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You might not know how to use it but you have a good camera. I have the D80 and I think it’s a great camera. For $100 you got a good deal if you also have the lens and everything is working. Mine came with a DVD explaining how to use the camera so you might want to ask your friend if he still has it.

Glad Iâm not the only one here who feels the same thing. My only response to this is http://www.daveramsey.com/home/. *steps off soapbox* If you are indeed the one who designed this site then I have to say you did a great job. Very professional looking. I did notice the very attractive lady in the corner speaking to me when the site first loaded. I had to laugh because Iâve seen the same actress on other sites and on an investigative television show (MSNBC I believe) about work at home scams. Iâm really not saying anything bad about your site but I still think itâs funny that you have the same actress.

It is a lot of money but the last straw is when my “backup” died within a few days of the original. Just one of those personal lessons that I decided to never live through again. The other reason is I like the idea of an offsite backup. If someone breaks into my house and steals my computer (good Lord help them because it is a 50 pound custom case that I made myself) they will certainly take all of the goodies attached to it. This would include the backup drive. Second example would be a fire that would also destroy the backup drive directly next to the computer.

You can certainly tell that I am in the top tier of people who backup. I like the corporate best practice policy of keeping a copy of critical data off site. This means that even if my house burned down or someone stole my computer, I still have the data which is much more valuable than the computer.P.S. I was listening to the TWIT podcast and Carbonite is now an advertiser there as well. Their promotional code is “twit” which will give you two free months with a paid membership. Take it or leave it but I always like a deal.

All of this is just a minor to major inconvenientance. If I want your source code then I will get it. Whether it is a minor or major problem depends on the type of encoding you use. The problem is that a web browser still needs to decode the code to produce something useful. If a web browser can decode, I can also. This means that you shouldn’t put anything on the Internet that you don’t want everyone to see. In some cases adding this encoding can call attention to yourself and make you a bigger target. Why would someone go through the trouble of adding this extra security if it weren’t valuable.A side problem to this technique is that it is closely related to malware. The bad guys don’t put their exploit code in the clear so anyone can casually see it, they use many of the exact methods described here to hide their work (or some might say destruction). If I were to review a page that has encoding like this, the first thing that pops into my head is what are they trying to get into my system? Even if you weren’t up to something evil, my opinion of your site dropped and I would most likely never come back.The benefits to open or closed systems have been debated for a long time now. I personally fall on the open side of the discussion. I would like to hear some good uses for encoding your source code.

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I started my reply to you and before I knew it I was on page two in Microsoft Word. With an article this big I just decided to start my own topic about Carbonite. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/96780-topic/?findpost=1064399664

This is in response to a question from http://forums.xisto.com/Remove-Bad-Sectors20&start=20 where a member asks about Carbonite (https://www.carbonite.com/). My response got quite long so I decided to start my own topic. I tried Jungle Disk (https://www.jungledisk.com/) first because I heard about it on a podcast. Jungle Disk is a software interface to the Amazon S3 servers (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) which is basically open storage. You can store anything on S3 (backups, web pages, and anything else you can think of) and pay for the bandwidth plus a small fee per gigabyte. My basic backup is 100+ Gb so I quickly started to run into higher than expected fees from Amazon S3. I believe if you had a smaller backup footprint (< 10Gb), S3 may be more economical than Carbonite but I am not in that category. Jungle Disk is a great frontend, itâs just that S3 became expensive. After getting hit with 10+ dollars a month with S3, I tried Carbonite (https://www.carbonite.com/) which I heard about on a national US radio show. The deal is unlimited storage for around 60 USD a year. I tried the free trial (no credit information needed, you just have to create an account) and ran it for about three weeks. I was happy with it and bought a yearâs subscription. The downside to the trial is no music, executables, or pictures are backed up. After purchasing the full package, I was a little leery of the install process. I donât want to call it intrusive but you can tell a lot of device drivers were installed. Carbonite is closely coupled with the Windows desktop so I am always cautious of software that integrates that deeply with my system. The upshot to this is the client software is rock solid and I canât remember a single crash or freeze on my system due to Carbonite. Carbonite is also fast and unobtrusive once you have it fully configured. I rarely even notice it is running. The install process will add a mapped drive into My Computer with its own icon. Another indicator is every file marked for backup has an overlay to its icon in the form of a small circle in the lower right corner. If the icon is green then the file has been backed up, yellow means itâs in the queue. A tray icon runs all the time in the background and you have the option of disabling backup if you need the extra bandwidth. All data written to the Web is encrypted but you have the option of managing your own encryption key. I opted for managing my own key and during the install process Carbonite had me save a small data file that contained the key. It is clearly explained that backing up the key through Carbonite is not a good idea because you will not be able to access it without the key you donât have. In light of this I have the key backed up in multiple locations on my external USB hard drive and physical CDs. One downside to the service is the upstream bandwidth. The website states that a typical residential upload connection is inherently limited and the backup speed and time will be dependent on this. I found this to be twisting the truth a bit because I can easily get 150 Kbit/sec, but the Carbonite upload would max out at around 25 kbit/s. It shouldnât be surprising that an unlimited storage solution would limit you in some way so I donât see this as a deal breaker. It took well over a month to fully backup my massive 100+ Gb cache of files. Just remember to select your most important files first and then move onto your music and movie collection. I admittedly have limited knowledge of all the online backup services but I find it hard to believe there is something better than Carbonite. The main downside is the bandwidth but the main positive of being a solid reliable piece of software far outweighs this. I give Carbonite my recommendation and encourage others to at least try it. If you do decide to purchase you can enter the promotion code âRushâ into the order form and get an extra month free. I suppose my biggest recommendation for Carbonite is this, my one year contract is about to expire and I will not hesitate to renew my subscription.

