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Check This Out!!!!
Point your browser (or whatever they call it this
week) to: http://www.shareware.com/
where you can download the following shareware
application.
PERIPHERAL DOCTOR
Put your PC to the test with BCM
Diagnostics, a system analysis program that helps
you trace hardware-related problems right to the
source. The application provides a tabbed
property sheet that st:mmarizes the overall
perli~rmance of every component on your PC,
including your computer's processor, memory,
attdio and video cards, modem, graphics display,
hard disk, floppy drive, and CD-ROM. BCM
Diagnostics also includes shortcuts to mouse,
joystick, and ScanDisk utilities and settings. A
comprehensive stress test evaluates your entire
svstem's stability under Windows 95; it runs all
modules concurrently and will stop on any error
that arises. The Resource Monitor is yet another
bundled utility that can be launched in the
background to periodically check free system
resources, available memory and disk space, as
well as CPU usage. If system resources dip below
a desired threshold, a warning message is
displayed.
Fact File
Program name: BCM Diagnostics
Version: 1.01.02
Size: 3870K
Developed by: BCM Advanced Research, Inc.
License: Freeware
Requirements: Windows 95
tnx ....Shareware. Com
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Controlling The Internet .....
Various American trade organizations want
the Unitcd States to retain control of the Internet
address system rather than privatize it to various
non-governmental registrars located around the
globe. Under the new plan, addresses under seven
new generic domains were to have been issued by
28 competing registries beginning August 15th
...their activity overseen by a Council of
Registrars based in Switzerland. But it has not
happened.
The Clinton administration intends to put
forward its own Internet naming plan within a
month. The government can only make
recommendations because it has no authority over
Internet administration.
Network Solutions, Inc., a Herndon, Virginia
company under contract with the National Science
Foundation, currently issues the .com, .org and
.net generic domain addresses. Their contract,
due to expire on March 31, 1998, will probably be
extended by another six months.
tnx ..... Dits and Bits Newsletter 15 October 1997
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Problems at Netscape ?
Things are not going well at Netscape. It
appears that Netscape's Marc Andreessen has
been demoted. Andreessen, the boy wonder who
invented the first Internet "Mosaic" browser in the
early 1990's while in college (University of Illinois
at Champaign-Urbana), has been reassigned to the
position of Vice President of Products He had
been, Chief Technology Officer.
Iowa-born Marc, only 25 years old, saw his
net worth rocket to more than $50 million (US)
when Netscape went public. Andreessen and Jim
Clark co-founded Netscape which they originally
wanted to call "Mosaic", but the university would
not release the rights to that name.
Both Netscape and eventually Microsoft paid
big bucks to the university of Illinois for the
licensing rights to further develop Mosaic. They
went their separate ways but the Netscape
browser - being first out of the starting block -
captured the early lead. The Microsoft Explorer
is now playing catchup and is steadily gaining
ground on the Netscape Navigator.
From its one-time high of $87, Netscape's
stock sank into the low $20s and until recently -
was hanging around the mid $30s. It jumped to
nearly $40 when the US said Microsoft could not
use its operating system clout to elbow its way
onto desktops.
tnx ..... Dits and Bits Newsletter 1 November 1997
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