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Issue 192 - June 19, 2002
ISSN 1488-3163; PC Improvements © 2002
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Welcome to the 192nd issue of the PC Improvement News. PCIN consists mainly
of news and tips. There is something for everyone, and if this is your first
issue, I'm sure there will be something for you. If you give me two or three
issues, I know that you will come back for more!
You can reach me at editor@pcin.net with
any suggestions or comments.
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CONTENTS
OPENING THOUGHTS
For the last 4 days Lisa and I have been staying with my grandmother. We had
our hardwood floors refinished, and whoo hoo! They look great. Unfortunately
in order to get them done, we had to empty all of the rooms (virtually the entier
main floor) and now that is done, we have to carefully put everything back.
The company I work for just recently opened up some new attractions in Niagara
Falls. This evening my parents, my grandmother, my three sisters, Lisa and I
all went mini-putting, walked through the Movieland Wax Museum, went on the
Ghost Blasters ride, and went on the Fun Express motion simulator. They were
all a lot of fun. If you have the opportunity to visit the Falls, you should
definitely check these out.
Graham editor@pcin.net
and Chris chris@pcin.net
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The NEWS
Lawsuit challenges copy-protected CDs
"The five major record companies have been hit with a class-action lawsuit
charging that new CDs designed to thwart Napster-style piracy are defective
and should either be barred from sale or carry warning labels.
The suit was brought this week in Los Angeles Superior Court by class-action
specialists at the law firm Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach on
behalf of two Southern California consumers.
It marks the first legal challenge of CD copy-prevention technology to 'tackle
the issue on an industry-wide basis,'Alan Mansfield, an attorney representing
the two named plaintiffs in the complaint, said Friday."
For more info:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-936527.html
Disney Shifting to Linux for Film Animation
"The Walt Disney Company, the doyen of animation studios, is joining
Hollywood's embrace of a technological upstart — the GNU Linux operating
system.
Disney's animation division is announcing today that it plans to use Hewlett-Packard
workstations and data-serving computers running Linux for digital animation
work in the future."
For more info:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/technology/18LINU.html
Net activist locks horns with Web filterers
Internet activist Bennett Haselton has made a name for himself by helping
minors disable filtering programs designed to block Web sites that their parents
deem offensive or pornographic.
His Peacefire.org site offers free downloads and details methods for circumventing
filtering software that critics say also inevitably blocks out a range of
useful, even beneficial, Internet content.
Yet while Haselton's crusade, launched six years ago while he was a college
student, has made him a hero among some Web-savvy minors, he's something of
a supervillain to filtering advocates.
For more info:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/06/18/net-filter-war.htm
POLL of the WEEK
Here are the responses from the last poll:
What antivirus software do you use?
Norton 40.74
% (44)
McAfee 14.81
% (16)
Panda 1.85
% (2)
Kaspersky Lab 1.85 % (2)
Command Software 0.00 % (0)
Aladdin 0.00
% (0)
Other 40.74
% (44)
Total votes: 108
Visit http://pcin.net/polls/ to participate
in the new poll this week:
Do you use a personal firewall (either hardware or software) on your PC?
FREEHELP FORUM
Visit the new and improved PCIN FreeHelp Forum at http://www.pcin.net/help/forum/index.php
to post your questions or answer others.
Question
How do I compress audio files, before burning onto a C.D?
Response
what do u mean by this? Do u want to convert them to .mp3 format and just
chuck the file onto the CD or do u want to copy them and make them into a
music CD?
If compression used, the .MP3 is the best format... get urself wdac154.exe
<-- search this in google, and compress it.
If u want to make a music CD (aka. play it straight on a HiFi), u cannot use
compression as making a music CD is time-defined and not space defined.
To post a response, visit the How-To... forum at http://www.pcin.net/help/forum/index.php?board=6
and click on the "File Compresion" subject.
Visit http://www.pcin.net/help/forum/index.php
to post a question of your own.
PCIN.net UPDATE
Check out these new or updated pages on the PCIN.net site:
Updated PCIN.net FreeHelp Forum
http://PCIN.net/help/forum/
Updated Registry Tips (now 131)
http://PCIN.net/help/articles/registry_tips.shtml
New and Improved PCIN.net Links section
http://PCIN.net/links/
pdf995 Software Review
http://PCIN.net/help/software/pdf995.php
THE TIPS and OTHER STUFF
Shortcut Comments
When creating a shortcut in Windows, on the shortcut tab you can include
a comment to the shortcut. This is especially useful if you are creating multiple
shortcuts for the same program, such as shortcuts to mulitple computes using
PC Anywhere or launching a program using different parameters for startup.
Adding Quick Toolbars
For quick access to a commonly used directory, follow these instructions:
- Right Click on the Windows Taskbar
- Choose Toolbars
- Choose New Toolbar
- Pick the Directory you would like quick access to
- Right click on the new toolbar and turn off Show Text
- Finally, move the toolbar all the way over the the right
You will now have a menu listing each item in the directory and subsequent
directories available to you quickly.
The Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site
"Have you ever travelled, perhaps on business, only to find on arrival
that your customers are all on holiday or that instead of five days work,
you will, due to National day or religious celebrations, get only two? I have,
and it's very frustrating, so I decided to try to put together a page to bring
together as much information about National holidays as possible by providing
either links to other pages in the net which have appropriate information
or else, where that is not available, including it in these pages."
Check it out at http://www.holidayfestival.com/
DISCLAIMER and
OTHER STUFF
PCIN is brought to you by Graham Wing. The opinions expressed are those of
the Editor, Graham Wing and the Assistant Editor, Chris Empey. Graham Wing
and Chris Empey accept no responsibility for the results obtained from trying
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