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

Did the media player fail before or after you tried to install iTunes?

I ask because iTunes forces Windows to update to the latest DRM patches which can screw around with your Media Player.

The media player failed before Itunes, but I just wanted to put the radio on and instead of trying to fix it downloaded itunes.

This then messed with the firewall on install, according to the security. It installed without removing the firewall, but would only work for files on my pc.

So I tried media player again with the same result, wouldn't start even. Tried to find out what was wrong with it on the internet, got you have incorrectly entered the address, not the usual stuff you get when the connection is down, and it was too quick in response, as soon as my fingers touched the mouse click, it was there.

ect, ect, what a day.

I am WORRIED now, M$ visual studio costs £1000, I got it and haven't asked for it, I haven't got 1000p and would never ask for something like that.

I remember uninstalling HTML-kit, before all this happened, it was difficult to uninstall because it kept asking are you sure, are you sure you want to remove this file, you could update, are you sure you want to remove registry keys, because it will be gone forever.

Then I used Ccleaner to remove all trace of it.

When I restored to the previous day, it was back again. So are all programs saved forever?

How can I remove M$ Visual Studio, it isn't installed as far as I can see? I would love to keep it, but I haven't got thousands of pounds. No it doesn't cost that much, it's only £500 in some shops.

My old dog (antispyvarious) died, and I've been given a new one,
but he's doing odd things:

65,54,139,245 scanned by certificate substitution
65,54,139,245 on port 443 failed connection certificate name
msnia.login.live.com

what is certificate substitution?

My replacement antivirus has now been set to not do certificate substitution; I couldn't get into my bank.

I don't understand it anyway, apparently if it fails and causes disconnection that's a pass, but then that happens every time, you keep getting disconnected.

I think the idea is some phishing sites have got a similar name and a certificate, but these don't check the certificate they are given by something called KAV, so you are connected and the security blocks them.

It's got me confused.

I've took the plunge and bought 2 primary domains at godaddy.com

for a fiver. So how can I lose them, I got them both pointing at my site, and go-daddy seem to provide the nameservers.

arismetique.com is old french for maths.

I've set up a web page at go-daddy, wow never seen so many ads in one place. The .info is the domain for that, I have the .com pointing at arithmetic.890m.com permanently; can I set up a re-direction from 890m.com back to .info at go-daddy to be invoked when 890m is down?

Sorry I've been quiet - my main machine is dead, and I can't compose long replies on the TV. Bear with me...

Did you know 301 redirection puts your page in frames.

Depends on your web host.

My domain name is at godaddy.com nameservers; the redirection is somewhere else. Good job the website was verified by google with my same email and address.

However if you buy a domain at godaddy they immediately park it and point it at a quickly generated page with your name and email in it.

Apart from the adverts, which are a bit overwhelming for somebody with dyslexia, they are great.

I put a copyright or copyleft notice on my website in order to deter malicious who might like to mess me about.

I once had an offer to be included in Marque Who's Who because some malicious hacked into their computer and put my name in it.

I was then embarrassed further by the local ragg who insisted on telling lies about me, they said amongst other lies I wasn't even good enough to be a toilet cleaner. This was too much, but I thought making a fuss will only advertise the matter.

I've tended to steer clear of GoDaddy since I heard that they sell their customer lists.

You know I've had my email address up on the web for public and robot viewing for two months.

And I haven't even had a single email.

Either you're invisible to crawlers or you have a really enthusiastic SPAM filter...

I'm not invisible to crawlers now, because after months waiting google have given me site statistics.

My site works alright now, but I had to change the dns setting myself, this is all new stuff to me, go-daddy said if your domain is parked with them then they automatically set dns.

So it was the previous web hosts fault you have to wait 30mins for a 648byte download, typical times now 500micro seconds. And now the table isn't an embarrassment. Don't know what I will do with all that webspace though.

My firefox has crashed four times on the godaddy.com site, is this a bug?

Probably a badly coded Javascript on an ad.

Theirs lots of those, sends me dizzy.