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AFAIK - As Far As I Know check here for other acronyms - http://www.mvps.org/PracticallyNerded/Glos...loss_Usenet.htm or do a Google search for USENET ACRONYMS as for your Office Shrink problem, you have to setup an administrative install to get the .mst file. The Student/Teacher version's only difference from other versions is the capabilities of the applications you install - the setup process is no different. run the setup from the CD with the switch /a (ie D:\setup.exe /a) follow the install info, and the admin point will install to the hard drive. This gives you the .mst you need.

Maldives look a better option, as flights alone to phillipines airport in early August will be almost as much as the weeks stay at amunpulo itself!! That doubles my budget and there is no way I can afford that! Any other ideal honeymoon locations? (not necessarily on a budget but cheaper the better looking to leave UK either July 31 or aug 1, and be away for 3 to 4 nights (we have kids and other responsibilties, so a fortnight away is out of the question but we could possibly stretch to 6 nights.) Now can anyone find me a website that can give accurate airfares from UK airports (apart from expedia.co.uk)? Any help appreciated.

There is actually an update for Messenger 6.2 too. KB890261 -> Vulnerability in PNG Processing Could Allow Remote Code Execution Download-> 1081 KB - 843264 KB (February 8, 2005) (Both 890261 and 887472 point to the same Security Bulletin: MS05-09) The fix is actually a new SetupDL.exe and is language specific, hence the different sizes. Easy Direct link -> cut and paste this link and replace the 2 letter langauge code (EN) with your own ie DE, ES, FI, FR, IT, NL, KO - see the download page for more. http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/8....SetupDL.exe

Fantastic... I've been looking for somewhere to book for my honeymoon, and i think i've just found it! I'm torn between amanpulo or bora bora - i suppose the flight prices will decide for me

This has been discussed several times. Search and ye shall find: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=187122 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=28825&hl= However, I think these are the links you need: http://winimize.com/7meginst.html - 98se down to 7mb http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8gus/nano98/ - 98se down to 4.38mb Another interesting link is for a 50mb 98se that runs from a LiveCD with a RAMDISK for registry and program access. Like Knoppix or **** Small Linux. http://www.lachiesadicristo.it/w98cd/page1.htm

download Astalavista's integrated package (1.1 + SP1 + hotfix + various language packs) http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=38681 Its a silent install so you'll see nothing onscreen as it installs. Although the link you found gives you a better idea about integrating JView too, it does not include the KB886903 hotfix. It should be simple to add it to the code though. Anyone confused about the relevance of Honnes link - the actual post he's refering to is http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=197673

KB884883 was originally an unsupported fix only available via MS email support. They've since made it available through windows update.

from the same website that firefoxthebomb suggested: Public PC Desktop This turns your PC into an internet kiosk-like desktop. Not quite as extreme as 1st Security Agent but its $10 cheaper, and will still limit the user to accessing only what you allow them.

a different slant on the problem would be to give the zodiac sign given a specific date. This is do-able, you just have a list of dates and compare the user input - semi-pseudo-code: figures/syntax not exact. // grab user input $date = $_POST['date'] // input could be '10 October 2005' // convert $date to a timestamp $timestamp = strtotime($date) // input now timestamp - '???????????????' // dates for zodiac are pretty much always the same so just need day number $day_of_year = strftime( %j , $timestamp ) // give integer 1-366. // Now we can compare to an array - i'm guessing these dates and signs! if (22 > $day_of_year >= 1) $zodiac = "capricorn" elseif (166 > $day_of_year >= 197) $zodiac = "leo" elseif (275 > $day_of_year >= 305) $zodia = "scorpio" . . . elseif (356 > $day_of_year >= 366) $zodiac = "capricorn etc echo "Your zodiac sign is: " . $zodiac This is just an example - search php.net for the proper syntax of the functions and the correct dates etc.

Following on from my last post and after reading through 1&1's FAQ and troubleshooter, I found this - So far so good, you can tell them to get stuffed and they will, but... Bugger. This seems to say you can't let the domain expire and re-register with 1&1 if they held your domains previously. Also there is a 30 day 'redemption' period after expiration, before the domain is up for grabs by everyone again. so XPerties is correct, however you CAN pay $80 to get out of this and renew the domain (but would you want to?) So the only way to get the same domains back onto 1&1 would be the transfer method between your accounts. After re-reading my above post, I realised that my suggestion would be exactly the same as transfering the domains across to another account anyway - you have to renew each domain again for 1-2 years before they expire, which would be £1.99 or £8.89 per domain - the price for transfering each domain. Oh, and you say you're a business but can't afford to spare £40!! That's one bad profit margin you must have! You're no better off, by letting them expire - go for the transferal - the registrations will be renewed for 1 year as if you had registered for the first time and the costs will be the same regardless. A final option is to transfer the domains to a trusted contact who has a 1&1 account (me for example ) They can then transfer the domains back again to your account in the same process later on. I'm unsure if there is a cost by doing it this way, and if so, who pays?

