Hey guys I’m just posting about a website I’ve known for a while but never really got a chance to right about.

This site is bibme.org a website that let’s you enter a website URL, book name, Magazine Article, or even video archive to make an Instant citation of the media source in a wide range of formats such as the usual MLA and APA.

This Site is free to use but it asks for a donation on the main page.

I rate the site a 4/5

check out the site here.

Thanks to consolespot.net!

Apparently, the specs were ‘leaked’ recently.  Currently, the expected release date is January 2010.  Unfortunately, Microsoft closed the Windows 7 beta downloads last month (February), but you can still get a key if one of your friends, or you managed to download it while it was available.

For the Basic Windows 7:

* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 512 MB of system memory
* 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
* DVD-ROM drive
* Audio Output
* Internet access (fees may apply)

For the Premium Windows 7:

* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 1 GB of system memory
* 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
o WDDM Driver
o 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
o Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
o 32 bits per pixel
* DVD-ROM drive
* Audio Output
* Internet access (fees may apply)

Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration. Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features and edition of Windows Vista will run on your computer.

While all editions of Windows Vista can support multiple core CPUs, only Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise can support dual processors.

Thanks to all the helpful tips found at Trouble Fixers and Precise Security that helped me make this guide.  Try one of these tips: one of them will do the trick.

1. Try downloading Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and if the installer won’t start then try renaming the installer file.  This software is very light-weight, but still it will remove most components of the virus.
2. This is an important step: Go to the start menu, and right click on My Computer, and click on Manage.
   Then, go to the Device Manager under System Tools.  Then go to the view menu and click on Show Hidden Devices.  Go to Non-Plug and Play Drivers and find tdssserv.sys.  Right-click on the device and click on Properties.  First of all, check the section that says Device Status.  If that box says This device is not present, is not working properly, or does not have all its drivers installed. (Code 24), then this is a good thing.  That means MBAM (Malwarebytes) removed this device’s drivers.  No matter what though, in the drop-down menu below that, click on Disable Device.  Then click on OK.
3. Now, close Computer Management.  Head back to the start menu and click on Run.  Then, type regedit into the box and hit enter.  Then, press Ctrl+F on your keyboard and then type TDSS.  Hit enter.  Wait for a second, and then wait until it finds something.  If and when it finds a key, right click the whole Key in the left panel and delete it.  Then keep on pressing Ctrl+F until you’ve found all the keys and deleted them.  You may not be able to delete all of them.  This is ok, just try though.
4. Go to your start menu and click on search and then click on All Files and Folders, and then type in TDSS in the search box in the All or Part of the File Name box and in the Look In drop down menu, select the hard disk windows is installed on.  Delete all the search results.
5. Try installing AVG.  This removes lots of stuff, and has active virus prevention, so when the virus tries to launch a process, it notices immediately and helps remove the threat.  This is a good idea to use.  You can download AVG Free edition here.  If the installer will not load, then try renaming it, as we did to MBAM.  You could also try doing this after the system restore if the installer will not load.  Also, if the MBAM installer will not load no matter what, then do the system restore first.
6. If you’re still having trouble with stuff popping up when using your internet browser, then try doing a system restore.  Go to the Start menu, click on All Programs, go to Accessories, go to System Tools and click on System Restore.  Follow the steps.  Only do this if all the other steps didn’t help get rid of the virus.

Hope you fix your virus problems!!!!

Sorry I haven’t been posting recently – I’ve been on march break!
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Here is some software that just about anybody should have:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader – The best PDF reader ever.
• ESTsoft ALZip – Opens up just about any zipped file you’d ever want to open!
• Google Earth – Look in your neighbour’s backyard
• AVG AV Free – Very solid anti-virus protection
• uTorrent – The best BitTorrent client ever
• java – a very cool runtime that works on any computer system – linux, macintosh, and windows!
• Audacity – a freeware audio editor
• XviD – an open-source video codec
• Windows Live Messenger – my favorite IM client
• Opera / Firefox – The best browsers ever
• Microsoft Virtual PC – Take a trip into the past with those old OSes
• As always, Microsoft Office 2003. 2007 is simply quite irritating with the new UI and all. 2003 is much better. Make sure you buy 2003!
• Trackmania Nations – the free racing game! amazing physics makes this game so realistic. download awesome tracks at TMX.

