Number 211 - December 2000

UPDATE
The Perfect Gift -- A Gift Certificate     Looking for a last-minute gift that's quick, easy and keeps on giving the entire year? With the gift-giving season approaching, consider giving a membership in Tacoma Open Group for Microcomputers, with an automatic one-year subscription to the TOGGLE newsletter. In an era of flight from snail mail to on-line newsletters, TOGGLE is one of several hard copy newsletters still delivered to your mailbox--to be read and re-read to glean the most from the computer-related articles. This is an especially appropriate gift for a friend or relative who is new to computing and interested in learning how to use and enjoy the PC. It is also appropriate for the more experienced user who gains by association with other users as well as discussion of software and hardware of common interest with other users sharing similar experiences.     Point out to them that our meeting discussions, Q&A periods and newsletter subject matter ranges from that for absolute beginners to esoterica fit for the expert with twenty years of computing experience.     If you have a friend or relative who constantly "borrows" your copy of the latest TOGGLE, a gift membership might be especially welcome. Pick up an attractive Gift Certificate at the next meeting or ask for membership info and pricing from bobh@iousa.net     Thanks to the North Texas PC News for the germ of this good idea. Outstanding Web Sites     On pages 5 and 6 of the printed TOGGLE, and under WEBBYs in the Table of Contents, we list websites that won WEBBY awards. If you don't look	at any others, do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to visit The Cave of Lascaux site. You will probably spend more than a minute there. We certainly did! In our opinion, it is one of the best designed and implemented sites that we have seen. Hint:The links are active in the on-line newsletter ALERT!! Netscape Vulnerable To Brown Orifice Exploit     From November 2000 Q Bits, Quad Cities Computer Society     Skeptical? Open Netscape, and visit the Brown Orifice home page at www.brumleve.com/Brown Orifice/. Just indicate the directory you'd like to publish and click the Publish This Directory button. If you or others in your organization are using any of these versions of Netscape, you should immediately upgrade to version 4.75 at www.netscape.com/.Flaws in Netscape's implementation of Java enable a Web site to transform Netscape versions 4.70 through 4.74 into a file server, thus making files in any directory on your system available for downloading worldwide.     This vulnerability is for Windows, Linux and Macintosh users of Netscape versions 4.70 through 4.74. No Windows Me DOS Access?     The full Version of Windows Me (not the upgrade) may not allow you to go to DOS from Windows. You may have to use your Windows Me Startup Disk to get to the A:\> prompt then log onto C:\> and maneuver from there. You might also want to save your Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files on a floppy. They may disappear too.
Number 211 - December 2000