Number 235 - November 2002

UPDATE
Oops! We Misspoke About BCWipe     Delete With Wiping not part of Windows     Last month in an article entitled "How To REALLY Delete Files" your editor said that the file deletion program BCWipe is "now incorporated in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT". This is not quite true. The "shell extender" program BCWipe must first be loaded onto your computer and then works seamlessly in conjuction with Windows to provide the Delete with wiping function decribed in the article. It works so seamlessly, in fact, that your editor, having a "senior moment", forgot that he had loaded BCWipe onto his machine and assumed it was now part of Windows.     Librarian Tom Stepanek was to have offered BCWipe as a Library disk last month but had to miss the meeting. He will bring it to this month's meeting. He will bring both the latest and an earlier version of the program (~700K in size) now offered by some sites as freeware. However, the most up-to-date version, BCWipe 3.0 now 1.8Mb is size, is available as Shareware. If you can't wait you can read about it at the site of its originator, Jetico at www.Jetico.com/ index.htm#/ bcwipe.htm If you want to buy this version it is about $30.	Is Google Great? or What?     In the September 2002 TOGGLE we touted one of the attributes of the Google search engine, namely the Images feature. In the Communications section of this issue John Lenihan of the Pikes Peak Computer Application Society goes much further discussing the many, many facets of this great search engine. Worth a look. Hyped Hoax Hassle - Teddy Bear Pooh Poohed     jdbgmgr.exe again raised the spectre of viral infection in erroneous e-mail messages when, in fact, it is a legitimate file used by Java apps. See the article on here and brief item here about a TOG member's tussle with it. Cutting Coaster Creation     In the Hardware section Ira Wilsker discusses Buffer underrun and other probable causes of CD-R disk writing failures. He also includes some some suggestions as to how you can correct the "problems". A Splash of Color     A discussion of the differences between colors displayed on a computer monitor and those shown on the printed page as well as the standards applied in each are discussed. Since the print version of the newsletter isn't in color, examples were printed there in grayscale but can be viewed in color here.
Number 235 - November 2002