Well the Eurovision Political Song Contest is with us again. Why do we (via our licence fee) keep bankrolling this load of old tosh! It’s got nothing to do with the songs, it’s all political.
We’ll come nowhere again as noone likes us, the only redeeming grace will be watching Terry Wogan take the mickey out of the whole fiasco!
Okay, so I’ve just seen the footage of the Michael Jackson comeback non-performance at the World Music Awards.
I simply cannot get over what he has done to his chin, he now looks like some bizarre creation of Avid Merrion!
I’ve just been migrating a server to a new machine, I decided that the best way was to clone the disk so I went hunting on the internet looking for a great little utility called PowerQuest Diskcopy. It was great, it would fit on a bootable floppy you’d install the source and target disks in a machine boot it from a floppy and it would make an exact copy of the drive.
Only it seems that PowerQuest have now been absorbed by Symantec and the Diskcopy utility seems to have dissapeared without trace, presumably absorbed in to some piece of bloatware that does loads of things I don’t need with a price to match.
GRRRRRRR - Can’t help feeling this blog is turning into a rant!
In a desparate (and probably fruitless) attempt to keep one step ahead of the spammers I have moved the blog to some webspace hosted by my company and we are now running WordPress, which is easier to administer (and delete trackback spam!)
Well I’m glad to see the spammers are making good use of this blog even if noone else looks at it, I’ve now had to remove and block five spammer trackbacks in the course of a week!
Here’s a little heads-up guys! Moderation is on and your spam will never be shown!
Anyone else get fed up with the sheer amount of time we have to spend dealing with this rubbish? A quick check of my email reveals 22 (real) messages and 13 junk ones!
” I have the horrible feeling I’m going to end up reformatting the hard disk and starting agin!”
Prophetic words indeed - Microsoft’s final solution was to rebuild the PC from scratch - Cheers guys, you’re a great help!
At least it does seem to have fixed the problem!
Gaaaah!
Anyone heard of Microsoft Update KB905474? It’s the Windows Genuine Advantage update. Basically it puts a nag message on your login screen if it decides your copy of Windows is not genuine.
No problem, I thought, all three of my copies of Windows have come direct from Microsoft so there can be no problem!……………….. However, (You knew there’d be a ‘however’ didn’t you!). KB905474 has decided that the copy of Windows on one of my PC’s is not genuine! I checked the validation page on the Microsoft site and it says that it is. I downloaded and ran the ‘Genuine Advantage Diagnostic’ - that says it’s genuine, but I still get the nag screen on login.
So far I have had an open call log with Microsoft for four days, they’ve given me an alternative licence key, it don’t like that one either, they’ve given me instructions how to remove the update - great, that fixed the problem, only windows update put it straight back on again!
It’s doing my head in, there are a lot of posts on the Microsoft newsgroups, the software is clearly flawed. I have the horrible feeling I’m going to end up reformatting the hard disk and starting agin!
Hmm………. on further examination, I’ve changed my mind. It keeps crashing - still it is Beta I guess, maybe I should wait until SP1!
I’ve been taking a look at the Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7.
It looks pretty good, it’s fast, the interface is clean, and supports the nice little touches like tabbed browsing.
Sad thing is, Firefox had all that ages ago!
It remains to be seen how it fares on a security basis……..
Well I’ve been offered one of these free blog thingies, I have every confidence that mine, like most, will have a few boring entries, becoming less and less frequent, until it becomes abandoned completely, but at least I can say that I’ve tried.