It has been recently found that users can gain access to certain
Microsoft based web servers by using a username and password that
degrades the programmers of their rivals, Netscape.  If you don’t
know already, Microsoft has been found guilty of being a
“bully” in the  Software market with it’s monopoly in
operating systems.  They were a bully because they made Internet
Explorer a part of Windows 98.  Netscape’s Communicator is the
rival to Internet Explorer.  Personally, I feel that the use of
such things like this (which I like to call “cheap shots”)
should be well above the standards of Microsoft at this point. 
After all, Microsoft is (or at least should be) employing grown-ups
that can handle emotions better than simply degrading their
rivals.  Things like this may slowly drive me to use Open Source
Operating Systems…

Did Cisco make a killing from
linking computers?
Of course they did!  I bet, that at least 33% of homes that
own computers, own more than two.  Whether it be an older 486 and
a newer computer, or a pair of luscious Pentium iii Coppermines, they
all can be linked together in a Home Network.  Home Network’s
have been becoming increasingly popular, as have High Speed internet
connections.  Soon, remote access will take over, and shortly,
almost every home will come equipped with a 100/TX or even Gigabit
Ethernet Jack, just as they do Phone Jacks.  This Ethernet Jack
could interface with a hub in the utility room, which connects all
other Ethernet Jacks in the house, or it could connect to the local
phone company or, god willing, independent (or government) internet
service provider.

Wouldn’t it be nice to simply have a
Ethernet Jack installed in each room of the house?  Carry your
laptop around the house…from the bed….to the bathroom (jack would
have to be near the toilet of course)  I know I’d love it. 
If there is a big enough want from it from the general public, it will
happen.  Soon, a major sub contractor in the house building
process will be the Information and Technology Contractor.  Business
will pop up all over the place, and prices will fall.  Appliances
could be hooked up to this network, and houses themselves could be
hooked together.  Wanna play LAN games with your neighbor across
the street…across town…across the state?  Networks might make
it possible.

Attention Transistorized and the
Tormented Fans!  (All 2 of you)
Got an idea you want in an upcoming Transistorized and the
Tormented?  E-mail Dok! 
Wanna write about something yourself?  If it’s good enough, it’ll
be posted in an upcoming Letters to the Editor Issue!  Mail
it in and see if you can get your name in lights!