you could let the terms run out on each of your domains and not renew them. This then free's you to add them back to your 1&1 Domain Registering account without the transfer fees, as they were 'expired'. You run the risk of someone else snatching the domain name though, and i'm unsure of the length of time it takes for the domain to be unregistered.

now that the first post is getting larger by the day, would it be possible to add anchor hrefs into the post so I don't have to scroll all the way past 2KSP4 and XPSP1 down to XPSP2 (yes - i know, i'm lazy). a few links at the top of the post with the url to jump down the page would save me, ooh, about 5 seconds of scrolling. example: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...&p=218384#xpsp2 (don't click - it obviously won't work) EDIT: actually, thinking about how urls are posted this would be impossible as anchors like <a name="xpsp2"> wouldn't be HTML encoded into the page. oh well, never mind.

simplest way is to stick a USB2 device (a flash key for example) into each available usb port. If the port isn't USB2 then a windows pop-up tells you that the device would run faster if a USB2 port is used. If you don't get a message then you've got USB2. similarly, if you plug in a USB1 device to a USB2 port, a message claims that the device isn't compatible with USB2 and will run at the reduced USB speed.

question: why can't you just click 'No' when it asks you to validate before downloading? Clicking yes opens an activeX box to validate but clicking No just takes you straight to the download. As the adverts for drug-taking say: Just say NO!

depends on what tld you want. cheap co.uk, me.uk and org.uk domains are £1.99 per year at 1&1.co.uk while com, net, org, biz and name domains are £8.89 per year. GoDaddy.com is another good one - prices are from $6.95 up (£3.50 UK sterling) for loads of different tlds. If you want hosting with it, then cheap hosting can give you a domain for free. DreamHost are giving the best offer i've seen for hosting in a LONG time!! sign up before the 28th and you get everything TRIPLED for life of hosting - 2.4Gb space, 120Gb bandwidth for only $7.95/month (about £4.50 UK). Even after the 28th you will still have 800mb and 40Gb/month! Any domain you register is free for the life of the hosting too, so no renewal fees! Cheap Plug -DreamHost.

Just taken a look at MatrixInternet.co.uk and ****! that's cheap. Their 'SOLO Plus' gives the same solution as WebMania for slightly cheaper, and the 'Value Plus' option is cheaper still (£35 for 2 years) giving you 4! MySQL databases, but only gives 200mb webspace. The multisite option is fantastic value - £39.99 per year for 3 domain and 2Gb space, but bandwidth is poor at only 5Gb/month for all 3 domains. All solutions give domain names free with hosting (for 1 or 2 years only). If that wasn't enough there is an 'UNLIMITED' option which gives unlimited space and 10Gb bandwidth for £29.99 per year AND you can get a 2 month FREE trial. Where do I sign up!!! If cheap is your goal then go for this, they seem pretty well established, but i'd be wary of a company that has only been trading for 18 months.

Also, you said you were moving from 1&1. If you registered the domains through 1&1 just downgrade your account to a domain only account with no hosting and point the DNS of the domains (through the 1&1 control panel) to the new nameservers. Now 1&1 will renew your domains cheaply but webmania host your sites. (so all you pay is the £1.99/year per co.uk domain instead of the £15+vat webmania charge for 2 years) This saves you more than a tenner every 2 years, if you're a miserly tight bugger like me )

Try Web Mania for £20 per year (£23.50 if you include VAT). Thats about £1.95/month!! From the site: Its only 1 MySQL database but it is an unlimited size. In terms of domains - i have 2 pointed to my space with no problems, not sure about parking domains though - nothing about that on the site. EDIT: forgot to mention they use LivePerson support so you can chat to someone online (like IM) instead of email or phone. But the service is good and you hardly need to use them.

I found my old ZX Spectrum 48k in the loft last year, and a box with joysticks, cables, a tape deck, magazines, around 300 cassettes full of games. Some where originals, but most were 60 min tapes with about 20 games on each side - so i guess i must have close to 5000 speccy games to blast away the hours with. Unfortunately, the vital LOAD button is missing, i remember my dad removing it because i spent too much time on it instead of doing my homework so you have to use the rubber end of a pencil to press the contacts down.

