Mandrake Update had 82 packages that needed fixing totalling 352mb. Now Microsoft get slammed for having lots of patches and download quantities but I don’t think they’ve released that many patches in the time that Mandrake 9.1 has been installed and certainly not that big either. AND Microsoft service packs are often found on magazine cover disks saving the download. (I just hope I can find where these patches have been downloaded to so I can reinstall from them at a later date if I need to.)
Month: September 2003
You know how annoying it is when you drop the toast and it lands butter side down on the floor on your foot? Well think yourself lucky you don’t work for Lockheed Martin and have butterfingers as I think even your steel capped shoes would not help much when you drop a satellite on the floor. Thanks Reflective Reality
I received this warning in an email this morning:-
“There is an advisory out warning dog owners of an unknown assailant shooting dogs in their own yards. Police have advised dog owners to keep their pets indoors as much as possible and under close supervision when let outdoors.”
See below for a police sketch of the suspect.
DNS Stuff has a lot of useful tools for performing various dns lookups.
Angela and Mike took some really neat photos of some chalk drawings on I670. Thanks for posting these Angela!
Mandrake 9.1 went on the laptop yesterday after 3 attempts. The install would just hang half way through. The second install I told it to show me the details of what it was doing as it progressed and I found it was failing to read the cd when installing the zip package, so the third time I didn’t tell it to install zip and it worked …….
Yes I know its not *my* browser of choice anymore, but it is what corporate users need to use and rather than download the files each time I wanted to save a copy to my hard disk. Unfortunately this option is not available from the main Microsoft web site but following the instructions at ZenVendor.com did the trick.
Found an excellent site, Darkage – home of FastPush which enables you to roll out winvnc in its various flavours, realvnc, tridiavnc,tightvnc,ultravnc from your local nt4/xp/w2k machine to other machines on the network. This way you can be sure that each machine is set up in exactly the same way with the same password (assuming you want this of course!) AND you don’t have to visit each machine.
The Toshiba Satellite Pro, 6100 only has a few pre-defined boot order sequences.If I want to have the option to boot from CD but don’t necessarily have a bootable cd in the drive, it will insist on also trying to boot via the lan (which is VERY unlikely to work as I don’t have any boot servers at home or at work so I have to wait for the timeout or press any key. OR I can boot from hard disk all the time and go into the bios if I ever want to boot from cd which is a right pain in the neck. However, the online help says pressing F12 will give me a boot menu (it doesn’t) or pressing C will boot from the CD (it doesn’t). BUT if I press F12 AND C – it boots from CD! And I was meant to work that one out for myself??????Update Actually I’ve found out that pressing the C key until the icons appear and then letting go will boot from CD, likewise pressing F12 until the icons appear and letting go will allow me to navigate through the icons.
Pipex support sent me a reply to an email I sent them 19 days ago. In it they wrote “Dear Customer:
Thank you for your email. Please accept our apologies for the delay in replying. Are you still having the same problem or has it been resolved? Please advise either by replying to this email or by
calling us on the number below.”
I wonder if it will take them another 19 days to read the follow up email I sent to say it was fixed on the same day and another 19 to reply to the snotty email I just posted saying this is a really poor level of response (and its not the first time either).