Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta

. Thursday, November 02, 2006
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From Microsoft

Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta is released. It is what we call a dot release, the changes are not as major as in a major release (go figure) they are small updates to the existing stuff in Messenger.

Important Details:

  • Get Messenger 8.1 Beta here
  • Send feedback here
  • Talk about it here
  • Get support here

What does Beta mean? Beta means we are still working on it. We know it isn't perfect* but we want great users like you to try it out and let us know what you think before we release it to the rest of the world. If you would prefer to stick with Windows Live Messenger 8.0 - we still think you are great!

What is new?

Roaming Identity - Your display name follows you any place you sign into. Now your display picture and personal message will follow you too. If you would prefer they stayed in place you can turn this off (Tools->Options->General -> Sign In -> "Use the same display picture....")

Contact Card - The contact card has gotten a updated look. Instead of a flip it does a slide to toggle between the Spaces and Contact information. Also no more squinting at an icon and trying to figure out what it means the actions on the card are now listed out plain and simple.

Emoticons, Winks, Backgrounds, Display Pictures - The menus have gotten an updated look. They include a recently used list and easy access to featured content so you can get new emoticons, winks, background and display pictures to use. hint: typcially in the featured section the first 4 are free.

SMS Phone Book - You now have a quick way to send SMS to a phone number or add phone numbers for your contacts. Just click the cell phone icon in them main window for a good time.

New Contact Emotion - In 8.0 all our icons got an update but we forgot a very important one. The contact emoticon. Type (M) to send it.

Status Menu includes Sign Out - We noticed people look in the status menu to sign out and so ta-da now you can sign out from the status menu.

Report abuse - Here is something you will hopefully never need to use, but it is there just in case.

Vista Presentation Mode - When you are in Presentation Mode on Vista Messenger will change your status to busy so you can avoid the embarrassing situation of everyone reading your IMs! Don't worry if you want to show Messenger in your presentation you can turn this off (Tools->Options-> Personal-> My Status -> Show me as "Busy"...).

Behind the scenes changes - This release also includes changes to the "guts" of some of the features. The goal is for these changes to improve your experience. Please let us know if that is not the case.

*Anything else I should know? Yes. Vista users please follow the work around below to avoid the "DEP flash crash".

1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a Program, then select Flash Player)

2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash

3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site

4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install

Tribute to the Man who Cares

. Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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This is the Tribute to the MAN WHO Cares
We will not Forget YOU Cristopher Reeve
http://www.christopherreeve.org

The Superheroes Tribute

. Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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Thank you God

For this great opportunity

To Share with you exactly how I feel

I'm not well

And I Think that I should tell you

That I think I got the raw end of the deal

Don't get me wrong


'Cause it's not like I blame you


But sometimes things get crazy on their own

I'm ashamed

Of the way I point my finger

'Cause deep down I have reaped what I have sown



Life is hard

But so is everything

Give my reguards to a man who cares


If I succeed


I will save my fellow man

And if I fail I'll just stand and stare



Such is life, Lord

And I know that you're aware

That you're a drug to me

A drug, within my fear


But, I Love you


A junkie to your silence


A wise man who's words, I'll never hear

What to do

I feel as if I'm floating

Not aware or in control of what I am

God bless me

Take me out of this existence


End my role as the sacrificial lamb




Life is hard


But so is everything

Give my reguards to a man who cares

If I succeed

I will save my fellow man

And if I fail I'll just stand and stare




...I'll just stand and stare...



Life is hard


But so is everything

Give my reguards to a man who cares

If I succeed

I will save my fellow man

And if I fail I'll just stand and stare




Life is hard



But so is everything

Give my reguards to a man who cares


If I succeed

I will save my fellow man

And if I fail I'll just stand and stare



...I'll just stand and stare...

20 Things the average person doesn't know about XP

. Monday, October 16, 2006
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1. It boasts how long it can stay up. Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the All Programs start button option, and then type 'systeminfo'. The computer will produce a lot of useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep these, type 'systeminfo > info.txt'. This creates a file called info.txt you can look at later with Notepad. (Windows XP Pro only).

2. You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the Start menu, select Run... and type 'gpedit.msc'; then select User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it. Poking around in gpedit will reveal a great many interface and system options, but take care -- some may stop your computer behaving as you wish. (Windows XP Pro only).

3. You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter 'rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation' in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That's it -- just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And if that's not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same.

4. XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can make it show everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word 'hide' and remove it. You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be the software and you can now uninstall it.

5. For those skilled in the art of DOS batch files, XP has a number of interesting new commands. These include 'eventcreate' and 'eventtriggers' for creating and watching system events, 'typeperf' for monitoring performance of various subsystems, and 'schtasks' for handling scheduled tasks. As usual, typing the command name followed by /? will give a list of options.

6. XP has IP version 6 support -- the next generation of IP. Unfortunately this is more than your ISP has, so you can only experiment with this on your LAN. Type 'ipv6 install' into Run... (it's OK, it won't ruin your existing network setup) and then 'ipv6 /?' at the command line to find out more. If you don't know what IPv6 is, don't worry.

7. You can at last get rid of tasks on the computer from the command line by using 'taskkill /pid' and the task number, or just 'tskill' and the process number. Find that out by typing 'tasklist', which will also tell you a lot about what's going on in your system.

8. XP will treat Zip files like folders, which is nice if you've got a fast machine. On slower machines, you can make XP leave zip files alone by typing 'regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll' at the command line. If you change your mind later, you can change things back by typing 'regsvr32 zipfldr.dll'.

9. XP has ClearType -- Microsoft's anti-aliasing font display technology -- but doesn't have it enabled by default. It's well worth trying, especially if you were there for DOS and all those years of staring at a screen have given you the eyes of an astigmatic bat. To enable ClearType, right click on the desktop, select Properties, Appearance, Effects, select ClearType from the second drop-down menu and enable the selection. Expect best results on laptop displays. If you want to use ClearType on the Welcome login screen as well, set the registry entry HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop/FontSmoothingType to 2.

