[H] New OCZ eSATA flash drive

Stumbled across the OCZ Throttle tonight & was thinking "great idea". $55 for 16GB is a little high starting point even if as fast as claimed but I like the dual eSATA/USB2.0 idea. http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_throttle_esata_flash_drive

[H] New OCZ eSATA flash drive

Stumbled across the OCZ Throttle tonight & was thinking "great idea". $55 for 16GB is a little high starting point even if as fast as claimed but I like the dual eSATA/USB2.0 idea. http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_throttle_esata_flash_drive

Re: [H] -ot- phone ?

2 words, REVENUE STREAM. Must pay to download games/ringtones, must pay data charges to upload pics. Never mind it took the a YEAR to finally offer Razr and it's not GSM. Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Why do they lock out features in the first place? Greg Sevart wrote: The Verizon model will co

Re: [H] -ot- phone ?

Yes, there are wired. No, $20 headphone not worth it IMHO. Unless you get it free in the end, don't bother as V3 is on it's way out and deals abound for free or even paid cash after rebate. Avoid Verizon as they lock you out of features such as cable downloading your own ringtones and maybe ev

Re: [H] Video RSS downloader

Geared towards audio how? I've been using it too pull down all sorts of enclosures including video & jpegs. Now if NASA would fix their Image of the Day feed Brian Weeden wrote: I currently use Doppler to download podcasts from RSS feeds and uTorrent to download torrents from RSS feeds.

Re: [H] Oh, how I miss the "KeyLock"

Well with brain-dead XP home you can't do this, but you can with pro: Set rights on the folders of the programs you want locked out to a "games" user, keep the account's password from the kids & log them in to when they can use them. A more alarming problem is the need for some games to have f

Re: [H] Hiding certain browser activity

With firefox, move your profile to a EFS protected folder. Add a MIPS password to firefox and you will really keep even most "super snoopers" out. Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to hide my visits to certain websites in my browser. I've gotten rid of the "history" that sho

Re: [H] Best Antivirus

Frankly I do not have the time to read it all but I assume Symantec Corp is still the king of the heap. Of course I only base this on the few new viruses I find by email from time to time & submit to virustotal.com which has consistently shown SAV as the only one or one of 2 engines to detect

Re: [H] Printer heads dry out update

Too late, mine hit the garbage heap when I moved! :-( Less than 200 pages over 5 years and it was just eating ink each time I fired it up. Al Anger wrote: Was in Comp-USA Saturday talking to an Epson rep. He said to spray a piece of photo paper with Windex and print a multi colored image

Re: [H] OT - Al Jazeera

Powerful speech IMHO. Especially liked how the one guy simply said there was no need to argue with her since she was a "heretic" which is the religious equivalent of "whatever, I have no logical argument to counter you so I will call you names." Don't see her rant helping much without a lot

[H] Dell laptop DVD-RW

Well my Pioneer DVR-K12RA gave up the ghost so I am looking to see if any of you guys have a slim DVD-RW that will fit a Dell Latitude C840 laying around? I've already wasted $130 buying this one 2 years ago and it's died prematurely not too mention was hardly worth it in terms of performance

Re: [H] curing system slowdown

WHAT? Aw crap there goes a good source of utilities Greg Sevart wrote: And you can use Autoruns from here: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html Speaking of Sysinternals, did you see that Microsoft bought them (and Winternals) today? Bittersweet. Greg

Re: [H] curing system slowdown

Don't forget to check event viewer and see if there are any errors or warnings. If you have long logs you can even compare the event time spread on startup events from boot to boot to see if anything stands out. Could be a network issue (a feature, not a bug!) or service(s) taking it's sweet a

Re: [H] -OT- Customer loyalty

I see a downward trend in loyalty paying off for the consumer. Just switched from my bank of 15 years because they lied about an account feature "we'll enable that & refund the charge, sorry", then jerked me after 3 times in the same year from lack of said feature being "enabled" only to be tol

Re: [H] Is Nothing Safe Anymore?

