03.08.2010 - For saved Youtube .FLV files, I like this viewer Sothink FLV Player it does mp4 also
11.03.09 - Couple links, hpHosts, a malware website tracker
Malwarebytes blog - great anti-spyware scanner
Microsoft's free anti-spyware program Gets a good review Here
07.10.09 - click on your FIOS router might shut off internet - Don't disable it! this is due to UPnP, the router will show up in network on vista and windows7
02.24.09 - Lost your spell check in Outlook Express? Check this out Spell Checker for OE 2.1 Bonus - it works for Office97 Word also!
Outlook spell check is broken by Office2007, I suspect some microsoft update broke Word97 spell check.
12.03.08 - Comcast SMC 8014 cable modem/router, to do a VPN pass-through, here is the secret, in addition to the port forward of 1723,
you have to do a port forward of protocol GRE to the same internal ip that port 1723 is forwarded to. The GRE protocol option is not visible
unless you click the down arrow on the protocol setting for the port-forward rule. (the port fields are greyed out, you can't enter them on GRE, thats OK)
08.11.08 - Firefox would not install Adobe flash, determined that the install program was copying the NPSWF32.dll into
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromedia\flash\NPSWF32.dll. Once this is copied to
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins, Flash works. Note: running the plugin install download deletes the copied file.
06.04.08 - Magicjack phone software download appears to fail without a working CD drive, seems the CD drivers need to be loaded.
A Vista tablet would not work until an external CD drive was installed. (Windows cannot load the device driver for this
hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)) Also XP box failed w/o CD drive
05.27.08 - Phoenix Mars Mission
The dread planet - The Boston Globe
04.28.08 - VirusTotal - Free Online Virus and Malware Scan 32 vendors
A decent lookup tool for email issues www.blacklistalert.org
04.23.08 - Remote desktop - if you use it on XP, check out Ccleaner, it will delete the
Rdt cache, diskcleanup does not. If you want a little more from your Linksys WRT54g wireless router,
try DD-WRT but, read the instructions! - the hard reset was required in my case.
02.29.08 - HP Pavilion dv1331se fan - the problem was actually the tape on the MB under the fan. Also you don't have to remove the
display to get the bottom off, watch for the screw by the hinge of the display that may be covered by an HP sticker.
The keyboard screws and the button strip screws are in the battery compartment
02.26.08 - Too much time consumed finding/refinding the HP warranty status tool page so here it is:
HP warranty status tool despite the disclaimer, I got Pavilion info from this tool.
Toshiba repair status
HP parts search
01.15.08 - Mercury flyby detailed in this APL news release. The spacecraft is named Messenger
they have images posted on the site
01.07.08 - Asteroid might hit mars, check out this nifty animated Orbit Diagram
Found the link on the Near Earth Object Program news page
10.02.07 - Hard drive crashed so content is old until I restore an incremental
02.17.07 - Spam? I got no f'en spam...Sometimes it can be entertaining so I started a page.
01.16.07 - gave a talk to a A-plus class on some of my favorite Utilities
01.04.07 - Why does Skype work behind firewalls and routers? The Hole trick
01.03.07 - Vista as a OS is crippled - Vista Cost analysis. Its sad, all I want is a stable OS for business.
12.26.06 - If you still have to deal with Win98 and want to use an external USB drive but need the
"Mass storage drivers", check out this site Installing USB Mass Storage Devices on Windows 98
It worked for me....
12.10.06 Tales of the truely lazy - Actual event - Waitress to Bartender- I need some lemon slices in these drinks.
Bartender: I can't give you those because then I would have to cut more.
10.07.06 Microsoft exec defends company in Vista kernel dispute with Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc.
07.31.06 - Someone wanted a low cost simple spreadsheet program, find it at Openoffice.org
07.08.06 - after much time I solved a problem with ntbackup on SBS 2003, it has to do with
VSS errors 20 and 8193. See the details here
05.10.06 - Disabling the windows messenger IM applet can be tricky but this guy has a good description.
To stop it from starting with windows, in Messenger go to Tools-->Options-->Preferences tab
and uncheck "Run Windows Messenger when Windows starts"
04.24.06 - Outlook Express update MS06-016 (KB911567) seems to break the addressbook, in this case,
it was imported from a Win98 PC to XP, removing the update (Go to Start-->Control panel-->Add/remove
programs, click 'show updates'box and look for 'Windows XP hotfix - KB911567') allowed access again.
