I’ve been with Purplecloud since 2004, but as I migrate my last and final website, it’s time to say Goodbye. No real complaints, Budget hosting done well, and cannot grumble for a tenner a year (10 GBP). I’ve just grown up!
Thanks to James, Alasdair and David.
(PS I just wished my broadband worked as well as their Budget Hosting!)
I don’t do Facebook as a rule – life just too busy, but here’s the deal, if you join or already have a Facebook account, and join this Facebook group you’ll get 10 Free Shares of Mr Hyperlink empire group of websites.
Have a read of the information on the Facebook site.
Money for nothing?
3 Coverage HSDPA
No need for 3G, which at present I’m getting 5 bars good buddy, blowing me windows out on HSPDA! But why pay for Travelodge WiFi when there are 49 Access Points with un-secure WiFi Access in this area!
WiFi coverage at this location
I’ve been changing some mail records on DNS systems, and I got a mail bounce… It’s no wonder why I didn’t receive the email!
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umm, you don’t say!
I’ve come across a some nasty fakeware that infected my business laptop, so here’s some free advice to you. Fake ware is a software trojan that finds it’s way onto your computer from a website, and this particular software program pretends to be an anti-virus program called Anti Virus Live, and if you visit their website, you can purchase options to enable it! Umm!
I’m very careful with all my computers, especially my business laptops. I only went onto two websites the day in question when the computer was “infected”.
A program called “SYSGUARD.EXE”, or in my case “WDXHSYSGUARD.EXE” is hooked into the Run line in the computers registry. It then disables various options, like the Command Prompt, Task Manager, Internet Explorer, when you try to run these applications, it states they are infected, and do you want to Purchase Protection. Also false firewall attacks pop up on screen, and multiple browser windows appear.
The first thing to do, is shutdown, and start the computer in Safe Mode (f8) at boot prompt, and Select Safe Mode. Check the computers registry for anything odd, now this might be difficult, if you don’t know what you looking at, so why not have a look now, and check what’s normally there.
easy way:-
run Msconfig at the command prompt
System Configuration
If anything looks weird, google it!
(for geeks and nerds! see below)
and check what is there…
registry
I’m going to giveaway some of the Dark Arts’ I’ve learnt over the years….
Free tools I use:-
and don’t use the following tools much anymore, but always worth adding to the toolbox, if you are paranoid, I just find that Ad-aware has become very bloated!
The last three software products have been around for many years, but the “new kids on the block” seem to have the edge!
anyway, if you have any problems, you could always contact me!
Good Luck!!!
Sorry IE 6.0 users, well sorry to the 16% of visitors, that still have IE 6.0 installed!, the formatting has been wrong for ages, I’ve just found the fault and fixed it, I’ve also removed Energy Saving readings for the moment, because my Wattson has been removed from the computer, because I think the permament connection to the computer, has been what causing to to crash and hang!
I don’t have IE 6.0 any more on any production computers, I only have IE 6.0 in Virtual Machines! I’ve switched to Firefox, Safari and Chrome long ago…
Well there’s praise, I explain more tomorrow, I’m off to slump in front of the TV & TiVo to watch CSI: Miami! (I’ve also been fighting with a filter leak in the fish house for the last 3 hours!).
and my landline telephone has stopped working but I still have broadband, so the wires are still connected to the telephone exchange. Strange!
The Amazing FishCam
This isn’t my webcam, I wish. If you’ve not seen this at http://www.fishcam.com/ pop by and have a look. Way back in 1994 a camera was trained upon a lonely fishtank within the as yet unknown company Netscape. The Fishcam transmited live images of the fishtank to the emerging new landscape known as the World Wide Web. The Fishcam was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence.
I remember in those early days using Netscape Navigator because it had a server push feature that didn’t exist in Internet Explorer. It also had an easter egg, that when you hit CTRL-ALT-F, it displayed The Amazing FishCam.
Maybe it’s time to re-install the webcams back in the fish house!
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