Stupidity & short sightedness. USB devices can be disallowed & I'll bet the corporate supplied laptops are just as unprotected as the personal ones. Secure you data & monitor who accesses it before you point fingers elsewhere. Robert Turnbull wrote:

Re: [H] Win2K and XP networking

Never mind these people are just not behind hardware firewalls or you'd never see their shares! I'd love to be doing this kind of thing driving through neighborhoods & dropping a business card on their desktop but have avoid doing do so for fear of prosecution for wifi poaching or some other B

Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?

Hey, they want that $.99 for the luxury of downloading that which you pay $65/mo+ to the cable co to watch (who in turn pay networks fees for right to rebroadcast signal to cable subscribers) and could have Tivo'ed but did not! The law, defacto or legislated, should be as long as the commercia

Re: [H] LCD burn in ?

Logo-L is Lock PC OR switch users depending on you setup under XP, use it all the time here to lock my system. "Lock your computer if you are connected to a network domain, or switch users if you are not connected to a network domain." If you have power management enabled, the monitor should

Re: [H] W2K - Services.exe problem

I'll second that one, unless you have a trojan hiding it should narrow it down to the sub-process under services.exe. If you suspect virus or malware, time to AV scan in safe mode preferably with Symantec AV. Might even go so far as to getting a list of all related files & sending them off to

Re: [H] 24 inch montior

With the right stand, you can rotate the panel to portrait & tell the video driver to rotate the image 90deg which is awesome for reading full page docs and such not too mention MAME games that were that orientation. Still need to get my hands on 2 for my fp1702's after being spoiled in colleg

Re: [H] PCMCIA Wireless NIC

No mini-pci slot in that laptop? I thought at this point good stuff was internal & generic enough to fit the major brands. External antenna might by tricky with a mini-pci but the connector is on the board so I'd assume something could be added to go external. Bobby Heid wrote: I don't have

Re: [H] EFF Backs Court in Protecting Phone Call Privacy

I am a bad citizen and not following things as I should be but a heart felt here here to the EFF and the judge! It's getting to be like gun control where there is more damage than good or a least little in the way of suppressing anything but freedom with how things have gotten on the big broth

Re: [H] WGA again

Wayne Johnson wrote: At 01:30 PM 7/3/2006, warpmedia typed: Next step would be the version that disables systems as keys are blacklisted rather than wait for a major service pack to blacklist batches of keys as with the SP2/FCKGW key. Sorry to be so nit picky but the FCKGW corp key never

Re: [H] Project idea - noise canceling in autos

Mics using digital transmission would not have the issue of analog one's feed subject RF modulating the signal. Brian Weeden wrote: Very cool - just what I was looking for. I think the real question is going to be how it will work in a car audio environment. I wonder what running such a signa

Re: [H] WGA again

No it makes sense since some keys are valid until discovered stolen. They got what they want for the most part, millions of machines have called home and announced their keys which is a reconnaissance mission. Next step would be the version that disables systems as keys are blacklisted rather

Re: [H] Alcohol 120% problem

, warpmedia Poked the stick with: Maybe an intentional measure against blacklisting? You check the forums?

Re: [H] Alcohol 120% problem

Maybe an intentional measure against blacklisting? You check the forums? FORC5 wrote: I had this happen oncce b4 but my usual fix didn't work. Updated to latest build, Alcohol on re boot converted my virtual drives to physical drives ( duh ) Can not seem to get rid of them but working on it.

