Contributions from ITG members (last updated : 1 Oct ,98)

send fax to other countries by E-mail
You can send fax to other countries by E-mail, you only need to type a special destination in the "To: ".
The format is To: remote-printer.USER/COMPANY@faxnumber.iddd.tpc.int
Within the User and Company name, no dot and space is allowed, any underscore will be converted to a space.
eg. I send a fax to Hong Kong, the person is John, fax numnber 12345678 at home, so that the company name I will put "Hong Kong", I will type the following :
To : remote-printer.John/Hong_Kong@85212345678.iddd.tpc.int
That's all you need to do. I have tried this to Hong Kong and successful, but for other countries, not yet tried.
regard, Samuel
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Remote_printer (email to fax) service is not available to all countries of the world. As far as I know, USA ,Canada, Australia are not on the list, I had accessed the site that shown the countries that you can access on December 95, but I can't remember the address.

There is another way to sent free fax to virtually every corner of the world. This organisation provides two kinds of fax services.

  1. Email to fax, almost identical to remote_printer mode.
  2. FaxLaunch service, you have to download a free software which you can send fax with any windows application. For example, you can send a letter in Chinese with your Word, Notepad, Wordperfect or even pictures on your Netscape browser.

Interested?
But there is a limitation - for a free trial of 10 fax only. I am still in my trial period, it is wonderful.
Go to http://www.faxsav.com to have a look!
Ping-hee
Faxsav also hosts the services on Singapore's Asia One homepage: http://www.asia1.com.sg/fax
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I recently noted that you can send fax using Internet. Different from the
service provided by the ISP which required a nominal fee, this is a free
service. You need to compose a message using Email program and send it
according to a email address format mentioned below.

You will know the service details by visiting the following website

http://www.tpc.int/

I have made some tests and summarize some tips here:
The format of your email address should be as follows:
remote-printer.FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME/ANY_PLACE@852xxxxxxxx.iddd.tpc.int>
The best way to create the address is to use the address book of your email
program. Please beware that there should be no space in the address

You can replace the above parameter as follows:

Firstname: Change to the First Name of the receipent, e.g. Stephen
Lastname: Change to the Last Name of the receipent, e.g. Chan
Beware that you must put a underscore between, e.g. Stephen_Chan

Any_Place: Change to your destination: e.g Hong_Kong

852xxxxxxxx: Change to the IDD number including country & area codes but
excluding access code, e.g faxing back to HK will be 852xxxxxxxx. If you
send fax
within your country, you must also put your country & area codes.

I have tested that I can send fax to Hong Kong and the United States. After
sending the email, a confirmation will return to you and say whether the
fax can reach the destination. You can check the coverage in the following
website.

http://www.tpc.int/

Hope the above is useful!

Regards,

Stephen

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Free Stuffs

Please check "http://www.hotmail.com" or "http://netaddress.usa.net" for free email account (Dennie Kwong)


 

Please note that there is a new free worldwide internet paging service.
When you download a program from the following website and register as an
user, you will know whether your friends are online and can send him
message, request online chat or internet phone and send him files. Please
visit the following website:

http://www.mirabilis.com

Stephen Chan


 

NEWHUB UPDATES THE NEWS EVERY 15 MINUTES

Sort of a low-bandwidth PointCast, NewsHub is a free service that goes
out on the Net every 15 minutes to retrieve new news from technically
oriented sites. The page cleanly organizes the news for the user either
by time or by site. The site creator
welcomes comments and suggestions for improvement. Currently the site
requires either Netscape 3.0 or MSIE 3.0, but on the other hand takes up
a whole lot less space and memory than PointCast.
<http://www.newshub.com/>

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Internet Phone

WebPhone version 2.0

NetSpeak has announced the official release of WebPhone version 2.0 with many new and enhanced features, such as:

* On / Off-line voice mail * Improved audio quality with True Speech(tm) * Call Conferencing * Call Transferring * NoteBoard, for interactive chat * On-hold MIDI music

This version has claimed that it has been gone through the most extensive beta testing in NetSpeak's history with over 25,000 users participating in the beta program.

To obtain this new version visit the website at http://www.netspeak.com and download it FREE.

FYI.

