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I came across this trick at some forums related to windows xp, that post was enough old…but i hope it can help you to have a geniune windows
Copy the following code into any text editor. Then save it with .reg extension. You can name it as you want. Now run your .reg file. Then go http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/FAQ.aspx and click “Validate Windows”. That is it

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]
"OOBETimer"=hex:ff,d5,71,d6,8b,6a,8d,6f,d5,33,93,fd
"LastWPAEventLogged"=hex:d5,07,05,00,06,00,07,00,0f,00,38,00,24,00,fd,02

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
"CurrentBuild"="1.511.1 () (Obsolete data - do not use)"
"InstallDate"=dword:427cdd95
"ProductId"="69831-640-1780577-45389"
"DigitalProductId"=hex:a4,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,36,39,38,33,31,2d,36,34,30,2d,\
  31,37,38,30,35,37,37,2d,34,35,33,38,39,00,5a,00,00,00,41,32,32,2d,30,30,30,\
  30,31,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,0d,04,89,b2,15,1b,c4,ee,62,4f,e6,64,6f,01,00,\
  00,00,00,00,27,ed,85,43,a2,20,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,31,34,35,30,34,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,ce,0e,\
  00,00,12,42,15,a0,00,08,00,00,87,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,94,a2,b3,ac
"LicenseInfo"=hex:9e,bf,09,d0,3a,76,a5,27,bb,f2,da,88,58,ce,58,e9,05,6b,0b,82,\
  c3,74,ab,42,0d,fb,ee,c3,ea,57,d0,9d,67,a5,3d,6e,42,0d,60,c0,1a,70,24,46,16,\
  0a,0a,ce,0d,b8,27,4a,46,53,f3,17

The trick consists basically in creating a “.reg” file with some code.

Symbian becomes the open source platform – this tremendous news today has forced many observers to not believe to the eyes in the morning and again to re-read reports of information. Nokia really redeems shares of other co-owners of company Symbian, unites Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP (S) in one open platform, will operate which Symbian Foundation – the noncommercial organization which will not be supervised by any company.

Every software developer has his own favourite text editor. In most cases their choices stop on editor wich supports software language syntax and has features to work with this syntax.

I would recommend Notepad ++ Inspite of its simple name this editor is very powerful. Notepad++ supports highlighting for many software languages . Main are: C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, HTML, CSS.

Inside options you can change scheme color as you wish. Inside TextFX menue you can find something useful for you, there is UTF-8 support and Linux to mac convertion. You can also orginize tabs, add many plugins and etc.

Download Notepad++

Symantec Norton 360 v2.0 promise a leading protection and performance in an easy to use all-in-one solution. With a single subscription up to three PCs are protected, safeguarding your family by verifying trusted Web sites, blocking fake ones, and securely managing user names and passwords so that they can safely shop, bank, or browse online. Norton 360 V2.0 also helps keep your PCs running at peak performance and protects your data by making it easy to automatically back up and restore files locally or to a secured online storage service.

Review :

Norton 360 version 2.0 provides automated, comprehensive protection for your PC, your online activities and your important information in a single, easy to use solution.

1. Defends your PC against a broad range of threats
2. Safeguards against online identity theft
3. Protects important files from loss
4. Keeps your PC tuned up for peak performance
5. Provides a hassle-free user experience
6. Protects against the latest online threats
7. One-click access to expert support right from your Norton 360 product
8. 1 year protection for up to 3 PCs

What’s New & Improved?

1. Enhanced performance including faster scans and browse speeds, faster start-up times and more.
2. Identity Protection securely manages all your user names, passwords and sensitive information when you shop, bank and browse online. Automatically completes forms on trusted Web sites with stored data.
3. Browser Protection defends against malicious programs that use vulnerabilities in your browser to insert malware on your PC.
4. Network Monitoring helps protect your home network against unauthorized access by detecting. whether your connected wireless network is secure or not secure and displays the security status of all the Norton products on your network.
5. Backup provides support for new backup destinations including Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs and iPods.
6. Registry Cleanup helps optimize performance by removing unneeded Windows registry files.
7. Phishing Protection for Firefox guards online attempts to steal your personal information by identifying and blocking fraudulent web sites.

