The New French Forum

I had a Gateway PC, which I bought in 1996 and used for about five years. I was sorry to see the firm go bust. Evidently the name was bought by Acer and Gateway has now been relaunched in the form of laptops. At the moment they are only available from Walmart. If they are now as well made as their original namesakes maybe they could become a...

300 years of

Anybody seen it ?

I've uploaded a photo (the same one used for my CdS) and according to the gov website it tells me

Error:Your photo needs to be between 50kb and 10mb The size of my photo is 41.6 KB (42,698 bytes)

Is there an easy way to change the photo to fit their calibre. I don't really understand how or if I can do this

Thanks

I'm having quite a few problems with my phone, a Samsung A50 which I've only had for a year. Photographs aren't crisp and it doesn't even save the attestation unless I rotate the screen, even then it's not a simple task. Tonight I tried to submit a form but couldn't manage to do that.

I wondered if I'm using the wrong web browsers, chrome and...

I remember a project whereby I loaned/shared my computer time (when I was not using it) to science to help a science group work out how protiens folded. Now AI has come up with a great advance in this field.

Has anyone used one?

I'm probably the only bloke who has never heard of doing this but:-
This effing old laptop has been getting more and more cranky lately, can't find this and that website, that address is a mystery etc.
I've done all the usual things with the cache, C-cleaner, the router, the extenders until I'm blue in the face so went looking for something else....

Sorry to bring this up. Following a previous query I worked out ( thanks to Elsie?) how to block unwanted emails in my Orange system. I have recently been getting loads of spam from mainly 2 sources (registration@facebookmail.com and news@lesservicedesastuces.fr). Both of these are on my blocked list but get through somehow. Any ideas?

Is there such a thing as a payg data sim only deal? I have a contract SFR SIM in my mobile with 40 gig a month which is great but I'm looking for a data only sim for my pad which I can top up when needed but not lose at the end of the usual 30 day period.

I've done a Google search (just in case FrenchForumSurvivor decides to ask if my internet is...

What happens when Flash is no longer supported, ie by the end of 2020? Will sites which have Flash content on them be inaccessible? I'm running Firefox 82.0.3

Apparently there is a big backlog of TV license refunds, I am considering it also, the only requirement for a license is watching Live TV or Iplayer, if you always watch VOD non Iplayer, you do not need a license, I dont feel the need to pay for government propoganda currently.......views anyone?

JD

Why has mine gone away; Is it because I havnt been on for a few months I liked it and want t back :cry: :cry:

Sometimes I need a little push to get rid of piles of paper, discussions about the French electrical code, manuals, application notes, computer magazines, everything within reach. I started yesterday after visiting Ed Bott's home office . Data storage with a RAID level x/y/z protected disk array should of course be one of the answers. The only...

I get emails which aren't addressed to me. The first part of my email address is correct but the rest ( surname, internet provider) is not. How do these get through when if I try send an email and the address has the slightest error it will not go? :?:

Got a new smartphone on Thursday the chappy in Leclerc said he'd set it up for me ie my Leclerc very old tiny mobile number transferred to my new phone. Get home and didn't check it out till Friday and guess what my SIM is a standard size new phone needs a nano! Can't go back to Leclerc as it's now lockdown and I can't travel over the border into...

I know I could buy a syringe and spend hours squirting ink all over the place, but as I'm ham fisted I'd rather buy ready made ink cartridges. Can anybody please let me have the contact details of a French or Brit company which supplies mail order printer cartridges? I need replacement cartridges for our Canon Prima TS 3150 and have a horrible...

In the beginning of the first lockdown the PDG of Orange Telecom , Stéphane Richard, was worried but at the same time optimistic. Yes, we can handle the extra demand in our telecom networks here in France. They had to limit the bandwidth for HD video content, but the internet kept going. With the second lockdown the same questions pop up: working...

A bit disturbing......

Glanced in my spam folder and saw a mail from a north@chilldudeclothingco.com and the contents of the first line (no, I did not open it)

123456 - I know 123456 Is one of your password on day of hack... Lets go directly to the point Not one person has paid me to check you. You do not know m...

123456 is not the password...

Thought it might be an idea to start a topic on this............

Everyone should be using 2FA these days

What is 2FA

Why SMS 2FA is a bad idea

What is hardware 2FA

Googles own hardware 2FA

Never use the same password on multiple accounts or logins

More reading on 2FA

Watching France 3 Le Grand Slam as we have been for months, and if I am not mistaken, has Artur been knocked out tonight? He’s the super champ and won stacks of money

JD

I had just ordered a load of ink cartridges and then the printer broke down.

So is there a way to extract ink from the unused cartridges and top up the new printer cartridges? I did try today, using an old needle and syringe but it didn't work.

The new printer has different sized cartridges.

Any tips please cos it's an awful lot of ink to waste.

I think my internet connection from sosh will be approaching 1 year in Dec, I think the price rises after that, what do people do, approach the existing supplier for a further discount, or leave and transfer elsewhere on another deal? Sosh is just an orange rebadger, I have a live box and orange account. I’m a bit reluctant to renew at higher...

Just spotted this.....

Solar Powered Security Camera, SDETER 1080P Wireless WiFi Battery Cameras, Radar Motion Detection Night Vision IP CCTV Outdoor Cam with Removable Solar Panel

I have no idea what it’s like, but I know some of you were looking for one to keep an eye on animals at night, seems to require just an app on the phone to monitor,...

What is it that isn't happening or doing its job when you type but what you type does not appear on the screen straight away but after a second or so & then sometimes blocks for longer periods, I dont type fast but this is getting ridiculous and makes my frequent typos even harder to see.

I thought it might be tenants/renters using all the ADSL...