Month: November 2005

Couldn’t find a way to turn autoplay on XP off then I realised it was probably in the Group Policies for XP. After some searching I typed gpedit.msc at a prompt and this will make the group policy editor appear. The setting is in Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System
Very useful. Many users will have noticed that occassionally auto-play makes you want to tear your hair out when it tries to install a large program or play a large media file bringing your computer to a standstill.

I was in hospital this morning so I spent the period of the day, when I wasn’t sleeping, trawling some blogs and catching up on the minutae of other people’s lives. I managed to find this. A fascinating documentary on the first form of internetworked geek communion, BBS. I was a big fan of these in the day and used to connect using my gee whizz Acorn Archimedes. That singled me out as a power user by the way. At a heady 4800 baud, I really smoked the joint out. Anyway, geeks who’ve been there and done that, like me, can check out this wonderful documentary and relive BBS in all their monochrome glory. There’s even a nice little interview with Internet co-inventor and Google VP, Vinton Cerf.