Note:<888> 3/21/98 Saturday 9:45 A.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I was up at 7 A.M. today and had Aunt Jamaima pancakes for breakfast. I will stop by the Hospital Thrift Shop this morning and the library. There is light dusting of corn snow out this morning, but nothing major. CIO

Note:<888> 3/20/98 Friday 8:15 P.M. EST: Uploaded Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I changed my homepage colors. I fiddled with my stereo setup this afternoon, the amplifier seems to be out of balence. I put it as best as I could get it. I stopped by the library this evening and read the computer press. Construction on the steel work on the library addition is progressing. I will watch "Grumpier Old Men" this evening. CIO

Note:<888> 3/20/98 Friday 11:45 A.M. EST: Updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I only got five hours sleep last night, so I think I will take a nap. CIO

Note:<888> 3/20/98 Friday 8:25 A.M. EST: Went to bed at 1 A.M. this morning and was awaken by a call at 6:30 A.M.. I watched a program on the Arts and Entertainment Channel on Queen Victoria which was well produced. I made breakfast of four strips of bacon done in the Microwave for six minutes between two sheets of paper towels on either side to absorb fat. I also had a two pieces of Arnold Healthnut bread, and three scrambled eggs, and a cup of www.mikescott.net/coffee.htm along with a 12 ounce class of orange juice and my morning 12 vitamins and pills. I will read the morning press at www.mikescott.net/scotwork.htm while I sip my coffee. CIO

Note:<888> 3/20/98 Friday 12:05 A.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I backed up the computer and watched Henry Fonda in "Gideon's Trumpet" on the VCR while doing it. I will post my www.mikescott.net/stats.htm for today at midnight. I will listen to some broadcasts and then go to bed. I listened to Lou Gerstner's Key Notespeech IBM CeBIT '98, Lou Gerstner Keynote Speech while working on the bookmarks. IBM.net seems more accessible during busy times of the day, while MCI goes faster during the lean hours. CIO

Note:<888> 3/19/98 Thursday 7:45 P.M. EST: I updated the entire directory today with the bookmarks. Go to www.mikescott.net/download.htm for the latest version of 59,000 links. I added a Yahoo www.mikescott.net/140.htm and Ziff Davis www.mikescott.net/141.htm Categories. I updated Scott's Index at www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I added a link www.mikescott.net/scott00b.inv for the daily backup of my Microsoft Investor Bell Weather Portfolio. Remember if you use the Microsoft Investor Portfolio to back it up daily and it is probably a good idea to back it up on a floppy disk also. I will now do a tape backup. I spent all day on the computer and did make my 3 P.M. appointment. Nasty rainy day out. CIO

Note:<888> 3/18/98 Wednesday 5:00 P.M. EST: Updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I also installed the MS IE 4.01 version of Outlook Express to handle my MCI mail account which I probably won't use for now or even check, but the MCI mail address is "mike.scott@mci2000.com". However, one can setup more than one email address in Outlook Express. I will still use the Netscape mail program with my IBM email address "mikescott@ibm.net" since when I click on links with Netscape it brings up my Netscape 3.04 browser with which I do the bookmarks with and is much faster on my system. However, I do strongly recommend Outlook Express for multiple email accounts if you don't mind haviing MS IE 4.01 open for your mail links. The new Outlook Express will be offered for free around the beginning of April for three months and it promises to be quite an extensive full featured mail program, but will take up about 40 megs on your hard drive. Net has been slow on both IBM.net and MCI this cold rainy day, so I managed to keep busy by switching between them when one is overcrowded. Getting near to dinner time. CIO

Note:<888> 3/18/98 Wednesday 3:00 P.M. EST: Updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I tweaked the system this morning and it is running much better and MCI is fast in the day time. I went out at lunch time and stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop Opening Spring Display. There were lots of people there and it was very festive. Parking is limited and they seem to be carrying much more Women's merchandise than the Electronics and Bric a Brac I usually look for. I stopped by the library and noticed a seven foot person checking out a book. It seemed quiet today. The art gallery has a new exhibit. I will listen to the rest of the www.dailybriefing.com . Lou Gerstner is suppose to address CeBIT 98 March Spring 98 at its opening today in Germany. CIO

Note:<888> 3/18/98 Wednesday 8:30 A.M. EST: I recieved the MCI installation disks yesterday. MCI is about 30% to 40% faster than IBM.net during non peak hours. Look at www.mikescott.net/mci.htm for installation information. Below is the same information.