10. You can use Remote Assistance to help a friend who's using network address translation (NAT) on a home network, but not automatically. Get your pal to email you a Remote Assistance invitation and edit the file. Under the RCTICKET attribute will be a NAT IP address, like 192.168.1.10. Replace this with your friend's real IP address -- they can find this out by going to www.whatismyip.com -- and get them to make sure that they've got port 3389 open on their firewall and forwarded to the errant computer.

11. You can run a program as a different user without logging out and back in again. Right click the icon, select Run As... and enter the user name and password you want to use. This only applies for that run. The trick is particularly useful if you need to have administrative permissions to install a program, which many require. Note that you can have some fun by running programs multiple times on the same system as different users, but this can have unforeseen effects.

12. Windows XP can be very insistent about you checking for auto updates, registering a Passport, using Windows Messenger and so on. After a while, the nagging goes away, but if you feel you might go insane before that point, run Regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Advanced and create a DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips with a value of 0.

13. You can start up without needing to enter a user name or password. Select Run... from the start menu and type 'control userpasswords2', which will open the user accounts application. On the Users tab, clear the box for Users Must Enter A User Name And Password To Use This Computer, and click on OK. An Automatically Log On dialog box will appear; enter the user name and password for the account you want to use.

14. Internet Explorer 6 will automatically delete temporary files, but only if you tell it to. Start the browser, select Tools / Internet Options... and Advanced, go down to the Security area and check the box to Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed.

15. XP comes with a free Network Activity Light, just in case you can't see the LEDs twinkle on your network card. Right click on My Network Places on the desktop, then select Properties. Right click on the description for your LAN or dial-up connection, select Properties, then check the Show icon in notification area when connected box. You'll now see a tiny network icon on the right of your task bar that glimmers nicely during network traffic.

16. The Start Menu can be leisurely when it decides to appear, but you can speed things along by changing the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/MenuShowDelay from the default 400 to something a little snappier. Like 0.

17. You can rename loads of files at once in Windows Explorer. Highlight a set of files in a window, then right click on one and rename it. All the other files will be renamed to that name, with individual numbers in brackets to distinguish them. Also, in a folder you can arrange icons in alphabetised groups by View, Arrange Icon By... Show In Groups.

18. Windows Media Player will display the cover art for albums as it plays the tracks -- if it found the picture on the Internet when you copied the tracks from the CD. If it didn't, or if you have lots of pre-WMP music files, you can put your own copy of the cover art in the same directory as the tracks. Just call it folder.jpg and Windows Media Player will pick it up and display it.

19. Windows key + Break brings up the System Properties dialogue box; Windows key + D brings up the desktop; Windows key + Tab moves through the taskbar buttons.

20. Windows XP secretly KNOWS that the average user has no idea what they are doing. Therefore, it doesn't let you do really stupid things like deleting the windows directory (at least not without spending several hours convincing it that you REALLY want to do this). Oh yeah, and internet explorer kinda sucks, get Firefox (http://www.getfirefox.com) or Opera (http://www.opera.com).

61 Free tools from Microsoft to Support Windows XP

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When Windows XP was released there was also a Windows XP resource kit released as well. After Windows Server 2003 was released Microsoft released a Windows 2003 resource kit that includes a bunch of tools that can be used to support Windows XP The book that Microsoft released can be purchased but the tools themselves are a free download.



Download them here



After you download the resource kit tools you can install locally on your Windows XP box and try these following 61 tools out.




Autoexnt.exe: AutoExNT Service

AutoExNT Service (AutoExNT) is a service that allows you to start a custom batch file named Autoexnt.bat at startup without having to log on to the computer on which it will run. The AutoExNT Service permits an administrator to configure a computer running Windows to run a custom batch file when the computer is first started. A user or administrator is not required to be logged on at the time this custom batch file runs.



Cdburn.exe: ISO CD-ROM Burner Tool

ISO CD-ROM Burner Tool (CDBurn) is a command-line tool that allows the user to write (burn) data images from image files located on the hard drive to compact disc (CD) recordable (CD-R) and CD rewritable (CD-RW) media. The data image can be any kind of data, even raw data. This tool can also be used to erase CD-RW media.



Chklnks.exe: Link Check Wizard

Link Check Wizard (ChkLnks) is a GUI tool that scans all the link (shortcut) files on a computer to determine whether or not the shortcuts point to existing applications or documents. When Link Check Wizard does not find an associated application or document, the wizard lists that file as a dead link, giving you the option to remove it.



Clearmem.exe: Clear Memory

Clear Memory (ClearMem) is a command-line tool that determines the size of the computer's physical memory, allocates enough data to fill it, and references the data as quickly as possible. ClearMem also accesses files to clear the cache. This reduces, to a minimum, the memory available to other processes. Then, the Clear Memory tool releases the allocated memory to restore normal system functions.



Running ClearMem twice forces most applications out of memory. ClearMem has to run multiple times to present a real-life memory load because the system does not immediately trim all possible pages in a process working set. Instead, it does so gradually over time. When ClearMem runs, the system pauses because of the flood of high priority activity.




Cmdhere.inf: Command Here


Command Here (CmdHere) is a shell extension that adds a CMD Prompt Here item to the context menu that is available when you right-click in the Folders (left) pane of Windows Explorer. Selecting the Command Here option from the context menu opens a new command-line session with the same path as that of the object that you right-click.



Dh.exe: Display Heap

Display Heap (DH) is a command-line tool that displays information about heap allocation for user-mode processes or pool usage in kernel-mode memory. It also enables you to lock heaps, tags, stacks, and objects. DH allows you to identify the process for which you need to display information, and it allows you to identify the information that you need to display. The tool then writes formatted output to a text file.



One of most useful functions of DH is to display a list of potential memory hogs and the memory allocation calls that have reserved the most memory. To identify call sites symbolically, the system needs the ability to capture a stack back trace at run time. This capability is supported only on Intel Itanium-based platforms.



