The internet is full.
4th February 2011
Many report that they are fast running out of IP address's and that the IP6
format will be needed very soon, and that most routers will not handle the
new format, but none say what they are going to do about it.
Most routers can be reprogrammed by the user if the maker supplies the new
code, but get that process wrong and the router fails.
I don't know why the ISP's have to be told to get their fingers out, but it
seems that they do.
Come on ISP's start sorting out the hardware or lose customers.
......
Thank you so much.
21st January 2011
A few years ago I saw an experiment on TV where a person fell over in the
main street in London to see if people would help, and to my disgust everyone
just walk by. Today I fell over just outside a supermarket hitting my head on
the ground very hard and I am pleased to report that several people rushed to
my aid. Two men helped me to my feet. A third man seeing my nose was bleeding
ran to fetch me tissue paper, and a lady handed me some tissue from her
handbag. It seems the people in the town of Whitchurch, Shropshire care for
others. I don't know the names of those who helped me, but if you happen to
read this then please accept my gratitude.
......
Dioxins, the poison that isn’t.
7th January 2011
They report on the news that some eggs from Germany that have been
contaminated with dioxins have been used in the making of some products on
the supermarket shelves, and that most have already been sold. They say there
is no danger to the public then ask the supermarkets to remove any not yet
sold from the shelves.
Well, telling the supermarkets to withdraw these product suggests to me they
are not safe so I don't believe that there is no danger.
If there was no danger then they would not need to remove them from sale.
......
China Blocked Skype.
3rd January 2011
I read that China have decided to block Skype. The reason given is that it is
unfair competition for their own telephone services, but I would say the real
reason is that people can talk to anyone in the world through Skype and they
can't have that.
......
Why Prince Charles is too dangerous to be king.
18th December 2010
I just read in the Daily Mail something I have been thinking as our Queen
gets older. Max Hastings describes in detail why Prince William should
replace the Queen when she dies by pointing out the nature of that loud mouth
Charles.
......
Hello Post Office.
23rd November 2010
My internet connection transfer from Talktalk to The Post Office took place
successfully today removing the Talktalk surcharge for refusing to transfer to Direct
debit and removing the threat of a £10.00 if the payments system went wrong
for any reason. I am now with the
Post Office who let me decide how I wish to pay. I can pay by
credit/debit card or even the dreaded direct debit if I choose!!. I can even
pop into town and pay over the counter at the Post Office with the old
fashion stuff called cash!!
......
Goodbye Henry.
5th November 2010
My good friend Henry Muller died today. I will miss him.
......
So that is why I got a MAC code so easily from TalkTalk.
2nd November 2010
I was amazed when I requested a MAC code from TalkTalk to get one so easily.
I just found a report on the BBC web site that explains why they were so
obliging for the first time ever in all my dealings with them.
BBC
News about TalkTalk.
......
I have a MAC code.
30th October 2010
I just received an email from my internet provider saying "
If your monthly payment to TalkTalk fails, the
one-off charge that's applied to your account will be £10 (from 20th December
2010).
" That annoyed me as the payment could fail to go
through on time for any number of reasons that I have no control over. They
then said "If you pay your TalkTalk bills by
automatic monthly card payments (not one-off payments or Debit Debit), a
surcharge of 99p a month will be applied to your account each month (from
20th December 2010). However, you can switch to Direct Debit to avoid this
fee." and went on to tell me how to change to direct debit.
I HATE DIRECT DEBIT, and there is no way I am allowing them to charge me not
use direct debit. I have had trouble with TalkTalk several times since they
took over Tiscali and have come close to moving in the past. This is the
final straw. So I rang them to request a MAC code. (A number you need to get
from your provider if you wish to move to another provider.) Having tried to
persuade me to stay by offering a cheaper deal she finally said they would
send me the MAC code. It came by Email within the hour. I was astounded. The
first time TalkTalk have been quick and efficient is when I leave them. I
immediately supplied my new provider with the code. Hopefully the changeover
will go smoothly.
......
Good for Channel 4.