System Requirements :

1. Operating System: Windows XP Home/XP Pro/XP Media Center Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows Vista Home Basic/Home Premium/Ultimate/Business/Starter Edition
2. Phishing Protection feature requires Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0 or higher or Firefox v2.0 or higher.
3. Email scanning supported for POP3-compatible email clients.
4. Online backup feature requires high-speed Internet connection

Additional Windows Vista Requirements :

Must meet minimum Windows Vista operating system requirements. Phishing protection feature available only on 32 bit Explorer.

Hardware Requirements :

• 300MHz or higher processor
• 256MB of RAM minimum
• 300MB of free hard disk space

You can download Symantec Norton v2.0.0.242 via torrents HERE!

As usual, surfers use one language while searching images at Google Images. Using such method we loose a big variety of images are ready for downloading on different languages.

PanImages – online-service for searching images on 49 world languages. Actually the search process goes over Google and Flickr and then translate the name of the image to the specified language.

Visit Panimages

Norwegian company Opera Software introduced the newest version of internet browser – Opera 9.5. The application has new “engine”. Due to it browser render HTML-pages and JavaScript rather faster then previous Opera 9.2x. Fresh version has some new functions, improved search system and possibility to be synchronized with mobile version of application. Besides it include Opera Dragonfly Beta which is special advanced tool for web development. Plugin support was also improved. On the whole new Opera 9.5 is positioned as the fastest browser of our days.

I used to use absolutely different monitoring services to check them out. I set up website monitoring for my domain from different network monitoring providers. Then i switched my server for 2 hours… And what i got? I will not mention here exact monitoring tools but i can say that only network monitoring tool from Dotcom Monitor gave me the maximum exact report. And while others can sent only emails or sms, Dotcom Monitor rang me by phone to notify that my server was down. No comments more…

Network Monitoring service is my choice

Remember the old days when networks typically were in one location, used plain old servers and routers, and were homogeneous in nature? In those days, a network monitoring system could take a static approach, where a member of some well-staffed IT department could manually check out each server and switch one at a time.

But nowadays, there is a lot more IT equipment to contend with, the majority of which isn’t even located within the data center. For example, a retailer such as Pacific Sunwear may have 200 devices within its primary data center, but it has more than 7,000 other devices spread across its nearly 950 stores, including such items as video surveillance monitors, routers, and wireless access points. Meanwhile, an airline manufacturer might have hundreds of pieces of equipment on the shop floor, many of which have their own IP addresses.

And IT departments, particularly at small to midsized enterprises, are more overworked than ever before, so old-school network monitoring tools don’t cut it anymore. Given that finding the right network monitoring solution is yet another worry to pile on top of all the other things a data center manager has to remember, such as data security, mobile device management, and email archiving for compliance purposes (and these three were picked out of a hat holding 100 other issues), what criteria should managers keep in mind for choosing the best solution for their businesses?

Concentrate On The Baseline

Traditionally, network monitoring tools tracked the degree of availability within a network and inferred performance by measuring the utilization of server CPUs, memory, and network traffic, says Steve Harriman, vice president of marketing at NetQoS.

However, none of these issues matter if an end user working at a branch office 1,000 miles away from the corporate network is experiencing a 10-second response time when he or she is accustomed to, at most, a two-second one, Harriman says. Moreover, networks are handling many different types of data, all of which have differing characteristics about which traditional monitoring tools simply are clueless.

According to Harriman, the best measure for understanding how to monitor a network is setting baseline metrics in the server infrastructure for “normal” performance. If you have these baselines in place and discover deviations from these metrics, you will have an easier time determining why that eight-second latency has occurred for the aforementioned end user. “It could be because an application was poorly coded or because the application is chatty, with lots of calls to the corporate database before it gets to the end user’s screen,” Harriman says.

