Note:<888>6/13/98 Saturday 10:50 P.M. EDT: I updated my Scott's Broadcast www.mikescott.net/sound.htm . I post it every two to three months. I recorded it with the Creative Wave editor with Beethoven 9th playing in the background while I broadcast putting it in the lowest format. I then encoded it with the Real G2 encoder for 28,800 at RealAudio 4 or above. I hope you enjoy the broadcast, not much new to talk about; but that is typical for Greenwich. CIO

Note:<888>6/13/98 Saturday 6:25 P.M. EDT: Listening to the BBC World Service, click on left of right dinosaur heads on my homepage www.mikescott.net , I think I heard that today is Queen Elizabeth II's official birthday. Thus we should have the usual celebrations tonight. CIO

Note:<888>6/13/98 Saturday 5:40 P.M. EDT: I was up at 4 P.M.. It was raining and thundering a lot at noon, so I disconnected my computer from the wall socket and telephone jack. I had bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, orange and grapefruit juice, vitamins, and coffee for breakfast. I am listening to www.answerguy.com 's Saturday broadcast. I removed some of the background music clips from some of my main files, so people can use them in a quiet environment. I will be out in about 45 minutes for a little daylight. CIO

Note:<888>6/13/98 Saturday 3:05 A.M. EDT: I went out for a walk at 10 P.M.. I noticed a Tommy Hillfinger Yellow Bus parked across the street from the Greenwich Harbor Inn. It was raining, so I walked a short distance around the bottom of the Avenue. There was a moderate group out in the rain. I noticed at the Train Station Office Park dumpster area, there were 8 Compaq 386/25 computers disgarded, with most of them stripped of memory and drives. They might yield some spare parts, once they dry off. I also saw two disgarded Dell 14 inch monitors. The computer equipment is not in direct rain, but covered by the upper deck about six feet from the outside rain. I also salvaged an IBM 486 DX 66 which had its floppies and memory gone. However the motherboard without some cards and 486 DX 66 processor intact are still there. It had a Western Digital Caviar 345 meg hard drive, so I removed it when I got it home. I also picked up 3 half gallons of Tropicana Grapefruit Juice for $5 at the Grand Union. Tropicana Orange Juice is the same price. I also got a half gallon of 2 % milk, and a large 20 ounce package of Stauffer's Lasagna for $2.99, for a total of $9.52. When I returned home I logged onto Western Digital and got the setup parameters for the new used second drive. I put it in my primary machine making it the second D: slave drive. I had to open up the bedroom 486 backup and take out an extra power Y splitter. I put in the second drive below the primary C: drive in the 5 1/4 inch bays. I happened to have spare mounting bars. Since my motherboard IDE controllers are at the bottom or left of the motherboard, I had to switch IDE controller cables to one that was a half inch longer to get the cable to have enough length just barely. I had removed the CDROM drive and put it in the uppermost 5 1/4 inch bay, and the old CDROM space is where I put the new second hard drive in the bottom most 5 1/4 inch bay with the primary C: in the middle 5 1/4 inch bay between the D: drive and the CDROM player. I also put on a longer second IDE cable for the Cdrom player since it stretches the full length of the computer. I setup the new drive in the CMOS and booted the computer and plug and play recognized it and installed it without having to use Fdisk. I though that was pretty good. I formated the new used D: drive and renamed the Volumne and just for backup I ran the SYS command on it, to have it available as a possible boot. I ran thorough Scandisk on it. It all seems fiine. I now have an extra 345 meg free on the D: drive, which I will use for storing my *.cab files and download files, that I might have to install in an emergency. I will leave my primary operating and program files on the C: drive. Thus I should have about 500 meg free space altogether on the C: and D: drives. I will not know how much space I have left on the C: drive until I transfer to the D: drive. Well that all took about three hours, but I guess it is worth it, since I can't afford to buy a second hard drive, and I don't really need that much space yet, since I don't have that many programs. My primary computer is mainly a dedicated internet web browsing machine with a few other programs. Also the system is basically setup for when I do install a second large drive in the future, but one would have to copy the C: drive to a new D: drive which can be done with Xcopy, loot at Western Digital's site for information on this procedure if interested. Well I think I need to relax after I put away my tools. The backup bedroom 486 is back together without the redundant Y power cable that I used for the installation in the Primary machine. Well that's what I have been doing, and I think I will have a bite to eat, possibly Ramen noodles and cheese cake. I will also go to bed probably in the next hour. I am tired. CIO

Note:<888>6/12/98 Friday 9:50 P.M. EDT: I tinkered with the AP Associated Press News Ticker and posted it on my homepage www.mikescott.net . It does not have News Links just the News headlines, but that keeps one on the homepage. I just had dinner of Stauffer's Chicken Fetticini and Ramen noodles, and I am now having coffee. I will go out in about 45 minutes for a break. CIO

Note:<888>6/12/98 Friday 5:50 P.M. EDT: Bill Gates replies in the Economist The Economist Bill Gates replies CIO.

