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1) Email Horror Stories--- And Solutions!After some minor opening-day glitchlets, the InformationWeek.Com "Listening Post" is off to a strong start and readers are starting to add good info to the current discussion there ("Message In A Bottle") on common email problems. For example, reader "Daniel" suggests:
Nice! The address at "tu-berlin.de" is a special email responder at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany; it bounces your mail back to you with the full headers in the body of the returned message. That way, you can see *exactly* how your email client and ISP or mail system is "packaging" your ooutbound email. Handy! But the ListeningPost has more, too, including a side discussion of the benefits of having more than one ISP or email source. For example, in my case, I make my
living via email, so it's absolutely essential that I have the reliable,
uninterrupted email access. To do this, I have three ISP-based accounts, three
free web-mail accounts, and my own POP3/SMTP services on 4 separate web sites I
run. This way, when my cable modem goes down, I can switch to ISDN. If that's
out, I'll use dial-up 56K. If everything's out in my home office (no cable, no
phone...), I'll use my battery-powered laptop from a phone that is working. On
the other end of the connection, if any of my web sites' mail is down, I can
redirect the mail to or through a site that's working; etc etc. The "Message In A Bottle" article is at http://www.informationweek.com/835/langa.htm and discussion area itself is at http://www.informationweek.com/forum/Fred Langa Please click on over, and join in! Click to
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the above is an advertisement )-------------- 2) Spell Check Almost *Anything!*Ever wished you could more easily spell check IM or chatroom notes, or posts in threaded messaging areas? Ever wished NotePad had a spell check? Well, reader Leo Feret found this clever way to use your Clipboard to spell check almost any text you can highlight and copy, regardless of the application that produced it:
Very nice script, Leo. Thanks for the pointer! Click to
email this item to a friend 3) Link Wins... And WoesI've been updating all my links to past WinMag articles with their new Techweb locations. Would you like to do the same with WinMag URLs on your hard drive or in your Favorites/Bookmarks lists? The fix is easy: Simply replace every instance of "http://www.winmag.com" with "http://content.techweb.com/winmag/". In most cases, that gets you where you want to go. For example the feature article "10 Ways To Make Windows ME Run Better" used to be at the now-dead URL of http://www.winmag.com/features/merunbetter/default.htm . But edit the URL as indicated above, and presto--- you'll find the article is alive and well at http://content.techweb.com/winmag/windows/features/merunbetter/default.htm Easy as pie! Similarly, after the recent site move of Langa.Com, I was able to change links on the web site appropriately, but I can't alter issues of past Standard Edition newsletters you've already gotten, or bookmarked. The largest number of Standard Edition "not found" messages is likely to come from newsletter issues that USED to be in http://www.langalist.com . All Standard edition back issues are now at http://www.langa.com, so if you just change the "langalist" to "langa," the URL will work fine. For example the "Secret Speed Tip" for Internet Explorer was referenced in a recent issue at the now-defunct URL of http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2000/2000-03-20.htm#5 . But change the "langalist" to "langa" and you've got the new location: http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2000/2000-03-20.htm#5 . Simple! Again, I mention this only so you can fix broken URLs you have stored locally: I'm fixing all the links that I can get to on my sites, so if you access info from there, it should work fine. External links not at Langa.Com or in the old WinMag site are another matter: Some sites I mention simply aren't up to handling the demand from thousands and thousands of LangaList readers all trying to grab a file at the same time. 8-) I try to prevent these problems by staggering the release of the newsletters: The Plus! editions, for example, mail before the Standard Edition, so Plus subscribers have anywhere from a 4-12+ hour head start on downloads. This helps avoid congestion at the download site (and also is a benefit of being a Plus! subscriber). But even that wasn't enough recently, and the "CRedit" editor file, as well as the CPU speed-measurement tools I recently mentioned, became unavailable. The CRedit site went completely dark--- it's just gone--- and the speed-tool sites are at least temporarily blocked from further download. There's nothing I can do about this kind of problem; just be patient, and try the site again later. Click to
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to email this item to a friend 5) MS Office ShortCut Bar ProblemWe recently discussed "Those Pesky 'FFF...' Files"--- the *&@$&% little zero-byte files that start with the letters "fff" and seem to multiply like digital vermin on your hard drive (see http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-04-23.htm#9 ). Well, reader Kevan Judah found that the MS Office ShortCut bar causes a similar--- but different--- problem:
Thank you, Kevan. You may have better results using the 8.3-type DOS names in the delete line
The specifics may vary depending on where you've installed things. For example, if you have another "Microsoft" folder before the one for Office, the Office folder might have the DOS name of "Micros~2." But once you have the exact DOS name and path correct, you can also add the line to your Autoexec.Bat file to have the tmp files cleaned out at every restart... Click to
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email this item to a friend 7) More On IE6's "Blank Page" ProblemA few issues back, we discussed a problem in IE6 than can result in the displaying of blank pages. ( http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-04-26.htm#4 ) In that item, we incorrectly identified the cuplrit as a bad copy of "mslang.dll" as the culprit that needs to be replaced with a good copy. But the correct name for the file is MLANG.DLL. Many thanks to the several readers who caught the error! Click to
email this item to a friend 8) Reader SitesDon't worry! They're almost here. <g> I'm cleaning up the last details resulting from the site move of Langa.Com, and when that's done, I'll be able to resume bringing you NEW readers sites. But meanwhile, there
are over 1,000 readers sites you can still review and explore available at http://www.langa.com/readersites.htm
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the above is an advertisement )-------------- 9) Serious IIS VulnerabilityI'll be brief because most readers won't be affected by this--- but those who *are* affected need to know about it right away: Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server all share a potentially very serious problem in the way "Internet Print Jobs" are accepted; the upshot is that an unchecked buffer in the software could allow a malicious hacker to run any code they want on the server. If you're using the affected software, see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-023.asp Click to
email this item to a friend 10) Just For GrinsDavid L. Bickley sends along a plan to improve the English language:
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