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EFFector       Vol. 15, No. 24       August 9, 2002      ren@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation	  ISSN 1062-9424
In the 224th Issue of EFFector:
* EFF Submits Letter to FCC Chairman Regarding BPDG Proposal
* Update on Intel Corp. v. Hamidi
* DeCSS Author Johansen's Trial Rescheduled
* Bunnie Presents Paper on XBox Reverse Engineering
* Thanks to DefCon!
* EFF Booth at LinuxWorld
* Deep Links: Baen Books' Releases Reader-Friendly E-Books
* Deep Links: Janis Ian on P2P
* Deep Links: Hometown Paper Discusses Rep. Coble's Support of
Berman P2P Hacking Bill
* Administrivia
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* EFF Submits Letter to FCC Chairman Regarding BPDG Proposal
The Honorable Michael K. Powell Chairman Federal Communications
Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Suite 8C453 Washington, DC 20554
BY FACSIMILE, ELECTRONIC MAIL, AND POSTAL MAIL
Dear Chairman Powell:
I am writing to you today in regards to the digital television
Broadcast Flag; specifically, I write in response to Sen. Hollings'
and Representatives Dingell and Tauzin's letters of July 19, which
urged you to mandate the Broadcast Flag proposal outlined in the
final report of the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a donor-supported
non-profit organization that works to uphold civil liberties
interests in technology policy and law. EFF has played a critical
role in safeguarding crucial freedoms related to computers, the
Internet and consumer electronics devices, defeating the restriction
on strong cryptography exports; securing the legal principle that
Internet wiretaps must only proceed in conjunction with a warrant;
and defending academics, researchers and commercial interests
against DMCA-related prosecution.
EFF was an active participant in the Broadcast Protection Discussion
Group. We attended the group's meetings and conference calls and
participated in the group's policy and technical mailing-lists. EFF
also maintains a web-site that was and is the only public source of
information on the Broadcast Flag negotiations and proposal. The
site can be found at  EFF devoted
thousands of staff-hours to publicizing the existence and nature of
the BPDG to the public, to civil liberties and consumer-advocacy
groups, and to entrepreneurial companies and software authors whose
products were threatened by the proceedings.
When you and I met at Esther Dyson's PC Forum last March, we spoke
briefly about the civil liberties interests that would be undermined
by the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group's mandate. The BPDG
proposal will have grave consequences for innovation, free
expression, competition and consumer interests. Worst of all, it
will add unnecessary complexity and expense to the DTV transition,
compromising DTV adoption itself.
As you are aware, technologists have traditionally manufactured
those devices they believed would be successful in the market, often
in spite of the misgivings of rights-holders. From the piano roll to
the PVR, technologists have enjoyed the freedom to ship whatever
products they believe the public will pay for; what's more,
innovation has always thrived best where there were the fewest
regulatory hurdles. NTSC tuners and devices are governed by precious
few regulations, and consequently we see a rich field of products
that interact with them, from the VCR Plus to tuner-cards for PCs to
the PVR. The Broadcast Flag proposal would limit technologists to
shipping those products that met with the approval of MPAA member
companies. No entrepreneur or software author will know, a priori,
whether his innovative DTV product will be legal in the market until
he has gone to the expense of building it and taking it around to
the Hollywood studios for review.
Consumers and industry alike have benefitted greatly from the "Open
Source" or "Free Software" movement, in which technologies are
distributed in a form that encourages end-user modification. From
server-software like the web-wide success-story apache, to operating
systems like GNU/Linux, to consumer applications like the Mozilla
browser, Free Software is a powerful force for innovation, consumer
benefit and commercial activity. The BPDG proposal implicitly bans
Free Software DTV applications -- such as the DScaler de-interlacer
and the GNU Radio software-defined radio program -- as these
applications are built to be modified by end-users, something that
is banned under the BPDG proposal. The tamper-resistance component
of the BPDG's "Robustness Requirements" will create and entire class
of illegal software applications, abridging the traditional First
Amendment freedom enjoyed by software authors who create expressive
speech in code form under one of several Free Software/Open Source
licenses.
The BPDG nominally set out to create an objective standard, a bright
line that technologists could hew to in order to avoid liability
when deploying their products. However, the end product of the BPDG
was a "standard" that contained no objective criteria for legal
technology; rather, the standard required that new technologies be
approved by MPAA member companies. Not uncoincidentally, the only
technologies that were approved by the MPAA -- and hence the only
legal technologies -- were those produced by the 4C and 5C
consortia, a group of technology companies that acted as the MPAA's
allies throughout the BPDG process. This is an harbinger of the sort
of regime that the BPDG standard will usher in: technology companies
will be able to shut their competitors out of the marketplace by
allying themselves with Hollywood, brokering deals to allow certain
technologies and outlaw others.
The marketplace is a proven mechanism for rapidly and efficiently
producing products that increase the value and desirability of new
technologies, such as DTV. A BPDG mandate would subvert the market
for DTV innovation. Competing companies with lower-cost DTV
technology alternatives would be restrained from bringing these to
market if they failed to assuage the MPAA's concerns about
unauthorized redistribution. Furthermore, the universe of
unauthorized-but-lawful uses for DTV programming will be shrunk down
to the much smaller space of explicitly authorized uses. The ability
of the public to make unauthorized-but-lawful uses of television
programming has been an historical force for increasing the value of
broadcast programming, from the VCR to the PVR.
Ironically, the inevitable damage that a Broadcast Flag mandate
would do to innovation, competition and consumer interests can only
slow down DTV adoption, by driving up the cost of DTV devices while
reducing the number of desirable features that an open market would
create. If the public is offered less functionality for more money,
they will not flock to DTV.
The most disheartening thing about the Broadcast Flag is that there
is neither a strong case that the Broadcast Flag is a necessary tool
for protecting copyright, nor that the Broadcast Flag would be
effective in that role. The existing practice of Internet
infringement of broadcast programming -- analog captures from
devices that satisfy the requirements of the BPDG proposal -- would
not be stopped by the presence of a Broadcast Flag.
Higher-resolution DTV signals will likewise present no challenge to
determined infringers, who can capture full-quality analog signal
from DTV devices and then re-digitize them, suffering only a single
generation's worth of loss-of-quality before the programming enters
the Internet.
Meanwhile, the underlying rubric for a Broadcast Flag -- that
infringement will undermine Hollywood's business to the point that
movies will no longer be available to the public, reducing the value
of DTV -- is no more than superstition. No credible study or
analysis, undertaken by a neutral party, has ever been presented to
Congress, the FCC, the CPTWG or the BPDG supporting this notion. The
public is being asked to sacrifice its rights in copyright; industry
is being asked to place its right to innovation in the hands of
entertainers; the US government is being asked to mandate
extraordinary, unprecedented regulation of the $600 billion
technology sector -- all on the uncorroborated opinions of a few
studio executives.
EFF welcomes the FCC's oversight of the Broadcast Flag issue. The
BPDG proceedings took place behind a shroud of secrecy, in a
looking-glass "public process" where only those participants the
organizers wanted to hear from were made privy to its existence,
where the co-chairs invented rules and processes on the fly to suit
the needs of the entertainment interests and the technology
companies that had privately secured a promise of a legal monopoly
for their products, where the press was banned.
The FCC has an admirable tradition of seeking and weighing public
opinion in its proceedings. As the FCC considers the Broadcast Flag,
EFF hopes that it will start anew, setting aside the findings of the
BPDG in light of the concerns raised by Microsoft, Philips, Sharp,
Thomson, and Zenith, as well as non-profit organizations including
EFF, Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, the Free
Software Foundation, Public Knowledge, digitalconsumer.org, the
Center for Democracy in Technology, and the Computer and
Communications Industry Association.
Thank you for attention in this matter. Please let me know if we can
be of any further assistance to you.
Sincerely yours,
Cory Doctorow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Links:
EFF's BPDG Blog:

