--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF100001 Date: 10/31/96 From: PAT STIEHM Time: 11:58am \/To: JULI GORDON (Read 7 times) Subj: Re: Not For Profits Thank you for your very thoughtful and well thought out reply to my last message. I realize it took you some time and effort and I do appreciate that. Although what you were doing was certainly worth while your action closing it down shows you have the right priorities. I wish you well in your new venture. Thanks again. --- * OLX 2.2 TD * Press any key to continue or any other key to quit * Origin: The Blind Alley * Alexandria, VA * 703-549-8577 * (1:109/632) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF100002 Date: 10/26/96 From: JAMES INKYO Time: 10:33am \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: DEC ink cartridge refilling I am looking for a way to refill the inkjet cartridges for a DEC 120c. Yeah, yeah, I know...no one with half a brain would have bought a DEC but hey the price was right...$95 with black and color cartridges. So how about it does anyone know of any companies selling refill kits for this cartridge? ... Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (S)lap nearest innocent bystander. --- FMail/386 0.98 * Origin: The COCO Library in Honolulu, HI 1-808-545-8368 (1:345/200) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF100003 Date: 10/31/96 From: JIM RYSYK Time: 11:02am \/To: MODERATOR (Read 7 times) Subj: LINE SHARE W/ 4 DEVICES Sorry. It was not my intention to discus pricing in any echo. Just to mention it is avalable, just as people mention speical Sysop Priceing is avalalble for modems, ect, and mention those items list prices. The list price is the sugested list, and can be seen on any national advertisment, or product review, or press release. If you do not want product revews, press releases, then fine. I don't have time to read the 2,000 or so Fido, 17,000 NewsNet, and the other 10 nets echo policies I have avalable, to see just who allows what. I tired to keep it as generically technical and informative as possible. > Then you need to be offering your "special pricing" elsewhere JIm. > Advertising is not allowed in this echo. The device, and the open offer to test the features for the Home Office Device was made in an Home Office echo. Selling Price, ect was not mentiones, nor was the product name, ect, as I think private mail is more appropriate. I also mentioned their are 10 or more such devices. Anyone can now go exploring their own regular sources, ect, now they have been informed these devices exsist, and work on low end pulse lines, ect, and no one needs to pay Maw Bell for things like destinctive rings, ect. If you want to discuss it here, fine, otherwise I posted an address or two for Net Mail/e-Mail purposes. Anyhow, its your area, you can do what ever you want with it. --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: user@ability.to250, Jobs 416-769-3144 & 604-1221 (1:2424/242) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF100004 Date: 10/30/96 From: ED DAVIS Time: 06:26pm \/To: AUGUST ABOLINS (Read 7 times) Subj: Answering machine > ED> While I do have several high quality surge protectors on all my > ED> electronics, I could never justify the high cost of the UPS units. > Is a one-time $100 a high cost to you? The UPS technology has > dropped in prices quite a bit. Worth another look-see. > ED> To protect my data, I save my work frequently, and backup to tape > ED> regularly as well. As for the hardware, well, thats a risk I have > ED> decided to take. > Backups take time. How much of that time would you value to be in > excessive $100 already? I'm retired and living on limited income. Money doesn't come easily. However, time I got plenty of. --- * Origin: Nothing in fine print is ever good news. - Andy Rooney 1:261/1002) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF100005 Date: 10/31/96 From: ED DAVIS Time: 06:34am \/To: BRUCE LEGRANDE (Read 7 times) Subj: Answering machine > Hello Ed, > How do you figure that a UPS does *NOT* protect "the entire > computer" ?! > I have a clients' computer sitting on my work bench that had nothing > but a > surge protector on it and due to EXTREME voltage fluctuations that > person now > is being billed over $300 for replacement of the HD, the video card, > and the > SoundBlaster card. Had they had a UPS in line their computer WOULD > have been > totally protected. I'm not sure whether you are familiar with the > operation > of a UPS, but in basic terms - the 'load' (your computer) never sees > the line > voltage (at least on the better models, ie Clary/Exide/etc...), so > IMHO your > statment in very much in error as the load IS in a completely > controlled > environment. > What are you going to do if you get a surge that takes out the MOV in > your... I'm not an electrician, but my understanding is that a UPS (Uninterruptable power supply) is just that - a battery backup designed to provide power for a short period in the event of a power loss. The intent is to allow the normal shutdown of the computer, not continued, extended use. My understanding also is that a UPS does little or no line conditioning. That is, it