Has the latest Firefox upgrade caused font problems? Are fonts randomly appearing in an ugly bold italic format on certain places? I recently had this problem myself and a lot of research into it suggested that upon upgrading, some of the main system fonts become corrupted. The most commonly corrupted font was arial, so your first port of call would be to replace this font with a clean version. Here’s how:
Ever had that problem where you’re trying to send a message in Microsoft Outlook and it gets stuck in the outbox? You’ve tried deleting it but it gives you the message that the message is in the process of being sent so you can’t delete it? And any other emails you try and send get stuck in the queue behind the message that won’t move? The reason the email got stuck in the first place is usually because it’s too large for your server to process. If you google the solution to this you’ll find a long list of really complicated ways of trying to remove the message, often involving having to add new PST files and who wants to do that? I have two easier solutions for you.
Today is my day off work. I was planning on a long, leasurely sleep-in, maybe read a bit…no. I forgot to turn off my alarm. I was woken at some ungodly non-day-off hour. Sigh. So what does a young nerd do on her day off when she’s awake 3 hours ahead of schedule? Why, plays with Wolfram Alpha of course! For those of you who haven’t already heard about it from some source or another, Wolfram Alpha is a new method of searching for the answer to problems. It’s not a search engine; the creators call it a “computational knowledge engine.” In a nutshell, it’s very cool. And I wish I’d had it when I was at university wading my way through maths!
It amuses me somewhat that the first post I make on this blog is about porn.
Nah, not really. I’m reading about boobytrapped porn sites designed to infect Macs and wondering about the whole thing. I’m always engaged in a constant war of Mac vs. PC with various Mac-loving-PC-hating friends of mine and strangely the number one point in every argument they present is that Macs don’t have any known viruses. Untrue now? I think untrue previously but quashed by marketing attempts and as the article says, it’s lead to a whole lot of complacent users.