An overview of our concerns with the broadcast flag:

Letter from Sen. Hollings:

Letter from Rep. Tauzin:

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* Update on Intel Corp. v. Hamidi
Intel Corp. v. Hamidi is now on appeal to the California Supreme
Court. EFF filed an amicus brief in support of Ken Hamidi on Aug. 6,
2002. The facts are simple: Over about two years, Hamidi on six
occasions sent e-mail critical of Intel's employment practices to
between 8,000 and 35,000 Intel employees. Intel demanded that Hamidi
stop, but he refused. Intel obtained an injunction barring Hamidi
from e-mailing Intel employees at their Intel e-mail addresses,
based on the common-law tort of "trespass to chattels." ("Chattel"
is a legal term that refers to personal property, as opposed to
property in land.)
EFF's amicus brief argues three main points.
(1) Intel did not qualify for relief under "trespass to chattels"
because Intel's e-mail servers were not themselves harmed by
Hamidi's e-mails. If Intel was harmed, it was because the content of
Hamidi's e-mails affected Intel employees, not because sending the
e-mails affected the functioning of Intel's servers.
(2) By focusing on unwanted "contact" with the chattel and ignoring
the harm requirement, the court of appeal turned "trespass to
chattels" into a doctrine that threatens common Internet activity
like search engines and linking. For example, if a website posted a
"no trespassing" sign, any "contact" by a search engine could be
considered a trespass even if it caused no harm.
(3) The court of appeal wrongly held that the injunction did not
infringe Hamidi's freedom of speech. The First Amendment limits
private parties' legal remedies in many areas of law, such as libel,
out of concern that private parties will use the law to suppress
criticism. The same principle should apply here, where Intel's
claims of harm stem from the meaning of Hamidi's speech.
Links:
The Intel v. Hamidi Archive:

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* DeCSS Author Johansen's Trial Rescheduled
The trial of Norwegian teen Jon Johansen, who created the
controversial DeCSS software, has been pushed back again. It is now
scheduled to be heard on December 9, 2002, in Oslo, Norway. In the
fall of 1999, Johansen and his team reverse-engineered the content
scrambling system (CSS) software used to encrypt DVDs in an effort
to build a DVD player for the Linux operating system. In January of
2002, the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (OKOKRIM) charged Johansen
with a violation of Norwegian Criminal Code Section 145.2, which
outlaws breaking into a third-party's property in order to steal
data that one is not entitled to. This prosecution marks the first
time the law will be used to prosecute a person for accessing his
own property (his own DVD). Johansen faces two years in prison if
convicted. The prosecution is based on a formal complaint filed by
the Motion Picture Association.
The trial had originally been scheduled to take place in June of
2002 but was rescheduled when the court could not find any qualified
judges to hear Johansen's case.  Now the case is scheduled to be
heard by a three-judge panel. Help Jon in his battle against
Hollywood movie studios, donate to his legal defense fund at:

Links:
The DeCSS/Johansen Archive:

Digital Rights Management Archive:

