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The main and original reason for making and maintaining this poorly designed home-made site of mine (the one you're viewing right now), is the
Cheetah CD Burner software. It is all because, to get the FREE registration for the product (licensed serial number), all I needed to do, was to put a link to their home-page onto my page (see the link below), and you could do the same thing, if you wish a reliable and useful CD-burning software. I gave up trying to find a version of Nero that would work with my LITE-ON drive, cause it always complained that my LITE-ON drive was used by another appliacation. And I've really tried all the things that could solve this, i.e., I disabled my anti-virus and firewall, exited all user application, stopped/disabled all non-crucial services, etc., but I just couldn't solve it. And yes - Nero was a bloated application anyway, with all those extra utilities (for labeling, etc.), one might simply don't need ...
Cheetah CD Burner links:
http://www.cheetahburner.com,
http://www.cheetahburner.com/free.html,
http://www.download.com/3000-2646-10172045.html
The latest version of Cheetah CD Burner is
3.17, and it is also updated very often (like twice a month), although if you don't have fast internet connection one sad thing is that previous Cheetah packages were an approximately 5 MB download, but now from version 2.94 on - the download is a 11 MB package, because some additional extension support, and some advanced media support was added. But this is still small compare to Nero. So if you would like an older "still < 5 MB" package, just say it (an e-mail would do it), because I have all the versions back to version 2.82 backed-up on CDs.
In general, I am a 24 years old, pretty handsome male, who like to smoke weed, walk, stalk, sleep and do other common things. Also I am somehow "obsessed" with command-line programs, batch-processing, registry hacks, file hacks (9x's System.ini alike), monitoring software, etc. Also I love writing scripts (like JavaScript, HTML), and other basic stuff, but I also know the basics of Python scripting language, and its ancestor ABC language. I prefer compact and straightforward software, I call them "non-setups" (single .exe, or .zip archive, containing executable and data files), compare to bloated "all-in-1" programs. But rather see the
http://users.volja.net/tayiper/about.html and other pages for more details on my biography, interests and obsessions. Anyway, this page
was always written and edited by myself, and
is updated by me only, mostly "typed-by-hands" (well, and with a bit of copy/paste in some of JavaSript's cases), and not built on templates or made with "make-your-own-webpage-in-20-min" type of programs for n00bs. Mostly because I wanted to know enough HTML and a bit of JavaScript too, to write my own home-site. For maintaing all four site-variants at the same time I use
EditPad Lite program, see the
http://users.volja.net/tayiper/links.html page for its link. Oh and yes, for me the HyperText Markup Language in short most commonly referred to as HTML, and in fact the whole HTML and web-site hosting principle
is in my opinion the best Internet-related API that was ever invented. Including my amusement about client vs. server communication concept, IP addresses principle (DNS stuff), other protocols and standards, etc.
The counter of people that visited this site (you can see above), was put on the site as late as on
20.10.2004, precisely at
21:00 (9:00 PM), so probably much more people visited it till today, since the site is online for more than two years (or so), well with quite drastic modifications from the beginning though. The upper and smaller number in counter represents all
unique visitors, that have visited this site so far, while the lower and greater number represents all separate
visits, from the very same users that already visited the site once in the past. Also note that this particular counter, on this particular site was off-line for few hours today (27.10.2004), so probably there were even few more visitors visiting the site. I am just speculating around 10-20 new users and not re-visitors.
Please note that I would be more than happy if you would visit it as often as you could, because I add, replace or at least modify stuff on this site almost on daily basis, including hints, rules, principles, opinions, articles, reviews, navigation, the overall site's look, etc., so that it is in general more complete, up-to-date, easier to navigate, etc. And note, I write all the site's pages from the beginning in a manner that everybody is able to read them normally (and well, to look "acceptable") in browser window's "normal" as well as in the "full-screen" view/mode. Oh, and I must also mention that I was trying to make a site in attempt that the site itself will try to express those other practical things that one learns when using computer, in other words - I didn't want to make another site with usual "tweaks" and security programs listed (because there are already too many alike out there), but also note that the emphasis is on the content and not the look, i.e., I've tried to make it as simple and fast-loading as possible (so no fancy code, etc).
And here below are the links to other variants of this same home-site. Please note that all four variants of my home-page are almost identical. There are only few more or less slight differences, like inner-links, a text specific to a particular FREE-HOST, etc., it's just much much easier to maintain them. Well there is one big difference though. It is that two of four sites (
Greatnow and
Geocities in particular) are not-WC3 valid, because of the additional code (pop-ups, banner-adds, etc.), that respective host adds right after the
BODY tags, i.e., before the first "original" words in actual body, and it even adds some code inside the
HEAD element, right after window title (so even before the BODY tags), and therefore screws the HTML 4.01 specification in the header of this document. So I recently removed the W3C Markup Validation Service banner that says the site is valid, even if now is harder to maintain them (/EDIT: ehm, I added them again, sorry World Wide Web Consortium).
