dserban

Hi, Has anyone managed to block third-party content using the AdBlock Plus extension for Firefox? I found an article here: "Recognizing third-party content" https://adblockplus.org/blog/recognizing-third-party-content where the developer says it's possible, but I don't understand the practical implementation. Thanks.

Is the "DNS client" service running on your PC?

Hi docduke, Maybe this could help you. In order to make sure that the port which your torrent client is listening on is reachable from the Internet, I recommend you use this site: http://www.canyouseeme.org/ As a last resort, you may find the netstat -ano command (or a little program from Sysinternals called TCPView) useful in order to really make sure that your assumption about the listening port is correct. This should be enough for you to start troubleshooting, and I don't think you need to make your Win 98 PC the default DMZ server (that would be overkill).

I don't think there is any piece of freeware that does what you want.There is however NetLimiter (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) but it's for a single PC, not for a LAN.

I wouldn't even know why someone would use LimeWire when there are other, less bloated alternatives like Gnucleus.

I personally looked at Vista and decided for myself that the new features weren't compelling enough for me.Eye candy isn't a feature in my opinion.Sticking to XP for the time being and will probably use a virttualized instance of XP inside Ubuntu as my main rig in the future at some point.

I installed andLinux on this Dell laptop and as soon as you start any Linux app it gets flooded with a bunch of equal signs (as you can see in the videoclip below), I have no idea why. Remember, nobody is keying in one equal sign every second. It's just the weird behavior of this laptop. I have successfully installed andLinux on other PCs and it works as expected. I first suspected that it would be a keylogger or some such malware, but I scanned the laptop for viruses, spyware and rootkits and it came out clean. Here's the videoclip. sites.googlegroups.com/site/dserban01/andLinux.Equal.Signs.html?attachauth=ANoY7crWMbfksJvCN3nbrcrLTPSs4mIQ6tj0UYQ8HHEoU5-J_KOAb9RNUIkGLZqKe2wz_T5yaWd6mPYI_sJpndfSIXjBCLVGs3in5W5P1cCnt5R9W-Q5PzZM-g2rJoGEXLzR-K5S Alternative link: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Any ideas?

25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs A collection of some of the best minimalistic web designs. These sites look great and load quickly. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

My Internet connection used to max out at about 50 kB/s sustained download speed.Then at some point I started to notice that it went up to 100 kB/s for the same kinds of downloads (Knoppix releases) without me having to pay more.Then I got a hold of FlashGet, and in some cases I would get speeds of up to 200 kB/s because I would set the number of jets (simultaneous download threads) to 30 (yes, there is a trick to get FlashGet to do 30, whereas the hard-coded maximum is 10).But today I installed a torrent tracker on my PC just for fun, and a friend of mine transferred a 1 GB file to me, just to see how fast it would go. The speed was fluctuating between 400 and 500 kB/s ;)My conclusion so far is that the bandwith you are getting is influenced by many factors, among them:- number of hops.- across the ocean, yes? no?- whether your ISP and the ISP of the host you are transferring data from/to is the same.- client software is single- or multi-threaded download-wise.- throttling of certain types of traffic (torrents) by ISPs.

Thanks for the reference to Real Player Alternative, it saved my day today.

I am looking for a way to unintrusively stream PDF documents into a web page (without the Acrobat Reader plug-in or what have you, kicking in).Kind of like YouTube streams an FLV video into a page.What I have found so far are things like iPaper ( https://www.scribd.com/user/5485746/ipaper) but on closer examination it looks like this one is streaming SCB documents (in this particular instance the document at documents.scribd.com/docs/2ilx1b8u571leozv8qrd.scb) - but it begs the question what the heck is a .SCB document anyway (I tried pulling it down to my hard drive and renaming it to .PDF to see if I could open it that way, to no avail).Any ideas?

Have you tried escaping the \ with another \ - therefore making a \\ out of it?The same trick might work by putting a \" instead of the "The backslash is a good guess for what the escape character is in many environments, it might be that in VB.NET it's the same as well.

Expect Dell to start including BluRay players / burners - in their high-end systems to begin with.

I have an mp3 file which is the soundtrack of a movie, and I also have subtitles for that movie (a file with the .srt extension).The requirement is to convert the mp3 file to an AVI file, so that it can be played in a video player and pick up the sub file.The screen needs to be entirely black of course, so that the subtitles can be read from the screen.How can this be achieved?

I would say start by using PHP as a standalone interpreter.Do not start by attempting to write dynamic web pages. Write command line based scripts that output some text to the console.Only when you have those down does it makes sense to play with web applications.

Here is an interesting free service I came across today which breaks down for you in a lot of detail what's going on with the performance of the web page behind an URL: https://l''>https://l'>http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ https://l Care should be taken as the time to execute JavaScript and other client side stuff is not included in the results.

There are a couple of things you might be able to do about slow performance when opening / browsing PDF files.1. If you want lightning fast performance when opening PDFs, use the Sumatra PDF Viewer (http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html https://l''>https://l'>http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html https://l). 2. If you want good browsing performance after the PDF has been opened, then use FoxIT Reader (https://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/pdf-reader/ '> https://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/pdf-reader/ ). Adobe Acrobat Reader is like a stocky frat guy you never want to invite to your Halloween parties, because he'll show up wearing a giant gift-wrapped box with a "To: Women, From: God" label on top. He thinks he is all that, but he really just wore a costume so big he can't get through the front door and has to stay outside by the fire all night. Acrobat Reader does one thing poorly - read PDFs. To do this it needs to download updates at least twice a month. Acrobat's other big feature is the ability to bring your system to a roaring halt while it boots up its massive amount of plugins and libraries. All this to display just one page.

Is there any freeware I can use to create interactive PDF documents like the one linked to below, or can it only be done using Adobe Acrobat, the full edition? The effects I need are the translucent hint box in the upper left hand corner, clicking a number to set a checkmark on top of it, and the reset button at the end of the first page. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Maybe people in the know both at Microsoft and Yahoo know something the rest of us don't. Maybe it has to do with the impending recession in the US, we can only take wild guesses. Although companies like Yahoo would be among the first victims of a protracted recession. But anyway, there is really no synergy in Microsoft buying Yahoo.Yahoo really has nothing that is not already present in Microsoft's offerings.So just reducing the number of competitors won't make Microsoft any more money in the long term.So I say go ahead and knock yourselves out, Microsoft.

Quite a nice blog actually. It might help you to decide to give Xfce another go in case you just don't get along with KDE. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I believe this piece of software might help you further investigate the issue: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

What you are describing is being referred to in VMWare jargon as "creating a virtual appliance". See if this link might be of help: https://www.linux.com/news/how-use-vmware-player-create-your-own-images section "Creating your own virtual image from scratch" _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Well, the moral of the story is that if Microsoft was so smart and cash rich they could have grown their own internet business. And we all know how hard they tried. That's why their high bid price isn't a sign of stupidity, it's a sign of desperation.

Virtualization is the technique of running a "guest" operating system inside an already-running OS; for example, Windows inside Linux, or vice-versa. This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Yahoo is beginning to behave like a teenage girl facing a choice between two guys courting her: "Should I negotiate a higher bid from Microsoft?" "Should I play a Google defense?" http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/