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1. e 203 264 1753 MD 203 426 0394 a Oa OM O 203 798 2000 MD 860 355 0034 203 426 0394 OL fer ey 2b MD Microsoft Access Dick Gingras 203 426 0484 Mult imedia Ed Fitzgerald Newdeal Marc Cohen OS 2 Rich Chernock Paradox Alan Boba PAS CAL Duane Moser Q amp A ver 3 4 Ant hony Teles ha Statistics Data Analysis Charles Bovaird SQL Server Chuck Fizer Viruses J eff Setaro Visual Basic Nick Percival HTML ava J ames Costello Windows 3 1 Nick Strother MD 203 222 9253 oa oa MD 203 775 002 203 270 0224 203 264 1753 Mm 203 797 2716 203 748 4478 203 792 7881 203 798 9998 203 748 6748 203 438 9307 203 426 0097 203 743 5667 Mm Oo lt gt u S a S aa a M Ma a a M a aa aa M MA MA MA MA MA MA aA MA MA MA aL fe el ek fern a gt mam ama ema aa ams a Cec A ama am a he a oon wean aan ca MD http www dacs org DASS Directors Notes he monthly meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the Resource Cen ter on Monday January 10 2000 Present were Messrs Bovaird Buoy Cohen David Gingras Ostergren Preston Setaro and Mrs Gaberel Chairman David presided and Secretary Buoy kept the records The minutes of the December meeting were ap proved Finance and membership Treasurer Bovaird reported combined CD checking and postal account balances of 17 417 71 p2. Allan Ostergren 860 210 0047 Frances Owles 860 868 0077 JeffSetaro 203 748 6748 Committees EDUCATION Gene Minasi 860 354 9380 MEMBERSHIP Don Ruffell 203 797 8 B8 NEWSLETTER Frances Owles 860 868 0077 jones ctl nai net PROGRAM J eff Setaro 203 748 6748 WEB MASTER J eff Setaro 203 748 6748 RESOURCE CENTER 203 748 4330 WEB SITE http www dacs org HelpLine Volunteers have offered to field member questions by phone Please limit calls to the hours indicated below Days means 9 a m to 5 p m evening means 6 to 9 30 p m Please be considerate of the volunteer you are calling HelpLine is a free service If you are asked to pay for help or are solicited for sales please contact the dacs doc editor the person requesting payment will be deleted from the listing Can we add your name to the volunteer listing d day e evening Program Name Phone Alpha Four Dick Gingras 203 426 0484 AOL Marc Cohen 203 775 102 APL Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 AutoCAD Pet er Hylens ki 203 797 142 C UNIX ObjC Kenneth Lerman 203 426 4430 Clipper Dick Gingras 203 426 0484 SL Oo oO oO MO o COBOL Charles Godfrey 203 775 3543 Dbase DOS Alan Boba DOS J ohn Gallichotte Electronics Andrew Woodruff Focus J im Scheef Hardware J ohn Gallichotte Interface Instrumentation Andrew Woodruff 203 798 2000 Internet Nick Percival 203 438 9307 Macintosh OS Chris Salaz 203 798 6417
3. t boot when power was ap plied my best guess is that inductance in the long run of wire slowed down the power on transient Rather than do some thing exotic I used a quick amp dirty solu tion adding a momentary contact switch interrupting the power supply line Tap ping the switch caused the power to be in terrupted amp the computer boots I now have total control over the signal in the kitchen independent of what is happening in the other room As is usually the case with embedded systems my family has no clue that they are using a computer when they change the volume Where can I get one The manufacturer of the basic stamp is Parallax Inc www parallaxinc com One distributor is DigiKey www digikey com Scott Edwards www seetron com supplies an officially sanc tioned clone kit at a bit of a savings RICH CHERNOCK is a senior engineer at IBM research working in the area of advanced digital television and data broadcast You can e mail Rich at mpeg2 earthlink net February 2000 13 Random Access Instant replay J anuary 2000 Q I have Windows Explorer in my Win dows 98 StartUp folder With some frequency it starts up two copies I have checked there is only one shortcut in the folder plus another on the desktop What is causing this A Windows remembers what windows were open when you shutdown the machine for example you will often see the control panel folder after you do a
4. AMD has recently announced its latest and best technology the new 800 MHz Athlon chip This product is described in company literature as the world s first sev enth generation x86 processor featuring a Superpipelined nine issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency If this seems unIntelligible to you come to the next DACS meeting on February 1 to hear AMD s representative put it all in plain English and show you how much faster and better you could have done it if you had been a bit slower to up grade your PC ALLAN OSTERGREN DACSPREZ AOL COM DACS Membership Information Dacs doc ISSN 1084 6573 is pub lished monthly by the Danbury Area Computer Society 12 Noteworthy Drive Danbury CT 06810 7271 An nual subscription rates 25 to regular members 20 to students included in dues Postmaster Send address changes to Danbury Area Computer Society Inc 4 Gregory Street Danbury CT 06810 4430 Editorial Committee Managing Editor Frances J Owles Production Editor Marc Cohen Technical Editor Bruce Preston Public Relations Marlene Gaberel Contributors Charles Bovaird Larry Buoy Jacqueline Cohen Richard Corzo April Miller Cripliver Marlene Gaberel J ohn Heckman Mike Kaltschnee DACS its officers and directors assume no li ability for damages arising out of the publication ornon publication of any article advertisement or other item in this new
5. Bring a dis kette if you want to take the meeting s work home with you INTERNET Atthe firstInternetSIG meeting of the new millenium in January long time DACS members Bill Keane and Don Pearson presented Linux and the Internet Linux has been very much in the news lately with several Linux related firms going public and many established industry players shipping Linux on their computers most recently IBM VISUAL BASIC The VB SIG opened with a random access ses sion The dominating question was What is DCOM and can it be used over the Internet This spurred a lot of discussion about COM component object model because DCOM is a dis tributed version of COM The topic encompasses a plethora of programming technologies We finally decided to focus on the component and discuss why it is used Then we talked about how to make one The D in DCOM then led us to consider the Internet aspect Before delving very far we concluded that we needed to getan understanding of protocols of which http is the one used for Internet connectivity We discussed the method of transmitting messages using http from both the browser to the server and the server to the browser We used a sample pro gram to examine server code and ASP programming examples We concluded that this is an interesting topic and that we will look at WEB technology more carefully at the next meeting VOICE FOR J OANIE During the nine years it has been in exist enc
6. February 2000 Second Edition By April Miller Cripliver When the client passes through the host computer ICS will replace the client s IP address with the host s IP address estab lishing a connection to the Internet through the host Although this is not new technol ogy it is nice to have it included in the OS for home Internet connections or small of fices There are a couple of other networking adjustments in Win98SE Virtual Private Networking VPN is now more secure In addition an option to use 128 bit encryp tion on systems that have it installed is now DACS available Additional networking en hancements include a Wake on LAN fea ture if supported by the computer s BIOS which brings networked comput ers out of suspended mode in response to network activity The second edition in cludes Enhanced Asynchronous Trans fer Protocol ATM to allow the Internet Protocol IP to slide across ATM con nections Another interesting addition is sup port for Device Bay which 1s a hard ware specification for removable disks and other storage devices It will be interesting to see if this feature also makes its way into Windows 2000 Fi nally Win98SE adds support for a broader variety of WebTV tuner cards Essentially Windows 98 Second Edition is Service Pack 1 with a few additional items If all you need are the bug fixes just download Service Pack 1 and save your money Or you can give your mon