Thank You

Dennie
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Web page authoring

Hi,

For those who are interested in building web site, you might want to have a look at,

http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder/

Thanks & best regards, Lee Tung Hon Email: thlee@bluejays.cv.com

Virus

Concept Virus is a type of MS-Word 6 Macro virus. Impacts are that they will keep on replicating itself on your PC's harddisk whenever you run your MS-WORD Version 6 application cos it affects Word's "Normal.dot" template file. No immediate disastous impacts.

I suggest that you to surf to my web site AntiVirus Page and take a look :

http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~kskwong/av_1.htm

Besides to the web links that you can understand more about computer viruses, you also can go to the web link at section :

AntiVirus Software Download and point your web browser straight to :

http://www.mcafee.com)

The beauty of McAfee is that you can get the antivirus software engine together with the virus database one-short from free download (30 days free trial).

Of course, for proper downloading, you have to define for what platform, such as Win95 or Win 3.1, etc.Decompress the downloaded file, do the installation and run the virus scanning. This "Concept virus" is very common in the wild. McAfee is one of the pioneers in fighting computer virus, so should be no problem in removing the virus.

OK ! Hope that you can remove the virus.

If you still hit problem, do let me know or we can meet and discuss on this coming ITG Meeting at KC on Sat., 9/11/96, which will be started at 2:00 pm.

Rgds. Dennie
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Dear ITG Members,

Here comes the VERY DANGEROUS computer virus : It is the new "Hare virus", which triggers on 22nd August and the 22nd September.

About the Hare Virus :

Known virus variants are Hare.7610, Hare.7750 and Hare.7786 The Hare.7610 virus was first detected in general distribution in New Zealand in early July of 1996. Within two weeks, it was also reported in Canada and South Africa. Thereafter, it quickly spread to various countries in Europe and the United States.

Hare is one of an increasing number of viruses distributed via the Internet, in the form of posts to Usenet News. It is an extremely DANGEROUS complex virus, and triggers in August and September, OVERWRITING the contents of hard disks. Infections have been reported worldwide. On the 22nd of August and the 22nd of September, members of the Hare virus family will trigger, attempting to overwrite hard disks, and floppy disks in drives A: and B:.

Hare is a polymorphic, stealth, multi-partite virus. It is memory-resident and infects .COM and EXE files, MBRs of hard disks, and floppy disk boot sectors. It is Windows 95 aware, enabling it to infect both files and the boot sectors of floppy disks used from Windows 95.

Symptoms:

The symptoms of the Hare virus vary. Under certain circumstances, it can :

1. render the fixed disk unbootable, or hide the DOS partitions if the system is booted from a clean system disk; 2. it attempts to hide its changes to the length of infected files.

Alternately, there may be no visible effect until the virus triggers. Since the symptoms can vary, it is recommended that suspect PCs be scanned using the F-HARE utility.

Additional Information can be obtained from Internet AntiVirus sites :

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hare.html
http://www.mcafee.com
http://www.commandcom.com/html/hare.html
http://www.drsolomon.com/
http://www.cnet.com/Content/News/Files/0,16,2154,00.html

I also attached a technical write-up from Symantec AntiVirus Research Centre (Developer of NAV) on the Hare 7610 virus for your information.

You also can refer to today's Chinese newspaper at Page 8 of Lianhe Zaobao.

Suggested preventive measures :

1. Do not download any programs from Internet news group.
2. Download Internet program from official sites only, such as : Microsoft, Netscape or any others.
3. Download the latest antivirus scanner/signature files (that can detect Hare virus) from the internet antivirus developer.
4. Scan all incoming unknown diskettes, imported program files, attached program files, etc.
5. Never boot up from a diskette 6. Help to disseminate the information for those who still do not know about that.

Rgds. Dennie
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Two items :

1. I know that up to now only McAfee can detect the whole family of Hare Virus (Norton AntiVirus on can detect the Hare 7610) :

Visit the following site and download the AntiVirus software, the next activation date will be 22/9/96 :

http://www.mcafee.com

2. The Usenews Groups that most likety that you'll get infected withe the "Hare" virus are :

- alt.cracks
- alt.crackers
- alt.com.shareware
- alt.sex

Source : 23/8/96, Lianhe Zaobao.

