tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250972472012-01-21T14:13:28.751-05:00PART OF MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNETJon Maloneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07600521585136851870noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097247.post-87517159791779385402009-10-16T13:19:00.016-05:002009-11-05T13:44:22.041-05:00

If you run Windows XP and have an external USB disk drive that is not recognized by your recovery CD, then this post is for you. I recently got an Acomdata Samba 2.0 external USB drive enclosure to use with a Western Digital disk for system backups. Windows XP sees the USB disk fine, if the drive is turned on after XP is running. So there's no problem using my Acronis True Image to create

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Before 2007 I filled out online surveys whenever I had the chance. There were several benefits. Surveys were fun to fill out, gave me a chance to voice my opinions, and influenced decisions made by companies. In January 2007 I realized I might be able to fill out surveys for those benefits, and get paid too!I researched many online survey sites and subscribed to several. For the next two years I

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I like stories involving time travel, in spite of time travel's unbelievability. I maintain a list of time-travel novels divided into four groups: I have read, I own but have not read, I want to acquire & read, and I might want to get later. The list reflects my own tastes. It is not intended to be comprehensive. In general, I exclude books for children and teens, books intended to be humorous,

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I have always enjoyed stories of the apocalypse -- before the apocalypse, during the apocalypse, and post apocalypse. The apocalypse may be from war (man against man, machines against man, aliens against man), natural disaster (global warming or cooling, polar shift, flood, storm, plague, drought, earthquake, volcanism), space disaster (comet, nova, meteor, orbital change, solar flares), or

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SPOILERS WARNING. This post contains spoilers about the book. It is intended for people who have already read the book. If you have not yet read Woman On the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy you probably don't want to read this post.I found Woman On the Edge of Time to be difficult and unpleasant. I almost stopped reading the book more than once. I don't remember any book I have read to the end, for

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I have a problem that I haven't been able to figure out. I have hundreds of web pages that include a Google AdSense block followed by an image. The ads and image should appear side by side if the browser window is maximized and if the screen resolution is at least 800x600 pixels. Here's a reduced copy of a sample page that shows how the page should look. The above image is from Firefox 3.0.8,

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The purpose of this post is to help people in the United States who have an analog television and want to switch to broadcast, over-the-air, digital television without buying a new TV. This post applies equally to people who want to switch to DTV from cable, satellite, or broadcast analog TV.I switched to DTV in September 2008 and I am very happy with the results. I live in Anderson, South

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Last week I had to reinstall Windows Vista Home Premium on my father's computer. I then installed Vista Service Pack 1 and reinstalled various applications. I had an up-to-date backup copy of my father's user folder, but I did not know how to get the old emails and contacts into the newly-installed copy of Windows Mail. The ProblemHow do you make a reinstallation of Windows Mail include old

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Last week I used Windows Update to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on my father's computer running Vista Home Premium.The ProblemThe installation failed during one of the automatic restarts. There was a black screen with one line of flickering white text, which said the following:!! 0xc01a001d !! 37707/91526 (\Registry\Machine\COMPONENTS\Winners\x86...)Before the error the 37707 number had

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I recently worked on a difficult connection problem on my father's computer. This post will share some of the problems and the solution in hopes of helping others solve the problem more quickly than I did. Our relevant system specs are listed at the end of the post.The Problem: Suddenly the computer was not able to connect to the Internet (including email).The Cause: AT&T stopped honoring the

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[Updates have been added in brackets where appropriate. The latest update is August 7, 2008.]In this post I will share some of my initial experiences with avast! antivirus v4.8. Although I am evaluating avast! 4.8 on a Windows 98 system, some of the problems I've noticed would also exist under Windows XP and Vista. I have chosen avast! antivirus as a replacement for Grisoft's AVG, which will no

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Yesterday while I was restoring my hard disk from a recent backup my CPU's temperature alarm went off. My CPU is a 3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood). Listen to the alarm. The CPU also overheated a couple of days ago when I was running a link-checking program (CyberSpyder) for my Animal Pictures and More web site. Letting computer components get too hot shortens their lives. Dust reduces airflow

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Eyes of an Angel by Paul Elder is one of the best books in my collection of books about astral projection and related topics. The book confirms many of my spiritual understandings and offers some important concepts I have not encountered elsewhere. The book is not a "how to" book. It is Elder's personal account of his own spiritual journey, reluctantly written only after years of pressure from

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Last week I reread The Romeo Error by Lyall Watson (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1974). Watson is a South African doctor of biology who was educated in England. He is best known for his 1973 bestseller Supernature. In the introduction Watson says, "If Supernature was my 'life book,' then this is its companion volume on death." (p. viii) As a biologist Watson was embarrassed by the fact that biologists