7. Keep your competitive edge Let our experienced professional staff help you get the most from your computer system investment Business Solutions Provider Software Development and Integration l Relational Database design N L System Analysis Needs assessment Mention this ad fora FREE initial consuttation Sol utions Sandy Hook CT 06482 1106 Phone 203 426 1780 FAX 203 270 1646 Visit our web site at www pc solution com Futur e Help give the gift of speech Call Shirley Fredlund at 355 2611 ext 4577 and become a Voice for J oanie volunt eer February 1 Advanced Micro Devices AMD Microprocessors March 7 State of the Industry AMSYS COMPUTER Ed Heere April 4 e Microsoft Corp Living the Web Lifestyle E May 2 TBA AMSYS Pentium II amp IIl Business Systems SYSTEMS INCLUDE Intel BX Chipset System Board with 100Mhz Bus 512KB Pipeline Burst Cache 32 MB PC 100 SDRAM 4 3GB HDD 4MB AGP SVGA 3 5 FDD 2 Serial Ports 1 Parallel Port 2 USB Ports 3 PCI Slots 3 ISA Slots 1Shared PCI ISA Slot 1 AGP Slot Mid Tower Case with 9 Drive Bays and 220W Power Supply 104 Key Windows 98 Keyboard Microsoft Mouse Intel Pentium Celeron 333 Mhz CPU w 128K Cache OPTIONS amp UPGRADES Intel Pentium Celeron 366 Mhz CPU w 128K Cache Upgrade to 64MB 100Mhz SDRAM Intel Pentium Celeron 400 Mhz CPU w 128K Cache grade to 96MB 100Mhz SDRAM Intel Pentium II 350Mhz CPU Intel P
8. Bert Boyson Ronald Cannavaro Thaddeus P Dankowski Gene R Minasi 3 4 5 Gilbert Galer 6 7 Michael W Shyman 8 Lee Steuber 9 Norbert and Rosanne Tarala 10 Michael Wizel THIS IS YOUR LAST NEWSLETTER If the membership date on your mailing label reads EXP 12 1999 or earlier You need to renew your DACS membership NOW Local Area Internet Providers AT amp T WoRLDNET CLOUD 9 CONCENTRIC NETWORKS C P CONNECT DELPHI INTERNET EARTHLINK MAGS NET EROL S GTE INTERNETWORKING IBM ApvANnNTIS INTERNET84 INTERRAMP PSI JAVANET 800 967 5363 914 682 0384 800 745 2747 203 734 6600 800 695 4005 800 395 8425 203 207 5695 888 463 7657 800 927 3000 800 888 4103 203 830 2122 800 827 7482 800 952 4638 LocaLNET Farren Cry203 425 3535 MCI 800 550 0927 Microsort NETWORK 800 386 5550 NETAXIS NETCOM NORTH AMERICAN NETMEG INTERNET ON THE NET PARADIGM PUTNAM INTERNET SMART WORLD TECH SNET INTERNET SPRY NET TIAC WEB CONNECT OF RIDGEFIELD 203 969 0618 800 353 6600 800 952 INET 888 863 8634 203 270 6388 800 664 INET 914 225 3234 203 790 4600 800 408 8282 800 SPRYNET 203 323 5957 203 438 7650 WEBQUILL INT Svcs 203 750 1000 List for informational purposes only notan endorsement of any service F urther information Call im Finch 203 790 3654 http www dacs org Games The Frustrations of Rogue Spear By Marl ne
9. to know why if you don t need Win98SE Microsoft released it other than to pay its legal bills Its not a new Operat ing System OS Rather think of it as an overgrown service pack It does not contain any new features but does have bug fixes and en hanced network ing support for SOHO Small Of fice Home Office or home users If you re al ready running Win98 you can download Win98SE s ser vice pack from www microsoft com windows9S8S highlights win9Supdate asp that contains most of the new release The downloadable version will consist of two parts Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and re vised core components of the OS which is just Windows 98 Service Pack 1 The only new feature unavailable for download is Internet Connection Sharing ICS which allows net worked Windows 98 systems to share a single Internet connection see my article in the December 1999 dacs doc To get ICS you can either buy the complete Win98SE CD or purchase an update for your current Windows 98 installation To use ICS you would in stall it onto a host computer with an existing Internet connection Navigate to the Add Remove Programs applet in Control Panel and choose the Win dows Setup tab Now Select Internet Connection Sharing A dialog box will ask which adapter it should use to con nect to the Internet Configure the host and have the client computer connect to the Internet through the host com puter 12
10. Continued from page 10 three serial lines clock Address Data and Data The timing requirements are very loose allowing software control of the three lines through bit twiddling It was very easy to write a subroutine in basic that took a numeric value and controlled the serial lines to transmit it Three potentiometers were used to set volume bass and treble this could have been done with up down switches but knobs gave a familiar user in terface Again reading the potentiometer values was easy The built in instruction not only reads the setting but also applies a pre determined scaling factor automatically The program ended up being very simple a loop that continually read the po tentiometer values If a value changed the communications subroutine was called which sent the appropriate instruction to the preamplifier chip to make the change There was no problem fitting within the constraints of the Stamp seven of eight I O lines were used and only 75 of the memory space was necessary The physical implementation was simple as well A small box was mounted on the wall in the kitchen containing the Basic Stamp amp potentiometers with a run of six wire phone cable going back into the preamplifier in the den The preamplifier drove the stereo amp with speaker wires running back into the kitchen to speakers mounted on the wall Results Nearly perfect After connecting everything I discovered that the Basic Stamp didn
11. February 8 ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS Explores and develops OS 2 Linux and NT operating systems For meeting notes and notices follow link to Don s site on dacs org Contact Don Pearson 914 669 9622 pearson attglobal net Meets on Wednesday of the week following the general meet ing 7 30 p m at Don Pearson s office North Salem NY Next meeting February 9 EDUCATION Coordinates DACS education classes Contact Charlie Bovaird 203 792 7881 aam mags net Meets as needed GRAPHICS Create print high quality graphics and images Contact Ken Graff at 203 775 6667 graffic ntplx net Meets on last Wednesday 7p m at Best Photo Imaging Brookfield Next Meeting February 23 INVESTMENT STRATEGIES Discusses various investment Strategies emphasizing careful selection to maximize profits and limit risk Contact Paul Gehrett 203 426 8436 pgehr4402 aol com Meets 3rd Thursday 7 30 p m Edmond Town Hall Newtown Next Meeting February 17 INTERNET Acquaints DACS members with the Internet Contact Larry Stevens LStevens usa net or Richard Koser rkoser worldnet att net Usually meets on 3rd Wednesday 7p m atthe DACS Resource Center Ives Manor lower level 198 Main Street Danbury a few buildings north from the Danbury Public Library Members suggestions for Internet SIG topics are always welcome Next Meeting February 19 MACINTOSH Discusses Macintosh hardware and software Contact Chris S
12. Gaberel OW BOUT a nice game that pigs He install and uninstall and crashes your machine endlessly in between Sound like fun My son re cently bought such a game called Tom Clancy s Rain bow Six Rogue Spear pub lished by Red Storm www redstorm com The goal is to foil the efforts of ter rorists who are trying to build nuclear bombs The rating is Teen 13 be cause of vio lence The main reason my son wanted the game he said was because it is a first person shooter game whatever that means All of the other games are either different kinds of strategy games or games featuring racecars or flight simulators The requirements on the box said you needed 200MB hard drive space and 64MB recommended memory It also rec ommended a Voodoo videocard My com puter has a Viper card which caused some problems as I will explain later because Rainbow Six didn t want to work with it usually install the games my kids buy otherwise they may just put anything anywhere on the machine and I like to have the stuff on my computer organized I suspected the game was flawed when I did the first install which did not work The game has three different installation options compact full and typical The compact installs the core game files only According to Red Storm missions take much longer to load under that installa tion The full version loads all files in cluding videos A typical install has ev er
