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Page 2 Diablo Blue March, 2002 |
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I had hoped to get an article done this month on the Belkin KVMA switch that I showed you at the last meeting. While the switch is terrific, I just haven’t had time to get the article finished and will do so shortly. In the interim, an interesting thing occurred which I thought I would share with you. I have my own domain, which I use for email: awm@mildwurm.com. No ego problems here! Anyway, it came up for renewal in January, and prior to the renewal date I got a bill in the mail from a company asking me to send them $100.00 for my one-year renewal. It was from a company I didn’t recognize but of course companies merge and break away all the time in this industry. (Unfortunately, I can’t find the bill right now to blast the company by name). Needless to say, the bill was from another company hoping to hi-jack my account registration! Shortly afterward, I received a bill from Network Solutions (now owned by VeriSign) for $70.00 for 2 years. I went to the Network Solutions on-line renewal webpage and was able to renew for 2 years for $52.00. I haven’t figured out why it was so much cheaper to renew on line than by mail, but I am not complaining. Bottom line: caveat emptor!
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Next month we will see a presentation from Microsoft on digital photography that will tie in with FrontPage, PhotoDraw and some interesting new Microsoft products. If that wasn’t enough, we will also have our annual elections. As we say every year — we want more member participation on the Board. I want to encourage every member to think about becoming more active in the club —whether running for the Board, starting (or joining) a SIG, mentoring others, giving presentations, suggesting speakers/topics, helping with advertising — anything. This is a volunteer organization and it works best with lots of volunteers! I hope to get Chris Pirillo, host of TechTV’s Call for Help program (www.techtv.com/callforhelp/) and purveyor of the Lockergnome web site and email newsletters, as our speaker for our May. Talk about energy — if you’ve seen Chris on the cable TV show, you know what I mean. Beyond that — what would you like? Let me know what presentations you would like to see in the upcoming months. Send me an email at awm@mildwurm.com or come up and talk to me at a monthly meeting. |
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Changing Drive Letters In the last issue of the Diablo Blue there was an interesting article written by our resident Windows Guru, Ron Ogg, about how to change a drive letter in a Windows XP machine. According to the article you ran "diskmgmt.msc". The program did just what I asked it to do, changed my CD drive from "D" to "X" with no problem. Then I asked it to change my "E" (Applications) drive to "D". It did this also. So I shut off the lap top and went to dinner. After dinner I fired up the lap top again and decided to do some work on a data base using MS Access. Lo and behold after I clicked on the Access shortcut it said that I had to reinstall my Access program. PANIC. Then I decided to run Norton System Works in order to check out the laptop. Same result. PANIC and MORE PANIC. I finally got Norton System Doctor to run and it came back with 1013 errors. PANIC squared. Fortunately the Windows XP SYSTEM RESTORE worked and I was back in business with the drive letters back to what they were. It seems that diskmgmt.msc does change the drive letters BUT it does not correct the paths of all the applications found on a given partition. |