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This is a blog with the focus on computer stuff, yet anything tech will go. Also from time to time you will find me go off-topic to make a good blend of stuff.

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Microsoft doesn't know it yet
2008-09-12 00:12:00
A weird issue came up at work today. I really believe that Microsoft doesn't about it yet, since it exists in IE6 and later. It is a minor issue, but certainly something to fix.The problem was that when users were typing www.website.com/whatever they would get an Address bar error from IE. It would tell them that Windows cannot find "it" and to check the spelling. If you include the http:// prefix, then it worked fine. This has nothing to do with resolving an address, or any far sought cause.What I figured out is the following. If you have a Favorite in the root of your Favorites folder with the name/label www.website.com then you will have the above problem. Once you start typing www.website.com in the address bar, IE will recognize the Favorite and assume you are trying to type the name of one. If you keep typing after that, it will still be looking for a favorite that doesn't exist, and it will not see it as a URL anymore. So, going to www.website.com/whatever will throw the er...

Chapter 2: Installing XP
2007-04-06 07:44:00
First there is preparation. Obvious things like verifying that your equipment meets the requirements and is compatible with XP. Partitioning decisions. File system choice. Type of network you will be on. Whether to use Dynamic Updates or not. And about licensing. It recommends to create a checklist. If you can, always use NTFS. If you have to dual boot with an OS that can't read NTFS partitions, then you may have to use FAT32. The standard networking components are mentioned. And then also different ways to install XP. One way being over a network. It discusses winnt.exe and winnt32.exe and the switches that can be used with them.Stop errors, and other errors you may encounter during setup. The BSOD and a number of log files are named and explained. The setupact.log has everything that happened during the setup, and the setuperr.log has just the errors.Then WSUS is explained. The Windows Server Update Service is a service running on a server on a domain. It allows client computers ...
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Chapter 1: Intro
2007-04-06 07:27:00
This chapter introduces you to the different versions of XP. They are Professional, Home Edition, Media Center Edition, Tablet PC Edition, and the 64-Bit Edition.A common question people ask is about the differences between Home and Pro. Here are some big ones:Domain membershipSupport for two CPU'sNTFS or print permissionDynamic disksEFSIISSupport for RISTablet Edition is basically Pro with some touchscreen functions and applications.This chapter also covers the changes that came with Service Pack 2. The Security Center was added, ICF replaced by Windows Firewall, Automatic Updates improved, pop-up blocker built in to IE6, and more. To see if you have SP2 you can look in System Properties, or run "winver.exe".Then it goes over Workgroups and Domains. The major differences in security and management. For instance when you log on locally the authentication process is done by the local security subsystem, but if you log on to a domain then the domain controller has to do this.Further ...

