Note:<888> 4/30/98 Thursday 9:30 A.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I will go out shortly for a spot of daylight. I have to stay up today since I have a 3 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note:<888> 4/30/98 Thursday 6:15 A.M. EST: After dinner I had coffee and watched the "Bridges of Madison County" and then took and hour nap. I suppose I will have to face the daytime people today who think they know it all, but I think it is suppose to rain anyway. Back to the Net. CIO

Note:<888> 4/30/98 Thursday 2:15 A.M. EST: I reoganized my desktop icons into folders to cleanup the desktop. I wrote the letter and cleaned up. I went by the Grand Union and bought two 12 packs of Minute Maid orange soda for $1.99 each, a spray container of Windex window cleaner for $1.99, and nine different varieties of Ramen noodles from .16 to .35 for a total of 9.47 with can deposit. I noticed a fancy grey Mercedes sports car in the parking lot. They seem to be popular around here. I went downtown and walked around. I noticed at the other dumpster at the train station office park, they have a bag with about 100 soda cans on top of it that would be worth about $5. I found a Wilson Pro Staaff number 8 golf ball. I had a smoke in front in front of the senior center and some idiots shinned their headlights in my face for a half hour. I noticed a number of the young kids like looking at the video game on the bar at the Sundown Saloon after it closes. I picked up a five pack of buy four get one free of Marlboro lights at the Shell station for $11.19. I noticed the usual night attendant is not on. I came back and started the same poached salmon dinner as last night. In the garlic wine herb sauce in a pyrex dish, I put the cut slices of zuchinni with valdallia onion quarters along with the salmon. I put a little dijon mustard on top of the salmon along with the chopped garlic. I made a quick bowl of ramen noodles to starve off hunger until dinner. I make ramen noodles by putting the flavor packet in the bottom of a quart rubbermaid container press in the dried noodles and put in a cup of water and microwave it all on high for five minutes. It is quick inexpensive snack. I also noticed at the Grand Union the fellow from the Motley Fool www.fool.com is going to speak at Christ Church according to the poster at the entrance. Well back to net after dinner. CIO

Note:<888> 4/29/98 Wednesday 10:00 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I was up at about 8 P.M. and had breakfast. I will write a letter and then go out and mail it and take a walk in about 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours. CIO

Note:<888> 4/29/98 Wednesday 11:20 A.M. EST: I reencoded the IBM Lou Gerstner's 1998 Annual Meeting Speech, www.mikescott.net/ibmlvg98.htm with the Real Encoder 5.0 in the 28,800 mono format. It should be in the latest audio codex. I also was able to adjust the recording volume a bit while encoding since the Real Encoder 5.0 has a sound bar that one can monitor from across the room and adjust the sterio amplifier volume output as the tape recording volume varies as it is fed into the computer. Of course as an *.rpm file, it works as an Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 plugin real time play, but with Netscape one would have to set up their browser to recognize the *.rpm file as a RealAudio file, and also download the entire file before it starts to play. The file may also be save by right clicking on the link and saving it. Well I am bushed, so it's time to go to bed after a small snack. CIO

Note:<888> 4/29/98 Wednesday 5:40 A.M. EST: I put together a mirror page of IBM Lou Gerstner's 1998 Annual Meeting Speech, www.mikescott.net/ibmlvg98.htm . I had poached Salmon in wine and garlic with zuchinni, vadallia onion, and potatoe for dinner. Back to bookmarks. CIO

Note:<888> 4/28/98 Tuesday 11:10 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . This morning before going to bed at noon I added IBM and Microsoft logo advertising to my homepage since they are the busiest categories. I will listen to Lou Gerstner's broadcast at the IBM annual meeting now. I was up at 6:30 P.M. and had breakfast after watching ABC evening news. I went back to bed until about a half hour ago. I will go out after listening to the broadcast for a little fresh air. CIO

Note:<888> 4/28/98 Tuesday 7:35 A.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . CIO

