--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00012 Date: 01/03/98 From: NATHAN MALYON Time: 12:26pm \/To: BUD JAMISON (Read 4 times) Subj: Motherboard questions... -=> A Communique from Bud Jamison to John Wilson was being thrown out the Airlock <=- BJ> Go with the AMD K6-166 or -200, they just seem to run better. i've seen K6 in action IMHO buying intel based is more reliable but more cash even though i hate intel, they do make good processors i've opted for an pentium 166 mmx, cause their the medium between price and speed but if you weigh spped more important Pentium II 266 or Price Cyrix 166 cya "Hey Wait A Second, Ivanova *IS* God" - Kosh 1 Starfury, 2 Starfury, 3 Starfury, RUN Babylon 5 : The Future Ain't What It Used To Be JediAvenger@Hotmail.com ... This Tagline is partially based on Vorlon Technology ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The BEAST (3:640/245) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00013 Date: 01/06/98 From: CLARENCE HOGAN Time: 09:22am \/To: BUD JAMISON (Read 4 times) Subj: WINDOWS 3.11 LICENSE -=> Quoting BUD JAMISON to CLARENCE HOGAN <=- -> Don't know about that Bud, but it "CRASHED" after TWO days BJ> Most problems with hardware will come in the first week, or after many BJ> years. HeeHee, I could live with that statement! :) BJ> It's good that you dealt with someone local, MUCH easier to BJ> get things replaced. Yup, you have got that right and as you now see, I HAVE learned something from you good folks on these echoes! :) BJ> I'm gald it's working now. That make a "pair" of us, but a pair just ain't worth much in a big poker game, now is it! :) Thanks mucho for all you'se guy's help! Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence....... ... If it's not seasoned with a dash of humor, I don't want to hear it! --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 * Origin: Skeeter Haven "Nashville, TN" (615) 872-8609 (1:116/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00014 Date: 01/06/98 From: CLARENCE HOGAN Time: 09:29am \/To: ROBERT FOWLER (Read 4 times) Subj: Moving the software over -=> Quoting ROBERT FOWLER to CLARENCE HOGAN <=- RF> [Quoting Clarence Hogan to Nancy Wood] CH> > it the BWave was showing in the next to last box at > > the bottom of the screen, which, of course, it was and all I had > > to do was click on it an it jumped immediately back into BWave > > and freed up my messages again! CH> NW> It was still on your taskbar!!! CH> Yup, it comes up when I am away from the computer too long cause > it quits Bwave and goes back to the Desktop (I think it's called)! > And my computer man said not to try to go back into Bwave any other > way! RF> Clarence, Any DOS program run under Windows in full screen will RF> minimize (not quit) when it is not the active program. OK, but mine sure does quit and goes to the Desktop, then from the Desktop to screensaver which in my case is a nice maze screen automated! RF> So when a RF> screensaver, including the "blank screen", for example, is activated, RF> the active DOS full screen program becomes minimized, and all you see RF> is its box on the taskbar. Well, the "blank screen" that used to come on in my Bwave just don't come up now cause I have got the Win95 maze to come up in just three minutes! :) RF> You can also minimize it while it is running RF> by pressing ALT-TAB. I have never heard of that one nor tried it, but will right now and see what it does...aha, it went immediately to a black screen and then the desktop screen popped up with the Bwave in the taskbar! RF> If however, the DOS program is run in a window, RF> it will not minimize when it is not the active program, and once the RF> screensaver is cleared, it will reappear as before. Hummmm, come to think of it and although haven't used the DOS programs that much yet since getting this new computer since it crashed the third day, I truly hadn't noticed it minimizing on me as of yet! RF> TIP: Pressing RF> ALT-ENTER switches between window and full screen. Thanks much, will try that one when I get back into Windows! Just wrote it down! :) RF> While in the window RF> there is a button on the toolbar for editing the properties so you can RF> customize the program to run as you wish. Figured that there would/should be, however, my computer man set it all up for me and just to be honest, since the new 2.5GB crashed the third day, I am just afraid to fool with this new 4GB too much till I get the tools for my zip drive that I had installed special to save the hard drive on, but I called the company and they are going to send them right out by mail! RF> The reason your "computer man" suggested you not attempt to start the RF> program again (instead of maximizing the one running minimized) is RF> because unlike Windows programs, you cannot have multiple instances of RF> the DOS program running at the same time. In other words if you tried RF> to launch Bluewave from it's icon on the START menu with it already RF> running minimized, you will get a DOS error message: "critical error RF> reading drive C:". Yup, just like I did before when I tried it before he told me about the taskbar