Windows XP Update Problems.
October 19th, 2008How2 Get rid of: “A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed.”
How2 Get rid of: “A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed.”
How2: Add .exe to the Inclusion list for moderate risk file types.
In order for this to work the machine has to have an unprotected boot loader.
Grub by default is unprotected.
Edit boot string to log in to single user mode:
At boot press: “Esc”.
Select first boot string and press “e” to edit.
Select kernel line and press “e” to edit.
Add “single” at end of string.
Save “Enter”
Boot from it “b”
Create USERNAME and add to sudoers:
Add user: “adduser USERNAME -pPASSWORD”
Add user to sudoers:
“vi /etc/sudoers/”
“:/ALL”
Add entry to match entry for root user. The only difference is you replace root with USERNAME:
“:/shift +r” “ALL USERNAME(ALL) ALL”
Prevention:
To protect your boot loader all you have to do is make an md5 hash of your pass:
sudo grub-md5-crypt
Place it in your /boot/grub/menu.lst above your boot options like so
password –md5 H@sH0uTpUTg03sH3R3
Next to password protect a loader simply add the option
lock
at the end of the loader IE:
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=704fed0d-4b60-4a75-bbe7-1be36b695e86
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet
lock
Wiretapping - A definition for the act of government social programming citizens to accept the invasion of the privacy of their telephone and conform to the fact fact that they are always being monitored. –mihneadocea.com
This is an email reply written to a good friend of mine in a debate about wiretapping.
Look at it from a grander view from outside the box. If I want to start controlling your life I’m not just going to pas a bill that allows me to come in your house monitor your credit card transactions implant a micro chip in your hand and wiretap your phones all at once. I’m going to slowly get you used to the idea that I’m protecting you against a greater harm. By letting me listen to your calls I’ll provide you with a safer environment to live in. Once you accept that and don’t worry you will. Just look at everybody around you. Most Americans will agree that wiretapping is not so bad. Great now we got step one out of the way.
Since I’m already taping your phone next I’m going to start installing security cameras in public places. Not in your home oh no much too soon for that. You don’t have a problem being seen and recorded in public and why should you. Your not doing anything bad. It’s not going to be hard selling this to most people because they have nothing to worry about.
Here’s what I’m going to do next since I have a record of all of your phone conversations and I can pretty much monitor what you are doing outside of your home. I’m next going to require that all of your electronic communication be stored and scanned. Again something that is only as intrusive as the wiretapping which you were OK with. The reason I’m going to start doing this is because hardly anybody uses their wired phone anymore, most Americans communicate online.
Good so far I have: audio, video and email.
After this I will set up centralized security tracking stations. Nothing too intrusive it will be like a little security gate at your apartment complex. Let me explain. This will protect you by ensuring that only people that live there and their family and friends have permission to enter. Yeah this might also tell me who is at home and when you are topically not at home. But I’m the government why would I care about stuff like that. I have terrorists to watch.
On to the next step: You know how Grocery Stores have that little discount card program you can easily sing up for with your social. Oh they don’t really need it but we like them to have it. Well here’s the deal I’m now not going to allow you to shop at any store unless you register there. That way I can see if you buy chemicals to build a bomb. No problem with that right if you are not a terrorist why would you care if the government knew that you are buying Kashis Cereal at Wall mart ?
OK next step. Since terrorism should be skyrocketing by this time I will implement a new plan where non-terrorists will have to register as a non terrorist and declare that they have never been affiliated with any. When you register you will receive a new US Citizen Non Terrorist verified ID that will include a microchip with all of your tracking statistics for: audio, video, speech recognition, social and information about all of the places where you are registered to: eat, work and reside. How is this different then your current id. Not very much different.
As you can see none of these protection techniques by themselves are a major privacy threat which is why they will be implemented one at a time. Once you get used to the upgrades. You will comply. The hardest part is getting you to accept the smallest compromise in trading your privacy for fake security.
None of the new laws that I have mentioned in here would require me to: “Have unlimited access to your home. Or place you under arrest without a warrant and hold you indefinitely.”(Although that has already been done: Search Google for: Search Without Warrant Due To Exigent Circumstance, Warrant less search, etc…)
In the future I the government and all of my law enforcers will have access to all of the following information about you centralized in a database:
What medication you are on.
