Note:<888>1/14/99 Thursday 8:30 P.M. EST: I found this Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Tweat program IE4 Tweakin' Tool . If you turn off the Favorites in the Start Menu with it, the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 @home interface does not load the Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites into your interface which can be lenghty if you have a definative group of Favorites like I do. However, using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 beta 2 in the @home interface, the Quick Time movies from CNN don't play, while they do with the Communicators Interface. Also I get a Java Script debug error when I close the program. Hopefully the finished version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 won't cause these problems with the @home interface. Today I was up at noon after recieving a call from @home inquiring as to whether I liked their service. I do like the @home service, and now that I have tweaked the system, it is everything that I expected. I went out about 2 P.M. after doing a little net work. I spent about fifteen minutes scraping the ice of my car windows when I went out. It was a light snowy, cold, and sleety day. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I was shown a local area network with Windows NT and for some reason my web site froze their network. Maybe somebody on a NT network should check it for me. Perhaps the Windows NT network did not have the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer or the right Java Virtual Machine. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop and bought a AT&T Model 1320 Answering machine for $5. They were closing early. I drove down by the waterfront and viewed the cold bleak shoreline. It looks pretty bleak today. I noticed a local Danish citizen was flying the American flag. I went by the Greenwich Library and checked out ten Broadway Music CDs, and a local teen working in the library recommend me check out "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy". I read the local paper. The library was going to close early at 5 P.M.. I chatted with a fellow in the parking lot who was near Mt. St. Helens when it blew up working at the Haneford Nurclear Reservation. He has a petented "Proven Liquid Oxygen Injection Oil Recovery Process" which sounds interesting. We chatted a bit about engineering. I heard on the NOAA weather radio, we are suppose to have "Flash Flood Warnings" tomorrow with a warming trend and rain causing local area flooding. I returned home and connected the AT&T answering machine. It took quite a while to figure out how to record a message, since it did not come with instructions. I had the operator call me back to check it. I had dinner of cold chicken with tabasco, baked potatoe, brocolli, ice tea, and regular coffee. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Lucent was up today, while everything else was down. Lucent is basically your "Optic Fiber" company. Well back to the net, I don't think I will be going out on this cold bleak night. Now anyone calling me while I am away from home, can leave a message on the answering machine for me to call back. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/14/99 Thursday 4:00 A.M. EST: I am doing routine work this morning. I had one small problem, I lost my Outlook 98 Address Book, but I had the contacts, so when I reinstalled it, the Address book came back. I made a backup of the address book to other directory and floppy. Well I am sifting though my email, and then I will go to bed. I recommend reading up on Optic Fibres at http://www.lucent.com . CIO