which I had not had a chance to find out what a taskbar was before it crashed! Since I get over 500 messages a day, I just don't have too much time to study the materials and I have been learning how to operate this thing on a wing and a prayer since the beginning! RF> Hope this helps...RF Buddy, EVERY little bit of information that I pick up from you fellows helps and DON'T you forget it! :) Thanks a quadrillion! :) Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence....... ... If it's not seasoned with a dash of humor, I don't want to hear it! --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 * Origin: Skeeter Haven "Nashville, TN" (615) 872-8609 (1:116/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00015 Date: 01/06/98 From: CLARENCE HOGAN Time: 03:38pm \/To: NATHAN MALYON (Read 4 times) Subj: !!!! Question Again !!!! -=> Quoting Nathan Malyon to Clarence Hogan <=- -=> A Communique from Clarence Hogan to Bud Jamison was being thrown out the NM> Airlock <=- BJ> Quantum now has a 12 gig U/IDE drive out. CH> WOW, I'd have to live to be older than Methuselah to use up that CH> many gigs as the guitar player might say! :) NM> you've gotta be joking Nope, sure ain't, cause my new custom built computer shown below had 2.5GB and that was just plenty for a 65 year old to play with, but it only lasted TWO days and it CRASHED! So my computer man came and got it a carried it back to the company and they were out of 2.5GB that day and said for another $43.30 w/tax they would put in a 4GB right then and there, so I did! However, with this new Win95, I have still not figured out where to find out how much I have got left in my hard drive after deducting what is already in it from the old computer, which was only about 90MB worth of programs, files, etc.! Here is my new one: Pentium 200 MMX, w/32MG Ram, 4MB HD, 33,600 Zoltrix Modum, Win95 and other features and am quite happy with it so far, if it doesn't crash again! :'( :) NM> (ive got 1.2 and it sits on 10 to 20 mb free cause redalert needs it) NM> i could use 12 gb, but a week later 12gb would be small NM> (i went from 88 mb to 1.2 gb and i though i'd never fill it) NM> right after i got my 1.2 gb it became standard and every one had 1.6 NM> and 1.7 gb all lucked out I am strictly into The Bible and there just ain't that much information to fill up 12GB even if I studied it for the next 50 years, do you think? Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence....... ... They have a PC that pays for itself in six months...I'm goin back! --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 * Origin: Skeeter Haven "Nashville, TN" (615) 872-8609 (1:116/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00016 Date: 01/06/98 From: CLARENCE HOGAN Time: 04:19pm \/To: NATHAN MALYON (Read 4 times) Subj: !!!! Question Again !!!! -=> Quoting Nathan Malyon to Clarence Hogan <=- -=> A Communique from Clarence Hogan to Stan Bimson was being thrown out the NM> Airlock <=- CH> Great, and I will do that as I have been lurking and observing CH> all the problems that others have been having with the less megs CH> bit! :'( And what I have been looking at in the catalogs and CH> paper so far, all have 56Kbps so that was already a given! :) NM> 56 56 56, if you use internet (or plan to) go for it NM> if you are probably going to be getting another modem soon (waiting) NM> get an 33.6 Haven't made up my mind yet to go on the internet, but have already got the 33,600 modem! :) CH> but just wondered about all the other little details of like CH> say 24X Max CD-ROM Drive and such, ok? NM> well im still using an quad speed, depends on what your doing NM> 16 is good enough NM> but if your only doing light data transfers (Cover CD's, Windows CD, NM> etc) or moderate data transfers then you don't need the 24, but 24 will NM> probably be able to go into the next pc (when you upgrade again) NM> (that's where my quad comes in) anyway but if you want FAST games and NM> videos etc go for the 24 like at the moment i use my 16 (network NM> server) over a network and my quad is in my pc Also got the 24X CD-ROM! NM> hope i've helped Always, just like the old woman and the sea! :) Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence....... ... LISTEN! Ya' can can hear em' being broken already! --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 * Origin: Skeeter Haven "Nashville, TN" (615) 872-8609 (1:116/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00017 Date: 01/06/98 From: CLARENCE HOGAN Time: 05:37pm \/To: BILL DAWSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Windows 3.11 License -=> Quoting Bill Dawson to Clarence Hogan <=- -=> Quoting Clarence Hogan to Bill Dawson <=- ... .......