I started off with this problem of Microsoft Word complaining about “Macros in this project are disabled” whenever we tried to paste into the document. I fixed this by resetting the default document template, enabling all macros, and restarting Word. (I think just restarting Word would’ve worked. If you have this problem, try that: and…Continue Reading…
I stumbled into a couple of really good and interesting web pages, both of which are on Zyra.org.uk, which appears to be run by some British guy. The pages are Advice on buying a computer and Felix Computers. This British guy has a good sense of humor. And while searching his site to find out…Continue Reading…
Someone somehow modified some downloads of WordPress 2.1.1, so Matt announced that they’re calling the entire version dangerous. I used to wonder why the 2.0 branch is still maintained at all, considering that 2.1 is out. Perhaps this is part of the reason. The story behind this exploit is rather interesting. This morning we received…Continue Reading…
When you edit the first post of a topic in vBulletin, it doesn’t update the topic title, even if you update counters in the Maintenance section. One of the first posts I found on the subject was Bug with editing title. The info in this thread is wrong for the latest version of vBulletin 3….Continue Reading…
A thought that has crossed my mind is: “Everyone knows how to use a computer now. Kids learn it on their own by practice. Adults have learned it from classes. Soon, the market will become so educated that all the training for the simple, basic computer skills will have nobody to sell to.” I also…Continue Reading…
I have a new Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad Z61t. I close the lid often when done working, to put the system into standby (suspend) or sleep mode. Recently, the ThinkPad was failing to resume from standby. Instead, I’d just get a blank desktop. Although the wireless utility would pop-up with the Fn key combo, nothing else worked,…Continue Reading…