I wonder if this post is edited on the news group aswell or only on th
online forum @ diybanter?
Sorry about the double post, diybanter is extremely slow sometimes an you don't know if the message has gone through or not
-- wig
I need some foam pads about 3 inches by 2 inches, 3 - 4mm thick. Doubl
sided (strong) sticky. Maybe need 4 inches by 3 inches dunno exact siz I need just yet. Any ideas where I can get some from?
I suppose I could use a bit of foam and cover it with double side sticky tape, any ideas where to get the foam from and which tape is th strongest
-- wig
Who knows? Who cares?
Download a copy of Thunderbird (it's free) from
As your stickypads - WHSmiff, Staples, and the like sell them, in smaller sizes but on a backing sheet and not-quite-separated. You might find art supplies shops will sell bigger ones for more cash.
If you let us know what it is you're hanging, you may get some ideas for alternatives, too.
Stefek
On Tue, 31 May 2005 19:34:47 +0100, Stefek Zaba strung together this:
Not me, diybanter still in the killfile here.
At any stationer you'll get packets of small sticky pads (e.g. Sellotape brand). They're mounted almost gaplessly on sheets that amount to (continuing your use of ye olde units) about 4 inches by 3 inches. It would be very easy to use the whole sheet at once. I think they're about
1 mm thick so you might need several layers, staggered. They are *very* sticky.
I tried this and couldn't get it to accept my program files folder resides on my D drive. Same with Firefox browser.
You can install Thunderbird into any directory but it will by default install your profile and mailbox files into C:\something. I have Thunderbird on D: (my apps disk) and my mailbox files on F: (my data disk)
On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually %AppData%\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\ and the rest should be obvious. On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\ On Linux, the path is usually ~/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/ On Mac OS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Application Support/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/
%AppData% is a shorthand for the Application Data path on Windows
2000/XP. To use it, click Start > Run..., enter %AppData% and press Enter. You will be taken to the "real" folder, which is normally C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data.To move the profile:
- Shut down Thunderbird completely (File > Exit).
- Move the profile folder to the desired location. For example, on Windows, move the profile from C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default to D:\Stuff\MyMailProfile. If you are reading these instructions because you want to restore a previously backed up profile, this step isn't necessary. Just note the current location of the profile you want to restore.
- Open up profiles.ini in a text editor. The file is located in the application data folder for Thunderbird:
- On Windows XP/2000, the path is %AppData%\Thunderbird\
- On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Thunderbird\
- On Linux, the path is ~/.thunderbird/
- On Mac OS X, the path is ~/Library/Application Support/Thunderbird/
- In profiles.ini, locate the entry for the profile you've just moved.
- Change the Path= line to the new location.
- Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0.
- Save profiles.ini and restart Thunderbird.
From the Thunderbird website.
Owain
Yup, I have my message files in a non-standard location (my D drive - in anticiaption for when I have to do a periodic reinstal of windoze)
Yup I did that when I installed T'Bird a couple of weeks ago, and it worked a treat.
Hmmm,
well three people have replied quoting the edited/changed text I made Those three people were all usenet posters. So either my edited tex was posted as a 'reply' to the original, or the post was indeed edite on the usenet news group. - which is interesting if nothing else.
previous poster, if diybanter is in your killfile, how come you saw m posts to reply to it? I have no problem with your killfile, it is you perogative.
Other previous poster, I know how to use newsgroups, I just choose no to, I prefer www based forums. Thanks for your information.
I'm not trying here to be rude or smart aleck with people, this post i intended to be courteous. I was just interested if my usenet post woul be edited
-- wig
Ok I understand the killfile part now, he was replying to quoted tex given by another usenet user
-- wig
Thanks for your suggestion of carpet tape.
Some more information regarding what it is going to be use for.........
I took the ugly spoiler off my Mitsubishi Colt when I bought it. Now am selling the car again, I am wanting to put it back on.