Note:<888>1/13/99 Wednesday 10:55 P.M. EST: I went out at 7 P.M., and it was beginning to sleet. I stopped by the library for an hour an read the local paper and PC Magazine. I could get a 333 MMX Cyrix Processor for my machine for about $100 if my motherboard goes at 83 MHZ, but since I do mostly web browsing, the 233 MMX is fine enough. I will wait until I can get a 500 MHZ Pentium III clone processor and motherboard for about $200 in about a year, if prices keep coming down. It was not too busy in the library and construction on the new addition seems to be progressing well. I then went down town at the lower Avenue stationary store across from Figaro, I bought buy two get one free of Kent Light 100s. I am still sneaking a few cigarettes a day, but I have cut back by about 80 percent. I then walked the lower avenue area. At 8 P.M. Starbucks was empty, but by 9 P.M., it was full. The Senior and Arts Center was busy. The restaurants were not too busy in the sleet storm. It let up a bit for a while, and the salt trucks were out. It is not advisable to go out on a night like tonight unless one absolutely has to. I then smoked a dark Manturo CVS factory made cigar at the Post Office plaza in the shelter of the portico. I read in the paper, that there is a shortage of one cents stamps to upgrade the old postage stamps, and there are long lines at the Post Office. I heard on the radio broadcast today, that Riverside now has a Food Emporium where the A&P use to be. I suppose they might also be open all night or at least late. I then walked the lower Avenue area again and then walked back up to the center of the Avenue. I returned to the car, and drove down to Steamboat Road and viewed the harbor. The houses on the Harbor are mostly darkened with people going to bed early. I then drove to the Exxon station next to the library and bought $11.65 of Premium at $141.9 a gallon. I noticed two long black stretch Lincoln limosines at the station, and they had just dropped off passengers here in town coming from Newark Airport, and the drivers said the roads were treacherous. All during the driving period, I was listening to the NOAA weather radio in my car, and they said one to two inches of sleet, ice, and snow by morning continuing through Thursday with possible warming near the shore turning to rain. I then stopped by the Grand Union. I bought two large 39 oz. cans of Chock Full of Nuts ground coffee for $4.99 each on sale at the half the price, less than half the price of beans, 8 bags of Raman noodles for $2, a bag of Florida Oranges about a dozen count for $1.99, 8 Grapefruit at 4 for .99 for $1.98, a head of Brocolli for $1.50, an a 15 oz. bottle of Kikoman Soy Sauce for $2.59 for a total of $20.04. I returned home slowly on the frosty roads about a half mile from the store. I remembered to leave my car door unlocked which is advisable during a ice or sleet storm. I put away the groceries. I made a cup of the Chock Full of Nuts coffee, cafe au lait style which I enjoyed with four Danish butter cookies. I am well stocked up on provisions. I got to thinking that the Red Cross should stock up on the Chock Full of Nuts coffee while, it is on sale. Each customer is allowed four cans to buy. The Red Cross also is down to a two days supply of blood, so they need doners in the area. I then filed this report. Well back to up all night on the net. I won't be doing any broadcasting for now, it is back to normal routine. Have a good early morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/13/99 Wednesday 6:30 P.M. EST: I had my early dinner and just finished cleaning up. I will check to see if the library is open. I have my long underware on. I updated Scott's Broadcast for this week sound.htm . I am just finishing making my weekly batch of icetea.htm . I will go out shortly for a while. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/13/99 Wednesday 4:30 P.M. EST: I am up finally for the day. We have rough weather coming into the area. I had breakfast of Cheerios, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cafe au lait at 9:30 A.M.. I will now have dinner of roast chicken, potatoe, brocolli, ice tea, and cafe au lait. I will update Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/13/99 Wednesday 11:10 A.M. EST: I put up a seperate Scott's SHOUTcast Broadcast Page scshout.htm . CIO

Note:<888>1/13/99 Wednesday 10:40 A.M. EST: After a four hour of Beatles Music this morning, I am rebroadcastng the Greenwich Radio Station WGCH FM. One links to it from Scott's ShoutCast Link on the sound.htm Broadcast Page. One needs the WinAmp Player to listen to it http://www.winamp.com . Well back to bed. CIO

Note:<888>1/13/99 Wednesday 5:15 A.M. EST: beatles1.htm Beatles Play List. CIO

Note:<888>1/13/99 Wednesday 5:10 A.M. EST: Up all night again. The ShoutCast Line In Plugin Plays from my microphone, so you can broadcast live. I downloaded a lot of Beatles MP3 files from "147.222.135.44". You have to use a FTP client to access them, but there are lots of other MP3 files besides the Beatles. I will go to bed with my computer on, broadcasting the Beatles with a link from my sound.htm Broadcast page for Shoutcast broadcast. I will see how it works in the day time, while I am asleep. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/12/99 Tuesday 10:30 P.M. EST: I went out at 7:30 P.M. and stopped by the library and read the local paper along with ComputerWorld. I went for a walk on lower Greenwich Avenue. I smoked a Old Greenwich CVS Factory made cigar at the Post Office Plaza. I chatted with an acquaintence. I retraced my steps and walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue again. It was a warm night for this time of year, and there were quite a few people out and about. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought two Ruby Red Tropicana half gallons for $2 apiece, GU 30 count Kitchen trash bags for $2.79, a gallon of Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers for $5.29, and a Cumberland Gap Hickory Smoked Ham at $2.49 a pound for $9.34 plus .17 tax for a total of $21.59. I returned home and put away the groceries. The computer was finished defragging. I had some Ramen noodles and goldfish crackers and ice tea for a light meal. Well back to the net. Have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>1/12/99 Tuesday 5:45 P.M. EST: I put the ShoutCast Demo link on the sound.htm Broadcast Page, so when I am broadcasting live occassionally, I can be linked from that page. I can broadcast live voice with ShoutCast from their server I believe, but I have not determined yet if the line input is from my microphone or my line in plug to the sound card or both. I could not get online with my second computer on phone ISP to the Shoutcast directory server http://yp.shoutcast.com to verify the output at this time of day, so I will have to wait and see. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm , it was down a bit today along with IBM and Microsoft. I also fixed a dinner of Purdue Oven Roaster chicken, brocolli, baked potatoe, ice tea, and cafe au lait. Well I will go out shortly for a little diversion. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/12/99 Tuesday 2:20 P.M. EST: Scott's ShoutCast Broadcast Demo, 33 MP3 Recordings Being Broadcast from Scott's Home Desktop Computer.http://yp.shoutcast.com/cgi-bin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?addr=24.228.18.154:8000&file=f.pls . I am cooking a Purdue chicken. CIO

