[donspatch] 2006-08-01

Don's Patch #51 from http://www.don-guitar.com  August 1, 2006

First word, from Don:

When I switched to a simpler, numbered subject line I got a half
dozen new bounces so I assume I triggered some filters.  For
this reason, this issue's subject line will follow the old format.


My friend Mark L. Donaldson ( http://luem42.com/default.aspx ) is
still using Windows 98 and because he has a dial up connection
it would have taken far more time than he could have spared to
follow Fred Langa's instructions on how to download all existing
updates and patches for Windows 98/98SE so, knowing Lisa and
I have a far faster DSL connection, he asked me if I could get the
full set and make him a CD.  I did, and now the files are on my
hard drive so I can make a CD for anyone else who'd like one.
I ask only that you pay for the blank CD (around thirty cents) and
the postage.  If you want a copy, go to the USPS rate calculator
http://postcalc.usps.gov/  (for U.S. domestic locations)
http://ircalc.usps.gov/  (if you live elsewhere)
plug in my zip code (78672) for the "from" address and your zip
(or other address info) to in the "To" column, set the weight for
four (4) ounces (set "pounds" to zero), and click the "continue"
button.  Look in the last column, where it says "Media Mail".
That's the cost of postage.  Now add thirty cents.  That's what
the CD will cost you.  You can send a check to the address
on our contact page.   http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html
or you can just make a donation in that amount and note on the
donation that it's for a Win98/98SE updates CD and make sure
you type in your mailing address so I know where to send the CD.
To get to our donations page, go to our contact page, scroll all
the way down to the bottom of the page and look for a link in the
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go to the lower right-hand cell of the navigation table on our home
page and click on the dash which appears in that cell.

Don

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I don't want to say that just about anybody can use the basic Internet
Explorer engine (the dlls) and come up with a better browser than the
folks at Microsoft.  It would be unkind to say that, so I won't.  I'll just
let the facts speak for themselves.
http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/  (our favorite)
http://www.maxthon.com/
http://www.avantbrowser.com/
http://www.acoobrowser.com/

Web surfing for extreme paranoids.   http://www.aliveproxy.com/

A business resource.   http://www.allbusiness.com/

Does the mind always represent the world accurately and unambiguously?
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cfs/305_html/Gestalt/Illusions.html

An ambiguous blog.  http://www.ambiguous.org/

American Physical Society.   http://www.aps.org/

When you get a bogus email, instead of just deleting it, you might
consider reporting it.   http://www.antiphishing.org/report_phishing.htm
http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/identitytheft/report-form.html
How do you know it's bogus?   http://scamdex.com/
How not to get hooked.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/phishingalrt.htm

This ones out on the fringe but if you dislike AOL you may like this site.
http://www.aolwatch.org/   (Click the OK button to enter, or just wait)

This site is a great Windows resource, especially if you're using Win95/98
http://www.mdgx.com/

Safer use of services on the internet (in five languages).
http://www.besafeonline.org/

A site for the kids.   http://www.billybear4kids.com/

Goodies from Brian Apps.   http://www.brianapps.net/

Bud Allen's Windows 95/98 rescues.
http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/

Mini-feature:  Of and pertaining to clichés.
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
http://www.sportscliche.com/
http://www.findcliches.com/
http://www.moviecliches.com/
http://www.copydesk.org/cliches.htm
http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp

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Three book swap sites, the only cost is shipping.
General..... http://www.frugalreader.com/
SF;......... http://www.sf-books.com/
Paperback... http://www.paperbackswap.com/

You can trade CDs and DVDs, too.
http://www.switchdiscs.com/

How humans adapt to their environments.
http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_2.htm

Self-help for job burnout.
http://www.docpotter.com/boclass-0toc.html

How to clean, starting with "How to Clean Anything"
http://www.howtocleananything.com/index.asp
http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/cleaning5.html
http://www.stretcher.com/stories/970210b.cfm

Do we have an organized home and office?  Are you kidding?
We need these sites.
http://organizedhome.com/
http://www.getorganizednow.com/welcome.html

Firefighting.  Amazing, informative site.
http://www.firetactics.com/

The Hindu. Online version of India's national newspaper.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/

