|
Please visit the LangaList Home Page Please note: Older issues may contain information that is now out of date. How To Subscribe
and Unsubscribe is at the end of this note. Mailing List Trouble? See http://www.langa.com/help.txt Please recommend the LangaList to a friend! (And maybe win $10,000 !) An easier-to
read formatted HTML version of this newsletter is available on line at The LangaList 2000-07-20 A Free Email
Newsletter from Fred
Langa --------------(
Your Clicks On Ad Links Help Keep The LangaList Free! ) ------------
Two Dozen
GREAT Computer Books--- at Deep Discounts! Great
reading: Check out the They're
all personally recommended by Fred Langa, and --------------(
the above is an advertisement )--------------
There's lots of good info coming in
about "Save Your Butt--- With DOS" ( http://content.techweb.com/winmag//columns/explorer/2000/15.htm
). Check it out! If you're new to DOS, you might also
try The EasyDOS Internet Guide to DOS at http://www.easydos.com/
; it's just one of about *two dozen* references mentioned in the "Save Your
Butt" article. Combined, all the references in "Save Your Butt"
will go a long way to empowering you with DOS skills. Most of the DOS info I presented is
aimed mainly at Win9x, but many of the general concepts and some of the specific
info can be useful elsewhere, such as: Hi Fred, Regarding your
recent column "Save Your Butt With DOS" I feel I must point out that
Windows 2000 has some extremely powerful command-line tools, in the shape of the
Recovery Console. You can either install it as a boot option or run it from the
(bootable) CD, or emergency rescue floppy disks. Also, the DOS-less Win2k can
repair itself if it is unbootable, with a simple boot from the CD and select of
the 'repair' option, so there's no need to know about fdisk /mbr or sys c,
things that newbies may be hard-pushed to work out for themselves. Who said that
losing DOS from Windows was a bad thing??? Not me, Windows 2000 has NEVER
crashed on me (no lie) and I have had it running for weeks on end without a
reboot for tasks such as WP, spreadsheets, programming, DTP and graphics. Yay
for the NT kernel, Boo to the Windows-on-top-of DOS structure. Sorry to rant,
but everyone has a soft spot for their favourite OS! --- Stephen Charlesworth Thanks for writing! You'll find more info like that in
the discussion area attached to the "Save your Butt" column; click on
over and check it out at http://content.techweb.com/winmag//columns/explorer/2000/15.htm
. Click to
email this item to a friend --------------(
Your Clicks On Ad Links Help Keep The LangaList Free! ) ------------
--------------(
the above is an advertisement )--------------
Reader "AHB197" (now
there's a name you can warm to <g>) asks: Read about
C\WINDOWS\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 0x2 method to reboot. Could
you please go over how you would add this task to Task Scheduler? AHB, if I may call him that, is
referring to an item in http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2000/2000-07-10.htm#1
that described an easy way to get your PC to restart itself at any given hour,
on any day, or every day. Basically, the idea is this: Open
Task Scheduler (double click it), and select "Add Scheduled Task."