Note:<888>1/12/99 Tuesday 1:20 P.M. EST: I have been configuring the http://www.shoutcast.com plugin for http://www.winamp.com . I have have it working and I am broadcasting on the internet MP3 music linked from SHOUTcast Directory search with the find command for "Scott" in that directory list to hear my audio selection. I was up at 8 A.M. this morning after going to bed at 11 P.M.. I had breakfast of HoneyNut Cheerios, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cafe au lait. I then started working with the ShoutCast audio setup. Well enjoy the listening. I have it set on low baud rate, and basically with it going, I only have enough resources to run it and my web browser. Well time to clean up. CIO

Note:<888>1/11/99 Monday 8:25 P.M. EST: I chatted with Optimum Online tech support that handle the @home tech support which are two different service connections offered in different areas of Connecticut by Cablevision. They advised me in MS Internet Explorer, Internet Options, Connections, Lan Settings, To turn off "Use Automatic Script Configuration", which turns off the proxy script, which you don't need if you don't use the @home content much. I did this and on their test download page Download Optimum Online Login Agent , I downloaded the Netscape 4.05 or 4.08 file getting up to 325 Kbytes a second, of course other slower sites are not as fast. I am still having trouble uploading to my two servers with FTP, but that is probably because of traffic. The IBM dialer which I still have does get through at a slower speed. I also tweeked one of my setting in this page PH Net - Cable Modems , I set the DefaultRcvWindow= to 186880 which seems to be ten percent faster than the 64240 I was using tested on the @home download test page. I also set in the same setting area "DefaultMSS to 1460 instead of the 1112 default that my machine had, which makes a big difference. I had already done this. Of course the earlier mentioned MAXMTU has to be 1500, and in Win98 I did not have MAXMSS, instead the other DefaultMSS. Well I can speed up the next, but by eliminating the "Use Automatic Script Configuration" my machine went ten times faster on the download test page. Thus I guess I have it pretty much tweaked to the limit. Mike the Tech Rep who helped me had his own gaming page, you might find interesting HAWK The Ultimate Clan.. Welcome . Thanks to the Islanders who are also a bit chilly. Well back to the net. I might be up all night again. CIO

Note:<888>1/11/99 Monday 5:00 P.M. EST: I was up at 8 A.M. this morning after going to bed at 2 A.M.. I had breakfast of HoneyNut Cheerios, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cafe au lait. I cleaned up and showered. I read tech sites until 12:30 P.M. when the apartment inspector showed up. He toured the apartment and I chatted with him about tech. I went out at 1 P.M. and toured the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I bought a metal steamer for vegtables for $1.25, everything is half price. I drove down Greenwich Avenue and viewed the cold blustery day on Long Island Sound from Steamboat Road. There was a high of about 25 degrees F. today. I stopped by the Town Hall on an errand. I stopped by the Greenwich Library, but this weeks computer press was not yet in. I went by the Grand Union and I bought 16 bags of Ramen noodles of various flavors for about $4 priced from .22 to .25, two Tropicana Grove Stand half gallons for $2 apiece, two Morrell Honey flavored bacon for $1.50 apiece, Stauffer's frozen Lasagna for $2.99, Angostora bitters 4 oz. for $2.99, two large boxes of Kelloggs corn flakes for $1.50 each, a pound of GU Mozzarella for $2.69, a Purdue Whole Roaster at .79 a pound for $5.83, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter $1.29, a gallon of GU whole milk for $3.09, a head of brocolli for $1.50, 6 cans of Chicken of the Sea Chunk lite tuna for $2 all, a five pound bag of Russett potatoes for $1.99, a box of Clementines for $3.99, for a total of $42.31. I then went back to the bank for some more money since the ATM did not work at the Grand Union and returned to the Grand Union and bought a Tony's Supreme 4 Cheese pizza for $3.99, a sale item of a gallon of Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers for $5.29 for a total on the second order of $9.28. I then returned home and put away the groceries. I had a bowl of Ramen noodles with soy sauce, Fresh Florida Fruit, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers, ice tea and regular coffee. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm which was down quite a bit today. Well have a good evening, stay warm. CIO

