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[Richard Steven Hack]

It's that I want to your attention to this fact: Many posters, right here
in ACF, are not what you and I might get called. Fat Americans.

Actually I'm American and I'm fat (let's not mince words, forty to
fifty pounds overweight at 5'8" is fat) and I'm living on Pell Grants
and welfare (and the welfare ends next month).

Buying PCs is not feasible for me except last year when I managed to
divert a portion of a Pell Grant and my college work-study to pick up
a fairly nice PC (AMD 2GHz, 60MB HD, 512MB RAM, 16X DVD) for around
$585 from a local clone store.

Previously I was using an old Compaq Deskpro 4000 which was given to
me by the Veterans Administration homeless project here in San
Francisco (they got it from Macy's here) plus a Dell monitor from a
retraining program I went through in 2001. I use the Dell and the
Compaq keyboard with the new machine. I'm hoping to network the two
machines at some point here.

Which is why I use freeware a lot and am moving to Linux slowly. I've
just downloaded WIndows XP as part of the Microsoft Academy project
via City College of San Francisco, and a developer has given me a
Windows 2000 CD since he is an MSDN member and gets all the OS's and
ten seats for them. So I can use Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows
XP to support my clients in my freelance tech support business I'm
starting.

Hopefully soon I can be making enough bucks to be able to buy hardware
(would love a decent laptop - also useful for tech support) more
frequently and maybe even the odd shareware or commercial software.

Two years ago, I would have kissed ass for a PIII 800MHz, 256MB and
20GB HD. The Compaq had a 2GB drive (which I managed to improve with
a 30GB HD second drive), 96MB which I increased to 256MB, and
eventually replaced the 166MHz CPU with an Evergreen Technologies AMD
K6-2 CPU upgrade for around $80. Even today, a PIII 800MHz level
machine will go for several hundred dollars on used machine sites -
even though a machine like my current one goes for barely a couple
hundred more.

The only machines I see given away in Goodwill stores and the like are
mostly ancient 486's.

 

[Bill Jones]

with.

It's that I want to your attention to this fact: Many posters, right here
in ACF, are not what you and I might get called. Fat Americans.

Actually I'm American and I'm fat (let's not mince words, forty to
fifty pounds overweight at 5'8" is fat) and I'm living on Pell Grants
and welfare (and the welfare ends next month).

Buying PCs is not feasible for me except last year when I managed to
divert a portion of a Pell Grant and my college work-study to pick up
a fairly nice PC (AMD 2GHz, 60MB HD, 512MB RAM, 16X DVD) for around
$585 from a local clone store.

Previously I was using an old Compaq Deskpro 4000 which was given to
me by the Veterans Administration homeless project here in San
Francisco (they got it from Macy's here) plus a Dell monitor from a
retraining program I went through in 2001. I use the Dell and the
Compaq keyboard with the new machine. I'm hoping to network the two
machines at some point here.

Which is why I use freeware a lot and am moving to Linux slowly. I've
just downloaded WIndows XP as part of the Microsoft Academy project
via City College of San Francisco, and a developer has given me a
Windows 2000 CD since he is an MSDN member and gets all the OS's and
ten seats for them. So I can use Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows
XP to support my clients in my freelance tech support business I'm
starting.

Hopefully soon I can be making enough bucks to be able to buy hardware
(would love a decent laptop - also useful for tech support) more
frequently and maybe even the odd shareware or commercial software.

Two years ago, I would have kissed ass for a PIII 800MHz, 256MB and
20GB HD. The Compaq had a 2GB drive (which I managed to improve with
a 30GB HD second drive), 96MB which I increased to 256MB, and
eventually replaced the 166MHz CPU with an Evergreen Technologies AMD
K6-2 CPU upgrade for around $80. Even today, a PIII 800MHz level
machine will go for several hundred dollars on used machine sites -
even though a machine like my current one goes for barely a couple
hundred more.

The only machines I see given away in Goodwill stores and the like are
mostly ancient 486's.

--
Richard Steven Hack
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
and YOU have not killed me!

Richard:
Here's a place in SF that sells computer stuff cheap. They also accept
anything people want to recycle. They supposedly put the best up for sale.
I gave them an old computer and monitor sometime ago but have never brought
anything there. Keep meaning to visit though...

HMR Recyling
435 23rd St.
SF, CA
(415) 647-6071
http://www.hmrusa.com
Open M-F, 8:30am-4:00pm.

Wednesday and Thursday (9am-3pm) and Sat (10am-12pm) open to the public for
buying used stuff.

P.S. You've got to get that weight down man! Here's something that may
help:

http://www.discover.com/issues/feb-04/features/science-diet/



What Does Science Say You Should Eat?

Most diets aren't realistic or advisable, including the U.S. agriculture
department's famous food pyramid. Instead, a Harvard scientist recommends a
new way of eating based on the world's largest and longest food study.

 

[Bill Jones]

I installed Regmagik to take a look at it. It is sadly lacking. Unless I
did something wrong or missed something, it appears that you can only search
one hive (I'm running WinXP) at a time. There are 5 hives in WinXP. This
is a serious deficiency.

