(Someone throws a brick at Daniel Bienvenu)
(Daniel Bienvenu is thrown out of the window.)
(Daniel Bienvenu's head explodes!)
(Everyone welcomes Daniel Bienvenu)
(Daniel Bienvenu throws a hot potato at Daniel Bienvenu.)
(Daniel Bienvenu slaps Daniel Bienvenu playfully)
(S enjoys the flowers.)
(A strange smell wafts around the room)
(An Adam tape drive whirs noisily.)
(The lights sudddenly go out)
(With a crash, a shelf full of books collapses.)
(Daniel Bienvenu hands Daniel Bienvenu a tissue.)
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changed username to George Daniel Bienvenu: HI! :) George: Hi Daniel George: I've been ill
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changed username to rich-c Daniel Bienvenu: Hello Rich! rich-c: george I am going to KILL you George: Hi Rich rich-c: \Hi Daniel, George George: Why? rich-c: george, what the hell was that attachment on your message? rich-c: it took me 20 minutes to download and chopked my spam filter George: pictures Daniel Bienvenu: pictures? rich-c: havent had time to look at it yet as I was already late coming on here George: it shouldn't rich-c: it's a zip file - what size is it? George: of the snow outside my apartment George: it says only 1 mb rich-c: well, I recognize snow is less usual in Philadelphia than it is here rich-c: in fact I've seen relative few photos of snowfall there rich-c: anyway on a dial-up modem one megabyte is a fairly hefty file to download - several minutes George: rare especially in early Dec. rich-c: yes, the weather here has also been notably chilly for early December George: did aol zip it? rich-c: usually the snow and deep chill hold off till nearer to Christmas rich-c: though Daniel can tell us another story on that - right Daniel? Daniel Bienvenu: me? Daniel Bienvenu: a story on what? rich-c: yep, you're our authority on early December snow, I'd reckon ;-) Daniel Bienvenu: Only a few centimeters of slow outside :) rich-c: anyway George, did you send teh file as a number of individual pictues? George: yes, i think five or six rich-c: sounds like us, Daniel; I'd have expected more in Quebec rich-c: what file format do you use for pictures? TIF? GIF? George: jpeg Daniel Bienvenu: No... and I suspect the *new* climatic situation rich-c: how far do you compress your jpegs, George? George: *.jpg rich-c: Daniel, our temperatures the last few weeks would be more suggestive of teh New Ice Age thesis! Daniel Bienvenu: I remember only one time when the snow stay on the ground a few days before chirstmas. George: aol changes it Daniel Bienvenu: Here? rich-c: OK George later I will look at it and we can discuss how to keep you out of everyone's bad books Daniel Bienvenu: During this week, the temperature here was between -20 and -10 George: no more attachments rich-c: oh wow, Daniel - that's 0F (for George's benefit) - we've been in the 0C range days and -5C overnight George: am I still on the Coleco mailing list? rich-c: attachments are easy to handle, George, but you need to know how rich-c: or as we've suggested before, get a new and better ISP ;-) rich-c: you should be, George; did you get messages about it being spammed today? George: no, i haven't got any emails for months Daniel Bienvenu: Subject: mucho spam arriving at coladam-list Daniel Bienvenu: I read it rich-c: well then I guess you aren't on the list and will have to ask Dr. D. to put you back on Daniel Bienvenu: and also the e-mail from James rich-c: OK hold on you tow while I read them - brb George: i tried to sighn up again but didn't get any response Daniel Bienvenu: Great! meteo for Quebec is: sunday -6, Monday -2, -1, -1 , ... rich-c: well, it's a pity Dr. D. isn't on right now as he could do it Daniel Bienvenu: it will be warmer ... but I suspect some snow too rich-c: maybe if he turns up later or we can tell him Wednesday George: my email is GWahl53937@aol.com rich-c: yes, Daniel, there does seem to be a warmer frontal edge moving your way rich-c: haven't had a chance to lok at the jet steam yet today Daniel Bienvenu: Wow! that's an e-mail address I can't remember. rich-c: well, just control-C it and paste it into a Notepad window George: they say we will be back to 57f by wed. with heavy to wash away the snow rich-c: Daniel, some day try weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca in the French version for your weather rich-c: yes, back into the banana belt, George George: heavy rain that is George: just another monsoon rich-c: funny - the year I