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It is actually quite simple, having a stble ABI would mean that device manufacturers could write once, use for years, as they currently enjoy with Windows and OSX, thus making it trivial to support you! Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. I have a device I need to decide which OSes to support, and I have a limited budget. I can pay my devs to write just a couple of Windows drivers and pretty much cover every desktop sold in the past decade, add a single driver for 10.5 and I have OSX covered. NO more out of pocket, no more worries, I'm good to go. Now before you say "What if Windows comes out with a new version 6 years from now"? Well I don't care, because by then my device will long be off the shelves and I don't support dumpster divers.

But then we get to Linux. to support Linux first of all I can't do the logical thing, which is write a driver and put in on the CD, which would make life easy for both me and my customers, oh noooo, that would be too easy! can't have that! No, I either have to give all my code to some guy whom I have NO control over, who can make my device run like shit and thus hurt my business if he is short on time or just doesn't give a fuck, and then get on my knees and pray he'll get off his ass fast enough that support will actually reach mainline before my device is no longer sold (which BTW is almost never) or I can "pull an Nvidia" and spend huge amounts on developers to constantly "tweak" my drivers because everything from the kernel on up changes like the shifting sands. And either way I still can't put the fucking driver on the CD, nor a penguin on the box, because the driver I write today will in all likelihood NOT WORK by the time my device makes it to the shelves!

So it is actually quite simple: Windows and OSX makes it easy for me to support them, with Linux I have to give up control to some guy and pray he doesn't fuck me or spend crazy money constantly cranking out new drivers. BTW, do you know why Nvidia supports you? It isn't because they give a flying fuck about Linux on the desktop, you can piss up a rope for all they care. Look at the ones that have decided to play your little reindeer games, what do they have in common? HP, AMD, Nvidia, Intel, what is the common thread? Answer: They ALL have interests in the HPC or server markets and no that by giving the enterprise desktops used to support such setups the bird they will hurt their bottom line. Again like with my Joe analogy that is nothing at all like the home consumer market, most of whom have NO interest in the server and HPC lines and therefor aren't gonna kill themselves for you. See the problem?

But in the end our debate is moot, as neither of us have any sway with the kernel devs, who will keep their elitist attitude and continue to ensure that Linux has no place on the desk. On servers, where the manufacturers will play the game and jump through the hoops? It works just fine, although in many places I see Linux being used on the web facing servers and Winserver being used behind the firewall because of AD and GPO being so easy to manage. Cell Phones and other embedded devices? Well seeing as how a good 90%+ of those are black boxes where you can't do anything the developers don't approve of it really doesn't matter what you use there, and Linux is free.

But sadly after 15 years Linux is still no further to breaking out in the desktop market than when they first started. Just look at netbooks, which were originally trumpeted as a chance to finally get Linux to break out into the mainstream, only to have high returns followed by MSFT releasing a nearly decade old WinXP onto the lanscape, which promptly completely slaughtered. You know you have problems when a competitor's decade old product completely hammers your latest offering. But there are those out there that have written about the m

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STOP THE COLLIDER

I can't tell whether this guy is more or less kooky than the time cube guy. He's slightly more coherent anyway.

ObMAFIAA:Yes, an international, corporate meta-State would suck.

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that the PIN is used to pair, and pairing establishes link keys that are then used to secure the communications. My assumption is that there's a randomized element to these keys, such that someone eavesdropping the pairing process would probably be able to get them, but not someone who eavesdrops a session after the devices have been paired.

No, the "PIN" (actually the bluetooth spec calls that 4 digit number a "passkey") is exchanged between two paired devices each time they establish their connection.

There is a higher level of encryption that can be added after that fact, which does use a separate unrelated key pair (Similar to how SSL stores host keys), however the bluetooth spec calls this 'bonding', which is done after 'pairing'

I think the bonding and higher encryption features were introduced to the bluetooth protocol around version 2 or so (Admittedly, that was about 2 years ago now)

Plus bonded devices take quite a bit longer to handshake.
This means either your headset device will not be able to use any power saving functionality at all, or you will just simply miss every call assuming 4 rings until voice mail.

If your devices just pair and not bond, thus use a 4-6 digit number instead of an alphanumeric key, then any time during the communication you can intercept and decrypt all the data.

