attach anything to boards. It will be a bewildering, hit-or-miss ordeal. But I'm anxiously awaiting the usual replies that start on Page 29 instead of Page 1. Usually, they include obscure software and slang what the nuns never taught you.

    PS: You "may" have to save, trim / edit / crop the video on your computer first, save the shortened version and then perform a series of logic-free, ceremonial mouse-clicks, in the correct order, in boards, with URLs(?), links, icons with mountains and chains, etc. When you find the correct order of clicks, don't bother writing it down because it won't work next time you try it. But you'll have "such fun" trying!!!


  • #545
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Sorry, can't help - there isn't an easy way to attach anything to boards. It will be a bewildering, hit-or-miss ordeal. But I'm anxiously awaiting the usual replies that start on Page 29 instead of Page 1. Usually, they include obscure software and slang what the nuns never taught you.

    PS: You "may" have to save, trim / edit / crop the video on your computer first, save the shortened version and then perform a series of logic-free, ceremonial mouse-clicks, in the correct order, in boards, with URLs(?), links, icons with mountains and chains, etc. When you find the correct order of clicks, don't bother writing it down because it won't work next time you try it. But you'll have "such fun" trying!!!
    You missed out sacrificing your first born to the gods, video rejected.


  • #546
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    Sure just point us at the entire video on Youtube.

    We won't mind looking at the whole thing, maybe we can vote, which is the best 20 seconds.


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  • #547
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Eeden wrote: »
    This may have been asked before, but is there an easy way to embed PART of a youtube video into a boards post (instead of the whole thing)? I don't want the whole video, just about 20 seconds from the middle of it. :o

    The easiest and closet thing to it would be to link to exact point in the video. You can't embed it in the normal manner though, you can only give a link. If you go to your youtube video, pause it, then right-click on it; there is an option to "Copy video URL at current time" which gives you this https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DY9cvhLvzkM#t=694


  • #548
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Grimebox wrote: »
    The easiest and closet thing to it would be to link to exact point in the video. You can't embed it in the normal manner though, you can only give a link. If you go to your youtube video, pause it, then right-click on it; there is an option to "Copy video URL at current time" which gives you this https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DY9cvhLvzkM#t=694


    Y'see? There is always one bright spark in this dark dungeon we call 'home'. Oh you clever clogs you!


  • #549
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    You know when you are posting a "link" in reply to a question, in some very interesting Thread, here on Boards.

    Well I got the hang of Copying the long line of letters, numbers, in the box at the top, and " pasting"that into my post.
    You hold down the Right Button on the Mouse, while hovering.
    I have noticed some experts can turn that "link" into a single word, usually "Link" and it's in Blue, as it appears in a post.

    How do you do that?


  • #550
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,707 ✭✭✭flutered


    Grimebox wrote: »
    You need to create a bootable cd from that ubuntu '.iso' file.

    If you don't have a cd burner, get a usb stick which can fit the ubuntu installer onto it.

    Once that is done, you need to tell your computer to boot from the cd/usb key. To do that, press one of the F1-F12 buttons while your computer is starting up. It will tell you at the bottom of the screen briefly which one to press as it is starting up. Select cd/usb from the boot menu and the installation should be self-explanatory from there

    thank you, i will/may change over from xp pro before the 6th, i have a a hard drive from from another machine which should have vista on it, provided it is not dead.


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


    martinn123 wrote: »
    You know when you are posting a "link" in reply to a question, in some very interesting Thread, here on Boards.

    Well I got the hang of Copying the long line of letters, numbers, in the box at the top, and " pasting"that into my post.
    You hold down the Right Button on the Mouse, while hovering.
    I have noticed some experts can turn that "link" into a single word, usually "Link" and it's in Blue, as it appears in a post.

    How do you do that?
    type [ url=website]place text here[/url]
    It'll look like martin123 is great
    Don't leave spaces. I've to do that so you can see it.


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