Links for Sunday February 17, 2002

If anyone would like to download a US Flag for their email or web site here are a few I found.
To download any Flag just right click on it and click on Save Picture as:
Keep your flag outside all of the time.
Remember the flag must be lit up at night. So leave it out all night, just put a light on it.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Here are the links from the show on February 17, 2002

Sending old PCs up the river:

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-838011.html

Donate old PC in drive:

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/stories/wiredwatch_14per.ART.6311e.html

Judge grants States access to Windows source:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24095.html

New MSN Worm another Reason to Patch IE Browser: Thanks, Aldron:

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174501.html

(Cool Worm patch) Security Update, February 11, 2002:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/q316059/default.asp

Comcast promises not to track subscribers:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24062.html

Former IT Worker Posted Employee Data on Website:

http://www.atstake.com/security_news/index.html

It Takes a Wireless Village...:

http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/news/article/0,,2811_973971,00.html

Cameras to monitor wide areas of D.C.:

http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=2745&sid=0&pid=0&t=globalization

Sprint to Cut 3,000 Jobs at Sprint PCS:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&amp;u=/nm/
20020215/tc_nm/telecoms_sprint_jobs_dc_2

Motorola Counts on New-Generation Wireless Phones:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&
amp;u=/nm/20020215/tc_nm/telecoms_motorola_dc_3

Finance Mags Surge As Econ Tanks:

http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-02-16/News_and_Views
/Media_and_Business/a-141587.asp

Pump up your Laptop:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1820000/1820425.stm

A Grandchild’s Guide to Using Grandpa’s Computer

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/elz1/clocktower/DrSeuss.html

Adam Schran is president and CEO of Ascentive LLC, a Philadelphia-based software company that designs and markets a range of easy to download software products that enhances computer users’ Internet and PC experience.

In July 1999, Mr. Schran, along with his 11-year-old brother Andrew, developed software applications that could tweak a computer’s settings to maximize performance. Mr. Schran founded Ascentive to market their first application, WinRocket, online. From that day on, the company made money without a dime from venture capital financing.

Today Mr. Schran is CEO and his brother Andrew, now 14-years-old, is the Chief Technology Officer. Ascentive’s website, www.ascentive.com, is one of the most trafficked Web sites in the world with over 4 million visitors a month and over 10,000 affiliate partners, including some of the world’s largest software companies, such as McAfee. Since WinRocket, Ascentive now has more products to offer like WebRocket, ActiveTime, ActivePrivacy, and BeAware with ChatWatch.

Someone from www.ThinkNIC.com they sell an
Internet appliance Starting at $199.00 that does email and runs Netscape on Linux

If you have compressed one of your hard drives in Windows Me, you may get an erroneous error within Disk Cleanup stating that you are below a certain threshold. Yet, when running the cleanup, no files are selected and no files are cleaned. Here's the solution to this false message. Go to System Tools and select Disk Cleanup. Select the Host drive in the dropdown box and select OK. Now click the Settings tab and clear the checkbox for the Disk Cleanup auto run. Click OK, and then click Yes.

If you are trying to connect a Windows 98/Me machine to a Windows NT machine, and are having difficulty, this is because you must be running Remote Access Server (RAS) on the NT machine and Direct Cable Connection (DCC) on Windows 98/Me. Also, you cannot use a parallel connection between the two, only a serial connection. The Windows NT computer needs to use a Null modem 19200 driver. Windows NT won't let a DCC connection go past 19200.
- Michael Vincent
http://www.emazing.com/windows.jsp

Windows Me will attempt to use as much memory as your system will allow, up to a point. However, on some processors, there is a point where the increase in memory returns a diminishing increase in performance. At some point, increases in memory can actually begin to decrease performance. On many machines, Windows Me, tops out performance at about 64MB.