1237a5dab429
tech



Hello Wayne - 

--8<--cut 

WC>> Might have to do with Zclobber, I'll have to save the
WC>> current packet's pointer file sommewhere until I've got
WC>> the download part of Hypertrerminal PE figured out. 

CA>> Zclobber is another possible. Sorry I can't be more
CA>> helpful but I don't use Hyperterminal myself. I could
CA>> check my brother's setup. He does use it for FIDO messages. 

WC> Zclobber appears to be the culprit, if my download
WC> directory has no existing whatever.qwk all goes well.
WC> NetTerm is better but Hyperterminal PE is free. 

I've had NetTerm clobber a few QWK packets here too. 

CA>>> I'm not really up to speed on how W9x implements
CA>>> 'shortcuts'. Not clear to me why W9x even has them
CA>>> really. They seem redundant to me. 

WC> So you can make, with great effort, it as easy to use as
WC> Win 3.1? 

:-) 

WC>> I'm beginning to get the picture. The reason is for the
WC>> technically nieve but the effect is frustrating to those
WC>> profficient until they catch on. I'm about ready to move
WC>> everything over here, rearrange the room, split the disk
WC>> for Linux and and use primarily this machine now. 

CA>> Sounds as though you've made a great deal of progress. 

WC> I'm tickled to death and I didn't really read much by way
WC> of docs but intuited it after seeing the results of
WC> screwups. You should see the manual for the H.P. it's
WC> written for idiots and somewhat less than useful for
WC> tinkerers. You're right, for a proprietary system H.P.
WC> seems to have gotten it right :-) This box won't see it's
WC> cover off again unless I upgrade memory or add a CD burner. 

I like my brother's machine. For what it is it's quite nice. 

WC>  

WC>> Went smoothly and Explorer 6 loads the problem page just
WC>> fine. Just under 21.200KB in an hour and 10 minutes. 

CA>> You're probably better of with IEx v6 anyhow according to
CA>> my daughter it's much more effective as a WWW browser.
CA>> Something about ActiveX etc. that I don't know much about. 

WC> I like Netscape 7.0 but must admit in contrast to the
WC> existing IE I had IE6 is far better and I even like the
WC> page layout better. Figures AOL - Warner would FU Netscape
WC> when they bought it out :-( 

People have said the new Mozilla is better than the new
Netscape. I've not used either here but didn't like older
Mozilla at all. 

WC> I'll never use Outlook Express for mail however. 

I think I'd pass on Outlook myself. Seems a target too often.
Eudora works for me here and doesn't send attached html files
like I get from my daughters using Outlook.

CA>> --8<--cut 

WC>> Have you Zone Labs Zone alarm installed, very informative
WC>> about attacks on ports. 

CA>> It's on my brother's W98SE machine, yes. That and Ad-Aware
CA>> but I'm reading in usenet that Ad-Aware isn't being
CA>> maintained and up-to-date but haven't tried any of the
CA>> others. My brother had 18 "ET call-home" background tasks
CA>> running when I first used Ad-Aware to remove them. Second
CA>> time he had 24 more of them! 

CA>> Attacks on ports, port scanning, and DoS seem overblown to
CA>> me. Similar to virus scares. I don't think it's all that
CA>> much of a problem really. Zonealarm is there to detect any
CA>> "ET call-home" software attempt to call _out_ from his
CA>> machine more than for any other reason. 

WC> About half of my alerts are of that nature but the other
WC> half... 

You might want to get Ad-Aware and remove the "ET"s then. 

CA>> He also has McAfee running to block virus. He has had no
CA>> virus, worms, or anything other than "ET"s that are
CA>> installed with other things he has tried out and installed
CA>> himself. 

WC> I'm thinking of getting Norton antiVirus or Zone Alarm Pro.
WC> This setup is too cool to leave at risk. 

ZoneAlarm is a software firewall, not a virus scanner. You
should have both and possibly two virus scanners according to
hacker websites. I'm not sure which antivirus is better. I seem
to recall some problems with NAV and certain install software
but I've never liked McAfee either I think I would go for AVP
and F-Prot myself. 

--8<--cut 

CA>> My mother made homemade ice-cream for awhile using an
CA>> electric ice-cream maker. It was OK but I'm not that fond
CA>> of ice-cream. 

WC> I'm a freak for chocolate frozen yogurt. Some dried milk,
WC> water, Nestle's Quick and a couple scoups of frozen yogurt
WC> shaken vigorously makes for a great quick treat and a lot
WC> less expensive than alternatives. 

I was in mid-rant about how terrible grocery store ice-cream is
and that it isn't 'cream' it's ice-milk etc. and decided to
experiment so I froze some regular milk into ice cubes and used
them to make a chocolate milk shake (also with Nestle's
Quick). It tasted exactly the same as with the so-called
ice-cream. So ... that's how I make my milk shakes now with ice
cubes of frozen milk. :-) 

WC> Gads I love this H.P., slap a CD burner in the extra bay
WC> and I'm in hog heaven. 

Having access to a CD burner is definitely a huge plus. 

WC> Wish I could afford a DVD-CD burner though but in time I
WC> expect the price will come down on those too. 

I'm concerned that the formats and mechanisms haven't
stabilized just yet for DVD burners. I would wait awhile and
see what direction it all goes in before I invested. They are
about 3-4x as expensive as a cheap CD burner now. 

WC> Hell my first CD-ROM drive cost me 245 bucks, Creative
WC> SoundBlaster combo 2x deal that still works though retired. 

The second computer I owned is still working but the third and
up to what I use now have all died off. Weird. I guess their
was less heat in the older 8/16 bit machines. 

>
>        ,                          ,
>      o/      Charles.Angelich      \o       ,
>       __o/
>     / >          USA, MI           < \   __\__
 

___ * ATP/16bit 2.31 * 
... DOS the Ghost in the Machine! http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/

--- Maximus/2 3.01