MAIN SITE (W3C validated, no pop-ups, no ads):
http://shirker.freehost386.com/index.html
FUTILE SITES (not-W3C Validated, pop-ups, ads):
http://www.geocities.com/tayi137,
http://www.satyrhosts2.greatnow.com/index.html,
http://www.freewebs.com/satyrhosts/index.html (very out-dated)
I recently added my Mozilla Firefox's
bookmarks.html file to my home-site (a bit outdated currently), and separately I uploaded also a
collection.html file, which is a basic collection of my topics and posts on various "tech" forums (so you can browse and read these topics/posts), which are not in the same bookmark file, but I rather keep them in a separate file, as a "pure" backup. But note that these are not all the threads/topics I've participated in, because I started saving/bookmarking them quite late. And you see, I store these bookmarks if I would need those links in the future, i.e., to re-read some reply to my query/question and similar.
If you will decide to check my bookmarks.html files in the end, you will be first probably asking yourself, why I've changed all the topic-titles (the dash signs/chars, instead of spaces), notice that it's all because of the old habit, which I had when I was still using Internet Explorer as my default browser. As you probably know, Internet Explorer stores each bookmark/favorite entry as a whole new file, and not as Firefox which stores all of them in a one single file, so just think of how many disk-clusters are wasted in Internet Explorer's case. And as second thing you will note that the bookmarks.html file is quite huge (not referring to collection.html file in this particular case), this is simply because I "merged" also entries from my old bookmarks in it, then validated URLs and FavIcons and finally as the most important - I removed all the duplicates with this great
AM-DeadLink program, see its home-page here:
http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm. I did that simply because I wanted to include all the crucial sites/pages I've come across so far, because many are not included anymore in the bookmarks.html file I am using on daily basics. This one is of course much smaller, I am somehow trying to keep it at less than 1 MB in lenght.
One place to get/view my Mozilla Firefox's bookmarks.html file are these links below, first to my Firefox's the links, first to my Firefox's
bookmarks.html file:
http://users.volja.net/tayiper/bookmarks.html, and as second to my Firefox's
collection.html file:
http://users.volja.net/tayiper/collection.html, but note - you can get/access them also with the "OPEN or GET" drop-down menu script at the top of each site's page.
Things to be added sooner or later:
DONE: feedback guestbook, a simple text-field for visitor's input, i.e., thoughts, opinions, etc.
DONE: various documents, notes, templates and other texts, that I've created or found on the internet
DONE (partially): hints, tips, tweaks and hacks, including my favorite and crucial performance related .reg files, etc.
reviews of other programs I use, beside those "security related" ones that are mentioned on the
software page
descriptions of my crucial program's usage, like flushing the modified file system data to disk with
sync.exe, etc.
various home-made batch-files for backing-up, launching programs with START command, shutting-down the PC, etc.
various other screenshots, including general program's GUI captures, OS configuration related ones, etc.
four or even more completely new separate pages/sections:
intro,
news,
download,
docs and
misc... and also
many other things are planned too, I just need some motivation and extra time.
Also I just need to post these three links on the beginning, links to explanations of the three computing-related paradoxes from the
Explanation Guide Info home-site, for everybody to surely read it. It is a site with various explanations, definitions, terms and so on (similar to the
Wikipedia free encyclopedia, see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org), both for the computing/technology and non-computing/technology related topics.
The three computing paradoxes:
Birthday Paradox:
http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Birthday-paradox.html, Sleeping barber problem:
http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Sleeping-barber-problem.html, Dining philosophers problem:
http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/Dining-philosophers-problem.html
This is just a simple example script of the
JavaScript language, with no purpose really. This programming language is an easy to use/learn one, well-known and commonly embedded in web pages. Just type something in the box, and then click on that "MsgBox" button. Your input will then pops-up, displayed in a small prompt-window. Note that this JavaScript script is/was written by me entirely (so I know the whole syntax and concept), compare to the "OPEN or GET" drop-down menu script above, which was created with one of "JavaScript Tools" engines on
EchoEcho site, the Tools section:
http://www.echoecho.com/tools.htm, i.e., particularly with this engine here:
http://www.echoecho.com/tooldropdown.htm.
JavaScript Message-Box:
Oh well, to mention these few things *somewhere* at all, I will just do it right here. As first let me inform you, that I am a so-called
Wikipedian, i.e., I am a (proud) member of and contributor to the
Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia project. My user/account-name is
Wayfarer, and this is My contributions page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Wayfarer, and these three pages (so far), link to my contributions listed separately and sorted by date. The first one was the
TP Systems, Inc. page, that I've created myself, see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP_Systems%2C_Inc., then the second one was just a minor edit of the
Data integrity page, see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_integrity, and the next one created by me, was an:
Arachnophillia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophillia page, then another edit (not a minor one though) was an edit of
Off By One:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_By_One page, and the last page created by me, was a
DNSKong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSKong page in particular.