Note:<888>6/12/98 Friday 4:40 P.M. EDT: I was up at 4 P.M.. I had breakfast of raisin bran, healthnut toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I listened to www.dailybriefing.com. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . It was a milk toast day on the market. Good news, my sterio amplifier fixed itself, and the output is now balenced again. Let's hope it stays that way. It must be good grimlins in the system. Well, I guess I will go out after I shower. It feels like it is a little cool and damp out. CIO

Note:<888>6/12/98 Friday 5:30 A.M. EDT: Note the keystroke "CTL-I" when Microsoft Internet Explorer is open, sets it to open in a full window, when you reopen it in the future. CIO

Note:<888>6/12/98 Friday 5:25 A.M. EDT: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 beta seems slightly slower. However, it is working fine so far and has not crashed. Of course I have 64 megs memory on the IBM Cyrix 233 MX. I did notice when saving HTML pages, it refetches the page instead of taking it from cache. I also can not remember the keystroke command for setting Internet Explorer to open in a full window, not the full large window. They should have that setup in the preferences. I have been through my daily work routine www.mikescott.net/scotwork.htm without any problems. I noticed the Outlook Express beta imported all my 150 saved files which Outlook 98 did not for a lack of memory, and I was able to then import the Outlook Express saved files into Outlook 98. I might be tired and there might not be any difference in web browser speed. However, so far I don't see many changes between Internet Explorer 4.01SP and Internet Explorer 5.0. It does say it has 128 bit encryption, but that might be from my earlier install of 128 bit encryption on IE 4.01 SP. Overall I am relieved there does not seem to be any problems with it, and perhaps once I build up images in the cache it will be as fast the current IE 4.01 SP version. I am tired, and am just about to go to bed. I have 200 meg on the hard drive free, but I can easily have another 200 meg of files I could remove if necessary. Well good luck in your efforts if you try to install Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, it will obviously be my primary browser for the near future. I hope it does not interfer with installing Microsoft Windows 98, if I should be able to afford to buy it. Well off to bed. CIO

Note:<888>6/12/98 Friday 3:45 A.M. EDT: Guess what I was able to install the old version of FrontPage Express that works. I had a copy of "Fpesetup.cab" on my MSN disk. I saved the new version and put the old good version in the Internet Explorer 5.0 Setup folder with the other cab files. I had already uninstalled the bad new version of FrontPage Express, when I ran the install program "ie5setup.exe" after rebooting to eliminate the old file recognition, I checked to install Frontpage Express in customize, it went to download the new file once again, but after downloading it, I had a copy of the old file in my "copy" buffer, and as soon as it went to install the new file again after verifying the file signiture, I quickly pasted the good old file over the bad new file in the Internet Explorer 5.0 Setup folder. Also the new file install is bad any way since it prompts for a disk, which I also answered by prompting it for the "Fpesetup.cab or Fpesetup.inf" file on the MSN cdrom. I know it sounds complicated but it worked, and I now have my working version of FrontPage Express up and running, which is why you once see the long page, and it works real fast as usual. Well back to beta testing. CIO

Note:<888>6/12/98 Friday 2:25 A.M. EDT: Please See Scott's Previous Random Notes for earlier explanation of what I have been doing. I downloaded and installed Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 beta and it seems to work fine. I did the Standard Installation Download and then Install. I also went to the Internet Explorer Software Updates and downloaded Netmeeting 2.1 beta, MS Wallet, and Microsoft FrontPage Express. I had a problem with FrontPage Express I could not get it to recognize my earlier pages, so I saved the previous pages and started a new page. Possibly there is a memory leak in Frontpage Express beta, or it does not handle pages as long as before. Thus this is an entirely new page created with the New Frontpage Express beta. It seems quite slow still, but at least I can work with it this way, since I can't put the old version page on. Everything else with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 seems to be working all right. I recommend not updating FrontPage Express if you try the beta. CIO

Note:<888> 6/11/98 Thursday 11:41 P.M. EDT: I have successful installation of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 beta and it is up and running, now I have to test Outlook Express and see if there are any other addons. CIO

