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They keyword is UAC - User Account Control, a security feature introduced starting with Windows Vista.
http://www.tweak-uac.com/what-is-uac/
Prepare for a lengthy discussion on this topic
Everybody get ready... steady... go!
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Please consider that there is a reason why most posters recommended to un- and then re-install applications instead of just moving the folder/files. This way all references to this program will be correctly set. You will most likely run into problems if you ignore this advise, especially if you move larger, more complex applications.
Of course you can move simple data files (movies, documents, mp3s etc).
Moving system or application files is NOT a good idea.
I recommend moving the 'My Documents' folder, which might be an easy and long-term solution for your problem. Follow one of these guides (Windows XP)
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Just wanted to inform the honorable TV community that construction work on the new Visa-On-Arrival office at the Poipet Border is finished and the counter service has already moved there. The famous blue sign stating the 20 USD for the Tourist Visa has been moved there as well
The building is located to the right of the Angkor-styled stone arc that spans the road (hard to miss). This is the same location where the old visa booth was located, just before construction work started a view months ago. The visa office had been temporarily moved to the small white building in the middle/left of the road. The 'health check' (leftover from the swine flu days, basically just filling out a form) is still located in this small white 'hut'. Touts and officers might try to lure you into the offices with tinted glass doors just next to it when you get out of the health check.
The new building is big enough and hard to miss. Check out the pics.
Here a quick guide how to cross the border and come back
- follow the pedestrian walkway which is partly covered by a sun-roof to the Thai immigration building. Touts will approach you on the way there, ignore them. Don't follow them to any 'visa office' or 'agency' (unless you want to). There is a queuing point before you enter the building with 'lanes' for Thai and Foreigners - the inside is a rather big hall with a handful of counters for Thai citizens, Foreigners, Border Pass, and Group Tours.
- Check your departure card for completeness and queue at one of the counters for 'Foreigners' until you get your exit stamp, then exit the building
- walk 100 meters (still on the left road side), you will see a small white building straight ahead, and offices with tinted glass windows on the left. You can see the stone arc from there. Enter the white building and do the 'health check' (a simple form stating that you are not sick). Don't enter the offices to the left, touts or officers might want to persuade you to do the visa there.
- after the health check exit the building and cross the street under the stone arc to the newly built Visa On Arrival office. The sign above the entrance says 'The Office of the International Border Checkpoint Poipet'.
Inside you find a counter, above which you will see a blue sign stating the 3 types of Visas and the prices (see pictures). Bring one photo and a pen, fill the smallish application form, takes 5-15 minutes, you'll have a 1-page sticker in your passport.
Official price is 20 USD, officers will charge 1000 THB (30 USD). Everything in between is up to negotiations. Your best bet is to bring 20 USD, then add 0-200 THB tea money. - keep walking for another 200m (along the right road side), passing the casino hotels, until you arrive at a small building/gateway, fill the arrival card, get your Cambodian entry stamp.
- Welcome to Cambodia!
In front of you there will be a roundabout and touts will approach you to board the bus to the bus station or whatsoever. Say, no thank you, and just walk cross the street to the Cambodian Exit immigration counter where people will probably already line up.
- get exit stamp at Cambodian immigration counter
- walk 100m passing the Casino hotels until you reach the big stone arc, cross the street, keep walking until you come to the Thai immigration building, where you get your entry stamp
- Welcome to Thailand
- follow the pedestrian walkway which is partly covered by a sun-roof to the Thai immigration building. Touts will approach you on the way there, ignore them. Don't follow them to any 'visa office' or 'agency' (unless you want to). There is a queuing point before you enter the building with 'lanes' for Thai and Foreigners - the inside is a rather big hall with a handful of counters for Thai citizens, Foreigners, Border Pass, and Group Tours.
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Don't worry. It was definitely a good idea to go and ask for support at the shop! Maybe my post helped you understand the situation a bit more, maybe not. That's fine
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Thanks, didn't know that.
You mean a hosting provider redirects the main domain to a 3rd party!? That's gross!
