Note: <888> 07/31/11 Sunday 7:30 P.M.  I woke up at 4 P.M., when a relative called.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M., when I chatted with another relative.

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/31/11:

Note: <888> 07/31/11 Sunday 7:55 A.M.  I finished the backups of the FIC server.  I watched television while doing the backups.

Note: <888> 07/31/11 Sunday 4:15 A.M.  On the FIC server, I restored the Vista Complete PC backup from the second hard drive to the first hard drive.  I then did some tweaks.  I then installed the Paragon Backup.  I will now do a Paragon backup to the Seagate external hard drive.  I will then do a Paragon backup the second internal hard drive.  I will then do a Complete PC backup to the second internal hard drive.  Every time, I boot the FIC server with Vista Ultimate on it, it takes about 15 minutes for it to boot up, which wastes a lot of my time.  Still once the server is running, it runs just fine.  Of course, I keep the backups, because the server frequently gets hacked, and if there is a hardware failure, I will be able to restore the server configuration with the spare parts that I have on hand.  I even have a spare FIC motherboard that it is identical, except it is 266 MHz instead of 400 MHz.  Older equipment that works does not need to be replaced.  I could run the server off one of the backup computers, but I like the server setup, so it will remain as is.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/11 Sunday 2:15 A.M.  To have a spare SATA hard drive for the FIC server, I ordered the same one that I already have ST3320620AS HARD DRIVES SATA-II 320GB-7200RPM SEAGATE for $38 with free shipping.  It is the same one that I have in the FIC server right now, so if I need to use it, it should be compatible with the Complete PC Backup restore program.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/11 Sunday 1:25 A.M.  BBC News - Zara Phillips wedding: Ceremony at Edinburgh church

Note: <888> 07/31/11 Sunday 12:35 A.M.  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Tomato meat sauce to spaghetti of linguine

Note: <888> 07/30/11 Saturday 10:50 P.M.   I woke up at 5 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.   I chatted with a friend.  I showered, and I cleaned up, and I put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  I chatted with a relative.  I moved the generic Jensen speakers from the bedroom Abit computer to the third IBM ThinkCentre.  I moved the Logitech 2.1 speaker system from the third IBM ThinkCentre to the FIC server.   I moved the CyberAccoustics speaker system from the FIC server to the bedroom Abit computer.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown to the Stop and Shop.  I bought a dozen Eggland eggs expire August 18, 2011 for $3.39.  I then went to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a 16 triple roll package of Charmin extra soft toilet paper for $9.99 and .63 tax for $10.62 total.  I then went further downtown, and I sat out for a while at a couple of my regular places observing the evening pedestrian traffic.  I chatted with a relative on my wireless telephone.  I then went to the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $11.01 of self service premium V-Power gasoline for $4.399 a gallon with a dime off with my Stop and Shop card for 2.503 gallons for 32 miles driving since Monday July 25, 2011 at odometer reading of 68798 miles for 12.785 miles per gallon driving in mostly in local traffic.  I then returned home, and I picked up the mail.  CIO      

Note: <888> 07/30/11 Saturday 7:45 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/11 Saturday 7:25 A.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs, five strips of bacon, and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread, and a 12 ounce glass of A&W diet root beer.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/30/11 Saturday 4:35 A.M.   I paid my electricity www.cl-p.com , my www.cablevision.com and www.optimum.net online Digital Cable Television, Optimum Boost Online Cable Modem, and Optimum Voice Long Distance, and www.verizon.com telephone bills.

I put away the laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/11 Saturday 3:20 A.M.  Earlier when I woke up, I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  The custodian or someone from the Greenwich Housing Authority night crew is around, because the custodian's door on his office is left standing open.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/11 Saturday 3:10 A.M.  I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycles.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/30/11 Saturday 2:50 A.M.  I woke up at 1:45 A.M..  I put clean linens on the bed.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go the wash cycles.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/29/11 Friday 11:05 P.M.  I put a duck place mat at the second eating place at the oak dining table.

Note: <888> 07/29/11 Friday 9:20 P.M.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/29/11 Friday 8:35 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

I will now make my bed and shower and clean up and put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.

The trip to Stamford, Connecticut today was about 19 miles round trip, so at 40 cents a mile, it cost me $7.60 which is a lot of money on my budget.  I have not been to Stamford, Connecticut since mid October 2010, when I got my oil and filter changed at Oil Star.  I think the only other time I have been out of Greenwich in that period is one or two trips to Port Chester, New York.  I think around Christmas Time 2010, I went to Home Depot in Port Chester, New York; and as I recall in February 2011, I went nearby to the Var Max Liquor pantry, and I bought a 1.75 liter bottle of Russian Vodka for $20 to have available for emergency purposes, and it is still sealed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/29/11 Friday 8:10 P.M.  I used a RCA Y splitter, and I hooked up the Dell 2000FP 20 inch LCD monitor on the fourth IBM ThinkCentre with a 12 foot RCA cable to video output on the Cable box, so that monitor now also has Picture in Picture capability.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/29/11 Friday 6:55 P.M.  After the last note, I drove over to FedEx Ground in Stamford, Connecticut.  I took I-95 east in moderate traffic to exit 6 at Harvard Avenue.  I first went to the regular FedEx office across from the Subaru dealership.  I was directed to drive further down to 600 West Street at the end.  I picked up the order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for BMI Surplus Used - Dell Ultrasharp 2000FP 20" LCD Monitor for $35 and $17 FedEx Ground shipping for $52 total.  I signed for it.  I then drove back the same way to my apartment building in Byram.  It looks like they have done most of the work on repaving I-95 in Greenwich, but there is still some to do.  I used my small folding cart to bring up the Dell Monitor.  I unpacked it, and I tried it out on the first IBM ThinkCentre, but with its weaker video card, it kept turning on and off or flickering.  I finally put it on the fourth IBM ThinkCentre with the stronger video card connected up HDMI, and it works just fine.  I put the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor back on the first IBM ThinkCentre.  I have moved the first IBM ThinkCentre subwoofer speaker to on top of the Epox CPU underneath the Epox CPU subwoofer speaker.  Now the first IBM ThinkCentre is moved back enough that if one moves the wireless keyboard, there is about 16 inches of depth for a second person to eat at the oak dining table.  I had to reattach some 3M Command hooks to the speakers.  I threw out the Dell Monitor shipping box.

It is raining cats and dogs outside.  There has been a tornado warning National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/29/11 Friday 3:50 P.M.  I going over to FedEx in Stamford, Connecticut by exit 6 to pick up the package.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/29/11 Friday 3:25 P.M.  I went to bed after the last note.  Before going to bed, I had installed the Paragon backup on the primary work computer and started a backup to the Seagate external hard drive.  I also tried copying with the Seagate Utilities the first IDE hard drive on the FIC server to the second IDE hard drive which took a long time, but when I tried to boot the second IDE hard drive, it did not work, so I disconnected it.

I woke up at 7 A.M..  I had to bring the primary work computer out of sleep mode to finish the Paragon backup to the Seagate external hard drive.  I then did another Paragon backup to the third internal hard drive.  I moved the USB 2.0 hub with the keyboard and wireless sending unit to another USB connection, so I have two USB connections available on the motherboard to use the Western Digital external hard drive.  I took the 19 inch Eizo monitor off the fourth IBM ThinkCentre, and I stored it in the closet.  I took off the 19 inch Acer LCD monitor from the primary IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table.  About 11 A.M., the order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for 256MB IBM FIRE GL V7100 PCI-E 2D/3D DUAL-DVI 13M8400 | eBay for $20.19 with free shipping arrived.  I used the scotch tape method to only expose the first seven pins from the left on the long part of the slot, and I had already set the fourth IBM ThinkCentre to PCI video before disconnecting the Eizo monitor.  I installed the new video card in the fourth IBM ThinkCentre which barely fit in, and I had to use its cable to connect it to the power supply.  I connected up the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor to it, and although the drives installed plug and play they were fuzzy, so I did a low video VGA mode boot, and I uninstalled the drivers, and then I did a low video VGA mode boot, and after the drivers had installed again, I disabled the motherboard VGA, and I set the 19 inch Acer LCD monitor to the higher recommended video settings, and when I rebooted, the video booted up properly.  I did a Complete PC backup to the Western Digital external hard drive.

About noon, I got a telephone call, but nobody was there.

From tracking at FedEx Tracking on the order for BMI Surplus Used - Dell Ultrasharp 2000FP 20" LCD Monitor for $35 and $17 FedEx Ground shipping for $52 total, it was the FedEx delivery person that rang my phone, but he did not say anything, so I did not know it was him, so he did not attempt to deliver the package.  I called them up FedEx twice shortly there after and later, and they said they could not deliver again today, so they will deliver tomorrow.

I have the FIC server going again too.  I am a bit tired with little sleep, and I have not yet eaten today.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/29/11 Friday 3:15 A.M.  I woke up at 1:30 A.M..  I watched a little bit of television.  I restarted the server.  I put a spare Creative Live web cam on the server, since the old one was not as sharp.  There is not a lot going on around here, since Greenwich, Connecticut has mostly older people and younger people.  The vast majority of middle age people seem to not want to live around the large senior population, so I guess they are living where middle age people live.  As least that is my viewpoint from downtown.  Still there is a younger generation that has grown up here and is beginning to reach middle age.  Whether they will chose to venture away from their familiar nesting grounds is opened to debate.  I suppose as long as there parents are here, and a great many of them live at home, they will continue to live in residence in this quaint New England town on Long Island Sound.  Still we do get to see a large number of people coming and going, since we are close to the New York City metropolitan area.  Besides, www.ibm.com , I do not know if there are any other computer companies in the area.  I guess if there are, they maintain a low key presence.  There are some independent hardware companies that set up many of the local offices, but with the current recession, I am not sure how they are doing or not.  I suppose with the large financial presence in the area, there are companies that specialized in computer financial services.  Probably www.bloomberg.com is one of the better known ones, but their offices are not in Greenwich, Connecticut as far as I know.  There are a lot of offices in Greenwich, Connecticut that seem to maintain a low key presence within the community.  www.jpmorgan.com has occupied the old Unites States tobacco building across the street from the Greenwich Library.  I wander what they are doing with the old tobacco museum building that use to be there.   Perhaps they could turn it into a Finance Museum or some other eclectic space.  I manage to get by on disability SSI income after all of these years, since 1983, since I maintain simple routines, and I do not try to compete with my neighbors whom seem to be better financed.  There are a number of charities in the areas, but they do not provide services for people in my situation, since I do not meet their requirements for charity.  Also I have a few family members whom manage to get by, but after all of the years, I have been on low income, they obviously have done the best they can to help me out.  Still the town does not seem to give me credit for all of the years of my informal volunteering, since I am not part of some well financed volunteer group.  Basically since Greenwich, Connecticut is a wealthy capitalist town, they are always looking at the financial bottom line.  Still I can remember the 1970s in Greenwich, Connecticut when stockbrokers were working as waiters for $20 a day, and with the current economic recession that could possibly happen again.  What goes up can just as easily come down.  I remember, one of the most popular books in the Greenwich Library in the 1980s was, "What Color is Your Parachute?"  Still I have fairly advanced computer skills to keep myself busy in my computer activity for what it is worth.  The fact that nobody networks with me means I guess IBM does not permit their personnel to network outside of the Company, and possibly even though I can configure old hardware with simple setups, there is no need for someone with my skills.  However, having spent close to 20 years on the internet, I know a lot about how to maintain and use my equipment and how to look for what is out there on the internet.  I suppose some companies that use to provide free content might feel the need to make money after all of these years. 

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 10:25 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Isolated thunderstorms tomorrow and 85 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 9:30 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 9:05 P.M.  Sharp Aquos Quattron LC-70LE732U Review - Watch CNET's Video Review

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 8:10 P.M.  I put the blue throw pillow that was on the sitting chair with the New Zealand sheep's skin on the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer chair.  Now all of the computer wooden chairs have pillow cushions.

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com with lime.

