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Yep 2.75 that is a old version, go ahead and uninstall it. The new winamp will knock your socks off!
Hi Doug, go ahead and start WinAmp. Right click on it and in the menu click on Nullsoft WinAmp, that should give you the about menu.Click on version history, If it does not say winamp 5.03, you need to upgrade it. Just this month they found a security problem that effects all Winamp versions below 5.03. Also 5.03 puts all the other players to shame in my opinion.
Hi, I have had a message similar to that when I close IE6, not every time but some of the time, I have not seen it after the last group of patches. I hope it is gone. Will let you know if it comes back.
Hi OR, quick up date, I believe the FM transmitter is for transmitting the mp3,s to your home or car radio. Note you said it was so weak it it is a novelty only. You may have to turn on the Transmitter function, it should normally be off as it would run down the battery. Double check it, a real good radio may be able to pickup the FM even thou the final transmitter is off that may be what happened.
About the RIO's I just picked up the 64M Rio Sport S30 player. for $57 at Walmart, You can use external memory up to 550 megs, I also bought a 128 meg SD memory card to go into it for $44, and I bought a Lexar JumpDrive for $14 or $17, that can use the SD card. I be in hog heaven!
I am in the process of converting my CD collection in to mp3's encoded at 56Kbits. Was able to put 44 Patsy Cline songs and nine AC/DC songs on the RIO internal memory! Haven't even started on the 128 megs yet. Got it set for random play, about the time patsy is putting me to sleep, AC/DC comes along to wake me up.
About ripping I am using the free realplayer it is fast, but I hate it for playback to many ads. for playback I like the new free version of WinAmp 5.03. Also on Ripping I also found that my CD burner was able to rip at twice the speed as my DVD player. Both are supposed to be the same speed. The DVD ripped at 10X the CD burner at 19X!
About free internet radio listening. There is windows media player 9, free, sounds good but wants to display the web page. More on it in a second.
realplayer, free but wants you to listen to live365.com, which has a lot of ads. You can go to live365.com with out realplayer, and set up to receive mp3 music for a mp3 player, I like WinAmp the best, that way you only get audio ads.
I just found Radio@Netscape Plus last night, it is free, has some ads not to bad, but you cannot minimize it, it is ether open or goes to a big tool bar on the bottom of the screen The good thing is that you can cover the regular screen with another window, and there are no audio ads on the channels, I think there are about 175 channels.
Now for the best, WinAmp! WinAmp can receive streaming mp3's, from ShoutCast stations, In the old WinAmp's you had to go to http://www.shoutcast.com/ to select you station, Now you can just open up the media library and select internet radio. By default it gets 500 stations! but you can change that, I checked once there are at least 1500 stations.
Hi Susie, don't worry about the IE5, you still got IE6. Microsoft did not change the name of the folder is all. The reason you still have leaktest in your IE folder is you probably ran it from IE. I normally make a folder called Download, and download all my programs into it. Not sure why your Anti virus should hit on leaktest. you may want to send them a email asking why. Tell them where you got the program from, and how you ran it, and give them a copy of the message. Question is your anti virus program supposed to detect Trojan programs? when leaktest is run it pretends to be IE, to see if it can fool your software firewall. Your anti virus program may have detected this and gave the alarm. What anti virus do you run?
Hi Scott, I can just see you going into the Car lot now! You pick the car, you go into the office and sit down to negotiate the price. The sells man gives you the first offer, and you say wait a second while I get set up. You open up your lap top bring up the spread sheet, and say could you repeat that offer. Pretty soon you'll have him sweating blood.
Yes I would like a copy of the spreadsheet, please send it to lostcowboy at vei.net , I wonder if the spammer's will catch that? spammer
Hi Squashthebug, Tofuzzy is on the right track, but let me take a whack at it. Ok you know that portfolio control (PC)determines when we buy or sell, but you want to get more into it. When ever stock value (SV} is the same as PC AIM is happy, this is what I call the neutral point. Now then we want to know at what price the neutral point is set at. That is easy, just take PC and divide it by the number of shares you have. So you can see, each time you sell shares you change the price of the neutral point. As the stock price starts to go above the neutral point AIM starts to feel the desire to sell, when the stock price reaches SAFE he can hardly keep his pants on, he is starting to sweet talk you. When the stock price reaches (SAFE plus MINIMUM SELL AMOUNT), AIM is now into full foreplay! HE is ready to SELL, not only that he is ready to SELL and SELL and SELL, if the stock price keeps going up! Thats why all the girls like him! And there you have it the ADULT version of AIM. By the way AIM likes different positions, some times he likes to BUY and BUY and BUY.
