FireFox and "Stop Script" Nuisance

thanatoid wrote in
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I could NOT have said it as well. Can I save this bit to quote
when the subject comes up in some discussion with the clueless
(with full credit given)?


Feel free. Just bear in mind that someone will point out that if the phone
goes down, so does email, if you have ADSL.

thanatoid wrote in
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Anyway, having a usable "real address" is up to you, but you
can get one for about $10-20 a year from one of several
providers most people don't know exist (again). And use POP/SMTP
instead of the dreaded htm mail.


I think DirectNIC will lease a domain and an email account for that cost. I'm
not sure they have servers though, it might only forward email to a host
machine. Could be good if you have reliable line to host your own though.

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Lostgallifreyan writes:
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Putting programs on their own partition is something I do too. Those that
allow it are usually more selfcontained, will usually run on W98 or WXP (so
long as they will run on W98 at all), and they also tend to limit their
dependencies so that they are more indepedent of each other, and far less
likely to break (or break each other).

How many partitions do you have? And are they all small?
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Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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thanatoid wrote in
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Anyway, having a usable "real address" is up to you, but
you can get one for about $10-20 a year from one of
several providers most people don't know exist (again).
And use POP/SMTP instead of the dreaded htm mail.

I think DirectNIC will lease a domain and an email account
for that cost. I'm not sure they have servers though, it
might only forward email to a host machine. Could be good
if you have reliable line to host your own though.

Yes, I believe you can get a web site for just about that much,
if not free with ads. But then you get into all the repugnant
html stuff... The horror...

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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thanatoid wrote in
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I could NOT have said it as well. Can I save this bit to
quote when the subject comes up in some discussion with
the clueless (with full credit given)?


Feel free. Just bear in mind that someone will point out
that if the phone goes down, so does email, if you have
ADSL.

Thanks. :-)

I live in a 3rd world country where the electricity goes out at
least 5 times a week. The record so far is 20 hours, although it
is usually between 30 seconds and 2 hrs. After a few years of
this you hardly even notice.

But, the *phone* line has NEVER died ONCE since I have lived
here.

OTOH, when I lived in Vancouver, the electricity went out /once/
in about 11 years (the phone line never died either).

(Don't ask me where I live now, because I like to maintain my
illusion of some privacy/'nonymity...)

thanatoid wrote in
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I live in a 3rd world country where the electricity goes out at
least 5 times a week. The record so far is 20 hours, although it
is usually between 30 seconds and 2 hrs. After a few years of
this you hardly even notice.


I didn't realise that, but I've often said to people that we should not
assume that we all have the means to use fast powerful machines that can
double as space heaters, that a lot of the world needs very different
systems, basically enough to allow work in the dark.

But, the *phone* line has NEVER died ONCE since I have lived
here.

OTOH, when I lived in Vancouver, the electricity went out /once/
in about 11 years (the phone line never died either).


I remember in Cornwall, when I was young, it went out a lot. Storms, strikes,
one way or another we got very familiar with pressurised paraffin lamps. We
even had a fireball come out of the phone, wander into the kitchen and vanish
with a sharp crackle as it nudged the kitchen taps. I never saw it, but my
mum did. I doubt she was faking, she had trouble with weird stuff, even when
I showed it to her once with my dad watching too.

(Don't ask me where I live now, because I like to maintain my
illusion of some privacy/'nonymity...)



No problem. Not my business.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
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Lostgallifreyan writes:
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Putting programs on their own partition is something I do too. Those that
allow it are usually more selfcontained, will usually run on W98 or WXP (so
long as they will run on W98 at all), and they also tend to limit their
dependencies so that they are more indepedent of each other, and far less
likely to break (or break each other).

How many partitions do you have? And are they all small?

Like this: 2GB C: (minus space for a 15MB primary for DOS bootable, with
network, as emergency stash, rarely used, given a letter by W98 that doesn't
interfere with the other primaries, it's usually last in the list.), then 1GB
D: as first primary on second disk, for backup images, Ghost, GDISK, etc, and
any batch files, reg files, for updates being used and tested before being
merged to the main image some time when I'm sure to keep them. Then the first
disk's extended DOS slice gets two 1GB logicals, E: and F:, for main
programs, and less used programs, respectively, then a 4GB G: that gets a
directory frequently updated manually to mirror D: so the backup is always
current, on a separate disk. The OS install files also live in a dir in the
root of G: along with stuff to let me examine or install another OS if I have
to. G: also contains program install archives that justified any effort to
categorise them for easy finding. The rest of the disk is H: which is mainly
(lots of) audio files, but with enough extra space to juggle large stuff
between disks when space is short. The rest of the second disk is extended
slice, as two large partitions whose sizes are close to 'golden mean' ratio,
smaller one first. The bigger one holds the Lumber Room, a huge directory
where I chuck anything in without having to worry about sorting. It also
mirrors a lot of what's on drive G: as well as all of E: and F:, so pretty
much everything important is recoverable from one disk if the other dies.
There's a removable frame holding that second disk so it's easy to migrate
the entire system to another machine (I have one with a similar frame, so
most of this data is double-backed there too, as well as offline). The main
machine has a second frame, for a third disk, for movies and such, on a big
disk that's all extended DOS, no primaries to screw up the drive letter
order.

There may be better ways, but that's how I ended up because nothing demanded
that I make changes ince that scheme developed. It hasn't changed much since
I had that 6.4 GB Quantum Fireball. The data slices just got bigger, because
I hated burning CD's.

thanatoid wrote in
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Needless to say, this was a typo. It's 1.5 MB, of course.

Oh really? My installed nPop is 1.5 KB [sic], not counting
the several (you can have as many as you want, even with
ONE POP/STMP provider) mailboxes, which at this point
amount to about 200 KB.