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 7:10 P.M.  I threw out three IBM ThinkCentre shipping boxes and one Dell 2000FP shipping box in the dumpster.  I retrieved and old wooden chair from the dumpster area, and I put it in front of the Dell Latitude 4600i computer with a pink cushion on it.  I moved the round cushion from the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop to the chair for the second IBM ThinkCentre.  I moved the smaller wooden chair that was at the Dell Latitude 4600i desktop computer to the fourth IBM ThinkCentre.  I moved the even smaller chair from there to the bedroom desk with the Abit computer.  Thus all computers now have chairs, except one does not have a cushion.    CIO 

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 3:10 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Afternoon showers and 83 to 71 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 2:25 A.M.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  It is truly amazing with all of my worldwide contacts, since we were a private family most of these years, nobody contacts me through the internet.  It would lead me to believe most people do not regard the internet as safe communications from their viewpoint.  Either that or Mike Scott is such a common name like John Smith, I am pretty much lost in the shuffle of internet people.  There was somebody named Mike Scott from Arkansas that was mentioned on Bill O'Reilly tonight, so maybe with all of the Mike Scotts out there, I am just the one who has more time for a large internet presence.  I do have a network of friends over the years, but in that period from July 1976 until December 1983, when I was traveling and living out in Nantucket during the summers, I probably lost track of a lot of people that I once knew.  However, living here in Greenwich, Connecticut most of the people that I know lead more complicated lives, so they do not have the time to be bothered by internet gurus.  In other words, they spend more of their free time visiting Manhattan, which I chose not to do.  Thus the funds that I have used for my internet activity over all of these years could have been used for social networking, but since there are not that many night people my age around anymore, I figure it is easiest to stay at home and do my own thing.

Obviously a lot more people are on the internet than when I first went online.  Since the New York City area is 60% first and second generations, the local people around me are probably using the internet to keep track of their family and friends back in their old home countries.  Since my father was an only child who has since passed away and my paternal grandparents have obviously passed away, I do not have family members to keep up with in the Champaign, Illinois area where they once lived.  My mother's family is a much larger family, but since she was a younger member of the family, most of my relatives on my maternal side of the family are much older than myself.  Still, if any relatives ever venture into this area, they never seem to look me up, because I am usually on a night time schedule except around the first of the month.  There are a lot of people that work at night in the New York City area, so they obviously have places they go to after work, but other than the Glory Days diner and a couple of gasoline stations, there are not many places to visit during the early morning hours here in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Also I was never really a heavy drinker, so other than chatting, I never felt very comfortable going to bars, where people might be drinking.  Still before the internet, they were one of the social networking outlets like coffee shops are today.  Most people do not like one to chat in the library, so it is hard to pick up a conversation in the local library.  For all I know very few people even speak English here.  Still with unlimited inexpensive long distance calling, I chat with family and friends frequently, although I do not actually see them very much with the higher costs of travel in this area. 

When I was younger after college at www.lfc.edu , I use to network around New York University, and when I had the money I would occasionally visit www.yale.edu , but the people at Yale were never very friendly towards New Yorkers.  I guess that is because New Yorkers are not friendly to people from New Haven.  Since I have lived in this area for a long time, I know my way around this area, but at age 61, I do not feel comfortable going into public places during the early morning hours, and I can not really afford to travel around or visit other places anyway.  I quit sitting out downtown at night and the early morning hours and walking, when I developed a weak blather over a year ago, and there was no place to go to the bathroom.  With not walking downtown in the daytime since mid May 2011 with the foot fungus that I developed, I have spending more time at home organizing my overall computer setup.  Once Windows 8 is available for beta testing in September 2011, I have enough spare computers to test it on.  Since I have been doing computer operating systems beta testing for close to 20 years, I probably know what I am doing with my computer hardware setup.  Most people do not have the time, but when one has the time, one can always learn more about the technology involved with computers.  I think the profession in the olds was called "Computer Systems Analyst".  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 1:40 A.M.  Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library: Email - All new event line-up announced by Reagan Foundation

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 12:35 A.M.  I am just about ready to eat a 21 ounce Marie Callendar tomato and meat lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese on it.  I will eat it with a 12 ounce glass of A&W diet root beer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/11 Thursday 12:25 A.M.  I moved the bedroom Abit computer 19 inch Eizo LCD monitor to the fourth IBM ThinkCentre, and from the fourth IBM ThinkCentre, I moved the 19 inch Acer LCD monitor to the bedroom Abit computer.  When I get the second Dell Ultrasharp 2000FP 20 inch LCD monitor, I will put it on the fourth IBM ThinkCentre, and I will keep the Eizo 19 inch LCD monitor as a backup monitor.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/11 Wednesday 10:55 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I did a Complete PC backup of the primary work computer to the Western Digital external hard drive.  I made 186 Smokers Best Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com .  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/27/11 Wednesday 7:40 P.M.  I will now shower and clean up and put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  I will then make cigarettes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/27/11 Wednesday 7:30 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/11 Wednesday 7:00 P.M.  I woke up at 5:30 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I will now make up a fresh batch of punch.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/27/11 Wednesday 7:20 A.M.  State: mountain lion came from South Dakota - GreenwichTime

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Sunny today and 84 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/11 Wednesday 7:05 A.M.  After the last note, I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I have been doing system's maintenance since then.  I tried to install the 80 gigabyte Samsung SATA hard drive that came with one of the fourth IBM ThinkCentre in the FIC server as a third hard drive, but I could not get the FIC server to work with it.  I even tried another SATA hard drive, and the FIC server would not work with it either.  I did a complete low level format of the Samsung hard drive having installed it in the fourth IBM ThinkCentre temporarily, since the FIC server would not run the Seagate utilities, but the FIC server and the fourth IBM ThinkCentre although they recognize it, it would not work in either of them.  I finally put in an older Western Digital 160 gigabyte IDE hard drive in the FIC server as a third hard drive.  It works just fine, but for some reason, when I tried to do a Vista Complete PC backup to it, it failed at the end.  To get around that problem, I copied my other Complete PC backup on the second hard drive to the third hard drive.  I also copied the server folder to it.  I made the third hard drive, the server hard drive folder, and I still have the other server hard drive, in case either of them fail.  I also have a new Hitachi 160 gigabyte IDE hard drive in my spare parts in case the primary IDE hard drive should fail.  This all took quite a while.  I ate three scoops of Edy's French Silk ice cream and a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 7:50 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  They have opened up the bricks to the left of the main entrance to make an opening to the vacant space between the main entrance lobby and the laundry room.  I think that is where the old furnace used to be, so possibly they are adding some sort of new space to the building.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 6:25 P.M.  For any people enjoying our tropical wonderland this time of year whom might be thinking of moving here on a full time basis, one might take the time to look at the pictures from February 1, 2011.

http://mikelouisscott.com/71-vinci-020111/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/71-vinci-020111/

I will now shower and clean up and put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 6:05 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.   CO

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 5:10 P.M.  Measles epidemic grips Kenya and Ethiopia

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 5:05 P.M.  I woke up at 3:15 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  It is another hot day, so I will stay cool and work inside.  The summers are so short here, I never bother getting use to the hot weather, because it is usually gone, before one even gets use to it.  Most northern people spend their time in the warmer weather getting ready for another long cold winter, when they have more time for inside activity.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 6:35 A.M.  The sun is up, so the Vampires are probably all gone.

I ate one slice of deli ham and two slices of deli cheese and about 8 potato chips.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Cloudy this morning and sunny this afternoon.  It will be 87 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 5:45 A.M.  I checked out the 80 gigabyte Samsung hard drive that came with the fourth IBM ThinkCentre.  I found these instructions for the dip pin http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201007/20100720171922187/35_Install_Guide_ENG_BF68-00235A_Rev07.pdf , but unfortunately they are wrong.  To set it for master, one needs to put the dip pin on the far right and not the far left.  However, since it is a 74 gigabyte hard drive, I can not restore my backup from a 160 gigabyte hard drive or a 80 gigabyte hard drive, since with the Complete PC backup, one has to restore to the same size hard drive or larger, which is sort of a pain and can be costly.  Still, it is now another spare piece of hardware.  I could put it in the Dell Latitude 4600i computer as a second hard drive to use for backups.  When I can afford it, I need to buy a 160 to 500 gigabyte SATA hard drive to use for a spare part for the FIC server, since I used my spare SATA hard drives in setting up the four IBM ThinkCentre computers.

Another reason for setting up the nine desktop computers and three laptop computers, I have friends who occasionally live in Manhattan, and when they saw my apartment after "911", they suggested setting up some sort of a backup office.  Although they have only looked at twice since and not recently, I liked the concept, so I have setup a working office at considerable time and expense on my part.  However, I tend to be a private person as most of my friends are, so I am not planning to open up my apartment to any stranger who happens to think they can take advantage of my hospitality.  I have lived here since 1961, and I have my own network of friends and associates most of whom are more established than I am, so maybe it was an exercise in futility, but it kept me busy based on my experience and my own expertise.  CIO    

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 3:25 A.M.  The reason I have never bothered any of the Rockefellers is a member of the Scott family with William Vanderbilt started John D. Rockefeller in business by giving him the monopoly in hauling oil on the Pennsylvania Railroad in the nineteenth century.  Out in the Midwest and West, they had a lot of coal, so oil was never regarded as being that important. 

John D. Rockefeller's legal address for tax purposes in the United States of America is the Drake Hotel The Drake Hotel , so there must be somebody there that collects the mail, if they still have any money.  The Rockefeller family are suppose to have over 600 residents worldwide, so obviously they have a staff of personnel that keep track of minor details.  Since oil is a key part of the transportation business, they obviously travel a lot worldwide in the "POSH" style.

Since in the 1960s they used a tiger to advertise www.exxon.com , I figured they might keep tigers on their property, so they are not worth bothering if you get my drift.  I would imagine if they ever begin to run out of money, they would probably move to some location, where most of their valuable assets are, where ever that might be.

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 2:20 A.M.  Some of the Old Guard in Florida still seem to have money, and back in 1976, when I used to observe traffic on A1A in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, every day I would see thousands of Rolls Royce, Bentleys, Cadillacs, and Lincoln Continentals on parade.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 2:15 A.M.  Prison Planet.com

I ate four small pieces of Cabot Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese, two large scoops of Edy's French silk ice cream and a bowl of Cheez-its.  I guess I had the munchies.

There is not much to report on in the world anymore, because most everyone is doing there own thing, and most everyone is NOT interested in what politicians are trying to do to confuse people, so they get more power.

Generally politicians come and go like gypsies in the night, so most people tend to pay attention to their few friends and families whom they are more familiar with.  Some television media broadcast political news all of the time, for those few people interested in politics.  It is a real fact in the United States less than half the people vote in general elections, so Mr. Nobody always wins.

Note: <888> 07/26/11 Tuesday 12:30 A.M.  I did a little tech moving and maintenance.  I thought about installing a third monitor on the primary work computer, but I only have a 32 meg. PCI video card.  Instead, I took the Epson Stylus color Workforce 30 printer off the right side of the primary computer setup shelf, and I put it on the FIC server CPU.  I have its power cord plugged into the power strip to the right of the primary computer keyboard.  I moved the Asus Internet radio to the left side of the primary work computer keyboard on top of the little shelf above the primary computer CPU.  I put the Asus internet radio remote control on top of it on the left side.  I put the spare USB pen drives and SD card and SD card USB adapter on top of the Asus Internet radio.  I put the K-world TV adapter remote control and instructions on the far right of the monitor shelf.

