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| domwild Guru  Joined: 16/12/2005 Location: AustraliaPosts: 873 |
Hi, Managed to lose my HD and had to reinstal software and Mozilla Firefox all of a sudden complains I am not allowing Glenn's cookies in and therefore cannot log in. Checked and found I am allowing cookies and also third-party cookies anyway and to stop this nonsense have allowed Glenn's site to drop cookies by entering his site especially. Still no login! Despite all this I have now managed to get into this forum via IE after Glenn suggested I should try it. Phew! Life without the backshed is like a kiss without a moustache, there is something essentially missing and my life is not complete. I suppose I should not have pestered this forum for help as I can access Mozilla and look at their site before asking them a specific question. I realised this while typing. Taxation as a means of achieving prosperity is like a man standing inside a bucket trying to lift himself up. Winston Churchill |
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Greenbelt Guru Joined: 11/01/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 566 |
domwild Maybe this well help?? Java Script must be enabled also. 
-----Cheers, Roe Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True? |
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| domwild Guru Joined: 16/12/2005 Location: AustraliaPosts: 873 |
Thanks, Roe. Unless Javascript is enabled by default I would not have enabled it. What is the score with "Third Party cookies"? Would you allow them?? Cheers dom Taxation as a means of achieving prosperity is like a man standing inside a bucket trying to lift himself up. Winston Churchill |
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| Greenbelt Guru Joined: 11/01/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 566 |
domwild, The Third party cookies are Trash that can contain Trojans and virus I don't know this for certain, But my connections to the internet have not suffered from leaving them disabled, Less trash, Less trouble. If you had a problem with your hard drive it is likely that Java Script would not be enabled after a new install. IE may have enabled it when you set it up? or it could have Java as a part of the browser? ------Cheers, Roe Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True? |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Oven too cold try more heat 
If all else fails call in help. Bob Foolin Around |
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| domwild Guru Joined: 16/12/2005 Location: AustraliaPosts: 873 |
Hi, Javascript was enabled by default. Also realized now (old age is a terrible thing, try to avoid it) that I can search Mozilla for help. There is also the suggestion to delete any past history with the backshed in the history log which I did and I seem to be winning. Thanks again. Nice doggy, I just love them with a few fried potatoes! Taxation as a means of achieving prosperity is like a man standing inside a bucket trying to lift himself up. Winston Churchill |
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| Greenbelt Guru Joined: 11/01/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 566 |
domwild Sometimes I go overboard on help items.as noted by one of my readers (A Sledgehammer on a birds egg ) but my defense is the thought that several people may be reading this post with similar problems and they may be as dumb as I was about 3 years ago on this internet stuff. I still don't know much about it. but what I have learned I'm glad to share. I shut off my Computer at bed time and have set Firefox to delete all cookies and history logs when the session ends. I allow only 1 Megabyte for cookie storage and let the servers battle it out as to which cookies will use the space. My system has run trouble free for several months. I also use a registry cleaner (I believe to be a good one (Named "CCleaner"<no error,) Free on the internet, Sure has made a difference. I like Mustard and Onions with mine and I would like a Beer with That! -----Cheers, Roe Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True? |
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| grub Senior Member  Joined: 27/11/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 169 |
I notice that the computer VK4AYQ has, is using "Puppy Linux", created and developed here in Australia. |
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| RossW Guru Joined: 25/02/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 495 |
"several months"?? If any of my machines only ran for "several months" without problems, they'd be in the bin quick smart. If you're up to the challenge, and think you could manage to survive with months or years between reboots, without having to do the "3-finger-salute" reboot every few hours, without having applications barf and die every half hour, or being told that your 3GHz computer with 4Gb RAM just isn't enough to run the new application... leave windoze and move to a real operating system. If you want a computer that *just* works, get windows. If you want a computer that just *works*, get... (well, I'd make a suggestion, but some will probably want to sin-bin me for criticizing their precious redmond product) |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
You know, this forum runs on Windows, dont you Ross  . Why? Cause it *WORKS*!
 The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Hi Ross, I am a linux addicted. But I can have a clean Windows which can run my apps for years (I think is the case with Glenn). But, if I use it for testing all sort of applications (and some require weird drivers) as I do often (installing/uninstalling), then I have no chance to keep it clean. After few months, I really need to reformat the drive for a fresh install. But I know what to install on a secure Windows and not. I know which "security" programs are just masked trojans and which not. I know how to "walk" on Internet and I know that if I just installed a Windows, even if I didn't visited the Internet yet, it really needs a different firewall that the original one because even the Internet provider can be curious regarding to your PC content. Glenn, you can admit that no beginner can know all of these. I also know this from my experience. I have a friend which use his computer to watch the automobile market and frequently visit a limited number of Auto. sites. His computer was full of viruses, trojans and didn't worked at all. I cleaned it up, fresh install, a good pair of antivirus/firewall and teach it some rules and now have almost a year without incidents. Yes, is possible but it requires "abstinence" - no way to get that on most of the Windows users .