Comprehensive history of fashion.
http://www.fashion-era.com/

Go, the world's oldest board game, still popular today.
http://www.well.com/user/mmcadams/gointro.html

Sometimes difficult to find, costless woodworking plans.
http://absolutelyfreeplans.com/

What is a fever for?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_04.html

Have you read "The Jungle Book"?  It ain't Disney.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/jngl-table.html

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This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites
(these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ).
http://www.thebulletin.org/index.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/
http://www.digital-web.com/
http://www.blonnet.com/
http://www.motherjones.com/index.html?welcome=true
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http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php
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http://www.oldandsold.com/
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the Law, the Universe, and Everything.
http://www.concurringopinions.com/

DAML, The DARPA Agent Markup Language is an alternative
to XML.   http://www.daml.org/index.html

A Social Biography Network.   http://dandelife.com/

A blog from the fringe with heavy political overtones.
http://discardedlies.com/

A PDF document from the DOD on the topic of Open
Technology (Open Source) Development.
http://www.acq.osd.mil/actd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf

An extensive set of domain tools.   http://www.domaintools.com/

Online games, optical illusions, and puzzles.   http://eluzions.com/

English learning resources.
http://englishplus.com/
http://www.english-test.net/

Scott Hanselman compares Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 and IE 7.0 Beta 3.
http://snipurl.com/tzsh

Flying Contraptions.   http://www.flying-contraptions.com/

Everything old is new, and even better, again.
http://www.freedos.org/

Stuff that costs nothing.   http://www.funduc.com/otsoft.htm

The Galaxy Catalog (no, it's not a Ford thing).
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~frei/galaxy_catalog.html

Gallery is an open source web based photo album organizer.
http://gallery.menalto.com/

Explore alternative and conventional medical information
side-by-side.   http://goldbamboo.com/

The history of computing project.  http://www.thocp.net/

HTML Help by The Web Design Group.   http://www.htmlhelp.org/

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This site makes science fun.
http://www.madsci.org/

The virtually unchanged Masai people of Africa.
http://website.lineone.net/~yamaguchi/culture/kencult.html

This site explores the many varieties of natural building.
http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/natural_building.htm

Fun, funny stuff from the UK.
http://www.office-humour.co.uk/
And one particular page I liked.
http://snipurl.com/tvuj

Wonderful homemade candy recipes.
http://snipurl.com/r7qa

This is not a costless graphics program, but the tutorials
are inspiring if you have another program.
http://www.photofiltre.com/

Potlatch, then and now.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/potlatch/page2.html
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/potlatch/

Why do we yawn when others yawn?
http://www.ratlab.co.uk/yawn.htm

For people who like to make stuff.
http://www.readymademag.com/

Hand-make your life.  http://www.supernaturale.com/

How to make things, lots of things, really cool things.
http://makezine.com/

Relative humidity.  What is it and why should we care?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question651.htm
http://itg1.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/relhum/rhac.html

Love to look at roses? Jackson & Perkins is one of the best.
http://snipurl.com/tvh0

Russian crafts online.  http://russian-crafts.com/

Custom-made shirts are alive and well.
http://snipurl.com/tvh7
This site is commercial but informative.
http://www.alanflussercustom.com/customshirts.html

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Do you have your geek hat on?   Here's a possibly useful tool.
http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html

Don't take that hat off just yet.  Hobbes' Internet Timeline v8.1.
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

International Patient Organization for Primary Immunodeficiencies.
http://www.ipopi.org/

Vi, this ones for you.  Is it a sweater yet?  http://cast.off.net/

These guys aren't just using Linux.  They're creating it.
http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/

So you want to learn Linux?
http://library.n0i.net/linux-unix/tutorials/sa-te10/index.html

A five minute google video on the one-laptop-per-child initiative.
http://snipurl.com/u0jz

The Longevity Institute.   http://www.longevinst.org/index.html

Another business blog.   http://www.mpdailyfix.com/

A math resource for teachers.   http://whyslopes.com/

The MISAO Project aims to make much use of images taken
all over the world for searching and tracking astronomical
remarkable objects.   http://www.aerith.net/misao/index.html