Good post Bruce, I'll have to read more there when I have time.
Yes DVOM that's the way to do it. Then if you want your machine to load that at startup just put the bat file in the startups menu folder. Also I saw where you can make bat files to automatically run disk cleanup, diskscan, and defrag. You then set up to run the bat file once a week.
Hi Susie, if the outside tech decides to reformat the hard drive and reinstall everything. It would be a good idea to partition the hard drive at the same time. My understanding is you can have up to four partitions on the hard drive. When I was running windows ME on a 6 gigabyte hard drive, my best configuration was having three partitions. One large one for the system and all the software, then one each for the swap file, and for IE's cache. I also used Cacheman to adjust some of windows ME settings. This was my rock solid system! The smaller the partition the faster scandisk and defrag can work, less hard disk clusters to check. There are programs that can repartition your hard drive with out reinstalling all the programs. One is partitionmaster.
Hi OR, what I was trying to say is that it is your modem that you need to go into and change the rules in. So the company that made your modem is who you need to talk to!
As far as blocking Trojan programs, for that you need a good software firewall! the free version of zonealarm is a good starting place. Windows XP has a firewall built in, but I call it a one way wall, it only blocks stuff coming in, not going out.
Hi Susie, I read Bruce's reply, and by all means try Ace. But I think you are going to have to call that external IT man to come fix it. Do a search on http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto search on windows not shutting down properly. You should come up with how to troubleshoot windows. He likely has a corrupt program file that is not letting it shut down properly. About his computer running slowly There are a lot of things it could be. He could have a lot of programs auto starting when windows starts, makes windows take a long time to come up, also each program uses more ram memory, so that when he starts up a program that needs a lot of memory windows has to use the swap file on the hard drive. The hard drive is like a 100 to 1000 times slower than ram! If you can you want to stay away from using the swap file! A good rule of thumb is to take the windows recommended memory size and double it! windows XP says 128 megs recommended So you need 256 for most people to be happy, but If you have a need to have a lot of programs open or large files then go ahead and make it 500 megs. Another possible slow down is the video card the more memory on the card the faster it can move files around.
Last but not least! slow computers can be a sign that you have a virus! The virus hogs ram and makes the good programs use the swap file, also I have heard some viruses can compress the hard drive, and for you to get and use a file the file has to be uncompressed. A lot of adware could do the same thing.
Hi OC, the easy answer is to email the company, as they know a lot more than me. One of these days I have to go and do that! About the leak test, do not get to worried about it. What it is designed to do, is pretend to be a Trojan program that fools a software firewall. I don't think a hardware firewall can block a Trojan program, thats why you need a software firewall also. The test you need to check is the shieldsup test. First some back ground. your computer, connects to your router which connects to your broadband connection (DSL/Cable) modem. I take it you would like to get a reading of Stealth, and not Closed for all ports. What you really don't want is for them to say open! Open means your connection said come on in. Closed means your connection said I am here but I am not opening the door. Stealth means your connection did not say anything , or open the door, no one knows if you are home or not. Now for some bad news, in the old days of dialup, the modem receives the ping and sends it to your computer, and your computer decided what to do. Now a days these smart broadband modems receive a ping and replies at the sometime it sends it to your computer! Example I got sprint DSL last December i went to shieldsup, and it said all my ports were closed, which is good but not the best. I went into my modem, same way you went into your router, by a web page, and set security. I reran the test and got Stealth on some of the common ports. I went to walmart and bought a four port router. I went into the router and set it up so it drops any pings from the wan (one click), reran the shields test and got the same readings, so I know it is the modem doing it. I can setup rules like you are trying to do, but I cant do it from a web page, I have to use telnet to do it.
About your rules I think if you swap the source and Destination it will work. Change, Deny,Source=LAN,Destination=WAN,IP start = *, IP end = *, protocol = All, Start port=* and end port=*, time = always.
