tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55152022011-04-21T20:20:42.572-04:00Atomic City At Tampa Bay (Tech Corner)Practical Computer Tech Concepts >> alt.mikel@gmail.comMikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1123940590629970042005-08-13T10:14:00.000-04:002005-08-13T10:12:25.320-04:00WINDOWS XP MAINTENANCE: A NEW PERSPECTIVE I have created a maintenance plan that most non-computer people can follow. My friends in Tampa are smothered in pop-ups, sneakware, spyware, key loggers, and other assorted crap flying around on the Internet. The online barnacles attach to an XP machine and start to impede computing throughput within weeks of placing a new OS install on the Internet. Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-105976116957906592003-08-01T14:06:00.000-04:002003-08-01T14:50:52.293-04:00Cable & DSL Home Gateways: Hosting WEB, FTP & Telenet nodes from your home system can be a challenge if your ISP has assigned you a dynamic IP address. Many times if you request a static IP, the ISP assumes you are trying to go commercial & they want to charge you for the attempt. With the advancement in home router technology & hardware in general, the expense element of the home gateway is noMikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1059501590365137572003-07-29T13:59:00.000-04:002003-07-29T14:07:48.590-04:00Memory Recovery & Defrag: This is a new area for me, but I have found a product that is very good at this task. Remember the old RamPage shareware? Unfortunately this program is not shareware, but it works better than the old software. This program is suitable for Windows XP Pro only as it appears to be unstable with Windows 2000. To locate MemTurbo II, use the following link or send me an Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1057666865495735372003-07-08T08:21:00.000-04:002003-07-08T08:32:16.393-04:00Troll Disk From Norway: Did you ever need to recover the ADMIN password from a NT4.0/Win2000/WinXP machine? No way to do anything with that PC/Server box, but put a new operating system on it? I have been there a hundred times in the last ten years. This offline NT password editor has been under development for several years & it now provides a excellent tool to recover those pesky lost Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1057168517717954122003-07-02T13:55:00.000-04:002003-07-02T14:03:18.986-04:00High Speed Access To File Explorer Destinations: This freeware program is called FastFolder & has the ability to map/direct the user to 8 specific addresses. Against the advice of the author, I use it to point to drives that are mapped(not direct PC access). If your drive map goes bad & you unknowingly send the program to an invalid drive, a reboot might be in order. Lazy hackers like me Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1057156135831351212003-07-02T10:28:00.000-04:002003-07-02T10:46:53.393-04:00PrintScreen & Screen Capture Utility: There are a gazillion of these utility programs around & most are freeware. My favorite is H@rdcopy from Siegfried Weckmann in Braunweiler, Germany. He has been improving this program since 1983 & I am impressed with even the freeware version. His website explains the basic operation of the software. I have been using some version of this program since Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1056977388002376032003-06-30T08:49:00.000-04:002003-07-01T08:36:01.396-04:00Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Has Arrived The Direct Link Is: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/default.asp Please TEST before you deploy this type of upgrade! Depending on your configuration, everything can & will go bad.Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1056901490616978852003-06-29T11:44:00.000-04:002003-06-29T12:20:08.773-04:00XM Satellite Radio: The Ultimate Hack? My Source: "XM The Flawed Future Of Satellite Radio" By Acidus (Georgia Tech Yak Society) Published In 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 2003 Acidus does a great job with a technical overview of how the XM people deliver their satellite radio product. Unfortunately, the U.S. A. only gave XM 12.5 MHZ of bandwidth for over 100 channels of entertainment.Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1056813911089470542003-06-28T11:25:00.000-04:002003-06-28T11:44:00.180-04:00STOPPING CREDIT REPORTING ORGS FROM SELLING YOUR PERSONAL DATA: Yes, there is a way to stop the madness. Here is a "lift" from a major tech newsletter: I recently received an email forwarded by a friend, who received the notice from his accountant, of all people. The email claimed that on July 1, credit bureaus will be allowed to disseminate your personal information unless you call them to Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1056647849441784442003-06-26T13:17:00.000-04:002003-06-26T14:27:09.786-04:00SPYWARE UPDATE: I have searched far & wide for software that will effectively strip spyware out of my browser & system registry for free. One of my tech newsletters put me onto SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.2 from the depths of Germany. It is not a perfect tool, but right now it is one of the most effective stealth killers on the market. Did I mention that it is German & free? The software is Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1056642019970268402003-06-26T11:40:00.000-04:002003-06-26T14:46:45.513-04:00The Windows Pocket PC OS has now become Windows Mobile. For those of us packing hardware that will run this OS(like the Viewsonic V37), this link is very handy: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/default.mspx Here is another of my favorites for Pocket PC information & help: http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/ MAY YOUR VISION OF THE FUTURE BE AS WARPED AS MINE Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515202.post-1056641258920589572003-06-26T11:27:00.000-04:002003-06-26T14:29:42.136-04:00Welcome to my tech log. I hope you like the info & format. Most of this log will discuss freeware solutions within the Windows 2000, XP Pro & 2003 Server world. Get back to me via E-mail for the details.Mikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07396500628337101438noreply@blogger.com