Re: [H] MS releases 8 new critical updates for XP SP2

So sorry to hear that Harvey, strength to you and your family. - Original Message - From: Harvey Best To: The Hardware List Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:39 PM Subject: RE: Re: [H] MS releases 8 new critical updates for XP SP2 Thanks for the link. It will be a couple o

Re: [H] Dell's remote assistance

Your making an assumption, if they support it, it's Dell's driver and available on the site. So my guess would be remote control installed by default or by browsing the dell website which means completely doable. Virus, windows so borked you can't get in would be a service call or a "Stick the

Re: [H] Google Browser Sync

I'd like to know more about what encryption they're using and would prefer not to rely on a google statement privacy to be sure they're not scanning my data for keywords before encrypting & storing it. Steve wrote: Guess it depends on how much you believe their spiel "By encrypting your info

Re: [H] Password strength

e: I don't disagree with that at all, assuming you had something to protect. I thought you were trying to say something more with the "new world order" part. warpmedia wrote: :: What is it your question? My point was you need to protect your data :: in this day and age of prying eyes, no

Re: [H] Password strength

What is it your question? My point was you need to protect your data in this day and age of prying eyes, nothing else. Anthony Q. Martin wrote: NWO? Are you serious?

Re: [H] Password strength

This is why I encrypt my volumes with a huge, strong, random passwords and then use container access files stored on a AES encrypted USB thumb drive with a simpler passphrase once-per-boot to mount them. From there you can use anything, even notepad, to keep list of passwords for other things

Re: [H] Interesting documentary

Here here! Just because we are better off does not mean we should shut up. It's not like we're perfect & the rest of you are screwed, it's that we are less screwed. TBH our taxes would drop like a rock if we didn't 'have to' police the world or loose money propping up shit hole's with more co

Re: [H] Windows Validation tool

Haven't used regcrawler but suggest Registry Toolkit from Funduc: http://www.funduc.com/registry_toolkit.htm Chris Reeves wrote: Reg Crawler. Great stuff Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:27:

Re: [H] Windows Validation tool

LOL Chuck, you missed the point of the thread! We are talking about the WGA software phoning home on a regular interval which has nothing to do with initial activation phone call or performance. Seems the eventual point of this tool, among other uses solely beneficial to M$, is so M$ can disab

Re: [H] Windows Validation tool

Wait, I got some frelling beacon program announcing me daily? Chris Reeves wrote: Response sent off list for obvious reasons

[H] X3:Reunion video game?

Has anyone seen this? The designers must have been on something but the G4 people must REALLY be on something to do the coverage of it. All I can say is be ready for a lot of hot KHA'AK action, lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi8n6uN091E

Re: [H] Podcasting download software

hilarious. The most recent ep has a guest from the BSG TV show as one of the actresses playing an alien come to Earth to learn to dance from the lovely Lala. j m g wrote: Is it any better than itunes? Is it touting something that itunes doesn't have? Other than memory footprint :) On 6/1

Re: [H] I'm convinced, Vista is garbage.

nd not just the inability to join a domain. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 08:50 AM 05/06/2006, warpmedia wrote: Personally I never recommend home simply because of the missing security settings but would not feel bad if the customer is too lazy or stupid to to take time to understand why

Re: [H] I'm convinced, Vista is garbage.

RAM, yes 512MB is the norm. Not that you should pay the ass-raping prices vendors want to upgrade to 512MB, 1 stick, etc... but you should have that even if you have to buy the system with lowest RAM & upgrade 3rd party. Desktop? Screw that, name one good reason to use the 3d to render a 2d d

Re: [H] I'm convinced, Vista is garbage.

Tough, if you are pre-installing correctly they had the option at 1st boot to accept the EULA & decide if home was what they wanted. Assuming they have not activated I dare say you could uninstall OEM Home (taking back the COA & media) and do a fresh OEM Pro install without any issues. Perso

Re: [H] I'm convinced, Vista is garbage.

