Note:<888>02/28/00 Monday 7:45 P.M. EDT: Well I had more lasagna and ice tea for lunch. I relaxed around a bit, and I chatted with a family member. I went downtown and 2:30 P.M., and I stopped by the Grand Union. I returned the Maxwell House French Roast coffee for $2.99, and I bought two 28 ounce bottles of Perrier for $2.94. I noticed they have whole Purdue chickens for .79 a pound. It was quiet busy as usual. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop, and they will be closed a few days in the beginning of March, so they can get ready for their cruise collection. I drove down by CVS, and I picked up an order. I stopped by the Greenwich Town Hall, and I told them they should buy more GMCs and another appointment. I drove down by the waterfront, and it was busy. I drove over to CVS in Old Greenwich, and I bought a pack of Phillie Naturals for $1.64. I stopped by Tod's Point, and I observed the clouds from the Southwest parking area. They all look very ominous. I drove by the Hyatt Hotel, and the Bank of New York Money machine is still working. I noticed Lever Brothers is giving a training course there. I went by Staples, and I noticed they have a couple of Microsoft Games there for sale for $5 in the clearence area. I checked with them, and one can buy Windows 2000 Professional Edition for $149.99 plus 6% Ct. sales tax. I might stop by there tomorrow morning and buy a copy. There is a cheaper standard edition, but it is not available at Staples in Old Greenwich. I guess I can starve a little and try to get the Windows 2000 operating system installed, but with volcanos and sun spots, I am not sure if any neutrons might reek havoc. I then stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted about the sun spots, volcanoes, and radiation poisoning. I noticed it was quite busy as usual. I returned home, and I chatted with a local artist. I noticed they have the heat on in the community room for a change, but it is still cold outside. I had some lasagna and ice tea for dinner. Well not much else happening. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>02/28/00 Monday 10:40 A.M. EDT: Well I went to bed at midnight. I was up at 9 A.M.. I had breakfast of Lasagna, ice tea with orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I am trying to use up the Lasagna before it goes bad. I updated scottpc01.htm for a reference to the equipment I am using. The overall computer system seems to be running fine, and it does not seem to have any problems. Well the heat was too hot in the apartment this weekend. It was up to 80 degrees F., instead of 70 degrees F.. The French thermoiter is broken at 70 degeees F. instead of the Iodine thermometer is 80 degrees F., so I turned down the heat. I recently advised a resident at a friends house in Long Island, that they can turn on the heat in the Mother In Law apartment, by opening up the little stainless steel pressure relief valve on the end of the long 20 foot cast iron radiator in the garage apartment, by sliding the tiny little lever on the end of the radiator by the garage apartment entrance. I believe I put a little 3 inch by 4 inch hole in the side panel of the bookcase, so one could let out the air in the radiator with by sliding the little lever from left to right. If the stainless steel valve is clogged, one could go to Wright Brothers hardware store in Manhassett, Long Island and probably find the same device there. One would have to turn off the steam radiator and use a pair of pliers to turn it off, and replace it. I put it on with Teflon tape, so it should come off easily with a few quick turns. That project was finished in January 1983, so I have not spent much time there except once a couple years later to putting in a door from the garage apartment bathroom to the main house. I assumed they had heat in the apartment all along. I knew one of the former residents use to go to Tabago, so I assumed if they returned in mid winter, they would want a warmer apartment. Basically the apartment is so well insulated with the radiator working properly, one could grow orchids in the apartment. Also along with all the other changes, I cut out the termite damage in the base sills of the apartment, and I installed new pressure treated 4"X4" base plates, and poured in cement underneath them. Thus over these years with the train running by, it would have settled on the new cement and new pressure treated base plates, so at least the garage apartment would not shake any more. I don't know about the main house where the furniture is in the basement. Well the lady in the house said she knew Billy Baldwin, so I assumed she expected some sort of simple fix on the house, and nothing too elaborate. Well have a good day, and don't take any wooden nickles. CIO

Note:<888>02/27/00 Sunday 10:55 P.M. EDT: Well I did my house cleaning today and watered the plants. I discussed the volcanic activity in the Phillipines with a number of family members and associates. I suppose will have to wait and see what happens. I suppose if the volcano in the Phillipines goes up soon which I expect it will, there will be a large radioactive flash felt around the world. A lot of natural systems will be disturbed along with man made systems. More than likely the best thing for those whom are far enough away is sit quietly in their homes and relax. Far enough is a matter of relavance. I suppose the west coast of California, the west coast of North America, the west coast of Latin America, the west coast of South America, the east coast of Asia and Australia, and the a great many island formations in between might be threatened by tidal wave or sunmai activity of the major erruption when it happens. It could also trigger earth quakes in that region. On the other side of the globe I heard there was an erruption in Iceland, so I would assume that any volcanic range or mountain or island group in the world might threatened, since it seems that the intense solar flare activity just starting to be produced this year will and probably most likely triger similar volcanic activities in other regions of the world. Here locally although we are not close to a volcano, we have to worry about the Atlantic Rift zone in the middle of the Atlantic which could errupt and threaten the eastern North America, South America, Latin America, island