Note:<888> 6/11/98 Thursday 11:20 P.M. EDT: Well I had dinner and read my email. I recieved notification from Cnet about CNET Reviews - Just In - Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 developer preview beta . I chose to download the entire group of files with ie4setup.exe which are 18.5 which took about 1 hour and fifteen minutes on a 56,000 baud connection. Thus I have them save on the hard drive. I am just about ready to install the beta. I hope it does not mess up my system. I have not heard any complaints about it in the internet press. I deleted my Netscape bookmarks, so it does not try to import them. If deleting Netscape bookmarks remember to save them as another file name. Well within a half hour or less I should know if the installation went all right. If it does I will of course have to test it bit to see if it is worth keeping. Keep your fingers cross. CIO

Note:<888> 6/11/98 Thursday 7:10 P.M. EDT: I got up at 1 P.M. and had breakfast and made a 3 P.M. appointment. I went by the Hospital Thrift Shop. I went down by the ELDC thrift. I went down by the water at the bottom of Steamboat Road. I went by the news stand across from the train station and got a replacement of PC Computing Magazine with a good Cdrom. I saw 7 police cars responding about 5 P.M. to an incident going west on Railroad Avenue around the Train Station. I went by the library and read Computerworld and Infoworld. I also read the Greenwich Times. I stopped by the Arnold bread store and got two New York cheese cakes for $1.89 each, and four loaves of Healthnut bread for 50 cents each. I returned home and put away the bakery goods. I browsed the PC Computing Cdrom and they have quite a few demos and games. I installed the AltaVista Local Search Engine on my PC from the Cdrom. It works great for searching your local hard drive and is free. I updated Scott's index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . It was down quite a bit today, and as usual the differences don't match. I don't know why this happen except maybe it reflects difference exchange closing times. I think it might rain, so I don't know if I will go out this evening yet. I have checked out two books "Windows 98 for Busy People" and "Presenting Windows 98 One Step at a Time" with a Cdrom. I will have dinner shortly of Stauffer's Lasagna. CIO

Note:<888> 6/11/98 Thursday 6:55 A.M. EDT: I found an interesting MS page about creating a system properties OEM local and support information files at Microsoft TechNet ITHome - Use OEM Hooks to Customize Support Info . CIO

Note:<888> 6/11/98 Thursday 4:45 A.M. EDT: The kids might be interested in this White House Internet Summit 1998 . CIO

Note:<888> 6/11/98 Thursday 4:40 A.M. EDT: I just ordered this free Cdrom IBM Data Management: Request the Free Business Intelligence Solutions CD-ROM . I am in the process of sifting through my email, but I think I should eat something shortly. For those of you interested in Mount Etna's current erruption check out Etna, Sicily, Italy . It is a nice quiet morning, and I am relaxing on the net. CIO

Note:<888> 6/11/98 Thursday 2:10 A.M. EDT: I just finished talking with a young computer engineer in Ajabajan. He kept yelling, and had a hard time understanding me, although I heard him fine. CIO

Note:<888> 6/11/98 Thursday 1:45 A.M. EDT: I rested until 10 P.M. ate dinner watched a little bit of the history channel on the Manhattan project until 1 A.M., and then took a shower. I don't think I will bother going out this morning, since I will relax on the net. Right now I am in General 01 of Iphone 5.0 if you want to chat. CIO

Note:<888> 6/10/98 Wednesday 6:00 P.M. EDT: I went out this past morning and walked around from 1:30 A.M. to 3 A.M.. I came back and relaxed until going to bed at 6 A.M.. I got up at 5 P.M.. I had breakfast, and am now listening to www.dailybriefing.com . I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . The index has a big discrepency since one part of it says it is down $11,000 and another part says it is down $20,000. Microsoft's investor program frequently does not match simple arithmatic. Well it is nice out, so I might go out in a little while. CIO

Note:<888> 6/10/98 Wednesday 12:45 A.M. EDT: I sifted through my email. I found in Outlook98 Inbox, if you check "Preview Panel" you get the half page text of you email in the window below you messages list. Not a whole lot happening on the internet, I suppose everyone has unplugged their modems and taken a vacation for the next few months. Remember the old rule of wisdom, when it is the most quiet is always when something happens out of the ordinary, so don't be fool by the lull before the storm, if any should arrive. Well as far as I can tell, it's all quiet on the Eastern Front, and the town is pretty much the same as always for this time of year. It is too bad the Greenwich Times is not on the internet, so out of town residents could keep abreast of the local news, I am sure the local residents would continue to subscribe to it. I have seen one Indiana plate, a couple of Texas plates, and about a half dozen Florida plates in my travels around town. Well back to the net, I will try to stay up for a while. CIO

