Kristen wants X-Files Series 1 on DVD for Christmas, which so far seems to be the cheapest at for £70!!!. Any other places to look?

Argggh! Now that I’ve made the decision to go for my MCSE (as it looks like you practically have to have this now to get a job) Microsoft have announced that they are going to do a different MCSE for .NET according to the MCP magazine online.

New photos from the holiday in the States online in the album section

I won again – this time a copy of the Full Monty on DVD….still no sign of a winning car though 🙁

After deciding that I really *needed* a dell pocketpc and then finding out that there was a two week shipping delay on getting one (when I only had two days left on holiday in the states) I got back to the UK and read the computer magazines. Apparently we have to wait until February until the same model is available over here, and I reckon it will probably be the same price in pounds as it is in dollars over there – grrrrrr
On other USA/UK timescales, it was interesting to see that the IceAge film had not yet been released to dvd/video until last Monday, yet we had seen it two weeks previously over here. If you’ve not seen it yet – then rent it as it is extremely funny. The trailers in the cinema looked pants but it really is worth watching.

For the techies amongst you who run ad-aware programs and have had the misfortune to also download the Common Name Toolbar or CNBabe scumware, then apparently you should only use Search and Destroy to remove this due to the change to winsock programs that the scumware make but only Search and Destroy can fix. I’ve done a quick search on google this morning but not been able to find any more details about this at the moment. I guess it could be too new to have hit google yet.
Thanks SpywareInfo.com

BTOpenworld have clamped down on its users who are running a mail server on their dialup networks. No longer can you receive smtp email if you are dialed up with BT – bet that breaks a few peoples servers. They claim this is to stop peoples servers from being a relay, but if you are clever enough to install a mail server, I would hope they are clever enough to stop relaying on the mail server (and I’d imagine clever enough to change the port from port25 to something else!) Having said that – someone I work with has installed a mail server on the internet and then reckoned the blacklist warning email they received from MAPS (or similar) was a spam mail to get some business and therefore ignored it!

Found out (finally) how to stop Windows 2000 from thinking its working offline when it can not see a non-existant server anymore. I’ve spent ages trying to delete the server from the offline-folder files (where it doesn’t even appear in the first place) and have finally found out that if you do a ctrl-shift and press the delete files button it clears ALL files from the offline folders and enables you to start again from scratch.
Still no idea why explorer crashes with an access denied message every second launch though 🙁

I was able to get StyleXP working on my XP box this morning after downloading the latest version. No more problems with it telling me that it only works on the version of XP that I am actually using. I got a response back from their tech support the same day i questioned it, but I was not here to read it!