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 What's In Here?
Lots of cool and
informative stuff every week! This week's issue features a special click-link image in our Ctrl-Alt-Backspace section to commemorate Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 1941.
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we have
special sales, important notices about virus outbreaks or
other technical
bulletins. Call 830-895-5016 if you're
interested in any sale items we might list here. But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites.
Latest Virus
Threats
W32.Mytob.MK@mm
W32.Mytob.MK@mm is a worm with back door capabilities that uses its own
SMTP engine to send an email to addresses that it gathers from the
compromised computer.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mytob.mk@mm.html
Microsoft's Official Windows
Vista Site
Here
is the official site for information about Microsoft's upcoming release
of their newest operating system called Vista. This means Windows XP
will eventually be phased out (they hope) and everyone will convert
quickly (they hope) to Vista. The release date keeps changing but is
scheduled for sometime late in 2006 (they hope).
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx
Another Exciting Take on
Microsoft Windows Vista
I'll
let this tongue-in-cheek article speak for itself...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1841067,00.asp
For Sale Items Have Moved To Our
New Store...
http://www.bictx.com/shop/
 Fun
Stuff
Each
week we stumble across interesting, educational and fun sites on the
internet.
We hope you enjoy this section of our
newsletter as much as we do! But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites.
Singing Icebergs Have
Been Recorded
But don't expect them to make the
Top-10 charts...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1129_051129_iceberg_sing.html
Grow Your Own Veins!
Starting
with bits of skin, scientists have produced new blood vessels
in a laboratory and successfully implanted them into two patients, a
medical first.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051126/fob1.asp
All You Want For Christmas Are
Your Two Front Teeth
Remember
that jingle? It may soon be possible to regrow adult teeth...
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/oct252005/snt16364120051023.asp
Awesome Photo of The Horsehead!
Also check out what appear to be
gigantic twin beams of light. They're actually reflections from another
star...
http://astrosurf.com/antilhue/ic434rc.htm
Absolutely The World's Smallest Car!
Rice University scientists developed the world’s first single-molecule car...
http://www.physorg.com/news7438.html
 Web
Hosting
Tips
Do
you
have a domain website hosting account with
us? If so, you'll want to check this section for handy tips
to
help make your website standout from the crowd. Sometimes
we'll
give tips about working with your Plesk Control Panel. But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites.
What To Do About Spam Email?
I am
frequently asked about spam email and how it can be stopped. There is
no easy answer to the spam email problem and even Congress
passing the recent anti-spam legislation has done little to slow the
growth of spam. But there are some things you, at the individual grass
roots level, can do to fight back against spam. Here are some "do" and
"don't" pointers...
1. Don't reply to spam email.
Chances are they'll never see your reply.
2. Don't fall for
those "click here to unsubscribe" tricks. Chances are it will merely
verify your email address as a valid recipient. Then they'll sell your
address to another spammer.
3. Do use any available spam
filters at the server level.
4. Do use your SpamAssassin
Training Filter in your Plesk Control Panel.
5. Do
set up any available spam filters at your email client level.
6.
Do set up filter rules in your email client to move spam away from your Inbox.
7. Do keep one
email address as junk-level if you must register
somewhere on-line.
8. Do keep one email address as private as
possible for trusted friends and relatives.
Finally,
if spam email becomes totally unbearable then do request a change of
email address. You'd be surprised how fast you stop receiving spam
email when your email address is changed to a completely new one you've
never used before. But do make sure to alert all your friends,
relatives, acquaintances, and business associates in advance of your
email change. I'd recommend at least two weeks in advance.
Changing
your email address will instantly stop 99.9% of all spam email. But
over time it will come back again. Remember, once your email address
gets out on the internet in the form of click-links on your website,
registrations on unscrupulous websites, or hijacked from someone else's
computer by a trojan worm, the spam will eventually creep back up to
enormous levels. But keep on fighting back!
 Linspire
Linux Tips
Linspire
Linux is a great operating system that is
designed to be the easiest of all desktop linux distributions.
If
you haven't tried it for yourself yet, ask for a free demo CD the next
time we service your computer. But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites.
Autostarting Your Programs
Email
is very important to me so I would like it to launch automatically each
time I start my Linspire computer. Setting up a program to autostart in
Linspire Linux is easy, just follow these simple steps...
1.
Click "Launch
-> Settings
-> Additional
Options -> Programs to
Autostart". Another window will appear with any other
programs that are already listed to autostart.
2.
Click "Launch
-> Run
Programs" and then select the category where the program
is located that you want to autostart.
3.
Finally, click-and-drag the program that you want to autostart
into the underlying autostart window you generated in step 1 and click "Copy Here"
when you release the mouse button.
Now each time
your computer starts up in the morning, your program will automatically
start up for you. Programs can be removed from autostart simply by
performing step 1 and then deleting the appropriate icon from the
autostart programs window.
Linspire Linux Tip of
The Week
Don't
forget to check the archive link at that page for previous tips...
http://www.linspire.com/tooltips.php
Latest Linspire Letter....
http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter.php
Michael's Latest Minute...
http://www.michaelrobertson.com/
 Microsoft
Windows
Tips
Microsoft Windows is
still the operating system that most people are familiar with.
Many businesses have based their requirements around
this
commercial operating system and so it remains the cornerstone of our
onsite support service. But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites. The
Holy Grail of Speeding Up Your Windows XP ComputerThis
is a little known tip to set up a fixed-size swap file that has been
defragmented in order to achieve better performance from your PC. I've
written a step-by-step article that shows you how to
tune up
your hard drive and set up a fixed-size swap file... http://www.bictx.com/defragment.htmlFree Notable Software Download...http://www.irfanview.com/
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Your
birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Author unknown
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make each week's edition different and special by including meaningful
computer tips and links to fun, educational, and scientific websites.
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you have any items of interest you might like to see addressed in the
future, or you have any Fun Stuff links of your own that you might like
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computing experiences on the internet.
Happy
Computing!
Tomas
Bright Ideas Computing
Kerrville,
Texas
http://www.bictx.com
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