AVG caused a boot failure on Kristen’s machine this afternoon with a “Causeway error 09: Unrecoverable exception – program terminated” error message which caused Win98 to either hang completely or to run incredibly slowly. Looking on google, causeway is a dos extender program written yonks ago. In the end I booted into safe mode and uninstalled avg.Rebooted and the machine is ok. I’m now downloading Bitdefender which I have mentioned in the past but never got round to using…..until now.
Month: November 2003
The langa list pointed to the following text from Microsoft:- The following tool for Windows XP allows image files to be mounted virtually as CD-ROM devices. Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP. For those using RSS readers, the I subscribed the langalist to be an rss feed at mailbucket
I wondered why the installation of Office2k3 didn’t install icons on the desktop, especially with outlook, but apparently it’s because this goes against Windows XP Certification. Adding a desktop icon can be done by adding a key to the registry. Thanks to Outlook-Tips mailing list
Microsoft have brought out a new utility called Tweakomatic that is primarily used for retrieving or configuring Windows and IE settings. It can also be used for configuring various other scripts using WMI interfaces. Although I’ve not used it yet I will be downloading the 258k file.
Reading the BBC web page about Rally stars given driving bans I’m still not clear why they were driving on public roads as part of their practiising. A bit of a pain to have been banned for something like that…as to the story of the guy doing over the limit 7 times, isn’t there something called in law to stop you getting done for the same thing twice (or seven times)?
Another shopper has the misfortune to purchase something at ebuyer and he chronicles his experiences, including the numerous enotes he had to (re)open.
The Windows 2003 and Small Business Server 2003 cd’s arrived in the post today. I’ll probably not get a chance to use them until back from holiday though.
…and now I’m shattered. A great concert on Friday night, but no BlueJacking as there were no phones switched on before,during or after the concert. I did show a couple of other people how its done though. Saturday was a wedding down in Bath, followed by walking around bath Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning taking loads of pictures. Since Friday night we’ve taken over 250 photo’s. That will take some organising and uploading!
I was trying to find this on my work computer after reading about it at home but couldn’t find it anywhere. it’s a 500kb email client. Great for putting on a usb disk (or floppy for those woefully behind the times) and checking email whereever you are. I’ve had a VERY quick play with MemeCode’s Scribe and will use it more when I’m back in the office on Thursday.