Complete Change Of Heart
2007-04-06 06:45:00
I've done two things related to this Blog since my last post. One is rejecting spam comments, and the other is checking my adsense account. That's far from exciting and doesn't take a lot of time, so basically I've been away.Linux as a webserver is not happening. HP has some free courses that you can follow that are helpful. I signed up for a few Linux courses, but ended up getting behind and kinda lost my desire to mess with it right now. Change of heart, or mind. I purchased the book "Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional Second Edition", the Training Kit with the Evaluation version of XP Pro and a CD with some self test software. I am going into chapter four now, and am starting to realize that XP still has some secrets for me. I've been working with, and supporting computers with Windows for years, but especially in domain network environments there is much more to know. Because I thought this book would be boring I was reluctant to bu...
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Linux Distro Fedora As Server
2007-02-05 20:38:01
Currently I am learning Fedora and how to set it up as a web server. I want to set it up with the downloadable Wordpress files and restart my blog and host it myself for a little while. If I like it, I will look into paying for hosting. It would be much more flexible. Learning takes time though, and I'm not spending all my time on it. I will try to post my progress on this blog.About Fedora. It is just one of the many Linux distributions. It is free to download and use. One DVD or 5 CD's. I am totally new to Linux, which feels weird. I have a GUI which makes it like Windows, but you're lost as to where things are. After playing with it all evening I'm getting a good feel and I'm getting used to the abreviations and the filesystem. After installing the OS, I've been able to edit files, get the httpd service started as well as mysqld. So far, I love it. I downloaded the files for Wordpress and now I need to figure that out. I need to create a database for it to work and I forget...
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Linux Distro Fedora As Server
2007-02-04 09:43:00
Currently I am learning Fedora and how to set it up as a web server. I want to set it up with the downloadable Wordpress files and restart my blog and host it myself for a little while. If I like it, I will look into paying for hosting. It would be much more flexible. Learning takes time though, and I'm not spending all my time on it. I will try to post my progress on this blog.About Fedora. It is just one of the many Linux distributions. It is free to download and use. One DVD or 5 CD's. I am totally new to Linux, which feels weird. I have a GUI which makes it like Windows, but you're lost as to where things are. After playing with it all evening I'm getting a good feel and I'm getting used to the abreviations and the filesystem. After installing the OS, I've been able to edit files, get the httpd service started as well as mysqld. So far, I love it. I downloaded the files for Wordpress and now I need to figure that out. I need to create a database for it to work and I forget...
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16 Bit Subsystem Malicious?
2007-02-02 20:36:01
No. But the process ntvdm.exe is for some reason included in the virus definitions of Computer Associates. Yesterday, an old DOS program that we still run on ~20 computers at work stopped working on machines newer than Windows 98. You can imagine we didn't have many working ones left.We noticed that ntvdm.exe was taking up 50-100% CPU time when trying to run the DOS application. Later we found out that it was because the realtime scanner from Computer Associates (eTrust) had all attention on that file like white on snow. This caused the DOS program to be so slow that it wasn't usable. Once we figured this out we excluded the ntvmd.exe process from being scanned. Everything went back to light speed after that.While searching we found that many people have had issues with the ntvdm.exe file taking up the CPU time. Yet there was no solution anywhere, at least not for our exact situation. If you're dealing with something similar, make sure your Antivirus software is not bogging it do...
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16 Bit Subsystem Malicious?
2007-02-01 04:59:00
No. But the process ntvdm.exe is for some reason included in the virus definitions of Computer Associates. Yesterday, an old DOS program that we still run on ~20 computers at work stopped working on machines newer than Windows 98. You can imagine we didn't have many working ones left.We noticed that ntvdm.exe was taking up 50-100% CPU time when trying to run the DOS application. Later we found out that it was because the realtime scanner from Computer Associates (eTrust) had all attention on that file like white on snow. This caused the DOS program to be so slow that it wasn't usable. Once we figured this out we excluded the ntvmd.exe process from being scanned. Everything went back to light speed after that.While searching we found that many people have had issues with the ntvdm.exe file taking up the CPU time. Yet there was no solution anywhere, at least not for our exact situation. If you're dealing with something similar, make sure your Antivirus software is not bogging it do...

Adsense Preview Tool
2007-01-30 08:34:01
You're not allowed to click your own ads, since this is against the Adsense agreement. The Competitive Ad Filter for Adsense allows you to exclude certain ads from being displayed on your website. You do this by adding the URL of the ad to the filter. How can you find the URL without clicking the ad? It's not shown in the status bar.Google has created a preview tool just for that. By showing you the ads with a checkbox next to them, you can select the ads you don't want, and then view the URLs. Next you can add these to your filter.You might say it's easier to just right click the ad and do Copy Shortcut (IE) and then paste it in the filter. If you do that, you will have to puzzle out the URL from what you copied. It's not hard, since it's at the end of that string, but it's one at a time and requires this extra step.Many ads also have the URL shown inside the ad image or text. Often this is all you need. But sometimes it isn't.Today I've been fighting with this taxcut.com ...
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Adsense Preview Tool
2007-01-29 08:47:00
You're not allowed to click your own ads, since this is against the Adsense agreement. The Competitive Ad Filter for Adsense allows you to exclude certain ads from being displayed on your website. You do this by adding the URL of the ad to the filter. How can you find the URL without clicking the ad? It's not shown in the status bar.Google has created a preview tool just for that. By showing you the ads with a checkbox next to them, you can select the ads you don't want, and then view the URLs. Next you can add these to your filter.You might say it's easier to just right click the ad and do Copy Shortcut (IE) and then paste it in the filter. If you do that, you will have to puzzle out the URL from what you copied. It's not hard, since it's at the end of that string, but it's one at a time and requires this extra step.Many ads also have the URL shown inside the ad image or text. Often this is all you need. But sometimes it isn't.Today I've been fighting with this taxcut.com ...
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Hafnium Instead Of Silicon
2007-01-28 20:32:01
Since the 60's processor manufacturers have used silicon to make the transistors that make up a CPU [central processing unit = processor]. This news article from CNET writes about AMD, IBM, and Intel working on the switch to a metal called hafnium. It will improve performance and allow them to make transistors yet again smaller. Smaller means more will fit in an amount of space. More in turn means increased performance. The method they strive to use to make these new chips is called immersion lithography, in which the lines on the chip are etched while it is immersed in purified water. Read the article (2 pages) for more info.
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Hafnium Instead Of Silicon
2007-01-28 10:33:00
Since the 60's processor manufacturers have used silicon to make the transistors that make up a CPU [central processing unit = processor]. This news article from CNET writes about AMD, IBM, and Intel working on the switch to a metal called hafnium. It will improve performance and allow them to make transistors yet again smaller. Smaller means more will fit in an amount of space. More in turn means increased performance. The method they strive to use to make these new chips is called immersion lithography, in which the lines on the chip are etched while it is immersed in purified water. Read the article (2 pages) for more info.

