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>Mike Elgan's Win Letter 29 - Friday, January 29, 1999
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>'Spin for Propellerheads'
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>Forward to a friend!
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>In putting together the Win Letter, my job is to sift
>through mountains of material, data, news reports,
>hearsay, gossip, innuendo and lies and bring you only
>the very best. In a world of "me-too" technology
>journalism, I feel that people want something different.
>Something less. And that's the vision of the Win Letter:
>Windows and technology news you're not getting
>anywhere else and nothing more. We separate the
>wheat from the chaff...and print the chaff. ; )
>
>In spite of this innovative editorial policy, I feel the
>Win Letter is often kept as a closely held secret by its
>biggest fans. Let's change that. If you like this issue,
>forward it to a friend and urge them to subscribe!
>
>That's my pitch, now on with the show.
>
>
>COMPUTER CULTURE
> Online job-hunting web site, Hotjobs.com, is
> reportedly blowing half its 1998 revenues on one
> 30-second Super Bowl commercial, the first TV
> commercial the company has ever aired. Why?
> Can you spell I.P.O.? The company wants buzz.
> They also figure that the media (such as Yours Truly)
> will cover their unusual allocation of resources, and
> thereby give 'em free coverage.
>http://www.hotjobs.com/
>
>
>NAKED NUMBERS
> Analyst PC Data says retail software revenues for
> 1998 grew by 13% over 1997, reaching $5.2 billion.
> That growth is amazing because the average price of
> each retail software package went down by almost 9%.
> Almost 25 cents out of every retail software dollar
> (and a whopping 42% of the business software money)
> ended up at Microsoft, according to PC Data.
>http://www.pcdata.com/
>
>
>ROBOT WATCH
> A software robot called the "E-rater" will start grading
> essay questions on the Graduate Management
> Admission Test taken each year by 200,000 business
> school applicants. Though it sounds like a cross
> between two Arnold Schwarzenegger
> characters-Eraser and Terminator-the program is
> considered by some to be a glimpse of the future of
> standardized testing. In the past, each essay was
> graded by two humans; the E-rater will replace one
> of those humans in the grading process. Studies
> show E-rater agrees with human test scorers between
> 87% and 94% of the time, about the same degree
> of difference between two human scorers.
>
>
>UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOR
> A new, improved Palm, named the Palm III X, will
> probably ship next month. The new Palm is just like
> the old, but with an expansion slot (for built in modems,
> additional storage, etc.), a better display and twice the
> RAM (4MB). The new Palm will cost about the same
> as the Palm III ($350) and the Palm III will drop to
> under $300. It's cool, but don't buy it! Rumor has it
> that within the next few months, Palm will come out
> with a new color-screen Palm that's the same size, and
> an improved monochrome-screen Palm that's lighter,
> thinner and rechargeable.
>
>
>GOOD THINGS IN SMALL PACKAGES
> Everything is supposed to be bigger in Texas, but one
> company is bucking the trend. Plano-based startup
> Microtune this week unveiled a tiny, thumbnail-sized
> digital TV (DTV) tuner called the MicroTuner2000.
> Before Microtune's announcement the smallest DTV
> tuners were about the size of a pack of Marlboros.
> The Lilliputian size and low cost ($20) of the chip
> enables the integration of TVs in cell phones. TVs
> in Palm Pilots. TVs just about anywhere. And
> because of the high bandwidth of DTV signals,
> the chip can carry data such as stock quotes, business
> news or sports scores along with the TV signal.
>http://www.microtune.com
>
>
>WORM O' THE WEEK
> A harmless but annoying e-mail worm called
> Happy99.exe is spreading fast in Europe and expected
> to invade the United States soon. (A worm is a virus
> that makes copies of itself.) Happy99.exe runs when
> you launch the program, which you would receive as
> an attachment to e-mail. When the worm is launched,
> it opens a window and entertains you with fireworks
> while modifying your WINSOCK32.DLL file. That
> modification enables Happy99.exe to send copies of
> itself to your e-mail friends and newsgroup buddies
> without your awareness. The worm keeps a list of
> addresses and newsgroups it has infected in a file
> named LISTE.SKA. Happy99.exe doesn't delete
> files or destroy data, but it sure is annoying. Win
> Letter Rule of Thumb: Don't open attachments
> from strangers!
>
>
>WINDOWS NEWS
> February 15th has been designated by some Linux
> enthusiasts as "National Windows Refund Day."
