New computer with PVR included. Just figured out how to set up the dsl antenna. Fast, hope my games will play on it.

HP m8430f

HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion Media Center m8430f Desktop
(2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB DDR2, 750GB, DVD?RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit - MPN: KJ376AA)
Price Range: $949.99 - $959.00 from 3 Sellers

Description: The HP Pavilion Media Center M8430F TV Desktop PC is designed and built for your Digital life. Take control of your digital entertainment with a PC that helps you consolidate, organize and play your favorite TV shows, movies, music, photos and videos. The Intel Core 2 Quad processor delivers four complete execution cores within a single processor, delivering unprecedented performance and responsiveness in multi-threaded and multi-tasking business and home use environments. Minimize

Schweeeet.

New computer with PVR included. Just figured out how to set up the dsl antenna. Fast, hope my games will play on it.

HP m8430f

HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion Media Center m8430f Desktop
(2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB DDR2, 750GB, DVD?RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit - MPN: KJ376AA)
Price Range: $949.99 - $959.00 from 3 Sellers

Description: The HP Pavilion Media Center M8430F TV Desktop PC is designed and built for your Digital life. Take control of your digital entertainment with a PC that helps you consolidate, organize and play your favorite TV shows, movies, music, photos and videos. The Intel Core 2 Quad processor delivers four complete execution cores within a single processor, delivering unprecedented performance and responsiveness in multi-threaded and multi-tasking business and home use environments. Minimize

Ceti Alpha 5?


Hmmm... Botany Bay? BOTANY BAY! Oh no....


KHAAAAAANNNN!!!!!

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Think twice before eating those dropped crumbs off your computer keyboard -- you might as well be eating off a toilet seat, according to a new study on the amount of germs on keyboards.

A study by British consumer magazine "Which? Computing" asked a microbiologist to examine 33 keyboards in a typical London office, a toilet seat and a toilet door handle, for bugs generally found in unhygienic places.

Four keyboards were judged potential health hazards and the microbiologist recommended the removal of one keyboard as it had 150 times the pass limit of bacteria -- five times filthier than the swabbed toilet seat.

The study found that eating lunch at desks is the main cause of a bug-infested keyboard. Dropped crumbs and food encourages the growth of millions of bacteria.

Poor personal hygiene, such as not washing hands after going to the toilet, may also add to the dirtiness of keyboards.

But despite the health hazard of a dirty keyboard, a survey of 4,000 people by the magazine found one in 10 people -- or 11 percent -- never cleaned their keyboard while another two in 10 never cleaned their mouse.

Almost half -- or 46 per cent -- cleaned their keyboard less than once a month.

To clear out bugs, the magazine recommends users unplug keyboards, turn them upside down and shake them.

The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you."

You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you been hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer?

Nope, you're just getting a little backscatter-- bounceback messages from legitimate e-mail servers that have been fooled by the spammers.

Spammers like to put fake information in their e-mail messages in order to sneak them past e-mail filters. Because e-mail filters now just delete messages that come from nonexistent domains, the spammers like to make their messages look like they come from real e-mail addresses. That means, if your e-mail address has been published on the Web somewhere, you're a prime candidate for backscattering.

The spammer finds your address, or sometimes even guesses it, and then puts it in the "from" line of his messages, sending them out to hundreds of thousands of recipients. When the spam gets sent to an address that is no longer active, it can sometimes be bounced back... to you.

Although Sophos estimates that backscatter makes up just two percent or three percent of all spam, antispam vendors say these messages are on the rise lately.

While backscatter is extremely hard to filter out, it is a problem that can be fixed.

Backscatter comes in three varieties: messages from mail servers, saying that there is no such user available; "out of office" automated reply messages; and so-called challenge-response messages, which tell the sender that his message will be delivered only once he responds to the bounceback and confirms that the e-mail is coming from a legitimate address.

Security experts say that people should simply stop using these last two types of bounceback messages.

As for "no such user" bouncebacks, that can be fixed too. There are a few e-mail standards that could help with the problem: Variable Envelope Return Path(VERP) and Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV), for example.

Okay, so I'm sitting at my computer eating my dinner, as is typical, and I come across this article:

Computer keyboards can be dirtier than a toilet: study



D'oh!

So I took this opportunity to shake it out and saturate it with hospital strength End-Bac II Disinfectant Spray , which will kill EVERYTHING (probably including me based on the MSDS.)