Note:<888> 4/28/98 Tuesday 4:35 A.M. EST: I listened to www.dailybriefing.com after breakfast yesterday afternoon. I was tired and went back to bed at 6 P.M., and was awaken by a phone call from a friend at 9 P.M.. I surfed MSN for about two hours, and then I organized my ME IE favorites into separate folders which took about an hour. I then had the same dinner as last night. I then cleaned up, and went out with my thermos of coffee at about 1 A.M.. I bought a five pack of buy four get one free of Marlboro lights at the Shell station for $11.19. I then went downtown and drank my coffee on the bench in front of the senior center. I then walked around downtown on lower Greenwich Avenue. I noticed in the infamous office park dumpster there is a bunch of construction remodeling debris. I noticed a new street cleaning machine I think called a "THEYA". There was the usual police presense downtown, and over half the new dark blue cars seem to be on patrol. I chatted with one officer about the lack of internet news this evening except for the stock market. I went by the Grand Union and bought two three packs of GU paper towels for .99 each, one 12 pack diet Coke $1.99, one 12 pack Diet Sprite $1.99, $1.20 can deposit, GU half gallon 2% milk $1.84, 2 Stauffer 20 ounce fronzen Lasagna $2.99 each, 2 Stauffer 16 ounce frozen chicken pies for $2.50 each, fresh green zuchinni at .99 a pound for .93, two buy one get one free Salmon steaks at $7.99 a pound actual $4.00 a pound thus $4.00 for both, a Vadallia onion at .59 a pound for .38, two buy one get one free of 3 Kings Bacon for $3.49 for both for a total of $29.14. I returned home and put away the groceries rotating the stock of my 12 packs of soda, so the newer ones are on the bottom. The net seems quiet this morning, so I will surf it a bit. CIO

Note:<888> 4/27/98 Monday 4:45 P.M. EST: Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm was down 2.4% today. I wonder if the market will hold tomorrow. I slept thru my 4 P.M. appointment and was awaken by a telemarketing call about 4 P.M.. I will have breakfast and listen to www.dailybriefing.com while eating. It looks to be very sunny and nice outside. CIO

Note:<888> 4/27/98 Monday 9:00 A.M. EST: I updated Microsoft Chat 2.0, and Microsoft Netshow 2.0, and I also reinstalled Microsoft VM for Java to make sure it was installed properly. I did this from the software update button in MS IE 4.01 on the Help pull down. I also looked at MSN for about two hours, I was favorably impressed with it. I think Microsoft should give it away with Windows 98 and if you have an ISP. Also they should think of providing Slate and MSN Investor advanced content for free. Well that's it for this morning, I will take a five hour rest before getting up at 2 P.M. CIO

Note:<888> 4/27/98 Monday 6:15 A.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I will check out Microsoft Network for a while and then go to bed. CIO

Note:<888> 4/27/98 Monday 3:55 A.M. EST: I added a Java Clock to my homepage. I went out at 1 A.M. for a walk. I walked the lower part of the Avenue and stopped by the Greenwich Harbor Inn. The night clerk told me that Deutche Bank had bought NatWest and they had moved it back to Manhattan. However, NatWest still owns Greenwich Capital. It has cleared up and it looks like it will be a nice day today. I returned about 2:30 A.M.. The tulips survived the rain. I noticed the new Greenwich Police Cars now have large numbers on their roofs to identify them from above. Back to the net. CIO

Note:<888> 4/27/98 Monday 1:00 A.M. EST: I finished dinner and the laundry. All my chores are done for the week. I will do a little net surfing now. No point in aggrivating my arthritis by going out in this cool damp weather, let's hope today is a sunny day. I have a 4 P.M. appointment this afternoon. CIO

