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Not really, most of the software we use can't cope with UNC names.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I just thought I might get lucky. What version of Windows is it anyway (not that it will make a difference to me, but it might help someone else)?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

2000 and XP

All I want is Unix/OS X style mounting, oh and to reprogramme things so the slashes go the right way, I'm bored of always typing the wrong slashes for paths

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ed - appleworks just crashed on me. I was trying to save a .doc (that is very important) to disc and it quit. and now I can't find the .doc. is there anyway I can recover this?! : (

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

: ( : ( : ( : | : ( : ( : ( : (

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I found it!!!!!!!! auto-save. wow I'm pretty happy.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

stable doors and horses, never save anything direct to floppy, save it to hard drive first then copy it to floppy. YOu did have it saved somewhere else, didn't you?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

just out of interest a floppy disk, wtf? why? etc.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

he didn't say floppy, did he?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oh by disc I meant 'to my hard-disk'. ew floppy disc.

everything is cool now. I had no idea the mac had an auto-save function. makes sense tho.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My mind inserted floppy, crazy. Autosave is in appleworks, rather than in the mac.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

cozen does have a floppy aura.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a kind of brewer's hoop.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now wearing a mack everywhere I go. this isn't relevant to the thread, I just don't want you to be thrown should you ever see me again. can I wear a mack with impunity?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What colour is the impunity?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the screen on my iBook keeps intermittently cutting out. sometimes when I move, sometimes not. if I give it a knock it corrects itself. or it can resume showing what was on the screen but 'dulled'. te sound remains when the screen cuts out. all the programs keep on running. this leads me to think I have a loose connection. mine is one of the early models of the iBook (2gen?, 3gen?) and someone said there was a fault with them, a design fault, which meant the screen-bus rubbed up against and got damaged by the hinge (??) or something. am I going to have to take this back by the sounds of things / get this repaired or does anyone have any other ideas. diagnoses?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

my PC laptop screen does the same. a guy once told me it was pretty easy to open up hinge-housings and fix the connection but I never have.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

is it frequent to the point of irritation?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

when it happens, yeah.

not when it doesn't.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

this is happening all the time to me. : /

does anyone believe the scene in 'all the real girls' where she breaks his heart and she keeps on saying 'I love you'?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

This isn't a question, but it is boring and about computers and if I say it anywhere else everyone will think I am a total GEEK (even more than I am), but anyway I just flashed my BIOS for no reason other than pure maintenance and now I feel all fresh and clean and up-to-date. ahhhh...

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

how quaint, bios

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

???

was that a mac snob remark. If so I kill you with motherboards!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does my PC try to connect (dial up) to the internet everytime it boots up Windows 98? I have (I think) removed the crappy Gator app GMT that I thought was doing the deed, but it's still doing it.

Any ideas?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Help me ILXors!

First I get a Symantec pop up saying the Welchia B virus has been detected on my computer. I click OK (because there's nothing else to click). Then another Symantec box tells me that access has been denied and no action has been taken. I click OK. Then a third box pops up saying Welchia B has been deleted.

I downloaded the removal tool just to be on the safe side and it found nothing and I also ran a whole system scan which also turned up nowt. Then, 10 minutes later the three boxes pop up again.

Does anyone know why this might be happening? I disabled System Restore before using the removal tool.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had the same set of three messages about four times this morning.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you googled welchia B? Or gone to one of the antivirus sites? www.antivirus.com might help.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Do I need to when I've been to Symantec? Have I been throwing my money down the drain?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Cozen, at the moment I've got the same problems as you. If it's really a design fault they should fix it for free (one would hope). Do you have any info about Apple saying anything about this?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Madchen, I'm talking about for info - it might tell you that it's a hoax, or that those are the symptoms of infection, or that it's harmless, etc. etc.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW CAN IT BE A HOAX IF SYMANTEC HAS A FIX TOOL?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

AND IF THE MESSAGES ARE COMING FROM MY VIRUS SCAN SYSTEM? AAARGH!

Hem. Sorry.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=welchia+b

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Madchen, first of all make sure you are up to date with windows patches. Then make sure you are fully up to date with symantec. Then open the symantec application and run the scan again.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I've done all that :-( This is a bad day, what with my heating not getting fixed as well. Oh well, I suppose if it's removing the same virus several times a day, that's better than it not being able to remove the virus at all.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

on the lus side welchia B is a fairly innocuous virus, it tries to patch un patched windows, still sucks though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there a lot of viruses that do good works? It appeals to my sense of fair play.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

not so many, but there have been a few.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

just wait till June, it'll kill itself then apparently

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I had a similar problem with the another worm, the name I forget, where Symantec got stuck in a loop telling me that it was trying to delete the file but access was denied etc. I got pissed off with it and just Ctrl-alt-deleted and after rebooting it told me that the virus had been deleted ok. odd stuff indeed.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry suzy, it was just a friend said that her friend experienced the same niggle and had to send off her iBook to france. I'm persevering through it right now as I have lots of work to do on this machine over the next few months. but as soon as I get through that I'm on apple's ass. keep me posted if you hear anything, please.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I am due to take the thing apart on friday. I will report back but if you wish to do the same you need a number 8 torx screw driver.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

ok thanks. my dad's good at this sort of stuff. so yeah it'd be cool if you report back and I can relay any information to him.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I found this on backlight replacement. The bulbs are really cheap but I have not yet tracked down a supplier of them in the UK. I'm hoping it wont come to that though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I'm having this weird problem where I'm trying to access my roommate's PC's shared folder. I go to Network, to our local network, click on his computer. It asks me for a password, and he doesn't have one, so I just click "enter" and it accepts it. Then it shows me the "SharedDocs" folder, which is right, but it ACTS as if this is just a folder on my computer -- it doesn't copy files into it, it shows that it has my hard drive's free space left,

I got this to work before. What am I doing wrong?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh also once I connect there doesn't seem to be a way to disconnect. I try ejecting it but it doesn't seem to do anything.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the fan on my graphics card is going and makes a dreadful noise. every time i boot i have to lie under the table and encourage it with a few gentle flicks and after that it seems ok. it's kinda funny.

oh, sarah, if that mame problem you're having is due to not knowing the keys then pressing TAB will let you redefine them. might also make qbert less of a lottery.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Madchen

If you've updated your Windows patches, Symatec definitions and run the scan in safe mode, Welchia shouldn't be on your PC anymore.

A friend of mine had a similar problem where everytime they rebooted their PC they kept being told that they had MyDoom. In the end it turned out that it was their ISP's problem. An email waiting for them on their ISP's mail server contained the virus. Outlook would attempt to grab new emails, and would be stopped by Symantec. Unfortunately, Symantec would complain that the virus was on their PC, which wasn't the case. A call to their ISP sorted things out.

― bert (bert), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

AARGH

Something's wrong with my secondary hard drive, it keeps making a sort of hissing noise in fours, HISS HISS HISS HISS. HISS HISS HISS HISS. And so on. So I'm running a surface scan of it but it's hit a very rough patch of clusters that's taking forever to fix (it's been on all day so far and only 87% done, biggest problem is that the fix option has to be chosen manually). I figure if I just hit "Don't fix" this process will be faster because the data in that cluster is easily replaceable, but then will the bad cluster be marked off limits like it would if I chose "Fix"?

Rather urgent since I have stuff due tomorrow.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And seeing as real time help is u&k, I'll be signed on AIM (Batmansascientst)

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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