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    Svchost. Exe ?

    Note that SvcHost.exe is a legit Windows process - it provides a generic host process for Win32 Services and you can easily have multiple ones running (each hosting a different Windows service). Usually it's a completely legitimate thing (for example, the Netsvcs service is hosted by a...
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    picking a software

    The newly released WizeCoin package should take care of you. For a mere $2,000 you get software that uses the most advanced proprietary random number generator known to man to help you evaluate thousands of stocks in seconds. It then displays simple to use "red if heads" and "green if...
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    Dual-Processors?

    Where'd you hear that? Depending on your job mix, benchmarks typically show relative performance like this: 1 processor = 1x 2 processors = 1.5-1.85x 3 processors = 2.25-2.75x 4 processors = 3-3.7x This of course assumes you are actually running several things at once or one...
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    Eurex USA offering 1 free year of trades

    I don't think they're referring to the end user, retail trader when they talk about no membership fees and "customers" will not need to buy seats. Individuals won't be allowed to trade directly on Eurex - you'll still have to go through a broker. You've still got to be cleared. So the talk...
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    Multiple Time Frame Charts

    You don't multiple timeframe charts (personally I don't like them), but you DO need to look at the price action in more than one timeframe - 5 and 60 minute charts usually for me. Also, if you're trading indices, it's also important to look at the price action relative to support/resistance...
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    A soldier's Christmas poem

    <DIV align=center><FONT size=3><STRONG>Christmas Poem</STRONG><BR><BR>'Twas The Night Before Christmas,<BR>He Lived All Alone,<BR>In A One Bedroom House<BR>Made Of Plaster And Stone.<BR><BR>I Had Come Down The Chimney<BR>With Presents To Give,<BR>And To See Just Who<BR>In This Home Did...
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    Routers-who is right at Comcast?

    Actually IP sharing CAN be audited with monitors doing packet inspection and looking at the NAT header that's carried in the packets. However, the real key point is that Comcast does NOT care how many machines you're using at your own house that are sharing the single WAN connection...
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    Routers-who is right at Comcast?

    Comcast's language isn't bizarre. They're saying that you are NOT allowed to share your connection outside of your domicile - i.e., you cannot be an end point on a non-Comcast LAN (which is what you would be if you were allowing your neighbors access via WiFi). They don't care how many of...
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    Search engine can't be deleted as my IE home page

    Sounds like tracker software. Check the system registry - do a search for any key containing seach-click.com and then change them.
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    AIG DITM action on Friday

    May have just been a glitch with whatever you were using to look at the option montage. I didn't get around to posting a message at the time, but I looked at the CBOE montage for AIG after your original post and the one contract volumes you noted on all those strikes were NOT shown - most of...
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    Arnold for Prez?

    Ahh...but remember the line in Demolition Man about the Schwartzeneger Presidential Library and the Constitutional Amendment that allowed him to become President -- a possibly prophetic bit of screenwriting :)
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    New Bullets(married Puts)

    FYI - There was NO risk for the firm. Bullets were a no risk (for the firm) bookkeeping transaction designed solely to circumvent the uptick rule. Eliminating them was hardly "draconian". You could certainly argue that the uptick rule is lame, but the SEC finally getting around to...
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    ZB ZN Rollover

    First notice on ZB/ZN is this Friday.
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    platform to trade gold

    A gold ETF would just be a fund of gold-related companies (e.g., mining and processing companies) - not the metal. So it would be closer to trading the $AUX gold index than the actual metal. If you want to really trade gold, the futures are what you'll need to use. Don't believe there's any...
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    Reformating your hard disk many times, harm your system?

    Geez, how much software are you constantly installing and uninstalling? Just run the disk defrag periodically and maybe use a Registry cleanup utility. Wiping and reinstalling the OS is definitely NOT necessary and buys you nothing over just doing a little basic housekeeping. Think of all...
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    2 monitors: 1 LCD, 1 CRT

    One of my computers is using a dual output nVidia card (has one analog and one DVI) and I send both to two analog monitors (using a DVI to RGB adapter on the DVI port). No problem with screen clarity. The desktop is an extended 3200x1200 resolution running on Hitachi SuperScan monitors - the...
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    Is Quote.com down?

    Looks like something goofy with their web site, links, or maybe their DNS - the normal datafeed is operating fine, but the quote.com, qcharts.com, and livecharts.com sites don't seem to be working correctly. Probably their web techs messing around last night trying to avoid testing new stuff...
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    passports stats

    Passports are good for 10 years, so here are the stats on # of passports issued in the last 10 years (ignoring people who've died since receiving their passport, the total should be the # of people with active passports) - 1994 - 4,895,151 1995 - 5,263,989 1996 - 5,547,693 1997 -...
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    passports stats

    What % of Chicago suburbanites have ever been in downtown Chicago? The number would likely be shockingly high.
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    Holy Grail for min bid of 150000 on ebay

    Sounds like Harry's moved to eBay :)
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