I moved the center Dell 20 inch 2000 FP monitor further to the right, and the Acer 22 inch LCD monitor further to the right, so the dividing line between them is now centered on the primary computer shelf setup.  In other works they are centered in front of the user.  I took most of the small computer parts boxes out of the left side of the left living room closet shelf, and I put them in the lower part of the mahogany night stand that supports the fourth IBM ThinkCentre at the hallway entrance.  Thus when one accesses the other parts on the left living room closet shelf, there should be no worry about items coming tumbling down.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 8:40 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a 18 ounce can of Campbell's Harvest Select clam chowder with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance Spread and a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com with lime.  I originally bought the Diet Coke with lime about two years ago on Christmas Day at CVS, when I won $10 on a scratch card at the Greenwich Cigar store, and the Diet Coke with lime was on sale at CVS which was also opened on Christmas day.  As I recall it was a sunny day, and not many people were around, and I did not have much money which is par for the course for computer people living in Greenwich, Connecticut, since so many computer people from elsewhere seem to make money off what we do not make money off of.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 7:15 P.M.  I threw the garbage out after the last note.  I went downtown to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a 15 ounce Alberto VO5 Kiwi and Lime shampoo for .82 and a 15 ounce Alberto VO5 Kiwi and Lime conditioner for .82 and a 500 count package of CVS cotton swabs for $3.39 and .32 tax for $5.35 total.  I then sat out for a while further downtown, until it started raining too heavily.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with two reference librarians and two patrons.  I also chatted with a Unix programmer outside about computers.  He seems to have more business sense than I do, but he currently has a problem with fleas.  I then returned home.  On the north end of my building at 71 Vinci Drive was a full grown wild turkey and four baby wild turkeys about 1/3rd grown.  From my perspective, if there are wild turkeys around, it probably means the baby Mountain Lion has moved on to better feeding grounds, since more than likely a Mountain Lion would eat a wild turkey.  I picked up the mail.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 3:15 P.M.  I chatted with the friend again.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will put foot fungus cream on my feet.  I will then go downtown to the Greenwich Avenue area.  It appears to be raining outside.  There are suppose to be scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and early this evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 2:45 P.M.  I woke up at 1:15 P.M..  I had a telephone call from a friend who was out in the woods walking his dog.  He needed information about renewing his wife's British passport.

I called the British Embassy at 1-202-588-6500 and then at the prompts, one presses 1 and then press 2.

The recording tells one to go to British Embassy in the United States , and then one goes to British Passports , and then go to Steps to renew your adult passport (for applicants over 16)  and form my friend's wife needs is http://centralcontent.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/central-content-pdfs/form-c1.pdf .  It looks like it is easiest to get the information for renewing one's British passport off the internet.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 4:55 A.M.  BBC News - McDonald's profits rise 15% on higher global sales

I will now shut down the primary work computer.  I will eat a corn muffin before going to bed.

Today scattered thunderstorms and 78 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 4:25 A.M.  I ate a couple of deli slices of premium Virginia ham along with a 12 ounce glass of Sierra Mist soda.

I took the mahogany night stand out of the kitchen, and I used it to replace the folding oak TV table that the fourth IBM ThinkCentre was sitting on, so it is now on a more stable platform.  I put the folding oak TV table in the kitchen where the mahogany night stand was.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 2:35 A.M.  I ate a few bits of cheese.

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 1:00 A.M.  BBC News - Higgs boson 'hints' also seen by US lab

Note: <888> 07/25/11 Monday 12:20 A.M.  I went out after the last note.  I went way out to the far east to central Greenwich Avenue, where there was not too much going on.  I sat out at a couple of my regular places for an hour.  It looks like Greenwich Avenue is pretty clean, and the sidewalk sales have not disrupted our normally clean environment, we try to keep downtown.  Starbucks closes at 10 A.M. on Sunday night.  There were a couple of dog walkers out.  I saw about the normal amount of traffic coming down Greenwich Avenue.  There is nothing unusual to report.  I then went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $8 of self service V-Power premium gasoline for $4.499 a gallon for 1.779 gallons purchased for 19.1 miles driving since Saturday July 16, 2011 at odometer reading of 68766 miles for 10.737 miles per gallon in mostly local night traffic.  I went inside, and I chatted with the regular night clerk.  He wandered what had happened to me, and I told him about having had foot fungus since March 2011, so I have not been walking Greenwich Avenue, since mid May 2011, when I was able to finally see some doctors.  I then returned home.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/24/11 Sunday 10:00 P.M.  I have cabin fever, so I will go out downtown for a while.  I will now shut down the primary work computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/11 Sunday 9:20 P.M.  I ate a chef's salad with tuna fish with a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com with lime.

I will now shower and clean up and put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  It might be raining out, so I will not go out, I guess.  There is not much happening around here as far as I can tell.  Of course some people around here have a larger extended network of family and friends.  However, my family has always tended to be more private, since we spend a lot of time reading and doing other research, which some of the other local people do not make time for.  In other words, I do not have the time to waste watching sports, when I am busy with the work that keeps me more productive.  I did use to follow golf on television and play golf until I was about 18 to 25 years old, but it is an expensive hobby, which I can no longer afford.  Also swinging a golf club might mess up my hands which I need to use for the computer keyboard.  Still in the old days before because of lack of time, they started using electric golf carts to get around, it was enjoyable walk around a 18 hole golf course, which tended to be good exercise, for those of us whom like to walk, when we do not have foot fungus.  Locally the poorer people can take a walk down west Putnam Avenue an enjoy the view of all of the exotic card dealerships.  There is even a www.mcdonalds.com and www.wendys.com along the way.  If one should miss seeing Byram, one ends up in Port Chester, New York; where there is a Cumberland Farms for milk and other necessities.  Port Chester even has beer and liquor stores on the border, from when they use to be cheaper in New York State than Connecticut, but I am not sure that is still the case.  Also they are opened later than Connecticut's blue laws that have the liquor and beer stores not selling alcohol after 9 P.M..  I guess most of the regular downtown shoppers on Greenwich Avenue have disappeared over to www.costco.com in downtown Port Chester, where it is suppose to be less expensive.

Of course after four days of sidewalks sales, the Monday morning maintenance crew on Greenwich Avenue will have more work to do getting the town's main street back into ship shape condition.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/24/11 Sunday 7:35 P.M.  I configured the Vista partition on the primary work computer for the Dell 2000 FP 20 inch LCD monitor.  I installed the Vista updates.  I then did a Complete PC backup of the primary work computer to the third internal hard drive.  I then defragmented the primary partition hard drive.

I chatted with a relative and a friend.

I watched the BBC news on television about the Memorial Service for those killed in Oslo, Norway.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/11 Sunday 4:10 P.M.  On the primary work computer, I have both LCD monitors set at 1600 X 1200 with 125% magnification, which makes it easier to read the content on the monitors.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/24/11 Sunday 2:55 P.M.  I had a telephone call from a relative at 11 A.M..  I finally woke up at 2 P.M..

On the Dell 2000 FP monitor, when I turn it off at the control panel, I lose the monitor settings for the video connection and Picture in Picture.  One does not lose them, if one leaves the power to the monitor on, and turns off the monitor with the far right power button.  If one turns it off at the power switch on the control panel, one has to push the third button from the right to set the monitor setting, which is the one that works which is "2:DVI-D".  I think for now I will not work with Picture in Picture, since it can be distracting.  I like turning the power off at the control panel on the Dell monitor, since its transformer is not working on the power connector.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/24/11:

Note: <888> 07/24/11 Sunday 4:05 A.M.  I ate a donut and a muffin.

Note: <888> 07/24/11 Sunday 3:15 A.M.  On the primary work computer, I have the K-world TV input set to play on the left monitor, when it is turned on with the remote control by the center monitor.  I have a pair of speakers that can be turned on with the TV Speakers switch on the control panel to play the sound, but the sound is not too good.  I connected a cable from the K-world audio output to the microphone input on the SoundBlaster audio card on the computer, so the K-world TV sound now plays through the computer speakers when they are turned on with the K-world TV device turned on.

Note: <888> 07/24/11 Sunday 12:20 A.M.  My current computer setup is at http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm , for what it is worth.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 11:45 P.M.  Pictures of the recent changes today.

http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-072311/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/mls-apt-072311/ CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 11:25 P.M.  I stored the Dell monitor shipping box on the left side of the bedroom window.

On the primary work computer left Acer LCD monitor, I put a 3M command hook on the left side, and on the right side of the Dell LCD monitor, I put another 3M command hook.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 11:05 P.M.  After the last note, I discovered the order with tracking of Boxoh universal package tracking: UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL with RSS and Maps and tracking number is "951679061299583" at www.fedex.com  on the order for Dell 2000FP 20" LCD Monitor AS IS | eBay for $34.99 with free shipping was downstairs in the lobby.  I used my little folding cart that I keep in the rear of the Audi to bring it up.  I opened the box, and it is a little bit larger than I expected with its larger frame.  It came with a power adapter and connector cable.  I tested it, and it worked.  I put the Eizo 19 inch LCD monitor that was on the fourth IBM ThinkCentre back on the bedroom Abit computer.  I took the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor off the left side of the primary work computer, and I used a VGA cable to hook it up to the fourth IBM ThinkCentre computer, and I started it up and installed the Acer monitor driver on it. 

I then moved the Acer 22 inch LCD monitor on the primary work computer that was in the center to the left side where the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor was.  It is connected by a VGA cable since it goes through the K-World TV adapter.  I then put the Dell 2000FP 20 inch LCD monitor in the center of the primary work computer setup with it connected with a DMA cable.  It is suppose to work better with a DMA cable.  The primary work computer has a 512 megabyte video card with two video adapters.  The Dell monitor installed plug and play, and I switch the monitor setting, so the left monitor is the primary monitor. 

Although the Dell 2000FP is an older monitor, it is clear as a bell, but it only goes to 60 MHz.  There do not appear to be any bad pixels.  It seems clean and very good quality.  They don't make them like they use to.  The Dell 2000FP monitor cost about $1,280 new about eight years ago.  It came well packed in heavy duty computer packing in a big heavy duty box via FedEx in two days from Boston, Massachusetts.  I don't really feel like throwing away the shipping box, but I have no room to store it in the apartment.  

Now all of the computers have LCD monitors.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 8:45 P.M.   I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a 12 ounce glass of diet A&W root beer.

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 8:10 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I watched the end of the movie "Fort Apache".  The way I figure it with my economic strategy, it is better to not spend the energy going downtown to be hot in 90 degree Fahrenheit heat, when the same energy can keep me cool and comfortable at home.  The community room downstairs is also cool and comfortable.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 6:50 P.M.  I put away the laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 6:20 P.M.  Greenwich Gossip  CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 5:50 P.M.  Since this is www.yale.edu territory, I move the www.harvard.edu chair back to right of the living room Sony television in front of the stereo setup.  From that location, I moved the larger more comfortable purple padded office chair with the New Zealand sheep skin on it to in front of the mirror to the left of the left living room closet.   Thus it is a more comfortable chair for watching television, if one ever has the time.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 5:35 P.M.  I woke up at 1:30 A.M..

The order for six Ring-Style Fingertip USB Optical Mouse for $1.83 each and $7.89 economy shipping for $17.22 total arrived outside my door.  I tested one on a laptop computer.  They work just fine, but if one is left handed, it is better to hold it between the thumb and finger to control it instead of using the Velcro strap on a finger.  I left the one that I tested by the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  I put the other five on the shelf by the stereo bookcase, if I can find a place.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up, and I put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles.  I picked up the mail.  I threw out the garbage and old periodical literature twice.  I moved the Audi to its usual location.  I watered the plants.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 4:35 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Isolated thunderstorms today and 98 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 3:40 A.M.  $69.99 and $7.95 shipping Emachines E180HV 19 Class Widescreen LCD Monitor - 720p, 1366x768, 16:9, 5ms, 5000:1 Dynamic, VGA, Black at TigerDirect.com

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 2:45 A.M.  Fallmeeting | Scientific Program | Session Search | 879 | AGU Fall Meeting 2011

Note: <888> 07/23/11 Saturday 1:35 A.M.  I ate a chef's salad with tuna fish and a 12 ounce glass of Sierra Mist soda and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 11:55 P.M.  I threw the garbage out after the last note.  I stopped by the Stop and Shop.  I bought a four pack of day old muffins for $2, a 59 ounce container of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3, fresh bananas for .79 a pound for $2.22 for $7.22 total.  I stood out briefly in the parking lot, and I chatted with one Stop and Shop employee.  I then went back inside, and I bought buy one get one free of six packs of Stop and Shop raisin English muffins for $2.19 both.  I then went by the Chase ATM machine at 19 West Putnam Avenue.  The Barcelona cafe was beginning to fill up.  I then went downtown to the central area of town. 