Note:<888>1/10/99 Sunday 11:30 P.M. EST: I restored the old September 1998 bios to my computer that I had a copy of. The new bios that I tried was a bit buggy. I went out for a walk about 6 P.M.. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue, and smoked a Java Factory made cigar at the Post Office plaza. I returned home and watched a little television and chatted with family members. I just finished doing my laundry. I have my annual apartment inspection tomorrow, so I have to be ready for them by 12:30 P.M.. There is not a lot to report on the internet, I have been looking at @home content. Well back to the net, it is going a bit faster now for a change. CIO

Note:<888>1/10/99 Sunday 3:55 P.M. EST: I went to bed after the movie last night at 9 P.M.. I was up at 8:30 A.M. this morning after a good rest. I had breakfast of HoneyNut Cherrios, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cafe au lait. I went back to bed after a tired spell set in until noon. I got up and started watering the plants and cleaning the apartment. Part way throught this I decided to upgrade the CMOS on my computer. I downloaded one of two CMOS updates from BIOS & Drivers for my particular MB-571 motherboard. Bios V 7.0 did not work on my system since it crippled the floppy drive controller which was quite a pain. I had to do a safe command prompt boot and install the other Bios V 3.2 (A) which works fine. V 7.0 inabled a infared port which I don't have. V 3.2 (A) brough up my screen in a smaller picture which I was able to correct by adjusting the monitor setup to a larger size. It seems a little bit more responsive. I finished cleaning the apartment and watering the plants about 3 P.M.. I just finished a Tony's Pizza with ice tea and regular coffee. I have to clean up next, and I will probably go out for a short walk after that just after sun down. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/09/99 Saturday 6:00 P.M. EST: Quiet Saturday. Internet going slowly. I am going to watch "Islands in the Stream" on Channel 45 with George C. Scott starting now at 6 P.M.. On AMC American Movie Classics. CIO

Note:<888>1/09/99 Saturday 1:20 P.M. EST: Well I went to bed at 9 P.M. last night. I was up at 5 A.M. and had breakfast of HoneyNut Cheerios, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cafe au lait. I went back to bed until 9 A.M.. I watched a bit of the computer shows on the SciFi channel. I showered and cleaned up and went out about 11 P.M.. I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, I drove downtown and had a Almond Danish I bought at St. Moritz bakery and ate it in front of the senior center. I bought a Mona Lisa Lottery ticket which I did not win. I went by the Greenwich library and read the local paper. I chatted with a local about Florida in the old days. I returned home and filed this report. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good day. It is pretty gloomy out there, but at least it rained and we only have slush left. CIO

Note:<888>1/08/99 Friday 5:30 P.M. EST: HUSKY - Healthcare for UninSured Kids and Youth , Greenwich Housing , and Welcome to...Taft Sports . Three local Connecticut links you might find useful. CIO

Note:<888>1/08/99 Friday 5:10 P.M. EST: For a taste of Scotland, a slightly different rendation of the Greenwich Country Day School theme song, better known as "Scotland the Brave" click on this link about doings up in the Highlands. I am still maintaining usual quiet routine. http://www.scottish.internetradio.co.uk:90/ramgen/pres1.rm . Well since the Scotish Oil is pretty hard to extract from the sea, we might think about saving some it. I suppose if Scotland is to become a seperate country, and since the Scotish are well known for their frugality, I could continue to maintain my present duties and also assume the post as Scottish represenative to the United Nations, not to mention it would add another friendly vote at the U.N., of course I can't afford or be bothered traveling into New Amsterdam, so I would have to see about using some sort of other communications like a couple of dixie cups and a string, to see if that worked better. It seems to me that the real "Old Guard" might descend upon us, not this recent group of makeshift pretenders. Of course, I am not sure if anyone is left in Nathaniel Witheral for all I know they escaped on the Queen Mary to warmer ports of call. Keep an eye on the real Old Guard, whom we don't see too much of anymore. Well I am confused why the broadcasts are not live, but I suppose they can't afford Real Audio servers in the Eastern Hemisphere or it would take up too much band width. Not much happening as far as I can tell, but it has been a quiet day, and I am beginning to slow down in this neck of the woods. Keep a keen eye out for any stray wolves that might have drifted down from the North Woods. As I have told you many times before, there is a wolf den or briar patch at Tod's Point, which means the wolf is use to returning to that patch of land. It is a mighty animal with senses keener than man, so I suppose it will be prowling our neck of the woods. Yeh the Orange wolf, not the grey timber wolf. I have a feeling it is back. Well so much for nature stories. I guess a Russian or Irish wolf hound might be handy if such is the case. Back to square one. CIO

