Friday 6: 45 P. M.: I installed this driver

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 6:45 A.M.:  I shut down the computers in the bedroom.  I went outside briefly.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 5:40 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 5:30 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 4:40 A.M.:  I configured the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom a bit more, and I ran updates and maintenance utilities on it.  I took the 17 inch Dell Sony Trinitron monitor off of it, and I put the CompUSA 19 inch monitor on it.  I took the Gateway computer off the left side of the bedroom desk, and I took out its 128 meg. memory chip leaving a 64 meg and 32 meg memory chip in it.  I put it by the bedroom door entrance.  I put the 128 meg. memory chip in the Dell 350V computer with the two other 128 meg. memory chips.  It has the two CD/RW drives in it from the broken Dell 4100 computer, and it has the 20 gigabyte hard drive in it from the Dell L1000R computer.  I exchanged the face plate of the Dell 4100 computer on the Dell 350V computer which might be confusing, but the face plate from the Dell 350V computer has a missing catch, so it hangs loose.  I set up the Dell 350V computer on the left side of the bedroom desk with the 17 inch Dell Sony Trinitron monitor on top of it.  I am now configuring it.  I also put a new CMOS battery in it.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 1:00 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I drove I-95 East from exit two to exit five at about 55 miles an hour to put a little high speed activity on my Volvo station wagon.  I went to Walgreens in Old Greenwich, and I bought two 9 ounce cans of roasted and salted almonds for $2.50 each can, two 60 count boxes of Walgreens plastic bandages for $3 both boxes, two four packs of Walgreens ultra alkaline supercell batteries of AA and two of AAA for .99 each four pack and .42 tax for $12.38 total.  I then went by CVS, and I bought two 16 ounce jars of Planter's low salt dry roasted peanuts for $1.99 each for $3.98 total.  I found a nail clippers in the parking lot, and I put it on my dashboard.  The Riverside shopping center Food Emporium was closed at that hour on Sunday night.  I then drove back to central Greenwich, and I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $11.75 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.179 a gallon for 57.1 miles driven this past week at 15.2 miles per gallon averaging driving at 12 miles per hour around town.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I then returned home.  The Food Emporium in central Greenwich was also closed at 11:30 P.M. on Sunday night.  I guess they do not stay open late on Sunday nights.  When I started up the computer, it seemed to acting oddly, so I did a system restore to last night's system restore backup, and it is running fine now.  I enabled the Nvidia settings for the right Dell monitor, so it is a little bit sharper.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 9:10 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out after I clean up.  Although I am on a night schedule, I have a 2 P.M. appointment this Tuesday afternoon to get a flu shot.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 8:25 P.M.:  I boiled three quarts of water with a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.  I then boiled for 8 minutes a 16 ounce package of Ronzoni #10 vermicelli noodles.  I then drained the water off with a colander  into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of the contents of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu chunky primavera tomato sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot in the microwave oven.  I put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.  I refrigerated the other half of the tomato sauce in its jar.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I then took a nap.  I am now installing the updates on the Toshiba laptop computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 6:00 P.M.:  I was awake at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I watched some television.  I went to bed until 4 P.M..  I watched the television program on the Discovery Channel called "Extreme Engineering" about the network of dykes in the Netherlands, and their major engineering projects to control the North Sea.  In the end of the program it mentions New Orleans, and how it will probably flood in the near future from a hurricane.  In the Netherlands, it said because of Global Warming, the Kingdom of the Netherlands would be getting tropical storms in the future which would cause increased flooding for the lowlands despite the extensive dyke network.  I chatted with my Dutch mother about that.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 3:00 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 2:10 A.M.:  In Vista beta 1, I was able to install the Gigabyte motherboard VIA 4 in 1 drivers.  I might have been able to install the VIA onboard LAN driver.  I was not able to install the Via 8237 Serial ATA driver.  In Vista beta 1, I have both Outlook Express and Outlook 2003 installed with Outlook 2003 installed as the default email program.  When I opened Outlook 2003, it sent and I received my Outlook Express email.  I can not find a way to import my email address book in Outlook Express however.  I booted back to XP.

