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TELECOM Digest Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:23:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 364 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Internet Phone Carriers Still Seeking 911 Replies (Jeremy Pelofsky) Google Pauses on Book Search After Copyright Flap (Eric Auchard) D. Telekom Home is Couch Potato Heaven (Prodhan and Sikhrar) TiVo Tests Internet Download Service (Greg Sandoval) Telecom Update #492, August 12, 2005 (Angus TeleManagement Group) WorldCom's Sullivan Gets Five Years (USTelecom dailyLead) Western Union Private Line Voice Service -- "Hot Line" (Lisa Hancock) Stock Market Ticker Tape Machines? (Lisa Hancock) Overview of Telecom History? (Vincent M) Re: Austin Gaffe Stirs Fantasy (AntwainBarbour) Re: Don't Forget Peter Jennings'... Flaw (mc) Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack (jtaylor) Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (Paul W. Schleck) Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 (Robert Bonomi) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeremy Pelofsky <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Internet Phone Carriers Still Seeking 911 Replies Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:29:08 -0500 By Jeremy Pelofsky Some of the top U.S. Internet phone providers told U.S. regulators this week they are still trying to obtain acknowledgments from customers that they know the limitations of dialing 911 with their service. Some customers of Internet phone service, known as Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), have had trouble getting help when dialing the emergency number 911, which prompted the Federal Communications Commission to order changes. Unlike traditional phone service, not all Internet phones provide 911 dispatchers with the location of callers, and some calls have been routed to administrative lines that are not always monitored. The FCC in May ordered companies to fix those issues by late November and, in the interim, to get acknowledgments from all customers that they understand those service limitations. Analysts estimate there are more than 2 million VOIP customers. Vonage Holdings Corp., the biggest U.S. Internet phone provider, said it has received acknowledgments from more than 90 percent of its customers but was unable to predict whether it would achieve the 100 percent goal by an August 29 deadline. "Vonage is continuing its campaign to contact and obtain affirmative acknowledgment from all of its customers," the company told the FCC. Dozens of carriers reported that they were contacting customers via letters, calls and e-mails. "Vonage expects to send out at least one e-mail per week and to continue to restrict account access of subscribers who have not yet submitted an affirmative acknowledgment," it said in an August 10 filing. AT&T Corp. said that it had received affirmative replies from 77 percent of its customers as of August 9, but about 10 percent of its Internet phone customers may not provide acknowledgments by the deadline. Net2Phone said 98 percent of its own customers had provided acknowledgments and the company was still working on the remaining 2 percent. The FCC initially ordered companies to obtain acknowledgments from all customers by July 29 but then gave companies an extra month as long as they filed a report detailing their efforts. The FCC said only those companies that filed reports about their compliance efforts by August 10 would escape enforcement action for violations until the end of the month. The agency said service should be disconnected for those customers who have not provided an acknowledgment by then. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Eric Auchard <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Google Pauses on Book Search After Copyright Flap Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:30:20 -0500 By Eric Auchard Google Inc., responding to an outcry by publishers, has temporarily scaled back plans to make the full text of copyrighted books in five of the world's great libraries searchable via the Internet. Google, the world's most popular way of searching the Internet, said it will allow copyright holders who contact the company to withhold books from the project, according to Adam Smith, program manager of the Google Print program. For three months, Google will stop scanning copyrighted books to allow owners to inform the company of objections. "Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library," Adam Smith, the product manager of Google Print, said in a statement on Google's corporate Web site. Nonetheless, Google is moving ahead with its ambitious project to work with publishers and librarians to scan books in the public domain that are not covered by copyright, he said. Libraries participating in the program include Oxford University, Harvard University, the New York Public Library, Stanford