Sounds like good times for x86 Mac users who still need to use windows with boot camp! At least until the next DirectX version comes out Vista only (god forbid) and forces gamers to make a choice. If you want (almost) free legit windows XP (screw 2K) take the 1st college course for MCSE and ge

Re: [H] Black Razor

That sounds like the Achilles heel for the brick that was the Motorola StarTac. Even after cracking my LCD by having the bag of CD's it's was clipped to smack it into a concrete floor, the phone was otherwise un-damageable. Hell I threw it up 2 stories to fall on concrete trying to destroy it

Re: [H] %program files% variable all hosed

It's a reg_sz value in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProgramFilesDir CW wrote: Had to do a repair install of WindowsXP 64 on a machine in the house. Now, the %program files% variable is wonky.. it basically doesn't find it. (ie, go to a prompt, cd %program file

Re: [H] Black Razor

Winterlight wrote: Complaints about Razor are: 1. Low RAM <12MB vs. 40MB on triplets I thought it was 5MB ..but 12MB is plenty for me Usable RAM is about that much depending on if you delete the crap stock ringtones, wallpaper, and ringers. 2. Camera is as good as triplet's what

Re: [H] Black Razor

Well I've had mine about 4 months with no scratches on the black. I did manage to somehow scratch the inside display. Normally I have been carrying it in a pouch which keeps it away from most possible scratch sources. To attest to durability of the case, I mistakenly put out a cigarette on the

[H] Podcasting download software

Someone back a bit asked about good podcast download software and if they didn't mention it, let me. Doppler has solved by d/l woes and unlike Fireant keeps original file names, creates folders for the feed, tags, and supports external viewers and programs. http://www.dopplerradio.net/

Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off?

No surprises there! Funny they don't just cut to the chase and flat-out offer to re-install the OS from a no-bloatware image for $180. =) Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: I just read this on CNet: "Customers who purchase PCs through Best Buy can take their systems to the Geek Squad counter and,

Re: [H] OT Need to upgrade with full version instead ofupgrade cd

Glad to hear it! Harvey Best wrote: Thanks peoples, it is upgraded and running! Harveyhbest

Re: [H] XP Pro and two NICs

Could be the metric or routing issue then, dumping the routing tables when it happens would help tell you diagnose it. So they have a 98 machine on a live IP & no router/firewall? This is just stupid. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 03:27 AM 30/05/2006, warpmedia wrote: Is it that the

Re: [H] OT Need to upgrade with full version instead of upgrade cd

IIRC the trick was deleting the C:\windows\win.com file that OEM looks for and then it will do an upgrade preserving the registry, software & drivers. Harry McGregor wrote: That will nuke the registry, and will NOT be an upgrade, but a reinstall, and most programs installed will not run withou

Re: [H] XP Pro and two NICs

Is it that the NIC attached to the DSL won't get a new IP or is it a metric issue where the internal network becomes the preferred route? Sounds to me like you are trying to ICS to share the DSL with the internal network? This would be a non-issue if using a router/firewall appliance to deal w

Re: [H] Black Frog leaps into fight against spam

They will suffer the same fate as BF. All they are doing is escalating the war by attacking the spammer's systems and in a way justifying the counter DoS the spammers launch. They are not going to tell anyone where the servers are? I think the spammers will get clue as to who/where when the at

Re: [H] security risk?

Well I'm guessing VLANs are what you need. With some routing rules allowing wireless VLAN only talk to the router gateway. With 2 routers you have the multi-subnet thing & rules to partition traffic. A good thread: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Q_21409942.html Winterlight wrote

Re: [H] Is "View page in IE Tab" dangerous?

YES! It's using IE to render. Brian Weeden wrote: One of the main reasons I use Firefox is because I don't have to worry about a lot of the IE-only exploits running around, including Active-X. And I always run with NoScript on. But every once in a while I come across a page that doesn't render

Re: [H] Cell phone docking stations

Looks like both brand's bases are bluetooth and need BT enabled cell phone to work, so no cell signal boost from them. You could get one of those car antenna kits and jack into phone for better reception. Winterlight wrote: I live in a area where all cell providers have a very weak signal. I

Re: [H] Interesting Mac article

Lol, as if margins on PC weren't bad enough, to be selling & supporting Apples??? Interesting article. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: It's long, but it's quite interesting. I've never been a Mac user (I had an Apple II back in the stone age) but I have been the target of Mac Fanatics who come