19th October 2010
I read that channel 4 in the UK are refusing to cancel the airing of a
drama-documentary showing the fictionalised kidnapping of Prince Harry in
Afghanistan on Thursday at 2100 hours. Good for channel 4. The government are
quite willing to get our lads killed by sending them out to fight. If we
didn't interfere in other countries, then these people would be less likely
to attack our people. A fiction showing a royal getting killed in Afghanistan
might bring home to the young that joining the army is not a good idea. This
country would also save a lot of money by not getting involved in these wars
the American government starts.
......
Let the punishment fit the crime.
19th October 2010
According to the BBC news today, the woman who put the cat in the wheelie bin
could go to prison for animal cruelty. That is good, but another item on shop
lifting said the typical punishment for getting court is a £60 to £80 fine.
Well no wonder a lot of people are willing to take the risk. 12 months
in prison would be a better punishment, and in the prison they go to they
should be made to work, and work hard to cover the costs of their
imprisonment. I understand the prisons these days have TV rooms and computer
games for prisoners to use. It is suppose to be a place of punishment, not a
holiday camp!!!!.
......
The Chilean miners are all out.
14th October 2010
Now maybe the TV news channels can tell us if anything else happened in the
world.
......
I guess God is real and works for Microsoft.
4th October 2010
A friend of mine has pointed me to a command that makes adjusting a Windows 7
install to an individuals taste a lot easier. To do it you make a new folder
and name it :
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
It then becomes a shortcut to all those little setting
etc. A useful tool, but what a daft way the programmer has used to implement
it. It doesn’t add any extras so it not giving you more control. It is just
putting it all in one place.
..….
Don't fine the tax payer for a companies sins.
2nd October
2010
I just read in the Telegraph that the European Commission is taking UK to
court over failure to investigate
Phorm. This will lead to the UK paying a
fine. In other words the tax payer pays because an
ISP breaks
the law. Surely
the ISP should be fined rather than the tax payer.
......
How to shoot yourself in the foot.
1st October
2010
I really don't understand the way the people at Microsoft think. They
recently released the beta version of their browser, calling it IE9 They claim
it is fantastic, then add it won't work on XP! To the casual user it
doesn't work that differently to IE8 other than the lack of buttons. I have
read various reviews about it out its new features/gimmicks, like being able to
tile web pages. Maybe they will attract a few back from other browsers,
but having spent all that time adding these gimmicks/features, they decide that
it is not going to work with XP!!
I have XP on my laptop so if I installed IE9
on my PC, I would have to stay with IE8 on the laptop, so I would find the
browsing experience different depending on the machine I was using!
My solution is simple. Stick to
Firefox. It is an excellent browser, and if anything new on IE9 turns out to be
worth while, I am sure it won't be long before an update to Firefox will be
even better, and will work on XP too.
......
More often - less detail.
29th September
2010
In the days before we had lots of TV channels you had to wait to get the TV
news. It usually came on at 1300 hrs, 1800 hrs, and 2200hrs. When it came on
they spent up to an hour reporting news from around the world. Now you will
find 24 hours news channels, but these channels repeat the news every 15
minutes so you don't get many news items, and during events like the labour
political conference we have at the moment all you seem to be able to get is Miliband rammed down your throat. The BBC for example despite the 15 minute
repeat usually manage to tell you you are watching the news from the BBC even
though it is written at the bottom of the screen and part of the 15 minute
slot is often taken up by the weather report. Sky do the same thing plus adds, so no
point in trying them.
......
The news is back.
23rd September
2010
The news channels seem to have finally stopped waffling on about the pope.
Hopefully this country won't be stupid enough to invite him again.
......
I wish that Pope would F off.
16th September
2010
I cannot turn the TV on without them going on and on about the visiting pope,
so I will use only the internet pages to get my news for the next four or five
days. As for the idiots that believe in a god and are all over this old man,
maybe they should consider this. If there is a god then how come he allowed all
those catholic priests to abuse children for all those years?
......
Remember the 70's strikes and power cuts?
