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Network Chico news archive
2005
Past Network Chico computer
and network consulting
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December 2005
30 December 2005 Several broken links have been fixed.
25
December 2005 The Network Chico
search engine database has
been updated.
20 December 2005 The Windows
startup items page has been updated. This searchable page
now contains 11814 items.
10 December 2005 The November
2005 statistics have been moved to their own page. November
saw 142000 hits from 5520 visits. Thanks to all who visited Network Chico.
09 December 2005 Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5. Network
Chico recommends all Firefox users upgrade to this
version.
06 December 2005 OpenOffice.org has released version 2.0 of
its freely available and freely developed successor to Sun's
StarOffice and is a full office suite available for Linux,
Windows, and Mac
OS X.
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November 2005
10 November 2005 The October
2005 statistics have been moved to their own page. During
the month the site had 166040 hits from 5427 visits. Thanks to
all who visited Network Chico.
04 November 2005 The Windows
startup items page has been updated. This searchable page
now contains 11288 items.
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October 2005
13 October 2005 The Network
Chico search engine
database has been updated.
10 October 2005 The September
2005 statistics have been moved to their own page. September
2005 saw 160,000 hits from over 4400 visitors. This was the busiest
month yet for the Network Chico
web site. Thank you to all who have visited the site.
06 October 2005 Network Chico
has founded it's own Folding@Home team under the name Netchico.
Feel free to put your computer's idle time to use by joining
team number 46501.
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September 2005
27 September 2005 The Google search engine celebrates its seventh
birthday today.
26 September 2005 The netchico.com
search engine database has been updated to reflect recent
changes to the site.
14 September 2005 The Windows
startup application information page has been updated. Currently
the searchable page contains 10,799
items. This page presents a searchable, comprehensive list of
the programs you may find that run when you switch on your Windows PC as typically identified
by MSCONFIG or the registry "Run" keys - and whether
you need them.
11 September 2005 A new tip has been added to the
Windows tips and tricks page
dealing with defragmenting a computer that uses the Windows XP
hibernation feature.
10 September 2005 For faster boot times of your Windows
XP system you can follow the tip on cleaning out your Windows
XP Prefetch folder that appears on the Windows
information page.
06 September 2005 The bulk of the navigational upgrade
has been complete. Due to visitor feedback the left side menu
bar has been made gray for easier viewing.
02 September 2005 The August
2005 statistics have been moved to their own page. August
2005 saw 141, 420 hits from more than 4400 visits. Thanks
to all who have visited the web site.
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August 2005
21 August 2005 The navigational system upgrade continues.
Over time more pages will be adjusted to include the left hand
menu.
- 06 August 2005 Statistics for the month of July
2005 have been moved to their own page. July
2005 saw more than 128,000 hits from more than 3800 visits.
Thanks to all who have visited the web site.
- 02 August 2005 Work continues on improving the design
and navigation of the web site. Thank you for your patience and
support during this process.
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July 2005
31 July 2005 The Windows
startup items page has been updated. There are now 10247 items on this searchable page.
21 July 2005 Mozilla has released Firefox 1.0.6.
20 July 2005 The Network
Chico home page has been
changed dramatically. Any feedback
on the new format of the page is welcome.
18 July 2005 A new navigational tool bar has been
added to most pages of the web site. The green bar will appear
near the top of the page just under the logos.
17 July 2005 Amazon.com has been added as an advertising affiliate.
14 July 2005 The latest version of SafeXP
for Windows has been uploaded
and is now available for immediate download.
12 July 2005 Mozilla has released Firefox
1.0.5.
12 July 2005 A new file has been added to the downloads page. The guide to securing Windows XP Pro in a network
environment is in PDF
format and provides information on how to secure a Windows XP
Pro client machine for use in a Windows 2000 Server environment.10
July 2005 The Mac OS X (10.3.x "Panther") Security
Configuration Guide has been updated to the final version.
The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of Mac OS
X v10.3.x “Panther” operating system security and recommendations
for configuring the security features. This guide provides recommended
settings to secure systems using this operating system and points
out problems that could cause security concerns in systems using
this operating system.
03 July 2005 A definition for SATA
has been added to the computer
terms glossary. There are now 530
definitions available.
01 July 2005 Statistics for the month of June
2005 have been moved to their own page. There were more than
135,000 hits in the month of June
2005 which was also the month in which Network Chico surpassed
the one million hit mark for the first time. Many thanks to all
of those who have visited the web site.
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June 2005
28 June 2005 The Network
Chico web site www.netchico.com
has surpassed the 1,000,000 hit mark over the last 12
months. Network Chico would
like to extend thanks to all who have visited the site and hopes
you you will continue to find it an increasingly more useful
resource as time goes on.
