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3. iSiloX 3.25 for Windows and Mac OS enters beta1
4. iSiloXC 3.25 for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X,
and Solaris enters beta1
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1. iSilo(TM) 3.25 for Palm OS and Pocket PC enters beta1
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iSilo(TM) 3.25b1 addresses the following issues from iSilo 3.2:
- When highlighting content with a non-zero top margin, the highlight
may be offset vertically in the downward direction.
- (iSilo for Palm OS) Tapping the application launcher/home silkscreen
icon while in the password dialog results in a fatal error.
- (iSilo for Palm OS) Documents in /Palm/Launcher may fail to be added
to the document list.
- (iSilo for Palm OS) Text displays cutoff on the NX60/70V.
iSilo(TM) 3.25b1 adds the following new features to iSilo 3.2:
- Added support for hyperlink mode for iterating through currently
visible hyperlinks.
- Added support for starting on the home page of a document if the
document was converted with the option for doing so if the document
date differs from the document date the last time the document was
opened.
- (iSilo for Palm OS) For Palm OS 5, added ability to display an
image at double the image's width and height.
- (iSilo for Pocket PC) When renaming files, if the original file
name had a three letter extension, then add it to the new file name
if it does not end with a period nor have a three letter extension.
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such is intended for testing purposes to help eliminate problems
and issues before the release.
Please report any problems or issues you encounter by sending an
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all potentially relevant details, including the exact steps used
to reproduce the problem, OS version, and hardware configuration.
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To download iSilo 3.25b1 for Pocket PC, please go to this URL:
To download iSilo 3.25b1 for Windows , please go to this URL:
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2. iSilo(TM) 3.25 for Windows CE Handheld PC enters beta1
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iSilo(TM) 3.25 will be the first version of iSilo for Windows CE
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Basic requirements:
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Professional Edition version 3.0, or Windows CE Handheld PC 2000
- Storage memory for application executable file (dependent on
processor): ARM: 579K, MIPS: 627K
- To determine your processor type go to the Start menu, tap Settings, tap
Control Panel, double-tap System, and then go to the Device tab.
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- 512K free program memory (1MB recommended)
Additional functionality specific requirements:
- Additional memory required for document storage.
- iSiloX required for creating documents utilizing maximum document
presentation capabilities.
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such is intended for testing purposes to help eliminate problems
and issues before the release.
Please report any problems or issues you encounter by sending an
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all potentially relevant details, including the exact steps used
to reproduce the problem, OS version, and hardware configuration.
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iSiloX 3.25b1 addresses the following issues from iSiloX 3.2:
- Maximum width and height settings for images would not be applied
to images referenced by an image tag with a width or height
attribute specification greater than the native width or height
of the image.
- Within a block with a non-zero text indent, a line following a
forced break with the
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child element would incorrectly also inherit the specification
instead of the computed font-size value.  For example, in the
case where the parent element specified 2em, the actual computed
value of the child would be 4em (e.g., 2 * 2em = 4em).
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- In the Document properties, added a home page section for specifying
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document on the home page when the document date changes.
- In the Text properties, for preformatted text, added an option
for specifying whether or not to use a monospace font.
- In the Text properties, for preformatted text, added an option
for specifying whether to keep all single line breaks, remove all
single line breaks, or only keep single line breaks if a space or
tab character follows.
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such is intended for testing purposes to help eliminate problems
and issues before the release.
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to reproduce the problem, OS version, and hardware configuration.
To download iSiloX 3.25b1 for Windows, please go to this URL:
To download iSiloX 3.25b1 for Mac OS, please go to this URL:
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4. iSiloXC 3.25 for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X,
and Solaris enter beta1
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iSiloX 3.25b1 addresses the following issues from iSiloX 3.2:
- Maximum width and height settings for images would not be applied
to images referenced by an image tag with a width or height
attribute specification greater than the native width or height
of the image.
- Within a block with a non-zero text indent, a line following a
forced break with the
tag with markup at the beginning
of the line would incorrectly be indented.
- If a parent element specifies a font-size using ems, then the
child element would incorrectly also inherit the specification
instead of the computed font-size value.  For example, in the
case where the parent element specified 2em, the actual computed
value of the child would be 4em (e.g., 2 * 2em = 4em).
- Upon reopening a .ixl file containing a document entry with the
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- In a .ixl file, if an element is specified but has no content,
the .ixl file may fail to open.
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- Under
, added the
and
elements for specifying the document
home page number and whether or not to open the document on the
home page when the document date changes.
- Under
, added the
element
for preformatted text for specifying whether or not to use a
monospace font.
- Under
, added the
element
for preformatted text for specifying whether to keep all single
line breaks, remove all single line breaks, or only keep single
line breaks if a space or tab character follows. See .ixl file
format for more information.
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such is intended for testing purposes to help eliminate problems
and issues before the release.
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EFFector       Vol. 15, No. 35       November 8, 2002     ren@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation     ISSN 1062-9424
In the 234th Issue of EFFector:
* ALERT UPDATE: Urge Your Representative to Co-Sponsor the DMCRA!
* ALERT: Bait and Switch: Anticounterfeiting Bill Hurts Your
Rights!
* Canadian Trademark Law Overreaching
* Give Twice as Many Gifts this Holiday Season!
* Deep Links (4): Security Technologies Could Backfire Against
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* ALERT UPDATE: Urge Your Representative to Co-Sponsor the DMCRA!
As the legislative season ends, it is vitally important to gather
support for legislation that will be center-stage in the next session.
This is an opportunity to ask your representative to take a stand for
your rights. Ask her/him to co-sponsor the DMCRA today!
Representatives Rick Boucher and John Doolittle recently introduced
the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, H.R. 5544), which
would require labelling on usage-impaired "copy-protected" compact
discs and would make several several amendments to 1998's infamous
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Take action here:

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* ALERT: Bait and Switch; Anticounterfeiting Bill Hurts Your Rights!
Don't be fooled by Senator Biden's "Anticounterfeiting Amendments of
2002" (S. 2395, also known as "the Biden Bill"). It started as an
attempt to stop organized crime from forging holograms and
counterfeiting money, but its scope has been greatly expanded to
include digital watermarks on copyrighted material. This is a sneaky
power-grab that would greatly diminish the rights of the public in
copyrighted works while expanding the power of copyright owners. It
goes well beyond the scope of current copyright law and could:
~ Prevent universities, libraries, and consumers from enjoying the
exceptions to the Copyright Act adopted by Congress. S. 2935 could
prohibit the use of interface information essential for software
interoperability and competition
~ Impose new responsibilities on Internet service providers and could
also require consumer electronics and computer manufacturers to
reconfigure their products.
~ Impose more severe criminal and civil penalties than permitted by
the Copyright Act for identical behavior
This "anticounterfeiting" bill is a decoy; stand up for your rights
today! Subscribe to the EFF Action Center and send your member of
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* Canadian Trademark Law Overreaching
EFF has been involved in several cases involving overreaching
trademark claims on the Internet. Recently we have learned about a
Canadian lawsuit over the website www.lawsnet.com, a nonprofit legal
information website focusing on the laws of Canada and China that seem
especially egregious.
Lawsnet.com is a free legal information website that has been
published since 1998. Last year, Lawsnet.com's owner Ling Xia was sued
by Quicklaw, a subsidiary of global publishing giant LexisNexus Group.
Quicklaw claims that Lawsnet.com violates its rights in the name
LAW/NET. However, LAW/NET does not have a public Internet website
under that domain name. The name appears on a subsidiary webpage of
the Quicklaw.com website that offers public "teasers" in the form of
summaries of recent Canadian cases, with the full text only available
through the private, proprietary paid Quicklaw service for Canadian
lawyers. It seems clear that the two names are substantially
different, are used in different places (one as a teaser for a closed
computer service and the other for information freely available on the
public internet) and are not causing any consumer confusion. Even more
problematic, Quicklaw does not even have a Canadian trademark in the
term LAW/NET -- it applied for one in 1997 but has repeatedly filed
requests for extensions of time with the Canadian trademark
authorities. In contrast, Ms. Xia is in the final stages of having a
Canadian trademark issued for "lawsnet."
Regardless of its weak case, Quicklaw has managed to drag Ms. Xia
through over a year of litigation and recently succeeded in securing a
court order requiring her to undergo an extensive "discovery" process
that threatens to drive her under. Although she has had some free
legal assistance in the past, this next phase will require
significantly more legal resources than her volunteer attorneys can
muster. Quicklaw is represented by a large Toronto firm, Borden Ladner
and Gervais, LLP.
Abuse of trademark law (even here, when no official trademark has even
been granted) is a growing problem on the Internet, and it is
unfortunately becoming an international problem. EFF urges Quicklaw,
and its US-based parent company, to stop beating up on this free and
useful website. While trademark law is important when misuse of a mark
is causing consumer confusion, it does not -- and should not -- grant
ownership in words, especially descriptive words like "laws" and "net"
when describing an online legal information service. Trademark law
should also not be a license for large corporations who sell legal
information (or any other nonproprietary information) to stop
individuals who want to use the power of the Internet to provide free
legal information to the public.
For those who wish to help Ms. Xia directly, local Toronto lawyer and
part-time law professor Gil Lan has agreed to act as trustee for a
legal defence fund to be established for Ms. Xia. If you wish to help,
please contact:
Mr. Gil Lan
Barrister & Solicitor
393 University Avenue
Suite 2000
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1E6
or by email at:
glan@globalbusinesslaw.com
or Ling Xia at:
editor@lawsnet.com
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* Give Twice as Many Gifts this Holiday Season!
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* Deep Links
Deep Links features noteworthy news items, victories, and threats from
around the Internet.
~ Security Technologies Could Backfire Against Consumers
Robert Lemos at news.com with a balanced piece on trusted computing.