Note:<888> 4/26/98 Sunday 11:50 P.M. EST: I installed the MCI software from their cdrom on my computer this morning. It updated my MS IE 4.01 software with a slightly different interface, "grey" instead of "yellow" on the tool bar. I had to register with a new name I got from MCI tech support maintaining the same account perameters except the password which changed for logon. I also installed the MSN software and registered with them, but I have not had time to look at it much. I also installed Vdonet 3.1 on the system. I went to bed at 12:20 P.M.. I received one phone call from a family member at 3:00 P.M. and went back to bed until 6 P.M. when I chatted with another couple of family members. I cleaned my apartment and watered the plants. I made ice tea. I went out for groceries at the Grand Union at 10 P.M. . I bought a Tony's 4 cheese frozen pizza for $3.69, two pine glo cleaner at .99 each, two Tropicana half gallon orange juice at $2.50 each, one dozen large eggs .79, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Light $1.29, a five pound bag of sugar $2.09, and two 12 packs of Barq's Root Beet for $1.99 each, and net can return and deposit plus .10 for a grand total of $19.28. I then drove down by the water and looked at the darkened Long Island Sound. I stopped by the Shell station and got $12.51 of premium gasoline. I returned home and started my laundry. I will have dinner of sirloin steak, asperagus, potatoe, root beer, and coffee while I am on the dryer cycle. I don't think I will go out this evening, since it is cold and damp and rainy out. I will probably do a little net work. I heard a lot of jets today, so it was probably busy. I learned from MCI tech support, one can use CTL-C to cut and CTL-V to paste the passwords into the highlighted MCI dialer password space. Off to do drying. CIO

Note:<888> 4/26/98 Sunday 5:30 A.M. EST: I was up about 6 P.M. yesterday. I watched ABC evening news. I had cerial, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins for breakfast. I chatted with MCI and AT&T about my long distance plans. AT&T offers a plan which gives you .10 a minute calling all the time for a $5 fee they waive the first six months, and it is .09 a minute if you use AT&T Worldnet Internet Access for $20 a month maximum 150 hours, they can be reached at 1-800-CALLATT . I will continue to use MCI long distance 1-800-888-7737 which is .25 a minute from 7 A.M. to 7 P.M. weekdays which I never use, and .10 a minute from 7 P.M. to 7 A.M. weekdays and Saturday which I occassionally use, and .05 cents a minute all day Sunday, plus one can order MCI Internet for $15 a month with unlimited access. Also if you don't have a credit card like me, MCI will bill you for the charges by mail on your long distance bill. Moreover, today I received the MCI internet CDROM and they said I can reregister with my 3 1/2 inch disk id numbers, and I will be able to use the features which MCI supposedly offer for free with their service which includes the Microsoft Network, so I will finally be one of mailto:billg@microsoft.com Bill Gates MSN clones all for the cost of MCI $15 a month connection. I will find out if it is true when I logon at 6 A.M. our time with their CDROM since right now the MCI computers are down and one needs to have them working to reregister. I listened to www.ttalk.com from 10 P.M. to 1 A.M. and Ken was in New Haven headed thru here today back to New Jersey. I emailed him to stop by Starbucks and deja vue Greenwich on his way down. I doubt if I will be awake before late afternoon when a friend is suppose to stop down. I am sort of in a funky mood since, I have not seen much daylight recently. I did go out for a walk about 1:30 A.M. and a few kids were getting out of the DOME. I heard somebody bellow at the top of their lungs behind the office building across from the west bound entrance of the train station about 2:15, they probably had too much too drink, it sounded like the Hulk or something. I came home and had a smoke and gossiped with one of my neighbors. I chatted with one of the MCI tech guys in Sacramento, California. They're always very friendly and chatty out at MCI. I mentioned one of my roommates in college was named Cerf and he was an environmentalist and last time I saw him he was working in the mailroom of Time Life. I recall going to school with his girl friend in Italy. We were trying to figure out why Champaign, Illinois needs the T10,000 (10 billion bits a second) internet connection which is part of the new $600,000,000 dollar network, and why they're the only sideline off the nationwide circular loop. What in the world do they have going on there that requires so much baud width? My grandfather and father were from Champaign, Illinois and as far as I can tell NCSA or whatever is there must be doing a lot of data transfering to be using, so much bandwidth. It is rather curious they get all the superfast connection speed, and what else are they connecting to that goes that fast. Remember the Pentagon only has T165. Most curious goings on in the midwest, or perhaps they got there numbers wrong. Well I guess us folks stuck with two paper cups and a string will have to get by until the government throws a few crumbs our way. Basically if my father Lou Scott or his father Clarence Scott are still alive out there, you better make sure it is really them and not some Chinese or Russian clone or duplicate. I know there are some cleaver people out there, but whatever it is they are working on, I think the general public has begun to suspect something is up. Well it can't be anything hidden deep underground there away from prying satilites, since once you go down more than about 20 feet you would hit ground water. Most curious to know what they are doing with the NCSA supercomputer, as it relates to the other supercomputers around the globe. We all know the Fermi Lab is nearby in Batavia, Illinois and it was originally connected with the internet with the other Super Collider Laboratories in CERN and Grenoble, which is where the World Wide Web started. Well at least the lights are still working here, so they are not draining all the electricity along with the baud width. I just hope it is not some college fraternity of jock idiots using T10000 for watching a 1000 sports feed simulataniously, and it is some sort of serious scientific endeavour. Well I guess all of us computer novices will just have to sit here and wait and see what comes next. MCI computers should be running in about 30 minutes. I will double check with their number at 1-800-348-8011 to make sure the MCI computer is running before trying to use their Cdrom program setup to reregister which should take a while. I have not worked on the bookmark or read my email in about a day. Well back to the net, or I might just wait for MCI's computer to be back up and running, it is rather curious that it would even be down. Over and out. CIO

