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To fail. The term "bomb" usually refers to a program hanging or ending prematurely.

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The Apple Macintosh computer actually has a bomb message that sometimes appears just before the system crashes.

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Q. "I'm looking forward to your July 4th edition. What special thing do you have planned?"

A. Well, I hope you like the graphics at the top of this page. The night time photo was taken by me last year on the 4th of July. Those lights are the decorations on one of the naval ships and the fireworks were exploding off of the Staten Island shore.

I played with the photo by progressively darkening it and saving each darkened photo. On the final darkened photo I blacked out the fireworks. I then strung all of the individual photos together as an animated gif. Cute, huh?

Perhaps, additionally, an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence would be appropriate.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

And here's a special present that I made for all of you. I took this picture last year at OpSail 2000 and I added some special effects...

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Game not over
"Perhaps the only thing that is really clear is that the nation's most important antitrust case in a generation is far from over. Both sides have reasons to appeal to the Supreme Court."

Will I-TV Invade Privacy?
"Report says says that TV viewers will soon be subject to the same threats to their privacy that are being faced by Internet users."

Messaging Technology Broadens Options
"Imagine that you're looking at a map of major highways. The map is embedded in a Web browser. Every 30 seconds, it updates the average traffic speeds noted by road sensors at various locations along those highways."

Napster Orders Service Upgrade
"Napster acknowledged that the number of songs available would decrease even further as a result of its new, more restrictive software."

Microsoft Break-up Overturned
"The ruling affected only the remedy that the judge laid out - not his finding that Microsoft had engaged in anti-competitive practices."

Think of file association as Windows' way of finding the right wrench for the nut, the perfect shoes to match the dress, or the right wine for a meal.

It makes the proper application automatically start up when you double-click on a file name. Otherwise, you would have to figure out which application can read it and then open that file from within that application.

File association is based on a file's extension. For example, the extension of a file named "readme.txt" would be ".txt". If you double-click the icon for that file, Windows Notepad will probably open because Notepad is associated with the TXT file type by default.

DOC files are typically associated with Microsoft Word, XLS files with Microsoft Excel, and so on.

Have you ever had an "Open With…" dialog box pop up when you try to open a file? This usually happens if you're dealing with an obscure or unknown file type. These types of files may have different uses depending on the application, so if you respond to the "Open With..." dialog by choosing a specific application program, you might be welcoming trouble because Windows will remember what you did and will always try to use the selected program when it sees this file type in the future.

So, be on the safe side. If you ever double-click on a filename and you get the "Open With…" dialog box, just cancel the operation unless you are absolutely certain that you want to associate a specific program with this type of file.

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