Month: December 2005

Who noticed that a couple of days ago, ICQ exchanged the graphic for the Status Indicator? 🙂

On the left is new, on the right side you see the old one! 🙂

A major face lift to ICQ’s homepage! =)

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I was in shock when I noticed that after the close of the best PC information tool AIDA32, now its successor Everst Home closes (Everest Home was basicly the same as AIDA32, just new name and diffrent company).

Of course, the download sources for the latest final (2.20) and the latest beta (more recent than the latest final!) all got removed from the homepages I found, except some Chinese ones. So if you want the latest Everest Home Beta (2.20.475 Beta) download it from here. Despite the fact that usually all homepages and downloads from China are very slow the above linked one is the very exceptoin and should load a lot faster than 0.3-1 kb/s! 🙂

Since new hardware won’t be supported by Everest Home with the time passing by of course, seems we have to return to use the freeware version of Sandra which is not bad but not as good as AIDA32 and Everest Home ever were! 🙁

It’s a sad time now!

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I recently found out that the The ICQ Lies Collection got updated earlier this year, so do not miss it! It’s the best and most complete collection of all ICQ spam people ever received in the history of ICQ! 🙂

I personally enjoy reading it very much and certainly look forward to its next update! 🙂

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Did you know, if you sent letters to Santa early this year (whereever your personal Santa lives) in USA, that it could be, that he never received your letter?

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Yep, infact in Detroit on October 26th some mail carrier got robbed.

Postal related crime must be big in USA, since they have a Postal Inspection Service.

Under Who We Are we learn more about them:

Explore a world of career opportunities with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

U.S. Postal Inspectors are federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction in all criminal matters involving the integrity and security of the U.S. Postal Service.

Postal Inspectors investigate criminal, civil, and administrative violations of postal-related laws, often using forensics and cutting-edge technologies. It is essential that Postal Inspectors be in sound physical condition and be capable of performing vigorous physical activities on a sustained basis.

Inspectors are required to:
Carry firearms
Make arrests
Provide testimony
Serve subpoenas
Execute search warrants
Prepare comprehensive reports
Pursue and restrain suspects
Protect themselves and others from imminent danger

Inspectors work long and irregular hours, and must be willing to relocate. Competition is intense for the relatively few U.S. Postal Inspector positions. Candidates must successfully complete all phases of the recruitment process and begin their first duty assignment prior to their 37th birthday.

You may be eligible to become a Postal Inspector if you…
Are an American citizen between the ages of 21 and 36½, and interested in an exciting and rewarding career in federal law enforcement
Possess a conferred, four-year degree from an accredited college or university
Have no felony or domestic violence convictions
Are in good physical condition
Write and speak English clearly
Are willing to relocate

Which makes it sound, like a police officer.

Like the poor Postal Inspector is faced with letter robbers that are terrorists armed with bombs, being very much shielded just to find 10 USD in an envelope or reading grandmother’s “hello letters” of his neighbours.

Luckily, I have never seen such people over here.

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Obviously Santa cannot read as he reads “Evan” as “Hannah”! Poor kids, poor Santa! 😛

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ICQ released some ICQ 5 Christmas skins! 🙂

Is that an add to ICQ’s Christmas Special? 🙂

I bet only the ICQ Team knows! 😀

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Now, ICQ put up some Christmas Special which is exactly like their recent Thanksgiving Special, except a different forum link and a link to different Christmas ecards.

However, the ecards are the same from year 2001-2004! *yawn” and the related link from Santa Deer II to Santa Deer I does not work but shows the main ICQ Friendship Cards page instead!

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I actually saw on the beconfused blog, here, that Microsoft released some free Visual Studios. I thought “Great, let’s install it”. As you can see on above’s screenshot, it detects that it’s a 64bit Windows but after downloading, during the installation, the installer causes a blue screen, LOL! Microsoft’s own software doesn’t run on their own OS! 😀

The world went so dark and sad on this day…

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I think I found an error in the system startup list of spybot. It says this:

“Current filename: D:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe

Database status: Not required – virus, spyware, malware or other resource hog
Value: CTFMON.EXE
Filename: ctfmon32.exe

Description
_CoolWebSearch_ parasite related – hijacking to Slawsearch.com

Source: Paul Collins Startup list”

which is however – so I think- _wrong! Infact according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q282599/ it’s no virus but

“What Is the Ctfmon.exe (Ctfmon.exe) File?
Ctfmon.exe activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and the Microsoft Office Language Bar.”

I sent an email to spybot and hope that they will give me a statement regarding this!

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