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I wonder what anyone thinks of Yandex; I like that they don't require a mobile number.
That looks like a link to a mobile-based email service, which is apparently not "secure" in the same context as this thread (is it?).
Good point about 'not secure', which is why I combine it with Tor. What does 'mobile-based' mean, please? I do need it to be cellphone-free and workable with Tor, which it is, and I appreciate your comments very much. PS - I see that Yandex comes in at the #2 spot in About.com's Top 10 Free Email Services for 2016.

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I wonder what anyone thinks of Yandex; I like that they don't require a mobile number.

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My deepest sympathies to you for Tinkerbell, CleverCat. I grew up with cats and dogs, but spent my adult life with cats. If you ever want to try for another kitty, when you put her outside for the first couple weeks -or months-, every time she goes out, put her in an all-wire (maximum x-y-z visibility) cage big enough to take a step inside of; she'll be all ears, eyes, and nose in every direction, but be restricted so she can learn the dangers through her senses before being exposed to or entering into their domain and danger zone, and also orient herself to her own territory. I've done this, so I put great faith in this method. For the road out front, sit beside the cage with a slap stick of two flat thin boards to make an artificial 'bang' when vehicles go past, to startle her and build a healthy mental association-aversion reflex. Again my deepest and most sincere sympathy and condolences. PS - I posted this under the assumption you have a solid 2-meter high fenced back and side yard, and that the neighbor's dogs don't ever run loose; otherwise, all bets are off. BTW, I once had a pint-size kitten leap almost straight up and attain the top of a 2-meter wooden board fence and hook her little paws over the top; hence, the cage training regimen approach, which worked quite well in teaching her to beware of unfamiliar dangers, and not to wander. Another 'feline survival tactic' is to set up many escape routes and narrow access barricades on your property which only a cat should be able to take advantage of; trees, porch crawl spaces, escape holes, and so on.

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Living Room / Re: Nash the sled dog - his glorious life and death
« on: March 13, 2016, 02:49 PM »
I wanted to mention the beauty of team spirit shown by Nash and his team mates. Lions also work together intelligently, as do wolves and killer whales, but it is to kill. People work together, but may customarily downplay their sense of camaraderie, except when overtly playing it up for obvious social reasons. But when you see these dogs work together, it is not to kill, and not to pose for cameras. No, they show a purity of team spirit in a unique way that I can't help but admire. 

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Living Room / Nash the sled dog - his glorious life and death
« on: March 13, 2016, 10:21 AM »
Snowmobiler attacks 2 teams at Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, kills 1 dog
"A man on a snowmobile purposely drove into two dog teams competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Saturday morning, killing one dog and injuring at least three others, officials said. Mushers Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King were attacked outside the village of Nulato, a community of 236 on the Yukon River a little more than halfway into the 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) race to Nome. A suspect has been identified by a village police officer. Nash, a 3-year-old male, was killed. Crosby, another 3-year-old male, and Banjo, a 2-year-old male, received injuries and are expected to survive."

Iditarod 2016: Jeff King describes violent encounter with a snowmachine


Jeff King sings to puppy Nash

Iditarod Team Attacked By Snow Mobile, 1 Dog Is Killed

Loved by all whom he adored in return, Nash died doing what he loved most, struck down while on the run and living the only life he knew as a sled dog of the far North, a canine team player with an irrepressible zest for life.

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop
« on: March 09, 2016, 04:07 AM »
The hard drives are different incompatible sizes.

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Living Room / Re: Funny, Strange, and Confusing Error Messages
« on: March 08, 2016, 04:15 PM »
I think this definitely qualifies--

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop
« on: March 07, 2016, 09:43 PM »
Thank you everyone. I need to mention I've been pretty sick lately, but can't say more. I'm taking it one day at a time.
Looking things over at ebay, I think it might be about as cheap to just get another complete used but serviceable Gateway TA-6 or -7 laptop; as to get just a new or used SSD for this one. I also see a few other models, MA-6, and so on. Then I'm not just acquiring a backup laptop HD, but the whole gizmo. The only other concern I have for now is that our microwave oven just died, and I had to reprioratize and order a new one, and put all my laptop ideas on the back burner for a little while.

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Living Room / Re: feline ear mites
« on: March 07, 2016, 09:38 PM »
Amazing. I must definitely look into this, and thank you!

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Living Room / microwave oven recommendations?
« on: March 05, 2016, 09:04 PM »
I am seeking recommendations for an affordable brand of microwave oven, in the approximately 0.9 cubic foot size, please. As can be seen on youtube, it's a confusing medley of choices, and I highly respect the opinions of DCers. 

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Living Room / Re: feline ear mites
« on: March 05, 2016, 07:17 PM »
Sorry, I only just got around to reading this now, otherwise I would have commented sooner.
The best approach is thus to treat the cat's fur and ears with an insecticide that kills fleas/mites - and one that comes to mind that I successfully used on dogs and cats as kennel-boy was derris powder - also freely available for use as an insecticide on food and other plants. It was very effective and relatively harmless - e.g., not as toxic as some of the insecticides animals are treated with today, and which can really knock their livers for six, leading to a premature death (liver failure or cancer).
I found this on ebay; and this at amazon. Where can I get it, or what do I look for precisely, please?

