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"In the Weekend Edition of ComputerGuyNY Report you talked about a 'bootable diskette' for emergency purposes. I don't have one. Where can I get one?"

You don't have to "get" one. You can easily make one.

First, find a blank diskette. In Windows 95, 98 or ME just go to MY COMPUTER >> CONTROL PANEL >> ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS. Click on the tab marked "STARTUP DISK" and follow the instructions. (You may need your original Windows CD.) You now have a diskette that will start your computer if your hard drive should fail.

While we're on the subject of "being prepared", do you know where you have put your original manufacturer's CDs and diskettes that contain copies of the original "drivers" for your sound, video, printer, etc.? They're going to come in handy one of these days. Find them now before you actually need to use them.

Officials used video surveillance to scan images of fans as they passed through turnstiles to watch the Super Bowl last weekend.

Thousands of football fans were subjected to a "computerized police lineup" at America's biggest sporting event last weekend, as police used cutting-edge technology to scan the crowd for pickpockets and terrorists.

Like surveillance cameras in convenience stores, at cash-dispensing machines, ATMs, or on street corners, the cameras installed for the Super Bowl game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants captured images of people in a public place.

But unlike most video surveillance systems, which store the images on tape, the cameras were connected by cable to computers that scanned the images, instantly dissecting facial features and comparing them to a digital database of known criminals and terrorists.

Signs outside the stadium warned fans that they were under video surveillance, police said.

The video system, which uses biometric technology to compare facial features such as the size of a nose, the set of a brow, or the cut of a jaw, was offered to the Tampa Police Department by Graphco Technologies, a Pennsylvania-based database and "knowledge management" firm.

The test project compared images from the video cameras to a relatively small database of about 1,700 faces -- including crooks ranging from pickpockets to domestic terrorists -- assembled from FBI and police files.

Future uses would hopefully include larger databases of tens of thousands of criminals.