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Does anyone know how to filter out spam in Mailwasher with subjects that are enocoded in base64, i.e. those that start with =?ISO-8859-1...... etc? It's doing my head in. I've reckon I've got the hang of creating filters for it pretty well, but I'm stumped with these 1s. I tried to create a filter that just looks for the 1st part of the header [the =?ISO-8859 bit], but it won't recognise it - if I try sending myself a test email with just that in the subject it recognises it, but if I send myself 1 with the whole of the subject pasted from the source of 1 of these emails it won't recognise it. Anyone know how to block all spam with a subject that's base64 encoded? I don't know of any legitimate sources of email that use it.

I solverd all my ad probs - I switched from IE to MyIE2. It's brilliant. Whilst still not 100% perfect, it stops about 95-99% of ads by default, & it's pretty easy to add 1s that it doesn't stop to its list. You know those annoying ActiveX things that popup asking if you want to install them & do so again & again, even after you've said no? Well I found out how to stop them as well, basically the same way as you block an ad, check the source code of the page to see where the thing is trying to load from & add a suitable filter term to the filter list. I know you could block them completely in IE, but that would block all of them, not just the ones you don't want to install.

Please re-read my initial post. I couldn't see what the icon was with just my own eyes, I had to record that section of the screen @ 25 frames a second & when I played it back it was only there for 1 frame. We're talking 1/25th of a second here folks. You actually expect me [or anyone else] to be able to go from mousing-over a file in explorer, to noticing the reaction in the system tray, to clicking [or right-clicking] on it, waiting for some kind of menu & then clicking on any option offered in the space of 0.04 seconds??? Why do you think I posted a pic of it's tray icon? As for Task Manager, I couldn't see anything in there that was out of place. Anyway, it seems to have stopped doing it for the time being.

Ok folks, it's time to play "Name that program". Every time I move my cursor over an mpg file in Explorer I get this icon popping up in the system tray. The really annoying part is that it's only there for a for a fraction of a second. To find out what it actually looked like [it's too fast to see properly], I had to find a video screen capture prog then play back the recorded file in PowerDVD [after I'd converted it to mpg, PDVD didn't want to step forward frame by frame with the original AVI], freeze it on the right frame then capture the frame. Anyone know what it is?

Does anyone know why whenever I run Acrobat reader it's also starting a file called Wisptis.exe? I know wisptis is part of MS's "ink" hand recogniition thingy [which I deliberately told Office not to install - it obviously didn't pay any attention!] but WTF has that gotta do with reading .pdf files in Adobe Acrobat Reader 6???

I think the convention for non-photo-realistic textures is to simply call them "textures". I don't think it really warrants any extra description, especially if both types are going to be listed on [for example] a website.

That's not necessarily true in all cases. I had an [original - before they started puting 4 digit numbers in their names] ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO [AGP] & 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI running ok together for quite a while with no probs. Ok, so there was 1 prob which I thought was a conflict, but now that I have a single-card dual-monitor solution by ATI [well, made by Saphire, but you know what I mean] I know that it's a bug in the ATI drivers, not an issue with other cards. In case anyone's interested, the prob in question is that when you enable extended desktop the Schemes function disappears.

You can get better PCI cards than the 7000 or 7500, infact you can get dual display PCI cards. Saphire make a Radeon 9000 128MB PCI dual output card - in this country it goes for just under £60. Link