13. NC Danbury Area Computer society February 2000 Volume 11 Issue 2 Chipping at the Future AMD to present its new microprocessors Danbury Area Computer Society will offer a presentation from the other chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices AMD is acompany with 30 years of experience in designing and manufac turing microprocessors The presentation will in clude a corporate overview of the company its cur rent competitive landscape and a description of its product lines with an emphasis on the Athlon Take advantage of the opportunity to find out more about this fine company which in recent weeks has been featured in the news Join DACS on February 1 2000 at Danbury Hospital Auditorium at 6 30 p m You will learn about AMD s new cutting edge processors and how they are being used in many arenas business CAD scientific research digital imaging video applications and of course the hot 3D technology scene of serious gamers AMD processors are available for a wide range of applica N T OUR NEXT GENERAL MEETING the Meeting Review tions from economical home consumer systems to laptops and high end desktops You will also learn about AMD s new Athlon a sev enth generation processor with a revolutionary 200 MHz system bus The Athlon will allows a computer to process Internet content from ADSL cable modems with consid erably increased digital video imaging speed giving you lightening fast graphic
14. NewDeal s able demonstrator showed us that truth sometimes conflicts with popular beliefs He showed us an operating system and an office and a school suite of applications with write draw spread sheet database contact manager and day planner mod ules plus a variety of fonts clip art games and more Known as GeoWorks the bundle was originally de veloped for the Commodore64 in the mid Eighties and ported to the newly introduced IBM PC in the early Nine ties Enter NewDeal who revitalized the software remonikered it with the company name and is now plan ning to release its fourth revision in the four years since it took over the package from its former developers Each of its recent revisions has improved NewDeal s stability and user friendly look and feel Now it has added an HTML editor and Web browser and rolled it all into a NewDeal Continued on page 4 President s File ike trees falling in the wilderness date codes passed from 99 to 00 on January 1 with out much ado Except for a few ATM crashes and some excessive a 2e overdue book fines the only segment of the economy facing a return to 1900 levels were Y2K recruit ing firms So what happened to the Y2K bug Although many computers indeed failed to roll over their clocks at midnight there were two little reported strategies that suc cessfully fooled them into thinking that it didn t make any difference One was to label the Y2K rollover as t
15. a a al gpr a a it a Peery JEH ite PHE eH T IHHT ty eB ssl SLE E ord Ee kbi a FP ee ae taar aryere r Bap F i h cira Eai A i wa i a a ee et a 6 February 2000 DAGS What s plugged in I m a sucker for the latest plugins if you are too you may also find your self wondering which Web plugins you do or don t have and whether or not they are enabled Netscape Communicator has sev eral cool commands to display infor mation about your browser s set up and one of the most useful is about plugins which will display information about all the plugins you have installed in cluding version number file type and whether or not they are enabled How do you get this useful information Simple Launch your browser click on File and then select Work Offline Now in your browser s address bar type in the following about plugins You should see something like Figure 3 Three more commands which you invoke as above are e about cache e about memory cache e about image cache which report on the status of your disk cache Figure 4 memory cache Figure 5 and which images are in the cache Figure 6 respectively This article is furnished as a benefit of our membership in the Association of Personal Computer User Groups APCUG an international organization to which DACS belongs The author Carol Daniels is a freelance writer and editor specializing in science technology computers computing busines
16. alaz 203 798 6417 crsalaz kami com Meets on 3rd Tuesday 7 30 p m atthe DACS Resource Center Ives Manor lower level 198 Main Street Danbury Next Meeting February 8 VISUAL BASIC Develops Windows apps with Visual Basic Contact Chuck F izer 203 798 9996 CF izer compuserve com or Jim Scheef 860 355 8001 J Scheef Telemarksys com Meets on 1st Wednesday 7p m at DACS Resource Center Ives Manor lower level 198 Main Street Danbury Next Meeting February 2 VOICE FOR J OANIE Provides and supports people with Lou Gehrig s disease with special PC computer equipment Contact Shirley Fredlund 860 355 2611 x4517 voiceforjoanie juno com Meets on last Tuesday 7 30 p m at Datahr Brookfield Next Meeting February 29 WALL STREET Examines new Windows stock market soft ware Contact Phil Dilloway 203 367 1202 phildilloway juno com Meets on last Monday 7p m at the DACS Resource Center Ives Manor lower level 198 Main Street Danbury DACS Next Meeting February 28 WEBSITE DESIGN Designs and maintains dacs org the DACS Website Contact J eff Setaro 203 748 6748 jasetaro sprynet com Meets on 2nd Wednesday 7p m atthe DACS Resource Cen ter Ives Manor lower level 198 Main Street Danbury Next Meeting No meeting New SIG leader needed SIG News ACCESS As usual about half of each meeting is devoted to How do you questions from the participants
17. amplifier with remote con trols and source switching The simple solution didn t really meet my needs since it doesn t provide the flexibility I was after The complex solution would work admirably but was priced an order of magnitude higher than I wanted to invest Techie Solution When I first thought about solving this problem my techie tendencies came to the forefront with imagined solutions as exotic as modulating a laser beam to transfer the music signal to the kitchen I actually dreamed up a design that would have worked but practical consid erations won out When sanity prevailed I decided that this might be my first op portunity to use a Basic Stamp in a real project I had a twenty year old stereo amplifier lying around gathering dust In addition I had just run across an IC from National Semiconductor the LM1983 a digitally controlled preamplifier a 10 part of which I managed to obtain a free sample It seemed like the perfect oppor tunity to try out a Basic Stamp The LM1983 allows the digital set ting of volume for each stereo channel bass treble and selection between three inputs This control is performed using Basic Stamp Continued on page 13 http www dacs org Internet Porn Where s the CyberPorn Here s how to find it keep it from your kids By Jacqueline Renee Cohen OW DANGEROUS is the H Internet What can your children find when you are not home How easily can someone f
18. ary 2000 9 Embedded Computing The Basic Stamp The scoop on embedded computers HESE DAYS when one thinks of eorpu one s thoughts gravi tate toward powerful systems It isn t unreasonable to work at home with a system whose processor is approach ing gigahertz speeds with multigigabytes of storage and a significant frac tion of a gigabyte in memory There is another class of computer that we all use constantly but of which we are often un awares the embedded com puter These are cheap very small and quite un derpowered by the standards above They are also widespread The cost of processing has become so low that in many cases it is less expensive to use a microprocessor rather than a mechani cal timer washing machines or a com mon integrated circuit alarm clock As an example a recent model of Mercedes has upwards of 35 processors distributed around the car Most of these embedded computers are used in mass production products programmed in assembly with the code burned into ROM Development versions for many of these are available for ex perimentation at fairly attractive prices There are a small number that have a tiny basic interpreter built in making devel opment quite simple An example which I ve been successfully experimenting with recently is the Basic Stamp it is inex pensive 35 small not much bigger than a 9V battery and comes with a rather rich instruction set Wo
