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Originally posted by fuldog:
That Epson looks nice, but yeah, the price. And the gizmo I'm after is intended for someone with no computer skills at all as an electronic photo album.

Dude, they're made for photographers.

Explains the price, at least.

Fuldog :
Why not an Archos?

why not just get an Eee?

Almost utterly borked.
I have no 'tray' display....no date, no time, no display of running programs, hmm, let me try to open a new page...naw. Borked. Bye.

did a reboot fix the problem anabel?

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
fonts are probably more pirated then anything

quote:

Originally posted by colin:
Like Arkan, I'd have to guess they aren't, really. Most non-designers when faced with the option of downloading the right font for real money, bothering to find and pirate it, or just making do with whatever they have on their computers... use Comic Sans.

I think your guess is wrong. In my experience non designers think typefaces are free and if they aren't, they should be. I know VERY few people who have ever personally paid their own money to buy a font. And even they have one or two on their systems they 'acquired' from somewhere. I know I do. And i'd bet cash money you do too.

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Originally posted by Sentinel400:
And i'd bet cash money you do too.

LIES!!! Blatant slander!!!

Aha. K'ching!

Scandalmonger!!!

Heh, true, most non-designers don't think fonts are worth anything. So if they have the opportunity to "acquire" one, I guess they will.

On the other hand, I, personally, haven't acquired any fonts, that I know of. Only those which came with the machine and Photoshop Elements. Which explains the paltry selection I have.

And once, many years ago, I actually paid for a collection of fonts on CD. Of course, maybe they were pirated...

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Originally posted by electricdragon/ madevilbeats:
did a reboot fix the problem anabel?

No. I found f8, ran it in various modes, and the problem it appears is perfmonss.exe. I can delete some but not all, the application remains, and I am locked out. It apprears to reboot up as I reboot. I am hauling the hardrive to a savvy pal, on Sunday, while he hunts info, and researches new computers.

Any suggestions? I'd like to scan photos, watch videos, manipulate images, write a rant, listen to radio...read/watch other peoples offerings. Do I need some Dell, or lessor Apple offering?

Anabel, just buy a second hand iMac G4! They are so cheap now and they will do everything you need without having to add on extra drives, readers, etc. And you won't have continual tech support issues. Really.

Went into safe mode, managed to not freeze in startup list,went into and deleted both ss programs, rebooted in debug, downloaded 7 updates, which I'd not been allowed, rebooted in debug, checked to see if the ss' showed up. Not yet. Whew! For the moment

Sentinel, thanks...researching.

A short google suggested that perfmonss.exe is a trojan or a backdoor (i.e. bad news software, like a virus). You might want to get that hard drive scanned and cleaned by your friend, and check the settings on your anti-virus software.

I got a major virus infection last week.

Guest starring :

monderc
vundo.gen
crypt.pack.gen


Antivir found the virus but could not delete any of it.
I installed a crapload of other antispyware, antivirus, anti-hijack...

It's slowly recovering.

When you go cruzing for warez on those Russian pr0n sites use a locked-down VM.

When you find what you want run it through the wringer, store it off-line, then burn your VM.

I've been working through VMs now for awhile. On the first sign of trouble, I delete them and take a fresh one off the shelf. Since I've started doing this, nothing has gotten through to my host.

The weak part of this system is the movement of data and applications from the VM to the host. Maintaining isolation is sometimes painful.

I've been quite safe for the past few years.

It's just that this one time, I ran a keygen without first scanning it...

Running the keygen inside the VM, it would have 'taken the bullet for you'.

If anything, getting into VMs is a worthy excuse for buying a quad-core and 8GB of RAM.

AVG, Spybot and Ad-Aware are the holy trinity of free malware removal, methinks.

lithos and Sentinal...
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