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1223129	2011-08-23 02:54:00	Hi Agent_24 and Speedy Gonzales. Yes, Speedy Gonzales, am a NZ-er. Thank you for your advice about obtaining Linux Ubuntu, but have already purchased the CD's and am waiting for them to arrive in the post. Agent_24, even with a Downloader it would be a soul-destroying operation that would have no real chance of success. Appreciate your Posts you guys.	Dragonov (16500)
1223130	2011-08-23 03:51:00	Agent_24: My (above) reply was not well worded. The thing is, Agent_24, is that on my computer no programme bigger than 60MB (as an actual download) has ever functioned correctly; they all are damaged in some way and malfunction. Am with an ISP now that lets you download any sized files (if you can!) but the previous ISP had a four-hour "connection limit" where if you stayed online for four hours they would cut your connection and make you log-on again. Firefox has got a "Pause" facility in it's Downloading system, but after "Pausing" many attempts at various downloads bigger than 60MB, in order to log-on again and continue the download, nothing that did get downloaded worked properly. Ad-Aware is different, it needs upon installation, hours to update itself. But even so, the last attempts to download and install newer versions of Ad-Aware (luckily have got the good old original download on a USB Drive) have failed - there was something wrong with them. Cheers Agent_24.	Dragonov (16500)
1223131	2011-08-23 04:22:00	I never use Firefox's pause feature. A proper download manager like Free Download Manager or GetRight is what you need in situations like this, as they are designed to handle interruptions beyond your control. Try one of those and you may find your download success is much higher.	Agent_24 (57)
1223132	2011-08-25 07:37:00	Howdy Agent_24: thank you for the information - have only ever once, long ago downloaded a "download manager" programme, but it did not make any difference. However, not knowing anything about them, I just grabbed one off a free download website, and that programme could have been a dud as there is quite a lot of bad software on most of those websites (used to download masses of different programmes of all sorts of types from these websites, but had so many horrendous experiences eventually became absolutely paranoid about downloading just about anything! Agent_24 will go and look for "Free Download Manager" and "GetRight" to give them a go. Cheers!	Dragonov (16500)
1223133	2011-08-25 08:59:00	Free Download Manager is free, and works well, although I prefer Getright's interface and features. However Getright is not free. Remember you can only resume successfully from servers which support resume. Servers where you must wait in a queue etc can also be problematic. If you wish to pause and resume downloads from them you usually need to go through the queue process again, then when the download starts point the manager at the partially-downloaded file and it should ask if you want to continue. Getright usually works that all out by itself when the download is launched for the 2nd time, which is why I like it. You can get a 30 day trial of Getright for free, you might want to try that out and see how it goes. I've been about 95% successful resuming files with Getright back when I had dial-up. However if you still get issues even with a download manager, you may have some kind of modem problem or something.	Agent_24 (57)
1223134	2011-08-25 21:51:00	Thank you for your latest post Agent_24: have downloaded "Free Download Manager" - it looks very complicated! Will try the trial version of "GetRight" because I will need something that is as user-friendly as possible, and which does all the brainy stuff automatically! My modem is a fax modem, but have checked out it's credentials on the Web and it is apparantly a very high-quality modem. Agent_24, am getting radically off the original topic, but I spent just about forever trying to find a good, instantly accessible dictionary. After literally months of hunting, finally found these two absolutely fantabulous dictionaries (they "live" as Quick-Launch icons by the clock) - I have them both, because The Sage is more like a "word encyclopedia": file:///C:/Program%20Files/TheSage/Help/help.html (The Sage is awesome - it is HUGE: it has got miles of customization settings so you can "tune" it like a piano!!!) wordweb.info I love Wordweb, but unfortunately with the free version you cannot add words and information/definitions to it's archives. But the free version is still mind-bogglingly excellent. Finally, if anyone is looking for a very nice one-click replacement Clock/Calender (especially to replace the horrible Microsoft thing) then try this: www.softpedia.com It is very good-looking and you will love it. It was created by a young Chinese Geek when he was doing his Geek apprenticeship. Many thanks again Agent_24 and thanks to all the Geeks at NZ PC World (NZ PC World is one of the best Tech Forums/Tech Websites on the entire Web).	Dragonov (16500)