Rgds. Dennie

AOL4Free is not a virus. It is a hoax. The "virus" does not exist. There
is currently no virus that has the characteristics ascribed to AOL4Free.
The e-mail "warning" has been widely distributed on the largest online
service provider, America Online (AOL), beginning sometime in March
1997.

Please see info. from Symantec (Norton AntiVirus Research Centre) :
 

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/data/aol4free.html

Rgds.
Dennie

Interested Stuff


 

Locate following site, may be you have interest in visiting, URL as follows:

http://www.ist.ca/htmled/

Regards/

Linc.

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Web Browser

Hi ! All ITG Members !

C|Net has put together a collection of tips that will help you get the most out of the industry's premier Web browser--tips on everything from maximizing screen space to speeding performance. Whether you use Navigator on a Mac or a PC, whether you're a neophyte or a pro, you'll find plenty of ways to enhance your browsing experience.

http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Netscape/

FYI.

Rgds. Dennie
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Hi ! All ITG Members !

For those who are making use of the NN and MSIE Browser Bookmark. This may be useful to you !

Powermarks is a compact 32-bit program that allows you to create, manage and browse your bookmarks, file. It gives you the choice of entirely replacing or working in conjunctionwith the bookmark and favorite features of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The program keeps all of your favorite sites in a single list and provides you with an intuitive "search engine" for locating just the ones you want.

Details : Program name : Powermarks Version : 1.01 Size : 168K Developed by : Bitlogic, Inc. License : Shareware (US$19.95) Requirements : Windows 95

Check it out at :

http://search.shareware.com/code/engine/Find?logop=and&cfrom=quick&orfile=True&hits=25&search=powermarks&category=MS-Windows95, or, http://www.shareware.com's Quick Search Engine, type in "powermarks", then you'll see.

FYI.

Rgds. Dennie
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Miscellaneous

Singnet & PacNet has a bulit in utilities of mailback form. It actually is a script store in their home page server. You can use their scripts to decode the mailback form.

You can refer to PI user home page:

http://home.pacific.net.sg/help

There is a program called mail forms.

Rgds

Eric


 

Reinstalling Win95 - hint
Date: 13 Feb 97 10:46:03
I would like to share with you something which may avoid hours spent on
reinstalling Windows 95 in case of some programs crash your Windows setup,
registers etc.
There is a trick which you may use before anything strange happens and this is
an easy preventive way in the windows environment.
In your current Windows setup, when everything is up and running, you may go to
your Windows directory and make a copy? of two files:
System.dat and User.dat.
Let's say the files will be copied to the same directory and saved as
System.lam and User.lam

Then keep those *.lam hidden and system-read only files on your drive and
wait... till <touchwood> your Windows crash or you will get a message: cannot
restart Windows? etc <DOUBLE touchwood>.
At that point instead of reinstalling Windows you may copy those two saved
files back to System.dat and User.dat, making *.dat files
read-hidden-system-archive only.

The reason why I'm talking about it is that the above? really avoids
reinstalling Windows 95 in most of the cases when registry problem occurs and
it helped me in 99% of cases when I had problems with W95.

The approach to replace System.dat and User.dat with System.da0 and User.da0
does not work all the time (*.da0 files are the backup of *.dat files made the
last time you have restarted your computer successfully) and I find saving
system.dat? and user.dat? files with different extension much, much useful.

You may try the above procedure always before trying to reinstall W95 and I'm
pretty sure it will save you a loooooot of time.
What I can suggest is just to keep your "backup" files (*.lam) updated from
time to time or even keeping double copies.

Good Luck!
SK
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Subject: Re: Re system and user.dat
Date: 21 Mar 97 9:15:41
The two files are normally hidden and system read-only, to save them, try the
following:
"In Explorer, select View/Options, then the View Tab and select "Show all
files".? I also prefer to check "Display the full MS-DOS path in the tile bar"
and "Include description bar...", and uncheck Hide MS-DOS file extensions for
file types that are registered."

After the selection, you should be able to see the two files when you explore
your windows directory, and also you are able to back them up with normal copy
command.

About your questions: "how to copy back if windows cannot be started in future?"
I need to emphasis that if you have problem in starting your W95, it cannot be
a fatal problem with your hard disk like head crash nor the boot partition had
got corrupted which caused your system simply not ready.