Here's some software that will let you test this yourself:
http://trifinite.org/trifinite_stuff_blooover.html
http://www.alighieri.org/project.html (The bluesnarfer project)
http://bluetooth-pentest.narod.ru/

How about an "all stop" with the "full stops". They've been peaking in the wake of an article about Linux on the Desktop about week or so ago, and now they're appearing in nearly 1 upmodded comment per article. Worse, as in the article, it usually appears two or more times in any post where it appears at all. Every time I see "full stop", my mind automatically prepends "I am a blustering gasbag. Nobody else speak."

'No reliable sound system, no reliable unified software audio mixing '

'!PulseAudio is a next generation sound server for Linux, making all sorts of "ear-candy" possible: from dynamically changing the volume of individual applications to hot-plugging support for many different devices'

I have not, personally, checked any of these links out, but here y'go, folks. Visit at your own risk, and all like that: The ACMA blacklist March 19 2009 * http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Denmark:_3863_sites_on_censorship_list%2C_Feb_2008 * http://www.abortiontv.com/Pics/AbortionPictures6.htm Aug 6 2008 * http://tgpme.com/ * http://newthumbs.net/ * http://bbs12.mail15.su/ * http://cybermovs.narod.ru/ * http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey/browse_thread/thread/e8a2eb7b73335439 * http://hrdpdfl8.paginas.sapo.pt/2/main.html * http://imgsrc.ru/main/search_re.php?str=&tag=&butt=ya&where=ya&nopass=on&cat=24&page=5 * http://lolitacj.freepimphost.com/ * http://mclt-sites.net/latvian/main/?sid=1189 * http://myusenet.net/files/0/alt.binaries.pictures.wals/0/index96.htm * http://ourworldkids.info/ * http://rapidlibrary.com/index.php?q=girl+12+year+old+fuck+with+boy+13+year+old+in * http://tinygev.com/ * http://trueincest.com/ * http://www.crazydumper.com/go-young_russian_guy_drug_her_and_then_fuck_her-639842.html * http://fulltiltpoker.com/ * http://www.kackarhatila.com/custom/config/new/index.html * http://nasty-virgins.org/ * http://pretty-pretty.info/ * http://realcruelfamily.com/ * http://www.sexologic.com/hosted/media/...now-watch-while-we-fuck-your-girlfriend!,111.php * http://vi5search.com/ * http://www.wetdump.com/hosted/1036/slipped-some-pillz-in-her-drink-and-fucked-her-while-unconscious.html * http://top.angels-list.com/index.html?97 * http://forced-news.com/ * http://ganja.vipzax.com/ * http://shave.vipzax.com/ July 30 2008 * http://forced-news.com/ * http://sweets.maximimage.com/?ft=brightgirls.net * http://littlevirginstgp.com/ * http://cutiesveta.com/ * http://youngwetmodels.com/ * http://preteenmasha.com/ * http://forbi-dreams2.info/ July 28 2008 *

http://loadserver.narod.ru/ free libruary mp3

Hey, we are geeks, are we not? Write your own css and use it! Or grab mine: http://gogaxxx.narod.ru/slashdot.org.css

The new version 5.10.0.3540 of kX Audio Driver, which includes Vista support, has apparently been removed yesterday from the narod.ru server for "violation of rules". Any relation to this story?

QUOTE (with minor editing for grammar): 98. December 19, 2007 There is a press-release [at] http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/asteroid.html on Sandia researcher Mark Boslough calculations of Tunguska. There are some computer graphics, but there is practically no info on physical models on which the calculations are based!

I can say that the graphics resembled [to] me the one in their calculations presented in 1995! And what I read (in his 1995 paper) on the sparse info about the models is not convincing.

Moreover one of the calculations' outcome was a proposal that satellites in orbits are in danger due to 'plumes' from rather small meteoroids ('meteorites')! (see the Boslough's abstract on Tunguska-96 conference here: http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/abstr3.html ).

Interesting that several groups of researchers using 'the most advanced' computer calculations obtain rather different results! :) But there is one point [on] which I could agree with Boslough -- the strength of the forest [destruction] used to be overestimated indeed, but in reality it should be incorporated into calculations in much more complicated form than Boslough has done. In my opinion this would alter the results of the calculations completely. :UNQUOTE

So, why are we getting this rehash of a 12-year-old study now? Could it be the upcoming Centennial?

