How To Prevent Destruction of Earth due to Asteroid Impact

1. Amass an arsenal of nuclear weapons
2. Locate and employ Bruce Willis and his rag-tag band of gung-ho, oil-drilling roughnecks
3. Provide said band of roughnecks with said arsenal of nuclear weapons
4. Supply rag-tag crew with space craft with which to deliver 'Hand of God' (nuclear payload) to offending asteroid
5. Instruct roughnecks to poke hole in asteroid with 'Finger of God' (drilling equipment) and to place nuclear payload into the hole
6. The roughnecks are then to detonate the nuclear payload while making a daring last minute getaway from the asteroid
7. All of the above is to be done while churning out witty one-liners at at great personal sacrifice in order to achieve maximum dramatic effect
8. The final stage of this preventative measure involves chugging a cigar in a control room full of clapping and cheering operators while announcing "Well if the good ol' U.S. of A. ain't just the greatest damn nation on God's green Earth!"
9. The destruction of Earth will now have been successfully prevented.
   

A very good day...

1. I passed my driving test today!!!
2. I spoke to a production designer who I am meeting with soon who is going to help me get itno 'the biz'!
3. I know this should always happen, but its the little things...I checked my bank balance this morning and had exactly what I expected!

All in a all, a very good day. And now I'm going to Cardiff for the afternoon!

Networking Windows Vista and Windows XP

I have been trying all day to get this to work, and have been researching it on the web and found basically nothing. Vista has basically been released as a Beta version and some of the features do not yet work properly, including networking.

If you are experiencing the same problem as me, see if this helps. Both machines could ping each other, and see each other in Explorer, but could not access each other. A dialog came up saying that access was denied.

I have found that there is a semi-solution to the problem, and its one of those things that for XP users you'll kick yourself when you realise what an idiotic, simple thing to miss it is.

When you set a folder as shared on your XP machine, you HAVE to add 'Everyone' as a user in the sharing permissions! Doing this will solve the problem, however, it will only allow you to access the Vista machine from the XP machine, and not the other way round, as the Vista machine will still not access a shared folder unless it has explicitly been told it has permission to. This will however enable you to use the Easy Transfer feature, as you can use a shared folder on the Vista machine, which both PCs can see. If you do this, don't forget to set 'Everyone' as 'Co-Owner', otherwise the XP machine will not be able to write to the folder.

Hope this helps! :)