After I parked, as I was walking towards the central Greenwich Post Office, there was a loud explosion at the southeast corner of Fawcett Place and Greenwich Avenue across the street from Richards in front of the new Chinese restaurant.  It was about 10:20 P.M..   There was a 50 foot diameter cloud of dark smoke that rose 100 feet or more into the air.  A young lady screamed.  I walked across the street towards the Greenwich Police station, but since I can not walk fast, I called them up on my wireless telephone.  I was transferred from another 911 location to the Greenwich Police station, and they told me an electrical transformer had blown up.  Shortly thereafter a fire truck and police car headed towards the transformer explosion location.  I walked down to the post office, and I mailed the envelope to Dixon, Illinois.  I chatted briefly with a relative on my wireless telephone.  I then walked slowly with my foot fungus feet towards the area of the explosion.  There was no visible damage, but the police put yellow tape across the entrance to Fawcett Place from Greenwich Avenue, and the Chinese restaurant was being inspected.   The lights on the eastern half of the Fawcett Place building were all dark, but the western half was still lighted up.  No other lights appeared to be off downtown.  I then sat out for a while by the Senior and the Arts center.  More fire trucks and police cars showed up at the transformer explosion site.  I then used the bathroom at Starbucks, and I chatted with a regular whom did not know anything had happened.  I then sat out for a while more.   There was a moderate amount of pedestrian activity.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I put away my groceries.   CIO   

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 9:30 P.M.  I will go out shortly without cleaning up to mail the package and get bananas and sit out briefly on a hot sweaty night.  I would rather clean up, when I get home.  I will now shut down the primary work computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 8:25 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 7:55 P.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.

I took the SoundBlaster Audigy EAX PCI sound card out of the Epox computer, and I installed it in the FIC server, and it installed its drivers plug and play for Vista.  It will be better sound card for the server despite the fact, I took the good Creative speaker system off of it.  Still it also plays through the apartment stereo system, when I watch internet video on the living room Sony television.

I put in a generic SoundBlaster Live MP3 Digital 5.1 PCI audio card in the Epox computer.  I had to use the Creative install CD disk for it to install the drivers in Windows XP Professional.  I changed the audio cable setup, so the Viewsonic television on the monitor plays through the Panasonic headphones on the Viewsonic television unit.  The regular Epox computer audio plays through the computer speakers and Logitech USB headset.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 4:55 P.M.  I woke up at noon.  I took the Netgear 311 LAN card out of the fourth IBM ThinkCentre, and I put in the new SIIG audio card from the FIC server.  I am using the motherboard audio on the FIC server, since the two SoundBlaster Live MP3 sound cards that I have in reserve do not work with Vista on the FIC server.  I moved the Cyber Acoustic speaker system from the fourth IBM ThinkCentre to the FIC server.  I moved the Cambridge Sound system from the FIC server to the Dell Latitude 4600i computer.  I moved the Hercules sound system from the Dell Latitude 4600i computer to the fourth IBM ThinkCentre.

I chatted with a relative about 1 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 6:50 A.M.  Temperatures rise, prices plunge: Sidewalk Sales invade downtown Greenwich - GreenwichTime

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 6:30 A.M.  I connected the Cyber Acoustics Media Speaker System to the fourth IBM ThinkCentre, and I put the old pair of generic Jensen speaker systems on the bedroom Abit computer setup.

I put the new Microsoft wireless 6000 V3 keyboard and mouse system on the primary work computer, and I moved the old Microsoft wireless 6000 V2 keyboard and mouse system to the fourth IBM ThinkCentre computer setup.  I cleaned the old wireless Microsoft mouse with a little bit of Ronson lighter fluid.  I also dusted the keyboards in the apartment.  I still need to use a generic PS/2 keyboard to enter the Bios on the IBM ThinkCentre computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 4:50 A.M.  Microsoft Posts Mixed Results in 4th Quarter - NYTimes.com

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 4:10 A.M.  I updated the BIOS on the fourth IBM ThinkCentre.  I took the almost new Newegg.com - Sony Optiarc Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE 22X DVD±R DVD Burner - CD / DVD Burners  for $19.99 with free shipping, February 18, 2009 out of the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop external hard drive, and I put in the IBM DVD/R drive, and I installed the Optiarc DVD/RW drive in the fourth IBM ThinkCentre.  I am now installing more updates on it.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 1:10 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with reheated flavored rice with soy sauce and a dill pickle slice and a 12 ounce glass of diet Coke with lime.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/22/11 Friday 12:10 A.M.  I bought Dell 2000FP 20" LCD Monitor AS IS | eBay for $34.99 with free shipping.  It is an older monitor, but it should go well with an older computer setup.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 10:00 P.M.  I put another Walgreens blue Automatic bowl fresh in the toilet tank.

I chatted with a relative.

I made 226 Smokers Best Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 6:15 P.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I will now shower and clean up and put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  I will then make cigarettes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 4:20 P.M.  I woke up at 1:30 P.M..  The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for Buy.com - Belkin BP112230-08 Pivot-Plug Surge Protector (12 Outlets) for $19.99 with free budget shipping was down by the front door.  I put it by the right side of the bedroom televisions to have in reserve.  I threw out the shipping box, and the other two Belkin surge protector boxes. 

I moved the www.harvard.edu chair from the right side of the living room Sony television to the left of the left living room closet.  One can easily watch television from it.  I moved the pedestal fan to in front of the mahogany bureau.  I moved the arm chair at the hallway entrance to where the Harvard chair was by the Sony television.  I moved the twin size Aero bed and its mattress pad and linens to behind the Ethan Allen recliner.  I put a solid oak folding TV table at the hallway entrance where the arm chair was.  I put a bamboo tray upside down on it.  I moved the new fourth IBM ThinkCentre to on top of the oak TV table at the hallway entrance.  I connected up an old Belkin surge protector strip from the living room television new Belkin surge protector strip, and I place it on the oak TV table on the left side.  I ran a 25 foot LAN cable from the Netgear switch to that location.  I took the 19 in Eizo LCD monitor off the bedroom Abit computer, and I hooked it up to the new fourth IBM ThinkCentre on the oak TV table.  I will have to look for another monitor for the bedroom Abit computer, when I have time.  I hooked up the old pair of Jensen speakers to it, and I moved the new Logitech USB headset from the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop to the new IBM fourth ThinkCentre.  I put another Logitech RCA headset on the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  I used a generic PS/2 keyboard with it and a generic USB optical mouse and red white and blue striped mouse pad.  I move the Logitech C2500 web cam from the Dell Latitude 4600i computer to it, and the Dell still has the Chinese web cam.  I put the small folding chair from the bedroom desk in front of the oak TV table, so there is something to sit on.  Thus the new fourth IBM ThinkCentre is all setup to use.  The second IBM ThinkCentre is back to the way it was before I put the fourth one on it.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.

Pictures of the fourth IBM ThinkCentre setup and the other changes. 

http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-072111/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/mls-apt-072111/ CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 6:30 A.M.  I watched the Space Shuttle land.  I will now shut down the primary work computer.  I will eat a donut before going to bed.

Partly cloudy today and 95 to 78 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 4:55 A.M.  I am now defragmenting the fourth ThinkCentre C: drive.

A picture of it here:

http://mikelouisscott.com/ibmtc4.JPG

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/ibmtc4.JPG

It is the top one of the two IBM ThinkCentres stacked on top of each other.  The lower one is the second IBM ThinkCentre.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 4:20 A.M.  I have the fourth IBM ThinkCentre computer configured.  I am now doing a Complete PC backup to the Seagate external hard drive and the Western Digital external hard drive.  I only have a 40 gigabyte partition on the 160 gigabyte hard drive.  Since it is a refurbished hard drive, with the smaller partition I think I have the option of restoring it to a smaller hard drive, if I need too.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 2:25 A.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 1:00 A.M.  Even though it was not advertised as having it, the fourth IBM ThinkCentre came with a Windows XP Professional COA on its side.

I am making the same flavored Dinty Moore beef stew with steamed flavored rice meal that I ate last night.  I will eat it with a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com with lime.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/11 Thursday 12:30 A.M.  I chatted with a relative earlier this evening.  I could not get www.opensuse.org to boot up properly consistently on the new fourth IBM ThinkCentre.  It seemed to a problem with the video on boot up, although sometimes it did boot up properly.  I low level formatted the Hitachi 80 gigabyte hard drive one percent.  I then removed it.  I put in a refurbished Maxtor 160 gigabyte SATA hard drive.

Configuration Note:

IBM ThinkCentre 31

IBM ThinkCentre 8171-VQL Intel Pentium4 3.2GHz 1 GB 80GB, the 80 Gigabyte Samsung hard drive was defective, DVD/R

IBM Thinkcentre 8171-VQL Intel Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB 80GB | eBay for $20.50 and $14.99 shipping and $2.13 tax for $37.62 total, July 17, 2011

Kingston KTM-M50/1G 1GB Desktop memory | eBay for $19.99 with free shipping for $19.99 total, July 18, 2011

Netgear® GA311 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter at Office Depot. for $9.99 each and $1.20 tax with free shipping for $11 total April 2008

 Newegg.com - Recertified: Western Digital Caviar Blue RFHWD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive for $19.99 and $3.73 shipping for $23.71 total

256MB IBM FIRE GL V7100 PCI-E 2D/3D DUAL-DVI 13M8400 | eBay for $20.19 with free shipping, July 22, 2011

Buy.com - Siig SoundWave 5.1 PCI for $19.98 with free shipping, July 18, 2010

Newegg.com - Sony Optiarc Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE 22X DVD±R DVD Burner - CD / DVD Burners  for $19.99 with free shipping, February 18, 2009, installed July 22, 2011

IBM DVD/R removed from system less $5, on July 22, 2011

Total, July 22, 2011:  $136.48

End Configuration Note:  CIO

I then restored an older backup to it, and I am now installing the updates.  It seems to be working just fine.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/11 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.

At noon the order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for IBM Thinkcentre 8171-VQL Intel Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB 80GB | eBay for $20.50 and $14.99 shipping and $2.13 tax for $37.62 total arrived.

I stored the shipping box away.  I installed it on top of the IBM second ThinkCentre on the blue night stand with its cables attached to it.  I tried using a SoundBlaster PCI card in it, but it gave an error message in Bios, so I put in a Netgear 311A PCI LAN card.  The Samsung SATA 80 Gigabyte hard drive that came with it was defective and not recognized in Bios, so I put in the Hitachi 80 gigabyte SATA hard drive that came with the third IBM ThinkCentre.  About the 3 P.M., I threw out the garbage, and I checked the mail.

The orders with tracking of USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for Kingston KTM-M50/1G 1GB Desktop memory | eBay for $19.99 with free shipping for $19.99 total arrived.

The second order with tracking of USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for Kingston KTM-M50/1G 1GB Desktop memory | eBay for $19.99 with free shipping also arrived.

I also got another package from the same vendor with parts that I don't recognize.  I will have to return it, when I have time.

I put one each of the Kingston memory sticks in the third and the fourth IBM ThinkCentre computers, so they now both have two gigabytes of memory.

I chatted with a relative.  I setup the Bios on the fourth IBM ThinkCentre.  The Microsoft wireless keyboard does not work with it in Bios startup settings, so I put one of the generic PS/2 keyboards with it.  Once I have it setup, I can try a wireless keyboard, when I don't need to enter Bios.

I am in the process of installing www.opensuse.org .  After installing it, on a 2 gigabyte swapper, 50 gigabyte root, and 25 gigabyte home partitions, I had to boot in Safe Mode and install the Updates in Safe Mode to get it to boot properly in regular mode.  I still have to configure it.