~ Barbie's Kinky Rival Wins First Court Battle
Mattel loses first round in intellectual property battle over S&M doll
with Barbie head.

~ Unspooled
In the digital age, the quaint cassette is sent reeling into history's
dustbin.

~ The Meaning and Importance of the TEACH Act
The American Library Association on the latest amendment to US
copyright law.

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>
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* * *   Back issues online at    * * *
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out.
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AN INTERNET EIREANNACH............................Ping An Irish Song
Yet another Irish internet company, Octagon Technologies, closed for
good this week.  And after reading the phrase for what seemed like
the umpteen-thousandth time, we were idly wondering how many Irish
tech companies blamed their misfortunes "on the global downturn":

Oh, so it's about 450 then.  Thanks, Google.
*
The death occurred recently of that great Irish washtub musician
Lonnie Donegan.  RIP.  This seems like an apt time therefore to
reflect on his many accomplishments: his virtuoso playing of
utensil-based instruments, his worldwide commercial success, his
place in history as King of Skiffle, and how he wiped billions of
yen off the value of the Tokyo stock market:

("panic and subsequent 10+% decline of Tokyo Stock Exchange when Reuters
advised 'Lonnie Donnegan' was dead")
and also at

("to Japanese ears it sounded like Ronald Reagan").
*
UCD's Literary and Historical Society this week awarded an honorary
fellowship to the tediously brilliant American multidisciplarian Dr
Noam Chomsky.  Now the idea of some trifling college society
awarding a mere honorary fellowship actually sounds rather like an
insult to us, considering that Niall Quinn and Marian Finucane were
given *degrees* by DIT the very next day, but then Chomsky
apparently inspired some of Radiohead's most caterwaulingly blunted
songs, so we suppose it serves him right.  Anyway, if you're an
admirer of the great man's hermeutic genius, linguistic philosophy
or contentious views on US foreign policy, perhaps you might also
appreciate his amazing interview of Tom Hanks:
#tomnnoam
Very special thanks to IMHO's London correspondent Ray Butler for
this one.
*
Key IMHO contributor Sean Lynch quite realistically predicts a post-
Budget dole queue for all of us, and wonders if we'll miss those
cash-and-job cow multinationals when they're gone?   Not if their
Irish presence was as permanent and impressive as "the world's
leading risk and insurance services firm", he concludes:

(compare and contrast with, say,
*
Also: we've been remiss in the past in not featuring
EircomTribunal.com's stalwart and righteous campaigning against
Eircom's crippling rates and crippled infrastructure in this
country.  Well, we aim to redress that right now, by pointing out
(1) Their 'Banana Republic' international price comparison page at
 which will
surely make you mad enough to
(2) Download and print out their marvellously bitter "No More
Favours For You, Mr Eircom Employee" flyer from
 designed
to be stuck under the windshields of the ubiquitous and bilious
blue/orange Eircom vans.
Now if only EircomTribunal.com could somehow could retrieve that
money we all lost on bloody Eircom shares...
* * * * * * * * *
IMHO'S PICK: JOB....................IMHO HO HO (AND A BOTTLE OF RUM)
"FATHER CHRISTMAS on a bike - Student - Giving out FREEBIES - Four
weeks".  No, not us telegraphing our worst nightmare to our shrink,
but a job description for a position that apparently pays "enough".
Email tmckeagney@msn.com or hell, cycle into his perfume shop at 128
The Stephens Green Centre and show him what you can do.
And hey, if you're a crazy maniac, that's great too.  It's about
time we had an Irish SANTACON - after all, no force on earth can
stop one hundred Santas, especially if they're drunk:

(from the San Francisco Police Report, "the naughty Santas ... had
reeked (sic) havoc in the emporium ... in an un-Christmas like
fashion.")
*
Heh.  Disproving the stereotype that all accountants are boring:
some Dublin 2 company is looking for a "Parti-time bookkeeper" at

*
Our attention-deficient gaze also fell briefly this week onto a box
ad in a Sunday paper which is seeking private investors for an
ADVENTURE SPORTS RETAILING business in Dublin.  Now this probably
just means selling snowboards or something equally tame, but in our
imagination we see IMHO readers hunting elephants, dogfighting in
biplanes over the Wicklow Hills and abseiling down moon craters.
Just in case we're right, any "smart, experienced partner/investor"
looking for an "equity stake/board position" should "express"
"interest" to neptune@atomic.ie.
You know, it might look like we're giving these people free
advertising, but by putting their email addresses on the public web,
we're actually GUARANTEEING them spam...
* * * * * * * * *
IMHO'S PICK: EVENT...........................Allow Us To Demonstrate
Friday is BUY NOTHING DAY.  For the sake of your own mental health
and the socio-economic future, we urge you to give it a try.  It's
not that hard to get through 24 hours without a purchase, and those
corporate balance sheets sure look funny with a big pre-Christmas
hole in them.
The official home of BND is of course Adbusters
( and they have a run-down of
Irish activities at  rather a disappointing line-up
at this late stage, although the Zombie-Shopping in Galway sounds
like fun - shame they're moving the day to Saturday, hopefully it's
not for purpose-defeating reasons ("Friday?  Damn, I'm working the
late shift at McDonald's... how about Saturday?").  In addition and
elsewhere you can expect bring-and-trade markets, flypostering, free
stuff, public speaking and all the other happy faces of democratic
consumer agitation.  Punk's not dead!  Party for your right to
fight!  No Logo!  Hare Hare!  And so on.
*
We're now going to risk life and limb by mentioning an event which
is so diametrically opposed to the above that we might just bring
about the heat-death of the Internet by combining them in the one
newsletter.
We speak of course of the benighted and spiritually-denuded sickness
of the TRILOGY FASHION SHOW in the RDS on December 4th, tickets
starting at "just E50" (but rising to E395 + VAT, natch).  The
advertising for this bleak celebration focuses entirely on "the most
beautiful women in the world" who will grace the Simmonscourt
Pavilion with their airbrushed emptiness: Tyra Banks, Sophie Dahl
and Anna Kournikova (not the virus) are the only names we recognise.
You have to pore pretty closely over the small print of the press
ads to divine that it's the "new Escada Collection" (the who now?)
they're modelling.  And in an utterly appropriate and inevitable
partnership, tickets are available from the cultural sewage
treatment system that is Ticketmaster.