A very interesting mechanically oriented blog.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/

Find dictionary words for crossword puzzles, code words
and word games like Scrabble, Upwords and Jamble.
http://www.morewords.com/

 An online computer lab for the youngsters.
http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath,
England.  I found a lot of interesting reading on their
website.   http://news.netcraft.com/

Network administration tools.   http://www.netadmintools.com/

Lots of information for anyone who wears (or, I guess, has an
abiding interest) in pantyhose.   http://www.nononsense.com/

One of the original places where one can find costless
applications.   http://www.nonags.com/

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Virtually "fly" over the entire United States, to your house.
http://www.terrafly.com/

Recently, home remedies have fascinated me  (sniffle).
http://www.learningherbs.com/

Traditional toys, dolls and puzzles.
http://www.hcsv.org/hcsvkids/handkerchief.htm
http://www.freewoodpuzzles.com/toys.html
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/CSE/creole_toys.html
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/toys/toys.htm#1

The story of the Two Things.
http://snipurl.com/7wzp

What is wind? How can we use it?
http://www.britishwindenergy.co.uk/edu/wind.html

The U.S. Census Bureau.   http://www.census.gov/

Kid's online resources.  http://www.kidsolr.com/

Build a geodesic dome out of cardboard.
http://www.monkeyc.org/dome/

Medieval writing, an important part of our cultural heritage.
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/

Chinese writing; history, dictionary and lessons.
http://www.geocities.com/chinesevenice/scrittura/scrittura.htm

George M. Phelps, telegraph instrument maker and inventor.
http://www.telegraph-history.org/george-m-phelps/

The Museum of History & Industry.  Wonderful photography.
http://www.seattlehistory.org/

The Bureau of Missing Socks. Be afraid...be very afraid.
http://www.funbureau.com/

That got me thinking about Parallel Universes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/paralleluni.shtml

The British Library.  Vast, comprehensive resource.
http://www.bl.uk/

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Websites everyone should know about.

These aren't sponsors, they're the best of Internet
publications and I highly recommend them all.

http://askTCL.com
http://www.langa.com
http://www.tourbus.com
http://www.lockergnome.com
http://www.neatnettricks.com
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
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Assorted nonsense.   http://www.nonsenselit.org/

The online dictionary of German and English.
http://odge.info/

Online games and other stuff.
http://www.freeonlinegames.com/

David A. Wheeler is a busy young man.
http://www.dwheeler.com/
Here's an excellent article he wrote.
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/why-opendocument-won.html

If you ever become a seller on ebay you'll have to learn the ins,
outs, and hazards of accepting payment online.  A good way to
learn is from someone who's been there and done that.
http://www.ccs-digital.com/payments.asp

Computer tech reviews, news and how-tos.
http://www.pcmech.com/

A massive recipe resource.   http://www.recipezaar.com/

Another way to run a website.   http://www.joomla.org/

Think of some slightly disparaging, intellectual adjectives;
Acerbic, incorrigible, piquant, intractable, contumacious,
contentious, obdurate, bellicose or others of your choosing;
Richard Harter is all of these things and, delightfully, more.
http://home.tiac.net/~cri/index.html

Should you be allowed to make yourself a copy of a DVD that
you own?  I don't know, I don't even have a DVD burner and I
refuse to decide for you.  Make up your own mind.
http://www.ripit4me.org/

The National School Boards Association.
http://www.nsba.org/site/index.asp

This one bills itself as a science blog.
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/index.php

Most of the computers I've seen have an IDE or EIDE hard
drive but there's another variety; "SCSI" which geeks who're
in-the-know pronounce "skuzee".  What's the difference?
http://www.scsi-planet.com/

Another businesslike IT/WebDev site with a lot of reading
matter available.   http://www.sitepoint.com/

I admit I haven't tried it but several people have mentioned
how much they enjoyed this site.  http://www.stumbleupon.com/

A few computer goodies.   http://www.sysinternals.com/

Their middle name is, um, costless.  http://www.thefreesite.com/

Looking for a good quotation?   http://en.thinkexist.com/

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A little humor courtesy of my
web sibling, Vinette Dephillipe.

