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Yep , though there is a potential issue : http://forums.psychcentral.com/3126677-post8.html jaclaz

One week Latin time : http://reboot.pro/topic/1013-h7pluginbuilder/?p=16104 sounds reasonable. jaclaz

No. Meaning that if you do a clean install, from the original MS DVD, it is "clean". What is possible (though I have difficulties in believing it , in the sense that it would be "hooked/started" by sheer magic ) is that the malware wrote *something* *somewhere* that *somehow* you failed to wipe/overwrite when you re-installed. Can you describe the actual Windows 7 disc that you used (i.e. is it retail, OEM or what)? You mention "downloading" the Office 2013 from MS. Did you restore the "download" after having reinstalled the Windows? I mean is it possible that what was infected was - besides the actual partition(s) - some data that you archived on external media and that you re-deployed or restored after the new install? BTW a "real" clean (default) install of Windows 7 has 2 partitions, a 100 Mb "boot" one and another one the rest of the disk, if you have just one partition now it means that the new install was not "default" (and possibly also not "clean". jaclaz

Or maybe you have missed how Mydefrag (but not only it) does have a provision to deal with Prefetch AND according to this test: http://www.hofmannc.de/en/windows-xp-defragmenter-test/benchmarks.html the result is actually faster than "standard" Windows defrag. jaclaz

Hmmm. Apodictical/anecdotal at it's best. Not really, we have a tool doing it (JFYI) : http://reboot.pro/topic/16775-discover-allocation-unit-and-other-information-of-ufd-under-windows/ http://reboot.pro/topic/16783-rmprepusb-faster-fat32-write-access-on-flash-memory-drives/ jaclaz

Yep, we already got to this conclusion, but with some actual math behind, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141874-gs-and-gs-and-internet-noise/#entry908569 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141874-gs-and-gs-and-internet-noise/#entry908704 AND it was asked to provide some actual calculations, not the usual "vague" stuff, like "soft shock" or "usual shock". The whole point that originated the thread was that apart the "wrong" use of the G symbol instead of g, and using the plural for a measurement unit (i.e. like the only two mistakes an engineer/technician can make when writing a measure, that were BOTH made by the good Seagate guys ) the info provided is meaningless as real life examples are not provided. I mean : This thread is intended to be read on a display delivering no less than 25 LMs, or, if you prefer, no less than 2*(2*pi1/2)2 CDs . jaclaz

...provided that they solve the minor electrical issues they had in the past.... http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304441404579119490744478398 the leap from zettabytes to zappedbytes is not particularly large ... jaclaz

Nice! Which is the command for the third file netvwifimp.inf ? jaclaz

Hmmm. This would lead us to Alien Drones http://ufosandanomalies.com/Alien_Drones.html and from those to mothership clouds the link is only too short: http://ufosandanomalies.com/UFO_Mothership_clouds.html jaclaz

Login via telnet to WHAT? I mean is the *whatever* you login via telnet running XP? Have you tried using the 2003 (or later) cmdkey? http://ss64.com/nt/cmdkey.html http://andyparkes.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/01/08/useful-commands-cmdkey/ http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2008/12/managing-stored-credentials-from-the-windows-command-prompt-using-cmdkey.htm possibly through psexec: http://technet.microsoft.com/it-it/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx jaclaz

This one is what I use when good ol'LeechFTP doesn't work: http://winscp.net/eng/index.php http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots jaclaz

Well, I guess it depends on your location, in Europe amoebas are among the most common topics of conversation, in pubs and bars (not so much at parties, where it is usually considered inappropriate). However you are right , this new oceanic giant amoeba is rarely mentioned, most of the focus go on amoebic dysentery and Naegleria fowleri (brain eating amoeba). It's a pity, though , as there could be a whole new market for pressurized aquariums (at around 1000 bars) to provide these little, lively pets with a suitable environment in everyone's home. jaclaz

Yep, sometimes you have that feeling .... ... this ain't gonna end well... jaclaz

Allow me to correct you on this point. "with all the contents that, mostly, SOMEONE ELSE created and that we took the habit of storing locally on hard disk, after having - largely - got them through far from kosher methods".... Seriously , our hard disks are cluttered of senselessly large files we never used or used/viewed/listened to just once. Once upon a time you had printed photographs. On average you had one good shot every 72 prints. Then came slides, raise your hand anyone old enough to have endured a post-dinner vacation slides show and failed to sleep through 1/3 to 3/4 of it. The ratio "decent image" to shots was still around 1/72 (but, at the cost of a slide projector and screen, we saved thousands of bucks of prints). Now we have digital photography. The ratio 1/72 has fallen to a mere 1/144 or 1/288 as - since it costs nothing to make a shot, and you have a camera with you *at any time* as it comes with your phone or tablet, you shoot an incredible number of pictures. A few years ago, you were tricked (like everyone else) into buying a "high resolution" photographic inkjet printer, and it took you all of a few months to understand how you had only two choices, either continue buying inkjet cartridges and photographic paper (which, after several hours of work and at the 5th or 8th attempt produced an almost decently looking print) or continue paying your house mortgage. So you stopped printing even that 1/288 picture if not on the office (colour) laserjet (and on common paper, which sucks) or started sending photos to printing services. Still, you have n sets made of the 287 images that really suck, and that clutter your hard disk. Exactly the same goes for movies, those Super 8 movies (with the rare exception - because of their emotional value, NOT for their visual one - of your toddler(s) playing in a sunny day ) sucked (and sucked big). The videos you make today also suck big, come on, admit it. Still, you have n home made movies on disk, of which only a handful have any relevance. But all the above is a fraction of what fills your hard disk, which is mainly, downloaded videos or movies (and/or n versions of Linux distros or senselessly large programs that you tried only once in a VM and that became obsolete the sheer moment you downloaded it, having been instantly replaced by the updated version). The videos (youtube like) are mostly senseless and will never be viewed again (if and when you will want to view one, you won't be able to find it). The movies (your collection of movies, the one that replaces that whole section in your library where you used to keep your collection or videotapes and now host improbable new designer's art) are - just as it was originally your collection of video tapes - the reason why you argue with your partner for two hours after dinner about WHICH movie you are going to watch (and never watch because in the meantime it's late). Then there is music. Your iPod (or Mp3 player, or - again - phone) already contains more music than what you will ever be able to listen to in a lifetime (and anyway you only listen to more or less, 100 to 200 titles at the most). Yet you continue to download songs and saving them on hard disk. Then there is p0rn, which actually is quite repetitive and/or "narrow in scope", yet you have n movies all more or less revolving around the same topic, and seen from the same "angle": Finally, there are Windows Updates, which take what little space is left. The content you actually generated/created is a very little amount when compared to the rest, and it's quality is most probably so low that the good MS guys are doing whatever in their power to prevent you from creating more , and seen in this light they may not be entirely wrong . jaclaz