Still it is a nice little computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/11 Wednesday 1:50 A.M.  I ate two donuts, two slices of ham, and six slices of cheese.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

On the order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for IBM Thinkcentre 8171-VQL Intel Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB 80GB | eBay for $20.50 and $14.99 shipping and $2.13 tax for $37.62 total, for some reason it was sent from the Norwalk, Connecticut UPS depot to the  Hartford, Connecticut UPS depot, but it is scheduled for delivery here in Greenwich, Connecticut some time today.  They don't seem to be very good logistics on this shipment.  Maybe we are in Greenwich, England; and they will fly it from Hartford to the United Kingdom.  Greenwich, Connecticut is suppose to be a Potemkin town or village Potemkin village - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , so possibly there are other places in the world that look like Greenwich, Connecticut.

Sunny today and 88 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/20/11 Wednesday 12:15 A.M.  I am now installing the updates on the three laptop computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 8:55 P.M.  Legendary $28M mansion for sale - GreenwichTime

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 8:00 P.M.  On the new Belkin surge protector, the coaxial input and output are not labeled as such.  However, the instructions say that as one looks at the coaxial plugs, the input is on the left, and the output is on the right.  I had it reversed, so I turned it off and changed it around.  Both ways the surge protection light is on green for it working, but I figured that although they are not labeled, it is best to have them connected properly. 

I had to restart the FIC server again.

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 7:00 P.M.  I ate a 12 ounce portion of flavored Dinty Moore beef stew with steamed flavored rice and a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com with lime.

I took off the new Belkin surge protector from the bedroom, and I hooked it up the power outlets and coaxial cable underneath the central living room window.  Thus my apartment coaxial cable setup is now protected to 3400 joules.  I only have a few small appliances plugged into it, and I also have the heavy duty orange extension cord plugged into it that connects to another surge protector by the right front side of the living room desk which has the FIC server, the IBM ThinkCentres, and the Epox, the Dell Latitude 4600i, and the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop connected to it through control panels with surge protection and power strips.  Thus there is mostly triple surge protection on that network.  I put the old 12 outlet surge protector from the living room which has the faulty coaxial surge protection on the bedroom television and small appliance electrical setup.  Its coaxial cables are protected by the living room setup.   Basically since most of the items are turned off all of the time except the clocks and FIC server, it is a well protected electrical setup.  Even, when all of the computers are turned on, when I install updates, they easily handle the electrical load.  As I recall, I bought the old surge protector at www.costco.com in Port Chester, New York for about thirty dollars over five years ago.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 4:50 P.M.  Etna volcano (Italy): new paroxysm on 19 July 2011 & photos

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 4:25 P.M.  The Belkin surge protector that I ordered for my relative in Maine will be delivered to their front door via FedEx which will be easier for them to receive than carrying a bulky box from the post office, where they receive their mail.  The Belkin surge protector that I ordered for myself that I was alerted to being on sale after I had order the other one will be shipped to me via U.S. mail.  I have a 12 inch gold coaxial cable to connect it to the gold coaxial four splitter at the location, where the coaxial cable comes out of the wall in the living room.  I will save or use the old surge protector unit with the burnt out coaxial connector for some other purpose.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 3:20 P.M.  Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for IBM Thinkcentre 8171-VQL Intel Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB 80GB | eBay for $20.50 and $14.99 shipping and $2.13 tax for $37.62 total.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 2:45 P.M.  I threw out the shipping box.  The mail has not arrived yet.  The televisions seem clearer with the new Belkin surge protectors which also prevent electronic interference.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 2:20 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I ordered for a relative in Maine Buy.com - Belkin Home/Office BE108230-12 8-Outlets Surge Suppressor for $18.54 total with free shipping.  This shows the specs on it Belkin 8-Outlet Home/Office Surge Protector w/Telephone Line + Extended Cord BE108230-12  .  It says that it is 3400 Joules, and the ones for the same price at Walmart are only 700 or 800 Joules, so it is much better surge suppressor.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 1:30 P.M.  I went to my 11 A.M. appointment.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking for two Buy.com - Belkin Home/Office BE108230-12 8-Outlets Surge Suppressor for $18.54 each for $37.08 total with free shipping arrived.  This shows the specs on it Belkin 8-Outlet Home/Office Surge Protector w/Telephone Line + Extended Cord BE108230-12 .  I put one on the bedroom television setup removing two generic power strips.  I put one of the generic power strips connected to the Dell Latitude 4600i desktop CPU with the Philips squid surge protector, so there is more cable length.  I put the other Belkin surge suppressor on the living room entertainment setup connected to the stereo system, Sony television, Cable box, and DVD, and VCR players, so they are now protected.  I took off an old Belkin surgemaster power strip that I had bought many years ago from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for $3 and another generic power strip.  All of my computers are connected to power strips connected to even better surge suppressors.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/19/11 Tuesday 10:15 A.M.  I woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  I will now go out to my 11 A.M. appointment.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 11:10 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon. 

Isolated thunderstorms tomorrow and 85 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 11:00 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.

I ate a 8 ounce sautéed medium rare to medium cheeseburger with ketchup and Dijon mustard on a Kaiser roll with my usual steamed vegetables mixture and steamed flavor rice mixture with Smart Balance Spread and olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of A&W root beer and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 8:55 P.M.  Product activation came up on the 80 gigabyte configuration below, so I put the 500 gigabyte hard drive back in with its original configuration, and it works just fine.  I basically am trying to save time, when I get the fourth IBM ThinkCentre possibly tomorrow, so I do not have to spend so much time configuring it.  I never use any of the IBM ThinkCentres, I mainly keep them for backup and beta testing.  Since I am in www.ibm.com territory, I feel I should be familiar with the equipment.

If UPS should be delivering the fourth IBM ThinkCentre tomorrow, which I don't know yet, I might have to cancel my 11 A.M. appointment, since I have to sign for the package when UPS delivers it.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 8:05 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I did not get any mail today.

After restoring the Paragon backup of Windows 7, to get the third IBM ThinkCentre to boot up properly, I had to run "Startup Repair" from the Repair option after booting the Windows 7 DVD.  It is now running just fine on the 80 gigabyte Hitachi SATA hard drive that came with the computer.  I am saving the 500 gigabyte Hitachi SATA hard drive for either the first or second IBM ThinkCentres or to replace my FIC server hard drive, if it should fail.  It is still configured though for the third IBM ThinkCentre.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 6:50 P.M.  I ate a donut.  I am doing the Pargaon backup of the third IBM ThinkCentre with the 75 gigabyte partition.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 6:05 P.M.  The Windows 7 backup and restore procedure to a smaller hard drive noted below did not work.  I will not try the Paragon backup and restore for the same procedure.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 5:30 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 4:55 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with CVS reduced fat Pringles style potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a 12 ounce glass of Sierra Mist soft drink.  Sierra Mist tastes like 7-UP.

On the third IBM ThinkCentre I used Paragon partition manager to shrink the partition from 475 gigabytes to 75 gigabytes.  I deleted the reserve partition had the beginning of the drive that Windows 7 puts on it.  However, the computer would not boot, but the Windows 7 DVD disk "boot install repair" option from the DVD fixed the problem.  I am just finishing up a Complete PC backup to the Western Digital external hard drive.  I changed the computer name, so it would not erase my existing backup.  Once the backup is complete, I will put in the Hitachi 80 gigabyte hard drive that came with the computer, and I will restore the backup to the smaller hard drive.  The Windows 7 backup restore program does not let one restore to smaller hard drives than the original backup.  I will also use the same procedure on the fourth IBM ThinkCentre.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 2:25 P.M.  Paul McCartney Yankee Stadium Concert Review - NYTimes.com

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 12:10 P.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 11:40 A.M.  For the fourth IBM ThinkCentre computer, I ordered Kingston KTM-M50/1G 1GB Desktop memory | eBay for $19.99 with free shipping for $19.99 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/11 Monday 10:35 A.M.  I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO       

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 11:50 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs, six strips of bacon, and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread, and a 12 ounce glass of A&W root beer.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Scattered strong storms on Monday and 90 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 10:20 P.M.  I went downtown after the last note.  The police benefit party was going on down on lower Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at a couple of locations in the central area of Greenwich Avenue listening to the music.  I chatted with a local walker.  I then went by CVS.  I bought three twelve packs of 12 ounce cans of Sierra Mist all natural lemon lime soda for $10 all and $1.80 can deposit for $11.80 total.  I got three dollars CVS bonus bucks for making the purchase, so I bought another 12 pack for $3.34 and .60 can deposit less $3 CVS bonus bucks for .94 total.  I used one of their shopping carts to make the purchase and wheel it out to the street to put the heavy sodas in the trunk of the Audi.  One might not find a parking place in front of CVS during the daytime.  Also one can not push a shopping cart down their rear stairs.  I wheeled the shopping cart back into the store.   I tried to use the bathroom, but it was closed for some reason.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four 5 ounce tins of Star-Kist solid white albacore tuna fish for $1.25 each and two 8 ounce cans of Stop and Shop grated parmesan and Romano cheese for $2.50 each for $10 total.  I then returned home.  I then used my little folding cart from the trunk of the Audi to bring up the heavy sodas and groceries.  I put one 12 pack of Sierra Mist in the refrigerator, and I put the other three 12 packs on the leg of the oak dining table nearest the apartment entrance.  I then put the folding cart back in the trunk or boot of the Audi.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 6:50 P.M.  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now go downtown.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 6:05 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 5:45 P.M.  Got the Gold bug? Gold Bar | eBay

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 4:40 P.M.  I posted some pictures of the new third IBM ThinkCentre which are the first three pictures, and some other of the recent changes in the apartment.

http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-071711/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/mls-apt-071711/ CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 4:00 P.M.  The IBM Thinkcentre 8171-VQL Intel Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB 80GB | eBay that I bought today uses PC3200 DDR 400 MHz low density memory, and it comes with one gigabyte of memory.  Assuming it is a one gigabyte memory strip, it would cost $25 to $30 to buy another gigabyte of memory for it.  I have a PC2 3200 256 megabyte memory strip that might work with it though.  I guess if I were to use it for a Windows 8 beta machine, I would want two gigabytes of memory, but I think I will just use it for www.opensuse.org which uses less memory.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 2:45 P.M.  With the fourth new IBM ThinkCentre which will probably come on Tuesday, I will now have 9 desktop computers and three laptop computers.  For the curious with only one laptop or desktop or possibly both, the reason I have so many computers is that I test operating systems, so I need the extra computers.  I will be testing Windows 8, when the beta is released in September 2011, so I am getting ready for Windows 8 beta testing.  I probably will have to take www.opensuse.org off some of my computers also to make room for the Windows 8 beta.  Why do I do this, well I have been beta testing operating systems for close to 20 years, and it seems like it is all I know how to do, even though I can not afford to buy any software to go with the finished product or even the finished product for that matter.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 2:35 P.M.  On the third IBM ThinkCentre, it seemed to possibly be malfunctioning, so I tried restoring the Complete PC backup from the Seagate USB external hard drive, but that would not work.  I then was able to restore the Complete PC backup from the Western Digital USB external hard drive, and the third IBM ThinkCentre is working properly again.  However, when I tried to make another Complete PC backup to the Seagate external hard drive again, it gave an error message that there was not enough disk space, when there was plenty of disk space.  I was able to finally to get the Seagate external hard drive to work properly by plugging it into the rear USB ports which probably have more power, since they are attached to the motherboard.  And you think computers are easy.  The first thing they teach one in computers is "GIGO" or "Garbage In and Garbage Out".  The second thing they teach one is, "Backup, Backup, Backup!"  It seems like the drivers for the generic corded optical mouse might have messed up the third IBM ThinkCentre is all that I can figure out.  I did install two minor updates which failed, before it started acting erratic.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 1:45 P.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 11:45 A.M.  I  put a generic USB wired optical mouse on the third IBM ThinkCentre computer.  It caused the computer to malfunction, so I put the generic PS/2 wired mouse back on it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 11:10 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate another donut, while I was asleep.  I finally woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO   

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/17/11:

Note: <888> 07/17/11 Sunday 1:10 A.M.  I will now send out the my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will eat a donut before going to bed.

