http://www.opera.com

you can tweak just about every setting- including cookies. I currently have my browser set to display third party cookies which allow me to pick and choose what stuff actually goes on my machine. It's amazing the number of ad cookies go to your machine. And some of them are very long lasting. I regularly get ad cookies that don't expire till 2020 or later!

But you should understand it was put together by people who are, in a word, specialists. It's not quite as user friendly as Windows...yet. But it will be. Which has the people at Redmond sweating bullets; XP was supposed to kill Linux's growing share of the market. Ain't happened yet...

I have used many different Linux 'distrubutions', but the hands down easiest to install was Mandrake Linux. I would highly recommend it, as it was designed mainly for users.

Oh, and one more thing: It contains a server install...all part of the package.

I would advise anyone who is truly concerned with Internet security...as well as improved performance...to purchase a Linux 'distrubution'. The ones meant for home use rarely exceed 40 bucks, and are simply packed with the kind of goodies Redmond charges extortionary prices for...and never quite delivers. And a lot of the functions, such as the business suite (StarOffice) are based on code that can be successfully translated to other formats like MS Word.

And not to sound like a copy cat, but Jose is quite right; I had a machine running Mandrake Linux 8.1 for an entire week non-stop, just to see how good it was. Left it alone for a while, went back to work on it it...never had to reboot once. And I work in this field; some of the people I support have to use Linux because their contracts require it. Once you get used to the different desktop and the fact that it uses a completely different syntax of commands, you'll wish you messed with it sooner.

I do not use Netscape exclusively...save when I am on my Linux box. But Netscape, for all its' slowness, has one main advantage; it is not targeted anywhere near as viciously as a Microsoft product like Outlook and Outlok Express are.

4D, I don't recall you ever mentioning whether you have any personal firewall programs. You can get ZoneAlarm free for personal use, and it does a great job of keeping out nasties.

ZoneAlarm download mirror site: http://download.com.com/3000-2092-8034258.html?legacy=cnet

Press the start button on the lower left hand corner of the screen. Then do a Find Files or Folders for *.*, but only files modified within the last day (there is a tab to the left of "advanced" marked "date" click the radio (round) button to indicate you only want to search within the last day) If you really want to see what's happening, shift right click one of the .js files, and use Open With, then select notepad and read on... technically boring, until you realize what the script is doing: reading and reporting from your hard drive. I used to try and delete or block messenger, people just keep loading it on the machines, no matter what I say. I gave up and let them... and got myself an iMac for personal use. The most stable way around this is Linux.

For those who use Netscape, CLOSE NETSCAPE, FIRST. You can't do what you need to do to clean it when it's running.

!.) If you have a Windows 95/98 machine, go to START, then go to Programs, then Windows Explorer.

2.)When it opens up into the two-paned window, look at the window on the left. You should see a whole bunch of folders on the lft, with "+" signs on the left of each folder.

3.)Look for the Folder that says "Program Files" and click on the "+" sign to the left of the folder.

4.) Look for the Folder that says "Netscape". Click on the plus sign to the left of that.

5.) You should now see two folders. One says "Communicator", the other says "Users".

NOW, BE VERY CAREFUL! DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING YET! YOU ARE NOW IN THE FOLDER THAT HAS ALL YOUR EMAIL IN IT, AS WELL AS YOUR ADDY BOOK AND BOOKMARKS!!!

Click on the "+" sign next to "Users". You will see a folder beneath it. Depending on how your email addy is set up, it will be named that way.

6.) Right click on this folder and choose "Make shortcut", then send the shortcut to the Desktop. This will save you having to jump thru all these hoops later. Close Windows Explorer. Double click on that shortcut folder. DUMP EVERRYTHING YOU SEE IN THERE!

(It's okay; you won't hurt anything, and are actually helping the program. Netscape has only so much memory allocated to it, and when it full of crap in the Cache file, it gunks things up; Netscape starts to get balky.)

6.) Now, open Windows Explorer, again. Look for the Windows folder in the left hand window pane. Double click on it and look for the "Temp" file. Make sure no programs you use have been stored there, as some downloaded programs you want may still be there. You might want to move them elsewhere. If not, DUMP THE CONTENTS.

More Lost Freedoms:

Nevada Cops Can Hide Monitoring Devices On Peoples Cars: http://rense.com/general24/dev.htm

I think it was a little bit insulting that just because FoM and I expressed an interest in trying to detect and disable any secretly installed spy-ware, you assume we are ready to "stop speaking out".

By the way Al Gore, Colin Powell, Janet Reno, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson, Dave Letterman, Howard Stern, Bill Maher, Alec Baldwin, Woody Harrelson, George Soros, and Marc Emery: I'd love to utilize my skills and do consultant work such as be on a rapid response team, so we can arrest prohibition. I mean, if you want to win.

