NetBloke.com - Rushed Ruler
Publication Date: 21/06/2001
ISSN 1445-1360
Publication Date: 21/06/2001
ISSN 1445-1360
G'Day!
Well as ruler of the NetBloke.com world I have been a busy bloke! Therefore in advance I will apologize for this issue being a little light on content.
You see I have had a few technical issues to deal with. My Web host hostmatters.com has given me a free upgrade to a new server that includes some cool new features. The thing is I have been waiting for two days for my domain name, NetBloke.com, to start pointing to the new server. Then I could have told you all about a couple of cool shortcuts I have created under the new system. However as this hasn't happened yet I will have to make you all wait until next week.
Any of you watching the Webcam would see that the kittens have become tame (although one is a bit reserved still) and that they have been running around the study quite a bit. We are still only planning on keeping two, which is going to make it hard to part company with the ones we give away.
I was busy today shopping for a wedding up in Cincinnati this weekend. Shopping around here normally involves a small road trip somewhere else! The name of the management of the mall we went to lead to this weeks Site Recommendation.
Finally keep on sending in your questions for the Question and Answers section, and if I do not answer them myself I will try to find another bloke out there that can.
That is about it for now so until next week seeya later!
Nathan Allan
If you are getting charged by the hour for your Internet Connection (if you are you need to change your plan) and all you want to do is read and reply to your email. To save money connect to the Internet, download your email, go offline to read and reply to your email and then finally connect back up to the Internet to send the email.
This should save you time and money as it only takes a few seconds or minutes to download and send your email, but it takes a while to read and reply to it!
This is when someone is upset or annoyed at something or someone.
For example I am narked that my wife sleeps on the side of the bed that is perfect while I sleep on incline caused by the box springs!
You may be narked that I didn't send this issue out on time this week!
I went to the Eastland Mall in Evansville Indiana today. It was a simply shopping trip for a wedding present and a shirt for myself. With a ride on the Merry-go-round for Hayden (my two year old daughter) thrown in for good measure. It was the first time she actually sat on a horse and went around, instead of freaking out and ending up in the carriage (hey if she wants to pay two bucks to ride around on a seat in circles I will take her for a spin in the car!).
Anyway back to the Site Recommendation. A company called 'Simon' manages the mall. They also plug their Web site pretty extensively throughout the mall. I thought this may have been some real world affiliation with one of my favorite Web sites for comparing prices, MySimon.com, however after having a good look at the site it appears they have nothing to do with each other.
Now what I thought was cool for us online blokes and sheilas is that Simon offers gift certificates that can be redeemed nationwide in over 200 malls. Now imagine you need to buy a last minute present for grandma, and that you cannot think of a thing to buy her. Well now you have a fall back! A gift certificate for a real world place, as grandma probably isn't online.
For yourself the Shop Simon Web site also will keep you abreast of special offers and events at your local Simon run mall. Pretty handy when planning that next shopping trip!
http://www.shopsimon.com
Don't forget to make sure you are getting a good deal online, by checking out MySimon!
http://www.mysimon.com/
This weeks question comes from Joe.
"Help NetBloke,
I can keep this pretty simple, I am looking for a way to rename the computers of a large network. This would be run on an NT server as a start up program. I have been looking for a while and haven't been able to locate one. If you have any suggestions about a program like this send me a note and maybe I will have some kittens".
Can you help him out? I will publish your answers next issue!
Answer:
Last weeks question from Tom-in-Seoul was:
" Is there a way to keep programs from changing file associations in Win2k?
Can you lock the associations?"
Answers included
Joe Perez said to try PC Magazine's free Freedom of Association:
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,77392,.html
"Won't keep programs from changing associations. But has a backup facility
which should make restoring the associations easier".
Then Joel Tompkins had a slightly hacky way of solving this problem.
"Hi! I don't have a method for 'locking" file associations, but after
installing Office 2000 and having MS Photo Editor usurp the file
associations for GIFs and JPGs, I found an easy way to recover them. I
wanted Internet Explorer to be the default for GIFs (for displaying
animated GIFs), and JPGs (for "set as wallpaper"), but no amount of editing
the file association or hacking the registry would get me that back. Even
though the association was edited to read OPEN with Iexplore.exe, Iexplore
would open Photo Editor to display the picture (even if you did a file-open
from inside the browser!)! Even after Uninstalling Photo Editor, Iexplorer
refused to bring up these images by itself (It just bombed with an error). I
finally found out all I really had to do was delete the file associations
for GIFs and JPGs from the file types listing, close out the file types
listing, then select a GIF or JPG, do a shift-right click and say open-with.
When I chose Iexplorer, and checked always open with this application, it
recreated a new association that worked. This procedure did not work if the
association was already there, it had to be deleted first. Who'd a thought
it would be so simple after all that editing and reg hacking? Anyway, that's
all it takes to restore an association: Delete the current association and
re-establish it with Open-with. I'll be waiting with anticipation to see if
someone can actually lock these file associations, but if not, this is the
easy restore method. Thanks again for the great newsletter!!!!"
Hey he thinks this newsletter is great! Oh shucks! That is nice.
If you have a question of your own, contact me.
Some of you may say I am living in the middle of Redneck country, which I may be (Obviously the bloke who sent this in thinks so. I would prefer to think that these people referred to as Rednecks are wrongly labeled as such! Wishful thinking? Have a read of this list and see what you think!
REDNECK
You might be a redneck, if...
You take your dog for a walk, and you both use the same tree.
You can entertain yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.
Your property has been mistaken for a recycling center.
Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.
You burn your yard rather than mow it.
You think the Nutcracker is something you did off the high dive.
Your entire family sat around waiting for a call from the governor to
Spare a loved one.
You offer to give someone the shirt off your back and they don't want it.
You have the local taxidermist on speed dial.
You come back from the dump with more than you took.
You keep a can of Raid on the kitchen table.
Your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat.
Your grandmother has "Ammo" on her Christmas list.
You've been kicked out of the zoo for heckling the monkeys.
You think a subdivision is part of a math problem.
You've bathed with flea and tick soap.
You've been involved in a custody fight over a hunting dog.
Your kids take a siphon hose to show and tell.
You think a hot tub is a stolen indoor plumbing fixture.
You took a fishing pole to Sea World.
You go to the stock car races and don't need a program.
You know how many bales of hay your car will hold.
You have a rag for a gas cap.
Your father executes the "Pull my finger" trick during Christmas dinner.
Your house doesn't have curtains but your truck does.
You wonder how service stations keep their rest rooms so clean.
You can spit without opening your mouth.
You consider your license plate personalized because your father made it.
Your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
You sit on your roof at Christmas time hoping to fill your deer quota.
You have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Cool Whip on the side.
The biggest city you've ever been to is Wal-Mart.
Your working TV sits on top of your non working TV.
You thought the Unibomber was a wrestler.
You use your ironing board as a buffet table.
You think a quarter horse is that ride in front of Wal-Mart.
Your neighbours think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home.
A tornado hits your neighbourhood and does $100,000 worth of improvement.
You've used a toilet brush as a back scratcher.
You missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.
You think fast food is hitting a deer at 65 mph.
Somebody tells you that you've got something in your teeth and you take them out to see what it