Sunny today and 88 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 11:05 P.M.  I watched part of the www.facebook.com movie.

I moved the Tripp Lite Power Control center from the Dell Latitude 4600i computer to the third IBM ThinkCentre.  The monitor switch turns on the Eizo 19 inch LCD monitor, printer turns on the CPU, and AUX1 turns on the speakers.  Master turns them all on and off, it they are all turned on.  I moved the Philips Squid from the television setup in the bedroom, and I attached Dell Latitude 4600i CPU, the Eizo 19 inch LCD monitor, and the speakers to it.  Thus when one turns on the Philips squid, all of them come on.  One has to be careful not to trip over the Philips squid cord which is behind the Ethan Allen recliner.  It sticks up a bit.  The Philips squid is on top of the Dell Latitude 4600i CPU.  I put a generic power strip on the television setup in the bedroom.  I put a 3M Command hook on the right side of the Eizo monitor connected to the third IBM ThinkCentre.  I will hang the Plantronics gaming headset from it.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 8:15 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I sat out at various places in the center of downtown Greenwich, Connecticut watching the weekend visitors.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of day old Kaiser rolls for $1.95, a 16 ounce package of eight Entenmann's donuts for $2.99, two 8 ounce bars of Cabot's Seriously Sharp Vermont cheddar cheese for $3 each, a pound of Land-O-Lakes deli sliced white American cheese for $5.99 a pound for $6.05, a pound of Stop and Shop deli sliced premium Virginia ham for $7.29 a pound for $7.77, a five .75 ounce packages of Good Seasons Italian dressing mix for $2.99, two 16 ounce Ken's blue cheese dressing for $2 each, two six ounce cans of Stop and Shop extra large pitted olives for $1.25 each, four 6 ounce tins of Star-Kist solid white albacore tuna fish for $1.25 each, two fresh bananas for .79 a pound for .66, and broccoli crowns for $2.49 a pound for $1.89 less .75 for can returns for $41.10 total.  I then went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $8.01 of self service V-Power premium gasoline for $4.499 a gallon for 1.781 gallons for 21.6 miles driving since last Saturday July 9, 2011 for 12.128 miles per gallon in mostly local traffic at odometer reading of 68747 miles.  I cleaned the outside windows.  I then returned home, and I put away my grocery purchases.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 4:45 P.M.  I ate a chef's salad with tuna fish, and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go downtown for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 3:35 P.M.

I put away the other load of laundry.

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 2:35 P.M.  I put away one load of laundry, and I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle of another load of laundry.  I picked up the mail.  I chatted with a relative.  I now have the power cable for the third IBM ThinkCentre CPU connected to the always on switch on the second IBM ThinkCentre control panel, but the master switch still turns it on.  The second IBM ThinkCentre CPU is connected to the CPU switch on its control panel.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 1:35 P.M.  I chatted with neighbors.  I have 40 minutes to go on one dryer load, and I will then start another dryer load.  The laundry is busier in the daytime than during the early morning hours.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 12:35 P.M.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put foot fungus cream on my fungus spots.  I started one load of laundry, and I have 10 minutes to go, until I start the second load of laundry.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 11:15 A.M.  I woke up at 9 A.M..  I did another backup of the third IBM ThinkCentre to the Seagate external SATA hard drive.  I moved the Logitech 2.1 speaker system from the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer to the third IBM ThinkCentre, and I put the older generic Jensen speaker system on the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  On the third IBM ThinkCentre, the speaker system still had a buzzing sound.  I determined it was caused by having the speakers' power plugged into the same extension cord as the FIC server speakers.  I reconnected the Logitech 2.1 speakers for the third IBM ThinkCentre to an extension cord which also has the speakers for the second IBM ThinkCentre which is controlled by the control panel for "speaker" for the second IBM ThinkCentre.  Thus all systems are go.  Once I get the second memory strip for the third IBM ThinkCentre, so it has two gigabytes of memory, it will be faster.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 2:30 A.M.  For the third IBM ThinkCentre, I bought used Kingston KTM-M50/1G 1GB Desktop memory | eBay for $19.99 with free shipping.  Thus I will have the maximum of two gigabyte of memory in it.

The current configuration of the third or new IBM ThinkCentre is:

IBM ThinkCentre 30

IBM ThinkCentre S51 8173 KUC Computer Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, 1 gigabyte of memory, 80 gigabyte hard drive, DVD/R

IBM LenovoThinkcentre 8173-KUC Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB 80GB | eBay for $26.01 and $14.99 shipping and $2.46 tax for $43.46 total, bought July 13, 2011

Newegg.com - HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive for $37.99 with promo code "EMCZYZR32" for the $12 discount with free shipping, October 14, 2010

Newegg.com - LITE-ON Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE 22X DVD Writer LightScribe Support for $25.99 less 10% with coupon code "EMCYTZT116" for $2.60 discount with free shipping for $23.39 total, August 25, 2010

Newegg.com - SIIG IC-510012-S2 5.1 Channels 16-bit PCI Interface SoundWave for $14.99 and $4.99 shipping for $19.98 total, June 30, 2011

*NEW* MSI ATI 128MB X600 Pro PCI-E Express x16 DVI VGA - eBay (item 220650048125 end time Sep-05-10 20:54:28 PDT) for $18.95 with free shipping

Kingston KTM-M50/1G 1GB Desktop memory | eBay for $19.99 with free shipping, July 16, 2011

80 Gigabyte Hitachi SATA hard drive removed less $20.

Total, July 16, 2011: $143.63

End of configuration note:

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will eat a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.

Partly cloudy today and 86 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 1:35 A.M.  On turns on the Eizo monitor on the third IBM ThinkCentre with the right monitor button on the control panel on the FIC server.  The speaker button on the FIC server control panel turns on both the FIC and the third IBM ThinkCentre speakers.  One turns on the power to the CPU on the third IBM ThinkCentre with the CPU button on the control panel on the second IBM ThinkCentre on the blue night stand.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/11 Saturday 1:15 A.M.  I used this method Google Translate IBM ThinkCentre S51 PCI Express 16 card enable with scotch tape to get the ATI PCI Express 16 video card to work on the new IBM ThinkCentre.  Basically one takes a piece of Scotch tape, and one covers the contacts on both sides of the video card on the long strip from the eighth pin included towards the right covering all of the of the pins leaving the first seven pins on the left on the main strip exposed.  One has to cut the ends of the scotch tape with a scissors and not the irregular metal tear strip from the dispenser to get a precise edge on the scotch tape, so the contacts are not exposed on the covered parts.  One also sets the Video in the BIOS to PCI.  It works, and the card is recognized plug and play. 

I tweaked the system.  I took off the Logitech USB wireless mouse, because it was erratic, and I put on a generic PS/2 wire wheel mouse.  I am now doing a backup to the Western Digital external SATA hard drive.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 9:00 P.M.  The order with tracking 0f UPS: Tracking Information on the order for IBM LenovoThinkcentre 8173-KUC Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB 80GB | eBay for $26.01 and $14.99 shipping and $2.46 tax for $43.46 total arrived at 5:55 P.M..

The memory from the second IBM ThinkCentre would not fit into the new third IBM ThinkCentre, so I put it back in the second IBM ThinkCentre, so it has 3 gigabytes of memory.  The new IBM ThinkCentre for now will only have one gigabyte of memory.  I installed the 500 gigabyte Hitachi SATA hard drive and the LiteOn DVD/RW drive.  The PCI 16 Express video card does not work with it, since its riser has a PC 1 Express video slot.  I set it up to run off the motherboard video.  I did not installed the Netgear PCI LAN card.  Instead I took the SIIG Audio card out of the Dell Latitude 4600i computer, and I installed in the PCI slot of the new third IBM ThinkCentre.  I restored my backup of the first IBM ThinkCentre to the third IBM ThinkCentre.  I then booted it, and I let plug and play install the changed devices.  I am now installing the updates on it.  I will then back it up.  I will look for a PCI 1 Express video card, and I will use www.crucial.com memory checker to find out what memory it might use.  I kept the shipping box.  I put the mouse and keyboard that came with it in the left lower bookcase shelf behind the Sony television in the living room.  It seems to running just fine.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 4:45 P.M.  I sat out for a while.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 3:45 P.M.  ScholarOne Abstracts

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Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 2:15 P.M.   I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with CVS reduced fat pringles style potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

I have new Liteon DVD/RW drive that I put put with the new third IBM ThinkCentre.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 1:35 P.M.  I took the one gigabyte memory strip out the second IBM ThinkCentre, so it only have two gigabytes of memory, and I will put it in the new third IBM ThinkCentre, so it has two gigabytes of memory.  From the new third IBM ThinkCentre, I will remove the 80 gigabyte SATA hard drive it comes with, and I will put in a new Hitachi 500 Gigabyte SATA hard drive.

I am doing some other routine system maintenance.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 10:30 A.M.  It says here http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/19r0821.pdf  the new IBM ThinkCentre S51 8173-KUC has both a PCI and PCI Express slots, so I might be able to use my spare PCI Express Video card, but I will not not be able to use either the Lan Card of the Sound card, since it only has one PCI slot.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 9:35 A.M.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 8:20 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I will now shower and clean up and put foot fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 8:00 A.M.  Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for IBM LenovoThinkcentre 8173-KUC Pentium4 3.2GHz 1GB 80GB | eBay for $26.01 and $14.99 shipping and $2.46 tax for $43.46 total.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/15/11 Friday 7:45 A.M.  I woke up at 6:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 7:50 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Sunny tomorrow and 84 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 6:30 P.M.  I ate a chef's salad with tuna fish, and a 12 ounce glass of A&W root beer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 4:55 P.M.  The order with tracking of USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for seven Buy CVS Athlete's Foot Cream online at CVS.com for $7.79 each with free shipping on over a $50 order for $54.56 and $3.47 tax for $58.03 total arrived.  I now have 19 tubes of foot fungus cream.  I threw out the shipping box.  I went downtown, and I sat out for a while.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went back downtown, and I sat out for a while.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 1:00 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary work computer.  I will shower  and clean up and put foot on foot fungus cream.  I will then go downtown early for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 11:55 A.M.  The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for a relative for La Crosse Technology Wireless Weather Station - Save 62% for $13.17  with free shipping coupon code "HDM11" for $13.17 total has arrived at my relative's in Maine.

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 11:20 A.M.  My Michael Louis Scott's Global Communications is still running as best as I can afford.  There is really not too much happening around here.   There are a few retired people going about simple routines.  As far as I can tell with the more expensive fuel in the country, there is less aviation traffic.  However, the fuel is also just as expensive for automobile and trucks, so people only drive when they have to.  There is the usual group of people downtown on Greenwich Avenue that come out from New York City whom do not have cars, and there are still the locals from neighboring towns, so there are always a few people around town still.  Since Greenwich Avenue is mostly women's shops, there is not too much for the men to do on Greenwich Avenue, unless they happen to run a business there.  I guess from my perspective on Greenwich Avenue for 27 years, since I left Nantucket, it is about as slow as it has been in the summer over these many years.  Still in the winter, when it is colder, it is much slower, and after 5 P.M. in the winter, there are not too many people around observing people drink coffee at Starbucks.  There is always somebody from the local business community trying to make something happen for their profit, but if they took time out to watch the National News on television, they might figure out that the global Obama recession is hurting business worldwide, so I would not expect too much activity anytime soon.  Instead of buying too many new items, it is simply best to maintain those items that one happens to have around, and it is a lot cheaper.  There are a lot of seniors and disabled people around here whom depend on Social Security, so if the government does not fund Social Security and SSI at the first of the month this August 2011, there are going to be a lot of people around here whom are not happy campers.  They younger people have more of the ability to walk around, so they are more visible, but it does not mean they have any funds or resources available.  Nobody communicates with me too much, since I have been cut to the bone for 27 years, while other people were more prosperous.  Thus I have learned to survive and make do in my home environment based on my resources and experience.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 9:40 A.M.  I disconnected the right monitor from the FIC server.  I have a set of Jensen speakers, a Chinese web cam, a Netgear GA311 Lan card, a Microsoft wired Internet keyboard, a Logitech wireless mouse, a SoundBlaster Live Digital PCI card, and a Plantonics gaming RCA headset setup to use with the new IBM ThinkCentre computer.  I threw out the old IBM Netvista computer with its keyboard.  However, I saved its mouse and power cord.  I also threw out the old worn out laptop battery from the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  I chatted with neighbors.  I installed the updates on the FIC server and the primary work computer.  I moved the Ethan Allen recliner further forward towards the Sony television, so it can fully recline.  I put the Aloe plants on the lazy Susan on the living room window ledge along with some other bric-a-brac.  I watered the Aloe plant.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 8:15 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/11 Thursday 7:40 A.M.  I woke up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

Actually, there is a way I could setup the new IBM ThinkCentre separately.  I have space to the far right on the FIC server setup, and I could use the right monitor on the FIC server setup for the new IBM ThinkCentre.  I do not use the right monitor at the moment, since I have the FIC server setup with the left monitor and the Sony television monitor in Clone mode.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 10:20 P.M.  I will put the new IBM ThinkCentre on top of the second IBM ThinkCentre on the blue night stand in the living room, and I will be able to connect the second IBM ThinkCentre devices to the new third IBM ThinkCentre, when I need to configure or use it.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.

