Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 2:05 P.M.:   I found this information on my Iiyama monitor http://www.cosuk.com/trade/images/VMPRO450.pdf .  I turned off "Sync on Green" in the Iiyama monitor menu.  I also "Reset" its settings.  Possibly the problem is that I am starting the Iiyama monitor with the Power Control Panel switch instead of the monitor switch.  Still for now, it is easy enough to start, if one starts it at the same moment as starting the computer.  I will now go back to sleep for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 1:05 P.M.:  I just chatted with a relative.  I tried turning on the primary computer with the Iiyama monitor, but once again the Iiyama monitor did not start initially.  However, when I turned it off for a few seconds at the control panel, and when I turned it on just as I was starting the primary computer, it does work.  Thus I will leave it in place as is.  It is easy enough to start.  Basically one turns on the Iiyama monitor with the control panel switch just about a second after one turns on the primary Northgate computer.  One does not need to let the monitor warm up.  It is simple enough.  I could try using a BNC five plug cable, but I do not feel like spending an additional $30, and I do not think that would make a difference, but it would be even sharper.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 7:50 A.M.:  Well, there is not much going on in this neck of the woods, so I think I will shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Wolf calls usually do not scare away wolves, but they attract wolves, so be careful about playing it.  Of course, they probably still sell a beer up in North Salem, New York at the delicatessen near Interstate 684 at exit 7, called Nordic Wolf beer from Sweden. CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 7:25 A.M.:  When you're sitting inside or outside on a cold snowy winter's night, and you think you're all alone, remember your friendly local wolf is still probably prowling this area like they have for thousands of years.  Just in case you do not know what one sounds like try http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/wolf.wav .  I suppose they are still poking around this area despite the cold.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 5:55 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 5:40 A.M.:  I ate a half of a 12.5 ounce bag of Snyder's 40% less fat white corn tortilla chips, which I had with some iced tea.  I tried unsuccessfully to install a couple of free Linux antivirus programs on the Dell backup computer Red Hat Linux 9.0 partition.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 3:45 A.M.:  Two snow storms may be converging on us CNN.com - More snow and ice head east - Jan. 27, 2004 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 3:40 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I made it with all the usual ingredients, and I had it with a glass of iced tea.  For the Cheddar cheese portion, I used Cabot's 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 2:20 A.M.:  I have both 19 inch monitors switched around, and the Iymama monitor is on the primary Northgate computer, and the Compaq 19 inch monitor is on the Dell backup computer.  The Iiyama since it is warmed up started right up, when I turned the computer on with Iiyama monitor turned on.  It seemed to startup more smoothly, so possibly the CMOS settings made a difference.  It did not make as much noise starting up as before.  Well, we will see when we do a fresh start when I wake up later today after the primary computer has been shut down for two hours or more.  However, I would almost be willing to bet that the problem is fixed with the CMOS settings adjusted.  I think it was the CMOS setting being disabled for "PNP/OS" that fixed the problem.  The CMOS settings for the Mad Dog video card just make it run better.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 1:50 A.M.:  One major difference between the Dell backup computer where the Iiyama monitor works and the primary Northgate computer is that to get Red Hat Linux 9.0 to work on the Dell computer, I had to disable "PNP/OS" in the CMOS.  I just did this on the Northgate primary computer when I reset the CMOS settings.  This means that the computer reads the BIOS settings from the CMOS and not the Operating System.  I will go ahead and switch the monitors around, and when I restart later on today when the Iiyama monitor is not warmed up after sleeping hopefully the Iiyama monitor will work properly on the Northgate primary computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 1:40 A.M.:  I set my CMOS settings to the Syntax SV266M motherboard defaults, except I used the video settings in http://www.mdmm.com/support/faq/graphics.asp .  The computer booted properly, and it is running just fine, and it seems more responsive.  I had a lot of the CMOS settings for my Mad Dog  Multimedia Prowler MX-440-SE AGP 4x 64 meg. video card wrong, so possibly the Iiyama monitor might now work on the system.  In the CMOS instructions I have the "Init Display" setting set to "AGP", since I have an AGP card, but I am not sure if that means the onboard built-in AGP, or the card too.  I do not want to try PCI, because as I recall, it would not show a screen, I would have to either clear the CMOS and reset the settings, or I would have to install my PCI video card from the Dell backup computer to get it to work, so I could reset it to AGP if PCI did not work.  Thus I will not try it.  When I get done working on the computers this morning, I might try switching the monitors around which is tedious to see if the Iiyama works on the primary computer when it is not warmed up when I restart when I wake up today, since if I tried it now with it working for a while on the Dell backup computer, it would start anyway.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 12:25 A.M.:  I did not fall asleep until about 10 A.M. this morning.  I was up at 5 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I put the Acrylic navy blue knit cap on the shelf behind the apartment entrance door.  It is now clean and dry.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I walked the train station area too.  I then drove around the train station area and the waterfront.  