[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #634

MikesWhatsNews, 20, 01, 2003
in today's issue #634
eMonitor
Microsoft Service and Suppert Extended
Do You Have Parasites?
Flight Gear
WaveLock
Are You a PowerPoint Whiz?
CCC     AmphetaDesk
Double Your Printing Options
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eMonitor ~ free
 http://www.geocities.com/emonitorweb/homepage/index.htm 
Win 95/98/ME/
eMonitor keeps track of three important statistics of your computer:

1. Network Bandwidth :: display current upload and download bandwidth.

2. Network Traffic :: display and collect information about how much data
passes through your network on a daily and monthly basis. 

3. System Uptime :: display current uptime and record the longest running
time of your system.  
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Microsoft Service and Suppert Extended
http://www.aumha.org/elist.htm

For Windows 98, both Original and SE, warranty support and non-security
hotfix support now end June 30, 2003. Paid phone support now will end
January 16, 2004. Security fix support (for which there will be no
additional charge) also will end one year from today on January 16, 2004.

Until now, Microsoft has promised at least five years of mainstream support
from the date of a product?s availability. Going forward under the new
program, in addition to that mainstream support, Microsoft will post all
public hotfixes, security fixes, download site content, and other online
information for a period of at least eight years following a products
general availability.
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From; Jim Eshelman's E-List
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Do You Have Parasites?
http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.htm
Screen for Adware, Spyware, Scumware, Diallers, ?Jackers
and other unsolicited commercial software 

This page allows you to check your computer for over five dozen different
parasites. Embedded is a script by Andrew Clover, which he makes available
from his web site at doxdesk.com. You must be using Internet Explorer for
this test to work, and JavaScript must be enabled. Since new malware is
being written and circulated all the time, you still may want to examine
your system with Ad-Aware or another malware screener ? but this script
checks for quite a lengthy list! 
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See; http://doxdesk.com/parasite/
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Flight Gear    free
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/flightgear/en/index.html
The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform,
cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire
project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight
simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the
development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as
an end-user application. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation
framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in
contributing.

There are many exciting possibilties for an open and free flight simulator. 
We hope that this project will be interesting and useful to many people in
many areas.
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WaveLock
http://www.securewave.com/products/free_utilities/wavelock.html
The following program is unsupported. That means:

You alone are responsible for what happens when the program is run.
SecureWave offers no warranties on the program.
SecureWave grants you a free license to use this program within your
organisation; we do not commit to offer any updates, bug fixes, changes, or
anything else.
What you see is what you get; there is no elaborate manual explaining this
program.
Details are in the license agreement whih will be presented to you when you
run the installation program.

That said, you may find WaveLock useful:

Summary

Windows 2000 and Windows XP come with drivers for several wireless LAN
("WLAN") adapters; installation requires only insertion of one of those
adapters. Administrative privileges are not required, as no new drivers must
be registered with the operating system. WaveLock assists in enforcing
security policies by blocking access to these adapters, making it harder to
circumvent firewalls, filters, proxies, and other required safeguards.

To install WaveLock, download and uncompress wavelock.zip. Execute the
resulting wavelock.msi file (a Windows Installer setup), which installs
wavelock.sys. Reboot to load and activate WaveLock.

A list of the wireless network adapters supported out-of-the-box on Windows
2000 and Windows XP can be found below. Note that WaveLock cannot know about
and will therefore not block additional drivers installed by administrators.
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Are You a PowerPoint Whiz?
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/quiz/qppgeneral.aspx
How well do you know Microsoft PowerPoint®? 
Are you a master of shows, eager to flaunt your presentation prowess? 
Or do you have an itchy feeling there's more you could know? 
Assess your level with the PowerPoint Whiz Quiz, ten questions that test
what you know. 
Even a smarty can learn something. 
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Double Your Printing Options

On a daily basis, we routinely print out several types 
of documents, including mail, formatted Word 
documents, and web pages. For most of our web 
page printouts, we often only need the "text" 
content and not the full web page's graphics. It 
gets extremely frustrating when we have to change 
printer properties for a specific print job.

Your printer may actually be capable of the naming 
and saving of custom printing settings, but that still 
forces you to open up your printer settings and make 
the change. Is there a better way? Sure!

You can install your printer driver twice under 
different names and settings. If you do this, simply 
select the specific printer name (and custom 
settings that you've already configured). One printer 
listing could be labeled "Draft" for quick low 
resolution printing, while you could label the other 
"Full Color" for full-resolution, high-quality output.

Installing a second copy of your printer is fairly 
simple. Do this by selecting Start, Settings, 
Printers and clicking on "Add Printer". Some 
printer installations require a special driver/setup 
disk, so make sure you have it available. As you 
proceed, you will be prompted by Windows to label 
this particular printer, and this is where you would 
label it "Draft" or "Full Color", depending on how 
you've already labeled your current installed 
active printer.

After the successful installation and labeling of the 
added printer, click the icon's properties to your 
appropriate custom settings. The next time you're 
in your word processor and want a quick draft, 
just select the specific printer name from your 
word processor's Print Dialog box. 

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Antivirus software is a good choice to scan your system for possible viruses, 
however no virus scanner is 100% effective as manufactures cannot keep up with 
the rapid change of viruses that happens daily.
Be sure to update yours regularly.
http://www.hackfix.org/software/antivirus.html
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