Redirecting to the provider's own web page, even that seems unethical to me, but if there is a monetary benefit I could see why people agree to it. However, I wouldn't. My content, my domain, my page rank!
welo
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I personally think Poipet is not as horrible as some people paint it if you know where to go and what to do.
welo
If one were to take advantage of one of those packages where you spend two nights in the Tropicana Casino Hotel, the agent running your passport to Phnom Penh to secure a tourist VISA, perhaps double entry?...
Can you still, with just a photo copy?, enter the zone beyond the casinos' and take advantage of the various restaurants and nightlight on offer? Do they actually check your passport either direction, at night? Thanks.
I always stay within the Casino area in 'No man's land' (not within the building, but within the area) - my agent brought me a copy of passport (main page, cambodian visa, stamp, arrival card) and said they ARE picky about it, but I guess you could go into Poipet. Not my thing though. By 'knowing where to go' I was referring to the border crossing. If you know how to get form Thai immigration to Cambodian immigration and back, you can easily ignore the touts and their 'stories'.
welo
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If you registered the www subdomain just recently, consider that DNS changes may take a while to come into effect. Maybe TRUE has slower update intervals.
Sometimes not typing in the www can be more stressful. I've seen cases where I have been directed to a rogue site.
That surprises me. The www subdomain usually 'belongs' to the same owner as the the main domain, not easy to 'hijack' either one. Of course an attacker might hack the web server and choose to only manipulate the non-www domain in order to hide the attack for a longer period of time (allowing to misdirect/attack a larger number of users)
What is common practice is to register rogue or advertisement domains for mistyped domain names, e.g. thaivisas(dot)com
welo
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Thanks, interesting article!
Just one more reason to make sure that the router is not configured with the default password
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This video explains the process for Windows XP and Vista, and Mac OSX.
http://cnettv.cnet.com/make-your-laptop-hot-spot/9742-1_53-28619.html
Using WEP, however, is not a good choice in terms of security.
Windows XP is doable but inconvenient
Windows Vista is OK, but somehow not really straight forward
OSX is straight forward and offers best control as well
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You open up your internet for other Bzeek users - there is a certain risk to that in censorship-Thailand.
On Windows 7 you could also use 'connectify'.
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google 'how to change dns server in windows [xp|vista|7]'
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It probably uses the same technique as a 'captive portal' in wireless hotspots that require payment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal
Wikipedia lists 3 techniques, one of them being the 'DNS poisoning' that one can (probably) work around just like siamect pointed out.
I like tools that makes things easy
The tool combines a bunch of features into a convenient interface: change DNS settings for all network cards at once, simple performance test, list of public DNS servers.
It is listed on Softpedia.com and should be safe, but no 100% guarantee. Of course if I had the source code I would check the code now, but it's not open source
(some irony and some truth in that statement) welo
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cobra has a good point. I guess you verified that the problem is not tied to that specific (albeit large) mp3 file.
However, to me it very much seems that you are running out of 'phone memory', that is the internal memory which is usually rather small. The 700 MB of free memory is most likely on the 'memory card'.
I see several possible reasons why files get transferred to the internal memory and not to the memory card
- The phone is configured to use the internal phone memory for music files
- The Nokia software is configured to transfer files to the internal phone memory
- The way Bluetooth transfer works on your phone will require the file to be loaded into internal phone memory first before being transferred to the memory card.
Solutions
- Fix the phone configuration to use the memory card
- Fix the Nokia Suite configuration to transfer to the memory card
- Use a data cable - will give you much better transfer speeds as well
Workarounds
- When your phone is connected you can usually browse both phone memory and memory card from Windows Explorer - not sure that works when connected via Bluetooth. In the File Explorer browse to the memory card, find the folder for audio files and copy the file there e.g. via drag and drop
- Remove the memory card from the phone and use a card reader in your PC - then copy the file to the memory card
You might still have to configure the phone's media player to use the memory card instead of the phone memory.