You can use DH to dump all memory allocations for a program that you are testing. Start the program and write DH output to a file (dh1.dmp, for example). Next, run the application for some time and then pause in a state that should be identical to the first pause. While the program is paused, take another DH reading and write it to a second file (dh2.dmp).



Diskuse.exe: User Disk Usage Tool


User Disk Usage Tool (DiskUse) is a command-line tool that scans a single directory, a directory tree, or an entire drive and reports the amount of space used by each user or all users. The output for this tool is displayed in the command window, or is sent to a file in table or text format. DiskUse can also list all the files owned by a user or users, filtered in a variety of ways.



Dvdburn.exe: ISO DVD Burner Tool

ISO DVD Burner Tool (DVDBurn) is a command-line tool that allows the user to write (burn) Digital Video Disk (DVD) images from image files located on the hard drive to Digital Video Disk (DVD) media. The data image can be created by any program capable of producing DVD image files. You can also use this tool to erase DVD media.



Inetesc.adm: Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration

Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (InetESC) is a Group Policy template that will enhance the security configuration of Microsoft Internet Explorer.



Iniman.exe: Initialization Files Manipulation Tool


Initialization Files Manipulation Tool (IniMan) is a command-line tool that enables you to add, delete, modify, or query sections or keys in an .ini file. Examples of .ini files are setup answer files, program initialization files, and .inf files. IniMan also allows you to create new answer files that contain only your chosen values.



Intfiltr.exe: Interrupt Affinity Filter

Interrupt Affinity Filter (IntFiltr) is a GUI tool that allows you to change the CPU affinity of a device interrupt. Use IntFiltr to specify that a device's interrupt signal processing occurs on a specific set of CPUs. For multiprocessor systems, this can improve system performance.



Kernrate.exe: Kernel Profiling Tool

Kernel Profiling Tool (KernRate) is a command-line tool that is a CPU sample profiler. A sample profiler monitors performance and reports back to the user. KernRate reports on kernel and user-mode processes to provide information about CPU activity. Use KernRate to identify which processes are causing a CPU bottleneck.



KernRate divides memory address space into manageable chunks. Each chunk (also called a bucket) is monitored separately. The administrator can "zoom" (preselect) a module.



Note: This tool hosts its own Help file. For details and more information about this tool, see the KernRate Usage Guide (Kernrate.doc) for more information.



Linkspeed.exe:

Link Speed (LinkSpeed) is a command-line tool that displays the speed of the connection between computers on a network.



List.exe: List Text File Tool

List Text File Tool (List) is a command-line tool that displays and searches one or more text files. Unlike other text display tools, List does not read the whole file into memory when you open it. It allows a user to edit a text file in a hexadecimal format. List is useful for displaying text or log files remotely, and for use on servers where administrators are concerned with degradation of system performance.



Logtime.exe: LogTime


LogTime is a command-line tool that logs the start or finish of command-line programs from a batch file. This is useful for timing and tracking batch jobs such as mail-address imports.



LogTime creates a log file called Logtime.log, with a date-and-time stamp next to the specified parameter (text_string in LogTime syntax). When called from within a batch file, the date-and-time stamp records when LogTime (with the given parameter) was run by the batch file. For example, if LogTime is run before and after a command-line program in a batch file, Logtime.log records the start and stop time of that program. With each use of LogTime, new information is appended to Logtime.log; the file is not overwritten.



Memmonitor.exe: Memory Monitor

Memory Monitor (MemMonitor) is a command-line tool that monitors the memory a process uses, and runs the process through a debugger when a given threshold is reached.



Memtriage.exe: Resource Leak Triage Tool

Resource Leak Triage Tool (MemTriage) is a command-line tool that detects a possible resource leak on a running system. MemTriage records process information or current kernel pool information and saves it to a log file. Then you use MemTriage to analyze the log file and diagnose issues with any system resource, including memory, handles, Graphics Device Interface (GDI), user resources, and the kernel. After issues are identified, MemTriage generates a report and instructions about what to do next.



Moveuser.exe: Move User

Move User (MoveUser) is a command-line tool that changes the security of a user profile so that it can be associated with a different user account. Use MoveUser after moving a user to a different domain so that the user can keep the user profile associated with the original user account.



Nlsinfo.exe: Locale Information

Locale Information Tool (NLSInfo) is a command-line tool that displays information about the locale settings for a computer.



Now.exe: STDOUT Current Date and Time

STDOUT Current Date and Time (Now) is a command-line tool that reads standard input (STDIN) and then displays, on standard output (STDOUT), the current date and time followed by the STDIN.



Ntrights.exe

NTRights is a command-line tool that allows you to grant or revoke a right for a user or group of users on a local or remote computer. You can also place an entry in the event log of the computer, noting the change. NTRights is useful in unattended or automated installations during which you may want to change the default rights. You can also use it in situations where you need to change a right in an existing installation, but you cannot access and log on to all computers.



Oh.exe: Open Handles

Open Handles (OH) is a command-line tool that shows the handles of all open windows. OH can also be used to show only information about a specific process, object type, or object name. This feature is useful for finding the process that has a file open when a sharing violation occurs.



Oleview.exe: OLE/COM Object Viewer

OLE/COM Object Viewer (OLEView) is a GUI tool that allows you to manage all Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) classes installed on your computer.



Pathman.exe: Path Manager

Path Manager (PathMan) is a command-line tool that adds or removes components from system or user paths. PathMan can modify any number of paths in a single call, and it includes error checking that can handle path abnormalities such as repeated entries, missing entries, and adjacent semicolons.



Permcopy.exe: Share Permissions Copy

Share Permissions Copy (PermCopy) is a command-line tool that copies share-level permissions (Full Control, Read, Change) from one share to another.



Important: Copying permissions to an administrative share located on an x86-based computer causes Services.exe to stop.



Perms.exe: User File Permissions

User File Permissions (Perms) is a command-line tool that displays user access permissions for a file or directory on an NTFS file system volume. Perms queries the permissions associated with a specific access control entry (ACE), displaying only those permissions granted by that particular access control entry ACE.



