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That's probably for the best. Again, "this post" not "this website". You're doing the online equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears. It speaks volumes for your blind trust in government that you think this firewall will actually achieve anything in terms of stopping terrorists and paedophiles. In reality anyone with any sort of technical knowledge will tell you that's nonsense, and even Australian politicians are shying away from that as the main justification. Let me make that clear: even people on your side think you're stupid. The main thrust of their justifications now is blocking children from seeing adult porn, not adults from seeing kiddie porn. If I'm doing nothing wrong, then why do you need to know what I'm doing?

In other words you didn't even read the sources I posted after you criticized me for not posting any. This is not how one gains respect in an argument, and is a lot less fun than simply calling people names - you should pick one or the other, not neither. Yeah, it's not like they can scan pages for words automatically or anything. Seriously, destroy your credibility more, it's funny. By all accounts that's how the internet already is and has been since it's inception. Last I checked the sky hadn't fallen. The claims you're making as to this firewall's efficacy are wholly unrealistic; it doesn't have a hope in hell of stopping paedophiles and terrorists, and claiming otherwise isn't helping your case but rather just highlighting your naivety. It would be a minor inconvenience to those groups at best, but at worst it would be a tool to stifle political debate in the hands of this government or the next. I asked one real question in that post and the answer was 'China'. It's a case of using a chainsaw where a scalpel would be the ideal tool. The fact that it's being done in the name of protecting children is galling, and the fact that people like you lap that nonsense up is depressing.

No, but do I think my personal attacks are accurate? Hell yes. You're a dolt, and as if to prove it you post the notion that a digital firewall is going to stop real people abusing real children. In reality the opposite may even be true [1][2]. These people are sick but it's not the porn that's causing it. [*:3lelmfk4] Child porn was being distributed in encrypted form as early as 2001 [3]. The fact you're not aware of this speaks to your credibility, not mine. [*:3lelmfk4] I said "this post" not "this website." Learn to read. [*:3lelmfk4] "a napalm"? Do you even know what it is? If you do then learn to write, if you don't then see below. [*:3lelmfk4] Napalm is a flammable, sticky substance and beyond that not very exciting. The composition is public knowledge and available on wikipedia [4]. [*:3lelmfk4] This government (they who you love, trust and bend over for) have already banned all books that fall into the ridiculously wide category of containing "material that may be of use to terrorists." This was included in the The Terrorism Act 2000 [5]. Yes, that's 2000 as in 'before September 11th 2001'. They have already misused this legislation on a number of occasions [6][7][8]. That legislation was a sweeping grab for additional power for which there is little to no justification and so is this. [*:3lelmfk4] It's amusing that you'd mention China given that this Australian firewall is only the second of it's kind. Care to guess where the first was?

Congratulations, you're gullible. This firewall is going to block a grand total of two kiddie porn pictures per year, the other several million will continue to be transmitted undetectably much as they are now, via encrypted files on drop sites, etc. The reality is that this isn't about protecting children from seeing porn, nor is it about from keeping paedophiles from their beloved kiddie porn. This is about setting up an infrastructure with which they can block free thought and discussion, protect corporate interests (aka copyright) and quash political descent (this post). So %$#* you for supporting it, you bloody idiot. This is book-burning.

Grabbing the images from the PPT file is going to be a tough job. Unless someone else knows of an existing tool to do it you're going to need to read and understand the PowerPoint File Format Specification.

It may be a joke topic, but it's certainly not a misspelling.

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I'd recommend MediaCoder. It's a little rough around the edges but it can do what you want (and much more).

If you don't have the right codec installed then neither VLC or WMP will be able to play it. You will need to find out which codec your video file was generated with and install it. The most likely option is Xvid.

I have no idea why a DVD drive would report any kind of S.M.A.R.T. status. You should be able to disable S.M.A.R.T. in BIOS, probably in the Secondary Master (detection) settings.

It should show automatically. Is the drive shown as supporting S.M.A.R.T. in the Info tab? Also double-check that S.M.A.R.T. isn't disabled in the BIOS (I'd expect it's not due to the warning, but check anyway). Oh, and make sure you have the right drive selected, of course :P There are alternatives to HD Tune which might work; I believe Belarc Advisor can check S.M.A.R.T. status, too.

Download and install HD Tune, which is a free Hard Disk monitoring/testing utility. You can check S.M.A.R.T. values on the Health tab, which should help you determine what is wrong (it could just be exceeding Power On Hours (old drive?) or it might be actual disk damage causing sectors to be reallocated). Post a screenshot here if you require further help.

Doing a full repair install may not be necessary, try following the instructions here. You should also run chkdsk (from the Recovery Console) and try booting Windows again before making any changes.

Truevector has been known not to play well with certain peer-to-peer applications, particularly uTorrent. That being the case I wouldn't be surprised if other types of programs also caused the service to crash, so it may be worth testing your stability with various programs not running to narrow down the cause.

Double-clicking in the border should return it to normal.

Did you try Google? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=free+pdf+creator

That shouldn't make any difference, he's having trouble with the wireless connection between his router and his laptop, not between his router and the net. Errdoth: Is your wireless always laggy or only once in a while? The wireless connection speed is affected by signal strength and interference. You could try switching wireless channels (1, 6 and 11 are the usual choices, and 11 is often congested). Good positioning of the router and wireless card/dongle is also important.

I'd be interested in knowing your definition of restraint, given that you all too quickly lowered yourself to attacking my "friends" and claiming to be a "c++ software engineer" (which you're clearly not). Either way this thread is going nowhere. It can't be polluted because it was ridiculous to begin with.

Yes, here we go indeed. Another developmentally delayed script-kiddie who wants to fight crappy behaviour with more crappy behaviour. Joy. Would it help if I put soliciting illegal activity in bold? You should have stopped at step 3, thought for a second, and had step 4 finding out the name of whatever company/individual/ISP is receiving the keylogger's data and reporting it to them. In all likelihood they don't want their servers being used for such purposes any more than you want your RS account stolen.

What a great idea, have tip.it solicit illegal denial of service attacks! Not to mention the fact that 'the' keylogger probably sends its findings to an ftp/email server to be picked up later, not straight back to the kiddie's computer.

It's most likely your router. Open its configuration page and ensure that port 80 is forwarded to the local (LAN) IP of your server. I believe Belkin routers call this setting "Virtual Servers." Also make sure your domain resolves to your external (WAN) IP, not the local one. Finally note that some ISPs block connections to customers on port 80.

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Check your Recycle Bin, obiously ;) Failing that: do not save anything new to that disc if at all possible. Download and install Undelete Plus (or a similar program), preferably to another drive. Remember that any new data you save to your drive may overwrite the bits of the disc where your missing files are located. Edit: Both those videos work here. If everything loads but the video doesn't start then it's likely that the mirror that YouTube is allocating you for those videos is temporarily not working.

It's most likely a DNS problem if you're being sent to the default search page. Go to Start -> Run (Windows Key+R on Vista) and enter: "ipconfig /flushdns" (without the quotes), then click OK. Also try clearing your cache/temporary internet files in whatever browser you use (Internet Explorer, presumably, so Tools -> Internet Options)

If a program on one computer starts downloading from the net it will affect pings from the other computers, since you're sharing a single internet connection between all 3 PCs. The next time it happens you can use the "tracert" (traceroute) command to see at which point the lag is introduced.