You might want to take this opportunity to clean your own.

Babylon 5 is much better than Star Trek, IMO.

Of course I've seen all the originals, Next Generation and Voyager.

I got tired of Roddenberry's wife doing all the computer voices. She played a Centari prophetess on B-5. She got around.

Ever see B-5 vs Star Trek?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxzmCV0kP4

Okay, so I'm sitting at my computer eating my dinner, as is typical, and I come across this article:

Computer keyboards can be dirtier than a toilet: study



D'oh!

So I took this opportunity to shake it out and saturate it with hospital strength End-Bac II Disinfectant Spray , which will kill EVERYTHING (probably including me based on the MSDS.)

You might want to take this opportunity to clean your own.

sometimes I hit the keys with alcohol

I keep a spray bottle with a bleach and soap solution full at all times. Don't have any fancy disinfectant, but bleach was good enough for restaurant use. That or sometimes I hit the keys with alcohol.

cheers!

I keep a spray bottle with a bleach and soap solution full at all times. Don't have any fancy disinfectant, but bleach was good enough for restaurant use. That or sometimes I hit the keys with alcohol.

Maybe I'll hit the home computer with that. Although I just bought a new wireless keyboard, and I don't typically eat around my home computer. Still....

I autoclave my entire office every night.

I autoclave my entire office every night.

Okay, so I'm sitting at my computer eating my dinner, as is typical, and I come across this article:

Computer keyboards can be dirtier than a toilet: study



D'oh!

So I took this opportunity to shake it out and saturate it with hospital strength End-Bac II Disinfectant Spray , which will kill EVERYTHING (probably including me based on the MSDS.)

You might want to take this opportunity to clean your own.

Wow. That was beautiful. What was it from? I wanna see it.

My curse is cat hair. I saw one hair sticking up out of my keyboard. Took a toothpick and ran it down between the keys and found a whole new cat. It was terrible.

[...] and found a whole new cat.

A fan did that.

File under the heading "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"

Decided to surprise wife and daughters with their own laptops. In the process of transferring data using a file and data transfer utility whereby one computer acts as a harddrive for the other - disaster. All was well until time to disconnect the computers. Last step was disconnect cable and turn off old machine. Now the old computer will not turn on - had been running 24/7 without a hitch for 2.5 years. In the shop today at the new simplyMac store where the laptops were bought - of course the 3 yr warranty is over - we'll see what comes on Monday.

Bad News (for some )

Was a power supply. Now back online, so I guess you'll have to put up with me again!

Bad News (for some )

Was a power supply. Now back online, so I guess you'll have to put up with me again!

Glad to hear it.

I was looking at them at Best Buy today. Nothing cheaper than 99 bucks. Last one I bought was $25. Guess I have to go online to find a deal if I want to try and fix the old comp.

The new Media Center is great fun. Records shows or series and comes with plenty of memory to get all I want.

The other night I'm PC'n it and I hear an alert sound on my girlfriend's pc while her teenage daughter is using it. I look over in time to see her disable a McCaffe virus alert and she started downloading 6 toolbars. Not good. Some things she didn't even plan on using. A weather alert?? It took a long time and a few programs to get rid of that sheit. She got a quick introduction into viruses. She was at that myspace site. They hooked her in with a cute cartoon.

McCaffee isn't bad but you can't disable it. grrrr......

On the flip side the pc is faster now that I've cleaned it up. Funny how that works.

Spybot Search and Destroy has a place that lists all homepages. That is in their tools section.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A Westchester woman who had her laptop stolen was able to connect to the computer, photograph two suspects and give the photos to police.

White Plains Police say they used the photos to arrest Edmon Shahikian, 23, of Katonah and 20-year-old Ian Frias of the Bronx Wednesday night. Police say they recovered most of the $5,000 worth of electronics stolen from the woman's White Plains apartment back on April 27.

Police say the woman was called from a friend asking if she was online.

The victim said no and was told by the friend that her computer showed her as being on the Internet.

At that point the victim signed onto another computer and used the "Back to My Mac" program to determine that her stolen MacIntosh laptop was on the Web.

She then used the stolen computer's camera to photograph Shahikian.

My laptop comes with a laptop Lojack, but I didn't bother paying for it. Glad things worked out for her, but generally I figure laptops are disposable. Get the cheapest one you can live with and plan for it to last the length of the warranty.