This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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I sympathize, but there are odors I find offensive and a few substances to which I have a reaction nearly as bad as you do with cigarette smoke, but I move away and do not go into screaming fits if someone is around with that. I also find a good…
Yeah. It's such a shame what they did to that city, which was a great city in all respects. One wonders what that pollution is doing to those gorgeous Inca ruins of the original city that have been so carefully preserved and excavated, Rome-like, in the city center. Anyone who…
Smoking allowed? In a bookstore? In CARMEL? Will wonders never cease! We can't even smoke in malls here, let alone stores. As someone who makes his living writing books, how can I argue with you?
You don't need Windows drivers for a CD ROM; MSCDEX loaded from AUTOEXEC.BAT is what is expected. You DO need drivers for sound cards and video cards which are the other two parts of a multimedia triad. You will get some sort of SCSI or proprietary driver for your CONFIG.SYS…
I think that's what I said in about twice as many words, but I'm a professional writer and we get paid by the word and so can't say "Hello" in less than three lines….
Well, although I've always run my own system that way, we have another MultiMedia system here that uses a PAS16 and NEC83 and was somewhat jerky on the AVI playback. Playback still isn't 100%, but it's pretty good since I stuck an ASPI manager and SCSI card in and changed…
Nope; this sort of thing happens. Windows is basically a klude, not a real OS, and one of its biggest drawbacks is that it constantly writes to and rewrites SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI files as do a lot of other programs, many without telling you about it. Clearly something stepped on…
No, no. When I'm talking Windows I mean MEMORY, not how much LOW memory you have. Total memory in the system. Windows hogs the low memory; it runs programs in expanded memory blocks, which is why you need so much memory to do so little. It has been my experience…
Well, okay, I'll try the DiskReset=Y line and give 4DOS another try. I really do like it, but not enough to sacrifice what I had to. CorelSCSI is one of a handfull of third party managers out there and it seems to do as good or better a job than…
Ron, Laserdisc players that are quite good can be had for UNDER $500; the absolute top of the line is only about $1100. Although nothing is quite as cheap as a VCR on the low end, I've seen a number of fine players in the $400 arena. The extra money…
Well, I expected to work tonight, but had my first hard disk crash in 14 years of home computing and it took up all my working time, so I figured I might as well look over the CIS stuff and go to bed early. Had a real Noreaster come through…
It's called beach erosion, Lynne, even if you don't have a beach. Those storms come ashore, the winds from offshore storms generate powerful waves, and more of California slides into the sea. Up north of you there are some spectacular island formations going well offshore. Those were the California coast…
Well, up here in northwest Carroll County the only thing that's the problem is the pungent smell of fertilizer on the fields in the spring and fall. Everybody always asks me why I'm living out here in the middle of nowhere, and I tell 'em, well, virtually no crime (1…
Yeah, well, in the Bay Area everybody's their brother and sister's keeper. One reason why I continue to live in the east. I can see myself giving up smoking but I can not conceive of giving up coffee. On the other hand, maybe THAT'S who all those Californians are who…
Oh, no. There is a whole movement among the nonsmoking militants to classify smoking at any home containing children as child abuse and smoking in a home where the spouse does not as spousal abuse. You have no idea the depths a religious crusade can be taken to.
Well, my theory of historical migration is that North America was settled by the losers, nuts, and extremnists of other nations. As each region was civilized and the generations there became more like the old, these types moved further and further west, until, reaching the Pacific, they stacked up with…
Yes, and it's also why everybody else wants to come here, climate or not.
Well, Maggie Thatcher's unemployed now and there's nothing really to keep her in England….
Well, the one advantage San Francisco has is the odd confluence of currents just off the coast about 5 miles out from the mouth of the bay that causes the fog to roll in and the old inland air to be flushed. The problem with coal is twofold; first, it…
Because there have been a whole raft of recent very profitable Canadian patents that we don't recognize in return, but with free trade we could have stolen those and creamed them. Besides, Canadians pay for most of their medical through taxes. They have universal health insurance that's better and more…
Well, Clinton's going to increase my taxes by about 20% here while the automatic elevators in the Capitol and Senate and House office buildings still have OPERATORS (our elected officials must not lower themselves to push buttons) and the White House limo (and driver and maintenance) fleet has been slashed…
I don't know. Maybe, maybe neither. We'll see. The main reason I have forty jillion word processors here is that the companies hope that I'll so fall in love with one of them I'll switch to it and they can use the endorsement in their ads, etc. One of the…
There are some laserdisc rental places, mostly those places that are independents in areas dominated by the big chains who want to distinguish themselves. There is one such place in a nearby town that does in fact rent laserdiscs at the same rate as tapes, but most do not. More…
I forgot where this started, but your equipment sounds okay. Is it NAUTILUS that's the problem or AVI files? If the latter, and all else being equal, I would suspect that the video driver is the villain.
You're next to Ft. Meade, huh? I'm near Camp David but there's a lot less going through the aether here. I always wondered what you might wind up going through you if you lived close to an NSA. And the EPA won't let you lead-line your house any more. Hmmm….