I'm sorry, I cannot give you more detailed instructions on how to do that - I don't have a Nokia phone available right now.
welo
- The phone is configured to use the internal phone memory for music files
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I guess it would be worth to advertise these plugins to the thaivisa community. I'm sure many people suffer from this problem once in a while.
I wonder if anybody knows similar plugins for IE, Chrome, etc.
Might be worth a sticky topic.
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Free up space on your C drive:
* Move the swapfile to D: **
* If hibernation is enabled and you don't use it, disable it in Control Panel / Power Options (the hibernation file on the disk equals the size of your RAM) - hibernation is usually off by default in XP
* Move the Photoshop scratch disk to D:
* Move your data to D:, that is the My Documents directory which includes the 'My Audio' and other subfolders - this might actually free considerable disk space if you keep all your data there at the moment (eg mp3s)
* Uninstall applications and re-install to the D: directory, start with large apps first, e.g. games.
Please not that it is not a good idea to fill up your C: drive. Experts recommend 10-30% free space on any partition for performance reasons.
If using partitioning tools to resize, make sure you have a BACKUP of your data on an external media before you start - there is a certain risk that something goes wrong and the partitions get 'lost'
** swapfile: downside is that within one harddisk the partitions at the 'beginning' are always faster than those at the 'end'
welo
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I think you shouldn't require a driver to make the connection work via cable.
Make sure you get the latest version of Nokia Suite from the Nokia website. e.g. http://www.nokia-asia.com/support/download-software/nokia-pc-suites/compatibility-and-download
Might be a Bluetooth driver problem (PC) or firmware problem (phone).
Other possibilty: Maybe the phone stores the file first on the internal memory, then transfers the file to the memory card, and the internal memory runs full.
Try checking the free memory for both internal memory and memory card.
Does it work for smaller files?
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Why on earth - if one wants more privacy and better security - does one also require the right of free modification and redistribution??
If that's your opinion, you should not use copyleft licensed software. It is up to you,
The "requirement" is really not a requirement at all. The copyright holder is giving this right to the users if the releases his software under a copyleft license...
My statement was both an expressed opinion as well as a question? Do I get an answer?
Meanwhile I can come up with an answer, but I want to hear yours.I asked the question because I still believe that Free Software is not the 'only answer' to privacy and security concerns with software.
And it is a 'requirement' because the FSF promotes the GPL, which is 'all or nothing' (open source plus redistribution enforcements).
Linux is GPLed, is it?, still not sure what this means for commercial software development on Linux and linking against system libraries. Didn't find any info on that, but I guess it can be done because there are closed-source applications available on Linux - just wonder why it's not a problem...
You personally might not be interested in closed-source development on Linux, but if you think about Linux as a desktop OS the gaming industry will come to your mind - one often cited reason why people still dual boot.
I found a couple of interesting articles on closed-source software development and open-source business models. I assume a lot of things said there are not news to you, but I do think that they show well why I as software developer question your 'the only way' argument in favor of Free Software.
I just post 3 articles here dealing with different aspects. As with many articles/blog posts, reading the comments section is a must and will balance the opinion expressed in the original posts.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/technology_at_work/archives/2009/07/the_failure_of.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2351328/closed-source-applications-for-linux
http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/closed-for-business/
welo
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great!
Noscript is a good plugin, but you end up adding exception after exception... Got rid of it long time ago
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Sorry, the comment numbers seem to be messed up, at least on my PC!?
I meant those...
Actions you could take for further troubleshooting
- Start Windows in Safe Mode (F8 during startup) and observe the behavior
- Disable all startup programs - hit WIN-R and type 'msconfig.exe', change to system start and disable everything
- Download a Linux LiveCD (eg Ubuntu) and verify the problem - if the problem persists, a hardware problem is verly likely.
- Which antivirus programs did you run? I recommend Malwarebytes Antimalware, Hitman Pro, ESET Free Online Scanner or Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool. Run full system scans, start with Hitman Pro and Malwarebytes.
If none of the 4 antivirus scanners detects anything a malware infection is unlikely (though still possible).
