What You Need to Know about All Things PC
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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, June 22, 2000 - Vol. 3 No. 13 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Windows 2000 3rd Party Utilities (Tools): Part 4 (by Al Gordon) ** 03. Advertising Found in TNPC! (by T.J. Lee) ** 04. Is It Too Late for Privacy? Part 2 (by T.J. Lee) ** 05. Featured Web Page - Microsoft DLL Help Database ** 06. Featured Product - Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical (by Lee Hudspeth) ** 07. Featured Book - "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward R. Tufte ** 08. Featured Tip - Hotmail Users and TNPC ** 09. For Recent Subscribers ** 10. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 01. Letter from the Publisher Summer officially checked in here in the Northern Hemisphere last Tuesday (June 20th) and the living is far from easy. We've been beleaguered with new equipment to test. Jim's got a new Athlon 700 MHz system as part of writing project he's working on. Dan's busy installing a new monster system he just built for doing video editing work. Al's testing some of the coolest gadgets around and Lee bought a new mouse. Hmmm, we should really increase Lee's equipment budget. Oh, next month will see TNPC's second anniversary. We've gone from 267 subscribers for our first issue to just over 53,000 readers for this our 53rd issue. Not bad for a grassroots operation run by some folks who just tell the naked truth about PC productivity. We couldn't have done it without you, our readers! As always, reader support is what keeps TNPC free, so PLEASE help us and pass a copy of TNPC on to co-workers and friends (no spam please!) and remember to always say "I saw it in TNPC!" +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ Don't lose valuable data! Protect your system and get a UPS! Uninterruptible Power Supply systems protect your computer from power surges, spikes, sags, & brownouts. Power irregularities can fry your system and cause you to lose valuable data. PEI is a master distributor providing quality and reliability based on our experience in the industry. We buy, lease, rent, sell, and trade new and refurbished models. We have the know-how to set you up with the machine best meeting your needs! APC, Best Power, Powerware: we have a UPS for you! Call toll-free: 877-492-6408 or visit us at: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?sponsor1 +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 02. Windows 2000 3rd Party Utilities (Tools): Part 4 (by Al Gordon) You don't have to be a power user to benefit from power tools. Case in point: JerMar Software's Tweaki (that's right, it's spelled "Tweaki"), which could well be one of the best expenditures of 15 bucks you could make. It is extremely valuable for anyone running a Windows-Microsoft Office system, which is to say just about everybody. And it is essential for Windows 2000 users. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?util1 The utility allows you to access a claimed 250 Windows/Office settings; I lost count after 80 or so when I attempted to verify the figure. Trust me, you can do a lot of stuff. If there is a downside, it is that there are so many options that Tweaki has begun to spill over the bounds of its own interface and relies on "more" buttons to launch sub-dialogs. Not to worry though, JerMar promises a version 3 later this year, updated for the latest Windows incarnations including Win2000. Microsoft used to provide free "PowerToys" utilities with a few of these capabilities for Win95, but (with rare exceptions) never updated them for Win98 much less Win2000. So Tweaki is now the only way to easily access the user interface settings that Microsoft either scatters throughout Windows and Office or does not document at all. It would take pages to describe all of Tweaki's features, but here are some highlights. It will enable or disable startup options (a feature included in Win98 but not in Win2000), back up key Registry settings (again, included in Win98 but not in Win2000), change common file locations (a handy solution to Win98SE and Win2000's penchant for setting up individual PCs as if they were part of a corporate network), performance enhancements for Internet connections, and assorted tweaks for printing. JerMar says that its next version will incorporate features from its ProFILER 2000 utility that allow users to save their Windows and Office configurations, thereby simplifying multiple installations and re-installations (ProFILER 2000 supports Office 97 but not Office 2000). We at TNPC have long been clamoring for such a tool and look forward to seeing the new version. Another valuable package is Winternals Software's Dual Boot Tools, made up of NTFS for Win98, FAT32 for NT 4.0, and NTFSDOS Pro. This is not cheap; $199 for the package. The components are available separately, however, at $49, $39, and $149 respectively. If you share TNPC's view that multi-booting is an effective way to get more use out of a single PC, Winternals software is a valuable enhancement. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?util2 In fact, if you are running Windows NT4 Workstation in any kind of multiple OS environment, FAT32 for NT 4.0 is a must. NT4 can only read NTFS and FAT volumes, the former is complicated, the second space-inefficient. The utility installs seamlessly and lets an NT4 system read FAT32 partitions. I wish I had discovered the utility when I first started using NT4. NTFS for Win98 is the mirror opposite, allowing Win98 systems to look at NTFS disks. NTFSDOS Pro is too expensive to readily recommend. However, there are times when one's life would be easier if you could use DOS bootdisk to get at NTFS partitions, and this utility makes that possible. You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:algordon@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ Earn a $400 Shopping Spree Ever wish you had a dollar for every time you were asked questions about computers and the Internet? Build your own technology-based business. Work on a part time or full time basis. Get paid to help your neighbors and friends make the best technology choices. 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The only endorsement we make for paid advertisers in TNCP is that their checks are good. Okay, we do make a fair attempt to determine if the product they're selling is illegal or immoral and if we think they qualify on either count we don't run the ad. Otherwise if they can get the samolians up on the virtual counter, they're in. Along the same vein I was accused by one TNPCer of being two- faced (and other less charitable designations) because my article on privacy in the last issue appeared in the same issue as a classified ad for Net Detective, a product that purports to help you find out anything about anybody. Excuse me, two-faced? Our writers, myself included, are fairly free to spout off about most any subject they care to but not an erg of energy is spent trying to coordinate stories with advertising. It is to laugh. Funnier still is thinking Net Detective is a threat to anyone's privacy. It simply provides an interface to get at the publicly available information that's already out there. I recently needed to find someone mentioned in a deed of trust that I had inherited and Net Detective was very useful in tracking down the descendants of the person I was looking for so I could clear up some title issues. So putting aside the interesting dichotomy of an article on privacy and an ad for Net Detective -- news flash -- we do realize that there are ads in our newsletter. Advertising consumes perhaps 50 of the 800 or so lines of text that make up each free issue of this newsletter. Remember, while TNPC is entirely free to you, it is not free for us to produce. Ad revenue offsets just a fraction of the costs we incur publishing TNPC. We clearly mark the ads so you can see them for what they are; you can read them or skip them at your discretion. If you have suggestions as to how we can drop the advertising and still cover our publication and marketing costs, we'd love to hear them. If you have an idea about how we could continue cranking out TNPC and actually make some bucks to help feed our 15 collective kids (counting mine, Lee's, and Dan's) we'd love to hear that too. And if you're a venture capitalist with millions burning a hole in your pocket please call us toll free at... sorry these fits of silliness just overtake me. Besides which, some of our advertisers have been with us a long time and provide products and services we have used personally. They have helped keep the newsletter free for all of you. Since we have to go through this explanation on advertising and trying to turn a dollar with TNPC every so often, there is now a page on our Web site that explains in detail all the money- grubbing things we do via TNPC to try and make a buck: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?disclose (soapbox off) You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com ** 04. Is It Too Late for Privacy? Part 2 (by T.J. Lee) WOW! Privacy seems to be a very hot topic with TNPC readers. I received far more email on this topic than I could ever hope to answer individually so I'll thank all of you for writing, right here and now. The trade-off between personal privacy and convenience was the central issue for many of our readers. Some of you (like TNPCer Dick K.) have given up the convenience of plastic and eschew using credit cards just to keep your purchasing habits private. Interestingly enough, Dick sent me his comments using an email account with a different name on it. Obviously, he takes his privacy pretty seriously! Gary G. says privacy is overrated. "Wouldn't it be great if, when I walked into a store to buy some clothes, all the styles I like and in my sizes were automatically moved to the front of the rack where I could see them more easily? And I'd like my morning paper to omit everything that I have absolutely no interest in right down to the coupons and flyers they stuff it with." Or as Glen M. points out, "Bottom line, if someone is going to spam me, at least let them send me spam I might be interested in." What's wrong with a company knowing what you buy? Especially if it makes future buying easier? When it comes to companies using this information to target ads and coupons to you based on your purchases, there's not much of an overall downside. But it's who else might be using this information, and how they use it, that causes the most concern. Consider how information about your personal self can be extrapolated from your buying habits. This is where someone (a faceless drone in Human Resources or with your medical insurance carrier) decides that based on your personal buying habits you're a risk for substance abuse because you bought one too many six- packs, or that you're a poor insurance risk because you purchase mountain climbing equipment or seem to be overly fond of Chunky Monkey ice