This is an interesting thread.

I have also been very concerned about performance of AVs. That's why I have used Clam Sentinel for years, which is an open source way of running the free AV ClamWin resident.

ClamWin is usually used mainly on servers but with Clam Sentinel, it is usable on individual PCs.

Its idle memory usage is better than the winner. When scanning it is about middle of the pack. Easy to disable if you just move files around on your computers and want to do it as fast as possible.

An AV that gives you a lot of control.

As a second opinion for downloads I use Emsisoft Emergency Kit's terminal scanner (formerly called A2Squared) triggered by Firesoft after a download has finished. I use the following batch file for that:

12 people can video conference with www.Oovoo.com for free

Found another one that may fit the bill:
http://www.tokbox.com/opentok/plugnplay#TokShow

Anyone ever used this service?

I have been doing some research of my own now, and it seems that Banckle.com could do what I want and they have a free 14 day trial too.

Does anyone have experience with Banckle (in particular for video streaming from my webcam)?

Hi,

I have decided to help this wonderful project of a school for poor girls in Thailand at indiegogo.

One of the things I would like to organise is a live fund raising event streamed over the internet for potential donors.

So: How do I live stream a video fundraising event over the internet to 100+ people for free?

I would really appreciate your help.

You have been answering to a 4 year old thread!

Dyndns is afaik no longer free. Teamviewer rules.

Today I stumbled upon this offer:

Kingsoft Office Suite Standard for free today at dailysoftwaregiveaway.com.

Now I added this to my arsenal of office suites consisting of Open Office and Softmaker.

While reading up on KS I also noticed that they have a very highly rated completely free and full featured (not crippled like the other ones) android office suite in google market with a 4.5 out of 10115 votes rating - not bad I guess!

I have never used Kingsoft yet. I know they are very popular in China. BTW Softmaker also has an android office app in public beta on their site, but it won't be free.

It seems that the PC companies have an experience advantage adapting their software to android over the purely mobile competition and apparently can render spreadsheets and docs without dropping and losing PC side features from the file.

What are your experiences with today's Kingsoft offer?

I switched from Scroogle to DuckDuckGo.com to my greatest satisfaction. Startpage is also getting better.

I wanted to report how I solved the problem.

After much effort it was quite simple:

In Partition Wizard Hoem Edition I used the feature "Rebuild MBR" and voila the partition was sticky from now on.

On some other machine this feature also solved a problem where Win7 did not want to hibernate with Diskcryptor installed on the system partition.

I can HIGHLY recommend this software.

http://partitionwizard.co...ee-partition-manager.html

Hi,

some friends of mine would like to be taught English. Are there any good downloadable web resources for this task?

I am looking for special recordings in slowly spoken English and also (same text) normal spoken English to effortlessly accustom them to the different language melody and structure. It would be great if those recordings would already be structured in a step by step lesson-like context.

Also I am looking for a good downloadable grammar as a reference work.

Money is tight for them and not everyone has an internet connection at home, so it would be important that it is free and possibly available for download, i.e. not entirely web based.

I would also be interested in some fun written lessons and exercises.

Do we have any language teaching experts? I would surely appreciate your input.

Thanks for your answer:
I installed XP first in the first partition, then a fresh install of Win7 trial with a reformat of the first partition, then (on a different lappy) mirrored an install of XP.

The problem here also is that the lappy is a tablet Toshiba Portege M205 with the special XP pro version for tablets and it did not come with recovery disks.

Furthermore on this computer it is extremely difficult to reinstall the OS, and I would not really want to do it anyway, since I will have to reinstall all my software.

So I am looking for a kind of live realignment solution, if possible.

Would anybody know about how to do it?

Hi Stephen,

please don't get me wrong, but I would prefer to hear a solution from somebody who actually has had experience with this kind of problem or is very knowledgeable about this topic instead of a long shot solution.

But thank you very much for your try at helping me out.

Hi everybody,

a while ago I installed the trial version of Win7 on my lappy.

Then I took the hard drive out, put it in another lappy and mirrored XP to the HD with Drive Snapshot.

Now XP starts fine, but my second partition is laways hiding. I can unhide it with any partition tool and it will show up for that session, but after a reboot it is gone into hiding again.

I think it has to do with the way Win7 aligns partitions.

I can find plenty of tutorials on the web to align a drive to the new Win7 partitoning scheme, but have not been lucky to find one that can reverse it.

Can anybody help?

Thanks.

Would this help:
http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/

British accents so interesting, the English sound track had to have English subtitles:

Snatch

Unfortunately a lot of violence but off-beat funny.

Not only British speak, but also Irish, British/Irish-Gypsy, Jiddish-English, Italo-American, Jive, Pig-Speak and a few I probably forgot.

Best watched using VLC with which you can easily jump back and slow down .

They sure are still in business - bigger than ever - and last I checked their lappies are rebranded or special versions of bare bones MSIs.

Maybe you can deinstall and then reinstall.

AFAIR when you install, TC will ask you where you want the ini setting file to be.

Hi,

because the release of VueScan9 will most likely be accompanied by a price increase, I just wanted to quickly give you a heads up that Ed Hamrick is in the final stages of beta testing the new version 9 of VueScan.

VueScan 9 is now compiled with Microsoft C and is a major rewrite.

