Lockergnome's Windows
Fanatics ~ December 31, 2004
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Lockergnome's Technobabble
Here it is, the time of year
when many columnists feel the need to blurt out their New Years
resolutions in public. I guess I’m no different. But my New
Years resolutions? They’re a bit geeky, of course ……
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Still Going with the Gazelle
(GnomeREPORT)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Chris Pirillo
I've been a huge fan of Tony Little's Gazelle for several months
now. Out of all the exercise equipment I've ever used (at home or
remotely), it's been the easiest, cleanest, and most effective. It's a
glider, not an eliptical. Tony Little is more than a little annoying
with his commercial, but don't ignore his product if you're looking to
fulfill a New Year's Resolution. I had abandoned my Gazelle for
several weeks, since I'd... [Continued]
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Use Your (Windows) Power for Good (Aunty
Spam's Net Patrol)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Aunty Spam's Net Patrol
It's like the Lycos "Make Love Not Spam" project, only with all
that concentrated computing power being focussed on the public good.
The World Community Grid is an organization whose lofty goal is to
"create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects
that benefit humanity". They do this by harnessing the computer power
of your Internet-connected PC when it is otherwise idle. Much like the
Seti project, or, again, the poorly executed yet... [Continued]
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Personal File Server (Download)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Lockergnome
Personal File Server is Web-based software that allows Web site
visitors to download and upload files using only their favorite
browser. It is a very extensible solution in sharing audio/video
files, documents, or any other file type with ease. Files can be
shared with colleagues and friends on a network, intranet, or Internet
without needing any third-party software or a browser plug-in. It is
also a very robust solution for customized user management with
permissions.... [Continued]
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Cobian Backup v6.1.0.254 (Download)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Lockergnome
Cobian Backup is a small and simple utility to back up files and
directories from someplace in your computer to another place in the
same computer or to a shared drive in another machine. A pretty simple
concept, really! You can set the program to automatically make a
backup within regular intervals of time, for example: daily, weekly,
etc. Cobian Backup offers additional support for PKzip compressions
and can be run as a service under... [Continued]
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WebMD Health (Favorite)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Brandon Watts
As human beings, we usually try our best to watch out for
ourselves. We avoid potentially harmful situations because we know
that there is a chance that we could get seriously injured. All of us
care about our well being, and we continually strive to improve
ourselves. However, one of the facets of life that we tend to forget
about is our health. None of us are superhuman, and if we ignore our
health needs,... [Continued]
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Suspicious Processes (Gnewbie Gnook)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Brandon Watts
Q: Every time that I startup my computer, a process called
?mslagent? tries to connect to the Internet. I see the ?ms? in the
name and assume it?s from Microsoft, but I really don?t know what this
process does. Is it safe to let it run, or should I completely stop it
from loading?... [Continued]
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This Is The Voice Of Experience Talking
(Sherman's Senior Service)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Sherman E. DeForest
Since this is the time of year that people send a lot of cards to
each other, and since many seniors like to send out cards for special
occasions, part of any formal course might include some work on
creating personalized greeting cards. This can be a danger. Over the
years, I have acquired a sizeable collection of CDs with greeting card
programs on them. Most came with printers as a freebie and are
worth... [Continued]
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Importing Excel Data into Word 2002
(Tips)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Diana Huggins
One of the most common questions I hear when doing Office training
is "How do I import data from Excel into my document?" Well there are
a few different ways in which you can import data from Excel. The
method you use will depend on whether or not you want the Excel data
to retain its functionality in Word. If you want, you can simply copy
and paste your data into Word. When you do... [Continued]
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Install IIS On Windows XP (Tips)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Diana Huggins
If you are running a small workgroup of computers, you may want to
use a computer running Windows XP as a Web server. You can do so by
installing IIS on Windows XP. It is included with Windows XP but is
not installed by default. Once it has been installed, it provides for
basic Web server functionality and includes the WWW, FTP, NNTP, and
SMTP services. You can install IIS using the following steps:... [Continued]
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Windows Help Vulnerability Target of Newly
Released Trojan (Aunty Spam's Net Patrol)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Aunty Spam's Net Patrol
It seems that online baddies are again using a flaw in the Windows
help system to help themselves - to access to your computer system. As
reported by Aunty last week, a flaw in the help system for certain
releases of Windows, along with instructions on how to exploit it,
were announced by a Chinese security firm earlier this month. However
this new Trojan, just discovered this week by security firm Symantec,
is a different... [Continued]
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How do I speed up my Windows PC? (Ask Dave
Taylor!)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Dave Taylor
I work on a Dell Inspirion 2650, XP system, 128M RAM. Sometimes
when I'm working it goes into slow-motion; I've watched the line of
text I typed come onto the screen letter at a time long after I quit
typing. I've checked to make sure nothing else is running in the
background and find nothing like a virus infection seems to be
happening. What's going on and how can I fix it? It can be... [Continued]
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Coffee's New Faces (Review)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Meryl Evans
OK, this isn't software-related, but we talk a lot about our
coffee here at Lockergnome. Brandon told you about a coffee and a beer
Web site. I'm here to tell you about the hottest appliances in the
world of coffee. If you got one as a gift or you're thinking about
getting one, I've posted my experience with one of these new wonders.
I believe every single brewer system has its good points and its...
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Thanks to VenusTech and Xfocus Team - Another
Trojan (Security)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
We reported on this story late last week - now there's a Trojan in
the wild that Symantec is calling Trojan.Phel.A (more info about the
Windows security holes Aunty reported on is here). "Trojan.Phel.A
attempts to infect computers running Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack
2 or later." It also downloads and executes Backdoor.Coreflood, a
Trojan that turns the infected computer into an IRC bot used to attack
other computers. Like Aunty said, Thanks! (NOT) Phel... [Continued]
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Ars Technica (Family First)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Family First
As the technology of computers increase, learning about the new
changes in hardware and software have become a challenge. There are
Web sites that serve to keep us all informed. That is what today's
site is about. Called Ars Technica, it is a daily column filled with
all the latest gossip, developments, supposed developments, vaporware,
etc. Here you can find out about items the mainstream press doesn't
always report, such as Linux news or the... [Continued]
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