If it doesn't have the scrolling feature of ReadThemAll then it's not worth having. I've been using this app on a Palm for many years. I don't spend a whole lot of time reading on my Palm because I don't have a lot of down time outside of the house and I quite like pulling a book off the shelf when at home. But, I always have a bunch of Project Gutenberg text files loaded on my Palm and if I do get a boring moment the only app I would consider using is ReadThemAll.

No other autoscrolling feature makes any sense after you've seen the line by line redrawing method. I don't have a Kindle and don't see much reason to buy one, but if it doesn't have this mode I wouldn't even consider it even if my Palm died.

The Tunguska meteor happened in the year 1908, which means those logs in the blast pattern probably are long gone by now.

A. Ol'khovatov (olkhov.narod.ru) comments on the Italian researcher: " 97. June 23, 2007 News story just appeared ( http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/8134097.html ) that Italian researchers published an article where they proposed that Lake Cheko (about 8 km form the epicenter of the Tunguska event) was formed by an impact of a fragment of 'Tunguska meteorite'! The article is here: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/ j.1365-3121.2007.00742.x Let me make some comments.
The idea was already checked by Soviet/Russian researchers in the year ~ 1960.
Their initial idea to research the lake was that a lot of local surface waters (headwaters) pass through the lake, so the lake's bottom should accumulate substance of the 'Tunguska meteorite' fallen over large area.
They discovered the funnel shape of the lake's bottom, but failed to find any evidences that it was a meteorite crater.
Arguments were the following:
a) there is no any rim around the lake:
b) Forest/trees around the lake is older than ~50 years old in general;
c) a local resident (Evenk who huntered in the area) said that on the place of the lake there was a 'zabolochennaya luzha ' (swampy pool).

So the idea was rejected by Sovet/Rissian researchers. Now the Italians are trying to recover it.
And of course neither Soviet/Russian researchers nor the Italians discovered any fragments/microparticles of the hypothetical 'Tunguska meteorite' despite large-scale digging of the bottom and the lake surroundings. I can add that interrogations of local residents conducted in the early 1960s show that a path from Vanavara settlement to the area of Strelka-Chunya (which later became a settlement too) went through Lake Cheko. So there is practically no chance of the 'sudden appearence' of the lake from a meteorite impact.

But what can't be ruled out is flooding of the lake, as local residents said about fountains of water from the ground and some flooding near the Tunguska epicenter in association the Tunguska event. By the way, for the 'geophysical Tunguska' interpretation the phenomena are explained as being due to tectonic activity (and are known in association with earthquakes).

Anyway, I hope that the article (which possibly will be promoted in mass-media) will help the Italian researchers to get finance/funds to come to Russia next summer and to celebrate 100th Anniversary of Tunguska! :) "

Cowon doesn't use SRS WoW, they do have an equalizer, two systems called BBE (tries to regenerate higher frequency harmonics that are lost) and Mach3Bass (tries to expand the bass) and theres an MP Enhance thing that I'd not use - they do help with low bitrate files but you don't have to take my word for it - you could take a fourier transform and see for yourself - as long as you've a set of cans thats decent you can hear the difference. Oh heres a link to the RMAA tests and the results are pretty damn good - note the tests here went even run with BBE or Mach3Bass.

I leave you to compare these results to other DAPs. Or you could just try listening to it and a few other players and decide which one sounds the best to you. I did before I bought my X5L. You are full of shit. Also I think the ergonomics are a personal issue - I've no problem with it. I like the feature set a whole lot more than the iPods.

I'm not claiming it doesn't have problems - the firmware isn't for everyone - if you really want iD3 Tag search try rockbox - theres a patch to the Rockbox bootloader that does allow you to dual boot firmwares. You lose video and get a shorter battery life (the x5l with rockbox still lasts longer than my labmates G5 iPod video) but gain doom. Whatever its problems though the audio quality is not one of them.

Then again maybe you are deaf.

• Austria
• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Poland
• Russia
• Spain
• Sweden
• USA

The same applies to fonts. To get fonts looking remotely acceptable in Linux, enable Apple's patented method of rending fonts, and copy over Microsoft's fonts. Then fonts in Linux rock!