04.21.06 - Oh Dwell, one of them poison types borrowed under the skin at the restaurant. After 6 weeks
of micromanagement, nepotism, belittlement, personal attacks, lying, stealing and screaming from this
supposed manager, the Divino's restaurant is closed for reorganization. The last straw was the Chef
the 'manager' brought in to force out the Chef she did not like. The replacement Chef was unable to
keep the quality of the food consistant.
03.14.06 - Google goes to mars Themis A colorized shot is here
02.08.06 - A sarcastic site that has valid info on email scams scamorama.com
01.25.06 - Update - my favorite waitress works at Divinos in New Bedford, go to the light at the end of Route 18
and look to the right. It is a fine dinning atmosphere, ask for Monica. The restaurant business sure is rife with strife,
She has been at several other places since the one in Taunton. Each time she had to leave because of rampant
favoritism and/or mismanagement. My rant about management some time ago was due to these issues.
If there is no firm control of head count per server, the stage is set for backstabbing or worse.
Then mix that up with psychos, owner's offspring, sleeping with the owner, etc. etc.
01.15.06 - Orion Nebula Hubble image
01.03.06 - There is an unpatched Vulnerability related to Windows' image rendering - namely WMF files (Windows Metafiles).
GRC.com has a page with Ilfak Guilfanov's "HexBlog" web site files for the WMF Vulnerability patch here:
http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm. This vulnerability relates to image files that may be opened with Internet Explorer
or with windows picture and fax viewer that have a WMF extension.
12.10.05 - Windows flashlight is excessive? shared drive or folder have thousands of files in it?
Windows NT or 2000 file share listings may be limited by a network bottleneck or as Microsoft calls it:
'Remote directory lists are slower than local directory listings' see q177266 for details In summary;
a registry change of SizReqBuf, can increase a buffer size which allows for more efficient network traffic.
In my case it was a Windows 2000 workstation that shared out the files. The XP workstations would
see a slow flashlight for up to 10 seconds before viewing the file listing. Same problem when saving a file.
Made the change Microsoft revealed in the above link and Bam! Instantly noticiable change, NO FLASHLIGHT!
11.03.05 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of Mars on October
28, For the full story, please visit: http://hubblesite.org/news/2005/34
11.01.05 - earthsky.org has a nice quick reference skychart, the view is around Wichita, Kansas
10.10.05 - Finally in a stable location for a while, Comcast contractor skipped out early so the site was
down for a while, so we leave our idyllic  spot by the ocean.
09.24.05 - Moving in a few weeks, we came to this area a year ago and this will be the third move.
In this time I racked up reems of images, last winter we were on Antassawamock,
we had a nor-easter blizzard blow through and I went for a walk. 01.23-01.25 in 2005
09.04.05 - Images of Katrina, images of disaster , they don't seem related. I feel time slipping away...
a writing I did last summer, what? its over a year old! What are we really here for...is our civilization
doomed to history like the Minoans on Crete?
09.02.05 - Decent fast download site File Hippo
08.12.05 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter lifted today, the homepage is http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/
08.10.05 - Once again booted - we are the last people to live in this little cottage.
A larger house is planned for this location by the landlords.
07.31.05 - I am of the opinion that Walmart's low prices ride on the backs of their vendors
who are forced to manage Walmart's warehouses and on the American citizens
againstthewal.com is a great repository of articles written about Walmart
07.30.05 - 10th planet? Astronomers point out 10th planet using Palomar Observatory photos
and Scientists Claim Mysterious 10th Planet
07.29.05 - I found this land snail under a rubber sheet I left for a few days on some weeds in Mattapoisett MA.
 I found the same shells in old dunes cut by the wind in the Warren Dunes Area
in Michigan back in the 60's.
07.27.05 - This guy in the UK got nailed for connecting to a open wireless network. I think "Public property"
type rules apply, similar to paparazzi or photojournalist controls. The ruling is dangerous for UK wireless users.
