test-drb August 2002

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Complete HP 150 available in Ft. Pierce, Florida

by vcf＠siconic.com

There is a complete HP 150 with software and documentation available in the Ft. Pierce, Florida, area. Shipping costs only. Might involve beauracratic red tape. If interested, please contact me directly. <sellam(a)vintage.org> -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

23 years, 1 month

OT: Parity memory swap...

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

---Please reply directly to me--- Apologies for being off-topic, but considering the number of machines here that use 72-pin parity memory, hopefully someone can help me out. Thank you much for your patience :) I have 2 16x36 (64MB each) Parity 72 pin SIMMs... The sticker on them says... 02/27/97 1538 202639 16Mx36-6SIMST Void If Removed ...they are 1 3/16" high, 36 chips on each. I'm looking to trade these for a set of either 4 8x36 (32MB ea) or 8 4x36 (16MB ea) SIMMs. Of course, as usual, if it's cheap enough, I'll buy some too. Either way, none of my machines really like the 64MB SIMMs, so I at least want to trade those out. My Prioris HX MP/2 5150 (dual P-150s!) when I upgrade it to 4 CPUs, will use 128 bit interleaved memory, but I need to add 8 SIMMs at a time... BTW, I was just thinking... I have 608MB worth of Parity memory, in pairings... 2 - 64 - 16x36 6 - 32 - 8x36 12 - 16 - 4x36 12 - 8 - 2x36 Probably could trade these for full sets of either 8x36 or 4x36 SIMMs also. 512MB would be either 16 32MB SIMMs, or 32 16MB SIMMs. And no, I'm not looking to sell any. I have more machines (AXPpci33, Multia(s), PC64, SparcStation LX) that will use the rest of the RAM chips :) -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

23 years, 1 month

Blowing Up Old Computers

by mythtech＠mac.com

>> Was the first Mac Laptop released before 1992 (which would make it >> on-topic here)? > >1989 if my factoidal memory cells are functioning properly. Correct, 1989, discontinued in 1991, so it was actually no longer available before the classic cutoff. And along with it, there are of course the line of Outback Mac "clone" laptops that predated the Apple Mac Portable. They were Mac clone units, but lacked the needed ROM chip. It was designed for you to take the ROM >from a Mac Plus, put it into the Outback, and then it had a special cable/connector that allowed it to dock to the Plus so you could share the ROM between the two. I've always wanted one of those laptops... someday I'll track one down (ideally I either want it fresh with cables, so I have to install the rom >from a Plus, or I want it with its slave Plus and cables). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 1 month

Blowing Up Old Computers

by mythtech＠mac.com

> the line of Outback Mac "clone" laptops Sorry, OutBOUND, not OutBACK (I guess I had Subaru cars on my mind) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 1 month

Test please ignore

by cisin＠xenosoft.com

D + At least there aren't MIME attachments, but it's still HTML! NOTE: the "<pre>" and "</pre>" are so that HTML compliant mail programs won't hide what he has written. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote: <pre> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>Test please ignore</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> This is a test ..... Blah, blah, blah Ram 2002 OpenLink Financial Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us.  It is confidential and may be legally privileged.   If this message is not intended for you it must not be read, copied or used by you or disclosed to anyone else.   Please advise the sender immediately if you have received this message in error. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by Open Link Financial, Inc. for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use. </BODY> </HTML> </pre>

23 years, 1 month

[OT] Re: Outhouse Text Setting

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com] > > "Common Sense"?!? > That would imply that anyone, even without current expertise, > should be able to figure out how to use it safely. Okay, true, I stand corrected. > It IS possible to use Outhouse (aka MICROSOFT Virus Transfer Protocol) > with reasonable safety. But what it requires is not "common > sense", but a > reasonable understanding of the problems involved, and of the design > failings of MICROS~1 products. That's my basic point. A basic understanding of the issues, and options, with Outlook (incl. Express) can secure it some. That, and a good firewall & virus scanner... > Somebody that I know who is computer clueless, thought that > the "Preview > Pane" was a Microsoft SECURITY feature! She assumed that it > was like a > door peephole, and provided a way to SAFELY see what was in > an attachment > in isolation! I removed 30 copies of Klez from her machine. > > Was that a lack of "common sense"? NO. It was an assumption > that MICROS~1 > had "reasonable" security designed into their products. You > would have to > know something about MICROS~1 for that to be a lack of "common sense". Well, I think the common sense part would apply (pretty much) to the "not taking candy from strangers" idea. But with the latest crop of virii (exploiting MS security holes), you don't even need to open an attachment anymore to get whacked. Or is it healthy suspicion of unsolicited e-mail? :) -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

23 years, 1 month

[OT] Re: Outlook Text Setting [was: Differences between the.. .]

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

-----Original Message----- From: Eric Smith [mailto:eric@brouhaha.com] > Personally, I feel that if you use common sense, Outlook can be > _almost_ as safe as Pine. Not even close! Example: Outlook will run Javascript in the preview pane. The problem is that when MS designed Outlook, they gave not the slightest bit of concern to security. Since then they've patched some of the worst problems, but they haven't fixed the overall design. As far as I can tell, their recent claim to be focusing on security is just lip service. I try to get all my clients to switch to Mahogany, which is free software, or Eudora if they insist on using commercial software. http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ Eric - You're kinda right, but missed one thing. I said "use common sense". That would include disabling the preview pane, as it is a known security issue. :) Alongside not opening unknown attachments, adjusting the security zone settings, disabling VB scripting (and all other scripting) etc... -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

23 years, 1 month

Outlook Text Setting [was: Differences between the...]

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

From: Ram Meenakshisundaram [mailto:RMeenaks@OLF.COM] Hi Thilo, ..... SOrry about the HTML, its outlooks fault... Cheers, Ram FYI - I just looked here in my Outlook 2000. If you go into the Tools menu, select Options, then click on the Mail Format tab, at the top you should see an option that says "See in this message format:" There you can select Plain Text. But that doesn't change the format when you're replying to a message. And/or, if your creating/replying to a message, if you go into the Format menu (in the same message composition window) you can change it to Plain Text for that specific message. I use Outlook for composing messages. If your using Word to compose the e-mail, I suggest you change that in the "Tools - Options - Mail Format" window. If you have a specific question about this, e-mail me directly. :) Personally, I feel that if you use common sense, Outlook can be _almost_ as safe as Pine. Too bad it's Microsoft that's developing and supporting it. --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

23 years, 1 month

Cruftiness rating

by meltie＠myrealbox.com

I saw this link on Slashdot on Monday, thought it was pretty funny. It's a measure of how much cruft a Windows PC accumulates throughout its lifetime. Funny to laugh at, but not on topic, you say. Well, The Register is carrying the story and a plea of help from its author: "However we would like your input. A community effort is required to produce MacOS, POSIX-compliant versions, and touch wood, versions for PalmOS, phones and *even VAXes too*." Input? Original link: http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=7453/ddj0208q/0208q.htm El Reg: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/26475.html alex -- Live like you will never die, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching.

23 years, 1 month

Nigerian Scam

by jhfinepw4z＠compsys.to

Do the police care about the Nigerian Scam? Is there anything they can even do? NOTE: This was sent to me personally, NOT to classiccmp. But I can't remember if anyone even cares any more and I should just toss it?????? ================================================ Email:victorowode@mail.com Dear Sir, I am Mr.victor owode. Bank Manager of Diamond Bank of Nigeria, Lagos Branch. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On June 6, 1997, [Snip - not much point to have the rest] ================================================= I can't remember what advice was given last time - just toss it or since September 11th, are the police so bogged down with real problems? Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

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