Windows XP Hidden Utilities

 
1) Character Map = charmap.exe
2) Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe
3) Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (view contents of Windows clipboard)
4) Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)
5) DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)
6) Private character editor = eudcedit.exe ( creation or modification of characters)
7) IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)
8) Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe ( allows synchronization of files on the network for working offline. UNDOCUMENTED).
9) Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic).
10) ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe
11) Object Packager = packager.exe ( packaging objects for insertion in files, has comprehensive help files).
12) System Monitor = perfmon.exe ( Everything you ever wanted to know about any aspect of PC performance )
13) Program Manager = progman.exe (Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell, I use this when I don’t want other people messing with my machine…).
14) Remote Access phone book = rasphone.exe
15) Registry Editor = regedt32.exe [also regedit.exe] (for hacking the Windows Registry).
16) Network shared folder wizard = shrpubw.exe (creates shared folders on network).
17) File siganture verification tool = sigverif.exe
18) Volume Contro = sndvol32.exe (Just in case you’ve lost it from your tray).
19) System Configuration Editor = sysedit.exe (modify System.ini & Win.ini just like in Win98! ).
20) Syskey = syskey.exe (Secures XP Account database – BE CAREFUL.. appears to encrypt all passwords…UNDOCUMENTED).
21) Microsoft Telnet Client = telnet.exe
22) Driver Verifier Manager = verifier.exe ( utility for monitoring the actions of drivers ?( useful if having driver problems? UNDOCUMENTED).
23) Windows for Workgroups Chat = winchat.exe ( old NT utility to allow chat sessions over a LAN, some help files available).
24) "Microsoft System Configuration Utility" or simply "MSCONFIG." Designed to help you troubleshoot problems with your computer, MSCONFIG can also be used to ensure that your computer boots faster and crashes less.

More Eurorized English

 

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as ‘Euro-English’ .

 

In the first year, ‘s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favour of the ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

 

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with the ‘f’. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

 

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent ‘e’ in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

 

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v’. During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be dropd from vords containing ‘ou’ and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

 

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. If zis mad yu smil, pleas pas it on to oza pepl.

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我为什么在美国也不给孩子喝牛奶? 2008-09-23 18:05:49

最近“毒奶粉”事件震惊世界,中国奶制品行业为追求利润罔顾消费者的生命安全,甚至祸及到婴幼儿身上,其行为背后透露出来的冷酷贪婪令人发指。
美国有严格的食品检验程序,牛奶里肯定不含 “三聚氰胺”,但我不给孩子喝牛奶,改喝豆浆已快两年了。
事情起因于前年我读了英国地球化学家简·普兰特(Jane Plant)的两本书:《你的生命掌握在自己手中》(Your Life In Your Hands)和《杜绝奶制品的防乳腺癌教程》(The No-Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program)。

