Sometimes IE won't start
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jhwurmbach wrote: how can you trust a financial institution that gets surprised by the coming of the euro? Well, it is an English financial institution and according to some crazy woman in Essex (just outside London) who was interviewed a couple of years ago about the Euro said that it was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :wtf: What!??! --Colin Mackay--
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Euro [...] was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :sigh: Oh yes, that seems logical. Not. :doh: And I thought germany was bad on education.
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Euro [...] was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :sigh: Oh yes, that seems logical. Not. :doh: And I thought germany was bad on education.
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
Historically I think some people used similar arguments when Sterling converted to decimal in 1971. The pound used to consist of 20 schillings, a schilling was 12 pennies and a penny was 4 farthings. So a pound was 240 pennies or 960 farthings. And she's complaining that if the currency converted to the Euro her kids would have difficulty! Obviously, her parents bred stupid children (e.g. her) and she is in the process of breeding even stupider children such that a simple currency like the Euro becomes so difficult to understand. --Colin Mackay--
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jhwurmbach wrote: how can you trust a financial institution that gets surprised by the coming of the euro? Well, it is an English financial institution and according to some crazy woman in Essex (just outside London) who was interviewed a couple of years ago about the Euro said that it was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :wtf: What!??! --Colin Mackay--
I have vague memories of similar arguments being raised when Australia moved from '12 pence makes a shilling and 20 shillings make a pound' in 1966. I suspect these arguments were raised by the publishers of those little pocket references we used to have that gave us a conversion from '1 guinea three and tuppence' to whatever that meant in pounds shillings and pence*. As an interesting aside, Australia's conversion to decimal currency was accompanied by a storm in a teapot. The Liberal party (the name is a misnomer) wanted to call the new currency the Royal. Labour, on the other hand, wanted to call it the Jumbuck. Thankfully a compromise was found. It became the Dollar. Can you imagine pulling up at the local petrol station and asking for 20 Royals worth? Or asking for 2 jumbucks of chips? It just doesn't work :) *For the record, 1 guinea three and tuppence is 290 pence, or 1 pound 4 shillings and tuppence. Heh, I'm old enough to recall seeing an Australian Penny (it was actually Victorian colonial currency) with Queen Victoria on the heads side. Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
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Historically I think some people used similar arguments when Sterling converted to decimal in 1971. The pound used to consist of 20 schillings, a schilling was 12 pennies and a penny was 4 farthings. So a pound was 240 pennies or 960 farthings. And she's complaining that if the currency converted to the Euro her kids would have difficulty! Obviously, her parents bred stupid children (e.g. her) and she is in the process of breeding even stupider children such that a simple currency like the Euro becomes so difficult to understand. --Colin Mackay--
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Sterling converted to decimal in 1971 It was this late? I still remember a lot of shilling coins to be used in britain, but I alway thought the conversion was sometime pre-WWI. Wow. Colin Angus Mackay wrote: simple currency like the Euro becomes so difficult to understand As you can use banking cards, there is no need to count money anyway!:rolleyes:
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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Hello, For a while I tried out Mozzilla Firebird and then I decided that I still prefered IE (even without those tabbed browser windows - which were really great, but too much didn't work properly [like my bank's website, my stock broker's website and CodeProject did funny things too]) I have now uninstalled FireBird and I find that although I can start IE from the start menu the links in emails no longer work, the Google Bar doesn't work. There is no error message, I just click the link and nothing happens. :( Does anyone know the setting(s) I need to check to get this to work again? :-D - I am getting irritated. --Colin Mackay--
I read somewhere that a fix for the link-in-email not working properly is to run
regsvr32 urlmon.dll
This might fix the other problems too.
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I have vague memories of similar arguments being raised when Australia moved from '12 pence makes a shilling and 20 shillings make a pound' in 1966. I suspect these arguments were raised by the publishers of those little pocket references we used to have that gave us a conversion from '1 guinea three and tuppence' to whatever that meant in pounds shillings and pence*. As an interesting aside, Australia's conversion to decimal currency was accompanied by a storm in a teapot. The Liberal party (the name is a misnomer) wanted to call the new currency the Royal. Labour, on the other hand, wanted to call it the Jumbuck. Thankfully a compromise was found. It became the Dollar. Can you imagine pulling up at the local petrol station and asking for 20 Royals worth? Or asking for 2 jumbucks of chips? It just doesn't work :) *For the record, 1 guinea three and tuppence is 290 pence, or 1 pound 4 shillings and tuppence. Heh, I'm old enough to recall seeing an Australian Penny (it was actually Victorian colonial currency) with Queen Victoria on the heads side. Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
jumbuck doesn't sound too bad - although it does kind of sound like a male marsupial(sp?) --Colin Mackay--
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Hello, For a while I tried out Mozzilla Firebird and then I decided that I still prefered IE (even without those tabbed browser windows - which were really great, but too much didn't work properly [like my bank's website, my stock broker's website and CodeProject did funny things too]) I have now uninstalled FireBird and I find that although I can start IE from the start menu the links in emails no longer work, the Google Bar doesn't work. There is no error message, I just click the link and nothing happens. :( Does anyone know the setting(s) I need to check to get this to work again? :-D - I am getting irritated. --Colin Mackay--
I had this happen on my system the other day. Turns out it wasn't a browser setting, but some sort of browser hijack. I had an older version of McAfee with the latest virus definitions, as well as Ad-Aware, but it was still giving me problems. So I purchased the McAffee Internet Suite that includes the SpamKiller, AntiVirus, and Privacy Center and it found all of these trojans on my system. McAfee was able to clean/delete these files and my Internet Explorer started working again. Give it a try. Regards, Brigg Thorp Software Engineer Timex Corporation
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jumbuck doesn't sound too bad - although it does kind of sound like a male marsupial(sp?) --Colin Mackay--
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: marsupial(sp?) Correct! :) Colin Angus Mackay wrote: jumbuck doesn't sound too bad It's colonial era slang for a :baaaa!: Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
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Thanks lauren, :cool: that worked perfectly! :-D :-D :-D --Colin Mackay--
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Historically I think some people used similar arguments when Sterling converted to decimal in 1971. The pound used to consist of 20 schillings, a schilling was 12 pennies and a penny was 4 farthings. So a pound was 240 pennies or 960 farthings. And she's complaining that if the currency converted to the Euro her kids would have difficulty! Obviously, her parents bred stupid children (e.g. her) and she is in the process of breeding even stupider children such that a simple currency like the Euro becomes so difficult to understand. --Colin Mackay--
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What do I know? I though "Sch" was right because it was old-fashioned (for the English language). You know "olde Englisch" style. --Colin Mackay--