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The two companies are offering a Windows Media-based deployment planning tool that delivers technical seminars and other information on Windows 2000 right to the desktop. The Deployment JumpStart for Windows 2000 is a Compaq ProLiant server preconfigured with Windows 2000 Server and loaded with 50 one-hour technical seminars and two white papers. Using Windows Media Services, the Deployment JumpStart delivers the seminars with high-quality audio and video synchronized with PowerPoint:registered: slides and demonstrations.

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The PowerStrip has been updated to 2.65, to keep in sync with the Windows 2000 drivers that have been released to date. AGP configuration can now be changed in real-time using visual controls on the Diagnostic page, the multi-monitor support has been updated, and custom refresh rates have been reworked to better stick in OpenGL and D3D.

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Greg Blair send me the follow instructions to install the SpeedStream 3060 ASDL modem under Windows 2000:

Note: This instructions works not for everyone. A few people have reported that they don´t seem to work.

1) Place 3060 in PC, boot Windows 2000
NOTE: Win2000 will recognize the 3060 as a 3010 device, and incorrectly install 3010 drivers against it. This is OK, as the install application will correct this.

2) When the OS is up, run the self extracting EN60PW2K.EXE. Conversely, if you have previously expanded these files, you can simply run the SETUP.EXE that is contained within the self-extracting zip.

3) At the 3060 Install Dialog, Click ´Install´.

4) The OS will remove any 3060 devices (even if 3010 driver are installed on them) and then restart Plug and Play and install the 3060.

5) At the screen "Digital Signature Not Found" click OK.

6) When install is complete, click "OK" on the install dialog. The 3060 will now be up and running, no reboot required. To see if card is trained, look at the LED on the back of the 3060.

CONFIGURATION
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1) Use Start->Settings->Control Panel
2) Double click the "System" Icon
3) Click the Hardware tab and then click "Device Manager"
4) On Device Manager under "Network adapters", right click the 3060 device and click properties
5) Here you can change the Default VCI, Encapsulation, (and VPI, if card supports VPI other than 0)
6) Click ´OK". The 3060 drop train and then come back up with the new
values, no reboot required.

CONNECTING:
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1) Right click on "My Network Places" on the desktop and choose properties
2) Double Click the "3060 DSL Miniport" Icon
3) Enter User name and password, then OK
NOTE: The Dial string is optional. If no dial string is present the defaults set in Device manager will be used. This can be real handy if you want to create multiple icons with different VCIs or Encapsulations.

The Dial string format is:
Phone Company VPI/VCI Encapsulation Dialer String
Bell South 8/35 PPPoE ENI 1023FFFFFFFF000F
Bell South 8/35 LLC ENI 1023FFFFFFFF0007
Bell South 8/35 VCMUX(PPPoA) ENI 1023FFFFFFFF000C
Bell Atlantic 0/35 PPPoE ENI 1023FFFFFFFF000F
Pacbell 0/35 PPPoA ENI 1023FFFFFFFF000C
Ameritech 0/105 PPPoA ENI 1069FFFFFFFF000C

4) To create more icons, use Start->Programs->Efficient Networks->Create 3060 DSL Connection Icon

UNINSTALLING:
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1) Goto Start->Programs->Efficient Networks->Uninstall 3060 DSL Modem
2) At the uninstall dialog, click ´Remove´

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3dfx sent the Adrenaline Vault four screenshots designed to showcase the visual quality of its upcoming Voodoo5 3D graphics accelerator. In order to preserve the integrity of the image, 3dfx does not allow any alterations, including thumbnails. Therefore, the four screenshots are available in TGA format and contained in a 700K zip file. Included are two 640x480, 32-bit color screenshots of LucasArts´ pod racing title, Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer, and two of NBA 2000. The company is demonstrating its VSA-100 chipset, on which the Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 will be based, at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif.

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Dunn Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DNCC - news) announced it has signed a letter of understanding with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) to become a partner in the Microsoft 2000 Jumpstart program. Dunn and Microsoft will jointly market Microsoft´s Windows 2000 operating system along with Dunn´s migration and desktop deployment services to commercial accounts in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Dunn sales and technical consultants will work with Microsoft´s inside sales team and local field account representatives to seed new accounts with the new Microsoft software, associated Dunn services and Dunn´s new line of Windows 2000 platforms.

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This week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2000, Microsoft Corp. will preview for software developers the next version of its powerful game-development DirectXâ application programming interface (API). With sweeping advances in real-time rendered music, photo-realistic graphics and the addition of advanced voice technology, the forthcoming version of Microsoft:registered: DirectX, scheduled to ship in late summer 2000, is expected to enable the creation of game titles that deliver the most sensory, immersive Windows-based gaming experience to date.

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At the Blue Springs School District in Missouri, using technology in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning isn't a new idea. For seven years, technology has been an integral part of the learning experience for students in 20 Blue Springs schools linked by 4,000 networked student workstations. But Blue Springs, like most schools and universities, is constantly seeking better and more cost-effective solutions to meet the ever-increasing demands for more efficient administration, management, and security.

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Problems with the i840 chipset are not just confined to Intel´s own motherboards, it has emerged.

Two days back we reported that system builders and distributors were very unhappy with Intel because of glitches in motherboards and the complete lack of any platform for the newer Xeons.

When Intel introduced the i840 chipset (originally codenamed Carmel) on October 25th last year, it claimed that because it had been designed by a completely different team than the engineers who developed the i820, plagued with problems for practically the whole of last year, it was trouble free. The problems affecting the motherboards are related to the memory translator technology.

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According to PC makers, the computing public´s hunger for greater performance remains unabated -- and that means 1GHz, or 1,000MHz, processors will, sooner rather than later, be surpassed by even more powerful chips.

Advanced Micro Devices beat archrival Intel to the 1,000MHz mark Monday when it announced it is shipping a 1GHz Athlon processor for desktops. "Everybody wants performance for a couple of reasons," said Peter Ashkin, chief technology officer at Gateway Inc.

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When Yodlee.com was looking for an operating system to power its Web site, the company -- founded by former Microsoft and Amazon executives -- bypassed Windows NT and turned instead to Linux.

The start-up, which aggregates and manages online accounts for Web surfers, needed tough, reliable software that could serve up information from a multitude of sites. And they needed it on the cheap.

"We didn´t have a lot of capital, and Linux is a low-cost operating system we can run on any machine," says Matt Idema, a Yodlee vice president. One copy of Linux costs about $80 and can be copied as often as needed. A Microsoft Windows 2000 upgrade will cost companies $970 to $1,640 per computer, Giga Information Group estimates.

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It's time for a Windows 2000 (Win2K) bug update. Microsoft released a Critical Update on February 17 that closes two Index Server security vulnerabilities, eliminates a file-corruption problem that arises when you save Word 2000 and Excel 2000 files in .htm format, and corrects a Visual Basic (VB) scripting date problem in a Wareki or Taiwan calendar (i.e., a non-Gregorian calendar). The Index Server vulnerabilities and the .htm file-corruption problems, which apply equally to Win2K and Windows NT 4.0, are significant. You can download the fixes here. If you want to perform an online update, go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and click Product Updates. Microsoft Support Online articles Q251170, Q252463 , Q252633, and Q253342 provide details about each of the bug fixes in the Critical Update download.

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Industry experts have said that, despite Microsoft´s claims, Windows 2000 "hasn´t got the guts" to support large enterprise-class virtual private networks (VPNs).

Microsoft last week released the results of a VPN comparison conducted by US testing firm NSTL, which said: "The server-based scalability of Microsoft Windows 2000 VPN meets the needs of even the largest organisation."

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Affected are Latitude Cpia, CpiR, CPt, Cpx, and CS models along with Inspiron 3500, 3700, 7000, and 7500 models, according to Dell representatives. Dell has posted a downloadable diagnostic software program that checks notebooks for the bug.

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