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For Joomla sites try using Akeeba for backups and restore. It’s free.

And don’t upgrade Joomla to v3 yet – use 2.5 as it’s the stable version.

DK

I had some O365 woes this week too.

I installed an O365 trial on Monday on top of O2003 and some O2007 components. It basically broke all of the Office 2003/2007 programs (and Libre Office which I have as a standby) and the online uninstall didn’t work either – then NONE of the Office products would start. Like you, everything try to start O2103 versions and all failed.

I had to uninstall 2003 totally then run a standlone O365 uninstaller – which took 15 mins. I reinstalled O365 and it’s OK now, plus reinstalled Libre4 and that works.

DK

Windows 7 by a mile.

The main reason I loved it at first was the Snap to screen function but it has proved to be better than XP all round – faster, smarter, easier.

I might try W8.1 (having used the trial W8 for a year and reverting to W7 at the end) but for now, familiarity is more productive than Metro.

Microsoft took a chance on Metro and it backfired for the first year. Underneath I suspect W8 is the best OS.

DK

Hey Bruce, thanks for the tip – I hand’t heard of this before.

I’ve had a look and a go and it’s certainly a fascinating search engine.

My task is complicated as it is an Italian word I’m searching about which can be a verb and a noun…. could be a tough ask this one!

Cheers

Google Books Ngram Viewer searches books rather than the web, but it does deal with relative frequencies of words over time:

When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., “British English”, “English Fiction”, “French”) over the selected years.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/info

Bruce

Thanks BATcher, I’m sure you’re correct, it’s just not practical.

Wayback keeps images of websites but nothing searchable.

Cheers anyway.

PS Where about in the SW are you? I come from Exeter – is that cultural these days? I haven’t lived there since 1978!

You might like to consider just how much data exists at any point in time on “the web”. At the end of 2010, someone wrote “Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it!”

Just how many copies of this data would you be able to make before you ran out of all the hard disks in the world?

Have a look at this Wikipedia article about the Wayback Machine.

It would also be useful if anyone could comment on whether they think it is possible or not…

I can’t think of a way to search the web from a year ago – I don’t believe anyone records a (searchable) snapshot of the web at regular intervals … unless Google do it?

Thanks

Try using speedtester.bt.com as that gives more information than a basic speedtest.
Note: The above link will only work for broadband users in the UK that are using BT or their resellers as their ISP.

Thanks Browni, I’ll try this when I’m on site next week and let you know.

I think the big question is whether the powerline and the WLAN are really the cause for the 1-2 mbps. Have you measured the speed internally, at those times? Isn’t the internet connection really the limiting factor? Mbit/s is really not much, these days. If there are many people accessing the internet at the same time, 2 MBit/s doesn’t look too bad, if you started from 8 Mbit/s.

I’m not sure if it’s just the connection speed. 8mbps is the max I can get here as it’s not close to an exchange – it’s UK ADSL from Virgin.

I’ll do some speed tests straight off the router and see if that is different to how it is behind the Powerlines/WLAN. Thanks for the prompt to try that.

DK

Thanks roderunner. I’ll do some tests on the MTU, it’s not something I’ve paid attention to before as I didn’t realise it could have a large effect.

This happened to me last week. I turned off the Norton firewall and it started working. It even stopped me pinging the machine running Norton.

I haven’t re-enabled yet but assume I will be adding an exclusion to Norton.

Cheers,
DK

Hi again,

I’ve got access to this Pc again now and I did forget to display Hidden Devices the first time – thanks for the reminder Joe – and yes, it DID show the Kyocera as a printer in Device Manager, however it stubbornly refuses to show up in the list of Printers, only as a Scanner – so I can’t print to it.

I’m still flummoxed!

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I have removed it from Device Manager and re-scanned … same issue, Windows only thinks it’s a scanner, albeit the correct model.

I’ve seen this before a few years ago on XP, and I ended up junking the MFP as I couldn’t resolve it. I was hoping there would be more diagnostics in Win7 , or was more resilient to driver issues – or at least a way to prove it has a hardware fault so I don’t waste much more time on it.

Thanks

Yes I did.
I downloaded the latest All-in-one driver (ClassicUniversalPCLcertified.zip) for Win7 from here
http://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk/index/products/download_centre.false.driver.FS1028MFP._.EN.htmlbut Windows refuses to see it as a printer any more. Being a USB device it should just be seen as an MFP.

I was wondering it is a hardware fault with the unit?

Thanks

I’ve used WD drives before and yesterday was asked to set up Backups on a My Book. Having obtained the password and accessed the drive I reminded myself just how bad their software is as it took hours to complete a small backup with no indication of progress. Having found the ‘Detailed View’ button I realised it was not backing up email and Sage files – the core of the users’s business.

My intention is to keep the installed software as it protects the disk from unauthorised access via a password, then simply use different software to run the backups – my first choices are Karenware’s Replicator or Syncback.

DK

That’s a good thought Browni – I don’t have access to the Pc yet (it’s remote) but I have used the Print Server Properties button to set up this OKI printer. If it’s that simple, that’s great, and there’s no problem.
Have you seen this before?
I hadn’t haven’t noticed it in Win 7.

Cheers

DK