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Dave's Diggins 5-11-00

ISSN 1529-1103

Just a few "Golden Nuggets" of info that I've mined from the internet

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1) Love Bug:
2) Free software and services
3) Articles
4) Taking care of e-business
5) Hardware
6) Announcements
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1) Love Bug:

  • http://www.jello.net/report/Issues/2000/05/09/20000509.asp Setting the Record Staight on Love...

    http://antivirus.about.com/compute/antivirus/library/weekly/aa050400a.htm
    A technical support article on the "I Love You" trojan/worm virus.

    http://pcusers.org/loveworm.html
    The official word from Microsoft for fixes in Outlook Express to help prevent the love bug.

    http://pcusers.org/rogertip5.html
    Roger's commentary on the "Love Bug" mess and where the blame truly lies.

    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/lovebites.html
    ZDnet News has an entire web page devoted to the love bug and it's variants.

    http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2561866,00.html
    Analysis: Worm underscores limits of firewalls.

    http://www.ontrack.com/lovehurts
    http://pcusers.org/pcnotsofree.html
    By now you've probably heard of the "Lovebug" or "Love Letter" virus that has infected millions of computers world-wide. Many of you have asked us if we have a solution for recovering data lost to the virus. By working around the clock, our engineers have developed a version of EasyRecovery that retrieves data lost to the "Lovebug". This is available for only $49.95 (USD)

    http://pcusers.org/rogertip5.html
    Roger's commentary on the "Love Bug" mess and where the blame truly lies.
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    2) Free software and services

    http://www.privacy.net/analyze/
    http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
    Privacy Analysis of your Internet Connection. Some Information that is collected about you when visiting a web site

    http://www.speak4free.com/
    http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
    Welcome to Speak4free! By registering with Speak4free, you can make free five-minute phone calls - no strings attached.

    http://www.eudora.com/email/43/features.html
    http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html The Eudora E-mail 4.3 release lets you select any of three different operating modes after you download the software:
    * SPONSORED mode - This mode provides the full-featured Eudora desktop email program at no charge, and includes free technical support (up to six calls per year). The software displays a series of static onscreen advertisements that do not interfere with your email workspace, and do not appear within the body of your email messages. The free download of Eudora 4.3 installs in Sponsored mode.
    * PAID mode - This mode is full-featured with no advertising.
    * LIGHT mode - This mode includes features that were not included in past versions of Eudora Light.

    http://www.webtop.com/search/vanilla/webcheck/
    http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#search
    WebCheck is your fast track to the Web – the world’s first application to understand the concepts in your desktop documents and deliver related information from the Web, with just one simple ‘drag and drop’ action. WebCheck allows you to check against sentences, paragraphs and even whole documents – as you surf the Web, or read or write in an email or other desktop applications.

    http://www.faq-man.com/
    http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
    FAQ-Man. Internet users often turn to a Web site's FAQ, or Frequently Asked Questions, for answers to their queries. Using FAQ-Man can help you in the tedious process of creating a FAQ for your web site. Input your questions and answers, arrange them in categories, create the site and upload. Uses templates so you can get the exact look you like.
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    3) Articles:

    http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1017-7-1475743.html
    http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#resources
    Match Your Profile:
    Forget specs and configurations for a moment. When you're buying a PC, you want something that matches your personality, something that fits you like a glove and is designed specifically to ace the computing tasks you're likely to do every day. Once you figure out which features should be on your PC must-have list, you'll know more or less what price range you need to look in. This page has eight different profiles with specific hardware recommendations for each type of individual.

    http://www.pcworld.com/top400/article/0,1361,16348,00.html
    http://pcusers.org/pcnotsofree.html
    Power at Your Fingertips. For just $20, PowerDesk 4 Pro offers far more functionality than Windows Explorer.

    http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2376679,00.html
    http://pcusers.org/pcnotsofree.html
    Easy CD Creator 4 Deluxe

    http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2390370,00.html
    Hijackers lay traps for errant e-mails. More and more rivals are setting up copy-cat sites to snag misdirected e-mails.

    http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35942,00.html?tw=wn20000501
    http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#articles
    Cyberstalked? Use Common Sense

    http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2547327,00.html
    The Ultimate Utility Guide. PC Magazines annual guide to the best PC and Internet utilities covers dozens of products in 15 categories, and many of them are free.
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    4) Taking care of e-business

    http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2560035,00.html
    http://pcusers.org/pcebiz.html#articles
    ePeachtree. Peachtree Software launches a new Web-based accounting product on the Web, besting its competition.

    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2561552,00.html
    http://pcusers.org/pcebiz.html#articles
    The ASP Explosion: How to Avoid the Shrapnel. An ASP (application service provider) is a company that will rent you software and deliver it online as you use it. Spread sheets, word processors, databases, accounting programs, human resources applications

    http://enterprise.cnet.com/
    http://pcusers.org/pcebiz.html
    CNET Enterprise. Technology for business and IS profesionals.

    http://www.office.com/global/0,2724,509-17376-17523,FF.html
    http://pcusers.org/pcebiz.html
    How old are your on-line customers?
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    5) Hardware

    http://pcsupport.about.com/compute/pcsupport/msub13.htm
    http://pcusers.org/pcreferences.html#articles
    This page has links to support sites and articles concerning "Motherboards and CPUs"

    http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,3656,2557498,00.h tml
    DVD Graphics Boards

    http://sysopt.earthweb.com/articles/ieee-1394/index.html/
    http://pcusers.org/pctechy.html
    An excellent review and explanation of IEEE-1394 Technology (Firewire)

    http://sysopt.earthweb.com/reviews/fireline/index.html
    A review of the Evergreen fireLINE PCI cards.

    http://sysopt.earthweb.com/reviews/hotdrive/index.html
    Evergreen fireLINE 20GB HotDrive
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    6) Announcements

    From Jack:
    The ITEC Conference (information technology exposition & conference) will be held at the Nashville Convention Center on May 16-17, 2000. This is sort of a local "Mini Comdex". I have been to it a few times in the past and some of our folks might want to attend. If you pre-register on-line it's free; the web address for doing that is: http://itec.asmcorp.com//go/nas1 (Pre-Register Link at bottom of that page

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