Re: [H] Cell phone docking stations

Well that's the second one of those I've seen, didn't know Motorola had their own. I had been thinking about a plantronics Voyager 510S: http://plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/cat1150057/cat1150057/prod5460017 Up until these, all I could find where bridges costing > $300 and they

Re: [H] remote desktop

Put an old WRT54GS (rev 4 or lower) at the border, load 3rd party firmware on it, lower security on westel, and use WRT's firewall which can be configured anyway you like. Alterntively (as I sure someone will note) you can put up an old PC w/ linux + IPTables to do the same thing. One of the

Re: [H] PC security class...

I see your point, but ultimately what mobile hackers (to compound the confusion, black hats in this case) are doing is wardriving with intent to do harm. Every tool and title has at least 2 uses, one good, the other bad, and context defines the meaning here IMO. As to your other point, your th

Re: [H] PC security class...

Uh huh, and "true hackers" are white hats. There is no true here, just a generic term used for an action/activity, kinda like "working". =) Harvey Best wrote: True "Wardrivers" are not doing shady things. I Wardrive as I do a lot of traveling and it's interesting. Something to do. I fix my s

Re: [H] editing music ?

Nero has a wave editor in their v6 suite. I was going to suggest Cool Edit but looks like now it's Abode Audition. FORC5 wrote: recommendations on sw to cut up music into smaller pcs so the smaller pcs can be used in another dvd project, strictly for in house and grins thanks

Re: [H] cool beetle

Third, v.cool! Al wrote: FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: worth the wait Second that. Al

Re: [H] PC security class...

Second that, great podcast! Brian Weeden wrote: Guys this whole discussion was covered including every point and idea mentioend here in a lot more detail in these podcasts: http://grc.com/securitynow.htm Try Episodes 10, 11, and 13. And a good VPN solution for security concerns in hotels and

Re: [H] Pulling COA key out of XP

OEM is a different key than retail, CD you're using maybe the issue? Same problem may be with the key readers that they don't reverse the key properly. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: Here's an interesting thing. I've been fighting with a machine that has XP Pro on it, and the COA is lost. I p

Re: [H] PC security class...

SSID off is never a true solution. Yes, you can still see it, just not in the normal way. 1st the signal is there which makes it obvious there is a WAP in the area. 2nd, SSID broadcast is off, but it's clients are still talking to something advertising it's presence in their packets detectable

Re: [H] bye bye bitboys

In the end they designed for chips that went into cell phones, that's not what their claim to fame was, but that is what they ended up doing. So they must have done something more than vaporware to be worth $44Mil. Chris Reeves wrote: Man, I need to claim to invent something, through up a webs

Re: [H] PC security class...

Hours? Not even. No WEP it takes seconds to read the traffic and extract a MAC. WEP takes longer, but the needed packets can be coerced out of your WAP. Besides, there's more at stake there than access. What about having someone capture the traffic and taking it home to decrypt to extract yo

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

that ghetto solution with VBGay and WMGay! On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:00:37PM -0400, warpmedia wrote: You could roll your own with VBScript & WMI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/power/base/getsystempowerstatus.asp Winterlight wrote: Is there a way to che

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

You could roll your own with VBScript & WMI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/power/base/getsystempowerstatus.asp Winterlight wrote: Is there a way to check a laptop (IBM T23) battery = time remaining, from the command line ?

Re: [H] PC security class...

Good list, a few suggestions: Unless #1 already incorporates it, the importance of running as a limited users except when loading new software, esp. for children. Also the importance of having an limited account for *each* family member to segregate damage & file access. Maybe a bit of how t

Re: [H] Annoying Asus A7V8X-X on boot up?

