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February 6, 2000
Well, I guess some of you are getting close to being done with the class portion of the PhD. Congrats! We, on the other hand, have another year and half to go. Ron and I don't know how some of you do it. We can only handle two classes at one time. So, for those of you out there that are taking three classes, how about emailing me some tips for getting through the course work to share with other students. What do you do to save you time? 

Here is a tip from the Wolaks'. To save time doing laundry, have one hamper for the whites and one hamper for the colors. We have a white one and a blue one located in the closet. Once the hamper is filled, just dump into washer. This saves time sorting through all that dirty laundry.
See you soon.
The Wolaks'

February 20, 2000
In response to a request from the University to move the IT Study Guide Web site from the SCIS server, Chaelynne and I have been busy looking for a new home and today was moving day. Our new home is at www.addr.com, which is rated as the twenty-fifth best web host as rated by TopHosts.com.

Earlier in the week we experimented with a couple of free Web hosts: Crosswinds.com and Yahoo! Geocities.com. Our experiences with both were frustrating, time consuming and a real pain in the @$%.

Crosswinds.com offers 100MB of free hosting space and FTP file uploading. While this is true, we found out the hard way that every time we tried to FTP the site was busy (i.e. error message: Too many FTP users). When we were able to get in, the data transfer rate was agonizingly slow. In addition, the site was down for repair for a good portion of the weekend.

We figured that Yahoo! Geocities.com would be a more pleasurable experience - another mistake. Geocities had three major flaws. The first was the limitation on acceptable file types that it allows you to upload or FTP. In fact, quite a few of the file types that FrontPage 2000 automatically creates were not allowed. In addition, it would not allow the creation of third level folders (another FrontPage requirement). We thought we had the problem solved by deleting the unknown file types and signing up for Geocities Plus a $4.95 per month premium service that allowed for up to five folder levels. However,  the banner gifs on certain pages began to hang and the pages would never complete.

This banner problem was the last straw, and we decided to look for a “real” Web host. After searching through TopHosts.com, we selected Addr.com. The price was right ($7.95 per month) and it provided FTP, FrontPage extension support, and numerous other benefits.

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