21 June 2005 Network Chico
has reached the number one position for a google search for the term 'network chico'
which as of today yields approximately 892,000 results.
15 June 2005 Numerous upgrades to the navigational
system of the web site have been made.
12 June 2005 On June 01, 2005 a new version of Spybot
Search and Destroy (1.4) was released. Network
Chico recommends that all Windows
users upgrade to the new version.
03 June 2005 The glossary
definition for UML has
been updated as a result of information from a netchico.com
visitor.
02 June 2005 A new tip has been added to the Windows
tips and tricks page. The tips explains how to create a suspend shortcut.
- 01 June 2005 Statistics for the month of May
2005 have been posted to their own page. May
2005 saw more than 133,000 hits from 3497 visits to the web
site. Thanks to all who have visited Network
Chico.
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May 2005
25 May 2005 Numerous updates to the Network
Chico web site have been made. Most of the changes
relate to the html source code of the individual pages. Many
spelling errors have also been corrected.
24 May 2005 The Start-up
Applications list has been updated. Currently the searchable
list contains 8841 items.
17 May 2005 The Network Chico
graphical site map has been updated
for better navigation.
16 May 2005 A link
partners page has been added to the web site.
13 May 2005 Mozilla has released Firefox
1.0.4.
10 May 2005 A broken link was removed from the manual search engine submission
page.
04 May 2005 The Start-up
Applications list has been updated. Currently the searchable
list contains 8064 items.
01 May 2005 15 new definitions
have been added to the computer
terms glossary. There are now 529
terms in the glossary.
01 May 2005 Statistics for the month of April
2005 have been posted to their own page. April
2005 saw more than 125,800 hits from 3737 visits to netchico.com.
Thanks to all who have visited the web site. During the month
of April 2005 Network Chico
surpassed the 750,000 hit mark.
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April 2005
28 April 2005 21 new definitions
have been added to the computer
terms glossary. There are now 514
terms in the glossary.
27 April 2005 15 new definitions
have been added to the computer
terms glossary. There are now 493
terms in the glossary.
26 April 2005 17 new definitions
have been added to the computer
terms glossary. There are now 478
terms in the glossary.
25 April 2005 The Network
Chico web site www.netchico.com
has surpassed the 750,000 hit mark. Network
Chico would like to extend thanks to all who have
visited the site and hopes you you will continue to find it an
increasingly more useful resource as time goes on.
16 April 2005 Mac
OS X v10.4 Tiger, the world's most advanced operating system,
is here. Your can place their orders today at the online Apple
Store to receive Tiger on April 29. You will also receive an
invitation to an exclusive online seminar that will show them
you to take full advantage of the many new features Tiger offers,
including Spotlight, Dashboard, Safari RSS, Automator, and QuickTime
7.
10 April 2005 The latest version of SafeXP
for Windows has been uploaded
and is available for download
now.
04 April 2005 Statistics for the month of March
2005 have been posted to their own page. March
2005 saw more than 130,000 hits from 2890 visits to netchico.com.
Thanks to all who have visited the web site.
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March 2005
24 March 2005 Mozilla has released Firefox 1.0.2.
21 March 2005 The Start-up
Applications list has been updated. Currently the searchable
list contains 7448 items.
20 March 2005 Several broken links have been corrected.
15 March 2005 A new tip has been added to the Linux tips page. This tip discusses
the use of Analog
for analysis of Apache log files.
14 March 2005 Hear Linus
Torvalds pronounce Linux. [AU format sound]
13 March 2005 A new link has been added to the Chico, CA. page, the Internet
resources and the Mac OS information
page that leads to the Mac
Chico Users Group.
09 March 2005 A new tip has been added to the Linux tips page. This tip discusses
the use of AWStats
in Linux.
08 March 2005 The Start-up
Applications list has been updated. Currently the searchable
list contains 7287 items.
07 March 2005 Network Chico
announces the addition of a new section to the netchico.com
web site. The computer security
terms glossary contains descriptions and definitions to terms
commonly used in discussions about computer and Internet security.
Visitors can browse through the terms
or can search for
specific entries.
06 March 2005 Current Internet security threat information
from Computer Associates
has been added to the Network Chico
security section of the web
site. The page is called current6.html
and is available at http://www.netchico.com/security/current6.html.
05 March 2005 New software has been added to the Windows freeware section
of the web site. BHOCaptor
is a freeware application that lets you control the Internet
Explorer Browser Helper Objects that are installed on your system.