When the system startup, hit F4 to make it goes to the DOS mode, just don't
allow it to attempt to load W95, then with other DOS application, like NC (I
use NC) or other copy the 2 backup file to the original files with suffix .DAT,
remember to mark them back as hidden and system read-only,? then re-start the
system and see if it can recover.

If you have any problem, feel free to write to me, as I can't make myself
available for the KC's monthly meeting.
Good Luck!
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extend the trial period of beta software

Remember you told me about the shareware called WARENOT.EXE which will extend the trial period of beta software? You mentioned in your email the location: www.shareware.com, but it was not found there. But I used the beta software (Symantec's Internet FastFind) to locate 16 ftp sites that contain the file. It took no more than 1 minute to find the exact location of the file I named, and I didn't have to launch my browser to start a search! About this WARENOT.EXE, it is a rubbish! In fact, this software will change the date of your computer to a previous one you selected before launching your beta software. And after that, you have to restore the date by press a button manually! Most important, It can not handle fast CPU like Pentium 100Mhz and above!

This Internet FastFind is a real powerful search engine. It incorporates 7 most popular search engines like Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Magellan, WebCrawler and Yahoo on your desktop. When I initiate a search, I can have pinpointed results from all 7 top search engines in my harddisk.

In the mean time I have to change the date of my computer manually before I start a search. If you like to try this software, I can download it to your mailbox.

Ho Ping-hee
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access your orginal Email account from oversea through Internet (23/10/96)

It is possible to access your orginal Email account from oversea through Internet, all you have to do is to log on any ISP, run a dedicated Email program such as Eudora, you must set your Email program servers as you are now doing in Singapore.

The reason behind is that accessing Email server is the same as access any URL in the world. Email servers are using separate computer with unique DNS (as now in the Singapore ISPs), POP server handles incoming mails, SMTP server handles outgoing mails, they are all using different DNS and is unique worldwide.

I have tried logging on Singnet and access my Email account at Pacific and proved to be sucessful. Should there be any chance, may any member tried to do it once oversea and let us all know the result.

Regard, Samuel

1. This email utility may be useful for ITG or KC to broadcast our email to our members, this is called Email Cannon, I find it at one of the Internet Win95 Web Site. The following is the description :

"The Email Cannon is a list server that can send broadcast type email to thousands of users. You can create as many lists as you want with as many subscribers as you want."

May be we can evaluate on this product. It is a shareware. File size around 2.2 MB.

2. This utility is useful to our Email application (Eudora or Netscape). AutoSpell is the only fully automatic spelling checker for E-mail. Can be used with 32 bit versions of Eudora or Eudora Pro or Netscape Navigator. Automatically checks your E-mail when you send it. Includes freeware copy of AutoSpell for notepad. For more info, check out AutoSpell Mail Home Page (25 days evaluation, I'm using it now !)

Address :

http://www.windows95.com/apps/mailutils.html

Rgds. Dennie
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If you access the ram file, what is the error message return. Try this 

?--------------------------------------
| Make this e-mail talk!               |
| Load this URL into your Web browser: |
| http://www.realaudio.com/tmb.ram?    |
?--------------------------------------

You can check your netscape helper section to see whether the ram file can be recognised. Try following steps to check :

1. Click on the OPTION on the netscape manual.
2. Click the GENERAL PREFERENCE
3. Click the HELPER tag
4. Scroll through the list and find the raplayer in the action column
5. Click the raplayer if this is defined in your helper
6. Check the file extension box - it should show ra,ram. If not, you can modify it accordingly.
7. If there is no raplayer find, you can configure manually by entering the file extension as in point 6 and then type in the directory contains the raplayer.
Hope this fix the problem - Any advice from other members ?

