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Hey all, and welcome to my home-site about the "important computing stuff discovered so far", and as the first thing on the very beginning - an important note: The opinions and views on my site are strictly personal (of my own), so please do not attack me for having and expressing/sharing them (for instance on forums where I participate, through e-mail, Guestbook etc.), because I didn't beg anyone to read and browse through these pages, except maybe for my closest friends, family etc. Oh yeah, I only offered that on various forums, like for example: "for this and this - visit my home-site", but that was just an offer not a begging.
As second, I also need to apologize for my bad English (wrong-spelled words) and various grammatical mistakes (wrong-structured sentences), but as you can see I am from Slovenija, and therefore my mother language is Slovenian. I did processed the whole site "through" the Spell Checker engine on Kephyr Labs site, see here: Kephyr Spell Checker, but since the site is updated regularly, some newly added paragraphs might contain words/sentences that are still wrong. The thing is that I just couldn't found suitable neat/small and not bloated software spell-checker (to check the text "locally"), and certainly I do not want to install monstrous Free Office package just for spell-checking.
Note that I also guarantee that there are no malicious scripts (or whatever unsolicited devices), hidden and burried inside the site's source code. You may also notice that all the links are in their "native" full form, except for the links in intro/preface text (in a table element on the right-side of the NAVIGATE "field"), also there are no files available to download currently, but this might change, because I am planning to add some in near future, but rather jump to: [ Things to be added sooner or later ] paragraph below to see about planned changes.
Well, to start with it, I must first say that I am somehow "obsessed" with command-line programs, batch-processing, registry hacks, file hacks (9x's System.ini alike), monitoring software and so on. Also I am interested in basic scripting, like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Vbscript etc. I also love writing (like JavaScript, HTML) , and other basic stuff, but especially I like to custumize OS, making it more "lean" and fast-performing. I also know the basics of programming, for instance I like to code in Python scripting language, and in its ancestor ABC language. Futher, 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 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. See here for 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 3.2, 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.
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/index.html, 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 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.
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 accounts home-page ("User:Wayfarer"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wayfarer, and as second, also visit the "My contributions" page here: 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 next page created by me was a DNSKong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSKong page, and finally last two edits, first the String (computer science): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_string_%28computer_science%29 page, and as second the Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website one. These above are common contributions pages, while on June 23th, 2005 precisely at 2:10 GMT, I also made my first report of the so-called vandalism, see my entry on the "Current Alerts" page: Vandalism in progress#65.1.129.149: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress#65.1.129.149
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), CastleCops, formerly Computercops (1 software-review approved and posted, see CastleCops AntiVir PE Review here: http://castlecops.com/reviews-241.html and additionally more than 200 posts posted), 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)
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