Daynote mail 1999 week 11

Daynote mail: Week of 15 - 21 March, 1999

Daynote mail and replies -- Week 11

* Link to: last modified at 22:25 GMT+1, on 21.03.1999

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Monday 15.03

I "lost" a file attach sent by Bob Thompson today...

> ... Had nothing to do with any Pegasus-OL glitches I think. PMv3 seems to handle the newer OL-MS irregularities. The last cc came via my Swedish ISP and I think they disallow file attaches over 500K. Many POP providers I hear do this. The resend was asked for using my own net POP. Safely in.
I like the delete-attachment feature in Pegasus. Lets me keep your mail without the file once I have saved it.
Yep. OL lets you do the same thing. You just delete the attachment and save the message. But I really like the way Eudora Pro does it. When a message with an attachment arrives, Eudora automatically strips the attachment and stores it in an attachment directory with a pointer to the actual file location. That's one of the only things I like about Eudora. (You *really* need to migrate over to OL if you're going to write a book about it.)

Since my reply was this time written using Outlook 2000, Bob's next message started...

Glad to see you've joined the rest of us pod-people.

Tuesday 16.03

Francisco Garcia Maceda posted helpful advice to Bob's site, bottom of today's mail. My reply:

Thanks for your help, posted on Bob Thompson's site. I eventually did get down in the start-menus to Windows NT Diagnostics, but you may know how one starts flailing around in MS dialogs and menus when tired and feeling one can't find a thing, yet knows it's got to be there, somewhere. I was reduced to querying different subdialogs for device specifics, yet knew there had to be a better way.
Bob noted:

"Good point. I never even thought about NT Diagnostics. The way I read Bo's message, he wanted a way to change stuff from within NT as opposed to just looking at it, but this may indeed have been what he meant."

Yes and no. Obviously, if one is going to twiddle settings, it's real useful to have a collected view of all of them, especially when there may be collisions. What in the end happened, was that the numbers apparently came up, in that quasi-random way, that somehow fit my hardware, and I could set the assignments so that they were identical to the other, functional installation. Bingo: I could dial out and connect. After that, it was simply a matter of incrementally adding more and more to the base system. It's not perfect according to the event log at startup; COM3 is still ... "odd", but it works.
MS-software + OEM hardware = Semistable infirmware.

This may be the mail that Bob sent me that I deleted by mistake. For a change I was using the mouse, and just as I clicked to select it for read, the pointer zoomed off at random and registered the click on delete instead. On the server. I was scanning headers as opposed to immediately downloading.

Wednesday 17.03

Follow-up from Francisco Garcia Maceda:

> MS-software + OEM hardware = Semistable infirmware.
I have always assembled my own computers (except for my original Standard 386-25) and I have been battling with Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and NT 3.51 and 4 from the start. Every time they fix something in a new edition, they somehow get to screw something else. Although I have to admit I have hardly dealt with Win 98 (my clients use Win 95 mostly); since I discovered dual processor systems a couple of years back I have mostly dealt with NT in my personal systems.
NT is difficult to tame, my current system has been rock solid for the last three months but my Event Log is huge. I have hundreds of CDROM, Modem, Serial, etc. events, almost all difficult to decipher and impossible to solve. Since my scanners are solid, I have not had a bad CD burn in months, my TNT behaves, OK sound and surfing uninterrupted, who cares what the Event Log says? :-)).
My event logs are pretty tame then. As you say, as long as it all functions and delivers. Thanks for the heartening news.

Thursday 18.03

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Friday 19.03

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Saturday 20.03

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Sunday 21.03

* Discussion with Bob Thompson about card payments. Posted on his site.

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