19. d Disney Then I tried the same search with www yahoo com www altavista com www webcrawler com and www excite com among others None of these offered me a warning prior to re vealing the list of Websites and catego DACS ries relating to sex And with the excep tion of Excite which offered links to a va riety of sites including a quite funny r rated comic strip relating to Clinton www gethappy com they all displayed links to heavily x rated sites So I explored those sites How much can you see for free on the Internet Not much Many of the sites seemed to be linked to one another They all have a simi lar design a few small x rated photos with promise of free access if you click here Well free access requires a credit card for identification You must be over 18 to have a credit card therefore you must be over 18 to enter the site even for free Other sites offered trial memberships for as low as 1 98 but again you must have access to a credit card Some sites had links to exotic stories but none were more revealing than any thing you could read in an adult novel in a bookshop The most impressive features were sites with links to adult content fil ters that you could install on your browser Many sites stated We strongly support parental controls on the Internet These Web pages are not intended to be viewed by minors If you are a parent and you want to block this site please contact on
20. d drive to the new drive for you just as you are planning I believe that EZ Drive or Max Blast software are examples Check the FAQ page for your drive manufacturer for details PowerQuest s Drive Copy will do this as well Q I have a drive from an old machine that ran Windows 3 1 it is loaded in a removable drive tray When I put it in the machine Windows won t boot It complains about an incompatible drive access mode The drive supports 32 bit access mode and it is marked as such in the BIOS when I check it A When you install Windows 3 1 based upon the answers that you supply to the setup program as well as http www dacs org what the setup program detects the base component known as the kernel of Windows was created One of the things that got detected was the capability of your hard disk controller In the new machine when you insert the old drive via the tray you are using a different disk controller and it is not responding in the way that Windows 3 1 expects it to respond so the Windows 3 1 load fails To use this drive in the Windows 3 1 environment you probably have to a set the BIOS to 16 bit access and b remove the line in the WIN INI or SYSTEM INI that refers to 32bit access I think it was something like Enable32bitAccess 1 BRUCE PRESTON is president of West Mountain Systems a consultancy in Ridgefield CT specializing in database applications A DACS director an
21. d moderator of the Random Access segment at the monthly general meetings Bruce also leads the Access SIG Members may send tech queries to Bruce at askdacs aol com Responses will be published in the next issue of dacs doc http www dacs org FREE CLASSIFIEDS DACS members may publish noncommercial computer related classi fied ads in dacs doc atno charge Ads may be placed electronically by by fax or modem or hard copy may be sub mitted at our monthly general meeting Fax your ads to Charlie Bovaird at 203 792 7881 Leave hard copy classifieds with Charlie Marc or whoever is tending the members table at our monthly meeting DACS CyberPorn Continued from page 11 Western Europe and the U S in 1998 with 84 of all paid content revenues going to U S based sites according to a new study Refer to www idg net crd_content_9 132472 html for the entire article For those of you who are con cerned here are some methods you can use to protect the users of your computer e In your e mail setup options opt to screen out junk and adult content mail e In your browser MIE or Netscape you can also opt to screen out adult content e Install a kid friendly browser such as Yahooligans www yahooligans com Lycos SafetyNet http my lycos com safetynet safetynet asp Super Snooper www supersnooper com or Ask Jeeves for Kids www ajkids com Subscribe to Safe Kids for more i
22. do you do it There are a number of ways but one of the quick est and easiest is via AltaVista Point your browser at http www altavista com In the search box enter the fol lowing search string link YourURL host YourDomainName ilS re PP 2 ee es PP 2 E Tms Aen on krie a oo Panna ee ee es b PP eel lee 2 ees ee pes Fii pee ee LEl ba m a benp m Lemp oe pa i ar Te ee eed ard de peed oo on Haas eek i brais Where you replace YourURL with the appropriate actual information For example Figure 1 link www melbpc org au host melbpc org au This specifies a search for pages that contain links to Melbourne PC s site but excludes those which are on Melbourne PC s site that is to say internal between Melbourne PC s own pages The results of the ex ample search are shown in Figure 2 A search for lt link melbpc org au host melbpc org au gt is less specific and finds pages any link to our domain name including including mailto links For our example search there were about ten times more pages with any link with our domain name as there were links to files on our Web site Since many of these are pages with a mailto link to a Melbourne PC Internet subscriber it s an interesting way to get a glimpse of the kinds of things that interest our members We are as you might already imagine a very diverse lot Figure 2 Se a lb Tae E eee Tt lee a al R reward F rE O em par
23. e helping those suffering from ALS Voice for J oanie has assisted 225 people in 104 Connecticut towns and eight people in seven New York State towns At the present time we are helping 52 people We are always in need of technical assis tance and it would be especially helpful to have volunteers who would learn the programs we offer These people could help with teaching or be available to answer questions Contact SIG leader Shirley Fredlund WEBSITE DESIGN The Web Site Design SIG Is going on hiatus while we search for new leader http www dacs org February 2000 Danbury Area Computer Society Thursday Friday Saturday ACCESS ADVANCED OS NEWSLETTER Bruce Preston Don Pearson SIG NEWS LINCOLN S 203 431 2920 914 669 9622 DEADLINE BIRTHDAY Chuck Fizer 203 798 9996 AMD Microproc Danbury Hospital BOARD OF DIRECTORS Paul Gehrett 203 426 8436 Chris Salaz Koser Stevens 203 798 6417 Lstevens usa net bY 7 00 PM GRAPHICS PRESIDENT S WASHINGTON S Ken Graff DAY BIRTHDAY 203 775 6667 M arch SMTWTF S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 I1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 January SMTWTFS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 TOC PN 7 30 PM 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 eden Es eh tae VOICE FOR 26 27 28 29 30 31 WALL STREET ICEIOR Daa ee Phil Dilloway Shirley Fredlund 203 367 1202 860 355 2611 http www dacs org DASS Febru
24. e of the following RSAC www rsac org Cyber Patrol www cyberpatrol com CYBERsitter www cybersitter com Safesurf www safesurf com or SurfWatch www surfwatch com Other sites had you Click here if you are under 18 a link that led you to a list of sites appropriate for teens or to www goto com a content filtered search engine Webmasters of sites featuring sexual material generally seem to be very careful of content permitting sex sites that are not easy to access without a credit card The sites provide links for people who have ac cidentally stumbled across them and the viewable photos while pornographic mostly fall within the legal limits of what can and cannot be shown I am not claim ing that all content on the Internet is safe for everyone but what I have discovered is that porn is not as easily available as many people suspect Pornography is a multibillion dollar industry We must re member that while porn sites are compet ing heavily for surfers they are first out to make money and are not about to give away their products for free In an article on idg net by Douglas F Gray entitled Adult Content Still Tops in Online Info Sales the writer states that Adult content made up 69 of the 1 4 billion online consumer market in CyberPorn Continued on page 15 February 2000 11 WIN9S Do You Need Windows 98 O END OF ARTICLE Oh Ne want more information OK You probably want
