Monthly Archive for January, 2006

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Microsoft Outlook Error: Interface not registered

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Smoother
on January 24, 2006
in Not so Scientific..., Observations and Solutions to Problems
. 6 Comments

So I installed some video editing software, did some updates, and then BAM!! I can no longer send email. Whenever I hit send I get an error from Microsoft Word saying “Interface not registered” but then there was the internet… and I found the solution…

Solution is here at the MS site

“You receive the “Interface not registered” error message when you try to send or to save an e-mail message to the Drafts folder in Outlook 2002

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Article ID : 870707
Last Review : August 10, 2004
Revision : 1.0

SYMPTOMS
If you use Microsoft Word as your e-mail editor in Microsoft Office Outlook 2002, and you try to send e-mail messages or to save e-mail messages to the Drafts folder, you may receive the following error message:
Interface not registered
Or, you may experience the following symptoms:
“¢ You receive an error message.
“¢ The e-mail message is not sent.
“¢ The e-mail message is not saved to the Drafts folder.

CAUSE
This behavior occurs if the Ole32.dll file that is located in the %Windir%\System32 folder is not registered correctly in the registry.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, register the Ole32.dll file. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type the following command in the Open box, and then click OK:
Regsvr32.exe %Windir%\System32\Ole32.dll
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10 Ways to get Drunk for Five Dollars or Less

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Smoother
on January 16, 2006
in Scientific Studies and Solutions to Problems
. 1 Comment

Top 10 Ways to get Drunk for Five Dollars or Less

Number 10. Be a frosh (freshman).

It’s not true that every frosh can be knocked into unconsciousness by waving a tom Collins under their nose, but as those of us who go hunting for frosh on “New Kids night” at the local dance holes know, the phenomena is not rare. Frosh are usually young, inexperienced, and sometimes even illegal to entice into your boudoir. If anyone can get drunk on five bucks, it’s them.

Number 9. Be female.

Chivalry is not dead! While you ladies can’t expect guys to risk their life, or miss an episode of star trek for you, you may still be able to get some alcohol out of them. Try standing around the bar, sipping water with a grimace on your face. Dress smutty. Smile at guys as they walk by, the drunker geekier the better. If you want to get more than one drink out of a guy start talking about how hot it is. Act intoxicated. Become even more friendly. At an appropriate time have a friend come by and “save you”, then move on to the next guy.

Number 8. Try Medication.

Sleeping pills. Allergy pills. If it says “do not take alcohol with this drug” or “do not operate a motorized vehicle while under the influence of this drug”, it must be good! Intelligent students such as ourselves, while not having a shred of pharmaceutical knowledge, can see that these statements are a plot by alcohol producers to keep us buying large quantities of booze.

Number 7. If it ends in ‘ol, drink it!

Alcohol isn’t the only intoxicant ending in ‘ol’. Methanol, Butanol and Propanol are all fine safe intoxicants, often available at bargain prices. Stay away from aerosol, cholesterol, and drool.

Everclear Alcohol

Number 6. Sleep Deprivation and Sickness.

For some reason, your body doesn’t want you to have any fun, and actively fights alcohol -enhancement. When you’re sick, and tired, your body’s defenses are at their lowest. This means its often one of the most cost effective times to get plastered! Best of all, if you puke, you can blame it on the flu.

Number 5. Try Antifreeze

Hey, ten thousand deranged alcoholic street people can’t be wrong!

Drink Antifreeze

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I Hate Wells Fargo

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Smoother
on January 16, 2006
in Uncategorized
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Wells Fargo is one of the worst banks ever. No free online bill pay, I don’t like their online banking, and the people that work there are not the brightest in the world. I wanted to connect my business checking with my personal checking online which is 100% possible… however when I asked about doing it 3 people told me you can’t. I told them it’s possible, my friends do it, and I urged them to call their ‘employee support’ line which they did… and then they handed me the phone. That’s a bit odd since I’m not an employee there, but anyway… I give my bank account, address, ssn, and a few other things to each person I spoke with (4 people) until the 4th person said I’m not authorized to make decisions on my business account since I’m not the point of contact. What the hell is up with that? Thanks for wasting an hour and a half of my time you stupid fockers.

