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To: Starlight who wrote (8663)	1/12/2000 4:30:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Betty, The PIC report was actually in yesterday's paper. Seems like the potential is great for this application and one can definitely foresee this as a solution for the general public. I feel that all Medicare patients should be required to have one. Let's face it, medical records is the messiest, most outdated, least efficient facet of medical practice in the U.S. today except for the insurance billing apparatus. The Army is leading the effort to bring digital dog tags to the military, but if the tags are approved other military branches would use them as well. "If everything goes well, every service member will wear them," Beck said. Laptop computers equipped with adapters at battalion aid stations would read the digital tags, said Ed Cuellar, a SanDisk spokesman. As the data capacity of the digital tags increases, they could hold X-rays, electrocardiograms and magnetic resonance imaging results. techstocks.com For the full article, click below... union-tribune.com Aus

To: Starlight who wrote (8663)	1/12/2000 4:34:00 PM
From: Starlight	Respond to of 60323

A warning about computer viruses, plus an item about digital photography: union-tribune.com Q&A Beware of e-mail bearing attached executable programs By Andy Rathbone January 11, 2000 Q: On Dec. 22, I received a virus attached to my e-mail. I have Netscape Navigator. The virus was called the "W32/NewApt.worm," and the infected file attached to my e-mail message was named monica.exe. I deleted the attached file and did not open it. Can I still find it so that I can try to discover who sent it? If I had printed out the message, would it have affected my system? This e-mail had my e-mail address for both the "From" and the "To." I have contacted the FBI. What else should I be doing about this? HELEN McKENNA San Diego A: Your first step was the best one. Whenever "anybody" sends you an unexpected program attached to your e-mail message, delete it, without exception. (Programs end in the letters "exe" or "com".) Deleting attached programs that arrive through e-mail is the best way to protect yourself against viruses. If the program turns out to have been legitimate, you can always ask the sender for another copy. It's better to be safe than sorry. Printing out the message probably wouldn't have affected your system, but I wouldn't bother. Today's viruses -- including the newly discovered W32/NewApt.worm that you received -- can be very sneaky. If you'd opened that attached program -- the one named monica.exe -- it would have gone through your e-mail and collected e-mail addresses. Then it would have automatically sent itself to those addresses hoping to infect those unsuspecting people, as well. Apparently, your address was in the mailbox of one of your friends. When your friend received the virus, the virus sent itself to you. So, what should you do when receiving a virus or an unexpected file attachment? First, warn the sender so they can erase it from their computers using one of the many available anti-virus programs. But since this virus didn't include the sender's name in the From field, there's no easy way to warn them. Even when you delete a message, your e-mail program usually files it in a folder named "deleted items," or something similar. By opening that folder, you can usually find your deleted message. Tell your e-mail program to empty your deleted messages folder to permanently delete those stored messages. So, how can you avoid picking up a virus? First, buy an anti-virus program from McAfee or Symantec. A new virus seems to pop up every few days, so visit the company's sites on a regular basis to download updates for your program. And never, never open a program attached to a piece of e-mail. More information about the W32/NewApt.worm is at this Web site: symantec.com worm.newapt.html Q: I am completely confused on the matter of "resolution" in the world of digital photography and computers. Previous experience with old-fashioned photography made me think that 600x800 pixels, for instance, would be somewhat like a measure of image quality or graininess, but occasionally I read something in the literature that makes counts like 600x800 or 1024x768 or whatever, sound like mere size capabilities. Why have a 3 mega-pixel camera if it only means you can produce a billboard-sized picture? Where would I find a definitive text on this subject? LYLE DAVIDSON San Diego A: Digital photos are made of thousands -- even millions -- of tiny dots called pixels. A camera with a resolution of 800x600 means the photos will have 800 columns of pixels lined up in 600 rows. The more pixels an image holds, the sharper the picture. Imagine a screen with a wide mesh stamping into wet clay. A wide mesh screen will leave an image of square blocks. A screen with a thin mesh will leave a much finer image on the clay. Similarly, a higher resolution image will show much finer detail. High-resolution digital photos offer other advantages, as well. It's easy to crop out portions of a high-resolution photograph and still end up with a high-detail photograph. The resulting picture will be smaller, but it will still have high resolution. You'll find a comprehensive discussion about digital cameras on this Web page: shortcourses.com contents.htm. Andy Rathbone is the best-selling author of the "Windows for Dummies" series. Send your questions to him at: q-a@home.com. Be sure to include your name, address and a phone number, and some information about your computer, such as the make, processor speed and amount of random access memory.