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We all know this is a fantasy list. Looking through it, it's easy to see that it's simply not possible. Getting more sleep? Preposterous.

If they are localized (in the same area of the office), you might be seeing a power issue. Might be time to call the electrician. (My original answer was that you should stop turning around. Turning your back on a Windows machine is always a mistake.)

Know also that it could trigger re-authentication with microsoft. It's not enough that they own your machine, but you have to ask permission to run it or upgrade your system. (expletive)s.

There are three different screen sizes now so you might want to be more specific. I went to their site and looked up the info on the 10" and it reported this for the wireless driver: Azurewave Wireless Network Adapter Driver Which I was able to confirm is an Atheros chipset. That was way too much work for something I really didn't need to know. (grin - because I have a Acer Aspire One which does have an Atheros chipset.)

That explains Dell's call center. (And I do congratulate her. Anyone that can even READ the test without falling asleep is to be congratulated.)

I'd shut it down because you're paying more in electricity each year than the whole rig is worth. You could always fire up a VM on one of your more powerful systems if you wanted to learn something new. (Of course if your house is cold you might want to keep that machine on. 7 drives, whoa.

Chris? Is that you?

Don't forget about the large dose of daemon tools.

set it up as a firewall for your network and set up some ssh tunnelling so that you don't get pwned next time you're surfin from starbucks and catch a pineapple.

Am I safe in assuming you've tried a new set of batteries (non-rechargeable have more juice) and tried removing all memory cards and so on?

It's Darren's Acer Aspire One (AAO). There are versions that run linux or windows xp. You can find them most places, newegg especially. (Unless of course mwave sells them, then you ought to buy from them as they're show supporters.) I won't go into details as they are all over the place in the forums. Search for Acer Aspire and/or AAO and they should drop like flies. Note: Much of the latest information are for the XP capable versions.

Get cheaper NICs. (grin). Generally linux and linux based stuff works better with older hardware and your NICs are probably just too new. What you can do is find realtek's driver and add it to your install. (I bet you can tell it to find "other" drivers during the install and point it at a usb or floppy). Good luck!

Just wire a hunting rifle to the USB missile launcher and let the net watch out for you! Then you can deny you knew anything when the mailman is shot on your driveway.

All those numbers will be useless by then. The recommendations may hold but pricing will be much different. i7 MB prices will drop with the next chipset so you probably can save 75-100 on that if you can hang on until then.

Fixed. That was weird. I'll let you guys read for real details, but deleting sysaudio.sys from c:\windows\system32 (which is the WRONG place for this file) and cleaning up the registry solves the problem for now. It appears that it's mutating pretty fast and changing fake IP addresses. The good news is that it's not as persistent as some I've seen (and tried to rip out). Thanks for walking me through it AND - Sparda was right - Tamper Data is an awesome Firefox plugin for hunting this kind of stuff. (I noticed that a site at http://1.2.3.0 was injecting javascript code... With that handle I was able to find it.

Found it - now to hunt it down and kill and and wonder why just firefox and not chrome/ie.. http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/10/fak...archengine.html Apparently it's being missed by a lot of tools. I'll post when I get it cleaned out. Lots of interruptions here.

Followup information - I find that the 3.0.5 also does it. Only Web Search results are touched, other features aren't translated. Attached are some screenshots. About Box Addons plugins Results ResultsHak5 shows that all web searches are translated - it's not the original text that triggered the translation - Note video links at bottom are untouched - top google "menu" options are untouched as well VideoResults no links touched - Image too large to add, but it's not interesting No other service pages appear to be touched, only web results. I'll see what I can do about tracing the connections - I'm on a corporate network here so I really don't think I want to fire up wireshark. I still haven't found another machine that does this same thing. So I'm still hoping that someone else will be able to duplicate this in a location that is more suitable for sniffing/tracing.

When true gamers don't respect G4 (except X Play) it's easy to see how Spike in it's "High School Football Player Mind" can think that Jack Black crap jokes and showing off a few celebs qualifies as something that should be named VGAs. Until they realize that their "hobby" or "entertainment" is under attack from the very people that see them as juvenile retards they won't be the ambassadors that the VGAs and the industry so dearly need. The vast majority of games produced to day are Mature titles. It's a shame that Spike can't at least make it up to teen. I've seen seven year olds with more class.

Holy crap. Looks like Sandisk is the only U3 solution out there right now. Even the U3.com site didn't seem to point to anything but sandisk hardware. That is a surprise.

Check out RetroMacCast at http://www.retromaccast.com for links to all kinds of stuff for old macs. Now that you have it running again it's not really a candidate for a MacAquarium

Possibly partial answer - If you want all the machines on the network to use the internet (and this is the normal easy way to use it) - simply connect your incoming internet connection (The one currently directly into your mini) to the internet/wan port on the router. This will allow the router to do what it's named for - route. Everything else connects to the other ports on the router. The router will tell the connected machines everything they need to know to contact the internet - but will generally keep them safe from direct access by the outside world. (I'm glossing over some, but that should be ok). Now, the server should be assigned an IP address that is inside the local network (Normally this is 192.168.1.x) that is managed by the router. This address is what your other machines would use to gain access to it. If you want the outside world to have access to this server, you will need to forward ports to the IP address you assigned above or simply put the server in the DMZ (NOT RECOMMENDED - generally forwards all requests to that IP). Now, the router you have actually has wireless built in so it's simply a matter of connecting any wireless devices to the wireless access point the router will create. Honest, the easiest thing to do is to just follow the instructions with the setup disk to get the network working and then set up your server. Even reading and going slow, you should have it all working within an hour - and that includes 20 minutes trying to get the latest firmware for the router. You ARE going to update the firmware on the router, right? (To everyone else - Yeah, I glossed over a lot, but for his purposes close is good enough to start) Advice - Never hook up ANYTHING directly to the internet unless you don't want to control it in about 10 minutes. It's a nasty nasty place and without a properly configured router/firewall you are ASKING to be destroyed.

Past tense. Yahoo is dead. MS knew it. The only thing keeping them afloat is ad revenue. Someone has to balance out the google juggernaut. It could be that yahoo provides the ads that feed this statistics service. Check this one: http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.hak5.org

Unfortunately I've left that machine for the weekend. No other machines I have (so far) duplicated the behavior - but I haven't put the same versions on them either. This is the URL to the query I was using. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=m...mp;aq=f&oq= I can't be sure that it will actually trigger the behavior as I've been going directly to http://www.google.com and typing in the query "microsoft mvc beta". (without quotes) I'll check for more later. As far as links/screenshots, they aren't that interesting. It's not hidden, the domain displayed in the link (This a correct link): Download details: MVC Beta Oct 15, 2008 ... The ASP.NET MVC Beta release provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a24d1e00-cd35-4f66-baa0-2362bdde0766 - 35k - Cached - Similar pages - in the bottom right corner (www.microsoft.com on this one) points to sites like www.vitamonline.com or www.bottomdollar.com or www.couponworld.com (I can't remember right now, I'm just not in front of it). The link at the top shows the text of the link (like normal) but the link itself points to the domain in the bottom left corner. The interesting thing to note is that every returned link was to a link farm sites. No other browser or my Firefox 3.0.4 exhibited the same behavior. I didn't try any other queries but I had used it for a couple days before seeing this. I think that the query might be a trigger. Unfortunately it's a work machine and so has a less than stellar virus scanner by default (Computer Associates) but between ClamAV and Spybot nothing at all could be found.

Linux w/Samba FTW.

Do you mean noob to learn or noob to ingore? learn - grab ubuntu ignore - grab centos grok - grab gentoo (grin)