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Dateline: Wed 06-20-01
BBPC: BuildOrBuy - PC Computer Technology News Updates

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Presentations:

• How To Install A SCSI Card & SCSI Scanner in Win98 ME. 
  

• PC Build Photos: 5-30-01

• Get ready for AMD, nVidia, Promise & possibly ScanSoft - Dates TBA!

• PC Build Session Photos & Videos:

  • 3-29-00/index.html - By Lou Warren
    
  • 7-19-00/index.html - By Gus Hrncir
    
  • 8-30-00/index.html -
    
  • 5-30-01/index.html - By John Yates
• organizehd.html - Outline, Gene Barlow's Build Or Buy Presentation (4-25-2001)
  
• organizeppthd.html - Gene Barlow's PPT Presentation (4-25-2001)

Hardware: 

• Olympus Announces the New CAMEDIA C-4040 ZOOM 4 Megapixel Digital Camera (6-20-01)
  

• upsguide.html - UPS Selection Guidelines & PC Power Supply Requirements
  
• InternetWire.com - SmartModularTech.com -
  • Expands High-Density PC1600/2100 Module Lineup With 1GB DDR DIMM!
• ElectronicNews.com - RAM Technologies - RLDRAM (reduced latency DRAM)
  • Infineon and Micron Agree to Co-Develop RLDRAM
• FRONTX.com - Computer Port Extension - Extend Computer Ports To The Front (US $25.90)
  
• 3DCOOL.COM - Freezing Computers World-Wide! -
  
• Drive Service Company's Best and Worst Hard Drive List (From Gene Barlow)
  
• Donate A Cell Phone - good cause / good idea! From: Joan Stewart Smith

The Donate a Phone program helps victims of abuse by providing them with free cell phones and airtime so they can dial 911 in an emergency. The easiest way to donate your old phone by July 31 is to drop it off at a Radio Shack store! Great idea to help our Houston area Flood victims! Help someone help themselves!

Participants In The Program Include: 

• www.wirelessfoundation.org - Donate a Phone program
  

• www.donateaphone.com
  
• www.RadioShack.com
  
• www.motorola.com
  
• www.ncadv.org

Bible Study Software...  

WordSearchBible.com, iExalt Electronic Publishing - New Stephen Olford Expository Preaching Outlines -

• http://www.wordsearchbible.com/epo/Vol3_4.htm
  

• http://www.wordsearchbible.com/epo/Vol6_17.htm
  
• http://www.wordsearchbible.com/epo/Vol2_27.htm

Email: iExalt.ePublishing@iExalt.net or Call: 1-800-888-9898 By July 15, 2001 and refer to offer #5425. (Tell Randy you heard about this Offer @ Build Or Buy!)

Software:  

• SonicFoundry.com - Professional Production Pack:

  • Acid Pro 3.0 - Loop-based music creation tool. 
    
  • Sound Forge 5.0 - 24 Bit, digital audio editor.
    
  • Vegas Video 2.0 - State-of-the-art digital video editing system.  
  All for only $499!  Purchase by June 30, 2001.  

• Real.com: Accessories - Free Mem Pro Plus
  

• CNET.com - Tech News - New high-quality MP3 format debuts (6-14-01)
  
• Windows 2000, Service Pack 2 D/L -
  
• Last week we discussed Gibson Research experience with DOS attacks. Steve Gibson mentioned his encounters with Bots. To learn more about the constructive use of Bots - BOT2001: June 19, 2001   •   Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA.  •  Featuring 'Best of the Bots' contest! NQL

• Pinnacle Systems, Studio DV: Studio 7 Upgrade - $59 upgrade limited to existing Studio DV customers. Only available until 7/31/01. Studio 7 upgrade requires an earlier version of Pinnacle Studio (Studio DV).

  • Pinnacle Systems | Studio 7
• Google Buttons For Your Netscape Browser - Search smarter, search easier!
  
• AxionTech.com - VIA releases patch for KT133A Soundblaster Live! incompatibility - D/L: VIA 4-in-1 Driver v1.431

Next PC Build   > Builder Qualifications To Be Discussed: 
Special Build Day: Available Dates -

1. 5th Wed - August 29, 2001 or
   

2. 5th Wed - October 31, 2001

The new AMD Dual Processor gear may not be available to us by Octber. AMD expects a before Christmas possibility. Any PC's we Build before the end of 2001 will be of current generation technologies. See Specs from Wed, May 30th, 2001 Special Build.

• > Addendum II+: add2-05-30-2001.html By Joe Whinery

Internet Access: 

• Sprint E|Solutions - Free Cisco 2620 router with the purchase a dedicated Internet T-1 port! (Gone!)
  

• CNET.com - ISP survival guide - (Link Updated - 6/30/2004)
  
• Practically Networked Help

Technology News: 

• Internetwire.com - IBM Showcases Three New Database Technology Firsts (06/19/2001)
  

• Emerging Residential Technologies Workshop - Tuesday, July 10, 2001: Austin, Texas Hyatt Regency Austin On Town Lake.
  
• MusiciansFriend.com: BASF - EMTEC Pro Media, A New Name; A Proud Legacy
  • Emtec Pro Media Inc. - Data Media Web Site

Questions regarding Carnivore & Echelon received last week:

• FBI's Carnivore renamed DCS1000
  

• CNET.com - Tech News - House leader concerned about Carnivore (6-14-01)
  1. FBI Programs and Initiatives - Carnivore Diagnostic Tool
     
  2. FBI Press Room - Congressional Statement - 2000 - Carnivore Diagnostic Tool
     
  3. Latest News - March - 13 - 2009 - Carnivore Surveillance Tool (Updated: 4/28/2009)
     
     • FBI Programs and Initiatives - Carnivore Diagnostic Tool
       
  4. Draft Report: Independent Technical Review of the Carnivore System
     
  5. FBI's Wiretaps To Scan E-Mail Spark Concern 
     
  6. Who Watches the Web?
     
  7. Washingtonpost.com: Live Online

NSA's Echelon - Further Study...

1. National Security Agency Site
   

2. FAS.org - National Security Agency Site
   • EchelonWatch.org
     
   • ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network -- Patrick S. Poole
     
   • ECHELON: NSA's Global Electronic Interception
     
   • The ECHELON System 
     
   • ACLU.org - Echelon FAQ
     
   • From InfoWorld.com - SECURITY ADVISOR...
    
   EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System (May 4, 2001) 
   Federation of American Scientists - ECHELON
   http://fas.org/irp/program/process/europarl_draft.pdf
   • (Or see James Bamford's Body of Secrets, a recently published history of the NSA, starting on page 394.)
     
   • RandomHouse.com - Body of Secrets 

   • Getting Paranoid? Earthweb IT Management: Security: Early Warning: Keeping on Top of Security Information

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