Note:<888> 6/09/98 Tuesday 11:00 P.M. EDT: I went downtown and had my coffee in front of the Senior center at 7:30 P.M.. walked down Greenwich Avenue, through the train station parking garage. I then walked by the teen center which was open and through Baldwin Park which is set up for music concerts. I stopped the Greenwich Harbor patrol and chatted. I walked around down by the Greenwich Harbor Inn outdoor patio. I noticed a large sailboat from St. Croix. I walked down in front of the old General Re building and down Steamboat Road. I stood out in the moon light chatting with one of the fisherman about Long Island sound and the ocean in general. I walked up Steamboat Road and used the bathroom at the Greenwich Harbor Inn. I walked back up Greenwich Avenue and sat in front of the senior center for a while. I drove back and I noticed when coming into my apartment road one of my neighbors in the family houses had caught about a four foot 50 pound sea bass. I guess they're running this time of year. They use to get $8 a pound for bass filets in Nantucket 15 years ago, and they're awfully good eating. My right knee cap is bothering me a bit. I noticed a car with a "B" sticker down on the end of Steamboat Road which I believe stands for Belgium. Well, it's Tuesday like that old movie, "If It's Tuesday, It's Belgium". The kids were out this evening, but I don't believe the local schools are out quite yet. The town was actually fairly busy for a Tuesday night. I suppose a lot of the younger families which take their vacations sometimes earlier are already heading up north. It is a bit cool out, and I would advise people heading futher north to bring a sweater or jacket for the cool evenings, particularly if one had been down in Florida. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888> 6/09/98 Tuesday 7:40 P.M. EDT: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I went downtown for a while this afternoon. I found the PC Computing magazine at the news stand across from the train station, but when I got it home the Cdrom was defective. I did notice it does not have Outlook98, just the setup.exe download program. I walked around downtown. I went by the library and read two weekly computer publications. I returned home and I am cooking Stauffer's french bread pizza. I will go out with my thermos after dinner and have coffee. CIO

Note:<888> 6/09/98 Tuesday 2:10 P.M. EDT: I am up at 2 P.M. after breakfast I will go out to the bank in about an hour. I found an interesting story just now about Solar Flares Solar Flare May Disrupt Worldwide Communication .

Note:<888> 6/09/98 Tuesday 4:55 A.M. EDT: I finished reading my email. If anyone needs help from IBM in a government this a useful link http://www.government.ibm.com/GOV/Global.nsf/?OpenDatabase . I am just about to go out for some morning air and look for the PC Computing magazine with the CDrom of Outlook 98. I enjoy listening to the British point of view since it is in English, and I might one day visit there, since I have never been there. I suppose we all have our pipe dreams. Well enjoy the day, I need a break from the net. The night time net activity really goes by quickly. I always think the daytime people slow me down, and when they're asleep at night I go much faster. Of course having been on a night schedule since about 1965, I have certain instincts at night from experience, which day time people probably don't have. I basically find day time people demanding me to adapt to their schedules annoying. How would you like it, if I called you up at 3 A.M.. Of course I always have to see a little day time sooner or later. I suppose I should get out and get some sun while it is pleasent and maybe do a little walking. Well give my best to the daytime people, I will see a few morning people this morning. Over and Out. CIO

Note:<888> 6/09/98 Tuesday 4:15 A.M. EDT: For those of youngsters who feel the need to get away from it all, here is a faraway alternative The Royal New Zealand Navy . I am listening BBC radio Five , the right dino about the need for the general public to curtail their alcoholic intake. CIO

Note:<888> 6/09/98 Tuesday 4:00 A.M. EDT: For those of you who want to bet on United Kingdom Sporting Events or the World Cup 98 this site might interest you, Sport News and Results from U.K. . I also stumbled across this more Sedate Candian fishing site while I was looking for the other The Sporting Life Home Page . Well I just had Stauffer's Chicken Chow Mein for dinner and am about to eat Ramen noodles. Remeber to click on the left or right dinosaurs on my homepage www.mikescott.net for U.K. media feeds from the BBC. CIO

Note:<888> 6/09/98 Tuesday 3:30 A.M. EDT: I read the news at www.mikescott.net/scotwork.htm . I downloaded the additional components of Outlook98 from Outlook 98 Components . I read at the MS site that the Outlook 98 program is on a CDROM in PC Computing this month. Outlook 98 is suppose to be included in Windows 98, but the download site is only good for three months, so a copy of it on the PC Computing CDrom might be handy, see How to Get Outlook 98 about the information about the CDrom. Maybe Microsoft has decided to make it available for download after three months. I tried to setup my Symantex Fax that comes with it, but I can't test it since I can't call myself. Well it's a quiet night and I still have to read my email. CIO

