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Excuse me for being ignorant' date=' but i'm not really up on computer knowledge, but what does doing that actually do in terms of blocking adware or spyware. I wouldn't mind a detailed description...[/quote']
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore/stopspam.mspx
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1. Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
2. Double click on the service called "Messenger"
3. Ensure the service is stopped by clicking "Stop"
4. Disable for future use by changing the "Startup Type" combo to "Disabled"
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thanks guys' date=' i'm running adaware now and it's coming up with a frankly alarming amount of critical objects. what's the point in having a firewall and norton if they don't stop any of these things? *sigh* internet sucks.[/quote']
spyware fits nicely in between the lines of all those things you mentioned. firewalls keep out unwanted network traffic by the rules you specify. however, you do actually want web traffic otherwise you couldn't browse sites. that is the first exception that allows spyware and adware through.
secondly, most spyware and adware is not technically a virus nor a trojan horse, and as such antivirus firms are on dubious legal grounds removing it automatically in their software - because apparently, such spyware and adware constitutes "legitimate" and "non malicious" software.
you can do yourself a favour by:
1. turning off the messenger service in Windows XP (not MSN Messenger)
2. Run an alternative browser to IE (e.g. Firefox, Opera, Mozilla)
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for one-off spyware removals without installing anything, use hijackthis:
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chicken is soooooooo off the menu
'mon the beef
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At the moment it can only be transmitted in extreme cases when someone has prolonged exposure to infected birds.
the problem being that animals (nae just birds) can harbour the virus for sustained periods before dying or even showing symptoms:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4761622.stm
cats get bird flu too! who's had a cat that didn't take in a bird once or twice?
RUN
TO
THE
HILLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
(though not the ones that have eyes)
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Run for your liiiiiiivvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeees!!!!!
Who gives a shit? As long as it's still confined to birds it doesn't matter. Only when it can be caught by humans AND transmitted from human to human is it going to be a problem. Just now it's no more dangerous to us today as it was yesterday.
well don't go feeding the swans then spooner. it can be transmitted to humans by birds, that's why a few people in turkey died a couple of months ago.
seeya, i'm off to the hills
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Having generally equated an appreciation of music with intelligence' date=' I expected this site to be different.[/quote']
Classic!!
somebody please add this one to aberdeen-music.com's compendium of best one liners ever!
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wintermute!
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meat is mordor
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yeah i'm working on some lyrics but am struggling to work out vocal melodies, i'm always rubbish at that.
the drums are made with a program called hydrogen (http://hydrogen.sf.net), it's linux and mac osx only at the moment, maybe they'll bring it out on windows soon.
the acoustic guitar was through a couple of mics, twice
the electric guitar (les paul) was recorded through a line6 pod job for that delayee tremoloee sound
bass was recorded pretty much straight in, compressed a bit
the guitar solo / melody sounding thing is actually nord synth played on a keyboard thrust through the line6 like it didn't want to be.
ta for listening to it
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thats boss stuff' date=' are your production skills available for hire?[/quote']
cheers! i'm just a hobbyist but i can tell you what i got / what i did!
r.borlax: cheers, i know exactly what you mean with the acousticy stuff. i think i took some bottom end of them to stop them booming - perhaps too much. there's also reverb on them which probably has the effect you mention.
sam: i dinna understand
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yes, instead of drinking this weekend, i got off my arse and wrote and recorded a song. i think it's probably the best home production i've ever done.
no vocals, but everything else is there. maybe it's a boards of canada stylee no vocalee tracky typey of thingy.
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perhaps they haven't updated their database yet.
doing a manual request by hand gives a clue about a vhost not being setup (meaning their webserver isn't aware of a redirect for your domain):
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paul@fastpc ~ $ telnet www.iainthomson.co.uk 80
Trying 195.224.48.69...
Connected to www.iainthomson.co.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
Server: http://www.iainthomson.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:25:52 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510
Last-Modified: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:19:12 GMT
ETag: "3e808-d0-3e7f3000"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 208
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
<html>
<head>
<title>No vhost here</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.123-reg.co.uk/">
</head>
<body>You should be <a href="http://www.123-reg.co.uk/">here</a></body>
</html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
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most domain placies update every 3,6 or 12 hours. check again in the morning, if it still ain't working, send tech support an email.
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if you want to get a quick MIDI setup, the best way is probably to get a newish keyboard from ebay - the recent midi keyboards have an interface built in, and just plugin with USB - Reason will just see it as a single midi device i think. of course they still have midi ports on em too.
now the only thing is to choose a keyboard! do you want a playable one for keyboard stuff, i.e 49, 61 or even more keys, or do you just want a 2 octave bad boy to do stuff with live?
to be honest if it's just for playing with synths and doing live stuff, i'd go for a small two octave thing - purposeful, practical and they look cool! however, if you want to play 2 hands at a time for piano pieces or whatever, then probably get at least a 49 key, or ideally a 61 key.
m-audio/evolution make good eens.
^^^^ there's a nice 49 key jobbie - it also has faders and pots which you can midi assign in Reason - meaning you can fiddle with synth settings without moving a mouse about - very handy.
^^^^ and there's a nice shorty, it has assignable pots too by the look of it.
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you could also ask one of your friends on MSN/yahoo/AOL or whatever you use (if you use!!) to send a copy of mozilla to you - that could be slowwwwww though
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ah right, i see - every site or link you go to it redirects you to that page?
maybe you could try a copy of mozilla or firefox if you have one handy, it most likely will not be affected.
edit: or, try booting your machine into "Safe Mode with Networking Support", and see if you can get on the internet (might not work if you have a USB modem)
chances are it may not load the offending OCX/DLL file that hijacks your browser.
more editness: you may also still have your "Messenger" service switched on as a system service. Note this is not the same thing as MSN messenger. this is a system service you should stop - you can probably find the services viewer at
start->all programs->administrative programs->services
or something like that
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you want to be download HijackThis, from the following location
it doesn't install anywhere, it just runs from where you save it to. It removes browser hijacks, i.e. things that keep changing your start page, and your search functions and add stupid toolbars, etc. etc.
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and here's what it sounds like as an mp3:
http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3L843CY30JL771BOYQDIX2QOY5
do you have a midi keyboard, or did you just plot it all in a sequencer? doesn't sound like there's any velocity changes, so i'm guessing you have no keyboard.
sounds like cheesy midi metal to me!
maybe my soundfont sounds a bit dated though.
what sequencing program / sound card are you using?
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to be honest mate they're a bit overpriced! my laptop is virtually the same as the first one you have, and i paid about 300 for it 2 years ago. together with the broken bits...
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aberdeen autobody maybe able to do the welding for you, i take my rickety old golf there but i've seen them welding triumphs up on the ramp.
they're on poynernook road sorta between south college street and the harbour. phone 01224 588500 and ask for ian, he's a nice helpful guy.
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junkie:
http://s59.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Q00024JFV7IW2QDFREBZDA2B8
open air:
http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0PZJWPIEZ4B1921QJKC195NJPO
falling stars (radio session)
http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01THQL0SY4IP00TS79XZ1V99RM
morning lush (radio session)
http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0H02504GSBWK63JDR6JJRKCZ0I
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Whether you like them or not' date=' and I do, can you think of any other band who could do the singalong football anthem any better?[/quote']
slade...
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