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Being the virus,Malware,spyware,etc freak I am. Unplugging or shutting down your computer doesn't work. If you want to see if you have the conficker, try going to an antivirus site like : http://www.McAfee.com
If you can. your still safe. but if you can't you might have the worm.
There are three ways you might have gotten it:
First, it attacks a vulnerability in the Microsoft Server service. Computers without the October patch can be remotely attacked and taken over.

In IE8 Final, anytime people enter large paragraphs in posts, the entire page streches off the screen. This forces me and others to use compatability mode (finnaly, microsoft learned something: a back button). Its slightly annoying, and this being a professional site, should be fixed, please?

If your wondering why i'm not using my firefox, i use IE for light browsing, and firefox when i need my craptons of addons, and can absorb the resource loss.

How long, would you say, USB flash drives can be expected to perform reliably, given average to optimal care?

I carry my USB drive in my pants pocket, it gets kinda nicked up by my keys (just a couple) and I've dropped it a few times, but it's pretty sturdy. It's a little bigger than your average flash drive... search for "Corsair Readout" on Google Images; for me it was the first one to come up (strict SafeSearch on).

It's not acting up or anything, I'm just curious what y'all's experience with flash drive lifetime is.

it can be an alternative? and i dont know which is better.

What version of linux do you recomend. I want to download one but i don't know which one I should use. I would prefer to use on compatible with wine.

Thanks for the help.

My mom works at a chiropractic center and all was well until... The printer broke down. Now, important customer documents can't be printed. We don't actually know what happend all we know is that the printer hasn't been able to print. Here is what we did:

-We checked all connections and ejected and re-injected the usb cords into the computer and made sure all connections were properly connected.
-once, when we tried again we got this message:
"Click here to open to print queve, and then for assistance, click troubleshoot on the help menu."

Hi guys

I'm currently looking for some scanning software with which to use the HP scanner at work. They currently have setup an old version of some HP ImageZone suite which is basically crud. It is extremely slow, not easy for people even more novice than me to use and I can't even find how to set it to scan to PDF Also every start up one gets the warning message that without admin rights the software cannot be updated. I've even seen a few people get scared when they log onto the pc with the scanner a few times as they think they've somehow done something to mess up the computer.

They seem inflated somehow...

I was curious about what the T stands for in John's name. So I thought up a game where by we post what we think the T stands for. Pretty much whatever you can think but keep within the forums guidelines eg No Profanity.

Ok here's a couple examples to get us started.

John The Anointed Haller
John Titan Haller
John The Generous Haller
John Thor Haller
John The Terrible Haller

Happy Birthday bud

Here's your cake... (worst cake ever!!!)