Email me at airjos@yahoo.com to arrange a meeting.

DEAWatch dailies: http://members.aol.com/deawatch/daily.htm

Doc Russo, you and other Children of Abraham might find this of interest:

"Is the Israeli destruction of Palestine what the President meant by 'A Long War'?", con't:

I like the suggestion of temporarily moving the men wanted by the Israelis to the US for a short time, thence to be handed over to the Palestine authorities. Both Ashcroft and Hutch claim to be Christians, why didn't they make this offer weeks ago?? It's a downright crying shame that our president and his alleged Christian buddies in Justice stand idly by while the same race that murdered Jesus is slowly destroying one the most holy shrines of Christiandom. I suspect George Bush and a few others are Zionists masquerading as Christians.

Ah yes. reminds me of the 'Good O' Boys" get togethers in the South in the 1990's; you know? When Federal LEO's got together to drink beer, whore, and issue each other 'n*gg*r hunting licenses'.

The Good O' Boys Roundup http://www.parascope.com/articles/1196/gobindex.htm

Racism and Hatred in Government http://www.constitution.org/abus/racism_gov.htm

Yep...and we paid for and continue to pay for the salaries of people like those mentioned above...who are supposed to 'protect' us. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that they are in the same 'protection' racket as La Cosa Nostra...

There are a great many questions that must be answered regarding the US security lapse that permitted the 9/11 attacks to occur. Here are some links to detailed articles about those lapses:

http://bushoccupation.com http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/sept-j16.shtml http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson041502/molson041502.html

Calling Cynthia McKinney a nut case who speaks from a grassy knoll has so far been the only government response to the evidence presented in these articles. This name calling is not going to satisfy me. I demand an official and public investigation.

I know that you are too busy to read these articles, just as practically all of Congress were too busy to read the USA PATRIOT Act before passing it.

You should know that I am voting against you and all incumbents.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/sept-j16.shtml

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson041502/molson041502.html

If the machinations described in these articles are ever officially investigated within public view, then heads are going to roll for sure. But will it help?

Bush's approval rating has now slipped to 69%

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=571

and it's easy to imagine this number slipping ever further and faster.

Journalist Bernard Weiner said it better:

Bush's approval ratings are slipping fast. When the final unraveling comes, when critical mass occurs and the whole deck of cards begins to collapse -- fed by the discovery of all sorts of embarrassing and possibly criminal secrets currently being hidden by the administration -- the end-slide is going to be fast and vicious. Resignation or impeachment is not out of the question. Keep the pressure steady and building.

When the nearly fifty million who voted for Bush are made to feel foolish by seeing how their candidate was able to rely absolutely on their gullibilities, when the millions more who lined up to donate their money to the families of the 9/11 victims learn that Bush knew the attack was coming, and when the zillions who for months flew the Chinese-made flags from their antennas see that they have been victims too - then, maybe, we will have a chance of ending the drug war.

It will take a staggering psychic event like the executions of convicted heads of state to break the propaganda and television induced American perseveration, the affliction described in these pages by kaptinemo that renders Americans impervious to fact and reason on the drug war and every other issue too.

But who knows? Americans will watch the investigation and ensuing trials on their TV sets from the comfort of their heavily mortgaged homes. Everyone will be angered but peseveration will remain in force; hardly a single citizen will be found who admits to having voted for Bush; the drug war will continue and if you challenge it then one or several of the multitude of pinheads newly empowered by the "war on terror" or maybe DEA agent Michael "That-but-for-the-grace-of-God-is-your-fucking-face" Levine himself will smash your head and all our problems will be ignored again as the evildoer is brought, by God, to justice.

Maybe our luxuries and more must taken too. Maybe it will take a nuclear terrorist attack and a total collapse of the stock market and US credit, or a large scale nuclear or biological war and a protracted and severe shortage of petroleum for transportation and heating, or a drastic change in climate that drives tens of millions inland from the coasts or brings a famine to the cities.

Major 9/11 Oddities Revealed In NY Firehouse Documentary: http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings/911-oddities-revealed.htm

Why Is Bush Blocking The Investigation Of 9/11???: bushoccupation.com

I was sitting here thinking how nice it would be to come home, tired from a satisfying days work, STRAIGHT,(As I haven't, in quite a while) and walk through my sliding glass doors, onto my deck, with the sun still shining bright, the birds singing in flight, all our flowers bursting with color and fragrance, kids playing in the neighborhood, people walking, and just fire up a big ole' DOOBIE. And not have to worry about being arrested for LIVING.

These people are putting it on the line, and we should be wiling to do the same. Just wish I was wealthy enough to buy my way out of jail for DISOBEDIENCE