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

 CA> With other machines that can connect to the Internet for you
 CA> this may not be worthwhile?

Fun project once other things get squared away.
Will need to purchase a solder sucker for it though
or perhaps another 486 _with_ a 16550 UART for the price of the
solder sucker 

 CA> Just teasing. I will be moving to a newer Windows version some
 CA> time in the near future myself. Lack of LFNs is causing me to
 CA> make mistakes and overwrite files here and on the FTP servers I
 CA> use.

And so the omens of doom for Windows 3.1 loom near ;-)

BTW no problems so far loading huge fancy web pages 
with NS 7.0 and Sun Micro JAVA.

 WC> Not a clue as to type of CD-ROM but noticed the _second_
 WC> OEM CD has a whole slew of drivers including SoundBlaster
 WC> and drivers for DOS, an entire CD with not a single bit
 WC> remaining full of additional drivers!

 CA> Don't lose that, I may request a copy someday. :-)

I don't lose software. I want to install the DOS
CD-ROM driver in the next couple of days, that and alter the CD-ROM
drive to something other than M:

 CA> ISPs got into the act and have arranged to box people in along
 CA> with their purchase of a computer. I find that extremely
 CA> annoying and think it should be illegal. 

Agreed. There is a self extracting dialer for Netscape but I've
not yet retreived it though I shall as the horribly
clunky dialer I eventually found in all the stuff on the 
OEM install is truely horrible. 
 
 CA> If you're going to download software for Windows and store it
 CA> on the hard drive just don't forget to unmount the drive before
 CA> you exit BasicLinux. ;-)

Why, I just use shutdown -rf now and it unmounts itself ;-)
Yes I've done some editing of etc/fstab and /mtab.
CNTRL-ALT-DEL does the same thing.

 WC> I bought a stainless steel cart with wheels of substantial
 WC> strength from my next door neighbors yard sale initially to
 WC> facilitate the making of home brew as I cannot lug around
 WC> the large water filled containers I figured this was just
 WC> the thing
 
 CA> Wish I had the room for that. I would enjoy attempting to make
 CA> my own beer. I am a beer drinker when I do drink. Never found
 CA> much of any other alcoholic beverage I like but I do enjoy
 CA> beer now and then.

 Attempting? Dead easy and truely high quality as opposed to
 the crud generally offered in stores.
 The big deal is to keep it clean and sanitize with a 
 iodine compound, Isophore, or something like that IIRC.
 I need to find a small pump, get some of that microwatering
 sprinkler line and nozzles and set them into one
 of those large utility storage containers
 sold at Home Depot so as to make sterilizing bottles and equipment
 easy enough for me to do nowadays.
 I really can't stand or sit for the required 90 minutes otherwise
 so I'll try to make the operation that much more easy
 to perform.
 Bottling takes like 30 minutes so no problem at that end.
 I've a closet the cart will just fit into so it'll
 be out of the way when working out the ferment.
 Back in the days I could set a batch a brewin in 90
 minutes with cleaning and prep. 
 Once fermented you just add a bit of corn sugar, siphon into 58 
 bottles or so and cap waiting two weeks for it to carbonate in 
 the bottle chill and drink. Around 80 bucks startup costs then 12
 bucks a batch thereafter.

 WC> Now what's sitting on that cart? An H.P. computer, monitor,
 WC> keyboard and slew of manuals, disks, ect with me and the
 WC> Pit Bull in between. I'm beginning to feel a little cramped
 WC> like Roy ;- )

 CA> I have four computers here in this room in a somewhat circular
 CA> pattern and a swiveling chair on wheels. It looks absurd
 CA> truthfully. People just stare at it for awhile and then pretend
 CA> to not notice. I need to get rid of at least two of them but
 CA> hate to put useful things in the trash.

I've salvaged an old stereo stand which will be ideal  for the 
full tower NEC Pentium. Now all I need to do is cut a piece
of plywood to replace where the stereo
sat on pegs to put the monitor and put the tower below in the glass
fronted cabinate, I think I'll cut the plywood oversize
so I can put a keyboard there too but must take care
to secure it better than just resting there as I'm prone to
unexpected falls and wouldn't want pieces of monitor strewn
about. Sure hope someone with a circular saw stops
by in the next few days as otherwise just cuting that 
one piece of plywood could take a day or two with a handsaw
in the shape I'm in.
I'm finding lots of workarounds for stuff these days
of neccessity.
Soon as I alter the  cabinate for the computer I can rearrange 
my room to something far more reasonable than currently dictated.
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