Then, in the Task tab of the dialog that appears, place the following line of
code in the "Run" box: C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE
shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 0x2 Now, in the "Start In:"
box, type C:\Windows . Then check the "Enabled" box at the bottom of
the dialog. Use the "Scheduled" tab to
determine when your system should reboot; and adjust the "Settings"
tab as desired (e.g. "Wake the computer to run this task.") Click OK, and you're all set! Note that if you've never added
*any* task before, the Scheduled Task "Wizard" will walk you through a
process of selecting an application from your hard drive that you wish to enable
as a scheduled task. Use the "Browse" option and navigate to
C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE . Click OK and let the Wizard finish (you can select the
start time, etc.). Once it's done, right click on the newly created task, and
edit the "Run" line as shown earlier. Or, see the next item for another
method. Click to
email this item to a friend LangaList reader and fellow batch
file enthusiast Scott Randolph sends along this alternative method of
automatically rebooting: I use a Win98 PC to
run a task every night at midnight. I've created a batch file to help with ERP
planning and the process is both lengthy and mission critical. The best way to
make sure the batch file runs every night is to reboot the computer 15 minutes
before the batch file runs. I've created a small batch file that contains the
following text @echo off I named the file
"reboot.bat" and placed a link to it in the Windows Task Scheduler. At
11:45pm my computer reboots properly. No questions asked. Now my nightly
planning batch file runs like clockwork. Thanks, Scott. Scott's method still uses the Task
Scheduler, so you may wonder what the advantage is. Although this specific
example is relatively simple, the primary advantage is that you can call one
batch file from the Task Scheduler, and that one batch file can be arbitrarily
complex--- calling other batch files, using conditionals, using Start and Wait
commands, etc.; all of which are more flexible and powerful than simply running
things in the Task Scheduler's simple, serial fashion. In other words, Scott's
method opens the door for a world of task-automation that would be hard or
impossible with Task Scheduler alone. And Batch Files are *another* part
of DOS's power we'll cover in the "Save Your Butt" series! BTW, if you'd like some help getting
started with batch files, "Gord's World of Batch Files" is one good
beginning: http://www.cableyorkton.com/users/gbraun/batch/
; his page o' links also contains pointers to many other batch-oriented sites. Click to
email this item to a friend --------------(
Your Clicks On Ad Links Help Keep The LangaList Free! ) ------------
--------------(
the above is an advertisement )--------------
The news went out from Microsoft a
couple days ago: "Two vulnerabilities
have recently been discovered, one affecting Microsoft Office 2000, and
PowerPoint 97, and the other Internet Explorer 4.01 SP2 and higher. We will
refer to these issues as the "Office script" and "IE script"
vulnerabilities. The names refer to the product where the vulnerability is
present, but not necessarily how the vulnerability is exploited. "The Office HTML
Script vulnerability, allows malicious script code on a web page to reference an
Excel 2000 or PowerPoint file in such a way as to cause a remotely hosted file
to be saved to a visiting user's hard drive. This vulnerability can only be
exploited by a reference to an Excel 2000 or PowerPoint file; it cannot be
exploited using Excel 97, Microsoft Word or a Microsoft Access file. "The IE Script
vulnerability, can allow malicious script code on a web page to reference a
remotely hosted Microsoft Access file. The Microsoft Access file can in turn
causes a VBA macro code in the file to be executed." The affected software versions are: Microsoft Excel 2000 Patch Availability: Microsoft Excel 2000 and PowerPoint
2000 Microsoft PowerPoint 97 FAQ (and workaround for the IE
problem) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-049.asp Click to
email this item to a friend -------------(
Your Clicks On Ad Links Help Keep The LangaList Free! ) ------------
--------------(
the above is an advertisement )--------------
Ever been trapped by a web site?
Reader David Lawrence was, and it ticked him off: Fred: I very much
appreciate your newsletter and BrowserTune utility. I'm annoyed by the behavior
of some Web sites and I bet that I'm not alone. More and more it seems that I
link to a site that grabs control of my browser and will not allow me to use my
BACK button to return to the site I just left. This seems to be independent of
the browser I use. Is there a way to get back without exiting the browser?
Sometimes, in my surfing, I don't know the URL of the site I want to return to.
Then I have to go through looking at my history to guess at where I want to go.
The most recent example of this rude behavior I found is the link below. http://www.walktoschool-usa.org/ It would be a perfectly
nice animated opening screen but it holds on like quicksand. Thanks, David It *is* unfriendly behavior indeed.
On the "Walk To School" site, what's happening is the opening page is
almost instantaneously redirecting you to a secondary page that actually
delivers the animation. (The redirection is fast enough that you may not be
aware you've been redirected.) When you click "back," you leave the
secondary page to return to the first page--- which instantly sends you back to
the secondary page. So, even though your "back" button is working
fine, it can appear that you're stuck on a page. In reality, you're stuck in a
two-page loop. If you're fast enough--- and if your
system is fast enough--- you can pound on the "back" button and escape
from the opening page *if* your "go back" command gets processed
before the browser processes the redirect command. (Good luck!) In any case, this isn't a browser
problem but a site design problem: The site *could* have used a cookie to track
whether you'd just been to the opening page of not; and if you had, to offer you
the option of seeing the animation again or bailing out. Or: They simply could have offered
the animation-or-not option on the top page, rather than automatically and
stupidly redirecting everyone to the animation page. Or they could do what I do with
links in the HTML version of this newsletter (available only on the www.langa.com
site) and with the daily HotSpot (at http://www.browsertune.com/flanga/hotspots.htm
): I construct links there to open in a separate instance of your browser. That
way, no matter what happens on any linked page, you can just close the secondary
browser. The original page will still be there in the primary browser, so you
can't "get lost" or "get stuck." For sites that don't protect you
that way, you can right click on links and "open in a new window."
