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Post edited by Hmmm... on 29/12/2018 at 18:19.

Afternoon all ... just begun to re-install all my settings on the new PC ... been quite a fraught day so far ;¬)

Morning,

About to go do the school run again, then coffee.

Morning,

it was the school show last night. My shy, quiet daughter did great as a narrator and had a lot to say. She has an inner determination that I don't have, I'd have taken one of the 'scenery' roles myself.

It was a pirates and mermaids theme and I couldn't help but wonder if one of the girls knew what a mermaid was. She had a short pink dress on which seemed to be missing a lot of material in the midriff area. She looked like she was going straight for a night out in town.

Morning.

I nearly never got to work this morning. My wife pushed me out of bed 15 minutes before I had to catch the bus. My brain is still catching up, though.

I know, I know ... but why do I get this every time I try to access the forums? Has been happening for the last few days! When it 'normalises itself' ... the errors are broken images! Is Freeola having problems with its Image folder again? This did happen a few years ago ....

This is the problem

EDIT: Now happening on this page, as we post ... 'images.freeola.co.uk'

DL wrote:
srs_wubwub wrote:
[i]Best of luck with the build DL!

Thanks srs! I'll certainly go with Firefox and Thunderbird. Use CoreFTP 64 bit at the moment and quite like it, but may give Notepad++ a look ... it's been around for a long time.[/i]

That's quite a nice piece of software. Notepad++ is first and foremost a text editor, you are able to select to use the NppFTP plugin from the 'Plugins' menu.

How come I have posted twice? Just had to delete the second 'post' by writing this!

srs_wubwub wrote:
Best of luck with the build DL!

Thanks srs! I'll certainly go with Firefox and Thunderbird. Use CoreFTP 64 bit at the moment and quite like it, but may give Notepad++ a look ... it's been around for a long time.

Would be interesting, as long as there's no fighting over browsers!

I used to use Firefox all the time until Chrome got all the Google account stuff added, now I find that easier to use with everything embedded in the browser. IE seems to have been making slight improvements, but not enough for me at the moment.

Best of luck with the build DL!

If I'm putting a new Windows box together I'll usually get the main install out of the way and then throw on this lot:
- ESET (shameless plug)
- Oracle VirtualBox
- Notepad++ (which has a great FTP module)
- Thunderbird
- Firefox
- OpenOffice / LibreOffice
- Steam (most important!)

What with being a Cisco kinda person I'll usually install Packet Tracer within the first couple of weeks for virtual network configuration and troubleshooting purposes.

Maybe I'll start a new thread about software. What do you full-timers think?