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Good idea but I see a potential flaw. The image is is downloaded to a users PC where it stays. This is the equivalent of keeping a plain text file of passwords on a PC - not a good idea.

Used in conjunction with a password I can see this improving existing security though.

I've written a CMS which is very simple to use and easy to customise (1 CSS file).

The 0.9 version is installed here: http://www.smartsitecms.net

1.0 is in beta and can be found here: http://www.trialsaction.com and http://www.lobsterweb.com

If you're interested I can setup a demo account so you can see the admin section.

Better ways of cooling aren't an really advancement in CPU design though, they merely resolve a problem. It's not very convenient or practical to have dry ice cooling purely because the chip would melt without it.

Water cooling is easy to obtain and install, but who wants a PC/fridge hybrid just to squeeze a few more MHz out of it other than a small group of enthusiasts?

Moore's law was only supposed to hold true for a few years before things levelled out. It has suprised even Moore that it's continued for as long as it has. Moore's law is defying itself!

That floppy disk is most likely broken. Throw it away and get a new one - they cost next to nothing. Floppy disks are unreliable and should never be used as the only source for any data.

You can only save (burn) data onto a CD-R if you've got a drive that can do that. It sounds like your's is just a standard reader.

Isn't QBasic included with DOS?

I've got QBasic 1.1 for DOS (332kb) - give me a shout if you need it.

Or what about a C64 emulator with it's fantastic BASIC capabilities: http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/ - the file's just over 800k though but you might be able to do something.

If you need any help with basic here's a little something to get you going

10 print "hello"

20 goto 10

The restart with resource hungry apps sounds like the CPU might be overheating. Does you mobo BIOS have options for auto shutdown on overheat? If you've got a temperature sensor keep an eye on it.

The two problems seem to be linked, have you any DIP switches on the motherboard that need to be switched over to set the bus to 133MHz?

I had a bugger of a time deciphering the chinese translated instructions for my mobo to get the switches and BIOS speed settings to behave.

What you've done is to grab Windows from it's comfy armchair by the fire and chuck it into a cold lake. It's in shock. Everything it knew and loved has gone and it's trying hard to work out what the hell is going on.

Windows doesn't like to be moved from one PC to another - even if you could get into the OS it would spend the next month and a half installing and rebooting while it tries to piece things back together.

If it survives that far it's going to have a registry that's the size and shape of a badly disfigured planet.

Be nice - reinstall Windows, plump up the pillows in the armchair and build an nice warm fire for the little chap.

Footnote (not related to this thread so no offence intended): Most of the problems people come to this forum with would be resolved quickly and easily with a simple reinstall of the OS. It seems odd that people resist reinstallation so much. I support more than 40,000 PC's in a large organisation and we have a simple rule: if it's a machine problem and you can't fix it within 10 minutes then reinstall the OS from scratch. Using disc imaging software this takes about 15 minutes (just long enough for a coffee) - job done, everybody happy!

I'm not saying it won't work on some machines but a 2000 or XP machine that's had the OS installed correctly for use on a network or with security in mind won't allow this. The nice fluffy XP logon screen is replaced with the ctrl-alt-del GINA in normal mode or safe. Without a password there is no way in.

If the HDD itself is password protected it's as good as useless, even the manufacturer of the drive would not be able to bypass that security. It's incredibly unlikely anybody would turn that on though.

YT - what decade are you in?

I think a lot of people in this thread are missing a major point. If the admin account is password protected then there is no way onto the machine. For those of you advising booting into safe mode to bypass the security, we're not talking FAT32 anymore, and if the machine has been set up correctly there is no way in.

You could try booting from a Windows PE or Knoppix CD and then try to do something sensible from there.

If you don't know the administrator password (which it sounds like you don't) then safe mode won't help you. You are going to need to reinstall the OS.

If the OS was preinstalled by the manufacturer then it may be worth trawling some support forums for default passwords in the off chance that the admin password hasn't been changed.

I was under the impression that it was dependant on which muscle group was being stretched and whether the body was warmed up. For example, in arms and legs it's fine but it's not good for the back and neck and not something you would want to do when touching you toes and putting the majority of your body weight into the bounce.

Things may have been re-defined since I was training but that's what I was taught.

Sounds like an interrositor to me.

Klaatu barada nikto!

But all i get is " how to Stop DDoSing " Ect Ect..[sic]

I have the answer! The ball is equally spherical and blue!