You have to take into consideration how long the creation of the site will be, how long you plan to spend on it each day, how difficult it is to code, what it will feature, etc. Working from home, plan about 20 hours per week - say you have other jobs to do, it makes you seem in demand. If employed solely by them in an office, double this to 40 (a full working week). It also depends on how your client is willing to pay you - ask what they would be willing to pay and how they will pay you. Some companies are very rigid when it comes to paying out - you have to be on their payroll earning a wage, rather than recieving a final payment. Recently, I quoted £500 for a job, but was offered only £350 (US conversion about $650), as they didn't have the funds. In the end I actually got my £500, but thats only because I fiddled them as they had put me on their payroll with £5/hour and I had signed for 100 hours over the projects 4 weeks. Had they agreed a fixed payment on completion I would have lost out, but thats the way the company wanted to do business, so their loss. BTW - the job took only 50 hours, so I would have recieved less than they offered me anyway (£250 - half my quote and £100 less than they offered me).

Build 1289 (RC1) is now available - http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/0..._x64fre_pro.iso

just out of curiosity, have you checked your hardware? Not every problem can be solved with a format/reinstall. And if reinstalling XP to a formatted hard drive has had no effect then its more than likely either the hard drive, the graphics card, the mobo or monitor has gone belly up. Since your main problem is a display issue, swap your monitor, even plug the machine into the TV if you don't have a spare one. Next check the monitor, plugging it into another system, if its a CRT then the tube may be crapped. check the power button works and doesn't stick in place, when switching on/off. This way you've eliminated/fingered the monitor as the culprit. If its not the monitor (ie the PC still wont display on another screen) maybe your mobo/bios is shot. Strip the machine of everything and boot it with just the hard drive, graphics card, CD-rom and keyboard to check if it boots (if the hard drive is kicking into action and you can get to the bios, it probably isn't the mobo, though the hard drive itself may be corrupted if the drive stops after a few seconds and starts crunching instead of purring). Boot an MS-DOS floppy, or boot from CD (98 or XP, even linux!) - does this work? Swap your components out with other machines, especially the hard drive, graphics card, to check they work independant of the current system. Move them to a new test sytem or replace them in the current (broken) one. If they all work separately in another system, the problem points to the mobo. Check whether the graphics card is seated in its slot correctly and it has sufficient cooling. I've had my fair share of overcooked cards killing the machine, and a machine without a graphics card wont boot. If the mobo has on-board graphics turn this on in the bios (if you can see it). This takes away the graphics card from the equation. The display won't be pretty but it should work. Finally check all your cables. The birds nest you find behind the PC hides many sins and many cables can be worked loose if the case is moved often enough. I'm not saying this will be your problem, but elminate the hardware as the problem and you're left with a software (read XP) issue.

Here are my experiences: www.w3privacy.com - service temporarily suspended. no good. www.proxyweb.com - just plain didn't work. script error? Plus loads adult pop-ups. www.proxify.com - just adds requested page to url in proxy script ie http://proxify.com/p/011110A0000110/http/www.ebay.com/ this is no good if trackers and firewalls are keyword and url based (if ebay.com was banned then it still wouldn't load, since 'ebay' appears in the url). Also the top of the page is crammed with adverts and useless links. You have to scroll down to view the page. Also many pages are only available to subscribers - ebay being one of them. My best proxy experience so far is PHPProxy http://jinfyre.com/ruby/ has a fully functional advanced version of the above PHPProxy, which scrambles the url with base64 or rotate13 encoding. I use it in college, where downloading any filetype other than .doc or .pdf and viewing .mpgs have been restricted. And since PHPProxy can be downloaded you can upload it to your own server and browse from your personal web page, which is shown as the referring page in monitoring software, ie you view ebay.com but the software see's jinfyre.com. Quoted from http://www.whitefyre.com/poxy/