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26. ey to Bill He has lots of attor ney Christmas gifts on his MasterCard to pay off April Miller Cripliver holds several degrees in business and computer science plus the MCSE I MCT A and Network certifications She is a trainer and computer consultant in Indiana You can reach her at userfriendly bigfoot com http www dacs org Letters To The Editor feel compelled to comment on April Miller Cripliver s article Windows 98 Startup and Shutup inthe January 2000 dacs doc It contains what feel is very unfort u nate advice in the last item to select the option for Disable Scandisk after bad shut down AS someone who used to provide support for PC users this advice really pains me used to have to rebuild machines of user s who consistently turned off their machines without properly shutting down Some users might use the excuse but do this all the time and never have a problem To use the analogy of a secretary once supported you might drop a glass on the kitchen floor ten times without it breaking but do you really want to keep taking the risk Eventually the glass will break Providing for an automatic scandisk onthe next boot is one feat urethat Microsoft got right in Windows 95 and 98 Disabling this feature does nothing to speed up Startup unless you didn t shut down successfully last time In which case you d better run scandisk before you chance corrupting your file system due to files t
27. ey took with a digital camera to me via the Internet and I get an icon in the e mail text area When I click on it I get a message that says Image cannot be dis played What am I doing wrong A There are several possibilities a If they are using AOL they should not DACS use the Send Picture button because this is an AOL proprietary scheme that only another AOL account would be able to read Instead they should attach the image to the message b Some digital cameras use a proprietary file format that is readable only by the software provided by the camera vendor If that is the case then they should use the camera provided software and convert it to one of the standard formats A very good one is JPEG JPEG or JPG since it does a very good job of compressing images for transmission over the Internet Q I just purchased a very large and fast hard drive to add to my machine which is running Windows 98SE Can I copy the contents of the old drive to the new drive change the cables and make this one the boot drive A It isn t quite that simple The drive has to be marked as active which means bootable and it has to be a master drive The marking is done via software and the master slave setting is a jumper on the drive Interestingly you don t have to change the data cables at all Some of the hard drives ship with a diskette with software that will clone the ol
28. hat weren t properly closed That s the whole point of the feature If the boot t ime scandisk occurs with any frequency you should investigate what s preventing you from shut ting down Please don t shoot the messenger even if she reminds you of your mother Richard Corzo Ms Cripliver responds Dear Mr Corzo For those of us who build repair and maint ain PCs for a living and must reboot a computer dozens of times in a matter of minutes the option to turn off Scandisk on Startup is a Godsend Not all of us use PCs only in production but spend hours fixing them If you are repairing the PC for the secretary you described employ the option to turn off Scandisk on Startup a feature Microsoft provided by the way for a reason After the secretary s PC is repaired don t forget to reset the Option before you place the PC back into production By all means do whatever is necessary to repair a PC effectively and responsibly Tips given in my articles should be applied to individual situations and should not be cast in stone Please don t disconnect your brain when reading any PC article April Miller Cripliver MCSE MCP I MCT A userfriendly bigfoot com www cripliver com Now Available Direct From Disk Black and White spot or 4 Color Copying For All Your Printing and Copying Needs 3 Commerce Dr Danbury CT Phone 203 792 5045 Fax 203 792 5064 e oe http www dacs org DACS Basic Stamp
29. he millennium bug which made many PCs think the real crisis was still a year away and the other was event profiling which works by tak ing everything that was occurring just be fore New Year s day and successfully rec reating it on New Year s day Widespread use of the latter strategy was evident on CNN which proclaimed universal opti mism for real progress in the next millen nium while promoting yet another inter view with Monica Lewinsky for Saturday afternoon Since these programming strat egies were performed without public an nouncement I have recently taken out relevant patents and will start invoicing every company that implemented them Chips ahoy If you re relatively new to computing you may not have heard much about AMD But for PC clone makers Advanced Mi IN THIS ISSUE AMD PREVIEW NEWDEAL REVIEW PRESIDENT S FILE DIRECTORS NOTES HELPLINE NEw MEMBERS INTERNET PROVIDERS ROGUE SPEAR INTERMEDIATE INTERNAUTS TPs SHAREWARE PROFESSIONALS SIG Notes amp News CALENDAR EMBEDDED COMPUTERS CYBERPORN WInpbows 98 2ND EDITION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RANDOM ACCESS SANA UN HWW NY m p pk pb pk pk wn 2 e February 2000 cro Devices has been a distant drummer to Intel for three decades Always a niche player AMD produced a line of proces sors that mimicked Intel s at every notch up the x86 architectural scale Intel man aged to stay ahead by moving into ever faste
30. he members who won copies of the NewDeal software at the raffle and any others interested Marc would like to start a NewDeal SIG Please contact him at MCPhoto myself com if you are interested New Deal Deal for DACS Members NewDeal Inc thanks you and the members of the Danbury Area Com puter Society DACS for your time and interest during your J anuary meet ing We are very impressed with your membership and would appreciate a continuing relationship As a Statement of our appreciation to all DACS members NewDeal is offering the group a special purchase arrangement for S choolS uite W ebS uite or Office WebSuite for 39 95 single user plus shipping costs This offer includes the following 1 Available until February 29 2000 2 For each copy purchased 10 of the product sale price 4 00 will be donated to the DACS general fund 3 The deliverable item is Version 3 2 of either product in a retail package containing 3 5 floppies and CD ROM versions User Manual and single user license 4 Full price for this retail package is 69 95 39 95 5 Purchase can be made by e mail to mark newdealinc com or by calling 1 800 985 4263 Please reference DACS2000 and specify the desired product either SchoolS uite or Office 6 Please provide shipping address and billing method whether a valid credit card or NewDeal invoice 4 February 2000 DACS New Members 2 23 1999 thru 117 2000 1 J oan G Bielizna 2
