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SLMGR.vbs, Vista’s Licensing Manager Disguised as a Hack

In some of my efforts playing with Vista, I’ve followed instructions that had me typing in commands that started with slmgr.vbs, followed by various switches and information. This seemed strange, why would I be addressing some vbs script when doing very ‘official’ things in Vista? Was I being tricked into running something dangerous that would turn over control of my computer or some such evil?

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Video Sites: YouTube, Google stay strong, smaller sites have good showing

Not many people will be surprised to hear that the giants of the online video market are here to stay. Six out of the top seven video sites in January were the usual suspects: YouTube and the major search properties’ video sites. There was only one site without a big name that snuck in among the big boys, and it actually has a stupid name: StupidVideos.com

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