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I use ABC it's a download manager based on the BitTornado source. I've always quite liked Azureus' options and the manager but it's far too much of a pain keeping it up to date and making sure you always have the very latest sun JVM, without which it tends to have problems. Besides which I don't see the point if I'm not actually using all the extra features.

ABC has a long running problem actually killing it's own process so you often have to manually kill it when you want to close it, other than that it's kind of the best of both worlds.
 
Fushigi said:
As I'll only be using this from my home machine, I downloaded BitTornado. So far it's timing out on the torrent Merc listed above.
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It did exactly the same thing for me as well as the default bitTorrent client. But Azureus worked so now I have the file :)
 
Why does turning down the brightness on my Samsung 191T cause significant single-frequency feedback on my Klipsch speakers? Having the display on at all causes static and turning the brightness below 70% causes a really nasty whine.
 
ddrueding said:
Why does turning down the brightness on my Samsung 191T cause significant single-frequency feedback on my Klipsch speakers? Having the display on at all causes static and turning the brightness below 70% causes a really nasty whine.
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RFI from the cold cathode tube driver circuit no doubt. Bypass capacitors in a few key places on both the display and speaker circuit boards might help. Too bad I'm 3000 miles away or I could help with that.

You might try moving the power and signal wires for your speakers as far away from the display as possible, and maybe wrapping them in aluminum foil which you connect to ground so as to act as a shield. It's likely the wires are acting as an antenna and picking up RFI from your monitor.
 
I might add; this is a new occurance, never happened before, and that the speakers themselves are 3 feet to either side of the monitor. I'll play with the power cable and see what I can do.
 
timwhit said:
I would guess that your speakers are not properly shielded as computer speakers should be.
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Computer speaker "shielding" consists solely of a second magnet to partly neutralize the magnetic field of the one in the driver unit.
 
My instructions for dealing with Spyware.

I just spent some time updating this long document to better suit its audience - people who are frightened and confused by anything but exact directions.

This is a 1.5MB download, approximately.

Anyone who wants to look at it, either for factual errors or suggestions for improvement, is welcome to do so.

Now that I have a printable document in good shape, the next step is to put it up as HTML, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
 
jtr1962 said:
ddrueding said:
Why does turning down the brightness on my Samsung 191T cause significant single-frequency feedback on my Klipsch speakers? Having the display on at all causes static and turning the brightness below 70% causes a really nasty whine.
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RFI from the cold cathode tube driver circuit no doubt. Bypass capacitors in a few key places on both the display and speaker circuit boards might help. Too bad I'm 3000 miles away or I could help with that.

You might try moving the power and signal wires for your speakers as far away from the display as possible, and maybe wrapping them in aluminum foil which you connect to ground so as to act as a shield. It's likely the wires are acting as an antenna and picking up RFI from your monitor.
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Just in case it makes a difference jtr, the 191T is a LCD.
 
Mercutio said:
My instructions for dealing with Spyware.

I just spent some time updating this long document to better suit its audience - people who are frightened and confused by anything but exact directions.

This is a 1.5MB download, approximately.

Anyone who wants to look at it, either for factual errors or suggestions for improvement, is welcome to do so.

Now that I have a printable document in good shape, the next step is to put it up as HTML, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
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Not to be a smartass, but in the first sentance:

"If you follow these easy steps, repairing spyware problems on your Windows PC will is certainly possible."
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And a suggestion to emphasize that the first page is merely a summary of what will be convered in the rest of the document. Otherwise my users would (without reading the rest of the document) call me and ask "How do I download Firefox by going to MOZILLA.COM?"

Other that that, it looks great! If you get it up as HTML, do you mind if I link users to it?
 
ddrueding said:
Not to be a smartass, but in the first sentence...
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Turnabout is fair play. :P
Actually, little crap like that is exactly why I asked for help with proofing. I habitually turn of spelling and grammar checkers, and that's the sort of thing I might miss, just from being overly familiar with the text.

ddrueding's gang of idiots said:
"How do I download Firefox by going to MOZILLA.COM?"
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Wow, yours might actually be dumber than mine.

ddrueding said:
Other that that, it looks great! If you get it up as HTML, do you mind if I link users to it?
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Um... Probably not. At some point I need to get another domain, though. Someday I'm going to want to post links to porn and stuff, and you probably wouldn't appreicate it if those links were two clicks away from whatever's on that page. :D
 
Just a small one: Ad-Aware is always hyphenated. It's good to be careful with this as there are so many scum products out there that try to pretend to be the real thing and you need to be careful with exact addresses and names. Nice work, Merc!
 
The woman will go if you don't have a house where she can occuppied herself cleaning things and if you don't drive a sports car to impress her.
 
The woman will be too busy with all the nonstop orgasms I will give her to notice my crappy old cars or state of housekeeping.
 