I post this message at the Vista beta 1 newsgroup for "microsoft.beta.longhorn.ie_on_xpsp2" which is probably the wrong newsgroup.  Message follows:

I have been running vista beta 1 since release with my XPSP2 system since it was released.

I have XPSP2 on the C: drive on my first hard drive, and I have Vista

beta1

on a smaller partition on the same hard drive which shows up as L: drive since my memory card reader uses extra drive letters.

I had backed up Vista beta 1 with Nero 6.0, so I could restore it with a

bootable DVD, but I still did not get the boot.ini with the Longhorn boot option.

I finally reinstalled Vista beta 1 to the L: drive, and this time when I

restored the Vista beta 1 DVD bootable backup with Nero 6, I got the boot.ini file prompt to boot either XPSP2 or Longhorn Vista beta 1.

I can not find the boot.ini file on my hard drive for Longhorn Vista beta 1 in the L: drive, and the one for XPSP2 in the C:\ directory is the second boot file.

Thus it must boot to another boot.ini in the L: drive when it boots with

Vista beta 1 installed. I would like to find it, so I could save it.

Either that, or there is another boot.ini type file that boots first in the

C: drive before the L: drive invisable boot.ini.

Anyway it is all working fine, and the way above one can restore it from

backup with the Nero 6 backup to DVD after one reinstalls Vista beta 1 to get the right boot.ini setup.

The Vista beta 1 has a backup program, but the restore feature does not work.

I post my web log including Vista beta 1 activity at http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/note02.htm

My web site still remains at http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/

End of Message:  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/08/05:

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 9:10 P.M.:  Sarah Ferguson the Duchess of York buys a Pied a Terre in Manhattan Lenny In Limbo and Sarah Ferguson buys apartment in Manhattan- Forbes.com  .  A friend of mine in Manhattan told me she attended an event in Manhattan yesterday with the daughter of the King of Norway, which is probably this princess Princess Märtha Louise of Norway  linked from Det Norske Kongehus .  I will keep an eye out for them to see I see any of them sitting in Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue like I once saw the King of Sweden there Kungl. Hovstaterna when his daughter was attending Yale.  He told me if I ever went to Sweden, which I once tried to do, before the Norwegians stopped me back in the winter of 1983, I would end up visiting a coffee shop in Stockholm.  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on five 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, 4 slices of Swiss cheese,  five 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, two very large spinach leaves,  and pepper and sea salt and the top slice of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 8:20 P.M.:  I went through the Vista beta 1 newsgroups.  In Vista beta 1, I tried sending email to myself, but it did not come through in XP after I reboot, although the Vista beta 1 Outlook Express is set to leave a copy on the server, so possibly outgoing Outlook Express email does not work in Vista beta 1.  Incoming email in Vista beta 1 does come through.  I chatted with a friend.  I went downstairs, and the outer outside of the two front sliding doors on the building was not working properly, and it kept opening and closing, so I turned it off.  I called the Greenwich Housing Authority at 203-869-1138, and I told their answering service.  I told them it probably could wait until Monday morning.  There is a weather warning for this area Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 4:50 P.M.:  I will reboot into Vista beta 1, and I will install the HP Deskjet 842C driver.   Then I will read some Vista beta 1 newsgroups.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 4:40 P.M.:  Before going to bed, I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream.  I woke up during the morning, and I ate 75% of a 9 ounce can of Planter's bits and halves of cashew nuts.   I woke up at 10:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I chatted with a friend.  I threw out some garbage.   The mail arrived.  I received my 10 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes in a box from www.ordersmokesdirect.com .  They also threw in a package of GT One Ultra Lights 100s.  I received back a letter from a relative that had the wrong zip code on it.  I went back to bed until 3 P.M..  I watched some television, and New York City is on a heightened state of alert, since they expect terrorism tomorrow DHS Department of Homeland Security DHS Home Page .  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative. I ate the remaining 25% of Planter's halves and pieces of cashews from the nine ounce can.  I left a message with some friends in Manhattan.  There is a chance of rain for the next few days Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  I chatted with a relative.  Apparently the McDonald Observatory Houston Astronomical Society Other Information is in Fort Stockton, Texas, since it out there in the middle of not much light.  When I was in Fort Stockton, Texas, I had just left Santa Cruz, California a couple of days before where the Lick Observatory was University of California Observatories .    Right now some football game is one down there between Texas and Oklahoma.  Thus I guess someone I know must be an astronomer, since I have been to other astronomy locations too.  The high temperature down at my relative's in Texas yesterday was 55 degrees Fahrenheit, so colder weather has arrived down there.  A little rain from this possibly National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center if it develops.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 1:05 A.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I ran Ad-awareSE.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 11:50 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 11:40 P.M.:  Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) Earthquake News  .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 11:25 P.M.:  I tried to clean the printing head on the Epson Stylus C80 printer using the same method by squeezing the fluid through the print head nozzles with the inkjet refiller syringe, but it did not seem to work.  It now prompts me to replace all four ink cartridges, since the cartridge chip shows they are empty, although I have them filled with a mixture of ink and water.  Although I do have replacement cartridges, I do not think that will fix the problem with the printer, so I am not able to test it any further to see whether it works or not.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna fish.  I did not use homemade hummus.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker barrel baby Swiss cheese.  I used 23 grape tomatoes and 9 olives.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.   I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 8:30 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I searched www.moutainhardware.com looking for an item for the relative.  www.sierratradingpost.com and www.llbean.com also have cold weather clothing.  Of course http://www.canada-goose.com/ is about the best I know of for extreme cold weather.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 7:15 P.M.:  I posted this page Michael Louis Scott, How to Clean and Hewlett Packard HP clogged inkjet print cartridge with print head in cartridge .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 6:50 P.M.:  I woke up at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I picked up my mail downstairs.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage and some old newspapers.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 7:05 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 7:05 A.M.:  I tried lighter fluid, hot glass cleaner, and print head cleaner with the inkjet refiller syringe to clean the Epson Stylus C80 print head.  I also tried filling its ink cartridges with glass cleaner and then water, and it still would not print out.  I tried cleaning its set tray and its vacuum hole, and it still did not work.  I tried cleaning the HP DeskJet 842C color ink cartridge with print head cleaner, and it got the cyan color working along with the blue, but the yellow did not work.  I finally took some lighter fluid, and I let a few drops sit on the color ink cartridge print head for a couple of minutes, and I wipe the print head with a lighter fluid soak cotton swap.  I then poured some lighter fluid over a folded paper towel on a sauce, and I let the ink cartridge sit on the lighter fluid soaked paper towel propped up with a Bic lighter so the printhead was flush with the lighter fluid soaked paper towel for ten minutes, and then I wiped the print head with a lighter fluid soak cotton swap.  