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There are a number of cmpanies offering Voice Over Internet Protocol these days. You can almost find that anyone in the telecommunications industry has a program.

Some, of course, are noted for their numerous ISP services. Others are focused entirely on the phone market.

I hadn”t noticed this Windows Update before — it”s not a “Critical Update.”

Update for Windows XP (KB904942)
Typical download size: 151 KB , less than 1 minute
Install this update to resolve HTTP authentication issues in Windows-based systems that do not appear until Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is installed. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

There are two other categories of Window Updates, Software Optional and Hardware Optional. By the way, I learned the hard way not to do the “Hardware, Optional” ones.

In my case, this was a generic RAID driver for the motherboard”s chipset. Unfortunately, the motherboard apparently didn”t have the standard chipset — and I ended up with an unbootable computer. Thank goodness this happened during my initial updates after installing Windows XP. Never again…

One of my forum readers in my Windows XP /2000/etc forum wrote about a problem he was having. You can see all the gory details.

IE6 SP1 browser..links take long time to download
My computer contains: Athlon 3200gb, 1 gig Ram, I have WinXP SP2 Home, and IE 6 SP1. When I click on a link in my OE e-mail, I am immediately taken to the web-site. When on a web-site, and I click on a link within the site, it takes “forever” to download the page…

Read the compete article Slow Loading Web Browser Links

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DLink, manufacturer of a number of home networking products, is in the news, but not in a good way.

The BBC”s web site reported today:

Home network hardware supplier D-Link has been accused of harming the net”s ability to tell the time accurately.

Detective work has found that many D-Link routers, switches and wireless access points are bombarding some net time servers with huge amounts of data.

Read the full article at the BBC News web site