I have set all of my pop-up controls to blocks, but still keep on getting pop-ups. I use AOL which seems to use IE and these darn things continue to appear.

Any ideas?

http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/arc...orer.phtml

Schu donates $10m to tsunami victims

Seven-time world Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher has donated $10-million to the victims of last week's Asian tsunamis, his manager Willi Weber said during a German telethon on Tuesday.

"The dawning of the New Year has not been as joyful for us this year because of the catastrophe in Asia. We sympathise with the victims in their grief," Schumacher said.

The death toll from the massive December 26 earthquake and resulting tidal waves around the Indian Ocean neared 146�000 Tuesday.

from AFP

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that is the same amount as Saudi Arabia [initial amount]

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- Make major decisions in a cemetery.
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- Succeed at home first.
- Don't spend tomorrow's money today.
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Oh dear, my computer skills are not as good as those of pics, Jan, the Boss, etc etc.

My broadband modem keeps on "switching off"....... I have to then restart my computer, but it will not "die" on me, I have to switch it off physically (I have not beaten it yet!!!)


Anyway.........I get this message:

FAT32...one of the disks shows inconsitencies....


What does this mean??
Windows XP Pro scans this disk, but why??


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Please help with how to get avatar? I do not want one that is on the site...but not sure how to go along to get other one?
Thanks
OE

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Ok, so I decide my old pc needs upgrading...... only had 96 mb ram and almost 2 gigs. Phone around and most people say too old bla bla bla. One very helpful guy tell me he knows someone who sells good PC's and he recalls that there was one for £150. I phoned the guy and he says he does not sell them, but he has one to sell. When I asked him how much he wanted for it, he said ..... MAKE AN OFFER. Me not being the haggling type said ... oh well i have no idea. The oomie then says to me. I tell u what, i had it cleaned and it cost me £40 so i will be happy to get my money back. I could almost feel wings sprouting to fly and get this bargain. PC has 128mb and 20gig, monitor etc with it.

Hmmmmmmmm. Get PC home, put it on and NADDA on screen at boot up. So .. I changed monitors and she booted up. I tell you what, this babe was in her element. Compared to old pc this one FLEW. I started to install all my proggies on and downloaded music AGAIN.... only to find the drivers for sound card needed updating....managed that after doing many searches on google. THEN decided i will put on windows 2000. BIG MISTAKE. It drained all my RAM.... and i had to look for all the drivers again. Anyway, I sukkled on ..... was too terrified to uninstall and reformat. Spent most of my online time swatting script errors, illegal operations etc.

Christmas Eve ......(i think) put pc on and just got loud beeps....no boot up. Phoned pic for heeeeeelp .... he said to open up pc and have a look if anything has maybe become dislodged. Could not figure out how to open it, so just fiddled with reset button and she booted up again. I LEFT it running for a week.

New Years Eve arvie..... realised there would be NO alternative but to reformat and install windows 98 again. Went to techi websites to see how this is done.... had to memorise everything cos I dont have a printer. Anyway, managed to get it done with lots of finger crossing and praying.

Whooooo hoooooo had SPEED again. Downloaded all the drivers needed ... (didnt think to save them onto floppy). Started installing my fave proggies again and noticed things started slowing down again. Checked the properties .... 64 mb of my ram was missing!!! Happened to mention to LOLS and her and hubby said it must be that the ram is buggered. Only thing to do was to get into pc and check it out. They suggested I take the front panel off and that shud give me a way to get side panel off. HEY PRESTO....got in, checked the mem sticks which were so full of dust. Reseated them and BINGO, all the ram was back. A few hours afterwards i got a LOUD beeeeeeep again. (sob! Sob!) ........ LOLS and HUBBY to the rescue again. I opened up the pc.....fiddled with the ram and problem sorted.


Finally I have no problems??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAYS .....Started to get booted from internet connection like every 2 minutes. Spent hours on phone to aoHELL who referred it to BT. Did another search about the INIT packet message and common denominator was either crappy bt voyager 100 modem and out dated drivers. Did ANOTHER search for drivers, Installation process asked for windows 98 cd, so I put it in, NOTHING .checked my computer ....NO d drive listed. EISH, EISH, EISH !!!! Thankfully i had made the mistake of NOT uninstalling the existing modem drivers so was able to go online and do another search of THAT problem. Got it sorted ..... tried so many things so am not sure exactly which one solved it. OK, so i uninstall existing modem drivers, and once again get asked to put the windows CD in. Cool fruits ..... UNTIL it says the file needed is NOT on the disk. I clicked and clicked ok, then skip file and it finally worked. Did that solve my problem?? NOPE. Spent most of the day yesterday repeating my problem to 20 different techies for the hundredth time and insisted on speaking to a level 2 techie who told me to install aol 9. 2 hours later I got it installed and so far so good.!!!! Hmmmmmmmm maybe its just FLUKE ........ we shall see. Oh forgot to mention that I got so gatvol at one stage that I phoned aoHELL cancellation department throwing a HISSY at them and managed to get a month free subscription and a brand new modem is on its way to me.

So, what is the moral of this story???? WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY. :rofl: even when you think the end is nigh for you pc ..... may very well not be.

Not sure if you are all aware of the programme/study of 'A child of our time'. It took many children born in 2000 and it's following them through the years. Tonight is the yearly episode and Professor Robert Winston will show tonight that children from age 2 pick up stereotypes more quickly.

He apparently shows them pictures of people and other children of all races and asks them which they would like to be friends with, which they think are 'naughty' people and so on. Apparently a high percentage of the white children said the the white folk were nice etc. 50% of the black children wanted to be white when they grew up.

I think this is shocking really. oapbox: And I wonder if I truly believe that, based on my child. He was so untuned to colour before he went to school. His favourite lady (besides moi of course) was Beyoncé (he thinks she is bootiful! :rofl: <---see my pun there!). But then this past year at school, he's said that the boys in his class say Kylie is more prettier. I've told him it's a matter of opinion and that it's good to have differering opinions. He has also been told at school that he is a liar - he told them all his mommy was from South Africa and was called a liar because these kids said I'm not black and not poor with no clothes! :crylol: :duh:

I do my best to make sure that he has a really centred life and I do not want him to be governed by colour in any way. But you'd think that in England there would be the same in other households....but I'm thinking there isn't. Therefore making this programme seem realistic.

I think it's a horrible theory. Children should be innocent and this world is becoming sooo global - with all sorts in all countries. That we should be teaching our children, respect and tolerance for other races.

An enzo for under £40

As a bonus for ordering my calenders I got to chose another calender to receive daily and I chose the Mensa Brain teasers...

Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to post everyday's question so I'd like for this to be a general thread where everyone posts questions and answers of course !!!

I'll decide later wheter this should be a sticky or not

Here is the first one:

What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same five letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

To elude the guards, the clever _________ disguised himself with _________, lipstick and a wig