formations, and western European and Africa and their island formations. Thus if nothing major happens we will be lucky. I am advising local people here despite our pleasent weather recently, next winter will be severely cold for this region, but possibly not much snow since severe cold frequently does not mean cold. In the New York City metrolpolitan region we can expect temperature down to 50 degrees below zero, with an average temperature during the winter from 0 degrees F. to 40 degrees F. with a great many days never going above 20 degrees F.. I suppose we will find out about the anticipated snow levels when it happens. I would imagine the summer will be cooler, and the amount of participation in the summer might indicate how much we will get in the winter. I suppose those anticipating heading towards warmer regions in the southern regions and the Carribean will have to wait out the hurricane season if one develops. It is hard to plan ahead until the intensity of the actual event occurs. I am not an expert on climate forecast, I am just giving a quick summary based on my knowlege of reading a number of internet sites and my own personal historical experience. I had the Lasagna and ice tea three times today also, and I have been relaxing a bit. Well have a good evening, and I probably will go to sleep soon. Have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>02/27/00 Sunday 11:30 A.M. EDT: Judging from what I know all personnel including United States Navy personnel should evacuate the island of Manilla in the Phillipines including Subac Bay Navy station and all United States and Commonwealth delegations should leave the island immediately. Put you bloody ships out to sea. MIKE CIO

Note:<888>02/27/00 Sunday 11:00 A.M. EDT: I had my server hacked into and crashed by "gates086.beachlink.com" which is run by www.beachlink.com which is run by www.myway.com out of Andover, Massachussetts. It sounds like George Bush and his Andover prep school friends got together with the Mafia and Frank Sinatra and are causing this problem. More than likely the "gates086.beachlink.com" is Bill Gates or one of his imposter associates. Thus I think it is safe assume the hackers are coming out of the Andover Prep school or some facility near by like Fort Devans Military Intelligence post near Lowell, Massachussetts or Digital Computer owned by Compac Computer. I would say the Federal Communications commission could round them all up give them some vacation time, since a great many people whom go to establishment schools end up doing jail time. I also last Thursday saw the internet leading Civilian weather directory expert out of the University of Michigan. Well not much else happening. I was up at 9 A.M., and I had breakfast of my home made lasagna and ice tea and a shot glass of orange juice since it is so strong. I am not bothering with coffee since with a solar flare you really don't need coffee. Well have a good day. I will now do my usual house cleaning. CIO

Note:<888>02/27/00 Sunday 12:10 A.M. EDT: Well I did pretty much nothing today but relax for a change. Possibly my system is messed up because they're putting orange juice concentrate in the fresh Florida orange juice cartons instead of fresh orange juice. This is actually a bargain since one can dilute it with water and have a similar taste. I would recommend 3 to 1 parts water to orange juice concentrate. As usual some lame brain down in Florida is not watching his orange juice quality control. On the volcano event Orange is the highest state of elert which means erruption is emminent. I recommend evacuating all personnel at least 200 miles or 320 kilometers from this event. All I know is the Reuters news report. Please be safe and evacuate at least that distance quid pro quo or as fast as possible. I made up two batches of bumble bee tuna lasagna with home made tomatoe speghetti sauce, two cans of tuna, a box of Ronzoni lasagne, and a jar of Ragu alfredo sauce which looks pretty tasty. After cooling it a bit, I put it in the refrigertor to chill and set. I am a bit tired, and I find it necessary to try to get a bet of rest. Please have a quiet evening, and exercise all caution and withdraw from the epicenter of the volcanic event. With sun spots going on these events could continue on for a while. Pax Vobiscum. Traditionally during lent some religions don't eat meat, so if you're accustomed to eating meat during lent it should be in abundence. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>02/26/00 Saturday 11:30 A.M. EST: Well the solar flare activity seems to have died down for now. My computer is running perfectly fine. I set up the energy saving features in the CMOS, so the unused hard drives don't work when the server is working. I lower the brightness on the monitor, so it is not so hard on the eyes. I went out on Thursday, and I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with some of the waterfront observers. One local is blasting the sound of a screach owl all over the harbor to scare away the geese. I suggested putting some swans on his lawn, and the geese would probably not poop on the lawn. Swans tend to intimidate geese. I then drove over to CVS in Old Greenwich, and I mentioned the solar flare to their tech people. I was able to find in the Clearence Center for $2 plus .12 CT. tax a Duracell Refillable Alkaline battery kit, which is a tenth the normal price. I don't know if it works I have not opened it. I went home, and I had my the last of the boneless breast of chicken, with steamed brocolli, microwaved potatoes, and ice tea. I relaxed most of the evening, and the morning, and did not do much work on the computer. It all seems to be running fine. I went out for cigarettes at CVS in Old Greenwich about 10:30 P.M., and I bought Dutch Treats Pipe Aroma for $14.19 plus .85 tax for $15.04. I stopped by the waterfront first, and a few kids were out drinking beer in shorts and observing the night skyline. One of them wen to John Jay college of criminal justice in the bronx. I then stopped by the Hyatt in Old Greenwich, and the bank of New York money machine was working during the solar flare. I noticed quite a few familiar faces. I then drove downtown, and a few youngsters were out. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue, and I found what looked to be an expensive Italian leather handbag on top of the garbage at Planet Pizza which they leave out in the street after the store closes. I showed it to one regular walked, and I turned it into the police station. I then returned home, and I relaxed until about 4 A.M.. I had some home made yogurt and ice tea. I was up on Friday about 4 P.M.. I had three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. During a solar flare one should probably not drink coffee, since the mind tends to get a little short circuited. I suggest drinking Perrier which has naturally occuring lithium and a few other ingredients, and a great many nuclear engineers enjoy drinking Perrier. It tends to conteract whatever the solar flare radiation does, possibly adding more neutrons to the system. I relaxed all evening, and I restarted the server on Friday evening. I activated the energy saving features. I then had a couple of yogurts, and a peanut butter sandwich through out the evening along with instead of ice tea. I quietly sipped a 28 ounce bottle of Perrier with a small bit of orange juice added from an old A&P wine glasss. I did some brain storming. I figured a volcano had gone off from the clouds on the waterfront, I saw on Thursday afternoon. They were about the fourth worse cloud formation, I had ever seen in my life. I guess with the volcano going off in the Phillippines, it means next winter will have a lot more cold and a lot more snow. I guess the price of oil will be up and more people will want GMC all weather vechicles. As usual until confirmed the volcano activity puts up all the world wide Nuclear defense screens until confirmed. It is possibly a preerruption, and there might more erruptions. I suppose one could draw a correlation between this recent amount of sun spot activity and increased volcanic activity. The sun spot activity is suppose to continue through out this year at various intervals. I have not been out since Friday morning Thursday evening walk. Thus if one's brian is fried from increased solar flare of volcanic activity, I suggest drinking Perrier or possibly taking Lithium Carbonate which is a naturally occurring salt. Well I went to bed at 4 A.M., and I was up at 10 A.M.. I still have to have breakfast and clean up. I have a little bit of gasoline left, so I could go out. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>02/24/00 Thursday 1:15 P.M. EST: Well with sunspots going on or solar flares, I am not so sure how reliable this technology is. In this area with Red Cross disaster planning, one of the worse case scenarios would be if sun spots or solar flares caused one of the four 23 to 30 year old nuclear reactors in this area to fail, and we had some sort of Chernobyl type of event. In other news my arthrtis is bothering me in this warmer but cooler but still very damp weather. I noticed when I went out yesterday afternoon down by the waterfront, it is very quiet around town. I chatted with a couple of locals down by the waterfront. I stopped by the library and chatted with a local. I went by the Grand Union, and I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice for $2.50, a 3 pound bag of Idaho potatoes for $2.99, a dozen large GU eggs for $1.49, a can of of Maswell House French Roast coffee for $2.99 that was suppose to be .99, "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" $1.29, and a 24 ounce box of Kelloggs corn flakes for $1.79. I suppose possibly the Maxwell House French Roast coffee was placed possibly with less expensive Savarin coffee on sale for .99 instead of $2.99. I will have to check it out. I then went home, and I had reheated boneless chicken breast, steamed fresh brocolli, and microwaved Idaho potatoe for dinner with ice tea. I did a bit of simple maintenance on the computer and relaxing until 4 A.M. this morning. I put a OEM IDE cable on my D: drive and my Cdrom player. It has the allignment, so I can install the D: drive right side up. I also put the Cdrom Rom player in the lower bay, so the cable can reach it all in right order. I set the default IDE setups of no 32 bit, and PIO 4. I also put the memory refresh rate at 4. I was having problems with the Network settings, and I think the www.grc.com programs mess up one's networking. Or possibly, with the SoHo Lan card, one has to install the card after the Networking setup. I am just using Microsoft Client for Networks, the NEC 10/100 dialer, and the TCP/IP. I don't bother with the Network Dialup, since I don't have a dialup account that I use regularly or its TCP/IP. Well I was up at 8 A.M. this morning to finish off all of this. I chatted with a couple of family members. I am just finishing making up ice tea, and I just had breakfast of Post Raisin bran, toast, orange juice, and vitamins. I noticed that when one drinks the bottom remains of the fourth jug of ice tea for the week, one frequently can get the effect of Tanic Acid poisoning since the remains of the ice tea settles, and if you believe that I have a Bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Situation remains the same, Same Old Shit, SNAFU. Well at least the computer is running fine for now. Let's see what the so called sun spots do or some intruder into this apartment or the network. Quite frankly from experience with the software, the software always seems to have a mind of it's own, but it generally works pretty well. Right now the system is runing fine up to peak performance. Have a good afternoon, I have to get ready for a 3 P.M. appointment. I also installed the new CPU fan that I bought from Ming with the motherboard instead of the one that came with the CPU, since it is quieter and seems to be better quality made in China. CIO