University and the University of Michigan. The Google spokesman declined to comment on how many book titles are now searchable on the Google Print site, which works by typing the name of an author, a book title or a word or phrase into a Web search box at http://print.google.com/. Google is working with publishers large and small to encourage them to make their books searchable. In exchange, Google can create distinct pages for each book with advertising and links to retailers. As a further inducement, publishers can create a direct sales link to consumers for their titles. "We are really excited about the scope of this program and the good it will do for the world," Smith said in a telephone interview. Google said that virtually all major U.S. and U.K. publishers are partici- pating, at least in part, in Google Print. Critics of the program said that Google's plan to allow copyright holders to indicate whether they wish to opt out of the Google Print project switches the burden of upholding copyright from infringers to the copyright holders. "This really stands copyright law on its head," Patricia Schroeder, president and chief executive of the Association of American Publishers, said in a phone interview. "There are hundreds of years of tradition that go the other way." "Google's announcement does nothing to relieve the publishing industry's concerns," said Schroeder, a former congresswoman from Colorado. Smith replied that Google is extending the logic of searching for online materials to printed books to make them more accessible. "What we are doing here is legal under the principles of fair use," he said. Schroeder said her organization and Google had been unable to come to terms on a proposal to address the concerns of copyright holders. Smith said Google was continuing to talk with organizations of publishers, authors and other interested parties to strike a balance between the interests of publishers and readers. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Georgina Prodhan & Rajiv Sekhrir Subject: D. Telekom's Home is Couch Potato Heaven Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:33:10 -0500 By Georgina Prodhan and Rajiv Sekhri The two-story pre-fabricated house dwarfed by Communist-era buildings in the center of Berlin looks as though it belongs in the suburb of a small town but it is actually Deutsche Telekom's vision of a high-tech future. From the moment you cross the threshold of the T-Com house, everything is theoretically at your fingertips. "The idea is to not go out at all," said house manager Anne-Kathrin Berends. "You can do everything inside." Surrounded by flags and lit up by Deutsche Telekom's signature magenta-colored lights, the house is a very public walk-in laboratory where a lucky few can test out the company's latest gadgets and get a glimpse of a supposedly fuss-free future. The central concept is a system of plasma screens that dominate every room, serving up entertainment and information linked by an Internet IP system to handheld PDAs (personal digital assistants) via wireless local area network (WLAN). "Anyone can see straight away just how simply and conveniently our communications solutions integrate every aspect of modern day life," said Achim Berg, a member of the management board at T-Com, Telekom's fixed-line and broadband unit. A favorite feature is the mood lighting: Feel like a party? Change the room's color scheme to vibrant reds and oranges. Want to de-stress? Go for soothing blue with calm music. There can be problems -- during a recent visit, screens froze as competing PDAs vied for their control -- but T-Com house still has a lot to offer couch potatoes. TAKING IT EASY IN T-COM HOUSE Real-time or face-to-face communication is no longer necessary -- instead there is a multi-media whiteboard by the door where you can swap e-mails, pictures or text messages with housemates. If you don't feel like entertaining visitors, let them leave a video recording at the front door and relax while a robot vacuum cleaner trundles around the floors and a torso-shaped shirt press blow-dries your work clothes to perfection. And don't worry about the children misbehaving -- a Webcam will keep an eye on them. Just don't let them get their hands on a PDA or you might find alarms going off, blinds going up and down and television programs abruptly interrupted. If you feel like a spot of exercise or fancy a look around Germany's capital city, step onto the running machine and let a plasma screen take you on a virtual tour of Berlin. The T-Com house was built by WeberHaus, which makes pre-fabricated homes for thousands of Germans, and inventors hope it will soon become a reality for what they call average German families. Mail-order company Neckermann provided the furnishings and engineering firm Siemens supplied appliances and house automation. "It's a prototype," said Berends, adding that the gadgets being tested are expected to be ready for the