Computer Tips

[Rob]

WIN XP Keyboard Shortcuts

Here's a link to Microsoft's Web page that lists all the cool keyboard shortcuts available on WIN XP. Most of these will work on earlier versions of Windows as well. I give this one two thumbs up.

[alice4321us]

I am listening too

I listen to her on Saturday afternoons on Talk radio here in Albany. She has some awesome information on that website.

Kim Komando

And she says it's not made up; it's her real name. I listen to Kim Komando's show frequently. She knows her stuff.

The first time I heard the Kim Komando show (she has just recently been added to the line-up on the talk radio station I listen to), I thought I was listening to a dude until there was a commercial break and I learned I was listening to Kim Komando. She has a very deep voice for a female.

[Rob]

Not bad...Catchy name too...Doug

And she says it's not made up; it's her real name. I listen to Kim Komando's show frequently. She knows her stuff.

[IIC]

Doug, Check out Kim Komando........much prettier than Levy!

Regards, Norm

http://www.komando.com/

Not bad...Catchy name too...Doug

[thebign1]

Doug, Check out Kim Komando........much prettier than Levy!

Regards, Norm

http://www.komando.com/

[IIC]

What are you talking about?

See my previous post about the virus software...Jeff Levy on the radio says it is the best...not only the best virus protection but he said it makes your computer run at optimal speed too...So far...so good.

He is on the radio here on the weekends...here is his site:

http://www.jefflevy.com/default.aspx

I listen to him when I'm driving around on weekends...He has a lot of nice computer tips...Doug

[peanuts]

My computer seems to be running super fast now...Just like the guy on the radio said... I even went out for a coupla hours and when I got home my wife asked me "Did you do something to the computer...It is really fast?

So far I like this thing...IIC

What are you talking about?

[IIC]

My computer seems to be running super fast now...Just like the guy on the radio said... I even went out for a coupla hours and when I got home my wife asked me "Did you do something to the computer...It is really fast?

So far I like this thing...IIC

[IIC]

I just installed my new Virus software...I used to use Norton but one time I still got a virus that completely destroyed Norton. Then I switched to TrendMicro which I liked but I had a lot of problems with updates.

Today I installed AntiCyberCrime from Secure Resolutions. I ran a scan and it found one...but it was not a serious one.

Anyone else have experience with AntiCyberCrime?...Doug(IIC)

Registry cleaner

https://www.ccleaner.com

Fixes registry errors and does a whole lot more.

[billyjoe]

ski,
An interesting story , parts of it Cheech and Chongish. Entrepeneurs have to start somewhere. I remember selling used "rare" United States commemorative postage stamps during recess in 5th grade for 1 to 8 cents each.

------------billyjoe

[skiracer]

Wow, sounds like a very interesting time and was a fun read.
Thanks.

It was an interesting time and will be a great read if I ever get it all down. Almost Damon Runyonesque in it's similarity to a bunch of "Guys and Dolls" characters. Webs post just reminded me of this story so I had to tell it. I condensed this one alot because of the time and space element but the whole story of that period, and this particular story is just a tiny part of that summer, is a much better and funnier read in the context of the whole story. I started trying to put it all together at the beginning of this year an intend on posting some of the parts as I finish them just to get some feedback. This one wasn't finished and would be much better in a finished state with the spelling and sentence structure fine tuned.
I should have posted it on my own thread though. I think I may have posted another earlier story regarding Liza, the black lady with the hog farm, and my how my relationship started and developed with her. It's somewhere in my thread. She was in her 90's when this took place.

Re: disliking Microsoft

What I dislike is the smothering of innovation that has occurred for the last 10+ years in the computing world due to the Microsoft monopoly. All the innovation has come from the WWW, open source community, and similar user-driven movements. Microsoft "earned" its monopoly status, so that's not subject to debate. But look at the consequences. I have worked in the high tech field since 1980. I have programmed everything from mainframes, several kinds of minicomputers, and PCs, etc. etc. Microsoft's dominance has drastically slowed the rate of innovation in the industry. Standardization (whether formal or de facto) is also important to disseminating the results of technological innovation. Microsoft's products have provided de facto standards in several areas of computing, but today they function as the "floor" of functionality in most IT sectors. Microsoft does gradually raise that floor, but not due to competitive pressures in most cases.

Did you guys see the news about the EU threatening to sue Microsoft due to the poor quality of their API documentation? Poor documentation of the means for other software systems to interoperate with Windows puts another area of drag on the growth (other than Microsoft's own) of the industry.

http://thecontentwrangler.com/article/microsoft_api_manual_so_disorganized_its_deemed_useless/

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May 25, 2006
In 2004, European Union (EU) regulators ordered Microsoft to produce a “workable” programming manual that would allow companies that use other operating systems (like Linux) to utilize the “grammar rules” needed to build software programs that could communicate with Microsoft products. Microsoft complied with the request, which was part of the an EU anti-trust lawsuit against the softare giant, but not to the satisfaction of regulators. The EU asked Microsoft to rewrite the manual because they were “dismayed with its length and its disorganization”
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http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/979&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

[B]This is a funny story.
This is part of a much larger story that I have been working on over the last year or so. It's in a rough draft stage so please forgive the spelling and some of the sentence structure. This is still in a rough stage.

Wow, sounds like a very interesting time and was a fun read.
Thanks.