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Dave's Diggins 2-17-00
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Just a few "Golden Nuggets" of info that I've mined from the internet.
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This newsletter is sponsored by the 37211 PC Users Group. All comments,
suggestions or submissions should be sent to david.donoho@pcusers.org.
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Public Service Announcements:
Robert Riddle mailto:reriddle@home is requesting that intermedia@home users contact him specifically to see if there is a communal feeling of being less than satisfied with the current service level of Intermedia@home. He will be posting further information on the 37211 PC Users Group Yahoo Club page at: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/pcusersgroup37211
The Woodland-in-Waverly Neighborhood Association is accepting donations of
older computer equipment which they will tune up and pass along to
neighborhood families who might not otherwise be able to buy one, with
preference to single moms with school-aged kids. A local computer shop,
The Computer House, on 8th Ave. South, is going to hold free computer
lessons for neighbors. Contact Pete or Bette Horton at:
mailto:pbhorton@bellsouth.net for further information or donations.
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Free Software and Services:
http://www.c-4-u.com/
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
Created by C4U Ltd., this new, free site-minding tool offers a number of
options to help users track specific changes on selected Websites. Unlike
other site-minders, C4U is located on the users's machines, allowing them
to track changes without relying on email notification.
http://freesitetemplates.com/
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
Free Site Templates has a variety of free web page designs available for
viewing and downloading.
http://www.ipfox.com/
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
Free URL redirection and subdomain. IPFox will provide you with a free
yourname.ipfox.com redirect address for your Web site, to cloak that awful
www.serviceprovider.com/freebiesection/cheapsites/~user/yourname.html you
use now.
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Web sites:
http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/firewalls1.html#1
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#resources
Firewall Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Basic information about what
firewalls can and cannot do.
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Articles:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2436358,00.html
Author of the "Denial of Service (DoS)" software used in recent attacks on
major web sites defends himself using the old "Guns don't kill, people do"
apology.
http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/library/weekly/aa020800a.htm
Malicious Code Threatens Web Users. A technique called "cross-site
scripting" (CSS), the ability to insert malicious programs (scripts) into
dynamically generated Web pages.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2435946,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop
Retail versions of Office 2000 will require a form of user registration --
or the software will disappear after being used 50 times.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html
Consider QWERTY, the typewriter keyboard... the Universal User Interface.
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Dave's Tip:
Start out the millenium right by using the year-month-day format when naming date-critical files. This puts them in chronological order when you look for them in Windows Explorer and are using the "name" file sorting order. I use this format for the newsletters.
Example: The January 13th, 2000 newsletter is saved as "00-1-13.html". This makes for a shorter url when you go to it at http://pcusers.org/00-1-13.html
At work I save most of my files with the year-month-day-description format. This helps when I archive documents.
Tip #2
Some Registry changes require restarting Windows before the changes take effect. However, there's a way to reinitialize your Registry and refresh your Desktop without fully restarting the OS. Save your work, then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Windows task list. Select the Explorer entry and click on End Task. If the Shutdown screen appears, click on Cancel. After a few seconds an error message will appear. Click on End Task, and Windows Explorer will reload with any new Registry settings.
Tip #3
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/callforhelp/answerstips/story/0,3650,2436332,00.htm
Web Tip: Take a Windows Snapshot
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Hardware:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2435943,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop
Via Technologies (they bought out Cyrix) is introducing new low-cost 433MHz
to 566MHz microprocessors that will fit into Intel's Celeron slots.
http://www.3dhardware.net/features/dvdead/
The FMD-ROM disc planned for release has 10 (!) layers, compared to a
maximum of 2 for a CD, and maximum of 4 for a DVD. What’s even scarier about
the disc, which is of the same size as a CD or DVD, is that it can store up
to a massive 140GB
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Jack's Soapbox: mailto:jack.walleigh@home.com
http://www.tennessean.com/sii/00/02/12/intermed12.shtml
For certain local InterMedia@Home customers, problems using e-mail and
accessing certain Internet sites have become all too common in recent weeks.
http://www.winmag.com/fixes/defrag.htm
Even with the large hard drives now available it makes sense to "defrag"
your HD every so often in order to speed up acess to your programs. This
article discusses ways to prevent the Win98 "defrag" utility from jamming up
when it detects a program running and starting the defrag process all over
again.
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Roger's Corner: mailto:rtimai@mindspring.com
http://www.jasc.com/psp6.html
I used JASC Paint Shop Pro 6.01 was for the background tile graphic on the
http://pcusers.org home page.
The favicons I mentioned in the http://pcus.org/00-2-3.html newsletter were
created using both Paint Shop Pro and Microangelo 98 v4.77 graphics program.
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Future shock:
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34250,00.html?tw=wn20000210
IBM researchers are developing storage technology that in a few years may
lead to minute devices with 100 times the density of today's hard drives.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/075219.htm
International Business Machines Corp. unveiled on Thursday what it said was
the first Internet- enabled cash register to bring together online and
in-store sales activities and provide store managers with more up-to-date
information.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/027636.htm
IBM and Intel Corp. have teamed up to develop an in-car computing system.
http://www.beyond2000.com/news/story_454.html
With the recent loss of both Mars Polar Lander and the Climate Orbiter, NASA
may be about to fast track its plans to put a constellation of
micro-satellites around Mars, giving the planet its own internet.
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Any comments, suggestions or items of interest can be sent to me at david.donoho@pcusers.org
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