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Well looks like ya found my blog: Way down here in Crooksville , Perry County that is, smack in the middle of the Ohio Valley, I am proud to be hosted by one of the fastest web hosts on the net. Online-solutions.org After designing several web sites for others and for my Enemy Territory Clan, I finally decided to make a web site for myself. This will be a place for me and others to rant and rave, show case my skills and post Tutorials tips and tricks for Windwos XP I feel like in today’s world every body needs a place to vent, besides that who don’t have a blog these days. I am going to set this article to remain static so that it will act more like a welcome page, Feel free to register, Once I get to know you I will share my photo gallery and you can host some of your photos here if you like. also feel free to post your own rants, raves and comments. Thanks for landing on the Madsystem, That being said, Lets start bloging!

Sincerely: Jim Shonk

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I just thought I would share some photos from our vacation, This was something I always wanted to do, We left Ohio and drove to the Black hills of South Dakota were we saw Mt Rushmore, Then over to Bad Lands national park, We left there and went onto Yellowstone and checked out old faithful and the lodge witch was awesome. After a few days there we drove down through the Grand Tetons and onto the Rocky mountains, it took 9 days almost 4k miles, If you have never driven through this part of the country I highly recommend it.

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Mini V8, How long befor we see Mini top Fuelers?

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Today was just one of those early summer days that was almost perfect,  The temperature was around 80 all day and there was little to know breeze at all, then around 7 pm it started to storm, the rain was out of the east which was sort of strange, also there were small pieces of hail in it, the sky never really got dark like it does in most thunderstorms and then the next thing I see is the biggest most perfect rainbow ever, so I grabbed the camera and snapped some shots.  These photos were taken standing on the front porch looking straight ahead,  The arch was just perfect and the sky above the rainbow was light and bellow was dark which I have never seen as well, everything about it was so well defined. It lasted around 30 minutes and then the sky was blue and the wind was gone, just like that.

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I grew up on this road named after the Stonewall Cemetery, And ened up living in the farm house less than 1/4 behind it. We had a blast as children playing here and even more parking here as a teen.

There are several legends and myths about this place, So I thought I would post some history about it. Stonewall Cemetery is located on Stonewall Cemetery Road, about ½ mile from US-22, outside Lancaster, Ohio (Hocking Township, Fairfield County). The coordinates are 39° 41′ 28.55″ N, 82° 38′ 22.9″ W. Stonewall Cemetery a small family cemetery that is no longer active. It is maintained by the Fairfield County Historical Parks. The cemetery is kept locked to prevent vandalism. The inscription above the gate gives some history about the cemetery. It reads:

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In light of recent events I thought I would rant a bit about immigration, First of all let me say that I am impressed that these immigrants who are foreign to our land and cannot speak English can come together for a cause in such numbers, Were are the Americans that band together in such numbers to sway a political decision? I mean are just too spoiled and in the mind set of (it’s not my problem) or what? I have never seen Americans come together in such numbers for anything. We should be ashamed that illegal immigrants can upstage us like this.
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While out taking a sunday drve with the wife, we stumbled upon San Toy Ohio
The town of San Toy, in Perry County, is gone now, but it has a lot left to indicate that a thriving town once stood at this intersection in the rural backwoods of Perry County

Between 1900 and 1927, San Toy was a prosperous company town. It was created by the Sunday Creek Coal Company to provide lodging for its employees at the two San Toy coal mines. How did it get its odd name? There are so many stories that it’s impossible to say. It was a fad of the Victorian era to give things Chinese-sounding names, so maybe San Toy just sounded good. Another story says that the town’s best boxer was named Sam Troy, and they wanted to name the town after him, but the handwriting on the town’s charter was misread and misprinted. Probably the closest thing to the truth is the story that the Sunday Creek Coal Company had invested in a Broadway musical called San Toy (which actually did exist around the turn of the century). When it flopped they lost a lot of money. The story goes that, surveying the town, one said to another, “Let’s hope this isn’t another San Toy.”……. Read More —>!

