Re: [SURVPC] Where's author of VMiX 386?

1999-05-10 Thread Peter Torrano
OK, Awrite, awrite... ...let's cut thu the chase... ;) I think that this should qualify this as abandonware... Going once ~pete On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jerry J. Haumberger wrote: On 1999-05-07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Torrano said: J. Anthony Borras, the author, is either ignored

Re: [SURVPC] Where's author of VMiX 386?

1999-05-07 Thread Peter Torrano
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Jerry J. Haumberger wrote: J. Anthony Borras, the author, is either ignored, forgotten, dead, locked up or carefully hidden away as a "closely guarded" secret. Who knows? Do you know what Borras means in Spanish? Borras means erase. Maybe he was erased? ;) ~pete To

[SURVPC] GEOS w/UNIX Shell!!!

1999-05-06 Thread Peter Torrano
Late breaking News for Linux / GEOS/NewDeal Hackerz: Looks juss like an X-Term Window... Almost like a DOS-Box, but, for Linux!!! Yahoo!! Try the following: Log into your own Linux-Box via a Crossover or Lap-Link Cable going from COMM1 to COMM2 via GEO/NewComm from the GEOS/NewDeal Session

[SURVPC] Cache Write-Back or Write-thu...???

1999-04-23 Thread Peter Torrano
I recently decided to experiment with th4e BIOS on my Mother-Board (dangerous thing) G I changed what I had picked a few years ago as my cache setting: 256K Write-Back and changed it to Write-Thru. When I rebooted, everything seemed to happen faster. Perception: When running just one

Re: [SURVPC] Linux

1999-04-20 Thread Peter Torrano
A few months ago someone mentioned that they were working on updating Monkey Linux and adding a few more optional packages. Has this ever come about? ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer

Re: [SURVPC] Linux

1999-04-20 Thread Peter Torrano
Earlier in this discussion, someone mentioned that Monkey has more functionality than Slackware for a given amount of Hard Drive consumption. I have about 80MB to play with at the moment. Does Slackware come with an option, during the install process, to set up said UMSDOS filesystem? Just for

Re: [SURVPC] May I pick your brains?

1999-04-13 Thread Peter Torrano
X1 CDROM will suffice for your needs. X1 CDROM usually comes with drivers that will work fine even on a 286! Sometimes drivers for some X2 work as well on as low as a 286. X1 or X2 will be too slow for most congruous multimedia needs, but, that is not what you specified. Dictionary look-ups,

[SURVPC] How to get Newsgroups via Arachne or Skipper or ...

1999-04-13 Thread Peter Torrano
If you are running a Web Browser that does not yet support USENET, there is a way around it. You can use http://www.dejanews.com , but, as many of you know, yuo can't get the binary newsgroups. If you just gotta have the binary newsgroups you can point your browser to:

Re: [SURVPC] [Fwd: Politically Correct UNIXSystem VI Release] (fwd)

1999-04-12 Thread Peter Torrano
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Bernie wrote: I prefer "less" to "more" in Linux. Therefore I'm an environmentalist. :) "less is more" quoting several Linux users. Sounds like propaganda from the Ministry of Truth. ;) I must say this list was really cool and funny. I think I'll save it somewhere on

Re: [SURVPC] Monkey Linux Cache Size

1999-04-10 Thread Peter Torrano
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Casper Gielen wrote: Peter Torrano wrote: Also, how do I update the libc libraries? ...or something like that... ;) ...as I can't get Starr Office to Install properly on it. On Monkey Linux? This is a bit of overkill. Like running Windows 95 on top of MS-DOS 1.0

Re: [SURVPC] Experiences with NewDeal?

1999-04-09 Thread Peter Torrano
Its good, its sweet and fast and will work even on an 8086. Excellent Office Suite! Internet Support is marginal except it has decent e-mail. Other useful apps. You get your moneys worth for a commercial product that was tihghtly written.. It is a wee bit dated now, but it was the vanguard

Re: [SURVPC] SURVPC Digest - 5 Apr 1999 to 6 Apr 1999 (#1999-112)

1999-04-08 Thread Peter Torrano
No, probably a bit more like 6^3+6 ^^^ Byte that! There you go, I'm speaking in binary and HEX, as in ones and twos, and sometimes sixes. ^^ ^^^ ^ ~pete p.s. note my way to consume bandwidth and still be on-topic of

[SURVPC] Monkey Linux Update?

