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I'm voting for the Icelandic Volcano Party. It's done more to stop immigration in the last 5 days than labour has done in the last 10 years!
About me
After seeing many alerts and emailing them to friends I use Linux, so I don't use any of those m$ tools. My choice:-)
I am writing a beginners guide to computery stuff. I think there may be a few people who will benefit from it. After a recent experience I shall be including wireless routers (how many of you use an insecure wireless router? You shouldn't!) It was someone else's wireless router, I don't use wireless.
I have a job, so I do this in my spare time (usually), so sometimes there may not be any updates for a day or two.
If any of you would like to write articles to put on my website feel free to send them to me. Phil (fellow Rocky Club member) asked if he could write articles on Windows for it so I said yes. He knows a lot more about Windows than me. I might leave the Windows articles to Phil while I do the Linux articles and other stuff:-)
For those who are interested I have found ancient videos of me skipping. They are on the sport & fitness page.
If you use online banking them maybe it is time to switch to using a livecd. Why? have look at this article on Brian Krebs website. Yes, it is well worth a read, especially the comments. I know the article is about American banks, it is still worth a read. It may be going on over here as well, maybe it is all kept quiet.
If you are going out to buy a laser printer, please beware - it may come with toner cartridges that have very little in them. There is an HP printer, CM1312 - being sold by an office type of store and I have been told by their staff that the toner cartridges only have enough in for 1 or 2 pages. Bear in mind that the cartridges cost around £80-88 that's about an extra £350 on top of the cost of the printer which is £264 at the office type store, so total cost when you buy is going to be around £611! Just beware, this may be the same with other printers. caveat emptor.
Having said that, Costco sell (it's April 2010 so they may have run out and be waiting for new stock) an HP colour laserjet, the CP1215 which is quite good and it comes with introductory toner cartridges which give 750 pages for colour and about the same for black. I will have to check that. The normal cartridges give 1400 for colour and 2200 pages for black. At Costco the printer costs about £164.
If there is anything you would like to see on here, or org dot uk. I am on twitter as @equalrites. I will add updates to twitter as and when they occur.
Here is a quick reference to the pages I have here. Note that I update most of them regularly :
bikes - some of the bikes I have had.
Computer basics. Some things you should know about computers including basic security.
cute animals these are the pictures of cute animals that people send me via email. We all like them:-)
Derion - info about a place in a book I'm trying to write
gardening yes a page on gardening. Not for everyone, it will have photos of plants on my allotment, plus all sorts of hints and links.
geek stuff - like computery stuff page but more advanced. Don't let that put you off, have a look.
hoaxes - all about relevant hoaxes, plus links to sites where you can find out whether something is a hoax or not.
home - this page. A bit about me and links to other pages, plus a few important items. I also have a general blog. For general stuff. Feel free to leave comments.
howtos - howtos, plus links to sites with howtos on.
jokes - jokes of course:-) It is going to be a very big page!
menucode - this is the code I use for the links on each page
newsflashes - any current and relevant items you should know about. Updated now and again.
rocky club blog - this page has moved to my Wordpress blog
security - security stuff, links to sites for security info and current security issues. Well worth a read.
sport & fitness - sport and fitness stuff, links to sites for fitness equipment (including skipping ropes/jump ropes of course!) and sites where people are demonstrating equipment.
stories - a few short stories I wrote. Maybe someone out there can take them and turn them into best sellers:-)
template - just a page I use as a template. It has all the elements I need in a page, so I won't forget the syntax. As time goes on I will add more elements to it.
text jokes - this will be full of jokes I have received by text. There will be lots. There is one on there at the moment.
useful links - useful links for all sorts not covered elsewhere.
Web building - not started yet, but I will use my experiences building this site to help all you budding web builders out there.
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