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Has anyone had good results with mp3 concatenating software?Any recommendations would be useful.Thanks.

Wow, I really feel sorry for you and everybody else who does their browsing without ad blocking software.I recommended Resizr after looking at it in FireFox with the Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/) and Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/elemhidehelper/) add-ons. I have no idea what it looks like without ad filters, and frankly I do not wish to find out. I started using ad blocking software after noticing that Flash based embedded ads on web pages consume CPU cycles even when the browser window is minimized or is not in the foreground (hidden behind other windows). And since I usually have 20 or more web pages open simultaneously, that adds up pretty quickly and you are left with very little processing power left for your other meaningful tasks. Also, I'm not sure whether your PC consumes more electricity when running at 80% CPU capacity because of all the Flash ads versus when running at 3-5% CPU capacity with ad blocking software. That sounds like a fun project to measure that difference in energy efficiency.

If you get a chance, go ahead and install SwiftFox, it's a flavor of FireFox which is optimized for your CPU architecture.I installed it yesterday and it's the only way to fly.*ponders* Come to think of it, this here might not be the best topic to post this information ...

Try http://www.resizr.com/

My recommendation would be to learn to interpret the output of autoruns (Sysinternals utility) and learn how to get rid of unwanted registry-based startup items (msconfig isn't as powerful as autoruns).

These are gizmos for the "Oh I'm so cool now cuz I have an i<Apple-buzz-word>" crowd that was so happy and surprised when Apple announced the iTouch, that they were ready to pull out their wallets for the pre-order, until Apple announced the storage. 8GB and 16GB is pretty ridiculous, it hasn't been that low since the iPod first launched. Very disappointing to many people.

It looks like I have to manually download and install the drivers: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/= I'm doing that as we speak, will see how that goes.

This is what shows up in the device manager (I had to transfer the screenshot via USB stick to my Internet-connected PC): I also tried using netsh to troubleshoot, but it gives me this output, which made me suspect the whole issue has to do with my obsession for stopping unnecessary services on any fresh installations of XP. CONSOLE C:\>netsh -c diag WARNING: Could not obtain host information from machine: [CRISUD]. Some commands may not be available. The RPC server is unavailable. netsh diag>exit C:\>net start These Windows services are started: Application Layer Gateway Service Cryptographic Services DHCP Client Network Connections Network Location Awareness (NLA) Plug and Play Print Spooler Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator Security Center Server Shell Hardware Detection SSDP Discovery Service TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Universal Plug and Play Device Host Windows Audio Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Windows Installer Windows Management Instrumentation Workstation The command completed successfully. C:\>

I have just installed a dual boot setup with Windows XP Professional SP2 and Ubuntu 7.04 on a DELL Inspiron 1501.While I did the installation no cable was plugged into the NIC.After plugging a network cable into the NIC I'm having the problem that Ubuntu recognizes and can work with the NIC without any problems, but in Windows XP I can't get the LAN connection to show up in Network Connections. So I have therefore narrowed down the problem as not being on the hardware side.I tried running the Add Hardware wizard with the installation CD inside and instructed the wizard to find the drivers automatically, but it came back empty.Any ideas how I can take this forward?

Interesting, this database http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ says USB=Yes for that particular printer model. Check out "Should you install the latest HPLIP?" at: http://hplipopensource.com/

As long as your keylogger is shown in the process list / task manager, there is software out there that will take a second guess as to how dangerous your program is based on certain criteria. One of the least sophisticated of these pieces of software is Security Task Manager, I'm sure other people can recommend other, more feature-rich pieces of software.And if your keylogger is stealthy / not directly visible in the process list, that's called a rootkit - more difficult and tricky to detect, but this kind of behavior in and of itself can be used as a basis for detection.So just because the virus signatures of the most popular virus scanning engines aren't up to date doesn't mean a virus can stay undetected.

http://www.media-convert.com/ Online alternative to Mediacoder (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/), dBpoweramp (https://www.dbpoweramp.com/), SUPER (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html) or Konverter (http://www.kraus.tk/projects/konverter/). Converts everything 50 Megs or under. Pretty neat for documents and music. Definitely only useful for small files (transferring them over the net to convert kind of sucks) but it could easily be a quick solution if you don't have any software for the job. This thing is just begging to be put into a client-side application with batch processing and no size limit. The one-by-one on the web thing can be nice, but there are huge limitations to it. The website has its value for some people, but not for a person that manages large volumes of data. Alo check out: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Should you decide to give it a try, here's a good resource: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Itâs not the "Top 100", nor does this list contain the "only" 100 open source downloads you should consider - thereâs a big ocean out there, so please keep swimming. But this list does reflect the growing vitality of the open source ecosystem. It just keeps growing ... and growing ... http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? This guide will help you understand. http://ww1.cutlersoftware.com/rg-erdr.php?_rpo=t _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

