h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The huge screed of text is a "Public PGP key". When you run it through PGP software the message confirming the authenticity of the email will be revealed.

PGP keys come in pairs. A message encrypted with a company's private key can *only* be read using their public key; a message encrypted with their public key can only be decrypted with their private key. Thus using a PGP key to encrypt a message in your signature is an excellent way to prove that you actually sent the message in question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

But I aint got a key, so obviously not intended for me.

Fx3 puts a horizontal scrollbar on my web page, is this normal, it's only on the first page with nothing to scroll to.

I don't know. It depends on the page content, I guess.

(As for "aint got a key", the point is that the thing they sent *is* the key *and* the message - you copy it into any PGP client and it'll decrypt it.)

Does Fx3 close ports, for instance for security; because I've had to restore my pc to a time before Fx3. Ports used by my modem were closed and pausing my firewall had no effect.

It's working now, but I don't like using restore and in any case the ports could become closed again.

My modem reported closed ports with error 619A. My firewall reported everything normal apart from no traffic.

Fx3 was the latest thing I got, apart from an Fx plugin which has disapeared.

I don't know, but I suspect not. What was the plug-in?

Can't remember what it was called, something to validate web pages. It didn't work at all. Sent garbage to the screen and emails that can't be opened.

I just started Fx3, looked in addons and Total Validator was there. But disabled with the message incompatible with Fx3.

This internet thing is getting me down, when my web page was ready in maybe march I wanted to move it somewhere more reliable using a primary domain.

http://arithmetic.com

Somebody has bought it and set up a site of advertisements.

So now I'm left with

htts:/anintroductiontoabstractconceptsinmathematicusingsymmetryasavehicle.eu

I tried to clean up the markup on my sites page 0 to validate to strict DTD. Preliminary test gave 41 errors; cleaned them retested and got 541 errors.

The horizontal scrollbar is a firefox bug, listed as such. Well, it's still a nice browser I use more often than any other.

How do you get your browser to see new images, I've resized mine but even after cleaning with Ccleaner still get the old ones.

That's me done with the first page, better markup than the BBC since they only do DTD strict on the home page, and my page has got ten times more content.

I tested the BBC news page for transitional DTD and it failed, so it's all for show.

I think I will reward myself with a bit of cake, since I didn't even have an HTML editor way back in March, and never heard of XHTML or the W3C.

Will not bother resizing the top bar, too much trouble, and I just tested in 1024x765 and it's fine.

"How do you get your browser to see new images"

You turn off all your cacheing. If you still keep seeing "old" images it suggests that your ISP is cacheing.

ISP is cacheing, but look at this from washington, I told you
it was the Chinese.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/report_china_home_to_half_of_a.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter

Many years ago, just after China reclaimed Hong Kong, I set up a webmail address at china.com. It was an automated signup on a server that was running, but no longer maintained - addresses like "[email protected]" were bouncing because they were full.

When I signed up (as "[email protected]", sadly long gone now...) there was no mention of using the account for SPAM or other illegal activities in the T&C, but I did have to check a box attesting that I wouldn't use the email address to send mail derogatory to China or the Chinese Government.

Wow, that's fantastic.

Amazing, google listed my page, in my account tools it gave 'WARNING' all links rated of equal parity. Its only got one link in it.

Anyway I did a yahoo search and it came up on page one, all the other listings were from the universities of birmingham, bristol, buckingham, southampton. Yikes I didn't think of that, and they are research pages. It's in the wrong place.

You wouldn't believe the crap I've had to try and sort out today.

Tried to start windows media got missing jscript.dll

went to help and did run regsvg32 jscript.dll and ok

still not running, searched for it and could not be found.

went into command line and found it myself.

Now couldn't get any web page, reporting incorrect address in all
browsers.

re-install media player.

nothing.

restarted. Then couldn't get back to windows. Somehow after messing
about it partially started.Could only get task manager.

Restored to a previous point. Restarted and now on the internet but
security is now totally bust.It is dead man.

Media player still doesn't work.

Thought I might try to start from the program files and found
some odd folders I never asked for from microsoft.

They are not installed but are there.

Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 26MB
Reference Assemblies 24.1MB

Downloaded windows media and installed
did the regsvr32 jscript.dll thing again

Now it works without an image in compact mode.

This lots making me screem. I'm left puzzled at what to do when
the pc won't start, any ideas?

I think it's the security causing the problems, because the missing
dll message was:

Cannot find library for language JScript
Path C:\WINDOWS\System32\jscript.dll
Please contact KasperskiLab for solution err=00000005

I had a look and their was complex solution for running
windows media player with Kasperski 5
But I have got version 7.1.135

The solution involved altering registry keys manually, depending
on the op and build, if you have 2 processors like mine you
have a lot of work to do, probably wrecking the machine.

I could do with a smart way of getting restore from the keys?

It sounds suspiciously like you shut the machine down when it was halfway through a system update, then panicked when you saw the errors on restart and started shuffling things around while it was still recovering.

I only mention this because I got caught that way too once. The irony is that if you'd just gone and made a when it started with the error messages it would have fixed itself and restarted by the time you got back.

If that *was* what happened, I can't help. Rolling back in this instance would have had it trying to use files that were potentially already open/not there and I don't have a clue what would have happened next. Sorry.

You may well be right. I've been on the Kasperski site again and
looking at those instructions thought, nah. I then put the error
description without code and got a page of what exactly happened to
mine, down to the letter.

They had a file to download, unzipped and then when run all would be hunky dorie. It was a windows file and windows wouldn't run it because a newer version was already installed.

Anyway, I cleaned my pc, did a reg clean, defrag, then launched windows media again, and this time it worked, in compact mode.

I restarted and everything started, not like last time where I could only get CTL/ALT/DEL task manager. Their wasn't anything but an image of sunrise on mars on my screen.

I'm sick of the security, one of it's files that went missing was a blacklist.

And I don't understand why I seem to aquire programs I know nothing about. I did get Microsoft .NETframework but that is in a different folder and I thought you had to pay for visual studio. I dare not start it and can't uninstall it.

Maybe at midday if instead of trying to download a new player called itunes after I got the error; I wanted to chill out and it really annoyed me, and having to stop itunes messing with the firewall, why would it want to lower the firewall, I wouldn't have spent 12 hours messing about trying to get this thing to work.

But the media player did go wrong first, unable to find a file I could find, anyway I just thought; the error message said cannot load file, but it gave the absolute address?