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Self-replicating robots April 4, 2006 9:26 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Gadgets, Robotics, Technology , add a comment

I love robots. Always have. These are strange. I can’t take my eyes off them!

More info on the self-repairing machines. This is a project of Cornell University in the proof of concept stage.

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Virus Writers Are Criminal April 4, 2006 6:51 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life , add a comment

The dollar value I can assess to lost productivity to myself and my client because of the CWS CoolWebSearch (Inet20001) malware and viruses is ridiculous. Virus Writers and malware writers be damned! The stress of trying to remove this mess has taken time off the end of my life I’m sure. So not only are they stealing my money, they are killing me!

That said, today’s challenge. Take a windows 2000 workstation that would boot to the windows login screen then restart after reporting "svchost.exe The application failed to initialize properly. 0xc0000142" Booting to safe mode produced the same error (turns out this is from a copy in c:\temp\svchost.exe). Long and short. The machine did not have enough memory to run the Windows Ultimate Boot CD but did run the Linux Ultimate Boot CD and a virus scan showed some potentials. Notes taken. Damn Small Linux refuses to delete files from the hard drive. Go to the magic toolbox and pull out 6 floppies that are a modified set of Windows XP boot floppies with a Windows 2000 registry repair option (search MS.com) Registry repaired and files deleted from within DOS. Reboot reveals I missed much. Persistence prevails. (I’d go more detailed but I was cruising on a web application this morning and didn’t intend to have a 12 hour speed bump).

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Presidential Approval Ratings Continue to Fall April 4, 2006 7:30 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Touchy Subjects, United States , add a comment

GW’s approval ratings shown graphically.

Special thanks to Tim for the link.

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Unbelieveable graphic arts! April 4, 2006 6:18 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of Interest , add a comment

I can’t even imagine being this good with Photoshop!

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