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Cottage industry thrives on bypassing banks

Scott Langmack has given more than US$600,000 in unsecured loans to strangers.

"I can reliably get 12 per cent, worst case 9 per cent," said Mr Langmack, 50, a former Microsoft marketing executive who began investing in so-called peer-to-peer lending last year. "I can't find anything that gives me this kind of confidence."

ROBOCOPY

ROBOCOPY.exe (XP Resource Kit/Standard Vista command)

Robust File and Folder Copy.
By default Robocopy will only copy a file if the source and destination have different time stamps or different file sizes.

Market Update: 24 Oct 2008

4:30 pm : Stocks may have closed with substantial losses Friday, but the extent of the downturn was far better than many initially feared.

Index futures were limit down ahead of the session's opening bell, which occurs when trading is halted in order to pace losses amid frantic selling efforts. That had participants spooked and anticipating a large scale sell-off.

Writely = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor?

But I thought they lost the war, even with Perl Harbor...

Writely = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor? by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- In response to my post Blog swarm on Writely, Gary Edwards (who is steeped in OpenDoc and OpenOffice) penned this TalkBack:To understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that this isn't about applications. It's about [...]

Enable Hyperthreading after upgrading motherboard | Mindful Musings

Reproduction from Mark Ghosh's site:

1) Download and install Windows XP Service Pack 2

2) Find the following files (normally in your c:\windows\servicepackfiles)
- ntkrnlmp.exe
- halmacpi.dll
and copy them to your c:\windows\system32 folder. (This is considering your new motherboard has ACPI support. I know that these files will support non-ACPI computers as well, but that has not been tested)

3) Open up boot.ini in your text editor and find the following line:

What did I say then?

Seoul looks to China to resolve N Korea impasse

South Korea yesterday asked China to intervene to help solve the North Korean nuclear dispute.

A South Korean envoy arrived in Beijing to urge China, North Korea's chief ally, to press Pyongyang to stop its nuclear weapons programme. China, which provides substantial aid to the impoverished country, has favoured dialogue to achieve a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, a policy also favoured by South Korea.

Analysts believe a growing rift between South Korea and the US might eventually cause Seoul to reduce its military dependence on the US and instead strengthen ties with China.

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