New links added under Linux and Etc

New link added under Links, Etc, (below), to the website of the New York State Education Department School Report Cards for New York State public schools - Evaluations of New York State public schools.

Another new link added - 11/07/02 - under Links, Etc, (below), to my pages - about two categories of bicycle that have been around for over a century with little change - the 3 speed English Roadster and the 3 speed English Sports bicycles. In the U.S. they have been improperly called English racing bikes. They are really not racing bikes but they probably got that name because they were so much easier to ride and therefore faster than the balloon tire bikes that were popular in the U. S. when 3 speed bikes began being imported in quantity from England. Since I have been adjusting and repairing them for the last 42 years, 33 years professionally (getting paid for it), the last 26 years working in the bike shop at Bob Lounsbury Sporting Goods, I decided to write a few pages about them.

For my pages about 3 speed bicycles click here

What Have Bicycles Got to do With Computers?
 
 

Linux	Windows
Linux - A superior, stable, freely distributed operating system for server, desktop, notebook, and other devices.	Windows - Links relating to the Microsoft Windows Operating System.
What Linux looks like - Screenshots of Linux on a desktop.	Image Viewers - Eyebrowse Shell Picture.
The GIMP - Graphic Image Manipulation Program - GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program With this program you can modify images and even easily save them in a different format.	Explor2000 - A file manager that does more than Windows Explorer, looks similar to the file manager that came with Windows 3.1, works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, and combines the qualities of Windows Explorer, Winfile, Norton Commander, and XT Gold for DOS.
Linux Distributions.	Software 602 Suite - Free Office Suite that can be used in place of Microsoft Office
Desktops and Window Managers for Linux.	The GIMP - Graphic Image Manipulation Program - GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program The Gimp for Windows is the same as it is for Linux
Other Linux Information	Windows Tweaks and Protection - Protect Windows from Viruses, Spywear, and popups. Optimize your dialup, cable, or DSL connection.
Why is SCOfighting Linux? - What Brian Proffitt, managing editor of Linux Today thinks. Click here .	Belarc Advisor - gives you a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware.
Hardware	Etc.
Computers	Contact
Who has the fastest CPU - On this page there's a link to a page that rates  real CPU speeds.	News - Computer related, local, and general news links.
Winmodems- These are also called software modems or controllerless modems and are still not as good as hardware modems, (also called controller-based modems). Controllerless modems are half the price of a hardware modem and if your computer can even use one it will be slower than a hardware modem. Avoid them.	Middletown, NY Local Links Photographs of Middletown and the Wallkill Precinct, Inc. from the Historical Society of Middletown - On Thrall Library's Website - A photographic history of Middletown NY.
You don't really want the cheapest computer.  No, you really don't. Why not? The motherboard is an important part of a computer, and their quality varies widely. If the motherboard isn't good, the computer isn't good. Here are some sites discussing motherboards from worst to best. MURC Forums - Lowest Quality Motherboards on the market? - A forum discussion. Bad Motherboards - How to recognise and avoid them. - A bit dated but history repeats itself. They made some good points that are still applicable.	School Report Cards for New York State Public Schools - Recent Annual School Academic Performance Records See how Public Schools in New York State compare. - click here - for 2001 Report - click here - for 2002 Report
Better Ink Refills at Lower Prices These may be the lowest prices on ink for inkjet printers, laser and fax toner, printer and POS ribbons, and fax thermal rolls and cartridges.  Highest Quality and Guaranteed all perform equal to OEM. For price quotes for what isn't listed here email;  jmvernooy@hotmail.com	Three Speed Bicycles - Three Speed Roadsters, Sportsters and new internal hub gear bicycles still make the most sense for most casual riding and commuting. The gears are inclosed where dirt and water can't reach. If the concept weren't over 100 years old it could be mistaken for the best new idea for bicycles in years.

Amaya , Arachne , Arena , Chimera , Firefox, Internet Explorer , Mozilla, NCSA Mosaic , Netscape Navigator/Communicator , some versions of Net-Tamer , or a text based browser such as Doslynx , Lynx , (test drive Lynx) , some versions of Net-Tamer , and others. In other words, my pages are not browser specific. They are universal, the way the internet was originally designed. (Some versions of Net-Tamer are just text as for a PC-XT, and some versions of Net-Tamer can be set for text-only or graphics capable, for computers above PC-XT level.

Click here for someone else's listing of browsers that is much more extensive than what is listed above.

Want to know more about others who support the viewpoint that you should not be chased out just because you don't have a certain browser? Click on either the button above or below.

   To get the most benefit from a computer, it is necessary to know its proper operation and maintenance. The most important is to read and follow instructions. Then if you can find and follow the instructions you can take care of a computer. As this site grows, will include information to help you solve at least the most easily solved computer problems. Even though I work as a computer consultant, I won't hold knowledge hostage for a profit. The more information that gets out that allows computers to be of greater use, the more computers will be put into use.

   The most important component is the person who can effectively configure and maintain their own computer. That means more than the ability to point and click a mouse button. You should know how to make backups of important data even if you just use your computer for unimportant tasks. You never know when important data will be lost. It could be a text file that you will never need to read. But it is much more likely that it will be a file that the computer cannot run properly without. Hard drives do die. It is not so much a question of if you will experience hard drive failure, but more a question of when. If you have everything backed up, you can just buy a new hard drive, usually many times larger than the one you're replacing for less than the one that you are replacing, then reinstall the operating system, then restore all the data that you had backed up. If you don't back up important data it may be lost, frozen in a hard drive that doesn't work. For that you could employ a data recovery expert for hundreds of dollars in addition to a new hard drive once you have the data back to restore after you have installed the operating system on the new hard drive. But your failure to backup data, then, will have cost you hundreds of dollars extra, will have turned an unpleasant experience into a costly, very unpleasant experience. So backup any important files now, before it is too late.
 

 Information and documents provided on this web site are provided "as is" without any warranty. All tips and solutions have been researched and tested and have worked for me in all instances. They are offered free to be helpful to those who have the required experience to use them. As is always the case, you should make backups of any important data before making any changes to your computer. Even if you are not making any changes, you should make well scheduled backups of any data that you can't afford to lose.

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