Searching for news by date; seeing pictures in browsers; looking for a font directory; sending a Web page by e-mail. . . and why there's no MacIntel.
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What if the Internet collapsed? The hole in SNMP, disclosed in a CERT advisory last week, could have catastrophic consequences.
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PC Health in Windows Me: how to reduce the disk space it uses, or disable it; deleting an index.dat file; running a defrag; finding a printer driver for WordPerfect; and a question: are printer refills worth it?
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Remote Assistance and other ways to control Windows at a distance; looking after a plethora of passwords (and the single-sign on idea); and the case of the missing Microsoft Backup. (Two Backchat items have gone missing from the Guardian Unlimited version.)
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Will the hardware suppliers break GNU/Linux by creating different versions that are incompatible with one another? That's how they broke Unix. The Free Standards Group is now promoting two standard platforms instead. If it doesn't work, we could be in for another round of Unix wars with Sun v IBM again. (Unless they learned their lesson last time.)
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If you don't have any Spyro games and you're the target age for Pixar animated features, Monsters, Inc: Scare Island could fill a few hours.....
Guardian Online: Gameswatch

Finding the souce of a spammer or other e-mail sender, tackling those start-up programs (even with Windows 95), dealing with DINPUT.DLL, password-protecting and hiding folders, speech recognition, and free memory versus system resources.
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