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop
« on: March 05, 2016, 06:54 PM »
I wanted a backup copy of my laptop HD OS.
it's getting late here, but I think one of these would be the most practical:
# image backup of OS + boot CD (or USB) via same software, for restoring to your current OS drive (or a replacement of same)
# as you are trying to do in quoted post: copy onto a drive with which you can replace the current OS drive (as Shades says, you would have to remove current drive and replace with copy)
Hmm; #1 option above; boot from a CD, and somehow copy the backup OS from the external SATA USB to a new internal SSD. The big question to me is, if an OS clone won't boot from an external SATA USB, how do I know if it will boot from the cloned backup OS after I re-copy it onto a new internal SSD? I would feel a lot more confident if it would at least give me a bootable OS on the external SATA USB drive, which is only intended to act as a 'spare tire' if or when my current internal 8 or 10 year old hand-me-down laptop's SSD ever dies.

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop
« on: March 05, 2016, 06:42 PM »
External devices are ideal for simply creating a backup rather quickly...but using it as a boot device? Only for (re-)installing the operating system, nothing more.
Thank you, Shades and Tomos. Yes, the above quote is exactly what I am aiming for.

I read that SSD HDs give no warning when they brick, and as mentioned, my laptop SSD is already quite old. I appreciate your water hose analogy, and offer another; a spare tire. If my SSD dies, I was hoping to be able to just boot from the external SATA USB, go online to get me a replacement SSD, re-copy the SATA USB clone onto the new internal SSD, and continue to reserve the external SATA as a backup spare copy of the OS.

The BIOS does offer the Boot options to boot from external USB hard drive, thumb drive, or disk. But so far, although I copied the OS to the external SATA USB HD, it just won't boot from it. So if my internal SSD ever dies, how am I supposed to save my OS which is loaded with the accumulated sum total of untold hours and days of hard work?

I did see where Seagate offers a sort of 'kit' consisting of a new SSD plus the necessary peripherals to clone your OS from your old internal SSD somehow, but forget the details, and don't have the money to get it (for now anyways). I also got burned by Seagate a while back with a whiny new HD which I returned to them, and they returned to me, and which eventually died prematurely just outside of warranty after a whiny abbreviated lifespan; so I'm not prejudiced, but they did burn me once.

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop
« on: March 05, 2016, 07:46 AM »
Using EASE US Partition Master, I deleted all old partitions on my external HD in a USB case, wiped the drive, and then clone-copied the laptop drive to the external drive.
Result; fail to boot from external HD OS clone.

I ran Lazesoft boot recovery tool to create a bootable recovery CD, and ran it.
Result; fail to boot from external HD OS clone.

I wanted a backup copy of my laptop HD OS. At least I didn't screw up the laptop.

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Living Room / Re: feline ear mites
« on: March 05, 2016, 07:41 AM »
I put my two round brushes (mine have plastic handles) in the double boiler and steamed them for 10 minutes. The brushes were not damaged. I brushed the kitty yesterday with one of the brushes, and today, she did not come down with an aggravated case of ear mite infection, as has invariably happened before. So my new method of sterilizing the brushes from ear mites and ear mite eggs is a success; 10 minutes of steam in a double boiler.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« on: March 04, 2016, 01:43 AM »
[ Invalid Attachment ]
BYTE # 1 cover
Computers: The worlds greatest toy!
Very nice.

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Living Room / Re: feline ear mites
« on: March 03, 2016, 06:03 AM »
Possible answers if I want to save my expensive hair brushes; (steel or metal combs would be difficult to use on a longhair tabby with matted or tangled fur):
How to Sterilize a Hairbrush: immerse brush in solution of 1 tablespoon chlorine bleach per 1 gallon or sinkful of water for 5 minutes, then rinse.

How to Sterilize Bottles: in a double boiler, allow the bottles or brushes to steam for 5 minutes.

If I had to guess, I would think hardy feline ear mite eggs might take more time, just not sure how much more time. I wonder if a steam treatment with water that has the proper proportion of 1 tbl chlorine bleach to 1 gal water in it (with adequate ventilation of the kitchen or mad scientist's laboratory) might be even more effective.

I am very annoyed at the cat forum I posted this same question at, in their cat health subforum, for mindlessly deleting my post; my sincere appreciation to Donation Coder forum, which has no such problem.

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Living Room / Re: feline ear mites
« on: March 02, 2016, 08:27 AM »
What if I steam the brushes in a double boiler?

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)
« on: February 27, 2016, 04:34 PM »
Alternate video of Leopard erroneously labels it a cheetah;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrzcUz1n130
Full video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WuMnPixpw

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Living Room / feline ear mites
« on: February 27, 2016, 04:22 PM »
My kitty's round hair brush seems to be a vector for ear mites. Will dipping or soaking it in rubbing alcohol kill feline ear mites and ear mite eggs? Or what's a good safe brush treatment?

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General Software Discussion / Re: malware or ? #1454789523
« on: February 24, 2016, 10:00 PM »
@holt, did you install the recommended patch?
(https://helpx.adobe....ated-every-user.html via Dirhael's link above)
Somehow I missed that. Got it. Thanks tomos!

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General Software Discussion / Re: malware or ? #1454789523
« on: February 23, 2016, 11:29 PM »
Every time I click on any .pdf file, WinPatrol immediately pops up with a random number string that is a mystery program it says is asking to be added to the Start menu; it's definitely Adobe-related. So I just click on 'reject' and it goes away and quits bugging me; but you have to disable the above-mentioned Adobe software -AdobeARM or Adobe Speed Launcher- from the Start menu to prevent it bugging you on a daily basis. Once again, many thanks to everyone who helped me so patiently, and especially to Dirhael.

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General Software Discussion / Re: hulu & tor
« on: February 17, 2016, 02:37 AM »
Does VPS block your own ISP from seeing where you go online?

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