The VDOLIVE gallery URL is http://www.vdo.net/products/vdolive/gallery/

Regards

Kimmy
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Read Chinese on internet

In case of you have problem on seeing chinese, I would suggest you try using the NJWIN. The best part of this is you can change the decoding between big5 and GB, fan ti and jain ti but you cannot input chinese. It also decode Japanese and Korean. The site for the NJ Star is :

http://www.njstar.com.au/njstar/

If other members who use other chinese interface and find it easy to use, please let us know.

regards

Kimmy

NJWIN does not run on Windows 3.11. Here is the page which tell you the information on reading chinese in different operating system. You can try the twinbridge.

http://herb.biol.uregina.ca/liu/pub/ms-win.html

Rgards

Kimmy
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Virtual Reality

Hi everyone,

On last Saturday ITG meeting, Ying Man has mentioned about a product called "Bubble Viewer". Just to follow up and share some info with yours.

The first generation of this 360 degree viewing function was developed by Apple Computer, which they called it "Quicktime VR". It was named after the industry standard movie format called "Quicktime". The basic design is by stiching a series of photo taken every 30 degree formed a cylinder. The beautiful part is the viewer software can perform error correction, so the distortion part of the stiching edges will be covered. There is another by-product, by using the technology it can construct a 3-D model of an object. Of course the number of photos will be more. Take a peek look into some of the nice design from the Apple site like Honda, Disneyland or Atlanta Olympic from the samples page:

http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com
http://www.honda.com
http://www.disney.com/Disneyland/qtvr/

Because stiching of numerious photos is very troublesome, another company called Omniview, developed a similar technology called "Photo Bubble" which make use of 2 photos taken by a 180 degree fish-eye lens. So the stiching part has reduced to 2 photos in making a "Bubble". Then they start introduce something called "Hot Spots". "Hot Spots" are hyperlinks which bring you to another photo, in this case, another bubble. You then can navigate from different angle or different place. If you do not like Honda, take a look into Toyota and Citibank:

http://www.omniview.com
http://www.toyota.com
http://www.citibank.com/singapore/page99.htm

The latest development is when the author of Quicktime VR left Apple and formed a new company called RealSpace and developed another technology called RealVR. It is still the same cylinder design, but it tuns 3 times faster than Quicktime VR, and it has now incorporated with VRML 2.0 (Virtual Reality Modelling Language). You can now viewing panoramic views with 3-D objects rendering or playing video and audio. Look into two of the interesting demos like a bouncing ball in the Forbidden City, Beijing or look into a 24-Hours shop called AmPm.

http://www.rlspace.com

After all these things, the new stage of development on this technology is call "Sprite", not Coke sorry! "Sprite" means live objects on the panoramic views. We will be able to see moving people, live environment inside a panoramic view still with hot spots and 3-D objects. That's cool!

Just some advertisement, Singapore Science Centre has collaborated with ISS of NUS (National University of Singapore), implemented a similar technology as QuickTime VR in which they called "WebVR", and showcase our exhibition galleries. Do feel free to drop by if you want to find out what is happening here.

http://www.sci-ctr.edu.sg/interexh/webvr/webvri0.html

:-) Edward
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some acronyms.

> >>>???? MBA??? =? Mediocre But Arrogant
>>> >???? PhD??? =? Piled High and Deep
>>> >???? PCMCIA =? People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
>>> >???? ISDN?? =? It Still Does Nothing
>>> >???? APPLE? =? Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
>>> >???? IBM??? =? I Blame Microsoft
>>> >???? DEC??? =? Do Expect Cuts
>>> >???? CA???? =? Constant Acquisitions
>>> >???? CD-ROM =? Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
>>> >???? OS/2?? =? Obsolete Soon, Too.
>>> >???? SCSI?? =? System Can't See It
>>> >???? DOS??? =? Defunct Operating System
>>> >???? BASIC? =? Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
>>> >???? WWW??? =? World Wide Wait

(From Kwok Ying Man)
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?Dial Up line, Leased line and ISDN (From Samuel Lui)

?Telephone lines are set up by building "Exchanges" on different locations and all Exchanges are linked up by Trunk Cables, those Trunk Cables are shared among all users, so that telephone company will make use of the bandwidth of those cable and transmit multiple channels for every single wire (or Fiber Optic, the latest technology is Micro Wave), in such case the bandwidth of transmission is limited and as a result, the modem speed of using this kind of Dial Up Phone line will be limited. To my knowledge, it will never goes up to 64K, and I wonder it can exceed 33.6K too. This Dial Up phone line passing through numerous swithing points, the quality degrades with the presents of these switches. However, this is the cheapest way of transmitting computer signals.

