_____ the Mezzenger _______________________________________ * Dec 20th, 2000 Issue #70 Mezzage Board at http://theMezz.com/bbs * Win CASH AND GIFTS http://theMezz.com/news/recommend/ * Want to subscribe to this newsLetter? It's easy, just send a blank e-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Unsubscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ______ photo links - follow up ____________________________ Our past issues have had a lot of info about photography, heres a few related links that you may find useful. Free prints too. http://clubphoto.com/ http://eframes.com/ http://photowire.com/home/ http://ezprints.com/ http://power-graphics.com/ ______ good sites _________________________________________ It's as big as Manhattan Island, is 10 trillion times denser than steel, and is hurtling our way at speeds over 100 times faster than a supersonic jet. An alien spaceship? No, it's a runaway neutron star, called RX J185635-3754, forged in a stellar explosion that was visible to our ancestors in 1 million B.C. You can peek at this and other very cool bodies at thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope Observation web site at.. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html I hope you never need one, but you can find many virus removal tools here.. http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/tools.list.html TONS of free software... http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/index_all.html ______ Heads Up! __________________________________________ I've always suggested EasyClean for "housekeeping" BUT if you have winME, it can cause some problems on some systems. http://www.saunalahti.fi/tonihele/ http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q274/2/64.ASP ______ apps _______________________________________________ Pac-Man is back with a New Millennium face lift. Prepare yourself for over 60 Unique 3D Worlds including Donkey Kong Country and Bonus Levels. Choose from 5 different PacMan & Miss-PacMan Characters and enter 3D Worlds that include vertical scroll levels, power ups, power downs, ghost radar and much more. http://www.gamewizardpro.com/freegames/chompster/chompster.html ______ humor ______________________________________________ "Twas the night before Christmas" I thought with a frown, I was stuck at the office. The network was down. The routers were hung in the closet, all crashed. Their tables had holes in their data, all trashed. Remote distribution, it seems, just for fun, Had erased DLLs Windows needed to run On 84 desktops way down in accounting. I sat stunned at my desk, my blood pressure mounting. When all of a sudden there arose such a clatter, I saw that a server had something the matter. There was smoke coming out from the main hard disk drive. "No problem," I thought. "I'm set up with RAID 5." But I found out the system I thought was unstoppable Had disk drives that turned out completely unswappable! "No problem," I thought, "I've tape backup to thank." And then I discovered my backups were blank. The UPS burped, and the lights all went out. I started to scream, then I started to shout, But nobody heard as I vented my rage. My gurus were all on vacation those days. And nobody's tech support answered the phone. I was nose deep in trouble, completely alone. When out at reception, I heard a soft knock. As the hands just touched midnight on my desktop clock... "What's your problem?" he asked. "Never mind, friend, I know. I checked out your network five hours ago. I did some proactive analysis, so I knew this time bomb was soon going to blow." Just who was this guy? Who did he think he was? He was dressed in red coveralls, white beard, black gloves. His eyes had the twinkle of technical genius. His smile cut down personal distance between us. He spread out his tools, and went straight to his work. "Whoever configured this network's a jerk," He said with a :-)> as he quickly rebooted, Uploaded some software, and smoothly rerouted The LAN to a WAN that he quickly supplied With a bandwidth at least 20 gigabits wide That went via wireless, I think, LEO, To tech support elves waiting at the North Pole. "Now bridging, now routing, now Ethernet hubs!" He chanted as each piece of hardware he rubbed. "Cheer up, my good friend! Lose that mindset so tragic! Technology often looks just like some magic To people who don't understand what we do. Now a switch, emulation, now middleware glue! Look now at the protocols, check one or two, Debug a bit, test a bit, presto! We're through!" My data was back! Every system checked out! Tears of joy wet my face as I wandered about. "How can I thank you? You must be Saint Nick!" He said, "Really, my friend, it's not such a great trick, If you don't give up hope, focus on what you're doing, And read all your issues of NETWORK COMPUTING." 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