Please report back with details on the results of other actions taken. If you can still observe erratic behavior with the Linux Live CD, then a hardware problem is VERY likely.
welo
- Start Windows in Safe Mode (F8 during startup) and observe the behavior
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I do get the online visa maybe 2 days before departure, ignore the touts (smile, "no thank you", smile, "have evisa already", smile, I ignore everything after that), and consider Poipet a rather effective border crossing.
Nothing wrong with visa run agencies, especially on your first visa/border run. I personally think Poipet is not as horrible as some people paint it if you know where to go and what to do.
welo
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I feel the same way about other products.I want to know the contents of the canned food I eat because I care about my health, allergies etc.
The difference is that while it is possible to list the ingredients of food to satisfy your wish (which is obviously shared by many and therefore required by law in many countries), this does not disclose the exact recipe and procedure of producing the product. Furthermore human health is surely a more important concern than privacy matters.
I however agree that privacy might be a more important matter than commercial interests
So we are back to the question how to achieve one thing (better privacy) without more or less abolishing another thing (commercial software products). If Facebook is using Apache or not I don't know. I know they are using other GPL software but they are to my knowledge not distributing this software. They are just running it on their servers which is allowed by GPL. So if Apache had been copyleft it would mean no difference for this particular case.
I know it's not the point of the discussion but for correctness, Apache v1.1 license is non-copyleft and Apache v2 license is copyleft...
That's probably correct. I just remember from previous discussions and researches on the subject that 'distribution' - yet again - is a very fuzzy term. Javascript code for instance is distributed to the client when a website is rendered, hence activating the part of the GPL that requires to release the whole application under GPL.
A previous post of yours comes up in my mind, when you complained about how complicated it sometimes is to select from the many different purchase options that some software companies offer. I guess you know about the endless discussions on license (in)compatibilities, and what is considered a 'derivative work' and what not, what is 'linking' and what 'distribution'
Btw the Apache License is not copyleft even in v2, but now considered 'compatible' with GPL v3 by the FSF. I tried to understand what that actually means in one sentence but I couldn't, and to be honest I'm not sure I understand it LOL
Furthermore...
It should be noted, however, that there is a one-way incompatibility between the Apache version 2 and GPL version 3 licenses, in that you cannot include GPL version 3 code in an Apache project without activating the requirement that the entire project be relicensed under the GPL version 3.source:wikipedia
Great Free (Software) World!
My desire to push companies to release copyleft software is less than my desire to inform users about their right to choose software that are open to public review. I think the users should use their right to know what software is running one their computer for privacy reasons.
Why on earth - if one wants more privacy and better security - does one also require the right of free modification and redistribution??
welo
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The log shows no trojan infection but an installed rogue security software that has been removed.
I thought that when you mentioned 'Spybot' you referred to 'Spybot Search & Destroy' which is a respectable anti-malware software. BPS Security Console as well as probably other products from Bulletproofspyware(dot)com are considered Rogue Software or maybe worse.
Rogue Software is a fake software that claims to do something which it does not do well (or not at all), and at the same time reporting fake warnings and alerts trying to scare you into purchasing software (real or fake as well) to get rid of a problem that is not there.
this is what WOT (Web of Trust): http://www.mywot.com/de/scorecard/BulletProofSoft.com
this is what McAfee's SiteAdvisor says: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/BulletProofSoft.com/summary/
People even report trojan and malware infections with software downloaded from this website. Verifying the exact threat level is not possible for me.
It could be possible that this software messed with your profile or system settings to create problems which might lure you into a purchase of their software.
Do NEVER download software from the internet without cross-checking its credibility. One way is to download only from respectable download sites such as download.com, filehippo.com, softpedia.com - and read the reviews on download.com. If the program is not listed there, better stay away.
Install the WOT plugin from www.mywot.com - this will warn you about many unsafe and untrusted websites (but remember that the listing can NEVER be complete)
How to proceed from here?
I recommend either one of those options
- Reinstall the OS
- Have a (real) professional check your system
- Run several respected antivirus solutions to check your system
I also want to remind you again that you better backup your data NOW!
