Monday, 25 May 2009
New web intergrarion...
I've just got around to intergrating my blog right into my website. Hope you like... New posts coming soon.
Young people are risking their lives by indulging in "binge tanning", a charity has warned. 'Sunburn also causes irreversible damage leading to premature aging'. More than a third of under-25s spend more than five hours a day in the sun on holiday, increasing their chances of developing life-threatening skin cancer, it said. And many are willing to employ a range of tricks, including using baby oil, to speed up their tanning.
The poll, for Cancer Research UK, found that 36% of 15 to 24-year-olds spend more than five hours a day in the sun.
Article courtesy of Sky News website Monday 25th May 2009
Are these people completely bonkers??? If binge tanning was a genuine issue worth worrying about then at least 70% of the worlds population would already have skin cancer, I guess this is just another case of statistics gone mad again. In summary there are people in this world who want us to fearful of almost everything, DON'T LISTEN TO THEM!!! Enjoy your time on this earth, because you're a long time dead!!!
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Can't get iDisk to reconnect at startup? Here's the answer.
Like many of you I have been struggling with getting iDisk to reconnect as a network drive on start up. I've found the solution. The problem is that windows will not reconnect a network drive if it requires authentication. The solution is to make a simple .bat batch file and put a shortcut to it in your startup folder in the start menu. To make the batch file:
1) create a new text file
2) put in the text file the following (feel free to copy and paste)
net use K: "\\idisk.me.com\YOURUSERNAME" YOURPASSWORD /USER:"YOURUSERNAME" /Persistent:No
Note you can make the K: any open drive letter you want, the user name is with out the @me.com and password is just the password. Only alter the drive letter, YOURUSERNAME and YOURPASSWORD sections to match your account, do not add or remove spaces.
3) save the text file and rename it to WHATEVERYOUWANT.bat you'll get a warning about changing the extension, just ignore it.
4) move the .bat file to it's permanent location (I used c:\) then create a shortcut to it and move that shortcut to the startup folder on you start menu. If you don't want to see the command prompt on boot just edit the shortcut properties and select run: minimized.
if it still won't work then your network connection may not be starting as fast as the batchfile, just add the line
ping -n 30 localhost
as the first line in the batch file, you can change the 30 to a higher or lower number as you need to, it equals roughly the same number of seconds in delay before it mounts your iDisk.
That's it, your iDisk will now be mounted when windows starts up. I'm still working on automated sync, but so far I'm using Microsoft SyncToy 2.0, it's not automatic but can be scheduled to sync when you boot and at points throughout the day. Anyone have a better sync solution?
1) create a new text file
2) put in the text file the following (feel free to copy and paste)
net use K: "\\idisk.me.com\YOURUSERNAME" YOURPASSWORD /USER:"YOURUSERNAME" /Persistent:No
Note you can make the K: any open drive letter you want, the user name is with out the @me.com and password is just the password. Only alter the drive letter, YOURUSERNAME and YOURPASSWORD sections to match your account, do not add or remove spaces.
3) save the text file and rename it to WHATEVERYOUWANT.bat you'll get a warning about changing the extension, just ignore it.
4) move the .bat file to it's permanent location (I used c:\) then create a shortcut to it and move that shortcut to the startup folder on you start menu. If you don't want to see the command prompt on boot just edit the shortcut properties and select run: minimized.
if it still won't work then your network connection may not be starting as fast as the batchfile, just add the line
ping -n 30 localhost
as the first line in the batch file, you can change the 30 to a higher or lower number as you need to, it equals roughly the same number of seconds in delay before it mounts your iDisk.
That's it, your iDisk will now be mounted when windows starts up. I'm still working on automated sync, but so far I'm using Microsoft SyncToy 2.0, it's not automatic but can be scheduled to sync when you boot and at points throughout the day. Anyone have a better sync solution?
Saturday, 2 May 2009
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