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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Massive Multiplayer Online Games
There are two that I am currently involved with. The first being Zelderex
Click this link to join. By using this link, you will be added to my staff, which helps me out in the game. You will then also get a link of your own after you join, and the cycle continues.
The other game I am involved in is called Dragon Soldier. Come join my clan Gariki Village. We are growing into a powerful force! ¶ 9:21 AM 0 comments
Click this link to join. By using this link, you will be added to my staff, which helps me out in the game. You will then also get a link of your own after you join, and the cycle continues.
The other game I am involved in is called Dragon Soldier. Come join my clan Gariki Village. We are growing into a powerful force! ¶ 9:21 AM 0 comments
Friday, May 13, 2005
The Book of Five Rings
Regarding THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by Miyamoto Musashi, please consider an alternative.
During the time of Miyamoto Musashi, in the early 1600's of Japan, there lived a father and son, Yagyu Sekishusai Muneyoshi and his son, Yagyu Munenori.
I need to find some material about/by these Yagyu fellows. ¶ 6:29 PM 12 comments
During the time of Miyamoto Musashi, in the early 1600's of Japan, there lived a father and son, Yagyu Sekishusai Muneyoshi and his son, Yagyu Munenori.
I need to find some material about/by these Yagyu fellows. ¶ 6:29 PM 12 comments
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Sign up for Vonage and receive a free month of service!
Click on the following link.
Sign up for service and get a free month.
Pretty simple, huh. ¶ 11:01 PM 0 comments
Sign up for service and get a free month.
Pretty simple, huh. ¶ 11:01 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Been there, done that, GET THE T-SHIRT!
Check out my stuff at CafePress! It will continue to be updated and improved.
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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Spun a hub
axle seal
I recently spun a rear hub on my '84 CJ-7. Any ideas on how to get this out?
4/14/2005 pbm - Well, I got the seal out with a 13 pound slide hammer (can you say OVERKILL). I even got the axles put back in. Well, most of the parts are in. After I tightened everything down and reinstalled the brakes, I found a bearing spacer for one side that still needs to go in. Looks like I will be tearing everything down again, putting that spacer in, then putting everything back together again. It is really starting to get nice out. Makes me want to take the top off. You don't get much wind through your hair though sitting on jack-stands in the garage. I call that MOTIVATION. ¶ 8:25 PM 0 comments
axle seal
I recently spun a rear hub on my '84 CJ-7. Any ideas on how to get this out?
4/14/2005 pbm - Well, I got the seal out with a 13 pound slide hammer (can you say OVERKILL). I even got the axles put back in. Well, most of the parts are in. After I tightened everything down and reinstalled the brakes, I found a bearing spacer for one side that still needs to go in. Looks like I will be tearing everything down again, putting that spacer in, then putting everything back together again. It is really starting to get nice out. Makes me want to take the top off. You don't get much wind through your hair though sitting on jack-stands in the garage. I call that MOTIVATION. ¶ 8:25 PM 0 comments
Monday, February 07, 2005
Spyware, Malware, Adware, Virus, Trojans....
I have been getting a lot of calls lately regarding non-working machines. Most have been caused by too much spyware, malware, adware, viruses, and trojans. In my searching, I have come across the following free tools. Free is good...
A note on the programs listed below. They all have good help on their respective websites. Please read through their webpages and make sure you understand what will happen with use of these programs. I have not used ALL of these programs, but have used some, so I am not in a position to offer help on every program listed. And remember: there's no more important safety rule than to wear these: safety glasses
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The following is an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer. Most of the adware, spyware, and malware is specifically written for exploits in Internet Explorer. I have been using Firefox for a number of months now, and absolutely love it. It has a built-in popup blocker, and the ability to add extensions that greatly enhance its usefulness.
Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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The following programs help stop and get rid of malware, spyware, and adware. A quick note on these tools. It is best to use more than one specific tool. It has been shown that a single tool cannot find and remove all spyware, adware, and malware. Download them all, install them and run them, one after the other, until all three programs can find no more 'baddies' lurking on your system.
Spywareblaster: http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Ad-Aware Personal Edition: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta):http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Note: Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) works well, but only works on systems running MS Windows 2000 or above. Sorry you 98 users (all three of you. You know, even Microsoft doesn't support Windows 98 anymore. It's time to upgrade!), but you will have to use the other tools that are listed.
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The following programs are free Anti-virus scanners.
Grisoft AVG Free Edition http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
avast! 4 Home Edition http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
Updates to both programs can be found on their respective websites. Check them often and get the latest virus updates for whichever program you use. This will ensure that the scan engine will have the ability to detect the latest threats.
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The following websites have removal tools for various virii and trojans
McAfee AVERT Stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
Stinger is updated as new threats are identified. It usually contains fixes for the current top 40 threats, and is updated frequently. I suggest downloading the latest copy each and every time you want to run this program.
Grisoft Virus Removal Tools http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_ts_removers.php
Symantec Virus Removal Tools http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html
Symantec's site offers excellent instructions on the use of each individual removal tool
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The following sites offer free personal firewall programs
ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/trial_zaFamily/trial_zaFamily.jsp?lid=2home_freedownloads
Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall from Agnitum http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
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Please feel free to post comments about the software listed here, and definitely add to this list software that you use. ¶ 10:30 PM 1 comments
A note on the programs listed below. They all have good help on their respective websites. Please read through their webpages and make sure you understand what will happen with use of these programs. I have not used ALL of these programs, but have used some, so I am not in a position to offer help on every program listed. And remember: there's no more important safety rule than to wear these: safety glasses
++++++++++
The following is an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer. Most of the adware, spyware, and malware is specifically written for exploits in Internet Explorer. I have been using Firefox for a number of months now, and absolutely love it. It has a built-in popup blocker, and the ability to add extensions that greatly enhance its usefulness.
Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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The following programs help stop and get rid of malware, spyware, and adware. A quick note on these tools. It is best to use more than one specific tool. It has been shown that a single tool cannot find and remove all spyware, adware, and malware. Download them all, install them and run them, one after the other, until all three programs can find no more 'baddies' lurking on your system.
Spywareblaster: http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Ad-Aware Personal Edition: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta):http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Note: Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) works well, but only works on systems running MS Windows 2000 or above. Sorry you 98 users (all three of you. You know, even Microsoft doesn't support Windows 98 anymore. It's time to upgrade!), but you will have to use the other tools that are listed.
++++++++++
The following programs are free Anti-virus scanners.
Grisoft AVG Free Edition http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
avast! 4 Home Edition http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
Updates to both programs can be found on their respective websites. Check them often and get the latest virus updates for whichever program you use. This will ensure that the scan engine will have the ability to detect the latest threats.
++++++++++
The following websites have removal tools for various virii and trojans
McAfee AVERT Stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
Stinger is updated as new threats are identified. It usually contains fixes for the current top 40 threats, and is updated frequently. I suggest downloading the latest copy each and every time you want to run this program.
Grisoft Virus Removal Tools http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_ts_removers.php
Symantec Virus Removal Tools http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html
Symantec's site offers excellent instructions on the use of each individual removal tool
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The following sites offer free personal firewall programs
ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/trial_zaFamily/trial_zaFamily.jsp?lid=2home_freedownloads
Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall from Agnitum http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
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Please feel free to post comments about the software listed here, and definitely add to this list software that you use. ¶ 10:30 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
LangaList Newsletter
I do not want to turn this site into an advertisement, but I cannot help but pass this along. I cannot recommend this newsletter enough. Full of tips and tricks to help you out in your techie troubles. Become a premium member and have access to the full archive of past newsletters, plus get additional content, not available to the standard free edition subscribers. Plus, premium membership runs about $1.00 a MONTH! You cannot beat that price for the content that is provided. I learn a new trick or tip in virtually EVERY edition!
For more information, click on the banner below.
Please post in the comments to this entry any other websites that you think may be usefull to the many tech problems we run across. ¶ 9:20 AM 1 comments
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Please post in the comments to this entry any other websites that you think may be usefull to the many tech problems we run across. ¶ 9:20 AM 1 comments
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
How this page is made
Blogger: Create your Blog Now -- FREE
I especially like the "-- FREE" part!
In case you haven't already figured it out, I use blogger to host my blog. For those of you not-in-the-know, a 'blog' is a slang term for weblog. It's all the rage these days!
To help make posting easier, I also use the Mozilla Firefox extension JustBlogIt! which helps in posting a blog entry from any of the many webpages that I visit.
For posting pictures to my blog, I also use hello, a program from Picasa. The following is taken from their website, and I think describes hello much better than I can.
