Intro: I am putting
up this site to assist people that use automatic traffic exchanges as a
way of getting visitors to their sites. Anyone that uses traffic
exchanges knows that the major problem plaguing these exchanges are the
malicious users that seem to get their "kicks and jollies" by
registering for an auto exchange site with a regular harmless site with
nothing on it, then going back after their sites have been checked and
then reinserting the harmful malicious sites.
I have noticed in some cases a sever drop off in the number of users at
many traffic exchanges that I use on a regular basis. It's my goal to
let people know what I've been doing lately to avoid many of the
problems associated with using traffic exchanges. As a matter of fact
using traffic exchanges became such a headache at one point that I
stopped using them altogether. [Especially after experiencing several
virus infestations and having to reformat my hard drive three
times. Once after each infestation.]
However, by accident I discovered that using a live cd while surfing
greatly reduced the number of problems I had while surfing traffic
exchanges. Hopefully by passing this information on it will help
increase the number of people comming back to use traffic exchanges and
the number or new users that will start using traffic exchanges to get
visitors to thier site.
Hello and welcome to "Live Cd Surf" on this web page I'll tell you what
type of live cds are available for you to download and why you should
use them. If you're not familiar with the term live cds then I'll tell
you what it is.
A live cd is a cd or dvd rom that can be run from your computers cd rom
drive or dvd rom drive *without any changes being made to your
computers current configuration.* Here's a much better definition from
Wikipedia:
LiveDistro [or Live CD] is a generic
term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot,
without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on
bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash
drive (Live USB), among others.
The term "live" derives from the fact
that these distributions are a complete, runnable, i.e. "live" instance
of the operating system residing on the distribution media, rather than
the typical case of a collection of packages that must first be
installed on the target machine prior to using the OS.
A
LiveDistro does not alter the current operating system or files unless
the user specifically requests it. The system returns to its
previous state when the LiveDistro is ejected and the computer is
rebooted. It does this by placing the files that typically would be
stored on a hard drive into temporary memory, such as a ram disk. In
fact, a hard drive is not needed at all. However, this does cut down on
the RAM available to applications, reducing performance somewhat. At
least 256 MB of RAM is recommended, but some LiveDistros do fine with
less.
It is often said LiveDistros are a
good way to demo or preview an operating system without having to
install it to a hard drive.
The main reason to use a live cd is to avoid viruses, Trojans,and other
malicious programs that are often hidden in web sites while you are
surfing. Since, most of the worlds computers currently run Windows most
of the harmful/malicious programs are written for the Windows operating
system.
Using a live cd while you surf drastically reduces the odds of you
getting a malicious program that will harm your computer. When you want
to use the live cd/dvd make sure that your computer is set up to boot
up from the cd/dvd rom drive *and not the hard drive* when you
want to use the live cd. [To do this you must go into your comptuers
BIOS and change the settings. Please use the documentation that
orginally came with your computer or use your favortie search engine
and type in the name of your computer and the word BIOS example: Dell
BIOS or HP BIOS or Compaq BIOS]
The types of live cds:
Most of the live cds are based on the Linux operating system. [Update:
In the last few days since I started editing this web page off line I
have tried several other open source operating system that offer live
cds however the only ones that are
stable enough to use on a daily basis are Linux live cds.]If
your new to Linux there will be a few things you'll need to know before
using one of these live cds. With the Linux community they focus on
using open source software only. So you won't find any shareware or
commercial software in a Linux operating system. Also the text editors
available are different from the ones used in a windows based operating
system. The only program that is universal to Linux operating systems
is the Open Office suite.
Open Office is a open source office suite that has a word processing
program, spreadsheet program, database program, and Open Office Draw.
It comes in avaible for several different operating systems including
Windows.
If you want to familiarize yourself with Open Office it's free for
download at their web site:
Note: One
thing you should know before trying to download a live Linux cd.
Because of the cost associated with creating, distributing, and
hosting these operating systems most Linux distribution sites would
prefer that you download the files via torrent.
There are several torrent
client that you can use:
Azure
is one of the more popular
torrent clients around, however, it's not very user friendly. They've
tried to improve that with the latest release but in order to get the
best out of Azure you will still need some technical knowledge. In
addition Azure takes up huge amounts of memory.