One can log onto MCI without installing the software by going to MCI Internet Account Registration once one has their access code. To signup up for MCI Internet Access for $14.95 a month if you use MCI long distance go to Special Offer From MCI Internet . MCI support is 1-800-348-8011. MCI Tech Support is 1-800-605-2736. The local MCI numbers from Greenwich, Connecticut are White Plains, New York at 1-914-397-8200 and Stamford, Connecticut 1-203-326-3600. Make sure you have the local telephone service with Bell Atlantic that permits dialing adjacent communities. It is usually a few dollars more a month. Go to MCI 2000 and select MCI Local Access Number Search for other areas. When setting up a dialer for MCI make sure only TCP/IP is used and that the primary DNS setting is 204.70.127.127 and secondary DNS setting is 204.70.127.128 . MCI Tech support said to setup a register dialer use 1-800-779-2966, Username "0001000100000001"and password "internetMCIdial" keep small and caps as I have it, with a secondary DNS setting of 204.70.128.1 and open web page https://signup.mci.com/register . They said to save "nphmime.ins". Thus one can logon to MCI without having to install their software. However when billing to an MCI long distance account they have to send you their access code. I think when using a credit card they give it to you right away. The MCI Win95 3 1/2 inch disks are Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 which you probably don't want to install if using MS IE 4.01. The cdrom is MS IE 4.01 customized for MCI. MCI since it is a primary long distance carrier it has direct internet lines to their servers which might be faster. Additional Note, I chatted with MCI tech support again, I have to wait for the software to arrive with the account information to connect to MCI Internet. Also they said the software will install the dialer and registration information. However, if one already has Internet Explorer 4.01 installed one would not want to uninstall it to reinstall MS IE 3.0 on the 3 1/2 inch disks. As mentioned above, once one recieved one's account information from MCI, one can log onto http://signup.mci.com/register , and enter the account information. Then save the file "nphmime.ins". One can then setup a Win 95 dialer from Win95 and use the account logon and passsword information from "nphmime.ins" one can read in a text file editor. Also one can setup their email program with the information in "nphmime.ins". Thus one does not need to install the MCI software. One does enable software compression in the dialer. I connect at top speed this way, and my MCI connection is 30% to 40% faster than IBM.net in none busy hours, of course during busy hours nothing is too fast. Remember to save your MCI account information in "nphmime.ins" and also print out a hard copy. The MCI account information is alpha number strings which can not be changed and would be hard to remember. Also Cablevision told me that Cable modem service will not be in Greenwich, Connecticut until the fourth quarter of 1998 at about $45 a month.

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While setting up MCI dialer, I mistakenly entered the password incorrectly and it did not work. I then went ahead and uninstalled MS IE 4.01 and installed the MCI MS 3.01 software and dialer; all of which was unnecessary because of the password error. I noticed setting up one's own dialer instead of the MCI dialer enables connecting at 115,200 baud with my Logicode X2 modem, instead of 57,600 as the MCI dialer connected. One does enable software compression in the dialer, making sure one sets it up properly as in www.mikescott.net/mci.htm . I am most pleased with the additional MCI service, but it probably will not be much faster during peak hours. For now I intend to keep both IBM.net and MCI.net giving my five local X2 dialups. MCI does not seem to disconnect me from the net which IBM.net has been doing recently. I will have to investigate further from usage. I also had to redownload and install MS IE 4.01 and some of its components which I had uninstalled and that took a couple of hours this morning after uninstalling MS IE 3.01 from MCI.