Note:<888> 4/25/98 Saturday 3:50 A.M. EST: I tweaked the colors on the Great Britain page www.mikescott.net/gb.htm . CIO

Note:<888> 4/25/98 Saturday 3:05 A.M. EST: I put Queen Elzabeth II's 1997 Christmas Broadcast www.mikescott.net/queen01.htm in real time play format for Microsoft Internet Explorer users, Netscape users will have to wait to download the entire file. Make sure your RealAudio *.rpm files are recognized by your Netscape setup, if it does not play, by inserting *.rpm extension with the *.ra *.ram extension in the Netscape programs setup. I think both MS IE 4.01 and Netscape 4.04 defaults are setup this way when you install RealAudio. Thus with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 you can play non delayed realaudio file clips without waiting to download the entire file, just have it named with the *.rpm extension and with Microsoft FrontPage Express create a plugin to recognize the *.rpm file, however one can only have one file to a page since Netscape's plugin would try to load more than one plugin at a time, although Microsoft Internet Explorer plugin would wait until you clicked on the files. Thus one does not necessaritly need a realaudio server to play non delayed realaudio files with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01. CIO

Note:<888> 4/25/98 Saturday 1:45 A.M. EST: I posted some music from some old deja vue hippie friends, linked from the homepage www.mikescott.net/hippie01.htm . CIO

Note:<888> 4/25/98 Saturday 12:25 A.M. EST: I went out and drove down the Avenue and checked out downtown. I stopped by the library and read PC Computing about Windows 98. I also read the local paper. The library elevator for the temporary entrance is still broken, and they're waiting for parts since it is an old elevator. One enters through the downstairs basement cafe. They have a new art exhibit of stainless steel modern sculptures. I parked in front of the senior center and walked down to the bottom of Steamboat Road. There were a number of moving vans in front of the old General Reinsurance building on the harbor. Apparently Deutche Bank is moving its offices out of there back to Park Avenue in Manhattan. I suppose they got tired of looking at the sewer plant across the way. Well we have plenty of Germany cars here, so they must have been doing something while they were here. I dare say the local German community plans to continue living here. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a 12 pack of Barq's root beer for $3.99 plus .60 deposit, GU raisin bran $1.99, Stauffer French bread double cheese pizza $2.50, GU premium Orange juice $1.99, Seviroli cheese tortellini frozen $1.99, a sirloin steak at $1.99 a pound for $3.34, Aperagus $1.49 a pound for $1.58 for a Grand total of $18.71. I returned home and had a root beer in a chilled frozen mug, and then watched a channel 91 program on the Roosevelts, and then cooked the Stauffer french bread pizza for dinner. I made a thermos of coffee and went downtown and drank it in front of the senior center. I walked the bottom of Greenwich Avenue and then the top. It was moderately busy and it started to rain as I came in at midnight. Back to the web. Then tenants association of my building needs a new copier machine, so if any one has one they want to donate, please contact the tenants association of 71 Vinci Drive. CIO