Pfmon.exe: Page Fault Monitor

Page Fault Monitor (PFMon) is a command-line tool that allows a developer or system administrator to monitor page faults that occur while an application is running. PFMon is especially useful for tracing hard and soft page faults because it shows the source of the fault.



Notes:You must run PFMon from the command window.

If you run PFMon on an existing process and close the command window, the process stops without giving the user an opportunity to save changes.



Pmon.exe: Process Resource Monitor

Process Resource Monitor (PMon) is a command-line tool that displays several measures of the CPU and memory use of processes running on the system. The PMon display appears in the command window. It is updated automatically every few seconds and requires no configuration. You can use PMon to measure paged and nonpaged pool usage, and to identify kernel mode memory leaks.



Printdriverinfo.exe: Drivers Source

Drivers Source (PrintDriverInfo) is a command-line tool that is used to collect information about printer drivers and is primarily used for support purposes. The information the tool collects includes the format and the mode of the driver. The tool also has the ability to map a driver file back to the printer that uses it.



Prnadmin.dll: Printer Administration Objects

Printer Administration Objects (PrnAdmin) is a COM-based tool that provides large-scale, noninteractive control of printers, drivers, and ports on local and remote computers.



Using PrnAdmin, you can:

Add and delete a local or remote printer.

Add and delete printer connections.

Add and delete a local or remote form.

Add and delete a local or remote standard TCP/IP port (of type Line Printer Remote (LPR) or RAW).

Add and delete a local or remote driver.

View a list of printers, ports, drivers, and forms on a local or remote computer.

Control and configure a local or remote printer.


PrnAdmin consists of several scriptable COM objects residing in Prnadmin.dll, which functions as a wrapper around Printui.dll. Several Microsoft Visual Basic Script (VBScript) sample files are included with the tool.



Note:For more detailed information on how to use PrnAdmin.DLL, see Prnadmin.doc. This white paper provides additional information on printer, drivers, ports and forms to help administrators and programmers manage a large number of local and remote printers.



Qgrep.exe: Qgrep

Qgrep is a command-line tool that is used to search a file or list of files for a specific string or pattern and return the line containing the match. QGrep also allows you to search multiple files and subdirectories. Qgrep is similar to the UNIX tool grep.exe.



Regini.exe: Registry Change by Script

Registry Change by Script (RegIni) is a command-line tool that allows you to add and modify keys and values in the registry by specifying a registry script.



Caution:Do not use a registry editor to edit the registry directly unless you have no alternative. The registry editors bypass the standard safeguards provided by administrative tools. These safeguards prevent you from entering conflicting settings or settings that are likely to degrade performance or damage your system. Editing the registry directly can have serious, unexpected consequences that can prevent the system from starting and require that you reinstall the Windows operating system. To configure or customize the Windows operating system, use the programs in Control Panel or Microsoft Management Console (MMC) whenever possible.



Remapkey.exe: Remap Windows Keyboard Layout

Remap Windows Keyboard Layout (RemapKey) is a GUI tool that changes the layout of a keyboard by remapping the scan codes of the keys.



Robocopy.exe: Robust File Copy Utility

This command-line tool simplifies the task of maintaining an identical copy of a folder tree in multiple locations, either on the same computer or in separate network locations. Robust File Copy Utility (RoboCopy) can provide time-efficient maintenance of mirror images of large folder trees on network servers separated by slow or unreliable wide area network (WAN) links. By default, RoboCopy ignores source file attributes when selecting files to copy. It copies any file matching specified conditions, regardless of the attribute settings of the file. RoboCopy writes a log of files and folders to its command-prompt window, listing the:



Folders processed


Files copied and why

Network errors

Incompatibilities between the source and destination folder-tree structures

This output can also be redirected to a disk file. Just before RoboCopy closes, it writes a summary of its activities during its session to its command-prompt window, or to a disk file, if redirected.



Note: RoboCopy does not run on Microsoft Windows 95, or Microsoft Windows NT, version 3.5x. RoboCopy is a Unicode application, and Windows 95 does not provide full Unicode support. Also, RoboCopy uses the CopyFileEx() Win32 API, which is supported on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0, but not on Windows NT 3.5x.



Rpcdump.exe: RPC Endpoint Diagnostic Utility

RPC Endpoint Diagnostic Utility (RCPDump) is a command-line tool that queries Remote Procedure Call (RPC) endpoints and reports on the status of RPC services on the system.



RPCDump queries the endpoint mapper database to obtain a list of every registered endpoint. If the /i switch is specified, the tool pings each endpoint to determine whether or not the service that registered the endpoint is listening. After gathering statistics, RPCDump sorts them and displays the data. This tool can help to isolate network troubles involving services using RPCs.



Rpcping.exe: RPC Ping

RPC Ping (RPCPing) is a command-line tool that enables users to troubleshoot connection problems between computers involving remote procedure calls (RPCs). RPCPing works much like the Packet Internet Groper (PING) utility for TCP/IP connections, except that it tests RPC connectivity instead of IP connectivity.



Setprinter.exe: Spooler Configuration Tool

Spooler Configuration Tool (SetPrinter)is a command-line tool that is used to set configurations or states of local and remote printers, for an individual printer or for all printers on a print server



Showacls.exe: Show ACLs


Show ACLs (ShowACLs) is a command-line tool that enumerates access rights for files, folders, and trees. It allows masking so that you can enumerate only specific access control lists (ACLs). ShowACLs works on NTFS file system partitions only. ShowACLs also allows you to view permissions for a particular user. ShowACLs does this by enumerating the local and global groups to which the particular user belongs, and matching the user's security identifier (SID)—and the SIDs of the groups to which the user belongs—to the SIDs in each access control entry (ACE).



Showperf.exe: Performance Data Block Dump Utility

Performance Data Block Dump Utility (ShowPerf) is a GUI tool that loads and runs the dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) of installed performance counters on local and remote computers. ShowPerf then takes this data, unformatted, from the internal data buffers of performance counters, and displays it. Administrators and performance counter developers can use ShowPerf to identify counters that the system cannot load and counters that the system disables because the DLL fails system run-time reliability tests. They can also use ShowPerf to detect errors in the performance counter data.



