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Living Room / Re: Thinking about setting up a dedicated "secure PC" in my house.. Thoughts?

« on: September 27, 2009, 05:40 PM »

I like the idea!
I had been thinking of doing something similar.
I planned to use some form of linux that was bootable from CD.
My dlink router shows all open connections to the network, so it would be easy enough to see if it opened any back doors.
For the ultra paranoid, you could plug it into a hub then sniff the traffic on a second PC and watch what was happening.

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Living Room / Re: New here, is there's any accounting or billing software - here or elsewhere

« on: January 10, 2009, 11:02 AM »

CWuestefeld- thanks for the tip, I don't think the MS stuff has a timer function -

Ideally I'm looking for something other than one of the big name commerical solutions  - ie not quickbooks, peachtree, ms etc..

Dormouse I'll check out those suggestions.

Guests and other readers - if you have any other suggestions, please post them!

 - Jack

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Fix Vista so I can drop a file from Windows Explorer to cmd yet again

« on: January 09, 2009, 09:53 PM »

Skrommel - how does dropcommand work -
is it making a one time change (ie registry?)
or is it something we need to run each time?

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Living Room / New here, is there's any accounting or billing software - here or elsewhere

« on: January 09, 2009, 09:44 PM »

Hi everyone, this is my first post - I like the site so I donated a bit of green to get started.

If I am asking this in the wrong place, please help me by letting me know.

I wonder if there is any shareware accounting or billing software that someone can recommend.

I've been using Quickbooks, I have versions 2000,2005 and 2006
none work with vista so I was going to upgrade, but I've just been reading terrible things about Quickbooks 2009.
So I am looking for alternates.

I really don't need much - a timer so I can keep track of the time I spend would be great, and some way to bill for that time, and record when I get paid.

Thanks!
- Jack