DOES NOT take the place of a surge protector. Each of my PC setups (pc, monitor, CDrom, spkrs, printer) is protected by a DataShield surge protector, once rated "top of the line" by PC Magazine. I will admit that was many years ago, and surely the devices have improved over the years, but I've been happy with them for 8-10 years now. The kind of damage you describe is due to a line surge, not a power failure. I think I am adequately protected. --- * Origin: Nothing in fine print is ever good news. - Andy Rooney 1:261/1002) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF100006 Date: 10/31/96 From: LARRY ANGIERS Time: 01:16pm \/To: JIM RYSYK (Read 7 times) Subj: Re: line share w/ 4 devi Hi Jim can you please tell me how much you want for this switching device and if it includes shipping to Lindsay Ontario and also could you please post me your address THANKS A LOT ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.10 --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The KAWARTHA Connection, Omemee ON, Can. 705-799-1160 (1:253/2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF200000 Date: 11/01/96 From: JIM RYSYK Time: 10:42am \/To: LARRY ANGIERS (Read 7 times) Subj: RE: LINE SHARE W/ 4 DEVI > please post me your address Sent Net Mail to your address at node 226, and not the /2 in your reply tag line. I hope your Nets Net Mail is working? > * Origin: The KAWARTHA Connection, Omemee ON, Can. 705-799-1160 > (1:253/2) FYI * NOTE: If you don't have your BBS address properly configured, eg, none, then your uplink address gets inserted at the 1st uplink path. In this case, it looks like you also have the uplinks tag line. The saem thing applys. It would pick up the uplinks tag line. I don't know if this was the case, but if it was, thats what I think appened. Else, I guess, you just loged on to his system, ect. Or, their is someone else in that net with the same name. Let me know what the case was/is? Thanks. --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: user@ability.to250, Jobs 416-769-3144 & 604-1221 (1:2424/242) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF200001 Date: 11/01/96 From: SUE MATTHEWS Time: 04:57pm \/To: LARRY ANGIERS (Read 7 times) Subj: Re: line share w/ 4 devi > can you please tell me how much you want for this switching > device and if it includes shipping to Lindsay Ontario and also could > you please post me your address Larry... you're asking someone to violate the echo rules here. If you need information of a personal nature, then you need to be making use of NET MAIL. If you don't know what this is, please ask your sysop. We don't *do* business in this non-commercial echo. Cheers, Sue Matthews Moderator --- InterMail 2.29k * Origin: Com-Dat II - Mail Node, Hillsboro OR, Hayes 28.8 (1:105/330) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF200002 Date: 11/01/96 From: JIM RYSYK Time: 01:21am \/To: AUGUST ABOLINS (Read 7 times) Subj: COMPUTERS >HG> People with disabilities seldom get free computers but need to Bell Canada has a program, Computer for Schools, and its been expanded to also incluse Computers for the disABLED. Both have to go through agencys. > Learning computer skills is all fine and dandy, but what kind of job > Granted, exposure to computers as a TOOL is a good thing. But don't > try to sell it as a way out of SS. Well I can speak as a person who's been their. Became mutiple disabled in 1966. I was too handicaped for retraining back tehn. Years after about 1979 I had to close down three of my companies after a few more diabilities, got added to the list. I again spend seven more years getting told I was just too disabled for retraining. Anyhow, I did get some offical computer training in a college coure. See end of message. Eventually I got more and more computer training. Then I job hunted. I could not get a reasonable paying computer job for various reasons, so I took a Radio Operators III due toprevious skill in my three companies. This job, was one that may require some data entry that payed quite a bit more. In six weeks into the rolling shift job, I was borrowed to work days in the main office for two weeks. Three months later, I was still working in that office, giving assistance to users, and setting up new systems, ect. I also did the once a week flopy disk backup prior to the staff arriving. I prepared the overheard and did some custom Lotus and dBase III+ coding, and wrote applicatiosn to suck in mainframe DB2 data into those PC apps, and designed forms, ect, for the raw date entry, ect. I alsoservered a few other duties, and did some general office stuff. In those months, I was communicating with the regional office, as well as heard office, asking questions of exsisting applications, ect. Anyhow, it seems I found several copies of previously writen applications I was asked to write. Seems I woke up both head office, and the region office to this fact ;). When the district office wanted to set up a LAN, I was set it up. I purchased a 4 user Novell package 8 or so month s earlier, after my basic computer traing graduation, and previouly to geting this job. But then the region or head office put a stop to it, stating they had