Another choice is Leased Line, you can rent a pair of wire from your home to any other location within the country, the telephone company will prepare a wire for you, this wire will not be connected to any switching equipment so that you cannot make use of it to make a phone call, both ends of the wire are free and nothing is connected in between. You can consider the Leased Line as a pair of twisted wire solely for your own use. The most common use for this line is Burglar Alarm, banks and goldsmith use this line seriously, one famous user in Hong Kong is the Jockey Club, they have dozens of Off-Course Betting points accepting on-line betting needs this Leased Line. If you rent a Leased Line from you home to ISP, the telephone company will charge you every meter length, starting from your home to the location of ISP, what ISP charges you is another story. This kind of connection provides the best transmission quality of all, the transmission speed for a few hundred meters of twisted wire can go up to 1MB, but if the wire runs from Bedok to Jurong, may be still maintain 256K or 512K.

The other choice is ISDN, similar to Dial Up phone line, the wire goes through a number of equipments, but this equipment is different from those switches as mentioned above, it is completely digital. As the same as Dial Up phone line, the trunk cahle between Exchanges accommodate multiple channels thus limits the transmission speed, one channel transmits 64K, if someone needs 128K speed, telephone company assigns two channels for him and so forth. This kind of arrangement charges less from Leased Line, but the same as before, what the ISP charges you is another story.
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IT Criminal case

IT criminals now moving their target from banks, large organizations to
ordinary Internet home users like you and me. There is one case happened
in Canada with victims of 1200 more people, the largest losser has lost
US$6000, the case already put forward to court. No figures for victims
in the other part of the world.

What the victims have done? Well, they just download programs and
reading web sites, nothing else.

How victims' money be given out? It takes some explanation, I put it
into a home page. Please see "www.singnet.com.sg/~samlui".

Regard,
Samuel
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IE 3.0 security bug

On March 3rd, there is a security bug found on the Microsoft Internet
explorer
V3.0 running on Windows 95/NT. The page below provides the details and
examples. I had tried it and confirm it works on IE only but not
Netscape.
This is the new bug in additional to the recent on ActiveX.
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Regards
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Kimmy
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Rick and all ITG Members,

I also tested on Student Paul Greene's home page :

Read student Paul Greene's home page at :
http://www.cybersnot.com/iebug.html

It worked. Terrible !!!!!!

All IE users, please switch to Netscape Navigator Browser or Stop using
IE immediately, until you have installed the code fix from MICROSOFT !!!

If you don't do so, you will expose your harddisk being totally
written-off by possible malicious act from Cybersapce.

Latest update from Microsoft :
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Internet Explorer 3.01 Users
1-800-322-9997 to order it on a floppy disk.

Internet Explorer 3.0 Users
If you are running Internet Explorer 3.0, you can either wait until
tomorrow (please check the web site below) when Microsoft posts the fix
for that version, or you can upgrade to Internet Explorer 3.01,and then
download the code fix that's available now.

Options for International Users Depending on the language, International
versions of the code fix will be available in the next few weeks. Be
sure to check this page for the latest information!

Ref. :
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/security/update.htm

Rgds.
Dennie
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56K modem

Dear All,

Singnet already annouced their trial on 56K modem transmission, please
take care some of the technology behind.

There is no standard communication protocol for this at the present
moment, two leading companies are now struggling for the market, one is US
Robotic, their standard is called X2. The other is Rockwell, their standard is
called K56Flex, Motorola joins to Rockwell. These two technology is not
competible,that means, the user and ISP must both use the same standard.

The universal standard may be coming up very soon, so please do not buy
any one of this modem and look forward.

Source of information : www.singtao.com

Regard,
Samuel?

ROCKWELL INTRODUCES 56 KBPS PHONE-LINE MODEM TECHNOLOGY

So you thought phone modems would top out at 33 kbps and you'd have to spring for an expensive ISDN line. Well, not quite. Rockwell Semiconductor has just announced it has 56 kbps modem technology which it will demonstrate at the November Comdex. They'll produce a chip set which will presumably be used in various third-party modems, much like the current 28.8 kbps Rockwell chip sets. The announcement sent their stock up 8%, as well it should. There are also rumors US Robotics will introduce its own 56 kbps phone modems by the end of the year. PR: URL:http://www.usr.com/>

Rgds. Dennie
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I had found a web page which gives a detail explaination on why the 14.4K modem can transmit up to 56Kbps data. This is quite informative as it also includes some tests done by the writer. The page can be accessed through :

http://www.seed.net.tw/~tmchang/arthur/v42.htm

Regards

Kimmy?