Good torrent client. Uses very little
memory, you don't even notice it running. Very user friendly. Only
prblem you may have is trying to make a torrent to share with others.
Please
consider redistributing the live
cd .iso that you download by using eMule and letting others know that
your have the .iso availbe by eMule because not everyone uses
torrents to download files.
You can let friends and
family members know about the live cd .iso by sending them the link
from your eMule client:
You can go to Wikipedia and look at
some exmaple eMule links:
Update: My internet service has
been really bad since it was reconnected two weeks ago. I couldn't get
to Wikipedia 15 minutes ago now I can.... I wanted to post an example eMule link and here it is
below:
Update: You can also post
the files via Direct Connect the version you should use especially if
you have little or almost no disk space or don't have a lot of space
for files or simply don't want to have a lot of files on your hard
drive is called Direct Connect Koala:
On for most direct connect clients
there are minimum amount of files to share is at least 10 GB. With
Direct Connect Koala there are no minimum file share requirement. So
this version would be good for people who are "space conscious" when it
comes to their hard drives.
Update:
I've had the opportunity to
download some live cds in the past few days and have a new favorite
brand of Linux called mandriva it's available for download here:
One other open source operating system that is not based on Linux is
called Hiku [yes just like the type of poem.] However, it's still in
the beta/alpha stages so it's not ready for every day useage yet and
there isn't a live cd version avaible for download.. But for people
interested in the alternatives I've decided to list it anyway.
Some things you should know before using a live cd. A live cd **is
not** like using a regular desktop operating system. Any work you do **will not be saved** to
your hard drive or whatever program you happen to be using at the
time. So here are a few tips to help you out just in case
you do decide to do some work in a live cd environment.
Another possible solution is to
save your work while using the live cd
then either email the files to yourself using a site like You Send It
or zip the files then upload them to a file storage site until you can
get back to your regular operating system. Create a folder on your
desktop by right clicking on it once, then name folder the folder that
your going to use. After that save any files that you create in that
folder while using the live cd.
Here's a list of online storage
sites from Listable:
After that you can easily use
the zip program that is included
with your live cd to zip the folders and then either email them to
yourself or upload them to a file storage site to retrieve later.
Update: I forgot something the
Linux based operating systems are great
at detecting USB drives if you have one and are working in a live cd or
dvd environment then just do this . Right click once on the drive, then
from the drop down menu that appears choose the "Mount" option. Wait
2-3 minutes then go back to the drive, right click once on the drive
*again*, from the drop down menu choose then you should see a
series of tabs, then a dialog box will pop up asking you if you
really want to change the read and write permissions of that drive,
choose "yes." After that you should be able to either drag and drop any
files that you have onto your hard drive and successfully save them for
use later once you get back to Windows.
When your ready to stop using the
live cd or dvd and go back to your
regular operating system just find the start menu [it's located in the
same location in a live desktop as it would ne in windows on the lower
left hand corner of the screen] then choose either end this session or
shut down computer from the screen that will pop up after you choose to
power down the computer.] After going through the power down sequence,
and safely removing the live cd/dvd from your computers cd or dvd rom
drive you simply reboot your system and go back to using your computers
installed operating system!
It's as easy as that.
So now you can go back to surfing
the traffic exchanges that you like
without the fear of your computer being damaged.
Well, that's it for now. If
you found this tutorial helpful then
please donate if you can do so by making a visit to my all purpose
donation site located here:
Or if the
site is not
availble then please send donations to
websurfingpays at gmail.com
For those of you
that might want to donate using e-gold
after having my account hacked [Febuary 25,2007] I have decided to
stop using e-gold altogether. Plus the owner of e-gold was recently
charged bt the US Federal Govenment with money laundering.
Therefore, I'm asking that anyone
wishing to make donation to use an
alternative service called XL Pay. They have great customer service
and they accept e-gold and several
other gold based payment systems as funding methods.
For those of you living
outside of the United States and don't have any of the major payment
systems availbe then I found an alternative called Paying EZ that
currently has no country restrictions.
And lastly for anyone involved in any type of get paid to program and
you're looking for a get-paid-to friendly payment
processor then try GPT-Pal:
http://linkcloak.com/7R0
If you're interested in finding out more about alternative operating
systems then please feel free to take a look at the links below.
