Roll on the 20th June

[exxcomm0n]

@ G4mac

Yup!

That's a good one as it has track accel at the same time as it hits the wall.

But i still think 3 is a magic number as 2 roller/rods being in track is always better than 1 when another is hitting the wall.
Your design will have an even number of "in attraction" and "in wall" mags so there is no advantage when the wall is encountered.

But there's a lot of ideas flying about that could make your model work too.



Nice though!
Glad to see you got's 'em ideas too!

[Mr. M]

Not sure if i have full control of my system or internet anymore, sure as shit don't have it on my email.

[ Resolving Entry Level PC Paranoia ]

Clear out all files you don't need and put the ones you do need that can be removed on to hard copies.  Uninstall all software you don't frequently use via your add/remove programs list. Perform a "Cleanup" operation via Accessories>System Tools and then perform a defrag regardless of if it says you should or not...

Shell out a few hundred for a PC with no network card and keep anything you consider to be sensitive data on that, totally separate from your connection to the outside world.  As soon as you plug a CAT5 cable in to your box or enable a WiFi card you're putting yourself at risk.

After you've done that use the tools below to keep track of what is running on your PC(s), check the net for what they are and if they are a threat, get rid of them if they are and keep an eye on them if they aren't. Get used to what programs run when you perform certain actions and sit there watching your computer idling periodically to see if something unexpected briefly springs up and vanishes again.

Netstat will allow you to see ports on your box, what they are doing and what, if anything, they are connected to at the moment, command line args are on the wiki page and it's built in to your WinOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netstat

RegMon is a visual registry monitor which allows you to see access and changes to your windows registry which means that pretty much anything running on your system can be monitored. Download it, run it and you'll see what I mean.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896652.aspx

If you want to be more secure on the net then I suggest you check out Tor... However, you need to know everything about Onion routing, the Pro's, the Con's and how to get around them before using it otherwise you're technically you're an easier target than when you weren't using it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing#Weaknesses

[exxcomm0n]

Public Service Announcement ( I posted content today too, so give me a break )

Some of my favorites were Sysinternals from Winternals, most notably:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cb56073f-62a3-4ed8-9dd6-40c84cb9e2f5.aspx

FileMon
This monitoring tool lets you see all file system activity in real-time.

ListDLLs
List all the DLLs that are currently loaded, including where they are loaded and their version numbers. Version 2.0 prints the full path names of loaded modules.

Process Explorer
Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process.

Process Monitor
Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.

These let you know whats going on realtime with your machine (try watching Filemon sometime ), most (if not all) will log to a file so you can browse it at your leisure.

Microsoft bought them and so these are available for free from the M$ download site (search sysinternals, or use the link [maybe]).

Between this and the search function you can track down any file or process running on your machine to see if it's supposed to be there or not (remember that you have to set explorer settings to "Don't hide operating system files" and other hide functions (like dropping the extension for "known file types").
Command line rocks for file location for some of the more tricky ones.

You see something you don't know about, google it and find out.

Check into Spybot and AdAware spyware locating utilities as they (spyware) can funk up your machine something feirce especially when it comes to network use.

Otherwise, everything Mr. M said was spot on, and then some!

If you're on the net, you're accessible.

Sensitive data destruction is best done with a hammer or thermite to your hard drive (in fact, frag the RAM and network card too).

Check into a bootable CD OS Like Barts PE (or any number of Linux ones) for better (BUT NOT PERFECT....well...the Linux ones come close.) data confidentiality as they MOSTLY reside totally in RAM (The Barts disk will use partition swap file unless you configure it not to).

Got a Wi-Fi (wireless LAN) laptop or card for you desktop?

You might be able to pirate net access through your neighbors open access points, but it also opens you to another layer of data and network confidentiality concerns.
Should only be used in emergency.

Look into a user friendly Linux distribution like Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc.) with a KDE desktop (easiest for transition) as it's more secure through obscurity (many less virus and worms written for it) and software peer reviewed by some of the most paranoid people on the planet from all over the world.

It's a bit of a learning curve, but it's got some REALLY nice and powerful capabilities.

......And some nice eye candy like my present window manager compiz shown below.

6 desktops, no waiting. Once you get used to an OS made for supporting multiple concurrently running programs you just start leaving an application per desktop and switching between them.

Search compiz on the Tube.

[JohnGalt_USA]

[ Resolving Entry Level PC Paranoia ]

Clear out all files you don't need and put the ones you do need that can be removed on to hard copies.  Uninstall all software you don't frequently use via your add/remove programs list. Perform a "Cleanup" operation via Accessories>System Tools and then perform a defrag regardless of if it says you should or not...

Shell out a few hundred for a PC with no network card and keep anything you consider to be sensitive data on that, totally separate from your connection to the outside world.  As soon as you plug a CAT5 cable in to your box or enable a WiFi card you're putting yourself at risk.

After you've done that use the tools below to keep track of what is running on your PC(s), check the net for what they are and if they are a threat, get rid of them if they are and keep an eye on them if they aren't. Get used to what programs run when you perform certain actions and sit there watching your computer idling periodically to see if something unexpected briefly springs up and vanishes again.

Netstat will allow you to see ports on your box, what they are doing and what, if anything, they are connected to at the moment, command line args are on the wiki page and it's built in to your WinOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netstat

RegMon is a visual registry monitor which allows you to see access and changes to your windows registry which means that pretty much anything running on your system can be monitored. Download it, run it and you'll see what I mean.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896652.aspx

If you want to be more secure on the net then I suggest you check out Tor... However, you need to know everything about Onion routing, the Pro's, the Con's and how to get around them before using it otherwise you're technically you're an easier target than when you weren't using it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing#Weaknesses

Or you could just skip all that hassle and buy a Mac.

[exxcomm0n]

Or you could just skip all that hassle and buy a Mac.

Even MacOS is based on BSD-based these days.

You could run compiz too........