ShowPerf displays the following data:

Performance objects and object instances that are enabled on the system (Disabled objects do not appear.)

Index of the object in the performance registry (HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA)

Individual performance counters for each object


Index of the counter in the performance registry (HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA)

Type of data that each performance counter gathers

Unformatted content of the data block gathered by the performance counter



Showpriv.exe: Show Privilege

Show Privilege (ShowPriv) is a command-line tool that displays the rights assigned to users and groups. ShowPriv must be run locally on the target computer or on a domain controller to display users and groups that have domain privileges.



Sleep.exe: Batch File Wait

Batch File Wait (Sleep) is a command-line tool that causes the computer to wait for a specified amount of time.



Splinfo.exe: Print Spooler Information

Print Spooler Information (SplInfo) is a command-line tool that collects information from the print spooler and displays it.



Srvany.exe: Applications as Services Utility

Applications as Services Utility (SrvAny) is a tool that enables 32-bit or 16-bit applications to run as services. Although SrvAny only runs on the Windows Server 2003 operating system, it can work with 32-bit applications written for Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, or Windows NT. You can also use this tool to run 16-bit Windows applications as services, but some 16-bit applications will stop running when a user logs off of the computer.

The advantages of running applications as services are listed below:

When a user logs off, 32-bit applications running as services do not stop. This is beneficial because users do not need to restart the application each time they log on.

Applications running as services can handle requests without user intervention. Unless an application is interactive, requests are processed even when no user is logged on to the server. Applications running as services can run with their own logon accounts. This means an application can continue running and processing requests even when the user currently logged on to the server does not have permissions to administer the application



Srvcheck.exe: Server Share Check

Server Share Check (SrvCheck) is a command-line tool that lists nonhidden shares on a computer and enumerates the access control lists (ACLs) for each share.



Srvinfo.exe: Remote Server Information

Remote Server Information (SrvInfo) is a command-line tool that displays information about a server or workstation, including available disk space, partition types, and the status of services.



Ssdformat.exe: System State Data Formatter

System State Data Formatter (SSDFormat) is a command-line tool that creates a formatted copy of a system state data (SSD) log file. SSDFormat.exe opens an SSD log file, adds an XSL file header to format the data, and saves the changes to a new XML file. When you open the XML file created by SSDFormat in any XML-capable viewer, such as Internet Explorer, the XSL style sheet correctly displays any special characters and formats the data into tabular form.



Subinacl.exe

SubInACL is a command-line tool that enables administrators to obtain security information about files, registry keys, and services, and transfer this information from user to user, from local or global group to group, and from domain to domain. For example, if a user has moved from one domain (DomainA) to another (DomainB), the administrator can replace DomainA\User with DomainB\User in the security information for the user's files. This gives the user access to the same files from the new domain.



SubInACL enables administrators to do the following:

Display security information associated with files, registry keys, or services. This information includes owner, group, permission access control list (ACL), discretionary ACL (DACL), and system ACL (SACL).

Change the owner of an object.

Replace the security information for one identifier (account, group, well-known security identifier (SID)) with that of another identifier.

Migrate security information about objects. This is useful if you have reorganized a network's domains and need to migrate the security information for files from one domain to another.



Tail.exe: Tail

Tail is a command-line tool that displays a user-specified number of the last lines of a text file, such as a log file, in a console window.



Tcmon.exe: Traffic Control Monitor

Traffic Control Monitor (TCMon) is a GUI tool that allows you to view and set traffic control flows on different network adaptors.

TCMon includes the following features:

Application Monitoring. You can monitor the traffic control flows set up by applications that use the following APIs and services:

GQoS APIs


Traffic Control APIs

IIS 6 (Bandwidth Throttling)

Administrative Traffic Flow and Filter Management. You can mark, prioritize or limit traffic by creating flows and filters.



Timezone.exe: Daylight Saving Time Update Utility

Daylight Saving Time Update Utility (TimeZone) is a command-line tool that updates the daylight saving information for the current time zone in the registry. In some countries and regions, the start and end of daylight saving time are changed every year, and there is no fixed start or end date. TimeZone allows you to adjust the start and end of daylight saving time so that the computer's time setting is automatically updated on the correct dates.



Tsctst.exe: Terminal Server Client License Dump Tool

Terminal Server Client License Dump (TscTst) is a command-line tool that dumps the Terminal Services client license information present on the Terminal Services client. This license is the one that the client acquired while connecting to a Terminal Server.



Usrmgr.exe: User Manager for Domains

User Manager for Domains (UsrMgr) is a GUI tool that allows you to manage security for Windows NT version 3.51 or 4.0 domains, member servers, and client computers from a Windows Server 2003 computer.



Warning:

Using this tool on Active Directory domains or Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 computers may cause corruption, or the tool may refuse to target such domains or computers. Always use the Active Directory administrative tools for Active Directory domains.



Vadump.exe: Virtual Address Dump

Virtual Address Dump (VaDump) is a command-line tool that creates a list containing information about the memory usage of a specified process. You can use VaDump to make sure virtual address space is not over-allocated. VaDump examines the virtual address of a running process. Depending on the options specified, the output of VaDump can include:


Each address, along with its size, state, protection, and type.

Total committed memory for the image, the .exe file, and each .dll file, including system .dll files.

Total mapped committed, private committed, and reserved memory.

Note: Because VaDump can generate a very large amount of output, it is advisable to redirect the output to a file. There are a number of tools that you can use to find a Process Identification (PID), including the operating system tool TaskList or the Support Tool Pviewer.



Vfi.exe: Visual File Information

This GUI tool uses a Cyclic Redundancy Checking (CRC) key to retrieve and generate file information. You can use this information for testing purposes to detect the files that have changed in different versions of applications or what the differences are between two seemingly identical computers. This information is also valuable for tracking different versions of resources that normally do not store version information.



Volperf.exe: Shadow Copy Performance Counters


Shadow Copy Performance Counters (VolPerf) is a command-line tool that enables administrators to use System Monitor to monitor their shadow copies.