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Here is a kewl trick I have used for years, Bookmarks as your home page.
This trick works for Internet Explorer and Fire Fox.First go to you (C:\) drive and make a new folder called homepage.
Now open your Internet Explorer and go to File Import/Export Then hit Next and chose
Export Favorites. You will get a pop up window, Just hit next and then Browse and Thin hit the drop down box and point to (C:\hompage) and then choose save.Now go to My Computer (C:\Homepage) and double click on the new file called bookmark.htm. Read More –> Read the rest of this post »

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Well this should help some of you. While tiring to optimize my system one night . “Believe it or not”, I found this little bug, Temporary internet files were slowing down my system and taking up disk space, Now I know your thinking for Christ sakes MadDoG I have deleted my temporary internet files many times, Nope!. You have never deleted your temporary internet files.
Let me tell you why, It seems our little buddy bill gates either missed this little bug or built it in intentionally , If it were a mistake you would think service pack 1 would have fixed it. So here is the skinny, You can go to control panel, internet options and delete your cookies and temp files right? Shore ya can, However it does not delete them. it deletes there face known to windows but keeps all the files there. “REALY” This pissing me off big time I had to find a solution. and here it is, Read More –>!

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A while back we lerned about “gpedit” Now we are going to use this hidden tool to hop up our braodband a bit. Now this is not some tweak that will jump up and announce i’s self out loud. But it will increese data transfer under heavy loads. So here goe’s
This is for broad band connections. I didn’t try it on dial up but might work for dial up.
make sure your logged on as actually “Administrator”. do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges. After Logged in hit start then run and type the following… Read More –>

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This weeks tip will show us how to add a folder or location to the SEND TO menu when you right click a file or folder, The first thing you will need to do is make shore your viewing hidden system files and folders, To do this go to Control Panel , Folder Options, and click on the view tab. In the list make shore you have “Show hidden files and folders” is checked, You can create a new shortcut on the Send To menu, for example, one that goes to a frequently-used folder. (I use my Temp Folder) To lern how to do this… Read More –>

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I like things simple so I make shortcut’s to things I often use and want real fast, This is my fovorite, Fast shut down and Reboot.Tool: Create Shortcut WizardInstead of clicking Start>Turn Off Computer and selecting Shutdown or Restart, you can create desktop icons which automatically shutdown or restart your PC with just a double-click. This tweak makes use of the Shutdown.exe command to create a new shortcut as follows: Shutdown Icon Read More –>
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This week tips will cover a key on your key board that just sit’s there and seems to never work, The Print Scr/Sys Rq key. What the hell ya say. Believe it or not this lonely key has a purpose. It’s the only way to take a screen shot of your desktop without installing a 3rd party program. So lets try it together, Go ahead right now hit the Print Scr key 1 time. Nothin happened right? WRONG, a picture of you desktop is now hanging in limbo on the clip board. Now go to Start / Programs / Accessories / Paint, Now in paint chose Edit Paste. You may also want to make it full screen. Hit the center square on the upper right function bar. There is your screen shot. Now just choose save as . Name it, Pick the format and there ya go. You can also use adobe photoshop if you have it. Just open adobe pick new and right click paste. Be careful not to do this while viewing Hamster Porn.

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This is a simple tweek that will improve system preformance,

This is an unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to wash registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodly. Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch folder can get full of rarely used or obsolete links which can slow down your computer noticeably. My suggestion is: open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete all files (or at least those more than 3 weeks old), reboot. I recommended that you do this every month.

