ISSN 1488-3163; PC Improvements © 2003
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Welcome to the 247th 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!
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Type QWERTY for inefficiency
"Where have the British hidden the @ symbol? And what did the Hungarians do with the letter 'y'?
Anyone who has ever visited an Internet café abroad knows that typing an e-mail in a foreign land can be a bit perplexing. Some of the keys aren't in the usual places.
In much of Europe, the 'y' and 'z' keys swap places. The British put the @ symbol over by the semicolon and in Italy the question mark is on the top row. It's all a bit confusing for Canadian hands.
The universal standard for Roman-alphabet keyboards is, of course, QWERTY: named for the first six letters on the keyboard. Some countries have modified the keyboard over time, often to reflect the nature of the language."
Sinbad movie a first for Linux
"The first animated film created entirely on Linux workstations has hit cinema screens.
The animation in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas was developed on 250 Hewlett Packard (HP) workstation servers running RedHat Linux, the film's producers revealed yesterday.
Ed Leonard, head of animation technology at DreamWorks, said in a statement: 'HP provides us with the tools to push the boundaries of our craft.'
'With HP technology we are creating movies that would have been impossible to make as little as a year ago.'"For more info:
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1142023
Court says Gator-style ads are legal
"A federal court has ruled that pop-up ads for rivals of U-Haul International, placed atop the moving company's own site by a third-party software application, are legal.
The summary decision, handed down last week, was a blow to U-Haul in its lawsuit to bar software maker WhenU.com from delivering competitors' ads to visitors to U-Haul's site. The judge granted WhenU's motion to dismiss charges of trademark infringement, unfair competition and copyright infringement."For more info:
http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-1022791.html
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Question
Recently I have been having problems with my PS/2 keyboard. About 3/4 of the keys stopped working so I installed a new keyboard but the problem remained. I removed the driver from the Device Manager and also physically removed the keyboard from the PS/2 port, but the computer still sees the keyboard on boot-up/restart and installs drivers,etc.for the keyboard,which is no longer there. I am using a USB keyboard now,and everything seems to be OK,but I would like to try and resolve the issue with the PS/2 port. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have an AMD 650 MHz processor, w/128MB RAM, 10GB Hard drive, Running 98SE.
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Check out these new or updated pages on the PCIN.net site:
XemiComputers Ltd. DeskLook 3.0 Software Review
http://PCIN.net/help/software/desklook3.phpSymantec Norton Ghost 2003 Software Review
http://PCIN.net/help/software/ghost2003.phpAmic Games Email Saver Xe Software Review
http://PCIN.net/help/software/emailsaverxe.phpXemiComputers Ltd. DeskLook 2.0 Software Review
http://PCIN.net/help/software/desklook2.php
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Online Horoscopes
If you are interested in astrology and read your horoscope regularly, then check out these sites:
http://horoscopes.astrology.com/
http://www.horoscope.com/
http://astrology.yahoo.com/
http://www.horoscope-universe.com/
Portable Media Deals
Kingston Technology is one of the big memory manufacturers, and each month they have different promos. As they try to reduce stock, they have some great prices on portable media (CompactFlash, SmartMedia and USB Flash Memory). You can see July's specials at http://www.shop.kingston.com/07promo/
System File Checker
If you're having problems with your system, it may be a result of corrupt system files. Windows 2000 and XP have built-in system file protection, but Windows 98 does not. To check your files, run the SFC.EXE application in your \Windows\System folder. This will scan all of your system files and let you know if it thinks there is a problem. You can choose to replace the file, ignore it, or update the verification information so that it now thinks that file is up-to-date. I ran it on a Windows 98 system will all updates done and only 1 file came up as possible being corrupted. I updated the verification information on it, and everything else finished successfully. Visit http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/sfc.htm for some helpful information on SFC for Windows 98.
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