Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB

2001-06-24 Thread Derek Stewart
Hi Ian, The BBS now runs on a Q40, as the Aurora/Supergold card with Superhermes and Qubide was always giving problems. The Qubide partition kept on unloading and the partition table courrupted itself at least three times. So I required a stable platform and the Q40 is it, the hard disk is

Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-24 Thread Thierry Godefroy
On Dimanche 24 Juin 2001 10:41, Derek Stewart wrote: Hi Ian, Apparently, this message was not for the ql-users list, but it is indeed a Good Thing (tm) that you sent it there ! Although I would like a tape streamer, but I am having trouble writting the device driver for the floppy disk based

[ql-users] Wanted US QL plus some other odd stuff

2001-06-24 Thread Phoebus Dokos
For any US QL user in this list: Any of you have a spare US QL you would like to be parted with? If so, please send me a message :-) On an another note, I will be getting my new DSL connection pretty soon, which means that DJ's mirror will be back to its normal twice a week update :-) P.S.

Re: [ql-users] Re: Election 2001

2001-06-24 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The 2001 version of my General Election program is now available for downloading. It contains two new features. There is now a separate listing of marginal seats and a new by-election command. The latter allows you to enter the

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-24 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I hate to continue this off topic issue and I dislike Microsoft as much as the next person, but the real Outlook issue is that the default options for Outlook are very unsecure. Most users are not aware of the security

Re: [ql-users] M$ Mailers - WAS Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-24 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:13:23PM +0100, John Hitchcock wrote: As I said earlier in this thread - I'm getting fed up with such thoughtless attacks on everything MS... we aren't exactly an MS fanclub here. Otoh Nobody will bother to comment the quality of MS products as long as they don't

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-24 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 11:26 PM 6/24/2001 +0100, you wrote: I have installed a Quantum DLT 8000 at work, but that is SCSI 3 and 3500 quids in money. Since there is no SCSI interface that will work with the Q40 then it would have to be IDE. At SGI I was the backline support expert in SCSI tape drives. SCSI is