Well at least for sans-serif fonts it's not the case for a long time already:

http://temcat.narod.ru/0.png

This is the free XLinSans font from dmtr40in-fonts package.

http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm Tag Scanner is a great full-featured T&R application.

Here's a screenshot of my desktop: http://temcat.narod.ru/0.png

Speaking of fonts, try XLinSans as a desktop and application font. To me it's absolutely beautiful. At http://temcat.narod.ru/ you'll find a DEB for it made by me from AltLinux RPM package.

It is by far the best tag management I have seen and supports many formats including ogg.

Oh and its free too.

...That makes a greate song!

They made angry a lot of people there, in Russia, which can be seen there (Russian):

http://antialc.narod.ru/
http://ricn.ru/kvd/material/5916/

The spammers even made this request (carefully with your irony detectors)
(translation from Russian is mine, source: http://ricn.ru/job/material/6039/ ):

The Center of Spoken English [ALC] needs a system administrator with an
experience of working in deflection of Internet hackers' attacks. Personally
I have that spam from them pilling up, it's about 50% of all my mail. I
really am fed up with it [used the censored translation mode]).

Title: System administrator.
City: Moscow.
Gender: Doesn't matter.
Experience: 3 years.
Occupation: Any.
The Center of Spoken English [ALC] needs a system administrator with an
experience of working in deflection of Internet hackers' attacks.
Contact person: American Language Center
Phone: 238-33-86 / 778-9894 / 411-0232
Vacation ID: 2016813

According to what I've read on those Russian pages, it most possibly was
spam-related. Those spammers were harassed over the phone, e-mail. Their
phone was published in cheap sex, drug dealers requests, etc.

Interesting piece from the article at http://ricn.ru/kvd/material/5916/ :

"dimkin offered to visit addresses with baseball bats. Effective, but
for that there should be a concentration of offended in the geographical
territory borders, close to the spammer."

Every spammer deserves that.

http://xdev.narod.ru/index_e.htm

There is already a precendent. The firmware of Canon Digital Rebel has been hacked enabling most of the features that are present in a more expensive 10D. Aparently Rebel is a crippled version of 10D and most of the functionality is already there. The hack is available here. It's a great thing for Rebel owners.

According to the Russian-Israeli news service, MigNews http://www.mignews.com/news/technology/world/15010 5_54115_61571.html/ , a student group "Going without Putin" advocating the preservation of the existing public transportation discounts and army draft delays for the students got their website http://www.idushiespb.narod.ru/ busted. When they moved their discussions to the livejournal, LJ got its UPS exposion. This might have been a paranoia if LJ was not a major meeting point for the students during the recent Orange revolution in Ukraine that got Kremlin blackeyed. However this outage would have never happen, KGB or not if Brad has been using some mature high available suppliers like Stratus that AOL used to use, or Tandem. One should not be using unix hacks clustered or not for the system that requires high availability. Hire me Brad, I'll fix it for you!

If you can boot off other media, you can do this easily.

There's always convertfs, which will convert any Linux filesystem to any other (so long as the target supports sparse files): http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/

And, of course, ext3 being a simple addition to ext2, you can use tune2fs -j to add a journal to any ext2 filesystem. ("Why wait!? Tune2fs today!") Googling for 'convert+ext2+ext3' will tell you all about that.

I'm using BayesIt! spamfilter for TheBat! for more than a year now, and i have yet to see it fail. Granted, it's still learning as i (thankfully) don't receive huge amounts of spa, but the bulk of the spam i recieve gets deleted. We're talking about 99% of the scanned mails. Sorry, but no commercial products for me (antispam, not the client).

Oh, and apparently the plugin was so popular that Ritlabs included it in the latest versions of TheBat!.

...located @ narod.yandex.ru , it still hasn't changed, perhaps we should consider it a new policy?!

We think the same about you.

for roughly $65, you can buy a linksys wrt-54g which runs linux out of the box. add to this some free third-party replacement firmware and you get full control over the unit and loads of features - VPN, packet shaping, advanced packet filtering, captive portals, and all sorts of other stuff. the unit is very flexible, reliable, cheap, and most of all it is supremely hackable - especially if you know your way around linux.

if you do go down this route be sure to avoid sveasoft's firmware, for reasons illustrated here. basically, the guy writing it is a total cockbite. last time i questioned his (ab)use of the GPL here on slashdot he banned me from his forums, so if you do intend to send him $20 you'd better be nice.

