#1 - Do not use IE, if the site must have.asp then use it for just those sites and possibly setup the browser so it only "trusts" those sites and blocks all others, use Firefox and certain plug-ins.
#2 - Do not go on the web with an account with Administrative privileges, use a limited user account.
#3 - Use Adblock plus plug-in for Firefox
#4 - Use Noscript lug-in for Firefox
#5 - Use the custom hosts file that redirects all known bad sites to 127.0.0.1
To plug into the grid you need a Synchronous Inverter.
You are not suppose to dump square wave on the grid either.
Some guerilla solar ppl who do not understand this do it anyways.
The grid uses generators that generate sinewave power.
To connect cleanly and correctly you need a Sinewave based Synchronous Inverter and that is not cheap.
Also if you live in a heavy lightning storm area then you run the risk of your huge investment going up in smoke by being attached to the grid.
Your best bet is to get off the grid.
Some ppl do it a little at a time by converting all their lights to LED lighting and have wind and or solar charging some used forklift batteries that are stored outside in a fireproof box.
forklift batteries are not the best, but used ones are cheaper by a huge amount than the very best made new for this purpose.
Over time as they get more of their own power made they can move circuits over to the off grid system.
The killers are central heat and air, electric dryer, fridge, hair dryers, vacuums, electric ovens, and microwaves.
Electricity can be made from CSP Thermal Solar and Wind and if those run out the whole planet is dead anyways.
Coal is set to run out a lot sooner due to the rest of the world ramping up use of it massively.
The coal producers in the US have nothing to fear of the US getting off coal, China is building coal fired plants faster than any 2 other countries on earth combined.
Yeah it is kinda like saying their should only be one Linux distro.
I think thin clients could do a lot and save a lot.
For a content system use Moodle !
I think boys can be a bit hard on things so make it rugged, and due to crime concerns secure it against theft.
A laptop is not really practical unless you make them abundant, ie. so many of them no one will steal one because they are as common as pebbles.
If they can get a OLPC model working it would allow students to do school work anyplace there is Wifi, and that would be great, but I don't see them shelling out that kind of money for all the Infrastructure.
A small percentage of the population goes on to higher education.
Standard vac builds up a lot of static, and these are designed to eliminate that.
Likewise with an air compressor, they can spray water droplets into the PC unless it has a air dryer device installed.
Also using high speed air across fans making them spin much faster than normal can cause DC perm magnet fans to induce voltage back into the motherboard like a generator, so you might jam them still with something non-magnetic while putting a "wicked" amount of air across them.
Also if the person sets the PC on the floor/carpet the fans act like a vacuum cleaner and suck carpet fuzz and pet hair into the CPU fan and everywhere else.
There are some CPU temp monitor apps out there you can install to chk for CPU overheat.
Most modern systems should have some kind of alert of over heat as well.
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An M$ shill modded it Troll, so I put a link explaining
that IE was not secure for 9 months of 2006 as proof
that it is not secure.
M$ has paid bloggers now to scan the waves so to speak.
I guess some kiddie that didn't know that IE was determined to
be unsafe by ppl smarter than the morons modding me Troll.
Go back to high school kiddies.
http://www.lockergnome.com/chrisshort/2007/01/18/ie-unsecure-for-over-9-months-in-2006-firefox-nine-days/
#1 - Do not use IE, if the site must have .asp then
use it for just those sites and possibly setup
the browser so it only "trusts" those sites and
blocks all others, use Firefox and certain plug-ins.
#2 - Do not go on the web with an account with
Administrative privileges, use a limited user account.
#3 - Use Adblock plus plug-in for Firefox
#4 - Use Noscript lug-in for Firefox
#5 - Use the custom hosts file that redirects all known bad sites
to 127.0.0.1
#6 - Use the top rated Virii scanners.
#7 - Install Spybot: Search & Destroy with Tea Timer enabled
#8 - Use the free checkpoint firewall Zone Alarm or something better.
#9 - Have all of this installed and setup before you even
connect to the internet for the first time.
#10 - Make a image of your basic OS install plus potection
and split partition your drive for rapid OS re-image if
none of the above does the trick.
Of course some ppl just run linux/unix on their el-cheapo
hardware from the OEMs.
The marketwatch URL is not being parsed correctly here on slashdot,
so I made a tiny URL of it.
http://tinyurl.com/32qx7h
I tend to take Warren Buffett's explanation as a fairly
likely cause too.
They took massive amounts of debt and hid it on the
UNREGULATED OTC market so the SEC could not do its job.
The top link is Buffet's take on it, and the 2nd link
below is another man's more in depth explanation into
the shell game that took place.
If you read this, make sure you are sitting and not
drinking anything.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/derivatives-new-ticking-time-bomb/story.aspx?guid={B9E54A5D-4796-4D0D-AC9E-D9124B59D436}&print=true&dist=printTop
http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/The_Quadrillion_Dollar_Powder_Keg_Waiting_To_Blow
To plug into the grid you need a Synchronous Inverter.
You are not suppose to dump square wave on the grid either.
Some guerilla solar ppl who do not understand this do it anyways.
The grid uses generators that generate sinewave power.
To connect cleanly and correctly you need a Sinewave based
Synchronous Inverter and that is not cheap.
