BBW, you are very welcome! I've used the site before, but the extension is just awesome. There is no need to type username or password or even hit the button. right-click, select bugMeNot and you are in.

Rahvin: another solution (if you use XP) is to have two users on the system, and just switch from one to another.

Ok, i got a few more extensions:

Translate - thanks to Fencer,
MapIt - maps any highlighted address to mapquest.com
BugMeNot - if you don't know what that is, check out bugmenot.com website. That's a database of login/passwords for many websites that require free registration.

Also, i found that you can add your favorite search engine to that list in the right top corner. Good for people who want to have other than enlgish search.

I still think it's a little slower than IE if you hit some very slow server on the other end of the world. IE loads picture faster. But extensions functionality is awesome.

Wow, FireFox has a lot of nice extensions. Anybody has any favorites? I like this one. A lot of options how tab browsing works. I especially like the little "X" button i can add on every tab.

yeah, that's the other tool that i mentioned. It's not bad, almost like the original yahoo toolbar.

I thought there is no Yahoo toolbar for firefox, there is only a third party tool that tries to mimic one.

what stoped you from changing colors in IE?

I personally think Firefox i slower. I takes a little longer to load pages. BTW My.Yahoo supports RSS.

Wow, i used Fortran 77 a little, from what i remember that would be a total rewrite.

I didn't say C is a pure language, i said "pure C" as oppose to C++.

let me repeat myself, is anybody using pascal?

Any operating system engineer. Linux is 71% pure C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

Is anybody using pascal anywhere besides school?

3 layers?!!

I know some photographers who open canned food in a darkroom, so it doesn't go bad while they eat it.

whoever tries to connect from 208.51.89.181 is not part of your operating system. Don't let them in.

BTW, this is a nice website that tells you where is any IP is located (probably not 100% accurate)
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

I think personal firewalls are overrated. they give users fake feel of security. I've never used an antivirus or a personal firewall for more than a day. Every time i try one i feel it's waste of my time and computer resources.

I never had a virus on my home computer.

<Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager -> expand "Universal Serial Bus controllers". (that applies to NT and XP only)

There are password managers that have relatively good encryption. for example Password Safe

ok, i got more invites from gmail. Message me your email address if you want to get one.

I like ACDSee, but not the latest version, i like 5.0

gmail.com - email offered by google.com

first company to offer 1Gb of space

P.S. I don't have any invites any more.

BBW, so what do you think of gmail? are you sticking with it after all?

I have one gmail invitation. Anybody?

how do you define "reasonable"? I think it's a fast connection. People have 3mb/sec and 5mb/sec, but if all you do is just browse the web and play brainking that's more then enough.

Does anybody have any experience with Voice-over-IP companies like Vonage or Lingo?

your windows are not waterproof?

well, something is crashing, you just need to find out the name of the executable. Monitor the task manager, see what processes are in the memory.

What's in your HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry?

oh, yeah, and check the registry, i bet it's in "Run" somewhere, you are not the only one with this problem: http://computercops.biz/postlite66589-sdkcp.html

you searched for sdkcp.exe and it can't find it?

if you don't know what it is, Microsoft doesn't know what it is and it keeps crashing - delete it.

coffee didn't help. try espresso :) "htpp"?

another good website with speed test, tools to make your broadband to work faster and other info: http://www.dslreports.com

i got 7.9 megabits per second

:))

That means with this speed BBW can make 243489 moves a day

you'll never go back to dial-up now

I got my gmail today too.

Yahoo lets you to "flag" messages, just like "Star" in gmail.

Also, did you notice, there is no "delete message" in gmail, only "move to trash". Same thing, don't know why they did that.

:) Backoff, do you really need that kind of speed? When i lived in NYC my provider upgraded me for free to 5Mb/sec, so pages loaded in 0.3 seconds instead of 0.5 seconds :)

Summertop maybe right. Even empty recycle bin takes some place.

my co-worker has a gmail invitation, looks like all english, indian and russian first names already taken :)

I guess i'll stick to yahoo. I got in early enough to use my first name variation :)

I heard that once testing is done Google may remove all test accounts. BTW, only for $20/year yahoo will give 2Gb, POP access and some other extras.

I had a very good experience with Spy Sweeper

I am with you on that too, Aragon, i personally use it only to get european movies that are not published in US.

Use eMule, it's open source, so i doubt there is any spyware built it.

I am a little surprised that Quicken and EditPad are installed in WINNT directory. And most of the latest versions of quicken are called qw.exe

it's JVC XV-N50
The original box says "Region 1", but many companies sell it "hacked" so it plays all Regions. PAL-to-NTSC Converter is official.

There are few stores on the web that sell it, I'll let you know where my brother shopped.

<Sorry, i am answering an old post. I've just joined this board.

I got a great JVC Region Free DVD player with built in PAL->NTSC converter as a present from my brother. Works great. I was able to play Region 5 Pal DVD on american NTSC TVSet.

If you are still interested i can ask him where he bought it.