Dirty Harry

There are several sites on the net that let you download readymade bootdisk images. Do a search on google along the line of "bootdisk image" or try hitting sites like www.bootdisk.com H.

I 've seen it and removed it with a program called HijackThis, found at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html Another one I'd recommend is CWSHredder found at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip H.

My personal two reasons I visit less than before 1) the new forum engine is annoying. Maybe its better than the old ones for the admins & mods, but for me as a user its not. 2) The eternal novel writing about any- and everyhing is annoying (prime example above). A lot of it is allright, the guy is definately helpful but there is much too much of it. And the darn double carriage returns... But hey, the web is a free place, everyone votes with their mouse click. And I'm not inteding to start a flame war, just giving an honest answer to the question asked. H.

Yes, a NIC is the Network Interface Card (or chip) Onboard or PCI its still more or less the same circuitry for this purpose. Tech terms, try "dual broadband connection" in Google, spits out 178.000 pages, and the first ones look pretty relevant. I guess, however that your major problem will be to do it with one connection being "secure", i.e. VPN. H.

Quote: (NOT ethernet connections, there is quite a subtle difference, as WAN is actually like a phone connector which is a little smaller than the ethernet connector (RJ45), but else the look pretty much alike. No idea what you're talking about. My Dlink router connects to my ADSL modem with standard ethernet cable, RJ 45 plugs in both ends. Never seen it done any differently. As to the original question of this thread, I'd guess, altough never seen it done, that you should be able to do it with two NICs (if onboard or PCI shouldn't matter), but then you need to find some software that does the load balancing in order to get any benefit out of it. Dunno how that would shake out. It was done with modems, long, long ago when ppl still had those things. But if one of your connections is through a VPN tunnel I doubt that you'd get it to work H.

A movie (in the cinema) is running at 24 fps. Any complaints about the picture quality ? H.

This forum is going downhill...

Yeah, and worst of all the novelists keyboard is still broken, produces only double and tripple carriage returns... The benefit of defraggers, best or worst, seem to be an item which is based on faith. Sure in some conditions they can be useful, but I haven't seen much evidence on how much they actually speed up what. I've had harddrives running without defrag for years, and seen no improvement at all after defragging them. But it feels so logical so ppl want to do it. Has anyone seen any interesting tests on this ? H.

There are plenty of port monitors etc that show and log all in- and outgoing traffic filtered in various ways, like Network Spy. DUmeter shows you bits in and out, to just name another one that comes to mind. There are similar freeware utils, I'm pretty sure. But a program that pops up only when your shares are accessed doesn't come to mind. If its an allowed user who connects to an allowed share I'm not even sure how the various windows flavours handle & log the fact he's remote, but I'm pretty sure you can log it (in NT/XP) , and then use a differnt app to show the logs. But realtime freeware popup, can't help you there. H.

After a hibernation the PC boots normally (from BIOS), but then it loads a big hibernation file (hiberfile.sys) instead of loading the OS. You can crank out the power cord if you want when the machine is hibernated. Think about it like loading an image of your system state, which is written to disk as you power down. It's beyond me how someone could claim that that would hurt your HD. The only drawback is that it wastes quite a lot of HD space. Actually suspending the machine (sleep mode) is even handier, a weak current is keeping the data in RAM, and the machine comes back up really fast. Microsft explains it in this Knowledge Base article. If you want more info, do a little ggogleing around Hibernation, Power Save, ACPI, power state or similar. H.

Dscaler beats any other TV software hands over fist, and its freeware too. Find it at http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/setup/index.htm There is a list of supported cards. H.

Bump.

I find using favourites is, well, kinda impractical, especially when you have lots of them, want them on several machines and you change and reorder them frequently. I tend to collect links more "permanent" on locally stored html pages per topic, but up[censored] & maintaining them is a getting a bit tedious (editing the html manually or drag & drop in a WYSIWYG editor like Frontpage, Dreamweaver et al). I like to keep my links in a table like order, sorted manually. Anyone aware of a software tool that would do something like this: - let you make and save links on predefined (local) web pages on the fly - enable you to sort (move) links from one (local) web page to another, or within one. - enable you to easily edit the name of the link / change the URL - some help would also be a tool that can create a simple html page from just one folder within favourites, or a easy to use menu maker. And no, I do NOT want to switch browser from MyIE2 on top of IE, but I'd be happy to use one to manage my favs. H.

Just use Total Commander (was Win Commander). It will search for a word (=content) in dir + subs and list all files where found. Windows search will also work, depends on how many hits you expect. It could get cumbersome if you have a 100+ positive search results. H.

Quote: No, I didn't install anything. It just happened not to work all of a sudden. Then it cannot be fixed. Only thinngs that are caused by something can be fixed. H.