Re: BT sheddi to the rescue

Austin Shackles wrote: 
On or around Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:20:55 +0000 (UTC), Kran
<oiorpata@xxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us thusly:

Must be something about this computer and Microplanet Gravity not playing nicely together. Firefox had no problems downloading the newsgroups, gravity is still not being allowed to get through to news.btinternet.com.



sounds like a firewall thing.  has it got a firewall, and if so, what's
gravity allowed to qb?

You're probably right. The only firewall it has is the one that comes with winders XP. I've been told not to put zonealarm on it, because it confuses the other users, and him over the road says the MS firewall is quite OK for the wbo, so they're not going to listen to me cos I'm not an IT squillionaire.

Blooming daft computer. It was running slow as mud again when I got here, a trojan doing fecknose what and umpteen nasty adverty start page changing shopping thingies. TAAW it refuses to play sound, everything seems to be set up right, but there is no sound coming out of the loudspeakers, and I can't find a button for turning them on and off. If I CBA I would crawl about on the floor tracing the snakes nest of wires to see what goes where and what is plugged. (preminary peek sez loudspeaker cable is plugged into puter) but I'm holding out in the hope that a more limber niece will turn up and can be pressed into crawling service.

So I can't even Skype people, well I suppose the skype chat thing still jbexes, but I can't hear if anyone tries to call.

Even the dog is boring, all it does is sleep. I've had to restrain myself from overfeeding the goldfish just to pass the time.

Also, I just discovered that the books I ordered from Amazon, with free delivery, to be dispached "within 24hrs" and to arrive 2 to 5 days later than first class post, are estimated as arriving after 8th February. Yep, that's right "Delivery estimate: Feb 8, 2006 - Feb 10, 2006" and the hootering web page won't let me cancel the order because it says "We are preparing these items for dispatch and this part of your order cannot be cancelled or changed." I'm hoping it's just a mistake on their webpage, but it doesn't look as if the books I was counting on to get me through the next fortnight are probably not going to arrive. In fact, I'll be lucky if they've arrived when I come back for Christmas, and if'n they do turn up in February they'll just have to sit here and wait for my next appearance. Hooter it!

I think I may have to turn to drink. There's a bottle of Glenmorangie down there with my name on it.

Krane
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