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Why Wendy’s will take me to anywhere in the continental US

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by
Steel
on January 7, 2006
in Scientific Studies
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So, if you didn’t know this, Wendy’s has this little thing going on that if you collect coupons off the cups (medium or Biggie sizes only), you can get free Airtran tickets. So, most times like this, you’d think that you’d have to collect 150 for one ticket, but not at Wendy’s. All you need is 64 for a round trip ticket. That’s it.

Now, I have been collecting these the right way. Almost everyone I have spoken to said I should give $50 to some 16 year old to steal me some cups. But I didn’t. I have eaten at Wendy’s almost every day since the beginning of November. Ugh. Not that it’s bad. Just like if I had drank that many Diet Mt. Dews it would have killed me, eating at Wendy’s that much may kill me. But at least I don’t eat the fries. Did you ever check out “The Smoking Fry” special feature on the movie Super Size Me? The moral of the story… don’t eat fries. Ever. If only I had a camera to document my Wendy’s quest…

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Video Heaven

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Steel
on January 7, 2006
in Stuff to do when bored and Stuff to take you away from work
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It\'sa me, Mario!

Now, I take no credit whatsoever in finding these vids, but, come on - I shared them with you, didn’t I?

- NOT like our high school news team (remember the Batman comics)

- By far, one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Take the time capsule back to Super Mario… Now that take a lot of friggin talent.

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Random thoughts

Published
by
Steel
on January 4, 2006
in Observations
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Okay. This may be a long post, but I have, instead of putting these in seperate posts, I will combine them into one. So, grab a beer (or your favorite beverage you sissy) and gather ’round papa Steel’s Fireside chat.

First off, we have a story about a child. A child vs. the big business. My girlfriend tried to log into her AOL account the other day, and it wouldn’t work. She called her dad to ask what had happened, and found out that her younger sister used vulgar language in a child’s chat room, so AOL suspended their accounts.

When asked what she had said, it was, “This is poop”. Huh? Suspended? For that?

Next in our array of stories, I recently got a 12-month Xbox Live renewal card. My yearly subscription was supposed to end January 19th. I put in the new card on January 1st. After I put in the code, my new expiration date was January 1, 2007. Huh? So the next day, I called to reclaim my 19 days, I talked to no less than 5 people, and by the end of the calls, I felt like Rainman… “I want my 19 days! I want my 19 days!” BTW, it was resolved.

Finally, I have a rant on people who say things incorrectly. Especially computer stuff. I have heard people (a lot of people) say UBS port (instead of USB), Hewitt Packard (instead of Hewlett Packard - there is an “L” in here people), and I heard my favorite of all time today. I was talking to someone about the new computers, and how they don’t have a floppy disk drive. He then proceeded to ask me how much it would be to add a “sloppy drive” to his computer. I just smiled. His wife (they were both elderly) said “I think it’s actually floppy drive.” And we all laughed together. Except me. I was laughing at them.

Well, kiddies, that’s it for me for now. Have a splendid day and don’t forget to put out the fire before you go.

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BCMLogon.dll Issue with Logon Screen - A recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and Fast User Switching

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Smoother
on January 2, 2006
in Not so Scientific..., Observations and Solutions to Problems
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Computers are just supposed to work, grrrr! Today I got this error:
A recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and Fast User Switching. To restore these features, you must uninstall the program. The following file name might help you identify the program that made the change: C:\WINDOWS\system32\BCMLogon.dll

I couldn’t switch the logon screen, and I couldn’t access the internet. I ran to another PC and found the solution to this problem.

To resolve the problem and restore the Welcome Screen and Fast User Switching, you need to reset the GinaDLL entry using these steps:

[UPDATE: There have been some useful comments made below, you might want to check them out before proceeding.]

* Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT
* Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon
* Backup the key by exporting to a file.
* In the right pane, right-click GinaDLL, and then click Delete. (You need to remove the whole value, not just its Value Data)
* Close Registry Editor

You can read about this here
BCMLogon.dll Problem Resolved
or at the Microsoft Knowledge Base
How To Use the Fast User Switching Feature in Windows XP

Thanks for giving me a pain in my rear bcmlogon.dll