"Cash, check or charge?" I asked, after folding items the woman
wished to purchase.  As she fumbled for her wallet I noticed a remote
control for a television set in her purse.  "So, do you always carry
your TV remote?" I asked.  "No," she replied, "but my husband
refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the
most evil thing I could do to him legally."


Understanding Women (A man's perspective):
I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax,
pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root,
and still be afraid of a spider.

============== Tips ===============

Discussion forums, security news, online library, and more.
http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox

Fighting the bad guys.  http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/

Libraries, in Texas and around the world, provide access to
a variety of resources including the internet.  By increasing
your information literacy skills, you can more effectively
select, search and evaluate those sources.  This interactive
library tutorial, sponsored by the University of Texas
System Digital Library, will prepare you to explore and
research the online world.   http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

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Links from readers are always welcome and
you can even write your own link descriptions
if you like.  Guidelines are available here:
http://www.don-guitar.com/descriptivetext.html
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From reader and friend David Fekete.
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Digital Photography Tips.   http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/

Got a backup plan?   http://www.genie-soft.com/

A nice calendar.   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

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From reader and friend, Irving Stein.
 http://www.irvings-info-page.cityslide.com
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Can you pass the third grade? (flash media)
http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf

Hard to find 800 numbers.
http://www.hardtofind800numbers.com/

With Double Driver you can view which drivers are installed
in your system and you can backup the drivers you choose,
save and print the drivers list, and more.
http://boozet.xepher.net/dd/index.htm

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From reader and friend Patrick Barden
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Americans who wish to send a package to soldiers who're
overseas will find that it couldn't be much easier.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/militarykit.asp

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From reader and friend Tony Bromeland.
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Tony enjoyed about.com's 20th Century History site
http://history1900s.about.com/
and he's an Old-Time-Radio fan
http://www.vintagelibrary.com/index.php
but his real passion is cooking.
http://www.a2zrecipes.net/
http://www.cdkitchen.com/
http://online-cookbook.com/
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HealthyCuisine/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/slowcooker/

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From my web sibling Jo-Ann Burton.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/
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The Interactive Nolli Map.   http://nolli.uoregon.edu/

Visions of Science photographic awards winners.
http://visions-of-science.co.uk/f-2005winners.htm

A magical message for you.
http://www.wonderflight.com/page2.html

Some nice printable paper sets (geocities site with popups)
http://www.geocities.com/prettyprints/papersets.html

Words from tombstones.
http://www.webpanda.com/ponder/epitaphs.htm

Do you love Ford automobiles?
http://www.lovefords.org/

Sudoku puzzles.   http://www.websudoku.com/


Thank you David, Irv, Patrick, Tony and Jo.

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Last word, from Lisa:

I've been intrigued by the book, cd & dvd swap sites (listed
in this issue).  Don's been a bit frustrated by the lack of
Science Fiction in this area, we're sort of out in the boonies
here in Tow, TX.  He's sent off two books so far and as soon as
the requesters receive the books, he'll get two credits.
It's not totally free, you do pay postage, but you get the
books you want at a reasonable cost.  If you try the other
sites, please let us know about your experiences.

I'm still a little awed at times about the power of the
Internet. It has made the world a large, but intimate
neighborhood.  Just a few years ago, it would have been easy
to be swayed into thinking that all the people in (fill in
the blank) were (fill in the blank) and deserved to be (fill
in the blank) because this was a serious matter of (fill in
the blank).  Now, it's a little harder to feel animosity
towards "them" because perhaps we have an email friend, a
stamp collecting buddy, a writing club, a book-trade partner
from that country or region.  It's more personal, this
smaller, friendlier planet.  I like it.  It's real.

'Til next time,

Lisa

Lisa's feedback form:  http://www.don-guitar.com/lfefo.html
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Lisa's blog.  http://blog.myspace.com/81825549

Don at myspace.com http://www.myspace.com/donguitar
Don's blog.  http://blog.myspace.com/donguitar

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Don Crowder and Lisa Miller
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
1:42 AM CST - Buchanan Lake Village, Texas, USA
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