FReeper Canteen ~ Technology Tuesday ~ Canteen Computer Resource Center Pt.1 ~ 20 Sep2005

El Gran Salseron;GummyIII;Canteen Crew

[MoJo2001]

Canteen Computer Resource Center
 

 

H E L P D E S K	The Idea	Welcome to the Canteen Help Desk! We hope you are ready for some serious Computer information. For the next month (or however long folks can stand this), we're going to be focusing on Computer/Technology on Tuesdays. There are so many changes that affect how you surf the web, monitor your computer's performance, and viruses that can endanger your fun. We're here to provide information, tools, tips, and hopefully a fun experience. And guess what? You don't have to travel to India to get the information. It's all right here at the click of a mouse. How convenient is that? Cost: Free
	The Experts	MoJo would like to introduce our Canteen Experts. And ignore them if they tell you they aren't experts. MoJo and Ma most certainly believe they're experts. That's all you need, right? El Gran Salseron and GummyIII have been gracious with their time, energy, resources, and knowledge. If you have any questions for our experts, please FReepmail them to MoJo2001. Without them, this wouldn't be possible!! GummyIII gives us a rundown on software that is very useful!! While El Gran answers questions that many folks would like answers to!! Oh! Have I mentioned that MoJo totally (borrowed) these tables from GummyIII? She's totally awesome! Cost: Free (although, you can send them a check if you'd like) Have I mentioned they're located in America? Makes life more convenient, huh?

 

A S K T H E E X P E R T S	El Gran Salseron (Expert on duty) Q. How can I get rid of pop up Ads running Windows 2000?	If the user has WinXP with Service Pack 2 installed then there is a built-in pop-up blocker. In Internet Explorer click on "Tools"/"Pop-Up Blocker" and click "Turn On Pop-Up Blocker" on the drop-down menu. If the user does not have WinXP with Service Pack 2 but Win2K, as indicated, installed then it may be an issue with "Messenger Service" which is separate and apart from MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger Service. Messenger Service is for sys admins on networks but low-down, dirty adware companies exploit the service by sending undesirable pop-ups. The user can right-click My Computer and click on Manage. Click the plus sign in front of Services and Applications. Click Services. Scroll down on the right-hand pane and find "Messenger." Double-click it and click the Stop button. Click the drop-arrow next to Startup Type and click on Disabled. Click Apply. Click OK. Exit the Computer Manager. Otherwise, there has to be a program installed. The best I have found is a freeware program named Pop-Up Stopper at http://www.panicware.com but you have to be sure to get the freeware version of that program and not the other stuff they sell. It is very small and doesn't take much system memory if that is the concern.
	Q. What is the difference between a Trojan and worm?	Actually, a trojan can be a worm and vice-versa but usually not. However, the distinction is that a trojan is a malicious program that is hidden in a supposedly "clean" program or file. A trojan is usually used by hackers. It is used to take control of the computer so that the hacker can "use" that computer to send viruses, or other malware to other computers/sites, etc. Hence the name trojan. A trojan will keep itself hidden because it does not want to be detected and as far as the user is concerned it doesn't exist because it causes no easily apparent ill effects. It is estimated that most unprotected computers have trojans on them and the users are unaware of their existence. When a site unexpectedly goes down it is usually because of a DoS attack or Denial of Service attack. That means that a hacker who has control of 300 computers or so tells the computers to bombard a particular site with info. When a site gets bombarded with so much info it effectively shuts down the site. A DoS attack is done with a trojan installed on hundreds of computers throughout the world, literally. Otherwise, the trojan goes to sleep until the hacker tells it to wake up. A worm is malicious and can "worm" its way throughout the computer and infect many files on the computer. It also usually has the capability to detect the network and infect all of the computers on the network. Hence the name worm. Worms make themselves known because they will cause problems and sometimes make the computer inoperable.