Yesterday I also drove up to Yale University at noon with an acquaintence and toured the library which is under renovation. I took him to a meeting at SNET's new modern building on the harbor there. Fujitsu and the Newman's "Hole in the Wall Gang" are also there. I viewed the harbor while he was at the meeting chatting with a retired local longtime citizen. He told me the harbor was 45 deep and one salvage operation on the harbor exported 35,000 tons of scrap metal to Europe once a week. He also knew something about IBM Scrap PCs piled up on trailers. I returned at 4:30 P.M. to Greenwich and worked on setting up the MCI dialer. I also had a guest over for dinner and went to bed about 8:30 P.M. after being awake 22 hours and got up at 5 A.M. this morning. CIO

Note:<888> 3/17/98 Tuesday 7:00 A.M. EST: Updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I also reinstalled MS DUN 1.2 and the new winsock wndows socket 2 update System Updates to make my TCP connection more stable. I changed the virtual memory to 20 meg. minimum and 32 meg. max on a 16 meg memory system. Virtual memory if set instead of letting MS Win95 manage it should be set to at least twice system memory. I also increased my Netscape 3.04 memory to 5000 Kbytes and cache to 10000 Kbytes to hopefully make web browsing run more smoothly. Of course depending on one's system resources, one has to tweak it differently. I think some times any of the three local IBM.net dialups, might be booting people offline. For some reason I get disconnected repeatedly at hours of the night, and at other times I stay connected for many hours at a time. I wonder if IBM is pulling the same sort of nonsense that AT&T WorldNet was doing disconnecting long time users. Also MCI told me the Yahoo MCI comes with Outlook Express and Yahoo's designed interface with with MS IE 4.01 and needs a Pentium 90 to run. MCI's original program comes with the MSN setup and a different mail program. Well I am going to possibly sign off soon. Have a good day. CIO

Note:<888> 3/17/98 Tuesday 12:30 A.M. EST: I noticed in Tuesday's The Times that the Duke of Edinburgh is still on the West Coast of the Colonies. I was informed today that he is suppose to attend a reception at the University Club on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan this Thursday. Having observed the comings and goings of the British in Manhattan for many years, here are some notes. First of all the British are major stockholders in Manhattan having heavily invested there over the years and particularly most recently. My father's former employers had extensive dealings with the British. Chemstrand is a division of Monsanto which one of Greenwich's senior town fathers use to serve on the board of directors. Thus many British citizens were in our family homes while I grew up. Other companies that Dad was associated with such as Polaroid, Contenental Can, Asea Brown Boveri, and King Wilkinson maintained extensive Euro British business activities. The British American chamber of commerce is headquartered in the Tampa, Florida area where a great many senior British citizens are retired. Thus Dad made many trips overseas to the U.K., although I never visited the U.K. myself. Most schools I attended had British students in attendence. When I graduated from Lake Forest College after a European tour, I used an office of Asea Brown Boveri then Combustion Engineering in Manhattan in the Chemical Bank Building on Park Avenue a floor above British Airways offices on Park Avenue in the 1970s for job hunting. In the larger network traveling around Manhattan a great many people around the Episcopal and Anglican Churches in Manhattan have Anglo American contacts. The United Nations' diplomatic group of course were also in the area. There use to be a British Consulate office on Third Avenue around 52nd Street. Two residents use to be maintained around Beekman Place and East 66 th Street. The senior diplomats were always visble by large polished Daimlers parked in the diplomatic parking areas. British Intelligence maintained a presense in the area having been established by the "Gretta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys" during World War II which is located in West Greenwich Village. Of course New York City being a large port, there are always many British seaman around the waterfront bars of the city. The warehouse district in Chelsea use to have the Bermuda Motor Car Company which was a large fleet of Cadillac limosines that would be used for diplomatic visits to the city. Of course Cunard Lines regularly visits the city and having visited on board, they all know Greenwich, Connecticut well. I believe a number of the passengers on the Cunard Line use to find the King Kole room at the St. Regis Hotel along with Polo Lounge at the Westbury Hotel friendly watering holes. The represnatives of the British boarding schools offices in America use to maintain an office at 57th and Madison across from the IBM building. The Episcopal church is one of the largest land owners in Manhattan, and a great many followers attended St. Bartholmews, St. Thomas, and St. John's amongst numeours other Episcopal and Anglican churches in the New York City area. Of course on rainy cold days in Manhattan the Metropolitan Museum was always an enjoyable place out of the elements to watch the visitors. Carnegie Hall has U.K. Scottish roots not to mention many other establishments like the Scott family's original Bloomingdale Farm in the New Amsterdam colony. I believe the Duke of Windsor maintained private apartments in the Waldorf Towers for his many visits. Of course the airline personnel at the British Airways terminals as well as the other Commonwealth Countries' airlines personnel have observed comings and goings for a long time. I suppose there are some British financial institutions in the areas which are off shoots of the British West Indies Companies not to be confused with the Dutch West Indies Companies. I think Faunces Tavern is still down on Wall Street where the Revolutionists conspired against the Tories along with the West India Company offices which are a private Club. Greenwich, Connecticut is of course where many New York City residents maintain suburban retreats since it is only 25 miles away and was at one time part of the New Amsterdam Colony as well as the New Haven Colony always in great dispute. End British message. ---___--- CIO

