You have a couple super-duper 3D games and the latest/greatest Microsoft
Flight Simulator not to mention many megabytes of unused junk you've downloaded
from the Internet. Aha! The new release of the Microsoft Internet Explorer
4.0 would complement your computer system quite nicely. "What's that,"
you say "22 mega whats?" Do you have enough hard disk space to install
it? Well, you don't have to exercise your expertise with powers of 10 or
try to remember how many zeros in a mega or giga, you can get the whole
thing along with a nice pie chart that shows "used space" versus "free
space".
Wow! Nice graphic. You'd be surprised how many people are unaware that
one can get a neat graphical representation of hard disk space utilization.
Since we just spent some time in the Windows Explorer, let's find it there.
Start up the explorer and scroll up to C:\, highlight it. Don't forget,
you'll be grievously misled if you read the numbers at the bottom of the
screen. Right click and go to Properties and there it is. Also, after you
highlight C:\, go up and click on File then Properties.
The other method is from the desktop, click on My Computer, then right
click on [C:] and go to Properties. Also after highlighting [C:], go up
to File then Properties.
The dark area in the graphic shows the Used Space and on your screen
will probably be blue. The light area is Free Space and probably will show
as pinkish red. It's a lot easier to look at the pie chart than to do some
mental gyrations with numbers. Also, if you see very little or no red pie,
youse in a heapa trouble buddy.
We'd like to congratulate all those who participated in this year's
rtty sprint. We still haven't received any official results but hopefully
by next months "TARA NEWS" will have some preliminary scores to share with
you.
TARA's RTTY Manager, Bill, NY2U, especially thanks Tom
Remmert, N2TR/5 for his countless hours that he has donated to our sprint
over the years. Also he noted we need to thank Joel Glickman, KA1PRT,
for his personal time spent updating our club web site, which
received a lot more hits this year from fellow contestors looking
for the rules & regulations.
If you were one of those whoparticipated please mail your logs in immediately
to :
MAIL TO: William J. Eddy, NY2U
2404 - 22nd Street
Troy, New York 12180-1901
e-mail TO: mrbill1953@aol.com
tremmert@texoma.net
It's time again for the T.N.T. Trader Net annual fund drive for the
benefit of the Courage Handi-Ham System. This will be held during
the Trader Net on Thursday, December 18, 1997. We ask that each station
checking in consider pledging a donation. An example check in is
as follows:
W2VS, $10 plus 1 listing
How about listing some items for sale and donating all or part of the
proceeds? Remember, this may be your last chance of 1997 to get a
tax deduction!
Checks shoiuld be made out to Bill Eddy and sent to 2404 22nd Street,
Troy, NY 12180. Bill will write one big check and forward it with
a list of the donees.
The Courage Handi-Ham system is located at 3915 Golden Valley Rd, Golden
Valley, MN, 55422. Theiir web site is at http://www.mtn.org/handiham