What would happen if you ran a Windows virus in Linux using WINE? https://www.linux.com/news/running-windows-viruses-wine _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

You can easily double the joy of using Firefox by knowing these essential Firefox tips. http://cybercapital.org/2007/05/c-firefox-tips/

Database of popular Windows apps and their Linux equivalents. http://www.linuxalt.com/ _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

"Have you wanted a full-functionality web-server, media host, BitTorrent client and NAS box, all fully remote-controlled? Want to build it out of spare parts? Well then..." The guys at bit-tech have their Linux guru explain a complete networking solution built from old junk. Contains scripts, step-by-step instructions and lots of pics. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Article shows 13 things to do, programs to install immediately after installing Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn to make it rock. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Different operating systems. Different styles. But what if the quirks and styles of the different operating systems were applied to AIRLINES? What if airlines ran things the way operating systems do? This humorous analogy, applying operating system philosophies as if they were airlines, is a long-standing, much-circulated, amusing story. http://www.zyra.org.uk/os-air.htm

lsof The author of the article below says he uses lsof most for getting network connection related information from a system, but netstat is just as useful and made specifically for this particular purpose. lsof will do more than network connections, though. It will also tell you what files the program has open in addition to unix sockets and libraries. Of course you could also get all this from /proc but lsof makes it nice and easy. 'of' is actually for 'open files'. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ or http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png You can use lsof to find out what is using your sound card (if it's FireFox, it's probably some YouTube video or some such multimedia piece of embedded Flash): lsof /dev/sndOther great commands you'll love: 'watch', 'strace', 'ltrace', 'iostat', 'vmstat', 'tcpdump', 'truss', 'netcat' (nc), 'wget'.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_(Unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iostat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netstat Just as useful or better network monitoring tools / options: iptraf: http://linuxhaxor.net/ itrace: http://linuxhaxor.net/ intrace: http://linuxhaxor.net/ tcptrack: http://linuxhaxor.net/ _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

The British security researcher who has disclosed two critical flaws in popular media files in the past week said yesterday that a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Inc.'s pervasive PDF files could be exploited to snatch control of Windows XP systems. Petko Petkov, a penetration tester who recently disclosed a zero-day flaw in Apple Inc.'s QuickTime a week ago and a similarly critical bug in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player, now says that Adobe System Inc.'s Acrobat Reader files harbor a serious vulnerability. The PDF zero-day beats the media file flaws hands down, said Petkov. "Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box," he said on his blog today. "Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page, which embeds one." http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Mozilla Corp. updated the preview of Firefox 3.0 to alpha 8, unveiling for the first time to users several security features it's talked up for months. Among the security provisions debuting in the new alpha of "Gran Paradiso," the code name for Firefox 3.0, are built-in anti-malware warnings and protection against rogue extension updates, according to documentation Mozilla posted to its Web site. The malware blocker will block Web sites thought to contain malicious downloads. The feature, a companion to the phishing site alert system in the current Firefox 2.0, will use information provided by Google Inc. to flag potentially-dangerous sites, warn anyone trying to reach those URLs with Firefox and automatically block access to the site. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

It looks like their first baby step is to provide application level virtualization (kind of like the philosophy that Citrix employs) ... and see how that goes. Whole desktop environment virtualization may be in their future, who knows. If that's what you're looking for, then have a look at andLinux (http://www.andlinux.org/). It is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications in Windows without modification. It supports quick launch icons, start menu, system tray, Explorer shell extensions and file type associations. It's great for those who for whatever reason are stuck running windows, yet still want to use a few Linux apps. I'm pretty much stuck in Windows while at work. However, it would be really nice to be able to run Linux apps at the same time. Cygwin is more a Linux compatibility layer, it's core is basically a DLL that accepts Linux/POSIX syscalls from applications. This uses a fullblown Linux kernel. So I think this would probably take more memory in exchange for better compatibility. But's it's probably a little less integrated (the website mentions no printing support). For a start, cygwin isn't a way to run native Linux binaries in Windows. Cygwin is an emulator, while andLinux is a virtual OS. I have run virtual OSs in Windows and they are much slower because they take up lots of memory (remember, its an entire other OS). Since cygwin only emulates the shell and X-server, it only takes up as much memory as needed for that program, and nothing more. Here's an idea - don't run explorer.exe on startup and instead run andLinux as your desktop. sarcasm Doing it this way seems to give you all the security and stability of Windows combined with the user-friendlyness of Linux apps. /sarcasm The next step - I believe - will be a significantly better way of running Windows inside Linux (and there already are many ranging from wine/cedega/qemu/busybox/xen/kvm/etc). _________________________________ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/