I've been having problems with previewing PDFs within Outlook since I installed Windows 7 (64-bit). I tried installing Outlook 2010 but it still didn't work. However, this did:
http://bink.nu/news/fix-adobe-pdf-preview-handler-on-64-bit-windows.aspx
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Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) I have been unable to download programmes using the BBC iPlayer Desktop. It worked fine before, but the upgrade killed it.
I tried uninstalling it, removing it using AppCleaner, uninstalling Adobe AIR, restarting etc etc, and eventually just gave up.
Today however I solved the problem!
I uninstalled iPlayer Desktop using AppCleaner, and then deleted the directory:
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR
Where ~/ is your home directory.
I then went back to the iPlayer website, reinstalled iPlayer Desktop, and now all works fine!
I hope this helps someone else.
I watched an excellent programme on BBC One last night, called the Narnia Code.
One of the points of the documentary was that CS Lewis preferred a medieval understanding of the universe to the modern scientific one, which he claimed made things cold and mechanical.
A couple of the interviewees (which included John Polkinghorne) made this point: science is very good at answering its own questions (how does this work, what happens if we do this, etc).
But there are two important questions that science can't answer:
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Why is nature ordered and comprehensible?
I'm sure there are others, but these two are a good start. This is from The Voyage of the Dawntreader:
"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
"Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of."
We need to ask both kinds of questions, I think – and use science and theology together to enrich our understanding of the universe.
I enjoy listening to Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio 4 – usually. During the current test series there has been a lot of fuss about the new referrals system, which is cricket's attempt at using modern technology to ensure accuracy in umpiring decisions.
They seem to me to be making a bit of a shambles of it. They have got a mix of the implementation of technology in tennis and in rugby – the teams can question an umpiring decision that they disagree with.
This seems to me to be a nonsense. In rugby, the umpire makes the final decision – and has the option of referring it to the video referee if he has any doubt. This would seem to me to be the best way of implementing technology in cricket as well. The referee's decision is final – but if he has a doubt about (say) an LBW or a run-out, he can ask the fourth official.
Then the teams have no say in it. The umpires always have the final say – just like in rugby.
Ooops – Gmail has a major server error, not just on Gmail itself, but also on Gmail for Apps. The web is afire with complaints, and the BBC are reporting it here. For the latest status updates, the Gmail help and status page is here.
This must be a pretty major error, as it appears to be affecting pretty much everyone – except that I can read my emails on my iPod! I have no problems connecting there. The trouble is, of course, I think this may be affecting delivery of emails too – although I can see my inbox, there's no new mail. Of course it could just be a slow day...
Another stupid problem with Mac printing – I upgraded to OS X 10.5.6, and my Canon MP610 stopped working. I removed it, but when I tried to re-add it, I got an error message: Error 9672, unable to add printer.
I tried restarting my Airport Express, turning the printer on and off, but nothing seemed to work.
Fed up, I reinstalled the printer driver, and restarted OS X – and that has done the trick. I have printing back! Message to Apple: when installing a Service Pack on many, many Windows machines, stuff like this hardly ever happens.
Is this problem with OS X 10.5.6 just me, or has it affected other people as well?
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