* * * * * * * * *
IMHO'S PICK: DOWNLOAD..................Transparent and Unaccountable
Given our internet focus and the subversive nature of our scurrilous
publishing agenda, there is only one possible download
recommendation this week.  It's the brilliant GHOSTZILLA browser, a
creation of architectural genius which brings office escapism to
heady new heights.
Designed to facilitate inconspicuous worktime browsing, Ghostzilla
sits quietly and invisibly in the background until you summon it
with a special mouse movement.  It then adapts itself to your
currently-uppermost application, for example Micro$oft Word, leaving
Word's toolbars intact while showing web pages in a subtle grayed-
out wash in the main window.  Images appear in a subdued two-tone
unless you summon them, and the overall effect is to make it look
like you're working exactly as you should be.  A casual glance from
your Office Space boss as he paces past your cubicle shouldn't
detect anything that looks like browsing.  To think that someone
devoted their life to creating something so wonderfully juvenile!
It's a beautiful thing.  Go ghosting at

* * * * * * * * *
IMHO'S PICK: INTERNET^HWS................................ON YER BIKE
Roll up, roll up roll up!  Segue right this way!  Amazon is now
selling the celebrated SEGWAY (aka Ginger, aka IT) online, the hype
of the millennium finally made available to lowly consumers.  You're
only four months and five thousands bucks away from participating in
the future of transport, the most fundamental and significant
breakthrough in human evolution since the invention of the leg, the
"spirit that can change the world", etc. etc.
Get out your chequebook and get your Segway at

*
The perfect expression of our post-modern mania for meta-media
(whoah! Easy, Chomsky!) is the utterly compelling 'Hoax Photo Test'
at
(If you've seen this already, that's prolly 'cos the mighty B3TA.com
featured it last Friday - credit where it's due)
*
"Imagine being able to run a Google-like search on your life," says
one of the prophets of doom behind MyLifeBits, an incredibly Dickian
personalised self-database being developed by - who else? -
Microsoft.  By cataloguing every single artifact of your life
history, storing everything in an online repository, you build a
searchable index of every conversation, document, movement, event
and action that you ever generate or perform.  It's a continuous
real-time alibi recorder.  It's a voluntary submission of every
second of existence to information overload.  It's a system that can
show you all the photos you were ever in, tell you exactly how many
phonecalls you've ever made, or retrieve an mpeg of you going to the
toilet in March, 1986:

Also: we knew that modern innovation was roaring ahead at a
blistering pace, but can MyLifeBits really allow "time-shifting"?

For a fictional (OR IS IT???) look at where this sinister technology
might just lead, check out this wonderful piece of short science
fiction (OR IS IT???):

("I'm a Googlebot!  I will not kill you.")
*
The newest in the intriguing development of really sick-minded God-
perspective Flash games (e.g. suicide bombers at
 giant human-burning
magnifying glass at  has arrived... boasting a title as
bereft of imagination as the gameplay is of taste, it's 'Pedestrian
Killer':

But if you prefer God-games which let you manipulate the very atoms
of creation, check out the awe-inspiring microscopic version of
Tetris using computer-controlled microspheres these loons have
created:
~joost/complex/index.html.
*
We Irish are sometimes so uncultured, compared to our continental
cousins - even in things you'd expect us to be good at, like
vandalism.  Here we get inarticulate clowns with cans of red paint
daubing "666" on the gates of Cardinal Connell's palatial Drumcondra
residence... whereas in Paris, to pick an example out of the blue,
egghead situationists sneakily attach absurdist plaques (e.g. "On
April 17, 1967, nothing happened here") onto public buildings:

*
Microsoft have co-opted the AmIHotOrNot concept, as is their wont, mixed
it up with a bit of Miss World, and come up with the 'Microsoft Office v.
X Integrated Experience', or Ms. M.o.X.i.e. competition:

Was it for this Emily Wilding Davison died beneath King George V's horse?
Was it for this that all those bras were burned?  It's like Girl Power
never happened.
*
When good TiVos go bad: you tape one episode of Ellen, they assume
you're gay:

* * * * * * * * *
LEGACY MEDIA.................There Was Nothing In The Air That Night
IRISH TV: If you rush straight home from work after reading this on
Thursday, you might catch the second semi-final of corny but
challenging elimination quiz IT'S NOT THE ANSWER (RTE1, 17:30).
Come on the beardy guy!  The final's on at the same time tomorrow.
Calm down from all that excitement with the laughable one-hour FAIR
CITY murder trial special (RTE1, 20:00) - it's quite brilliant how
the risible scripts really bring out the absolute worst in truly
terrible actors.  Settle down with a few G&Ts to watch PRIME TIME on
the same channel at 21:30, where they're discussing Ireland's
alcoholic epidemic and its attendant social problems, or waste them
on either the bottom-scraping POLICE ACADEMY 3 (N2, 21:30) or the
geriatric 1978 blockbuster COMA (TG4, 22:05).
Friday night, and after a hard day of buying nothing you can flop in
front of creepy Hitler doco SIX MOST EVIL MEN (N2, 21:00).  Near as
we can tell, the other evil men are Macauley Culkin in UNCLE BUCK
(TV3, 20:00), gossip columnist WINCHELL in a solid eponymous biopic
(N2, 21:30), the big boss bad guy - is it Kang? Kane? Cowen? - in
MORTAL KOMBAT (TG4, 21:25), Mel Gibson in predictable 80s drug
thriller TEQUILA SUNRISE (RTE1, 23:50), and Quentin Tarantino
jumping on his own bandwagon in DESTINY TURNS ON THE RADIO (TV3,
0:50).  Hang on, Dave Fanning might be one of the evil men too: he's
presenting THE LAST BROADCAST on Network 2 at 23:35.
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/ui" without quotes.  The information displayed is color-coded.  Error
messages are in red, warnings are in blue.  Green denotes registry entries,
Configuration Manager information is in brown and file attributes are shown
in magenta.
06. TRAINING WINDOWS.  One pet peeve is Windows' determination to identify
a shortcut icon as "Shortcut to (whatever)"  This is pure redundancy, since
shortcuts are identified by an arrow.  And, with the added verbage of
"Short cut to" you can't jump from one icon to another by pressing the
first letter (since they would all start with an "s".  If you keep removing
"Shortcut to," Windows will eventually understand your intent and future
shortcuts won't include "Shortcut to".
07. HOLD THAT BUTTON.  The site at  invites
you to hold the mouse key down.  Now, before you hastily jump to
conclusions that there's nothing more to this site, when you release the
button, you are told how you rank in stamina with other button
holders.  And when I took my turn at the controls, I found that the longest
record was a little over six hours, proving once again that some folks need
to get a life.
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 . They include a bug
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editor, menu, counter,icon viewer and editor, and more.
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enough help with your computer, try  .
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Word telecom Qwest Communications International is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver helped send technology shares lower Wednesday.
Despite a Merrill Lynch upgrade of Cisco Systems and the fact that J.P. Morgan began coverage on AOL Time Warner with a "buy" rating, CNET's Tech index fell 26.23 points, or 2.66 percent, to 965.29. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index lost 35.11 points, or 2.54 percent, to 1,346.01--a multi-year low.
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Shareholders of AT&T Corp. and Comcast Corp. on Wednesday approved the planned $27 billion merger of AT&T Broadband with Comcast, which will create the nation's largest cable TV operator with more than 22 million customers.
Telephone giant AT&T in December agreed to sell its cable television unit to Comcast as part of a restructuring that dismantled its vision of becoming a one-stop shop for telephone, data and video services.AT&T CORP 9.78 -2.30%
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Networking start-up Pluris will release a statement Wednesday announcing it has closed its doors because of a lack of funding and ongoing woes in the market it serves, according to a spokeswoman familiar with the company's plans.
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Andy Schuon is leaving as president and chief executive officer of Pressplay, a joint online venture between Sony Music and Universal Music, sources close to the matter said on Wednesday.
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