johnny.ihackstuff.com: "What it looks like when computer hackers do their thing. This site presents fairly common exploits. Linux, Solaris, and Windows platforms are used as attackers and targets. "

Remove VeriSign as the .COM and .NET registry!

Why Recall the Registry from VeriSign?
** To stop VeriSign from abusing its position as the exclusive provider of .com and .net services.

** To support ICANN in its defense of the lawsuit filed against it by VeriSign.

** To provide stability to the Internet and protect it from unregulated abuse.

Sign Petition Here

Turbo10 Search Engine - Search the Deep Net -- London-based search engine allows a searcher to access 1000 databases and search engines. The deep Internet, or "hidden Web," is often characterized as the part of an iceberg that is below the ocean surface, whereas most search engines index only the easily visible, but relatively small, web content. Turbo10's meta search is regarded as a potential competitor to Google dominance.

robots.net - Robot news and Robotics Info

jfitz.com This document gives step by step instructions for customizing the right-click menu. Very useful stuff.....(free).....

driverheaven.net -- This radical, new Windows XP tweaker, supporting totally unseen tweaks, unique to the program. Among them is: Ultra-fast boot (rearrange boot files), Boot folder defragmentation, Prefetch folder cleaning, DNS cache optimization, File allocation size tweak, But that isn't all. It includes a plethora of other performance tweaks, which will make your Windows installation run faster than ever before as well as Windows Service configuration. For the first time ever, it allows the user to control a few of the most common performance suckers and annoyances. [from shellcity.net]

sover.net: "From 'Son Of Spy' freeware listings -- HTMLColor -- Use this small freeware app to pick up any color from the screen as HTML code (i.e. C0E3E3), HTML color name (i.e. Blue) or as RGB (i.e. 126,212,255). The app shows an enlarged picture of the local area around the cursor and a sample of the color under the cursor. "

themaninblue.com An online solitaire scrabble game entirely in DHTML!!

cd.textfiles.com: ": The Past on Plastic : Who knew that the companies looking for a quick buck through the late 1980's and early 1990's with 'Shovelware' CDs would become the unwitting archivists of the BBS age? No one did, but here we are, looking back, muttering thanks to these souless con artists as we plunder the very data they themselves took from a time now past.

The PC-Blue archive is a collection of disk images for IBM PCs from 1983 to 1985."

cd.textfiles.com: "The Past on Plastic -- Who knew that the companies looking for a quick buck through the late 1980's and early 1990's with 'Shovelware' CDs would become the unwitting archivists of the BBS age? No one did, but here we are, looking back, muttering thanks to these souless con artists as we plunder the very data they themselves took from a time now past. "

geeba.org Magic Mail Monitor -- Similar to MailWasher, Magic Mail Monitor allows you to access any POP3 email account to preview, filter and delete unwanted emails. Easy to learn explorer-like user interface.

This program is most useful for those with dial-up connections at home or traveling, since you can delete unwanted emails and attachments prior to downloading them into your regular email client. download.

support.microsoft.com - You may experience problems or you may receive error messages when you install IntelliType Pro 5.0 or IntelliPoint 5.0 software. If you use IntelliPoint 5.0 software on Windows XP Home or Pro, the mouse's scroll wheel and customized button assignments may not work. You might also find that the entire PC crashes about 10 minutes after being restarted. This affects at least the wireless versions of Microsoft's IntelliMouse Explorer, Optical Mouse, and Wheel Mouse.

Microsoft says this is caused by Terminal Services not being enabled on Windows XP. You could turn on Terminal Services, but if you don't have a need for this program, I recommend you leave it turned off.

A better solution is to install an IntelliPoint software update, which Microsoft re-released as recently as February 04. If you use that Microsoft's IntelliType Pro 5.0, it has a related problem that also requires an update to its software.

BlackSun Software: "Texefex freeware creates gradient text effects in your documents or webpages."

BlackSun Software : Freeware Tools: "X-Fonter covers all the bases when fonts are concerned. The main functionality of this program is to manage your fonts (install, uninstall, load, unload, compare, preview). X-Fonter supports all font types (TrueType, OpenType, Postscript Type 1, Raster, Vector). You can create your own color schemes and use your own preview text. There's a character map included for both ASCII and Unicode, so you can easily find out how a specific character looks, or whether that specific character is included in a font. Additionally, it also allows you to make 3D graphics that you can use for your webpages, emails and much more... The image editor includes some nice effects, like shadows, gradient colors, outlines and blurring.

The free version is fully functional for Truetype/Opentype fonts."

Both SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard are quality freeware, are regularly updated and have active support forums. They should be on every PC. If you haven't got them, I strongly recommend you download and install them at the first opportunity. Get them here: http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Users of Acrobat Reader are all too familiar with how long this product takes to load. With the release of V6, it's become agonizing. A lot of the delay comes from loading plug-ins, most of which have no value to the average user. You can bypass the loading of plug-ins by holding down the when the Reader starts. The difference in load time is amazing. If you want to permanently disable the plugs-in from loading just move them to another folder - full instructions:

Here's how to do it:
* Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader
* Create a new folder called plug_ins_disabled.
* Move all files from the plug_ins folder to the plug_ins_disabled folder
except EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api.
There should only be these 3 files in the plug_ins folder.
*You're done.

Tom's Hardware is running a two part how-to guide on migrating from Windows to Linux. It's not as detailed as you might expect from Tom's but it's an excellent starting point for those about to make the big shift.

From techsupportalert.com : The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities -- There are a lot of great freeware programs out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This is a personal selection of the best of the best.