To using Deny,Source=WAN,Destination=LAN,IP start = *, IP end = *, protocol = All, Start port=* and end port=*, time = always.
That should block anything coming in, and let you get out.
Hi TC, that looks like a real good site, full of tips.
I understand why someone would want to stop the diskscan in 98, as it is a dos program,and slow, but I just want to say that if you don't run the dos program, you need to run the windows diskscan. When you losted power it is likely that the computer was trying to write to the hard drive when the power died. You could now have a corrupt file on the disk, also when a file is written to the disk it is not written in on spot but all over the disk, there is another file that keeps track of the locations, and free space on the disk. If that file did not get updated you could rewrite on top of a file. one of the things diskscan does is check on this, and try to fix it.
Another program that the music industry is going to hate! Andromeda http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/home.asp I haven't read much yet, but it is very interesting.
Hi DVOM, here is the page I read. I missed the instructions! http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10565
Winamp alert! I was just over at the http://www.winamp.com/ site, they have a security problem and want all winamp users to upgrade to winamp 5.03. We have patched several moderate risk security exploits affecting all previous versions of Winamp. We recommend that all users of Winamp upgrade to the version 5.03 to protect against this vulnerability.
Hi OR, In that manual, I sent you to they said the firewall was under the Advance tab. I did look at it very quickly, but I think it was talking about port settings. Could you list your model again and if it is a A,B, or C version. The URL lists sound more like parent permission settings.
The firewall, should not stop you from going to the web sites. I would say it is something else.
Hi leap, The reason to increase the monthly payment is to combat inflation. Mild inflation is 2-3%. The reason to increase the Portfolio Value is to reach your retirement goal. The assumption is that your stock portfolio should increase at a annual rate. the historical rate is about 8-9% a year. If you use Mr Edleson's spreadsheet be sure to use low rates! This will make the monthly payments larger than if you use higher rates. But no one can predict the future, so it is better to pay more now than trying to pay more later in life. The portfolio Value works just like the constant value in a constant dollar plan. Lets say that the stock value drops by 50%, you have to come up with the money to bring the stock value back to the portfolio value. In Mr's Edleson's book he doesn't go into any great detail on how you would come up with this money. He talks of having funds sitting in a money/bond fund. In my version of Value Averaging I took a idea from Mr Lichello's book Super power investing, and put part of the monthly payment into the cash/bond fund.
Finding Edleson's book, The book has been out of print for a long time. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0942641272/qid=1081848367/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-917051...
I assume you don't want to buy the book for that price. The way I read the book was through my local public library. They have a program where if they do not have a book they can borrow the book from another library. I think I had to wait about three weeks for the book, it was worth the wait to read it.
Which installment plan do you prefer....value vs. Synchrovest? Good question! Being that I still am not able to invest, I have no real life data. Value Averaging should enable you to meet your retirement goal with maybe some extra left over. Synchrovest may meet your retirement goal, with more profit. I think it depends on the stock or fund you are investing in. If the fund is mostly a growth fund I think Value Averaging may be best. If the fund is mostly cycles in nature Synchrovest may be best. If you have excel, the best thing would be to get the spreadsheets and put the old data from your stock or data in the spreadsheets and compare them.
I still am not totally happy with the way Synchrovest sells its stock, any suggestions on ways to improve it?
Hi Byculla, I have not used it, but I can say it is based on a 12 day MA. About the trial software, you are limited to the three stocks listed, but it is my understanding that it does not time out. About the buggiest of the software. Let Myst know the error that you are getting on his board. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1074
Also I know that yahoo has changed their data format again, so that may be part of your problem. I know Myst and his programmer just updated the paid program so it would work again. I am sure they will get to the trial program soon.
Hi all, I have replaced vca_gainloss with va_mod_gainloss.xls. va_mod_gainloss.xls now has both growth rates, it is still set up to split the monthly installment between a stock fund and cash. The cash is built up until you need it. Note, in the event of a deep diver it will still sell below the average cost. If you want to use it what I would do is run Michael Edleson va_readjustment.xls spreadsheet, that will give you the starting monthly installment. I would then multiply that by 1.25, that will give you the amount to invest in va_mod_gainloss.xls. In va_mod_gainloss.xls you should use the same growth rates, and set the percentage to be used right away at 75%
The way I have set it up you will never be asked to come up with more than the monthly installment, even if the cash goes dry, but if you have the cash in the 401K, it will ask for it if it needs it. Worst case, you have a mutual fund that goes down and just lays there, You will do at least as well as DCA.