QUOTE (prathapml @ Jan 2 2005, 07:51 PM) This is from Amazon.com: DISC ONE – [B]The Matrix[/B]. The Academy Award®-winning original movie in a new digital transfer supervised by the Wachowski Brothers and Director of Photography Bill Pope Two all-new audio commentaries with written introduction by the Wachowski Brothers: --The Critics: Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson --The Scholars: Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber Running Time: 131 mins, Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1; Widescreen Format DISC TWO – [B]The Matrix Revisited[/B]. Peel back a new layer of reality with a mind-expanding look at The Matrix from conception to phenomenon. Go behind The Matrix, take the Red Pill and follow the White Rabbit with 17 making-of featurettes, including: - What is Bullet Time? - What is the Concept? - The Music Revisited – 41-Track audio-only selection of nearly three hours of music Basics - Running Time: 123 mins, Full Screen Format This is the 1st Matrix 2-DVD edition with only 2 updated commentaries on the 1st disc. No big deal if you own this already. Discs are available separately (Matrix 1-disc version and Matrix Revisited) for about £7 and £4 respectively. DISC THREE – [B]The Matrix Reloaded[/B]. The powerful second chapter of the groundbreaking film trilogy Two all-new audio commentaries with written introduction by the Wachowski Brothers: --The Critics: Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson --The Scholars: Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber Basics – Running Time: 133 mins, Audio: Dolby Surround 5.1; Widescreen Format DISC FOUR – [B]The Matrix Reloaded Revisited[/B]. Go to the middle movie’s furthest reaches via five documentary paths revealing 21 featurettes. Plus 23 extra scenes shot for the Enter the Matrix consol videogame Basics – Running Time: 169 mins, Full Screen Format This is the standard Matrix Reloaded 2-DVD set, again with only 2 extra commentaries. The Revisited disc (disc 4) has the 23 scenes from the game added - not available in the standard 2-disc version of Reloaded. This can be bought for around £10 (without the extra 23 scenes). There is a 1-disc version of Reloaded available as well as the 2-disc. DISC FIVE – [B]The Matrix Revolutions [/B]. The epic war between man and machines reaches an explosive conclusion with the action-packed final chapter in The Matrix Trilogy: Two all-new audio commentaries with written introduction by the Wachowski Brothers: --The Critics: Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson --The Scholars: Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber Basics – Running Time: 124 mins, Audio: Dolby Surround 5.1; Widescreen Format DISC SIX – [B]The Matrix Revolutions Revisited [/B]. The cataclysmic final confrontation chronicled through six documentary pods revealing 28 featurettes. Basics – Running Time: 181 mins, Full Screen Format As before nothing special added, just 2 extra commentaries. Nothing extra on Revisited disc. Available for around £10. 1 and 2-disc versions available. DISC SEVEN – [B]The Animatrix[/B]. A visionary fusion of CG-animation and Japanese anime with nine short films exploring the world of The Matrix including Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance Part I, The Second Renaissance Part II, Kid’s Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated Four Audio Commentaries on The Second Renaissance Parts I and II, Program and World Record Making-of documentaries on each film, profiling the evolution of each one’s unique style through design and animatics Biographical profiles of the directors and animation producers Scrolls to Screen: The History and Culture of Anime – explores the phenomenon of this exploding worldwide art form through glimpses of the genre’s greatest achievements and the observations of creators, historians and other leaders in the field Basics – Running Time: 151 mins, Audio: Dolby Surround 5.1; Widescreen Format Standard Animatrix DVD. Can be bought separately for £5. DISC EIGHT – [B]The Roots of the Matrix[/B]. Probe the philosophical and technological inspirations of The Matrix Trilogy through two insightful documentaries: - Return to Source: Philosophy & The Matrix documentary - Scholars, philosophers and theorists deconstruct the intellectual underpinnings of the trilogy The Hard Problem: The Science Behind the Fiction documentary – Is the notion of a real Matrix plausible? An investigation of the technologies that inspire the metaphor of the Matrix. Basics – Running Time: 182 mins, Widescreen Format DISC NINE – [B]The Burly Man Chronicles[/B]. Profiles the "society" of craftspeople, actors and filmmakers who shaped the movie trilogy and the Enter the Matrix consol game in a full-length documentary. Follow the White Rabbit to 21 additional featurettes. Basics – Running Time: 169 mins, Full screen Format DISC TEN – [B]The Zion Archive[/B]. Showcases production assets developed for the universe of The Matrix, including concept artwork, storyboards, drawings, music videos, TV spots and trailers, plus a special preview of The Matrix Online, a new multi-player online gaming experience. Basics – Running Time: 43 mins, Full Screen Format These are the interesting ones. These 3 discs are the extra stuff that you are paying for. A total of about 6 1/2 hours of never-seen-before stuff. Question is.. is it worth paying £45 or more for 3 extra discs if you own the others already? If you only have the 1-DVD versions of all the movies then you have an extra 6 discs for your money. It could be worth it then. If you buy all the discs separately then you could spend only £35, and only be missing the 3 new discs. IMHO, if you own all 3 movies + animatrix, it's a waste of time buying the boxset.

I have 20 invites to anyone who wants them. just PM me. ---- neil