31. ind porno graphic sites How easy is it to block adult content from your machine These are questions as a single childless woman I have never needed to think about I am a teacher but my main concern is my students meeting strang ers over ICQ or in chatrooms I received a pornographic picture via e mail once I deleted it and nothing else ever showed up unwanted To help you keep it out of your Net life most e mail and search engines programs now have screening devices I went on a search for pornography on the Web There are two ways that most searches take place The first way is to try to score a direct hit by typing in what you think is a logical URL For example if you wanted to find DACS online you would logically try www dacs com The U S Department of Defense Software In http www dacs org formation Clearinghouse if that didn t work you would try www dacs org and score a direct hit The other way more commonly used is to use one of the popu lar search engines My favorite search engine is www infoseek com which generally produces good results I started with a search on sex A warning came up that asked me if I wanted to proceed or not That is a pretty good sign an option to turn back before adult con tent is shown But I opted to proceed The resulting sites included no pornog raphy they were all educational Websites I was impressed Of course Infoseek is associated with go com an
32. lus postage on hand of 114 80 He also reported current member ship of 567 leading to a discussion of a re vision of the membership form included in dacs doc to include the source of a new member s interest in DACS and the types of membership available corporate or elec tronic only which Mr Bovaird agreed to undertake Elections Chairman David reported that the bal lots for the election of directors at the An nual Meeting of the Membership held on December 15 1999 were overwhelmingly in favor of the re election of the incumbent directors standing for election with only a few ballots technically flawed and inadmis sible RC lease and alternatives Charlie Bovaird reported on possible the use of Danbury s Senior Center The Old Jail as an alternative venue predominantly favorable with some reservations regard ing storage problems that were not insur mountable President Ostergren also re ported on conversations with Mr Bull of the COC about using space available there It was agreed that such an arrangement would be impractical for DACS purposes Charlie Bovaird then gave an analysis of DACS financial situation and of the effects on it should the Resource Center be aban doned He also commented on current trends in membership as well as advertising rev enue from dacs doc and the projected point at which the proposed rent increase would result in a net loss to DACS Alternatives such as increased dues or red
33. n formation on _Child Safety on the In formation Highway www safekids com e For a comprehensive review of filter services refer to www safekids com filters htm In summary Safe Web searching is easy to ar range for your family a lot easier than itis to access most pornographic sites While you can follow Internet links to more revealing pornography you will not access it accidentally and sites will generally provide you with links to leave the site Ultimately it is up to users to decide what content they want to view on the Internet The adult content sites cater to a certain audience Many of these sites are within the law and do not solicit via e mail In the true spirit of the Internet censorship instead of being a nationally controlled issue is avail able to each individual computer user according to his or her own criteria JACQUELINE RENEE COHEN is an English teacher who lives and works in Hong Kong Ms Cohen is currently designing content for online learning environments training Hong Kong secondary school English teachers how to integrate IT into their lessons She is enrolled in a Masters of Science program in Online Teaching and Learning at CSU Hayward She can be reached at jaqatac mail com February 2000 15 Stop the paperwork shuffle access current information when you need it Create professional looking reports at the touch of a button Increase office efficiency and productivity
34. n installation because the control panel was open We guess that you hadn t closed the copy of Windows Explorer when you shut down the machine so you got two on machine startup the copy that was running and the copy that was started from the StartUp folder Q I had to reformat a hard disk and used the FDISK and FORMAT from DOS 6 1 It created four 2GB partitions I have a four year old copy of Partition Magic Can I use this to create a single partition be fore I install Windows 98 A If you create an emergency boot disk from Windows 98 you can FDISK and FORMAT from this version It will support 32 bit access and larger partitions Q My machine comes up as the right month day but the year 2094 I can change it to the year 2000 with out a problem and programs work fine Pd like to automate this I d like a way to have the year changed to 2000 automatically A Since the entire date has to be entered at the DOS level it isn t likely that you can do this without some programming to extract the correct month and day but substitute the year In BASIC you could to the following Dim MonthDay As String MonthDay Mid Date 1 5 get just the month the slash and the day Date MonthDay amp amp 2000 You would then just have to change the 2000 to 2001 come Jan Ist of next year 14 February 2000 Bruce Preston Moderator Q Last month I checked my old ma chine and it was able to sto
35. r architectures and aggressively cutting prices for the chips that fell be hind Then with the Pentium line of pro cessors Intel created a proprietary prod uct name that made AMD seem like a cheap imitation But AMD kept coming back and con tinues to compete head to head in proces sor speed and performance with its pow erful rival Much of this perseverence is credited to founder and CEO Walter Jeremiah Sanders HI King Jerry who Started out with Intel shared some of their patents and like Rambo takes the rivalry personal Now as the PC market heats up eight of the top ten PC manufacturers most notably Compaq and Gateway are turning to AMD for at least part of their product line Last April AMD s share of the US retail PC market had risen to 40 5 from 25 4 the previous year while Intel s share had dropped from 71 9 to 53 2 during the same period As debate swirls over Microsoft s dominance in software it is instructive to note how competition has helped keep prices down in PC hardware Although Intel has remained preeminent it has kept its lead only through price cutting and repeated innovation While the price of a Windows upgrade seems stuck around 89 the cost of a cutting edge scream ingly fast PC with all the accouterments has plunged from more than 2000 to around 750 and change And while Intel has had to cut its margins to stay com petitive look what they ve saved in legal expenses
36. re dates in year 2000 When I first started the machine it reported that it was January 4 1980 Is this a bug in Windows A No it is a hardware problem Certain BIOS code is able to work with the year 2000 and on but isn t able to roll over from 1999 to 2000 Set the date and shutdown the machine You will probably be OK But beware that you may have a problem come Feb 29 2000 as well You can do a full test that will surface other latent problems by running the Ymark2000 test There is a link to it on the DACS Website Q Did anyone have a real Y2K prob lem other than that older machines didn t roll over correctly A One person reported a network printer that kept spewing out multiple copies the driver wasn t recording the completion time correctly Other than that it was pretty much a big yawn Q I can t print from my e mail appli cation Outlook Express 4 72 but I can print from Internet Explorer 5 0 and all other applications I think the problem started when I installed AOL 5 0 A Save your address book and mailbox then re install Outlook Express We have had users who have had their address books blown away when components of Office 2000 are installed for example a user decided to install Access 2000 on a machine running Office 97 The install put Outlook Express on as well and overwrote his old address book and mailboxes Q My grandchildren use AOL and sent me a photo th