Took a bit of searching, but this may work. The lite version is free. http://www.cadstd.com/index.html
Hi Occams, not sure if you have the A, B, or C model. Here is the page for the C model. http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=6&pv=30 you can download the manual there. Lookup the configuration menu section. The firewall is under the Advance section. I cannot help you on setting up the rules, but look in the FAQ section. They show you how to set up several software in it.
If you have one of the other models check here. http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=6#manual
Hi Paul, on the spybot news page, he has info on a new CWS version. While it does not sound like you have that version. Try downloading and running the program! http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=news Download from here. http://www.safer-networking.org/minifiles.html Hope this gets the bastard!
Thinking off hand when you set up the IRA you want to be set up in a family of funds so you can transfer money between the funds.
Hi Aim Hier, just as with shotguns grenades horseshoes, and atom bombs, close is good enough! AIM will not care if you are a few pennies short on a buy or sell. It will not even care if you do only half or a quarter of the recommended buy/sell. It will only say I told you so in passing, and get ready for the next time.
In that case load it up with the PC133. It will run just fine at the 100 mhz speed.
what type of rules have you tried? Any rule that you use will subject you to whiplash. In other words it will be wrong some time. I am testing the 100 day MA and 200 day MA with my sisters mutual fund. Her fund is pnopx.
I just had her move out of, and back in to her fund based on the 100 day ma, being that her fund is inside a 401k, the whiplash did not hurt to bad. I had meant to wait for the 200 day ma, but the way the fund price moved through the 100 day ma, made me go with the 100 day ma.
Here is a web site that talks about using the 100 day ma. http://www.fundadvice.com/
Here is a web site that talks about using the 200 day ma. http://www.tradertalk.net/tutorial/asalot.html
Hi Rossi, just thought I would throw my two cents in here! First let me say that both Bruce and Ruellit are correct. The reason they are correct is they are looking at your question from different view points. How ever there are some more important things to be looking at, being that you are talking about pc100, and pc133, you are talking about a older computer which is close to its end life. If it is at all possible you should be looking at upgrading the whole computer not just the memory. Very few of the new MB's can use the old pc100,pc133 memory, so any memory you buy now cannot be transfered to a new computer. Right now I believe you will get more bang for your buck, If you can go ahead and buy ether a new computer or a bare bones unit with the memory to go with it. Myself I went with a bare bones system with compatible memory, and a new hard drive. I then transfered my floppy and CD ROM drives to the new computer. Being that I am a old fashion type of guy I went to a discount computer store, MSC Computer in Carroliton TX. I got a bare bones system for $149, cooling fan for $19.99, 512 megs of ddr256 memory for $91.98, a 80GIG hard drive for $85.99, and a CDRW for $39.99. All together with tax's it came to $418.87,That was almost a year ago.
Ok, back to pc100 pc133 debate, Check to see how much of your swap file is in use,There is a program called system monitor that can check up on that. http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,18519,pg,1,00.asp on the second page they talk about memory. You want enough ram where you are not using your swap file to much. Use pc133 as it is cheaper! In your bios you set your memory speed for the slowest memory you have. The normal saying is, Faster memory will run slower, but slower memory cannot run faster. In general for windows 98 you will be happy with 150 meg and greater. I would not go beyond 500 megs! Also get Cacheman and run the wizard settings. http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=2&PHPSESSID=354f6596ac2759c66a4...
The only bad thing that I know about Win 2000 is that there is no restore function. I understand that there is a manual backup of data, but my understanding is not all of the vital data is backed up.
PS: I say this from only trying to fix a win 2000 server machine once, I had no system disk, no emergency startup disk. The only thing I had was my window XP at home disk and what information I could find on the internet about the recovery console function. The recovery console worked fine, they are the same. But I was not able to save the system, They had a partial hard drive failure. I will not go into details here, but It took me two weeks to get their quickbooks 2000 back up and running on a new hard drive, plus 256 megs of new memory, and windows xp home edition as the OS, and we had to upgrade the quickbooks to 2004 to get it to run on the windows xp. I was sick one of the weeks, so I was only working on it a week. I was so disgusted with it all, that I only charged them $60 for my labor. I think it cost them around $700 all together, most of that was for the quickbooks 2004! As we used to say in the navy, if you can't troubleshoot it, just keep throwing new parts at it, you are bound to fix it someday!