Also if you live in a heavy lightning storm area then you run
the risk of your huge investment going up in smoke by being
attached to the grid.
Your best bet is to get off the grid.
Some ppl do it a little at a time by converting all their lights
to LED lighting and have wind and or solar charging some used
forklift batteries that are stored outside in a fireproof box.
forklift batteries are not the best, but used ones are cheaper
by a huge amount than the very best made new for this purpose.
Over time as they get more of their own power made they can
move circuits over to the off grid system.
The killers are central heat and air, electric dryer, fridge,
hair dryers, vacuums, electric ovens, and microwaves.
Agreed, I like this method better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hydrogen_production
God, what is with you people today?
They looked at their 401k...
Lifespans are not getting longer due to coal.
Electricity can be made from CSP Thermal Solar and Wind
and if those run out the whole planet is dead anyways.
Coal is set to run out a lot sooner due to the rest of the world
ramping up use of it massively.
The coal producers in the US have nothing to fear of the US
getting off coal, China is building coal fired plants faster
than any 2 other countries on earth combined.
Yeah it is kinda like saying their should only be one Linux distro.
I think thin clients could do a lot and save a lot.
For a content system use Moodle !
I think boys can be a bit hard on things so make it rugged,
and due to crime concerns secure it against theft.
A laptop is not really practical unless you make them abundant,
ie. so many of them no one will steal one because they are as
common as pebbles.
If they can get a OLPC model working it would allow students to
do school work anyplace there is Wifi, and that would be great,
but I don't see them shelling out that kind of money for all
the Infrastructure.
A small percentage of the population goes on to higher education.
Some Integrated Circuits have a shelf life.
They can actually go bad just sitting in an ESD tube
on a shelf.
So keep that in mind.
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:bML8_AJcIkUJ:focus.ti.com/lit/an/szza046/szza046.pdf+IC+shelf+life&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
The firefox fixes were posted way up in the thread, might
do a search for them.
It is a known memory leak, and also flaky and buggy scripts
and massive issues with Flash.
For the flash and script issues, a person recommended No Script,
and I like Flashblock as well.
Flashblock lets you play the flash via an added play button if you want.
Know issues with memory leaks in firefox, and flash are explained
there as well.
Some ppl say google Chrome browser is better about not flaking out.
Might try updating the mobo firmware.
Also PC's run a LOT better if you install the chipset drivers.
Cry me a river loser, your eyes had to read one subject line.
Try reading your spam folder for your email you big baby.
On #6 you can reboot into safe mode and use the safe mode drivers
and see if it acts different.
Does not help in all cases but I have seen it help in some.
To do remote desktop securely and remote use hamachi encrypted
VPN software and it does LAN emulation across NAT/firewalls too.
Part of this is due to SP2 for XP and beyond which had a big
impact on P2P apps, it limits the number of concurrent ports
that can be open to 10.
A hack/patch has been made, and one I know of off the top
of my head is put out by this guy.
And it opens up 50 ports for you for P2P use and you should see
a huge increase in your speed.
He has a detailed write up on it here:
http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=4226patch/faq
Some ppl are not as tech savvy as others.
So you want to bash them for wanting to learn how to get better
at doing for themselves.
It is not possible for all ppl to know all things, and never
ask questions of another to learn it all.
Not going to happen.
It would be like going to 4 yrs of college and not asking questions.
He doesn't want to reinstall, he wants to learn how to
weild his E-sword against the E-penis's on Intarwebs.
The reason they have trouble getting them off is they hide in
system restore and elsewhere.
In this instance turn off system restore, and schedule a pre-OS
scan and 99% of the time it nails it.
Also some ppl take the drive out, stick it in a external enclosure
and hook it up to a Linux box that can read ntfs, and use
Clam AV to scan it.
Try these AV programs next time you get an ugly virii:
1) Clam AV for Windows ( highest success rate scanner per reviews )
2) NOD
3) Kapersky
4) F-protect
If it gets past these then it is either a custom, or new one.
Why you don't use a normal vacuum...
http://www.industrialairsolutions.com/industrial-vacuums/ESD-Vacuums/ESD-vacuum-systems.htm
Standard vac builds up a lot of static, and these are designed to
eliminate that.
Likewise with an air compressor, they can spray water droplets
into the PC unless it has a air dryer device installed.
Also using high speed air across fans making them spin much faster
than normal can cause DC perm magnet fans to induce voltage back
into the motherboard like a generator, so you might jam them still
with something non-magnetic while putting a "wicked" amount of
air across them.
Also if the person sets the PC on the floor/carpet the fans act like
a vacuum cleaner and suck carpet fuzz and pet hair into the CPU fan
and everywhere else.
There are some CPU temp monitor apps out there you can install to
chk for CPU overheat.
Most modern systems should have some kind of alert of over heat as well.
Under windows if you have a multi-core proc you can also run a
core controller app that limits hogs to one core, etc etc.
Set it up according to your need.
CPU control is one of them out there.
Well, you can use Flashblock.xpi as it gives you a play button
so you can use the flash if you "want" to use it.
Very nice to have a choice vs. a screen of 7 simultaneous
screaming moving flash ads like some billboard from hell.
Thus why I have said Web 2.0 is killing the internet.