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Here is another nice tool built in the XP OS that rarely gets used, Explorer, I would guess the main reason is, it’s tucked away under accessories and the darn thing opens to my documents by default. But Explorer is a lot better than MY COMPUTER, It lets you have control of the complete system, Recycle bin and all , so I felt around with it a bit and figured out how to make it open any ware I want, the C: is best for most. Here is how to do it.. Read More –>

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This little tweak will let you put Windows XP’s built in CPU meter right down in the system tray. So let’s have some fun and make this toy available.
I love these little built in toy’s that you have to hack to get them running. Here’s how it’s done.. Read More –>

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DNS is one of the most important parts of the net. Each time you type in a web adress (ie) “www.whateversite.com” you contact a DNS server that takes a look at that name and finds what ip it lives at.
This can be slow or fast but it will most likely account for the firts 2 or 3 secounds (sometimes much more) of a page loading.

Your system caches this, That can be good but once there are to many it can be bad becouse it takes longer to look threw them all.

You can take a look at your DNS master records by going to “START” then “RUN” and type “CMD” that will load the comand line console.
Now type “ipconfig /displaydns” This will return the master records. each master can contain thousands of ip translations.

It’s a good idea to kleen this out from time to time, we can do that by typing “ipconfig /flushdns” this will clear the master recors out and start fresh. It’s sorta like getting a new phone book. Nice and clean with no wrinkeld pages.

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The maximum size of your Internet Explorer browser cache is most likely 100 megabytes or more . Generally, cache sizes above 80 megabytes waste disk space and can actually cause slower performance.:

How to adjust the IE cache size

Start Internet Explorer
Select Tools | Internet Options | General tab
Under Temporary Internet Files click the Settings button.
In the box for the amount of disk space to use, enter a value between 5 and 80 megabytes.
Click OK to accept the changes.

PS: Since I have a very fast Internet Connection I have found that setting my temp Internet Files to one Megabyte gives me the best performance.

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Well, since the replies to last few post have complemented the LERNING FACTOR I thought you all mite enjoy a small taste of some C+ code. So here goes .

Use this if you just want to display your IP address and not the extra information (default gateway / subnet mask)

Simply copy and paste the following into notepad

@echo.
@ipconfig | find “IP Address”
@echo.
@pause

And save as IP.BAT (save to your windows dir if you want to be able to access it anywhere)

Then go to “SART” then “RUN”

Now when you type IP and hit enter you will see:

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IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : x.x.x.x

Press any key to continue . . .
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What the hell is all this, Simple Codeing

(information about the code: @echo. produces a blank line, @ipconfig | find “IP Address” causes the output of ipconfig to be piped to the find command, which looks for the line containing “IP Address”, find then outputs your IP address, @pause causes the terminal to wait for user input before continuing. The @ before each command tells the terminal not to echo the command being typed.)

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This week we will tweak up your Disk Seek Time.

Windows XP by default run’s a program on your hard disk called indexing service. This program came about during the development of XP to speed up file searches on the local disc for third party end users who run large data bases, The down side is. Each file is tagged with a index symbol that XP looks for each time the disk is called upon. The result is “SLOWER SEEK TIME” If you feel you do not benefit from finding files on your own system a little faster, “BELIEVE ME YOU DON’T” then you can turn off Indexing witch will speed up your disk seek time by at least 2 ms . To do this.. Read More –>
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This week were going to hop things up a bit.

This tip will cover the services you are running in the back ground and are probably not even aware of. So let’s get started. Now go to Control Panel, Then Administrative Tools, and Finally Services. Now lets go ahead and make the widow big, Jump up and click on the maximize button. Center one near the X UPPER RIGHT. Now to help a bit more lay your mouse right over the little hash between Name and Description and drag to the right making the Name column now wider to expose the complete title of the service. Now there are 5 columns, Name, Description, Status, Startup Type, and finally Log On As. We are concerned with Status and Startup Type, in the Status column you will see Started if the service is running. And in the Startup Type there are 3 options. Manual, Automatic and Disabled, Now highlight one that is started and right click on it.. Now Read More.. –>

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The Run dialog gives you easy access to many different programs and options. To get to the Run dialog, click the Start button, then click Run. Type in the command and press Enter, to launch it. For example, type “control folders” (without the quotes) in the Run dialog and press ENTER. Here is a list of commands to use, and what they do:…. Read More.. –>

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