普兰特教授认为人们应该像远离香烟一样远离奶制品。
这个结论来自于她自己的亲身经历。在五十岁的时候普兰特教授被诊断出得了乳腺癌,十年间,经历了多次的手术治疗,几十次的放疗和化疗,可癌细胞还是不断地回来。当它第五次出现,一个半个鸡蛋大小的硬块长在她的脖子上时,医生说她只有几个月的生命了。
在绝望中,她决定不再相信医生,实际上这时候相信也没有用,人家都给判了死刑了。她要自己拯救自己,用以往做课题研究的方式搜寻癌症治疗的各方面资料,寻找痊愈的案例。
普兰特教授的丈夫皮特是地质学家,他们夫妇俩在八十年代初曾为环境保护问题到中国工作过。
有一天,她突然想起来在中国的时候,有位当地的同事和她讲起过,中国农村妇女乳腺癌的发病率是十万分之一,这个数字相对于西方女性得病率的十分之一,简直可以忽略不计了。
她又去查资料,发现生活在北美和欧洲的东方女性,她们乳腺癌的发病率和西方妇女一样高。
她问了丈夫一个后来被认为是拯救了自己生命的问题:“为什么中国女人不得乳腺癌?”
他们两个人苦思冥想,很快得出结论这一定和饮食有关。
那么和哪种饮食有关呢?
皮特想起他在中国的同事曾将奶粉倒到杯子里冲给他喝,但是那人自己喝白水。因为当时当地根本没有奶制品工业,奶粉是高级东西,款待贵宾之物。
普兰特教授想起来她在伦敦招待来访的中国客人,当把饭后甜点冰激凌端上来时,客人的表情就和她本人在中国的餐桌上看到了炸虫子时一样。
问题的答案呼之欲出。那就是中国偏远地区的妇女不吃奶制品,而在西方奶制品是主要的食物。
普兰特教授这时就想,自己戒掉每天必吃的两盒酸奶不会损失什么,何不试试。
出乎她自己的意料也让所有的人大跌眼镜:她脖子上的肿瘤在六个星期之后消失了!
她在这之前已经开始素食,这六周内期间依旧吃素,唯一的饮食改变就是戒掉了奶制品。
普兰特教授一直是英国地质调查局的首席科学家,同事们都目睹了她反复患病到痊愈的曲折过程。当家人朋友患了乳腺癌后,他们纷纷向她求援,普兰特教授通过改变她们的饮食和生活方式,使六十多位妇女痊愈。
同事们个个都是顶尖的科学家,在这样的结果面前问她的是同一个问题:“为什么素食和戒掉奶制品能够治愈癌症?”
这也正是一直萦绕在普兰特教授自己心中的问题。
她业余时间下了很大的功夫查找资料,研究牛奶工业的生产流程,奶制品的营养含量及各种添加剂……
她得出的结论是牛奶中的IGF-1(类胰岛素一号增长因子)导致女性易患乳腺癌,男性易患前列腺癌。
IGF-1本是牛奶中本身含有的成分,但是在以前自然产出的牛奶中含量很低。自从FDA(美国食品药品管理局)批准奶牛场可以使用一种促进牛奶分泌的激素rBGH以后,牛奶中的IGF1的含量就增加了数倍,喝这种牛奶的妇女患乳腺癌的比例也增加了数倍。
在中国的奶牛业,添加雌激素、孕激素、生长激素等增加牛奶产量更是常规操作。以前的奶牛都是生完牛犊后才会产奶,现在的技术已经可以通过注射各种激素使没生小牛的母牛产奶,这样完全违背自然产出来的东西怎么会对人有好处啊!
许多人担心不喝牛奶会缺钙。普兰特教授也特意研究了这个问题,她发现不同国家中奶制品的消耗量的比例和患骨质疏松症的比例是相同的。进一步的研究发现,牛奶中虽然含有钙质,但是这种钙降低了人体中维生素D的活性,喝奶反倒妨碍了人体吸收钙质,这一结论正得到越来越多的科学家的肯定。
后来因为求援的人太多,她决定将自己的研究成果写下来出版,就是《你的生命掌握在自己手中》一书,里面讲了十种饮食因素和十种生活方式使人们远离癌症,现已成为畅销书。
随着研究的越来越深入,她陆续写了防治前列腺癌、补钙、癌症的素食食谱等书籍,并创立了网站,帮助更多的癌症患者。

我不给家人喝牛奶还有一个原因,就是我们汉族人祖祖辈辈都是以淀粉类为主食的,我们的身体结构和性格特征都受这样的饮食习惯的影响。许多国人喝牛奶会拉稀,就是因为体内缺少一种消化酶去分解牛奶中的蛋白质。我想我们中不缺这种酶的人能够从牛奶中吸收的蛋白质也有限,因为胃肠系统不习惯奶制品。
牛奶的好处我们得不到,却要受它里面的坏东西影响增加致癌的风险,你了解了情况后还会去喝它吗?

普兰特教授创立的网站是:www.JanePlant.com

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