 

If you have not seen the recent Computer times on the 56K modem, here it
is on the internet. This should give you some ideas on selecting the 56K
modem.

The x2 is only supported by Singnet and K56Flex is supported by all
three ISP. Unfortunately, the test result on K56Flex is not that good as
the x2. The suggestion is if you want to buy a 56K modem, you should
look for one which can be flash upgradable to the coming ITU standard
which is advised to be released end 97 ot early 98.

http://www.asia1.com.sg/computertimes/aug20/features/09.html

regards

Kimmy


 

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Serious Flaws in MS Office 97

Please see :

*** CMP's Windows Magazine finds? 'serious flaws' in MS Office 97

Due to file compatibility problems, problems with e-mail system
lock-ups and a host of other issues, CMP's "Windows Magazine" has
removed Microsoft's Office 97 and Outlook from its WinList of
recommended products. This is the first time in the publication's
five-year history that any product has been taken off the WinList due
to late-surfacing bugs and design flaws. Fred Langa, vice president
and editorial director of CMP's PC group, said the products will be
reevaluated when the problems are resolved.

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Intel Pentium II Bug !

*** Pentium II bug report takes new technical twist

The purported floating-point bug involving Intel's Pentium II and
Pentium Pro processors has taken an unexpected twist, according to CMP
Media's EE Times Online (http://www.eet.com). EE Times said a revised
technical description has come from Robert Collins, whose "Intel
Secrets" web site disclosed the glitch early this week. Collins said
the bug could occur during overflow conditions involving
floating-point addition, when an operand is stored as an integer. But
Collins said the Pentium II and Pentium Pro processors do not provide
any indication that an error has occurred.

*** Intel's Response

Intel Corp. Friday afternoon owned up to the floating-point bug
involving its Pentium II and Pentium Pro processors,stating that it
would fix the "flag erratum" in future chip steppings. In the interim,
software workarounds are being prepared.

Refer :

http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/news/97/953news/finintel.html

*** Technical description of the bug :

http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/news/97/953news/hotintel.html

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Dennie
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Links

