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keesan
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response 50 of 269:
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Apr 14 00:51 UTC 2002 |
To change password, read about how to upload a webpage, or join the discussion
forum go to member.home.pages.at and then to the frame navi.
There are about 10 forums - feedback, bugs, jokes, HTML and another computer
forum, classifieds, jokes, general.
Individuals can use all of thiss for free but for businesses they have a price
list.
Once you have managed to sign up you don't need German to ftp things to your
home page or read and send email (have not checked the email, actually and
it may only be POP not webmail).
If you change your password 6 char is not long enough, but 8 is.
What other discussion forums have other grexers tried recently?
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keesan
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response 51 of 269:
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Apr 14 01:15 UTC 2002 |
I was able to ftp to home.pages.at, give my login and password, and upload
an index.htm in a jiffy. Maybe grex was being slow before.
This is the closest thing to grex that I have found which offers free webpages
and it gives you 25M with photos allowed. I can help anyone interested with
the signup. Their equivalent of WHO showed 5 other members and one guest
logged on, from Berlin, Wien, and other German-speaking places.
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keesan
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response 52 of 269:
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Apr 14 01:33 UTC 2002 |
Codename.com requires that you have javascript in order to read your mail.
It flunks the grex-only text.
home.pages.at let me read my mail, delete it, answer it, and mark it read.
I did not see any obvious way to forward it. I could receive an attachment
(downloadable) which was marked as to name, type of encoding, size, etc. More
info than you get at Yahoo.
I would give this system a 9, and if they can fix it to recognize .org email
addresses, a 10.
The webmail system says it is under development and all you can do so far is
read the mail. Perhaps soon you can also forward it. I think I spotted the
word in German for forward but did not look it up and it did not do anything.
Webmail has no ads and goes much faster (now that grex has speeded up) than
the graphics-heavy yahoo webmail.
Unlike my ISP, I do not have to switch to public_html every time I want to
upload something to my webpage.
No mention of telnetting to the site.
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mdw
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response 53 of 269:
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Apr 14 01:57 UTC 2002 |
Yahoo is probably collecting that information so they can sell your
e-mail address to spammers.
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response 54 of 269:
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Apr 14 13:14 UTC 2002 |
FWIW, i never got spam at my grex address until i once gave it to yahoo.
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keesan
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response 55 of 269:
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Apr 14 13:30 UTC 2002 |
They used the email address to send me the code and the password. I wrote
asking them to add .org to the list of possible email addresses. I think I
also made the mistake of giving yahoo my email address once, but I never get
any spam at yahoo mail.
The new hardware at home.pages went in March 12, with promises to have it all
working by March 14. By far the most popular conference was Bugs and Probs.
Jokes has 3 entries and Classifieds has 1. The latest Bug response was March
14 - and most of the previous ones complained of things like Disk Full Cannot
Upload messages. SOunds like the old grex. I still have not figured out how
they are providing thousands of free webspaces and email accounts but perhaps
they hope to attract some business this way.
The author of Lynx looked at the Geocities signup page and suggests that you
download it and modify it and submit the modified version instead, with Other
as job title. I have not tried this yet.
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Since they use javascript to decide which options to give you, there
isn't any way to make it work directly. You can make it work if you
download the source code for the signup page and modify it yourself
before submitting. As an example, I downloaded the page and added
the option for job title being "Other" (number "47"). With this, it
doesn't ask for specialization. I am attaching the modified page. You
can change it as you wish. Just access it as a local file with the
"file://c:/path/geocit.htm" type of URL, then submit. I think it will
work. If you want to give them accurate information, change or add the
option for the job title that you want (take from the sample arrays of
titles in the source code).
They are certainly not being friendly to text mode browsers. They may
know that, since they make their money on the ads that lynx doesn't
show.
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keesan
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response 56 of 269:
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Apr 14 13:54 UTC 2002 |
The modifed geocit.htm file sent me was corrupted. I have downloaded the
original at /a/k/e/keesan/geocit.htm - what line am I supposed to add the
option for job title to? I can also choose to be a venture capitalist, or
a mayor. Why would someone want to give them accurate information when it
requires jumping through these hoops?
There is now such a thing as a gaming engineer.
I suppose I am a small business owner - would they then sell my name to the
Nigeria spammers?
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keesan
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response 57 of 269:
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Apr 14 21:58 UTC 2002 |
Pkunzip was corrupted. I think I cannot simply use that file, I would have
to make the same modification to whatever was posted currently if I were to
be able to see the secret image (word). In his file if you select Other for
occupation you are then offered Other for Title but still all blanks for
Specialization. I dont' have time to learn to write javascript now.