Linux is different. I loved it form the first try, when it was only for "hackers". Now can be used as a desktop by anyone but is a little more to learn. Is safe by default. It have its own problems but very rare and for short periods. Wine is a source of troubles for it... Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
A lot of it depends on the person sitting in front of the screen. I run several windows PC's and havn't had a virus or anything for years now. I only reboot the work station PC's after playing some intensive video games or a update required it, but normally they stay up for weeks. The windows servers would go for months, but I like to shut them down once every couple of weeks to take a snapshop of the virtual drives. Besides I think rebooting a PC is overrated as a downfall, I mean, its not that hard to do
Windows is a lot more secure than it was a few years ago. IE is now considered more secure than Firefox. It looks like Apple is the one to watch out for now, with many security weaknesses found in recent years. I want to like Linux, its a better system, but every time I adopt a copy it ends up pushing me away. At some point I need to do some work, and Linux doesn't have the tools I need. And the thing is, if you put me in front of a Linux machine, I'm an idiot and dont know enough about its security, I would end up opening up the root account to the world or breaking it in some other way. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
I agree with that. I have most of the needed tool chains but for some others I have applications only on Windows so, I have a dual boot all the time. Not for the games - most of them now runs on Linux (native or using Wine). Is a pain to have Linux on laptops... it burns them. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| Robb Senior Member Joined: 01/08/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 221 |
Thats the very reason I left windows. I wanted something that would stay working. |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5116 |
I cant see how people have so many problems with Windows? What exactly are you doing thats breaking it? I've had XP installs going for many years without a reinstall, and these are machines used daily to run different applications and games. Its my experience thats Windows wont fall over by itself, it needs help. Unfortunately a lot of the industry software is only written for the Windows platform. I use several Microsoft and Adobe applications, especially VB and Dreamweaver, and its Windows only. Dreamweaver is a industry standard, along with Visual Basic, so I have no choice but to use Windows. Apart from that, most of the stuff I use is cross platform, like Open Office, Filezilla, Thunderbird, etc, so I could use Linux, but I'm not going to dual boot, cause those applications also run under Windows, so I use the Windows versions. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| VK4AYQ Guru Joined: 02/12/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2539 |
Hi All I use windows XP for the last ten years and have found it reliable and easy to use on the net windows 7 or the defunct Vista is another story, the main reason I use it is because I can use programs compatible with other users and more user friendly. I hate computers as much as I hate Telstra and the Government well nearly, so do not poke and play around with it. The only time I have problems is if someone else uses the computer and gets something in it that shouldn't be there. My computers suffer lightning damage due to location so never get to old. Our company servers where running windows and always in strife, converted them to Linux and they would run for months, all they where doing is web and file server duty. I tried dual boot but found it spent more time with its legs crossed than working. All the best Bob 
Foolin Around |
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| Robb Senior Member Joined: 01/08/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 221 |
Things like adding virus scanners. Kind of like driving with a parachute behind your car. It works but robs performance big time so in return you have to fit turbo to the car. AKA faulty by design and admits it by informing you you have not added virus protection with a popup no less. Help seems to be everywhere. melware, spyware, trojans, viruses that the very best scanners can't yet detect, you name it. I do have a windows machine I drag out a couple of times a year exclusively for some firmware editing applications for some equipment I work on sometimes. I even have a 286 DOS machine still for one piece of equipment that was designed back in those days. They are kept in isolation. When I have to work with windows these days I find myself saying "what the" and it drives me further away. The transition was NOT easy but I believe worth it for what I'v got in return. I think its about priorities and windows in no longer mine. |
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| Greenbelt Guru Joined: 11/01/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 566 |
Hi All My big problem with windows is its attitude, there is a sense of rebellion in the way it responds No command is carried out with out a question if this is really what you want to do or are you josh-ing Me, or a flat out refusal to cooperate. as was mentioned earlier, The pop up tells you that Microsoft has written a program that will not work on your outdated windows operating system, You must replace that 3 year old antique system and install a few more Gigs of ram, or you can sit there with your new $200 program and wish it would work. Windows keeps tabs on you every second while it is activated It logs Logs of Logs, I found 800 megabytes of logs in the windows system directory it was mostly windows media player recording the titles of movies I had transferred from old Video Tape. Invalid Codec errors from a different media player. There was 60 megabytes of garbage in my registry, When I downloaded the "CCleaner" It scanned the registry and posted the many many entry's that could be deleted without effecting the windows system. I set this program to run at boot up, and I run Defrag. Often Other things that I don't like about the filing system is "My This" and "My That" I also don't like my folders turn up empty. windows seems to assume that any new folder not a part of the original folders is a temporary folder. when you clean house ,,BYE BYE. It all looks normal till I open it!!! Nothing Here ??? I now Set the new folder properties to "read only" Also the paranoid way that MS worries about their copyright. I find that XP is a good system, with service pack 2 and no other updates or security patches it works well. Some of my relatives are trying to use Vista,-Trying, EDIT; MS. is always fixing something that works! EE. Windows ME was a good system when I first used it, Later when the updates started it became practically unusable and Win 2000 Was on the Buy Me List. IMO, I believe that the Virus problem is a part of the marketing strategy used by anti virus program Makers. They make the Virus Then sell the program to fix it. Windows Updates Destroy the system which requires a new system. YUP! ----Cheers, Roe Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True? |
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| domwild Guru Joined: 16/12/2005 Location: AustraliaPosts: 873 |
Here I have really started something! Javascript is enabled by default in Mozilla Firefox BUT what cured my problem was looking at their website and finding I was not the only one with the cookie problem and I also had to clear the history. Thanks for info. I will also set "Third-party cookies" to disable. Tried to book a flight with Virgin; told me the 10th of October is the wrong day, I believe it told me it is the Sunday. Then it told me it is the Monday. Told IT of the problem and they told me to flush the cache, etc.! Computers are meant to save you time?? Taxation as a means of achieving prosperity is like a man standing inside a bucket trying to lift himself up. Winston Churchill |
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| RossW Guru Joined: 25/02/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 495 |
Oh, phuleeeze. If you think your ISP is trawling through your PC to see what you have, you should go put your tinfoil hat on, unplug your computer, put it back in the box it came in and return it to the shop. And thats just for starters. |
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