Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey NEWS Volume 32, Number 10 December 2007 It’s Election Time Again In addition to the slate of officers and directors to be elected, there is also a proposal for a change in the Constitution and By-Laws to be voted on by the members. This change, proposed by Bruce Arnold, will al- low the SIG Leaders to vote at BOD meetings. The exact wording of the amendment will be presented at the Main Meeting, December 7. As usual, elections will be held at the Main Happy Holidays Meeting on December 7. Nominations will be accepted from the floor until the actual voting begins, and yes, you can nominate yourself.. The Election Slate President ·························MikeRedlich Vice President ····················MarkDouches Treasurer······················Malthi Masurekar Secretary····························Paul Syers Directors <Open> ····························1year term Gregg McCarthy ·····················2year term Arnold Milstein······················2year term John Raff···························2year term <Open> ···························2year term Obviously we need volunteers to fill the open seats on the Board — we urge you to consider http://www.acgnj.org volunteering some of your time — it’s only Founded 1975 one evening a month!: In This Issue Further Adventures in Time Travel, Robert Hawes ....3 DealsGuy, Bob Click .....................8 Dufferfom: Squaring the Circle, David D Uffer .....10 Fake Check Scams, Ira Wilsker ..............12 Google Street Views, Linda Gonse.............13 DustKleen, Neil Longmuir .................14 A Router Can Protect Your Computer, Sandy Berger. 15 How to Answer the Question, Mike Kerwin........16 Do You Really Need to Upgrade?, Elizabeth B Wright. 17 Zune, a Player for the Rest of Us, Ash Nallawalla ....19 Guru Corner ........................20 December 2007 ACGNJ News Page 1 Officers, Directors and Leaders Officers Board of Directors President Mike Redlich (908) 246-0410 Director Emeritus Sol Libes (609) 520-9024 Vice President Mark Douches (908) 889-2366 Through 2008 Bill Farrell (732) 572-3481 Treasurer Lela Rames David McRichie Secretary Evan Williams (908) 359-8070 Lenny Thomas Past President Frank Warren (908) 756-7898 Malthi Masurekar (732) 560-1534 Special Interest Groups Through 2007 Gregg McCarthy .Net Manuel J. 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Norm Wiss [email protected] Page 2 ACGNJ News December 2007 Further Adventures in Time Travel Robert Hawes ([email protected]), ACGNJ I’ve wanted to use this title for about two years. I thought of it, first using the BACKUP programs that came with MS-DOS but didn’t get to use it, while writing my 2005/2006 series of 3.3 and 5.0, then using Central Point Backup (a component of rants about “Time Bugs”. (Those are the phenomena that have PC Tools). Shortly after I first successfully used the tapes as a been driving me crazy for over a decade, but which nobody file transfer medium, I thought about using them for compact, else seems to care about, or even notice). Don’t panic. We long term mass storage as well. In pursuit of that goal, I began won’t be talking about them this time. I promise. Mostly, the a project which, I’m sorry to say, I still haven’t finished. I as- kind of time travel I’ll be covering this month is the kind that sembled 364 floppy disks containing previous backups, we all do every day: minute by minute into the future. In other intending to transfer their contents to tape. (It’s actually the (more intelligible) words, our topic this month mostly con- same philosophy as making frequent current backups. It’s not cerns backups of one form or another. as if I really expect to ever use any of them. However, in the extremely unlikely event that I do need some again, those old Here’s our first time traveling example: As I somewhat ex- files will still be there waiting; ready, willing and able). plained in previous issues, much of this article was actually written in a three to four week period beginning in the last I only made one tape from those floppies, though, before run- days of June (just about when the deadline would have been ning into some technical glitches that caused me to suspend for our non-existent July issue). My intention was to get an the project. (I didn’t abandon it, but I didn’t do much work on early start on my September article. That way, when the inevi- it for a few years, either). I had CD reading drives even before table summer distractions came along, I’d have something “in the tape drives, but a personally affordable CD writer didn’t the bank”. However, some sections developed a decidedly become available until 1997. I got Colorado Backup for Win- “Halloweeny” flavor, so they were postponed until October. dows 95 (CBW95) at just about the same time. (Before that, I The rest developed a “follow-uppy” flavor. Thus, parts (com- also had Colorado Backup for Windows 3.1, but I never, ever bined with new material) became my November article, and used it). CBW95 was missing some features of CBD (an an- the rest (with some new stuff as well) got held over until now. noying but unfortunately quite common occurrence in As a result, after putting in about a month’s worth of advanced Windows programs advertised as “upgrades” from DOS ver- work, I still had to start all over from scratch to cover Septem- sions), but it had a new feature that I liked a lot: You didn’t ber, and you’re not seeing this until December. Cue the weepy actually need a tape. You could back up to a QIC file on the violin music.