Sunny tomorrow and 82 to 62 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 9:45 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 6:55 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs, six strips of bacon, and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread, and a glass of watered down punch, and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 5:30 P.M.  I went out, and I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I went by CVS.  I returned the second CVS weather station for a $9.99 plus .63 tax for $10.62 refund.  I then drove further downtown, and I sat out in the central area of town in a couple of different locations observing the daily routine.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I chatted with a local.  I then went by the Chase Bank at 19 West Putnam Avenue.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I checked out the DVD section, but I did not see anything I wanted to watch.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 1.5 quart container of Edy's French Silk ice cream for $3, a quart jar of B&G Kosher dill pickles for $1.99, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $3.49, fresh bananas for .79 a pound for $1.64, and a head of Cello Lettuce for $1.99 for $12.11 total.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 1:30 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com with lime.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go downtown to see if any Indian are giving away any wooden nickels.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 12:50 P.M.   I made 140 Smokers Best Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching  www.foxbusiness.com .  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 11:10 A.M.  The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for myself for La Crosse Technology Wireless Weather Station - Save 62% for $13.17  with free shipping coupon code "HDM11" for $13.17 total arrived.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 10:35 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I will now make cigarettes.  CIO

I will now shower and clean up, and I will put Foot Fungus cream on my feet and right hand palm.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 8:15 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 7:40 A.M.  I put the Dutch flag up front over the left hallway bookcase, and I still have the British Union Jack flag up front over the right hallway bookcase.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 7:25 A.M.  I went back to sleep after the last note until now.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 5:20 A.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/13/11 Wednesday 4:10 A.M.  I woke up at 3:45 A.M..  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 6:10 P.M.  I ate the last half of the Rothschild stew that I made yesterday with a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Mostly sunny tomorrow and 85 to 62 degrees Fahrenheit.

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 4:25 P.M.  These two computers might go for about $25 each and $15 shipping tomorrow.  One could put on www.opensuse.org for an operating system and find some old monitor to use with them.

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 4:15 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I went outside, and I retrieved two 14 inch by 12 inch by .25 inch  pieces of Plexiglas that a neighbor threw out with a broken air conditioner.  I chatted briefly with neighbors in the heat of the day.  I picked up the mail.

I have a high definition antenna and converter box hooked up with a cable switch box connected to the Sony television in the living room for backup in case Cablevision does not work.  I tested it, and I get a dozen or more stations, but some come in blurred or slowly.  I watched a clear program on channel 21 about Kuwait, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates.  It looks like they have a lot of sand over there besides oil.  Possibly they should go into the glass business with all of that sand and energy.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 2:00 P.M.  I put a couple of Encyclopedia Britannica year books underneath the Brother MFC-8840D all purpose printer, copier, fax laser machine, so it is now easier to open its paper tray at the bottom to replace the paper.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 12:05 P.M.   I made and ate a Chef's salad with sardines, and I used Good Seasoning Italian dressing on it.  I ate it with a glass of diet A&W root beer.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 10:55 A.M.  14 States Suffering Under Drought - NYTimes.com

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 9:40 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I sail hello to a neighbor.  I picked up the mail from yesterday.

The order for Black Zoom Focus 200 Lumens Cree Q3 LED Flashlight for $8.99 with free shipping arrived.  I put three AAA alkaline batteries in it.  It turns on and off with the button on the bottom of it.  It adjusts its focus from wide angle to sharp.  I put it by the left side mouse pad of the Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 laptop computer at the apartment entrance door to have available.  It is black, so it would be hard to find in the dark.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 9:00 A.M.  I did some research on the internet, and I noticed that www.walmart.com has some of the lowest prices for LCD televisions, but not all or them are available in store and have to be shipped to store or home.  Some of them have free shipping.  I noticed a few of my neighbors have bought Vizio LCD televisions.  At the moment, I do not need another television.  I am suppose to focus on computers and the internet and not television.

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 6:35 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  On hot days to limit producing extra heat in the apartment by using the electric lights, I work with a minimal of electric lights, so as to make the air conditioning cooler and less expensive.   I have turned the living room Frigidaire air conditioner down to 66 degrees Fahrenheit to cool off the apartment more before the heat of the day and the afternoon sun against the west facing windows of the apartment.  Get ready for another hot one.  I do not know if it is really worth spending another $1.88 to go downtown in the morning to just sit around, since I can not walk very much with my foot fungus.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 6:15 A.M.  Down south where it is frequently hot like here today, the www.nasa.gov personnel frequently spend all day in cold air conditioned rooms working.  I have my own version of the my NASA flight control center here.  I have the FIC server video hooked into the Sony television in the living room when I select the second video option on the Sony television with the Sony remote control with the FIC server audio hooked into the Technics apartment stereo system when set on "PHONO".  Thus I am able to watch NASA - NASA TV in full screen mode on the Sony Television in the living room, when I press the Windows option by Yahoo to bring up the full video feed.  I also have the sound playing through the apartment stereo system, and I also can play the sound through the FIC server computer speakers.  This is Ground Control to Major Mudd.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/11 Tuesday 5:30 A.M.  I chatted with a relative at 8 P.M..  I finally woke up at 3:15 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

Cablevision has changed their signal on their Digital Cable boxes, so the signal comes in the wide screen format used by LCD televisions.  Thus on my older televisions, the signal still comes in clear as a bell, but the the top two and bottom two inches of the screen are black with the wider wide screen format.  I also changed the startup channel to Channel 761, the High Definition Channel for www.foxnews.com .  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 3:20 P.M.  I chatted with a relative again.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Isolated thunderstorms tomorrow and 92 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 2:15 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  Two other people that I know off in my building have had foot fungus recently, so possibly it is being spread around the building.  We do not have hot water in the laundry washer machines, so possibly it is being spread that way.  I have been using bleach in the washer machines recently on the white loads to clean my socks and other white clothes.

I will now make up a batch of Rothschild stew and refrigerate half and eat half with a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 12:35 P.M.  I tweaked the settings on the Sony television in the living room and bedroom, so the picture is clearer and sharper and the sound is better.  I also set the time on both televisions.  Since both Sony televisions were very expensive televisions, when they were new, they are very good televisions that showed up in recent years at the previous Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, when the rich people were donating them, and when they were buying newer LCD televisions.  I paid $50 for the 27 inch Sony High Definition CRT television, and I paid $45 for the Sony Trintron 24 inch televisions  The 27 inch television was $800 new, and the 24 inch television was $350 new, so they are very good televisions as long as they last.  I paid about $239 for the 25 inch Orion television at Walmart on Route 7 in Norwalk about 15 years ago.  I also have the 20 inch Sony Trinitron television in the kitchen that I bought for $20 at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop about a year ago, but it is about a 10 year old television.  I have a new hardly used Panasonic 14 inch television on the living room window sill to the left of the primary Sony television, and I paid $89 for it at CircuitCity in Norwalk, Connecticut about eight years ago.  I also have the JVC 14 inch television in the bathroom that I paid $40 for at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop about two years ago, and it is about six year old.  I keep the extra televisions, because I can not really afford to buy new televisions, and the local thrift shops no longer carry them, so I keep them setup, and ready to use, in case any of the more heavily used televisions should fail.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 11:30 A.M.  I plugged the RCA cable connected to the Technics amplifier TV/VCR2 cable into the Cablevision Digital Cable Box Audio out jacks, so the TV now plays through the apartment stereo system, when the Technics amplifier is set at TV/VCR2.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 11:00 A.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I drove downtown to the central area.  I sat out at my usual locations observing the usual morning activity.  I chatted with a few locals.  I then returned home.  It is exactly 4.75 miles round trip from my apartment building at 71 Vinci Drive in Byram driving east on West Putnam Avenue and then down Greenwich Avenue to the Board of Education Parking lot across the street from the senior and the arts center, and then back on to Greenwich Avenue turning left onto Havemayer Place and then left north onto Mason Street and then left west onto East Elm Street and across Greenwich Avenue and taking the first right north on Benedict Place to the left on West Putnam Avenue and then west to a left turn at Western Junior High and the first right to Vinci Drive.   At $.3966 a mile cost of gasoline that works out to $1.88385 cost to drive round trip downtown.  Of course that rate depends on traffic and the current price of gasoline.  Of course I also spend a $1,000 a year for auto insurance from www.geico.com .  I obviously have other maintenance costs on the Audi, but since I only drive less than 3,500 miles a year, they have not been too expensive yet.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I told the neighbor about SafeLink Wireless , and I let my neighbor use my LG wireless telephone to call her Red Cross Call-A-Ride to see where they were.

I called up Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more! at 1-800-634-3478, and I cancelled the order for Micro Center - Hannspree ST329MUB 32" 1080p Widescreen LCD HDTV ST329MUB for $199.99 and $17.10 shipping for $217.09 total.