Have you tried resetting the BIOS or clearing the CMOS? Did A quick Google and did not find people complaining of this. W. D. wrote: At 00:08 4/18/2006, Wayne Johnson, wrote: At 12:09 AM 4/18/2006, W. D. typed: Can't get it to boot automatically. Looked at all the BIOS settings. Has anyone

Re: [H] HOLY CRAP - Photorealistic CGI in Crysis

Too cool! Crytec is doing it again! Seems they won't take advantage of the new PPU technology? Can't find a definitive answer. http://www.gamersreports.com/video.php?id=1143577372&g=810&ex=avi Veech wrote: http://www.pcgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15865 Check out the second image in th

Re: [H] Benefits of Defragging

Not to re-hash that, but I forget if we discussed the effects of multi-threaded, multi-file access or just single threaded/single-file? I am beginning to feel as long as my swap, temp, and core windows files are not fragged that the state of the rest of the FS can be fragged to hell with no ef

Re: [H] X10

Now the X10 Ninja mounts are cool, the cams suck IMO. I have my D-Link cam on one now. I had used old video conferencing cams off ebay with them through a 3 device RF modulator. V.Cool to be able monitor from any room with a TV just be sure you get the proper channel blocker for the cable feed

Re: [H] X10

Not sure if they're related, but Smarthome.com is a big vendor of home automation. So is your local electrical supply since Leviton makes a complete line. http://www.leviton.com/ There's been more than a few big names since the 70's when BSR introduced the system. Radio shack, IBM, Sears, Cra

Re: [H] router reboot ?

nnect boxes go for 2 years without a single hiccup, even supporting multiple users (roommates) that were using bit torrent. (the thousands of connections BT opens up is one quick way to lock a lot of consumer grade gear). Greg - Original Message - From: "warpmedia" <[EMAIL P

Re: [H] X10

Their claim-to-fame is no-big-deal these days with so many wireless cameras available elsewhere. As to the actual good X10 remote control stuff there are other sites & sources. Ben Ruset wrote: For a while, they were the #1 source of popups and sent a *LOT* of spam. I would imagine many, man

Re: [H] router reboot ?

That depends on the definition and scope of "common". My WRT54GS only had occasionally issues WHILE I was configuring devsnap versons of Sveasoft Talisman. It is after all a limux box running on PDA type hardware so should be as reliable as PC assuming stable software in both cases. Greg Sev

Re: [H] SFC ?

Another article, seem SP2 changes the game: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=510 Robert Martin Jr. wrote: There's a utility called SafeXP I think, that lets you toggle this on and off, along with ability to disable different services, etc. lopaka FORC5 <[EMAIL P

Re: [H] SFC ?

This article claims to be a way. basically you replace two bytes with 0x90 "NOP" or no operation instructions in SFC_OS.DLL. http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/790/ Robert Martin Jr. wrote: There's a utility called SafeXP I think, that lets you toggle this on and off, along with ab

Re: [H] remeber your basics ppl

"ping.symantec.com" is still resolvable after all these years. Jim Edwards wrote: ping nslookup ipconfig /ALL tracert And there is more if others want to contribute These utilities can help you and us diagnose network problems When it comes to those utilities, I have _always_ used sony.com

Re: [H] OT: Installing and running XP from USB thumbdrive

This is more of "Will my machine boot a USB mass-storage device" & "Will Windows setup see it & allow me to install to it" question than specifically USB thumb drives. Good writeup, wonder if there is a boot loader redirect (System Commander, Lilo, etc...) solution for systems with BIOS' that

Re: [H] Laptop WiFi Problems

Can you ping the default gateway/router? Can the router's diagnostic page ping the laptop? Richard Kim wrote: I just added an Atheros 5002 mini-PCI wifi card to my laptop (Acer 340T). I've been having troubles getting it to connect to the internet. I am using a Netgear wgr614 v5 wireless route

Re: [H] OT: VS 2005 Express editions are free forever!

