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{ Monthly Archives } June 2005

Confederations Cup final prediction

I predict that Brazil will beat Argentina 3-2 in the Confederations Cup final tomorrow.

2005 06 27 Chris Ilias Personal Comments Off

It may not have been a virus

Get this. I got a voice message today regarding my laptop, “Your laptop needs a new motherboard, which will cost $500 (CAD) plus tax (15%).” I haven’t called them back; so I don’t know if that is in addition to the $100 labour charge (probably is). In total, that would be $690 CAD. As I [...]

2005 06 25 Chris Ilias Personal Comments Off

Update on my virus

This computer virus I got looks to be more than a software problem. It also looks like I’m not going to be able to retrieve my info. I’m not going to get my laptop back for at least a week. Till then, my ‘online time’ will be much less.

2005 06 20 Chris Ilias Personal Comments Off

I got a virus

Well, it a appears I got a computer virus. I don’t exactly know how. F-Prot detected a few files in my Java Plugin cache last night, but the service person took one look at Limewire, and suspected that. So, my laptop is out gone to be serviced for the next while, with no guarantee I’ll [...]

2005 06 16 Chris Ilias Personal Comments Off

Google says to bottom-post

Google Groups Help: What’s good ‘netiquette’ when posting to Usenet? When you click “Reply” under “show options” to follow up an existing article, Google Groups includes the full article in quotes, with the cursor at the top of the article. Tempting though it is to just start typing your message, please STOP and do two [...]

2005 06 11 Chris Ilias Personal Comments Off

Digitally signing newsgroup posts

I recently did some testing of SMIME signed newsgroup messages. First, I guess I should state how I achieved it in Mozilla Thunderbird (also works in Mozilla Application Suite, and Netscape 7): First, set up one of your mail accounts to have a certificate for digital signing. Close Mozilla Thunderbird, and open your prefs.js file. [...]

2005 06 09 Chris Ilias Mozilla
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I’m Darth Vader

You scored as Darth Vader. Darth Vader 69% Anakin Skywalker 67% R2-D2 64% Mace Windu 58% C-3PO 56% General Grievous 56% Chewbacca 53% Yoda 53% Emperor Palpatine 50% Clone Trooper 44% Padme Amidala 42% Obi Wan Kenobi 36% Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

2005 06 03 Chris Ilias Personal Comments Off

Deer Park logo is better

The Mozilla Foundation has released the first alpha release of what will become Firefox 1.1. To prevent confusion of Firefox 1.0.x users, they have gone to great lengths to make sure only developers and testers download it. Among them are calling the release by its codename (Deer Park), changing the product name for the developer [...]

2005 06 01 Chris Ilias Firefox
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