cream. Pretty scary stuff and a number of you made this connection and voiced your concerns. Computers make all this data mining and extrapolation possible. In Denver, after a local television station ran a report showing city workers playing cards and sleeping on the job, the city fathers came up with the idea to track where every city truck was using the Global Positioning System satellites maintained by the military. Denver would spend $1.5 million to put ground receivers on every city truck so its position could be calculated continuously. Is this protecting taxpayer dollars from undue waste or the start of a Big Brother scenario? Is anyone trying to keep your personal information, well, personal? The Federal Trade Commission has issued privacy regulations that could sharply curb the business of selling what's called "credit header" information from credit reports. This information includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal details. Credit bureaus routinely sell this information on about 200 million Americans. The FTC declared that any personal information gathered by a financial institution, including names and Social Security numbers, is "financial data" subject to protections under the new law that takes effect July 1, 2001. Social security numbers are a very hot commodity. With your social security number your identity can be usurped by nefarious individuals. Valid numbers are also used by people working in the United States illegally. But a number of legitimate companies say they desperately need "credit header" information to update databases for marketing, fraud prevention, and programs that help private investigators, debt collectors, and others locate people. This type of ruling does nothing in so far as your shopping habits or surfing information is concerned. Still, there are nearly 300 privacy bills pending in the U.S. House and Senate so this opera is far from over. I don't think there are any pat answers as to what can or should be done to protect our privacy. But I know that everyone should be aware what personal information is available, and what other people are doing with that information. We'll be revisiting this subject again in future issues of TNPC. You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ >> Get up to 100MB of FREE webspace! 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They poked around in all the usual places, predominantly the MSDN Library (on CDs), as well as the Microsoft Knowledge Base that we get on a monthly CD (we also searched the online version). http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?fsite1 Although they eventually found the answer, several weeks later a simpler way to find the answer found them. Two Microsoft Developer Support Professionals, Devin Breshears and Elton Wells, were the authors of what was originally an internal-only tool used by Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS). That tool, entitled the "DLL Help database," was eventually taken public and is now available at http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?fsite2 You don't have to be a PSS engineer to benefit from this database. We tested the tool on the DAO 3.6 Object Library quandary; when we typed in dao360.dll the database displayed three different file versions of the DLL, ranging from 3.60.2521.8 to 3.60.2927.4. We checked our systems which all had 3.60.2521.8 installed, so we followed the database's "More Information" link. The database handily informed us that this version of DAO 3.6 ships with Office 2000, among other products. That's exactly what we needed to know. Here's a list of all the information provided by the database: name, version, description, modified date, size, cabinet/Iexpress package details, DLLSelfRegister availability, and relative path location. If you want to go the other way and see which components ship with a particular product, select "By Product Only" in the Search drop-down control, select the desired product (say, Office) and version (say, Office 2000 Premium), and you'll see a detailed listing. If you want to delve deeper into the tool and more arcane aspects of file version-checking, follow the main page's "Help/FAQ" button. Thanks Devin, Elton, et al! ** 06. Featured Product - Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical (by Lee Hudspeth) About a week ago my trusty Microsoft IntelliMouse started not being so trusty. I suspect you've all had this experience: you move the mouse but the pointer doesn't move or--even worse--moves erratically. Amazing how such a minor problem can be so maddening. I went through all the usual motions: remove and clean the mouse ball and all internals, disconnect and reconnect the mouse cable, sigh deeply, and reach into the pocketbook for loose change... time for a new mouse. I looked at everything that's out there in the way of mice, and have to confess that once impressed I'm always impressed. The shape and design of the IntelliMouse has been a joy and comfort to me ever since I participated in its first beta program. The clickable, rollable wheel between the two buttons is an ingenious solution to scrolling, and, well, the thing just feels right to me. I was briefly tempted by the cordless mice that use digital radio technology, but couldn't find a version that had no mouse ball, and also couldn't find a version that was USB compliant. So I got myself a Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical. It is supported by Win95, Win98, WinNT 4 with SP3 or higher, and Win2000; it