This simple toolset allows you to change type of file system in the lack of backup space. The idea is to use sparse files support of primary filesystem. We create a sparse image of block device, mkfs secondary filesystem on it, mount it, mv files from primary filesystem to mounted image and then map image to the device. Remapping utility uses some kind of journaling to avoid breakage in case of power failure. It's expected that you have linux 2.4, glibc 2.2, recent util-linux, fileutils.

You can convert from virtually any filesystem type to virtually any one as long as they are both block-oriented and supported by Linux for read/write, and as long as primary filesystem supports sparse files.

Possibly using convertfs, but I have no idea if it works or not.

This page seems to have more info about it.

Time to burn some Karma!!

<rant>
Why does it matter what clothes he was wearing?

It matters because by dressing smartly he could reduce his sentance. If he's stubborn^H^H^H^H^Hpid enough to dress the way he wants then he's going to have to face the consequences of the way people interpret that look.

What a world to live in when people judge you by the clothes you wear.

I sympathise with the sentiment... actually scratch that, no I don't. Of course people judge other people by the way they look. Are you trying to tell me that you can't get clues from a person's appearance? If I see a skinhead wearing a football strip with many tattoos of their football club and a few scars then I DO NOT stop them to ask directions.
You use your eyes to guide your judgements about life and people. Complaining when other people do the same is at best childish and at worst ignorant.

Who are you going to ask for directions?
This guy or this guy?

Who would you rather date?
Her or her?

Him, him or him?

Sorry. Had to throw that last one in.

If you have a problem with your appearance then A) dress well and B) stay fit. That's all you need to do.
</rant>

Or how about System Safety Monitor... Everytime a program wants to start it will give you a notice and it keeps track of authorized programs through md5 checksums.
Great to prevent dll injections and keep your system clean. At least IMHO.

• 38 inches according to a page at Arkansas State University and another at Microflex Technologies. Well the conversion (1 meter = 38 inches) is mentioned actually by some apparently russian website which is linked on this page at the arkansas state university
• 38.16 inches according to a rounding-happy math teacher at Norfolk Collegiate School in Virginia.
• Couldnt test this one, because the website was down (probably slashdotted)
• 38.37 inches according to Honeywell's Sensotec folks.
• Ok, well, this is indeed incorrect. However, on the same PDF it is mentioned that 1 inch = 2.54 cm, 1m = 1.0936 yards, which are both correct values. So I seriously believe that (1 m = 38.37in) is just a typo and should have actually been 1m=39.37 in.
• 38.8 inches according to some numerological babble
• Well, if it is "babble",then why consider it at all?
• 39 inches according to Fife Products and some folks who sell quilting products.
• That makes sense, doesn't it? Quilt and other such manufacturers would want to save on by "trimming" or low-rounding such conversions wouldnt they? For selling 1000m of their product, they save 37 inches!
• 39.14 inches according to the specifications on a measuring wheel for engineers. (uh-oh!)
• This does look incorrect. I can't think of why they'd equate 1m=39.14 inches.
• 39.15 inches according to an October 30 2002 entry in a blog.
• Why would you be concerned about what's on a blog. People put whatever they want to.
• 39.21 inches according to Richard Bowles.
• Again, who is richard bowles? I've no idea.. do other slashdotters know? Even if he is an authority on metric systems, why would you use an individual's figures as a source of reference? Would you not prefer to look at a metrics standards body or other such resource?
• 39.27 inches according to pages at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
• On the same page you'd notice: "Since many of our students travel to Europe or Australia, we've prepared the chart below to show you how to estimate foreign measurements. We hope you find it helpful:"...Did you notice the word "estimate"? Well, if anything, it wasn't at helpful to you I presume :-)
• 39.28 inches according to Jonathan Brooks at Penn State University.
• Again, I think this "Jonathan Brooks" is a user/student at Penn State University, and this URL you posted isnt an authoritative advisory from the University itself.
• 39.3 inches according to some

Its been widely known that the Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel and the Canon EOS 10D DSLR's are similar beasts. In fact, if you look at their Side-by-side comparisons you can see that most of the features that vary are catagorized as "Customizable".

