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June 2002

94 posts

Basic IRC Information

Many people don't realize that a major source of activity on the internet is Irc chat rooms. The Irc chat rooms are an EXCELLENT resource for real time help and in-depth discussion of thousands of topics. Irc is also a great resource for meeting new people, making friends and entertainment. Many of the chat rooms have bots that run trivia

X-Box Unglued

Xbox could easily become one of the cheapest multimedia PCs on the market. Due to the fact that the Xbox is more or less a normal PC, it would need only minor changes to run PC software on the Xbox platform. http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/xboxmod.html I personally am not a gamer. I have bought legally 4-5 games my entire life. I have denied

Do you have a wireless device

Out here in Hawaii they are still behind the power curve when it comes to Wireless networks. We also can not get the new satellite delivered radio which I am dying for. If you have a wireless device in the 2.4ghz spectrum I highly recommend you read this article as the spectrum is having some problems.

Pirate Radio

I had to laugh tonight as I missed this article last week but we have all heard about people running high power rough radio stations. I think there is even a new provision allowing very low power stations that the FCC signed off on a few years ago. Note to self: Research That :) anyway here is a very funny

Do you have the Backup Blues

I have been reluctant to purchase a commercial tape backup device. As thus far they have not been cheap enough to support my budget. Jeez I almost miss being able to back-up the entire system on a 250 meg tape. My BBS has nearly 300 gigs of shareware files that is sitting on a mechanical device. Backing that data up

Partition Recovery

While reading through a article on Langalist a individual talks about his experience of losing a partition and then using a very affordable tool at the following site. I had a catastropic loss a few years ago and I could have used this tool then. I think you will like what they offer. www.partition-recovery.com

Combating Spam

A very interesting site combat.uxn.com with a large number of resources to fight SPAM. I would love to know what you use to fight spam.

Gist TV Listings

If you watch much TV and hate waiting for the TV Schedule previewer to scroll through try this site. Thanks to Kevin for the Tip

KNOWLEDGE BASE ALERT

The free service at http://www.kbalertz.com allows you to select all software you are interested in keeping updated. Then, whenever Microsoft issues new support or knowledge base articles, Kbalertz notifies you by email.

Msconfig and your system Startup

Have you ever been exploring around in your system run msconfig from the run menu and looked at the number or programs that are interacting with your system during startup and may be running someplace in memory. I have discovered a great site that has a list of some of the more obscure entries you will want to check start-up's

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