Have made contact with my flying bloke, so hopefully I’ll be posting some pictures from the skys above my house in the next couple of weeks!
Hard workout at the gym this morning, with an 8 minute run on the treadmill which left me shattered – still it’s 2 minutes more than previous so I’m getting there! Down to 12.5 stone now too!
Have made contact with my flying bloke, so hopefully I’ll be posting some pictures from the skys above my house in the next couple of weeks!
Hard workout at the gym this morning, with an 8 minute run on the treadmill which left me shattered – still it’s 2 minutes more than previous so I’m getting there! Down to 12.5 stone now too!
Installed my nice shiny Packard Bell Diamond 1200 scanner this evening and it works a treat. Dig a quick search on google to see what I could come up with and noticed that its actually a re-badged Mustek Bearpaw scanner and there were loads of people looking for the xp drivers, so a bit of digging, the drivers can be found at this address. Hope that is of use to someone!
I’ve been shopping! Went to Bowlers computer fair and try as I might I was just not able to purchase a HP DeskJet 940C. Went back to Dixons where they are the cheapest I’ve seen (even though I hate buying from them) and they didn’t have any – hope to get one from Crewe on Monday! Also got a USB hub to plug the new printer, the camera, the camera card reader and a scanner in all at once, and also a KVM switch for the old NT server and old desktop machine so I don’t have to keep unplugging keyboards.
Now I’m off to an “International Food Night” in Sandbach!
See ya!
A great tool to stop certain dodgy sites, including Advertising sites running scripts, popupclicks etc can be found at Ad Blocking Resources
From This Is True, a very funny weekly newsletter about all the wacky things that go on in this world, was an Honory unsubscribe for a person who died on my birthday but had made some good inventions. He had an unfortunate name, but information on him is this:-
Dr. Rudolf Hell. An inventor, in 1927 Hell invented a radio direction finder that allowed pilots to navigate by tuning in to radio towers. In 1929 he came up with a
process to break up images into a digital stream which could be transmitted over a telephone lines and converted back to an image at a remote location — the Hellschreiber (“Hell Recorder”) was one of the first workable fax machines. In 1954 he invented an electronically controlled engraver, which made it easier for newspapers to publish
photos. In 1963, he invented a color scanner, and in 1964 he invented the first digital typesetter, making lead typefaces obsolete. His company later merged with Linotype, which was renamed Linotype-Hell. He died March 11 in Kiel, Germany at age 100.
Grrrr – Freeserve’s DNS is hosed this morning only allowing me access to certain websites 🙁 Dialed on now using Clara (thank goodness I didn’t close the account!)
With the new Kerio (aka Tiny) Personal Firewall running I noticed I got a lot of probes on port 53 from 195.92.195.95 resolver2.svr.pol.co.uk
195.92.195.94 resolver1.svr.pol.co.uk. These are the two dns servers so must be allowed access if anyone else is also getting the same and not knowing what to do!
The bug report I posted to Norton Anti Virus which enables a virus to actually run, despite being deleted and cleaned has a response back saying – we’ll get back to you, but don’t know when. Scary prospect! Just glad that the exploit only runs notepad!