What you buy at the grocery store.
When you are home and when you are not.
When you are at work and when you are not.
When you are in public on camera.
When you are on the phone.
How fast you are traveling.
Where you are going to.
What vehicle you are going there in.
How many vehicles you have registered.
How many places you frequent.
Your general roaming area.
Your habits: favorite color your favorite shirt, what you usually wear on Fridays, where you usually go on dates on Friday.
(I’ve already made Friday date day, Monday Family day and Sunday Church day.)
What you watch on TV.
How much time you spend watching TV.
How much time you spend online.
I want you to ask yourself the following questions:
1. What kind of intelligence is protecting this intelligence ?
2. Whom has to benefit from the collection of all of this data ?
3. What kind of world our children will grow up in if we fall for this ?
Let me show you what social programming has done for us so far:
Averages show that we all do the following activities daily:
Work: 8hr
Sleep: 8hr
Lunch: 1hr
Travel to and back from work: 30 min.
So you have 8+8+1+30 = 17:30hrs that will never EVER change Monday though Friday for the rest of your life.
That gives you 24-17:30 = 5:30hrs a day to do what you want.
So don’t look at your days as 24hrs periods because you are only alive for 5 hrs and 30 minutes Monday through Friday.
The average American watches TV for 4hrs each day (http://www.csun.edu/science/health/docs/tv&health.html). That means they only get 1hr and 30 minutes of self conscious live each day.
So we have to ask ourselves after all of this mental manipulation and control when do we say enough is enough. I believe that wiretapping my phone calls is only the beginning.
REVOLUTION - “Most commonly referred to in the form of an uprising. Usually by the people who are doing the revolt, the high powers consider it a rebellion. ” -urbandictionary.com
While the presumptive nominee is John McCain, Ron Paul is still
running and technically in the race to be the republican nominee -
just he and McCain on the Republican Side.
The mainstream media and traditional news outlets would like you to
believe Ron Paul has dropped out so they can continue with pushing the
“chosen ones” (please note that Obama, Hillary and Mccain are all
members of the CFR - so even though on the face each candidate may
have some subtle differences between them - they are of like mind and
embrace big government as the answer to all that ails us).
Interestingly enough Ron Paul came in second usually with 10% - 25% of
the vote in all of the recent Republican Primaries. This is without
any mainstream media coverage and the talking heads repeatedly telling
us Ron Paul has dropped out of the race.
Ron Paul will be holding a separate convention in Minneapolis during
the national Republican Convention in September. There will be tens
of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Ron Paul supporters
there. Our purpose is to send a message to the Republican leadership
and party that they need to return to what made America great. Start
obeying the constitution. Stop outrageous spending in washington DC.
Stop unprovoked wars and stop invading other countries who have not
attacked us. Restore individual liberty and freedom in this country.
Restore sound currency to our system (no more fiat counterfeit Federal
Reserve Notes pawned off on the masses as if it were a solid
currency). Respect of private property rights. Reduce the size and
scope of the federal government back to its original core duties as
outlined in the Constitution.
Ron Paul is still in the race though it is very unlikely that he will
win the Republican nomination (unless mccain kicks the so called
bucket). If that unlikely scenario were to happen I strongly doubt
the Republican Party would even acknowledge Ron Paul as the only
candidate still in the race on the Republican side. They despise him
and his ideas of returning to our constitutional roots. The party’s
leaders and controllers are after power and maintaining that power as
long as they can. They do not seek to truly serve the people and they
certainly don’t uphold their oath of office. Mark my words - if
McCain were to suddenly drop out of the race today - it’s highly
unlikely they’d even talk about Ron Paul that much in the MSM. If
they did it would be a miracle. They’d be much more likely to start
calling Mitt Romney, Rudy G. or Mike Huckabee instead to ask them what
they will do.
With that said - this whole Ron Paul Revolution is a movement way
beyond the man Ron Paul. It is a movement that is growing every day
to raise awareness about he peril we all face if we let our nation
slip into the control of a few powerful men and groups which is
rapidly happening. We must work to take back positions in Congress,
the senate and every level of government in order to restore
Constitutional Principles once again in this country.
