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a open letter to the computer savvy

Posted by wayne tanner on March 31, 2008 - 8:14pm

Folks I have a question.
You see I have this friend see, not me, a friend, no acutally it is my cousin, yeah thats it my cousin, who wants to know the following...
If a fellow has XP and, say two years ago he opened his work BBS (first class) at home on his own computer, saw a message and its history thereof. Printed it off. And now for the life of him and all things holy can't find the *$%@#%&&* peice of paper he printed.
Anyway to dig this up in some hidden file folder that I hear all computers have....
And yes I have.... No my cousin... has defragged, deleted cookies and all those other maintenace things I am prompted to do over the last two years......
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Submitted by bub on April 2, 2008 - 12:11am.

Wayne me boy...2 years is a long time..and Im assuming your using windows..ok..Gary and i will forgive you for that..but it may be there ..maybe ..perhaps..perchance...could be..kinda..
it wouldnt be in your cookies, but it would be in your files..there are options to delete files and cookies or a cleanup on xp depending on what you did if you look at your file under(again im assuming your using IE not firefox..)that looks like the letter e and there will be a lot click on them but..as i said 2 years is a long time chances are its been long gone and overwritten and you'd be better off having a hunt for the printed copy with the reward of a 6 pack of guinness..and you KNOW who would beat me to that reward!

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"How does one "Seem to think"? Either you did or you didn't! "
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Simpler solutions

Submitted by garym on April 3, 2008 - 10:40pm.

Piece of cake: you install a second hard drive, install Ubuntu Linux on that one, boot Ubuntu, then dd /dev/hda1 | strings | fmt | grep -100 "key phrase" and go work on that pack of Guinesses while you wait the long long wait for the result, if any. No fuss, no bother, completely self-propelled, and foolproof, if it's there, it's there and if'n it ain't, it ain't.

Alternatively, thinking more 'locally', you can use The Council Method which is to pay someone really really big sums ($30,000 will probably suffice) to mock up a quick crayon forgery on a piece of plain lined foolscap paper and then just tell everyone that's what's what because, without the original 'report', heck, who's to know?

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

The Perfect Beach-PC?

Submitted by garym on April 4, 2008 - 8:42pm.

Unrelated to all this, or maybe quasi-related on the point of using simpler solutions that are both open and flexible, I thought I'd mention that Bruce Hall's RENEWED Computers in Owen Sound has one of those really nifty (and cheap) little Asus Eee-PC notebook computers sitting on the counter for anyone curious to try it out.

Which I did, of course, and I think we're putting that on our wish-list: It's solid state (no harddrive), solid as a rock (there's a youtube where they torture one), does everything you want in a PC (email, web, writing), fully connectable (modem, ethernet or just pop it open at Macbeths and you're highspeed online!), has a decent feel to the keys (something many PCs don't have), it's teeny teeny tiny and light (fits in a evening-wear handbag!), and that price is pretty unbelievable. Plus, it's Linux, so you know it just works.

If only it was just a wee bit faster ... and that's precisely what Asus has planned for the 2009 edition! :)

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever