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Other choices in software might work better
by "Paradigm Web Design - ed"＠lakesplus.com 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

>From: Steve Black - webworker(a)grapemail.net >Subject: ScanDisk and Defrag aren't working. What do I do? > >I am having a problem running maintainence on my computer. >ScanDisk and Defrag seem to keep running over and over >without any results. Also, my clock kicks back an hour ever >once in a while for no apparrent reason. Has anyone else >ever ran into these problems? Any suggestions? Steve, Before trying to defrag or run Scan disk, be sure to exit every single application that may be runing in the background. Right click all the little icons on the right side of your task bar and exit those applications. The Defrag and Scan disk that comes with Windows isn't very good. I would suggest searching http://zdnet.com for others. There are many free or low-cost programs that will handle this job for you much more efficiently. ReG@rds, Ed Paradigm Web Design Because an effective website doesn't have to be costly. http://ParadigmWebDesign.net Subscribe to Web Sm@rts http://paradigmwebdesign.net/subscribe.html ++++ Next Answer - Same Question ++++

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End all tasks before starting
by "Michael MacKian - ml"＠mackian.freeserve.co.uk 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

>From: Steve Black - webworker(a)grapemail.net >Subject: ScanDisk and Defrag aren't working. What do I do? This is usually caused by something modifying the disk contents so the program says 'whoops!' and starts all over again. Particular sinners are screen savers - turn them off when doing a defrag - and programs like Task Scheduler, FindFast and Promotivator. Press ctl-alt-del (once!) to bring up a list of open programs, highlight a program that looks suspect and press 'end task', then go back and do the next one. (Don't press Shut Down, because that shuts the whole darned computer down!) For a guide on which ones you can safely turn off in this way, send a blank email to mkncys(a)fastresponse.com Good luck! Michael MacKian Sshhh!! - I've found the secret of making money on the internet....... http://reduce.to/puregold ______________________________________________________ >>>>>> WEBSITE SHOWCASES <<<<<< Examine carefully - those with email addresses included WILL trade links with you, you are encouraged to contact them. And, there are many ways to build a successful business. Just look at these successful sites/programs other members are involved in... ------------------------------------------------- CashPO is Paid E-Mail Central! Get FREE REFERRALS, _KEEP_ referrals when new programs are added; free advertising to other members, and soon chances to win cash! http://www.cashpo.net/CashPO/openpage.php4?c=2 ------------------------------------------------- *** FREE MP3 PLAYER *** FREE Sony MP3 Digital Stereo Player & More Everything is FREE at iRewards http://www.adreporting.com/at.cgi?a=156074&e=/3/ ------------------------------------------------- For a limited time only, we are offering --TWO-- FREE eBooks to show you how to MAKE MONEY ON THE INTERNET! Use our PROVEN, DUPLICATABLE methods to get in on this EXPLODING opportunity now! Visit us at: http://www.Abundance-Group.com to collect your FREE offers! Trade Links - Gina(a)AbundanceGroup.com ------------------------------------------------- If you have a product, service, opportunity and/or quality merchandise that appeals to people worldwide, reach your target audience! 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SITES TO REVIEW: Site #132: http://www.essjayar.co.uk/ Stuart stuart.reid(a)ntlworld.com Site #133: http://www.gems-gifts.com Michael Blanchette mfj(a)netway.com Site #134: http://www.LenSeiderInc.com Len Seider Lenseider(a)cs.com Site #135: http://www.alabastercove.com webmaster(a)alabastercove.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SITE REVIEWED! Comments on Site #131: http://www.webwitness.homestead.com John Stitzel oldstitz(a)yahoo.com ~~~~ I liked how this site was focused on one subject. The text on the home page made it clear what the site was about and what I would find within its pages. Well done, most people don't get that right. Suggestions: move the navigation buttons from the bottom of the page to the left side, they get lost in all those banners. Also there are way too many banners and graphics on each page. The graphics are too large and really make the pages slow loading. Your logo 'Witness on the Web' is over 100K alone. Your entire page, with all the graphics on it, should not be that large. Also if you are going to embed a sound file on the page please give us an option of turning it off. Hope I'm not coming off too negative - it is an attractive site with a nice use of color and text. I think its a great start. ~~~~ Webwitness loaded very slow. I think you'll lose visitors who don't want to wait, and that would be a shame. Optimize the graphics, and maybe use smaller pictures or eliminate some to speed up the loading time. Move your links to the top of the page. ~~~~ John, I really enjoyed your site, but I think with a few changes it could be improved. I would definitely recommend moving your link buttons to the left side column so visitors don't have to scroll way way down to the bottom of the page to visit the other pages. On your purposestatement page, you don't need the bright blue 'welcome.' It doesn't match the rest ofthe page, and visitors have already been welcomed at the home page. On your testimony page I saw a link to your mailing list. Have this as a separate link button to make it more noticeable and get more people to sign up. Also, you might want to add a 'recommend to a friend' link. I liked your left column borders, and they did relate nicely, but I think they made the pages load slooowly. If you stuck with one border, I'm thinking it would speed up the loading of all the pages. I liked the name of your website, it went well with your subject and focus. Some things I really enjoyed - your personal touch and message throughout the site, the calming feeling of the design, the testimonies. In fact, just keep building the content - it's great. With some changes to the layout, and contacting other sites for trading links you'll have a successful website. ~~~~ This site needs desperately to optimize all graphics. I waited and waited and it never did completely load. ~~~~ First impression while uploading: very appealing as the border came up immediately. Then the doves showed up and I did not like them at all. Takes up time to load and distracts from the text. I would not have them. If you feel you just have to have doves, stick to the static picture. No animation. The "witness on the web" Logo took forever to load up. Could that be done in just writing, without the background or what ever slows it down? The opening portion one sees initially before scrolling looks good except for the doves up on top. But when one scrolls down to all these banners, links etc, things get really confusing. Would there be a way you can have a few link buttons that go to additional pages rather then to have all of this clutter down below? I never did link to any of the other pages or sites. 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All coding is between '[' and ']' instead of the less than and greater than signs to avoid any conflict in the newsletter.   [FORM ACTION=http://www.yourdomain.com method=POST] [input type=hidden name="mail_to" value="your email address"] [input type=hidden name="subject" value=       "I would like to join your program for free!"] [input type=hidden name="required" value="firstname,lastname,email"] [/center] [blockquote]&nbsp;[center] [table][tr][tr][td ALIGN=RIGHT][i]Frist name[/i] [/td] [td][input] type="text" size="25" name="firstname"][/td][/tr][/tr] [tr][td][td ALIGN=RIGHT][i]Last name[/i][/td][td][input type="text" size="25" name="lastname"][/td][/tr][/tr] [tr][tr][td ALIGN=RIGHT][i]Email Address[/i][/td][/td][input type="text" size="25" name="email"][/td][/tr]/tr] [tr][td ALIGN=RIGHT][i][/i][/td][/td][/tr] [/table][/center][/Blockquote][/td][/tr][/table] [center][input type="SUBMIT" value="Join for Free"][/form] Thank you. Best regards.   Ng Lye Fong spc(a)pl.jaring.my   ANSWERS: From:  Paradigm Web Design   - ed(a)lakesplus.com Subject:  Other choices in software might work better >From: Steve Black   - webworker(a)grapemail.net >Subject:  ScanDisk and Defrag aren't working. What do I do? > >I am having a problem running maintainence on my computer. >ScanDisk and Defrag seem to keep running over and over >without any results. Also, my clock kicks back an hour ever >once in a while for no apparrent reason.  Has anyone else >ever ran into these problems?  Any suggestions? Steve, Before trying to defrag or run Scan disk, be sure to exit every single application that may be runing in the background. Right click all the little icons on the right side of your task bar and exit those applications. The Defrag and Scan disk that comes with Windows isn't very good. I would suggest searching http://zdnet.com for others. There are many free or low-cost programs that will handle this job for you much more efficiently. ReG@rds, Ed Paradigm Web Design Because an effective website doesn't have to be costly. <a href="http://ParadigmWebDesign.net">http://ParadigmWebDesign.net</a> Subscribe to Web Sm@rts <a href="http://paradigmwebdesign.net/subscribe.html">http://paradigmwebdesign.net/subscribe.html</a>   ++++ Next Answer - Same Question ++++ From:  Michael MacKian   - ml(a)mackian.freeserve.co.uk Subject:  End all tasks before starting >From: Steve Black   - webworker(a)grapemail.net >Subject:  ScanDisk and Defrag aren't working. What do I do? This is usually caused by something modifying the disk contents so the program says 'whoops!' and starts all over again. Particular sinners are screen savers - turn them off when doing a defrag - and programs like Task Scheduler, FindFast and Promotivator. Press ctl-alt-del (once!) to bring up a list of open programs, highlight a program that looks suspect and press 'end task', then go back and do the next one.  (Don't press Shut Down, because that shuts the whole darned computer down!) For a guide on which ones you can safely turn off in this way, send a blank email to mkncys(a)fastresponse.com Good luck! Michael MacKian Sshhh!! - I've found the secret of making money on the internet....... <a href="http://reduce.to/puregold">http://reduce.to/puregold</a> ______________________________________________________ >>>>>> WEBSITE SHOWCASES <<<<<< Examine carefully - those with email addresses included WILL trade links with you, you are encouraged to contact them. And, there are many ways to build a successful business. Just look at these successful sites/programs other members are involved in.. ------------------------------------------------- CashPO is Paid E-Mail Central! 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Plus, you can also win a chance to have y our site chosen for a free website redesign. One randomly drawn winner each month!   SITES TO REVIEW: Site #132:  <a href="http://www.essjayar.co.uk/">http://www.essjayar.co.uk/</a> Stuart stuart.reid(a)ntlworld.com Site #133:  <a href="http://www.gems-gifts.com">http://www.gems-gifts.com</a> Michael Blanchette mfj(a)netway.com Site #134:  <a href="http://www.LenSeiderInc.com">http://www.LenSeiderInc.com</a> Len Seider Lenseider(a)cs.com Site #135:  <a href="http://www.alabastercove.com">http://www.alabastercove.com</a> webmaster(a)alabastercove.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   SITE  REVIEWED! Comments on Site #131: <a href="http://www.webwitness.homestead.com">http://www.webwitness.homestead.com</a> John Stitzel oldstitz(a)yahoo.com ~~~~ I liked how this site was focused on one subject.  The text on the home page made it clear what the site was about and what I would find within its pages.  Well done, most people don't get that right. Suggestions:  move the navigation buttons from the bottom of the page to the left side, they get lost in all those banners. Also there are way too many banners and graphics on each page.  The graphics are too large and really make the pages slow loading.  Your logo 'Witness on the Web' is over 100K alone.  Your entire page, with all the graphics on it, should not be that large.  Also if you are going to embed a sound file on the page please give us an option of turning it off. Hope I'm not coming off too negative - it is an attractive site with a nice use of color and text.  I think its a great start. ~~~~ Webwitness loaded very slow.  I think you'll lose visitors who don't want to wait, and that would be a shame. Optimize the graphics, and maybe use smaller pictures or eliminate some to speed up the loading time. Move your links to the top of the page. ~~~~ John, I really enjoyed your site, but I think with a few changes it could be improved.  I would definitely recommend moving your link buttons to the left side column so visitors don't have to scroll way way down to the bottom of the page to visit the other pages. On your purposestatement page, you don't need the bright blue 'welcome.' It doesn't match the rest ofthe page, and visitors have already been welcomed at the home page. On your testimony page I saw a link to your mailing list. Have this as a separate link button to make it more noticeable and get more people to sign up. Also, you might want to add a 'recommend to a friend' link. I liked your left column borders, and they did relate nicely, but I think they made the pages load slooowly. If you stuck with one border, I'm thinking it would speed up the loading of all the pages. I liked the name of your website, it went well with your subject and focus. Some things I really enjoyed - your personal touch and message throughout the site, the calming feeling of the design, the testimonies. In fact, just keep building the content - it's great. With some changes to the layout, and contacting other sites for trading links you'll have a successful website. ~~~~ This site needs desperately to optimize all graphics. I waited and waited and it never did completely load. ~~~~ First impression while uploading: very appealing  as the border came up immediately. Then the doves showed up and I did not like them at all. Takes up time to load and distracts from the text. I would not have them. If you feel you just have to have doves, stick to the static picture. No animation. The "witness on the web" Logo took forever to load up. Could that be done in just writing, without the background or what ever slows it down? The opening portion  one sees initially before scrolling looks good except for the doves up on top.  But when one scrolls down to all these banners, links etc, things get really confusing. Would there be a way you can have a few link buttons that go to additional pages rather then to have all of this clutter down below? I never did link to any of the other pages or sites. 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Brin
by Somebody 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

You're far from the only one who has aroused his ire, Bob...In fact, it occurs to me that he may deliberately write in the way he does (superficially fascist, with a few bows to libertarians where needed as long as the fascists get final trust/control and are trusted to let the powerless watch them) in order to have an excuse to whine and fulminate... <Somebody's .sig> - --- end forwarded text -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.5 iQA/AwUBPRiZH8PxH8jf3ohaEQJR1wCg1zjeUE14/nPWsY/NyyKI2nCnvWQAniQg u0ynYdErEj7j5UNVGgoGhC9N =agqZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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DoJ to Propose Major New Internet Controls
by Lauren Weinstein 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Dave, In a speech a few days ago, Attorney General Gonzales announced DoJ plans to send Congress new legislation to control "pornography" and (apparently) ultimately to require activity log and other data retention by Internet Services (in follow-up interviews, Google and other search engines have been specifically discussed). Gonzales is pitching this legislation using child abuse as the hook. That is, he is arguing for tools to use against child abuse and child pornography -- certainly a "third rail" issue these days where virtually everyone will support enforcement efforts. However, it's also clear that the DoJ seems to have no intention of limiting such tools *only* to child-related areas. The legislation itself is currently titled: "Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006" A transcript of the Attorney General's speech is here: http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=64319 Note this key quote: "This legislation will help ensure that communications providers report the presence of child pornography on their systems by strengthening criminal penalties for failing to report it. It will also prevent people from inadvertently stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet." Requiring the reporting of child pornography on systems (when it is known to exist) is something that few people would argue against, obviously. But let's examine the second sentence again: "It will also prevent people from inadvertently stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet." This seems to be addressing the entire broad category of non-child "pornography" (which of course can be defined in any number of ways in different locales and contexts), and suggests a requirement (here we go again!) for proactive ratings/controls (presumably ID or credit card based for "offensive" materials) for all (U.S.) Web sites. So this isn't just about children, it's likely about broader government controls over many U.S.-based Internet entities (of course, Gonzales doesn't effectively address the issue of Web sites outside the country). Gonzales goes a lot further in another quote: "The investigation and prosecution of child predators depends critically on the availability of evidence that is often in the hands of Internet service providers. This evidence will be available for us to use only if the providers retain the records for a reasonable amount of time. Unfortunately, the failure of some Internet service providers to keep records has hampered our ability to conduct investigations in this area. As a result, I have asked the appropriate experts at the Department to examine this issue and provide me with proposed recommendations. And I am going to reach out personally to the CEOs of the leading service providers and to other industry leaders to solicit their input and assistance. Record retention by Internet service providers consistent with the legitimate privacy rights of Americans, is an issue that must be addressed." Again, we see that protecting children -- the goal that we all support -- is being used as the raison d'etre to likely later propose broad data retention requirements on all manner of Internet services. Ironically, this is occurring shortly after calls for mandated data *destruction* legislation that arose in the wake of the DoJ vs. Google records battle (where I strongly supported Google's stance). I predicted that this sequence would occur -- though it is happening even faster than I expected. Record retention is a particularly risky area. DoJ might be expected to argue (as Gonzales implies) that such records would only be demanded in cases involving children. That's today's line. But in a general records retention environment, you cannot a priori retain only the records related to child abusers whom you don't already know about -- you must retain *everyone's* records. While the criteria for records access might be child abuse today, does anyone seriously believe that calls for access to user log data will not massively expand over time, to the extent that such data is available? Of course it will. If the data exists, all manner of ostensibly laudable reasons for government digging through users' Internet activities will be forthcoming. And that will create a wholly different kind of Internet, where ultimately our every action on the Net may be subject to retroactive inspection. The term "slippery slope" is definitely applicable. We need to see the specifics of legislation before detailed comments will be possible. But the handwriting is on the wall, and it does not bode well for either Internet users or Internet-related services. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren(a)vortex.com or lauren(a)pfir.org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[IP] DoJ to Propose Major New Internet Controls
by David Farber 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