Other news on Monday I went out at about 7:45 A.M.. There was an elderly gentleman who was knocked down on Greenwich Avenue in front of the Post Office. I suppose the traffic in the morning around here is much too fast with all the commuters. The Greewich Hospital Thrift Shop will have its Spring Opening on Wednesday morning. I chatted with a local high school student down by the water on geology and volcanolgy. I stopped by ELDC thrift and the Mews thrift. I bought four tea placemats, and a dinner mat with a picture of the White Star line clipper ship. I went to the library twice and chatted with Burns security. Construction on the Peterson wing is progressing with steel girders being errected. Lots of senior Greenwich citizens are seen out and about on a sunny Monday morning doing errands. I went to bed about 2 P.M. with two phone calls that woke me up. People were excited the Vice President was in the area after the President being here last week. I will shower shortly and then surf the net. Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm was up today. CIO

Note:<888> 3/16/98 Monday 7:45 A.M. EST: Updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . Remember all the ** links at the top are the recent financial links which are extensive. I will go for a cruise this AM to get a little day light. CIO

Note:<888> 3/16/98 Monday 5:55 A.M. EST: Downloaded www.mcafee.com PC Medic 97 and Virus Scan. I passed all tests with the latest Virus file. I did notice it scanned 21,032 files on my hard disk, but when I use Cheyenne Backup 3.0 to backup my computer, it only backs up about 15,500 files; I wonder why the disparity. I had a Ello Frozen Pizza at 4 A.M.. I have been doing system maintenance, so I have not much to show for my night's work. I listened to music tonight for a change while on the PC. CIO

Note:<888> 3/16/98 Monday 1:00 A.M. EST: Today I got up about 6 P.M., and made my usual family phone calls for 5 cents a minute on MCI. One of the family members had just purchased a DELL 300 MHZ 64meg. memory, and 6.5 gigabyte harddrive system with 17 inch monitor at the Dell Computer Clearence Center in Austin, Texas for $1,800. I am sure it will be better than the old 486 with Windows 3.1. They had a conference with the President of U.S. Web which has installed Ethernet Modems in the Four Seasons in Austin, Texas and is going to also install them in the Hyatts in the near future. U.S. Web's site is USWeb Corporation . Aparently their Eternet connections to the internet are as fast as Cablevision, and their main business is Intranets. I cleaned my apartment and watered the plants in the early evening. I went out for Marlboro lights and their was an accident in front of the Shell station. I walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue, and there was quite a bit of debris left over from the St. Patrick's Day parade including many empty Coors beer cans which the Port Chester Beer distributor sells for 30 cans for $10. Somebody got a flat tire in front of Starbucks. Radial tires are prone to puncture on the sidewalls when hitting curbs. I came home and did my laundry and made www.mikescott.net/icetea.htm . I had the rest of the Tuna noddle casserole for dinner. I will surf the net this morning. Despite the Rumours, it does not look like Prince Phillip will be visiting the area, The Times of London says he arrived in San Francisco for dinner at La Petit Trianon on Sunday Evening. CIO

Note:<888> 3/15/98 Sunday 5:20 A.M. EST: I updated my busiest page at the moment, "Cracks and Hacks and Computer Security Information" www.mikescott.net/127.htm . It has something for everyone. Lots of geek stuff. I was up at 8 P.M. this evening and went for a drive and shopping, and then listened to www.ttalk.com for diversion until 1 A.M., when I started working on the update of the page. CIO