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The German company Nero, developers of the award-winning Nero Burning ROM suite for Windows, now release a free version for Linux called NeroLINUX a CD/DVD Burning Software, and include many features from the Windows version. This software is proprietary but free if you registered." The OEM versions of Nero that come with many CD burners aren't sufficient, though; NeroLINUX is free-as-in-beer only if you've registered "a full version of Nero software version 6 or higher," or a "retail version or downloaded version." View: Nero Linux

hahaha! ROFL at this... Well, actually something similar was already posted some days ago.

Thanks gutbomb for the detailed explanation. If I'm not wrong, even alexa (which is part of IE) does almost the same. It doesn't "track" your browsing. It exists simply to give statistics to the host you're visiting.

The OpenOffice.org 2.0 series ROCKS! Its free, has a feature-set that matches Office2003 (atleast as much as the normal user requires), good stability, fast running, regular updates, easy uA deploying.... what more could one need? Okay, so you want to save documents to PDF, and presentations to flash (SWF), so that you could open these files no matter where you are? Even that is provided for. I would have chosen MS Office (2003), but it interferes with the rest of the OS too much. Just like IE, even MSO has the basic problem of tying-in too deeply with windows. Registry entries, files dropped deep into the file-system, and so on.... And more importantly, EXPENSIVE! Getting tied into proprietary formats, and using special features found only in MSO is one thing, but if you are not using 90% of MSO's features, and need an office suite (that gets the job done) for a 250-user network, the only honest solution is the one I chose.

Dunno why that hang occurs for you. Maybe some files are corrupted, or you have other drivers that are not playing well with this one. Just to be sure, see that you aren't turning off driver-signing (because first we shall just work with proper signed drivers, and then move on to unsigned ones).Then, get the latest WHQL'ed drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_71.84.html Maybe your hardware has an issue that got fixed with this version.

That's for the CD install. If you're installing from HD or over the network, then $OEM$ has to be inside the i386.As for the rest of the questions you may have, I just find it too difficult to detect and reply to. A good idea is to break-down your questions into points, with one question in each numbered point.

nLite was made for those who say XP/Svr2k3 is too bloated. You run it on the install source, to remove all the unnecessary components BEFORE it ever reaches your HD. Some statistics: - Slip-stream SP2 into WinXP CD. - Integrate Post-SP2 updates. - Used nLite to remove bloat, and reduced XP i386 source, now XP CD is just 180 MB - Merged drivers of HW - Now my "occupied space" on C:\ drive after a fresh install of XP says 370 MB. - My memory usage currently is 45 MB (NOTE: pagefile disabled). - Alongside such magical figures, I get all the stability and "latest" tag of XPSP2. - with this kind of statistics, 98 was "gone with the wind" long ago. I'm not sure if un4given1 has yet given a look-in into nLite.

Should be quite easy to run awstats on a certain page/address in an iframe....

Sounds good! Now my gmail, hotmail, and yahoo can all be in one place.

Why waste effort when laziness can save the day? Uhmm.... I mean, why bother writing a new script? Already such tools exist. - Webalizer (PHP) - awstats (perl)

True, been posted - but only now the confirmation of tabbed browsing has come. Back then, he was unsure.

They have access to it anytime, if they wish, but their privacy statement covers all your fears. Your mails and privacy are your own mails and privacy.As for longterm, I wouldn't be worried. Google has made a living out of the principle of "don't be evil", and all the love they get is their benefit in return.

Someone is certainly rolling with laughter!All along he has been posting into this thread which is now more than 180 posts large..... about how XP is better. Well, other than that, WinXP when fortified with SP2, is the best desktop OS out there. Reasons? un4given1 posted a lot of them. Please ask them to not use illegal software. Pirating is an offence, no matter which version.Also, I agree with azagahl and un4given1 on this: Win98se still isn't a bad idea if the above's your reasons.

1. Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages from here. 2. When an I.T. person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. It's nothing for us to remember 3,000 screen saver passwords. 3. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and Popsicle art. We don't have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours. 4. When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your mail because your computer won't power on at all. 5. Don't put your phone extension in your e-mails to the helpdesk. We need to keep an eye on the address book performance. 6. When I.T. support sends you an e-mail with high importance, delete it at once. We're just testing the public groups. 7. When an I.T. person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve. 8. When an I.T. person is having a smoke outside, ask him a computer question. The only reason why we smoke at all is to ferret out those clients who don't have e-mail or a telephone line. 9. Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery. 10. When you call an I.T. person's direct line, press 5 to skip the bilingual greeting that says he's out of town for a week, record your message and wait exactly hours before you send an email straight to the director because no one ever returned your call. You're entitled to common courtesy. 11. When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's electronics in it. 12. When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at home, call computer support. We can fix your line from here. 13. When you have a dozen CGA monitors to get rid of, call computer support. We're collectors. 14. When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on an I.T. person's chair with no name, no phone number and no of the problem. We love a puzzle. 15. If you hate your mouse, get some other pointing device and discard the manual. We know all the keyboard accelerators. 16. When an I.T. person tells you that computer monitors don't have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument. 17. When you get a message about insufficient disk space, delete everything in the Windows directory. It's nothing but trouble anyway. When you have an I.T. person on the phone walking you through changing a setting, read the paper. We don't actually mean for you to do anything; we just love to hear ourselves talk. 18. When an I.T. person tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That'll get us going. 19. If you have a 14-inch monitor that says VGA on it, set the display to true colour, 1024 x 768. You'll never again have to worry about people reading confidential files over your shoulder. 20. When we offer training on the upcoming OS upgrade, don't bother. We'll be there to hold your hand after it's done. 21. When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes. 22. When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the branch. One of them is bound to work. 23. Don't learn the proper name for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "my thingy's outta whack". Don't use on-line help. On-line help is for wimps. 24. If you're taking night classes in computer science, feel free to go around and update the network drivers for your all your co-workers. We're grateful for the overtime money. 25. When an I.T. person makes popcorn, help yourself while he's checking out your access rights. And we keep chocolate in the top drawer, too. 26. When you have an I.T. person fixing your computer at a quarter past noon, eat your lunch in his face. We function better when slightly dizzy. 27. Don't ever thank us. We're getting paid for this. 28. If you're an intern, feel free to bring in all your friends from college and have your Daddy complain to our boss when we won't let them use the scanner. 29. We had no friends when we were in college; that's why we're such a bunch of tight-assed little twerps. 30. When an I.T. person asks you whether you've installed any new software on this computer, lie. It's nobody's business what you've got on your computer. 31. If you have NT, feel free to change the local administrator's password to "biteme" and promptly forget it. We like installing NT. 32. If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your dog, lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Mouse cables were designed to have 33.lbs. of computer sitting on top of them. 33. If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame it on the mail upgrade. Keyboards are actually very happy with half a pound of muffin crumbs and nail clippings in them. 34. When you receive the new Yanni CD for your birthday, shove it into any slot on the front of your computer. We like getting physical with 5.25 floppy drives. 35. When you get a message saying "Are you sure?" click on that Yes button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren't sure, you wouldn't be doing it, would you? 36. When you find an I.T. person on the phone with his bank, sit uninvited on the corner of his desk and stare at him until he hangs up. We don't have any money to speak of anyway. 37. Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don't know nothing about that computer crap". We don't mind at all hearing our area of professional expertise referred to as crap. 38. When you need to change the toner cartridge, call I.T. support. nt in computer science, have him come in on the weekends and do his projects on your office computer. We'll be there for you when his illegal copy of Visual Basic 6.0 makes your Access 95 database flip out. 39. When you bring your own personal home PC for repair at the office, leave the documentation at home. We'll find the jumper settings on the Internet. 40. The correct location to store important files is the Recycle Bin. It's just like a real office, where you keep your tax receipts in the blue can under your desk. 41. If you miss Windows 3.1, find the line that goes shell explorer.exe in your SYSTEM.INI file and replace it with shell=progman.exe. It makes troubleshooting infinitely easier when we ask you whether you have a Start button at the bottom of your screen and you truthfully answer us that you don't. 42. If you hate PC's, get on the Internet and download one of those desktop enhancements that make your computer look just like a Mac, down to the sad faces replacing verbose error messages. We find it refreshing to troubleshoot the nuances in that sad little face instead of some cold forbidding hexadecimal integer. 43. When you detect a French accent in a an I.T. person's voice, switch to French. We don't mind that your level of fluency is that of a mildly retarded 4-year- old; you don't make a whole lot of sense in your own mother tongue either. 44. We don't really believe that you're a bunch of ungrateful twits. It hurts our feelings that you could even think such a thing. We wish to express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of clueless losers portrayed herein, without whom none of this would have been remotely possible. [/sarcasm]

