A detailed index of User Mail to Chaos Manor
Friday, January 23, 2004
Maildex 1-10
Maildex 11-20
Maildex 21-30
Maildex 31-40
Maildex 41-59
Maildex 60-69
Maildex 70-79
Maildex 80-89
Maildex 90-99
Viewdex 1-19
Viewdex 20-29
Viewdex 30-39
Viewdex 40-49
Viewdex 50-59
Viewdex 60-69
Viewdex 70-79
Viewdex 80-89
Viewdex 90-99
Sections
Maildex 1-10 - June 7, 1998 - October 4, 1998
Maildex 11-20 - October 5, 1998 - December 20, 1998
Maildex 21-30 - December 21, 1998 - February 28, 1999
Maildex 31-40 - February 28, 1999 - May 9, 1999
Maildex 41-59 - May 10, 1999 - August 1, 1999
Maildex 60-69 - August 2, 1999 - October 10, 1999
Maildex 70-79 - October 11, 1999 - December 19, 1999
Maildex 80-89 - December 20, 1999 - February 27, 2000
Maildex 90-99 - February 28, 2000 - May 5, 2000
MAIL 21 - December 21 - December 27, 1998
- Paul Calvi has problems with Linux
- And on some other stuff like USB and Enfish
- And another Linux problem story.
- Growing like a hydra?
- Stupid Microsoft tricks
- With added clarification
- System File Checker: you need to know about this.
- Windows 98 and games.
- Internet Sharing on networks
- THE NT VIRUS, and some questions of Constitutional Law
- Windows 98 Power Management Problem
- New Location for NT Service Pack 4
- Auto de fe for Nader
- Free Search and Indexing engines
- UPGRADING WINDOWS 98
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri demo available.
- Via Chip set and 100 MHz
- Castlewood as replacement for SyQuest?
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Modems and UPS
MAIL 22 - December 28, 1998 - January 3, 1999
- Begin with Andy Peters on Cookies:
- Removing IE4 from Win98
- Success with STB 4400 AGP and AMD K6-2
- Eric says AMD needs to get its act together
- US Robotics web site and some interesting links to look at about Merced
- Is power management worth it at all?
- Moshe Bar on Linux and Power Management
- Resource Depletion and the Strategy of Technology
- A Narnia Irony
- Celeron Overclock Data
- David Mitchell on Telepresence
- Moving Eudora to a new machine
- Outlook and "FROM", and observations on Word vs Word Perfect
- LINUX
- Talin's Adventures with LINUX
- Is LINUX worth it? An observation about Talin's adventures.
- Flirting with Disaster?
- OUTLOOK
- Shutting down
- Do you have to shut down, and a long tirade on Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc and other matters
- And the issue resolved: Use Outlook 2000
- And more Latin than I'll use in a month...
- On Outlook, Linux, and other matters
- Down with Outlook! And what happened to my subscription?
- Why use Windows 98?
- Plastic Ring Things
- THE FUTURE of MAIL and Discussion groups
- Would discussion groups be a bad idea?
- Wingate and other Net Access stuff for home networks
- ALT.MAIL continues. Feel free to ignore its existence.
- You've Got Mail: I knew I'd seen it before
- DUAL Processor CELERON: a source
- Micropayments
- Eric speculates on Millicent.
- And thoughts on Micropayments and how credit cards work: Talin
- A note from South Africa
MAIL 23 - January 4 - January 10, 1999
Problems with Millicent Encouraging report on USB I am reminded that Peter Kent tells about Web Store Software Don Norman's Invisible Computer Brian on softare difficulties Mark Gosdin on ICVERIFY Mike Detjen on overclocking Celeron, with sources and a disclaimer. Linux and good enough Linux and Timex What did we get out of the Iraqi bombings? DIMMS for older Gateway 2000 systems Is Faster Than Light travel possible? 10-10-xyz and phone rates Mice and trackballs Oil Change A request for help on Linux On modems and modernity On Byte On Norton Utilities Finding Broken Links: a useful and free tool USB mice (plural is important) Why we weren't able to connect to ICVERIFY Thoth Missiles Trashing the Planet Shockrave Letter from Turkey Martial Law and the Y2K Problem MAIL 24 - January 11 - January 17, 1999
- Education and Civilization: a topic of some importance.
- Was Rick Galloway unusual? James McCaffrey on military education.
- Bookstore in the desert a desert.
- Support from a surprising source
- We don't have the best and brightest as teachers
- And Robert Peters for more on that front.
- Richard Martin warns me against the folly that older is better
- Mark Thompson on Federal Aid
- CDROM Weirdness
- Linux Sound
- Truncating File Names to 8 + 3
- A short disquisition on education
- And a warning.
- Software trade wars?
- Cures and diseases: is Windows a dextrous or a sinister plot?
- Business 2.0 instead of BYTE?
- Chaos Manor a menace to the web and a horrible example.
- Remembering Galileo
- Out of Print Book Source: Pratt
- Laboring through the heat of the day...