Quote: I am now getting annoyed as Max Payne and Deus Ex are my equal favourite games. DX lets me think and Max lets me indulge in some sweet-ass violence. However I imagine that in order to play either of the sequels, I will need to purchase a new rig in the order of a P4 10 gig with 1gb RAM and a video card with 256mb. I guess this is the price of progress but I was hoping to save a little once I get my car paid off. I wouldn't go quite that far, MP2 runs nicely on my AXP1900+, with 640MB RAM [sDR, not that new fangled DDR ], & a Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB[actually it's a VIVO version, but you'd save money by getting a non-VIVO version]. So I was thinking to myself, well he can afford a new car, surely the parts to get his system up to roughly the same spec as mine wouldn't be TOO expensive. Admittedly I only looked @ 1 Australian PC parts site. They didn't appear to have as much range as a number of UK-based sites. Over here you can get a cheap, no-frills mobo without AGP 8x & that will only run slower speed DDR [basically you'd be limited to a max of an XP2100+ & DDR266] for £20, which is probably about AU$47-ish. I looked up the price on that site for a system that I didn't think would break the bank, & it came in @ AU$795!!! just for an AXP2500, Abit NF7-S, 2x256MB DDR333 RAM, & a Radeon 9600XT. I just looked at my favourite UK site the same kit goes for £330, although when converted to upside-down money [just kidding ] it comes to AU$778.896, so I guess there's not such a big difference afterall, assuming that is that incomes are similar over there [after exchange rates I mean].

Macromedia ought to change their IE flash plugin so that advertisers can't disable the option to stop the ad.

The only type of ad that bothers me now is those animated flash ads that sites are storing on their own servers. Several sites that get linked to from the front page have animated ads done with flash, but I can't block them [i can only block a whole site/IP address]. Unless I find a solution to it soon I may end up just not reading those sites anymore, which would be a shame.

Fortrex "Magic" MG-780 ATX Full Tower case Q-tec 550w PSU Athlon XP 1900+ [1.6Ghz] [cooled by Zalman CNPS5100-Cu (with 36cfm Delta fan)] Abit KT7A-RAID v1.3 [northbridge HSF = Zalman ZM-NB32J & 45mm fan] 640MB RAM [1x128MB + 1x512MB PC133] 60GB Maxtor 5TO60H6 [DiamondMax Plus 60] 30GB IBM DeathStar 75GXP Saphire Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB VIVO Creative Labs Audigy [OEM, cos it's cheaper ] Lite-On LTR-522465 [52x 24x 52x] Lite-On LTR-16SH DVD 3.5" FDD Antec EzUSB Realtek RTL8029 based NIC old clunky IBM keyboard Logitech USB Dual Optical Wheelmouse Motorola Surfboard 3100 cable modem Eizo Flexscan 9400 20" monitor LG Studioworks 575N 15" monitor

Max Payne 2 is cool, I got that a few days ago, though haven't played it for the last couple of days [not really in the mood for gaming - flu]. 1 piece of advice, as I said in the compatibility thing, if you're not gonna be using 5.1 sound, turn off EAX or you'll end up with a kind of bass feedback type thing that sounds like a really loud foghorn when you enter certain rooms/areas.

Was it formatted NTFS? I've found on several occasions that the old FDISK /MBR command [from booting from an old 98se boot floppy] has got me out of some rather sticky situations, but I don't know if it would be any use with NTFS being used, as I don't use NTFS.

There are free 1s that don't necessarily integrate with IE. KillAd isn't the best, but it's free & works on its own, without integrating with IE. For popups I use Popup Stopper Companion, which works as an IE toolbar, so probably not what you're looking for. I also recently [about 2 weeks ago now] got fed up with ads flickering or flashing @ me whilst I was trying to read an article, then remembered that PC-Cillin [i'm using PCC 2000] has a web filter function, which although presumably originally intended for stopping kids seeing adult content, isn't restricted to that purpose. You just type or paste in a URL & tick the box to tell it to extend it to all subpages of that URL & inplace of the ad you get a message saying "This URL has been blocked by Trend PC-cillin as a banned/restricted site.". Much easier to ignore than some flickering animated gif or flash ad that's had the ability to stop it disabled. The best part is, most of these ads are from a small number of servers, so whilst you may block a URL after being annoyed with an ad served from it from 1 URL, it'll most likely stop it being shown on a bunch of other sites too. Funnily enough, now that I think of it, it wasn't actually an animated ad that was the proverbial last-straw, it was those "Smart Tag"-like links I've seen in a bunch of pages, where you think they're words in the text linked to stuff legitimately related to the article, but actually they pop up some javascript ad. If you're using Norton's internet security wotsit though, chances are you won't have seen that particular annoyance, as my friend has Norton & he never saw it until I told him to add it to the allow list to show him what I was talking about.