Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

Gateway Keyboard Driver Prevents Suspend. thanks to Google, I found the problem. There was an old Adobe type Manager that attaches to the keyboard driver and this caused the suspend not to work. It hooks the driver.

Wayne’s Windows XP User Tips. A great tip page. I’m trying to figure out why the keyboard driver is preventing standby and this is one place to look. Seems like it might be the Music Locker program.

Upcomingmovies.com:. One of my favorite sites to figure out what is coming up next at the movies. Check it out!

R-Studio for disk recovery. This is the other recovery routine that is less listed at www.download.com

GetDataBack – Data Recovery Software I blew out my NTFS partition because there was a buggy CD-ROM driver from Musicmatch of all things. Chkdsk for an hour eventually destroyed the main table and every thing is gone. Using GetDataBack and R-Studio to try to get it back. Good thing I have the a full backup…

XP-erience.org Forums – XP Applications. Another forum for those trying to make XP work. Some notes on Musicmatch bugs.

MusicMatch’s CD Driver. A good note about a drive that Musicmatch adds…

Computing.Net – Nero INCD problem – Solution. The bug I’ve been running into. There is another suggestion about problems on Liteon.

NT Compatible. Seems like a good site for NT and XP related stuff..

Broadband FAQs Very useful notes on problems you have split by the type of hardware and the ISP you have.

broadband ? AT&T Broadband FAQ? How do I fix DNS problems with windows XP/2000? (From AT&T Tech Support). At last, now I know why I have to ipconfig /renew all the time from my xp machines at home. Thak you dslreports.com!

Internet Protocol (IP) Basics. IP MTU Each Network Interface Layer technology imposes a maximum-sized frame that can be sent. The maximum-sized frame consists of the framing header and trailer, and a payload. The maximum size of a frame for a given Network Interface Layer technology is called the maximum transmission unit (MTU). For an IP…

Linksys cable/DSL Router Help – Port Forwarding. Another great site for helping

WINS SERVER. The new Linksys Routing software can point clients to a WINS server, here’s a description. Now I just have to find such a service for an XP Professional machine

broadband ? Linksys. Google’s top choice for finding out about Linksys routers. Interesting and very active.

WallWatcher. This is a Linksys Etherfast Router log viewer if you can believe that there are special utilities to connect to Linksys. How cool!

Micrtosoft VPs and recent speeches. A good site that is hard to find for keeping track of recent presentations and who is a VP over at Redmond

SitePlayer – Embedded Internet Server. Wow, Adrian found the smallest web server in the world for embedded applications.

MajorGeeks.com – Mother Board Monitor 5.1.0.7. A cool monitoring tool.

SourceForge: Project Info – PopUp Killer. Probably the best opoup killer out there. It has been a little buggy but worth living through because it is smart about which popups to kill.

bn.com Music – Stankonia. This from Outkast

bn.com Music – Acoustic Soul. This from India.Arie

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Trying out this album from Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams at Lone Star Webstation: 2002 From a Newsweek piece, I’m tracking down some more interesting music from O’Brother Where Art Thou to Outkast rappers to india.arie for soul to Lucinda Williams for country. Wish me luck!

Metacritic. Ana interesting idea, Metacritic aggregates different site reviews into its own score across films, video, music and games

ExtremeTech File Server Benchmarks. Popular site for getting netbench and other file server benchmarks

DVD Review – The Fifth Element: Superbit. This dvdreview is a great review site and the Superbit edition of the Fifth Element looks like the new reference standard. Sign me up. I’m looking now on www.dvdpricesearch.com and www.half.com to get mine!

AddALL book search and price comparison. A quick note on the best way to find lost cost books. This seems like the best engine I’ve found so far.

Sharing an Internet Connection To use the command net use t: \somehost\someshare The client must be able to resolve, using standard NetBIOS name resolution techniques, \somehost into an IP address. This means that either \somehost is on the same subnet as the client, or that \somehost is resolveable from a WINS server, or that \somehost…

VPN Networking Over the Internet with DSL Connections Oftentimes, once a VPN connection is successfully made, there are problems browsing or addressing resources on the remote network using NetBIOS name resolution. One mechanism for debugging name resolution problems is to use IP address directly to skip the name resolution issue: for example, in the above…