Argh. I still can't get this bad shit off my computer. I understand from googling that what I have to do is unregister all these .dll thingies using regsvr32, but I can't get that to work. It keeps telling me the module is not found.

Any ideas? If I delete them just out of Explorer or whatever, they just come back.

Click on Run and type in regedit. When that program starts go to Find and type in Runonce and press okay. When it brings up the first instance, go up one to Run and have a look for any entries relating to the spyware, adware, malware, whatever and delete it. Then look in Runonce and do the same if any of the malicious programs are in there. Once you're satisfied you've got all, press F3 and let the search continue. When you've done all of it, look in Start Menu/Startup and make sure there is nothing in there that shouldn't be there. Once you've done all that, reboot and your system should restart with none of the malicious software loaded. You should then be able to uninstall/delete all of them.

If you're using IE, empty the cache, then check the Temporary Internet cache directory. Once you've ensured they are empty, delete all links to IE, download Firefox, or Opera and set one of them as your primary browser and never use IE again.

If this sounds harsh, good.

Anyone who uses IE is a damn fool. Irrespective of whether they use Avant or GreenBrowser on top of IE.

The problem with and danger of, IE is that the cache stores all files with their REAL file names and URLs intact. It is solely b/c of this that malicious software can take over your computer. The cache in both Opera and Firefox, convert all files to a random numeric or alpha-numeric naming system. The browser knows what is what but no external programs know what file is what, so malicious files can't be run without your knowledge or permission.

So, yeah. this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Video quality is becoming quite amazing these days, huh?

If you don't have a recent (G5) Mac with Quicktime 7 on it, you won't be able to view those. If you do have a recent Mac with Quicktime 7 on it, you may be terribly sad that everything in the world isn't that high res. Interestingly, the downloadables 1080p versions (links to the right of each screen, even bigger files than the default versions) actually cause my dual-1.8 GHz G5 to stutter on playback. Though I suppose they might not if I weren't building things in the background. Since the slightly smaller ones have the same horizontal resolution as my monitor, though, I'm pretty satisfied with those.

ETA: It looks like the latest version of mplayer can play these quicktime movies. Somebody on a windows box with a technical bent should see if the Windows port can play them. I recommend testing with the Serenity Trailer, because, awesome.

ETA2: Turns out, my Dual-1.8 GHz G5 with 64 MB Geforce FX 5200 is below recommended system for playing back the 1080p files (the recommend a dual-2.0 with 128 MB VRAM). Wow. I really didn't think this system was going to be below recommended requirements for anything, ever.

If I could play back the 1080p stuff with no stuttering by only upgrading the video card, I might do it. Wonder if I could find a way to test that...

Either way, tempted to make 1920x844 screencaps of the Serenity trailer.

Either way, tempted to make 1920x844 screencaps of the Serenity trailer.

Tell me about it.

Sadly? I don't have the time to obsess today. Yardwork and other IRL events, too.

Andi's having problems with connection speed with OSX 10.3.9 on a dialup to her local ISP (casagrandeinternet.com) and their lack of support page is driving me craxy.

She has the correct G4 modem selected, but it is connecting at 24,000 bps. I hope it's not her phone line. The only number she has for dialup is 520-836-4344.

Anyway, if anyone here has any suggestions, or can find an alternate dialup for that provider, let me know. It's so bad she gave up on the Titanium powerbook last night and went back to her WebTV console.

That's just... wrong.

has anyone here loaded linux onto their ipods? If so, how is it working for ya?

Why would one do that? Because one can?

well, on the ipod hack websites I read there are a couple of reasons for it:

1) viewing graphics on the ipod; 2) playing games on the ipod; 3) recording sound on the ipod using relatively cheaper means than the Apple and Belkin microphones, etc.

here is a good site that discusses it:

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