It is amaizing how often new processes are launched on your computer, all of them doing their own thing and a lot of times you have no idea they are doing it.  This can be a dangerious thing if your friends have been learning about office warfare and are startring to install things on your computer.  However it does us little good to just watch the task manager since there are a lot of processes that start when your computer starts up and it can be hard to sort it all out. 

However monitoring new processes can be quite useful since that will show you what new things are cropping up all the time.  Fortunately for all of us there is a great scripting language that comes pre built into windows machines called Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) that when coupled with the Visual Basic Scripting language (vbs) will allow us to monitor new processes. 

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A coke tab can be an insidious weapon, and fortunately in your average office environment they can be found in abundance.  I had planned on writing my own tutorial on how to flick soda tabs but a quick search of the internet found me a tutorial and a video.  This can be a slightly difficult trick to learn but it is fun once you get it down.

You may not be as paranoid as I am … but you probably should be.  One thing that bothers me is that on a domain system is that my files are accessible to anyone with admin privileges on the domain.  They can read my emails, my documents, see my pictures, pretty much access anything they want. 

Fortunately for the paranoid there is a solution.  You can encrypt your files.  The easiest way to go about this is to surf on over to truecrypt.org and download their software package.  True Crypt is free of course, all you do is download it and follow their tutorial and you will have yourself an encrypted drive volume in no time flat.  Then anything you stick into that drive is encrypted and only decrypted on the fly when you ask for it.  The best part about True Crypt is that you are the only person who knows the password and it uses such great encryption algorithms that, with a sufficiently long password, it would take years to break.

Happy Saturday!  So a fun activity for your free time is to join in working on some sort of open source project.  There are a large number of projects out there that can use a hand.  The place to start is to swing on over to sourceforge.net and search for a project you might be interested in using.  Source Forge is full of projects in all sorts of stages of development and all types of uses. 

Most of the projects will let you get a current version of the source from the CVS and you can make changes.  If you make any useful changes you can generally pass them back on to the group.  Some projects are organised enough that they have specific lists of things that need to be done so you can (and should) follow those lists. 

Happy Coding.

So apparently small children find Boo to be an amusing game.  Because of this I had a request to turn boo into a game instead of a tool for annoyance.  You ask and so you receive.  Here it is Boo The Game.  Run away from Boo as long as you can, as time passes more Boos are created and they get faster.  Have Fun!

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