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[Tom Edelblute]

Over a year ago (I printed out my instruction 11 May 2000) there was a
g300k-l list for Gates Grant Computer Lab recipients.  Activity dropped
off that thing a long time ago and I believe that it is no longer
active.

Somebody please correct me if I am wrong.

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Tom Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library   phone: (714) 765-1759
500 West Broadway        fax:   (714) 765-1730
Anaheim CA 92805         e-mail: thomas at anaheim.lib.ca.us

"D.S.P. Popeck" wrote:
> 
> > For my personal copy, that subscription fee was $3.95/year, which did not
> > strike me as particularly burdensome--after all, they're spending serious
> > money keeping up with viri and improving detection methods. Of course, the
> > institutional price may be a lot higher...(I wouldn't know.)
> 
> FYI: Norton has stopped live update support for Norton 2000 and earlier. One
> can go to the Symantec site and download the update. Many Gates users shoudl be
> patched up sufficiently to appear to be NAV 2001 to Live Update. The new
> subscription scheme will be $20 per year unless what I read was inaccurate. We
> used NAV in the past so we knew about the yearly fees. What is worse in our
> view is that the support for plugins and even NT itself is dwindling. For
> example, the newest Windows Media Player does not support NT. To update
> drivers, you'll need to log in as exec, play the video that doesn't work and
> then wait for your version of WMP (probably 6.4) to download the needed codecs.
> The codecs will be available in other profiles after that procedure. In other
> words, there is a lot that they don't tell you. To be fair, tech support is
> good and sometimes even sympathetic. It would have nice to have been given an
> OS that they weren't abandoning.
> 
> An aside - Any Gates PC library tech that wants to join up for an information
> exchange or to perhaps set up a mailing list should just email me.
> 
> DSP Popeck
> Madison Library
> Lakewood, Ohio USA
> 
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