37. rking with this type of system is a refreshing chal lenge due to the constrained resources low speed and limited RAM The Basic Stamp 1 has a grand total of 256 Bytes not KB or MB of non volatile RAM available for program storage and 16B for data As you might guess sloppy pro gramming styles are a disaster in this type of system 10 February 2000 in homes and cars By Rich Chernock What can it do As described above it appears that the capabilities of the embedded computer are too limited to do anything useful Due to a very clever design the opposite is true quite interesting projects can be done with this system one example is de scribed below There are eight bidirectional I O lines individu ally controllable which can be used for commu nications with the outside world The tiny basic programs are tokenized re sulting in the capability to store 80 100 complex instructions which are executed at an average rate of 2000 instructions second The 16B of data are addressable as bits nibbles bytes or words in any desired mixture Programming is as simple as hooking up a connection to a DOS or Windows PC parallel or serial depending upon the model and down loading code Simple debugging facili ties are available Due to the non vola tile RAM any code will be executed upon power up and retained until repro grammed The built in tiny basic interpreter has a number of unusual instruction
38. s health medicine food and agriculture She is on the Management Committee of the Melbourne PC User Group and a member of APCUG s Board of User Group Advisors 1 s LE SOAP TS G a iL Cone sched en Piaget hia PAT en et F bhii ee tei es E ira woe ce 5 SS TS SS Lie i Citar Dei sb moky a a Ba Tai rte Pe Te ieee ree le a a a Eik ris E lel la E ast a amar a rE ar r ya E es E http www dacs org Dek Cale chatter ee e jha be Eeeh Li L es Di pA nie Fraa a rr es Ehi See e E hom a mia i S T aiio nm Lia page pe Se Lae er lri lar a PE NEE be a Me ale TE ar ar te Le oe eet PP pL mT ED ve a pain E P es os re k mke om Pies fi besiege n m la a ia kmr Ss PSL de Erri ter frees LTE i on ge De at le E a oe i The Association of Shareware Professionals A Primer Te Association of Shareware Pro fessionals ASP was formed in April 1987 to strengthen the future of try before you buy software as an alter native to conventional retail software Today it s a vibrant international or ganization with almost 700 shareware au thors distributors and marketers who can help shareware professionals create and run their businesses The ASP s members create and market some of the finest software available today ASP members software spans the spectrum from high quality accounting and inventory programs for business to a
39. s rendering rich images and ac curate sound for an impressive multimedia experience The Athlon is designed to increase your computer s lon gevity by strategically positioning it for new technologies to come Gamers especially will enjoy hearing about the new AMD K6 processor and how it enhances a 3D graphics card 3D sound capability and DirectX 6 technology The K6 also strengthens home and business applica tions with its TriLevel cache design Coming in March The State of the Computer In dustry by Amsys Computer GeoWorks Transformed A new company creates a suite NewDeal By Marc Cohen troducing an old operating system and a full suite of applications tailored to both business and schools all updated by a new company NewDeal We have all been brainwashed by today s bloatware those enormous space hog applications containing all the features you Il ever want and a bloatload more that you ll never touch To make matters worse you might even have to add more stuff say your special apps for word processing spreadsheets databases E mail and Web browser to have a fully functional system With such gargantua flooding the market you think you need the latest and greatest Pentium II 500 with a minimum of 128MB RAM and gobs of hard disk space to make even mini mal use of the most of the popular read Microsoft graphic environment Is this true I JANUARY we were treated to a presentation rein Mark Tenny
40. s which account for much of the power of this small system reading analog potentiom eter values pulse width measurements pulse width modulation for power con trol digital and serial I O and timing ca pabilities Each of these costs only one instruction making maximum use of the limited memory space If you need more capabilities more instruction or data space more I Os there are other more powerful models available at a slightly higher cost Remote Audio Control Project Problem I like to listen to music while I m home and I have a fairly elabo rate stereo system in the den of my house DACS I wanted to be able to hear the music in other rooms especially the kitchen Turn ing up the volume in the den was not a solution since the levels in the den would become unbearable In addition I wanted a bit of flexibility control over volume and tone remotely as well as the capability to listen to a different source in case the kids took over the den To make matters more difficult there is about a 50 foot run to get cables between the two rooms Since the cables ran next to power lines 1t seemed most appropriate to keep all the low level signals close to the music source and run speaker wires into the kitchen Conventional Solution A number of pre packaged solutions are available rang ing from the simple running speaker wires from the receiver and using vol ume pads to the complex purchasing a multi room
41. scussion ASP members are always looking for beta testers They need people who would DACS be interested in trying their programs be fore they re ready for prime time Beta testers get to see programs months be fore anybody else get their ideas incor porated into the programs and most end up with a free copy of the program for their efforts If you d like to become a beta tester visit our public newsgroup and post a message that mentions the types of programs that you re interested in If you re a software developer we hope yov ll consider joining the ASP We offer a wealth of information about how to start a software business and how to market shareware as well as technical programming information Our mem bers only newsgroup has more than 22 000 messages on threads about all ar eas of program development and market ing ASP members are always eager to help other ASP members We hope you Il visit the ASP web site and try some of our members fine software Haro_p Homes President The Association of Shareware Professionals president asp shareware org February 2000 7 8 February 2000 Special Interest Groups ACCESS Designs and implements solutions using Microsoft Access database management software Contact Bruce Preston 203 431 2920 bpreston mags net Meets on 2nd Tuesday 7p m at the DACS Resource Center Ives Manor lower level 198 Main Street Danbury Next meeting
42. sletter The editors welcome submissions from DACS members Contact Frances Owles 860 868 0077 jones ctl nai net or Allan Ostergren at 860 210 0047 dacseditor aol com Advertisers contact Charles Bovaird at 203 792 7881 aam mags net 2000 Danbury Area Computer Society P er mission to reprint or publish granted to any non profit group provided credit is given and a copy of the final publication is mailed to the copyright holder All rights reserved Technical Support Dacs doc is prepared using anAMSYS Pentium 133 and an HP Laser et 4 Plus printer S oftware packages used to publish dacs doc include Microsoft Windows 98 Office 7 0 TrueType fonts Adobe PageMaker 6 5 CorelDRAW 6 0 Calendar Creator for Windows Dacs doc file transfer security provided by AVP Applications amp Hardware to enhance dacs doc are welcome Jeff Setaro APCUG Liaison 748 6748 http www dacs org Officers PRESIDENT Allan Ostergren 860 210 0047 dacseditor aol com VPs Gene Minas 860 354 9380 Frances Owles 860 868 0077 Marl ne Gaberel 203 426 4846 Jeff Setaro 203 748 6748 SECRETARY Larry Buoy 860 355 0394 TREASURER Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 Directors CHAIR Wally David 203 790 7286 Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 Larry Buoy 860 355 0394 Marc Cohen 203 775 1102 Dick Gingras 203 426 0484 Ed Heere 203 4311500 Bruce Preston 203 438 4263 Marlene Gaberel 203 426 4846
