MikesWhatsNews, 14, 10, 2002 in today's issue #572 Thanksgiving in Canada Enviromental Games Swat It PC BUYER BEWARE! Time and Date Fifties Trailers Get Ready for MSN 8 CCC Crimson Editor Power Management ____________________________________________________________ NOTE: Any time you see the " ++ ", it means there is more of the article, or story, on the linked site. Mike ____________________________________________________________ There is a complete archive of past MikesWhatsNews newsletters available to members on the Yahoo page, it is searchable by word or issue #. Here is the address direct to the messages; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MikesWhatsNews/messages and; //www.freelists.org/archives/mikeswhatsnews/ ____________________________________________________________ On behalf of Christie, and my self and our families we would like to take a moment and whish all our Canadian readers a Happy Thanksgiving. ____________________________________________________________ I though everyone may enjoy this site; http://www.llangley.com/yoga/wisdom/rightnow[2].htm Thanks to; Mazy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-Helping-Hand/ ____________________________________________________________ Thanksgiving in Canada -- What gives? http://www.canadafirst.net/our_heritage/thanksgiving/ Most of us will have noticed that Canadian Thanksgiving comes well in advance of our neighbours to the south, and for all the predictable reasons: colder climate, earlier harvest, and that persistant urge to accomplish something (anything) before "they" do. But the history of our Thanksgiving is stuffed with surprises. We did actually have the FIRST Thanksgiving, a full 43 years before the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, but, in true Canadian fashion, there was something wrong with it. That first North American Thanksgiving would have been "celebrated" in sub-zero temperatures on a barren, windswept moonscape by a muttering, mutinous crowd wondering whether "the chief" had all his marbles. In 1576, Sir Martin Frobisher set out to find the Spice Islands. He landed instead on Baffin Island. The complete absence of trees and a pitiless terrain of unrelieved rock and permafrost barely dampened his determination to establish the first English settlement in North America. Not yet disabused of his perennial optimism, he spent two years mining "gold ore". When it was well and duly hauled back to England, it assayed out as iron pyrite. Fool's Gold. By 1710 we were back on track with this Thanksgiving thing. Records at Port Royal, Nova Scotia, note an October 10 thanksgiving celebration to mark the return of the town to the English. In 1763, Halifax celebrated the end of the Seven Years War with a similar ceremony. In 1879, Parliament formally declared November 6 as a day of Thanksgiving, and so it remained until after the Armistice of WWI, when Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day would have conflicted thematically during the same week. When Thanksgiving was assigned to its present second Monday in October, former Ontario Premier E.C. Drury, head of the United Farmers of Ontario, decried the move as a ploy by city-dwellers to move a farmer's holiday "up" the calendar so they could enjoy a long weekend while the weather was likely to still be fine (at the farmer's expense). Canadian - eh? ++ ____________________________________________________________ Enviromental Games http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/kids/games/?version=1 Fun and interactive games for all to play! Beat the Banger Game Beat the old banger by answering the questions correctly to move the Environment Agency van! Fishpond Fun! Leaps of knowledge or just fish porridge! Answer the questions correctly to help the frog leap safely over the lily pads! ++ ____________________________________________________________ New SwatIT Signature Files ~ free http://www.lockdowncorp.com/bots/downloadswatit.html Swat It is a Completely FREE program that scans your files for Trojans, Worms, Bots and other Hacker programs. Swat It can detect and remove over 3000 different Trojan programs plus variants. Swat It was recently independently tested against popular commercial scanning software by one of our Licensed users and we were absolutely delighted by the results. snip Product Limitations SwatIT is a free Trojan scanner. It will not scan the contents of compressed files, neither does it provide background scanning. It is simply a "dumb scanner" with no intelligence or generic detection methods. SwatIT was released for those that simply can not afford to purchase a commercial program, but still need to clean their hard disk from known Trojan infections. ++ Thanks to; Thanks to; Jasmine, Owner/Group Moderator: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pro_tech A Technical Support Alliance Member ____________________________________________________________ PC BUYER BEWARE! by Eric Legge http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm This site has been designed to provide you - directly or indirectly in the form of links to other sites - with all of the information you need to know about PCs in order protect yourself from the vendors, the snoopers out on the Internet eager for personal marketing information, and the hackers looking for prey. There is even a section called Build Your Own PC under the PC Information heading. ++ There is more on the web site. ____________________________________________________________ Time and Date http://www.timeanddate.com/ This site includes lots of information that is time and date related, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows current time in cities all over the world. ++ ____________________________________________________________ Fifties Trailers http://www.fiftiestrailers.com/ Take a look at thes had made trailers. They are a 'go back machine' all by themselves. Made here in BC Canada too. ____________________________________________________________ Get Ready for MSN 8 http://resourcecenter.msn.com/msn8/preview_home.asp Prepare yourself for the online event of the year: the launch of the new MSN(R) 8 Internet Service on October 24. Visit the MSN 8 preview site to learn about the powerful new features and to get a sneak peek with an exclusive tour. You'll learn why one reviewer calls it "the best version of MSN I've seen" and another says "MSN beats AOL for ease of use and functionality." ____________________________________________________________ Christies Computer Corner thanks to Christy; <1stPicksoftware-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> Crimson Editor ~ freeware http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Win95 or higher, WinNT 4.0 or higher Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied in one floppy disk). While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java. Other features include undo/redo, user tools, macros, spell checker and more. Crimson editor is a feature-rich text editor that pulls off the Windows Explorer look quite well. You can edit many different text-based files such as programming languages like: HTML C/C++ Perl Java Matlab LaTeX ASP PHP JSP EDIF VHDL Verilog-HDL There are even some basic FTP options so you don't have to leave the application to upload your code. You can create macros to simplify coding and there are search and replace functions. ~~~~~~~ Power Management If you use a home desktop computer, then you probably don't need Power Management support. Mainly computers left on for more than 24 hours and laptops use this option. To disable this feature and save some CPU power, go to the Control Panel and select the System Icon. Click the Device Driver tab (device manager) and double-click the System Devices. Towards the top, you will see an item called Advanced Power Management Support; double-click this. In the General tab, make sure that the "Disable in this Profile" is clicked. Click OK. 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