Note:<888>02/23/00 Wednesday 4:00 P.M. EST: One of the stories printed recently mentioned that there is suppose to be the most intense solar flare of the century during this February. I would imagine with the very sunny day and intense radiation, it is probably going on right now. Solar flares can play havoc with most types of electronics since I believe they emit large amounts of Neutrons which interfer with electronic's electrons. Thus whether machinery is turned on or not it can cause problems. I finished the E: tape backup about 9 A.M. this morning. I got up and started the C: tape drive backup which finished about 1 P.M.. I finally got up around noon. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I lowered my Cdrom player setting to PIO 2 and no 32 bit access in the CMOS. I am running my hard drives at 32 bit access with PIO of five. I have the refresh rate set at 0 instead of 4. I noticed when doing a hard drive to hard drive backup, one has to delete the old file first before overwritting. I just finished part 1 of the C: drive to D: drive backup, and part two should be finished shortly. Thus I am all done with the maintenance, and as soon as I reboot, I will have the main server up and running. I will go out directly for a little fresh air being sure to wear my sun glasses. Well have an enjoyable day, and if any electronics malfunction you know why possibly. CIO

Note:<888>02/23/00 Wednesday 4:15 A.M. EST: Well I am still up. I had the system running this afternoon after lunch of homemade Columbo Mount Gay Rum Punch Yogurt and a peanut butter sandwich with ice tea. I kept working on the system until about 8 P.M., and then I started having dinner of baked boneless breast of chicken with garlic herbs in white wine, with steamed Zuchinni and baked onion and ice tea. I had a cup of Samba instant coffee with my lunch. Well just as I was about to sit down to dinner, I had taken off the cover on the computer to fix a problem with the sound card. Also the Cdrom player was making noise. I had reinstalled Windows 98 second edition this afternoon and started tweaking it. Low to my amazement when I started to replace the cable on the IDE 2 to the D: drive and Cdrom, I discovered I had it in reverse order of the drives. I had the Cdrom on the end when the D: drive should have been on the end. I don't know how long it has been this way, since I have taken the Cdrom drive out a number of time to put software on the backup 486. As soon as I switched the cabling around the computer started running perfectly fine and faster than ever. I set my Video refresh rate to 0, 70 MHz, and 10 for the memory in the Cmos. I selected assign IRQ to PCI video, and I set my LPT port to EPP, all CMOS setups. I still have to use the sis5598.zip the SIS Video Driver Version 1.14 B for my S-571 LMR motherboard made by www.pcchips.com.tw because, the Micosoft Update for the SIS driver freezes the system. I reinstalled Windows 98 Second edition after dinner. The system was running the best it ever has. I installed the Internet Explorer 5.5 and its accessory program. I installed Direct X 7.A. However when I was installing the Seagate backup software for my Sony Superstation, the SCSI driver for the port it installs on LPT1 was out of date, so I booted with the tape driver off, and updated the driver with Microsoft Windows Update. I also am not using Virtual Networks driver, but I have the Dialup adaptor installed in the network along with the modem driver. I ran the usual sweet of maintenance utilities from Norton, and made backups of the registry with System Information tool, and copied the registry to a seperate folder on the E: drive. I set the Swapper in the D: drive, and I ran Norton Optimizer to on it and the registry to. I also ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive. This all took a bit of time, but the system is running great, and I will now see if the tape backup works on the E: drive before I got to bed while it backs up fast on EPP. I tried freezing some of the yogurt, but it came out hard in the two containers I tried, so I put them back in the refrigerator. I then put some of the Yogurt in a clean Columbo vanilla container without the preserves that comes with the new handy little spoon. Well I am quite bushed, but I am happy to have the computer running fine again. I will start the tape backup, probably go to bed shortly thereafter. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>02/22/00 Tuesday 12:40 P.M. EST: Well the counched out when I was testing it on ABC news. I tried reboot a few times to no avail. I finally enabled "Assign IRQ to Video PCI" in the CMOS on Plug and Play properties. The system booted fine, and I set the Video refresh rate to 72 MHz for the onboard video, I have set in the CMOS to 70 MHz, and I set the monitor refresh rate to 72 MHz also, since the monitor refresh rate should not be anymore than the video adaptor refresh rate. I left the color settings at True Color 24 bit. However, if could afford a seperate video card with say about 16 megs of memory, I would not have this problem, since I believe my high quality monitor is capable of much higher refresh rates up to about 100 MHz. I will have to check the documentation that came with it. Well time to check the mail, and I think I will have some home made yogurt and a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Have a good afternoon. The system video seems to be working fine now, and it boots fluidly and fast. Also I used registry checker in Windows 98 System Information to save the registry twice. CIO

Note:<888>02/22/00 Tuesday 11:55 A.M. EST: I was able to download sis5598.zip the SIS Video Driver Version 1.14 B for my S-571 LMR motherboard made by www.pcchips.com.tw , and I posted it from that link, so any other users can use the latest version video driver. I rebooted a second time after rebooting the first time to install it. I am using the video driver install defaults of "optimal" for the onboard video, and 85 MHz for my 19 inch CompUSA monitor also made in Taiwan. I set the color setting to immulate the Diamond monitor. I have it working on "True Color" at 800X600, and it all seems to be working fine, and it has not frozen, and it passed my short battery of test without freezing. Well it all takes time. Well I guess my home made yogurt is ready, so I will check the mail first. After breakfast I rested until 10:30 A.M. while downloading the video driver. My neighbor told me there was another toaster over smoke alarm, which as usual I did not hear since in my bedroom while asleep I can not hear the central alarm system. I did scan the sis5598.zip file with Norton AntiVirus with the latest virus definition list, and it came out clean. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>02/22/00 Tuesday 7:40 A.M. EST: Well I went to bed at 1 A.M., and I had a phone call from a family relative wanting to know the telephone for www.polywell.com.I suggested that they look into the new Compaq $500 model advertised in the computer press this week. It has a 500 MHz celeron, 64 megs of memory, 4 gigabyte hard drive, and it is in a well designed hard drive. I believe it has a Cdrom drive, but I am not sure if it has a floppy disk drive or LAN connector. I was up at 6:30 A.M. this morning. I had Cappacinno, Post raisin bran, toast, orange juice, and vitamins. I will put the Yogurt in the refrigerator at 8 A.M., and it should be chilled and ready at noon. I am throwing out a bunch of glass jars, I don't have room for. I was thinking about the problems I have making a tape backup of the E: drive. Perhaps if I ran Norton Disk Doctor on it, and I then ran Norton Speed Disk on it, it might be more successful. However, since I have 75,000 URL links on that drive, I have had the problem in the past that if a URL is too long or if it has certain characters, they tape drive quits. There is no program that I know of to scan for these characteristics. Also I need a program to eliminate empty folders on the hard drive. Well not much else happening this morning. I will do a little bit of regular internet work. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>02/22/00 Tuesday 12:30 A.M. EST:Well I hope everyone had a Happy President's Day weekend. I heard a bit of airplance traffic today, so maybe the CEO set are jet setting in or out after this long weekend. On Saturday night I worked on networking my two computers together. It went on until 1 P.M. Sunday morning. I got the Networking working on both computers, but the onboard SIS lan would not work with the 3Com Ethernet II card in the back up 486. I suppose I could have worked on tweaking the setting, and I might have gotten it going. I used this reference for networking Thresh's FiringSquad , but unfortunately I did not know how setup the onboard Lan and the 3Com card other than their default. Since the additional networking drivers use a bit of resources on Monday morning I deleted them from the main computer, and I worked on restoring the system to its former setup. I believe for the 26 hours from midnight on Saturday to 2 A.M. on Monday morning I worked on networking the systems, I must have rebooted quite a few times. I was having problems with my onboard SIS video driver, also which came with the OEM 5 Cdrom that came with my motherboard, and I found Version 7 at http://www.pcchips.com/ the manufacturer in Taiwan which their American representative at www.pcware.com does not post. Unfortunately the site is tediously slow, so I have not been able to download "SIS5598.zip"? the latest version for Windows 98. I just noticed my properties in my Device drivers, does not work, which is the first time that has ever happened. Thus although I got networking going on each system, each system would not recognize the other. I left the networking on the backup up 486 system. I had breakfast on Sunday morning at 1 A.M. of Post Raisin bran, orange juice, coffee, vitamins, and toast. I sipped ice tea through out the day, and about 7 P.M. on Sunday I had reheated speghetti sauce and noodles with ice tea. I believe I also had some Samba instant coffee. I chatted with a family member whom is doing well on Sunday. I working on the computer until 2:30 A.M. on Monday morning. I basically was able to install the networking on both computers by switching the Cdrom drive from each computer back and forth. I had to go through a number of procedures to get it all going, but still the card would not recognize each other. I don't think I will bother trying it again. I was up at 6 A.M. on Monday morning. I put the systems back together. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I worked on trying to get the video driver working properly, and I finally reinstalled Windows 98 second edition again. I finally got the video driver working without freezes, by lowering the MHz of the onboard SIS video driver to 60 MHz, and the memory speed to 12, so it would boot and not freeze. Once it boots properly, I also reduced the colors to 256 colors, and the 640X480 resolution. I then changed the video refresh rate to Default for both monitor and adaptor, and I reboot; and I increase the memory setting to 10 and the video adaptor MHz to 79MHz, and I rebooted a couple of times and I might have also done a safe boot to set the settings. I then increased the video adaptor and monitor settings in the SIS settings to 72 MHz, and I rebooted a couple of times again with a safe boot. I then increase the colors to High Color 16 bit and 800X600, and it is all working fine the way it did before. I am not bothering with True color for now until I can download the updated driver from Taiwan. Earlier in the day I ran all the usual maintenance routines, and on Saturday night I did a tape backup of the C: drive. I also did a C: to D: drive backup, and a E: to D: drive backup. I was not able to to a E: drive backup since I believe I have a faulty tape which is warrantied by Sony. When doing the tape backups, I tried both EPP and normal LPT setting at diferent setting, and I also lower the MHz on the monitor and adaptor to prevent freezing. I tried another F: tape backup several times today witht the lower settings, and the system froze on the F: drive. I did do a C: backup to the D: drive. I do each drive's backups in two parts, since each of the two drives is over 3 megs. I also on Saturday night had to delete my partition on the C: drive, when a bad CRC, on the hard disk messed up my directory structure. I forgot to use the Norton Rescue disks with Image. I reformated the C: drive, and I reinstalled Windows 98 and Windows 98 second edition, and I restored the backup to the drive and I then reinstalled Internet Explorer 5.5 and it's accessory programs that were lacking. Well it was a lot of head ache over the holiday weekend, but the system is all running fine again. I had reheated speghetti and noodles for lunch today with ice tea and Samba instant coffee. I watered the plants on Sunday. I did the rest of my house cleaning on Monday. I did a few extra chores. I went out about 5 P.M., and I stopped by CVS and I bought some CVS generic yellow mouthwash for $3.69 and plus .22 Ct. tax for $3.91 total. I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with a local for about an hour. I then headed over to Exxon, and I bought a package of Basic