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The Naked PC - http://www.TheNakedPC.com
What You Need to Know about All Things PC
Publisher: Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee
Editor in Chief: Dan Butler
Contributing Editor: Al Gordon
This issue is for Thursday, April 13, 2000 - Vol. 3 No. 08
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Table of Contents
** 01. Letter from the Publisher
** 02. Digital Subscriber Line: Test and Improve Your Download
Speed, Part 3 (by Lee Hudspeth)
** 03. TNPC Survey Says... (by Dan Butler)
** 04. Free or Replacement Phone Service (by T.J. Lee)
** 05. Featured Web Site - Computer Stupidities
** 06. Featured Product - Time Logger (reviewed by Al Gordon)
** 07. Featured Books - TNPC Readers' Sci-Fi Recommended Book
List (by Lee Hudspeth)
** 08. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and
interesting stuff
** 09. We Get Mail
** 01. Letter from the Publisher
Wow! Are there ever a lot of science fiction readers among the
ranks of TNPC readers. Lee's still digging out from under the
avalanche of email that's been pouring in from last issue's blurb
on "Ender's Game." Sheesh, when Jim mentioned Battletech one time
he got all of one response (Larry, you still out there?). Anyway,
Lee checks in with a summer reading list to make the heart of
every sci-fi fan beat faster, along with some killer tips on
getting everything you paid for from your DSL connection.
Al's been busy building his consulting practice and has found a
great little utility that helps with the time-keeping chores no
one likes to do but without which we'd all starve.
Dan checks in with the results of the TNPC survey we took over
the last few weeks. We're glad to get the feedback and intend to
consider it all very carefully.
Jim, penny-pincher that he is, has some advice on cutting down
your long distance phone bill this issue.
Finally, for those of you who have asked, yes, both Al Gordon and
Jim and Lee are columnists in eBay magazine and yes the magazine
pictures are the same ones you'll see on the TNPC Web site for Al
and Lee. Jim likes his old black and white photo better than the
spiffy new color one (maybe it was a bad hair day) and that's why
it's different.
As always, reader support is what keeps TNPC free, so please pass
a copy of TNPC on to co-workers and friends (no spam please!) and
always say "I saw it in TNPC!"
So now you know.
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** 02. Digital Subscriber Line: Test and Improve Your Download
Speed, Part 3 (by Lee Hudspeth)
Many thanks and a tip of the hat to TNPCer Jerry Newman for
pointing me to the DSLReports Web site for optimizing a DSL
connection.
If you have DSL you start wondering if you're getting the
throughput you're paying for. I've scratched my head and puzzled,
"Is the Internet just slow today or has my provider dropped the
ball?" The good news is that you can test your connection's
downstream and upstream speeds right from the DSLReports Web
site. What's more you can study their plentiful, well-documented
tips on how to optimize your system settings to get all the speed
you can from your connection.
The speed test link is:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?dsl1
The tips link is:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?dsl2
When you get to this page select your operating system (Windows,
Mac, UNIX, etc.) from the "Jump to" list box then click on the
Show button.
After having performed the tests numerous times, and having read
and applied the tweaks, I recommend you follow these steps.
1. Since this is a Registry hack, all the usual caveats about
editing the Registry apply. Before doing anything else, you want
to see if by some happenstance your system is already optimized
using the Registry "DefaultRcvWindow" hack.
1.a. Click Start, choose Run, type "regedit" and press Enter.
1.b. Browse to the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP
1.c. Check to see if there's a value named DefaultRcvWindow.
1.d. If there is no DefaultRcvWindow value, then your system is
not yet optimized; if there is, note its setting but leave
it alone for now.
If there is a DefaultRcvWindow value your system may have
been optimized already.
1.e. Close the Registry Editor.
2. Close all running applications.
3. Start your browser and clear its cache. For IE5, select Tools,
Internet Options, click the Delete Files button then click OK.
For Navigator, select Edit, Preferences, Advanced, and click on
Clear Memory Cache and Clear Disk Cache.
