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To: lorne who wrote (32966)	5/1/1999 10:26:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116791

OT - Getting your computer ready for Y2K Hi guys, I have been gradually getting my own computer ready for Y2K and thought I would just summarize the process below on the chance it might help someone get started. 1. First of all download the free test2000.zip program from the following site. rightime.com After unzipping it, copy test.exe into your c:\ directory and then restart your computer using START - SHUTDOWN - RESTART IN MS DOS MODE. Run test2000.exe and follow the instructions to test your motherboard, bios and clock. 2. Next make sure that you you have the latest Windows and explorer patches from Microsoft from the following Windows 98 Update link (or by selecting TOOLS - WINDOWS UPDATE on your MS Explorer 5 Menu - I think it was under HELP on MS Explorer 4, but I am not sure). windowsupdate.microsoft.com It is a good idea to install all of the non-Y2K updates and fixes as well, since your computer will operate much more smoothly with them. If you have Windows 95 or earlier versions, I believe that you can find the Windows updates at the next site listed below. 3. Update any other Microsoft products that you might have using Microsoft's Year 2000 Update Site ... Check individual Microsoft products under 'Product Guide' microsoft.com 4. Visit the sites of vendors of any other application products that you have and look for Y2K updates. 5. As a final check, download the free lite version of the Discover Y2K Analysis Program at this site. ey2konline.com This may show up anything that you have missed. For example the above program told me that my version 3 of free Acrobat Reader plug-in was not compliant and from the Adobe site I downloaded the the new version 4, which is. It may also flag some DLL's etc which havn't yet been updated by the manufacturers. Mostly I think you have to wait for those to get updated in later releases of products. Some DLL's may also have been left in when you uninstalled products, but either all files were not removed or you declined to remove them as a result of the window's warning message that said they might be used by some other program, and suggest you check YES to leave them on your drive. In that case they will be out of date but cause no harm. Hope this helps. ***** Morning Lorne, There ... I did my good deed for the day. :-)) John

To: lorne who wrote (32966)	5/1/1999 12:55:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116791

Yugoslav president agrees to release U.S. soldiers << Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic agreed today to release three American soldiers captured last month, the state-run Tanjug news agency said. Tanjug said the three would be handed over to Rev. Jesse Jackson as part of his ''peace effort.'' ''The president took the decision in support of Jesse Jackson's peace efforts,'' Tanjug said. ''We do not see them as enemies but victims of war and miltarism.'' >> << Jackson also made a veiled plea to NATO to do something in return for the soldiers' release. ''It is a gesture that shouldn't go ignored,'' he said. The Clinton administration had not supported Jackson's mission, and has said the soldiers should be released without any conditions. >> abcnews.go.com

To: lorne who wrote (32966)	5/4/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 116791

Our pact with nuclear danger ( China - US Relationship ) << In 1978, President Carter and Chinese Premier Deng Xioping made a secret U.S.-Sino pact "to setup, install, man, equip and service a series of SIGNIT (signals intelligence) sites along that country's border with the Soviet Union." According to a 1995 "Chinagate" document forced from the Clinton administration by Federal Court, CIA and Chinese Army intelligence agents jointly share two military radio signal intercept stations in China. The two sites are located deep inside the far-western province of Xinjiang at Qitai and Korla. The two stations were built and equipped with state of the art American electronics by the CIA's office of SIGNIT operations (OSO). Chinese Army personnel, who share the sites with U.S. NSA and CIA agents, are trained by the CIA inside the U.S. at a location just outside San Francisco, Calif. The People's Liberation Army SIGNIT agents are identified as coming from the Second Department of the Chinese Army General Staff division (GSD). >> worldnetdaily.com Morning Lorne, I had no idea that the US was this deeply involved in joint intercept monitoring with China. John