It makes it easy to see what BHOs are installed and to de-activate
or remove them.
04 March 2005 An upgrade to the netchico.com
navigational system has been completed. Links to the Linux,
Mac OS and Windows
information areas of the web site have been added to the main
menu bar near the top of each page. These areas feature news,
information and tips and tricks pertinent to each operating system.
And don't forget about the Linux
security, Mac OS security
and Windows security pages
which feature security information
for each of the relative operating systems.
03 March 2005 A new page has been added to the Windows section of the Network
Chico web site devoted to Windows
XP tips and tricks.
01 March 2005 The February
2005 final usage statistics have been moved to their own
page. February 2005 featured
more than 102,000 hits and 2290 unique visitors to the site.
Network Chico thanks all
who have visited the site.
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February 2005
28 February 2005 Mozilla has released an updated version of
their Firefox browser. Version 1.0.1 features improved
stability, International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode
and several security fixes. Network
Chico recommends using the Firefox browser as an alternative to Internet
Explorer in some situations.
25 February 2005 In just slightly under one year the
Network Chico web site www.netchico.com has surpassed
the 500,000 hit mark. Network Chico
would like to extend thanks to all who have visited the site
and hopes you you will continue to find it an increasingly more
useful resource as time goes on.
22 February 2005 A new tip has been added to the Linux tips page. This latest tip
discusses the use of the ngrep
(network grep) command to monitor network traffic.
21 February 2005 Microsoft will keep it's anti-spyware
software free. During Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' keynote
speech at the RSA Conference 2005 he announced that the software
giant plans to provide customers with its new Windows AntiSpyware software for free. The
initiative is part of the company's efforts to strengthen security
for home and business users of its Windows desktop software.
18 February 2005 A new tip has been added to the Linux tips page. This latest tip
discusses a tool for auditing
passwords for security purposes.
15 February 2005 A live news feed has been added to
the Chico CA page which will
provide 3 top headlines of Chico news and link to the topix.net
web site where visitors can read the complete stories and more
news related to Chico.
- 08 February 2005 A broken link was removed from the
manual search engine submission
page.
- 01 February 2005 The January
2005 final usage statistics have been moved to their own
page. January 2005 featured
more than 120,000 hits and more than 2400 unique visitors to
the site. Network Chico thanks
all who have visited the site. Since March
2004 there have been more than 420,000 hits and over 10,000
visits to the site.
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January 2005
31 January 2005 Current Internet security threat information
from Symantec, McAfee,
Sophos and Panda
Software have been combined onto a single page for user convenience.
The information from Trend
Micro remains on its own page as it requires Java in order
to be displayed.
26 January 2005 The latest version of SafeXP
(v1.5.1.25) for Windows has been
added to the Network Chico
Windows freeware section
of the web site.
24 January 2005 Current Internet security threat information
from Panda
Software has been added to the Network
Chico security
section of the web site. The page is called current5.html
and is available at http://www.netchico.com/security/current5.html.
21 January 2005 The Start-up
Applications list has been updated. Currently the searchable
list contains 7131 items.
20 January 2005 Past news items from the year 2004
have been removed from the news archive
page and have been moved to their own archive2004
page .
20 January 2005 Network Chico
has added the Web Tracks Eraser
program to the Windows freeware
section of the web site.
20 January 2005 Network Chico
has added a Linux tips page to
the Linux area of the web site.
17 January 2005 Several new categories and links have
been added to the Network Chico
Internet resources directory.
14 January 2005 BlueBit's
Port Tool V5 has been added to the Windows
freeware section of the web site. BlueBit's
Port Tool V5 is a simple IP and port connectivity checking
tool as well as a simple, universal TCP/UDP Client/Server. You
can also download this program directly from the Network
Chico downloads
page.
06 January 2005 The Network
Chico home page had some adjustments made to it for better
display on smaller monitors and hopefully better usability. Visitor
feedback is welcome on
these changes.
03 January 2005 The SoftPerfect Network
Scanner has been added to the Windows
freeware section of the web site. Network
Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner
with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is
intended for both system administrators and users who are interested
in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for
listening TCP ports and shows what types of resources are shared
on a network (including system and hidden).
02 January 2005 Network Chico
has been rated safe for all ages by SafeSurf.com.
01 January 2005 The December
2004 final statistics have been posted to their own page.
December 2004 featured slightly
more than 105,000 hits from about 1750 visitors to the Network Chico web site. In a little
more than 9 months on the web netchico.com
had nearly 300,000 hits from about 7500 visitors. Network
Chico thanks all who have visited the web site.
01 January 2005 Happy New
Year.
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