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	<title>Mark Poppen &#187; Windows</title>
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		<title>IE6 Upgrade notification</title>
		<link>http://mark.poppen.ca/459/ie6-upgrade-notification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[die-already]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ie6]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve quit designing around IE6 a long time ago. I have a contract that states that if my client needs me to design the site to work in IE6, they pay extra. For the other sites, when I suspect the target audience might use IE6, I wrote a little piece of code. It&#8217;s validated in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve quit designing around IE6 a long time ago. I have a contract that states that if my client needs me to design the site to work in IE6, they pay extra. For the other sites, when I suspect the target audience <em>might use</em> IE6, I wrote a little piece of code. It&#8217;s validated in 4.01 Strict HTML and stays out of the way of Google search results (because it&#8217;s at the bottom of the page).</p>
<p>Let me know if you&#8217;re using it or if you made improvements to it.</p>
<p>Here it is. Put the html right before the &lt;/body&gt; tag, and the css at the bottom of your .css file.</p>
<p>&lt;!&#8211;[if lt IE 7]&gt;<br />
&lt;div id=&#8221;upgrade&#8221;&gt;You are using an outdated browser. For a faster, safer surfing experience, please &lt;a href=&#8221;http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx&#8221;&gt;upgrade for free&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;![endif]&#8211;&gt;</p>
<pre>/*-- IE6 --*/
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	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	width: 100%;
	background-color: #ff0;
	}
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		<title>Get Dropbox!</title>
		<link>http://mark.poppen.ca/66/get-dropbox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dropbox]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, do! Dropbox is an online backup system and it saved my butt a few times already. You know, you update a website with a wrong css-file? Don&#8217;t act all macho, it happened to you, I know I&#8217;m not the only one Dropbox keeps revisions of your files before you change them, so you can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" title="Get Dropbox" src="http://www.getdropbox.com/static/images/dropbox_logo_home.gif" alt="" width="149" height="42" />Seriously, do!<br />
<a href="http://www.getdropbox.com/">Dropbox</a> is an online backup system and it saved my butt a few times already. You know, you update a website with a wrong css-file? Don&#8217;t act all <a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_iBQo77PwEww/R8aGu3o7kkI/AAAAAAAABTQ/YGEaFf3AkE0/s1600-h/mitchell_rock2.jpg">macho</a>, it happened to you, I know I&#8217;m not the only one <img src='http://mark.poppen.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Dropbox keeps revisions of your files before you change them, so you can always fall back to a previous version.</p>
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<p>The coolest part of it is that it runs in the background. Take my situation:</p>
<p>I have a desktop pc and a laptop. I have Dropbox installed on both pc&#8217;s. Dropbox will make a &#8220;My Dropbox&#8221;-folder in &#8220;My documents&#8221;. I&#8217;ve put all my web design and administration-files in the dropbox-folder. Every time I change or add a file, it gets synchronized with the Dropbox server. When I open my laptop, the program will also synchronize with the webserver, downloading all the changed/added files. That way, I have a backup on the webserver AND on my laptop. If I go somewhere and bring my laptop, I can always work on the files I recently changed or worked on on my desktop pc.</p>
<p>About the revisions, here&#8217;s an example:<br />
Say, you&#8217;ve created a few websites for different clients, and a client wants you to update a few colors on the site. No problem, you just open the CSS, change the color and upload it to the server. After that you find out you&#8217;ve used the wrong CSS file and you&#8217;ve overwritten the original with a completely different CSS. You&#8217;re up shit creek, right? Nope. Just go to the web version of Dropbox and go to the file you&#8217;ve overwritten. There&#8217;s a version-history in the listing. All you have to do is download the earlier version, and you&#8217;re good to go.</p>
<p>I can recommend this program to anyone. They&#8217;ve just gone <a href="http://blog.getdropbox.com/?p=13">OUT of private beta</a>, so anyone can download it now, no invitation needed.</p>
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		<title>I killed a virus&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mark.poppen.ca/23/i-killed-a-virus/</link>
		<comments>http://mark.poppen.ca/23/i-killed-a-virus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avast!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hitman pro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and it was a b!tch&#8230; I don&#8217;t know how I did it, but for the first time in YEARS I managed to get a virus on my pc. I&#8217;m always protected pretty well with Avast!. It blocks intrusions when it has to, and kills adware instantly, but for some reason Avast! abandoned me this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; and it was a b!tch&#8230;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how I did it, but for the first time in YEARS I managed to get a virus on my pc. I&#8217;m always protected pretty well with <a href="http://www.avast.com/">Avast!</a>. It blocks intrusions when it has to, and kills adware instantly, but for some reason Avast! abandoned me this time. It noticed the virus, but I wasn&#8217;t able to repair it, move it to the chest or delete it.<br />
<span id="more-23"></span>I tried lots. My usual <a href="http://www.hitmanpro.com">Hitman Pro</a> solution didn&#8217;t cut the cookies either, because it got confused when it tried to install PC Doctor (which doesn&#8217;t run on x64-systems), I tried to download the programs Hitman Pro uses manually, but that was a big hassle, and I could remember them all.</p>
<p>I started my PC in safe mode, letting Avast! do some more scanning, and that got a few files removed. The virus was even in my pagefile.sys! I was happy it did something, but when I rebooted some weird programs popped up in my system tray, telling me I should buy MS Antivirus (or something), which pissed me off even more.</p>
<p>Windows Vista started to speak up as well. The Windows defender told me a few times something fishy was going on on my PC. WELL DUH!<br />
I kept closing the defender, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s probably not as good as Avast! and Hitman Pro together, right? Wrong!<br />
After a few hours of desperation I decided to give the damn defender a shot. I clicked around and found the solution in freakin&#8217; minutes!</p>
<p><a href="http://mark.poppen.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/defender.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24" title="Windows defender" src="http://mark.poppen.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/defender.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I did: Go to &#8220;Tools&#8221;, and click on &#8220;Software explorer&#8221;. In there go to the startup programs and remove every program that doesn&#8217;t look familair to you (with caution though).<br />
After that select &#8220;Currently running programs&#8221; from the drop-down menu, and go to the &#8220;Publisher not available&#8221;-area. Click on the files that look fishy, and on the right hand side it shows which program it is, in which folder it resides and lots of other info. End the stinky processes, which in my case were located in the \windows\system\ folder. Hover over your system tray to make sure you nuked the right processes, and run Avast! again.</p>
<p>Et voila! Virus gone, PC clean, Mark happy.</p>
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