I have frequently walked and driven around the train station area for the last 20 years, but I do not mention it, since I consider it part of downtown.  I next went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural Ruby Red grapefruit juice for $2.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  I started up both the primary and the Dell backup computers.  The Dell backup computer with the Diamond Stealth 32 meg PCI card seems to start up the IIyama Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch monitor with flat screen without any problems.  So maybe the problem on the primary computer was with my Mad Dog Multimedia Prowler MX-440-SE AGP 4x 64 meg. http://www.mdmm.com/products/graphics/mx440agp-se.asp video card.  I will recheck these CMOS settings http://www.mdmm.com/support/faq/graphics.asp , but the only problem I think there might have been was that on the Iiyama, I am using a 14 pin 15 pin cable, and maybe, it needs the 15th pin.  However, it works fine on the Dell backup computer, so I will leave it there.  I will recheck my Syntax  SV266M motherboard CMOS values compared to the Mad Dog recommendations.  It is suppose to start snowing late Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday morning, and we are suppose to get 6 to 10 inches of snow, so more than likely I will not be going out tomorrow night, and I will have to see what the conditions are like when I wake up late Wednesday afternoon or early Wednesday evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 8:50 A.M.:  Earlier I finished off one of the bags of Snyder's 40% reduced fat white corn tortilla chips.  I ate them with ice tea.  It is the Dutch perspective in this area that for the last 20 years, we have had large numbers of Germans using the old Zimmerman plan to invade the United States by entering this country by pretending to be Mexicans.  When I first realized this 20 years ago, I had a neighbor here 15 years ago whom was an authentic Mexican who was a reporter for the Associated Press, and his family still lives in the area.  Thus I guess, the Mexicans know whom is Mexican and whom is just German that lived in Mexico for a while and learned Spanish.  It would have seemed by using an old outdated plan, they are no longer well adapted to the colder weather in this area that if they had come here directly from Germany without going through Mexico, they might be better adapted to the weather in this area.  Since I have no influence over German Mexican affairs, I would recommend that they consult with their respective consulates in this area.  I obviously speak neither German or Spanish, so I have very little familiarity with the complexities of their negotiations as far as their status in this area.  Basically, so many people have seemed to misrepresent themselves as so called officials, that I dare say when the real ones show up, it will be extremely slow in this area.  I have forewarned many people that with all the con artist activity on the internet that it reminds me of the 1920s when the Ma Barker gang impersonated so many government officials, diplomats, and key financial personnel that it eventually caused this country's economic collapse.  I recently spoke about three months ago with a local businessman here, and I told him we probably needed the Attorney General from Illinois investigating local activities in this area, since they were the experts on this activity back in the 1920s.  I have seen a number of Attorney Generals from Illinois over the years, but at the moment instead of the formidable men whom have shown up before, no one has probably noticed this individual http://www.ag.state.il.us/newsroom/news.htm who looks like your ordinary house wife.  Needless to say, with women in business and politics and the media, it sort of makes one wander what all the men are doing.  I guess there are quite a few of them down in Florida fishing trying to get away from the matriarchal dominance of American life.  Well, I am tired, so I will probably go to bed soon.  I will first shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 8:10 A.M.:  I have a friend whom attended school with me at Lake Forest College and later when I was in Florence, Italy when we had traffic problems.  A friend and I were later his witnesses at his wedding in Greece.  He was very good at kicking in fenders on Fiats with Harley Davidson boots that he wore all the time, when he walked around Florence, Italy.  I heard about 20 years ago, he was a law enforcement officer in Colorado, so I guess he is equally effective there.  I guess he could have fun kicking in fenders on Rolls Royces, Mercedes Benz, BMWs, and other types of prestige automobiles.  Of course, more than likely to employ somebody like that to work in this area would mean having to impose MARSHALL LAW, so I guess if that is what it takes, we will simply have to do it.  I read recently that Wackenhut Security http://www.wackenhut.com/ is now being used to protect U.S. Military facilities, so the National Guard will be available for other duties.  I suppose they are an equally effective group.  However, one would have to have private money to employ them, and since the U.S. Military is already being paid to protect us, it would seem it would be far cheaper to employ Marshall Law to enforce equal security to the citizens of Greenwich, Connecticut.  It might seem extreme, but I have a feeling that it would be cheaper in the long run, since we are at a key transportation and communications hub in this hemisphere.  To the uninformed whom sit in back country and rarely go out in the downtown environment, this may not make sense, but I would imagine most of the skilled observers in the downtown area would agree.  Whatever, the case our most regular military observer in this area has been noticeably absent for some time in this area.  An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of trouble.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 7:25 A.M.:  Since this area is subject to high winds, I suppose the tripods that hold the floral arrangements at the veterans monument frequently fall over.  On a more interesting engineering note, about a month ago, when we had winds of over 50 miles and hour, I noticed the traffic signs downtown and at the Greenwich Town Hall parking lot were being blown over in the high winds.  The signs that blew over were based in heavy metal wheel hubs that were about 15 inches in diameter.  