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[tor-talk] Dutch police break into webservers over hidden services
by Roger Dingledine 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Several people have asked us on irc about recent news articles like http://wireupdate.com/wires/19812/dutch-police-infiltrate-hidden-child-porn… Apparently the Dutch police exploited vulnerabilities in the webservers reachable over the hidden services. Some people are confusing this issue with an attack on Tor. Tor just transports bytes back and forth. If you have an instant messaging conversation with a Tor user and convince her to tell you her address, did you break Tor? Having an http conversation with a webserver running over a Tor hidden service, and convincing it to tell you its address, is not much different. So what lessons can we learn here, other than the usual "criminals are not as smart as your average bear"? (If only we could count on bad people to run insecure software, and good people to secure their software correctly, the world would be a much simpler place.) One lesson is that there are a lot of non-Tor components that can go wrong in keeping a hidden service hidden -- just as we have a laundry list of security and privacy issues to consider when using Tor as a normal client (at the bottom of https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en ) there's a whole other set of issues, mostly unexplored, for hidden service operators to keep in mind: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en#three --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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by sunder 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> I tend to just string up lots of characters, so my passphrases look like this: > > ^#.;Odfi9@7f$}'~%42w0,m:Qe_|33+\ and so on. Why the heck would you need a password this big? There are 94 printable characters (0x33 .. 0x7E); a random password 32 chars long (like the above) will thus have ~ 1.38 x 10^63 possibilities, meaning 210 bits of entropy (10^63 = O(2^210)). What, do you intend to use your password as a public key? A password made of the same character set, but only 8 chars long, will provide 94^8 ~= 6 x 10^15 = O(2^50) combinations. I'd say that's plenty - remember, it's a password, not a key. Mark

