Keepin' it clean. (The computer that is.)
Windows XP automatically creates a restore point from time to time so that if you ever get in trouble you can always return to the "good ole days," say yesterday, when your system worked properly.
I like to go into system tools and create my own restore point whenever I have made major overhauls in the system. When you create your own you can attach a little message like "erased a lot of old files, defragged, ran anti-virus," etc. When you save the restore point xp automatically gives it a time and date stamp. This has saved my biscuits a couple of times.
Boy you just can't have enough tools. After gaining some hard drive space by erasing a bunch of junk, I then ran "AdAware," no problems, then ran "TrojanHunter," no problems, "AVG anti-virus" runs automatically every day, no problems.
Then I ran "SpyBot Search and Destroy," guess what? It found 12 occurances of nuiscance spyware. Actually there were mutiple occurances of a couple of them but they were; advertising.com, AvenueA Inc, Bfast, DoubleClick, FastClick and MediaPlex. I have no idea what any of these do and they are probably not critical but I do NOT want the damned things on my computer!
Anyway, I removed them, and will live to fight another day.
Clean your machine, backup your data, defrag, create a restore point, life is good.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
LDS Digitizing Microfilm Project Moving Along Better Than Expected.
The latest news from LDS regarding their major digital conversion from microfilm to digitized computer images is explained in a very easy to understand description at: http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,40-1-3384-9,00.html.
The church figured that the final conversion date would have been a few lifetimes away when this project first started, and then it went down to an estimate of 30 years, and now with new streamlined methods of conversion the completion of the project to convert just about all of their holdings is just going to be in the not too distant future.
There is no doubt that the enormous amount of data that has been presented by the church and their countless volunteer workers has been extremely helpful to researchers to date but “you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!”
Once the images have been digitized from the several million rolls of microfilm there will be an ongoing project to index all of this data. You are all going to be able to use this data from any internet connection!
To learn about the indexing project, go here: http://www.ldsindexing.org/
You do not have to be a member of the church to volunteer to help with the indexing.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Oswego County Newspapers (and more) on-line
You will note that on my website I have listed as one of my favorites http://news.nnylin.net which is an excellent free source of early newspapers of
Now you can search many more digitized newspapers from microfilm at www.fultonhistory.com
This site is brought to you by Thomas Tryniski who tells me that he worked as a consultant on the Northern New York Newspaper Project.
Here is a list of the current papers that he has on his site, all fully searchable.
Valley News 1947-1999
Miscellaneous Very Early Newspaper transcripts from Upstate New York
Tom tells me he is adding more newspapers all the time.
Keep checking his site for more.
Dick Hillenbrand
Upstate
website: http://www.ny-genes.com
blog: http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/
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