Pete_C

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and all that rot. Good to hear from you Marty, and everyone else. I too spend more time elsewhere these days, and do more things less computer related than in the past. But it is sure nice to see how many are still around.

Rather than using the file and settings wizard and transferring old data to the new computer SCD saves the hard drives out of old computers and then puts them in the new computer not as a slave but as a master and repairs the OS. He has been doing this forever and has drives with win98, winME etc and then gets upset when he cannot remember which drive he has what on or which computer it goes in. Personally I save old hard drives; wipe em and install em as slaves for additional storage or more commonly in USB enclosures for cheap portable storage and backup of important. EDIT Just finished

Ran across a holiday special; boneless whole ribeye for $2.99 a pound. Got about twenty pounds. Sliced into steaks and roast. I cut my steaks thick ( about 1.5 inches) and then pound them with a rubber mallet (they are sandwiched between saran wrap. ) until they are about a third of that. Then on a screaming hot grill for a bout three minutes per side and a five minute rest . Seasoning; all they need is salt and pepper. Soft and tender and moist and buttery mouthwatering goodness. Most is in the freezer , it will last quite a while. Made a batch of "Healthy" chili yesterday. One pound

Does it have the same issues with timeouts that chrome does? Most notably , with facebook games frequently give a "shockwave plugin not responding" in response to server timeouts and unlike IE and Firefox there is no easy way to increase server timeouts to prevent this. Pete I have not noticed any timeouts in fact I have laid aside my beloved Opera for the past month and do not feel a loss. I admit I do not have patience with Facebook games so I have not explored that. it seems to do exactly whay I like for it to do. I was hopping that I would get oppinion from those who have tried it. Wh

Does it have the same issues with timeouts that chrome does? Most notably , with facebook games frequently give a "shockwave plugin not responding" in response to server timeouts and unlike IE and Firefox there is no easy way to increase server timeouts to prevent this.

Does it have the same issues with timeouts that chrome does? Most notably , with facebook games frequently give a "shockwave plugin not responding" in response to server timeouts and unlike IE and Firefox there is no easy way to increase server timeouts to prevent this.

Ah good, their site is no longer beta http://www.youtoo.com/ Navigation still not quite there (they have links to pages they do not have up yet). http://www.facebook.com/youtoosocialtv EDIT>>> Kind of dissappointing, Most things have only one episode which airs over and over. Diggnation has a new episode once a week, but Albrecht and Rose no longer seem interested in tech, just do stupid stuff like testing poison ivy as a tatoo remover.

They just added a new channel to our lineup on Time Warner http://www.youtoo.com/betainvite It has some interesting programming so far, including geek beat. http://www.locatetv.com/listings/americanlife-tv-network http://geekbeat.tv/ and diggnation http://revision3.com/diggnation Yep Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose (former G4 The Screen Savers personalities) there. maybe more revision3 content. Could stand a better set and larger budget and personalities who come across as more knowledgeable and geeky, but over all it has good info. Lots of the content appears to be user created, like Current was

New favorite way to make steaks. The market has boneless NY Strip steaks for $3.49 a pound this week , but I have also done this with tenderloin (filet mignon) and ribeye. Get a thick cut (1.5 inch is good) and trim off any outer fat. Then place it between two sheets of saran wrap and pound it with a rubber mallet until it is under a half inch thick. Season with salt and lots of fresh ground (coarse grind) black pepper. Cook it like a minute steak, on a really hot grill or cast iron pan for about a minute each side. Let rest before eating.

By tested the drive, do you mean you ran the drive manufacturers testing software and it reported the drive was OK or just that you tried to see if it was detected and you could see stuff on it? The CMOS battery is on the motherboard in desktops ( a shiney coinlike thing) and on most laptops is accessible behind the RAM or in the hard drive bay (generally smaller wristwatch type batteries). This battery supplies power to retain bios config settings and run the system clock when the computer is turned off. Given that you replaced the drive, and had the same issues I would suspect that there

Actually re reading this, I would suspect that since you say it was infecting the defintions for Trend Micro, it was a false positive and you were never infected. It was detecting the virus detection definition as a virus. This is the danger when you try to run two antivirus on one system. Ah you overclocked your CPU. That explains all your symptoms. I would not blame windows; I suspect you have damaged your CPU and possibly one or more chipsets on your motherboard. The BEEP would be the motherboard telling you the CPU had become unresponsive and in all likelihood the video card was just dis

Any chance you disconnected the video cable from motherboard to display when you had it apart ? I take it this is a netbook? Or is it a mini tower PC? If PC then take it apart and check to see if you disconnected anything and forgot to reconnect it. Netbook, double check that everything is seated and connected. Check if there is a function button to switch from the LCD display to an external monitor. Make sure it is in the right position.