Determining this baseline should not be too challenging, as long as you do not overthink it. For example, voice data has strict requirements that are at the same time easy to measure. “Everyone knows when a call is good or not. If they experience a delay, stuttering, or no dial tone, they are going to hang up,” Harriman says.

Automate

For her part, Yankee Group analyst Vanessa Alvarez says that automation is a key criterion for choosing a network monitoring solution because it increases its functionality while lowering the IT resources required to keep abreast of what is taking place on the network. Automation capabilities also make the solution easier to manage and to integrate with systems as a whole, says Alvarez.

CITTIO’s Lerner says that automation is fundamental in any sophisticated IT environment that has multiple locations, incorporates a range of different devices, and is increasingly heterogeneous in nature. “You don’t really see 100% Microsoft or Cisco [setups] anymore, and a static approach makes things that much harder,” he says.

Now we can talk about Acer Aspire One seriously, Acer company has published the main characteristics of new gadget. There will be white, black, blue, red boxes. The price will be 400$ for the Linux version and 600$ for the Windows version.

Features of Aspire One:

1. 8.9-inch display, 1024 x 600 pxls resolution, LED-lightening
2. Atom N270, 1.6GHz processor
3. 512Mb DDR2 SDRAM
4. 1.3Mp photo cam
5. SDHC slot
6. Cardreader
7. 802.11b/g, Ethernet
8. 3 USB 2.0 ports, VGA out, 3.5mm audio out
9. mini PCI slot for WWAN
10. HDD 80Gb (with Windows XP) or SSD 8Gb (with Linux)
11. Weight 1kg

Have lost the way in lots of the established software? On search of the necessary application in the menu “Start” too much time leaves? Vista Start Menu will help you. It is not the next simulator of the menu of start Windows Vista. The application is compatible to all versions Windows, including Vista.

The size of distributive is only 1.5 Mb. Vista Start Menu is completely free application but has the paid PRO-version with expanded functions. The most important difference Vista Start Menu from classical – fixation of a position of programs in the menu. Namely at installation or removal of applications the site of items in the menu does not change. Again established programs are added in the end of the list (that basically does not differ from the classical approach), and here at removal taken positions remain empty.

What does it give us? Visual memory of the person – very powerful tool operating imperceptibly for consciousness. Having found some times the necessary program, the eye automatically falls on a habitual position next time. The second feature improving storing of a position and the subsequent search – the list of programs is divided into groups, on nine items in everyone.

The size of the menu gives in to change. You can stretch a window of the menu though on all screen to contain all your programs. By keys ” Ctrl + ” and “Ctrl-” it is possible to change the size of a font quickly. Vista Start Menu is supplied by internal search: at input of the first symbols of the name of the program we see highlichted possible concurrences. If thus to press ” Ctrl + Enter “, the application will translate inquiry in the Internet with a conclusion of results in a browser. Pressing “Enter” will lead to standard operation, start of the typed command. Functions of the classical menu are expanded also with tabs. At the free-of-charge version there are two additional tabs: “Fast start” and “Automatic loading”.

Perhaps the most interesting innovation Vista Start Menu – keyboard combinations. Pressing of a key with trade mark Windows will deduce the menu with labels of hot keys. In this case to reach the necessary item it is necessary to press the necessary combination of keys only. Thus owing to an invariance of positions of programs, combinations are kept constant in independence of installation or removal of programs. Moreover in some days of work in such mode the order of pressing of keys is postponed in muscular memory and you not reflecting will type them if necessary.

Having cluck on the button of management of a feed, we receive changed screen of deenergizing. Pressing of a badge “clocks” for each item it is possible to cause the simple scheduler, allowing to establish the timer or to appoint an exact times, for example transition in an expecting mode.

To return a classical kind of the menu it is simple enough only to remove Vista Start Menu. There is also an opportunity to leave the menu “Start” without changes.

You can download free version of Vista Start Menue here…