07.24.05 - Eminent domain - this is old news but it still bugs me - A city is supposed to exist for it's citizens,
but with this ruling it exists for itself. One more step towards the Orwellian 1984 vision.
07.13.05 - Find who belongs to a phone number at Smartpages.com It can do it when google can't (sometimes)
07.06.05 - View outside the  front door from the webcam
we are here till September and then ?...most our stuff is in storage.
07.05.05 - Landed again, same cable modem, but check out the RCA cable modem status
same town but the Return modulation and the Forward Received Signal is different
06.29.05 - On the road again...moving out of the winter rental, guess I should have the site with
a host cause its gonna be down.
06.28.05 - Moving again...I just got an error "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Error" which microsoft
blames on update KB873333. they recommend KB894391 to fix - DON'T DO IT! Today was the first time I got
this error and KB873333 was applied in 03.18.05, I just re-installed windows on a PC with the same error
after the fix was applied, it did not work.
06.15.05 A trojan virus is going around on AIM - it appears with a message 'is this a good pic of me'
with a link to a .scr (screensaver) file. If clicked open it installs file system32.exe. This .scr file has
been identified as Trojan.win32.crypt.d by kaspersky.com or W32/Rbot-AEJ by Sophos.com
06.13.05 Ever updated Microsoft office? I have too many times... on the latest problem PC is PROPLUS.msi -
its for Front Page that was included with a version of Office XP. The XP office full file download can be found
on XP Office downloads,sometimes that helps. I was able to obtain PROPLUS.msi via my MSDN subscription .
Wish that MS would release install files...now the office 2003 SP1 is looking for a publisher 2003 file,
Sct119.cab (?sp) so I uninstalled publisher (used it 2 yrs ago). Next its Visio.msi, I know why, the server was
upgraded and all the shares were redone so Visio ain't there anymore.
06.03.05 The Belarc advisor seems nice but the CIS security evaluation may be flawed, on my test system,
Messenger is disabled plus cannot log on to deactivated guest acct, yet the Belarc evaluation under
Available Services indicates Fail.
05.20.05 I found a useful utility for managing the IE history folder. It can be found Here at Nirsoft
Delete the desktop.ini and the history folder can be moved with IEHistoryView in it as a viewer.
The email client password viewer is sweet, I got a hotmail password back I thought was gone for good.
04.15.05 - RCA cable modem fixed The connector at the pole was replaced. Note that the bad modem readout
was only available while the connection was up. If it was totally down, it would cause a time out error.
04.05.05 - Mysterious Comcast outages - when I called their provisioning and accounting systems were down.
Did it have something to do with the earthquake? Turns out they have a status page based on area code
I found info on how to access the cable modem at Broadbandreports.com In my case the RCA DCW245
can be accessed at http://192.168.100.1/moreInfo.html (Comcast also upgraded DNS servers last week)
Also, how to interpret the read-out:http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7124
03.27.05 - Yesterday I cleaned out a system that had 22 viruses on it but last week I put a Windows 2000 system
on the internet (no firewall) that had all the updates and left it for two hours. In that time it was infected by a worm
which started replicating and connected with a control site. Why? - no password on the Administrator account.
03.12.05 - Intel's SmartVID, a DOS and Windows application, can convert .AVI to .MOV (Quicktime) files.
SmartVID is codec independent. This means that SmartVid preserves the video compression scheme
from the source .AVI file, - available here - smartv.exe SmartVID v 1.02.006 Run the self extracting file and
read Install.txt. Here is an example I converted of Webcam snowfall - its big...Two links I found useful are
John McGowan's AVI Overview and O'Reilly Network: Adding Movies to Your Web Page
03.11.05 - Editing the weather links page
03.09.05 - Barometer dropped to 28.35", some gusts were over 70 mph.
03.08.05 - 11:20 pm. - lost power in the high winds, see you later...my UPS is going.
03.07.05 - Allen cutter/plotters are wide bed plotters that are used in Signmaking and Graphics
There was a remote panel utility that is useful with their older cutters but is hard to find,
so I have it Here
02.28.05 11:15 pm - 8.25 inches of snow so far, the rate of accum is slowing.