And as second, beside many other computing/software/internet related forums, I am also a member of ... well, I will first mention the category
GENERAL SYSTEM FORUMS: and as the most important board in this category - I announce that I am a happy and proud member of the best techy-forum ever, an
ArsTechnica forum (with more than 900 posts posted currently, very close to 1000 and many if not most of them in the threads I opened), then
Winforums (more than 100 posts currently),
Computercops (1 software-review approved and released, see
CastleCops AntiVir PE Review here:
http://castlecops.com/reviews-241.html and additionally more than 75 posts posted, ehm - it will soon be 100 posts),
Loose-Screws (more than 130 posts currently),
Computing,
TechiWarehouse,
Hydrogenaudio,
Freewebspace,
WindowsIT Pro forums, etc. Next are
PRIVACY AND SECURITY FORUMS: a support forums like
Wildersecurity (also more than 100 posts),
Gladiator-antivirus,
Antionline,
Net-Integration,
Spywareinfo and
AllNetTools forums.
Then there are
SINGLE SOFTWARE FORUMS: like for example
Soulseek (more than 200 posts with main
tayiper account, and 10, 30 and 40 posts with other three accounts with nicks
MuSiC_Freak,
Cicero_13 and
ten-ten),
Dirms (more than 40 posts currently),
Winamp,
BSPlayer,
CrystalPlayer,
YahooPOPs,
FreeDOS,
Adaware and
Sygate,
Outpost and
ZoneAlarm software-firewall support forums. And finally
SOFTWARE AUTHORS FORUMS: so forums like
Mozillazine,
Pertinax-Securitysoftware,
Meesoft,
LiveWireDev,
Whitsoftdev,
Bitsum-Collake and so on and on.
On most of the boards/forums I use the nick
satyr, except for ArsTechnica (and few others), where my nick is
shirker, on Wilderssecurity where it is
stalker, etc. Other nicks that I also use (or have used) are
tayiper,
soever,
wayfarer,
tayi177 and
tayi137. Yeah, and actually I am registered to almost 100 separate forums all together, but in the paragraphs above I mentioned only those where I posted at least 10-20 or more posts. So yes, there are many other forums with less than 10 posts posted my be, that aren't listed here. In general - to find my posts, you can for example search with Google for words like - ArsTechnica, Winforums, Wilderssecurity, or Computercops, and then search for posts from particular user (in this particular case that "particular user" is me), or click on the
collection.html options here:
http://users.volja.net/tayiper/collection.html or in the "OPEN or GET" drop-down menu script above, at the top of each page located in "crucials" section (see the NAVIGATE bar)
Yeah, and another thing, I need to mention sooner or later. It's all about software projects I am running, i.e., DC projects in particular (DC stands for - Distributed Computing project). Typical participation in most of them involves downloading and installing a client program on your home/business or whatever computer. This client program then fetches Work Units (WUs) from a centralized server. Once the WU is processed by the client machine, the result is then returned to the server in exchange for a new Work Unit.
1. First one is a
BeWeS MouseTracker, a small program that keeps track of your mouse actions, like the distance your arrow travels across your screen , the amount of mouse clicks and in the future other actions too. It's community-oriented (similar to DC projects, see below), i.e., you need to create an account (and there are also groups, teams, etc.), statistics, i.e., you send the results to a central server (centimeters/meters of mouse-movements), etc. The total team distance was
17488 km 574 m 25 cm on late afternoon of
27.2.05
See few project related sites:
The main BeWeS MouseTracker project site:
http://bmt.bewes.be, the
crucials with listed Countries:
http://bmt.bewes.be/stats/country, then main Users statisics page:
http://bmt.bewes.be/stats/users and Teams statisics page:
http://bmt.bewes.be/stats/teams, but also see the statistics page for my first-ever account, now used by freind of mine (user-name is
satyr):
http://bmt.bewes.be/stats/users/5872, my actual-current account (user-name is
shirker):
http://bmt.bewes.be/stats/users/5876, the statistic page of our ArsTechnica team
Ars Technica Team Fried Mice):
http://bmt.bewes.be/stats/teams/148, and finally our team's own home-page:
http://www.vankalker.no-ip.com/ars
2. Then the second one is a Berkeley's
SETI@Home DC project software (btw., I started participating in this one first), that I am running on my single-user computer. Its main priciple is that it calculates "through" the work-units that you download from SETI server, work-units contain signals gathered with the radio-telescope located in
Arecibo Radio Observatory. Note that the
SETI acronym stands for "
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence", and guess what ...
@Home stands for
at Home.
But the most important thing is that it does that only when your computer's CPU power is IDLE, i.e., when computer doesn't use almost any power at all (in other words, it makes use of IDLE CPU cycles), so it hasn't any impact on overall performance or whatever.
The
#Header, #Content and #Footer boxes are positioned statically and the
#Left and #Right boxes are positioned absolutely. This only works if
the Content div is taller than the Left and Right divs.