Ultra light 100s for $2.90. I then stopped by the Food Emporium which is finished remodeling. I bought a head of Foxy lettuce for .79, a gallon of whole milk for $2.99, and a cup of Columbo vanilla yogurt for .50 for $4.27 total. I noticed Twining Earle Grey tea at the Food Emporium in 25 bag packages is buy one get one free. I also noticed their loose gourmet coffee beans are $5.99 a pound. I toured the whole store to know where everything is. However their prices are a bit higher than the Grand Union. However, the do present an excellent selection of first choice goods. I then returned home. I tried starting the F: drive tape backup again which failed while I was away. I tweaked the video setting back to normal after it failed for the last time. I then made up 3 quart batch of Yogurt. I boiled about 2 1/2 quarts of milk. I added to it, a jigger of Mount Gay rum, 2 teaspoons of vanilla, and four ounces of honey an a few dashes of Angotora bitters. I wiped off my Salton Yogurt makers, and I washed the yogurt cups. I put a couple of teaspoons of Forelli rasberry preserve in each cup. I cooled the boiling milk mixture and with my Salton thermometer, I added six tablespoons of the Columbo yogurt mixture and mixed it all together at the right temperature. I then poured the mixture into the ten Salton Yogurt cups with the rasberry preserve, and I added some to two other Salton cups, and I filled a covered pint meseasuring cup, and the rasberry preserver jar. I put the ten cups in the two Salton yogurt warmers, and I put the other four containers on top covered with a towel. I started them at 10 P.M., and they should be ready at 8 A.M. Tuesday morning to be refrigerated. I then broke up some lettuce, and put eight small girkins on a plate with it, and two quartered sweet pickles and I mixed up a batch of a eight of a cup of white wine, a eighth of a cup of red vinegar, a dash of Lea and Perrins worstershire sauce, and two teapoons of Bournier mustard, and I added a half cup of olive oil to the picher I mixed it up in, and I mixed it together, I added a small amount to the lettuce and pickle salad. I left the rest in the picher on the kitchen counter for use later. One generally does not freeze olive oil mixtures. Well I also started the computer server going again. I am a bit tired, so I think I will relax and go to bed soon. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>02/19/00 Saturday 4:30 P.M. EST: I had defrosted speghetti sauce and speghetti for dinner this morning. I went out about 8 A.M.. I cleaned of the snow and ice off my car. The drive and sidewalks were still slippery. I threw some sand on the walk by the front door. I helped a neighbor clear of their car. I went downtown. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I went down Greenwich Avenue, and I drove down by the waterfront. I drove back up to the Post Road. I stopped by ELDC, but they were not open yet. I stopped by Staples, and I bought a steel folder box with lock and key for $2 and .12 tax. I went by the Old Greenwich Thrift shop. I stopped by CVS in Old Greenwich, and I bought a carton of Phillie Cigar cigarettes for $15.04 with tax. I drove around Tod's Point. The high tide was very high up to the maximum high tide line. I saw a few walkers risking walking on the ice. I drove back to town, and I stopped by the Grand Union. I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice for $2.50, a box of GU tea bags for $1.49, a head of brocolli for $1.50, Purdue boneless breast of chicken at $1.88 a pound for $2.76 for $8.25 total. I then headed over to the Arnold Bread outlet. I bought three loaves of HealthNut bread for $2.43 total. I returned home, and I cleared the snow and ice off a neighbor's car. I relaxed most of the afternoon. I added the Virtual Private Networks, DialUp Networking, and DialUp Networking TCP/IP, and NDSWIN Network to my networking setup, hoping that my Email would come in. The only mail to come in the last three days, was today's version of the New York Times, so I guess most of my automatic Email comes from the West Coast, but it seems peculiar no other email arrived. I am not able to download the Real Plug in for my Real player either, so I think it is safe to assume with the snow in the midwest that either there is a lot of internet traffic or that a major line is down. Well it defrost a bit today, but I will dare say it will be a bit colder and freeze this evening. Happy 40th Birthday to Prince Andrew, where ever in the world you are. Well time for some sleep, possibly after a light snack of a peanut butter sandwich. CIO

Note:<888>02/19/00 Saturday 7:00 A.M. EST: I finally got the correct video drive for the onboard SIS driver on my motherboard by running Setup.exe from the appropriate folder, and the system is working as well as it ever has. I do not recommend using Windows Update for the driver, but the one that came on the OEM cdrom. Well time to start the server, and maybe have a bite to eat. CIO

Note:<888>02/19/00 Saturday 4:25 A.M. EST: I am finishing running Norton AntiVirus. I had the reinstallation problem created by a bad sector on my C: drive which caused me to lose my directory structure. Instead of restoring the image file which I could have done with the Norton Rescue disks, I deleted the C: drive with Fdisk and reinstalled it as a FAT 32 drive, and then I formated it. I was lucky to have a format disk, since the Microsoft Windows 98 boot disk does not have the format.exe on it. I added it to it with my backup computer. Thus it doing it this way created another day's work. I just ran image to update the image file. I am now running Norton Disk Doctor surface scan on the C: drive, and once it is finished, I will start the server and do some normal work. I think it is clear out, but it might still be sleeting or freezing rain, so I will wait to clean the snow off the car until, I am ready to go out, so I won't have frozen rain on the car instead of snow. Well have a good morning. I am trying to get my since of humour back. The NOAA weather radio went off at 4 A.M. with ice and sleet warnings for Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, New York; but it did not say much about what is happening here. I did not install the Network Dialup drivers, so as to use less resources. If I have to use the telephone modem, I can install them quickly. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>02/19/00 Saturday 4:00 A.M. EST: I tried uninstalling Internet Explorer 5.5 and I basically had my system messed up. I tried making tape backups and the tape backup did not work. Basically I believe I have one bad tape, and I need to get it replaced under warranty. Also with Seagate Backup, it might not work with certain updated "MFC42.DLL" and "MFC40.DLL" files that Internet Explorer 5.5 places in the C:\Windows\System directory. I did make a backup of the C: to D: drive. I went to bed on Thursday about noon after failing on the backups. I was up on Thursday evening about 9 P.M.. I had raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I rested a bit, and I had the DOS version on boot of Norton Scandisk mess up my directory structure. I spent the rest of Friday morning reinstalling Windows 98 second edition which means one has to install Windows 98 first. I then restored my backup. I had a problem getting the correct video drive from the OEM cdrom on the machine, but I eventually succeded. I did a tape backup of the C: drive which worked, because I had yet to refresh Internet Explorer 5.5. I had dinner about 8 P.M. of two square hamburgers, mashed potatoes, steamed frozen brocolli, ice tea, and coffee. I went to bed about 1 P.M. after starting a Tape backup of the C: drive which succede since I had not yet reinstalled the installation of Internet Explorer 5.5.. I was up at about 7 P.M., and I had an E: tape backup fail a number of times. I went back to bed until about midnight. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I did a C: drive to D: drive backup. The system was still a bit unstable, so I reinstalled Internet Explorer 5.5 beta and a few of its accessories program along with Direct X 7A. The the system started working normally and as well as ever. I guess once you install Internet Explorer 5.5 beta you can't uninstall it, and you need to run it with the latest files which you can't update from Windows Update anymore. Anyway the system is running just fine now. I started a Scan with Norton AntiVirus which is taking a while. I also ran all the usual utilities this evening and yesterday. I will start the server once Norton AntiVirus completes. I cleaned up, and I guess once I finish Norton AntiVirus and start the server, I will go out and clean off the snow off the car and go for a short drive. I would say we had about five inches of snow. Unless Windows 2000 comes with support for the Sony Superstation, I don't think I can use it, if I were able to afford Windows 2000. I will have to check Microsoft tech pages. I will eventually need to backup the E: drive to tape, possibly by temporarily replacing the "mfc42.dll" and the "mfc40.dll" files with older ones that I have saved. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>02/17/00 Thursday 6:00 A.M. EST: I went out yesterday. I stopped by the Housing Authority and dropped off papers. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I drove up to the Emission station in Darien, and I had my emissions checked for $10. I will not have to do it after this year, because the car will be 25 years old. I then drove to CompUSA, and I returned the Lan Card, I had bought last week. I toured the store for a while. I noticed they have SoHo Five Port Hubs for $25 for networking computers. I noticed, unless they're mispriced on the shelf, that they have the Microsoft Wireless wheel mouse for $30. I then went over to the Wiz and toured the store. They have a few clearence items in the sterio department. Also I noticed they were clearing out a Memorex scanner in unopened box with OCR software at 1200 DPI for $50. I returned home after briefly stopping at Staples in Old Greenwich, and I had dinner of two quarter pound square hamburgers cooked with a bit of olive oil, a chopped onion, and a chopped zuchinni with a bit of wine, butter, herbs and spices, and Lea and Perrins Worstershire sauce along with a cover on the Griswold frying pan. I had this with ice tea and Samba coffee and finished about 10 P.M.. After dinner I relaxed around the house until about midnight. I then moved the blue sofa towards the large sofa bit. I put the two restored French dining chairs against the left closet. I took down from the false cieling four bent wood oak blue chairs, which I placed around the dining table around the near half of the table. I also moved the dining table towards the desk to give a bit more room. I added a couple of place mats to it, and I rearranged some items on it. I then started surfing the net. I looked at some of Microsoft Windows 2000 information. I downloaded a number of Real Programs for broadcasting and content creation, but I am not sure if I have enough resources for them. I might have to find an earlier version. I downloaded and installed Apache 1.3.11 . I updated my video drive with the Microsoft Update and was prompted for the OEM cdrom for the rest of it. I set it at Optimal, and it has been running fine. I also set the CMOS for the Refresh memory to 0. I tried out Dragon Dictate with the higher processor. I will now start the server, and start two partial for who C: drive to D: drive backups. Once I start the second, I will probably go to bed. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>02/16/00 Wednesday 11:35 A.M. EST: Well I am feeling better. Whatever happened Sunday morning might have been some sort of poisoning at Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue. It might have been the sour milk that I just threw out of the refrigerator. It might have been a bad vitamin in the vitamins that I usually take. It might have been the coffee was over strong at Starbucks. It might have been they cleaned the coffee urns at Starbucks with bleach the night before instead of baking soda. Whatever it was my system was totally messed up until this morning. I made a few phone calls yesterday about the matter and relaxed most of the day. I had sliced turkey, and mashed potatoes with ice tea for breakfast on Tuesday. I had sliced turkey and mashed potatoes with ice tea for lunch. About 4 P.M., United Parcel Service came with the AMD K62 450 MHz processor with a fan cooler and heat sink, which I ordered from AccessMicro.Com 45000 Computer Products Online! for $45 plus $15 shipping. I quickly