  1. http://www.b66.com/ - Have the PC information in Chinese from the Hongkong Apple daily (provided by Lincoln)
  2. http://www.hkstar.com/computer/software/pcweek5.html - PC information in Chinese from the Singatao daily (provided by Kimmy)
  3. http://www.scmp.com/1997/ - SCMP web site carrying news about HK and 1997 (provided by Steven)
  4. http://www.vivanet.com/~woodj/money-mart/freeway/index.html - Freeway's got information on free sample offers, free internet services, free magazines, free catalogues, free trial offers, etc. The operative word is "free" (provided by Dennie)
  5. http://www.northgrum.com/- NORTHROP GRUMMAN war aircraft(provided by Dennie)
  6. http://www.buyitonline.com/- MORE E-MAIL REMINDERSForgot Mom's/Wife's birthday ? Here's another FREE special-occasion reminder service. Enter a name, relationship, special date and the day you'd like to be reminded. Easy to use and update as often as you like.(provided by Dennie)
  7. http://www.jfax.net/ - EMAIL A FAX, AND FAX AN EMAILYa know, this Internet thing might be here for good. JFAX takes incoming old fashioned faxes and converts them to that newfangled email for you. You can also send e-mail to be converted into paper faxes. Voice mail conversion is expected soon. (provided by Dennie)
  8. http://www.tipworld.com/ - What's the web site (from PC World Magazine) claimed : "The Internet's #1 Source for Computer Tips, News, and Gossip" (provided by Dennie)
  9. http://www.ist.ca/htmled/ - (provided by Linc.)
  10. http://www.pcworld.com/tipworld996/powertoyexe.html- Powertoys for Windows 95 - September, 1996 Release
  11. http://www.liszt.com/- A well designed search site for finding e-mail lists for the discussion of special interest topics. You can choose from 14 major categories, or use the search engine to find a mailing list about almost anything
  12. http://www.dj.net.tw/~sochin/comp.htm-Åwªï¥úÁ{"¼B¦u«Cªº{ºô»Ú¹q¸£¶E©Ò)
  13. http://www.designercity.com/- The website is designed by my University friend Wagon Mak who now runs a website design company in UK, his clients are Esquire Magizine, Browns, Franch Connection etc.. (from Stan Fan)
  14. ?http://www.starzine.com/computer/? - Computer News from Hongkong Star
  15. ?http://www.enemy.org/? - You don't know there are people hates Microsoft (think those are MAC users !)until you see this sites
  16. ?http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/database/file_body.pl?ID=3147 - SimCity 2000 Theme Pack
  17. ?http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/database/file_body.pl?ID=3146 - Screensaver based on the cartoon show Scooby Doo
  18. ?http://www.real.com/ - Want to see videio and listen to radio on internet. Try this RealVideo plug in
  19. ?http://www.scv.com.sg/~entea/security/reggap.htm - A site in Singapore demonstrated what it called a "flaw" in Explorer
  20. ?http://www.counterpane.com/cmea.html - DIGITAL CELL PHONE KEYPAD CODE CRACKED, VOICE NEXT?
  21. ?http://www.ee.washington.edu/computing/iebug/ - ANOTHER MICROSOFT NETWORKING BUG EXPOSES PASSWORDS
  22. ?http://www.webcomics.com/shockwave/ - SHOCKWAVE SECURITY BUG EXPOSES E-MAIL
  23. ?http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,8999,00.html -WEEKLY HACKER ROUNDUP
  24. ?http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,8957,00.html
  25. ?http://www.wired.com/news/technology/story/2612.html
  26. ?http://www.trouble.org/survey/ - A SMALL, TROUBLING SECURITY SURVEY
  27. ?http://www.reunification.org.hk - Hongkong 1997
  28. ?http://home.sol.no/scan-pi/ - quite a lot chinese links and other useful links but is on your own risk
  29. ?http://www.vdo.net/products/vdolive/gallery/ - A site with links to video.
  30. ?http://www.sns-access.com/~netpro/maxmtu.htm - ...it might also be a symptom of a Windows 95 MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) problem.
  31. ?http://www.unet.net.cn/gb/info/htm/college.htm - A list of Universities in China.
  32. ?http://www.smartnet.com.sg? - New ISP in Singapore with unlimited access.New
  33. ?http://www.merc.com - "free" > daily news on companies (by E.Wu) New
  34. ?http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/index.html - New
  35. http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q154/9/97.htm - The FAT32 File System New
  36. http://www.pcworld.com/software/internet_www/articles/jul97/1507olxemail.html - Email list (by D Kwong)New
  37. ?http://www.naf.cz/arachne/ - DOS browser (by SK Lam) New
  38. http://www.mediadesign-mds.com/webcam.htm - World Wide WebCam sites (by SK Lam) New
  39. http://w3.one.net/~alward/ - Internet helpdesk (by SK Lam) New
  40. http://nng.simplenet.com/main.html - Collection of FreeWare Sites (by SK Lam) New
  41. http://members.aol.com/freeyou/freeyou.html - Collection of FreeWare Sites (by SK Lam) New
  42. http://members.aol.com/freeyou/fivestar.html - Collection of FreeWare Sites (by SK Lam) New
  43. http://www.mamsofco.com/100sl/ - Collection of FreeWare Sites (by SK Lam) New
  44. http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/index.html - Collection of FreeWare Sites (by SK Lam) New
  45. http://theref.c3d.rl.af.mil/theref.html - Disk drive related Web site (by SK Lam) New
  46. http://www.currents.net/resources/cyclo/header.html - Computer Desktop Encylopedia (by SK Lam) New
  47. http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/ - Computer Desktop Encylopedia (by SK Lam) New
  48. http://www.davecentral.com/ - Plug-In List: 6/97 (by SK Lam) New
  49. http://www.digicampage.com/default.htm - A page for Digital cameras New
  50. http://www.afr.com.au/content/970822/inform/inhands.html - Passwords a dead giveaway in Windows 95 security hole (by Natalia) New
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