From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Timothy Wynn via groups.io
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic #ficsearch

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On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 09:20 AM, Riothamus Pendragon wrote:

if anyone has HTML, epub, or mobi

See attached.

> On 4/26/2022 2:24 PM, Alex Cherry wrote:
>>
>>
>> Cloud storage has its place - data centers offers layers of resiliency
>> and redundancy and availability that almost no organization can match -
>> but it's not the right solution for everyone. People often forget that
>> "The Cloud" means "other people's computers in other people's data
>> centers". For those of you hosting a server at home using something
>> like NextCloud instead of Dropbox, that's still "the cloud" - you just
>> happen to own and manage the computers and data centers. It's a
>> marketing term.
>>
> I admit I probably would have used cloud storage for my homework 20
> years ago when I was in school.
> In fact I essentially did once I got access to dial-up in late '97.
> What's the difference between using cloud storage and e-mailing a copy
> of my homework to my web-based e-mail account that I can access from
> either home or school in case I make the stupid mistake of leaving the
> homework on the printer and the disk ejected in the drive again?
> (Yes, that happened a few times too many, especially when i was up late
> finishing an assignment and would print it, eject the disk, turn off the
> computer and goto bed. Then forget to take the disk and paper in the
> morning when I'm rushing to goto school because I hit the snooze button
> too many times because I was up too late doing homework and couldn't
> wake up.)
>
> However, I wouldn't trust it as my primary backup location or for
> information I'd really want to keep private. I'd use media under my
> control like diskettes, ZIP disks, CDs, DVDs, flash drives, and external
> portable drives as my backup medium.
> Cloud storage can be snooped by the company that owns it, and they can
> also take it away or delete it for whatever reason or no reason.
>
> Also the issue with Windows 10's forced updates isn't so much the forced
> updates (although the computer grinding to a halt and going at a snail's
> pace or at 486 speeds is annoying) but the forced restarts on
> Microsoft's schedule. You used to have the option "Notify me of updates
> but let me choose when to download them" so Microsoft Update isn't
> hogging your bandwith when you're trying to stream a video or download
> that 35gb game of your own. Even the alternate "Download the updates but
> let me choose when to install them" would have been acceptable. It's
> that those two options that have been available since Windows XP were
> taken away so the only option is "automatically install updates and
> force the computer to reboot whenever Microsoft wants even if you're
> trying to do something with your computer that restarting will make you
> lose your work" or "turn off updates until you tell it to check for
> updates, then we'll reset your settings so it goes back to autocratic
> updates".
> In short, if they had left the alternate options to the automatic
> updates, people would complain less. Just having a prompt whenever you
> tried to turn the computer off or put it to sleep would work "You have
> updates waiting to be downloaded. Would you like to have the computer
> automatically download and install those updates, then shut off your
> computer, or do you need to shut the laptop off now so you can unplug it
> and take it home?" would have worked. Periodically putting a prompt
> nagging you about updates in the notification area would have been less
> rage inducing than the forced restart.
>
>
>
>
>

Or grab a copy of FormatFactory and convert pretty much anything to anything.

> On 04/29/2022 6:08 PM SlickRCBD <slickrcbdalerts@...> wrote:
>
> PSA: If you want to convert between ebook formats, try a program called
> Calibre. It can convert between all these formats and more: doc, epubs,
> .mobi, .lit, .htm[l], .txt, or .PDF.
>
> Available for the "big three" of Windows, Mac, and Linux

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On 04/29/2022 7:26 PM Ariel Schnee <arielschnee3@...> wrote:

"Or grab a copy of FormatFactory and convert pretty much anything to anything."

Does that work on XP?Pro SP3 (32-bit) OS?

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