Note:<888> 6/09/98 Tuesday 12:20 A.M. EDT: I went back to bed and got up at 7:30 P.M. I was awaken by a call from a friend in Wilton who decided to sell his house. He will now be looking for an inexpensive two family house, possibly in Banksville, New York or Kennebunkport, Maine. I went by the library at 8:30 P.M. and read the local newspaper. I did not have time to read the computer newsweeklies yet. I got to thinking that since Prince Charles is objecting to Genetic tomatoes, we might pull a little joke on him and broadcast the all time worse movie of all times on all U.K. media feeds, "Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes". I happen to have kept a synthetic polymer coffee cup by my computer for many years next to the George Bush for President Cup with pens in it, that says "Monsanto". Having grown up around Monsanto since my father worked for them, I know it is a cleaver group of individuals with pretty good resources. One does hear very much about it around here, but Stillman Rockefeller use to be on the Board of Directors of Monsanto in the old days, so there is definitely a local connection. After the library I went downtown and walked around and it was quiet. I went by the Grand Union and bought two Stauffer pizzas @ $2.50 each, two Stauffer Chicken Chow Mein @ $2 each, two Stauffer Chicken Fetticini @ $2,50 each, two Stauffer Lasagna @ $2.99 each, Italian Cavatel .99, 1% GU half gallon milk $1.55, a dozen large GU eggs $1.39, two ears corn @ .20 each, two packages of 3 Kings Bacon @ $1.79 each for a total of $29.58. I went home and put the groceries away and had one of the chicken fetticinis, Ramen noodles, corn on the cob, orange soda. I went back out at about 10:30 P.M. and had a thermos of coffee downtown and walked around. I heard young teenagers upset that not much is going on. I drove down by the water and came back at midnight. Tonight seems to be a full moon with a ring around the moon, which I think means good weather. I suppose the witches and warlocks will be out prowling the town. Well off to netville for a while. CIO

Note:<888> 6/08/98 Monday 5:40 P.M. EDT: I was up at 4 P.M. this afternoon. I read the tech news. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm. It did quite well today. I noticed in the internet press that Prince Charles is upset with Monsanto www.monsanto.com over genetically engineered foods being introduced in the U.K. BBC News | Food Safety | Food minister defends genetic crops . I can understand his viewpoint in light of recent food scares they have had in the U.K. like Mad Cow disease, etc., but I believe the Monsanto genetically engineered tomatoes have been adequately field tested in the States, before their introduction to the U.K.. I also believe the Royal Horticultural Society has been experimenting with different cross breeding techniques for hundreds of years in their botany explorations around the world, so as usual this seems to be a tempest in a teacup. Of course traditionally we defer to Royal perogative, but perhaps some other member of the Royal family would have their personal viewpoint on this matter. Since the old Monsanto network includes a great many senior Anglophile individuals, I suppose someone could remind young Prince Charles of the need for agricultural experimentation after World War II when virtually all of his country was starving to death. How soon we forget over relatively short periods of time. Perhaps the Queen Mum should remind him how things were after the War when there were mass food shortages, and virtually the whold country was starving to death. Well I am still eating here. I will go out shortly. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888> 6/08/98 Monday 3:45 A.M. EDT: I have been a laid back mood this evening, reflecting on the state of my situation as it relates to my present environment. I guess I am hooked on the net. I bet I could get Bill Gates mailto:billg@microsoft.com to send me a free copy of Windows 98, if IBM sent him a free copy of IBM To Unveil ViaVoice 98 Today, Speech For All Apps which I would like to have too, so I don't have to type so much. Basically I think the local capitalists are out of touch with the volonteers, so I recommend that all 8,000 volonteers go on strike today, and lets the capitalists see how much gets done when they don't keep active. Yes the volonteers should go on strike today. If you see VIPs floating around, tell them to send money, and in lieu of payment, tell them not to expect too much, we're highly overrated in this neck of the woods. I also noticed that IBM does not list itself in the Yahoo listing for Armonk, New York. I have not been up that way in over a year, so maybe they all flew the coop after getting tired of hanging out down on Steamboat Road like wharf rats. I will admit wharf rats in Nantucket and other places around the ocean have more fun. Well off to the think tank for a little self meditation, and if anyone seems to think I am a IBM fellow, tell them I never signed a contract or ever recieved a check from the company IBM. In fact I have never cashed a payroll check in Greenwich, although I did once recieve TIPs when I worked in a restaurant. Well over and out for the curious. CIO