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Why I'm sad about the retirement of Win2000:1. It seems to be one of the last versions of Windows which doesn't require "activation". Activation can be a problem for computers without a phone or Internet connection, or for people who make frequent hardware upgrades.2. Even worse, it looks like Microsoft is edging toward a renewable-subscription model for licensing, instead of the current buy-a-liceinse forever model for their OSs. For most people, that means we'll be paying more for the same product.3.. It seems to be one of the last versions of Windows using a completely traditional Windows GUI, without any of the resource-heavy gimmicks and hard-to-learn wizards. Best for old fogies like me.Oh, well. Nothing I can do about it. Unless I can find a version of Linux compatible with my cheapy hardware and my ISP's weird connection methods.

Yes. I had Win2000 server and Win XP dual booting on the same machine for a while. I can't answer your second question, though, because I had Win2000 Server on C: and the added Win XP on G:. It's usually considered better to first install the older Windows on C:, and then the newer one on some other drive, but whether it's really necessary I don't know. On older versions of Windows, it's safer and more reliable. What's important is that you remember that the line between the OS and certain MS applications in Windows is sometimes rather vague. The problem is mainly with Internet Explorer and OS related gadgets like the .NET framework, Java VMs, etc. Don't try to put such apps on the same drive. Windows will make the newer one overwrite the older one, which may not be compatible with the OS, or which may be storing different parameters, and all hell will break loose. In other words, if you're using C: as what Microsoft perversely calls the "boot drive" for Win2000, where the built-in apps for Win2000 will be, don't try to install similar apps for Win XP there.

An unusual view of the chateau at Chantilly, from the side, accross the lake. Normal people never see this side, since they approach the chateau from the main drive. Seeing it from this side reminds one that the chateau wasn't built as a giant jewel box for a rich man, which is pretty much what's left today, but as a fortress in the middle of a lake, to make it unapproachable and impregnable. That lake saved the lives of several nobles and at least one king, if I remember right, during the French Wars of Religion. Puvis de Chavannes' painting of Joan of Arc in the Pantheon. She wasn't a shepherdess, but a small businessman's daughter, and was unlikely to have walked around barefoot, but the Romantics liked to see her this way. Now her shepherdess image has captured the popular imagination, and it's hopeless to try to fix it.

I've got a few more, but I'm going to have to hunt them up, shrink them, crop them, whatever. Also, I'll have to decide what secrets to let out. It'll have to wait at least until tomorrow. Here's one I just forgot to post, though. The Eiffel Tower isn't really a bore; in fact, it's a very interesting building. Look at how it fascinated Chagall. We've just overdosed on the usual tourist photographs. I like this one, photographed using its own lights with a very cheap camera. The accidental blurring and increase in the color contrasts help a lot, IMHO.

The interior of a Neoclassical Parisian synagogue built under Napoleon's auspices, during a circumcision ceremony last October. The Aître Saint-Maclou, Rouen. It's now the courtyard of an art school, which makes the decorative motifs look a little strange. During the Black Death, however, it was a cemetery, which does explain things. Two relatives of mine, an Assyrian king and a Jewish queen. The next three ladies go together. By the way, France is one of the few places where you're allowed to photograph in the major museums. We all know the lady on the left, but when one sees her in real life (or in marble, anyway), one understands how beautiful and different she really is. The lady in the middle is a pretty standard Venus of Cnidus type. She's also lovely, but not like the lady from Melos. The lady on the right is the Venus of Arles. She's an old friend of mine. The combination of her boyish hair and body and her matronly occupation (she's spinning) is interesting. I wonder who she really represents.

