Unauthorized credit card use

[Guest Shane]

Re: Unauthorized credit card use

 

So it wasn't just that *I* couldn't access it (as is usually the case!)?

Unless they filter on words like 'Alzheimer's', or I accidentally hit upon

some Yankee-Doodle curse word we've never heard of, I don't know why it

should be deleted from the server. Or perhaps that ol' server they can't be

bothered to maintain has become intelligent like in the SF movies. Jeez, I

hope that doesn't mean the Govinator's gonna turn up! And especially not

starkers!

 

Admittedly it was pretty gratuitous - but I did mention Win ME, which made

it more relevent than the usual fare!

 

Anyway, I'm glad you appear to have enjoyed your birthday, Joan. So was the

first drive incompatible, or just faulty? And you're now backing up with

Acronis 10 to an external drive? Possibly I ought to do that. Well, first

thing would be to get a back up prog that works with RAID. And maybe

Internal IDE drives with a lot more capacity, ie I've done as the 'Loom

predicted and gone back to RAID0, so if a disc fails it would be handy to

have something more appropriate to back up to. Sure, I can do it, given that

much is already on DVD and my maintenance OS can just be re-installed rather

than backed up (since it won't be changing by any appreciable amount,

ever) - but the idea is to have it all automated. My Drive Image does this

great pre-RAID - the running at Shutdown is invaluable, for instance. I'm

not sure Acronis - or anything else I've heard of lately - does that. The

idea is that I can be gone for extended periods but other users still have

backups being made and be able to restore them, without me or some other

geek being around (especially not one they have to pay!).

 

I think I'll (re-)download the Acronis 10 trial. I did before but don't have

it now and can't remember why not (assuming I didn't just delete the wrong

thing - which is not beyond the realms of possibilty these days!). Hopefully

it wasn't because it just isn't possible to automate Acronis or restore from

it without knowing the jargon, or I'll be wasting my time downloading it

again!

 

And here I am, back home. I set up Windows Mail now, to post this, as my

Google session timed out. So, what, can you only use Google Groups to post

short replies, or ones that don't require any thought?? (That was only worth

2 questions marks, I thought. What to them there Yankee fellers call those?

Squiggly-dots?)

 

Rosie just bought in a boid. It was still warm. Very sad, though I praised

her anyhow. I don't think it was a robin - rather some sort of tit with a

bit of reddy-orange breast. But you don't need long here to realise why the

footie team's nickname is 'The Robins'! If you like robins, this is the

place to be! Or Italy, if its the eating them you like. I bet Tony Blair

gets through a few platefuls at Sylvio Crookisconi's place!

 

Shane

 

 

On Aug 3, 9:06 pm, "Joan Archer" <archer_j...@NOSPAM.com> wrote:

> <lol> Just read your post Shane, the one on Google, I couldn't sulk if I

> tried, don't get the chance <g> and I had an enjoyable day plus my new

> hard drive had to be exchanged as the first one didn't want to work on

> here but the new one has a higher capacity so I'm not complaining <g>

> Joan

>

>

>

> Shane wrote:

> > Now of course, Joan, since my reply didn't show up, but then my next

> > one - to Mike - did, then when I reposted the reply to you it was

> > downloading then got withdrawn from the server as I watched, yet the

> > second attempt is on Google - but not the first - despite the fact

> > that if it had any merit (probably not!), it won't survive the

> > autopsy, I want to know what is going on! I didn't put anything in a

> > filter should take notice of. It sparks my paranoia, though I

> > pretty-much accept Mike's assurances that I'm not being censored on

> > *this* group.

> > So the post is here:

>

> >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.windowsme.general/m...

>

> > And let's see if *this* one appears!

>

> > Shane- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

[Guest Joan Archer]

Re: Unauthorized credit card use

 

Not sure what was wrong with the first one but we just couldn't get my

machine to recognise it, it kept telling us there was an error installing

it, don't know what though <g>

I am not backing up as the next one went back this morning, that installed

and was recognised and all seemed well but it went belly up this morning

and as it's under warranty it's been taken back to be replaced and we're

hoping it's going to be 3rd time lucky when I get the next one and I'll

actually be able to use it <g>

Joan

 

Shane wrote:

>

> Anyway, I'm glad you appear to have enjoyed your birthday, Joan. So

> was the first drive incompatible, or just faulty? And you're now

> backing up with Acronis 10 to an external drive?

[Guest Shane]

Re: Unauthorized credit card use

 

Well, if ever there was a cause to just say "Hmm"! Do tell us if you find

out what it is/was (let's hope it's 'was').

 

Yes, if ever there was a computer I wish I could get my hands on right this

moment (of course, with the drives having gone back it would be largely

pointless).

 

 

Shane

 

 

 

"Joan Archer" <archer_joan@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message

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> Not sure what was wrong with the first one but we just couldn't get my

> machine to recognise it, it kept telling us there was an error installing

> it, don't know what though <g>

> I am not backing up as the next one went back this morning, that installed

> and was recognised and all seemed well but it went belly up this morning

> and as it's under warranty it's been taken back to be replaced and we're

> hoping it's going to be 3rd time lucky when I get the next one and I'll

> actually be able to use it <g>

> Joan

>

> Shane wrote:

>>

>> Anyway, I'm glad you appear to have enjoyed your birthday, Joan. So

>> was the first drive incompatible, or just faulty? And you're now

>> backing up with Acronis 10 to an external drive?