This has the same effect: The originating page remains open in one window, and
the new link opens in a secondary window. You don't need your "back"
button--- just kill the secondary window, and you'll be back where you started. Click to
email this item to a friend The Recommend-it site
gives away up to $10,000 as an incentive to use their service to recommend
newsletters like this one! If you think the
LangaList is a worthwhile read, just use the following link to recommend the
LangaList to a friend. Your friend just may find a new source of useful
information; I just may gain a new subscriber; and you just may win $10,000 or
other prizes from the folks at "Recommend-It:" http://www.langa.com/recommend.htm#1 Or, win a copy of
"Poor Richard's E-Mail Publishing: Creating Newsletters, Bulletins,
Discussion Groups and Other Powerful Communications Tools." This book has
been described as "An excellent, straightforward manual on email
publishing, banner ads, driving traffic and especially ethics." (Full
details also available via this link): http://www.langa.com/recommend.htm#2 Either way, thank you,
and good luck! Click to
email this item to a friend Do you have a home page or website?
(It doesn't matter what size.) Please click over to http://www.langa.com/code.htm,
and maybe you can join the hundreds and hundreds of LangaList readers who have
"Loaded the Code!" Note that several of your fellow
"Code Loaders" have offered custom banners (they're posted on the page
mentioned above); you may use these if my original banners don't match your
page's layouts or colors. (Or, feel free to make your own!) Meanwhile, here's another eclectic
sample of reader sites--- some professional, some very personal: Click to
email this item to a friend -------------(
Your Clicks On Ad Links Help Keep The LangaList Free! ) ------------
Advertising
in the LangaList --------------(
the above is an advertisement )--------------
This is long, but as a webmaster, I
liked it. 8-) A Guide to MRML The Mind Reading Markup
Language (MRML /mur'mul/) is a proprietary extension of the HyperText Markup
Language. This document, all MRML tags, and any ideas you come up with while
reading this information are the exclusive property of the authors. This is an
open specification that will be expanded as mind control technology is refined. MRML tags can be embedded
into any regular HTML document. They are completely invisible to all browsers.
No one will ever know you are using them. NOTE MRML is not case
sensitive. <fraud> is equivalent to <Fraud> or <frAUD>. Basic Markup Tags The following MRML tags are
used to read the client's mind for certain kinds of thoughts and emotions about
the contained text. <BRAINSCAN> Brainscan performs a light
scan of the client's thoughts which may include perceptions of their current
environment. The Brainscan tag is an invaluable tool for establishing a user's
identity as it is much more reliable than checking REMOTE_HOST or USER_ID
variables. <THOUGHTSUCK> Thoughtsuck performs of
deeper scan of the client's thoughts which may included details of significant
events within the past 24 hours. <DEEPFEARS>subject</DEEPFEARS> Probes the client's mind
for their fears about the contained subject. <DEEPESTFEARS>subject</DEEPESTFEARS> Probes the client's mind
for their deepest, most repressed fears about the contained subject. WARNING
This tag cannot be exported outside the US borders. <SEXTHOUGHTS>subject</SEXTHOUGHTS> Probes the client's mind
for sexual thoughts about the contained subject. Use of the Sexthoughts tag will
likely be deprecated with the release of the Freud and Jung specifications.
Freud and Jung Tags Specifications for Freudian id, ego, and superego tags and
Jungian symbolic tags are not currently available. The HYPNOTIZE Tag Current technology enables
very primitive mind control using MRML tags. The so-called Brainwashing tags are
delimited by the special <!--HYPNOTIZE><HYPNOTIZE--> pair.