13th September
2010
I remember having to buy candles to light up the furniture shop I was working
in during the early 70's. Only days later you couldn't buy a candle so I bought
some jars of Vaseline petroleum jelly and inserted a wick so it would work like
a candle. That time has since become known as the winter of discontent and all the
unions succeeded in doing was making people worse off. The unions are preparing
to do the same thing again. We have a massive debt and by going on strike all
they will do is make things worse.
By the way, if you need to make a Vaseline
petroleum jelly candle be warned that it comes in plastic container these days
so it would have to be transferred into a none inflammable container.
Glass
Plastic
If you do make a Vaseline candle then you do so entirely at your own risk!!!!
......
A Waste of Tax.
12th September
2010
Nobody likes paying tax, but we have to, but why do we have to see it wasted on
funding a trip to this country by a nasty piece of work that hid child abuse in
his perverted religious organisation? I understand it has been estimated to
cost the tax payer around £20,000,000 excluding security costs. If this pope
wants to visit he should pay his own costs and have to show his passport on
entry to the UK. Now they have given the visit the title 'State Visit' It makes
me wonder if this government know the meaning of 'State Visit'.
......
Don't fight, just Burn a few Bibles.
8th September
2010
When this Rev. Terry Jones burns the Qur’an on the 11th of September, there is
no need to start killing each other. Prove to him that the average worshiper
isn't an extremist by not starting another fight. All you have to do is
retaliate by burning a few Bibles.
......
JavaScript can be a pain.
8th September
2010
I came across a web site the other day that would not allow me to select for
copy any of it's text. All I was going to do was select a couple of words to
paste into a search. I discovered it was some JavaScript on the page that was
causing the irritation. To copy I have to go into the options of the browser
and disable JavaScript, but after I had copied I had to re enable it because
one cannot leave it disabled as some web sites use JavaScript to link to other
pages etc. I use the Firefox browser. Maybe they could add a Java on/off button
to the browser.
On the whole I think it would be better if
web authors did not use JavaScript where there is a normal HTML command for the
purpose.
......
That about wraps it up for god.
4th September
2010
In The Wall Street Journal, British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking
writes, "There is a sound
scientific explanation for the making of our world—no gods required."
......
Blair regrets banning fox hunting.
1st September
2010
Experts from Blair's book mentioned in the news tell us he regrets banning fox
hunting and tells how he watered it down as much as he could without giving
himself away. To me Tony Blair was the first Tory to become leader of the
Labour party. He proceeded to modify the Labour party, making it a second rate
copy of the Tory party and calling it New Labour. Banning the hunting animals
for sport was about the only thing he did that was worth while. Just about
everything else he did including getting thousands killed in Iraq was a
mistake. He is now stinking rich, and still meddling in world affairs, while
the rest of us pay for the mess he made.
......
Cat woman and the wheelie bin.
25th August
2010
We have all probably see the video clip of the woman dropping the cat into the
bin, and hopefully most of us reacted with disgust. I just saw her apologies on
Sky news. She didn't sound sincere to me. Anyone still proud to be a member of
the human Race?
......
Assumed guilty until proved innocent.
10th August
2010
While
this article reads like Sion Jenkins was an aggressive person, and is quite
possibly the killer, but was released because of lack of proof after spending 6
years in prison, I did not like this statement. "They
must prove they are ‘clearly innocent’ to receive a payout."
It is of course impossible to prove he did not do it unless he finds the person
who did do it and proves it." If the police cannot do this then one man has no
chance.
......
XP to Vista to Windows 7.
They call it upgrading!!.
10th
July 2010
Anyone moving from XP to Vista must have found it difficult to get used to.
Vista was not popular so instead of bringing out service packs for Vista, they
modified it and called it 'Windows 7'.
XP had an Email application called 'Outlook Express'. It was easy to use and
worked well. Anyone migrating from XP to Vista found that 'Windows Mail' took
over from 'Outlook Express', but it was not very different so didn't get too many
complaints. When 'Windows 7' was released 'Windows Mail' had vanished and Microsoft
announced that an email application was not included and said you could
download for free.