CrossLoop - Simple Secure Screen Sharing
2007-01-27 20:31:01
Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, PC Anywhere, Dameware, and others. All of them allow you to remotely connect to a computer over the network/Internet. Cross Loop is a very easy to use and free screen sharing application. My friend over at CCTech pointed this out a while ago, and I just came across the bookmark. He posted it a while ago, so check out his post. It's free, secure, and easy to use for anyone.
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Rubber Ducky Monitoring
2007-01-27 20:31:01
Rubber Duck y is a cute little aquarium display that sits neatly above your system tray. The elements of the aquarium monitor the state of your computer--fish for network traffic, plants for hard disk, bubbles for CPU usage, and water level/color for RAM usage. Whenever your system experiences a slow-down, just take a quick glance at Rubber Ducky and you will know what is holding it up at a single glance.This tool is free of spy/malware, and is really simple. It's a cute way to display your resources. If the ducky is drowning you are running out of RAM, if you're not doing anything online and there's a lot of fish, maybe you need to check for worms, no pun intended! Worth checking out in your spare time.
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Belarc Advisor
2007-01-27 20:31:01
You may have heard of this web based tool. It is a free [for personal use] program that displays details about your hardware, software, security status, missing updates and more. It also displays keys for your installed software. It's a ~1MB download that runs locally only. None of the collected info is sent anywhere. Click here to try it.
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Blogspot For Complaints
2007-01-27 20:31:01
The blogging fever keeps spreading. A friend started a Blog for complaints. Anything he wants to complain about, he will post. And you can comment and vent as well. He just opened, and his first post is about left lane drivers. It's a funny idea I think. Check it out.1-800-COMPLAIN.blogspot.comAs a sidenote I want to mention that I've been away from Blogging for some days. One reason is because one of my hard drives started clicking and I've just been backing stuff up and been busy otherwise. Just now I finished setting up my two new 320GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives in a RAID1 configuration. That should double the read speed and keep write speed the same. So it's a bit of a performance boost, and I'll have a backup at all times. I'm digging this!
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CrossLoop - Simple Secure Screen Sharing
2007-01-27 02:48:00
Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, PC Anywhere, Dameware, and others. All of them allow you to remotely connect to a computer over the network/Internet. CrossLoop is a very easy to use and free screen sharing application. My friend over at CCTech pointed this out a while ago, and I just came across the bookmark. He posted it a while ago, so check out his post. It's free, secure, and easy to use for anyone.
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Rubber Ducky Monitoring
2007-01-27 02:10:00
Rubber Ducky is a cute little aquarium display that sits neatly above your system tray. The elements of the aquarium monitor the state of your computer--fish for network traffic, plants for hard disk, bubbles for CPU usage, and water level/color for RAM usage. Whenever your system experiences a slow-down, just take a quick glance at Rubber Ducky and you will know what is holding it up at a single glance.This tool is free of spy/malware, and is really simple. It's a cute way to display your resources. If the ducky is drowning you are running out of RAM, if you're not doing anything online and there's a lot of fish, maybe you need to check for worms, no pun intended! Worth checking out in your spare time.

