ViewDex 2 - An index of The View from Chaos Manor

Viewdex 1-19 - June 4, 1998 - October 18, 1998
Viewdex 20-29 - October 19, 1998 - January 3, 1999
Viewdex 30-39 - January 4, 1999 - March 14, 1999
Viewdex 40-49 - March 15, 1999 - May 23, 1999
Viewdex 50-59 - May 24, 1999 - August 1, 1999
Viewdex 60-69 - August 2, 1999 - October 10, 1999
Viewdex 70-79 - October 11, 1999 - December 19, 1999
Viewdex 80-89 - December 20, 1999 - February 27, 2000
Viewdex 90-99 - February 29, 1999 - May 6, 2000

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VIEW 20 - October 19 - 26, 1998

Linette and Applix: Applix runs!
Diskeeper 4.0
Alice in Unix Land
Updated Index: New Order out of Chaos: Thanks to John Rice
Horror stories on what happens if you do not defrag NT: One and Two
Deadletter office: some are not getting mail from me.
Diskeeper 4.0 Preliminary Report
Intellectual Capital Columns
September, 1998 Column
LINUX LINKS AND REFERENCES
Readers Recommend Web Sites
MAIL FORMATS AND PRIORITIES
THE DEAN DRIVE and other Reactionless Drives

VIEW 21 - October 26 - November 1, 1998

Some recommended UNIX books in two letters
Looking for Dilmun, or NT 4 Service Pack 4 or a colossal waste of time
SP 4 installed: looking for the Y2K problem fix.
Found it: see Thursday. Also for mail problems click here
Slow! Glue in the machine, and why!
Update complete: all's well that end's well if you don't mind using lots of time.
The SP4 business generated a lot of mail,
The Microsoft File: Sources?
The Front Page BUG, including a work around.
Why don't I switch to Linux: a discussion begins
The Second Computer Revolution and RESPONSES
COREL AND RED HAT
OPERATING SYSTEM DISCUSSIONS - PART ONE: APPLE, LINUX, AND WINTEL
THE LINUX ADVENTURES - Part 3
THE SECOND COMPUTER REVOLUTION
The Second Computer Revolution - An Essay
RESPONSES TO THE SECOND COMPUTER REVOLUTION
Books
GAMES AT CHAOS MANOR

VIEW 22 - November 2 - 8, 1998

The Second Computer Revolution and RESPONSES
The Halloween Papers
The Microsoft Halloween Document: Open Source Software vs. The Borg.
The Halloween Papers, continued.
Calvin Dodge on the Halloween papers
Can't find Dr. Laura.
Found her. In the flesh.
Maybe I shouldn't bother with day books. - Meta Journal
Golden Bow VOPT
Mail on the PC 100 system: click here.
Roberta's Reading Program
MANDRAKE Linux
Star Office
Dr. Mark Huth summarizes who should and should not use Linux
Talin comments on Linux and ease of use
USED AND RECOMMENDED AT CHAOS MANOR - Updated

VIEW 23 - Saturday, November 14, 1988

Vae, Caesar
Professional?
Does anyone really know about 66/300 vs. 100/300?
Preliminary data on the 66/300 question over in mail...
Do you make or sell PC-100 memory?
Site Design
If you never saw David Em's pages, you should.
New Special Reports "Home Page"
Windows 98 discussion.
Discovered something I wrote a year ago
BANKING THE FIRES FOR COMDEX

VIEW 24 - November 21 - 28, 1988

Death Valley Days - I'm alive.
The PICTURES of my desert adventure - What's left of the Bronco
Mainlining Antibiotics
I have to look into a new truck
THE LAST BYTE COLUMN - AUGUST 1998
Book Reviews - Updated
Tables and this site
100 MHz motherboards
Interactive Magic's Knights and Merchants
Eric defends Microsoft

VIEW 25 - November 30 - December 6, 1988

If you kept getting the same mail page over and over click here.
Consumer reports: This outfit can't do a web site right.
Begin assembly of Roberta's new machine.
Got it fixed; sound card/video card clashes.
New Linux: Setup, and Applications
Still searching for a truck.
Niven's in the hospital (and out)
Frys, bad parts, etc.
New jpeg formats
Linux: YAST and other matters
Linux: what you can do once you get set up
Death Valley Adventure report - revised
Microsoft Manners: an exchange

VIEW 26 - December 7 - December 13, 1988

Pictures from the LA Opera world premiere of The Fantastic Mr. Fox
A New Special Report from Bob Thompson: A tirade on cookies
Annual User's Choice Awards and Orchid and Onion Parade: Nominations open.
New View Template
Mail controversy over Microsoft
Moshe Bar on Linux vs. UNIX
How to prevent scandisk from running every time after a crash
The NOVEMBER Column
A New Alex Essay on his love affair with Los Angeles
Special (mail) format I like
A page of problems with the Dodge Durango
Recommended section - Keyboards
User's Choice reference on keyboards
D400 Zoom Olympus camera - review
Not By Jerry Pournelle
STOP LOOKING AT OVERPRICED CARS

VIEW 27 - December 14 - December 20, 1988

Nominations open for User's Choice awards and
the annual orchid and onion parade.
Interesting observation by Talin on what this place is.
I have about decided to start over on Linux
Viewdex splits.
Giving up on cars for a while
A report by Russell Kay on a problem with Internet Explorer 5 beta.
purp, a useful UNIX command
Building Robertas new Machine
Plug and Play and IRQs
USB mice not ready for prime time See also Saturday
The Baltimore Case by Daniel J. Kevles
Help Wanted in changing to a new system. Eudora and PGP
My ARPANET account
Donald MacArthur on transferring PGP
NetBuei sucks rocks.
Beware of Microsoft "Upgrades" from their web site.

VIEW 28 - December 21 - December 27, 1988

HELP NEEDED: CDSTART
Solved
Reading
Upgrading Joizy - Robertas Gateway P-200
Scarlett continues with problems
Linux Mail
Book Reviews Updated
mail about sfc.exe
Optimizing Diskspace
The Windows 98 Bible (recommended)
Education in Kansas City
Power Management problems
For imporant information on Upgrading Windows 98, see Mail 21
College students should be taught Unix rather than Windows
Eagle One's problems
Playing Lords of Magic
Pay By Credit Card
December 1998 column is posted

VIEW 29 - December 28, 1988 - January 3, 1999

Suspending your systems

Don't use complex screen savers
Is Gizmos evil?
Safest Screen Saver with Monitor Stand by
What power is saved?

Millicent and Digicash and Cybercash.
Power Management and Screen Savers
Norton Utilities
Measuring power saving
Subscription Payments
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Celeron and overclocking
Motherboards
Beginning a new series on Telepresence
Talin's Adventures with Linux

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