Minutes of the Meeting held 26 June 2001 Here are the responses from various members and some further comments from me. Slight delay in delivery has been caused by my short sojourn in Sydney away from my computer. 1. MS IE Resource Kit - Trevor Trevor writes: MS Internet Explorer Resource Kit. It had been suggested by JohnS that Coffee and Chat get a copy of this because the one the group had was borrowed by someone a year or more ago and had then moved interstate. The consensus among those who responded was that this publication was worth about 1 per cent of what it would cost. 2. Question - Trevor Trevor writes: Joke: Question - does it mean that you've had way too much computing or that you've finally gone insane when you wake up and look at your digital clock radio and think "the blasted screen saver hasn't kicked in again". 3. Anti-Virus - KenM Ken writes: Now InoculatIT has folded another FREE, if good, Anti Virus program is needed. One such is AVg 6.0 Free Edition. This got a very good write up in PCPlus. I have installed it and am satisfied with it. Can be downloaded from www.grisoft.com in the Czech Republic. Try it. You have nothing to lose except viruses. 4. Netscape Inbox - George During the meeting George said that he had found a text file that contained all the messages he had ever sent or received. Discussion revealed that this is the underlying standard way in which mail is handled. Individual mail programs maintain their own indexes to this file and allow the user various means of manipulating it through their own interfaces. 5. .sit extension - Charlie Emil writes: This is the extension originally used by the compression and archiving program called Stuffit, most often used on the MacIntosh/Apple family of computers. More at: http://helpdesk.uvic.ca/how-to/exchange/internet/coding/sit.html AllanM writes: Further info from Charlie that this was a "system" and contained within a hqx file type led to the conclusion that it was probably a mac program. A bit of further investigation (using Wayne Corbin's file extension list at http://www.pcug.org.au/~wcorbin) shows that sit is stuffit file format - one of the mac equivalents of zip. I do still suspect that when unstuffed (?) the file will turn out to be a program to run on a mac. 6. Enditall and CD burning - MikeD During the meeting Mike said that he had used Enditall to kill all non-essential programs before attempting to burn a CD and that the resultant burn process had been trouble free. He was very pleased by this result and recommended the process. Mike also initiated discussion about the differences between coax (BNC) and unshielded twisted pair (UTP, aka RJ45) cabling for networking computers at home. Discussion suggested that for the home there was practically no difference, but UTP is far more readily available and cheaper than BNC for home use. If more than two computers are to be linked hubs will be required in either case. RodB erroneously suggested that it was necessary to tell software which cabling was in use. He was remembering earlier days when some Ethernet cards had additional connections for external transceivers as well as on-board transceivers. It was then necessary to tell software whether or not to use the on-board transceiver (life is so simple today!).. 7. DVD; USB - JohnA JohnA writes: I was looking for advice wrt DVD's and if USB connections were available as cards. DVD I have subsequently purchased an AOPEN DVD-1240 which supports the following formats. DVD DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-RW CD CD-DA, CD-ROM/XA, CD-R, CD-RW, I-Trax,CD, CD-Extra, Photo-CD, Video-CD, CD-I, CD-Text Cost was $154 from Cougar www.cougar.com.au USB - cards are available. 8. Connect to X2 - Kryn Kryn told the meeting that he had a complex connection problem in that application programs were requesting the establishment of a connection even though a valid connection was already established. No resolution emerged during discussion. ****************************************************** Coffee & Chat Page, inluding archives of past meetings http://www.pcug.org.au/pcug/candc/ ******************************************************
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