Links for Sunday December 16, 2001

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 December 16, 2001
							Network managers: We need you:
							http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/58/23327.html
							Excite@Home Pairs Down Before Shutdown:
							http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article/0,2198,3531_940891,00.html
							Thirty Nations Sign "Convention on Cybercrime" Treaty:
							http://www.securityfocus.com/news/291
							State keeps vital stats off Web amid privacy, fraud fears:
							http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/STORY.eab9506ba6.b0.af.0.a4.63b4.html
							Anonymity and Privacy:
							http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22831.html
							Software flaw threatens Linux servers:
							http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8007615.html
							White House CyberSecurity ignores bad (MS) software:
							http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23412.html
							MS releases mother of all IE security patches: Thank you GailLA,
							http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23410.html
							'Gokar' worm spread by e-mail and chat:
							http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/14/gokar.worm.idg/index.html
							Salmon Days are here again (kinda):
							http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/23293.html
							Linux: The Time is Now! Thank You aldron
							http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s%253D1027%2526a%253D19911,00.asp
							Extraordinary Claims and Annoyances:
							http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2152579590.html
							Case against Dmitry Sklyarov dropped:
							http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23403.html
							Europe to levy tax on US, non-EU web sales:
							http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23397.html
							Australia upholds ban on 'Grand Theft' video game:
							http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/fun.games/12/13/take.two.reut/index.html
							Canada canvasses digital copyright bill:
							http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8182060.html?tag=mn_hd

Akhtar Badshah (click here for his bio) is Executive Director of Digital Partners. www.digitalpartners.org is actively engaged in tapping the entrepreneurial skills of those fortunate enough to be currently riding the waves of digital power. I see how joyfully techies, geeks, and nerds share knowledge in chat rooms and newsgroups. I see how freely help is given. People helping people seems to be human nature. The computer age has brought about a closeness never before experienced. What would it be like if this unique virtual fellowship were available even to third world countries? What if this could be aided and abetted by a sort of "digital peace corps?" Listen and learn how Digital Partners has started this process and how you can be a part of it. Digital Partners has the framework, organization, knowledge, backing, and especially the dedicated desire to make it happen. They are well-started on this task. The task is to take the underprivileged from an agrarian age, skipping over the industrial age, to the IT (information technology) age. Think of the beneficial effects on the environment alone!

It can be annoying, and disconcerting, when icons on your desktop begin looking "odd." They may have odd images, or simply disappear and have the Windows standard "I do not know what this is" icon. Sometimes, the Windows icon file becomes corrupt and needs refreshing. One way to do this is to delete the icon's cache file. Find the file called ShellIconCache in the \Windows folder. This file may have the "Hidden" attribute turned on, meaning DOS will not allow you to see the file. Within Explorer, right-click the ShellIconCache file and select Properties. Uncheck the "Hidden" box. Open a DOS session. Go to the file location of ShellIconCache from within DOS. Now you will be able to see Shelli~1 from within DOS (the DOS naming convention for ShellIconCache). Delete the Shell~1 from within DOS, then exit DOS. Restart Windows and the cache file will be rebuilt with all new icons.

- Michael Vincent
http://www.emazing.com/windows.jsp

The taskbar can be very useful to navigate around your different applications, but if you do not want to see the taskbar, it can become a nuisance. This is especially true if you hide your taskbar and it continually blanks the bottom section, then Windows must take time to rebuild this portion of the screen when the taskbar vanishes again.

You can control this by making your taskbar only visible
while on the desktop. Right-click a blank spot on your
taskbar and click Properties. Now, inspect the '-Always On
Top option and make sure that it is unchecked. Click Apply.

- Michael Vincent
http://www.emazing.com/windows.jsp

You can change the Time and Date of Windows within DOS by
using the TIME and DATE commands rather than using the
taskbar. Open a DOS session and type either DATE or TIME. A
message will pop up with the current date or time. Simply follow the
format given and change the time, or just hit Enter to keep the
current values.

- Michael Vincent
http://www.emazing.com/windows.jsp

In Notepad, create a file called DelRcnt.bat and have the following line as the only entry on the file:

Del \windows\recent\*.*

Save the file and, using Explorer, create a shortcut to the file. Now, whenever you want to run the new file, simply double click the icon and your recent file will be cleared!

Michael Vincent
http://www.emazing.com/windows.jsp