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Tripredacus

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  1. It has always been 'my opinion' that the odd numbered versions have been best. 3.11, 98, XP, and 7. Always built on new bases. 8.1 is better than 8, but if MS is true to form, version 9 should be a winner. We will just have to see.

     

    Windows OS favorability oddly follows the similar trend of Star Trek movie favorability. I wonder what other products alternate between :w00t:  and :puke: releases.

  2. The only product I am aware of (that I use) that has a seamless, rapid-release type update system is Chrome. It updates itself and never notifies anyone, but then again it never has any problems. It hasn't helped Firefox much (imo) because it still notifies and asks to update... and I'm still clicking NO because I don't want my browser to start looking like Chrome.

  3. Preface: After connecting the drive to the PC, reboot and go in the BIOS. See if the drive is detected there.

     

    Regarding Windows XP:

     

    You can try updating the USB controller drivers, although it looks like Abit's newest is only in the nForce chipset package and it is from 2004. There may be newer drivers available on driverpacks. Also I note this board has 2 onboard ports and 4 from 2 header blocks. Have you tried all ports?

     

    http://abit.ws/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php@pMODEL_NAME=NF7-S2&fMTYPE=Socket%20A&pPRODINFO=Driver
  4. New sig made: sentry_zps629a4e63.jpg

    EDIT: displays not all being equal, this image doesn't look so nice on an LCD monitor, for whatever reason. I will revert to my previous one.

  5. Trip has brought the issue a little sideways from what I meant. :w00t:

    Terms of service abuse is one thing, CP is another (and it is in most countries a crime).

    It is a point of view difference. The provider is not allowed to enforce the law, that is the job of the police. I used blanket statements and examples in what I wrote. To the provider, committing a crime is violation of the terms of service.

    Regarding this particular story, I suspect that the provider was not actively watching the user's activity (although the system should backup everything anyways) and was told to retrieve the data due to a tip or ongoing investigation into that person's activities for whatever reason. It could have specifically been for the published reason, or they could have been under investigation for something else. Who knows!

    But interesting how you point out, that the employee at the email provider may also be in violation of the law by looking for these illegal emails! It reminds me of a small town nearby where it is (or was) both illegal to back out or back into your driveway.

  6. The process that crashed was Microsoft MapPoint. What version of MapPoint is it?

    The dump indicates a memory error, but I wonder if the other dumps are the same error or different ones. Even if you don't have the old memory.dmps, the bugchecks still may be preserved in Event Viewer.

    It also looks to be you have a very old F-Secure encryption software installed, the driver it uses is from 2002.

  7. Your usage of the term "RCA jacks" is fairly generic. It seems you specifically mean Component output.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_connector

    My main complaint of HDMI-out only devices is that they no longer have the Composite Audio out connections that I would use to connect into my "sound system." This is the main reason why I decided not to pursue purchasing the Retron5, which I was actually looking forward to.

  8. Well it would still be a partial infection. I had a similar case where some AOL IM virus was on my Win98 PC... The initial infection did occur, however the virus would not function properly because AOL IM was not installed. All it did was fill up my HDD with text files with errors in them.

    Now, Symantec could clarify what the behaviour would be like if a Win9x was infected with this. Maybe it would show an error because Powershell isn't installed or doesn't work, or maybe it will just make text files until you run out of hard disk space. :w00t:

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