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* Bunnie Presents Paper on XBox Reverse Engineering
Paper Explains Flaw in Videogame Security System
Researcher Escapes Chilling Effect of Digital Copyright Law
Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory
For Immediate Release: Thursday, August 9, 2002
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased
to announce that former MIT doctoral student Andrew "Bunnie" Huang
will present a paper explaining a security flaw in the Microsoft
Xbox (TM) videogame system.
Huang will present his paper, "Keeping Secrets in Hardware: the
Microsoft X-BOX Case Study," at 5:25 p.m. PDT on August 13, 2002, at
the 2002 Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
(CHES 2002) in Redwood City, California (Aug. 13-15, 2002).
The Xbox security system is intended to allow people to play only
videogames authorized by Microsoft. Huang's paper "shows how a
person could defeat that system with a small hardware investment,"
said MIT Professor Hal Abelson, one of Huang's advisors. "More
importantly, the paper relates the security vulnerability to a
general design flaw shared by other high-profile security systems
such as the government's Clipper Chip and the movie industry's
Contents Scrambling System (CSS) for DVD players."
Huang contacted EFF in March after his advisors told him that his
preliminary findings raised potentially significant legal questions.
With the help of Boston College law professor Joe Liu, EFF worked
with Huang, Abelson, and MIT administrators to analyze the legal
issues and draft letters notifying Microsoft of Huang's research
findings and intended publication, one of the steps encouraged by
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Microsoft told Huang and Abelson that while it might prefer that the
paper not be published, it would be inappropriate to ask MIT to
withhold the paper.
"Microsoft deserves praise for making no attempt to control
publication," said Abelson. "Their response shows that they value
academic freedom, and that they appreciate the critical role of
unfettered research and publication in advancing technology."
Other companies have reacted otherwise, using the DMCA to threaten
researchers. The Recording Industry Association of America last year
warned Princeton Professor Edward Felten after his research team
exposed weaknesses in digital music security technologies. Last
month, Hewlett Packard (HP) threatened research collective SnoSoft
over exposing a security vulnerability in HP's Tru64 Unix operating
system. Soon after, HP clarified that it would not use the DMCA to
stifle research or impede the flow of information that would improve
computer security.
Huang said that while he is glad he can openly present his paper,
"The DMCA clearly had a chilling effect on my work. I was afraid to
submit my research for peer review until after the EFF's efforts to
clear potential legal restraints."
"Researchers should be analyzing security, not worrying about
getting sued," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien.
Links:
For this release:

For Huang's paper:
ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/2002/AIM-2002-008.pdf
For the CHES program:
EFF "Unintended Consequences: Three Years Under the DMCA" report:

RIAA sues Professor Edward Felten over SDMI:

An article about Hewlett-Packard's threatening SnoSoft:

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* EFF Thanks Defcon
EFF thanks The Dark Tangent and other organizers of the DEF CON X
convention for their generous donation of exhibition space at DEF
CON ( DEF CON is an "underground" computer
security conference held each summer in Las Vegas.
Links:
Defcon Website:

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* EFF Booth at LinuxWorld
Come visit EFF at booth #488 at Linuxworld next week. We'll be
passing out information, good cheer, and a slew of new stickers.
When: August 13 - 15
10a - 5p
Where: Booth #5
Moscone Center
747 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Links:
LinuxWorld Conference Website:

Floor Map and EFF Booth:

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Deep Links
Deep Links is a new department in the EFFector featuring noteworthy
news-items, victories and threats from around the Internet.
* Baen Books expands fair-use-friendly e-book program
Baen Books will bind a CD-ROM into the October 2002 hardcover
edition of *War of Honor,* the latest volume in David Weber's epic
Honor Harrington space-opera. The CD will contain at least 22
complete novels, all in open formats like html and RTF, with the
fair-use-friendly admonishment "This disk and its contents may be
copied and shared but NOT sold." Included on the disk are the entire
Honor Harrington series to date, as well as other titles from the
Baen line, including Keith Laumer's *Retief!* and Larry Niven and
Jerry Pournelle's *Fallen Angels*.
Baen has been a banner-carrier for fair-use in electronic
publishing, shipping text and html files that can be played on a
multitude of devices. Other publishers have chosen to publish their
material in copy-controlled formats that make it impossible to
legally loan or resell the titles you purchase, are locked to a
specific device, can't play on every operating system, and
occasionally lock out assistive technology like the screen-readers
employed by the blind.
Dmitry Skylarov, a Russian scientist, was arrested in July 2001, for
demonstrating how end-users could defeat the copy-prevention
employed by Adobe's e-book technology. Adobe asked the FBI to arrest
Skylarov for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
which makes it a crime to describe techniques for circumventing
copy-prevention technology. Though Skylarov was later released, his
employer, ElcomSoft, is still facing charges in the USA, and the
Russian government has issued an advisory warning Russian scientists
to steer clear of American technical conferences until the DMCA is
repealed.
Here is Baen's statement on the CD release:
You are about to start playing with a CD-ROM that has fairly
extraordinary content. As of this writing it includes twenty-two
UNENCRYPTED novels in several formats, the ten Honor Harrington
Novels, 3 Honor Harrington Anthologies and 9 novels by friends of
Honor, and by the time of distribution it may well contain more.
(More than twenty novels for free, and with no stupid codes to work
around. Think of that.) The reason for the plethora of formats is to
try to please the people who want to read the novels on their Palm
Pilots or other text-specialized palm-sized devices.
Links:
Baen Books's page for *War of Honor*:

Slashdot discussion of *War of Honor* release:

149
EFF documents on Dmitry Skylarov and ElcomSoft:

EFF documents on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):

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* Singer/Songwriter Janis Ian on P2P Lucid article on the benefits of
peer-to-peer networks form an artists' perspective.

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* Hometown Paper Discusses Rep. Coble's Support of Berman P2P Hacking
Bill Column on how a good Representative can make a bad call.