The 10D has a menu item called "Custom Functions" which allows these settings to be adjusted. Well, a fellow in Russia found that in the latest firmware, by switching a single byte in the firmware image, he was able to enable most of these 10D "Custom Functions" in the Digital Rebel. Now, some features, such as more frames in rapid shooting, are hardware-limitations but some features lacking such as Flash Exposure Compensation and embedded JPEG quality are found to be working in the 300D.

This is not the 10D firmware, it is the 300D firmware with some of the dormant 10D features enabled. The developers probably shared the codebase between the two models. The 10D firmware will not work on your 300D.

Now, be aware that this Modified firmware will violate your warranty!

*cough* GSM?

Cracked.

As such, most crapware is not opt-in - only experienced and security-aware users know how to configure their systems to avoid it. Binning Internet Explorer is a good start, but using web-filtering software to block ActiveX, Java and Javascript (like Proxomitron, WebWasher or a firewall like Outpost), an application firewall (like System Safety Monitor) and a crapware scanner like AdAware or Spybot Search and Destroy are also necessary steps.

Linux users should not be complacent here either - almost all crapware currently targets Windows but can be written to run on Linux once it gains signifcant usage amongst mainstream users. Check Adware and Under-Ware - The Definitive Guide for a history of crapware.

Do you know about Tchad and Mitch's early dark days? The vintage porn film "Nightdreams" isn't vintage just for its wonderfully bizarre imagery - if you know of these fellows then you NEED this DVD. This is the movie that introduced me to Wall of Voodoo (yes, "Ring of Fire" is one of the featured tracks - and accompanies a legendary campfire scene... oooh, aaaah...).

Yet more trivia: Nightdreams was directed by Francois Delia, who also directed the Wall of Voodoo video "Mexican Radio" and assisted photography on the Andy Kaufman biopic "Man on the Moon."

In image technology, RLL is a compression technique. (See the old MacPaint format; I think that BMPs use the same technique.)

No, that would still be RLE. It stands for "Run Length Encoding". (See here.

It's so called because it compresses runs of identical bytes into (typically) 2-byte values (the original value, and the length of the run.)

Reason #83 that MD5 is an inadequate method of identifying MP3s. Hashsums are only "practically unique."

Just add the military to your email blacklist.

Oh, man! Now how will I be able to join the Navy?

On the other hand, we'll always have Xanadu.

In this paper we describe a new attack on A5/1, which is based on subtle flaws in the tap structure of the registers, their noninvertible clocking mechanism, and their frequent resets. The attack can find the key in less than a second on a single PC with 128 MB RAM and two 73 GB hard disks, by analysing the output of the A5/1 algorithm in the first two minutes of the
conversation.

I mostly use TagScanner. It's a great batch tagger. It lets you scan filenames and make tags based on that, name files based on the tags, and many other things.

For normal tag editing, I use MP3ext. It adds ID3 info to Windows' Property dialog. It has the ability to scan filenames and make tags based on them and batch tag multiple selected files, but it can't name files based on the tag (AFAIK).

I like how iTunes can organize all of your music into folders on your drive. That's a REALLY nice feature for someone like me who hasn't been consistantly organized, but who has been tagging their files religiously.

This is also a problem for the firewall I use, Outpost since it has a default System rule of "Allow Loopback" - however this can be removed, fixing the problem. You then need (and will be prompted) to create separate rules for each application that needs access via the proxy software.

That's about as secure as you can make an average home users computer without uberexpensive corporate solutions

I'm going to disagree with you again here...running anti-virus software is still a necessity and if you download a lot from "questionable" sources (IRC, P2P, Usenet), then Anti-Trojan software is strongly recommended. The best here appear to be TDS-3 and TrojanHunter. Also, running an application firewall (one that intercepts calls between Windows applications) like System Safety Monitor can do a lot to prevent malware from getting started on your system.

• iGetNet
• Bonzi Buddy
• Lycos Sidesearch

I always used QPEG (later called QPV) for image viewing under DOS.
Worked like a charm :)

BTW, here's some more information on the original AVS format.

Google isn't entirely stumped:

http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/

But it looks outdated compared to what Mr. Reiser has described.

"Chilean scientists have determined that a 12-meter mass of flesh discovered
recently on a Pacific beach is actually CowboyNeal

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