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This week's offering is up early for the Easter hols - all about I.D theft..... :mrgrn: Episode 11 GM

More BOFH goodness :) - fuel cells and all that...... Episode 10 GM

Brilliant - and oh so true..... :mrgrn: GM

I managed to get mine to install over the top without incident (must have been my lucky day.....;) ). GM

The latest dose of BOFH-related goodness - how not to run comms cabling between buildings :lol: Episode 7 - Goin' Underground GM

First time I've been to the Reg for a few days - glad I did :mrgrn: GM

This week, it's affirmative action time (no prejudice in his workplace it seems :mrgrn: ). Episode 5 - The BOFH's Guide to Equal Opportunities GM

Oh yes - I've been a fan since 1984 (when it first appeared on one of the new UK terrestrial channels), and when I get into something like that, I like to know all the detailed bits (I've done the same with major league baseball), so I'm probably not far behind most US football fans when it...

I wonder why :D - a pretty decent game overall, with the Pats just coming out ahead once again because they didn't make mistakes when it mattered and their opponents did. Question now is can they win it again without their two top assistant coaches?...... GM

THis week, he's really living up to his name :mrgrn: Episode 4 - When Desk Lamps Attack GM

Yep, the last college I worked at (before my current job) was trialling it when I left - took a little tweaking on setup to get it working as we wanted it to, but once the config was right, it worked pretty well. Cut the number of call outs to remove downloaded junk, spyware etc significantly...

Time for Episode 3 - brown paper envelopes ahoy!! :lol: GM

That extra holiday's obviously done him good :lol: GM

I was the one who started the other DVD burner thread, and thanks to your recommendations went with the NEC3500A. Haven't done much burning so far, but what I have done worked a treat :) , so I can happily endorse it. GM

Just upgraded my free Trillian (.74) to the new version (which bears a close resemblence to Trillian Pro version 2), and everything seems to work OK thus far...... GM

#41 is now available for your enjoyment :D Episode 41 GM

The NEC3500 seems to be well liked by everybody, so that's the one I'll likely be going for (it can also be had for less than £50 too, which is good with with festive season approaching). I just need to sort out some IDE drivers for my Epox NForce2 mobo out now (been all-SCSI up to press) -...

After a couple of weeks in pastures foreign, he's back (and fighting for his future :mrgrn: ): Episode 40 GM

As I mentioned in another thread here, my Plextor 40Tsi SCSI reader is slowly dying on me, so I'm in the market for a new primary optical drive. Given that SCSI optical drives of any description are pretty hard to acquire these days (I only know of two UK vendors selling them - either the...

Until recently, I'd have agreed with you regarding Plextor SCSI CD-ROMS - I have a 5+ year old 40X drive that's still going strong in my younger brother's PC. However a newer version of the same model that I bought to replace it about 3 years back (at the same time as a 1210S burner) is now...

15 years here (and part time for 4 years prior to that when not at university), GM

Installment #39 is now up - I wouldn't read if you've just eaten lunch ;) Episode 39 I'd have posted #38, but I've been away on a course for the last week..... GM

Yep - 400+ PCs at my workplace will need doing over the next few weeks. The upgrade process does seem reasonably painless though (with the network version - just one reboot and a couple of minor updates), and hopefully the same will apply to the forthcoming Free version of 7.0 that Grisoft are...

#37 sneaked out whilst I was enjoying my week's hols - enjoy! :mrgrn: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/29/bofh_2004_episode_37/ GM

Two helpings this week :mrgrn: - I'm sure some of you must have come across the type of person mentioned in this installment....... :lol: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/bofh_2004_episode_36/ GM

Well, the Cards defused the Rocket in the NLCS decider (2 seven game championship series for the second year running, and good ones at that 8) ), so it's Cardinals - Red Sox for the big one. Both times these two have met before (1946 & 1967) the series went the full seven games, so given the...

Ok, don't get too smug :P - it's not as if the Sox haven't won the A.L pennant since 1918....... There's still the small matter of beating the Cards or Astros before you can celebrate. But to be perfectly honest, I expected the Yanks to go down after losing game 6 - Lieber was their only...

It isn't going to happen, so don't get your hopes up :mrgrn: No team down 3-0 has ever come back to win a best-of-seven series in MLB history (or even taken it to a deciding game come to that). The weather forecast for NY tonight is wet though, so the Sox may last another day before the...

#35 may strike a chord with the gamers amongst you :lol: , and there's a bonus quiz too :mrgrn: http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ GM

No problems for me up to press - both my work Toshiba Satellite laptop and home box (Athlon 2100+ 1GB PC2700 DDR etc) have it installed and all the games on the latter work just fine (so does Tiny v5.0, therefore no Windows Firewall related grief). We've not rolled it out on the classroom...

Episode #34 is out early - double helpings this week :mrgrn: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/08/bofh_2004_episode_34/ GM

As is #32 :lol: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/24/bofh_2004_episode_32/ GM

I nearly fell off my chair laughing at that one when I read it :lol: #31 has since appeared, and that's pretty good too.... ;) http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ GM

Another subscriber to the 'if it 'aint broken' school of thought here. Moz does everything I need it to do, so until I know for sure that development on it is ceasing, I'll stick with it. GM

It also breaks quite a few applications (200 or so according to the article on the subject in 'The Register' :http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/17/xp_sp2_glitches/). As that list has several of my games & other apps in there, I think I'll wait for the app patches to be released before...

If you thought #25 was good, have a look at #26 :D PULL UP, PULL UP....:lol: GM

Over here in the UK, 5% of all motorists are now driving on public roads with no insurance cover of any kind in place :x The spiralling cost of cover, allied with pathetically low fines for driving without insurance (around £100, compared to £300+ for fully comprehensive cover) means more and...

Nice 'n nippy - worth the upgrade :D GM

Check this one out :mrgrn: http://www.theregister.com/2004/08/11/bofh_2004_episode_25/ Priceless! :lol: GM

Same here - old version off, new one on with same profile. Works just fine. GM

I've got: Flash Player Shockwave player Real Alternative Quicktime Acrobat Reader Sun Java 1.42_02 GM

Got the following in both my home PC and my laptop at work: Adblock (home only) Multizilla Googlebox Preferences Toolbar Smoothwheel GM

AVG and Trend in combination does the job for me - why pay for unreliable bloatware? :?: But the idiocy of owners definitely comes into it - I've seen far too many staff PCs come into the office (some with Norton, others with the AVG we installed when we first set them up) that are infected...

The competition here in in the UK has hotted up quite a bit over the past few months, particularly since B.T (main teleco provider) lost it's monopoly over the local loop (from the local exchange to houses & business premises) & promised to made ADSL available in almost all parts of the country...

I believe episode #18 is also available from today :mrgrn: GM

6 to 8 (plus a shed-load of tracking cookies and a few registry entries that shouldn't be there). GM

Moz for me too for browsing, and no e-mail client at all (webmail only) - that eliminates all the email based virus threats at a stroke :D (dodgy attachments never get downloaded.....). Mozilla's additional features (tabbed browsing etc etc) are the main reason I prefer it to I.E, but the lack...

I owe whoever it was that introduced me to the BOFH at this fine site a beer - it's become a 'must read' for me :lol: GM

Nick Park's the driving force behind that company - the guy's an absolute wizard 8) GM

Only one of me that I know of too :wink: (I have enough bother remembering one nick - multiples would be just too confusing.......). And congrats on the 5000 milestone Merc! GM