'Windows Live Mail'
Anyone moving to this application found a very different
programme. The first thing I noticed was it put in a separate
set of folders for each email address and it had extra's like calendars etc. on
it making it look like a cut down version of the Outlook programme that comes with
'Microsoft Office'. Having tried a few alternative Email applications and finding
nothing satisfactory I resigned myself to using this mess called 'Windows live
mail', but I wasn't happy with it, so kept searching for alternatives. During
one of these searches I came across a comment saying that the 'Windows Mail'
programme in Vista was also in Windows 7 but it would not function as one of
the DLL's was disabled. If Microsoft wanted to remove it then why disable it,
and leave it there wasting disc space?
Then I had a bit of good luck!
In the
Windows Mail - Windows 7
Forum I found the answer. They supplied a replacement DLL and a registry
entry to make it possible to change it, so I now have
'Windows 7' with an email application that is very like 'Outlook Express'.
Had there been drivers for the 64 bit version of XP, I would
have stayed with XP, but there are few drivers for 64bit XP around so had to
migrate to 'Windows 7'. Notice I say migrate not upgrade. I don't consider
Vista or 'Windows 7' and upgrade. There is a lot of other things I had to find
fixes for that vanished with the move. Folders on XP when closed opened in the
shape size and position as they were when you closed them. I had shortcuts to
certain folders in the quick launch bar on XP. You cannot put shortcuts to
folder on 'Windows 7' quick launch area, and folders open in the place
and shape of the last folder that was closed regardless of which folder it was.
I found a programme called ShellFolderFix that remembers where folders were,
but still have not found a way to open these folders from the quick launch bar.
They actually charge money for these OS's!!!!
......
2182
29th
July 2010
I just read that a giant asteroid called 1999 RQ36 may crash into Earth on
September 24 2182. That is just over 172 years away. I would doubt that even a
baby born today is likely to be alive when that day comes, so as one who has
past the retirement age I won't worry too much about it.
......
Forged Money.
28th
July 2010
A day or two back the BBC interviewed a coin expert who informed us that there
are million of forged pound coins circulating. This surprised me because I
would have thought that it would hardly be worth forging one pound coins. It
made more sense to forge 20 pound notes.
Having explained how he could tell a forged coin from
a genuine one he said it was against the law to pass a forged coin on, but if
you handed it in as a forged coin you would not be compensated.
Now how stupid is that? It says to everyone Don't check the
money in your packet for forgeries. Just spend it because to find a forgery is
to loose out.
......
Goodbye ZoneAlarm.
25th
July 2010
Having moved to a 64 bit version of Windows I found the version of ZoneAlarm I
had was not compatible, so I had to download a new version of ZoneAlarm. The
new version however assumes some applications can have access to the internet
without asking. This is what the Windows firewall does which is why I have used
ZoneAlarm in the past. This new version has also started producing popups
offering a prize. It seemed a shame but this forced me to start looking for an
alternative firewall.
I have found an application called 'Windows 7 Firewall
Control' by
sphinx-soft which seems to be doing the required job.
......
Is a puzzlement.
16th
July 2010
I just heard on the news that the doctor who had seen the child known as 'baby
Peter' has been suspended from practicing medicine for 12 months. This I do not
understand. If he was found unfit to practice medicine then he should be struck
of or sent for further training, but to suspend him for 12 months after which
he will be free to practice medicine again makes no sense to me. After all he
is likely to be a worse doctor if he hasn't been doing the job for a year.
......
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The internet is full.
4th February 2011
Many report that they are fast running out of IP address's and that the IP6
format will be needed very soon, and that most routers will not handle the
new format, but none say what they are going to do about it.
Most routers can be reprogrammed by the user if the maker supplies the new
code, but get that process wrong and the router fails.
I don't know why the ISP's have to be told to get their fingers out, but it
seems that they do.
Come on ISP's start sorting out the hardware or lose customers.
......
Thank you so much.