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PPC: Google Adsense: One of the two I am using at the moment. They pay, they look like they are staying solvent, they have never pulled any funny business with me, and they answer emails with some attempt at intelligence. Adhearus: I have stopped using them since Google liberalized their rules. Their ads were very badly targeted, and I never got any clicks. However, that was a long time ago. PayPerSale: LinkShare: I once had a merchant rob me rather blatantly. LinkShare pretty much helped them, and refused to answer ANY emails on the subject, even the first. LinkShare generally refuses to respond at all to site owners. However, I have another LinkShare merchant with excellent communication between the merchant and the publishers, which helps a lot. LinkShare has also had a lot of downtime lately. The bottom line: LinkShare is pretty bad, but if you have a good merchant, things can go pretty well. CJ: I used this before they set new limits to discourage sites with very little activity. I was perfectly satisfied. Shareasale: I used them when they first started, I think. The owner made it clear that he considered affiliates garbage; only merchants were worthy of replies or common civility. Look at the oldest posts on his abestweb support forum itself, and you'll see what I mean. They also had a lot of technical problems. Judging by what I see on the abestweb forums, they have improved a lot, but I would still avoid them like the plague. The leopard doesn't change his spots.

I also have a very small LAN:1 Windows 2000 Professional desktop, with an HP 690c printer, shared. Ehternet hookup to the router.1 desktop which dual boots into either Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP, both connected by wireless.

Just some of my own experiences: I think that this one's a matter of taste. I found the ratchet-type plastic ones much easier to work with (in near darkness) than the metal ones. I would never trust any light which wasn't marketed especially as a safelight. As I remember, ours was greenish. And nauseous from the smell of the stop bath. If you've trained yourself never to answer a phone unless you're sure that you damn well feel like it, that's not a problem. I'm not exactly sure what a "spousal darkroom-related incident" is, but if it means the spouse destroying your film by suddenly opening the darkroom door to light, these two ideas might help:1. Set up a red warning light above the darkroom door which turns on automatically when the light un-safe light in the darkroom is turned off. Very easy to do. 2. Build a light-lock based on a second blackout curtain. Thanks. Cassy.

One advantage that all of these free email clients have is that they are not Outlook Express, which means that they start up faster and are less virus-prone.Pegasus Mail - This was my favorite for years. It handles multiple identities easily, and allows very flexible on-the-fly configuration of outgoing messages (receipts, etc.). Excellent configurable filters. Also plays well with PopFile. However, I could not get it to install at all on my new Win2000/NTFS. I think that its installation file had trouble getting along with the NT memory protection. POP3 and IMAP.Thunderbird - Has an excellent built-in Bayesian filter. However, it is slow to start, and doesn't handle multiple identities well. POP3 and IMAP.Pimmy - Very fast. Stores mail as individual .eml files, which makes them easy to handle in other software and easy to move around on the disk, but they take up a lot of space. IMNSHO, its internal sorting systems, and the GUI in general, are clunky. POP3 and IMAP.Foxmail - What I'm using now. Has tolerable built-in spam filters. Handles multiple identities excellently. As far as I can tell, POP3 only, no IMAP.Thanks.Cassy.

I will enter some must-haves and almost must-haves for router-based home wireless networks, since some people are very sloppy about them, and they are very often hacked.1. Optional - change the router's default adminitrator user name.2. Must-have - Add a password to the administrator account. The default password is almost certainly blank.3. Must-have - Change the default network name in the router.4. Must-have - Set a security key. If you want to, you can set the client machines to automatically get the key from the router.5. Must-have - Set the router to only accept MAC addresses which you explicitly enter.6. Optional - Since WiFi has a very short range, I have read that you should position the router far from windows and outer walls, if it's convenient.7. Optional - You may or may not want to set you router not to broadcast its network name.Thanks.Cassy.

They are now just an ordinary redirector; they no longer have a service which runs directly through the public DNS system, as they used to. Does anyone know where I can find such a service?In other words, I'm looking for a free service which will give me a subdomain name and allow me to attach DNS server names to it, as uni.cc used to have. I could then use it with the name servers here, yet still move my site someplace else later if I wanted to.Thanks.Cassy.