43. stall it but my uninstaller was not even able to do the trick The uninstall function of Rogue Spear left some elements behind I ended up reformatting the drive on which the game was installed to get a clean drive When I returned the game the salesclerk told me that I should leave the CD game in the drive when playing Did he think for a minute that I was playing it myself But not all is lost Rogue Spear recently came out in Nintendo 64 and I don t have to worry about rebooting the TV MARLENE GABEREL is a DACS director and publicity VP for the society She also has two game loving sons Contact Marl ne at mgaberel ct1 nai net DACS Smart advertisers reach over 1000 active computer and software buyers by taking advanta of the attractive advertising rates in DACSDOC CONTACT of Danbury CT is a manulacturern aid worldwide provider of high performances equipment ter suriace mount and throusth hele clectronmic assembly automation n order to expand aur product lines vee require additional support The following opportuni ies existi for energetic highly miri f wited individuals in onr Danbury CT facility PROGRAMMMER Responsible for C language pri fran developement and mainie nange oF real time em bheodederd sws tems 2 yers experince U ine Windows Ow T operating system and experience with C CH WIN 32 Visual C MFC and ODBL SOFTWARE ENGINEER Participeriis in mew praod
44. ts complex negotiations or new legislation And it can be introduced im mediately on a scale big enough to end digital apartheid in inner cities rural communities and in the Third World Corporations can take a tax write off for the residual value of the old comput ers and the costs of refurbishing them Schools community centers and non profit organizations can then provide the computers and PC training to the recipi ents NewDeal knows this because they are proving it everyday working with or ganizations that are providing comput ers to the more than 50 million U S households and the many countries that still do not have a PCs or access to the Internet Judging from the many questions that Kevin s presentation provoked he really hit the mark by showing the DACS au dience that by only upgrading software NewDeal has been able to breathe new life into computers formerly believed to be obsolete By reducing the load on land fills and providing computers to less af fluent portions of the world it has ben efited society and the environment in a remarkable two pronged result Marc CrasH Conen who calls himself a perpetual computer novice and crash master is a DACS director and production editor of dacs doc Continually frustrated with Windows system crashes Marc has been an avid user of GeoWorks aka NewDeal since 1992 and says it has only rarely disappointed him He looks forward to each new release For t
45. uctions in the content of the newsletter were discussed and dismissed as undesirable President Ostergren suggested and it was agreed that a counteroffer of 50 per month rental be made It was also suggested that increased efforts be made to recruit more and espe cially younger members TLARRY Buoy February 2000 3 NewDeal Continued from page 1 70 package so tightly coded it takes only slightly more than 10MB of hard disk space is happy with 640KB of RAM and looks and acts like Windows Think about it The whole windows like environment and all the applications take up less space on your hard drive than MS Internet Explorer or Netscape alone to say nothing of MS Office2000 Kevin Welsh NewDeal s missionary sent to solve the dilemma of the digital divide provided the other half of the pre sentation enlightening us to the possi bilities this software provides As well as running on the latest Pentium scream ers it also runs comfortably on the more than 60 million older 286 and 386 com puters that yearly are rapidly filling land fills across the country as they are re placed by the government corporate and individual users Using NewDeal software all of these abandoned computers can be recycled into Internet ready PCs able to bring computer literacy to the millions of fami lies students and organizations on the downside of the digital divide This so lution can be introduced without huge in vestmen
46. ugcl develop ment wing Windows ISNT The product wall include the ability to Maintain program database using Windows user interlace in an embedded system Position H pez rj m jm 4 TUIS Fa yYCArS CAPCOM AIT Windows FST opening Syste knowledee of WIN 32 and cx peri ence wilh C C Wosual C 1 MFC ODBC KOR MS SL HOAT Miulti threading Cheni Server helpful Fre aie g CORTE T YG S cre bangis jaca hears Ree eee re FOLT Pea hace THe SOs iy Gi sangeet fol Ellice Susmeyer Conlact Svstems ne 30 Mir Grooak Esl Danbury CT O68 10 Fax 203 743 006 E Mfil hriedccmtactaysbems cam CoE CONTACT WIS our Web Sate ati Wi A COTECISyY ste CTLS ed a February 2000 5 Tips Tips for Intermediate Internauts Where are all these those visitors coming from By Carol Daniels S IF KEEPING track of the Aix on your own Web site isn t hard enough you will also want to know who is linking to you It s a way of measuring the success of your site When you move your Web site or change your directory Structure you can also use the informa tion to let those that are linking to you know about the changes A less pleasant but very useful way to use the technique is to discover if other sites are appropriating your con tent Even if you have content you al low others to use freely you generally want them to take a copy of your mate rial not link to your host So how
47. ward winning utilities and games for all computer users While some of our mem bers programs such as WinZip and Paint Shop Pro are international best sellers there are thousands of other excellent business tools Internet applications games educational programs graphics and multimedia programs that are top shelf and available at moderate prices Shareware is a method of software distribution and not a type of program In fact try before you buy software is be http www dacs org By Harold Holmes ing discovered by traditional shelfware companies and will soon dominate the marketplace If you re looking for moderately priced high quality software please visit the ASP s web site at http www asp shareware org membersearch asp You can do a keyword search and for most programs you can purchase them se curely online directly from the author s web site Or you can visit our members web sites and download free trial version of their programs We encourage you to try our software before you buy it Do you have questions about specific shareware programs or about shareware in general The ASP maintains a public newsgroup on our news server You re welcome to visit the newsgroup and post your questions or comments Hundreds of our members visit this newsgroup ev ery month and would be happy to try to answer your questions Just point your web browser to news news asp shareware org asp Public_Di
48. ything but the video Since the full in stall did not work I tried a typical in stall To my horror that option used more than 600MB of hard disk space My kids played the game for a while but before too long the computer froze up http www dacs org According to my kids the Rogue Spear story is set in the year 2001 in a world where Western Democracies are fighting back terrorist organizations globally It takes place in Eastern Europe Africa Russia and the Balkans The at traction of the game is that you are a first person shooter There are 16 missions to accomplish First you choose two weapons a grenade a flash bang extra clips binoculars and a heart monitor to sense people even through cement walls I m still quoting my kids who say that the best part of the game is being a sniper who wields a weapon some thing like binoculars but actually a scope which can be zoomed to shoot people a mile away I was told the game is hard be cause once a terrorist sees you s he shoots at the hostage So you have to run right into the middle of the action and shoot the terrorist The kids never went very far into play ing that game because it kept freezing up the computer After the computer was rebooted fifty times over a couple of days I told the kids that I was going to return the game I just have no patience with games that don t perform the way they should especially at a cost of 40 I decided to unin
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