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...sure, the report is an exhaustive affair, a CD-ROM that includes photographs, sound recordings and video from surveillance cameras. It's a complete reconstruction of Harris and Klebold's movements, from their guns-blazing entrance through the school's west entrance (11:19) to the moment the two teenage killers turned their weapons on themselves in the blood-soaked library (12:08). But the report doesn't answer the questions victims' families have about the killing spree, namely: What took SWAT teams more than 45 minutes - almost the entire length of the rampage - to get inside the school...
UCITA covers contracts for "computer information," a neologism that masks conceptual chaos, including software, on-line access services and content, books and databases on CD-ROM, and even the digital information on silicon chips in your car or oven...
...last time I tried to set up a wireless network at home, both my PC and, worse, my wife's crashed. The technology, happily, is much improved. Dell's system comes with a CD-ROM that has a video-based setup tutorial that, among other things, explains--as well as shows--how to put a PCI card into your desktop machine. Once installed, the network performed smoothly and without glitches. I can't wait to start using it at the coffee shop...
DRINKS ON YOU Thinking about bartending school? Here's a cheap way to train: Last Call, a new CD-ROM game from Simon & Schuster Interactive ($20). Players must learn to mix from memory the more than 70 drinks featured in the game and deliver service with style (think Tom Cruise in Cocktail), all while maintaining the proper mood music and bouncing troublemakers. Those who earn the most in tips win the game. And here's a nice surprise: unlike most computer games, this one's a hybrid, meaning it'll run on either a Windows PC or a MacIntosh...
...Census Bureau will release information to determine which states will gain or lose Congressional representatives. A few months into 2001, information will be available for local redistricting. The bureau will release more demographic information by the end of 2001, and by 2002 the entire census will be available on CD-ROM, Clinkenbeard says...