An aticle in Tech Server finds out that MS have putted a small trick
in Windows 98 when working with Word or Excell, that tag the user with
a serial number. The idea is that when you use the registeration wizard,
your info is been sent to MS and you received an ID number. Then that
number is
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:31:13AM +, Will Baldwin wrote:
In addition to the faster speed, I've heard that the NEC V20 can also
run CP/M programs, and programs compiled to use 80186 instructions.
I'm not sure what 80186 instructions are, but they might be a subset
of 80286 instructions
But if the same hardware was made but was just improved, and software
was written better, there would still be an abundance of parts for
free, and we would have computers that were like Porsches - not 12
cylinders, not using automatically adjusted wings, but winning races
because they were
On 8 Mar 99 at 12:05, Or Botton wrote:
On 7 Mar 99 at 19:13, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
Keep in mind though, that if people where not so anxious
to upgrade and buy the latest hardware, you would not
be able to find all the free parts you say you do g
I guess that it only gives yet another
Well I borrowed my friend's AUS$900 Hewlett Packard CD Writer today.
The install program froze Windoze 98 twice. That's quite acceptable
when you work with Windoze.
The first CD copy I tried failed. The program said to fix the
problem, try restarting Windoze, or if that doesn't work try
How stupid does Micro$oft think we are? They want us to pay top
dollar for software that doesnt work, AND is embedded with 'world
domination' 'bugs'.
On 9 Mar 99 at 7:16, Or Botton wrote:
..
after getting the ID. This way, MS can locate the authors of the
Word and Excell files from their
Here might be the answer to someone one this list's question.
Forgive me if it's already been posted.
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On 5 Mar 99 at 11:54, Dale Hoogeveen wrote:
Any suggestions where my sister can get DOS Twain drivers; so she can
download her new digital camera
This sounds like the works of BODGEY BOB again. He is everywhere ;-)
On 8 Mar 99 at 10:45, Peter Torrano wrote:
Akhem!
Guess what I saw on the back of my Sunday Newspaper??
The FOLLOWING:
^^
$599 after $100 rebate, will buy you the following:
AMD-K6 II 333Mhz
On 8 Mar 99 at 5:02, Pop wrote:
I've never heard of an ISA card with TV-out. They would very desirable
for a Surv PC!
The best I can find is a 'Cheap PAL/NTSC VGA to TV' portable
converter. It's about $85 Australian, which is maybe $65 US I dont
know exactly.
Well, thats good enough.
On 8 Mar 99 at 20:49, Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
I like backplane-based designs myself... I thought about buying a kit once to
let me build a weather satellite decoder, based around a Z80 on one card, a
Yamaha MSX graphics processor on another and a decoder on a third. Just need
the money.
At 07:16 AM 09/03/99 +0200, you wrote:
that
number is later written in every word and/or excel file you create
after getting the ID. This way, MS can locate the authors of the
Word and Excell files from their user data-base.
Boy am I glad I dont' use those programs for my writing...
Just so long
There is an excellent dos cd-r package called dao from golden hawk
technologies. The program costs $59, and you can find their web page at
http://www.goldenhawk.com (I think) I may be slightly off on the addy, but
if I am, drop a line, and I'll look it up properly. You can always try
Hi all,
Special thank-you. The new server got me back on the Arachne digest just
in time for this. Also to SURVPC where I originally posted my query. I
have forwarded this Arachne digest to my sister. It should be just
about as complete an answer as she can get.
Thanks again.
Date: Mon, 8
Well I borrowed my friend's AUS$900 Hewlett Packard CD Writer today.
The install program froze Windoze 98 twice. That's quite acceptable
when you work with Windoze.
A HP CD, interesting! (see why later)
The first CD copy I tried failed. The program said to fix the
problem, try restarting
There shouldn't be any problems adding LFN in a DOS program, I don't know
how to do it, but I can't understand why we are restricted to just see the
LFN.
However, the program will be bigger (and thereby slower) and the file names
aren't that nice for other DOS users (that don't have LFNDIR
BT! Wrong answer.
The have MANY in stock. Not a bait and switch.
That DID cross my mind the 1st time I saw the add.
I have since found out a limitation, tho.
You can onlytake advantage of their free cellular phone if you are either
in the 609, 610 or 215 area codes, as they will wish
http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/index.html
http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm/
Just browsing my bookmarks...
Per B.
The PHOTONATURIST page;
In English, auf deutsch, po polsku;
http://home1.2.sbbs.se/pbackman/
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Pop wrote:
This sounds like the works of BODGEY BOB again. He is everywhere ;-)
On 8 Mar 99 at 10:45, Peter Torrano wrote:
Sorry, duh, who is Mr. Bodgey??
~pete
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what country do you live in if your isp ends with a tt?
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From: Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SURVPC] DOS Twain drivers; extracting photos from
digitalcamer
Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 11:41 PM
Here might be the answer to someone one this list's
Hello Wayne
You mit found this interesting.
note: forwarded msg attached.
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Leonard Bartell
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Or:
So when are you going to stop bashing M$ and quit acting paranoid about
the software on your hard drive? I think I will on the same day when M$
quits doing skunk like tricks to me :-/
John O
Date:Tue, 9 Mar 1999
I've never heard of an ISA card with TV-out. They would very desirable
for a Surv PC!
The best I can find is a 'Cheap PAL/NTSC VGA to TV' portable
converter. It's about $85 Australian, which is maybe $65 US I dont
know exactly.
I finally got my "brand-new" 486 built. It got about 6 ISA
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 04:27:16 -0800, Ole Juul [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
NetTamer is quite confusing that way. I think there is an
error in the example given in it's setup screen. I used to
use a version of NetTamer which had this problem, (perhaps
they all do) but when I discovered it, I also
** Reply to note from SurvPC Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 10 Mar
1999 03:40:50 +0200
BTW, using 7.01 as an example for DR-DOS is alittle incorrect.
7.02 and 7.03b has alot of bugs fixed, and things now almost never
crash here.
It seems as 7.03 is released, at least the
Howdy; I enjoy reading SurvPC -- much more adult than a bunch of airheads
continually wondering how to get rid of startup splash screens and how to
get rid of some gargantuan application they download and installed, then
deleted the directory when they didn't like it and now find registry is all
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