I then soaked it in a hot window cleaner for five minutes, which I put about a quarter cup of Windex in a cup on beverage in the microwave to get it hot, and then I soak it on an angle instead of flat against the bottom of the Pyrex measuring cup for five minutes, and I wiped the print head with a Windex soaked cotton swap.  I did not have anymore print head cleaner or distilled water, so I put about a quarter of a cup of Perrier in a Pyrex cup, and I heated it on beverage in the microwave oven, and then I let the color ink cartridge sit in it for five minutes on the same angle, and I wiped its print head with a Perrier soaked cotton swab.  I then shook it vigorously for a couple of minutes to dry off any moisture and to try to mix any freed up ink.  I then used a paper towel to dry any extra moisture off its contacts and its case, but I did not touch the print head.  I then put it back in the HP DeskJet 842C printer, and I ran a cleaning cycle and on the first print out from the cleaning cycle, the colors came out perfect.  I ran the priming cycle.  I did a couple more printouts.  I aligned it.  I filled up its paper feed from a new package of paper that I opened, which I have stored in the paper stand underneath it.  Thus the HP DeskJet 842C printer works just fine.  I also have the spare black and color cartridges coming for it in a few days.  The HP color cartridge that came with it is a $33 cartridge from HP, but the ones that I ordered are generic.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 1:25 A.M.:  I ran Ad-awareSE.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 1:05 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat coffee ice cream.  I used this tip for cleaning the vacuum tube on the Epson Stylus C80 printer clearingnozzles with Windex cleaner, but it did not work.  I tried cleaning the nozzles using this method Epson C80/C82 InkJet Print Head Cleaning Solution Kit - Directions for use. linked from Epson Printer Head Cleaning Cartridges and Head Cleaning Kit with hot Windex cleaner, but it still did not work.  I used my ink replacement syringe to push the hot Windex through the nozzles with the cartridges removed with strips of paper towel underneath them to absorb the excess.  The Epson C80 has a very fine print resolution, so its thin nozzles are easily clogged.  However, I have done everything I can think of, and it is not worth spending anymore money on it.  I also tried a new black cartridge, but that did not work, so I put the used cartridge back in, and I resealed the black cartridge, and I put it in a plastic bag to keep from drying out.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/06/05 Thursday 10:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/06/05 Thursday 9:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative after the last message.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read Popular Mechanics and part of Popular Science magazines.  I then returned home.  There was an advertisement in Popular Mechanics about a special toilet flush mechanism that uses a non gravity flush tank to make one have to flush only once.  They had a web site, but I can not remember it.  I am bored with walking downtown, so I probably will not be walking downtown as much anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/06/05 Thursday 6:50 P.M.:  I put away my laundry.  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on five 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, three slices of white American cheese, 1.5 slice of Swiss cheese,  four 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, four large spinach leave,  and pepper and the top slice of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back downtown.  I went through about 1/4th of my email from the last few days.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/06/05 Thursday 5:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I threw out some garbage, and I went back to bed until 1 P.M..  I then threw out some computer part boxes from the right side of my bedroom desk, and I put the broken Epson Stylus C80 printer on the right side of the bedroom desk.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Arnold bread store outlet, and I bought 2 six packs of Arnold multiseed New York bagels for $1.85 each and a loaf of Arnold multigrain bread for $1.59 for $5.29 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I next went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription.  I then returned home.   I started two loads of laundry, and I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I remembered today that the place in Texas where I was stopped on Interstate 10 where the site of the first Standard Oil oil well was might not have been Fort Apache, Texas, I think it was Fort Stockton, Texas.  It was back in December or November 1979 around Thanksgiving time, when they had the aborted Iranian hostage rescue which came out of Kelly air force base.  I stopped by the Alamo and Kelly air force base in San Antonio, Texas that day after they let me out of jail in Fort Stockton, Texas, so Fort Stockton, Texas City of Fort Stockton, Texas  must be about a half day's drive west of San Antonio, Texas.  For a quick summary of Standard Oil A History of the Standard Oil Company .  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 9:40 P.M.:  I am tired.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 9:35 P.M.:  I went outside, and I stored three quarters that I had used yesterday for parking back in my parking change slots of the Volvo.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 8:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I remembered when talking with relative that on one of my trips back east around December 1979, I was driving across Interstate 10 East in Texas, and I had picked up a couple of hitchhikers from Byram, Connecticut in New Mexico.  When I filled up the tank at a Texaco gasoline station, I gave them $10 to pay for the gas, but they did not pay for it, and I ended up being arrested in a quaint bleak area called Fort Apache, Texas where I spent the night in the local jail which was quite neat and tidy.  When I called up my Uncle in Dallas, Texas, whom was a lawyer, he arranged for me to be let out of jail.  I then explored a little bit of Fort Apache, Texas, and there was a lodge there called the "Brotherhood of Eagles", and in front it was a metal historical sign saying Fort Apache was the site of the first Standard oil well in Texas.  I guess once Exxon ran out of oil, there was not much left in the tiny town, and I do not even recall seeing a Esso gasoline station.  There does not seem to be much on the internet about Fort Apache, Texas, but I suppose they have not gotten high speed internet access there.  It would be quaint to put a web cam at the site of the Standard Oil Fort Apache, Texas sign to see if anyone ever hangs out around it or ever looks at it.  I suppose we could even put a live camera in the Fort Apache, Texas jail.  It basically seems to be one of those old time southern speed traps on Interstate 10.  They see you coming and going for hundreds of miles.  As I recall back then I was driving my old yellow 1971 yellow Subaru station wagon with Massachusetts license plates from Nantucket that as I recall ended in K.  I recall back then both the license plates in Nantucket and Williamstown, Massachusetts are ended in K.  CIO