 Moon
02.21.05 - SPIEGEL ONLINE on Hunter S. Thompson
02.14.05 - I am adding a page to coordinate my interests in Addware and Spyware
02.10.05 - It perplexes me that here in eastern US we are supposedly in the same
country but on the highway we treat each other with disrespect. Plus we seem
to be so scared of each other that we buy these huge vehicles to hide from our
fellow citizens. I know some actions are truly unintentional but the two that
stand out to me are: Pass then pull right in front and slow down. Typically
there is lots of space behind me. The other is one is the seemingly deliberate
blocking of a car coming on to the highway from a ramp.
02.02.05 - If your old computer game will not install on Windows XP with an error about
AUTOEXEC.NT, it means that the file is missing, here is a copy that works
for our games, put it in the system32 folder.
01.31.05 - Regarding the argument between Creationists and Science,
Who is to say that evolution is not God's mechanism?
Some scientists believe in God because what else would explain the
intricate and beautiful solutions of life?
There is no true reason, in our comprehension, why the actual way was Creationism
or Evolution. How are we to know the processes of God, the thoughts of god,
so well as to know the why of God. My feeling is that evolution is an expression
of thoughts of God. In any case, the argument is invalid, given the scope,
framework and surrounding assumptions of the shared reality. In that the
dispute occurs within this, and is confined in this, it is invalidated due to
the disconnect of conventional thought.
To summarize: Creationists cannot deny Evolution could be the way God created Earth.
01.23.05 -Oh gentle breeze, you find me even in your deepest dreaming...
 Dream
01.22.05 - A stroll to the seashore, a blizzard overhead. Truly was hard to take, by the water,
horizontal sleet sheets. When your back is toward them, billows surge by.
I could sense the end out along the coast, some other time perhaps. Turning back,
drifts impede progress. The light is sighted and the last leg is done.
01.18.05 - it appears that Earthlink accelerator will trigger Norton anti-virus
with a Netspy trojan alert
01.14.05 - Many downloads come with a MD5 code to verify that it is original.
A handy MD5 sum generator is here
The Huygens Probe is on Titan
01.12.05 Finally got the beatle yesterday, Pete the driver was great! The beetle is now drying out inside.
Blew a tire in the company car monday, a most excellent flat tire adventure, you know..change tire on side
of highway, ride around on a donut, later get new tire back, find a handy parking lot and change it back!
01.05.05 Service pack 2 on a Windows XP made zonealarm firewall more sensitive. Norton anti-virus
liveupdate triggered it. Then an ftp session, looks like liveupdate uses colt.net
01.02.05 NASA Missions page. I look to the sky as the tsunami disaster is hard to comprehend.
I fear that as we destabilize the environment that more disasters are headed our way.
The Earth shrugs to alleviate the irritation.
12.26.04 USGS Earthquake news
12.22.04 Son Seals passes away - I saw him back in the day when I was living in Lafayette IN.
12.07.04 -
 Sunglow
12.04.04 - Scanreg runs in the default setup of many windows PCs.
12.01.04 - Configure Internet Explorer or AOL to display PDF files - From the adobe site
11.23.04 - WIN XP Tech note - memory SDRAM additions (you added memory) can cause 0x08E
and 0x050 blue screens - bottom line: don't mix Manufactures on DDR PC2100 266 SDRAM
memory. memory sticks had same specs.,details soon.
11.05.04 - Its time to break out of my holding pattern.
10.30.04 - Cassini - Saturn arrival - Imaging Diary
10.25.04 - Had the pleasure of meeting Martin Barre sunday
thanks to Willy Porter. They put on a masterful show at the Narrows Center for the Arts
I enjoyed the leads that Martin put down on Willy's songs, and Willy provided an excellent
rhythm counterpart to Martins songs. They played together the entire show except for two songs.
Andrew Giddings on Keyboards, Jonathan Noyce on Bass and Doane Perry on drums
provided solid and attentive support.
The Narrows is right on the waterfront in Fall river. It is a very intimate space on the third floor of an
old warehouse, no bad seats and good sound. The space is shared with artists and a small gallery.
10.23.04 - Moving the Beetle today. The front right is locked up, but it will have shelter soon.
10.18.04 - I dislike 'phone directory by last name', I never seem to get the other letters on the button.
Last week I called an office that had seven people and no person answering the phones. The corker was that
the person I wanted did not work in that office! Give me a numeric list, please.
