Josh

Member since: Jun 28th, 2006

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DVD to iPod minus the aggravation (Download Squad)

Sep 2nd 2007 11:52PM This is listed under Windows, Mac, and Linux... it's Mac only. ??

If fish eat worms, what do worms eat? Music (Download Squad)

Aug 5th 2007 11:33AM Also, I noticed that it's not exactly a major threat. According to Symantec, it's infected less than 50 machines in 2 or less sites.

If fish eat worms, what do worms eat? Music (Download Squad)

Aug 5th 2007 11:26AM Tom, the ars technica article states "the worm makes its way from computer to computer by spreading itself onto all attached drives of a given PC, including flash drives and removable media. If that media is then removed and inserted into another computer, it continues its music-eating rampage on the new host."

In other words, don't let other people plug their stuff into or map a drive to or from your computer.

Convert docs to PDF online, free (Download Squad)

Aug 21st 2006 11:01PM You can also use OpenOffice.org 2.0 to export to PDF or install PDF Creator, which adds itself to your printers and you can print to PDF from any program that supports printing. Both are very effective at the task. Also, both are open source apps.

Add useful items to My Computer (Download Squad)

Aug 21st 2006 11:01PM Robert, don't feel bad, it got truncated on my 1280x800 widescreen also.

Add useful items to My Computer (Download Squad)

Aug 19th 2006 3:00AM "Reboot and the changes will show up the next time you open the 'My Computer' window"?

The trend continues... "A gnat has farted in the general area of your Windows PC, reboot for the changes to take effect." Meanwhile, the only thing you really need to restart Linux for is a kernel upgrade/re-compile.