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Whatever it is,it is not "news". Here is the article, I believe: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186%2F1687-417X-2013-2 jaclaz

A cousin of mine has a USB hard disk that is roughly 1/3 NTFS, 1/3 FAT32 and 1/3 EXT4, even handier. jaclaz

We cannot? I thought that we do provide (on a voluntary basis) assistance for any number of projects that were not originated on MSFN (no matter whether discontinued or not). In any case it seems like people here: http://www.sevenforums.com/ are more familiar with it. jaclaz

... all of them invariably either wrong, or misleading or BOTH . At least that was my personal experience, before I gave up for good, several years ago, clicking on those links. jaclaz

Perfect. jaclaz

Ok, maybe we need a further step. The BIOS only recognizes a keyboard device and only if connected through the "old" DIN bus or more recently the PS/2 one, whilst most implementation (which as a matter of fact often fail/cause issues) on more recent BIOSes add an additional layer (which is sometimes referred in BIOS as "USB legacy support") that is more like a "converting the USB keyboard to a PS/2" than anything else. Each and every "wireless" (no matter if radio, infrared, bluetooth or whatever technology) keyboard is (or should be) for all the BIOS knows a "normal", wired keyboard. If you prefer, any device that is called keyboard presents itself to the BIOS as a keyboard, in the case of wireless keyboards such as the ones you posted a link to, it is the key that is inserted in the USB port that declares itself as "keyboard" (this is what the BIOS is looking for and the only thing that matters to it), and how exactly the USB key communicates (and couples, etc.) with the actual remote things with keys is essentially out of the interest of BIOS. To all effects for the BIOS those "internet remote/keyboards" are just like plain, conventional USB keyboards. jaclaz

salim, excuse me, but I would like to understand . I see on sediv.net a reference to Pakistan, whilst the known sediv program: http://sediv2008.narod.ru/ is seemingly from Russia, and both places are currently about the 1.014 Alpha version. jaclaz

If you had a parallel port you could use WWBMU: http://lab1.de/Central/Software/System-Tools/WWBMU/ Or basically since normally BIOS does not support any other device but a keyboard (and yes a numeric keypad is technically a small keyboard) you have to load *something* (a bootmanager, a BIOS extension, a small OS, etc.) capable of supporting *something else* (i.e. *any* non-keyboard) as user input method. XOSL is a "traditional" bootmanager that has mouse support, as an example: However, and just for the record, there is also the possibility of touchscreen : http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/279/images/mb-z68-touch-bios.html jaclaz

Well, if it helps you , the boot loader (7's boot loader) does not reside in the MBR. jaclaz

Uh-oh, logical flaw detected . You are assuming that I actually know how to fix a hdd in a situation like yours, which may or may not (it is not ) accurate. Point is that to get to the "next" step one needs a little tool that sells for several thousands bucks (and that needs proper training), and to go to the "further" step one needs, beside the above some even more specific tools and quite a bit of experience. And of course there are no guarantees of any kind that a recovery is possible at all, not even with these tools (and knowledge). I cannot help you on this, you can try asking over at hddguru, that forum's members (besides a few casual passers by) are mainly professionals (usually with a very bad character, extremely unwilling to help and often disturbed by the questions of newbies, but that obviously know where their towel is) and you may make contact with one of them working in London. (and yes you are IMHO correct about the fact that there are seemingly a large number of buffoons that advertise on the internet for services they cannot provide reliably). jaclaz

In the BIOS go to System configuration and post a screenshot of it. It should be like in this video: The given thread: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/General-XP-Downgrade-Guide-for-HP-Laptops/td-p/83267 will (IF you actually READ it) provide full instructions on how to collect information about the appropriate drivers and where/how to find them. jaclaz

The DV6000 series specifically should have that provision in the BIOS. It should be under System Configuration-> Native SATA support-> Enabled/disabled. But still it would make more sense to find the appropriate SATA drivers and integrate them to the XP install CD. There is a specific thread on HP Forums about how exactly to "downgrade HP laptops from Windows Vista/7 to XP", here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/General-XP-Downgrade-Guide-for-HP-Laptops/td-p/83267 jaclaz

Good I don't use OE since what? 2001 or 2002 and it has never failed me either. What gives? Apart being like the single most insecure app ever conceived and being (my personal evaluation of it) the single most likely to be vector of malware, it's a nice app . jaclaz

Well, no. The fact that you did not see anyone digging there only means that you could not see them. For all you (and we) know they could be working behind a cloaking device of some kind and be digging alright. jaclaz

On other news, The Guardian just jumped over the fence. I had some doubts that they were completely nuts after the physical grinding down of laptop chips, but they just published a story which besides being very tall, makes them undoubtedly conspiracy theory members, if you are missing some FUD, here it is: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/edward-snowden-files-nsa-gchq-luke-harding On the other hand, news about the data from 1.8 millions calls in the Netherlands harvested by our good Dutch friends, who made the collection in a legally way, obviously, and how this "had to do with Dutch military operations abroad" is an interesting new twist. http://rt.com/news/nsa-dutch-minister-intercepts-743/ jaclaz