Cannot say. To be fair, if you do something that is classified and/or secret, it is a good rule of the thumb that you don't report it to the media, but IF you decide to pass these info to the media (and you are the US Gov) it makes little sense that the geniuses at Apple label an app that simply analyzes/collects these public data as "falling into a category of "concepts" that the company decides not to advance". BTW, and as a matter of fact, I believe that 2/3 to 3/4 of the whatever data is given to the media by the Governement (when military matters or security are involved) is either false, deceiving or both, a strange mix of PR's and counterintelligence, and the results of "external investigations" are often partial when not plainly "wrong", which makes the app one of the most senseless one around, still - as long as it does nothing illegal - Apple has no valid reason to allow or disallow it in the store. jaclaz P.S.: Anyone knows what can be worse than a drone? A flock of 'em: http://www.nature.com/news/autonomous-drones-flock-like-birds-1.14776

Almost . The given link: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=16713 provides a detailed ten steps sequence that can be easily adapted to install 9X/Me instead of XP. The advantage of using a grub4dos based stick would be that you can exchange disks (thus not needing the FreeDOS FDISK) and boot to a "standard" floppy disk image (that will be "A:"). It remains however, even if using grub4dos, IMHO easier/safer to just plainly extract the contents of the .iso (with 7-zip or using any virtual disk/disc driver). jaclaz

Naah, The Hulk won that twice, 1982 and 1983, but he teamed with Paula O'Donnel: http://towerofzenopus.blogspot.it/2011/01/unfortunate-character-choices-frizbe.html not with me . jaclaz

I know , only preventive action . jaclaz

Just for the record, no, you did not (the latest version right now is 1.3, and a 2.3 does not exist), maybe you used the 0.2.3, i.e. the "historical" version. The usual convention is that unless a specific version is mentioned, anything posted is related to the latest version at the moment of posting. jaclaz

Well no , IF jaclaz said something, it WILL work . But really, the simpler way would be to use a USB stick (and NOT a USB CD, nor a driver for it which jaclaz never mentioned, though it is as well entirely possible). There is no need whatsoever to use/need the Me MBR, any MBR would do, as long as it can chainload an active partition (and the bootsector or PBR of the active partition invokes the Me io.sys). Maybe there is also *somehow* the complicity of the current generation accepting the spoon feeding in a passive and uncritical way. Anyway, I don't want to be accused of spoon feeding anyone, so I will refrain from posting any further detail on the suggested procedure, I will only mention that nowadyas it would involve grub4dos, exchanging disk order, and mapping a floppy image in RAM.... jaclaz .

my apology then he sounds sometimes so serious Hmmm , you seemingly need one of these : jaclaz

The explanation, though "convoluted" is in this thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/multiple-nested-copies-of-application-data-folder/0617cfb6-dd06-4cb6-874d-0cec97d3a310 Maybe these explain it better: http://spantechonline.com/wp/?p=69 http://wordlinks.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/solved-appdatalocalapplicaton-dataapplication-data-repeating-recursion/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee851567.aspx http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm jaclaz

First thing see if any of those are compatible with UNIVBE: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbemp.htm jaclaz

Good . Is it possible that all that "matrioschka" folders are due to some (cannot say which) incompatibility of that app (or it's install routine, or both ) with "links"? Starting with Vista MS started using - often in a senseless way - hard links or junctions that I believe can lead to that sort of "loops". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_folder The data that on Windows 2000 and XP would go to: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data since Vista should go to: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local and to keep compatibility with older programs in Vista and later a folder %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data is a junction to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local See: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/windows-7-infinite-loop-while-using-robocopy/20f32f0c-4cb9-4125-923d-6a57e4d27232 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.html http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/multiple-nested-copies-of-application-data-folder/0617cfb6-dd06-4cb6-874d-0cec97d3a310 http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/115149-stop-application-data-folder-replicating.html Basically you or the specific app or *something* else is likely to have modified the permissions on that junction and some programs create that "loop", you should be able to solve the issue "manually" or using JunctionBox: http://sourceforge.net/projects/junctionbox/ jaclaz

NO comment: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026320/your-iphone-can-now-alert-you-when-a-drone-attacks https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/metadata%2B/id806503163?mt=8 jaclaz