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On June 26 my brother asked me to fix a problem on his computer. My brother's Windows XP Home had been crashing unexpectedly with a blue error screen (BSOD). His antivirus program was BitDefender 9.5 Standard.The computer crashed soon after I analyzed the Startup items in msconfig. The file that caused the problem was Icbw49.sys. The error message was "Page_Fault_in_nonpaged_area". A Google

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I recently read The HAB Theory by Allan W. Eckert. The book presents a gripping theory about the Earth's history. I find the theory plausible and intuitively believable. It seems to be more deserving of belief than disbelief. The theory explains such scientific anomalies as how mammoths with warm-climate plants in their mouths and stomachs were quick-frozen in Siberia, how a manufactured metal

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For the last few years the building I live in has been home to a large colony of bats. Hopefully readers will find my experiences of removing the bats and my observations of bat behavior helpful and educational. For brevity I have omitted many events and details. I live in a multifamily condominium in the northwestern part of South Carolina. My unit consists of two floors at one end of the

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I have recently had cataract surgery. I am 52 years old and have lived with growing cataracts for at least eighteen years. Before the surgery I tried to research several types of details on the Internet -- details I was unable to find. I wanted to know simple things like: How many doctor's appointments will be required? What will be the purpose of each appointment? What procedures will be

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Fluorescent lamps can interfere with TV remote controls.My parents recently had an intermittent problem with their television's remote control. For several months the remote only worked sometimes. The TV is a Sony Trinitron. The remote control is a Magnavox universal remote. I changed the remote's batteries, cleaned the infrared sensor on the front of the TV, and tested the remote on a VCR and on

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[Updates have been inserted in brackets where appropriate.]I have been evaluating BitDefender 9 Standard on my home computer for about two weeks. I like BitDefender's effectiveness, price, and features, but it has several problems. In this post I will describe the problems I have encountered so far. 1. Disruptive Email-Scanning Notification WindowsWhenever BitDefender is scanning a mail message,

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I read a short easy book last night -- Famous Crimefighters by Robert Larranaga (Lerner Publications, 1970). It was 78 pages and profusely illustrated with old photographs. It covered the men responsible for each evolutionary step in crime fighting from the early 1800s to 1970. It began with Francis Eugene Vidocq in France. He was a famous criminal who switched sides and created the first

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Last night I finished reading The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams, illustrated by Martin Thomas (New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1958). The book tells the exciting true story of the author's escape from a German prison camp during World War II. The escape was also the subject of a 1950 movie, The Wooden Horse.[May 23, 2008 note: This post is about a version of The Wooden Horse written by Eric Williams

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Last night I finished reading The Pony Express by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Spencer Press, 1950). I found the book interesting, fun, and educational. The Pony Express was a cross-country mail-delivery route that went from St. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento, California in 1860 and 1861. The book relates the background, equipment, men, finances, politics, scandals, and heroic stories of the Pony

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I have just read this 1943 account of eight men lost at sea when their airplane, a B-17 Flying Fortress, went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The story is written in the first person by Lieutenant James Whittaker of the U.S. Army Air Corps Transport Command. He was the copilot and eldest crewman. A passenger on board was Eddie Rickenbacker, the famous war hero who had shot down a

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I have just finished reading The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer. The story follows a handful of scientists after a quantum experiment opens a portal between our version of Earth and an alternate version of Earth in which Neanderthals became the dominant human species. The story allows the author to examine our society, science, culture, and religion as an outsider might --

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There are several recurring 404 errors I see in my 404 error log each month. I investigated some of the more mysterious file names. Perhaps the list below will save other webmasters some research._vti_inf.html_vti_rpcowssvr.dllcltreq.aspsiteinfo.xmlnoexist_....html666666_vti_inf.htmlThis is an information file that shows what FrontPage Server Extensions are installed, their version, and what type

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The heater in my 1996 Mercury Sable didn't work right. The heater would blow hot air for about 30 seconds and then the air would turn cold. I checked the fuses. They were fine. I checked the external coolant reservoir and it appeared to be dry. So poured a gallon of antifreeze into the reservoir. (I knew I should add a 50-50 mixture of antifreeze and water, but I was traveling in the mountains

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In this entry I'll comment on the restaurants my family ate at in Lake Lure, North Carolina last week (March 21-25, 2006). Before going to Lake Lure I tried to read about Lake Lure restaurants online and found very little information. Perhaps someone will find these brief comments helpful.Point of View RestaurantHighway 64 at Buffalo Shoals Road (near the dam), Lake Lure, NC.We each got the

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