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keesan
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response 58 of 269:
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Apr 15 01:52 UTC 2002 |
The image of the word to enter while registering had a name about 120
characters long but I checked that it was typed correctly. 'We're sorry but
no image is currently available'. ??
While Jim was up on a ladder in a tree, a neighbor with a car stopped to ask
us a question. A friend gave her a computer that Reuse Ann Arbor would not
take off her hands for free, where could she recycle it. We said to bring
it over and we might be able to use some parts. It turns out to be faster
than any other computer anyone has given us, larger hard drive (1.5M, 120MHz
Pentium with Win95, sound card and CD-ROM drive, dated 1995) so I might try
putting Realaudio on it. Don't need 1.5G for DOS. Also has some version of
WORD and Adobe for use in absolute emergencies. So now people are throwing
out 120MHz Pentiums - and what else?
We will recycle our two empty boxes from the bad 486 4M RAM boards.
Jim notes that the computer has a heat sink and a fan but neither are
connected. It runs anyway. No heat sink grease. We might upgrade it to 32M
and 16-bit sound.
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mdw
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response 59 of 269:
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Apr 15 02:17 UTC 2002 |
Perhaps she got rid if it because it crashes or gets slow after it's
been on a while. I've heard rumours that some versions of the pentium
actually do have heat sensors on chip -- so instead of getting hot
enough to fry an egg, it just slows way down.
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keesan
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response 60 of 269:
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Apr 15 02:39 UTC 2002 |
We can easily replace the cpu with a 133MHz that does not crash.
I just succeeded in signing up the friend at Geocities, using the modified
file which offered Other for title and allowed a blank for Specialization.
First I had to substitute (typed 150 char or so) today's secret jpeg word for
yesterday's, which no longer was available. The friend was no longer here
so, though he is about 25, I put him down for my birthday in 1950, occupation
other, title other, interests (for ads) 'alternative lifestyle'. He is going
to be one of the two master gardeners at a federally subsidized Rudolf Steiner
biodynamic method 'village' for 120 'villagers' with things like Down
Syndrome, who are growing most of their own food and also maple syrup. This
seems alternative to me. You can read about his adventures (once I teach him
how to use <p> at www.geocities.com/davekling2. I set up index.htm - what
commands would he want other than <p> for a text-only site? I will post
a couple of digital photos that we took of him yesterday and geocities does
not allow links to other sites any more so no need to learn to link.
Maybe <hr> and <br>? Title body html are already there for him.
The Rudolf Steiner group requires things like prayer sessions and they stir
their special compost counter (?) clockwise a certain number of times during
the full moon, which the friend thinks is nuts but if someone wants to start
a place like this for religious reasons, let them, it is a good service.
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mdw
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response 61 of 269:
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Apr 15 04:20 UTC 2002 |
You might want to try fixing the CPU fan first.
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keesan
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response 62 of 269:
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Apr 15 12:24 UTC 2002 |
I think Jim did that - it was not plugged in or not attached.
The previous user was using about 200M out of 1.5G, for Win95 and WORD and
Adobe 2.1. I have all my DOS software stored in about this space, in as many
as 6 copies of some of it.
I have set WP51 to print with the Epson LQ2550 definition from 1990, on the
Canon, via the second printer port (in the Hercules Plus mono card).
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keesan
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response 63 of 269:
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Apr 15 17:45 UTC 2002 |
The fan/heatsink combination was not attached or greased. It is now.
I just discovered that neither Arachne nor Newdeal browsers can access
member.home.pages.at. Arachne does not do https: but Newdeal does.
Lynx works fine for the mail at home.pages (2.8.4 or later).
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keesan
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response 64 of 269:
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Apr 15 20:05 UTC 2002 |
Only Jim can turn this computer on - when I push the little stub that is all
that is left of the power switch it goes on, and when I remove my finger it
goes off. Jim says you have to double click. He is adding memory to the 1M
S3 video card. It has an off-brand Chinese 16-bit sound card. We found a
cover for the bay where something was probably removed. The computer has
WORD97. We will install Netscape 4.08 and Realaudio (7?) and possibly have
classical music on weekends.
Does it matter if you add 60 ns or 70 ns video RAM to a board that has 70 ns
RAM on it? Jim says the 70 ns stuff 'makes a noise'. It came from something
that did not work.
The sound card does not do wave-table synthesis, which I think is used only
for playing MIDI files, but is 16-bit. Is 16-bit better for playing Realaudio
and wav files than 8-bit, if you are doing the mono version due to slow modem?
Jim hopes to run a 400' phone line down the block to our second phone line
at the building site.