Volrest.exe: Shadow Copies for Shared Folders Restore Tool

The Shadow Copies for Shared Folders Restore Tool (VolRest) is a command-line tool that searches for and restores previous file versions from file shares protected by the Shadow Copies for Shared Folders feature. VolRest allows administrators to browse or restore previous versions of one or multiple files stored on a server on which Shadow Copies for Shared Folders has been enabled. For example, from a single command line you can list or restore all the previous versions of your documents on a server.



Vrfydsk.exe: Verify Disk

Verify Disk (VrfyDsk) is a command-line tool that checks the consistency and integrity of the file system (FAT or NTFS) on a specified volume. It creates and displays a status report for the volume based on the file system and also lists the errors on that volume, if any. However, if any errors are discovered, VrfyDsk cannot correct them; to correct these errors, run Chkdsk in fix mode.



Winexit.scr: Windows Exit Screen Saver


Windows Exit Screen Saver (WinExit) is a screen saver that logs off the current user after a specified period of inactivity. In other respects, it is similar to other screen savers and can be configured and tested on the Screen Saver tab of the Display Properties dialog box in Control Panel.



Winhttpcertcfg.exe: WinHTTP Certificate Configuration Tool

WinHTTP Certificate Configuration Tool (WinHTTPCertCfg) is a command-line tool that enables administrators to import certificates and their private keys for use on client computers.



Winhttptracecfg.exe: WinHTTP Tracing Facility Configuration Tool

WinHTTP Trace Facility Configuration Tool (WinHTTPTraceCfg) is a command-line tool that enables an administrator to configure tracing features in Windows Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Services (WinHTTP). WinHTTPTraceCfg allows an administrator to set and display these settings from the command prompt instead of having to make changes in the registry.



Winpolicies.exe: Policy Spy


Policy Spy (WinPolicies) is a GUI tool that allows a user to view and refresh Group Policy settings applied to the current user account and local computer.



Note: This tool hosts its own Help file. For more information about this tool, click Help on the main menu.

Just A Story... Nothing Else...

. Saturday, October 14, 2006
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a guy and a girl are riding a motorcycle..

girl: pls. stop.. we are going to fast
guy: yah, i will.. just tell me that u love me.
girl: i love you so much.. can we now stop? .. pls
guy: ok.. i love u too, now, can u give me a hug??

*girl hugs guy from back

guy: babe, can u take my helmet off and just put it in u.. its bugging me.

The next day....

NEWSFLASH: MOTOR ACCIDENT! 2 FOUND BUT ONLY ONE SURVIVE!

*truth is, halfway the guy realized that the brake wasn't working so he let the girl say she love him for the last time and gave him the helmet so she can live!

A Cute And Touching Story...

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Lady: Why do you like me..? Why do you love me?
Man : I can't tell the reason.. but I really like you..
Lady: You can't even tell me the reason... how can you say you like me?
How can you say you love me?
Man : I really don't know the reason, but I can prove that I love you.
Lady: Proof? No! I want you to tell me the reason.
My friend's boyfriend can tell her why he loves her but not you!

Man : Ok..ok!!! Erm...
because you are beautiful,
because your voice is sweet,
because you are caring,
because you are loving,
because you are thoughtful,
because of your smile,
because of your every movement.

The lady felt very satisfied with the man's answer.
Unfortunately, a few days later, the Lady met with an accident
and went into the coma stage.

The Guy then placed a letter by her side, and here is the content:

Darling, Because of your sweet voice that I love you...Now can you talk?
No! Therefore I cannot love you.
Because of your care and concern that I like you..
Now that you cannot show them, therefore I cannot love you.
Because of your smile, because of your every movements that I love you.
Now can you smile? Now can you move?
No, therefore, I cannot love you...
If love needs a reason, like now, there is no reason for me to love you anymore.
Does love need a reason? NO! Therefore, I still love you...
And love doesn't need a reason With love always,
Forever yours.

Sometimes the best and the most beautiful things in the world Cannot be seen, cannot be touched, but can be felt in the heart...

Convert Flash Video to Windows AVI using SUPER

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Super© If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.

What is SUPER:
SUPER © is totally FREE to download and to use. It plays & converts very fast full length movies to any other format with NO time limitation.

SUPER © does NOT require any additional external codec to be installed, absolutely nothing. Necessary codecs are built in!

SUPER © can also play and save Internet Media Streams with different protocols ( mms:// rtsp:// http://)

I'm gonna show you how to convert FLASH Videos using SUPER. Flash movies could be found on many websites like YouTube, Google Video, Bolt and Similer sites. Flash video file extention is .FLV. Lets see what we need as a startup.

  1. Recommended to have Windows XP
  2. Windows media player 10 or at least 9
  3. I personally recommend using K-Lite Codec Pack.. It has all the codecs and can play any kind of video. Grab it.. It's about 42mb.. phew
  4. Now click here to grab the Latest version of SUPER. It's about 26mb
  5. Once you've downloaded SUPER. Go ahead and install it into your computer. There will be an icon sitting on your desktop and start menu after a successful install.
  6. Click on the SUPER icon to open it. The screen should look like the picture below
  7. Ok now Set the "Ouput Container" as AVI and other parameters as like the picture below.


  8. Right Click on the Interface to Access the Menu. You can add files, remove files.. etc from the Menu. Disable the Hints from the menu. Most systems the hints creates some problems.


  9. Ok now add some Flash video files at the list. Remember you can "DRAG and DROP" files from windows explorer too.


  10. You can select the "Output Folder" for your converted videos. Just right click on the main progam and Select the "Specify Output folder Destination" menu item.

  11. Well, We're almost done.. Just Click on the Button "Encode (Active Job-List Files)" and look at the progress bar to finish.



  12. Thats it .. You've just converted your Flash video to Windows AVI-Mpeg format .. Later You can burn it into a VCD.
I hope you will find this article useful ..