was in grade 13, we wre able to take our phy ed out in the schoolyard right till Christmas break - it was warm enough for baseball rich-c: yet I can also recall standing on snow so cold it squeaked at the Santa Claus Parade about Nov. 15th rich-c: at the moment we are having problems because our house faces north rich-c: that means that any snow in the driveway and walks is in shadow and won't melt rich-c: the sun isn't high enough up in the sky to shine on it rich-c: the opposite side of our street is all clear of snow but we had to sweep the walk yesterday George: my apartment faces south rich-c: which way does your house face, Daniel? rich-c: tough in summer, but nice for now, George Daniel Bienvenu: West... but this way we have the sun in the house during all day George: in the summer it becomes an oven rich-c: our orientation means we get all the sun there is in our bedrooms Daniel Bienvenu: in our bedrooms, yes rich-c: yes, Daniel, you'll still get some morning light and maximum benefit of the warmest part of the day Daniel Bienvenu: but some bedrooms are on the west side George: both my livingroom and bedroom face south rich-c: I need a clear walk as I went out and tried to get into the van yesterday Daniel Bienvenu: "clear walk"? that means without aids, without help? rich-c: no, just walk without slippery spots or other treachery, Daniel rich-c: I did use my cane but more for safety than necessity Daniel Bienvenu: outside now it's slippery because the snow recover the ice. Daniel Bienvenu: we walk on snow and.. zoooooooooooooooooooo rich-c: yes, loose snow over re-frozen ice is absolutely deadly Daniel Bienvenu: AAAAaaaaahhhhh.... Daniel Bienvenu: BANG! rich-c: that I will not be able to cope with all winter rich-c: you're so right, and zoom - bang is not a luxury I can afford right now rich-c: but it was really easy for me to get into the van - not at all like a car George: i got a stripped down compaq deskpro 2000 for $34.00 US Daniel Bienvenu: this means that you will not be able to kill George then. :p rich-c: well, George is in Philadelphia whre the snow is much rarer rich-c: so soon as I'm able to drive, I can start thinking about it Daniel Bienvenu: yeah! but first, you have to go to your van. :) Daniel Bienvenu: hehe! rich-c: what do you think we should do about folks who send 20-minute downloads ;-) ? George: i'll send you a 650mb download rich-c: yes, but once I'm to the van, no problem getting in Daniel Bienvenu: my 56k modem will refuse sending or receiveing any files bigger than 5 Meg rich-c: just good leg on the running board, grab the steering wheel and door grip, and rotate my butt into the seat Daniel Bienvenu: yes, in your van, there is no problem... accept the road is slipery. rich-c: right - especially with the V-8 in there - it will spin the wheels if the road is just wet George: i downloaded a 820mb. file in 2 hours rich-c: sure, George, but you have a DSL connection which makes it easier Daniel Bienvenu: Before going to George, bring some CD-R. This way, you will be able to burn CDs of pictures before killing him. :p rich-c: anyway, I am going to try driving next Wednesday if the weathr permits rich-c: now there's a thought, Daniel! George: i also got a DVD+R writer Daniel Bienvenu: It was the first a chat session started with someone who want to kill someone else :) rich-c: yes, once I'm operational again, I plan to get one of those George: PH dvd300i George: oops thats HP dvd300i rich-c: you mean HP, I assume, George - think I've seen that advertised rich-c: actually Pioneer and a couple of others have dual-format = and - R/RW burners Daniel Bienvenu: The only HP I can buy now is the sauces. rich-c: they ae moe expensive but more flexible too rich-c: anyway, the idea of a total image backup on one disc really intrigues me George: mine does DVD+R/RW rich-c: yes, just the single format, which is why the price is cheaper rich-c: I think I will be inclined to pay the extra for the additional flexibility rich-c: I also plan to get an LCD monitor but not till my CRT one fails George: it works for my dvdrom drives George: CRT is gamers choice rich-c: oh, if the single format suits you no point is paying extra for something you don't need rich-c: yes, the CRT has a faster refresh rate, hasn't it? George: LCD gives slight delay rich-c: interesting - Videolink has online gaming contests every weekend on LCD panels George: plasma has burnin and shorter screenlife rich-c: seems the gamers are all very