 

S P Y W A R E	Spybot Search and Destroy	CNET says, in it's review:  Once again, Spybot Search and Destroy is our Editors' Choice. It's free, without even an annual subscription for the periodic file updates, and it offers both basic and advanced modes and includes the widest variety of customization of the five anti-spyware products we reviewed. New in this version are automatic updates. In our informal tests, Spybot was thorough, rooting out even obscure spyware. If you're new to the spyware threat, it can't hurt to download a free (no strings attached) copy of Spybot to see whether your system is infected. Cost: Free (donations accepted)
	Spy Sweeper	CNET says, in it's review: If you want to set and forget your antispyware updates and scans, Spy Sweeper's the app for you.Effective, reliable, and swift, this anti-spyware utility stands near the top of its class....Spy Sweeper's Quarantined section will let you restore any components should certain programs cease to function properly after a system scan....Unlike some of its competitors, Spy Sweeper isn't free, but this is definitely a piece of software we consider worth the money...Unlike the free antispyware apps, almost all of Spy Sweeper's functions can be automated. It can scan your system, update spyware definitions, delete quarantined files after a set time frame, and check all incoming files without you having to lift a finger. Cost: Free 30-day trial and $29.95 to buy (This is very easy to use, making it a good choice for new users.)

A N T I V I R U S	AVG	According to Grisoft:   AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool [which] is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected file Cost: Free
	HouseCall (Online only)	TrendMicro says:  Give your PC a health-check while you surf the Web! HouseCall is a real-life demonstration of the power of the web-based technologies that Trend Micro is developing to make deployment and management of virus protection fast and easy. An innovative tool for scanning & cleaning viruses and checking your system for other security issues, HouseCall is based on Java Technologie that allows to support almost every platform, for which Trend Micro builds Security Solutions. Cost: Free, but online use only.  These will not prevent viruses and spyware from gaining access to your computer, but they are great for cleaning those which aren't "cleanable" with other software programs.  Boot into "Safe Mode with Networking" by hitting F8 as you boot up, then surf to these sites to use them.

F I R E W A L L

Zone Alarm

ZoneAlarm is free for individual and not-for-profit charitable entity use (exluding governmental entities and educational institutions). Using this in conjunction with a good anti-virus and a good anti-spyware will give your computer maximum protection for minimum cost.  Download.com says:  ZoneAlarm is designed to protect your DSL- or cable-connected PC from hackers. This program includes four interlocking security services: a firewall, an application control, an Internet lock, and Zones. The firewall controls the door to your computer and allows only traffic you understand and initiate. The application control allows you to decide which applications can and cannot use the Internet. The Internet lock blocks Internet traffic while your computer is unattended or while you're not using the Internet, and it can be activated automatically with your computer's screensaver or after a set period of inactivity. Zones monitor all activity on your computer and alert you when a new application attempts to access the Internet. Cost: Free (For other versions, which are good and include various suites, see reviews and links.)

 

Misc Items
 

To get a complete rundown on how to fix your computer issues and external links that El Gran Salseron has provided, please click here to view it. Thank you El Gran Salseron for all the hardwork. By the way, absolutely ignore the Disclaimer section that mentions Mojo by name. Thank you!

As issues arise or interest steadily comes in, El Gran Salseron will probably update the website with further links. In order to do so, you must sign your life savings over to him. (hehe! Just kidding!)

Here's a few things to look forward to next week!

O N T A P	Computer Lingo Are you down with all the computer lingo used at FR and elsewhere? Software Check in to see what other programs GummyIII suggests!	Ask The Experts For those of you that sent in questions, we'll provide the answers if we can. Have all questions in by Friday of this week please! Best Places Online For Shopping and Deals! Everyone likes to save money! Tune in next week!
D O Y O U K N O W	Before we meet again next week, here's some assignments. We'll provide answers next week. Q. What is the difference between malware and adware? Or is there a difference? Q. The best selling software program of 2004 was?	Q. What is a binary? Q. What is a data bus? Q. Which is bigger a terrabyte or a gigabyte?

 

Disclaimer:
Do you ever wonder why companies always put disclaimers at the bottom of their pages? And then they expect you to read the *fine print* as well? Well, this is done for a reason. It allows them to make up a bunch of unecessary rules and BS that no one will read nor thinks about reading. As a matter of fact, the disclaimers are really *Dating Ads* that those anonymous computer geeks put out to the general public. It's a way to get them a date via their disclaimers. It's risk free and also a sure way to ensure that their name will appear in the ad somewhere. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then you totally understand the ideas about disclaimers. They're useless for the most part.