@outfoxtv The fact that you do seem like nice guys and willing to help people that may have issues removing your stupid BHO (or whatever is it that changes the start page of browsers to your site) does NOT in any way change the fact that the BHO (or whatever) is installed the first time. This practice is seen by anyone possessing more than two working neurons as an an aggressive, senseless, vexing and overall stupid attempt to take control of someone else's user experience, particularly when the result (changing the start page to a given site) happens through the use of something that is (badly or cleverly) hidden and that insists of resetting the start page (which is a BAD behaviour typical of "malware", which not necessarily is a virus) If you want to do a favour to me, to the other members of this board and to a large part of mankind, you could stop the practice, as opposed to be kind and help to amend the damages that that practice causes after they have been caused, otherwise your thingy will be called "malware" because, whatever it does for the good, it also does at least one thing (the browser hijacking) that is what "malwares" do, and the equation outfox.tv=malware will be written all over the internet, besides all the places where it is already written. jaclaz

Just to keep things updated: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cloud-desktop jaclaz

You normally install Windows 98 to CD? Though the title is NOT clear and StartButton revived this otherwise deemed into oblivion thread, the matter at hand is related to this: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140391-windows-98-live-cd-project-update/ one of the possible ways to build a windows 98 "Live CD". jaclaz

Well, Outlook Express will have a single .dbx for "Inbox" and another single one for "Sent" at any given time. What you see as "Inbox" from within OE is only a link to a .dbx file, which by default is called "Inbox.dbx, but for all that matters could be called MickeyMouse.dbx, same goes for "Sent". It sounds like *somehow* at *some time* in the past the two original .dbx's (those without brackets and numbers) were unavailable to a session of Outlook Express, which then decided to create new ones. WHY exactly those files were unavailable at that given moment is good question, but possibly not worth the time to investigate. Now, generally speaking, a good idea would be to NOT use OE anymore , but of course this is only my personal opinion. Since I believe what you want is instead to "fix" the Inbox and Sent messages databases and continue using it, this is what I would do if I were you: 1) Close OE (if open) AND disconnect from the internet (a good idea would be to print this post on paper) 2) make a copy in another directory (say C:\myolddbx ) of ALL the .dbx files you found. 3) Rename the folders in the actual original location as follows: Inbox.dbx -> Old_Inbox.dbx Inbox (1).dbx -> Empty_Inbox.dbx Inbox (2).dbx -> New_Inbox.dbx Sent.dbx -> Old_Sent.dbx Sent (1).dbx -> New_Sent.dbx 4) move the above 5 files to another directory (say C:\myworkdbx ) 5) Open OE and open the Inbox and Sent folders 6) Observe the original location, in theory a new Inbox.dbx and a new Sent.dbx files should be created 7) It is possible that you will need to double click open the "Inbox" and "Sent" folders in OE to have the actual files be created 8) from OE create a new folder named EXACTLY like the corresponding .dbx in C:\myworkdbx for each of these (EXACTLY, only without the .dbx extension) 9) like in #7 above double click open each of the folders and make sure the corresponding (empty) .dbx file is created in the original location 10) close OE 11) copy back the files from C:\myworkdbx to the original location, overwriting the newly created (empty) corresponding files 12) open OE and move messages from within it as you see fit 13) once having double and tripled checked that everything is as you like it to be, delete the renamed folders you don't need anymore (they will go in "deleted items") 14) test again that everything is OK, then empty the "deleted items" 15) close OE 16) reconnect to the internet 17) clean the mess in the other folders C:\myworkdbx and C:\myolddbx (or use them as backup, etc.) 18) have fun If you have doubts about any of the steps above, ask for clarifications BEFORE doing something that you may later regret. jaclaz

Search for "slipstream" on this page: http://www.nliteos.com/ jaclaz

What you know is partially incorrect. Service Packs are "inclusive", each later service pack contains ALL the needed files of previous ones. There is a limitation about installed and running systems along which a "Gold" XP cannot be updated to SP3 directly. You need at least in the case of an installed and running XP ONLY to first upgrade it to SP1 or SP1a or SP2. This limitation DOES NOT apply to slipstreaming. You can slipstream Gold->SP2 or Gold->SP3 directly alright. And - for the record - I fell for it before : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24257 jaclaz

Yes, I do . You failed to delete/remove the *whatever* causes that behaviour . I also know how your google is currently broken , and I am very sorry for this , , so have these, with my best regards: http://malwaretips.com/blogs/outfox-tv-removal/ http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-outfox-tv.html http://www.dotfab.com/resources/how-to-remove-outfox-tv-homepage-from-ieffchrome/ jaclaz

3 (three) different things: Live CD -> generically -> Yes Linux -> generically -> Yes Windows PE -> specifically -> NO, as it is specifically prohibited by it's License AND unless modified, it will reboot automatically after a given time.More generally, diskless PC's are not a "new" idea, traditionally they PXE boot from Lan, but of course you can have them boot from a CD drive, a USB stick or *almost any* other Mass Storage device the PC actually allows booting from. jaclaz

Have you run HiJackThis? http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/ If not, do so, then upload the log to http://www.hijackthis.de/en and check what seems suspect. Also HOW EXACTLY did you "already deleted the malware"? WHAT EXACTLY did you delete? jaclaz

Short answer: Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Long answer: No , but I may help you to slow down the faster ones, so that they will all take the same time. (fair is fair). Standard Litany, please: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz