Faarrrkkkk!
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Rant time, Windows 98 SE again, hated it to start with but now it's getting passionate. Sent out to a customers site Monday night to look at a computer that couldn't dial-up to the internet. The company I get the work through is also the ISP in question. I get there and find that basically the only thing wrong is an incorrect userid and password. But then we can't get out to any websites in Internet Explorer 6. I install IE 6 SP1 thinking that it might rebuild any components that have become corrupt. No good. Outlook could get to mail server and DNS was resolving IP addresses. ping and tracert would reach the ISP DNS server and timeout for everything after that. I was told that was standard behaviour for this ISP (by the owner). So I install Mozilla and SmartFTP to test if anything could get through. SnartFTP had no problems at all. Mozilla could view FTP but not HTTP while IE couldn't do anything. They had Norton Internet Security 2002 installed and when I had a look IE, Mozilla and SmartFTP had the same settings. After bashing my head against a wall for 4 hours I gave up. Charged them for my time and suggested a fresh install or new machine was in order. There were other problems like the CD-ROM deciding at times not to read from the CD and lock up the machine. Keyboard amd mouse buffers filling up and other shit I can't remember. Wednesday lunchtime (an hour ago) I get a phone call, someone else came out in 5 minutes made a change to Morton Internet Security and it's all go. I fucking hate computers. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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Rant time, Windows 98 SE again, hated it to start with but now it's getting passionate. Sent out to a customers site Monday night to look at a computer that couldn't dial-up to the internet. The company I get the work through is also the ISP in question. I get there and find that basically the only thing wrong is an incorrect userid and password. But then we can't get out to any websites in Internet Explorer 6. I install IE 6 SP1 thinking that it might rebuild any components that have become corrupt. No good. Outlook could get to mail server and DNS was resolving IP addresses. ping and tracert would reach the ISP DNS server and timeout for everything after that. I was told that was standard behaviour for this ISP (by the owner). So I install Mozilla and SmartFTP to test if anything could get through. SnartFTP had no problems at all. Mozilla could view FTP but not HTTP while IE couldn't do anything. They had Norton Internet Security 2002 installed and when I had a look IE, Mozilla and SmartFTP had the same settings. After bashing my head against a wall for 4 hours I gave up. Charged them for my time and suggested a fresh install or new machine was in order. There were other problems like the CD-ROM deciding at times not to read from the CD and lock up the machine. Keyboard amd mouse buffers filling up and other shit I can't remember. Wednesday lunchtime (an hour ago) I get a phone call, someone else came out in 5 minutes made a change to Morton Internet Security and it's all go. I fucking hate computers. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
Michael Martin wrote: I f***ing hate computers A clear case of mistaken identity... Norton is the true object of hatred. All of their products are deeply intrusive, non-intuitive, and far more trouble than they're worth. Anytime you spot a Norton product on a machine that has problems, suspect Norton. Over 70% of the time, the fault will lie with that product.
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It tolls for thee..."