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/ -- Despite the advertising, I can assure you that installing a wireless network can be a real pain. If you run into trouble try the excellent troubleshooting section at this site. The site has some excellent tutorials as well. [Tip from http://www.techsupportalert.com]

mywebattack.com: "1-4a Rename (One for All) is a powerful mass renaming tool, that can modify names and extension for a large number of files at once. It offers various renaming schemes, many of them not often found in other tools, as well as preview of the new file names and complete Undo. The program allows you to convert case, add prefixes, add incremental numbers, remove spaces, replace characters and more. Standalone, no install needed. Freeware."

oldstuff.myagora.net: "The Oldfiles Network -- Where you will find that DOS & Windows 3x Live On! Farewell to DOSLIFE, and wish him well for the future."

Urban Scrawl
"DaFont - 3,700 categorized free fonts
The Dingbat Pages - awesome huge collection of dingbats.
ThemeWorld Fonts - A good collection of fonts to grab, among other stuff.
Fonts & Things - A collection of the most unusual fonts online. This site contains a section on new font designers, font tools, and of course fonts sorted by theme.
FlashTyper - Create and Save Flash Text animations, online and for free! 100's of wicked effects!
FlamingText.com - as well as a large font resource, there is also a font generator.
1001 Free Fonts - #1 free font site online. Download the coolest free fonts. 50 new fonts added weekly!
Acid Fonts - Over 500 freeware and shareware fonts and dingbats for you to download, use and enjoy.
The Fontpool - Over 1000 freeware and shareware fonts for all major platforms.
Happy Hour Fonts - This is the font archive targeted toward 'Generation X.' All fonts here are free for downloading, and Happy Hour Fonts has a decent selection. Definitely worth a look.
Future Fonts - This site has both commercial and non-commercial fonts. Browse your way to their free downloads and you'll find a zipped file that comes with a nice selection of free fonts.
Handwriting and Symbolic - This site contains a selection of original handwritten fonts. The site appears to be updated frecuently including it's monthly font.
Font Freak - A large collection of fonts including mac fonts, dingbats, original, apps, and links."

Urban Scrawl: "There are some really good website templates here at a base price of around $60. Saves plenty of time..."

freelists.org: "Welcome to FreeLists, a service providing free, commercial-grade Internet mailing lists to all interested. Our lists are all internet and technology-related. Thus, we provide a free focal point for technology-inclined individuals and groups on the Internet. We do it all without the support of advertisements, ensuring the highest-quality mailing list experience for you and your users. Lists must be TECH-RELATED.

Why a mailing list? "

wentnet.com -- Special Keys - a utility to insert any character into any Windows program (for example, the ® symbol). You can define the buttons to insert any character you like, for typing in French, German or Spanish using a non-specific keyboard or just for those everyday things like ©, ™ and ±. No more keystrokes to remember or define, just click.....(free) . Found at shellcity.net

gamma.nic.fi: "How-to copy Windows 2000 to another disk/partition."

Nonviral threats were the number one reason consumers called Dell's tech support last year, said Maureen Cushman, one of three primary legal contacts for Dell's consumer business segment. 'They represented 12 percent of all tech support,' she said. 'Data shows that spyware calls are longer and require much more troubleshooting. Usually the complaint is that the computer is performing slowly. This slowness is often perceived as a hardware problem, which hurts our brand.'"

By Diana Huggins at lockergnome

One of the first things you probably noticed when you installed Windows XP is the Shared Documents folder. The idea behind this is a great one. A place to store documents, music, pictures, etc. that is available to anyone who uses the computer. Definitely a simple and easy way to share your data. However, we all have our preferences and some people don't like this feature of Windows XP. So, you can fine tune XP to meet your own preferences by permanently removing the Shared Documents folder. Doing so does require editing the registry, so use the steps with some level of caution.

Open your registry editor and navigate to the following registry key:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\

Software\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\

Explorer\My Computer\

Namespace\DelegateFolders

Locate
{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}
subkey and delete it.

Upon doing so, you will have successfully removed
the Shared Documents folder from your computer.

Wilders Security Forums

Re DOS files: (see http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-04-12.htm#1 ) .

There has been a thread running in news:alt.comp.freeware on DOS and the following links from a number of acf posters might be of interest to LangaList readers.

FreeDOS
http://www.freedos.org/

PC DOS 2000) from IBM (USD 67) http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/dos/
or http://www.ibm.com/software/os/dos/index.html

Caldera Open DOS
http://esca.atomki.hu/paradise/dos/opendos-en.html
ftp://esca.atomki.hu/pub/pc/dos/opendos/

OpenDOS 7.01 ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/OpenDOS/OpenDOS.701

Patches (LongFileNames etc) for OpenDos 7.01 by http://www.drdosprojects.de/ : read page and files for info/how-to apply patches, known bugs etc.

See also announcements by Udo Kuhnt, author of latter, in:
http://langa.com/u/4a.htm and http://langa.com/u/4b.htm

Unofficial DR-DOS Resources: http://www.drdos.net/

Club Dr-DOS: http://www.drdos.org/ (which currently points to:
http://langa.com/u/4c.htm )

For questions about (any) DOS try news: comp.os.msdos.misc

Hope these might be of interest. All the best, Gordon Darling

The series of articles here ( http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13000138 ) also list a ton of DOS resources. Seek and ye shall find!

GovTechNews: "state/local government-technology news blog"

LangaList: "XP is a larger system, no question, but many of its appetites can be controlled through system settings. And many of the rest can be controlled through good cleanup practices. See:

Ten Ways To Make Windows XP Run Better
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011204S0009

Ten More Ways To Make Windows XP Run Better
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17500569
Maximizing ''System Restore'' In WinME and WinXP
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020711S0009
System Setup Secrets For Windows XP
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12803122
Make Windows XP Self-Maintaining
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15600170
Clean Up XP
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-04-04.htm#2"