*CyberCoyote - November 9, 2006*

NEWS and NOTES

*HTCC Events Program*
George Jester works hard to fill the HTCC Program for the season, and you can keep up to date by checking at our website from time to time.
http://cybercoyote.org/events/program.shtml -- 2006/2007 program

*Classes*
Check the HTCC Calendar to see the current class schedule.
http://cybercoyote.org/url/227.html -- calendar

*Internet Explorer 7 Upgrade*
Phil Spohn (that's me) carried out a live upgrade from IE6 to IE7 at the meeting today. Our new laptop performed beautifully during the procedure. That makes 4 out of 5 successful upgrades for Phil.

That means he won the 2006 IE7 World Series today. :-) He has also repaired the computer that IE7 broke. :-)) "Installing IE7" will start you on your way to your own success.
http://cybercoyote.org/software/IE7 -- Installing IE7
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm -- "NTLDR is missing"

COMPUTING

*Hot Deals on Closeout PCs Coming Soon*
The the prospect for PC bargains is shaping up for the holiday season. The explosion of new buzz words will also make it easier for merchants to unload dead-end systems.

This PC World article will give you the things to watch out for. Bottom line? If you can, wait until next year when you can get Vista and fresher hardware.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127128-page,1/article.html

*DOS (forerunner to Windows)*
Someone once tried to tell me that Bill Gates wrote DOS. Umm, how about what Tim Paterson says on his website? It was Paterson who wrote DOS. He was with Seattle Computer Systems at the time. The rest is history.
http://www.patersontech.com/Dos/Articles.aspx
http://www.patersontech.com/Dos/Byte/History.html
http://cybercoyote.org/url/198.html -- first PC operating system

WINDOWS

*ZDNet Australia | "Six different Vistas, same old view"*
http://cybercoyote.org/url/205.html -- another marketing con ;-)

SECURITY

*Some Safety Tips To Help You Avoid Latest Theft Scams | WSJ*
Sometimes easy-reading articles are more effective at communicating essentials than more technical ones are. :-) Walt Mossberg has an updated one on avoiding online scams. The man can write.
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20060727.html

INTERNET

*If you love Google...*
I use several Google services -- Gmail, Blogger, Calendar, Maps, Search, etc. The GUtil! Firefox extension puts the most popular services together under a new "GUtil!" item on your Firefox menu bar. Sweet!
http://arbornet.org/%7Ebogdanco/gutil/ -- GUtil! extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/rss/firefox/extensions/newest/ -- Firefox add-ons web feed

*Speaking of Firefox...*
From Wikibooks: "Using Firefox is a [free] book designed to help you get the most out of the open source web browser Mozilla Firefox."
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_Firefox -- the book online

ECLECTIC

*Demographics*
You can probably guess which country has the largest population. But which one has the highest population density? Bet you're wrong. :-) Explore those dimensions and others using the "Honeycomb" provided by the Hive Group.
http://www.hivegroup.com/world.html

*Campfire Stories*
http://www.squidoo.com/campfirestories/

*Time waster* [best with broadband]
Instructions: Once you get there, just click to start, and keep on clicking.
http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm
http://cybercoyote.org/images/football.JPG -- my last click :-)