Recommended antivirus software:
http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol
http://download.cnet.com/Hitman-Pro-3/3000-2239_4-10895604.html?tag=mncol
http://download.eset.com/special/eos/esetsmartinstaller_enu.exe
- Reinstall the OS
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Thanks for your detailed feedback.
However, even with your new findings I can't really pinpoint the problem any further, everything that has been said still applies. I could detail my theories about why it could be a hardware problem and why a software problem or malware infection, but the result is still the same.
Try the actions I described in post #10.
I would do the virus/malware checks parallel to my other suggestions since the scans will take some time anyway - you can have the scans run overnight.
Since you are travelling and probably have limited internet access: Malwarebytes requires internet for the update, but can then run without internet connection. Hitman Pro requires an internet connection even while scanning because it uploads suspicious files to a scan cloud, Eset will not run without Internet Connection I think since it tries to update every time when run (I think), Kaspersky includes the the latest updates (and cannot be updated at all), but is unfortunately hosted on a slow server, and the download is 70MB.
Try this website for the Ubuntu Live CD or USB: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download.
Good luck.
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Well, to be honest, I guess I don't know yet what my point is. I'm still in the process of making up my mind. To be even more honest, radical and cult-like attitudes turn me off, and trigger a natural instinct to oppose that opinion
I repeatedly encounter Linux advocates who simplify and/or deny real world problems related to Linux (in various fields, not only licensing), and I don't like it. (Of course this attitude is not solely owned by Linux groupies and can be found on the Windows side as well).
I want to point out that I found your posts to be knowledgeable, reasonable and moderate, but I occasionally see this kind of attitude 'break through'.
This is a very irritating reaction. Complete denial and refusal to discuss what I'd consider valid concerns.
One link is merely a question(!) of a guy who wants to develop a closed-source application for Linux (actually cross-platform) and asks for advise since there are certain aspects of Linux that make this more complicated compared to other OSes.
Another link is on the experiences of a developer who ported a closed source application to Linux, and his feedback to the Linux community based on this experience.
The first link is definitely a biased and emotional article, albeit from somebody who was frustrated from his experience of leading a commercial Open-Source company. That's why I explicitly mentioned the comments section, because to me the whole read (article plus comments with counter-arguments) was very informative.
Agreed, all articles deal with closed-source / commercial aspects around Linux software which I dare say is not your main concern and maybe also not your area of expertise.
I, however, think that Linux and its users would benefit from an Open Source operating system that not only allows but also encourages both business models, open- and closed source, to allow a greater choice of software and competition, and hopefully quality.
Commercial applications are not really thriving on the Linux platform, and for me this is unfortunate, since this is a major reason why Linux as a desktop OS is still behind Windows in terms of acceptancy and adoption.
That's why I brought up those articles, and mentioned the Linux gaming industry which had a major setback in 2002 when the only major commercial gaming company for Linux (Loki) filed bancruptcy. And I'm not talking about Flash games and alike, I'm talking about the real stuff
There is definitely an interest in some parts of the Linux community to keep closed-source and commercial applications out - you might actually be better informed about the ongoings around closed-source packages in some distros, I remember something about NVIDIA drivers, etc. This article expresses that intention more clearly.
If it just were that simple...
http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8988738
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread87052.html
http://www.the-source.com/2010/04/more-on-gpl-and-derivatives/
Maybe after the lecture of those articles you understand why I repeatedly blamed the GPL to 'enforce' restrictions/requirements, namely that to publish any derivative work under more or less the same (aka compatible) license. The matter is that even using the C header files of a (Linux GPLed) library during compilation will make your project a derivative work, which 'enforces' the GPL (or compatible license) on your project and basically kills the possibility to sell the software.
I've been studying the articles for the past 30 minutes (or more) and conclude that while the legal interpretation is unclear, the intention of the Linux developers (Linus Torvald) is to allow closed-source development on Linux, but 'protect' modifications to the kernel.
peace,
welo