1999-04-08 Thread Peter Torrano
Has anyone managed to update the kernel and libraries in Monkey Linux? If I remember correctly, a few months back, someone from this listserve was planning on doing such a good deed. ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of

[SURVPC] SURVPC Browser Bad News.

1999-04-08 Thread Peter Torrano
It appears to be that all those people who used browsers with limited or no support to cookies now cannot access their Hotmail accounts. Browsers such as lynx, Arachne, NetTamer... Check for yourselves! ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: [SURVPC] SURVPC Digest - 5 Apr 1999 to 6 Apr 1999 (#1999-112)

1999-04-07 Thread Peter Torrano
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Dale Hoogeveen wrote: Yolanda wrote: DCLXVI That's the actual number of the beast, 666 was not the numeral system currently in use at the time of the writing of Revelations. Are you sure? Revelations wasn't written in Latin. OK, for all you programmers, should we

[SURVPC] [Fwd: Politically Correct UNIXSystem VI Release] (fwd)

1999-04-07 Thread Peter Torrano
I got this from a friend. I thought you'd also enjoy! Hello Wayne The following is for you. Subject:Politically Correct UNIXSystem VI Release notes UTILITIES 1) "man" pages are now called "person" pages. 2) Similarly, "hangman" is now the"person_executed_by_an_oppressive_regime." 3) To

[SURVPC] Port Sniffer??

1999-04-06 Thread Peter Torrano
Is there a shareware or freeware utility that can tell me when there is activity on a given port of my PC, be it ethernet or serial? ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted

[SURVPC] Monkey Linux Cache Size

1999-04-05 Thread Peter Torrano
Howdy Monkley Fans! Attention Monkey Linux Experts. ;D Monkey defaults with an 8MB RAM cache. Unfortunately, this seems a wee bit on the small size when I'm using Netscape connecting to web-sites with too much graphical content as it seems I run out of memory and Netscape quits on me forcing

Re: [SURVPC] DOS TCP/IP dial-up server

1999-04-05 Thread Peter Torrano
So, you got BOA working under DOS? How do you know it's working? Did you test it by connecting to the net via Archne dialer and then seeing if you could link to it via another web browser somewhere on the net? ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [SURVPC] redhats on overdrive

1999-04-01 Thread Peter Torrano
Something does ring a bell witheither the AMD 5x86 or the early AMD K5 P series as having incompatibility problems. Just off the top of my head. Have you tried their Customer Support? It might even be in a FAQ at their site. ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL

Re: [SURVPC] Word Viewer

1999-03-30 Thread Peter Torrano
OK, I found it. I found rtf2htm.exe It is actually a suite with documentation and examples and is pay-shareware. Zipped it's less than 500K. I have uploaded it to my shell account so that I may e-mail it to whoever might be interested. ~pete On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, hammer wrote: Peter

Re: [SURVPC] why a surv. PC?

1999-03-16 Thread Peter Torrano
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Or Botton wrote: On 15 Mar 99 at 4:57, Ole Juul wrote: Hi Or, Where can I find this "Word Viewer" program? There are 2 versions of it, one for 3.x, one for 9x. Is there one for DOS? ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[SURVPC] hard or soft, let's get quiet... (fwd)

1999-03-15 Thread Peter Torrano
FYI: I thought you'd get a kick out of this. As posted to comp.unix.sco.misc. On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:31:55 GMT, Tom Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Alliban enscribed: | How can I disable the modem whirring when a client dials in to OSR5? My | computer is rack-mounted and will be placed in

Re: [SURVPC] Linux checking dependencies (was Re: why a surv. PC?)