>>>=======> MD2SP <=======<<<....... BD> It doesn't make any difference how the original Windows software BD> reached your son's hands, really. The license is for one person BD> to use one copy at a time; this does not include extra copies for BD> wife, child, in-laws, or ANYONE else at all. Period. The copy BD> on your computer is pirated. You really should have realised it BD> by now. Consider a copy of the latest Steven King book just out BD> selling in bookstores: you buy it and before you finish it, the BD> wife, or son, or in-law wants to read it too, but won't pay for BD> a copy. After 5pm the next day, you spend a half-hour at the BD> company's photocopy machine to make up a set of the first several BD> chapters to get him/her started.. BD> Was that legal? Nope -- same thing for extra copies of software. Bill, sorry for being so long in answering this message of yours, but just was not satisfied till I get it cleared up, so I spent over $1,400.00 on a new computer and Win95 and no longer use the old Windows 3.11, for I had rather spend $5,000.00 than to break one law and spend ONE second in jail for it is just a matter of morals with me! CH> As for discussing software, if there is a law against it, then it CH> would seem that everyone is breaking it, would it not, but this is CH> the first I have heard of any such law! BD> Theft has always been illegal. Illegal copies of programs is the BD> same as stealing books or copying them as in the example above. I BD> would think that plain common sense would lead almost everyone to BD> such an understanding, eventually. I saved this part for the simple reason that I still do not understand what you are saying here and after all this time, I STILL cannot see where it could POSSIBLY be illegal to DISCUSS software, so possibly you could clarify it for me! Again I am truly sorry for all the time and mix up and would not have had it happen for anything in the whole world and just could not be satisfied till I had gotten it cleared up! Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence....... ... Now that it is fixed, what is it and what do I do with it? --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 * Origin: Skeeter Haven "Nashville, TN" (615) 872-8609 (1:116/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00018 Date: 01/06/98 From: ROLAND STINER Time: 10:03pm \/To: PETE GRANZEAU (Read 4 times) Subj: OLX PG>I think that's what I did with QEdit. Or don't you consider QEdit to be >"another editor"? Well, it is. I got so used to the key commands in the built in editor of OLX that I feel very comfortable with it now. It is primitive by any standard but once you master it, it can be very easy to use. PG>You do, I hope, know what Netmail is? It needs a Fidonet address. No way >to put that in a QWK header. OK, I see what you're saying now. --- OLX 1.53 Private Reply? E-Mail Me At: NK2U@JUNO.COM * Origin: John Rambo's Place (973)731-7359 Now w/USR V.Whatever 1:2605/159) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00019 Date: 01/06/98 From: CASEY TOMPKINS Time: 02:19am \/To: JERRY SCHWARTZ (Read 4 times) Subj: Norton Utilities 3.0 Jerry Schwartz wrote in a message to Casey Tompkins: Thanks for the reply, Jer! JS> It is working - almost - fine here. I disabled the "Disk JS> Health" and "Virus Scan" sensors because they never finished JS> scanning; by default they do all drives, and by default they JS> start over after any system activity. With 12gb of disk and I've had the same experience over here: I can't run the Win95 speedisk on drive D: while the BBS is up because of that. ;) JS> a mailer running constantly in the background, they just JS> never had a long enough period of time when the system was JS> idle. If you have a Zip drive, then they have the very JS> useful feature of building a minimal Win95 recovery system JS> on a Zip disk. Hmmm. One wonders if this extends to Jazz, or SyQest units? Or even the LS-120 drives? --- timEd-B9 * Origin: Chaos Manor BBS (1:108/83) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00020 Date: 01/06/98 From: GERRY DANEN Time: 08:13pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: DHCP server * Crossposted from: STN.WIN: Windows 3.1/95/NT I am trying to set up a DHCP server to dynamically assign IP addresses to NT 4.0 workstations. So far no luck. I have defined a range of IP addresses that can be leased out, but DHCP just won't do it. Do I need to define more than the domain name to make this work? Any other helpful hints? Thanks in advance! Gerry Danen (gdanen@connect.ab.ca) C+Net BBS @ 403-477-9545 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/9823 1 year, 359 days, 4 hours, 14 minutes, and 18 seconds until January 1, 2000. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: C+Net BBS. Programming & Networking. (1:342/601) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F1B00021 Date: 01/06/98 From: BUD JAMISON Time: 05:19pm \/To: NATHAN MALYON (Read 4 times) Subj: Vesa Slots -> This may be a little off-topic but im upgrading a friends pc -> for him and i was wondering, can i put Isa cards into Vesa slots -> cause vesa just has that little extra at the back of them and i -> thought they may be compatible, but i dont want to risk his *new* -> (myold) scanner bus card 8 bit and 16 bit cards can be used in a VLB position without any problems. VLB is an extension to the normal bus, if nothing is in the 'extra' VLB connector, that part of the bus is just ignored. --- Platinum Xpress/386/Wildcat! v1.3 * Origin: FidoNet International Coordinator Emeritus, for life (1:202/746)