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[STEED]

Just checked my settings and one section is called MIDI full control its set on..Ask me when a site wants to use system exclusive message to access MIDI audio devices..which is the recommended option. the two other settings are Allow all and Do not allow any sites to use system exclusive message to access MIDI audio devices..I am tempted to use the do not allow as its becoming a pain in the butt.

UPDATE - I just switched it to do not allow, hope that sends that pop up box into the sunset. Will post next week if that pest has been stopped, thanks RR.

[Skybird]

Blinking lights, funny sounds, candy everywhere - don't you know you are expected to LIKE all this fancy stuff?

When I reinstall any system, installation itself is not lasting that long. But it takes an eternity to get all the unwanted options switched off and all those automatic gremlins being killed for sure.

When being able to chose between making notes in a paper notebook, or on a digital device, i always choose the paper thing. Always: its still faster, usually - and much more important: its more reliable. More trustworthy.

Try Thunderbird. And make sure you tune its options to shut the open channels and possible accesses down as much as possible. If it does not carry your handwriting, kill it.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Skybird

When being able to chose between making notes in a paper notebook, or on a digital device, i always choose the paper thing. Always: its still faster, usually - and much more important: its more reliable. More trustworthy.

But what if the batteries go flat in your paper thingie?


Switching to Thunderbird will fix all the flashy e-mail stuff. Wonder why you'd get a MIDI message on Ask Woody? I'll bet it was triggered by something else entirely.

Cell phones are the worst pushers of the blinking lights, funny sounds, eye candy cancer. Takes major amounts of time to shut all that down.

And with the excessive amounts of time it takes to get hundreds of settings in arcane and hard to find places set to your liking and the inability to save all these settings in one place, you need a backup system that saves disk images of your boot drive. That way you restore the image to a new drive and boot it. It is as if nothing had ever happened and you merely continue with all settings, preferences, bookmarks, favorites, display schemes, sound schemes and everything about your computer absolutely unchanged. You don't have to spend all that time restoring the settings you remember and months afterwards fixing the others as they occur.

System backup by disk image is the only method that makes any sense at all! But almost nobody does such a thing.

[s7rikeback]

Originally Posted by STEED

Just checked my settings and one section is called MIDI full control its set on..Ask me when a site wants to use system exclusive message to access MIDI audio devices..which is the recommended option. the two other settings are Allow all and Do not allow any sites to use system exclusive message to access MIDI audio devices..I am tempted to use the do not allow as its becoming a pain in the butt.

UPDATE - I just switched it to do not allow, hope that sends that pop up box into the sunset. Will post next week if that pest has been stopped, thanks RR.

Aaaahh. I remember those days, BT Internet free dial up on 0800 ... How times have changed...

These days, virgin are in town with 250 MB speed (south east Uk)

Fond memories of modems dailing out and waiting for the connection...

[STEED]

This pain in the butt started a couple of weeks ago and today the pop up popped up on websites so I decided to turn off the MIDI in my browser settings and all is well again. Strange all these years I never saw it it until now, anyway normal service is back.