htaccess on Yahoo Hosting

I have found a picture which I think really sums up my maiden experience with Yahoo Hosting.

For the vision impaired and slow learners, I am comparing Yahoo’s service to a steaming pile of shit. Though, when I think about it, the steaming part is probably inaccurate, as that would suggest their is some freshness about it - perhaps a pic of a dried out near-powder shit would be more accurate.

#1. No .htaccess support, means register globals and magic quotes always ON

#2. No cron job support, we are now expected to wait until 3.05am every night to manually run that script

#3. very, very slow

#4. majorly out-of-date software

#4. Crap control panel that tries to be clever

Yahoo (at your prices), you can do better.

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Disable Overtype Mode In Microsoft Word Permanently!

By default in Microsoft Word, when you hit insert key, Word jumps into overtype mode, which writes over the text at the cursor instead of inserting new characters. This drives many people insane. The fact that it is a default behaviour remains to be seen.

How to fix overtype mode:

There are two options to remedy this:

1. Go to Tools > Options > Edit > Overtype Mode

And uncheck the Overtype mode box.

OR

2. Kill the Insert Key:
1. Start Word
2. Click on the Tools menu
3. Click Customize
4. Click the Options tab
5. Click Keyboard
6. Under the Categories dropdown box, select All Commands
7. Under the Commands dropdown box, select Overtype
8. Under the Current keys downdown box, select Insert
9. Click Remove
10. Click Close until the dialog windows close.

Thanks to the guys at tech-recipes.com, where I discovered this information after years of using method 1! this guy deserves a medal!