I have an old friend that lives about a mile away from me. We went to elementary school together, and were best of friends until a little after high school...and we drifted as we got busy with our own lives.
Well... He still remembers me plunking away on my Commodore 64 back in the day, and figures I might know something about computers. He calls me right before my nightly walk and says he needs help getting his new computer on the Internet. Sure I say...I will walk to your house and we will get you setup in no time.
I was expecting to setup a broadband connection for him. When I arrived he had a modem in one hand, and a NetZero disk in the other. He had been working at it all night with no luck.
I sat down and started playing with it. Every time I tried to connect I would get a simple error message from NetZero saying it could not communicate with the modem.
I have my own PPP server at home with a private phone number, so I start trying to setup a connection to test with...and here is what I saw
Grr. I can't select the dial-up option and it won't tell me why. Worse yet I had no Internet connection to do research to find answers (Unless I wanted to walk a mile back to the house).
I checked the modem, and it tested out fine. It was a good old US Robotics external and it could dial out when I used it from hyperterminal with no problems.
I checked his user account...he was a full administrator.
One by one I disabled startup programs using MSConfig, with the thought that something was getting in the way of dial up networking.
Then I moved on to services. Started disabling the Anti-Virus, etc....and then...only then did I come across this service:
Yea. You see the arrow. It was disabled. I enabled it, and started the service. Didn't even bother with my test PPP connection. Launched NetZero, and it connected on the first try.
Once connected I tried to find out why someone might disable this service. It looks like the previous owner had "Optimized" his system by disabling services that he did not need. Which is perfectly fine as long as you don't need dial up networking.
As I walked back to my house I pondered this thought - My friend had told me this was the first time he had ever been on the Internet.
Written by Steve Wiseman on September 19th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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IBM joined OpenOffice community to fight against MS Office. Guess what? Now, Google is also announced to fight against MS Office intensively.
On Tuesday, Google and IBM both announced that they are intensifying efforts to challenge Microsoft's Office suite, which dominates the market for productivity software on office and home computers. Read more here...
So, the question is can Microsoft Office survive? Of course, yes. Worst case, Microsoft can just make the MS office free. Even more worst case, Microsoft can just ship MS Office that comes free together with the OS. So what is the point they fight so hard against MS Office? It is not want to make him die, we all are just want to make it FREE. Don't you think so? What we consumer really care are 2 things, standardization and free.
Google, IBM I fully support you guys!
Written by ChampDog on September 19th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Today Microsoft released the latest version of Service Pack for MS Office 2003.This service pack is hardly of 117.7 Mb but Microsoft says it to be an important update to Microsoft Office 2003 Service pack 2 so everyone using Ms Office 2003 must download and update it.
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 is the culmination of several years of improvements in the product suite," the company said in a Microsoft white paper issued upon the service pack's release. "SP3 improves the productivity and user experience of home and office users, strengthens defenses against malicious software, and helps IT administrators comply with regulations and protect confidential information.
Microsoft® Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) represents a major evolution in security for Office 2003. It further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks and other security threats. This service pack also includes fixes that have been previously released as separate updates for Office 2003.
Go here to read what has changed overall.
Download links for Office 2003 Service Pack 3:
Excel Viewer
Office (complete package)
Office MUI Pack
Office Proofing Tools
OneNote
Outlook Live
Project
Project MUI Pack
Project Server
Project Server MUI Pack
Sharepoint Portal Server
Visio
Visio MUI Pack
Windows SharePoint Services
Windows SharePoint Services Language Template Pack
Word Viewer
Written by Ankur Mittal on September 19th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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The first release candidate for WordPress 2.3 is now available. We’ve spent the week since beta 3 fixing bugs and shaping RC1 into release candidate material. If you would like try RC1 and help us get 2.3 ready for its final release on Monday the 24th, download RC1 here and report any bugs you find. Although we consider this release candidate to be stable, keep in mind that this is still pre-release software. You may find some lingering bugs. Please back up your database before upgrading. If you have problems with RC1, you will not be able to revert back to your previous release without a database backup.
And a big thanks to those of you who have been testing the betas and now the RC. Your efforts make 2.3 better for everyone.
Written by Ryan on September 19th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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