Spoiler was bolted to car and between spoiler and car was a foam cusio
3mm thick, which was double sided sticky-- wig
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:58:33 +0100, The Wanderer strung together this:
I've got Thunderbird on C, D and E for 3 different OS'es. They all use the profile on D so whichever OS I boot into Thunderbird shows me all my messages sent and received from any previous sessions on another OS.
The same goes for Firefox, all bookmarks etc.. are in the profile on D so any OS has the latest set of bookmarks and history.
If as it seems, you are then unable to post with trimmed context, I suggest you do it via a proper newsreader.
Mirror tape. You get it either on rolls (usually about 1" wide) or pads. Just use as many strips/pads you need to get the size of fixing.
You had two original posts visible on usenet - one talking about edits, the other asking the question about sticky pads.
Usenet posts can be cancelled by a followup cancel post sent from the same account (in theory - but not all news servers honour cancel posts). You can't go back and edit an existing post.
Diybanter may let you edit, but as you found out it will simply result in duplicated postings.
Note also that Diybanter does filter the text of postings to remove rude words etc. It took me a while to work out what all these posts talking about ho____er were about ;-) (h o t w a t e r - if spelt out without spaces seems to upset the filter by virtue of the middle four characters!)
Just found out
7.52 Pounds Sterling, from Mitsubishi. I might try to DIY it (with bit of foam), if I fail then I'll buy some-- wig
Yeah, but the stuff that car manufacturers use is in a different league altogether to what you get from W H Smith's. It can hold on heavy rubber door buffer strips, unaided, for 10 years !
However, didn't I see that the spoiler is bolted on "as well as" being stickied ?
Hmmpf, beltand braces if ever I saw it.
Try and source a roll of the double sided foam tape (Badged as "Sellotape" IIRC), enough layers of that should suffice.
DG
Bizarre. In a habit acquired when virus writers were less clued up than they now are, I run without a C: drive altogether. In honour of XP, my system files are on a partition it calls X:, D: holds date, E: is swapEE, F: is Fragephera (temp files and so on). I've never had the least problem during Mozilla, Firefox, or Thunderbird installation telling them to put their binaries over in D:\winapps - to which, moreover, my 'ordinary' user account has read, but not write, access (I run only the installer from an Admin-privileged account); nor to tell them, after the first install, to put cache and profile directories where *I* want them.
There *are* apps which need more fettling to be told about this vague approximation to 'least privilege' working. Unsurprisingly, MS Office is one such: whenever I've installed as God but run as Mortal, I've had 3-4 popups each time I open an Ossif document saying 'I'm gonna get some Help files just for you from my Install Directory. Ooh, where's that? D'you have the Office CD to hand, mortal dear?' - which I dismiss. Usually by the time it's tried to do this 3-4 times it's lost all heart, and brings up a document-free app window, requiring me to manually Open the document I want. Workaround is to elevate privs of Mortal user to God, let Ossif do its user-specific config, then drop privs back down to Mortal. (Thanks again, MS, for being too smart to learn the basic ideas from operating systems of 30 years ago.)
Stefek
It installed okay but then seemed not to recognise things it needed that were on the C drive - modem driver I think it was. I'll have another go since it appears several other people here have got it to work as well.
What do you mean - trimmed context - Do you mean what I have just done snip , snip? I can do that as you have just seen. It is m understanding that many people want to see the previous information. It maybe that some prefer it all to be there, some prefer it to b snipped, and yet more would prefer it if it were all deleted. It i the same as the age old arguement of whether to top post or botto post. You can please some of the people some of the time but you can' please all of the people all of the time.
I'm afraid I'm from the school of "I don't care" that is to say don't care how others post, I will read what they have to say no matte how they have decided to present it. and I don't push my views on ho things should be done onto others. And I don't care in this instanc about whether people post via a "www forum" or using a newsreader t the newsgroup directly.
So as I said b4 I know how to post via a newsreader, but I prefer no to
-- wig
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