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changed username to Ron Ron: well well rich: hi Ron you made it Ron: Memory actually works now and then rich: nice to see you here Ron: you too Ron: been watching NASA's pics of Endeavour et al rich: wonder how many others will turn up? Ron: yeah, wonder rich: had a note yesterday from a "lost" user and invited him to drop by Ron: rite Ron: I'll be back in about 10. Just going to make myself a sandwich rich: anyway, how is the space mission going? rich: OK c u
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changed username to Guy B. rich: hello Guy - Ron's off making a sandwich Guy B.: Greetings!!! rich: how are things in Chicago? Guy B.: I just got through having lunch. Guy B.: Windy and nice here. Although not as warm as it was yesterday. rich: we're in teh same air mass but at the rainy stage with warm to come Guy B.: More storms are due in tonight. We had a band come in early this morning. rich: need to ask you - how many motherboards did you look at for your Athlon? Ron: back rich: right Ron Ron: now I can stuff my face and talk at the same time. Hi Guy Guy B.: Well, actually I looked at two of them with the motheboards already in. Hi Ron.
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changed username to BobSlopsema Guy B.: Hi Bob. rich: hello dere Bob Ron: Hi bob BobSlopsema: hi dudes BobSlopsema: way from victoria island on an apple, eh? Guy B.: I went with the Athlon as my sister and sister in-law have AMD cpu's in there's and I was impressed by the speed of them. Ron: ya..... rich: I'm trying to make up my mind among four motherboards for a new computer I'm eyeing Ron: decisions decisions rich: as you know Ron, some of them ain't easy Ron: yes 'tis true Guy B.: As as I finish here. I'm going to get the space ready for the new system. It's time to bring it up. rich: still don't have it up and running, Guy? Ron: My space at the moment is a mess. Parts and pieces all over the floor Ron: Recyclers ain't gonna get nothing good rich: funny you should say, Ron... rich: bet the pieces end up taking up more space than the original assemblies Ron: well, I hope not, but that might indeed be the case Guy B.: Who hadn't had a chance. Now that I got my shopping done. I can get this thing going. I created a boot disk for the Western Digital hard drive tools. Ron: guess I need a real computer some day rich: I don't even want to think about configuring mine when I buy it rich: no, hang onto the Apple - works just like a real one but lets you keep your hair Ron: I suppose so. It will stay
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changed username to BobSlopsema rich: oops, the evil twin is back Guy B.: I'm going to make the inkjet USB since it has a port. BobSlopsema: i'm back jack! Guy B.: Lost your connection? Ron: that's good BobSlopsema: froze!!! between 2 of ya'll,. kill the one off, OK?? rich: yes, my new inkjet is USB capable so I may do that when..
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rich confirmed ban BobSlopsema: hope we didn't remove the wrong one! Ron: Remove Bob Slopsema, why should he be removed? BobSlopsema: cause I was bad mouthing Richard! ;-) rich: we were zapping his evil twin Ron: ok Ron: never understand that box Guy B.: The new scanner I have is parellel port, that's my decision real easy. So, tomorrow at the computer show I'll pickup a USB cable. rich: even when you ask to have your duplicate removed, it wants a second opinion Ron: Anybody want a Commodore Pet? Guy B.: You have one of those? Ron: plus disk drive. Ron: Yup rich: I'm curently running my printer on the same parallel port as my scanner - no problems (yet) rich: I have a Pet. Have to think about teh disc drive BobSlopsema: oh yah.......today is the day for thorwing out stuff....... rich: doubt it would be welcome though - Frances turned one down at the last Amiga meeting Ron: Suspect there'd be a few around Toronto Ron: even yet rich: was talking to Michael today - he said something about having some Adam hard disc kits he wanted to sell Guy B.: I wonder how many he has? Ron: Interesting - IDE or MFM rich: send him an email and ask, assuming he doesn't turn up here later BobSlopsema: but what does he have?????? the old MFM stuff??? rich: see above Guy B.: If their IDE, I would be interested. Ron: Right now Endeavour et Al are 240 miles up over Labrador Ron: Nope... make that the west coast of France Ron: just thought you'd like to know rich: juast hope Chris doesn't drop the Canadarm - that's a long way down Ron: yeah right....guest they're working on preparations for that today Guy B.: That's