Ron Paul has awakened many millions of people in this country to the
ideas and principles that made this nation great.
That’s why Ron Paul is important. IF he were to miraculously get to
the whitehouse this nation and the world would prosper in a way not
seen since in many generations.
Please go to the link below and sign the letter if you agree with this:
LetterToGop
Article wrote by: Ryan
1. Go to: Start>Control Panel Search for: UAC.
2. Click on Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off.
3. Uncheck the box.
4. Click OK.
5. Restart.
XP - “Abbreviation for ‘XPISTOS’, Greek for Christ.” -urbandictionary.com
System Time > Click Internet Time tab> Uncheck Automatically Synchronize with an Internet Time Server.
Recycle Bin > Properties > Use one setting for all drives > Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately.
My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Performance > Settings > Adjust for best performance > Only check the last two: Use drop shadows and Use visual styles.
My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Performance > Startup and Recovery > Settings > System Failure > Uncheck Automatically restart.
My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Error Reporting > Disable error reporting but check Notify me when critical errors occur.
My Computer > Properties > System Restore > Turn off System Restore.
C: > Properties > Uncheck Allow Indexing Service to index this disk > Ignore all when prompted
My Documents > View > Status Bar.
Control Panel > Folder Options > View
Uncheck:
Automatically search for network folders and printers.
Hide extensions for known file types.
Check:
Display the full path in the address bar
Show hidden files and folders
Run > services.msc
Help and Support = Disabled
Indexing Service = Disabled
Messenger = Disabled
Security Center = Disabled
Information provided by: Paul B.
Download .htaccess and wp-config.php.
Deactivate all themes and pluggins.
Delete wp-content/cache and the wp-content/plugins/widgets folders.
Download Wordpress from: http://wordpress.org/download/
Upload the new wordpress installation files and the contents of the folders. (Do not just overwirte the folders)
Re-upload the original: .htaccess and wp-config.php files.
Go to the upgrade link: “/wp-admin/upgrade.php”
Update your Permalink Structure. (Options/Permalinks)
Reinstall themes and plugins.
Celebrate you are done.
SEO Abbr: Search Engine Optimization - The legitimate optimization of web sites for listing in search engines.”-urbandictionary.com
CREATE META TAGS:
Find niche keywords and optimize for those first. With time improve the high competition keywords. A great place to find keywords is: Webmaster-toolkit’s Keyword Search
CREATE A SITEMAP:
Sitemaps are like blueprints of your website for spiders. A great tool for sitemap creation can be found on: Auditmypc’s Sitemap Generator
SUBMIT YOUR WEBSITE TO TOP SEARCH ENGINES:
Some of my favourites are: Google and Yahoo.
Proxy - “A sort of “middle man” on the internet. Normally when you go to a website, you send your “request” packets straight to the site’s server, and then the server sends “reply” packets back which is what you see as the website. With a proxy, you send your request packet to a server, which then sends a new request packet to the website’s server, which then sends back a reply to the proxy’s server, and the proxy sends the web site to your computer.” -urbandictionary.com
This is a short tutorial on how to set up a fast browser proxy.
If you don’t have Firefox or PhProxy click on the links to get them.
After installation you will notice the PhProxy icon in the bottom right corner of Firefox.
Right click on it and go to Option.
Under the first tab: Proxy Setup select a proxy from the drop-down.
I recommend: http://unlock-bebo.net
Create a new bookmark in Firefox.
(CTRL+B then right click on a bookmark and select Create New Bookmark from the menu.)
Name it: Google IE PhProxy (Or whatever you want)
Location: http://olylimited.com/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5nb29nbGUuY29tL2ll–&hl=0c9
(This is google.com/ie loaded through PhProxy)
Keyword: pgoogle (If you want to set one up)
I checked the Load this bookmark in the sidebar.
They way I use it is open the bookmark which causes it to always be in the sidebar and just leave that up in one of my browsers that way whenever I want to browse to something or search for something from behind a browser I can type it in my PhProxy Google/ie sidebar window.