Noises From The Basement Archive 11-1-00

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NOISES FROM THE BASEMENT                    ISSN 1531-5258This Week's Contents – November 1, 2000

1) Peeking thru WINDOWS - "StartUp Bypass"
2) Fantastic File Find! - "EniG."
3) Seen These Sites? - "I in Pi/Dehydrated H2O"
4) Email Funnies - "FlyMe"
5) The MOUS Hole - "Neat Columns"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge – that what fits no where else

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Once again welcome to The Basement,
readers new and old! ~and~
AOL users – your links at bottom!
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1) Peeking thru WINDOWS "StartUp Bypass"

Take a look on your Start Program menu and you'll find
a folder named StartUp. Inside the StartUp folder are all
the programs that Windows automatically runs when you
boot up.

You might find that you need to bypass the loading of these
files for some reason - diagnostic purposes, or maybe you
just need to boot up quickly. Here's how:

As your system boots up, watch the screen for the Windows
hourglass/arrow cursor. As soon as it appears, depress and
hold your Ctrl key until your Desktop becomes visible, then
release. All StartUp programs will be ignored.

If you later find you need one of the bypassed programs,
they can be run post-boot. Simply double click the
appropriate icon in the StartUp folder.

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2) FANTASTIC FILE FIND! "EniG.” [256 Kb/EXE]

This week's find is elementary, Dear Watsons.
Periodically, I like to offer a file that is useful for the
learned amongst us – such as EniG., Periodic Table
of Elements 2.4.

EniG. contains the basic data about each element, in five
languages. It shows visually the change of physical condition
with the change of temperature, which is configurable. It
also contains a calculating module that calculates the mole
mass of compounds. A very nicely crafted Table that should
be in everyone's reference folder.

http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl23.htm

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3) SEEN THESE SITES? "I in Pi/Dehydrated H2O"

You don't need a Private Investigator to find out if you're
in Pi! Why? Because this utilitarian little site will
search the first 1,254,543 digits of Pi (you remember Pi
from grade school math, don't you?) for your birth date
and tell you where in Pi it is. I'm 108, 623 digits in...
it's so nice to know one's place in the world:

http://www.facade.com/legacy/amiinpi/

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Stop drinking tap water! Stop drinking well water! Refuse
to touch water from desalination plants! And remember that
mountain spring water is a disaster waiting to happen!

Insist on only one natural substance... Dehydrated water.
Pure, natural, dehydrated water - for the same folks that
got the CyberTan:

http://www.buydehydratedwater.com

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4) EMAIL FUNNIES "FlyMe" [150 Kb/EXE]

"What's that buzz, tell me what's a-happenin?'"

A new desk mate for your collection this week. You just
might find it more fun adding this one to a coworker's
Desktop, rather than running it on your own!

http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl22.htm

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5) The MOUS Hole - "Neat Columns"

After you create newspaper columns in Word,
to produce crisp, professional looking columns:

1) Justify the text – select all text, then click the
     Justify icon (or Format | Paragraph | Alignment tab |
     Justified);

2) Turn on Hyphenation – Tools | Language | Hyphenation,
      turn on the option to Automatically hyphenate document,
      and click the OK button. This will clean up those
      large, white "gaps" in a line that will occur when text
      is justified.

You may find you need to install the Hyphenation feature
(using your Office installation disk) if it was not installed
during the initial setup.

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6) THEY SAID IT

"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite,
and furthermore always carry a small snake." - W. C. Fields

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7) HODGEPODGE

How private are your computer communications while
at work? You might be surprised! Here's an excellent
article on the subject:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2566971,00.html

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In the May 31st issue of NFTB (available online in the
Archives if you missed it), I recommended a fine Internet
security utility, ZoneAlarm. ZoneLabs has released an
upgrade, version 2.1.44, that you should consider
getting, whether you're a current user or are just
concerned about the safety of your computing experience:

http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/getit.bin?fcode=0015P7

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I found an offer for a cell phone, hands-free attachment
that can be yours, free of charge! Click the Photo Funny
link in The Basement to check it out. Thwn, be sure to
read about the newest bug to hit German computer users –
might you be next? Grab the bug spray and visit:

http://www.BasementNoises.com

             G'nite, and thanks for reading!

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