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To: re3 who wrote (139475)	2/18/2002 4:01:47 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 164684

I'm wondering how this Windows 'activation' junk works. It has to be tied to the NIC card? If it's not tied to the NIC Card...and once you activate it...You'r screwed. Because what if you ever decide to REFORMAT because of a wicked WORM or badtrans something. If you've already activated it...THEN you'r screwed. Or if you switch out your NIC card and then reformat...Your REALLY screwed. LITTLE HELP!

To: re3 who wrote (139475)	2/18/2002 5:16:12 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

If Goggle was public I'd buy it. >>Google is still to me - and millions of others - a daily miracle. If the Internet consisted only of this ultra-fast search engine, it would have justified its existence many times over. You can type (almost) anything, however obscure, into the space provided and - literally - in a fraction of a second it has come up with hundreds, if not thousands, of references. If knowledge is power, then Google commands the gateway. It claims access to 3 billion Web documents - a total that is rising even as you read this. As a result of recent improvements, it can search picture libraries and 20 years of Usenet newsgroups. The ancient Library of Alexandria had 40,000 volumes, a fact uncovered, of course, through a Google search lasting 0.11 seconds. It is still all too easy to get blasé about what the Web can do - witness the number of people who moan about having to wait seconds for getting information that 10 years ago would have taken days. Even so, Google stands apart from the hundreds of rival search engines that have sprouted across the Web. Other search engines index the pages by counting the number of times particular words appear in the code. However, that makes it easy for unscrupulous Web page editors to fool the search engine into giving them high rankings because they can repeat words many times, either on the page or hidden in its code. Google works differently. It also looks at the content of a page, although it tries to see it from the user's point of view. Therefore, if a word appears in bold type on a Web page, it ranks that word as being particularly important for that page. If a word does not display on the page, it ignores it. More importantly, Google also uses the structure of the Web to determine the importance of a given page. Google counts the number of links to a page from other sites, counting each link as a vote. So if site one links to site two, that's regarded as a vote for site two bysite one. I gave Google a few quick tests while writing this. It came up with a picture of Manet's Olympia in 0.23 seconds and in reply to a search for E=MC2 it emerged with, among other things, a recording of Einstein himself explaining the equivalence of energy and matter. I then asked for the most obscure word I could remember, honorificabilitudinatibus, the mock Latin word from Love's Labour Lost that contains an anagram supposedly proving that Bacon wrote Shakespeare. This time there was only one reference, but it took 0.18 seconds, less time than it takes to pronounce the word.