21st January 2011
A few years ago I saw an experiment on TV where a person fell over in the
main street in London to see if people would help, and to my disgust everyone
just walk by. Today I fell over just outside a supermarket hitting my head on
the ground very hard and I am pleased to report that several people rushed to
my aid. Two men helped me to my feet. A third man seeing my nose was bleeding
ran to fetch me tissue paper, and a lady handed me some tissue from her
handbag. It seems the people in the town of Whitchurch, Shropshire care for
others. I don't know the names of those who helped me, but if you happen to
read this then please accept my gratitude.
......
Dioxins, the poison that isn’t.
7th January 2011
They report on the news that some eggs from Germany that have been
contaminated with dioxins have been used in the making of some products on
the supermarket shelves, and that most have already been sold. They say there
is no danger to the public then ask the supermarkets to remove any not yet
sold from the shelves.
Well, telling the supermarkets to withdraw these product suggests to me they
are not safe so I don't believe that there is no danger.
If there was no danger then they would not need to remove them from sale.
......
China Blocked Skype.
3rd January 2011
I read that China have decided to block Skype. The reason given is that it is
unfair competition for their own telephone services, but I would say the real
reason is that people can talk to anyone in the world through Skype and they
can't have that.
......
Why Prince Charles is too dangerous to be king.
18th December 2010
I just read in the Daily Mail something I have been thinking as our Queen
gets older. Max Hastings describes in detail why Prince William should
replace the Queen when she dies by pointing out the nature of that loud mouth
Charles.
......
Hello Post Office.
23rd November 2010
My internet connection transfer from Talktalk to The Post Office took place
successfully today removing the Talktalk surcharge for refusing to transfer to Direct
debit and removing the threat of a £10.00 if the payments system went wrong
for any reason. I am now with the
Post Office who let me decide how I wish to pay. I can pay by
credit/debit card or even the dreaded direct debit if I choose!!. I can even
pop into town and pay over the counter at the Post Office with the old
fashion stuff called cash!!
......
Goodbye Henry.
5th November 2010
My good friend Henry Muller died today. I will miss him.
......
So that is why I got a MAC code so easily from TalkTalk.
2nd November 2010
I was amazed when I requested a MAC code from TalkTalk to get one so easily.
I just found a report on the BBC web site that explains why they were so
obliging for the first time ever in all my dealings with them.
BBC
News about TalkTalk.
......
I have a MAC code.
30th October 2010
I just received an email from my internet provider saying "
If your monthly payment to TalkTalk fails, the
one-off charge that's applied to your account will be £10 (from 20th December
2010).
" That annoyed me as the payment could fail to go
through on time for any number of reasons that I have no control over. They
then said "If you pay your TalkTalk bills by
automatic monthly card payments (not one-off payments or Debit Debit), a
surcharge of 99p a month will be applied to your account each month (from
20th December 2010). However, you can switch to Direct Debit to avoid this
fee." and went on to tell me how to change to direct debit.
I HATE DIRECT DEBIT, and there is no way I am allowing them to charge me not
use direct debit. I have had trouble with TalkTalk several times since they
took over Tiscali and have come close to moving in the past. This is the
final straw. So I rang them to request a MAC code. (A number you need to get
from your provider if you wish to move to another provider.) Having tried to
persuade me to stay by offering a cheaper deal she finally said they would
send me the MAC code. It came by Email within the hour. I was astounded. The
first time TalkTalk have been quick and efficient is when I leave them. I
immediately supplied my new provider with the code. Hopefully the changeover
will go smoothly.
......
Good for Channel 4.
19th October 2010
I read that channel 4 in the UK are refusing to cancel the airing of a
drama-documentary showing the fictionalised kidnapping of Prince Harry in
Afghanistan on Thursday at 2100 hours. Good for channel 4. The government are
quite willing to get our lads killed by sending them out to fight. If we
didn't interfere in other countries, then these people would be less likely
to attack our people. A fiction showing a royal getting killed in Afghanistan
might bring home to the young that joining the army is not a good idea. This
country would also save a lot of money by not getting involved in these wars
the American government starts.
......
Let the punishment fit the crime.