New features:

• Faster and more responsive user interface,
  
• Twain support (i.e. you can use VueScan to directly import into f.e. MS Word, IrfanView, FastStoneImage Viewer, your favorite OCR etc.),
  
• Native 64 bit binaries for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, so that now the full scanner feature sets are supported under 64 bit OS
  
• Works better with scans over 3GB
  
• PhotoShop Import filters (32 and 64 bit) for PS and PSE together with better memory management
  
• Universal Binary on MacOSX
  

The final version is expected to be out beginning of the coming week and Ed dropped hints that it will probably also become more expensive at that time.

So if you were thinking of buying or gifting VueScan, you may want to grab it now before the expected increase. Ed never gives discounts, so there is no need to wait for a "deal".

The standard version is good for document scans and the occasional color scan, but for serious color work, the professional version is probably best, which also comes with unlimited upgrades (vs. 1 yr for standard).

Here is a more in depth review of VueScan:

http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=23658.0

What were your experiences with mercury32, since you mentioned it?

You also said you use clamwin:

http://clamsentinel.sourceforge.net

is a neat add-on, but I don't know if it helps in your situation.

Thanks,

I just tried MagicIso, PowerIso and WinImage, but none of them worked, though all could open the file but were not able to do a replacement.

I think I need to extract the file, then do the replacement, then redo the img file. I have no idea what bootloader to use though.

Carol-

AFAIK the English versions sold in US and UK can only do English.

But if you know exactly what other language you want DNS to do, you can buy DNS in the country where this language is natively spoken and then it will do that countries native language *plus* English.

Be careful with your bluetooth headset, it may not work as good as you may think if it is an inexpensive one. DNS seems to give strongly varying results with different headsets.

The headsets that do give really good results are usually quite expensive, sometimes quite a bit more than DNS itself.

Hi,

I have a .ca_ file, which contains a 122MB .img file where I need to update a driver. I think the image is bootable.

I am a TotalCommander user, and have the  totaliso, iso, and img extensions installed.

When I extract and then try to open the .img file with TC I get an "error in packed file" message.

The 7z filemanager can open the file without a problem (but does not allow editing).

If I change the .img extension to .iso I get no error message but the content is shown as empty, if I change to .ima same results as .img.

The file seems to be  a bootable Microsoft .img file in NTFS file system. The first few characters of the file as shown in my HexEditor HxD are "ëR.NTFS".

Could anybody give me some hints how I can go about replacing a driver in that file.

I thing MagicIso could do it, but I would like to do it without paying the fee for a one time job.

Thanks.

That's kind of a loaded question. In my experience there are die hards for any forum software and they always accuse the other forum softwares of being lax on security.

But my opinion from superficially scrutinizing SMF's and MyBB's record for security *FIXES* would be that MyBB is quicker to respond to any vulnerability that is discovered. SMF's approach seems to be (I am a bit speculating here) that they only respond quickly to truly serious vulnerabilities. OTOH, SMF would probably and rightly respond to this that it is their philosophy to only release thoroughly tested code, which simply takes longer to test and produce. If there is a vulnerability found, they would first describe ways to fix it with a workaround, while working and testing the code to fix the matter completely.

There is a lot of validity in SMF's approach, since forum administrator often shy away from quickly updating (jo - mouser ... what are you running? 1.1.11 ???  ) because of extension compatibility issues.

But just the same MyBB's approach also has merits.

Choosing forum software is not an easy task, because once you have decided,  changing will be laboriously and could bring about complications. Therefore I suggest get your feet wet without putting any money down:
Download MyBB and SMF and whatever else you want to try and get some free hosting accounts: X10hosting and Zymic are probably good choices. Now install the forum software and start setting up your board.

Before you do, spend some time planning out your forum:

• What topics, subtopics, membership groups etc. you want to have?
  
• What features do you want to activate (f.e. karma features, post ratings, etc)? Keep it as simple as possible at first.
  

I would strongly favor the forum software that

a.) looks the most visually appealing out of the box or with minimal changes
b.) has all the critical administration features out of the box
c.) is easiest to use for you and the user (but please do figure some "becoming familiar with forum software" in general time in this step, it's not like clicking the "start" button in windows)
d.) you feel at home with.

Couple of more points to consider:

The more you start relying on mods and themes, the more you put yourself in the hands of somebody else who may be around a lot less longer than the forum software itself, and this is detrimental to a long range project.

Highly technical security issues are usually beyond the understanding of a budding forum administrator, but I think you can rest assured that both MyBB and SMF have taken security to heart and are good and secure choices in their default configurations.

You may want to keep one trial forum installation for the software you have finally chosen to try new things before you can then with some level of confidence apply them to your live forum.

If you choose SMF definitely go with the latest v2 beta, this will give you no or least amount of headache upgrading when v2 gold comes out (the betas are very reliable and stable).

Good luck - and just remember: The most meaningful experience you will get by simply starting to play with the software - intellectual pursuit at this point has become futile .

A joke about that:
Question:
What will a follower of antroposophy do when he is offered to go to Heaven?

Answer:
He will go to a library and read about Heaven.

Hi CT,

I am late to the party. There was a similar thread here:

http://www.donationcoder....20929.msg187798#msg187798

SMF is a good choice. They are straightening out their differences and are going full steam ahead releasing v2 gold.

A system with more hooks (like mouser allured to) would be MyBB.

You may want to incorporate links to Picasa or an online storage system for picture and documents, which may help in spreading the risk of loosing the material over time.

Thanks for the info.

It seems pretty nifty. You can apparently install in a sandbox and make the app portable from there without actually installing it.

This is how I have been doing it anyway manually - maybe Cameyo can do it automatically and save me some work.

I will give it a try!