How to make your password really secure:- Use the pound sign (£) character and then go use a pc with an american keyboard which doesn’t have the pound sign – then try to login…… 🙂
What a weekend! A friend rang me up yesterday to say their pc had crashed. On further investigation the entire windows\systems\iosubsys directory was missing. Took the pc home to fix. Ran scandisk and it found 35000 files with corrupt links and only 1 copy of the FAT on disk. Ran scandisk on it and it wiped out the windows directory and program files directory….I really hope he didn’t have any data in those directories as I know he didn’t have a backup! Fortunately my documents is ok and I’ve copied that off onto another disk. The machine is a Siemens Fujistu – the model that had loads of hard disk problems, so the disk will probably get returned in an RMA. In the meantime I’m having to copy the files across onto another from dos, a directory at a time and make a note of what directories did or didn’t copy. Then its a reinstall using the system disk and then install all the applications……AND someone else wants me to setup and configure their brand new pc this weekend too!
The BBC news is reporting a woman who racked up £28,000 of parking tickets over three years. Why they just didn’t do what they do in the States and tow the car(s) away I don’t know….wait – yes I do. They wouldnt have been able to claim £28000 worth of tickets! Apparently the annual carpark pass is £1800 so she would have saved a lot of money. Not sure why she had three cars though!
OK, I got the RSS feed to include a link to comment now. Unfortunately it doesn’t contain the number of comments in the post, but at least you can leave your own comment! In order to do it, I needed to do the following:-
First of all I needed to include the comment tags within the RSS field. Therefore the /span tag needs to be removed from the end of the blogitembody and put *after* the comments piece of code. I then changed the comment code so that it didn’t use javascript to create the hyperlink but used a full path so the line looks like this:-
<a href="http://www..../aspcomments.asp?blogid=<$BlogItemNumber$>">comments</a> [<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="/...../aspcomments.asp?blogid=<$BlogItemNumber$>&count=1"> </script>]</a>
Hope that helps you Mike! (change the dots to the appropriate path)
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Mike was talking about trying to get comments into his RSS feed and I thought – simple! It just needs the tags adding into the rss span. Unfortunately not because the comments are all part of Javascript so they don’t work 🙁 I’ll have to try something else.
In the processing of trying to fix graphic and usb problems on one of the w2k servers I upgraded the bios as I got a “”Your computer’s system firmware does not include enough information to properly configure and use this device. To use this device, contact your computer manufacturer to obtain a firmware or BIOS update. (Code 35)” message.
Managed to fix the graphics on one of the w2k servers, which would only show me 680*400 and 16 colours by enabling the IRG for PCI VGA in the bios. Also, by changing the MPS version to 1.1 instead of 1.4 in the bios the USB ports also work!
Now I have a nice clean crisp background and no errors in device manager – sweet!
Bloggar is still giving me “timed out” messages when posting. I reckon this is to do with the pinging of weblogs.com. A quick way to check bloggar HAS posted, is to do the Posts/Last 5 posts and ensure that the post you just posted is in the list.
Hep looks like an interesting site to keep an eye on- its software that allows you to get email,rss feeds etc in one client – your mail utility and also send stuff out in exactly the same way. Unfortunately it needs Python, so I’m going to wait until a nice GUI installer comes out as the owner recommends 🙂
Asked Meryl to add this blog to her list of sites using CSS for layout. The reply said I’m added but they are working on a new list due to the volume of people joining, which is good news!