1223135	2011-08-27 01:14:00	Better add this about L-Clock: have had to do another XP3 reinstall after an attempt to install Ubuntu alongside XP3 went horribly wrong. Anyway, after configuring the newly installed XP3 the first thing I install (from a USB Drive) is Comodo Firewall. When a bit later (last night) the stage was reached to install L-Clock, Comodo stopped me by warning that L-Clock has got a "global hook" (or some kind of "hook") in it, and Comodo said do not install it. Comodo has never done this before (although Comodo always warns that L-Clock is not digitally signed) and it looks as if Comodo has received from the Comodo Server new information about L-Clock. So it might be an idea not to use L-Clock after all until more information about it is found out.	Dragonov (16500)
1223136	2011-08-27 03:17:00	Your L-Clock program is probably OK. If it replaces the system clock then I guess it needs to 'hook' to enable it to do so properly. The thing is a lot of malware\viruses also use hooks to do things, which is probably why Comodo is alerting you to that. And yes they do change their detection stuff a lot too. I would ignore it, if you think the program is OK. What went wrong with your Ubuntu installation?	Agent_24 (57)
1223137	2011-08-28 03:41:00	Hullo Agent_24, thank you for your assessment of the situation and your advice: have been researching L-Clock and it is obviously a very popular little application all over the world! However,there are quite a lot of people expressing concern about how it tries to communicate with the Web. A Polish guy reckons that it does this in a devious fashion! A "Spyware Analyses" website has a technical report on the L-Clock which says it has "Windows Hooks" and "Global Hooks" and that it is a "Keylogging Monitor" (amongst other things, such as a Process Monitor, Startup Monitor, System Monitor... so Agent_24 this is spyware isn't it?). However, Agent_24 a Tech on one website said basically the same thing as you: that if you like the L-Clock/Calendar then keep it, but just tell your Firewall to block it's access to the Web. Agent_24, about the attempted Ubuntu 11.04 install: everything went fine until the "Formatting" page was reached - could not see any "Slider" to set the Partition-Size (Ubuntu tells you to use the "Slider" but it is not there!). Had to continue on and hope for the best. Then the "Keyboard" page was reached. Ubuntu wants you to tell it what kind of keyboard you have got and there is a big list of different "types" of keyboard. Had no idea what my keyboard was, so tried writing in that long narrow "Fount Sampling Panel" hoping that would make Ubuntu able to "know" what my keyboard was, but it didn't work. Ended up having to continue without this being resolved. Then ran into trouble with the "Time/Date/Region" area, but was pretty demoralised by then anyway because of the previous failures and doubted if the OS would even install properly (if at all). Had already decided to try and use the "Formatting" programme on the old Windows XP3 installation disc to try and wipe the Ubuntu Partition. However the Ubuntu installation process not only fully completed, but the OS seemed to function glitchlessly well, which was amazing! But having said that, there were virtually no on-board programmes and instead you seemed to have to download just about every programme that even a basic desktop would need, from the Web! Agent_24, this would not have bothered me too much, if it hadn't been for the fact that nowhere "On-Board" could be found a Firewall: hunted everywhere, again and again (which wasn't very hard to do as the "Desktop"/surface OS had very little to it anyway other than looking pretty and with folders of long lists of programmes that were not even included with the OS) but could not find one at all. So that was "it". Will never go near the Web without a Firewall, so shut everything down and dragged out the Windows XP3 installation disc (which is incredibly useful) and with it was able to remove Ubuntu. Agent_24, fully intended to have another go at installing Ubuntu again, but only after trying to solve on the Web, beforehand, the installation problems that were encountered. So far this has not been successful, and in fact, at one stage signed up at an Ubuntu Forum website - and there are heaps of them - to try and obtain advice, and was met with torrent of maniacal abuse by the first respondent, and a kind of smirking "ha ha ha, we know about Ubuntu, but that idiot doesn't" from the next one! Birds of a feather indeed flock together but the absolutely last place I expected to encounter a bunch of jerks was in the Geek community! Agent_24, have you got a Linux OS? Cheers Agent_24, thank you again, and to all the other very nice dudes here on NZ PC World, for your very generous help and advice.	Dragonov (16500)