I find registry editors of this type are trying to re-invent the wheel. They
are little more than window dressing, and add little functionality to the
WinXP registry editor.

Bob

Did you ever try to delete 500-1000 keys manually (like Symantec always
recommends for their products when they don't know what else to do) in
Regedit, one at a time (F3, F3, F3, F3, F3, F3, F3,....), sigh? And Regedit
is REALLY, REALLY SLOW in searching compared to programs like RL.

Regedit is perfectly adequate if you never have to delete a large number of
registry keys scattered throughout the registry or if you rarely go into the
registry for anything. Otherwise, it is like most MS software, adequate but
leaves much to be desired.

 

[Bob Adkins]

What Does Science Say You Should Eat?

Most diets aren't realistic or advisable, including the U.S. agriculture
department's famous food pyramid. Instead, a Harvard scientist recommends a
new way of eating based on the world's largest and longest food study.

So, what does science recommend? I don't really want to register on that
page to find out. I want a freeware diet.

I am 5'10, and went from 196 to 139 in about 7 months. Cholesterol and blood
pressure went from terrible to excellent. All sorts of minor health problems
cleared up. I call my diet the "Robert Adkins" diet. It's no carbs, and
eating no more than 1000 cal per day. After I lost the weight, I eat
anything and everything I want. I restrict myself to a few bites of carbs
per day and usually no more than ~1400 cal. Daily workouts with Weights are
extremely important for everyone.

Bob

 

[Bob Adkins]

Did you ever try to delete 500-1000 keys manually (like Symantec always
recommends for their products when they don't know what else to do) in
Regedit, one at a time (F3, F3, F3, F3, F3, F3, F3,....), sigh? And Regedit
is REALLY, REALLY SLOW in searching compared to programs like RL.

Bill,

I just discovered the search window. Very handy!

Bob

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Bill Jones wrote in

Which is why I use freeware a lot and am moving to Linux slowly.

You might find some of the following a good read:

"Max Bang Per Buck" by Alan Martin
<http://www.shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=110>
"This article is about suitable hardware and software for
advanced but inexpensive computing."
by the same author,
"Deconstructing the Shell"
<http://www.shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=133>

"Never Say Die" by Mark Frauenfelder
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/diehards.html >
(the article runs over several web pages - so you might want to try
the "print" version - all on one page:
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/diehards_pr.html>)

Here is an appetizer, from the introduction:

"Sugarman's sound-bite slogan for the movement he hoped to
inspire was "Off the Treadmill!" His solution: Find yourself a
"durable, portable, and relatively sprightly" hardware platform,
an operating system that's "STABLE, rather than bleeding-edge,"
and a suite of "Pretty Good Software, consisting of an integrated
package that provides basic word processing, spreadsheet,
database, and telecom." Then, learn how to use the system, and
"do NOT come back for at least 10 years. After that, you MIGHT be
eligible for your next computer solution. But only if you've
truly outgrown what you've worked with for the past decade."

Anyone with a old Pentium, a 486 (or older) you want to make the most
of? Tip: Search/browse past messages on the Survpc (Survivor PC) list
at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/survpc/messages> for info/links
on that topic - about how to survive with old hardware, like with
Linux or DOS......Btw if you search the list at Yahoo, make sure you
use the "next" page link on the search results page.

Speaking of DOS
PURE (DOS) TEXT MODE USE OF THE INTERNET
<http://www.inti.be/hammer/revobild.htm>

....not impossible, see for instance this recent SURVP message
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/survpc/message/18753> from one American
finding him self an ISP that offers reasonably priced shell accounts
that works with his, <quote> ancient DOS/Win3.11 computers <unqoute>.

As for perspective, here is more - and this is for everyone (no matter
what hardware they can afford
<http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/1996/The.Situation.of.the.Beg.html>
(from June 1996)
"This file contains 39 messages, totalling about 63Kbytes, that
subscribers (mostly) of the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE)
contributed in response to a call for stories about the
experiences of beginning computer users. Please read and learn
from the stories while respecting their personal nature."

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Bjorn Simonsen wrote in

You might find some of the following a good read:

Whoops, my previous post in this thread was meant as a follow-up to
Richard Steven Hack's post

(PS to Bill Jones: would be helpful if you configured your newsreader
to insert a quote character, like standard >, to preface quoted
lines.)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Bill Jones]

Bjorn Simonsen wrote in

You might find some of the following a good read:

Whoops, my previous post in this thread was meant as a follow-up to
Richard Steven Hack's post

(PS to Bill Jones: would be helpful if you configured your newsreader
to insert a quote character, like standard >, to preface quoted
lines.)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen


I HATE those leading quote characters! With a few replies in the chain and
the fact that everyone sets different line wrapping lengths, everything
quickly gets unreadable. If I extract individual lines from another post,t
hen I do try to use some sort of quote marks to represent them from mine.