4. Close your browser then re-open it to the speed test link.
5. Follow the DSLReports steps 1-4 (use the Verbose test mode),
remember to select the nearest download speed (nearest to what
you're paying for) from the speed drop-down control, click the
Test button and wait for the test to finish. The test takes about
30 seconds on my 768/128 Kbps downstream/upstream DSL connection.
My first-time test results--not having applied the DSLReports
performance tweak--were 391/121 down/up. That's 50% slower on the
downstream side than what I'm paying for! Certainly a non-
optimized situation. So I followed their suggestions regarding
implementing the Registry DefaultRcvWindow hack. Here's what I
did.
1. I downloaded one of the ready-to-go REG files that will add
the correct registry settings for you automatically. (See the
table in the middle of the Windows tweaks page.) I opted to use
the "Medium (32KB)" REG file for Windows 98: Rwin98-m.reg.
2. Once I had downloaded the REG file, a quick double-click on it
in Windows Explorer updated my Registry. It's appropriate to
click Yes when prompted "Are you sure you want to add the
information in \.reg to the registry?"
3. Next, and this is critical, I restarted my PC. Before you
retest the speed connection, if you really want to be meticulous,
clear your browser's cache and restart it. (I did.) Now go to the
speed test link and perform the test once more.
My second-time test results were 624/82 Kbps. On the downstream
side that's a 1.6x improvement. I FEEL THE NEED, THE NEED FOR
SPEED! For a week I continued to run these tests daily by
removing the DefaultRcvWindow value, rebooting, re-testing, then
applying the DefaultRcvWindow hack again, rebooting, re-
testing... you get the picture.
My results are consistently averaging 680 Kbps downstream
OPTIMIZED and around 390 Kbps UN-OPTIMIZED. I've also been
cross-checking the DSLReports test results by downloading the
same large file with an FTP client. T.J., upon following these
steps, also got a nice kick: a 50% improvement in his downstream
speed.
Folks, if you have DSL I STRONGLY recommend you run through this
procedure. It's given me on average a 60% improvement in my
download times.
You can reach Lee Hudspeth at:
mailto:leehudspeth@TheNakedPC.com
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** 03. TNPC Survey Says... (by Dan Butler)
First a hearty thank you to all who took the time to fill out the
TNPC survey. Your answers were insightful and helpful.
We have a winner in the book give away. As soon as we hear back
we will ship the book out. More on that in our next issue.
Without going into all of the gory details here are some of the
more surprising results we saw.
The vast majority (86%) of you use Windows 98 as your operating
system. Surprisingly only around 10% of you are planning to
switch to either Windows 2000 or Windows Millennium. Linux came
up frequently as something many of you would like to see more of.
So watch for more on Linux and other operating systems in
upcoming issues.
Not surprisingly Outlook Express (30%), Outlook (22%), and
Netscape (20%) were the three most popular email clients followed
closely by Other, HTML, Eudora, and Pegasus in that order.
Outlook and Other had the highest percentage of users who "had
to" use those email clients due to jobs or some other reason.
Two comments came up quite often. First, "When will there be an
HTML version?" Presently we aren't considering an HTML version
but that may change in the future. We just don't have the extra
time it would take to do it right. I'm sure you've received HTML
letters/email in the past that wouldn't display properly or
caused other problems on your system.
The second comment was to reduce or eliminate the advertisements.
While we would all like for information to be totally free, the
reality is that it costs money to send TNPC to you. Our sponsors
keep the information flowing and barely cover the cost of
delivering the newsletter and managing the Web site (if you don't
count any of our labor in that equation!). As an interesting
aside, many of the HTML newsletters are sent in that format so
they can put more ads and even include graphical advertisements.
So we try to keep advertisements to a minimum and they are
clearly marked. Please help us keep TNPC free by supporting our
sponsors and using our Amazon and Beyond links whenever possible.
For the technically inclined and curious, the data from our
survey was placed into a secure database using a Perl script. The
database was hot-linked to an Excel 2000 spreadsheet in the TNPC
Underground Labs. The spreadsheet's Pivot Tables, Graphs, and
Filters were updated in real time. All of this with a standard
Apache Web server running no proprietary extensions.
