Myth – \”It is safe to use Microsoft\’s RegClean.\”
Reality – \”The RegClean utility is no longer supported by Microsoft and has been removed from all Microsoft download sites. This was done for legitimate compatibility reasons with certain applications and Operating Systems. The RegClean utility was originally supplied with Microsoft Visual Basic version 4.0 for Windows. The last version of RegClean was 4.1a (build 7364.1) released on March 13, 1998 (RegClean.exe is dated December 30, 1997). During this time the latest Operating Systems were Windows 95 OSR2.1 and Windows NT 4.0. Windows 98 was not released until June 25, 1998. Compatibility with any Operating System besides Windows 95 and NT 4.0 was never substantiated, especially Windows XP. It is very dangerous to run a Registry Cleaner that was never certified to run on your Operating System since removing the wrong Registry Keys can break Applications and the Operating System.
My View – Most Registry cleaners are next to useless, and/or may cause more harm than good. If you most run a registry cleaner, I would suggest using CCleaner (Crap Cleaner). While the name is over the top, the results are gosh darn good, and it seems to be fairly conservative, and not too aggressive. Run the scan multiple times, and make sure to backup the registry / changes, just in case.
Glomar Explorer
Well, I\’ll be. Â Searching to see if there is anything that Bullet\’s react well to, leads me to a real-life version of \”The Hunt for Red October\”.
The Golf-class diesel submarine was one of the older vessels in the Soviet fleet, but nonetheless, the prospect of retrieving Soviet technology, nuclear weapons, and codebooks was enticing to American intelligence agencies. Because it could not send marked American Naval vessels to recover the sunken submarine without arousing suspicion from the Soviets, Naval intelligence enlisted the help of billionaire Howard Hughes to construct the specialized equipment and ship necessary for the salvage project. The six-year venture to build the ship and raise the Soviet submarine operated under the guise of a deep-sea mining operation.
Recovery efforts began on June 20, 1974. The 63,000-ton Glomar Explorer located the wreckage on the seabed at a depth of 17,000 feet (5,200 m) and scouted the downed vessel. Glomar Explorer had been fitted with a giant claw mechanism, nicknamed Clementine. A series of tethers stabilized the claw during underwater maneuvers. As the salvage effort began, the Glomar Explorer crew lowered Clementine to the wreck site. When the claw was nearly into position, an operator error at the controls sent the……
via Glomar Explorer.
The Hunt for the Answer….
You remember the movie, right? Â
\”Ryan, some things in here don\’t react well to bullets.\”
\”Yeah, like me. IÂ don\’t react well to bullets\” Â (The Hunt for Red October)
Well, I quoted the first line to my wife earlier today, and she said something that just made me pause for a moment.. Â \”What does react well to bullets\”?
I can\’t think of anything that would react well to bullets… Â Can you?
Let\’s make this even easier… Â It doesn\’t have to be confined to a nuclear submarine. Â Of course, it\’s far easier to define \”doesn\’t react well\” (eg. Boom), so feel free to offer a definition for \”React Well\”.
I guess you might be able to make a argument for a solid metal wall, but does richochetting off the wall really count as \”reacting well\”?  The only definition I can think of falls under Inert, and that\’s a cop out.
EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free [Featured Windows Download]
EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free
Windows only: EASEUS Partition Manager is a hard drive partition utility that bills itself as a free alternative to the popular commercial product, PartitionMagic. EASEUS can resize and move partitions without losing data already on them (unlike many other partitioning tools which erase the data on the drive in order to work). EASEUS can also change partition labels, format easily, hide and un-hide partitions, preview the effect of your changes before you make them, and change cluster size. EASEUS only supports hard disks from 20-800GB (with apologizes to those in the terabyte club). EASEUS Home Edition is a free download for personal use on Windows XP and 2000 SP4 only.
MailBrowserBackup
alancla’s Blog » MailBrowserBackup: \”MailBrowserBackup is a simple utility for creating complete backups of Internet Explorer**, Mozilla Firefox, Windows Mail**, Mozilla Thunderbird, IncrediMail**, Opera Browser**, Apple Safari**, Google Chrome, SRWare Iron, FileZilla FTP Client, eMule** profiles.
Here you can download freely the initial release of MailBrowserBackup. It’s the first release, so if you think you have found a bug, please report it in comments. Thanks! \”
Frontier Announces no Cap
Stop The Cap, obviously has spies inside Frontier… Here is some information that they posted today..
The company [Frontier] will also continue to promote its Price Protection Agreement, which guarantees no usage caps or price increases for a term of two or three years, at the customer’s choice.
Q: Does Frontier charge for internet consumption?
A: No, Frontier does not charge for usage. Customers pay a flat fee per month that provides them a true High-Speed Internet Connection, up to 10 MB in Rochester.
Q: When does the Time Warner Network Consumption Pricing begin?
A: Like you, we only have knowledge based upon the recent press.
Q: Does this apply to Residential Only, or does it include Commercial?
A: We have not heard them say that anyone was excluded.
Q: What is a “bandwidth cap†and what does it mean for me?
A: Caps are thresholds placed by Time Warner so their Customers will be charged at different levels of usage on their network. Bandwidth caps generally track the total amount of GigaByte usage that is downloaded and uploaded to the Internet by a household during a specific period of time, like a billing cycle. Press reports indicate that Time Warner will charge $1 for every GB above their cap.
Q: Has Frontier changed its Acceptable Usage Policy this year?
A: No.
Q: If I buy my Internet service from Frontier, will the Price Protection include consumption pricing?
A: At this time, Frontier has no plan to provide consumption pricing
Time Warner Bandwidth insights
Time Warner has done a good job of advertising their bandwidth cap, and making it sound like they are working to ensure everyone has a \”good experience\”. Why should you care? Simple, it is your bill that they are playing with.
Bandwidth is the problem, what is it? Just simply the root of the problem, and the smallest \”particle\” in the internet. Bandwidth is a bit of a misnomer, Channel Capacity is correct term. What we are describing is the data that flows through your high speed connection. It is normally measured in bits per Second, K-bits per Second, or Megabits per Second.
Any resource that you use on the internet requires your computer, and the remote service / server, to exchange data. That is what Time Warner is going to be measuring…But the main issue here is how many people watch Youtube videos, Stream Internet Radio, watch a video on Hulu, and so forth? Â Do you even know how much data is being transfered watching these videos? Continue reading
Mac-toting UVA freshmen rise 925 percent over 5 years
Apple a Day: Mac-toting UVA freshmen rise 925 percent over 5 years – The Baltimore Sun\’s David Zeiler follows all developments related to Apple, Inc. – baltimoresun.com: \”Mac-toting UVA freshmen rise 925 percent over 5 years
A dramatic shift in the Mac to PC ratio at the University of Virginia over the past five years is nothing short of a Machead fantasy.
After languishing around the neighborhood of 4 percent for years, the Mac began a startling rise among first-year students at UVA, doubling to 8.26 percent in 2004. Large gains have followed every year since, with the number just passing 37 percent this past fall.
That, my friends, is a 925 percent increase, a once unthinkable turn of events.\”