Belarc Advisor
2007-01-27 00:12:00
You may have heard of this web based tool. It is a free [for personal use] program that displays details about your hardware, software, security status, missing updates and more. It also displays keys for your installed software. It's a ~1MB download that runs locally only. None of the collected info is sent anywhere. Click here to try it.

Blogspot For Complaints
2007-01-26 06:22:00
The blogging fever keeps spreading. A friend started a Blog for complaints. Anything he wants to complain about, he will post. And you can comment and vent as well. He just opened, and his first post is about left lane drivers. It's a funny idea I think. Check it out.1-800-COMPLAIN.blogspot.comAs a sidenote I want to mention that I've been away from Blogging for some days. One reason is because one of my hard drives started clicking and I've just been backing stuff up and been busy otherwise. Just now I finished setting up my two new 320GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives in a RAID1 configuration. That should double the read speed and keep write speed the same. So it's a bit of a performance boost, and I'll have a backup at all times. I'm digging this!

Hard Drive In Action
2007-01-20 03:22:00
Since we're on the subject of data recovery, I might as well post this cool video that shows what your drive does when it's buzzing along, copying, deleting, formatting, etc. If you watch the Presentation first, you will understand much better what is going on in this video. Enjoy.
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Free Data Recovery Presentation!
2007-01-19 23:25:00
Alright, I consider this a good find! While surfing YouTube the other day, I came across some videos about Data Recovery . Companies that specialize in this can easily charge you up to $3000 for a regular 40GB hard drive. For example, at work I have used DriveSavers a number of times, and their charge depends on the amount of recovered data. They usually charge at least an attempt fee of $200.The free videos I found are cut in 7 takes of each like 9 minutes. So it's a roughly one hour long presentation given by Scott Moulton. He gives a lot of information about how hard drives work, how they are assembled, how data can be recovered, and what can and can't be done. Do you know about the freezer trick? Do you think hard drives are hermetically sealed? Well, see what tips Scott has for you. Here is the first part. You can also find them all on his website at MyHardDriveDied.com.
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Top Tips For Bloggers - One Month Report
2007-01-18 01:35:00
One month ago today, I created webspeaker on Blogger. Shortly before that day I had no idea what RSS even is and thought that Blogs are another way to waste time. I learned a few things, and by applying them the result is roughly 1300 visitors and almost $10 from Adsense. Forty-some posts later I feel pretty good about how my Blog is doing, and want to keep it going.With some help, and by reading a lot I have learned that a few things are important.Backlinks: Get sites with related content, and preferrably a higher PR than yours, to link to you. When your PR goes up, SE's will find you and bring you traffic. Also others will be more likely to Blogroll you, which helps traffic a little.Quality Content: If you want people to come back and/or spread the word for you, make sure you have something worthwhile. Post every day if you can.Promote: Any way you can. Get your URL out there. Whether you post an article on Digg.com, or sign up on MyBlogLog.com, or some TopBlogListDotSomewhere, m...
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$5500 Gaming Rig
2007-01-17 06:14:00
Dell XPS 710 H2C. You got the money to dump on it? Are you a gamer? Then this is the way to go right now! This machine from Dell is packed with insane power.Quad is the keyword. The CPU, RAM, but also the GPU! There are two of the new dual core 8800 cards in it with each 512MB video memory! 4GB of RAM! And aside from looking real hot, it keeps your hardware cool! That is of high importance with this thing. Also see it at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Free Online PC Protection Class
2007-01-17 05:51:00
You can sign up and enroll for the free PC Protection class that CNET is offering on January 22. You'll learn how to reduce spam, secure your wireless network, create good passwords, and remove malware, and protect your computer from virusses and worms. If you have any questions or concerns about this, this may be a time to get things cleared up for you.
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iPhone Commercial - Funny
2007-01-17 04:48:00
You've heard of it. You've seen it. Maybe you already have it! This video shows you a few hidden extras of this gadget! They're not in the user manual! We'll have to redefine what it really means for something to be multi-functional! Enjoy. Found it through [GAS].Edit: The video is no longer available. If you want to see something else that's funny, I suggest this video of a rabbit chasing a snake into a tree!
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