Hi Susie, I am getting this feeling that your registry file is not doing to good. My suggestion is to save all your data to some type of a backup. Then make sure your emergency startup disk is working, and you have all your OS/software disks or know where to download them. I have never done a backup myself so I can't tell you what to backup or how to do it, or what is the best way. Now on my machine, as I built it, I boot off of the emergency disk and Format the disk, if I think there may have been a virus at work I will go ahead and do the fdisk/mbr command. What that does is rewrites the master boot record on the hard drive. I then go ahead and put my windows system back on, and then all my other software. Sure is a pain in the butt.
Hi Kidl, one of the best places to go looking for freeware is nonags. http://www.nonags.com/ In your case you want to brows down to http://www.nonags.com/nonags/monit.html The page is setup so the software that was posted last is on the top. Starting from the bottom the first program that may fit what you want to do is (user logger) there is a freeware version and a registered version which cost $50. Get it here, http://chemware.co.nz/usrlog.htm
The next one was called private eye, but The web site looks a little weird so I don't think you want to use it.
The next is KSlogger ver 1.0, http://www.kellysoftware.com/software/ksLogger.asp
Just to round out the selection there is a program called KL-Detector, which is designed to spot key logging programs. http://dewasoft.com/privacy/kldetector.htm
Hi Bruce, that brings up a good point. That buffer can be built into the hard drive, or it can be part of main memory. What I mean is some of the chip makers put sector cache's in the ide hard drive controller drivers. They were trying to get better performance numbers from the performance tests that magazines do on the different controller chips. Anyway, my last motherboard had VIA north and south bridge chips in it. I found the VIA miniport drivers here, http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=66 This page explains the difference between the three types of drivers. http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=342 At the bottom of the page they briefly explain the Performance Enhancement of the IDE Miniport Driver. The VIA IDE Miniport Driver uses a per-fetch algorithm to occupy other system memory and therefore increase hard disk performance.
Note before installing the driver be sure to create a restore point! When I installed them on my old system with windows ME, I could see a big performance difference for the hard drive speed, but for some reason my CD ROM could no longer the DMA mode but had to use the PIO mode. I know other chip makers did the same thing so it may be worth your time to look up the latest drivers from your chip makers.
Hi Don, This link that I gave to Aim Hier, http://www.isgplanning.com/Index.htm has a free for personal use program. Be sure to read the "Navigating an Investment Storm" article, which is about retiring in 1966, and having a bad decade. http://www.isgplanning.com/Storm.htm
Hi waterwisp, there are two clocks involved here there is a hardware clock on the motherboard, which you set manually in bios. Then their is the windows system clock. I don't have all the info on it that I would wish to have. But my understanding is that when window starts, it gets the time from the hardware clock once and then updates it through a software interrupt. If the battery on the motherboard is going dead, you probably have to reset all of your bios settings not just the clock. If you don't have to do that, it is probably means you have a lot of programs running at the same time. You may want to see if you can shut some of the miscellanies ones down. If you had windows XP you could set your time to the governments time, in the system. Being that you have Windows 98 you need to get a free program to do it for you. Be right back, got to go searching. Here are a lot of free ones, http://www.nonags.com/nonags/timec32.html
And here is one I have used before. http://vps.arachnoid.com/abouttime/
Hi Aim Hier, what way are you leaning toward's as far as investing? Being that you said you are getting close to retiring. did you read this message http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2634868 and check out the web site. I have been checking on other boards and it seems they think the safe withdraw rate to be between 2 and 4 % a year, based on thirty years to live after retirement.
Hi Tom, that last link had me rolling on the floor!
OT: Hi Aim Hier, on Nicholas Darvas, I liked his second book the best. Wall Street the other Las Vegas.
Hi Bob, did a quick look at the download page for the server. Not sure but you may need this software. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8255ffc-4b4a-40e7-a706-cde7e9b57e79&Di...