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gull
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response 65 of 269:
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Apr 15 20:23 UTC 2002 |
Sometimes you can get away with mixing memory speeds, sometimes you
can't. It depends on the hardware.
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keesan
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response 66 of 269:
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Apr 15 21:10 UTC 2002 |
It worked both ways after he unbent the pins on the 70 chips.
The fan was not moving after he put it onto the cpu. He fixed a broken wire.
The fan may have fallen off during transportation.
It says to run a surface scan which we are doing now.
McAfee says no viruses.
Are people actually throwing out computers like this now if they have nothing
wrong with them? 1995, I guess that is obsolete for electronics.
We discovered that one of our monitors goes to 1600 resolution. Not too
helpful for reading text on a 14" monitor but maybe it will display pdf files
in more readable form. Except my pdf program goes only to 1024. The image
viewer can do more than this.
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keesan
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response 67 of 269:
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Apr 15 21:23 UTC 2002 |
Jim Dyslexic is running scandisk on all three partitions: C, D, E and F.
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oval
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response 68 of 269:
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Apr 16 00:14 UTC 2002 |
why do you keep calling him jim dyslexic?
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jep
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response 69 of 269:
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Apr 16 02:14 UTC 2002 |
C, D, E, F looks like 4 partitions to me.
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keesan
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response 70 of 269:
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Apr 16 11:15 UTC 2002 |
#69 is the answer to #68. Jim Deigert - Jim D(yslexic).
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keesan
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response 71 of 269:
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Apr 16 13:37 UTC 2002 |
Sometimes also known as Jim Digger. Today is the big day - we tried out the
printer and discovered that this is the one with the probably empty black
cartridge. Try again another day. It is also the day that we are switching
to pentiums, or at least Jim is switching from the nice IBM 486 that he got
from Bruin. The floppy and hard drives and the sound card and CD-ROM drive
are being combined with a motherboard from Tpryan's neighbor and a video card
from somewhere or other that does more than 256 colors (got to remmember to
adjust the software - which we set to greyscale instead for better results).
Five more ribbons ready for reinking again - you are supposed to not let them
get too light as the ink lubricates the ribbon.
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keesan
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response 72 of 269:
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Apr 16 15:25 UTC 2002 |
Can anyone recommend a non-graphical boot manager, shareware, for letting us
boot a Win95 computer in DOS without having to hit F8 while booting or boot
from floppy disk?
Jim discovered that the power switch of the case into which he installed the
5x86 (pseudo-pentium in a 486 board) is broken, AFTER he flattened the empty
case with the good switch. So he fixed the switch.
He would like to know if there is something he is supposed to set in CMOS to
let the computer know about wait states for 70 or 60 ns RAM.
We just recycled all the 80 ns RAM (30 pin) and most of the other 30 pin 1M.
And three 1.2M 5 1/4" floppy drives. And three cases. And the last 40M
drive.
What is the proper answer to: parallel port modes - SPP, EPP or ECP?
IDE block mode and 32 bit transfer mode - disabled or enabled?
The new computer will not boot - I suggested this is because the 500M drive
which is not bootable is the master and the old one is the slave.
Or it might be because the floppy drive with the boot disk in it is connected
upside down........
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drew
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response 73 of 269:
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Apr 16 17:37 UTC 2002 |
Re #72:
LILO should do the trick. You'll need to have Linux available, at least
on floppies (boot and root disks), and might need to put a separate DOS
system on a second primary partition (not logical/extended) if you want to
boot plain DOS.
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keesan
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response 74 of 269:
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Apr 16 18:23 UTC 2002 |
Thanks for the info about DOS on a separate primary partition. Jim was
actually looking for just a way to keep WIn95 from taking over, without having
to learn LINUX. There is supposedly some change you can make to a file.
The power supply attached to the bad switch was making rf noise (a test is
to listen to WKAR at 101.5) which is an indication that it would also mess
up a modem. The radio was at the other end of the room. So her replaced it.
Put another jumper on the master drive, booted, and it cannot find the files
on the secondary drive and gives a CMOS checksum error now. It is not
identifying the correct drives somehow. Run failure. THis is fun ?
It finds both drives but cannot find the files on the second one. He cannot
describe the problem until he analyzes it a bit more.
I found 7 DOS boot managers for booting from multiple OSs but I don't think
we really need anything that complicated to bypass Win95. Can you run normal
DOS programs on the DOS that comes with Win95?
If only that Pentium had not come along while he was up in the plum tree we
might have had the grafting done by now.
Repeated CMOS checksum failures by turning on the computer. Is this a
motherboard problem? We were given the motherboard from Tim's neighbor.
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