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To: mr.mark who wrote (19759)	5/14/2001 12:51:35 PM
From: KC Jones	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Hi Mr. Mark First let me tell you what a great help this thread has been to me since I am a computer illitteret. My question is for anyone who can help me. I'm trying to set up a hub on my home computer. I have a 3Com hub and ethernet cards in each computer but I am unable to get any contact between them. Also when I plug my DSL line into the hub I lose connection that I can't re-establish. I won't be able to try anything until tonite when I get home. KC

To: mr.mark who wrote (19759)	5/14/2001 12:52:03 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 110652

Computer Users May Soon Get 3-D Screens Monday May 14 7:27 AM ET news.yahoo.com SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Computer users may soon be able to work on screens with displays that give the appearance of being three dimensional. The DVI actualdepth monitors, developed by a private New Zealand-based research company Deep Video Imaging, displays images on two physical planes to create a depth of field. ``People have tried like crazy to get the illusion of depth and the closest you can have is wearing (3-D) goggles and standing at a particular position,'' DVI director Lim Soon Hock said on the sidelines of a news conference to launch the product. The monitor, which uses multiple layers of liquid crystal display (LCD) screens to create depth, allows users to work across what appears to be a foreground and background seamlessly, without the need for 3-D glasses or specialized software. ``We have not come across anything which comes close to a DVI monitor,'' Fong Yew Chan, an engineer and business development director for the Singapore government-funded Institute of High Performance Computing told Reuters. The institute, focused on high-end simulation research, is collaborating with DVI on applications for the monitor. ``There are technological challenges to be overcome before you can have this kind of display (which) not even the LCD manufacturers could overcome so easily,'' Fong said. A rainbow effect called moire interference, which occurs when two LCD screens are placed one behind the other, was one problem. The ``window box'' effect where the side portion between the two planes can been seen had to be eliminated, along with the reflection of the screens off each other, DVI executive chairman David Hancock said. The monitors, which are thinner than conventional cathode ray tube displays, are compatible with all operating systems. DVI has filed for several worldwide patents and spent about US$3.5 million in research and development. The company, funded by New Zealand and Singapore capital, will not manufacture the monitors itself, but hopes to license the technology to others. The company plans to make prototypes for desktop computers by next year. The monitors are currently available as manufacturing modules in different screen sizes.

To: mr.mark who wrote (19759)	5/14/2001 1:03:05 PM
From: Peach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Hi Mark, << and a very appropriate dylan quote to boot, no pun intended. >> That was a great pun, intended or not! LOL! << i'm assuming you have successfully installed netscape communicator4.76 and are using the messenger email client?>> Yes, I am using Netscape Communicator 4.76. I love the email and the browser. I will try the IE browser more when I relax a bit more. Too many changes for now. << are you running window's service pack 1? do you have 128-bit encryption? >> Mark, I am sorry to say I don't know what you are talking about here. I do think I have 128-bit encryption. << what are your thoughts on the differences so far between w95 and w2k? it wasn't all that different to migrate to, was it? >> It has all worked like a charm. The main thing that is taking a while to adjust to is the Program Manager (uh oh, dating myself there)... I mean Explore. It is still very awkward for me. By the way, my "plan" changed. A friend of mine (she is the head of customer support at a software company) came over and removed the hard drive from my old PC and put it in my new PC as a "slave." I am now in the process of moving all my data files to the new hard drive where I have space out the wazoo! Yippee! When I have completed this she will remove the extra hard drive and return it to my old PC. Then she will reformat the hard drive, install WIN98 and Microsoft Office on the old machine. I will then have a clean DELL Pentium II with all the bells and whistles that I can give my nephew who is starting college in the Fall. One thing that is new to me is that when I boot up I don't see any of those "black" screens where it says what it is doing. I just see a little Windows 2000 Professional window... frankly, I like this since I just want everything to be magic and not require me to know a lot. ;-) Everyone on this thread is a Saint! Norma