I have certainly learned my lesson on backing up. I keep both a local and off site backup. When looking at statistics, the failure rate for a hard drive is almost certain within five years. This means that it’s only a matter of time before that physically spinning piece of metal we call a hard drive decides to die.Last year my main hard drive died and the exact same week my backup USB hard drive decided to die also. To say the least I was not happy. After that I bought a subscription to Amazon S3 via Jungle Disk (https://www.jungledisk.com/). After a few months the storage fees got to be too much so I switched to Carbonite (https://www.carbonite.com/). I have been happy with them thus far and everything backs up in the background automatically. I’m not endorsing either company exclusively but I do believe an online backup in addition to a local backup is a sound backup strategy.

Hope I can shed some light on this topic. If not I will at least provide some interesting references. I listen to the Security Now podcast (https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm) and one of the hosts is Steve Gibson http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) which produces a hard drive utility which I use and recommend called SpinRite (https://www.grc.com/intro.htm). Steve is fairly well know to the tech community from his appearances on the âThe Screen Saversâ (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) television show and his avid crusade against spyware. This is all going to the point that he knows what he is talking about. Over the years Steve has talked about the inner workings of hard drives as this is a dear subject to him. Here is what I have gathered from the many discussions about hard drives and bad sectors in particular. Bad sectors are physical defects on the surface of the hard drive and they canât be erased. The best you can do is identify them and move them to a different physical area of the drive. With drives getting to be so large, a certain amount of free space is left intentionally on the platters for this very reason. Modern drives are constantly monitoring the data written and read from the platters via internal checksums (such as CRC or similar checksums). If the drives detects that a sector is about to become unreadable, it internally moves that data to a different physical sector and marks the bad sector to be put out of service. A side effect of this scheme is that a sector cannot be examined unless it is requested. This means that if you copy a file to the hard drive and then not access it for years (think all of those Windows install files) it has a higher chance to go bad then a regularly accessed file. When a bad sector is accessed, first the hard drive tries to recover the sector internally. If that fails, a message is sent to the operating system stating that the sector is bad. A scary fact is that most of the raw data read form the platters is bad and has mistakes in it. The checksums and internal recovery mechanisms within modern hard drives are so good that they are able to clean the data and present it to the operating system. If more people understood the inner workings of hard drives, they would certainly back up more.

I think the whole problem is he doesnât have the password or he would just use his brotherâs account. I think the easiest solution would be to tell your parents and get him in trouble. Iâm an only child myself, so I donât know how well this will work but I think it would be worth a shot. Another much harder alternative would be to run a Linux boot disk and reset the password. This used to work quite well under XP but Iâm not sure if Microsoft changed things enough in Vista to break it. I have a nice tutorial at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ that explains what you have to do step by step. The second option can get nasty so I would really suggest you rat the little ******** out first, lol.

A story on Slashdot entitled âLooking To Spammers To Solve Hard AI Problemsâ (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/04/19/024213/looking-to-spammers-to-solve-hard-ai-problems#) points to an article in the New Scientist (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) detailing how solving CAPTCHAs (those impossible to type word images) to spread SPAM can be a good thing. Although SPAM is a nuisance, the act of solving CAPTCHAs automatically is a tough artificial intelligence (AI) problem. Since the first appearance of CAPTCHAs, spammers have developed new and novel approaches to solving these image puzzles which in turn has helped the larger AI community. In fact, a current spammer bounty is for half a million dollars to break the reCAPTCHA (https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html) system. This turns out to be all most five times as lucrative as the top AI academic prize called the Loebner Prize (http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html). The next question that some CAPTCHA researchers are proposing is not how to beat the spammers but what technology do they need a boost in. By making a CAPTCHAs out of currently unreachable problems, spammers of the future will pave the way for better AI, digital cameras, and other beneficial technologies.

