Links for Sunday September 30, 2001</font>

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 September 30, 2001

Solving the protein folding problem, From genome to structure: Thanks surferUSA

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/Cosm

The United Devices Cancer Research Program:

http://www.intel.com/cure/research.htm

Go to this site and click on your favorite football team and Campbells will donate a can of soup to area food banks:

http://www.chunky.com/click_for_cans.asp

Nimda appears quiet after 10-day 'sleep':

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/28/nimda.regeneration.idg/index.html

Viruses are getting faster, tougher:

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/20/faster.virus.idg/index.html

'Vote virus' poses as plea for peace:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097375,00.html?chkpt=zdnnh092

Excite@Home pulls the plug:

http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article/0,2198,3531_894301,00.html

RealNetworks Feels Pressure from Microsoft: Thanks GA_Falcon,

http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3348913,00.html

Iridium phones see more demand after WTC success:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/sns-satellitephones.story?

Ways to save on long-distance calls:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/635288.asp?0si=-

First U.S. satellite radio service being launched:

http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/480081_satradio25e.html

Satellite system is vulnerable:

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/626711.asp

Apple introduces its first major upgrade to Mac OSX and Microsoft spruces up Windows XP:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7325796.html?tag=tp_pr

SuSE grabs Best-Business-Linux gong:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21917.html

Mandrake revamps Linux distro:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21909.html

More resources for ex-Smokers:

http://quitsmoking.about.com/mmore.htm?PM=n3092601e

Searching for wireless signals: Thanks Deepak

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/629644.asp

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Link relevance is becoming a major factor in getting good search engine placement. The theory is that if you have more web sites linking to your content than your competition, it must be more relevant...

You can actually use several search engines to give you a nice report of who is linking to you and more importantly exactly how they are linking to you.

You can see the exact page on a site that is linked to your site and how they are representing you.

Most website have a search option that allows you to find information on that site by typing in a search phrase. In many cases, the site's search engine is lacking any real capabilities or just plain gives you too many results. For instance, the Microsoft website search engine is OK, but I prefer the results that I can get by using Google to search.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could harness the power of Google's search engine with virtually any website?

If I were looking for "upgrading" information on the Microsoft website, I would type "upgrading site:www.microsoft.com" in Google and viola!

Give it a try on sites that have large amounts of information, like Yahoo!, AOL or Amazon.

There is an excellent website at http://www.speedguide.net/index.shtml that has several registry tweaks that are detailed out so you can add them to the registry manually or ready to install in the form of a .reg file that will add the tweaks for you. Always make sure you backup the registry before making any changes.

One of the more obscure and interesting ones I found is detailed below. I have done this modification to my own system.ini at home and would have to honestly say that I have noticed a slight boost in not only my network performance, but other areas as well. I allocated 8mb of RAM to 5 IRQs in all (I have a ton of RAM) including both my network cards, my UDMA-100 IDE controller, USB host controller and video card. The most obvious gains were in Hard Drive and Networking areas. As the article states, this is undocumented and unsupported by Microsoft and individual results may vary. The following article text was excerpted from www.speedguide.net in its entirety and is unedited. Any references to "we" refers to speedguide.net.

The following tweak is not documented by Microsoft, and it is controversial whether it works at all. We have tested numerous times and it shows anywhere between 0 and 10% performance gain, which we consider inconclusive. We have received over 100 responses saying this tweak worked great, and over 100 saying it does nothing at all. At this time, we feel we should leave the information posted on the site in order to present our readers with all possible options for optimizing their throughput, however keep in mind we haven't been able to find a proof of the validity of this particular tweak, and are not fully confident in the following information. Feel free to send us mail with your feedback. With all that said, it will not degrade performance of your system, and if you're willing to try and see how it works, here are the instructions:

In Windows 9x, you might be able to reserve specific amounts of RAM for specific IRQs (Interrupt Requests), which serves as a buffer to allow more stable operation of your device. Adding a 4Mb buffer to your Network Card's IRQ would ensure good overall performance and increase throughput with broadband Internet connections, such as DSL and Cable Modems.

Reserving RAM for your Network Adapter might prove very useful, especially during CPU intensive tasks, or while gaming online. For those with 500MHz or slower processors and 128Mb or less RAM, this tweak might show noticeable results at all times, including faster displaying of web pages and higher throughput. Even with fast processors you will get better overall performance, including smoother stream video, better transfers anywhere from 0 to 10%, with more noticeable results during faster transfers. Another good reason for using this tweak would be if you have a PCI NIC sharing IRQs with another device.

In order to add the entry to your System.ini file, you'd first have to find your NIC's IRQ.

Right-click on My Computer icon on your Desktop, then left-click on Properties (a shortcut for that would be to press the 'Windows' + 'Pause' keys). Navigate to Device Manager and double-click on Computer. Under "View Resources" you will find a list of IRQs, each with description of the device that's using it. Note the IRQ number used by your Network Adapter.

Once you've found the IRQ of your Network Card, you need to reserve some RAM for its use, by adding an entry to the System.ini file. You can edit the file in any text editor, however the easiest way is to use Windows' built in "System Configuration Editor".

Navigate to Start > Run and type sysedit . Find the [386enh] Section in the System.ini file and add Irq[n]=4096 under it, where [n] is the IRQ number of your NIC and 4096 is the amount of RAM you want to reserve in Kbytes. We recommend using 4096, however you can experiment with different values if you want. Save changes in the file, exit and reboot for changes to take effect.

Note: If you choose to try different values, keep in mind that reserving too much RAM for your NIC will decrease the amount of RAM available for applications, while reserving too little might not give the desired effect.

The only negative effect of the System.ini IRQ tweak is that it will reduce the amount of RAM available for running applications a bit, by reserving some specifically for your Network Card's use. The gain in performance usually outweighs the negative effect by far, considering any Computer with 32Mb of RAM or more.

Keep in mind that if you add hardware to your system the IRQ of the Network Adapter might change, in which case you will need to modify the setting in System.ini.

In systems with multiple NICs, you might want to add the setting for both IRQs. Also, you could reserve RAM for other IRQs if you wish, just use common sense and don't forget it reduces the amount of RAM available for running applications.

If you are using an USB device, it does not have a specific IRQ, however you can try adding the entry using the IRQ of the USB Controller.

For internal Cable Modems, you'd have to add the entry using the IRQ of your modem, rather than the IRQ of a Network Card.
Brian BeDillon