It was opening night at the Orpheum and the Amazing Claude was topping the bill. People came from miles around to see the famed hypnotist do his stuff... As Claude took to the stage, he announced, "Unlike most stage hypnotists who invite two or three people up onto the stage to be put into a trance, I intend to hypnotize each and every member of the audience." The excitement was almost electric as Claude withdrew a beautiful antique pocket watch from his coat. "I want each of you to keep your eye on this antique watch. It's a very special watch and has been in my family for six generations." He began to swing the watch gently back and forth while quietly chanting, "Watch the watch, watch the watch, watch the watch..." The crowd become mesmerized as the watch swayed back and forth, light gleaming off its polished surface. Hundreds of pairs of eyes followed the swaying watch, until suddenly it slipped from the hypnotist's fingers and fell to the floor, breaking into a hundred pieces. "sh!t" exclaimed the hypnotist. It took three weeks to clean the seats in the theatre.

Mary received a parrot as a gift. The parrot was fully grown with a very bad attitude and worse vocabulary. Every other word was a curse: those that weren't curses were to say the least, rude. Mary tried to change the bird's attitude by constantly saying polite things. Words and playing soft music...anything she could think of. Nothing worked. She yelled at the bird and the bird got worse. She shook the bird and the bird got madder and more rude. Finally in a moment of desperation, Mary put the parrot in the freezer to get a minute of peace. For a few moments she heard the bird swearing, squawking kicking and screaming and then, suddenly there was absolute quiet. Mary was frightened that she might have actually hurt the bird and quickly opened the freezer door. The parrot calmly stepped out onto Mary's extended arm and said: "I'm very sorry that I offended you with my language and my actions and I ask your forgiveness. I will endeavor to correct my behavior and I am sure it will never happen again." Mary was astounded at the changes in the bird's attitude and was about to ask what had changed him, when the parrot continued, "May I ask what the chicken did?"

need more news sources before doing that.

How long till this is posted on front-page? Someone please post other links to this news as well, so that we have enough proof.....

lol, yeah. And who knows how many new ways to get infected, IE7 brings in. I know I'm going to stay with opera. Opera 8 ROCKS!!!!!

A couple was dressed and ready to go out for the evening. They turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on the phone line, covered their pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard. They phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and the couple opened the front door to leave their house. The cat they had put out into the yard scoots back into the house. They don't want the cat shut in the house because she always tries to eat the bird. The wife goes out to the taxi while the husband goes inside to get the cat. The cat runs upstairs, husband in hot pursuit. Waiting in the cab, the wife doesn't want the driver to know the house will be empty for the night. She explains to the taxi driver that her husband will be out soon. "He's just going upstairs to say good-bye to my mother." A few minutes later the husband gets into the cab. "Sorry I took so long," he says as they drive away. "Stupid b$$$$$ was hiding under the bed. Had to poke her with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off so I grabbed her by the neck. Then I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from scratching me. But it worked. I hauled her fat a** downstairs and threw her out into the back yard!" The taxi driver hit a parked car. ============================= How to give a cat a pill 1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow. 2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process. 3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away. 4. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Gently force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten. 5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse from garden. 6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously. 7. Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later. 8. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw. 9. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans; drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and mild soap. 10. Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door on neck, to leave head showing. Gently force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with an elastic band. 11. Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw Tee shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom. 12. Call fire department to retrieve the **** cat from across the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap. 13. Tie the little bastard's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table. Find heavy-duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of filet steak. Be rough about it if necessary. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down. 14. Consume remainder of scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table. 15. Arrange for SPCA to collect the "mutant cat from hell" and call local pet shop to see if they have any really small hamsters. On the greener side of grass..... HOW TO GIVE A DOG A PILL 1. Wrap pill in bacon. 2. Toss in the air ====================================== How To Clean Your Toilet - The Fun Way 1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl. 2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom. 3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids. You may need to stand on the lid. 4. The cat will self agitate! and make ample suds. Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying this. 5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a "power-wash" and rinse". 6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door. 7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids. 8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet, streak through the bathroom, and run outside where he will dry himself off. 9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean. =====================

huh? "duck" tape? what's next, "goose" tape? Don't you mean..... "duct" tape?

Haha, Interesting way to catch attention, gnumskull. But no, we won't allow you to exit stage Welcome to MSFN forums

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ie7_preview_1.asp

haha, no idea how they do it. I too get my actual torrent speeds much lower than the capacity of my connection. The help files and forums says that maybe I have this because of my XPSP2 firewall - but its the same even on other OSes.

scratched CD or corrupted files....