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Inside Currents
by newslett＠compcurr.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Inside Currents Vol 1, No. 4 June 13, 1996 CONTENTS: *Computer Encyclopedia & Computer Accessories, now two of your favorite destinations *CCI Members Talent Bank *CCI show schedule *Used/refurbished equipment *Take our ISP survey and win a 28.8 modem. *Tons of free software available on CCI *Small business resources *Chat and forums coming soon! *We list resources for nine major metro areas *We need more user group listings...and articles, too. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Computer Encyclopedia & Computer Accessories are the fastest growing destinations on CCI. If you haven't checked 'em out yet, see why others flock there. You can download a free WebPhone and browse the Computer Encyclopedia at http://www.currents.net/market/accessories/accessories.html Check out the Members' Gallery and follow the path to creating your own space on the web -- free. Also create an on-line Resume and be a part of the CCI Members' Talent Bank. Both pages are freely accessible by other CCI Members and the outside world alike (follow the instructions when creating your page(s) to obtain your personal URL). http://www.currents.net/general/member/pages/gallery.html http://www.currents.net/general/member/resume/talent.html 1996 show schedule for CCI. Stop by our booth and let us know how we're doing: *Online Expo, Concourse Expo Center, San Francisco, July 11-13 *Web.X at PC Expo, Javits Center, NY, June 18-20 *Online Expo, NY Coliseum, Sept 5-7 *Internet Expo, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Oct 16-17 *Online Expo, LA Convention Center, Oct 24-26 *Comdex, Las Vegas, Nov 18-22 *Internet World, Javits Center, Dec 11-13 Used or refurbished equipment could be the way to go, especially considering how fast the technology changes. Look for a new used/refurbished equipment buying service here in a few weeks. Ten people will be selected at random from those who complete the ISP survey to win the top-rated DeskPorte 28.8S external modem from Microcom. Plus, you'll get the warm fuzzies knowing you helped us inform others about who's performing up to snuff, and who isn't. http://www.currents.net/ispsurvey.html Our Download area is growing by leaps and bounds with tons of Mac and PC shareware and freeware. Check it out at http://www.currents.net/resources/download.html Small business owners and start-ups should look at our Small Business Resources area for help in everything from funding to management recruitment. Why reinvent the wheel when their is so much info at your disposal? Small Business Resources are at http://www.currents.net/resources/smbus.html Stay tuned--chat and forums coming soon! We're planning on establishing forums based on, but not limited to, Technical Support such as: Internet Help Windows 95 Windows NT Macintosh You've read the cover story, now go to Regions to discover what's going on in major metro regions around the country [such as]: Northern California, Southern California, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Atlanta, Boston & New York at http://www.currents.net/magazine/regional/regional.html Belong to a user group that's not listed in our User Group area? Have your User Group SYSOP list your group with us online at http://www.currents.net/community/userg.html We're looking for more (free) professionally-written editorial in almost every category and application of personal and business computing that we can add to our web site. If you're interested, contact: Mike McDonnell at mmc(a)compcurr.com Feedback, feedback, feedback. Please tell us how we're doing, and what you'd like to see on our site in the future. http://www.currents.net/general/feedbac.html

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Re: PBS show
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:47 PM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: >At 11:23 PM 6/13/96 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote: >>At 09:35 AM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote: > >>>But the Apple II WAS a toy! Non-detached keyboard, poor placement of reset >>>key, upper-case only, 40-character wide display, odd microprocessor, VERY >>>SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well), as well as a hostile >>>legal situation regarding the building of clones. Hell, they even objected >>>to other companies building boards which plugged into the bus! >> >> >>I was not a toy it was what started the PC revolution > >Grandly ignoring the Altair, the TRS-80 Model I, the IMSAI, et al. Even Jolt! > > >Jim Bell >jimbell(a)pacifier.com > > It was the first BIG product, sorry my bad. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blake "Pokey" Wehlage Age-13 Gaa- 3.69 (for ice hockey goalie) <jwilk(a)iglou.com> My page- http://www.iglou.com/members/jwilk.html Quote- Does whiskey count as beer? -Homer Simpson

