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I suppose it depends on how you define 'our cause'. Do we have in fact, a particular 'cause'? Is our 'cause' Genocide recognition? Which begs the obvious question, should it be? I'm all for celebrating our culture - music, food, language, poetry and art and so on - especially in diasporan communities. But why must it be a 'cause'?

I guess here we disagree: Would you care if someone monitored your personal movements in your neighbourhood? How about those of your family? Would you like it if someone (unbeknownst to you) was tracking who you call, when, and for how long? How about your emails? What if someone was reading everything you write? Why would anyone need this information? And what would it be used for? Just marketing? hmmmmm.... This is about more than market research. There are *many* decent and respectable ways to acquire Market research. Spies, and spyware is neither decent, nor respectable. Just my two cents.

I'd consider invasion of privacy quite malicious.

The proliferation of these kinds of 'nuisances' may be downfall of 'free' Internet. If I didn't know much about computers, the sheer amount of virus threats, spyware, and spam, would completely discourage me from buying a computer, or anything remotely related to computers. The industry had better get things under control....

That would frustrate me to no end. I'm surprised many 'regular' computer users haven't already sent their machines out the window! (Oh, by regular users, I mean folks with no formal education with regards to computing - and so I include myself in this group)

Oh and I just wanted to add - prevention is MUCH easier than all the troubleshooting steps you may have to take to restore your system.

Nice method Sasun - but in effect, your method treats the symptom neatly, but it does not get rid of the root of the problem: the code that's installing the spyware in the firstplace. Going into the registry keys is not for everday users - you can really mess things up if you don't know what you're doing - but it's porbably the most effective way of getting rid of these problems...

mmmm - i love Gata. There's a place in Toronto, Garni, I think it's called... they make excellent gata!

Armat jan - sometimes running Norton to clean up an infected system is not a bad thing. Also, Ad-aware and similar programs can help keep you free of spyware. Of course, you can install ALL the protection you want, if the user (that's you BTW ) over-rides the safegaurds, and accepts to install various screensavers, toolbars, smilies, browser buddies, most of which the provenance is more or less unknown, then you're apt to have some problems. So be careful, bud I hope you're on your way to less frustating computing.

Hi Armat, There are some basic preautions that you can take to avoid all those troubles... 1. Ensure that your version of windows is up to date. For that you go to the windows update site: Windows Update. You can follow the instructions at that site It's usually pretty easy, but if you've never updated your windows, you may need to download several modules, and even restart a few times. I know it's a pain, but it is necessary. 2. Once windows is updated, you'll may to install 3 things: - A decent anti-virus. Norton has a basic version that's not too expensive, and it will automatically update the virus definitions regularly. This is important. The next two are up to you... - A pop-up blocker, (you can use the google toolbar for your browser, it works!) See Google toolbar - A Spyware blacking program. Ad-aware works quite well. Download it here. Note that you should make sure that your system is free of any virus/spyware before beginning the updates. You can use the tools above. It make take some time at first, but it keeps your frustration level MUCH lower in the long term... Good luck Armat jan...

Here we agree. I find the standard 'ring ring' type of ring tone to be quite effective and (relatively) unobtrusive...

stormy don't be naighty, now lol

Hi Mj, Is your mobile WAP enabled? That is, can you browse the 'internet' through your mobile phone? If so, then you can simply navigate to wap.hayastan.com on your mobile and download the ring tones directly on to your phone. If not, than you should have a method of transfering data between you PC & your mobile - a cable, or IR port would do. These are usually used to sync contact information from your Outlook (or other contact manger) to your phone. Look on the users manual of your phone to see what you may require. After you check, you can post the information here, and we'll try to help you get the tunes onto your phone.... good luck

We'll never let you forget this.... you realise.....

This solution works on our Red Hat distribution as well as the mandrake linux i keep kicking around on an old machine. I suppose it's woirth the time to Tar & un-tar...

I've never looked into it - I always have that 'problem' in that the date of the files uploaded to the FTP are actually the date of the transfer, and not the date of the last modification of the file. There maybe there's a utility to help track transfers and file save dates, but I'm not sure. How important is this (to know the actual dates?)

great news, thanks for the post. 'Year of Armenia' has a nice ring to it - i wonder if it would be beneficial to lobby & create 'our' celebratory year in other countries.... Perhaps it would be wasted effort, but it seems to me that some good could come of it...

whatever you need, m'lady....

Hi eve, sorry you'rr having some difficulty - but it's hard to diagnose without a detailed explanation. If you'd like, fell free to PM me... It's nice having you around!

hee hee hee my thinking was along the same line, oddly enough....

Well, once you've written your piece, be sure to share with us. We're always interetested in what the independant media has to say Good luck with the travel bit...

Glad you're back Eve dear... Nicely put. I like my rice with some butter.

Direct democracy as a form of government could be an interesting alternative, especially on a small scale. I have yet to hear, however, a convincing proposition along the same idea (of direct democracy) that could undertake/assume the tasks and functions of the current multi-level system of government that spans the nation. BTW, Vayri, nice to see you back I'm sure some of our New England members could suggest some digs for you while you're going from convention to convention

BTW, Pirate, I object to your narrow-minded and misdirected accusations at SevMard (amongts others) ingnorance or stubornness. He should be a model for all human being, regardless of ethnicity. If anyone has displayed ignorance/intolerance, it's you. I'm not going to comment any further, for fear of instigating yet another series of uncontrolled and quite uninspiring rants and accusations - I'm sorry, but you can keep your quest for racial purity for yourself.