market in 15 to 18 months. "We want to find out what normal German people think about this kind of technology." So far, she says, the mood lighting has been the biggest hit with some 20 groups who beat tens of thousands of online contestants to spend a long weekend in the house, which opened on March 1. The lighting system, however, is not for sale. In fact, the only item which Deutsche Telekom has definite plans to bring to market is the whiteboard message center, which should be available for under 500 euros within 18 months. Siemens already supplies other house-automation systems that remotely control security, temperature or kitchen appliances. Most of these are not installed in the T-Com house for fear of accidents or of frightening guests -- who have ranged from young families to groups of elderly friends to the Bayern Munich soccer team -- with too much technology. An intelligent fridge, which scans for missing products and compiles shopping lists, stands in an exhibition at the Communications Museum nearby but is not featured in the house. "Germany is not really the market for that. Maybe in 20 years or something, but not yet," said Berends. Perhaps tellingly, only one visitor so far has actually expressed interest in buying the whole house with its contents -- and he was Italian. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Greg Sandoval <ap-tech@telecom-digest.org> Subject: TiVo Tests Internet Download Service Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:37:40 -0500 By GREG SANDOVAL, AP Technology Writer Add TiVo Inc. to the list of companies trying to wed the Internet to television. The digital recording company is preparing to enable customers to download TV shows to their set-top boxes via the Internet -- even before the shows air on TV. TiVo has struck a deal with the Independent Film Channel to transmit several of the cable channel's shows through a broadband connection as part of a trial program. A group of customers were asked to take part in the test and those who chose to participate will begin receiving the IFC shows next week, said TiVo spokesman Elliot Sloane. Content on demand has long been a holy grail for Internet and cable companies as they try to create the next generation of television. No one yet has found a way to overcome key technological hurdles, such as finding a speedy way to pump two-hour movies through broadband, or convince Hollywood that it can profit from Internet broadcasts. Still, broadband connections are picking up speed, and are moving closer to becoming a reliable delivery method for broadcast-quality video. Should the day come that video is downloaded at the touch of a button, some of the stakeholders in the sector foresee a vast video universe of endless variety. For TiVo, the news comes a day after the company saw its stock fall more than 6 percent following a media report that DirecTV was planning to stop marketing the service to its 14 million customers. News Corp.-owned DirecTV is planning to throw support behind a competing digital recording company. About 70 percent of TiVo's 3.3 million users have come from its deal with DirecTV. TiVo shares were up 3 cents at $5.65 in midday trading Friday on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. For more AP headlines and AP News Radio, go to URL: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:56:49 -0700 Subject: Telecom Update #492, August 12, 2005 From: Angus TeleManagement Group <jriddell@angustel.ca> Reply-To: Angus TeleManagement Group <jriddell@angustel.ca> ************************************************************ TELECOM UPDATE ************************************************************ published weekly by Angus TeleManagement Group http://www.angustel.ca Number 492: August 12, 2005 Publication of Telecom Update is made possible by generous financial support from: ** ALLSTREAM: www.allstream.com ** AVAYA: www.avaya.ca/en/ ** BELL CANADA: www.bell.ca ** CISCO SYSTEMS CANADA: www.cisco.com/ca/ ** ERICSSON: www.ericsson.ca ** MITEL NETWORKS: www.mitel.com/ ** ROGERS TELECOM: www.rogers.com/solutions ** UTC CANADA: www.canada.utc.org/ ************************************************************ IN THIS ISSUE: ** Bell Offers Hosted VoIP for Small, Medium Business ** Rogers Firefly Targets Pre-Teens ** Bell Offers Cellular Tracking for Families ** Linton Named EVP at Rogers ** Policy Review Submissions Due Monday ** Prince Rupert Spins Off City Telco ** More Appeals Filed Against CRTC VoIP Decision ** "Spam King" Agrees to Pay Damages ** Aliant Adds Self-Service Options ** Small ILECs Want Price Cap Regime Extended ** Is Phone Penetration Falling in U.S.? ** WorldCom CFO Gets Five Years ** Work Stoppage Delays Telus TV Launch ** Enterprise Sector Leads Nortel Sales Gain ** Cisco Profits Up, Shares Down ** "Telemanagement Live" Brochure Now Online ============================================================ BELL OFFERS HOSTED VoIP FOR SMALL, MEDIUM BUSINESS: Bell