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LAWRENCE - The son of a veteran Lawrence police officer assisted in the arrest of former Boston city councilor and AIDS activist David Scondras, who is accused of using the Internet to solicit sex from a 15-year-old boy. Michael Fornesi, 20, said he got involved in a computer sex crime investigation early Monday morning by telling his friend - Lawrence police Sgt. Ryan Shafer - about an instant text message he received on his computer from a stranger seeking sex with a child. On advice from Shafer, Fornesi pretended to be a 15-year-old boy and answered the e-mail. The e-mail...

I'm using PowerPoint 2002. I know that via custom animation, I can specify motion paths for a selected object. However, all of the motion paths, even circular and curved ones, keep the object in the same orientation (i.e. the top is always the top etc.). I'd like instead to be able to do an animated rotation of the object. Other than creating multiple copies of the object, then manually rotating each one, then specifying that they appear in sequence, is there another/easier way of doing the rotation? Thanks.

How to Install an Internal Modem on system Installing an internal modem is not an easy task. You have to open the computer to install modem cards. Given steps applies to all computer system. Shut down the computer and disconnect all peripheral devices from the computer, then remove the computer's cover. Find a slot that matches the pins. PCI modems have fewer pins and fit into a smaller slot than ISA modems. Put new modem into that slot if it will physically fit. First unscrew the metal plate on the slot holder on the back panel, and insert the modem...

Need assistance from any techno-geeks out there, please. OK - my PC (emachines T1840, Celeron 1.8Ghz) died. I went to turn it on a week ago and nothing happened. The power supply fan was not working. I would like to get this running, and also retrieve our family photos on the hard drive. So I replaced the power supply - didn't work. Then I replaced the motherboard - didn't work. Next I replaced the processor - didn't work. Last I replaced the RAM - didn't work. At this point, all I get is a fast ticking sound in time with...

I have several computers in a small home network. The router is Belkin Wireless G router. My ISP uses static IP addressing. When I do ipconfig /all on my computer, it shows me a DHCP server address. It's the same address as my default gateway, 192.168.2.1. A PC that is ethernet attached to the router also has a printer attached, via USB. I cannot print to this printer, in fact I can't "see" the PC that it's attached to, from my computer, even though I set up a workgroup for both PCs, with the same workgroup name. As an experiment,...

Until a few days ago, we had a DLink 614+ wireless router, to which one computer was hardwired via Ethernet cable, and two others had wireless connection. The hardwired PC had a printer directly connected to it, and the wireless PCs could print to the printer via the network. A few days ago, I replaced the Dlink with a Belkin router (has 802.11g instead of the older 802.11b. I now seem unable to do remote printing. When I checked the configuration menu for the Belkin router, I found they used "belkin" as the domain name. Our workgroup name was the...

Tonight I upgraded my wireless router to be 802.11g compliant. At the same time, I switched wireless PCMIA cards on my laptop, from a Microsoft MN520 card (802.11b only) to a Belkin card (802.11g). The router (also from Belkin) gave me an option of WEP or WPA, so of course I chose the latter. Therefore, I believe anyone else who wants to connect via wireless must have WPA capability. If all they have is WEP, they will be unsuccessful. In fact, I tried it myself, but deliberately trying to connect with the old Microsoft MN520 card, and having nothing happen....

I have a virus. I managed to run my norton which found and quaranteened a virus. But it still acts as if there is a virus. If the computer sits for any periof of time the virus takes over. Help!!

Sorry for such an elementary question. I couldn't find any software related to CD burning, but did see iDVD. All of its references are to DVDs. However, I'm thinking that it can burn CDs as well. Am I right? Thanks.

My Dell laptop has two keys. The "delete" key deletes the character that is where the cursor is. When I use this key, the cursor stays in the same place on the screen. It is therefore what I call a "delete in place" key (is there another term I should use instead?) I also have a "backspace" key. This key is a destructive backspace key. When I press it, the cursor moves backward one space and deletes whatever was there before. Our Macbook Pro has no key labeled "backspace." However, its "delete" key really is a destructive backspace key. I...

