The Paradiso

ENJOY IT.

By Joris Evers, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: June 16, 2005, 7:12 PM PT

BitTorrent users, beware: Your download may include adware and spyware.
Purveyors of the applications that produce pop-up ads on PC screens and track browsing habits have discovered BitTorrent as a new distribution channel. According to observers of the trend, videos and music that hide adware and spyware are increasingly being offered for download on various BitTorrent Web sites.

BitTorrent has grown into one of the most widely used means of downloading files such as movies or software. Unlike peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa, eDonkey and the original Napster, no central search technology exists for BitTorrent. Instead, links to specific files are posted on Web sites.
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讓你的 視窗叉屁 (Windows XP) 喝下一杯老虎牛奶 (Tigermilk) 就會變成一隻小老虎.
剛好手邊有一台新的機器可以測試 P4 3.4 GB 512RAM.
用起來爽度還不錯. 我喜歡裡面的Dock功能.
裡面的expose功能我覺得有點小Bugs.

我已經測試過安裝反安裝.沒有什麼大問題.
有興趣養老虎的人又還沒有足夠銀兩的人可以先喝一下老虎牛奶.

慢慢享用~

Let your Windows XP to drink a cup of Tigermilk. Then your system will become a little tiger.
Recently, I have a new PC (P4 3.4 GB 512RAM) for that testing.
I do enjoy the Tigermilk. I like the program of Dock.
Alought, the expose still has bugs.

I’ve installed and uninstalled that. Tigermilk do not have any big problems.
If you do not have enough money to raise a tiger, you should let your WindowsXP to drink the Tigermilk.

Enjoy~

The files that you need for installing the NetBEUI protocol on Windows XP are Netnbf.inf and Nbf.sys. To install NetBEUI, follow these steps:
1. Insert your Windows XP CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive and then locate the Valueadd\MSFT\Net\NetBEUI folder.
2. Copy the Nbf.sys file to the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Drivers folder.
3. Copy the Netnbf.inf file to the %SYSTEMROOT%\Inf hidden folder.
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When I try to edit a Group Policy object, I get the “Snap-in failed to initialize” error.

Cause: This may be happen if Group Policy cannot find framedyn.dll.

Solution: If you use installation scripts, make sure that your scripts place the %windir%\system32\wbem directory in the system path. By default, %windir%\system32\wbem is in the system path already; therefore, you are not likely to encounter this issue if you do not use installation scripts.

By Nate Mook, BetaNews
February 15, 2005, 1:17 PM

UPDATED Reversing its plans not to release a new version of Internet Explorer independent from Windows, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates now says IE 7.0 will debut before Longhorn. At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Gates acknowledged that IE had become a security risk and promised a beta of IE7 will be available this summer for Windows XP SP2.

The update will include new anti-spyware features, and likely draw on Microsoft’s recent acquisitions of security companies GIANT and Sybari.
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By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
January 21, 2005, 10:08 AM

Use of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has fallen for the seventh straight month, and the decline is beginning to accelerate, according to new data from research firm WebSideStory. Usage of IE stood at 90.3 percent, a one month decrease of 1.5 percent. Meanwhile, Firefox usage rose nearly a full percentage point to 5 percent of the market.

WebSideStory also showed gains in Apple’s Safari browser and Opera Software’s flagship browser. The original Mozilla browser showed some weakness, falling slightly since December.

Other browser usage surveys, however, show Internet Explorer to have already fallen below 90 percent. Rival OneStat.com in November said IE’s share stood at 88.9 percent. OneStat.com at that time pegged Firefox usage at 4.58 percent.

Although Microsoft could not immediately be reached for comment, officials at the company have repeatedly stated to the media that they are not concerned about Mozilla’s Firefox.

In a November 2004 interview with BetaNews, Gary Schare, Director of Windows Product Management at Microsoft, said that Firefox’s “free ride” was over. “We think that getting the first set of early adopters is a lot easier than getting the next set, and then crossing over into the mainstream is pretty difficult,” he said.

Install NetBEUI Protocol
Enable LMHOSTS lookup
Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP

# C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
# C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost
xxx.xxx.xxx.xx  "domain \0x1b"  #PRE
xxx.xxx.xxx.xx  hostname        #PRE #DOM:domain