-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-



 WC> I've had about a half dozen failures to connect on first
 WC> try in the last month. If I get a 48K connect I now redial
 WC> to get a better connection 

 CA> I've been having a terrible time trying to get either of my DOS
 CA> packet drivers to dialup and connect. They never were 100% but
 CA> now I'm having to try 7 or more times and it's really
 CA> frustrating since I have changed nothing. Obviously the ISP is
 CA> 'tinkering' with their end. I wish they would hire competent
 CA> people, set it up, then LEAVE IT ALONE!

I hate it when they do that, Verizon's done it to me four times.
First: changed modem negotiation protocols which blew off
my 14,400 most of the time until I reached a senior tech who
advised me to add a delay before negotoation so as to pass
a 56K tone sequence.
Second: for no rational reason they changes POP3 and SMTP
to some goofy idea of what they thought they should be called.
Third: they required you use your unaltered email address in your
browser to access after authorization.
Fourth: the requirement for authorization on SMTP has kept me
from using LINKS in Basic Linux for SMTP.


 WC> Really liked that old bluesy tune, Joplin? 

 CA> "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin. That was put there as what I
 CA> think is one of the most recognizeable tunes I could find (it's
 CA> a favorite of my mother's too). It's a 'demo' tune to allow
 CA> average people to actually hear how resequencing can
 CA> drastically alter the original MIDI file. It begins in the
 CA> original written for two pianos and goes to a band then back to
 CA> the two pianos for the finish. People often think resequencing
 CA> makes little difference - it makes a HUGE difference when I do
 CA> it. ;-)

 I really like that piece, good job.

 CA> Funny thing is that those music files that I expected to be
 CA> ignored as too simplistic or too old are the ones most people
 CA> seem to like best. "Dueling Banjos" is the all-time winner and
 CA> has been from the beginings of that webpage. DB is played 10x's
 CA> as often as any other music file there.

I'll have to check it out.

 WC> Multimedia with this new machine and the 56K line is a
 WC> hoot. I downloaded a streaming video the other day and the
 WC> video quality, if not the size of the image, was
 WC> outstanding. Some 800K per second of buffered video and my
 WC> it was quite impressive.

 CA> I was impressed the first few times I saw video on a computer
 CA> (long ago), MPEG is quite old and I could get some to work on
 CA> my old '386 at 20mhz and full-screen too! Naturally I expected
 CA> better on newer/faster hardw re and it is better but not as
 CA> much as I had anticipated. I have been disappointed that more
 CA> serious uses haven't been easy to find. I assumed a
 CA> space-shuttle launch, some of the filming of astronauts doing
 CA> 'space-walks' and other things not shown often on TV would be
 CA> out there.

Yeah I've got to check into that as last I knew NASA had
a multimedia video feed I was previously unable to use.
 
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