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...hype and glory surrounding the Net these days, occasional great ideas do make it to market nearly unnoticed. For instance, Homegate, an Internet connection service that quietly launched last week in 760 cities around the globe. Homegate's new software lets travelers connect their PCs to the Net from anywhere with a local phone call. An executive from Anchorage can jack in from Jakarta for about 10[cents] a minute, instead of the $20 a minute it would cost to dial Alaska...
...group began planning the trip to the 900,000-acre national park last year. Margaret Kanard and Tim O'Brien, who did their post-doctoral research at Princeton several years ago, approached EEB Professor Andrew Dobson with the idea, then publicized it through the Princeton Conservation Society (PCS...
...They seemed extremely enthusiastic about having our help," said sophomore Ben Urquhart, who heard about the trip through PCS. "I have never done this level of biological research, but I have done more local, less-intense projects...
Fortunately, for most individuals, the year 2000 problem will not have a direct affect on their computers. You will not have to rush to make your system year 2000-compliant. Despite their various faults, most PCs and Macs are very capable of counting above 1999. However, with the expansion of the Internet, and thus links between personal and mainframe computers, there is an increased chance that data confusion will occur...
...allows a web page designer to include regular shortcuts (files that end in '.LNK') and Internet shortcuts (files that end in '.URL') on a page that could start programs on a user's computer if clicked. Because of the common location of many of the files on Windows-based PCs, it would not be difficult to create a link, for example, that would start the calculator program on your computer. While this is an innocent example, it could be very destructive if another program was started with more malicious intent...