Tech

I was at work yesterday and trying to remember the applications I have running on my PC that I wanted to recommend to a co-worker, I couldn’t. So, I’m going to list them out here for reference and to help any others who might be interested.
For virus protection I recommend McAfee SecurityCenter ($59.99 yr)
It includes

1. Virus Scan
2. Firewall protection
3. SiteAdvisor
4. SpamKiller
5. Privacy Service
6. WiFi network security
7. EasyNetworking
8. Data Backup

Additionally, for spyware I recommend Webroot Spy Sweeper ($29.95 yr)

For additional security I highly recommend to run Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal (free) monthly

And lastly, to clean up your system registry from junk. And keep your Windows start-up programs clean I recommend Ace Utilities ($29.95 yr)

With this combination I believe you will find your computer very secure. It’s an investment worth making to save your personal files and save you from the headache of fixing all the problems associated with Adware, spyware, and virus’.

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I created Havoc Offroad using php-Nuke with phpbb and for a few months I enjoyed how it performed.  As the community grew and members began to expect more from the site it became too much to keep the code patched and the mods coming.  So, I looked for an alternative to phpbb and found punbb.

I was going to redesign the site so it would be driven from the forum but have a main homepage with a calendar and news link that was automatically pulled from the forum.  Well…I was very pleased to find phpfrontpage which is a modded punbb (link can be found in punbb forum) that is exactly what I was planning on coding…so now I’m very happy because it would have taken me a few months to do it all…and now it’s all there.

I used the punbb converter and imported my database from Havoc and then I ran the punbb1.2tophpfrontpage (file name is something like that).  Now it’s all there and a guy off punres.org is helping me by writing a converter for the attachment mod to get the images that were uploaded with phpbb attach mod.

Update 6/29/2006: Site’s been up @ http://www.havocoffroad.com for several months now.  The group over there didn’t really like the changes because they were so drastic and they had to adjust to new links and locate different things. They’ve gotten used to the new design now though…and I believe they are enjoying it, but of course there are always places to improve.  I was able to convert all the attachments from phpbb to punbb using a script that frank H. from punbb gave me.  It took a lot of changes but without his original script I would never have gotten it.

old version: http://v1.havocoffroad.com
new version: http://www.havocoffroad.com
test version: http://test.havocoffroad.com