[MoJo2001]

Freepmail in a second!

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, KathyinAlaska!

[Valin]

On this Day In History



Birthdates which occurred on September 20:
0357 BC Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor
1810 Alpheus Starkey Williams Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 George Washington Morgan Brig General (Union volunteers)
1820 John Fulton Reynolds Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1842 Lord James Dewar, physician who invented the vacuum flask and cordite, the first smokeless powder.
1878 Upton Sinclair novelist (Jungle)
1885 Ferdinand Lamenthe (Jelly Roll Morton), jazz pianist, composer and singer, one of the first to orchestrate jazz music.
1902 Kermit Maynard Vevey Ind, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup)
1917 Arnold "Red" Auerbach NBA coach/GM (Boston Celtics)
1920 Alexander Thereat
1928 Dr Joyce Brothers NYC, pop psychiatrist ($64,000 question winner)
1929 Anne Meara Bkln NY comedian/actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
1934 Sophia Loren Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
1938 Tom Tresh NY Yankee (1962 AL Rookie of the Year)
1941 Dale Chihuly Tacoma Wash, artist in glass (Louis Tiffany Award 1967)
1951 Guy LaFleur Quebec, NHL right wing (Montreal, NY Rangers)
1954 Silvio Leonard Cuba, 100m sprinter (Olympic-silver-1980)
1957 Fran Drescher NYC, actress (The Nanny)

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Deaths which occurred on September 20:
0019BC The Roman poet Virgil
1168 Paschal III, [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies
1327 King Edward II of England was murdered under the connivance of the queen.
1586 Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24
1803 Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1863 Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78 (Grimms Brothers)
1947 Fiorello La Guardia (Mayor-R-NYC), dies
1957 Jean Sibelius Finnish composer, dies at 91
1959 Olin Howlin actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1973 Jim Croce singer/songwriter (Time In A Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown), dies in a plane crash at 30
1973 Glenn Strange actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1974 Gail A. Cobb, a member of the Metropolitan Police Force of Washington, D.C., became the first female police officer to be killed in the line of duty.

2002 Necdet Kent (91), Turkish diplomat in France (1941-1944), died in Istanbul. He gave Turkish citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France who did not have proper identity papers to save them from deportation to the Nazi gas chambers.

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
20-Sep-2003 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Frederick L. Miller Jr. Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Lunsford B. Brown II Baghdad (Abu Ghuraib Prison) Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
US Sergeant David Travis Friedrich Baghdad (Abu Ghuraib Prison) Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack

20-Sep-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Foster L. Harrington Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Steven C. T. Cates Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Joshua J. Henry Ash Sharqat (near) - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire


Afghanistan
09/20/04 Wells, Wesley R. Specialist 21 Army 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Reg., 25th Infantry Div. Hostile - hostile fire Naka, Paktika Prov. [nr. Khost] Libertyville Illinois

09/20/04 Olaes, Tony B. Staff Sergeant 30 Army 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group Hostile - hostile fire Shkin, Paktika Province Walhalla South Carolina

09/20/04 Goodwin, Robert S. Staff Sergeant 35 Army 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group Hostile - hostile fire Shkin, Paktika Province Albany Georgia

http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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On this day...
0480 BC Themistocles and his Greek fleet win one of history's first decisive naval victories over Xerxes' Persian force off Salamis.
0451 General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne
0622 Mohammad's Hegira
1519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world
1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French
1664 Maryland enacts 1st anti-amaglmation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women & black men
1777 Paoli, PA massacre of sleeping Continental troops by British Dragoons
1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1784 Packet and Daily, the first daily publication in America, appears on the streets.
1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1830 1st National Black convention meets (Phila)
1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1854 British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea
1859 Patent granted on the electric range
1860 1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
1863 Battle of Shepardstown VA
1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends
1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)
1881 Chester A Arthur sworn in as president (succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated)
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
1927 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry
1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike
1939 U-27 was located and sunk by destroyers "Fortune" and "Forester."
1944 Nijmegen free (Operation Market-Garden)
1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
1946 Churchill argues for a "US of Europe"
1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1949 Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
1951 Ford Frick elected commissioner of baseball
1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26
1962 James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its 1st black
1965 Seven U.S. planes downed in one day over Vietnam
1966 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
1975 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28¬" draw
1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
1979 Bloodless coup in Central African Rep overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
1979 NASA launches HEAO
1980 Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1983 3,112 turn out to see the Pirates play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1984 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut
1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
1986 Wichita State blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
1990 Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message
1991 On Capitol Hill, Senate hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court concluded.
1992 French voters narrowly approved the Maastricht Treaty on European unity.
2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, "insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton".
2001 America demanded that Afghanistan hand over Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Otherwise, he said, the Taliban wouild share his fate.
2001 FBI arrested Nabil Al-Marabh (34), a suspected bin laden associate, in the Chicago area

