There’s a new pdf creator program available at webattack, (which is shortly changing its name to snapfiles) that sounds fairly good. You just install it and you have a printer that “prints” pdf files. Go2PDF is free although it does put a “made with” sig at the bottom of the pdf. Personally I use Jaws PDF Creator which came free on a cover magazine and works great.
Month: November 2003
We’ve now started to get alerts that Mimail infected emails are coming in. Fortunately we’re detecting and deleting the attachments but I’m hoping it doesn’t eat too much of our bandwidth up. In the meantime the status of the threats can be seen at Symantec Security Response. When will these infected people learn?
5 months ago yesterday I requested a Windows 2003 Eval Kit and its still not arrived. I’ve requested another one.
As I’ve had a number of requests on how to reset the compaq Evo T20 I thought I’d post the answer here to make it faster and easier for people.
Just hold the g key down as you turn on the unit and keep the key held down until the unit asks you to set it up.
If you use this information I would appreciate it if you drop me an email me just so I have a rough idea of how useful this is to people.
I wasn’t sure whether posting this information is too much of a vulnerability disclosure and technically I guess its getting around the encryption of a device and thereby violates the DCMA? However the information is/was freely available by ringing up compaq – once you’ve worked out what number to ring AND managed to get hold of someone who knows what you are talking about.
Thanks to a tip off from Kase it is possible to use a Microsoft page to search security and hotfixes to see what patches are available for a particular product/platform.
I tried to subscribe the LangaList to mailbucket’s email to rss utility but the utility unfortunately strips out the reply-to field so I can’t reply to the confirmation email required to actually sign up. Shame really as this would be nice as a low traffice rss feed.
tBLOG is a new site/service that provides you with hosting for a blog. It looks similar in style to blogger/blogspot but there are no adverts that I could see and they also provide RSS 1.0 feeds of the blogs. Looking at the front page I’m not sure how professional the service is as the comment “We know banners are a bother, but at tBLOG our traffic is your traffic, so deal with it.” doesn’t look very encouraging for helpful responses from technical support! From what I’ve seen doing a quick search of the blog there are a lot of female teenagers blogging on there – a completely different circle to the usual blogs that I read.
A new version of Messenger Plus is out. I’m not sure whether it still contains the alleged spyware/adware/whateveryouwannacallitware in the build as i’ve not read the history/readme information yet.
Just finished reading Holes by Louis Sachar. Its a good book and quick to read. I found it hard going to start with as all the sentences are so short that the story seems to stutter, but after a few pages/chapters you get the hang of it. Its a very addictive read and only takes a couple of hours. I’d never heard of the story even though it’s just been released as a film and was one of the books featured in the Big Read. We’ll probably go and see the film in the next couple of weeks.
I think I’m getting a bit closer in my hunt to work out why the computer seems to spontaneously combustreboot when I am doing certain things. A lot of the time it seems random but there are certain things I do that make it reboot. Viewing a certain gif file in a certain package, or going to www.merzo.net in Phoenix. The quick answer of course is to stop doing those things. However I logged on as a new user on the w2k box, went to the merzo site and it didn’t reboot. Therefore I think its a corrupt w2k profile that is causing problems. I tried creating a new Phoenix profile in the normal w2k profile but this didn’t solve the problem. Incidentally the Merzo website has some pretty cool artwork on it and when you move the mouse over the pictures something happens.