Dual Boot

The Technology Muse's experiences with configuring Dual Boots.

• Using Win7BootPro to control the boot behavior of your PC
• The Dual Boots that I have configured
• The Grub Loader

CMS - Content Management Systems (Software)

Re-post of cms.html

Reputation Defender - Still no telephone # on website

When I did a review of the Reputation Defender website in January 2008 (on my website) there wasn't a telephone number with their "contact us" information.

May 2009 - there STILL is no telephone number.

In January 2008 there was a disclaimer that the reason that there was no number was that the site was in "beta" and there would be a number in due course. I think that 16 months is long enough for a beta program.

Reputation Defender were mentioned in todays newspaper - this is likely to have been syndicated across North America.

Michael Grey at wolf-howl.com seems to think that there may be "strong arm" tactics being proposed - in which case he would blog about it - so will I. If Jarret Cohen's account of the goings on with autoadmit are anything to go by then he may have a point.

Additional Tags: Michael Fertik and Ross Chanin

Western Digital Corp - warranty and repair service

WDC - Warranty & RMA Services - End User Customers.

I have made a choice when I purchase hard drives to favor Western Digital over Seagate. The main reason for this is that I have had excellent service from Western Digital and I have had few failures, and those that I have were largely due to an error on my part (dropped or shaking a drive when it was active),
these drives when in warranty were replaced by WDC with minimum hassle.

This is in part one of the reasons that I have a rebuild rather than a "recover" strategy when it comes to hard drives and the back-up and recovery of data and the restoration of computer systems. I originanly had a stratergy of making an image backup of a newly configured and cleaned system. I now favour the
complete rebuild of a system from scratch. This is due to a number of factors, the ease in which replacement WDC drives are obtained, the fact that I can re-install operating systems at will (by-passing Windows activation etc) and also that drivers are usually easy to locate on the Internet. There have been a few exceptions to the driver problem, but again, nothing that I have not been able to overcome.

In fact, the only HDD failure the involved a WDC drive was with an Acer AO722 that lastest of less than a month from purchase. The unit was an "open box" so I do not know whether the unit had been previously dropped by its original owner. I suspect that it may have been.

Links:

• The warranty repair that triggered this post
• The WDC website for end users

SSHTunnel Stability

It has been observed that SSHTunel.exe is more stable on Windows XP Home than on XP Pro.

The title of this post is SSHTunnel as that seems to be the most popular spelling of the SSHTunel process. SSHTunnel is a product from RS4U dot com - SSHTunel shows as $h@d0W's Software (when the process is viewed with MS Sysinternals)

SSH is NOT as protocol. SSH is a Secure Host that is configured using SSL protocol

SSL protocol and "Tunneling" are aspects of TCP/IP security - above the heads of most users of TorrentPrivacy.

The stability of a process wrt the operating system is often a "hit and miss" endeavor. To expect SSHTunel to be stable on a computer running a Beta release of an operating system (Windows 7) is very optimistic! Expecting a process to be stable when it was developed for the expressed purpose of downloading in an anonymous manner is also.

SSHTunel and TP has not been tried on Vista, as, like most torrenters, the computer used for torrenting is likely to be an 'old' pc that has been dedicated to the torrenting activity. It is also likely to be a computer where the beta version of Windows 7 is evaluated.