Buck said:
Just in case it makes a difference jtr, the 191T is a LCD.
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Yeah, I know that, and it uses cold-cathode fluorescent tubes to backlight it. BTW, I think the problem might be related to the tubes wearing out and changing characteristics. That can cause noise where none existed before. I wonder how many hours of use the display has had? The tubes should be good for at least 25,000 hours but sometimes you'll have a bad tube before that.

I'm looking into 19" LCD displays myself now since I'm still using a crappy 15" monitor I found by the curb. I was hoping to get one with LED backlight but so far I don't think any are made, at least that I can afford.
 
Mercutio said:
My instructions for dealing with Spyware.

I just spent some time updating this long document to better suit its audience - people who are frightened and confused by anything but exact directions.

This is a 1.5MB download, approximately.

Anyone who wants to look at it, either for factual errors or suggestions for improvement, is welcome to do so.
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Here's a few things I found:

Page 8 (part in bold should be one sentence):

The DOWNLOAD Window will open up and show you what is, and has been downloaded. When it is done. It will say so. You can close this window down now or at any time without affecting your download.

Page 17 (spelling):

Click on NEXT to STAR INSTALLATION

Page 22 yellow box ("This" should be "These"):

This ALL need to be green --Step #7

Page 27 ("direction" should be "directions"):

3) The updates should be up to date because you followed direction and checked for updates before getting into safe mode!

Page 32 (eliminate "has"):

Everyone who has had a firewall program has installed has probably seen a message like “Generic Host Process for Win32 has asked for permission to access the internet. Allow or Deny?”

Other comments:

I thought this was hilarious on page 9:

Advertising, NOT what you want (evil!)
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:mrgrn:

Very good guide. I think I'll send a copy to my sister since she seems to have persistent spyware problems.
 
How about this one:

Why won't SF remember me? Every time I check the box but it doesn't stay. Firefox remembers me and enters the username and password, but by then my tabs have loaded while I'm logged out.
 
ddrueding said:
How about this one:

Why won't SF remember me? Every time I check the box but it doesn't stay. Firefox remembers me and enters the username and password, but by then my tabs have loaded while I'm logged out.
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Have you tried deleting the cookie and clearing your cache?
I've found this resolves most of my authentication issues.
 
Will Rickards said:
ddrueding said:
How about this one:

Why won't SF remember me? Every time I check the box but it doesn't stay. Firefox remembers me and enters the username and password, but by then my tabs have loaded while I'm logged out.
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Have you tried deleting the cookie and clearing your cache?
I've found this resolves most of my authentication issues.
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Fixed, thank you very much.
 
http://s-laker.org/RepairSpyware.php

I've been working on this stupid thing for about six hours now. It looks terrible. It's all one way. It's a huge file. Nothing will take away all the stains that MSWord left. Some of the images are screwed up, which I'm pretty sure is a table definition problem.

Now I am sleepy and I'm done trying to fix it.
 
Hoolie Doolie, that source code is dreadful! Classic butchered MS Word >> HTML stuff. I think some serious search and replace is in order. But a hellova job, I don't envy you. In fact, it might be easier to start from scratch.
 
I forgot just how bad .... I need a word much, much, much worse than "bad" .... MS Word to HTML conversion is. That's not bad, it's utterly bloody ridiculous. Anyway, I stripped the pointless, mindless crap code out of it and the result is 105k shorter: i.e., a 132k document becomes a 27k document when you remove the crap. Unbloodybelievable.

Result at http://redhill.net.au/sf/merc/merc.html

It would actually have been easier, I think, to have just taken the bare text and added formatting than to have stripped 105k of mindless M$ crap out, but whatever, it's done now.

It was a very quick and dirty job, but is now readable and easy enough to tweak up into whatever you want. (I plan to go to bed. Maybe tomorrow. Or maybe one of the other guys will take it from here.)

You will notice that the image layout is plain vanilla left-alligned. Don't worry anout that, it's easy to fix - and fix globally, not one image at a time. I also broke the background text layout. Another easy thing to sort.

I have not checked it for errors (and I already know anbout some sloppy code that won't validate, just haven't worried about that yet.)

Notice that the headings are coded with <h3> and </h3> instead of that specific MS crap. If you don't like the heading sizes or colours or anything, we can change every single one of them with one line of code now. (Except for the ones where I buggered it up: I haven't checked for errors yet.) Ditto the paragraph text and the images. (Actually the images may require a little cut & paste, haven't figured tht out yet as I'm completely bushed. Huge day at the office and I had to do a talk on the wildlife of WA earlier tonight - only an hour or so for the talk, but preparing the pictures was a huge job and I haven't had anything to eat yet today and it's 1:30AM. Don't feel like cooking, I think I'll just go to bed.)
 
Mercutio said:
Some of the images are screwed up, which I'm pretty sure is a table definition problem.
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Sure is. It is, in fact, caused by the fact that Word, for reasons known only to Satan (God would never touch code that bad) is putting the images in tabes in the first place. Why? Utterly beyond me. There are several elegant and economical ways to lay out images, none of which I feel bright enough to start thinking about tonight, but any of which would be about 14,000% better.

We might look at doing that tomorrow.
 
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