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Laos : Thanksgiving
Biosphere Day
Blessed Rainy Day (Bhutan).
Idaho Spud Day
National Punch Day
Birthday of Quetzacoatl (Incan holiday).
National Tie Week (Day 3)
National Singles Week (Day 3)
Pleasure Your Mate Month

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Religious Observances
Ang, RC : Ember Day
RC : Commemoration of St Eustace & his companions/martyrs
RC : Mem of SS Andrew Kim, Paul Chong & companions, Korean martyrs
Ang : St John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia/companions

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Religious History
1378 The Great Schism in the Catholic Church began. It was touched off when Gregory XI died, shortly after returning the papal seat from Avignon, in France, to Rome. Continuing for nearly 40 years (until 1417), the Schism at one point produced three concurrent popes!
1883 Birth of Albrecht Alt, German Lutheran Old Testament scholar. "Biblia Hebraica" (13th ed., 1962), which Alt edited with Rudolph Kittel, became a standard critical Hebrew text of the Old Testament among students of the Bible for years.
1932 Four branches of Methodism in England united to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain and Ireland. These were the Wesleyan Methodists (founded 1784), the Primitive Methodists (1811), the United Methodist Free Churches (1857) and the United Methodists (1907).
1947 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Those who suffer the same things from the same people for the same Person can scarcely not love each other.'
1948 American missionary Jim Elliot -- eight years before his martyrdom at the hands of the Auca Indians of Ecuador -- penned in his journal: 'I am Thine at terrible cost to Thyself. Now Thou must become mine -- as Thou didst not attend to the price, neither would I.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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SCIENTISTS REVEAL LAWYERS & LEECHES HAVE IDENTICAL GENETIC MAKEUP!


By MARK MILLER

INNSBRUCK, Austria -- It's been suspected for centuries, but a team of world-renowned scientists has finally confirmed it: Lawyers and leeches have identical genetic makeup.

Dr. Andreas Volkenweiler of Austria's famed Innsbruck Institute of Genetic Research confirms that, "While studying the DNA sequences of many genes that control body patterns in various occupations, our research team observed that each lawyer gene contains a stretch of 180 nucleotides -- or structural components of DNA -- which exactly match the structure of those found in leeches.

"Once we made that basic match, other similarities between the two species were fairly easy to observe." Those similarities include the facts that both lawyers and leeches are:
Famed for their blood-sucking abilities.
Have large round mouths functioning as suckers to hold on to their hosts.
Have fine, conical teeth.
Are recognized for being the lowest, sleaziest and slimiest of their species.
Thrive in the bottom-mud and ooze of existence.
Partial to consuming the blood of fish, frogs and turtles.
Equally popular in social situations.
The American Bar Association is proceeding with a defamation of character lawsuit, but Dr. Volkenweiler is not worried. "We haven't stated anything that's not a documented fact," he says.

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Thought for the day :
"Politics is very much like taxes—everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him."
Fiorello La Guardia

[beachn4fun]

LOL. That's an interesting thought! However, I think I'll stay here cause I don't want Mojo to be waiting for me when I get back! If you get my meaning. She threatened me the last time and put the fear of God in me!

[StarCMC]

WOOHOOOOO!!! Love the Los Lonely Boys!!!!!!

[beachn4fun]

1990 Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message

[HiJinx]

Each copy of WinXP has to be activated at the MS site so that it can't be installed on more than one computer at the same time unless one is willing to do something illegal.

