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To: Carl R. who wrote (5279)	2/4/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: digger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Thanks for postimg the link, I wondered about those "cookies" as well. I can't remember, but I'll have to check - Can't you disable them in your browser setup/options? Starting to get a little off the path but here's a good article..... Intel's "Big Brother" keeper: mercurycenter.com cheers, digger

To: Carl R. who wrote (5279)	2/4/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Carl, I recently downloaded the free Realplayer and have my browser's automatic connect feature enabled and RP has never attempted to access the Net on its own. You might try deleting the "smartstart" feature from your startup files. Go to settings, taskbar, and remove. Find RP on your list in the start folder and remove it. You can always put it back later. I'm running Win 98 and a 4.11 Internet Explorer Browser from Microsoft. Santiago

To: Carl R. who wrote (5279)	2/4/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: Alan Cassaro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

OFF TOPIC: "THE Y1K CRISIS" An Article from a London Newspaper (circa 999 A.D.) Canterbury, England. A.D. 999. An atmosphere close to panic prevails today throughout Europe as the millennial year 1000 approaches, bringing with it the so-called "Y1K Bug," a menace which, until recently, hardly anyone had ever heard of. Prophets of doom are warning that the entire fabric of Western Civilization, based as it now is upon monastic computations, could collapse, and that there is simply not enough time left to fix the problem. Just how did this disaster-in-the-making ever arise? Why did no one anticipate that a change from a three-digit to a four-digit year would throw into total disarray all liturgical chants and all metrical verse in which any date is mentioned? Every formulaic hymn, prayer, ceremony and incantation dealing with dated events will have to be re-written to accommodate three extra syllables. All tabular chronologies with three-space year columns, maintained for generations by scribes using carefully hand-ruled lines on vellum sheets, will now have to be converted to four-space columns, at enormous cost. In the meantime, the validity of every official event, from baptisms to burials, from confirmations to coronations, may be called into question. "We should have seen it coming ," says Brother Cedric of St. Michael Abbey, here in Canterbury. "What worries me most is that THOUSAND contains the word THOU, which occurs in nearly all our prayers, and of course always refers to God. Using it now in the name of the year will seem almost blasphemous, and is bound to cause terrible confusion. Of course, we could always use Latin, but that might be even worse -- The Latin word for Thousand is Mille which is the same as the Latin for mile. We won't know whether we are talking about time or distance!" Stonemasons are already reported threatening to demand a proportional pay increase for having to carve an extra numeral in all dates on tombstones, cornerstones and monuments. Together with its inevitable ripple effects, thisalone could plunge the hitherto-stable medieval economy into chaos. A conference of clerics has been called at Winchester to discuss the entire issue, but doomsayers are convinced that the matter is now one of personal survival. Many families, in expectation of the worst, are stocking up on holy water and indulgences.

To: Carl R. who wrote (5279)	2/5/1999 10:24:00 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

AtGuard... Thanx for that link, it's really helpful. I disabled cookies for awhile but then, for instance, Charles Schwab doesn't work w/o cookies, so I put them back on. Also, I do get tired of watching search engines like Altavista send my search query to Doubleclick and wait for a targeted ad to appear before the search can download. It's really irritating. I'm going to use this, and tell others about it.

To: Carl R. who wrote (5279)	2/6/1999 10:28:00 AM
From: Harvey H Anderson	Respond to of 17679

Hi Carl, I hope this hasn't been answered elsewhere, but I haven't finished getting through the tread this AM. On my new laptop I have Windows 98 installed, running at 42K this morning, (7am EST) and when I clicked on the 28.8 play of the TVW web site Windows Media Player comes up instead of Real Player. Seemed to work fine, and had 4 view options; 50%, 100%, 200% and Full Screen. My desktop at Home has Real Player G2 Beta (Not sure of the version) and isn't nearly as clear or consistent. At home I seldom connect above 26.4K due to my lines however, so when I get back I'll have to try both out simultaneously and see if my observations are due to conditions extraneous to the computer software or not. I have 2 ISPs that I use at home (Prodigy and Netzero), so I'll try on both. Bud Anderson, Long and lurking for the last year and a half. Thanks to all the long time posters that have made this such an exceptionally informative thread. I'm getting a bit overwhelmed by the number of posts in the last month or so, I guess that's the price one pays for a successful stock.