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Hello, Come on in.
So you
are interested in my computer are you?
Well, let's see what we can come up with.
links and stuff
Your friend notified you of a virus he may have sent you. Or was he hoaxed or scammed? Check it out before you resend the warning to others. http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org or http://www.scambusters.org
Parents! The web can become a dangerous place for your kids. It generally is not but it can be. I suggest you make a contract with your kids for online use of the computer.
Post your genealogy on the web at worldconnect.
Test your firewall. Ummmm, What's a firewall?
My Ideas
This web stuff is really cool. I am using Frontpage Express
which comes free with Windows ME to make the pages then using
FTP_LE to upload them to the rootsweb server. Should you have
questions about this proceedure beyond my ftp page above, just
e-mail me and I will try to help you.
Another thing I have done to help make my desktop a bit cleaner
is to group my programs, such as games or web stuff, into folders
and put the links for those programs into those folders then put
the folders on the desktop instead of all the different programs
scattered willy nilly on the desktop. It's an extra click or two
but if I'm in the mood for games anyway it's not much to ask. I
can minimize the folder and call it up whenever I want without
having to go to my desktop.
History
My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 with 4K of memory, and a cassette tape drive for (basic) program storage. I added more memory to that, doubling my total. And I was in computer programers heaven.
I then bought a Commodore 64. Boy was
that a machine! I had 8 times the memory that I had previously!
64K, Just think of it! I was really getting into Basic (Beginners
All purpoSe Instructional Code). I made one program that was
simple to start off with. It printed a statement on the screen,
"$5.00 reward to anyone who can change this statement".
I then made each character of the complete program into data
lines, changed the jump table in the first line of code so that
anyone trying to list the program would would reformat the floppy
drive instead, and changed the first character of that line to a
shifted L, which made that line undisplayable. Then I added a
checksum line to the last line, with instructions to reformat the
floppy, and then converted everything to data and poked the data
into the program area. If anyonechanged ANYTHING in the program
and tested it by running the program, it destroyed it's self.
I also submitted a little blurb of a program tidbit to a
Commodore magazine and it was published!
Now, I have a home made PC. My son, Jeremy, built it when I was on the road a year ago. It's a 900ghz cpu with a 40 Gig hard drive which is divided into 5 partitions.
Accurate and current information about computer viruses can be
found at:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html
http://dispatch.mcafee.com/virus_tips.asp?cid=1593
Hoaxes and Scares: Don't fall for these or pass them along.
http://www.europe.datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes
FOR A FREE ONLINE VIRUS SCAN:
http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/
want to eliminate those anoying popup ads?
So, here are some non-web design related tools I use often:
International Dialing Codes
http://kropla.com/dialcode.htm
Unit Conversion Calculator
http://grapevine.abe.msstate.edu/~fto/calculator/unit.html
World Time Zone Calculator
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
http://awebmasters.net/antispam.htm
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/
A fantastic site for those of you with children in school, or
simply those interested in history.
http://www.cyndislist.com/
The ultimate starting site for genealogical research.
http://hubble.nasa.gov/
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/
A few sites I go to when the ego gets too big and I need to
remember where I am in the scope of things.
I use this for currency conversion: http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html
http://awebmasters.net/antispam.htm
http://www.worldlanguage.com/Translation.htm
"whenever something goes wrong in windows (and apparently it can) or even if FP or one of my asp scripts does something wrong, i turn to http://support.microsoft.com. "