data cables for floppy drives can be real problems. Insert them and get them one pin off and nothing goes. I had that happen with a floppy drive and remember...
Jude Dashiell
dashiell@...
Dec 1, 2001 8:20 pm
16510
This may be of some interest / or use to somepeople on this list. Disc. NCI.... ___________________ MacDrive 5 is here! The software that enables you to...
PAUL PAVLIK
pavlik@...
Dec 3, 2001 5:46 pm
16511
any ideas of what the .xvb extension is or what we would need to open such a file?? THanks. Paul Pavlik Computer/Education Consultant To unsubscribe from...
PAUL PAVLIK
pavlik@...
Dec 3, 2001 5:50 pm
16512
Paul, I may be wrong, but I think the xvb extension is MS's new ".NetVisualBasic". So it may be something like a VB Script file...open in a web browser and...
Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
wizard57m@...
Dec 3, 2001 7:08 pm
16513
probably visualbasic executable and probably something you really don't want to open either. Jude <dashiell@...> Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Registered To...
Jude Dashiell
dashiell@...
Dec 4, 2001 1:41 am
16514
I ran across another silly thing from Microsoft. I decided to update DirectX and found that the latest version 8.1 won't work with Win95. Microsoft says that...
Mike Miller
mlmiller@...
Dec 5, 2001 5:55 pm
16515
What game specify exactly DX 8.1 as a requirement ? Why bother to upgrade ? I use DX 7 and still haven't found a game that can't be played on my Win95/AMD-700...
Ian Aditya Agus
aditya@...
Dec 6, 2001 1:08 am
16516
Actually I don't know of any at the moment. I'm not a gamer. i upgraded because DXdiag said I needed to re-install directx, I figured I might as well get the...
Mike Miller
mlmiller@...
Dec 6, 2001 6:59 am
16517
a while ago someone posted.....maybe on this list..... some details of the capabilities of a linux server running on a p II server. I have need ot that...
PAUL PAVLIK
pavlik@...
Dec 7, 2001 4:24 am
16518
I have just completed a new version of BasicLinux. It includes a mail reader, a SMTP client, mailto capability for the links browser, improvements to the pico...
Steven C. Darnold
ichi@...
Dec 11, 2001 9:59 am
16519
If Microsoft ran Christmas... Each time you bought an ornament, you would have to buy a tree as well. You wouldn't have to take the tree, but you still have to...
Will Baldwin
wb@...
Dec 16, 2001 6:58 am
16520
... Problem I saw with Opera was what I didnt see. USENET no newsgroups? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to LISTSERV@... with unsubscribe...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 16, 2001 10:35 pm
16521
... Why should a web browser support newsgroups? Internet Explorer doesn't. Netscape does, but the less said about Netscape the better. Regards, Ben A L...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Dec 16, 2001 10:42 pm
16522
This was posted to another list serv in response to a quirey on OleMainThreadWndName Which is the problem i had some months ago. Here are my questions. One....
PAUL PAVLIK
pavlik@...
Dec 16, 2001 11:48 pm
16523
alas when I to to the Rich Green's site, Freeware for Dos (not Windows): http://www.dosbin.com/ I get redirected to web hosting ads but no site. I emailed...
howard schwartz
theo@...
Dec 17, 2001 1:23 am
16524
In the Darwinian drag race among operating systems, Linux is still struggling to make itself palatable to the everyday computer user. Help may come in the form...
PAUL PAVLIK
pavlik@...
Dec 17, 2001 2:14 am
16525
... I don't know what happened, but do notice that the mirror is still up: http://members.home.net/rlgreen2/softlib1.htm There is also a cache of the site at: ...
Ken Kopp
w0nxs@...
Dec 17, 2001 2:59 am
16526
John. $999 is not a savings in my book. now if ya find a system for substantial savings then post it du hast. I can put together a screamer system for 200~...
Greggory Smith
teknopup@...
Dec 17, 2001 4:27 am
16527
How does the command.com work? I cant get it to run. Please, help I am a computer novice. -llortamai __________________________________________________ Do You...
Greggory Smith
teknopup@...
Dec 17, 2001 4:28 am
16528
Oh, come now. Do you really believe they want to allow ppl to keep reusing old stuff when ppl can just buy new stuff to make them rich? they are profit goal...
Greggory Smith
teknopup@...
Dec 17, 2001 4:29 am
16529
Hello, Found this list most interesting and It has inspired me to root through my collection of old 386 & 486 motherboards etc. I dug out an old baby-AT...
Nick B
nickbeee@...
Dec 17, 2001 4:31 am
16530
Hello everyone! I sure am glad to find this list! I am glad to see that there are others besides me who see older machines as something other than boat...
Huggy Bear
huggy-bear@...
Dec 17, 2001 4:31 am
16531
chat.exe dialer and pppd.exe ports for DOS are so damn badly designed and implemented. I am still try to figure out why chat worked when I had the 8bit PPI...
Greggory Smith
teknopup@...
Dec 17, 2001 4:32 am
16532
... This is the only list I am on that is not on USENET. For one, I try not to support anything running on, or owned by, Microsoft, ie Yahoo.groups. for...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 17, 2001 5:37 am
16533
... 1. I suspect you are overclocking the 387 at 33 MHz if it is truly only rated at 25 MHz. 2. Have you checked the motherboard manual (or Manufacturer's...
Kenneth Alan Boyd Ram...
cx555@...
Dec 17, 2001 7:31 am
16534
I would need more information to answer this intelligently. If your machine booted, and you're in Windows, then your command.com works. If you need to open a...
Garry
kidrhino@...
Dec 19, 2001 2:08 pm
16535
... And this is the only banana I've eaten lately that didn't come off an apple tree. Your point? ... What does Microsoft have to do with Yahoo!Groups? ... ...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Dec 19, 2001 2:09 pm
16536
... Yes, you are right, I just checked Usenet, and all I brought up were music newsgroups. My Opera browser is working just fine, though, so apparently it does...
Robert C Wittig
rwittig@...
Dec 19, 2001 2:09 pm
16537
Use Ladsoft's LSppp instead of dosppp/epppd - it has smaller footprint is faster _and_ continues to be supported by its author (dosppp isn't maintained any...
Heimo Claasen
revobild@...
Dec 19, 2001 2:10 pm
16538
Well, in a way they do run the show. But with the presents for them. Here's (pardon for crossposting) the tale of a desillusioned cyberchild who hoped to get...