"Hello enables users to instantly share images securely over a peer-to-peer network and chat about them. The new Hello “BloggerBot” enables Hello users to post photos and captions to their Blogger blogs. The BloggerBot resizes the photo, uploads and publishes it to the web in seconds."
Once again, all of this is available free! Feel free to post comments on this (or any other) entry in my blog. If you need help, I will try my best to do that, but just remember, I am as much of an idiot as you are. Haveaniceday. ¶ 8:44 AM 0 comments
I especially like the "-- FREE" part!
In case you haven't already figured it out, I use blogger to host my blog. For those of you not-in-the-know, a 'blog' is a slang term for weblog. It's all the rage these days!
To help make posting easier, I also use the Mozilla Firefox extension JustBlogIt! which helps in posting a blog entry from any of the many webpages that I visit.
For posting pictures to my blog, I also use hello, a program from Picasa. The following is taken from their website, and I think describes hello much better than I can.
"Hello enables users to instantly share images securely over a peer-to-peer network and chat about them. The new Hello “BloggerBot” enables Hello users to post photos and captions to their Blogger blogs. The BloggerBot resizes the photo, uploads and publishes it to the web in seconds."
Once again, all of this is available free! Feel free to post comments on this (or any other) entry in my blog. If you need help, I will try my best to do that, but just remember, I am as much of an idiot as you are. Haveaniceday. ¶ 8:44 AM 0 comments
Saturday, December 04, 2004
The day after Thanksgiving traditional kill-a-tree event
As is tradition in the Miller household, the day after Thanksgiving, we meet up with my dad and stepmom at the St. Joe Christmas Tree Farm. Pictures follow of this historical event
Don and Jan (Dad and Stepmom) at the Christmas tree farm.
Abbie at the Christmas tree farm
Self-portrait of Caleigh. She really likes this digital-photog thing. ALOT!
Caleb, in full on plumber/lumberjack mode, with me pointing out the obvious.
Asher in full on lumberjack mode.
Mom, also known as Judy, or JUUUU-DAYYYY. Shown 'supervising' installtion of tree-trimmings
Back row, l-r: Lydia, Caleb, Asher, Rachel. Front row, l-r: Caleigh, Abbie
Satan, I mean Jetta, preparing to damage the installed Christmas tree at home.
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Don and Jan (Dad and Stepmom) at the Christmas tree farm.
Abbie at the Christmas tree farm
Self-portrait of Caleigh. She really likes this digital-photog thing. ALOT!
Caleb, in full on plumber/lumberjack mode, with me pointing out the obvious.
Asher in full on lumberjack mode.
Mom, also known as Judy, or JUUUU-DAYYYY. Shown 'supervising' installtion of tree-trimmings
Back row, l-r: Lydia, Caleb, Asher, Rachel. Front row, l-r: Caleigh, Abbie
Satan, I mean Jetta, preparing to damage the installed Christmas tree at home.
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Thanksgiving day with the In-Laws, at our house.
Thanksgiving day with my In-Laws was hosted by us this year. The In-Laws and Grandparents In-Law rented an RV and drove down from MI to be with us on Thanksgiving day, and then were going to take the GPIL on to Ohio, so they could visit for probably the last time their brothers and siters. A good time was had by all. Photos follow.
Three generations in the Howard Steele family. Gerald, Joel, and Howard
Miriam (MIL)
Gerald (FIL) and Jenny (BIL's girlfriend)
A surprised looking Rachel(SIL), and a not-ready-for-photo looking Irene. Kind of makes me wonder were Irene's hands are.
Steve (SIL's 'friend'), Rachel (SIL)
Jason (friend of family) and a very surprised looking Irene. I wonder where exactly Jason's left hand is?????
Jetta (It's called a cat), otherwise known as Satan.
Howard (my GPIL), Lydia (my lovely wife), and Marie (GPIL, wife of Howard)
Joel (BIL) and Jenny
Abigail, Rachel, and Steve
Asher (Nephew), photo taken at me mum's
Moi (me you idiot), and Lydia (My very signicifcant other!)
Miriam and Gerald
Irene, Miriam, Caleigh's arms and part of her head ¶ 1:12 PM 0 comments
Three generations in the Howard Steele family. Gerald, Joel, and Howard
Miriam (MIL)
Gerald (FIL) and Jenny (BIL's girlfriend)
A surprised looking Rachel(SIL), and a not-ready-for-photo looking Irene. Kind of makes me wonder were Irene's hands are.
