Minutes of the Meeting held 5 February 2002
C&C meeting Northside Feb 5th 2002
Chairman : John S - approx 30 attending
1) Weather maps. Mike D
For realtime weather radar covering Canberra look at
http://www.mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR552.shtml
Site also points to radars all over Australia.
One of best general cloud cover sites is
http://marlin.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/web/metsat.html
2) Files you were not aware of. John A
While searching for a lost file I used the facility to find a
phrase using
Explorer. I thought the phrase I used 'Ximenes' would be
sufficiently
rare to be a good filter. However the return gave files
amounting to over 20 Mb
some of which were fair enough being search engine references
but there were
some odd ones as well.
3) C + C List. Owen C
4) VxD woes Alan V
Alan reported problems that a Darwin friend had regarding
"Terminating due to
a stack overflow. A VxD, possibly recently installed, has
consumed
too much stack space. Increase the setting of 'MinSPs' in
SYSTEM.INI or
remove recently installed VxDs. There are currently 5 SPs
allocated".
Some people at C&C reported they'd met this prtoblem, acted as
specified,
with some OK, others not. Other suggestions also included:
2. Check any new devices/changes made lately [a VxD is a device
driver, so
if added or changed something.. [or a device not working
properly..]
3. Roll back Win ME (if being used - I think it is) to an
earlier backup;
4. If all else fails, reinstall Windows over top of existing
system.
Alan also did a Google search for minsp and system.ini in same
document and
got a swag of responses including
http://discuss.50plus.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000514.html
and "http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/qanda.html#What Is
MinSP"
which discusses the problem at length.
5) Transact Allan M
Allan reported that TIP were now examining the possibility of
connecting
to Transact and sought feedback on members intentions. Both
Transact
users present were quite happy with the service and a good
proportion of
those present said they would use Transact when / if it is
available to
them.
6) Nero and CD's Rod S
7) Information Rich John S
Just a comment that the forecasts of Information rich and poor sections of
society appear to be coming true in Australia. We are very lucky to be
members of the former.
8) Zone Alarm Pro Ted M
A feature of the paid version of the application called "Zone
Alarm Pro"
is the ability to trace 'who is' probing a port of your
computer. Of course
the information may be false or untraceable but nevertheless it
is
interesting.
Someone commented that you should NEVER REPLY to the port
prober. Further
you will be struck off by PCUG if you are foolish enough to
attack the
port prober with a Denial of Service onslaught. Ted has been
getting a port
prober on an average of twice per internet session.
9) Animated GIFs Rod B
10) Korean Spam Paul ?
11) Diagnostic programs Greg B
12) Mail to Web Allan M
Allan requested feedback on the use of the new TIP web based
email
system at https://www.tip.net.au/phpost/phpost.php
One user has reported problems but others have had no problems.
Some
problems can happen if a user attempts to read mail
simultaneously via
the web and a normal mail reader.
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