Suggestions within the Hypnotize area are completely invisible to all clients,
but it is extremely important that the tags are placed correctly. You are liable
for any mental damages inflicted by improperly placed tags. HYPNOTIZE Area Tags Within the
<!--HYPNOTIZE></HYPNOTIZE--> area the following tags may be used <SUGGEST>text</SUGGEST> Used for mild, easily
acceptable suggestions. For stronger suggestions use PROGRAM and BELIEVE. Some
examples It is warm for this time of
year. <MEME>text</MEME> Information that you want
the client to pass on to friends and correspondents. Some popular memes Chain letters <FORGET>text</FORGET> Things you want the client
to forget. It may be desirable to have the client forget the URL of your MRML
documents. <PROGRAM>text</PROGRAM> Programs the client with a
strong post-hypnotic suggestion. There are a few optional arguments. <PROGRAM
TIMES=3 INTERVAL="1 hour" DELAY="2 days"> will trigger
the suggestions three times at a one hour interval two days hence. <PROGRAM
INTERVAL="after every meal" FOREVER> could trigger the suggestion
brush your teeth for an indefinite time. Within the
<PROGRAM></PROGRAM> area the following tags may be used <BELIEVE>text</BELIEVE> Explicit thoughts to be
planted in the client's mind. Beware of contradictory programming! Try to remove
previous conceptions before reprogramming. To reprogram someone that
thinks that Pepsi is better than Coke 1.<BELIEVE>You have
no opinions about the relationship between Coke and Pepsi.</BELIEVE> 2.<BELIEVE>Coke is
better than Pepsi.</BELIEVE> 3.<BELIEVE>You are
thirsty.</BELIEVE> <BUY HREF=url> Encourages the client to
buy products on the World Wide Web. The optional ITEM=item argument may be used. <PASSWORD=keyword or
phrase> A convenient way to access
the client's mind for future programming sessions. Should only be used with a
secure client-server connection. Click to
email this item to a friend -------------(
Your Clicks On Ad Links Help Keep The LangaList Free! ) ------------
--------------(
the above is an advertisement )--------------
See you next issue! Best, Please recommend
the LangaList to a friend! (And maybe win $10,000!I) An easier-to read formatted
HTML version is available in the "Current Issue" section of http://www.langa.com.
(The HTML version of each issue normally is available by 9AM EST [UT-5] of the
issue date.) All past LangaList issues are also available at the Langa.Com site. Why are you getting this
newsletter? This is a 100% OPT-IN newsletter: There are only three ways to get
on the list--- signup via direct email request from you, or signup via the
WinMag newsletter page or signup via BrowserTune's email-notification service.
If you're getting this newsletter; your name came to me through one of those
signup channels. At signup, you also received a confirmation email from my list
software---no one is signed up secretly or against their will. SUBSCRIBE (it's free! ):
Create and send a new email address it to subscribe-langalist@lyris.dundee.net UNSUBSCRIBE: From the same
address you used to sign up with (it's shown on the first line in the body of
each email issue you receive), create and send a new email address to unsubscribe-langalist@lyris.dundee.net
. CHANGE ADDRESS? LIST
TROUBLE? HAVE QUESTIONS? NEED HELP? See http://www.langa.com/help.txt About
the advertisers: Langa Consulting LLC will never knowingly accept
advertising for a fraudulent product, company or service. However, Langa Consulting LLC makes no implied or explicit warranty, recommendation or endorsement
of or for the products, companies or services mentioned in the ads. Disclaimer:
(Please see full disclaimer here: http://www.langa.com/legal.htm.)
Abbreviated version: The tips and other information given in the newsletter are
researched and are believed to be accurate, but we cannot and do not guarantee
that all the information here will work on all systems, for all users, all the
time. All information herein is offered as-is and without warranty of any kind.
Neither Langa Consulting LLC, nor its employees nor contributors are responsible for
any loss, injury, or damage, direct or consequential, resulting from application
of any information presented here. This newsletter is a free
service of Langa Consulting LLC and is Copyright © 2000 Langa Consulting LLC. All
rights reserved. |
|
Please visit the LangaList Home Page
|