other LAN implimations ideas. My district manager showed mew an internal job opening in the region office, and stated he'd support my application. Opps, I just finished printing out an application for that same position. I added two more lines to my applcation, stating my manager recomended I apply for it, ect. I later discovered over 500 people applied for the job. Wooowwwwwww, 500. Not mucha chance for an interview, I guess. Well, I and about twenty of us were intervied, and I was one of them. Hey, I got the job. All my previous actions were already known by the people interviewing me, and they already knew I have more technbical skills then them. So, with reduced hours, and increased pay, it worked out to a 50% increas in pay, in just 6 months. The next part gets even more interesting. Six weeks into the job, I was asked to take a drive out to whats now, Thunderbay, and che out the job that was open. Department Head. I was told their would be no such local opertunities for some years. For edical reasons, I could not even consider that opening. Anyhow, I liked the job I had. I set up two Novell Networks for that office, and took over two Novell Lans in other cities that were head offices's responsibility. I also was assigned to attend computer related trade shows for the firm. As long as they were in Ontario, I could go to any trade show I wanted, and went to the onces management decided I must append. Out siede of Ontarion, I had to pay me way, but was on full salery if they were shows I wanted to attend. I also took many management sponsered comuter courses, and univerity sponsered management training. All this 22 years after I was labled too handicapped for retraining, and two-five years sfter being turned down four years in a row as too disabled for the course that I graduated, that got me this job. So, if I can, anyone who is self starting, and has the desire can. Oh, I frgot, this sort of goes near the start of the story. Several years ealier, 1981-1982, I atended a college, and computers was my worst subject. I drope out after getting hospitlized for 6 weeks, then well, tried to go back, and ended up taking a year or two to recover, only to have a series of seven surguries, six months appart prior to the start of the next applicatiosn for computer traing. I concluded it would have to be computers, as it was within my physical limits. Anyhow, I tried to do more physical things due to management prompting, and as I was feeling great, and better, I tried. I did not servive. I again had to go through a series of surgurys. Unfortunatly, I've not recovered. I keep my skill up to date, and as of August I strated to attend computer trade shows, and have attented about 10 since then, and got my brother to go as me to a few more. In that time I've picked up about 40 demos, and time bomb packages, as well as several frebes. Most of the 40 are CD-ROMS. If nothing else, I have a lot of software to keep my mind working, and curious, for when and if I recover. This free CD stuff inclused the new Novell, Windows NT Server, and other $1,000 priced packages, as well as 15 free hurs on AOL twice over. Yah, AOL was the cheapie flopy disk I picked up ;). I have payed a price, as I've had my worst bowl infection in five year last week, trigered my sleep disorders, and had some slight hemeraging. Today, I seemed to be a bit better, but it looks like I killed my most poewerful computer with the CD-Player. I was hoping it was just the power suppys but it looks like the Motherbord is dead. I hurt myself tring to fix it. I poped the CPU, and RAM, pressed the BIOS, unpluged all the drives, and cards, ect. Its dead. No boot beeps. Votage gos to the MB, anmd drives, but system does not beep or do anything. Anyhow, it does not have enough ram or power to run some of this new stuff. I was hoping to get something newer, and put this now dead one on the BBS, and speed things up. Tomorrow, or in a week or two, I'll look at it again. I want to get the MMX feature, and run Warp 4 in the new one, as my vision sort of will not stay in focus, and I'll need the voice options in the future, and it would be easier to learn using it, when I still can see. Anyhow, that one of my FROM TOTAL DISABILITY in 1966, to full employemnt in 75, to total diability in 1978, to full employment in 1988 stories. Yes, after my December 1992 surgury, I sort of became totally disabled again. But I don't aim on remaining so. I'll keep my skills up, and do as much as I can, if and when I can. No one can teach you to be self motivating. If you have the desire, you can move mountains. --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: user@ability.to250, Jobs 416-769-3144 & 604-1221 (1:2424/242) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DF200003 Date: 11/01/96 From: JIM RYSYK Time: 01:42am \/To: JAMES INKYO (Read 7 times) Subj: DEC INK CARTRIDGE REFILLING > I am looking for a way to refill the inkjet cartridges for a DEC Their are several selling refill kits, and refillable kits, but I don't know if its for every brand, and every model. --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: user@ability.to250, Jobs 416-769-3144 & 604-1221 (1:2424/242)