18 Apr
2001
18 Apr
'01
9:14 a.m.
I just had to send this one to the list!
Joe
25 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE Had TOO MUCH OF THE 90's AND 2000
1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat He emails
you back from his bedroom,"What's for dinner?"
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but
you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle sou to see if it
contains Echinacea.
7. You check your blow-dryer to see if it's Y2K compliant.
8. Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send her a
JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
9. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
anyone is home.
10. Every commercial on television has a website address at the bottom
of
the screen.
11. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date
and now sells for half the price you paid.
12. The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit to
make a
purchase is foreign to you.
13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of
the back seat of your car.
14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not
have e-mail addresses.
15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
20. You turn off your Modem and get this awful feeling,as if you just
pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. You get up in morning and go online before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2am to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on
your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
24. You're reading this.
25. Even worse; you're going to forward it.
18 Apr
18 Apr
2:12 p.m.
On 18-Apr-2001 Joe wrote:
I just had to send this one to the list!
Joe
>
> 25 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE Had TOO MUCH OF THE 90's AND 2000
>
> 1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
I don't own
one.
> 22. You wake up at 2am to go to the bathroom
and check your E-mail
> on your way back to bed.
[Hangs head in shame] I've done this....
*sigh*
-Philip
5:47 p.m.
liste(a)artware.qc.ca wrote:
On 18-Apr-2001 Joe wrote:
Whew! Boy, and I thought I was the only pathetic soul to do that! Glad to
see I'm in similar company :-) {Boy does my wife get pissed off when I go
to "get a drink of water" and 3 hours later she comes upstairs to my loft
where the computers are to yell at me and ask just how big of a glass of
water am I getting and what site do I need to go to in order to get it,
yikes!}
Curt
I just had to send this one to the list!
Joe
>
> 25 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE Had TOO MUCH OF THE 90's AND 2000
>
> 1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
I don't own
one.
> 22. You wake up at 2am to go to the
bathroom and check your E-mail
> on your way back to bed.
[Hangs head in shame] I've done this....
*sigh*
-Philip
11 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Vendel" <curt(a)atari-history.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: OT: 25 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE Had TOO MUCH OF THE 90's AND 2000
Whew! Boy, and I thought I was the only pathetic soul to do that! Glad to
liste(a)artware.qc.ca wrote:
> On 18-Apr-2001 Joe wrote:
> > I just had to send this one to the list!
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >>
> >> 25 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE Had TOO MUCH OF THE 90's AND 2000
> >>
> >> 1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
> I don't own one.
>
> >> 22. You wake up at 2am to go to the bathroom and check your
E-mail
> on your way back to bed.
[Hangs head in
shame] I've done this.... *sigh* see I'm in similar company :-) {Boy does my
wife get pissed off
when I go
to "get a drink of water" and 3 hours later
she comes upstairs to my
loft
where the computers are to yell at me and ask just how
big of a glass
of
water am I getting and what site do I need to go to in
order to get
it,
yikes!}
I have a 2 fold solution to this problem.
1) I have a networked computer next to the bed, so I don't have to get
up. (Besides, there's a bar fridge next to the bed.)
I use VNC to remote control the Win98SE box in the shop that has the
modem and Internet Connection Sharing so I can dial
in whenever we need to without getting up.
2) My wife has a PC on her side of the bed too. (Julie is fond of IRC
and is an online Scrabble addict)
She wouldn't let me bring the Vax 6000 into the house itself, but telnet
is a wonderful thing, and I have an Emulex terminal
server now too :^)
Cheers
Geoff in Oz
19 Apr
19 Apr
2:20 a.m.
New subject: DG tape duplication kicking by butt
Dunno if any of you recall, but I found a nifty way of duping tape data
under AOS/VS II on MV hardware last year.
Something like:
"Type/nodisplay @mtb0 filename"
The purpose is to binary duplicate the info on the tape to a file on hard
disk indiscriminately in order to reverse the process and produce a copy
of the tape ( I have only one 9 track drive ).
My problem is that the system insists on displaying every displayable byte
to the host terminal and beeping at the non-displayable bytes. I'd like
this not to happen but can't remember the secret, undocumented syntax for
this command.
Help/v type does not give me the info. Neither do any of the other
manuals I have. Does anyone have a fix for me? I can't dup a 20mb 9
track that beeps all night long and in which destination I have no
confidence.
I ran across the correct syntax/commands some months ago and just can't
remember what I'm supposed to enter to get this result. S@!T.
Your help is very much appreciated,
Jeff
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
Jeffrey S. Worley
President
Complete Computer Services, Inc.
30 Greenwood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28803
828-277-5959
Visit our website at HTTP://www.Real-Techs.com
THETechnoid(a)home.com
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7:59 p.m.
