I got the PC started up this morning – then, when I went looking for a file on the 2nd hard drive, which I keep for backup – couldn’t find it. The drive, that is. It wasn’t showing up in the BIOS setup either, even after I’d checked all the cabling. But I can feel […]
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It’s been a frustrating couple of days. Yesterday, B’s computer started playing up, with crashes and corrupted files. After spending all day trying to diagnose the problems, it became clear that the old Win 98 OS was falling apart. So, we agreed to reformat the drive this morning and install XP. Well, it sounded like […]
Finally got this machine sorted. I kept reinstalling and getting reinfected – kept removing the trojans responsible with various tools, but failed – took a look at the instructions for completely removing trojans and decided instead to download an up to date version of XP, one with all the security bells and whistles. Did yet […]
……damm spyware…. Spent all day yesterday trying to clear spyware and trojans from my machine. Had just about decided to give up and and reformat, when I remembered XP’s System Restore. So I gave it a try, restoring back to the point before I started installing stuff. And so far it seems to have worked. […]
…still having some problems with the new install. Searching for a way to make my copy of XP at least semi-legal, I went to a couple of less-than-safe sites and ending up getting blasted with trojans both times. Clearing them all out wasted a huge amount of my time and energy. I’d been to those […]
….Long story short: whilst visiting a dodgy website on Tuesday, picked up a shedload of viruses and Trojans, which proceeded to royally mess up my settings – my internet connection went down, everything slowed to a crawl, my AV program froze etc etc. After spending a whole day trying and failing to clean out all […]
Finally got round to updating this blog to the very latest release of WordPress. It’s something I’ve been putting off forever, because my experience with upgrading is that it is horribly slow and liable to go horribly wrong. For this reason, I am not looking forward to upgrading to XP; backing up everything beforehand will […]
…trying to get the new Oakleaf Circle site together. The navigation is proving the most difficult bit; I’m having a vertical flyout menu, which would ordinarily be pretty simple to do – if it wasn’t for blasted IE6, which cannot handle the “li:hover” element without a whole lot of hacking. So it was with considerable […]
So I’m going to take the plunge and switch to WinXP, as soon as I have enough cash to replace my current measly 40GB hard drive with something bigger (and when I get the time needed to install everything). If I’m going to carry on with web design and development, I have to have IE7 […]
Been struggling for the last three hours to get the new design for the Oakleaf Circle site cross-browser compatible. Which means making it look right in IE6, as well as Firefix and Opera. M$, of course, have their own bowser standards that don’t nessessarily coincide with those of other browsers. Which means that only the […]