I use Google Groups frequently - it is a great resource for finding technical information on even the most esoteric bugs.
On visiting Google Groups today I saw a link inviting me to “Preview the next version of Google Groups“. I was intrigued so I followed the link and was brought to a page which said “Your email address is not yet verified” - fine, I thought, all I have to do is check my mail for the promised verification email message - none arrived.
No problem, I clicked on the link which said “send another confirmation message”. I checked my mail again and sure enough, this time there was a mail containing a link which, it promised would “activate your account and verify your e-mail address”.
‘Cos I’m a sucker and I believe everything I read, I clicked on the link and I came to a page which said “Email Address Verified” - hurrah! I clicked on the Google Groups link and was brought to the existing Google Groups page with the “Preview the next version of Google Groups” link.
You guessed it, clicking on this brought me back to the “Your email address is not yet verified” message and no amount of refreshing or re-sending of confirmation emails can get rid of this for me!
I’ll post back if I figure out what’s going wrong.
Quick update - Sorted now! What I did was log into my Gmail account, clicked on Settings-> Account Settings and logged into Google Groups from there - now it no longer shows the annoying “not yet verified” message. Don’t know why this works, guess it is partly because this is a Beta app.
According to a story posted on the Bungie.net site, Halo 2 has ‘gone gold‘ - ‘gone gold’ means that the game has been burned to the final master disk. It will go on sale in retail outlets worldwide on the 9th, 10th and 11th of November - depending on the language and region.
Anyone who hasn’t played Halo will probably treat this announcement with about as much interest Graham Norton in free passes to a lap dancing club! But anyone who has played Halo has been anxiously awaiting for Halo 2 for a long time. The time has almost come - reading all the reviews of the Beta, and looking at the screenshots, I can hardly wait to crank it up or to host my first Halo 2 LAN party!
Frag on!
Click to buy on Amazon.Halo 2 Limited Edition is now available to pre-order on Amazon. I have already pre-ordered it and am having a hard time having to wait until November for it to come!
A friend’s pc was infected with the irc/backdoor.sdbot trojan recently and I cleaned it out - eventually.
This is a tricky little trojan which hides in the System Volume folder (where the System Restore info is held) as well as the Windows/Winnt folder.
Killing the trojan using anti-virus software only gets rid of it until the next re-start. The way to get rid of this one is to turn off the System Restore service by opening the Services MMC in the Administrative Tools folder, right-clicking the System Restore service and selecting stop.
Having stopped the System Restore service, it is now possible to kill this virus permanently using your favourite anti-virus software or preferably a combination of av software. In this case, I used AVG and Stinger to be sure all infections were gone.
Don’t forget to re-start this service once you are done!
I was working on a friends PC the other day. It had Windows XP Home on it and several viruses! After cleaning out the viruses, I updated the PC to XP SP 2 to get the security advantages that the service pack confers.
However, on re-starting the PC after the install, the Security Centre gave a warning that Automatic Updates were not turned on. On attempting to turn it on from the Security Centre, I got the error message “The security center could not change your automatic updates settings”.
I tried changing the Automatic Update settings through the Control Panel but according to the Control Panel, the Updates were turned on! However, every time I re-started or logged in again, I got the warning “Your computer may be at risk”.
Resolution:
I did a Google search on this error and found a resolution on Google Groups - after registering the dlls in this thread, I closed and re-opened the Security Centre and the Automatic Updates showed as being on.
I recently changed the address for this blog. It was at www.tomandpilar.net/wordpress/ and it is now at www.tomandpilar.net/tom/ - Doing this in WordPress is quite straightforward once you find the right helpfile!
I looked in Options/General in WordPress and found the Blog Address field - this has the explanatory text “If you want your blog homepage to be different than the directory you installed WordPress in, enter that address here.” - so I figured that was all I had to do. I updated the address and waited - checked the new address and nothing.
A quick search of the WordPress Support Forums and I found the complete instructions to do this.
Now I’m publishing successfully to the desired address.
I just re-set this blog to publish to a different directory so this post is a test to see if the new setting has taken!
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