Friday, January 23, 2004

Ad-Aware Google Search It I was doing to many things at once an accidentally hit the OK button on an ActiveX Control dialog.  Barf!!!  I suddenly had a thousand programs installed all designed to somehow bombard me with ads!  Ugghhh!!  I spent hours uninstalling and stopping and deleting the stuff.  Truly there seem to 20-30 programs that got installed.  Even after uninstalling them all (I thought) I still have random pop-behind ads showing up when I browsed the web.  Anyway, I came across Ad-Aware and gave it a try.  It found over 100 items still lurking on my computer ready to pop-up at any time.  The program removed the stuff and the problem seems to have gone away.  I highly recommend it even if you haven't accidentally hit the Trust button. 3:49:40 AM   []    comment []

Creating a Bootable Windows CD-Rom/DVD Google Search It I gave Bart's PE Builder... very, very cool!  Not quite as good as Knoppix but this is a great tool to have.  I was even able to boot to the CD and use SetSFN to set the short files names of my Program Files and Documents and Settings directory on my primary boot partition.  Excellent.! 3:37:53 AM   []    comment []

Keeping synchronized folder structures Google Search It For some time now I have been wanting a good program for synchronizing folders between multiple computers.  The computers are not necessarily part of the same domain and I can only count on http or ftp access in some cases.  Lastly, I would like to tool to run as a service.  Well, I haven't selected a tool yet but this post has a good list of options.  Unfortunately, none of them fit all my requirements...at least not out of the box. 3:10:17 AM   []    comment []

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