Steve (SIL's 'friend'), Rachel (SIL)
Jason (friend of family) and a very surprised looking Irene. I wonder where exactly Jason's left hand is?????
Jetta (It's called a cat), otherwise known as Satan.
Howard (my GPIL), Lydia (my lovely wife), and Marie (GPIL, wife of Howard)
Joel (BIL) and Jenny
Abigail, Rachel, and Steve
Asher (Nephew), photo taken at me mum's
Moi (me you idiot), and Lydia (My very signicifcant other!)
Miriam and Gerald
Irene, Miriam, Caleigh's arms and part of her head ¶ 1:12 PM 0 comments
Thursday, December 02, 2004
More BitTorrent linkage
BitTorrent is a protocol lets users download large files in a quick, efficient way. It allows much faster speeds than the http protocol, upwards of 1,000 times faster! Basically, it leverages other users that have the same file that you want to get. Other users send you parts of a files(s) that you still need, and at the same time, shares with them files that you may have that they may need. For more info, please visit the following link:http://www.bittorrent.com - The official BitTorrent website!
The following links may contain material of an adult nature. It seems that porn is pretty popular in the torrent circles, along with full ISO images of computer software.
Sites with torrent files:
http://www.lokitorrent.com
http://www.nforce.nl/
http://www.phoenix-torrents.com
http://www.suprnova.org/
http://torrent.youceff.com/index2.php
These sites have links to torrent file sites, torrent news sites, torrent clients
http://www.torrentz.com
http://www.forums.bytemonsoon.co.uk/
http://www.torrentwatcher.coolfreepage.com/index.html
These sites let you search for specific torrent files
http://www.hypertorrent.com
http://throughput.de/home_en.html
For those of you that use the Azureus BitTorrent client (the one that I recommend), there is a plugin called RSS Importer http://tinyurl.com/48q8c that you can get that searches torrent sites that have RSS(Really Simple Syndication) news feeds for torrent files that you can specify. I found this to be quite handy when searching for specific TV show torrents. For instance, you can have it search for king.of.queens.01 (the plugin uses regular expressions) and the plugin will search the specified torrent sites and begin downloading any torrent that has king.of.queens.01 in the filename, which would be season 1. The plugin remembers which files it has downloaded, so if it finds the same torrent on another site, it skips it and goes on with the rest of your list.
For more information on 'Broadcatching', check out this link http://tinyurl.com/3qjux
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The following links may contain material of an adult nature. It seems that porn is pretty popular in the torrent circles, along with full ISO images of computer software.
Sites with torrent files:
http://www.lokitorrent.com
http://www.nforce.nl/
http://www.phoenix-torrents.com
http://www.suprnova.org/
http://torrent.youceff.com/index2.php
These sites have links to torrent file sites, torrent news sites, torrent clients
http://www.torrentz.com
http://www.forums.bytemonsoon.co.uk/
http://www.torrentwatcher.coolfreepage.com/index.html
These sites let you search for specific torrent files
http://www.hypertorrent.com
http://throughput.de/home_en.html
For those of you that use the Azureus BitTorrent client (the one that I recommend), there is a plugin called RSS Importer http://tinyurl.com/48q8c that you can get that searches torrent sites that have RSS(Really Simple Syndication) news feeds for torrent files that you can specify. I found this to be quite handy when searching for specific TV show torrents. For instance, you can have it search for king.of.queens.01 (the plugin uses regular expressions) and the plugin will search the specified torrent sites and begin downloading any torrent that has king.of.queens.01 in the filename, which would be season 1. The plugin remembers which files it has downloaded, so if it finds the same torrent on another site, it skips it and goes on with the rest of your list.
For more information on 'Broadcatching', check out this link http://tinyurl.com/3qjux
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Need For Speed Underground 2
Current cars in my possession in NFSU2
Mustang GT w/10 star rating I might add
Hyundai Tiburon GT V6 in Brasil theme
Cadillac Escalade, plain vanilla
Audi A3, nothing done to it, never driven
Audi TT, fun car for drift events ¶ 2:56 PM 3 comments
Mustang GT w/10 star rating I might add
Hyundai Tiburon GT V6 in Brasil theme
Cadillac Escalade, plain vanilla
Audi A3, nothing done to it, never driven
Audi TT, fun car for drift events ¶ 2:56 PM 3 comments
Sunday, November 28, 2004