>

>

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Unauthorized credit card use

 

> Well, Mike, I hope this finds you rested

 

Not at all. Having climbed the walls all night I'm currently curled up in

a corner of the ceiling. Hopefully I'll get things fixed tomorrow a.m.

after which hopefully sleep beautiful sleep. I've got a minicab booked

for the round trip, it now all depends on the hospital giving the OK for

tomorrow a.m.

 

Mike

 

 

shanebeatson@gmail.com <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, Mike, I hope this finds you rested - but I somehow doubt it

> will.

>

> There are many eye-openers - for want of a less ironic description -

> aren't there! One, we can drink the tap water now - if we boil it - so

> not completely over yet (and yesterday I got caught out in it - in

> summer wear - and in a couple of minutes the full drains were

> billowing water out again! I expect that the worse hit would have

> been, yet again, yesterday - though I don't know if it was so!). So,

> not completely over, yet, but we don't need the bowsers anymore -

> though perhaps it is wise to leave them in situ awhile longer! And

> while loading up the dishwasher this morning, for the first time in a

> couple of weeks (not that I've been using the dishwasher, of course!)

> I didn't save the latest empty plastic milk bottles. But because we

> have been saving them, quite a collection has built up and suddenly

> I'm aware of how much of this stuff we throw away! I don't know about

> running out of room on this planet, but we ought to be able to make

> another one from our refuse!

>

> The other eye opener just occured, and concerns the use of the stocks.

> I thought actually it would be a pretty good idea for a good no. of

> offenders - the kind who don't warrant long-term incarceration. The

> only problem is, because of the types we have today - the very kids

> you mention, in fact - people put in the stocks would be routinely

> murdered. Which, as far as I understand it, didn't happen in the days

> when they *were* in use! Pretty dreadful state of affairs, eh? In this

> time of the height of our civilisation we're worse than ever before! I

> was going to say except perhaps when we were still nomadic hunters -

> except that was *before* civilisation, so doesn't count.

>

> Meanwhile I see on the Technet Forum 2K8 testers seemingly accepting

> that SuperFetch can't run on Servers. I tried to post that I had the

> service (at least) running - but I had to join and couldn't post as

> 'Shane' because that name was already in use. That is a form of

> idiocy, don't you think? Sod them. If people who clearly want to use

> their actual name are prepared to be forced to use a pseudonym, what a

> sad state of affairs! I could have chosen my full name, I suppose -

> after all it's showing to the right of this! But when people tell me I

> can't call myself 'Shane', personally I'd prefer to do violence.

>

> This, of course, has no place in a Win ME group, but - I gather (I'm

> just reading about it now) there's this false tip that SuperFetch can

> be enabled in XP by adding the D-Word "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet

> \Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

> \EnablePreFetcher"="1". SuperFetch does not exist in XP, of course.

> But this is the key - along with another D-Word "EnableSuperFetch",

> also with the value "1", that enables the service (that definately

> does exist) - in Server 2K8 b3 (possibly the 2nd D-Word is

> unnecessary. I'll have to reboot to try it without). But then, I

> expect just about everyone trying to enable it in 2K8 is doing so

> solely because ReadyBoost depends upon it, and I don't believe the

> necessary files for ReadyBoost exist and that's all there is to it.

>

> Again, I don't suppose there are many - if any - here who will care

> tuppence for it, but I've been looking at thumb drives available in

> the High St. for weeks now, I got my sister one for her birthday a

> month ago - a 1GB Verbatim in W H Smith for half price. A week or so

> later I went back to get myself one but they were full price again (I

> didn't think they ever were that price and like just about everything

> these days was on permanent sale. I mean the point of the RRP these

> days is just to make the goods look like a better deal than they are,

> isn't it?). Anyway the Verbatim was much cheaper than anything else

> around - much, much cheaper - until I saw the 2GB Maxell in HMV. Same

> price, reputable storage media company, twice the capacity. And that's

> the one I eventually bought. Then I found out about ReadyBoost. Next I

> found out that my Maxell is not ReadyBoost enabled. Ha! Well, no big

> deal, not really. I started looking for thumb drives that were

> ReadyBoost enabled. Well, there may be 600-odd that are, but not in

> the High St! Lots of drives in Currys Digital, but only 1 that

> mentions ReadyBoost and that to say that it isn't compatible with it.

> I eventually found one. Finally!

>

> The Verbatim, in W H Smith. Which is now a quarter of the RRP.

>

> And in the checkout queue I remembered that I don't actually have

> Vista. I do have a 2GB drive (that was effectively half the price of

> the Verbatim but is now more or less identical), so I don't have any

> use for another 1GB. A 4GB drive, sure - but not a 1GB. So I put it

> back. Really it was for the best because the Verbatim is red, and I

> hate red. Whereas my sister would be red herself if she could. So, 1GB

> ReadyBoost-capable (red) Verbatim thumbdrive in W H Smith ~£8, 2GB

> ReadyBoost incapable (cool black) Maxell thumbdrive in HMV, £15. Get

> 'em while they last! There're also pretty colour ones in HMV - Splash

> (which I believe are waterproof) - for about the same price, also RB-

> incapable.

[Guest Joan Archer]

Re: Unauthorized credit card use

 

Which is one reason I've not called, I don't want to disturb you when you

do manage to get to sleep so I'll leave it for a few more days. <g>

Joan

 

 

Mike M wrote:

>> Well, Mike, I hope this finds you rested

>

> Not at all. Having climbed the walls all night I'm currently curled

> up in a corner of the ceiling. Hopefully I'll get things fixed

> tomorrow a.m. after which hopefully sleep beautiful sleep. I've got

> a minicab booked for the round trip, it now all depends on the

> hospital giving the OK for tomorrow a.m.

>

> Mike

>