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by sunder 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> I tend to just string up lots of characters, so my passphrases look like this: > > ^#.;Odfi9@7f$}'~%42w0,m:Qe_|33+\ and so on. Why the heck would you need a password this big? There are 94 printable characters (0x33 .. 0x7E); a random password 32 chars long (like the above) will thus have ~ 1.38 x 10^63 possibilities, meaning 210 bits of entropy (10^63 = O(2^210)). What, do you intend to use your password as a public key? A password made of the same character set, but only 8 chars long, will provide 94^8 ~= 6 x 10^15 = O(2^50) combinations. I'd say that's plenty - remember, it's a password, not a key. Mark

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by sunder 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> I tend to just string up lots of characters, so my passphrases look like this: > > ^#.;Odfi9@7f$}'~%42w0,m:Qe_|33+\ and so on. Why the heck would you need a password this big? There are 94 printable characters (0x33 .. 0x7E); a random password 32 chars long (like the above) will thus have ~ 1.38 x 10^63 possibilities, meaning 210 bits of entropy (10^63 = O(2^210)). What, do you intend to use your password as a public key? A password made of the same character set, but only 8 chars long, will provide 94^8 ~= 6 x 10^15 = O(2^50) combinations. I'd say that's plenty - remember, it's a password, not a key. Mark

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by sunder 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

> I tend to just string up lots of characters, so my passphrases look like this: > > ^#.;Odfi9@7f$}'~%42w0,m:Qe_|33+\ and so on. Why the heck would you need a password this big? There are 94 printable characters (0x33 .. 0x7E); a random password 32 chars long (like the above) will thus have ~ 1.38 x 10^63 possibilities, meaning 210 bits of entropy (10^63 = O(2^210)). What, do you intend to use your password as a public key? A password made of the same character set, but only 8 chars long, will provide 94^8 ~= 6 x 10^15 = O(2^50) combinations. I'd say that's plenty - remember, it's a password, not a key. Mark

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