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Creditors and shareholders of U.S. Airways found themselves in
the upright and locked position Sunday as the nation's
sixth-largest airline filed for bankruptcy protection.
The Arlington, Va.-based carrier sought cover under the
bankruptcy code's Chapter 11, but much of its trouble could be
traced to Sept. 11. Remember when all U.S. airports reopened
except for Reagan Washington, which was too close to the White
House and other gov sites? Remember how it was weeks before the
first lonely flights lifted at last? Guess which airline was the
major carrier there. (Hint: It's the same one that bled $2
billion in the past year.)
Even before the terror attacks, U.S. Airways was an animal in
pain. To all the usual industry troubles, add these: fierce
competition from discounters, a too-small area of service
concentrated on the East Coast, and an unofficial battle with
United Airlines for the highest labor costs in the business.
Frustrated, the carrier tried to throw in the towel two years
ago, reminded the Washington Post. In a bid to get bought by
United, U.S. Airways pleaded to federal antitrust regulators
that it was too small to survive on
its own. The feds disagreed and blocked the deal.
Now, of course, U.S. Airways has a new flight plan. Among those
likely to get airsick: shareholders, whose investment has
vanished; employees, many of whom are expected to lose their
jobs, even though their unions have conceded hundreds of
millions of dollars in pay; and creditors, especially
plane-leasing companies, which will collect only as much as a
bankruptcy judge approves. (Where, by the way, is the reporter
who will pick up the story of these leasing companies? Not one
creditor was named in any account we could find. Yet before we
soak our hankies over U.S. Airways, we'd like to hear a word
from the folks getting stiffed.)
Need a silver lining? Check out the Wall Street Journal, which
observes that Continental Airlines "soared to profitability"
thanks to its time in rehab a decade ago. We're guessing that
anecdote is on the minds of Texas Pacific Group, which is
plunking down $200 million for two-fifths of U.S. Airways. Texas
Pacific also played friend in need to Continental -- and
pocketed 11 times its investment.
Meanwhile, it will be "business as usual" for U.S. Airways
customers, the company's chief assured a skeptical New York
Times. The airline will even continue to track and to honor
frequent-flier miles. Better still: Cautious customers can use
U.S. Airways miles to book flights with its marketing partner,
United. And, hey, according to an analyst quoted in the Journal,
there's at least a 20% chance that United won't be the next
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summer of corporate scandals, remembering back to Global
Crossing's January implosion and bankruptcy is akin to trying to
recall the fuss over chads.
The Financial Times pegged the company's bankruptcy sale Friday
a "long-awaited" transaction, but few other outlets seemed to be
holding their breath. The dearth of coverage is too bad, because
the shock value of the numbers alone is worth attention,
especially with Enron and WorldCom following behind it in the
Chapter 11 aisle. Bankruptcy, it seems, means never having to
say you're sorry. Global Crossing owed $12 billion when it filed
for bankruptcy in January. Its sale price? $250 million -- and
that's for only a nearly two-thirds stake. Sound too low? Back
in January, Global Crossing could have gotten much more, three
times that much, and from the very same investment team, Asian
conglomerates Hutchison Whampoa and Singapore Technologies
Telemedia. But Global Crossing sniffed it was worth way more.
Now that it has discovered it's worth way less, here's how the
deal carves up what's left of Global Crossing's pie, pending the
regulatory approval that's expected in about six months. The two
investors get a 61.5% stake; bank creditors get 6%, and
bondholders get about a one-third share. Who's missing from the
slice-and-dice? Shareholders, of course, who get nothing. The
company is unapologetic, and creditors feel lucky for the
crumbs. "The reality is we could have done considerably worse,"
the Wall Street Journal quoted Edward Weisenfelder, a lawyer for
the creditors. As for the shrewd buyers, the Financial Times
quoted Hutchison's official statement that the deal would extend
its telecom capabilities, particularly in its broadband service.
But the Wall Street Journal speculated that the company is
simply buying low so it can sell higher.
Global Crossing's turned-down offer of $750 million is
approximately the same amount the company's founder, Gary
Winnick, reaped in personal riches from the sale of his stock,
as the Journal noted in its page-one story on the telecom
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Maurice O'Sullivan, Terry Gibson, 'mb2400', Bill Kennedy, Paul James
Cowie, Arthur Shippee, Joseph Nicholas, W. Richard Frahm,'alesmonetos',
and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
n.b. Last week I carelessly suggested the team which had claimed
to have found El Dorado was Polish; it is, in fact, an international
team led by a "Polish-Italian" journalist/explorer. Apologies for
any confusion this may have caused.
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John Noble Wilford attempts to clarify the Chadian skull thing:

In the what-can-DNA-tell-us-about-antiquity department, the latest
suggestion is that there is genetic evidence "middle easter farmers
'civilised' Europe":

A log boat which might date to 3000 B.C. has been found off the
coast of Ireland:

The Cerne Abbas Giant was recently, er, 'defaced' (not permanently ...
potentially offensive content in this one):

Satellite technology has revealed a prehistoric site near
Northumberland:

... and a prehistoric cemetery has been found near Cheshire:

They're still making significant finds in the 'workers village'near
the pyramids:

Gulf News has a nice feature on the alignment of a Dilmun temple at
Saar:

Plenty of coverage of a story on Bronze Age 'drug trade':

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be marking its centennial by
hauling up a bunch of never-before-seen artifacts from the basement:

Another piece on politics and archaeology in the Holy Land:

... while archaeologists seem to be quietly excavating a Byzantine
monastery in Gaza:

A first century cemetery has come to light near Palmyra:

A human-size statue of Baal Addir was recently revealed in a Sardinian
context:

A Celtic Iron Age fort in Wales is "revealing its secrets":

A large number of Eastern Zhou Dynasty tombs have been found in
China:

... as has an important tomb of an aristocrat:

Four Buddhas have been found hidden inside another Buddha rarely
seen by the public:

Sanskrit is in danger of becoming extinct:

There's a battle brewing over the fate of the "Welsh Mary Rose":

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There is evidence of pre-Columbian dentistry in Mexico:

Bones found near Lake Jackson (Texas) might be 11,000 years old:

A nice report on excavations near Fort Vancouver:

Home construction in Virginia has revealed the grave of a slave:

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A new issue of Bible Review, with online articles on a collection
of New Testament manuscripts, the Exodus debate, and other things:

... and Archaeology Odyssey, with articles on the ten most endangered
archaeological sites, Moses Shapira (wow), et alia:

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I came across the Into Archaeology website this week; it's worth a
look for a number of reasons, but in particular its articles section
has some good stuff (currently, an interview with Adrienne Mayor, a
piece
on the Thera ships, and a piece on the work at Bird Cove):

The Oriental Institute has recently added a whole pile of publically-
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George Dennis, *Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria*:

Horace, *Odes and Carmen Saeculare* (Conington trans.):

Horace, *Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica* (Conington trans.):

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Calleva: The Roman Town of Silchester:

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There are claims that recent Al-Qaeda casualties were actually
potential antiquity thieves:

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Iain Pears, *Dream of Scipio*:

Tony Perrottet, *Route 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists*

Anton Powell, * Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek political and
social history from 478 BC*

Antigone (Epidavros):

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Treasures from a Lost Civilization (Toronto):

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Famed debunker James Randi has been running a series on Lucian's
debunking of  Alexander of Abonutichus which is worth a look.
It's in four parts (you'll have to skim through some other, readable,
stuff to get to the bits on Lucian ... it tends to be near the end):

In case you meet someone who asks, "What's all the hubbub about those
Elgin Marbles?", here's a nice article to hand them:

Classical precedents cited in a piece on gossip:

Latin content in a story of a man with way too much time on his hands:

How not to pursue a classics degree:

Some guy is studying why ancient Greek buildings seem to do so well
in earthquakes (do they?):

A reader alerted me to LewRockwell.com, this week, which is a political
site which at least one item of interest ... a piece by Daniel
McCarthy on Greek ideas of liberty:

Plenty of ClassCon in a Newsweek piece "Why We Need Heaven":

... and a reason for studying Latin and Greek in an interview with
David McCollough:

Not sure whether there's comparanda potential in this bit on the
crowning of King Puck:

Peter Jones in the Spectator (there's a Hannibal movie coming!):
§ion=current&issue=2002-08-10&id=2137
... and Dot Wordsworth:
§ion=current&issue=2002-08-10&id=2138
Perfess'r Harris' Classics Corner:

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein

U.S. Weather in Latin:

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Birth Bricks:

"Hidden Nazi Gold":

Monitor (the coverage varies quite a bit in these):

Ninkasi Beer:

Old Chess Piece:

Replica Egyptian Tombs:

Return of Ramses I:

Return of Roman sculpture by Princeton:

Roman Plane from York:

Vinland Map:

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" 11 Access Points, Home Gateways and Ethernet bridging
Most Access Points act as a MAC level bridge, allowing the Wireless LAN to
be a natural extension of a wired network. They are deployed in a cellular
fashion, and provide extended security, management and roaming.
On the other hand, the Home Gateways allow a single cell to be connected to
a WAN, like a modem, a cable modem or a DSL access. The set of features is
quite different, and they offer NAT/masquerading and PPP configuration.
The conventional Ethernet bridging method (promiscuous sniffing) doesn't
work with most wireless LAN standard, because of the header encapsulation
and the interactions with link layer retransmissions. In other word, most
often, when you use a software bridge on a wireless LAN (such as the Linux
bridge on a 802.11 card), it doesn't work (moreover, quite often promiscuous
is broken as well). "
[[ What the?? What is he talking about?? Aren't we all using Linux to bridge
our networks? ]]
" The driver could work around this restriction by creating its own MAC
headers (802.11 headers instead of 802.3, and putting the right bits in the
right place), but in fact most vendors don't provide the specification on
how to this with their hardware (when they don't explicitely prevent it in
hardware, to force you to buy their Access Points).
In other words, don't expect to use your Linux PC as a wireless bridge or
wireless Access Points with most products out there, and forget about
turning it into an Access Point. Of course, there is some exceptions. "
[[ Is this true? ]]
" The workaround is to set the wireless LAN in ad-hoc mode and to use other
methods, such as routing, masquerading, IP bridging, ARP proxying... "
[[ Yes, I am in a process of building a wireless-lan
wired-lan bridge.
But I don't understand what this guy is talking about. Anyone?
Vince. ]]
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American Airlines announced a re-org. United Airlines' parent
company's stock sank on speculation that UAL is next in line for
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but it's not much consolation to airline employees,
shareholders, and customers that it's happening now.
The Wall Street Journal had the most extensive coverage of
American's plan as of Unspun's deadline. The airline will lay
off 7,000 workers, ground some jets, cut back on flight
amenities such as food, and retool its hub operations to make
for longer layovers. "In the past, airlines were loath to have
longer connection times because flights were listed in travel
agents' computers by elapsed time," said the Journal. "Now,
online booking tools and search engines most often list flights
by price, not time." In this age of penny-pinching, American's
worried about low-cost carriers, not the big guys like, um, US
Air and United.
Speaking of United, it's hard to come up with a verb for its
parent company's stock that doesn't invoke an air disaster.
Let's just say it didn't go up yesterday. The $3.80 share price
may be the least of UAL's worries while it waits for an
increasingly unlikely $1.8 billion loan from the Air
Transportation Stabilization Board. "The ATSB expects an
applicant's workers, suppliers and creditors to make concessions
to help the airline repay the loans and thus protect U.S.
taxpayers' interests," said the L.A. Times. Sounds nice for
uninvolved taxpayers but not so good to some of United's unions,
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The basic problem here is too many empty airplane seats, and
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government has bailed out carriers with insurance subsidies and
federal loan guarantees" while "European authorities have acted
more wisely," letting Swissair and Sabena "go to the wall," said
the Financial Times. Canadian pundits agreed that America should
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industry benefited from the demise of Canadian Airlines and
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The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, which opened yesterday in
San Francisco, will host two of the strangest bedfellows ever to
lie down with a stuffed penguin: Microsoft and Sun. These are
companies that once referred to Linux as a "bathtub of code"
(Sun) and "a cancer" (Microsoft), according to Sun's hometown
paper the San Jose Mercury News.
Both companies are taking Linux seriously despite the absolute
numbers. By January 2, 2001, Microsoft had made as much on
server software as all Linux vendors put together would reap in
the entire year.
Honors for the best attention-grabber on Microsoft's presence at
the show go to Brier Dudley, who opened his piece for the
Seattle Times this way: "Microsoft executive Peter Houston
wasn't too worried about the reception he'd get at LinuxWorld
... until he heard about the pie cannon."
Wired informed us that the section of LinuxWorld where Microsoft
will be holding the fort is dubbed the Rookery -- "a place where
you can watch companies hatch and grow right before your eyes,"
deadpanned reporter Michelle Delio, quoting Microsoft's Houston:
"Hatching isn't exactly on the agenda, but I certainly hope to
grow."
Turning to Sun, Unspun notes that five years ago a joke press
release circulated on the Net claiming that Linux creator Linus
Torvalds, then still living in Finland, was moving to Silicon
Valley to work for Sun. The joke was that Sun had decided to
scrap its Solaris operating system and instead concentrate on a
version of Linux, to be called "Solinux." How time does make
April fools of us all: Linus Torvalds is now thriving in Silicon
Valley (at Transmeta), and yesterday Sun Microsystems
demonstrated Sun Linux 5.0. and introduced its first
general-purpose servers running Linux.
The Merc ran a comprehensive wrap of Sun's evolving attitude
toward the upstart operating system. Sun has little choice but
to embrace Linux, wrote reporter Therese Poletti, because some
of its traditional Wall Street customers were deserting it.
"Several investment banks have tossed out whole sections of Sun
servers and replaced them with Intel-based servers running
Linux," Poletti reported. And you thought Microsoft hated Linux?
- Keith Dawson
Linux expo has come a long way