A computer company here in Sierra Vista is one of 8 being sued by Microsoft for being willing to do that illegal thing.

[blackie]

Ya can't have to much STV ~ Bump!

[El Gran Salseron]

Either those companies will be run out of business simply by the economic might of MS and their army of lawyers or it will be a good test case.

The MS lawyers can drag the case on until financial/legal resources of the much smaller companies are expended or if any of them can survive the onslaught then the country will find out about the ramifications of "copyright law" and how it applies to software.

A similar thing happened to a company here in Houston during the Win98 years. There were criminal arrests and the law locked the doors of the company. They just shut the doors and went home.....shut down the business. They couldn't compete with MS $.

However, it is interesting to note that MS is going after companies rather than individuals, unlike the RIAA.

[anniegetyourgun]

Ring chart is what I'm after kind like this:

But I need to be able to place circular text in segments of rings.

[anniegetyourgun]

Thanks, Gum - I'll try it!

[El Gran Salseron]

I do believe that the following program can be adapted to your usage:

http://www.genbox.com/download.htm

Note: 30-day trial period.

Samples can be found at the following urls:

http://www.genbox.com/charts/charts7.htm

http://www.genbox.com/charts/charts6.htm

[El Gran Salseron]

Well, I know that at least one person clicked on the link. :-)

[GummyIII]

Sometimes adding and removing programs won't clean up spyware. If it doesn't fix the ebay thing, download spybot (link on opening), update it, and it will find and clean whatever hijacked you.

My firefox has a "google" search on the side. I can choose between that and a few other things, including ebay (see pic below):

[GummyIII]

Hee Hee!! Of course. Good info!!!!!! I'm going to check out those programs you told Annie about, too.

I have a question. I've never installed a legit copy of WinXP on more than one computer, but I've been told that WinXP Pro can be, although WinXP home cannot be. I have heard of others who say the do it. Do they use a bootleg copy that has been "fixed"?

[GummyIII]

Oh, I like this program. I use Adobe Photoshop to do circular text, but it's not user friendly for most.

[El Gran Salseron]

Nah, bogus cd keys will do the trick either for home or pro. Shhhh.....There's a program that will generate cd keys for WinXP that will work until MS starts nosing around in their own database.

I know absolutely nothing about that program. I have just HEARD about it. I know NOTHING!.....said Sgt. Schultz.

( Actually, that happens to be the truth. I outgrew that kinda stuff too many years ago to remember. ) :-)

[Common Tator]

Starting this month I became a featured singer on the Paint Valley Jamboree. A country music stage show now in its 40th year at the Paxton Theater in Bainbridge Ohio.

Last Saturday back stage one of the guys who has had a business and a political career, in addition to music, asked in which of our occupations we had met the nicest people. The consensus was in Country Music. Then the subject turned to military service. Many of the performers came of age after the draft. Most are not 'tator aged geezers.

I was surprised to find that nearly all of the performers had served in some form of military service. Most has served in the Army... but there some who served in the Navy, Air Force, and Marines. Some had served in the Reserves and Guard. Some even went into the Guard after serving a full term on active duty.

It occured to us that the reason so many Country performers support our mission and our troops is many country pickers believe in our nation enough to serve. What struck me was those under 50 didn't have to serve.. they did not face a draft. But they did serve... and were glad they did.

I asked one staffer if he would play on the same bill as the Dixie Chicks. He said, "Only if I got to lead the BOOs."

Here is 'tator on the stage at the Paint Valley Jamboree. The Jamboree runs from 7 to 10+Pm every saturday night at the Paxton Theater in Bainbridge, Ohio.

The staff band is as good as any band in Nashville. If you like great Country music.. come see us.

[GummyIII]

"For adware that is already on your computer install Ad-Aware. To stop adware/spyware before the fact install Spyware Blaster or SpyBot Search And Destroy."

Spybot will not only stop it, but will clean it after the fact, too. I'd install that and run it. It's easy and quick.

[GummyIII]

Well, I teach kids that know more tricks than MS ever thought of. Trust me. Most of them work in Best Buy's tech department or run their own businesses making oodles of money (and still in high school). I'm tellin' ya, these kids are sharp. They teach me stuff all the time. Of course, I can still teach them a thing or two.