Note:<888> 4/24/98 Friday 4:45 P.M. EST: Well Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm was up a few dollars today. That is pretty good since the overall market was down today. I had bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee for breakfast. I will clean up and cruise around the town. I am thinking about driving up to CompUSA in Norwalk, but I don't really have any spare cash at my disposal for computer supplies. Perhaps I will just hang out downtown or go to the library. It looks like it is nice out. I believe this time of year, they are having the Little League baseball in the back of my building practicing, I am not sure if they are out this evening. Well off to the showers. CIO

Note:<888> 4/24/98 Friday 3:30 A.M. EST: I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . I had two slices of GU pizza for dinner and threw out the rest of the garlic pork chops. I am a bit bushed since I only had four hours sleep yesterday. Well time to rest back for the weekend, yeh sure; well let's see what tomorrow brings. If any users or promoted groups on Scott's Internet Hotlist want to help him out with some equipment or software to keep him up to date, please email me. Basically a lot of services are offered on the Internet like Bartered services, so figure out what I'm worth if anything, and let me know. I might just give it all up and start writing an ebook for posterities sake. Well "Publish or Perish" as they use to say. Coming to think about it with 6 1/2 billion people in the world, the net has a rather limited viewpoint surrounding us techno geeks. Maybe the rest of the world will rise up and come up with something better, who knows what the future will yield. Off to rest. CIO

Note:<888> 4/24/98 Friday 12:25 A.M. EST: Speed Up Your Internet Connection this way.

http://www.mjs.u-net.com/home.htm

Mike Sutherland's Software MTU Speed Site

MTU Speed Download

start MTU Speed program after uncompressing

select "optimimal settings"
check "rwin"
Set MTU to "1152"
When you check "rwin"
the Multiplier slide bar should move
Set Multiplier to "6"
Select "Update Registry"
Close MTU Speed
Reboot

Your should go twice as fast on the web during speedy periods like the
early morning hours when there is not too much traffic.


My modem init string is for X2, so you don't need it with K56
but for your own information it is:
&F&C1&D2&K1&M4L2S6=2S7=90S10=7
Place it in the
Select "Control Panel"
Select "Modem"
Highlight Your Modem
Select "Properties"
Select "Connection"
Select "Advaned"
Place Init String in "Extra Settings Box"
Init String for X2 Modem is:
&F&C1&D2&K1&M4L2S6=2S7=90S10=7
check "Record a Log"
click "OK"
click "OK"
click "Close"

for K56 you need to find the init string for your modem,
try
http://www.modemhelp.com/
ModemHelp: Support for modem installations, modem upgrades, Explorer and Navigator internet browser
MTU speed will have you going about twice as fast,
and with the right "Init String" with V42 compression enabled
you should go even faster on uncompressed pages and files.

In the bottom of my Netscape browser window, I have gotten
10.7 k/sec on IBM.net
13.8 k/sec on MCI

These settings work with the Microsoft Dialer, I am not sure whether
they will
improve the AOL other dialers, but I think they should work just as well with
it,
since they both rely on the same registry settings.

However during the early evening hours when the internet is busy around
here one only goes about half as fast.