- First BYTE then LAN Times
- Starswarm and Janissaries (Shameless self promotion)
- Homeschooling
- A testimonial to this site
- Does Anyone Still Use RAMDISK?
- The speed of propogation of gravity (MOVED TO ALT.MAIL)
- AMDK6 Chips: some limited in speed.
- VEDIT's still the right hex editor
- The advantage of not knowing history?
MAIL 25 - January 18 - January 24, 1999
Homeschooling hints. Web site suggestion 9 Pin and 4 pin cables No comment: A Y2K song Latest on BYTE subscription fullfilment Palm Pilot III Talin, Digital Cameras, and Linux (Wirh DES picture) Bronco's Last Ride: which side up? A cosmological discussion NT can't handle REALLY BIG NETWORKS Title Insurance Working the Update Problem Getting a refund on Windows Suggestion for running this place Finding Fletcher Pratt 10 10 10 10 10 10 The Security Bug C S Lewis Carpal tunnels: Invitation to discussion Upgrades and uploads Palm Pilot Keyboards again MAIL 26 - January 25 - January 31, 1999
- InstallShield
- Libraries
- Outlook Security Problem True URL
- Big files, Karl Marx and other matters.
- Moshe Bar on Linux for the whole family
- Saves in Baldur's Gate
- Little things: subscriptions etc.
- Publishing monopolies
- Recovering from W 95 problems...
- Laser Propulsion and High Justice
- Pentium III serial numbers
- What was funny about that?
- Office 97 SR-1 vs Windows 98??
- ZIP and PKZIP
- Military Culture
- An important message
- A source
- Pilots and Cross
- Life without prejudice
- OnTrack software and BIG disks
THE SLASHDOT LETTERS HAVE BEEN MOVED
- I must be a terrible writer: Me and Open Source
- More on Open Source. Nonsense on stilts.
- And yet one more, and I think the last, on having to buy Windows when you buy a cheap computer.
- A reader recommends a book on Installing Linux
- It's the vendors...
- And this I think ends the refund discussion (for me)
- Being hit on slashdot
- But some good may come: Linux, games and family installation
- AND NOW I am a Microsoft Bootlicker. Wonderful stuff you learn on slashdot.
- More thoughts on Microsoft: continuaton of an EARLIER exchange.
- NT Stability: A case report, and why it might crash.
- RIP: Farewell to a Pioneer
- Nomination to Web Pages that Suck
- SERIOUS: I need a typing service.
- Phillip Pournelle, Palm III, and Franklin Ascend 97
MAIL 27 - February 1 - February 7, 1999
My Alt Tags Suck Do it better with a data base Letter from the Netherlands: libraries, web site looks, Linux Cultural heritage Help Needed on ScanJet Microsoft does it again Where to get a system with a non-Windows OS preinstalled Finding your place in word. ODBC explained, more or less. IMPORTANT for NT USERS who use DISKEEPER Dorothy Sayers on Education Card swap woes Master and slave drives on IDE: CDROM should never be master? Stabilant 22A, The Great Power Spike, and UPS Booting Linux MAIL 28 - February 8 - February 14, 1999
Windoze... Yorktown ODBC Revealed The king of Albania An example of sorts Non-trivial: Amazon, payola, and publishing practice. An upgrade hoax: Beware New reports on Linux from Moshe Bar ADSL Boot problem related to the Linux Boot Problem New Alt.Mail: Marxism in the modern age
- Continues, with comments
A Microsoft Song. OS/2 Again It's Pournelle's Fault: NT problems How the heck do you REMOVE Linux? This may be a bigger problem than you thought. Lays of Ancient Rome Talin on TCP/IP and LINUX New Layout for View and Mail DO LOOK AT NASFIC information Space Access ZIP Stuff MAIL 29 - February 15 - February 21, 1999
Mail reogranized. Current mail page now named currentmail.html New Special Report on Diamond Maxtor 10 G Drive Stabilant 22 again Will there be an on-line BYTE? News from Rotary Rocket: NT stability Web Security: Is Talin paranoid enough? Work in progress Dragging Mac Disks to trash Where are they? Niven's Modem Problem Links Microsoft Software Return Day Web page color support Out of print book source One web site link... The Week That Was Why Internal Zip Drives Don't Work: a letter from Russia Color from Epson on Linux More on ZIP Letter from Britain: USS Hopper, Beowulf's Children and other matters What to do about Trouble in Paradise and the ZIP Click of Death Link to a disk encryption utility Discriminant Analysis
MAIL 30 - February 22 - February 28, 1999
USR Modems IE and hotmail. A neat overclocked system The Louisville Computer News, Linux, Zach Smith, and me The Internet Weather Report www.internetweather.com A nifty site and the Rubber Handbook USENET, Sound Bites, and dialogues A CDROM Experience What do Linux users WANT? More on ZIP and a WORD problem FOUR Letters on Shutdown problems. THE RETURN OF BYTE Searching on Alta Vista Amazon Removable Hard Drive Bays Nifty IE Utility