Does anyone out there know "spaxebg.exe"? I found this in my Windows system files, running, and tried to google it but came up empty. That shocks me, since I don't think google has ever failed to produce such a thing.

Two years later, the FBI put out an urgent all-points bulletin for Shukrijumah, depicting him as one of al-Qaida's most well-trained, intelligent and deadly operatives. He was described as the ultimate "sleeper agent," intent on attacking the United States, possibly with weapons of mass destruction. Law enforcement officials and terrorism experts now believe Shukrijumah is one of a handful of young, street-smart leaders of al-Qaida handpicked by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, to keep the terrorist network alive and humming in the face of U.S.-led efforts to unravel it.

Hewlett-Packard’s latest high-definition TV has a few tricks up its sleeve. The MediaSmart looks like a standard 37-inch liquid-crystal-display set, but is actually a multimedia hub with wireless connectivity for streaming videos and photos from a PC...

Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) leads all other PC makers in customer satisfaction , but the reason for its lead may not be very satisfying for Steve Jobs and other executives at the Cupertino, Calif.-based company. Simply put, it's not that Apple is a dazzling performer in terms of customer care, but that the other computer manufacturers are almost uniformly dismal in that realm, according to customers surveyed by the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index team. The research demonstrates that Apple is more effective at customer service than Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) , Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and others.

A new silicon chip capable of manipulating the spin of a single electron could ultimately allow futuristic quantum computers to be built using conventional electronic technology, researchers say. A quantum bit, or "qubit", is analogous the bits used in conventional computers. But, instead of simply switching between two states, representing "0" and "1", quantum physics permits a qubit to exist in more than one state simultaneously, until its state is measured. This means quantum computers can essentially perform multiple calculations at once, giving them the potential to be exponentially more powerful than conventional computers ... 'Breakthrough experiment' Researchers have also...

I have two rectangular .jpg images. I would like to create a composite image that contains both of them. In this new image, the left upper part is from the first .jpg and the right bottom part is from the second. In order to create this image, I believe I need to do a diagonal cropping of the original images. In other words, I want only the top left half of the first image and the bottom right half of the second image. I did a google, but didn't see any tools that allow for this diagonal cropping. Also, the...

I am setting up a new MacBook Pro. As part of setup, I am being asked to connect to wireless network. The MacBook has detected the SSID of our home network. We have a DLink 614+ wireless router, which I believe is 802.11b compliant. It has WEP encryption, using a 26 character hex key. Our curren PCs connect fine. During MacBook setup, we are given a list of detected networks, and our current one's SSID appears on that list. MacBook then asks us for "password." I try putting in the 26 character key, but it isn't working. Am I doing...

A new haptic device will be shown at the next SIGGRAPH. This virtual reality system, the Fingertip Digitizer, has been developed at the University of Buffalo (UB). It will interpret your hand gestures and will translate them for your PC, medical devices or computer games. According to one developer, the Fingertip Digitizer "will help bridge the gap between what a person knows and what a computer knows" and a commercial version should be available within 3 years. Read more… Here is the introduction about this new device developed at UB Virtual Reality Laboratory. UB researchers say their "Fingertip Digitizer," which...

New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials. Historically, the semiconductor industry has relied on flat, two-dimensional chips upon which to grow and etch the thin films of material that become electronic circuits for computers and other electronic devices. But as thin as those chips might seem, they are quite beefy in comparison to the result of a new UW-Madison semiconductor fabrication process detailed in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Physics. A team led by electrical and computer engineer Zhenqiang (Jack)...

I have a JPG image of my daughter. When I send it to be printed as a 4 x 6 photo, her head is too big (I want distance from chin to top of head to be 1", for passport purposes). How can I get a smaller head on the finished 4x6 photo? Should the photo service be able to do it? I tried the following idea, but ran into problems: - inserted the photo image into PowerPoint. - put a rectangle frame around the image - grouped the image and the rectangle, copied both and pasted both into Paint....