Number 302 - July 2008

UPDATE
Beginners    In Making Your Old Color Slides and Negatives Computer Readable the two articles: Using the PrimeFilm 1800u Scanner from PacificImage Electronics - and - Using the VuPoint FS-C1-VP Digital Film Scanner with Photo Impressions 6 Software, TOG members Carl Tenning and Bob Thomson describe two distinctly different approaches to capturting your old photos as JPEGs. The two pieces of equipment and supporting programs are a few years apart in age the latter, using the VuPoint Scanner, being the most recent. The capabilities demonstrated were impressive, but there were also a few problems. Read and learn. Communications    We have covered the subject before. Here is an update in Rootkits - A continuing Security Problem by Brian Lewis of the Sarasota Florida PC Group.Here he describes the sophisticated ways in which rootkits hide themselves within your system. For example the kernel mode rootkit inserts itself into the "kernel" of the operating system. There are other similarly devious techniques of hiding the intruder discussed here - all of which make it very difficult to detect and remove. read it and keep up to date to protect yourself.    In the article One Application Won't Connect to the Internet Carl Tenning suggests that you check your firewall settings. You may have inadvertently locked one or more programs out.	Operating System    In Using Vista's Hidden Disk Cleanup Options Vinnie LaBash describes this utility program that comes with Vista. He describes it as "free" but, of course, it is not. It is simply part of the package that you paid for when you bought Vista. Read this article and learn some of the neat things that this utility does for you. Hardware    In Slave Hard Drive Problem a member said he could not get the operating system to recognize a new hard drive that he installed. Another member said he had the same problem and found a solution in Smart Computing. He excerpts the solution here for your edification.    In Solid State Drives the author compares the acquisition and response times of various storage devices. We didn't have room to include his chart but give the address on the web where you can bring it up to look at it, or, if you choose, print it out. General Interest   In Circuit Writer Version 5.10 we include a regular column from another newsletter covering a range of subjects. which we thought would be of interest to our readers.     In the article New Technology Terms CompuKISS columnist Sandy Berger gives us brief definitions of some new terminology with which you should become familiar if you aren't already clued in.
Number 302 - July 2008