Canada this week launched a hosted VoIP service for small and medium-sized businesses. Business IP Voice provides local phone service, extension to extension calling, and a range of calling features including Find Me/Follow Me, Meet Me Conferencing, and Voicemail to Email. ** Bell's proposed tariff for the service received interim approval on July 26. Intervenors have until September 2 to submit comments on the tariff. www.crtc.gc.ca/8740/eng/2005/b2.htm#6883 ** In July the CRTC asked for comment on Bell's Digital Voice, a consumer VoIP service whose tariff has some similarities. (see Telecom Update #486, 488) www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Notices/2005/pt2005-9.htm ROGERS FIREFLY TARGETS PRE-TEENS: Rogers Wireless now offers Firefly, a phone designed "for pre-teens and their parents." The phone has no dialpad; parents use a PIN to program up to 22 numbers, including speed keys for mom and dad. BELL OFFERS CELLULAR TRACKING FOR FAMILIES: Bell Mobility's new Seek & Find service enables parents to determine their children's whereabouts if the child has a GPS-equipped cellphone and the phone is switched on. Parents can check location on the Internet 20 times a month for $5. LINTON NAMED EVP AT ROGERS: Bill Linton, former President and CEO of Call-Net Enterprises, is now Executive Vice-President of Rogers Communications Inc. Call-Net was acquired by Rogers Communications on July 1 and renamed Rogers Telecom Holdings. (See Telecom Update #488) POLICY REVIEW SUBMISSIONS DUE MONDAY: Submissions to the Telecom Policy Review are to be filed by August 15. They will be made public on the panel's website, where some comments are already posted. (see Telecom Update #485) www.telecomreview.ca/epic/internet/intprp-gecrt.nsf/en/h_rx00025e.html PRINCE RUPERT SPINS OFF CITY TELCO: Prince Rupert B.C.'s CityTel, until now a department of the city government, has been spun off as a city-owned corporation and renamed City West. The new company has agreed to buy the northern B.C. cable business and assets of Monarch Cablesystems for $23.5 million. MORE APPEALS FILED AGAINST CRTC VoIP DECISION: The Coalition for Competitive Telecommunications, the Vancouver Board of Trade, and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada have each petitioned the federal Cabinet, opposing economic regulation of incumbent telcos' VoIP services, as ruled in CRTC Telecom Decision 2005-28. ** Earlier Cabinet appeals of this decision were filed by the Government of Saskatchewan (see Telecom Update #488) and by Aliant, Bell Canada, SaskTel, Telebec, and Telus (see Telecom Update #490). "SPAM KING" AGREES TO PAY DAMAGES: Microsoft has won $7 million in damages from Scott Richter, whose Colorado company is alleged to have sent 38 billion spam messages a year in violation of U.S. law. Richter denied the allegations but agreed to let authorities monitor his business in future. ALIANT ADDS SELF-SERVICE OPTIONS: Using software from California-based eGain, Aliant has enhanced the customer self-service options available on its website. SMALL ILECs WANT PRICE CAP REGIME EXTENDED: The Canadian Independent Telephone Company Joint Task Force, representing most of the small incumbent carriers in Canada, says the price cap regime under which they have been regulated since January 2002 has worked well for providers and consumers. They want the framework extended for another four years, with minor modifications. www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2005/8663/c136_200509201.htm IS PHONE PENETRATION FALLING IN U.S.? A March 2005 Federal Communications Commission study shows that 92.5% of U.S. homes have either wireline or wireless phone service, a sharp decline from 95.5% two years earlier. This would indicate that 8.7 million homes cannot make or receive phone calls, the largest number since 1983. The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates has asked the FCC to investigate whether the statistics are correct. WORLDCOM CFO GETS FIVE YEARS: Scott Sullivan, the former WorldCom Chief Financial Officer whose testimony held convict CEO Bernard Ebbers, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his part in the US$11 billion fraud. The judge said Sullivan was the "architect" and "day-to-day manager" of the scheme, but gave him a short sentence because he cooperated with prosecutors. WORK STOPPAGE DELAYS TELUS TV LAUNCH: Telus says its plans to launch digital TV "are on hold until we see the work stoppage through to a positive conclusion." ENTERPRISE SECTOR LEADS NORTEL SALES GAIN: Nortel Networks reports second quarter revenues of US$2.86 billion, up 10% over the same period a year ago and 13% over the previous quarter. Sales of the enterprise networks division increased 22% on the year; sales in Canada rose 34%. CISCO PROFITS UP, SHARES DOWN: Cisco Systems revenues for the three months ended July 30 were US$6.58 billion, 11% higher than a year ago. Net income increased 11.6% to 1.54 