29
Jun
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by Darren
Three things that don’t go together and should never be used in the same sentence without the words ‘Please Lord, why me?’ This was my Thursday evening:
- Outlook can’t connect to your incoming server (error code blah, blah, blah)
- Microsoft say this can be caused by an upgrade being applied to Office 2003 (very helpful – no seriously, I had identified the problem. I had added an upgrade)
- Solution, uninstall then reinstall Norton Firewall (drastic, but OK)
- Attempt to uninstall Firewall stopped as it informed me I was still running Live Update
- Stop Live Update
- Attempt to uninstall Firewall can’t be done because it is now telling me it doesn’t exist
- Norton Firewall still running
- OK, let’s uninstall all of the BT/Yahoo software as that is what Norton is part of on my set up
- Unistalls everything (I think)
- Norton Firewall and Anti-Virus still running
- OK, let’s reinstall everything from BT
- Installs everything apart from Firewall and anti-virus (can’t install them as you have to remove them first… aaaargh)
- Go an watch Simon Quinlag on YouTube
- Go to BT/Yahoo centre on my PC and find that I can now unistall Firewall and Anti-virus from PC, they do now exist
- Uninstall them
- See if Outlook will now connect
- it does, email is again flowing
- Reinstall Firewall and Anti-virus
- Recheck email
- It all works
- Go to bed
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and tagged: Norton, PC, Win XP
27
Jun
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by Darren
Alright Mr Blair was able to get Rev Ian Paisley to talk to Sinn Fein but can he really go one better and solve the problems of the Middle East?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6242788.stm
I can’t help but think that this is a poorly calculated idea. If there is one guy who is not very popular within certain relgious groups in the Middle East it would be Mr Blair. Come next November when Geaorge W steps down, will he become Tony’s assistant? Oh the irony if between them they could bring peace to the region.
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and tagged: blair, bush
19
Jun
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by Darren
I seem to have destroyed the installation of Win XP on our family PC, oh well at least it means it will run faster.
To do list:
- reinstall WinXP
- reinstall programs
- reminisce over the files that I hadn’t backed up
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and tagged: Win XP
17
Jun
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by Darren
*Dr Who Spoiler if you haven’t seen this weeks episode*
Well we knew it was coming but I must hand it to Mr Davies, the return of the Master was handled quite well. A couple of nice additions to give you some ‘aha’ moments (no I don’t mean going around singing ‘take on me’) and the best/ worst secret in Dr Who was revealed.
Derek Jacobi was outstanding as he went from bumbling mad professor to sadistic evilness, and although on first impressions John Simm played the character a little whimsically I can see him doing a very sly job in the final two episodes. I even didn’t mind Captain Jack being back… he plays a different character when the Doctor is telling him what to do.
Okay there are still millions of questions to be answered… like how and when re the Master but we’ll wait till next week beofre complaining too loudly. As episodes go this was nowhere near as good as the previous three weeks but for old fans, it was a welcome journey.
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16
Jun
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by Darren
Been away for most of this week at a fairly inspirational staff conference. It was a nice time away, giving time to reflect and also get ready for the next glorious five year plan. I also managed to damage my heal doing some Irish Dancing. It was a hard wood floor and I went shoe less as I only had some sandals. Woke up in the morning in excruciating pain and literally had to crawl to the bathroom to get ready. Managed to crawl back and take a couple of tablets. This took the edge off the pain and so I was able to get through the day and rest it in the evening. Still hurting BTW but is a little easier to get around.
Have almost finished my Personal Mission Statement and I am now working on my short and long term goals. I may share some of it or all of it, depends how I am feeling.
Not sure if I am looking forward to Dr Who tonight and for the next two weeks as the series comes to an end. The stories should be good, from what I have picked up, but the fact that John ‘I am gay, have you noticed? If not let me sing some show tunes for you’ Barrowman is back as Captain Jack, could be too much to take.
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and tagged: Dr Who, goals