I'll bite, so what do you use? That is assuming your employer uses VB or VC to create code. Bryan Seitz wrote: ooo Free utter and complete crap! On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:26:56PM -0400, Bobby Heid wrote: I know that some here are dabbling in Visual Studio. Now the Express editions are fre

Re: [H] dead A8N-Sli Deluxe... :(

Well go figure, rev 0 AND Via, you'd expect problems. Hardly a basis to scratch Asus off the list. Wayne Johnson wrote: At 04:03 PM 4/19/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Heh heh. Good point. I'm rid of all my Abits, thank god, and I hope never to have another. To each their own as I've

Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP

What is the advantage of wizmo over the stock shutdown.exe? As to my earlier question about the logoff script happening before or after user processes are terminated I guess no one knows, so I will have to try it & find out. Wayne Johnson wrote: At 02:39 PM 4/18/2006, Ben Ruset typed: I t

Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP

Would that run before or after all your user processes were given the kill signal? I'd like to use that in place of the manual batchshutdown.cmd that I call instead of doing a standard shutdown. The batch does some stuff and then calls shutdown.exe. The reverse would be useless since user proc

Re: [H] surveillance camera

In the same vein I'd suggest a pass on the DLink DCS-32xx & DCS-900. Both have been temperamental with low image quality & terrible low light sensitivity. Analyst wrote: On 13 Apr 2006 at 20:50, Winterlight wrote: I want to set up a bullet proof video surveillance camera so I can keep an eye

Re: [H] [OT] FJ Pics

Looks like Hummer, meets jeep, meets landrover. =) GM wrote: For those who have not seen the FJ Cruiser http://mysite.verizon.net/gmrtn/

Re: [H] Is activating XP necessary?

floats around the net and is blacklisted by SP2 was a VLP VLK. FORC5 wrote: what does VLK stand for ? 1st time hearing that term. fp At 09:12 PM 4/5/2006, warpmedia Poked the stick with: There are also VLK versions like I'm using in college right now that do not need to be activated

Re: [H] Is activating XP necessary?

There are also VLK versions like I'm using in college right now that do not need to be activated at all. There is no "Corporate" edition, that's a warez term for a VLK version that needs no activation. Even better we are given access to the MS Academic Alliance which grants us free copies of e

Re: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

Just because a car can do 100MPH doesn't mean you blame the manufacture for diver incompetence. If you don't change your oil (ie have knowledge) it's your fault when you get that repair bill or end up stranded in the middle of nowhere. People need to learn proper habits, period. I welcome a ti

Re: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

Uh huh, and in a few years well be saying the same about them also. It's the nature of the beast with programmable systems and programmer/companies more concerned with moving widgets than getting them bug free. Granted MS has become the poster child for this, but that's what happens to the pro

Re: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

rowing complexity of software. I do like how IE on 2003 defaults to restricted for each new domain and allows you to then trust it. Very much like how I was running it before I switched to FF. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 07:04 AM 05/04/2006, warpmedia wrote: LOL, bash away boys, the next

Re: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

LOL, bash away boys, the next popular OS will have the same issues. Jin-Wei Tioh wrote: At 08:12 PM 4/4/2006, you wrote: And don't forget to include the Geniuses from Redmond that gave us the fertile ground of their security-hole ridden OS that made all this possible in the first place...

Re: [H] Mountain Dew PC

Look in on this guy in a few more years of "living on nothing but the golden goodness of Dew" and see what shape he's in, LOL! Looks neat and it mimics the idea of big appliance manufactures to integrate servers into your home refrigerator. Of course you don't want some HVAC tech mucking aroun

Re: [H] Batteries to get boost from nanotechnology

HDTV was 1st talked about in 1988 or so, took until 10+ years later to become available at insane prices. The only reason you have HDTV broadcasts: US government mandates. About the same time I remember hearing about Electric cars with the issue being if the battery cooled, it solidified and w

Re: [H] Remove log in

If you don't care about loss of access to that users EFS encrypted data, you can use the NTPASSWD boot CD to reset the password. Winterlight wrote: I have a Win 2000 SP4 computer that is on my LAN. A long time ago I logged into my server from it using the servers Administrator / password. Wind

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