19th October 2010
According to the BBC news today, the woman who put the cat in the wheelie bin
could go to prison for animal cruelty. That is good, but another item on shop
lifting said the typical punishment for getting court is a £60 to £80 fine.
Well no wonder a lot of people are willing to take the risk. 12 months
in prison would be a better punishment, and in the prison they go to they
should be made to work, and work hard to cover the costs of their
imprisonment. I understand the prisons these days have TV rooms and computer
games for prisoners to use. It is suppose to be a place of punishment, not a
holiday camp!!!!.
......
The Chilean miners are all out.
14th October 2010
Now maybe the TV news channels can tell us if anything else happened in the
world.
......
I guess God is real and works for Microsoft.
4th October 2010
A friend of mine has pointed me to a command that makes adjusting a Windows 7
install to an individuals taste a lot easier. To do it you make a new folder
and name it :
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
It then becomes a shortcut to all those little setting etc. A useful tool, but what a daft way the programmer has used to implement it. It doesn’t add any extras so it not giving you more control. It is just putting it all in one place.
..….
Don't fine the tax payer for a companies sins.
2nd October
2010
I just read in the Telegraph that the European Commission is taking UK to
court over failure to investigate
Phorm. This will lead to the UK paying a
fine. In other words the tax payer pays because an
ISP breaks
the law. Surely
the ISP should be fined rather than the tax payer.
......
How to shoot yourself in the foot.
1st October
2010
I really don't understand the way the people at Microsoft think. They
recently released the beta version of their browser, calling it IE9 They claim
it is fantastic, then add it won't work on XP! To the casual user it
doesn't work that differently to IE8 other than the lack of buttons. I have
read various reviews about it out its new features/gimmicks, like being able to
tile web pages. Maybe they will attract a few back from other browsers,
but having spent all that time adding these gimmicks/features, they decide that
it is not going to work with XP!!
I have XP on my laptop so if I installed IE9 on my PC, I would have to stay with IE8 on the laptop, so I would find the browsing experience different depending on the machine I was using!
My solution is simple. Stick to Firefox. It is an excellent browser, and if anything new on IE9 turns out to be worth while, I am sure it won't be long before an update to Firefox will be even better, and will work on XP too.
......
More often - less detail.
29th September
2010
In the days before we had lots of TV channels you had to wait to get the TV
news. It usually came on at 1300 hrs, 1800 hrs, and 2200hrs. When it came on
they spent up to an hour reporting news from around the world. Now you will
find 24 hours news channels, but these channels repeat the news every 15
minutes so you don't get many news items, and during events like the labour
political conference we have at the moment all you seem to be able to get is Miliband rammed down your throat. The BBC for example despite the 15 minute
repeat usually manage to tell you you are watching the news from the BBC even
though it is written at the bottom of the screen and part of the 15 minute
slot is often taken up by the weather report. Sky do the same thing plus adds, so no
point in trying them.
......
The news is back.
23rd September
2010
The news channels seem to have finally stopped waffling on about the pope.
Hopefully this country won't be stupid enough to invite him again.
......
I wish that Pope would F off.
16th September
2010
I cannot turn the TV on without them going on and on about the visiting pope,
so I will use only the internet pages to get my news for the next four or five
days. As for the idiots that believe in a god and are all over this old man,
maybe they should consider this. If there is a god then how come he allowed all
those catholic priests to abuse children for all those years?
......
Remember the 70's strikes and power cuts?
13th September
2010
I remember having to buy candles to light up the furniture shop I was working
in during the early 70's. Only days later you couldn't buy a candle so I bought
some jars of Vaseline petroleum jelly and inserted a wick so it would work like
a candle. That time has since become known as the winter of discontent and all the
unions succeeded in doing was making people worse off. The unions are preparing
to do the same thing again. We have a massive debt and by going on strike all
they will do is make things worse.
By the way, if you need to make a Vaseline petroleum jelly candle be warned that it comes in plastic container these days so it would have to be transferred into a none inflammable container.
GlassPlastic
If you do make a Vaseline candle then you do so entirely at your own risk!!!!