> And the movement is gaining steam. As I reported
> last week, people who buy PCs but choose not to
> install Windows want a refund for the unused
> software, as promised in some OEM license
> agreements. Local organizers in New York, San
> Francisco and elsewhere are urging people to join
> the effort. And local organizers are calling on
> reluctant Microsoft Windows customers to show up
> at Microsoft offices in person to demand a refund
> on the big day.
>New York: http://www.netmonger.net/~onr/refund.html
>San Francisco: http://linuxmafia.com/refund/
>Orange County: http://www.deirdre.org/rebellion.html
>
>
>EXCLUSIVE INSIDE INFORMATION
> You may have received e-mail from colleagues or
> friends telling of an odd Microsoft Word Easter Egg:
> 1) Type "I'd like Bill Clinton to resign" in Word;
> 2) select the sentence; 3) choose
> Tools/Language/Thesaurus from the menus. The
> surprising Thesaurus entry is, "I'll drink to that"!
> Now there's a message floating around saying that
> if you type in a specific racist statement (which
> also happens to begin with "I'd like...") you get the
> same result. The e-mail message goes on to say that
> it's evidence of racism at Microsoft. In reality, any
> sentence that begins with "I'd like" will bring up the
> Thesaurus entry "I'll drink to that." It's not a bug.
> It's not a feature. It's not an Easter Egg and it's not
> evidence of racism. It's a Thesaurus asking if you'd
> like to replace "I'd like" with "I'll drink to that."
>
>
>UNDOCUMENTED TIP
> If you don't know whether or not your hard disk is
> using FAT32, here's how to find out. Open up the
> Drive Converter (FAT32) utility, which you'll find
> on the Start button/Programs/Accessories/System
> Tools menu. Launching it will bring up a Drive
> Converter wizard. Click on the Next button. You'll
> see a window labeled "Drives" showing all the drives
> on your computer and whether they're FAT16 or
> FAT32. If you don't have the Driver Converter utility
> on your system, you probably don't have FAT32 and
> your system probably doesn't support it.
>
>
>SECRET SHORTCUT
> Installing new programs in Windows 98 can
> rearrange the order of items on your Start menu.
> Here's how to put your menus back into alphabetical
> order fast. Open the Registry Editor and drill down to
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
> Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\
> Start Menu\Menu. In the right pane, delete the
> "Order" item, Save, Close and reboot.
>
>
>WACKY WEB SITE O' THE WEEK
> The Weekly World News, an over-the-top tabloid, is
> an entertaining destination, even for the digitally
> inclined. For example, click below to read about a
> computer virus that has mutated and become a virus
> that can infect human bodies.
>http://wwnonline.com/bm-016.htm
>http://wwnonline.com/
>
>
>USELESS URL OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE
> What would you expect to find at the URL
>http://www.mostlyharmless.com/
> Click and find out. . .
>
>
>FUN FEARLESS FOLLOW-UP
> * A number of Win Letter friends and fans in Thailand
> have informed me that the geek paradise island I
> described last week is, unfortunately, pronounced
> "Poo-ket," or "Foo-ket" or "Foo-kay" (I've gotten
> multiple pronunciations from different readers) but
> definitely not $#@!-it.
>
> * The Archie Comics empire has withdrawn its
> demand that veronica.org give up the domain name.
>
> * Last week I reported on the likely future rollout
> scenario of the Pentium III chip, including the
> likelihood of a 667MHz chip available by the end
> of this year. A reader asked a question I hadn't
> thought of: Why 667MHz and not 666MHz? He
> speculated that Intel doesn't want to cross into the
> new millennium with a chip megahertz designation
> of 666, fearing that some religious Christians might
> boycott the chip or stir up bad publicity about it.
>
>
>LAST WEEK'S COOL TRIVIA WINNER
> Congratulations to James Montessi to be the first to
> spell out ASCII as "American Standard Code for
> Information Interchange."
>
>THIS WEEK'S COOL TRIVIA QUESTION
> Sunday's Super Bowl will feature an orgy of overpriced
> computer and technology commercials. What
> computer company was the first to use a single
> overpriced Super Bowl commercial to roll out its latest
> product? Bonus points if you can send me a URL
> pointing to a video of the commercial. Send your
> answer to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]; please type the
> words "COOL TRIVIA" in the subject line.
>
>
>That's it for this week, folks. Have a great weekend.
>And enjoy the Super Bowl!
>
>
>Mike Elgan
>http://www.elgan.com
>
>
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