Hope you enjoyed it! I’ll make part two another time.

OK, so everybody here can download my new fully-released step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot your computer. It’s about half an hour long, and it’s a bit lengthy, so you may want to skip some parts that you already understand, but it’s great for beginners who have no idea what they’re doing too.

It follows the same basic instructions as my “Dual-Boot your Computer!” post, so you can follow along the video with that post.

The video is available for download in a BitTorrent file, because I didn’t feel like uploading such a hefty file to a server. In case you’re wondering, BitTorrent is a protocol for downloading files, and to download files through BitTorrent, you need a Torrent client, and I feel that uTorrent does this job wonderfully, so download that and install it, and you’re all set.

After installing uTorrent, or if you’re using your already-installed uTorrent or some other Torrent client like the one that LimeWire has built in, you can use the *.torrent file that you’re about to download, and open it up in one of those programs, and then set a place to download the file into, and then start downloading. Once you’re done downloading, please leave uTorrent or Limewire or whatever torrent client you’re using open, so that other people can download the files too – once you’re done downloading, your bittorrent client should automatically begin ‘seeding’ the file, or, in other words, uploading it to the other peers who are downloading it too.

Download the *.Torrent file now!

Please notify me if the link becomes broken!

I hope you enjoy my video!

Are you ever tired of Windows Vista’s “Antics”??? Well, here’s what you should do if you have a spare windows XP cd, or your friend had an old one that he never used.

I’ve been researching this quite a bit, and I was asking this question on PCWorld.com forums. My thread’s here: http://forums.pcworld.com/thread/27512?tstart=0. Here’s what you need to do based on the wonderful directions at apcmag: http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp.

1. First, we have to create a place for you to install XP, so in Vista, click on Start, and right click on Computer, and click on Manage.  Remember, you must be an administrator to do this.  
2. Click on continue if an User Account Control dialog box pops up, and the Computer Management window will appear.  
3. Under the Storage Category in the left panel of the window (there is three panels), click on the Disk Management icon.  
4. Right-click on either your C: drive or your D: drive (which ever has more free space) in the middle panel of the window, and in the menu that pops up, click on `shrink volume`.
5. In the dialog box that pops up, leave all the settings alone (unless you know what you`re doing – in that case, you can decrease the amount you shrink your volume by, so as to leave some free space for more stuff), and then click Shrink.  Now you will have a new partition available to install XP on.
6. Since you have the XP disks, install XP into the unpartitioned space you just created.  
7. Obviously now you can’t boot into the Windows Vista Partition, or in human terms, section of the hard drive that is devoted to one filesystem or another, that you originally wanted to boot into.  After XP`s installed, boot into it!
8. Now, download this iso file: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ and burn it with a program like MagicISO or Roxio, and then reboot with the disk in your drive and select the recovery option, and repair Vista’s Master Boot Record (click on startup repair).
9. Now you can boot into vista. now for the dualboot part of this: download easybcd. Then to the following steps after installing:
10. Launch the app and go to Add/Remove Entries.
11. Under “Add an Entry” and under the Windows tab and select in the Version drop-down list “Windows NT/2k/XP/2k3”.
12. Change the Drive to E:\ and the name to “Windows XP”, then click “Add Entry” and “Save”.

Now when you restart you should see both Vista and XP in your OS List.

I REALLY hope this helps, and me finding all this information out is all because of ages and ages of searching online and doing research and because of apcmag.com’s dual-booting guides!

Thanks to APCMAG.COM for the images!

I am Here!
The AustinChicken has moved into “I Love This Blog. If you want to go to my blog go to:
http://www.austin-chickeninfo.blogspot.com
Enjoy I am going to be posting.

-AustinChicken

My brother Austin drew a wonderful photo of Queen Nefertiti as a thank-you card to someone.
Craig and I will be posting on this blog, and soon, we will be posting along with Austin, Connor’s brother, and Kenneth, Craig’s brother.

The picture is also available below in tiff format, since blogger’s wasn’t uploading properly earlier, as Craig noted. http://images.cdmazika.com/files/ym2tmzld0jnvke12ajnz.tif