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In our September 20, 1999 issue we mentioned a site www.dmclub.net that would give you -- totally free -- two local numbers in Great Britain, one that would accept voice mail messages and one that would accept faxes.  Their system sends the messages and faxes to you as email attachments.  One of the other services that DM Club offers is forwarding your two numbers to local numbers in Great Britain, but we didn't stress this very much because the average jr. skulker is in the U.S. and doesn't have such numbers to forward to.  Jr. skulker Joseph Norton figured out a use for this forwarding feature, although it won't be needed often.  This is for calling toll-free numbers in Great Britain that can't normally be reached from the outside.

You will often see companies in the U.S. giving out their toll free 800 number, but also giving a regular phone number with area code.  This is because it isn't possible to dial most 800 numbers from outside the U.S. (and perhaps Canada, etc.) so giving out their regular number lets companies be reached from overseas.  Now suppose you need to talk to a company in Great Britain, but all you have is their toll free number that is only good in their country.  You log in to the DM Club web site, fill out the form to forward your DM number to the toll free number you want, then call your DM number and get forwarded.  Joseph recommends you do this with your fax number rather than the voice mail one.  If you use the voice number, you must first use the web page form to turn off the voice mail feature.

WebSkulker loves Microsoft and always installs the latest versions of their software as soon as it comes out.  For those jr. skulkers still running the original version of Windows 98, here is some information about the Second Edition and how to upgrade to it for only $19.95.  (This price is for the upgrade from 98 to 98 Second Edition; if you are running Windows 95, you need the ~$90 version of 98 sold in computer stores, but make sure the box is up to date and contains Second Edition.)

As far as WebSkulker knows, the $19.95 upgrade CD is not sold in stores and is only available directly from Microsoft using this link (you want the second product on this page):
https://order4.microsoft.upgrade.com/scripts/startwin98se1.asp 

This link is the Microsoft home page for Windows 98 and the Second Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/insider/windows98

http://www.microsoft.com/Seminar/1033/Index/BrowseTitle.htm

Most jr. skulkers don't realize that Microsoft has hundreds of online seminars and tutorials teaching how to use, install, administer, upgrade, and optimize operating systems and application programs.  These range from beginner classes such as how to apply themes in FrontPage to advanced topics for NT systems administrators.  The link above is a complete list of all online seminars.

Each seminar is a multimedia presentation that plays on your PC.  Most consist of an audio lecture along with slide pictures that change automatically as the narrator speaks, just like a lecture with foils.  A few of the seminars are videos.

http://www.howstuffworks.com

Jr. skulker Mark Starr suggested this site, which has an incredible amount of information about everyday objects and how they work.  WebSkulker's favorites are the articles with a series of photos showing details of the insides of products such as:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/see-say.htm

and this series of inside looks:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/category-inside.htm

Visitors to the site can ask questions.  Only some are answered, but the responses are from experts in the field and are thorough.  There is a Question of the Day and hundreds of archived questions and answers.  Here is a typical response which shows that the total amount of gold ever mined in the history of the world would fit in only the first floor of one of the towers at the World Trade Center, and the total amount of platinum ever mined would fit in the average home:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question213.htm

Contributed by jr. skulker Chris Gray:

THINGS YOU'D LOVE TO SAY AT WORK, BUT CAN'T!

20. Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.

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