the most important piece for the intl. space station. Ron: yup rich: yes, without it they can't build the rest Guy B.: Exactly. Ron: I find it interesting listening to the exchanges between Houston and the Space Station/Shuttle rich: that's why they got Canadians to make and install it, of course ;-) Guy B.: And those arms are downright dependable. Ron: URL - if anyone is interested is.... rich: what channel is it on, Ron? Ron: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/index.html rich: right - the net Ron: live and direct Ron: You'll need the Windows Media Player plugin for the browser rich: that I have - got it when I upgraded to IE 5.5 Guy B.: Yeah, just discovered that. I'll try later. Ron: nice pictures. Ron: Sometimes a little difficult to tell what you're looking at, but sometimes they tell you rich: by the way, if you're going to enable Java and stuff, I have a website for you Ron: yes rich: it's named finjan.com rich: they make a sort of other stage anti-virus that doesn't use signatures rich: oh yes, the 5.5 beta is free for private download rich: it monitors what applets are trying to do to your system and stops the nasties rich: you can run a free test on their site to test your security Ron: gotchya rich: my question is how does it harmonize with RegClean and Crash Monitor Ron: sounds like useful stuff BobSlopsema: gott go boys!!!
BobSlopsema left chat session Guy B.: That was quick. Ron: Good so see you on A Saturday Bob Ron: You don't look any different on Saturday than you do on Wednesday Ron: we needed to know that Ron: he gone Guy B.: I guess you guys heard about the proposed settlement involving the Iomega Zip drives. Ron: um..... no, tell us more Guy B.: Some guy named Rinaldi sued Iomega claiming that a Clicking noise was made when a disk was inserted and caused loss of data. So now a settlement has been reached where all people who bought Zip drives between Jan. 1, 1995 and March 21, 2001 will receive a rebate on future purchases of Zip drives or media. Ron: Hah! Guy B.: There were 14 pages of legal briefs. The last one is the actual form for the rebate and if you got a drive that made the Clicking. You get a higher rebate. Ron: I had just that problem....although no loss of data Ron: They did replace the unit for me Ron: but it wasn't free Guy B.: Your eligible for the higher rebate. Although I haven't heard any clicking from my drive. I'm going to listen to it more closely to be sure before I submit my rebate. Ron: They had a description of that problem on their site a while ago Ron: Apparently 1 or two clicks from the drive following a Zip disk insert is normal. But the problem is when the loud and persistend Ron: persistent clicking noise goes on after that Ron: in my case, it was continuously, and prevented me from removing an inserted disk Guy B.: My Practical Windows magazine mentioned about the problem too. There was some program on some website that you can download and run to determined if you have one of the bad drives. Guy B.: I had that problem too. The only way I got that out was to shut Windows down and it did eject. Ron: yup. got that Ron: and used it, and it said it couldn't access the drive.... counldn't even see the drive Ron: not too useful Ron: So something got hung up in there real good Guy B.: Well the problem I had was when I backed up the old 850mb hard drive. The backup program would bomb out on a bad sector and that's when the disk got stuck. Ron: So I phoned the company. They sent me another, which did exactly the same thing right out of the box Ron: Then I sent both back. And they sent me a third. Which has worked fine to this day....touch wood Ron: somewhere between the jigs and the reels, I had to pay another 100 bux Guy B.: I might decide to get a new one, but it maybe the 250 Zip drive. That one is compatible with the Zip 100 disks. Ron: yeah, that's what I got Guy B.: How is it? Ron: working fine now. Guy B.: Have you tried the Zip 100 disks in it? Ron: local Mac dealer gave me another one, so now I have a SCSI version and a parallel port one. But they're both only 100 meg jobbies Guy B.: Rich is quiet. Ron: Anyway gents..... I have gardening to do and the sun is shining brightly Guy B.: Might as well take advantage of it. We'll see you on Wednesday then! Ron: yes sir, but briefly. There's a volunteer appreciation night at our local hospital ... so I'll have to be out of here around 6:45 or so Ron: but I'll see ya for a little while Wed Ron: have a good afternoon Guy Guy B.: Rich is gone. I might as well go too. See you then. Bye Ron. Ron: bye
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