The best (IMO) game ever released, and something that started the video game revolution. I need to have it on my site for a bit of time out.

Play it here……

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Play Space Invaders

I was after some software to clone a Windows XP machine onto 20 other identical machines - the main idea was to eliminate the need to install XP from scratch on each machine.

Now before I go further, I should mention that my client owned a volume license for these XP machines.

I did a bit of research (as you will find further on not enough) and came to the conclusion that Norton Ghost would be best for the job. I purchased the applicable license and proceeded to make the image - or in Ghost speak it is called a recovery point. I liked how you were able to make an additional recovery point (during the same process) to an external hard drive.

It was fairly straightforward to do, and the recovery process was no problem either. Worked well.

The only thing I didn’t like was, for what I wanted anyway, was the idea of having to install the product and then make an image (with the software installed) - if you know what I mean.

It so happened the day, after I discovered Clonezilla, an open source imaging program that worked from a Live CD (which I believe is based on a Debian backend).

I decided to give it a go, and found that it required a little more nouse to get it going - by no means rocket science though. It’s just that they were a lot of user options available, and as you were reminded multiple times along the way, if you didn’t understand what was being asked just select the defaults. So I did and it all worked well. A restore was much the same deal.

In summary, both products performed well. The average time to backup was about 15 mins for both Ghost and Clonezilla, with the restore (again with both) being under 5 minutes.

For my particular needs, Clonezilla was the choice of imaging/cloning software.

I had jsut upgraded my mobile phone from WM5 to Windows Mobile 6 and noticed that be default your SIM contacts display.

Great if you don’t already have contacts, but how do you filter or hide of the viewing of the SIM contacts if you don’t want to see them?

Well, I found a few forum threads that tell you to get into the phone settings and change the appropriate option, but my iMate JASJAM does not have such an option.

Next I found a registry hackto fix it up. But my JASJAM did not have that registry key. Mmm If I add the key will it work? One way to find out

Well it did, and this is what I did:

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Hide SIM contacts on Windows Mobile 6

WTF? I came across this error when I had changed my ‘lab’ PC at work to join a domain - I had just built a server (2003) and wanted to make sure domain logins were working properly. The PC had been working OK up to that time.

What I found was the error was probably related some versions of the Gigabyte Easytune utility which conflicts with other software or the user ‘rights’ on your machine.

Why the cryptic wording of the message? Dunno. Sure enough, once i uninstalled Easytune, all was OK.

Everyone knows that Wi-Fi WEP can be easily hacked, but recently an expolit for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard has come to light.

The exploit allows a hacker to “send bogus data to an unsuspecting WiFi client,” completely compromising your Wi-Fi security.

Fortunately there is an easy fix. Jump into your mode/router and switch off Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) as an encryption mode, and use Advanced Encryption System (AES) only. TKIP is the only protocol that the hack applies to.

For more deatil, check out this story.