I guess I need to tidy up my start menu. I installed another app this evening on the 98 computer and went to find it on the start bar. however, I have the start menu cascading across the screen, 4 levels wide but there are too many apps to fit that the new ones do not appear on the menu! It *really* is time that the software is tidied up. BUT a lot could be said for making the installation of start menu’s in setup programs a lot better.Most of them do not allow you to nest your applications inside existing groups. Sure you can move them afterwards, but then the uninstall programs do not find the moved icons and you end up with a situation like mine!
This is NOT what I call customer service. Streets Online are not going to sell books anymore – fair enough – but to cancel orders that are outstanding seems a bit draconian and certainly not a customer satisfaction move – “Should you have any outstanding orders for books on your account, we will not be able to fulfil them. These orders will be cancelled and you will, of course, not be charged for these books. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause ”
I checked my XP installation last night and was safe (which I should be as I had installed service pack1). However, if you only have a dial up modem and can’t wait for the service pack to come out, then Steve Gibson has a small 30k utility that will replace the affected file with the fixed version.
The register has a link about the security hole in XP which also gives details on how to exploit it. If I were you i’d check your system before someone sends you the url which you don’t realise wipes your hard disk. I’m going to try it on the xp box at home tonight……
Wow – Google must like me – i’m fourth on the list for the search phrase ie6 sp1 me from my post yesterday. I didn’t think Google was that upto date on blogs – at least it wasn’t when I was attempting the Google Challenge 🙂
Kelly writes “the last few weeks i’ve been just completely ripped on any message board i’ve posted on. it’s like everyone takes every word i say as offensive or mean. ugh, what’s the point of sharing your opinion if it means people are just going to take turns beating you up for it?”. It does seem to me that there have been a lot of people, certainly on blogs, who have taken to trolling – going around just being obnoxious on other people’s webpages. I know that on the TampaTantrum web site, they have made a logo for blogroach killer or something along those names – quite apt really! Thankfully I’ve not had to deal with any of that sort of thing on this website, and when i’ve had abusive responses back on the internet newsgroups or similar places, then the killfile is useful, as is remembering that it’s only a webpage and that I can make the choice to go somewhere else and not answer back. Still I do feel for you Kelly as I know its tough!
Since I posted about the freedial site, I have had three visits from them but unfortunately you need a username and password for this website. If anyone knows whats behind this link then let me know please!
use Blogspot plus (I don’t as I have my own server space) then you now have access to a good looking stats package. At the moment no one else has access to it, but they reckon that it will be available to other people later. Looks similar to my own stats package, so I may be able to code my own version to look at something similar 🙂
Our Anti-Virus software picked up on a script that is included with 1st Page 2000 that launches loads of internet windows called JS.WindowBomb. Its been on our server for yonks and it’s only just decided to call this a virus (technically it isn’t – its just malicious code). An online version of this script is available which will do the same thing – if you go to this web page, your anti-virus software will probably complain!
Freedial reckon they can give you asdl for 12.99 a month…….I am sure that is not financially viable….would like to see how long they are going to last and what the catch is (there is no information on the website and another “home” package priced at 30 so whats the difference between the two?)