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I've recently switched from AVG to Avast! because

1. AVG doesn't lke to install on some systems that I've been running (for no apparent reason) and
2. AVG has been getting chummy with installer software which leads to it becoming ass-ware. No, I don't want the program I'm installing to change, keep and protect my homepage, search engine, and child's god-parents to AVG homepage, AVG Safe search, and AVG godparents (TM).
 
Yeah, AVG, is messy and its difficult to get rid of all of its bells and whistles.
 
A free and powerful web publisher
http://www.weebly.com/?footer

Sign up, follow the very clear tutorial, and you're away!

It's in the cloud (ie, a server in California) so doesn't take up space on your computer.

I'm using it to create a website for my Hayle bridge photos. I'll post a link when it's online!
 
I've been loading photos onto my embryonic Weebly website, rather amazed that they can host so much data for free.

Coincidentally, today I got an email from Photobucket, who now offer to back up all your photos in the cloud for free! I won't give details since those of you with photobucket accounts will presumably get your own emails. (The details relate to your operating system, Windows, Mac, etc.) It can be set up to automatically back up every image you put in selected folders. (Er, porn..?!)

Something worth thinking about. But what happens if you change your computer or ISP I'm not sure. How long does your data actually stay there? Does this give you a degree of immortality after you die? Or is the data deleted after a certain period of non-use or non-contact? Otherwise, as time goes on, I can imagine an increasing proportion of server space being full of dead people's data. However much space the servers have, surely they'd be overwhelmed after a few decades?

Or is the whole thing a come-on for a paid storage service, a few years down the road? Remember how the early ISPs were free to start with, but now we all have to pay a monthly fee? I may not live long enough to worry about that, however. But it would be nice if my Weebly website remains as my memorial after I'm gone.
 
Yesterday, for the equivalent of about £10, I bought a PNY USB Evolutive stick micro-sd converter, containing a 16gb micro-sd card. I plugged an external DVD drive into my n550, dual-core, netbook and booted up from a copy of the Knoppix 7.0.5 DVD, that I'd downloaded and burned recently. After booting up, I installed the full version of Knoppix to the new 16gb usb stick, complete with a 4gb secure partition.

I rebooted it all, installed non-free flash from thextra 'install components' option in the Knoppix entry and I've been running it ever since. Although the the whole system is now running on Knoppix Linux, the usb stick itself sticks out even less than the little usb connector for the wireless mouse. So far it has all been running v.smoothly., generally faster than the Windows 7 starter installation.

Is this the end for Windows? Shall see how it goes.
 
rynner2 said:
A free and powerful web publisher
http://www.weebly.com/?footer

...

I'm using it to create a website for my Hayle bridge photos. I'll post a link when it's online!
Click to expand...
Phew! I've got most of pics uploaded ('undreds ov 'em!), but I was developing my own style as I did so. So now I have to go through all the earlier pages and modify them. In fact, some of the pics themselves need changes too, so this could be an old-style Painting the Forth Bridge process!

Ho hum! I'll get it published on the web as soon as I can, and then continue to tart it up afterwards.
 
I used to have both Firefox and Explorer open but haven't used Explorer for years. Just now I gave it a go to search for 'how to install a water butt'.

It gave me several pages of adverts for water butts, no instructions though, and then moved smartly on to the Wikipedia page on buttocks. :(
 
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