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CALL FOR PAPERS
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 17:39:13 -0700 From: Taher Elgamal <elgamal(a)netscape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 To: ipsec(a)TIS.COM, ietf-pkix(a)tandem.com Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Sender: ipsec-approval(a)neptune.tis.com Precedence: bulk CALL FOR PAPERS Multimedia Data Security Part of IS&T/SPIE's 1997 Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology 8-14 February 1997 San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California USA Conference Chair: Taher Elgamal, Netscape Communications The growth of the use of public networks as the platform for multimedia applications in the past year has made it important to devise mechanisms for ensuring proper use of intellectual property, and increased the importance of employing security mechanisms for video and audio data. This conference will serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas in the areas of security systems and mechanisms especially in applications that handle large data volumes. Papers are solicited in all areas of security systems and algorithms including but not limited to: * security systems for imaging applications * security systems for real-time video applications * performance studies and comparisons for securing image data * watermarking and detection of fraudulent copying of intellectual property * metering schemes for intellectual property usage * audio and video encryption mechanisms * key management and security protocols for broadcast applications * payment systems for online multimedia applications * content protection mechanisms for online multimedia distribution. This conference is just one of nearly 30 conferences to be held at the EI'97 symposium. And EI'97 is one of 4 collocated symposia (Electronic Imaging, Biomedical Optics, Lasers and Applications, and Optoelectronics). Watch SPIE's web site for the entire Photonics West Call for Papers (late May-early June): http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/meetings_home.html For a printed call for papers or other information: E-mail: pw97(a)spie.org Fax: 360/647-1445 Phone: 360/676-3290 DEADLINES Paper Abstracts (for review) Due from Authors: 15 July 1996 Camera-Ready Abstracts (from accepted authors) Due: 18 November 1996 Manuscripts Due from all Authors: 13 January 1997 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT Send a 500 word abstract of your paper, by 15 July, in ONE of the following ways: >>electronic mail in ASCII format (NOT encoded) to abstracts(a)spie.org >>The SUBJECT line must include: EI97 (Elgamal) (Send one submission per email message.) Note: There will also be available an interactive abstract submission form on the web site. >>mail (please mail 4 hard copies) to: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging '97 SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 Shipping Address: 1000 20th Street, Bellingham, WA 98225 Telephone: 360/676-3290 >>fax to SPIE at 360/647-1445 (Please send one submission per fax.) Be sure each abstract includes the following: 1. CONFERENCE CHAIR and CONFERENCE TITLE (submit to ONLY ONE conference) to which the abstract is submitted 2. AUTHOR LISTING (List principal author first) for each author: full name [first(given) last(family] and affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers, email 3. ABSTRACT/PAPER TITLE 4. ABSTRACT TEXT: 500 words typed on white paper 5. KEYWORDS: maximum of 5 keywords 6. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY of the principal author: 50-100 words -- Taher Elgamal elgamal(a)netscape.com Chief Scientist, Netscape Communications (T) 415 937 2898, (F) 415 428 4054 --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "If they could 'just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals." --Vinnie Moscaritolo The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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[noise] (was Re: PBS show)
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

at Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:30:44 -0800 jim bell <jimbell(a)pacifier.com> may have written... >Brain-dead segmented architecture, 64k per segment limitation code segments, ever hear of code segments? Data segments maybe? Ever actually do any 8086 assembler? You would have liked them. In fact, even the MAC's O/S had them built in as I recall, just not a hardware limitation with the 68000. A good programmer was not limited by these. >1-megabyte memory limitation. The only thing that made it OK, I concede here... But if you actually write code instead of pasting code together, 1MB is plenty of RAM with this processor. What was brain dead was the fact that IBM in it's infinite wisdom "stole" near half of that for it's poor hardware designs (640k-1MB range). flames > /dev/nul --- Joseph L. (Joe) Moll, Greenville, SC USA mailto:oolid@acqic.org ---

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Re: PBS show
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:51 PM 6/14/96, Josh Sled wrote: >On Thu, 13 Jun 96 23:23 EDT, Blake Wehlage wrote: > >>Mac rule they have an awesome GUI (graphical user interface), easy of use it >>way up there and they have bitchin' software. >> >>I know i will regret saying this but: >> >>The mac OS is 3 times better than Windows '95 > >Though I agree with you, and I think OS/2's WorkPlace Shell and >Presentation Manager is about 10 times better than MacOS, this isn't >the place for GUI or OS holy wars... > >ObCrypto: Incorporating crpyto into a GUI : strong crypto (RSA, 3DES) >represented as strong locking devices (safe, vault, etc), weak crypto >represented as weak devices (padlock, chain-link)... what do you think? > >Joshy > > > > Oh my God someone agrees with me I see the light at the end of the tunnel, in this window covered world. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blake "Pokey" Wehlage Age-13 Gaa- 3.69 (for ice hockey goalie) <jwilk(a)iglou.com> My page- http://www.iglou.com/members/jwilk.html Quote- Does whiskey count as beer? -Homer Simpson

