Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey NEWS Volume 34, Number 12 December 2009 It’s Election Time Again Here are the Nominating Committee’s candidates for the December elections: Officers President ························Paul Syers Vice-President················ Evan Williams Secretary ·······················Seery Syers Treasurer ················· Malthi Masurekar Directors (through 2011) ······················Gregg McCarthy ·······················Arnold Milstein Voting for Officers and Board Members will take place at the December Main Meeting on ····························John Raff December 4. ··························BobHawes Plan on being there to cast your vote! As usual, elections will be held at the Main Meeting on December 5. Nominations will be accepted from the floor until the actual voting begins, and yes, you can nominate yourself. : http://www.acgnj.org Founded 1975 In This Issue Wrap It Up, Bob Hawes ...................3 DealsGuy, Bob Click .....................8 The Best Things in Life are Free, Lou Torraca......10 TheComputer as Crime Scene, Michael Gemignani...12 Book: Speed It Up, Gordon Strickland ..........13 SIGNews, .........................14 Foxit Reader, Sharon Walbran ..............15 Guru Corner, ........................16 June 2008 ACGNJ News Page 1 The Egg and You, Charles W Evans............18 Officers, Directors and Leaders Officers Board of Directors President Mike Redlich (908) 246-0410 Director Emeritus Sol Libes (609) 520-9024 Vice President Paul Syers Through 2009 Gregg McCarthy Treasurer Malthi Masurekar (732) 560-1534 Arnold Milstein (908) 753-8036 Secretary Mark Douches (908) 889-2366 John Raff (973) 992-9002 Past President Evan Williams (908) 359-8070 Bob Hawes Through 2010 David McRitchie Special Interest Groups Don McBride (732) 560-0369 C Languages Bruce Arnold (908) 735-7898 Bill Farrell (732) 572-3481 Firefox Activity David McRitchie Lenny Thomas Genealogy Frank Warren (908) 756-1681 Standing Committees Investing Jim Cooper APCUG Rep. 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Evan Williams [email protected] Page 2 ACGNJ News December 2009 Wrap It Up Robert Hawes ([email protected]) I thought about using the title “Wrap It Up and Stick a Big Knowing how I feel about Microsoft, you might reasonably Red Bow on Top of It”; but that was a bit long, and it didn’t ask; “Why keep using Hotmail”? Well, inertia and familiar- “sound” quite right, either. Normally, this article would ity, mostly. I’ve had multiple Hotmail accounts for a long have been my “year-end wrap-up”. Indeed, 2009 was a par- time, and I know exactly how to use them. Even as we ticularly eventful year, full of recap-worthy stuff; but I’ve speak, though, a group of college students is designing a still got material that was postponed from my October and new, state-of-the-art Internet database for us. When it’s November articles. So we’ll cover those topics now, and done, I’ll be using it to generate my monthly e-mail address put off my annual wrap-up until next time. However, it is list, rather than my existing contact spreadsheet. Then, the Winter Solstice season; and what says “holiday cheer” Hotmail bites the dust. better than taking a dig at Microsoft? Instead of lowering FSArchiver our spirits by citing one of their numerous deeds of actual evil, though, I’ll just mention something that’s really, really Now, let’s get down to business. As Elmer Fudd might say; stupid. “Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I’m testing dwive imaging pwogwams”. In Something Spooky? (two months ago, in the For the last year and a half, I’ve been sending out monthly October 2009 issue of ACGNJ News), I began this series by e-mail messages from one of my Hotmail accounts, an- testing the Linux programs Clonezilla and Partimage. Then, nouncing our two speakers for each month, and containing in New Blood (in our November issue), I tested Image for a link to our current newsletter. Those who read last DOS (IFD from now on) and Image for Linux. (All previ- month’s message all the way to the end would have seen ous results will be repeated in my conclusions below). this message: “Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s Usually, I’d tie up my leftover loose ends involving IFD powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now”. Now, I didn’t first; but this time, we’ll start out with the Linux program put that there. Microsoft did. That’s right! Microsoft sent FSArchiver (FSA from now on) instead. It’s been quietly out SPAM advertising their anti-SPAM feature. Obviously, and patiently “waiting in the wings” for the past two this feature just flat out doesn’t work. (If it did, it would months; and what’s more, it comes first alphabetically. In have erased that message). actuality, I tested both FSA and IFD two months ago, Continued above right Continued below left before I had to bump them. Last month, as mentioned in came up with a terminal window already open; but I wasn’t New Blood, IFD issued an upgrade, so I had to re-do all of quite ready to use it yet. First, from the graphic menu, I ran its tests. This month, both FSA and IFD posted updated GParted (the Gnome Partition Editor) to confirm that my versions on the web. Thus, I had to download those new re- source hard disk had come in as sda, and that my destina- leases, then re-do my tests for each program. (Luckily, all tion hard disk was sdb, with its single partition designated of my Image for Linux tests and the vast majority of my sdb1. (I just had a Halloween flashback. GParted, departed. IFD tests had already been published in our last issue, so I Get it? Well, I think it’s funny). Then, I entered the same only had to repeat the IFD test that was held over). commands as before; but in the terminal window this time: Before we begin, I’d like to make a note about re-booting: I mkdir /mnt/dest did it a lot! However, to save space and to be less boring, mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dest I’ve usually skipped saying so.