All those file missing entries are nothing to be concerned about. It is just a case of you having a 64 bit system and HJT being written for 32 bit systems and hence cannot find the virtual folder used by 64 bit systems for those processes and their files. Normally I would just say you should post in the HJT logs section, but I see little activity there so for now I see a leftover from a rogue malware O2 - BHO: BHO Project - {04eb382a-4b48-4de7-a570-b0307b9b13c7} - (no file) http://www.systemlookup.com/CLSID/73249-bho_project_dll.html Which you should fix with hijackthis by running hijackthis

Currently Tropical Storm Lee is in the gulf off New Orleans. They are expecting 20 inches of rain in Lousianna, but an incoming cold front (will lower the hight temps from 107 to mid nineties for the rest of the week) will keep it from reaching Texas, instead forcing it off to the east to rain on Mississippi, Alabama, and the Carolinas giving them each a foot or so of rain as it moves very slowly northeastward (currently moving at only 2-3MPH compared to Irene which was clipping along at over 30MPH) This one is probably going to leave a lot of flooded areas as it is massive. http://www.nhc.noa

It was a fairly deep quake, which means that it was felt much further away than is normal for such a relatively small quake. I believe there have been several on the east coast over the last couple decades, but they have all been smaller and nearer the surface so they did not make as wide an impression. As for the hurricane, the only unusual thing is that it is sticking near the east coast all the way up, Usually they either go inland and die off quickly in the mountains or they go back out to sea and off across the atlantic where the cold northern waters wear them out. NY really is unprepa

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/194318/information/Xor-encoded.A Make sure to flush your system restore so that it does not restore the infection. You may want to post on the malware board and have them suggest a rootkit scan like gmer since this rogue often downloads additional rootkit infections.

So , which trojan was this? It would be nice to know. You do not need to (and should not) disassemble the DVD drive to clean the lenses. You get a laser lens cleaning disk and pop it in and run it. It contains electrostatic brushes which will brush off the buildup and attract it so it does not get back on. They cost less than ten bucks (many 99cent stores sell them for a buck)

Well I have seen the keyboard issue caused by a great many things. It could be, as noted that something is eating all the cpu cycles and the keyboard is not getting polled so no input from keyboard to cpu. Note that with modern processors you have to really have something designed to override all other processes (like your antivirus) or a really poorly written piece of code (a virus) to do this in most cases. I have also seen it a couple times on machines with "defective" processors and once with a "defective" motherboard. By this I mean that when I put in a different cpu in those two cases, a

The oriental market had leeks for 99cents a pound, Kale for 39cents a bunch, red bell peppers for 59cents a pound, filet mignon for $4.99 a pound. I made a batch of potato leek soup. Great hot and better cold , and a pot full of greens (kale) with the green part of the leeks and some ham stock I had in the freezer for just such an occaision. Then we made BLTs Gotta get more tomatoes.

Leftover calzone , steamed cauliflower with queso. Personally I prefer Texas Ruby Red grapefruit to any orange out there, but I think that blood oranges are supposed to be sweet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange But the sweeter the orange the lower its acidity and hence the more prone to spoilage it is and shorter its shelf life so sweet oranges tend to be unsuitable for shipping and export and are only available locally in orange growing regions.

Yeah, Yesterday I saw a Lenovo with the computer built into the monitor (like early apples were,. only now it is a 19 inch LCD) for $249 at Compusa. Very tempting.

That sounds like you are experiencing cavitation where the airflow is compromised and with the case closed the fan cannot effectively exhaust air. This may be caused by a dirty filter if your case has air filters, or by having to many exhaust fans and not enough intake. Normally you place intake fans on the lower front of the case and exhaust in the top rear. Side fans (normally connected by ductwork to the cpu heatsink fan) should blow in.

Too hot and too dry in Texas (day 33 of triple digits, last few days hve been 110,109, 108.... with low of 86) for much to grow even if you water it. Lawn is barely hanging in there, and the trees are beginning to drop leaves. All but one tomato plant died and the remaining one has had no fruit. Even the jalapenos get limp by noon and are barely yeilding (tiny red fruit that is really hot). All of my herbs have died from the heat. We keep setting new power usage records , generally from 4-5PM in the afternoon. Recent was 68,9 Gigawatts in a single hour. Made pressure cooker pulled pork yest

I saw both Compusa (TigerDirect, Circuit City) and Microcenter locally have machines running win 7 available for $199. Sure they are not the best processor, but I may go ahead and get one (would be nice if I could find one that is compatible with the spare Pentium E6500 I have.

Lots of things could cause it. Your antivirus or firewall could interfere with it (rare but still happens) Microsoft could make a mistake and try to install an update that is not appropriate for your machine (most common with hardware / driver updates. Microsoft has a long history of windows update mis identifying the hardware on your system and installing drivers for things you do not have or ones that conflict with what you do, like when SP2 tried to install Intel Chipset drivers on AMD machines from HP resulting in a non bootable configuration). Damage of the packet during download. Failur