 

[Sietse Fliege]

Sietse, for this, I have to the other side of the tracks, the
backstreets, late night...shuffle up to the dealers, on one of the
infamous street corners. I'm just a conservative middle-aged white
woman, only need some medical marijuana for my back, you know, but
it's those back corners where I go to get it.

ROTFL Lovely worded metaphor!

http://www.exetools.com/

For Aspack decompressors, /unpackers.htm, they have a group of
different ones listed there.

I had already been there and had downloaded two of them.
Picked the wrong ones, so I did not install them and thought I might try
to get you to tell your dark little secret. *g*

The one that I have been using is
AspackDie 1.3c. It has worked fine. And I ignore where it says "HaVe
PhUn!" in the readme. <G>

Hehehe. Reminds me of the guy we had in this group who wrote in each one
of his posts that all American phrase : 'Have a nice day'. Had a hard
time suppressing a reply with 'You can't make me'.

Great, Thanks Karen! I downloaded and installed 1.3d.
Exactly what the doctor ordered.

As an aside (I have no special purpose telling this):
I was surprised to see that Aut2exe, a tool that comes with AutoIt that
lets you compile its scripts to exes, actually produces UPX-ed exes.
It's no use (for me) to unpack these but out of curiosity I unpacked
one. It then ran alright, but aborted with the message:
'Unable to verify the integrity of this executable - the file has been
modified!' Makes sense of course that one should edit the script and not
tamper with the unpacked exe. Still, it means that one can not run these
exes unpacked, should one ever have use for that.

 

[rvanek]

omega wrote:




ROTFL Lovely worded metaphor!




I had already been there and had downloaded two of them.
Picked the wrong ones, so I did not install them and thought I might try
to get you to tell your dark little secret. *g*




Hehehe. Reminds me of the guy we had in this group who wrote in each one
of his posts that all American phrase : 'Have a nice day'. Had a hard
time suppressing a reply with 'You can't make me'.

Great, Thanks Karen! I downloaded and installed 1.3d.
Exactly what the doctor ordered.

Found by accident Vilma Registry Editor

at http://www.vsft.com/products.htm
Quite good

 

[Spacey Spade]

Thanks, Bob.

Have you run Crackup in W98SE?

It worked well for me in W95, I had 1 GB partitions, got good fragment
nos. Now, with 4 GB partitions, it always shows 0.5% frag or so, never
gets much bigger, maybe realistic, but I did defrag maybe monthly, still
Crackup showed very small number before defrag.

Mike Sa

I get the same... I haven't defragmented in a few months, and
fragmentation on c:\ is 1.1%, d:\ is 0.5%

I think I will never get enough fragmentation to get to 5% with Crackup.
They may have messed up in the math, or defragging is highly overrated,
or both. Point is I'm not going to defrag until I notice my puter is
slow. Keeping a browser's cache to around 20Mb makes all the
difference, IMO. I'll still defrag one of these days though.
Defragging is addicting... kind of makes you feel like you are
accomplishing something... HAH! Spacey

 

[Spacey Spade]

Bob, in the past, I've usually seen the advice to *not* automatically
fix errors in scandisk, as it usually results in problems??

Mike Sa

From my experience, fixing errors healed my system when it started
misbehaving... so I would say let scandisk fix errors.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

I HATE those leading quote characters! With a few replies in the chain and
the fact that everyone sets different line wrapping lengths, everything
quickly gets unreadable. If I extract individual lines from another post,t
hen I do try to use some sort of quote marks to represent them from mine.

Yes, well, I was unable to respond to your previous message because
Free Agent simply cut your response off after my unquoted portion in
your message.

If you respond to quoted material every few lines and snip unnecessary
prior material, it doesn't get out of hand and context is mostly
retained.

As for being fat, I KNOW what I have to do not to be. The question is
one of getting my act together to do that under my present
circumstances.

As for HMR, I know about them. At this point, I don't need older
machines, the one (actually two - including the old Compaq) I have is
fine for now.

I generally buy at Spectrum Peripherals (now Spectrum Computer) which
is the cheapest place in town for new stuff. Right now I'm
considering replacing the 2GB HD in the Compaq with the 40GB in the
newer machine, and replacing the 40GB with a 120GB. Then I can
install 2000, XP, and maybe two or three more Linux distros and still
have enough space to take care of my space problems for the next six
months or so. 150,000 babe pictures takes up around 20GB of space on
my D: drive and I don't have 20GB of contigious space on any other
partition to move it to. I do have quite a few gigs free on the Red
Hat 7.3 side, but I prefer to have the pictures on a FAT32 partition
where both OS's can use them for my wallpaper.

Then there's networking the two machines and setting up a KVM switch
to allow both to use the one monitor I have room for.

Ah, yes, system maintenance.

 

[Roger Johansson]

Yes, well, I was unable to respond to your previous message because
Free Agent simply cut your response off after my unquoted portion in
your message.

You can select the text you want to quote in Agent before you click the
reply button. This makes it possible to quote text below a sig, for
example. It also minimizes the quoted text, so there is less or none to
delete in your reply.