Mount St. Helens Webcam mirror and this is a sequence from 10.10.04 avi movie
and this site has many clips
10.14.04 - Mass.Gov shoreline Change Browser can the movement be predicted by an equation?...
Download ArcExplorer by ESRI, a lightweight GIS data viewer
10.09.04 - sometimes you can still find quiet moments
10.04.04 -
 Seat by Buzzards Bay
10.02.04 Marsopswas down due to the free DNS service being what you pay for, I switched to servers I control.
08.21.04 - View from the highway  Yes, the move has started.
08.18.04 - I heard that being in Beijing was like being in a smokey barroom all over town!
I met James today who spent a month there some years ago. They burn coal to cook and for heat.
This Beijing (Peking) 29 Feb 2004 China travel log I found has pictures that show a serious smog.
08.17.04 - I fear our earth is being contaminated, From asian soot in the upper atmosphere
to National Geographic on Global warming it is obvious that the Earth is a limited system.
Man has gained the ability to effect it. Early coal and petrol based technology emissions have
obvious effects like Acid deposition, and our government seems in control of lobbiest and large
industry interests.
08.15.04 - two weeks to go,
 Osprey 
08.13.04 - Looks like I am back up, I have started to move my DNS, maybe I will
keep ns1.granitecanyon.com. as a secondary.
08.12.04 - The DNS service I use has been offthe air for serveral days a DOS
attack I figure, if you can read this it is because the site DNS was switched to a new server.
08.06.04 The table is in a new home, someone took it - Last known
![table]() sighting
All the stuff I like is a bunch of rocks and old metal, beach glass and shells. Why do I like things
no one would pay for? Just today I dumped a favorite belt that I wore for years back in late 70s to
early 90s. It never broke, I found it washed up on the beach. I stopped wearing it because it started
curling along the top edge. Vague memories swirled in my brain while I contemplated this object
that went everywhere with me. I can't keep dragging this worn-out nostalgic stuff around.
07.29.04 By 09.01.04 we will have moved. I am still deciding what to do with the site's location.
We have been here in Taunton over 7 years. Getting rid of the accumulated stuff is a monumental
task. Just last week,I put a table out to the curb that I have been hauling around since 1986
in Indiana. It came from The Stabilizer, a great Rock n roll bar that was sold back then.
I saw Jorma Kaukonen there, Sugar Blue and loads of Chicago Blues bands, plus
regional bands like Cool ray and the Polaroids or South Side Denny. I took this fem from the
East coast there once, sorta forgot that the decore included black ceilings with bare lightbulbs,
she hated it.
07.19.04 - Ran into some adware that Adaware and Spybot cannot remove. I will collect it today!
details
07.15.04 - Windows 98 users better use windows update because of IE 5.5 or 6.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-023 - KB840315 was issued July 13th.
07.06.04 - If you have Norton Anti-virus with the outgoing email scan feature, it may cause problems sending
if you have a slower Internet link or large attachements. Symantec's write-up is Here.
Quick procedure to turn off the outgoing scan is Here
Outlook Express 4.72 on win98 - a compact folder procedure failed and then Outlook would not open the inbox,
if you clicked it said "Outlook can not be started", I discovered that the data resided in
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail and that the inbox.mbx file had zero size.
But there was a TMP file that appeared to be the old inbox. I ran the Scanpst program on it, allowed backup,
it repaired, then I renamed it to inbox.mbx. When Outlook was opened it also repaired, then opened the inbox.
Got the new mail and the old was still available! This site has Some good Outlook repair tips
07.05.04 - U of Texas online maps - Arizona A brief review of Volcanic necks Shiprock and Agathla
in Arizona and New Mexico More on the Navajo Volcanic Field USGS on New Mexico volcanoes
New Mexico road maps
07.04.04 - Eric Clapton has still got it! Tweeter center in Mansfield MA.
The solo out of 'I shot the sheriff' proved that.The Eric Clapton Lyric Archive
07.03.04 - Here is a first pass at scanning in old photos from Utah's
 Zion I want to put up a high def. image soon. Look to lower right of center,
a parked bus and the highway is visable. In the middle of the far right photo is a person,
Joe, who rode with me to Berkley and back to Indiana.
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