happy with the setup, just play all weekend rich-c: well, there are no plasma monitors, just big-screen TVs, that I've heard of George: it's still too slow catching on rich-c: well, since the tvs sell for something north of ten large, I'm not surprised George: so CRT will do rich-c: anyway, what's with the compaq 2000 stripper you were mentioning earlier? George: with 1080i or 720p rich-c: 1080i is a panasonic printer model - what's 720p? George: it has 256mb. of pc100 ram rich-c: what CPU, George? George: 1080 interlaced mode 720 progressive scan mode George: pentium 233mmx rich-c: oh, ok, you were talking about the tv, then rich-c: that would be an early PentiumII than; I don't think the original went over 166 rich-c: the ram must have been upgraded; is it shared with video? George: copaq has pentium 233mmx 256 mb pc100 ram 4mb s3 nitro 3D pci video addon rich-c: good gaming setup for its time, though don't try current games on it George: i know rich-c: but then you have quite a collection of games that date back that far, I believe George: yes rich-c: now you need to get the Adam emulator up and running and talk to Daniel about his new Colecovision games George: does he have simcity? rich-c: no, Daniel has written action games - ask him nicely and he'll tell you about his website where you can read about them Daniel Bienvenu: What? Simcity? for the Coleco? George: i would like to find smartbasic.rom rich-c: somehow or other I don't think a Colecovision would have the memory for a SimCity game rich-c: what? you mean just a ROM image of SmartBasic> George: check www.simcity.com George: yes smartbasic Daniel Bienvenu: I know what is Simcity. I have the first version of this simulator... but for the Commodore 64. George: i know simcity had a dos version rich-c: I have disc images (.dsk) of basic I believe; I can send them to you rich-c: didn't realize that, Daniel rich-c: but if it will run on the C64 then it can be ported to the Adam George: i have the windows95 version rich-c: C64 used its main memory for video output and also loaded Basic automatically I believe George: BRB rich-c: Adam leaves the OS optional (TDOS/CP/M/EOS) and has separate video memory rich-c: so a port of the C64 version with improvements should be possible rich-c: especially with your skills if you,re interested! rich-c: George, the disc images are on the way to you Daniel Bienvenu: I can't do a port for the Coleco even for the Coleco ADAM. rich-c: well since Colecovision programs run unmodified on the Adam, why would a port be needed? George: i'm back George: my body has a dead smell Daniel Bienvenu: Rich? you kill George? Daniel Bienvenu: :p George: it smells like i died George: or road kill rich-c: not yet, but wait till he gets my email <evil grin> George: email? what email? rich-c: I really have to find out how to make Adam disc images for myself rich-c: it's on the way, George, if AOL ever gets around to delivering it George: if they pass it rich-c: yes - all things being equal, I prefer an ISP like mine that will pass anything George: they reject a lot of stuff from microsoft rich-c: I think they might balk at an attachment in the half gigabyte range but anything reasonable is no problem rich-c: I think there is some sort of conflict between AOL's software and MSN's George: ok ill send a short mp3 650 mb collection rich-c: just notify me in advance so I can set up the computer to download it and go to bed George: for a few days rich-c: or I can wait till the Amiga meeting in January and download it on their cable line while I wait for Frances rich-c: just take a CD with me to burn rich-c: but you realize that it has to have the right music on it, or forget it George: i can see the sunset breaking through the clouds rich-c: by the way, Daniel - how are you doing for spam these days? rich-c: bit of pink in our sky too, I see Daniel Bienvenu: you mean how many spam I receive each day?... I'm not sure. I think it raise up to 20-25 rich-c: I was wondering because recently about 10% of my spam has been from Yahoo.fr rich-c: a few days ago I sent a note to their abuse address and have only had one yahoo.fr spam since rich-c: but in the meantime, the spam has gone up from 50-55 to 75-80 a day rich-c: my two diversion addresses have remained spam-free, though rich-c: I gave up on Hotmail when they screwed up their password routine Daniel Bienvenu: I think it's because of "december", "christmas" George: i only get 6 email spams a day Daniel Bienvenu: I've just received an e-mail from : "alex puskas " <alepus@spray.se> Daniel Bienvenu: "My name is Alex.. i've found your page and it is REALLY great..." rich-c: I'm surprised, though I've heard AOL filters are so tight you lose half your legitimate mail too George: huh? Daniel Bienvenu: "i'm thinking of trying to code something simple for the colecovision." rich-c: that doesnt sound like spam to me, Daniel - that could be legitimate rich-c: BINGO! Daniel Daniel Bienvenu: yes, it's a legitimate one... the only one for today on my newcoleco@yahoo.fr e-mail address George: where is se? rich-c: encourage him to come talk to us on one chat or the other rich-c: though I suspect Wednesday will be about 3 a.m. Swedish time George: great Daniel Bienvenu: "do have any suggestions? any books to read? I know some C. not much.. and/or if u have any sourcecode of simple stuff that you could send me.. ANY help is really apritiated." rich-c: let's see - he speaks Swedish, you speak French - but both have English as a lingua franca rich-c: the correspondence should be fun - but I'll you you'll find a way to make it work rich-c: he sounds like someone who should be told about Dr.D. , Dale, Guy, james and Jen George: who sent that virus? rich-c: which virus? the one spoofing a PayPal return address? George: no rich-c: well, which one, then? the PayPal is the only attack I've had this month George: how do you use dsk files? rich-c: in the Adam emulator - beyond that, you'll have to ask someone else rich-c: they are quite simply images of Adam discs George: i only know how to use rom files with .rom extension rich-c: those are images of cartridges rich-c: Daniel, can you explain further? I'm lost here rich-c: assume when you run ROM images you run in Colecovision emulator mode George: i thought smartbasic was also in a cart form rich-c: not officially, George, though one of the Walters twins did manage to burn it into a cart, I believe George: i have several books that talk about the smartbasic cart rich-c: since the chips in the cartridges were 32K and SmartBASIC is 29K it fit quite cleanly rich-c: in books I think they'd be using "cartridge" as a substitute for "cassette" rich-c: there was a tendency early on to do that for some reason rich-c: anyway, hold on a minute, George, while I look at your pictures George: yes, especially since both forms were used from onset rich-c: back - George, those photos were not only huge, they wre uncompressed rich-c: by the way I notice it was wet sticky snow - nice for snowball fights rich-c: did you use paper photos and scan or a digital camera? George: kodak eayshare cx-4200 George: digital rich-c: that doesn't answer the qustion - easyshare has digital from film or digital camera George: digital camera rich-c: OK, you took them with a digital camera, then rich-c: what photo editing software do you have? George: easyshare (tm) George: by kodak rich-c: that's all? no Adobe or Micrographix or Image Forge or any of the others? George: no rich-c: well, at least get Slowview and Irfanview - they're free and allow you some editing capabilites even if only a little rich-c: does Easyshare not allow you to control the image size or jpeg compression ratio? George: it is time to embrace highspeed technology if not they will not build it rich-c: what is that supposed to mean? George: no demand for it the the companies won't bother to upgrade George: why should they rich-c: not sure what you are getting at, George
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rich-c confirmed ban rich-c: yes, if you're quiet too long thchat or your ISP will drop you rich-c: sometimes either will drop you just for fun George: dsl is always on George: no idle worries rich-c: yes, handy - but also very handy for hackers and other attackers George: only if it is left unguarded rich-c: yes, if you have a really effective firewall you're pretty safe George: you can't hack this machine rich-c: or mine and for the same reason - you can't even find it George: exactly rich-c: anyway, gentlemen, it's getting on towards dinner time and I must soon away George: ok bye for now rich-c: George, I recommend you Google Irfanview and Slowview and download them rich-c: both are basically file viewers but they have other talents too you will like George: ok rich-c: so I'll be away - bye for now, Daniel and George George: back to the longhorn files rich-c: see you then Daniel B: Bye! George: bye
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