Long before Star Wars at the end of WWII it was discovered that Nazi scientists at a research center in Hillersleben were laying plans for a space station 5,100 miles up, from which a "sun gun" much like the death star could focus the suns energy on the enemies of Nazi Germany. A high ranking United States Army Ordnance officer declared that after an exhaustive interrogation of the scientists was revealed that plans had already been drawn up and determined that a dish just three kilometers square would have the power to destroy nations or boil ocean water.

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Remote Assistance is a great feature incorporated in Windows XP which lets user to control a remote system over a network or via the internet. An administrator can connect to client system in order to diagnose the system and perform the appropriate steps to repair the system. When connected, the administrator can use his mouse and keyboard to operate on client’s remotely located system as he can view the client’s system screen. It is not always possible to go remote places to diagnose the system and so remote assistance is a great feature as it saves time and you can easily diagnose and repair the system while you enjoy the comforts of being at home. Now, if you feel that the user always need to approve the request to let you take control of the system and this can result in a waste of time because of the differences in time zones then here are the steps on how you can make the client system to “ auto-approve “ the request to let you access and take control of the system to assist them in finding the solutions to their problems and this can be done with the remote assistance feature of the windows XP. In order to do this, you need to edit html pages as remote assistance feature of windows uses html pages as the dialog boxes to communicate with the client and these dialog boxes pop up at the client end and the client need to click yes on the screen for confirmation.

There are loads of storage devices on the market that very competitively price compared to the cost of losing all your useful information due to a system crash. Also , its a very time consuming task to re-setup the system, installing essential software and also there is a very possible chance of losing your important Internet bookmarks, contact details and more which can definitely effect your business. So , its better to make a backup of important files on regular basis to avoid the troubles caused by a system crash as it takes some minutes to make a backup and you will be done with it!!

I have used Sysinternals utilities for years and it looks like the company has been bought out by Microsoft the new site is chock full of all the same great utilities and even some new stuff.

Link - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

This is a comparison of a recent story that broke on all the user driven sites around the web. It looks like Digg.com is still the fastest with is users consitently scooping other sites for the latest breaking news.

Here is an good guide to making a Omnidirection meaning you don't have to point it a the wireless access point you are trying to leach off which is handy if your not sure if one is available!

Excerpt:
"An easy step-by-step guide go making a homemade wireless antenna, for a fraction of the cost of commercial antenna. Uses readily available parts, and requires no specialist tools or knowledge."

Link:
http://wireless.gumph.org/articles/homemadeomni.html

First off let me tell everyone that reads this that I am not one of those nuts that think the world is coming to an end next week but you never know what might happen. I bet the Romans never thought that their way of life would come to a screeching halt either or if you want to look at more recent times some of the victims of hurricane Katrina were left to fend from themselves for weeks without any help in sight. With a little prior planning and preparation you should be able to prepare for just about any type of situation manmade or otherwise with a few basic tools to keep you alive for an extended period of time while off the grid.

The BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System it refers to the software that runs during boot up when the computer is first powered on. It's primary function is to prepare the computers hardware to execute, and assume control of the computer. The best method to reset a BIOS password depends on what BIOS the computer has. Common BIOS's include AMI, Award, IBM and Phoenix there are many others but these are the most common.

Most BIOS's also allow you to require a password be entered before the system will boot. If you work on computers you will find from time to time the need to bypass the systems BIOS password if the password is forgoten or unknown.