Microsoft changes its tune toward Linux (Seattle Times)

Microsoft Puts On the Tux

(Hoax press release on "Solinux")

Sun to name Linux-Solaris chief

Sun Microsystems flexes Linux to jab at Microsoft (Seattle
Times)

Microsoft and Free Software at the Same Show? It's True

Linux begins its descent into the enterprise

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Ex-CEO Pleads Not Guilty to ImClone Fraud

Security flaw found in Microsoft Web browser (Reuters)

Fed seen leaving rates unchanged

Some Sad No-Signs of the Times

Publisher dodges bankruptcy bullet

Gates Foundation Walks Fine Line As It Increases Its Cable
Holdings

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PGP defect reveals encrypted messages

Bell Labs simplifies single sign-on

Bigger Bar Code Inches Up on Retailers

Damn the Constitution: Europe must take back the Web

Japanese Drop Out of New ID System (Newsday, AP)

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Does the Securities and Exchange Commission have a press pass
yet? It seems to be bringing us all our news lately. On the day
of the deadline for companies to certify their financial
statements with the SEC, the business press squirmed and waited
for the next Enron or WorldCom. (We might eat these words
tomorrow, but we doubt it.) In an unrelated confession, IBM gave
the commission its latest layoff numbers.
IBM talked about pink slips during its second-quarter earnings
report, but with a vagueness worthy of your daily horoscope.
("Capricorn: Career changes may be on their way...") Only after
"months of surreptitious layoff notices" did the company admit
that it's cutting more than 15,600 jobs, said the AP. That's
about 5% of its workforce, and a lot more than pundits expected.
An IBM spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal the higher
number was due to "rebalancing" and more employees than expected
taking voluntary layoffs.
Sorry, we're still back on "rebalancing." Did IBM "rightsize"
last quarter, too?
IBM's news was still trickling out Wednesday morning, but some
details were available. About 1,400 workers got cut from IBM's
microelectronics unit, and most of the rest were from IT
services and consulting. (That ought to make IBM's new employees
from PricewaterhouseCoopers feel all warm and fuzzy inside.)
Look for news updates from cities that will see the cuts, such
as Austin and Raleigh.
OK, none of this is good. Two years into the tech slump, we're
still tired of seeing people get sacked. But was it really so
bad that IBM only revealed it because of new accounting
regulations? Nah, Big Blue was always known for "stealth
layoffs," as CNN put it, but current corporate scrutiny forced
it to 'fess up for once. Until now, IBM would acknowledge the
latest layoffs if reporters called and asked, but wouldn't give
specifics. Yeesh. - Jen Muehlbauer
IBM Cut 5% of Staff in Period, Double the Expected Number

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IBM to Cut Over 15,000 Employees (AP)

IBM confirms 15,600 job cuts (Reuters)