There is no reason with your equipment and drivers that you are getting what you are getting. Well, there's a reason, but it's not in your hardware. I have two entirely different setups here on two main computers and don't get the sort of thing you are indicating. One question:…
Well, I understand ATI had a lot of frantic scrambling and just recently got their drivers augmented correctly. I, too, had a NEC MGE but rarely ran it in TIGA except for curiosity's sake since DGIS was giving as good results and took up only a quarter of the memory…
While it's possible to do it, I don't think anybody makes such a drive. The backup systems don't need the D/A converters and PCM modules that audio requires and I don't think the audio-specific parts are included but rather substituted with backup-specific material. Again, there's no mechanical reason why it…
Well, I should probably download whatever is the current 4DOS before I checked it out. The last one I tried, which I got off the SimTel board ca. November or December, still had problems with CorelSCSI. Be interesting to see if things have changed.
You're not having a real problem. The "fixed" version of the demo is still buggy!
Incredibly dull. Fortunately, I doubt if there's much chance of that. The communists couldn't do it in fifty years, so it's unlikely that anybody else will really manage to do so. There is a point at which it all just falls apart, and there is never a system that doesn't…
Wrong. Smokers no longer have rights, or haven't you noticed? See my message quoting the current TV public service ad that we smokers are killing 60,000 innocent nonsmokers a year by secondhand smoke and if somebody near you is smoking they are little better than murderers.
Oh, human beings' ability to cram into urban crud is offset by their ability to breed like bunnies in that kind of environment. Considering that the average rural dweller in Mexico is still living in what might be called an adaptation of feudalism, it's little wonder they continue to flock…
Well, you won't have the PM to kick around much longer (you'll have a new one to kick around) so I expect Mr. Mulroney to go on a nice world tour when the weather improves unless the Conservatives replace him in a hurry.
Well, look on the bright side. You could have been stuck with one of those bizarre BC governments instead….
Well, actually it CAN read and write a number of formats (but not the most recent ones) and it can indeed imitate both the keystrokes and menu structure of other word processors, but that's incidental to those who really used it since, other than as a transition aid, Sprint's real…
There might be other factors, including available memory and resources. How much memory do you have? What's your video and video resolution? The add-ons sound okay for running Cinemania; barring an install problem (you have, I presume, tried reinstalling just to make sure) it's most likely in your memory, video,…
You'll get a lot of conflicting responses on this from various machine partisans (it's like arguing politics or religion) but the bottom line is that the Mac peaked at 17% of the computer market and what's that leave? The vast majority of Mac houses are now developing for Windows because…
You can easily load MSCDEX high using the /E switch; you should NOT have it high using QEMM's Loadhi command, though. The /E switch doesn't really load it in high memory specifically but in available contiguous expanded memory which is not limited to the first meg. I haven't tried the…
Well, the AST machine here with the 1 meg Paradise board generates a GPF if Nautilus or any other Toolbook app is attempted at 800X600 (no problem with other software) but it runs fine at 640X480 or, in its 2/3rds of the screen mode, at 1024X768! There is no reason…
Well, the reason DAT never became a consumer medium was that they couldn't find a decent way to duplicate the tapes in high speed mode, and real time duplication, even 3X which is the highest Sony ever managed with any reliability, wasn't enough to justify things. DAT will, however, remain…
My wife eventually demanded the removal of the litho from our house after one too many cleandowns in mid-run (just one shredded sheet….) If it'll dual boot and you have the disk space (the sucker takes up about 35 megs or more) it's no big deal to install it. Just…
Well, California 1 is certainly a road with a lot of cliffs and drops, but remember that if you're driving, unless you have a British car, you will be on the side of the car nearest the center line. However, the views are just superior overall going south than north,…
Well, you see, I never object to "smoking" and "no smoking" areas and I would never knowingly smoke near someone who has a real physical allergy. The problem is that this is no longer enough. Your own San Francisco is one of the most militant in the business; I've had…
Don't ever go to Mexico City, then. The most polluted city on the face of the Earth, bar none. You can literally stain a handkerchief brown holding it over your mouth and nose while just walking around the city. And at 15 million people and growing, it's getting no better,…
Yes, our Congresswoman, who was Queen of Junkets, was beaten in the party primaries here by a fellow who ran radio ads that sounded like Robin Leach promoting "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." They were wonderful. "Mrs. Byron! You and your entire family and staff flew to Paris on…
Yes, well, governments like to be in the business of saving people from themselves. I wish it were a simple party or liberal-conservative thing, but it's not. They all want to save you or limit you in one or another way and only differ on which things they want to…
Well, a lot of those taxes really do go for services not paid for out of pocket, such as medical, and nations do need trade reps, foreign embassies, things like that, and there ain't no free lunches. Naturally at least ten percent of all taxation goes for waste, abuse, and…
Sprint is a now-moribund DOS-based word processor marketed/sold by Borland International. It is based upon FinalWord, which in turn was based upon a marriage of the minicomputer editor EMACS and the Unix formatter Scribe. It is, as I said, DOS-based and screen ugly, but has exceptional configurability (you can essentially…
Nothing I know is on CD ROM, but there are some inexpensive but limited (in vocabulary) translators that do a serviceable job at less than $100 a language, and GlobalLink is an exceptional program with a fair level of vocabulary, parsing, etc. skills in its $295 per language modules and…
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