Averatec C3500 Tablet PC

Finally got hold of one of an Averatec C3500 Tablet PC. All is well so far. Just the standard updates and favourite programs installed. Tomorrow I can start messing with the handwriting recognition! Now gotta get some sleep so I can be fully aware of who I can show it off to tomorrow, with lines like, "MM? What? Oh this old thing? NAAAH I just needed a laptop is all, it's nothing, no really!"

So far it has been wonderful, in the short time I have been able to mess with it. The only strange occurance was an Admin login that kept popping up at start up informing me I had the wrong password. Sometimes this would cause the normal login to not appear and the thing would just sit there. I fixed it for now, by just switching off the friendly WinXP welcome screen.

It comes with a full version of Microsoft One Note which strangely enough I could not update because I needed a file which I do not appear to have buried deep within the preinstalled version. No matter, it is all there, and time to see if it will understand my weird and wibbly scrawlings.

Click here for the funkified version of Microsoft One Note.

Perhaps I should keep an eye on these forums for the time being. So far so good though.



I wonder if it will still respect me in the morning?

Free Antivirus Protection

Now in my recent explorations into weird little buttons included in Windows XP Service Pack 2, I came across a link in the virus warnings, that the new Security Center gave me.

The Microsoft Windows Security Center Antivirus Partners page, gives you free trials, ranging from 90 days, right up to a full year!

So there is NO EXCUSE to not having virus protection for your computer. Please get it, then you too can help save the planet from imploding from too much bandwidth being used by a whole automated internet of viruses keeping in touch with eachother.

Perhaps they will become the next form of life. If they keep conversing long enough (and just when the message finally gets through that viruses are not natural occurancies but made by idiots with too much time and very small penises) they will indeed become a life-form all their own! So to stop this happening (after all, who wants to HAVE to be chummy with something that snoops around your computer drinking all the milk straight from the container) get protected! NOW!


Don't be an idiot, get protected. Of course I'm not talking to you, oh no, you have protection of course. It's those OTHER people, yes.

Windows XP Service Pack 2

The Windows XP Service Pack 2 can be found here. Go on, you know you wanna. I am getting it now, and will just dive right in! Just look at all the list of fixes. The main area is the security, which while cutting a lot of people off to begin with, sort of puts things where I would rather see them. Instead of shipping everything turned off (no security) and people just going, "Hey it works!" and then never touching a single thing again. They will use it, find it DOESN'T work and then have to figure out just why it is. And from a lot of the people I have spoken to, this will be the first time any of them where even aware of any type of risk (security or otherwise) to their computers, or person! So it's a good thing right?

UPDATE
Just installed and so far all is well, I will get back if things are less than satisfactory.

UPDATE
Apart from Windows keeping on asking about letting programs access the network occasionally,the start up security center, and some little wireless network icons appearing in networking folders, all is calm and working great. Only thing weird so far is that when the computer boots up, it announces on the start up screen that it is Windows XP, neither Home or Pro.



It's a Service Pack and it's number 2, so I think it could be Service Pack 2?

Spoof emails - Spam - Junk Mail

Thanks to those who took the time to use my address to send out spam. Krysss.com does not and never will mass mail people.



Spammers are a waste of blood and oxygen!

9 Chickweed Lane

9 Chickweed Lane is an online funny which is actually funny. Read it, and then read some more of it.




9 Chickweed Lane, best so far!

Otakon 2004

I am playing guardian to a group of kids through the Otakon 2004. I used to be into Anime, and I wish I was right now. I hac a blast taking a ton of photos of all the costumed people. More news when I finish the final day...




This is me at the Otakon, incredibly forgettable person taking lots of pictures

DOG SAFE, more news at 11

More news in Is this your dog? Finally got a nice home. Sharing it with a black lab puppy. Phew!



Finally got a home to go to. I packed her off with the largest bag of dog food in the entire universe, for her first few meals.

Dog Blog update

More news in Is this your dog? Still no name, but open to suggestions, and anyone that would like to adopt a hugely confident, bundle of safety, as seen pictured here eating her reward for rescuing a baby from a burning tower block.



No name as yet, can you think of one?
And no she doesn't speak with a Sylvester the cat type lisp, the tongue just happened to be out when the picture was taken.

Sexist Feminism

In a slight departure from the norm, I would like to bring your attention to a piece by Shayne about Sexist Feminism. I agree Shayne, good on you!




Lady stuff

Is this your dog?

Ok, who ever left this large killing machine in my back yard, is welcome anytime to stop by and retrieve it.

Found on the evening of July 24 2004, and still here. Mind you, nobody is coming near the house with this horse sized jaws of doom waiting for them! I am full to capacity with five cats, two turtles, and a dog. So somebody come do the right thing and get your dog!

**UPDATE**
Well perhaps there is more to this than a lost doggie after all? When I arrived back last night there were flowers on the doorstep. Not unusual as I have a great neighbor who often leaves them, after doing green-thmubery things in their garden. But when I was warning them today of the new fatal-friend in the yard, they informed me that they did not leave them there. Was this from the mysterious doggie dropper?

**UPDATE**
Managed to get the wonderful Amy from It's a ROTTn PITy! to come take a brief look at the dog. It's a ROTTn PITy! do great work, finding homes for those animals so desperately in need of care (and often attention too). Amy is trying to get funding as well as a place to take the as yet nameless Rottweiler.

The dog is most definately female, and seems older. Right now has an amazingly calm attitude to life. But seems to be in a lot of pain. A visit to the vet will soon sort out the start of getting her back to full health. She is living in the yard in a hastily constructed (and very large) house. Wimpering occasionally, but mostly still. Seems to love people and the attention she is getting so far. I hope she does not take it upon herself to vanish once she feels better. She is eating and drinking like a late comer to a Roman orgy, so no problems there, although she is flinching at very light touches to anything other than her head. It's a big dog and in the image below what looks like a plastic bowl which recently contained food is actually a football stadium!

**UPDATE** July 26th 2004 (Must get a graphic for this I think....)
It appears the dog is about 6 years old, and simply in heat, nothing more serious. The only serious thing about it seems to be the 79lb of pure doggie! But even during the examination, there was not a single sign of 'I don't want this' coming from the dog, merely putting up with it.

Added to the LOST AND FOUND website, so hopefully if the person out there is looking, then they may just find them!

**UPDATE** July 29th 2004
Dog finally got to it's new home. She has a black lab puppy to keep her company. Don't tell anyone but I actually had a SLIGHTLY hard time walking away from her when I gave her over. It didn't help the fact that she tried to follow me home, and watched me all the way down the road. Now she finally has a home.



I had to stand on a ladder to shoot it from this angle, honestly, uh huh!
Female, Approx Age 6, 79lb