IBM cutting 15,000 jobs

IBM job cuts exceed 15,600

IBM puts job cuts at 15,600, with fewer than 50 in this state

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Synergy always was a fuzzy concept. Now Vivendi Universal's top
man has slammed the lid on it. The French company announced
today that it's ready to peddle $9.8 billion in assets to rustle
up some cash. First up on the block? Synergy-less U.S. book
publisher Houghton Mifflin.
It's unclear whether new chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou has genuine
turnaround muscle, or whether he and Vivendi's board are simply
following the winds of post-merger fashion. But when you owe
$18.7 billion, you get real practical, real fast. The Guardian
reported that Vivendi's share price sank 5% on Tuesday when
investors got the willies about the company's impending
announcement on its financial health. But the company had
positive news to report: It's making money. Revenue in the first
half was up 13%, higher than analysts' estimates of a 7.7%
boost.
Details are scant on the breadth of Fourtou's restructuring
efforts, with more information expected at the next board
meeting on September 25, according to reporters. Houghton
Mifflin, acquired a year ago for $1.7 billion, and a vague
explanation that included the "Curious George" character, were
the only properties named for sale so far. The Guardian
speculated that Vivendi will also sell its U.S. video games
business and possibly its stake in the French mobile phone
company SFR, a debatable sale because of the cash it generates,
according to the newspaper.
Meanwhile, Fourtou's predecessor, Jean-Marie Messier, continues
to advocate empire-building. The New York Post said its sources
say Messier hopes his former employer will feel generous enough
to let him continue to reside in his $17 million Manhattan
abode. And Bloomberg reported earlier this week that an
unrepentant Messier is penning a memoir as he vacations in the
Mediterranean. The working title? "How I Was Betrayed."  -
Deborah Asbrand
Vivendi to Sell Publisher Houghton Mifflin (Reuters)

Vivendi investors expect the worst

Vivendi to Sell $9.8 Billion In Assets, Including Houghton

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Ousted Messier Aims To Score $17m Vivendi Pad

Ex-Chief of Vivendi Plans Tell-All Book (Bloomberg)

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A Top AOL Manager Has Left Company

Fed Holds Steady on Interest Rates

Amtrak halts all high-speed service after finding cracks

AOL lets resigning exec keep stock options

Lucent licensing deal with Winstar focus of probe (AP)

Study Says Net Could Benefit Music Firms

Eisner Crimping His Own Style

Severance claims by Enron former execs anger ex-workers

Princeton removes dean after Yale Web site flap (AP)

Frisbee golf creator dies, may land on someone's roof (SF
Chronicle)

Will Kinsley's Slate Get Wiped?

Hollywood, Russian Bicker Over Bass

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4. WORK FOR SOURCEFORGE.NET
5. SITE STATISTICS
0. INTRO
Hello SourceForge.net Users,
This week we've made a big announcement.  As you likely know, any
large dynamic website is powered by a database that funnels data to
the web servers serving data which ultimately gets sent to you.
These databases manage everything from user authentication, session
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dependent website.
Today we have announced that we are moving SourceForge.net to DB2,
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the site continues to grow at a rapid rate, with 700 new users and
70 new projects a day, and we need a database that can handle this
growth.  We feel that DB2 can do this for us, and IBM is giving us
the resources to make this transition successful.  You can read the
press release here:

How will this effect you?  In the first phase, you won't see much
difference other then the site will continue to grow and the
SourceForge.net team will be able to handle the growth.  In later
phases you will see new features on the site that take advantage of
the databases advanced capabilities.
Today our mail archives have been converted over.  The rest of the
site will make the migration to DB2 in the coming months.
If you have questions about this or any other aspect of the site,
please feel free to email me, pat@sourceforge.net.  I always
appreciate the feedback.
Thank you for your continued support of SourceForge.net and the
Open Source Community.
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Patrick McGovern
Director, SourceForge.net
1. INCREASED DOWNLOAD CAPACITY
SourceForge.net continues to grow, and it's appetite for bandwidth
is never-ending.  Every day SF.NET serves over 300,000 files to
ensure that developers and end-users within the Open Source
community can always obtain the software released by hosted
projects, SourceForge.net maintains a network of high-capacity
download servers.  These servers are located throughout the world,
as to provide better download times regardless of which network
provider you are using, and regardless of your geographic location.
Three new download servers have recently been added to our network,
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Time Warner Telecom (Wisconsin,USA);

University of Minnesota (Minnesota, USA)

CESNET (Czech Republic)

We thank these sponsors for their commitment to SourceForge.net and
the needs of the Open Source community.
On a related note, we are looking for a mirror in Japan.  If you are
an ISP or University in Japan and are willing to spare 20Mbps for a
SourceForge.net mirror (we'll supply the hardware), please let us
know at bandwidth@sourceforge.net
2. AUDIO OF KERNEL SUMMIT AVAILABLE
SourceForge.net now has the audio from the entire 2002 OSDN/USENIX
Kernel Summit, held in June.  Listen to the Linux kernel master
discuss such hot topics as kernel modules, virtual memory,
block I/O, database scaling, security modules, and async I/O.
You may find this audio repository at:

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Want to contribute to SourceForge.net, but you don't know how to
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foundries@sourceforge.net stating your desired topic and why you
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4. WORK FOR SOURCEFORGE.NET
We have a new position for a senior web developer available at
SourceForge.net.  We are looking for someone to help us maintain,
upgrade, and add new features to SourceForge.net.  Ideal person has
5+ years of development experience on high end, high volume
websites (3+ million page views a day).  Has a vast level of
knowledge of Internet technologies:  PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2,
Linux, PERL, Apache, LDAP, Mailman.  A flare for design / UI is a
bonus.  SourceForge is a unique site with unique challenges.  We are
looking for someone at the top of their game.
Location of Job is in Fremont, California.  Please send resume and
URL's of sites you have worked on to jobs@sourceforge.net.  Text
resumes only.  (No MS WORD files!)
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Stats: (Monday 12th, 2000)
Hosted Projects: 45,194
Registered Users: 465,530
Page Views: 3,344,708 in a single day (Monday)
Files transfered in a single day: 340,838 (Monday)
Emails sent in a single day from Mailing lists: 851,143 (Monday)
Top Ten Projects
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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the WWW.  Currently it can create and
drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields,
execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
2 Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution

Smart ERP+CRM solution for small-medium enterprises (SME) in the
global marketplace covering all areas from customer management,
supply chain and accounting.  For $2-200M revenue companies looking
for "brick and click" first tier functionality.
3 SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client.  It includes built-in
pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure
HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers.  It also has
MIME support, folder manipulation, etc
4 TUTOS

TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a web-based
groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses,
teams, projects,tasks,bugs,mailboxes,documents and your time spent
with these things
5 JBoss.org

The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant,
J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java
6 Firewall Builder

Object-oriented GUI and set of compilers for various firewall
platforms.  Currently implemented compilers for iptables, ipfilter
and OpenBSD pf
7 openMosix

openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image
clustering.  Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and
applications the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs.
openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive.
8 CDex

CDex a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio
CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG
(MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.
9 phpChrystal - An Open Intranet System

phpChrystal ist ein OpenSource-Intranetsystem welches vorrangig auf
Lan-Partys eingesetzt werden kann.  Vorteile von phpChrystal sind
seine Portierbarkeit, Flexibilität und Performance, da es vollends
auf PHP, MySQL und XML basiert
10 Dev-C++

Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) for Win32 and Linux.  It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as
compiler and libraries set.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
01. Secure IE
02. Disk cleanup on XP
03. Thanks but no thanks
04. Mouseless way home
05. Kartoo
06. XP time feature
07. Leaf Peeper Alert
08. Saving scraps
09. Quick access
10. Don't believe your email
And What's Coming Up Next Week in NNT Premium
01. SECURE IE.  For the past month or so, our Software Review Panel has
been giving a grueling test to Secure IE, a piece of software that blocks
Flash and pop-ups, prevents malicious file downloads, lets you customize
Security Zone settings as you browse dozens of Web sites simultaneously up
to five times faster with a tabbed interface, annotate Web page with sticky
notes and highlighter, and save complete Web pages, even secure server
(HTTPS) pages and archive online transaction receipts.  For what we believe
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software, check out what our Panel had to say at
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guarantee, what's to lose?
02. DISK CLEANUP ON XP.  Windows XP users can do some fast cleaning chores
with Disk Cleanup.  Access this tool from the Start menu by right clicking
on your hard drive.  Then select Properties and click on the Disk Cleanup
button to determine how many files can be safely deleted.
03. THANKS BUT NO THANKS.  Continuing our periodic feature of
less-than-useful sites on the Web:  The International Center for Bathroom
Etiquette at  gets our recognition this issue.  It says
it's working hard to bring you the latest in cutting edge research and
technology regarding bathroom etiquette.  We'll resist some obvious puns.
. . . . .
West Virginia's Diane Stratton recommended NNT to some friends and is now
enjoying QuicKeys 2.0, a great Windows management software package.  Diane
is our latest winner and you could be next.  Just go to the NNT Web site at
 and click on "Recommend NNT."  Nothing could
be easier.
. . . . .
04. MOUSELESS WAY HOME.  To go home quickly in Internet Explorer, touch F6
to highlight the Address Bar and type two periods (..) there.  The Enter
key then takes you home.
05. KARTOO.  Search engines are everywhere on the Internet but Kartoo at
 is quite unusual.  It's a meta search engine that
displays results on a map in the form of a ball.  The larger the ball, the
more relevant the result.  As you mouseover each result, site descriptions
are revealed.  If all that sounds confusing, the explanation is more
complicated than the service itself.  Just try it.
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You should make it a habit to visit the NNT Store at
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us out, you'll be glad you did.
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06. XP TIME FEATURE.  Windows XP added a nice feature that heretofore
required a separate software application.  It will connect, either at a
programmed time or manually, to a time server via the Internet and reset
that often erroneous internal clock.  Just click on the time in the systems
tray, go to Date and Time Properties and click the Internet Time tab.
07. LEAF PEEPER ALERT.  A bit early, but soon the changing colors of autumn
will begin here in the U.S.  For those who like to follow the display,
consider  for a comprehensive collection
of links and toll-free numbers to each state to determine peak color times.
08. SAVINGS SCRAPS.  Some oldies are worth repeating.  If you're working
with text in, for example, MS Word or WordPad, and would like a handy way
to save a portion for later easy retrieval, just select (highlight) it and
click/drag it to your desktop.  When the newly created icon is clicked on,
it will show the application with which the scrap was created, along with
the first few words of the text.  A double click opens the text in the
application with which it was created.
09. QUICK ACCESS.  To go to a frequently used program, you may find
yourself drilling down to the desktop and searching out the shortcut
icon.  Consider instead setting up a key combination that will provide
quick access without using the shortcut. Right click on the shortcut and
select Properties.  In the Shortcut key window, select any key you can
remember and click OK.  Ctrl+Alt and that key will open the application
whenever needed.
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virus attachments that appear to be coming from NNT, asking for a
confirmation of a subscription.  Don't believe it, and don't open the
attachments.  Maybe this exchange between NNT and Lyris (our mail manager)
will clear things up:
NNT: Is there anything that can be done about the current strains of virus
that implant on address books and randomly send email asking alleged
subscribers to verify their subscription (when they haven't subscribed at
all)? I've received some of these as well, and I know it's become a
widespread problem with other ezine publishers, creating a lot of ill will
all around.  Is there some configuration that we could change to keep
these from going out except to legitimate subscribers?
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isn't actually ListManager doing the sending.  The real problem is that
people sometimes will add the "join" address to their address book and
that is what causes the problems.  The best we can do is advise people not
to have their address books set to automatically add any email address
that they send a message to even once.  The main culprit here seems to be
Outlook Express.
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and other info.
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feature.
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computer and displays about your CPU, memory, operating system, and your
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