New subject: I membered... (Was: Re: DG tape duplication kicking by butt)
To anyone who wants to know, I remembered the syntax and command to dup a
tape to a file and vice-versa on DG MV gear under AOS/VS II.
First, my first tape drive is named MTB0. Your's might be a different
name like MTC or something.
The Command is:
XEQ DISPLAY/NOLIST @mtb0:0 AOSBOOTLOADER.img
will dump the first tape 'file' of the unlabeled tape to the file
aosbootloader.img
Substitute @mtb0:1 and it will dump the second file etc.
The /NOLIST switch keeps DISPLAY from showing all the data to the terminal
before writing to tape. This saves TONS of time on a 19.2kbaud terminal
when you are moving 20mb of data...
What wonders a good nights sleep can do?
Regards,
Jeff
In <20010419061954.SZMO24660.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@Benchbox>, on
04/19/01
at 07:59 PM, THETechnoid(a)home.com said:
Dunno if any of you recall, but I found a nifty way of
duping tape data
under AOS/VS II on MV hardware last year.
Something like:
"Type/nodisplay @mtb0 filename"
The purpose is to binary duplicate the info on the tape
to a file on hard
disk indiscriminately in order to reverse the process and produce a copy
of the tape ( I have only one 9 track drive ).
My problem is that the system insists on displaying
every displayable
byte to the host terminal and beeping at the non-displayable bytes. I'd
like this not to happen but can't remember the secret, undocumented
syntax for this command.
Help/v type does not give me the info. Neither do any
of the other
manuals I have. Does anyone have a fix for me? I can't dup a 20mb 9
track that beeps all night long and in which destination I have no
confidence.
I ran across the correct syntax/commands some months
ago and just can't
remember what I'm supposed to enter to get this result. S@!T.
Your help is very much appreciated,
Jeff
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
Jeffrey S. Worley
President
Complete Computer Services, Inc.
30 Greenwood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28803
828-277-5959
Visit our website at HTTP://www.Real-Techs.com
THETechnoid(a)home.com
-----------------------------------------------------------
2:20 a.m.
New subject: DG tape duplication kicking by butt
Dunno if any of you recall, but I found a nifty way of duping tape data
under AOS/VS II on MV hardware last year.
Something like:
"Type/nodisplay @mtb0 filename"
The purpose is to binary duplicate the info on the tape to a file on hard
disk indiscriminately in order to reverse the process and produce a copy
of the tape ( I have only one 9 track drive ).
My problem is that the system insists on displaying every displayable byte
to the host terminal and beeping at the non-displayable bytes. I'd like
this not to happen but can't remember the secret, undocumented syntax for
this command.
Help/v type does not give me the info. Neither do any of the other
manuals I have. Does anyone have a fix for me? I can't dup a 20mb 9
track that beeps all night long and in which destination I have no
confidence.
I ran across the correct syntax/commands some months ago and just can't
remember what I'm supposed to enter to get this result. S@!T.
Your help is very much appreciated,
Jeff
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
Jeffrey S. Worley
President
Complete Computer Services, Inc.
30 Greenwood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28803
828-277-5959
Visit our website at HTTP://www.Real-Techs.com
THETechnoid(a)home.com
-----------------------------------------------------------
18 Apr
18 Apr
2:42 p.m.
> 1. You just tried to enter your password on the
microwave.
You've never had to do this? How else do you think you get those
commercial style microwaves to run for the amount of time that *YOU* want?
Zane
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+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
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3:30 p.m.
> 1. You
just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
You've never had to do this? How else do you think you get those
commercial style microwaves to run for the amount of time that *YOU* want?
6:56 p.m.
When using the home phone I hate it that:
a: I try to dial a tele# from home and start off with a 9 like at work all day.
b: instead of answering the phone and saying "Hello" I answer it "This is
Curt"
like at work, sheeez!!!!
Curt
Gene Buckle wrote:
What's worse is dialing an IP address on a telephone. I've done this at
least twice. Fortunately for me, I caught it before the phone started to
ring on the other end. :)
g.
> 1. You just tried to enter your password on the
microwave.
You've never had to do this? How else do you think you get those
commercial style microwaves to run for the amount of time that *YOU* want?
2:52 p.m.
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They cook food? I thought they were portable satellite transmitters!
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:52 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: OT: 25 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE Had TOO MUCH OF THE 90's AND 2000
I just had to send this one to the list!
Joe
>
> 25 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE Had TOO MUCH OF THE 90's AND 2000
>
> 1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
Or in my case, the first thought when someone says 'microwave' is a
communications link, not a food cooker.
-tony
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