Thanks again to all who took the time to help us out!
You can reach Dan Butler at:
mailto:danbutler@TheNakedPC.com
** 04. Free or Replacement Phone Service (by T.J. Lee)
I hate my phone bill. Oh, I look it over every month like I know
what I was doing but truth be told I have no idea if the
"Universal Connectivity Charge" regulatory fee is supposed to be
$5.57 or if the In-State switched outbound charges are correct.
I'm doing good if I remember to mail the check on time. So
wherever possible I like to bypass the phone company to the
extent I can. Fortunately, there are a number of very neat
resources that can help you cut down on your phone bill.
The first is Freeway.com. This service, provided by BroadPoint,
lets you earn free long distance time by listening to
advertisements delivered over the phone. How it works is, you
sign up for the service. You get a toll-free number to call and a
personal identification number. You call in, listen to however
many messages you want (they're interactive and you have to press
buttons on the phone so they know you're listening), and for
every 10 to 15 second ad you hear, you earn 2 free minutes of
long distance time. When you've heard all you want you press the
pound key (#) and make your long distance call.
The down side is that you can't earn more than two hours a month
in free phone charges and it takes forever to sign up for the
service. In addition, you have to fill out a lengthy and detailed
questionnaire about yourself so they know what type of ads you
are most likely to respond to.
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Dialpad may be the hottest tip in telecommunications (it was a
featured product in TNPC back last November). You call people
using your computer. For this you need a sound card, speakers,
and a microphone. Actually, speakers are lousy for this, what you
really need is a PC headset (different from telephone headsets I
find, the voltage to the microphone is different). A PC headset
plugs into the speaker and microphone ports on the back of your
sound card. You call using your computer and you place the call
through Dialpad's Web site. Sign up for a free account and you
can create a phone book for one-click dialing.
Ah, but how many of the people you call are sitting by their
computers to receive your call, you ask? Doesn't matter because
the recipient receives the call on their telephone. Is it clear
as a pin drop (whatever that means, I've seen that stupid Sprint
commercial too many times)? No. It's about like talking on a so-
so cell phone connection. It won't work through some firewalls
and there are some extra steps you have to take to set it up for
ICS. But like I said, it's free and free is tough to beat.
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A similar service (albeit one that I've not tried personally) is
My Free LD. If anyone is using this service drop me a line and
let me know what you think of it.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?freeld3
If you don't like talking at all then consider replacing the
phone with your keyboard. Services like ICQ let you know when
other people using the same service are online and provide a way
to instantly message them. I tried ICQ when it first came out but
discarded it as too interruptive of my daily work routine. But
I've since learned how to remain invisible on the service except
for a select few people whom I don't mind ICQ-ing with me. ICQ
makes it easy to ask a quick question or to engage in a chat if
necessary.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?freeld4
uReach.com (discussed in TNPC #3.05 "Virtual Office with
uReach.com") provides a neat chat facility for their users as
well. It will even archive a chat so you can stop a conversation
and pick it up later knowing right where you left off. uReach
also lets you make outgoing phone calls from any regular phone
using their service.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?freeld5
Cut back on your phone costs with one of these handy replacement
technologies and make yourself more virtual than ever!
You can reach T.J. Lee at:
mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com
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** 05. Featured Web Site - Computer Stupidities
Warning! Don't go here unless you have some time to kill because
you'll find yourself reading and chuckling for hours. If you need
a laugh or just want to reassure yourself that you aren't
the only technophobe having this much trouble with these silly
computers this is the site for you. Filled with true-life stories
from front line technical support and help desk personnel. You
may even read about something that's happened to you in the past.
[blush!] And if you do tech support yourself (professionally or
otherwise) you'll howl as you see that you weren't the only one
who got those kind of calls... "Tech support? How do I print my
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** 06. Featured Product - Time Logger (reviewed by Al Gordon)
One of the joys of the shareware world is happening upon one of
those programs that is "just what I was looking for." Better yet,
EXACTLY what I was looking for, and without the bloat associated
with commercial software that has to be all things to all people.