Second guess: The riddle is unsolvable.

100 posts and counting! Wahey!

i386 contains the Windows installation files. It's used when Windows want to install a new component rather than going to the CD. You may as well leave it on there because although it takes up some space it's not installed anywhere and won't "run in the background".

Windows does slow down over use. Essentially this is because of crap that's left behind by software that's not written very well. The registry can become large and the kernel can start to struggle.

Way back when, MS used to advise that machines were formatted every 6 months to avoid serious performance issues.

Sorry for the monologue but it looks as though Gmail agree with me. From the same link posted by Jordie as earlier:

Let's be clear: there are issues with email privacy, and these issues are common to all email providers. The main issue is that the contents of your messages are stored on mailservers for some period of time; there is always a danger that these messages can be obtained and used for purposes that may harm you. There exists a real opportunity for misuse of your information by governments, as well as by your email provider. Careful consideration of the relevant issues, close scrutiny of email providers' practices and policies, and suitable vigilance and enforcement of appropriate legislation are the best defenses against misuse of your information. The only alternative is to avoid new technology altogether, and forego the benefits it provides.

From the link posted by Jordie above:

Of course, the law and common sense dictate some exceptions. These exceptions include requests by users that Google's support staff access their email messages in order to diagnose problems; when Google is required by law to do so; and when we are compelled to disclose personal information because we reasonably believe it's necessary in order to protect the rights, property or safety of Google, its users and the public.

"When google is required by law" - part of that requirement is retaining information for a set period of time - usually counted in years not months or weeks.

"and when we are compelled to disclose personal information because we reasonably believe it's necessary in order to protect the rights, property or safety of Google, its users and the public" - that is somewhat open ended. Not the fault of Google necessarily but something they are obliged to contemplate due to law.

I'm not trying to say that all our information is accessible by everybody who wants it but just that one should be aware that most information is stored for a long time - it's not large companies leveraging income out of unsuspecting customers, it's laws and legislation that's ultimately designed to protect the majority against the actions of the minority.

I have a feeling that as you are using another party's service they are obliged to keep all the email that passes through their servers for legal reasons (such as protection against offensive emails). While they can store your data it is strictly controlled by their Privacy Policy (http://privacy.msn.com/tou/). A company is legally obliged to supply information such as email that has passed through its servers under the demand of a legal authority.

It's not a case of MS wanting to spy on your emails it's more a case of the governments of this world demand information be stored and provided when they demand it.

MS and other big companies tend to get the blame for this sort of activity but it's more often than not the authorities who force (at great expense to the company involved) the storage of both electronic and paper records so that they may demand these things at their discretion.

If anybody does want to criticize this invasion of privacy then complain to your politicians not the companies - although you won't get very far because, after all, 99% of governing a country is bureaucracy.

I have personally experienced this and still hold information on staff whom I employed 5 years ago. I don't want to keep all the damn paperwork but I have to by law and if I was to lose or have it stolen then I would be at fault for allowing this information to be used by a third party.

This link shows an example of the type of quandry companies regularly find themselves in due to legislation coming at them from two angles: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,2085874,00.htm.

Having said all that here's a link to a site that claims Hotmail is sharing personal details of its users for financial gain: http://www.peacefire.org/hotmail/sharing-addresses.shtml.

I am slightly suspicious of what they say though because the last paragraph states that "HotMail had been silently blocking their users from sending us mail". This sounds a lot like conspiracy theorists at work!

Here's food for thought, many forums assume ownership of your intellectual property when you post on them. They maintain the right to distribute and retain information and treat it as their own. I don't know if this forum has such rules but I know many that do. Try asking them to remove one of your posts and if it has some value to them they'll tell you where to go.

The data protection act states that all email within a company must be archived for 10 years. It could be something similar to that although I don't know the policy for public email.

internecine? What? that means this thread is related to "bloodshed and carnage"...???

I had this debate originally with a school friend during chemistry about 10 years ago - that almost became internecine!

Yes that's the problem. You have to change your settings to reflect your language. If you are using a proxy server it will usually direct you to the Google page that the proxy is located in.

No it isn't!

It's a new(ish) policy of Google to re-direct according to your location. It says that in the link that Jordan14 posted and it ties in with all of Google's other localisation of searches.

One species gets fed, housed and looked after by the other. That sounds like the smarter of the two.

That might be tricky for this reason:

Nothing is on my screen