Smallville Season 6 blastoff - My New Video

. Monday, October 09, 2006
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Just finished doing this video. Hope you will enjoy it. Smallville Season 6 Blastoff.. Just only for my friends :D .. Leave your comments too. Have a great day :D

An amazing Love Story

. Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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He met her on a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised, but due to being polite, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, she thought, please, let me go home.... suddenly he asked the waiter. "would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it in my coffee."
Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously; why you have this hobby? He replied: "when I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I like playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who are still living there". While saying that tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched.
That's his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart. A man who can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home. Then she also started to speak, spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story.
They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful. He was such a good person but she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee!
Then the story was just like every beautiful love story , the princess married to the prince, then they were living the happy life... And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee e, as she knew that's the way he liked it.
After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said: "My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I said to you---the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead.I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything..
Now I'm dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth: I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste.. But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life! Since I knew you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life. If I can live for the second time, still want to know you and have you for my whole life,even though I have to drink the salty coffee again".
Her tears made the letter totally wet.Someday, someone asked her: what's the taste of salty coffee?
It's sweet. She replied

Love is not 2 forget but 2 forgive, not 2 c but 2 understand, not 2 hear but 2 listen, not 2 let go but 2 HOLD ON !!!!
Don't ever leave the one you love for the one you like, because the one you like will leave you for the one they love.

It's You and Me

. Tuesday, August 08, 2006
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Copyright (C) Warner Brothers and Lifehouse

what day is it
and in what month
this clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up
and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

cause it's you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to lose
and it's you and me and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

all of the things that I want to say
just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping inwards
you got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here

cause it's you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to prove
and it's you and me and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

there's something about you now
I can't quite figure out
everything she does is beautiful
everything she does is right

you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to lose
and it's you and me and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do
nothing to prove
and it's you and me and all of the people
and I don't know why
I can't keep my eyes off of you

what day is it
and in what month
this clock never seemed so alive

I knew I loved You

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Great song and music video.. Enjoy

Heart of the Matter

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I got the call today, I didn't wanna hear
But I knew that it would come
An old true friend of ours was talkin' on the phone
She said you found someone
And I thought of all the bad luck,
And the struggles we went through
And how I lost me and you lost you
What are these voices outside love's open door
Make us throw off our contentment
And beg for something more?

I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again
I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore

These times are so uncertain
There's a yearning undefined
...People filled with rage
We all need a little tenderness
How can love survive in such a graceless age
The trust and self-assurance that can lead to happiness
They're the very things we kill, I guess
Pride and competition cannot fill these empty arms
And the work I put between us,
Doesn't keep me warm

I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you, Baby
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I figured out, I have to learn again
I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But everything changes
And my friends seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore

There are people in your life who've come and gone
They let you down and hurt your pride
Better put it all behind you; life goes on
You keep carrin' that anger, it'll eat you inside

I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore

I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
Because the flesh will get weak
And the ashes will scatter
So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore

Men and Women #2

. Friday, July 21, 2006
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Men:
1. All men are extremely busy.
2. Although they are so busy, they still have time for women.
3. Although they have time for women, they don't really care for them.
4. Although they don't really care for them, they always have one around.
5. Although they always have one around them, they always try their luck with others.
6. Although they try their luck with others, they get really pissed off if the woman leaves them.
7. Although the woman leaves them they still don't learn from their mistakes and still try their luck with others.

Women:

1. The most important thing for a woman is financial security.
2. Although this is so important, they still go out and buy expensive clothes and stuff.
3. Although they always buy expensive clothes, they never have something to wear.
4. Although they never have something to wear, they always dress beautifully.
5. Although they always dress beautifully, their clothes are always just "an old rag".
6. Although their clothes are always "just an old rag", they still expect you to compliment them.
7. Although they expect you to compliment them, when you do, they don't believe you.

EYES & TEARS....

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There was a blind girl who hated herself because of being blind. She hated everyone except her boyfriend.

One day, the girl said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.

One lucky day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her!

Then she saw everything including her boyfriend.... Her boyfriend then asked her,
"Now that u can see, will you marry me?"

The girl was SHOCKED when she saw that her boyfriend was blind!

She said," I am sorry but i can't marry you because u are blind."

Her boyfriend walked away with tears... and said,
"Please just take care of my eyes...."

Smallville - Hero in Training

. Wednesday, July 19, 2006
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Hero In Training



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Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson

. Monday, July 10, 2006
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Yay... Kelly clarkson and Smallville

Why the World Needs Heroes?

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Forget.

Dare to forget that we live in a world of high gas prices and credit card debt. Forget that computer generated dinosaurs are as commonplace as talking animals on television sets. Forget the percentages of divorces or risks of lung cancer. Forget that swearing, sex and immoral acts are a staple to modern entertainment as all these things are chemicals that pollute the soul.

Remember.

Remember when you were a child and finding a penny was like finding gold. Remember when you wondered why the sky was blue and were in awe that people didn't live in black and white before the invention of color photos. Remember when the worst part of your day was when you couldn't play in the rain. Remember when you didn't care what clothes you wore or who was impressed with your hair. Remember when life was simpler, when there was room in your daily schedule and list of responsibilities to believe in ghosts and Santa Claus and superheroes.

Why does the world need Heroes? Because sometimes heroes save more than our lives, sometimes they preserve our delicate and fleeting innocence.

Superman Returns Will be a Superhit

. Saturday, July 01, 2006
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Today i went out to wash my car. Then my friend also joined me on the car wash place. We were talking about how we're gonna spend this day. Well, he asked me if i wanna join him to watch "Superman Returns". I said ok lets go. We went to our Nearest movie theater at Summit USJ. They do have a nice THX theater there.

I did watch the trailers of this new "Superman Returns". The Actor didn't impress me that much at all. So actually me and my friend both didn't expect something special from this movie. Anyway we bought the Ticket and took our lunch. Then we move ahead for the movie.