Alan Macy's Berkeley-based Responsive Software's Time Logger is
my most recent "just right" discovery. In my day job as a
consultant, Hourly Billing R Us, when time really is money, you
want to keep the best possible track of it. And you want to be
able to turn those time records into billing invoices with the
least possible hassle.
I had been trying to make a go out of Intuit's QuickBooks Pro.
This is immensely powerful software that can run a fairly decent
sized company. From my purposes, however, I found that it was
demanding way too many potentially billable hours.
Responsive Time Logger (RTL) is simple but powerful. Think of it
as a stopwatch with a database attached.
The main window (customizable) is a familiar database records
table, into which you can manually record time events. You can
also automatically generate records by running Time Logger's
"stopwatch" dialog. You activate the timer function when you
begin a task, pause it when you take a break, resume timing, and
so forth and so on until you are finished. Even better, I have
discovered from use, is that when you forget a part of the above
sequence, you can manually correct your errors. A helpful
optional settings allows you to set minimum billing increments--
for example, the common 15-minute billing step.
While the stopwatch is running, you can minimize RTL, and start
and stop the timing by right-clicking on the taskbar icon.
The interface provides ample fields for identifying jobs: client,
project, subproject, activity, and a place for narrative about
the work done. The fields are customizable. Once you have your
client and project information in place, timekeeping is simply a
matter of working with drop-down lists in RTL's dialogs.
There also is a client for Palm organizers, which allows you to
keep time logs on your PDA and then import them into your RTL
database.
The touch that absolutely sold me on the program was the way it
helps you prepare billing reports. For one thing, it uses
conventional .dbf to store data. That means that you can bring up
the records in Excel, Access, or any other standard database
management software and use their capabilities if you want. Even
better, RTL's internal report system puts the data into your word
processor. The program ships with a number of pre-fabricated word
processor templates which you can modify, or you can create your
own using a lengthy list of field codes. These are Responsive
Time Logger-specific templates, by the way, not the word
processor's own templates. (For Word, that means it's a .doc file
not a .dot.)
Time Logger also can export to .qif (Quicken) and .iif
(QuickBooks) formats, allowing you to input the information into
either program. My personal method is to keep my checkbook in
Quicken and use this feature to integrate the two. QuickBooks
does have a "Timer" applet, but it is much less useful than RTL,
and if you use it, you have to do an import into QuickBooks
anyway, so its integration advantages are minimal.
Basically, you can make the look and design of your invoices
consistent with those of all your other Word documents. In fact,
once an invoice is created, it is a Word document, and you can
edit to your heart's content. Time Logger notes whether you have
invoiced a client for particular jobs, and keeps track of your
accounts receivable.
"Customizable" is a hallmark of the program, a welcome relief
from Intuit's "do it our way or else" protocol.
Responsive Time Logger isn't cheap--$89 for single-user, a
sliding scale for site licenses. But if it helps you identify
billable time that you might otherwise have forgotten, it can
very quickly pay for itself.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?fprodmailto:AlanMacy@ResponsiveSoftware.com
You can reach Al Gordon at:
mailto:algordon@TheNakedPC.com
** 07. Featured Books - TNPC Readers' Sci-Fi Recommended Book
List (by Lee Hudspeth)
From the incredible response I received from our review of
"Ender's Game" it looks like the TNPC subscriber base is rife
with savvy and eclectic sci-fi fans. I've consolidated your
replies and recommendations into an ad hoc "TNPC Readers' Sci-Fi
Recommended List." These were the 15 books that received the
most votes. The TNPCers mentioned were the first to recommend
a book based on when their email hit my inbox. I've got my
spring and summer reading plans all set now, that's for sure.
Thanks everyone!
* TNPCer Randy G. was the first to recommend -- Orson Scott Card,
"Ender's Shadow"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031286860X/tnpcnewsletter/
* Marc E. was first with -- Dan Simmons, "Hyperion" series
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553283685/tnpcnewsletter/
* Bud M. -- Charles Sheffield, "Cold As Ice" series, among others
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812511638/tnpcnewsletter/
* Seth W. -- Robert Silverberg, "Lord Valentine's Castle" series
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061054879/tnpcnewsletter/
* Daniel -- Jack L. Chalker, "Midnight at Well of Souls #01"
series
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* Keith B. -- Allan Cole and Chris Bunch, "Sten" series
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* Sue S.'s son -- Steven Baxter, "Raft," "Timelike Infinity,"
"Flux," "Ring," and "Vacuum Diagrams" (some are out of print)
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* Marty C. -- David Brin, "Earth"
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letter/
* Bear B. -- Frank Herbert, "Dune" series
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* Peter S. -- Gath of Bal -- Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven
Barnes, "The Legacy of Heorot" series
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* Larry W. -- Roger Zelazny, "The Chronicles of Amber"
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* Robert A. -- Philip Jose Farmer, "The World of Tiers"
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* Kathy S. -- David Weber, "Honor Harrington" series
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067157793X/tnpcnewsletter/
* Reginald G. -- C. J. Cherryh, "Cyteen"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446671274/tnpcnewsletter/
* Angela C. -- William Gibson, "The Difference Engine"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/055329461X/tnpcnewsletter/
You can reach Lee Hudspeth at:
mailto:leehudspeth@TheNakedPC.com
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** 08. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and
interesting stuff
*-* Microsoft has been humbled by the DOJ with the findings of
facts and of law and will now reform and become a bunch of nice
guys, right? Ha! The Redmond Rangers just thumbed their
collective noses at the Web Standards Project, a two-year-old
coalition of developers and users that promotes the use of
standards in Web page development. After having agreed to support
the Project a few years ago, MS said in a press release that the
forthcoming IE 5.5 would support neither W3C standards, most
notably CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets level 1, a standard
established in 1996), nor DOM (Document Object Model) 1 Core.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?news1
*-* Microsoft has issued a minor fix to Excel that prevents XLM
code from running from an external file without triggering the
standard warning dialog box.
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*-* The Office 2000 SR-1 service release, which purported to
fix dozens of bugs, seems to have introduced a number of bugs
of its own. Microsoft will release a bug fix to fix the bugs
in the first bug fix.
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*-* Netscape WebMail users are not a happy lot. Nearly half
a million users are being forced to change their email
usernames as part of a planned upgrade.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?news4
*-* Name changes abound for ex-Ziff Davis publications.
May 8th will see "PC Week" magazine become "eWeek".
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?news5
Meanwhile "PC Computing" will become "Smart Business" in the
near future. I guess "PC" is not longer PC.
** 09. We Get Mail
*-* TNPCer Paula J. and Howie M. would like to point out that
those still in an uproar over the Aureate/Radiate's advertising
software hoo-hah should mosey over to Steve Gibson's site and
read his take on the matter. Steve does a fairly good job of
explaining the hype monster in action here, then goes on to
provide a utility called OptOut to protect you from something he
admits isn't doing you any wrong.
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/308/tr.cgi?mail1
*-* Tim S. pointed out that the online version of Office SR-1
does not have the 50 tries or die Registration Wizard. TNPCer
Jeff B. said, "It's my understanding that the registration wizard
wasn't included in the download patches. It's included in the
replacement CDs, FOR SURE!". So be warned. Personally, I never
fool around with upgrades to major applications of this scope
over an Internet connection but wait until I get it on CD which
is why this tidbit got omitted from the article on SR-1 in the
last issue (TNPC #3.07).
*-* TNPCer Enid P. had this to say about our article on Office
SR-1 in last issue, "Why in the world wouldn't you encourage your
customers to consider Corel WordPerfect Office 2000, which is
also cheaper, less demanding, without crazy copyright protection
schemes, and infinitely more functional than Microsoft's Office
2000 which, incidentally, 'borrowed' several of its much-touted
features from a previous version of the WordPerfect Office
suite."
Be sure to stop by the Letters to the Editor page for more:
http://www.TheNakedPC.com/letters/index.html
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