supports PS/2 and USB; and has the same shape whether you're left or right-handed. The device comes with the latest IntelliPoint software, a PS/2-to-USB converter, two cool programmable buttons along the sides of the housing (pre-set to Back and Forward for Web browsing and easily reprogrammed through the Control Panel's Mouse applet), and is easy to install (I used a USB port). The crux of its design is an optical sensor--Microsoft naturally calls it "IntelliEye"--that fires 1,500 times per second. Warning: this sensor won't operate on all surfaces so read the fine print on the box, "The IntelliEye performs best on surfaces with detail to track. It will not function on surfaces without visible detail (e.g., glass) or surfaces where it will see its reflection (e.g., mirrors, glossy surfaces). The sensor may also have difficulty tracking on highly repetitive patterns (e.g., some printed photographs from magazines or newspapers)." My desktop's wood grain surface is being happily sampled 1,500/sec by my new mouse and a mouse pad sits forlorn in the storage cabinet. Side benefit: the IntelliEye sensor emits a neat sci-fi red glow so turn out the lights and you can almost hear HAL's voice, "I am completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly." What flavor mouse do you favor? http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?fprod You can reach Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:leehudspeth@TheNakedPC.com ** 07. Featured Book - "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward R. Tufte We received numerous favorable comments regarding Dan's Mind Map articles as well as the software and The Mind Map Book he recommended. Mind maps are a good example of visually displaying information so you can readily discern relationships in the data being presented. That said we thought it would be relevant to mention a book we featured back in TNPC #1.2 (back when we had about 400 subscribers!). Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is probably the definitive work on taking numbers and displaying them visually. Anyone who creates charts in Excel, or any graphing software, or who creates charts with pen and ink--any one--should get a copy of this book. Now. There is so much more to this subject than most people even suspect and Tufte communicates it all with amazing examples of what to do and what not to do. This book is an incredible resource whether you create charts and graphs or if you just have to read those created by others. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?fbook ** 08. Featured Tip - Hotmail Users and TNPC A number of our subscribers use Hotmail and have complained that the links in TNPC appear to be broken when they click on them while reading TNPC in Hotmail's Web browser interface. Hotmail does not like redirected links, which is what we use in TNPC. This redirection lets us count how many times a given link was clicked on so we can better gauge topic popularity and more importantly we can fix any typos in the links after publication. Hotmail often returns an error when a link is redirected. One solution to this problem is to right-click on the link in TNPC then click on the "Open in a New Window" option. This opens a new instance of your browser and displays the page there. This has the added advantage of keeping your Hotmail window open and not losing your place. +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ WANT TO GET YOUR WORD OUT? Classified ads in The Naked PC can be yours for ridiculously low prices. 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Go to this page and just search for the area code you want to check. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?news1 *-* Microsoft has released the much bally-hooed patch, titled "Outlook 2000 SR-1 E-mail Security Update" that it claims is the fix for Outlook email viruses. Before you run over there and install this puppy, take a careful read through all the notes that MS has on this fix and be very aware that once installed you can't uninstall it. It's all or nothing and requires you to first install the Office 2000 SR-1 update. See the next item for more. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?news2 *-* Just as Microsoft closed the barn door with its "Outlook 2000 SR-1 E-mail Security Update" it seems the barn is empty. A new virus that works exactly like the I "you-know-what" YOU email virus has started making the rounds and the new MS patch to Outlook does not prevent a user from infecting their machine. To MS's credit the patch does warn the user if the virus tries to replicate itself using their Outlook Address Book. The new virus called the "Stages" worm comes in the guise of a joke file and is triggered by the silly person that thinks nothing of double- clicking on a file when they're not at all sure what it is. This worm uses the little known Windows scrap file extension ".SHS" which tells Windows it's an executable file. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?news3 *-* The Millennium Digital Commerce Act passed by the U.S. Congress gives electronic signatures the same weight and standing as pen and paper when it comes to contracts and other legal documents. Critics say that the legislation does not establish significant consumer protections against fraudulent use or forgery of electronic signatures. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/313/tr.cgi?news4 Hey! Have you come across something newsworthy? 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