Computer
Info –
This Week’s Meeting
John Watkins will be hosting the
meeting this week. He will bring his new
HP all in one printer along to demonstrate the pro’s
and con’s of an all-in-one. It is the HP
PSC 950I that is a printer – fax – copier – scanner. He will follow that with a demonstration of
scanning into Word for beginners. And
any time left, will be devoted to QUESTIONS.
Catch-A-Call
This device was talked about at a
couple of our computer meetings. It allows
you to accept a brief incoming call while you are on the internet and then continue surfing. The device called Catch-A-Call is sold at
Radio Shack and other places. It lists
for $49.99 – and does require that you have call waiting service from your
phone company.
You can read about it at
http://www.catch-a-call-online.com/
Have you
heard this before – “I’ve been trying to reach you all day, but your phone line
is constantly busy!" Catch-A-Call allows users to receive incoming
phone calls and faxes while they are on the Internet, eliminating the need for
a second phone line.
Catch-A-Call uses your telephone
company’s call waiting service (call waiting is required) to detect incoming
calls while you are online. Catch-A-Call immediately rings and flashes a red
light to notify
you of the incoming call. If you choose to take the call, simply pick up the
telephone plugged into the Catch-A-Call and your Internet connection will
automatically be placed "on hold" for a short length of time
(anywhere from 2 to 30 seconds). After
you are finished with your phone conversation, simply hang up. If your computer
has not yet disconnected, you can resume surfing the Internet. If you stayed on
the phone long enough to cause your computer to disconnect, simply click the
Refresh button on your browser’s tool bar and your computer will dial up again
and reconnect to the same Internet page where you left off.
One Way to Take Carbon Copied Names Out of E-Mail Messages
Are
you looking for a simple way to remove long recipient lists from messages that
have been forwarded many times over or have been cc'ed
to dozens of people by a single sender? Follow
these easy steps:
1)
Highlight the text of the original e-mail and then right-click on the
highlighted area and choose COPY.
2)
Click on "New Message". Right click and choose Paste – this places the
original copied text in to the new message window.
E-Mail Virus Hoax
The
e-mail virus hoax – JDBGMGR.EXE file – continues to spread. The Jdbgmgr.exe File E-mail Virus Hoax was
discovered a couple of months ago and continues to be forwarded by unsuspecting
Internet users across the World Wide Web. If you receive an e-mail from a
friend or relative which tells you to find and then delete the "Jdbgmgr.exe File" from your computer because it is (supposedly) a
virus, IGNORE the warning and delete the e-mail message. The Jdbgmgr.exe e-mail message is a HOAX. There is NO virus called "Jdbgmgr.exe Virus."
Here
is how the E-Mail Virus Hoax works: You receive e-mail from a friend telling
you that you may have an e-mail virus called the "Jdbgmgr.exe Virus." The friend's e-mail encourages you to do a
search on your computer for a file called "Jdbgmgr.exe",
which has a "teddy bear icon" above it. If
you find the teddy bear, the message
says, then you have the virus. The message then goes on to explain how to
delete the file from your computer.
It
also encourages you to forward the e-mail warning to everyone in your address
book because if you found the Jdbgmgr.exe on your computer, then the virus
has infected everyone in your address book as well.
Here
is the hoax Jdbgmgr.exe is a standard windows component
that is found in every Windows installation. This file has a teddy bear next to
it. If you run a Windows operating system, obviously you are going to find this
file (and the associated teddy bear icon) because it is part of the system.
(The file is used as a Java Debugger Manager by Microsoft.) When you delete
this file from your computer, you are not deleting a virus, but rather a file from
your operating system.
You
may have already received this E-mail Hoax and deleted the Jdbgmgr.exe file from your computer. The good news is that the Jdbgmgr.exe is not a critical file within your operating system, so
restoring the file is optional. Java applets may not run correctly without it,
however. To restore Jdbgmgr.exe to your system, you can go to this Microsoft support page
for instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q322993
Go to the "Recovery"
section and complete the appropriate steps.
Word
of Caution: The Jdbgmgr.exe file located on your computer's
operating system, like any other file, can become infected by a virus. If you
receive a Jdbgmgr.exe via e-mail as an attachment, the
file may contain a virus. If, however, you find the Jdbgmgr.exe within your operating system when doing a search for it,
it is probably a clean file. Do NOT delete it.
JavaScript
JavaScript
is written and added to web pages to provide interactivity between the Internet
user and the web page. When you see things moving on the web page, when buttons
change as you roll over them with the mouse, when banners or ads rotate from
one to another and when graphics scroll, these are often effects performed by JavaScript.
JavaScript
is a scripting language originally developed by Netscape and was called "LiveScript." The name was changed after Sun
Microsystems' new programming language, called Java, became so popular. The
drawback is that Netscape Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer interpret
JavaScript
differently.
In addition, because interpretation is left up to the web browser,
Windows users, Macintosh users and Linux users will all see the JavaScript
operate differently, if at all.
JavaApplet
A
Java Applet is a small computer application written in Java that is downloaded
to your computer via the Internet. You see these frequently with online games
and chat rooms--places where more interactivity is required and where the
program would need to work on any type of machine
or operating system. Java programs,
or Applets, are not interpreted directly by your web browser. Instead, a Java
Applet must be compiled (translated) from the programming language into a
language that can be "read" by your computer. Java compilers are independent of any
particular machine. This
means that Java Applets will operate the
same on Windows machines, Macintosh machines and Linux machines.
The
program on your computer that "reads" the compiled code is known as a
"Java Virtual Machine." The compiled code then is what your browser
reads. The file "Jdbgmgr.exe" mentioned in the virus hoax above is Microsoft's
version of a Java Virtual Machine.