I was amazed, surprized and overjoyed as same as my friend. This, then, is as it should be: An icon brought from the printed page to the big screen by talented people who respect the character but also feel liberated to try new things. Superman Returns is amazing entertainment, a vital, exciting vision of a culture legend that brings respect for the past and re-invention for the future to the screen in equal measure. Superman Returns isn't just great entertainment movie but it's an excellence of great film making, with the look, attitude and feel of the final production all perfectly blended to create a bold, engaging, astonnishing, 155+minute long daydream of heroism, bravery and love.

Part of the challenge in making Superman Returns is that you're not competing with this year's light entertainment when making a Superman film; you're competing with the past 60-plus years of light entertainment, including prior iterations of the story you're trying to tell. Unlike Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, Superman Returns isn't a re-boot of the franchise: From the start, we're told that Superman has been away for five years, seeking out the ruins of his destroyed home planet Krypton. Singer crafted the story for this film along with screenwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, and it's immediately clear that they're selectively cherry-picking from the mythology -- specifically, from the Christopher Reeve films of the 1970s -- and using selected moments as a foundation to rebuild the character while still plunging us into the middle of yet another thrilling adventure. Superman, Lois and Lex all have a shared past, of which it's assumed we're aware; at the same time, the film is agreeably cloudy on specific details -- the sensibility perfectly replicates the feel of lying in a hammock on a hot day reading a random issue of the Superman comic book. We know the players; we know the past. And we truly, sincerely, want to find out what happens next.

Superman (Brandon Routh) is back from his lengthy voyage, and some things have changed: Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) is now engaged to Richard White (James Marsden) and raising their son Jason (Tristan Lake Leabu). Some things haven't changed: The Daily Planet is still under the stewardship of life-long newspaper man Perry White (Frank Langella); Superman's alter-ego Clark Kent is still a bumbling, stumbling reporter for the Planet ... and evil genius Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) is still plotting to re-make the world in his power-mad image while punishing Superman for the galling fact of his moral and physical superiority over mere mortals.
The appeal of Superman is multi-faceted, but the most obvious one is the fantasy of physical power -- to be faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, to leap tall buildings in a single bound. But when the character of Superman is well-done -- as it unquestionably is here -- there's another layer that adds richness, depth and contrast: The fantasy of moral power. If we were faster than a speeding bullet, would we hurl ourselves between one and its intended target? In the best treatments of the character, and in this film, Superman is not a hero because he can do amazing things; rather, he is a hero because he does heroic things, to the best of his ability. This film knows that; it also challenges the mere mortals around Superman to do their best in the name of the greater good, a challenge they all rise to meet in a way that makes for viscerally compelling storytelling. It's a mix of Greek myth and all-American virtues, as if Norman Rockwell drew the adventures of Hercules, or if Achilles was an aw-shucks farm boy with an apple-pie smile.

Lex's plot involves turning Superman's own past against him, using stolen Kryptonian technology to create new continents on the ashes of the old -- a necropolis whose stark and terrible beauty even includes a fail-safe against Superman. What Superman Returns has -- and so many bad superhero films, like the nauseating Fantastic Four, do not -- are, for lack of a better phrase, stakes on the table. How do you tell an interesting story about a character with infinite power? In Superman Returns, the answer's simple: Challenge those powers to the utmost -- and challenge the heart of the man who wields them.

Superman Returns is a little light on star power -- Routh's casting must have been, in part, because he fit the physical template of the character. At the same time, Routh's not just a pair of tights; he nails the 'Big Blue Boy Scout' charm of Superman, saving people from harm and then dispensing public service announcement homilies with a straight face. Routh gets Clark Kent, too -- the bumbling, the stumbling, the awkwardness. There's a brief moment where we witness Clark Kent's table manners that, in a split second, makes you appreciate Superman's life-long ruse and how much fun it must be to pretend to be Clark. Bosworth is a pretty slight screen presence normally, but here -- thanks to Harris and Dougherty -- she gets to have a frazzled-yet-flinty magnetism that helps her moments stick. Lois was a little hurt when Superman left without saying goodbye, leading to her Pulitzer-winning op-ed piece "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." Richard asks her: "Were you in love with him?" Her response is succinct: "He's Superman. Everyone was in love with him."

As for Spacey -- the biggest name in the cast -- his portrait of Lex Luthor is a well-dressed, gleeful spin on Milton's Satan: Lex would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, and even make a few bucks off it. After directing the first two X-Men films, Singer knows how to get the right kind of tone out of his comic book heroes and villains -- this isn't regular ham; it's more like carefully-aged, thinly-sliced, expertly presented prosciutto. And Spacy -- who never lets the blast he's obviously having get in the way of delivering real menace and tension -- serves it up with style

Additionaly he's got his child which made it more interesting that people might expected. Really Worth a watch in the THX theater.. Sound effects and CGI was work of Art. In total it was unexpectedly great. Most interesting was the audience inside the theater - they cherrish, clapped and cried.. a lot of them.

PS: Of course i end up crying while watching.. Next time should bring my towel.

Microsoft Certification Course #3

. Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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I went for Microsoft Certification Course of 2779A - SQL Server 2005 Implementation. The Course achievement below

Value of Family

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F A M I L Y

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,

"Oh excuse me please" was my reply.



He said, "Please excuse me too;

I wasn't watching for you."



We were very polite, this stranger and I.

We went on our way and we said goodbye.



But at home a different story is told,

How we treat our loved ones, young and old.



Later that day, cooking the evening meal,

My son stood beside me very still.



When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.

"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.



He walked away, his little heart broken.

I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.



While I lay awake in bed,

God's still small voice came to me and said,



"While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
but the family you love, you seem to abuse.



Go and look on the kitchen floor,

You'll find some flowers there by the door.



Those are the flowers he brought for you.

He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.



He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,

you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes."



By this time, I felt very small,

And now my tears began to fall.



I quietly went and knelt by his bed;

"Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.



"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"

He smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.



I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.

I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."



I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;

I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."

He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.

I love you anyway."



I said, "Son, I love you too,

and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."



FAMILY

Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company

that we are working for could easily replace us in

a matter of days.

But the family we left behind will feel the loss

for the rest of their lives.



And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more

into work than into our own family,
an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?

So what is behind the story?



Do you know what the word FAMILY means?

FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU