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01.14.1999 - GnomeREPORT A Lockergnomie Asks: "In an earlier issue, you had a link to a site with this huge SoundFont for the Sound Blaster Live! called 'mustheory2.sfArk'. After unRARing it with WinRAR, I could not seem to make it work with my SB Live! sound card. Now, since you have had better success with it, I was wondering if you could shed some light on the procedure I should follow." Mea culpa... I forgot to tell everyone that they'd need to have a RAR program to unarchive the downloads (available here). The second tool everyone needs can be found at http://melodymachine.com/... it's called sfArk v1.0 (and it's a free utility). Click here to download it. They've also got links to great SoundFont sites there, and sfArk v1.5 will be released soon. Keep an eye on this site! Second mea culpa... yesterday, I mentioned the wrong program name for viewing Mac icons. I said it was IconView, but it's really IconShop--a utility that every icon enthusiast needs to download. Another Lockergnomie Asks: "Could you please tell me what that program was that you featured a while back?" Well, while I'd love to help everyone personally, you can answer that question a lot quicker than I could by visiting Lockergnome's Past Issues page. You can either peruse through recent issues, or do a search for whatever you're looking for (common words not indexed). If something was featured in a daily issue during the past week, you can visit the "hidden" Daily archives. That's also the place to go every day if you have problems viewing these Daily HTML messages. If you have any questions for IOWA (Inquisitive Online Wonders & Advisories), blast me an e-mail at iowa@lockergnome.com. I'll do my best to answer your questions in this section of Lockergnome. It's like free tech support... only gnomier. -- Chris Pirillo GnomePROGRAM Simple DNS v1.03.02 [1.6M] W9x/NT FREE
http://www.nettaxi.com/citizens/simpledns/outbox/sdns.exe What's in a name? Quite a bit. So when you see program with "Simple" in its title, you assume it won't be complicated. In this case, you'd be correct. It's a free DNS server that uses the Windows 'hosts' file as its database (it acts as a stand-alone server and does not interact with other DNS servers). The author notes: "it won't provide MX-Records (used by mail servers, not mail clients), NS-Records (used by other DNS servers) or CNAME-Records (aliases)". This means it's perfect for configuring local mail and web server addresses (and that's about all). If you don't understand that, you don't need this. Sure, it does little, but what little it does, it does well. GnomeSYSTEM Adobe Acrobat Reader v3.02 [4.7M] W9x/NT FREE
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/3.x/ar302.exe Here's another viewer that no computer should be without. If you don't have it, you might not be able to view "PDF" documents (which are slowly but surely becoming popular). With this new version, Adobe has squished a handful of bugs. It doesn't hurt to have it (just in case you'll need it). GnomeCANDY Elite Darts v1.0 [10.0M] W9x FREE
http://www.patchproducts.com/comp_gam/DARTDEMO.EXE Hand/eye coordination is a good thing to have when you're playing games with sharp, pointy objects. I think lawn darts (Jarts) was the closest I would ever come to ever getting a bullseye. At the bars, people would run and hide when they saw me playing with friends. It's all fun and games until someone gets a dart up their nose. Well, with the PC version, you won't have to worry about harming yourself (or others) again! Play on your own (or via the Internet/LAN). This game has even been authenticity endorsed by the ADO... so if the professionals like it, I'm sure everyone will. GnomeFAVORITE NetZero Free Internet Access I've discovered that you can get a free lunch every once in a while... and now you can get a free ISP, too! It's only available in certain areas of the US right now, but they're expanding operations steadily. Hey, they have Iowa listed, and that's good enough for me! The only real downfall is having to put up with advertisements on your screen (the higher resolution you have, the less intrusive they'll be). That's a very small price to "pay"... considering this is FREE. Zilch. Zero. GnomeDESKTOP THEME: Isis: Child of earth & Sky [1.1M]
http://www.westelcom.com/users/clodgom/isis.zip Ancient history of intrigues me. Whenever I get a chance to watch television (not often, I assure you), I like watching the Discovery channel (and sometimes, the History Channel). Why couldn't my high school classes have been that interesting? "Western Civ" was the closest I got to learning about ancient Egyptian culture. I learned a lot about the Romans when I took Latin I as a high school freshman. Speaking of, what's the Roman Numeral for 1999? I've seen four different answers thus far... GnomeTIP NT users should love this tip: Beware the Blue Screen of Death! It's something we've all feared for many years (especially sysadmins). Now, normally, your computer's operations will be halted when the BSOD appears--until you reboot. With this Registry hack, you can force NT to automatically reboot after a BSOD crash! Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > CrashControl > AutoReboot and set the value to "1" (without the quotes). NT will now reboot when the BSOD appears (after appending the crash log file). |