I know this thread is a few years old but if you are new in the neighborhood then you should heavily consider not using FrontPage. Last year the FrontPage extensions stopped working for me and I had to find an alternate web authoring package. I went with Adobe Deramweaver and it has worked nicely for me. Even after removing and reinstalling the extensions on the server, they still did not work. The final nail in the coffin is that Microsoft is not longer supporting FrontPage and the replacement, Expression Web, never worked well for me.

Not any particular ad right now. The ones that I am talking about are the occasional WoW gold ads or some other blatant advertisement. They are eventually taken down but sometimes it takes a few days.

You can set an option that will not automatically restart on a BSoD. I find that the BSoD is never displayed long enough so I leave the BSoD displayed until I manually restart. It is rare to get useful information from the blue screen but every now and then you may get lucky. On Windows XP 1. Right click My Computer and select Properties 2. Click the Advanced tab 3. Click Settings under Startup and Recovery 4. Uncheck Automatically restart under System failure Windows Vista has a similar setting under Startup and Recovery but I’m at work and only have a Windows XP machine and can’t remember the exact location.

I’m still lobbying for my mod status also but perhaps it is not meant to be. The only thing I really want it for is to kill the occasional annoying ad.

Once again I have found that my original question cannot be performed in .NET due to a bug in the framework. The bug has been known about for years (first found it on a .NET 1.1 forum) so I can only assume Microsoft wants it this way. My work around is code in c++ which you can call from .NET. Not my code but here is a link to a copy. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I didn’t realize that there is a kill function for files. I see that this is a carryover from VB6 and is generally frowned upon in .NET (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualbasic.filesystem.kill.aspx). The MSDN article also states that the kill functions requires Read and PathDiscovery flags of FileIOPermissions.For better understandable code I would still use the System.IO.FileInfo methods discussed earlier.

What a contrast. I have been here 4 years on April 25 and I only have 598 posts, lol. Also according to you profile, xboxrulz you have been here 4 years also. 2005 which is the same year that I joined.

There is also an outside possibility that you have heating or power supply issues. If the power supply is just on the verge of being overloaded then that extra RAM could cause it to go over the edge. The same is true for too much heat in the case. The CPU is set to turn off at a certain temperature.Since you said that taking one stick of RAM out cures the problem, you have a 99% chance that the RAM is bad. One thing that sticks out is you are not getting a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) which usually accompanies a RAM problem. If the computer does go completely dead without Vista crashing and showing a blue screen, I would still consider the heat issue.

I’m taking a chance by posting in this thread because it has a high likelihood of being deleted but I will still give it a shot. Since this is your first post, please refer to the Xisto Terms of Service (ToS) to find out that “hacking” is not allowed here.Now on to your question. It is likely that this website has a limit to how many times you can guess the code. 10,000 possibilities are really not that much when it comes to security unless you limit the number of tires. To prevent fraud of this nature, Pointshop should limit the number of guess to three. After three incorrect tries, the referrer is marked invalid. If Pointshop does not have this current policy, they will soon if they want to stay in business.

Create a subdomain under your Cpanel 1. Log into your Cpanel. 2. Click Subdomains under the Domains group. 3. Enter âferalâ in the Subdomain field 4. Enter âferal/â in the Document Root field. 5. Click Create. If all goes well and I understand what you want then this should be your solution. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ should redirect to your /feral/ directory.

Assuming they use JavaScript or something similar (code you insert into your webpage for an ad at a fixed location) yes you can. Replace what I call the Google Code in the above tutorial with the code supplied by your advertiser. I don’t believe this will work for other types of ads such as keyword highlighting (Kontera). Also, if the ads are the same form factor (roughly the same size and shape) as Google, you shouldn’t have to change the CSS styles or anything else.

Thank you. I donât know much about php and I have deliberately excluded JavaScript from my site which leaves me with the iframe. The iframe sounds like a good idea but how safe is it and is it easily blocked? The reason for not running JavaScript is I have the NoScript Firefox add-on (https://noscript.net/) and I have to add an exception for my site. I just realize that many other users also have this problem and from a usability standpoint, I have decided against JavaScript. I have also heard a lot of bad things about iframes. They certainly have a good side but some sites use them to sneak malware onto your machine. Will using iframes make my site look less trustworthy?

That really doesn’t make sense. There should be a continuous stream of new users. Even if they don’t like what we say (couldn’t imagine that), Google sends new readers that haven’t read our posts every day. I still have the feeling that someone was playing games a few weeks ago and running a script to artificially bump the numbers up. The jumps were always on the weekend and the traffic jumped by a large percentage.