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Due to my frustration during a recent spate of client ad/spyware & virus infections, I’ve updated and re-launched my SpywareKillers.info site.

The goal is to have a single place to send family, friends, and clients for the tools they need to remove spyware, viruses, malware, etc., and keep their machines clean. The “how to”, review & tutorial sections will explain, in English, exactly where to download from, what to select during the installation, and how to use the tools.

There’s also an Update page that lists the most recent updates & info about all the tools I mention. It’s automatic, so it’s never out of date.

There’s no scams, crapware, or BS. These are the tools I use because I know they work.

Yet another Sony mystery. Undocumented in the included paperwork, as far as I can tell.

Oh yeah, if you want a recovery disk, you need to call in the first 30 days after purchase to get one free. After that, it’s voicemail hell to get to a live body, before you can send them more money for something they should have included in the box!

Hit F2 + F3.

Why Sony chose to go with this goofy key combo is beyond me…

If you’ve just upgraded to Hardy Heron and found that Virtual Box no longer works it might be because your host’s CD is now called something else. Mine became /dev/scd0 after the upgrade. All I had to do was detach it from the virtual machine and reattach it & everything works fine.

If you’ve just upgraded to Hardy Heron and found that VMware Server no longer works, take a look at Installing VMware 6.0.2 and VMware Server on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. You’ll find an explanation of what needs to be changed and, even better, a patched version of vmware-any-any-update115 that’ll make it work!

If you were already running VMware Server, chances are that the upgrade included all the build files, but just in case it didn’t, this command wil get them for you:

sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential

Another entry in the UMPC/Netbook/Cloodbook/eeePC game!

HP unveils small laptop for schoolkids - Yahoo! News

In addition to the regular collection of free Google apps, non-profits can use Google Checkout for donations and apply for a Google Grant for free advertising with AdWords.

If you’re a non-profit check it out!

Google for Non-Profits

I received my “final payment” from the class action lawsuit today for a whopping $8.06!

I promise not to spend it all in one place…

One of my favorite tools is Sysinternals’ (Microsoft) Contig commandline utility to make files contiguous. However, it’s a pain having to type the full path to the file or directory you want to contig, so I fooled around until I came up with these two tricks:

To create a Send To item that will contig a single file navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\your username\SendTo, right click & select New, Shortcut and use the wizard to locate the full path to contig.exe.

After you’ve finished, right click the shortcut and rename it to something that makes sense to you - I used “Contig File”. Right click on the shortcut again, select Properties and in the Target box add a space and “%cd%”\. It’ll windup looking something like c:\sysinternals\contig “%cd%”\. Click Apply and OK. Now you can right click on any file in Explorer and a DOS window will open up and Contig will contig your file and close the DOS window.

To create a Send To item that will contig a directory recursively follow the same steps above (copy and rename the Contig File shortcut) except change the Target line to space -s space “%cd%”\ so it looks like c:\sysinternals\contig -s “%cd%”\.

The trick here is using “%cd%”. %cd% is the full path to the current working directory where the file (or directory) you want to contig is located. The “” convert the Long File Name from the %cd% into something DOS understands.

Enjoy!

Almost 11,000 of us liked what we heard from David more than the other two candidates. That’s a significant number of people who are not satisfied with the way they’re being represented in Washington.

Hopefully, this will serve as a wakeup call to the Democratic Party and the “winner” that quite a few of us are ready for a change. And maybe inspire someone else, who’s not a political insider, to get involved.

So yes, David lost, but we won!