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Re: Zimmerman/Viacrypt
by Omegaman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: Steve Reid <root(a)edmweb.com> > > > Phil disagrees with ViaCrypts new "business" version of PGP which > > apparently encrypts all messages with an employer-supplied public key > > in addition to any specified by the employee. > > Looking at Denning's critique (pro-escrow rant) of the NCR crypto report, > she mentioned that mutant version: > > [http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/NRC.txt] > "Other corporations are similarly adopting products with data recovery > capabilities as they integrate encryption into their systems (even PGP > comes with data recovery in Viacrypt's Business Edition)." > > IMHO Phil Zimmerman has good reason to object to the mutant version, if > it's going to cause the PGP name to somehow endorse escrow. I don't have a problem with companies escrowing keys or using a function like that described for Viacrypt's for official company business. Employees should be made fully aware, however, that their communications are being copied to a company archive. There should be no illusion about the privacy of company communications using company-owned software. For private communications, they should still use a personal copy of PGP or other encryption software of their choice. $.02 me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMcFkO6b3EfJTqNC9AQFO5QP+N80T9b9qezlnf15hNsc9lIJoMihNVo/1 8d7bK8Hv4HSAc0FicP9JRSU7jKhm4nTDR0XUnmMeEFLEvq6ari1GdYr9K/HFcIWW AtgC9MGGMqAoCIrMt1oOm9WosrfQcNQfij5ENC8lZlWW01y9YXhXpP9CzcsZmNlz 3rjA7c70MuQ= =JUw7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------ Omegaman <omega(a)bigeasy.com> PGP Key fingerprint = 6D 31 C3 00 77 8C D1 C2 59 0A 01 E3 AF 81 94 63 ------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: PBS show
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:24 PM 6/14/96 -0500, David E. Smith wrote: >>I know i will regret saying this but: >> >>The mac OS is 3 times better than Windows '95 >> > >Gee, what's three times zero? > >dave > > > > 48? you can thank the public education system for that answer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blake "Pokey" Wehlage Age-13 Gaa- 3.69 (for ice hockey goalie) <jwilk(a)iglou.com> My page- http://www.iglou.com/members/jwilk.html Quote- Does whiskey count as beer? -Homer Simpson

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Re: PBS show
by Ryan Russell/SYBASE 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

143K. Per side. Ryan ---------- Previous Message ---------- The original Apple II floppy held ONLY 90 kilobytes on a 5" floppy. How did they do such a bad job?

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SF Bay Area: 6/18 Smart Talk on WhoWhere? (fwd)
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI. Sounds like a venture capital shindig. Pity I won't be able to make it. That would have been Highly Amusing. -rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 13 Jun 1996 16:03:52 -0400 From: Leslie Kareckas <lesliek(a)svi.org> Newsgroups: ba.smartvalley, ba.announce Subject: 6/18 Smart Talk on WhoWhere? ***************************************************************** PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION ***************************************************************** SMART TALK Sponsored by Smart Valley, Inc. and Gemini Management Consulting SPEAKER: Gunjan Sinha President, WhoWhere? TITLE: WhoWhere?: The Global White Pages of the Internet DATE: Tuesday, June 18, 1996 TIME: 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM LOCATION: Smart Valley, Inc. 2520 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara CONTACT: Isabel Sarkis - IsabelS(a)svi.org or 408-562-7794 ABSTRACT WhoWhere? is the largest directory of personal and corporate phone numbers, physical addresses and e-mail addresses on the Internet. As the Net rapidly evolves, defines and redefines itself, WhoWhere? provides a worldwide collection of fundamental information which serves both individual and business communication needs. It has become the Global White Pages and enables people to locate others around the world, whether they are on or off the Net. Gunjan Sinha will share the challenges associated with building and maintaining this type of directory and the ways in which it can be utilized. BIO Prior to forming WhoWhere? Inc., Gunjan Sinha was the architect of video servers at Olivetti Advanced Technology, where he developed interactive video servers. He was also involved with multiprocessor and distributed server development. Earlier is his career, Sinha was the co-founder of Viman Software Inc., a network license management company, which was later acquired by Central Designs Systems Inc. Sinha holds a Masters in Engineering Management from Stanford University, and a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Cruz. DIRECTIONS: Take the Great America Parkway exit North from 101. Turn right at the first traffic light (Mission College Boulevard) and go straight approximately three blocks. Turn right into the second UB Networks driveway. Smart Valley is on the left at 2520 Mission College Blvd. There is ample parking throughout the campus. ************************************************************** All are welcome to attend this Smart Talk. Admission is free to individual members and all employees of Smart Valley member companies. Non-members are charged a $5.00 fee. Continental breakfast is included. Reservations are required as seating is limited. RSVP to Isabel Sarkis at IsabelS(a)svi.org or 408-562- 7794. Smart Talk announcements can also be found on the Web (http://www.svi.org)

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Re: doubleclick monitoring web browsing habits
by Deranged Mutant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 13 Jun 96 at 16:19, Hal wrote: > A post on comp.risks described a web adverstising service called > "doubleclick". As described in its web pages at <URL: > http://ad.doubleclick.net >, this service provides targetted > advertising on the web. [..] > One question is whether enough information to uniquely identify users > is routinely provided by widely used browsers like Netscape. I have Supposedly Netscape has been responsive to this. One of the changes in 2.0 had to do with giving out personal info (and people can verify this if they have the servers, etc.) > refrained from telling my Netscape browser my name and email address out > of fear that it would reveal this information; as a result, I can't use > mailto: links, which is annoying (and also suspicious; lynx allows me to > do mailto: without permanently entering an email address). Lynx running under Unix can find out who you are on the system by checking your user id and the hostname. Rob. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl(a)unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.

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