Julian warns us kindly: "Moral of the story for those intending to make a visit and use the kit in the lower library, a phone call to the society to determine the state of things would be a wise move." Many thanks for that! There may be further problems with an upgraded OS especially if all the Service Packs and security patches haven't been applied *and kept updated* - those pcs are meant for the www and can't be considered immune from hackers and/or viruses. Regards, Peter in SW London Society of Genealogists Member No.25396 SPAC-E,-IE,-EY,-Y

Peter I can assure you that the latest version of the software including all parches was installed. The problem related simply to the Origins account not being properly initialised following the rebuild. Once allerted to the fact on the Tuesday morning the problem was fixed by lunchtime. If anyone wants to come and help in closed week next year there is always a list of things that need to be done on the IT side. I spent the entire week down there, together with Chris Broomfield and Graham Walter, working on those machines and other. Chris and I also spend most Tuesday's in the Society as volunteers fire-fighting and Graham is often in of a Saturday as time permit. As for updates, they run windows update checks on boot up, have the very latest anti-virus software and also hide behind a hardware firewall It is comments like that that make me wonder at time if it is worth the effort Regards John Hanson The SoG (volunteer) ITSupport team -----Original Message----- From: Peter R. Spacey [mailto:searcher@cix.co.uk] Sent: 24 February 2006 17:29 To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SoG] Re: SOG-UK-D Digest V06 #21 Julian warns us kindly: "Moral of the story for those intending to make a visit and use the kit in the lower library, a phone call to the society to determine the state of things would be a wise move." Many thanks for that! There may be further problems with an upgraded OS especially if all the Service Packs and security patches haven't been applied *and kept updated* - those pcs are meant for the www and can't be considered immune from hackers and/or viruses. Regards, Peter in SW London Society of Genealogists Member No.25396 SPAC-E,-IE,-EY,-Y ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email

John, I wasn't at all expecting that anyone would read my post as indicating other than all due respect for Chris,Graham and yourself. I was meaning to check that the necessary precautions were being taken and as an extra to jog a few memories of our esteemed colleagues out there who maybe let things slide at times - it does happen. So please accept my apologies for maybe the phrasing that reached where it shouldn't have? I should add that owing to home circumstances, though I'm a Londoner, I haven't been to SOG for a couple of years which has meant that I'm in the dark concerning all the good improvements. And when I managed to turn-up on a closed day some time ago, I readily agreed to do some useful work in the microfiche dept. Regards, Peter in SW London Society of Genealogists Member No.25396 SPAC-IE,-EY,-Y