Note:<888>1/08/99 Friday 2:50 P.M. EST: Merry Christmas in the Russian Orthodox Christian Calender, click on http://www.wrn.org/audio/1700_usa.ram to listen to the English Broadcast from Russia. Well it sure looks like Russian Christmas outside the way things are beginning to shape up, look at the satellite photo GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SERVER - VISIT OFTEN! to check out the current snow front. Merry Christmas, Michael.

Note:<888>1/08/99 Friday 1:50 P.M. EST: I am staying inside today. We started to get snow about noon. We have about an inch of snow at the moment. Arthur our trusty building custodian is keeping a close eye on the snow in case it starts falling hard, but he goes home at 4 P.M., and remember I am on a day schedule, so I will be going to bed about 9 P.M.. I spent the morning and early afternoon reading @home newsgroups about cable modem service. I searched the words "Cable Modem" at Yahoo and read up a bit on them. I also called Cablevision and am spending an extra $5 a month for some of the Optimum family service instead of the basic service, so I will get a few rerun movie channels which might enhance ones television viewing experience. It is my contention that since I am paying around $75 a month for Optimum Online Cable Modem and the Optimum Online Cablevision, I should get all the premium packages thrown into the package at that rate, particulary since their cable service is not really as fast as they claim most of the time during the waking hours. Well lets wait and see what the FCC determines about this network of events. Well time for lunch. CIO

Note:<888>1/08/99 Friday 8:25 A.M. EST: I finished my email. If you want to listen to the BBC, click the third Loch Ness Monster on my Homepage, and that will bring up the radio link to the BBC. BBC stands for "British Broadcasting Corporation" or "Auntie B". I believe they have their headquarters in Bush House, but you have to remember in World War II, they use to send out cryptic messages to Field Agents in the Underground to advise them on their various cladstine affairs. I suppose today, they are more commercial. Well it is a grey sky outside, as I sit here in my Long Johns trying to ward off the morning chill, one gets use to the morning chill, and remember as the day progresses, it generally gets warmer until sunset. Not much happening, I thought I might try some of the internet communications programs. Iphone usually works despite their voyeur audience, whereas the Microsoft Netmeeting Server out there in Redmond, is hard to reach and is frequently busy with a large Asian audience of users. Well a grey day for Green Town. CIO

Note:<888>1/08/99 Friday 6:50 A.M. EST: I went to bed at 8 P.M. last night and was up at 5 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of HoneyNut Cheerios, Toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cafe au lait. I listened to a bit of the BBC's broadcast on the internet, they tend to have a EURO sense of humour that is a bit different. I suppose it comes from Europeans indulging in various alcoholic drinks more frequently, since they don't drive automobiles as much over there, so they don't have to be aware on restrictions on drinking and driving. I guess in less developed countries where there are fewer automobiles, people actually drink more to ward off the cold weather during the winter. Still it is part of their culture, which only recently has had the automobile introduced to their part of the world. So if you see any tipsy travelers from the other side of the pond, remember they are not use to the velocity of automobile traffic in our neck of the woods. Yesterday I noticed the daytime drivers particularly do not pay any attention to pedestrian traffic in the area as they come barelling into the local area. I remember one college classmate who is now a district attorney in Colorado who used to wear Harley Davidson motorcycle boots with steel plates, and whenever a car almost hit him as a pedestrian, he would give it a good quick kick. Of course he was young and quick in those days, and I don't think he would be up to that anymore. Well anyway be respectful of Pedestrians, particulary since they might be important visitors. I dare say, we could blockade the town, and eliminate all automobile traffic, but that would create a security problem for emergency vehicles. Well I cleaned up, and surfed my daily work links scotwork.htm . I now will sift through my email. Well have a good day, and keep a weather eye out for any snow that might have been forecast. CIO