The Greenwich Avenue Sidewalk sales start Thursday July 21, 2001 through Sunday July 24, 2011 for your summer time bargain shopping.  CIO       

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 7:50 A.M.  I made and ate a Chef's salad with sardines, and I used Good Seasoning Italian dressing on it.  I made it by filling the Good Seasons bottle with sweet Balsamic vinegar to the vinegar level, and two teaspoons of lemon juice, and water to the water level, and I added the Good Seasons Italian dressing package, and I shook it, and then 50% Wesson Soy oil and 50% extra virgin olive oil to the oil level, and I shook it again.  It came out a bit thick, but it was quite tasty.  I ate the Chef's salad with a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com with lime.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go downtown and people watch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 6:25 A.M.  I finished moving the televisions around again.  The lower television in the bedroom is the Sony 27 inch high definition CRT television, and it is connected to the bedroom Cablevision Digital Cable box and the Sanyo DVD/VCR.  The upper television in the bedroom is the Orion 25 inch television, and it is connected to the living room Cablevision Digital Cable box, and it can be turned on and off with the Orion remote control or the VCR button on the Philips remote control.  The Cablevision remote control turns on the Sony and so does the TV button on the Philips remote control.  I moved the Sony Trinitron 24 inch television to the living room, and it is connected to the living room Cablevision Digital Cable box.  It is also connected through the cable to the VCR machine which plays automatically, when it is turned on.  The living room Sony television has no Audio output jacks, so I can not connect it to the stereo system.  With the Sony remote control, it has three other video settings besides the cable television.  The first one is setup to play the Philips 5 disk DVD player, and the second on is input for the FIC server video without sound.  I programmed the Cablevision remote control and the Philips remote control for it.  I also pushed the Ethan Allen recliner all of the way back against the living room desk, so there is more room in front of it to maneuver in front of the Sony television, but one can not recline it now.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 4:05 A.M.  Bad news the order for Micro Center - Hannspree ST329MUB 32" 1080p Widescreen LCD HDTV ST329MUB for $199.99 and $17.10 shipping for $217.09 total Hannspree ST329MUB Specs - Flat-panel TVs - CNET Reviews has to be back ordered, and it might take 15 to 30 days or longer, but it can not be back ordered for more than 30 days.  I guess at 10 A.M., I will go ahead and cancel the order.  I will now put the Sony 25 inch television in the living room, and I will put the Orion television on top of the 27 inch Sony television in the bedroom.  It should not take too long.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 3:10 A.M.  The CVS Foot Fungus cream is on sale for $7.79 Buy CVS Athlete's Foot Cream online at CVS.com , but I can not afford to buy anymore.  However, I still have a dozen tubes of it.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/11 Monday 1:50 A.M.  I chatted with a relative before going to bed after the last note.  I woke up at 11 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made the bed.  I programmed the Philips and Cablevision remote controls in the living room for the Orion television.  I placed a power strip on the Rubbermaid hamper beneath the Sony televisions in the bedroom, and I connected the lower 27 inch Sony television to it, and I turned off the power strip power switch.  Thus only one Sony television comes on with the remote controls.  If one wants both televisions or just the lower Sony television, one has to turn on the power strip switch to turn on the power to the lower Sony television.  Since the lower Sony television is connected to the living room Digital Cable box, one does not need to change channels on it.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 4:45 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a 12 ounce glass of A&W diet root beer.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Partly cloudy tomorrow and 90 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO    

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 3:50 P.M.  I decided if I pinch my pennies, I can afford the Hannspree LCD television, so I will NOT cancel it tomorrow.  I moved the 27 inch Sony High Definition CRT television into the bedroom beneath the 25 inch Sony Trinitron television.  I have the 25 inch Sony connected to the Sanyo DVD/VCR and the bedroom Digital Cable box.  The 27 inch Sony television is connected to the living room Digital Cable box, so technically one could watch two different channels at the same time like it was before with the 25 inch Orion television as the lower television.  The only problem is that since they are both Sony televisions, they both turn on with the remote controls at the same time.  Thus one has to manually turn off the lower Sony television or either one if one does not want two television screens.  The reception is clear as a bell.  I moved the Orion television temporarily into the living room connected to the living room Digital Cable box.  I do not have its other connected to the DVD player, stereo system, and internet FIC server.  I will connect those up once I receive the new Hannspree LCD television.  With the weight of moving three televisions, it was a lot of work.  I also threw out a lot old shipping boxes and parts boxes and old software boxes.  I have the Orion remote control in the living room for turning on the Orion television.  The new Hannspree LCD television is suppose to ship on July 13, 2011, which is a Wednesday, so since UPS does not deliver on Saturdays, it will probably arrive on Monday July 18, 2011.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 10:30 A.M.  I got email from Denmark that gasoline is $9 a gallon in Denmark.  I ate two bowls of Cheez-its and two slices of Swiss cheese.   I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed for a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 10:00 A.M.  I chatted with a friend who suggested that I should get out again and sit downtown, but at $2.40 for ever short six mile round trip downtown, I can eat another inexpensive meal, so think before you drive, if you want to enjoy eating.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 8:55 A.M.  I updated

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 7:25 A.M.  I ate 12 ounce of flavored Dinty Moore stew with steamed flavored rice and a 12 ounce glass of Diet Lime www.coke.com .

I enabled "PNP" in the bios of the primary IBM ThinkCentre.

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 6:05 A.M.  I installed the device drives for both partitions on the Epox computer to work with the Compaq 19 inch LCD monitor.  It all works just fine.

On the second IBM ThinkCentre with the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor, the device drivers would not install.  I made a mistake and disabled the video in the bios, and I had to clear the bios which is not a simple process, but once I got the video back, I discovered that "PNP" was not enabled in the bios.  Once I enabled "PNP" in the bios, the Acer drivers installed, and the second IBM ThinkCentre is running just fine now.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 3:25 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  On the new Waltham watch, I adjusted the metal wrist band tighter, so it fits my wrist.  I used my watch tools for the job.  The Waltham Diamond wrist watch has black dial with a platinum like metal wrist band with gold like highlights.  It looks similar to a Rolex.  It is a Swiss watch also.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 2:50 A.M.  Since the two www.ibm.com ThinkCentres are two of my faster computers, I took the 19 inch LCD Acer monitor off the Epox computer, and I put it on the second IBM ThinkCentre on the blue night stand by the living room desk.  I moved the Compaq 19 inch LCD monitor from there to the Epox computer.  I am waiting an hour for the two 3M Command Hooks to firmly adhere on each monitor before I install them plug and play.  I use the 3M Command hooks on the side of the monitors to hang the Logitech USB headsets.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/10/11 Sunday 1:50 A.M.  I chatted with a relative at 9 P.M..  I finally woke up at midnight.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

Back in the summer of 1971, I worked at the www.polaroid.com film factory on Route 128 in Waltham, Massachusetts writing COBOL code for an www.ibm.com 360 computer which was my introduction to working with computers.  Thus despite the time off exploring Manhattan and Europe and Florida and working in French restaurants in Nantucket, I have been working with computers for 40 years, but I really only took up working with personal computers again, when I bought an www.apple.com IIE computer back in September 1989 at a tag sale on Round Hill Road for a $100 from somebody that worked for www.jpmorgan.com in Belgium.  That December 1989, I bought my first PC DOS computer a Compaq 286 from Andy Ousterhaut in New Canaan, Connecticut for $250.  Andy had a Dutch father and a Scottish mother, where as I am in the reverse.  He was moving out to Lake Forest, Illinois.  I never did buy the expensive memory cards that went with the Compaq 286 computer.  My first big investment was a couple of years later, when a relative paid a $1,000 for me to buy a used generic 386 computer from Delores Vartulli at the Consignment Express computer shop on Grigg Street off Greenwich Avenue.

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/09/11:

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 2:10 P.M.  I did a Complete PC backup of both partitions of the primary work computer to the Vantec external hard drive.

I chatted with a relative.

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a 12 ounce glass of A&W diet root beer. 

I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Partly cloudy tomorrow and 84 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 11:20 A.M.  I chatted with a friend on the wireless LG phone, while I was downtown.

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 6:25 A.M.  Today is suppose to be partly cloudy and 86 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit.

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 5:20 A.M.  In about 5 minutes, I will eat 12 ounces of flavored Dinty Moore stew with steamed flavored rice along with a 12 ounce glass of Diet Lime www.coke.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 4:55 A.M.  I made 128 Smokers Best Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  .  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 4:10 A.M.  I put away the laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 2:55 A.M.  I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 2:40 A.M.  I will now make cigarettes while doing laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 2:20 A.M.  I washed the dishes.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put foot fungus cream on the fungus spots on my feet and right hand palm.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 25 minutes to go on the wash cycles.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/11 Saturday 1:05 A.M.  Former First Lady Betty Ford Dies at Age 93 - FoxNews.com

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I watered the plants except the Aloe plant in the bedroom which because it is a cactus does not need much water.  CIO    

Note: <888> 07/08/11 Friday 11:45 P.M.  I chatted with a relative at 9 P.M..  I woke up again just now, and I chatted with a friend.  I ate a small chunk of cheese.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/08/11 Friday 2:55 P.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/08/11 Friday 2:05 P.M.  I tried to sleep some more, but I could not fall asleep.  I called up Sierra Trading Post - Great Deals. Great Brands. at 1-800-713-4534, and I changed the shipping on one of the La Crosse weather stations, so it is shipped via UPS to a relative in Maine, since the CVS weather station that I shipped up there a month ago did not work.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.

Note: <888> 07/08/11 Friday 11:55 A.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M..  On the primary work computer, I did a Complete PC backup of both partitions to the third hard drive.

I ordered two La Crosse Technology Wireless Weather Station - Save 62% for $13.17 each with free shipping coupon code "HDM11" for $26.34 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/08/11 Friday 6:25 A.M.  Tides.INFO: Ocean and river tide predictions for Cos Cob Harbor, off Goose Island, Connecticut Current

Note: <888> 07/08/11 Friday 5:50 A.M.  I ate two bowls of reduced fat Cheez-its.

Note: <888> 07/08/11 Friday 4:40 A.M.  I performed this procedure DIY NortonLive PC Power Boost for Windows 7 or Vista on both partitions on the primary work computer and also on the FIC server.  I took off the Creative RCA headset from the FIC server, and I stored it underneath the stereo system in the living room bookcase.  I put on one of the new Logitech USB Clearchat headsets, and it works just fine.  I installed the Vista updates on the Vista partition on the primary work computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/11 Thursday 11:15 P.M.  A relative called about 8 P.M..  I finally woke up at 10 P.M..  I threw out the SIIG audio card shipping box.  There was another neighbor coming in, so I did not have to worry as much about wild cats.  The bench on the east end of the building has now disappeared.  I picked up the mail.  I will now make up a fresh batch of punch.  I will then make and eat a chef's salad with sadines which I will eat with a glass of diet A&W root beer and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/11 Thursday 4:10 P.M.  I installed the SIIG audio card in the Dell Latitude 4600i computer and its drivers for the XP partition.  I left the old SoundBlaster PCI audio card in the computer also, since it has a special connection to the front speaker.  I connected the Hercules 2.1 speaker system to the SIIG audio card.  It all works just fine in both partitions.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/07/11 Thursday 2:35 P.M.  I woke up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up, and I put foot fungus cream on the fungus spots on my feet and right hand palm.  I took the Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 laptop computer with me, when I went out, and I put the little wireless optical mouse in a little leather change purse to carry it safely.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Chase Bank at 19 West Putnam Avenue, and they are paving their driveway sidewalk, so it might be hard to get into their parking area today.  I parked across the street.  I chatted with a local.  I then went to the Well Fargo Bank on Havemayer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I tried to used the Panasonic Toughbook in the Greenwich Common in the shade, but the wireless would not reach that far.  It worked just fine in front of the Senior and the Arts center with Optimum Wifi.  Also the Senior Center has their own wireless available outside.  I chatted with a local.  I sat out across the street.  I chatted with a relative on my wireless telephone.  I chatted with a local.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I used the Panasonic Toughbook there.  I used the bathroom there.  I chatted with a local.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two six packs of Stop and Shop whole wheat English muffins for $1.50 each six pack, two 12 ounce generic honey for $2.50 each, a 48 ounce container of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.99, a five quart packages of Stop and Shop powdered milk for $5.99, fresh bananas for .79 a pound for $1.29, and a head of Foxy iceberg lettuce for $1.99 for $22.24 total.  I then returned home. 

The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Newegg.com - SIIG IC-510012-S2 5.1 Channels 16-bit PCI Interface SoundWave for $14.99 and $4.99 shipping for $19.98 total had arrived.

I put away my groceries.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a 12 ounce glass of A&W root beer.

Note: <888> 07/07/11 Thursday 1:00 A.M.  $98.99 with free shipping Newegg.com - SOLEUS AIR SG-WAC-05SM 5,000 Cooling Capacity (BTU) Window Air Conditioner

Note: <888> 07/06/11 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.  I ordered six Ring-Style Fingertip USB Optical Mouse for $1.83 each and $7.89 economy shipping for $17.22 total.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/06/11 Wednesday 10:55 P.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

Note: <888> 07/06/11 Wednesday 10:25 P.M.  I setup the new Logitech USB headset on both partitions on the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  It works just fine.  I have the headset setup as the default instead of the speaker system.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/06/11 Wednesday 9:25 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs, five strips of bacon, and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread, and a glass of watered down punch, and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

I heard on www.foxnews.com that bacon might be going to $6 a pound.  It currently is about $4 a pound.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/06/11 Wednesday 8:20 P.M.  I woke up at 3 P.M., and I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 7:15 P.M..  I went outside briefly.  I picked up the mail. My rent statement arrived from the Greenwich Housing Authority.  CIO