installed it. I accepted the CPU plug and play CMOS default and raised it to the 83.6 MHz CMOS setting for the CPU plug and play since it is a 100 MHz chip. I rebooted and it said I now have a 450 MHz chip onboard the computer. I had to reinstall my video driver from the PCware S-571 LMR motherboard instead of using the PCWARE download, and I set it to 72 MHz for the onboard adaptor, and it all worked fine. I did reinstall Windows 98, so it could install any caching software possibly for the chip. I did also reinstall Direct X 7.0 A.. I also reinstalled Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and a few of its other components. I took a break in the process of doing all of this, and I went over to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and they no long carry the cigar cigarettes. I chatted with a friend about the fact that Encephalytus might multiply exponentially this summer, and possibly a 100 would die instead of 10 like last summer, and the following summer 10,000 might die from it, if the Reuters News story is true. I have not read any other mention of the fact, so maybe it is not true. I then went over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping plaza, and I bought Phille Natural cigar cigarettes for $14.19, a two bottle set of European mystique of shampoo and conditioner for $1.49, and a 500 tablet bottle of CVS aspirin for $6.49 for $22.17 total plus .94 sales tax for $23.11 total. I then drove over to the Grand Union and bought a dozen large GU eggs for $1.49, a half gallon of whole GU milk for $1.59, a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice $2.50, a pound of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" for $1.29, two zuchinni for $1.29 for .65 both, four cans of Progresso tomatoes for $1.29 each, a package of ground round at $2.49 a pound for $4.09, a two pound bag of onions for $1.99, four cans of Pope tomatoe paste for .55 each, a bulb of garlic for .72, three packages of real Torino extra thin number 16 speghetti for .66 each for $24.37 total. I guess tonight I will make up a batch of my speghetti sauce. I returned home, and I worked on a few system tweaks and maintenance until midnight. I basically ran all the normal maintenance utilities and the system is up and running just great. According to Norton System Information, my computer is now running at 456 MHz instead of 188 with the IBM Cyrix 233. Thus I am running at about 2 and a half times faster than before. I am not sure if I have 66MHz memory. I probably do, but the system would run faster with 100 MHz memory. Well I had a Stauffers Hearty meal of Chicken Feticinni for dinner about midnight. I am feeling better, and I was up about 9:30 A.M. this morning. I had three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins for breakfast. I did a few minor system tweaks. I tried to run a C: drive to D: drive backup, but it did not finish since, it is over 3 gigabytes and needs to be broken down into a smaller group. I will do that later today. I will clean up shortly, and I will go downtown. I will probably go up to CompUSA to return the $15 lan card, and I might be able to get $10 back from the Wiz for the Soho card, I bought from them for $30 which CompUSA sells for $20. I can not network my computers together since, file and print sharing is crippled in my primary computer for the Network by something in the policy settings, and I run the server with certain setting locked, so people can not hack into my server. The computer is running just great. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>02/15/00 Tuesday 3:55 A.M. EST: Well I figured out what it is all about. A clever group of thieves and software pirates seem to think I have a prerelease version of Windows 2000, and they were trying to gain access to my apartment or my computer, so as to obtain it and duplicate it before the release date. Well if there is money to be made obviously they would do this at $239 a copy. I don't have a prerelease copy, and I don't intend to buy it or install it anytime in the near future, since I would have to upgrade other system components and software. Well have a good morning. The FBI takes a dim view of this sort of activity. CIO

Note:<888>02/15/00 Tuesday 1:00 A.M. EST: Historically when all these incidents happen in this area, we trace them all back to the Yale School of Chemistry and some SOB who was kicked out of the American Chemical Society many years ago. CIO

Note:<888>02/15/00 Tuesday 12:45 A.M. EST: I made some phone calls on Monday morning, and since I was tired I went back to bed until midnight this morning. I had breakfast of oatmeal, vitamins, toast, coffee, and orange juice during Monday morning. I just had cold turkey, mashed potaotes, and ice tea. I was awake for quite a long time after I had the coffee at Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue which I normally don't do. While there I noticed the former head of research for Polaroid having coffee there along with a research chemist for DuPont and a Swedish authority on Iroquit poisoning. Either it was a set up or once again there trying to use me as a guinea pig. I noticed that two wives of the current executive team at the White House have had coffee at Starbucks. I believe they're probably pulling some sort of Kin Keasey type activity there which is why I normally take my liquid from sealed containers when outside my apartment. What ever the case this happens all the time in the New York area. I have advised the appropriate authorities including my insurance people. Perhaps the liberal people at Polaroid and DuPont whom I have been affiliated with since Ruth Scott was Pierre DuPont's daughter are irritated with me for putting a Bush for President bumber sticker on my car. Whatever the case the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Insurance Saftety Institute of America having equally established authorities and I would dare sare you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Well it is back to normal routine. I missed my 4 P.M. appointment. I was contacted that there is a program that Dr. Bombay talks about, and it connects all three hard drives into one partition. Unfortunately, it would be my quess that if one hard drive or the program failed, you would lose all three hard drives. Well have a good morning. CIO