billion. A Cisco forecast that sales would increase only 10% in the next quarter sparked an 8% decline in share price. "TELEMANAGEMENT LIVE" BROCHURE NOW ONLINE: Full program details for the Fall 2005 TeleManagement Live conference and exposition are now available online. This year's agenda includes a day of in-depth management tutorials on IP-Based Convergence, Telecom Cost Control, Managing Change in Telecom, and other topics. www.telemanagementlive.com/PDFS/TML%202005%20Event%20Guide.pdf ============================================================ HOW TO SUBMIT ITEMS FOR TELECOM UPDATE E-mail ianangus@angustel.ca and jriddell@angustel.ca =========================================================== HOW TO SUBSCRIBE (OR UNSUBSCRIBE) TELECOM UPDATE is provided in electronic form only. There are two formats available: 1. The fully-formatted edition is posted on the World Wide Web late Friday afternoon each week at www.angustel.ca 2. The e-mail edition is distributed free of charge. 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Opinions expressed are based on interpretation of available information, and are subject to change. If expert advice on the subject matter is required, the services of a competent professional should be obtained. ============================================================ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:57:21 EDT From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com> Subject: WorldCom's Sullivan gets five years USTelecom dailyLead August 12, 2005 http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23809&l=2017006 TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * WorldCom's Sullivan gets five years BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Speech tones catch fire among handset users * Study: Home-networking sales poised for boom * Birch files Chapter 11 USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * RFID: Radio Frequency Identification -- Get Your Copy Today! EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES * Internet-style search coming to TV * Not interested? New phone software might give you away VOIP DOWNLOAD * Study: Skype leads in U.S. VoIP traffic * Analysis: Quality key to cable VoIP's future success * Municipalities the next VoIP frontier? REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * VoIP wiretap ruling spurs concern over network security * Former FCC chief joins investment firm Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23809&l=2017006 Legal and Privacy information at http://www.dailylead.com/about/privacy_legal.jsp SmartBrief, Inc. 1100 H ST NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20005 ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com Subject: Western Union Private Line Voice Service -- "Hot Line" Date: 12 Aug 2005 12:57:16 -0700 In the mid 1960s Western Union introduced a private line voice service called "Hot Line". In essence, a person lifting the receiver of one telephone would cause a specified distant telephone to ring over a private line. The connection was faster and cheaper than placing a conventional long distance call over the Bell System. WU charged by 6 second increments and at a lower rate; the Bell System at that time had a 3 minute minimum. WU says their arrangement was cheaper when more than 3 calls a day were made. The connection between the two telephones was actually not a dedicated private line, but shared use of the WU network via concentrators. If a circuit was busy there were alternates. See: http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/21-2/p104.htm The article said the service was popular among brokers between field offices and the central office serving the stock exchange for calling in stock orders. Such calls were normally brief. Obviously this service had some limitations since it was telephone-set to telephone-set. I don't think this could terminate in a PBX system to allow shared use of the line by a whole organization which would give more flexibility. I don't know if WU permitted any kind of multiple extension sets at the subscriber since a specialized telephone set they provided was used. For example, a secretary might want to answer the boss's hot/line phone if he was out. WU also reported customers wanted to get the service in more cities than available. None the less, it seemed like a pretty good idea for its time. Would anyone know how successful this service was and how long it lasted? ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com Subject: Stock market ticker tape machines? Date: 12 Aug 2005 13:31:51 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com For many years a symbol of Wall Street has been the stock market ticker tape machine. This was a table top glass-domed unit that printed a tape of trades. My impression from Oslin's book was that this unit was developed around 1930 and had a service lifespan of 30 years. Faster units to handle larger market volumes of the 1960s replaced it. WU had to continually speed up the wire to handle ever more trading volumes, which exploded in the 1960s. (Historically, the tape printed the sale of 100 stock lots by the symbol of the stock and the sale price). These tapes were showered down upon parades in New York, thus the name "ticker tape parade". For many years it's really been a "scrap paper" parade but that doesn't sound as good. Along with this system was a wall display system used in brokerage offices. The trades were projected on a wall where investors could watch it. In the 1960s computerized stock quote machines became available which also showed the bid, asked, and closing price of stock sales. Western Union had a big business handling stock brokers and connecting field offices to New York to announce trading information and send in orders. I was wondering what kind of machine, if any, replaced the classic glass-dome model and continued to produce a tape showing trades. ------------------------------ From: Vincent M <vincentNOSPAM@REMOVE.fr> Subject: Overview of Telecom History ? Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:43:17 +0200 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Hi everyone, I'm looking for an overview on the telecom's history. -When it really beguns, where, which technique ... Can someone recommend any site/book ? Thanks, Vincent [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You might begin right here, at our site for some basic information. http://telecom-digest.org is a good start; look at the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files; also check the files at http://telecom-digest.org/history and the other sections in our archives. PAT] ------------------------------ From: AntwainBarbour <ukcats4218016@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Austin Gaffe Stirs Fantasy Date: 12 Aug 2005 11:59:05 -0700 I just read this article. Wow. What is going on here? Are all cable companies working like this? Does this seem right? Just raises a lot of questions I guess. ------------------------------ From: mc <mc_no_spam@uga.edu> Subject: Re: Don't Forget Peter Jennings'... Flaw Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:31:45 -0400 > Actually Steve you are wrong on this one. Last night August 10, 2006, You're posting from the future? [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Actually, I did that because I wanted to see if anyone would notice it or not. (smile). PAT] ------------------------------ From: jtaylor <jtaylor@deletethis.hfx.andara.com> Subject: Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:29:33 -0300 Organization: MCI Canada News Reader Service Andrew Hastings <abh@nospam.acm.org> wrote in message news:telecom24.363.10@telecom-digest.org: > According to Edward Teller as quoted by John McCarthy, the > miscalculation may have been intentional. > See http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/teller.html. > -Andrew I knew that -- but Heisenberg may have been the only one who also did, at the time. That the decision makers had/were given the wrong info doesn't change the fact that the Germans were in no way "close to having the bomb". > jtaylor wrote: >> Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote in message >> news:telecom24.361.15@telecom-digest.org... >>> The Germans were pretty much on their way to having their own atomic >>> weapons. >> The stuff I've read (Farm Hall transcripts, for instance) says no, >> they were working on a pile, not bombs. They miscalculated the amount >> of fissionable material necessary and so thought they could not >> a) get enough; >> b) if not a), get such a big bomb to anywhere it would do them any good. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:38:29 CDT From: Paul W. Schleck <pschleck@oasis.novia.net> Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 Pat, I recall that one, or both, of these free Microsoft tools has an option to return your copy of Internet Explorer to its original factory settings: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx Microsoft Anti-Spyware (Beta) http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx The second tool installs itself as a startup utility, and runs periodically to check for spyware, so make sure that that's what you want. The current versions of both of these tools may also require that you do Microsoft's confirmation that you have a licensed copy of XP, so make sure that you're comfortable with that, also. I recall you mentioning using Spybot Search and Destroy, so I'll assume you have run the current version already (in Windows "Safe Mode" and from read-only media if you want to be absolutely sure). Paul W. Schleck pschleck@novia.net http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/ Finger pschleck@novia.net for PGP Public Key ------------------------------ From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed With Internet Explorer IE 6.0 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:26:17 -0000 Organization: Widgets, Inc. In article <telecom0.0.1@telecom-digest.org>, TELECOM Digest Editor <ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > This is an appeal to any Windows Internet Explorer person in our > readership who can help me: > Wednesday night/Thursday morning someone stuck me with a virus and the > end result was my Internet Explorer browser is gone. I cannot get the > browser to come up at all; clicking on the icon makes it sit for a few > seconds, then the screen flashes ONCE as though it was getting ready > to deliver the browser, but no such luck. I have cleared out the virus > but apparently a driver or two or a file is gone as well. > Not only that but I cannot even get any pages which would come via > that browser. Now my copy of Mozilla works just fine, its only that > Internet Explorer 6.0 wont come up (or anything that depends on it, > such as a link in email, etc.) > Using Mozilla I went to a download site (supposedly 'free downloads') > and paid for a password to download an entirely new copy of Internet > Explorer 6.0 and Outlook Express. Downloaded it, but still nothing ... > I am wondering if it is because my index page (I was using 'my yahoo' > as my home or starting page) somehow got wiped out. > The newly loaded thing produces the very same results: click on the > icon, it goes away for a couple seconds, comes back flashing once then > goes away. > Can you tell me WHERE to install a new 'index' page ('Documents and > Settings/Administrator/something? so I can try that method to clear > this up? Or got any other ideas? And where would I go to make mail > and all the other links default to mozilla rather than IE? > Microsoft tech support cannot help me because I have an OEM serial > number. So I am seeking tech support from the readership here. If > someone will send me email who can help, I will supply that person > with an 800 number to reach me at by phone so it will not cost them > anything to call me, and I will be right at the affected computer to > follow their instructions. Thanks very much! The Microsoft-standard troubleshooting and repair script for all problems: 1) Exit the program and re-start it. Did that fix the problem? (If yes, you're done.) 2) Re-install the software, and re-start it. Did that fix the problem? (If yes, you're done.) 3) Re-install the operating system, re-start it. Re-install the application and start it. Did that fix the problem? (If yes, you're done.) 4) Sorry. Must be a hardware problem. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I know you meant to tell a funny story but sorry, it was not all that funny. I have done numbers 1 and 2 above; am not inclined to do number 3, and it is _not_ number 4 since the hardware, which is in common to both the Linux stuff inside the computer and the Windows 2000 stuff is working fine. The problem still exists and I am still struggling with it, however there is one more piece of news in this process of elimination: Although Internet Explorer will not start up when the 'administrator' user is on line, I also created a user known as 'ptownson' and IE works fine on that 'user' account; just not on the administrator's account which is what I usually use. The problem (for those of you who missed my special mailing on it, is that (in the admin account) when I click on the icon for IE 6.0 it stalls a few seconds, then _very briefly_ flashes up the browser program with a blank 'home page' then after a second or less zaps it away. If I wish to use the IE browser, I can go in through a 'back door' such as any page which presents a bunch of files, for example 'search' or 'desktop', move my mouse up to the address line and then manually edit the destination line and get to my 'home page' or any URL desired. But the clicker on my desktop will not work, nor will any link to click on which relies on IE getting open. Mozilla, which is another desktop icon works just fine, click on it, get my 'home page' and go to wherever. Now, if I could set the various program defaults so that Outlook Express for example and other programs currently relying on IE to operate instead went to Mozilla to operate, I suppose I could just write off IE entirely _when using the administrator account_ on my Windows 2000. By the way, when I use the 'ptownson' account on the same machine, everything works fine. What am I overlooking in the admin account? What about read/write permissions on the 'home page'? It goes to look for the home page, sees the permissions won't allow it to be read, so it closes down and goes away? What is the exact directory location in DOS where I can find that file? Something like C:\documents and settings\administrator\something else? Clues are welcome. Look at the special request message in the special mailing Friday afternoon and see if you can help me. PAT] ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V24 #364 ****************************** | |