1223138	2011-08-28 14:53:00	However,there are quite a lot of people expressing concern about how it tries to communicate with the Web. A Polish guy reckons that it does this in a devious fashion! A "Spyware Analyses" website has a technical report on the L-Clock which says it has "Windows Hooks" and "Global Hooks" and that it is a "Keylogging Monitor" (amongst other things, such as a Process Monitor, Startup Monitor, System Monitor... so Agent_24 this is spyware isn't it?). I don't see why a clock needs to communicate on the Internet, unless it's checking for version updates or synchronising the clock with an NTP server. That does sound a bit weird. Of course you can just block it in the firewall, though. Their definition of Keylogging could include programs which use hooks to check for keyboard shortcuts that allow the program to perform certain tasks. Would be interested to see this website and if their spyware analysis claim makes sense... Agent_24, about the attempted Ubuntu 11.04 install: everything went fine until the "Formatting" page was reached - could not see any "Slider" to set the Partition-Size (Ubuntu tells you to use the "Slider" but it is not there!). Had to continue on and hope for the best. Then the "Keyboard" page was reached. Ubuntu wants you to tell it what kind of keyboard you have got and there is a big list of different "types" of keyboard. Had no idea what my keyboard was Can't help you a great deal with the partition-size slider as I do my OS installs differently (set up partitions manually before installing anything) but for the keyboard just choose USA as most keyboards in NZ are USA style. there were virtually no on-board programmes and instead you seemed to have to download just about every programme that even a basic desktop would need, from the Web! ------------------------------------------------- (which wasn't very hard to do as the "Desktop"/surface OS had very little to it anyway other than looking pretty and with folders of long lists of programmes that were not even included with the OS) A standard Ubuntu install does come with the basic programs you need, OpenOffice suite, Web browser, Email, IM chat, etc If these programs were not installed either the installation went wrong or the disc you've got is some kind of minimal install disc without software but the bare OS. Which version did you get? where did you get it from? What was it advertised as? These 'long lists of programmes' - where were they? The program menus etc only contain programs which are actually installed. The 'Software Center' and 'Synaptic Package Manager' show all programs available, not just the ones already installed. nowhere "On-Board" could be found a Firewall: hunted everywhere, again and again (which wasn't very hard to do as the "Desktop"/surface OS had very little to it anyway other than looking pretty and with folders of long lists of programmes that were not even included with the OS) but could not find one at all. I believe Ubuntu does come with a firewall but if you want a GUI interface for it you have to install that separately. at one stage signed up at an Ubuntu Forum website - and there are heaps of them - to try and obtain advice, and was met with torrent of maniacal abuse by the first respondent, and a kind of smirking "ha ha ha, we know about Ubuntu, but that idiot doesn't" from the next one! I never found the (official) Ubuntu forums all that useful myself but never encountered anyone like that either. If you haven't yet tried, take a look at http://ubuntuforums.org/ Agent_24, have you got a Linux OS? Yes, I have been using Ubuntu and variants since late 2005. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 currently to write this ;) but I also have XP installed on this machine. On my other machine I triple-boot XP, Ubuntu and Windows 7. To get around your Ubuntu installation issues, you may want to first try installing via Wubi. To do this, boot your Windows XP and then insert the Ubuntu CD. The CD provides a way to install Ubuntu inside Windows. It's not the best way to do it, but it allows you to get up and running with an installed version of Ubuntu with minimal effort, and without the need to set up real partitions etc. Later on you could progress to a 'proper' install if you so desired.	Agent_24 (57)
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