1999-03-15 Thread Peter Torrano
Might Linux be co-dependent of a renegade module? Might Linux want to cover up for a module that is underperforming by displaying a more pleasing status note: "Checking for module dependencies"?? Huh? HUH??? VBFG ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[SURVPC] Data monitors... (Slightly OT)

1999-03-12 Thread Peter Torrano
Does anybody know of an application that can tell me the data flux and rate coming in and out of my PC via ethernet or PPP? Where can I find such a beas? My interest is mainly in preventing unnauthorised hackers etc. , so, If i see activity that I don't expect I know to suspect something.

Re: [SURVPC] 4 D price of a SURVPC...

1999-03-09 Thread Peter Torrano
! ;) -Original Message- From: Peter Torrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SurvPC Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 10:46 AM Subject: 4 D price of a SURVPC... Akhem! Guess what I saw on the back of my Sunday Newspaper?? The FOLLOWING: ^^ $599 after

Re: [SURVPC] 4 D price of a SURVPC...

1999-03-09 Thread Peter Torrano
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 To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body

[SURVPC] IDG.net's Linux World show summary] (fwd)

1999-03-09 Thread Peter Torrano
Hello Wayne You mit found this interesting. note: forwarded msg attached. == Leonard Bartell http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3411 http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/5763 http://www.leonllo.freeservers.com http://www.fastfreewebs.com/top/futscience/

[SURVPC] 4 D price of a SURVPC...

1999-03-08 Thread Peter Torrano
Akhem! Guess what I saw on the back of my Sunday Newspaper?? The FOLLOWING: ^^ $599 after $100 rebate, will buy you the following: AMD-K6 II 333Mhz Processor (Privacy compliant) (No Big Brother Inside) 64MBRAM 6.4GHD 32XCDROM 56K Modem 16bit Sound Winders 98, M$ Woiks,

Re: [SURVPC] Replace 8088 with NEC V20

1999-03-08 Thread Peter Torrano
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Will Baldwin wrote: My Tandy 1000HX, which is an XT-class machine, originally had an 8088-2 cpu, capable of either 4.77 or 7.16 Mhz. I had heard that if I replaced the chip with a NEC V20, I would get faster speed. I did that, and it worked. The V20 runs at the same

[SURVPC] M$ Privacy

1999-03-04 Thread Peter Torrano
Did you know that Microsoft Documents are saved with a sigmnature containg not only information on who the software is registered to, but the mac address of your ethernet card as well (if you happen to have one). How's THAT for surreptitious ID?? I just downloaded StarrOffice (FREE for personal

Re: [SURVPC] FTP Server?

1999-03-01 Thread Peter Torrano
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, hammer wrote: If the whole OS fits on one floppy why does it need 16 MB of RAM to run ?! Because it's one big compressed file which decompresses itself into RAM and then runs from RAM. Like QNX. ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [SURVPC] IBM to Linux-ize PCs

1999-02-19 Thread Peter Torrano
It looks like they are teaming up with RedHat on this one. ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.

Re: [SURVPC] Definitively Survivor via your PC.

1999-02-16 Thread Peter Torrano
. And, the tpc.int info can be used by anybody. ~pete On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Or Botton wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:16:16 -0500, Peter Torrano wrote: (identification) number. A small fax-viewer application is also emailed to the user's address. Now faxes to the allotted number

Re: [SURVPC] Early Pentiums are obsolete?

1999-02-11 Thread Peter Torrano
QNX just got a contract to build Amigas new OS. Have you ever seen the performance of QNX on even an old 386?? It's like running Windoze on a mid range Pentium!! Amigas only plan to ship with PowerPC CPUs, but QNX is supposed to make all the difference as to performance and speed! Savings

Re: [SURVPC] sadness

1999-02-08 Thread Peter Torrano
Too bad about your hidden wire. Can you plug a regular monitor to it? 386DX40s were pretty fast, in my estimation. ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.

Re: [SURVPC] *crash* tinkle, tinkle

1999-01-27 Thread Peter Torrano
Regarding your backpack that won't accept a sound card... I saw, a couple of times, that JR Music World Catalogue was selling a device you plug into the parallel port that emulates a Sound-Blaster Pro. I almost bought it , but then I changed jobs. I wanted to use it on my work PC, then tote