However, I did notice at the intersection of Arch street and Greenwich Avenue, the two stop signs there did not blow over, and they were based in large truck tires filled with cement, which are much heavier.  On a note of caution, the nightly drivers whom still are not familiar with the area continue to drive through the stop signs downtown without stopping which is a hazard to pedestrians whom might expect them to stop.  The other night three cars in a row drove through the stop sign at Greenwich Avenue where it intersects Arch street.  This tends to be a very busy intersection, so I would recommend to people when crossing at that intersection at night to wait for all traffic to come to a complete stand still before trying to cross.  I guess the commuters in back country are in such a rush to get to Manhattan that they zoom through town very fast, and they frequently are not aware of their neighbors downtown.  Since frequently the people downtown could be major stockholders inspecting their investments, I would recommend to the hurried managerial types that their positions will be in jeopardy if they continued their hurried ways.  Basically, I would still recommend installing traffic lights downtown that could be turned on when the traffic officers are not on duty.  This is a common practice in the New York City area, so just because we are in the quaint country state of Connecticut, it does not mean that we are not close to the metropolitan area of New York and its increased traffic.  It would seem to me the local Greenwich and Connecticut officials are being derelict in their duties in not installing the traffic lights that could be turned on and off.  I suppose Connecticut is no longer the insurance state anymore, since it would seem that the insurance industry with all of its lobbying capability is not able to convince the local and state officials to install the traffic lights.  Basically every time the subject is brought up, some standard reply is given, and we all know it has been studied long enough.  If it were my decision, I would chain the First Selectman of Greenwich, Connecticut and the Governor of Connecticut to the bench down at Greenwich Avenue and Arch street for 20 years, so they could see the error of their ways.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 6:40 A.M.:  In typing today, a lot of us still use the QWERTY pattern http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html  instead of Dvorak keyboard layout http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ which is suppose to be more efficient.  The QWERTY pattern was for typewriters, so keys next to each other would not stick together.  I guess at my advanced age of 53 years and nine months give or take a few days, I am like T Rex http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/trex/ stuck in my old ways.  Still, I have not seen any Dvorak keyboards showing up in the thrift shop to try to learn them.  However, I think one can change the keyboard pattern in the Windows XP operating system, and then I guess one would have to remove and refasten each key on the keyboard if that were possible which it might be on some keyboards.  On a lesser note, when using the Red Hat Linux 9.0 operating system, one sets up and installs the operating system to the root account, which one uses only for system upgrades.  Then one sets up sub accounts which one uses for one's individual programs and preferences.  Thus by maintaining the integrity of the root account, one has better security on one's computer system.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 6:25 A.M.:  As a point of reference in the urban areas on the east and west coasts of the United States of America, there are a lot of bicoastal people whom do not pay much attention to the rest of the country in between, and they think they know it all.  Frequently if one in their leisure time has time to explore the interior areas of the United States of America, one begins to realize that it is a quite formidable country in that there are large numbers of very large people whom one does not see very often in the coastal urban areas of the United States of America.  I suppose if one has ever been to a Big Ten college football game, one would have seen their children anyway.  Thus when one leaves the urban coastal areas of the United States of America, one should practice a modest level of diplomacy, since larger people in other areas tend to be very much in control of their environments.  Whatever, the case smaller people like myself tend to be better at typing on keyboards, since a large person, would type something like this.  MNpoiqwe iouasd ttwer tuio,mwer ddpior as;klj;lk ggpiopiosdf m,werbb ttpio xcvpio,,wer tpio ttjhwer asuiosdf piof tyhweriourttrr xcviopyuimtretuyy.  This is basically what happens when someone with large fingers press the keys on either side of a key and when typing, "Now is the time for all god men to come to the aid of their country", which is what some typing schools teach when learning the typing keyboard.  At the local typing school at the Eastern Middle school here in Greenwich around the summer of 1965 I learned to type, and I learned to type with this phrase, "They quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."  Thus if there is anyone trying to throw their weight around the typing pool, we can always use them for moving heavier office equipment.  Of course besides attending that one summer course, I also had other educational and work experience, which younger people due to their age would not be expected to have.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 5:40 A.M.:  Greenwich Time - National Geographic glances at central Greenwich .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 5:30 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm except I did not use blue cheese in it.  For the cheddar cheese portion I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, except I used 4 olives instead of 8 olives.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I watched some NASA TV about the old days http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html .  I set up my primary domain logon instead of the Root domain on the Red Hat Linux 9.0 Dell backup computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 3:30 A.M.:  I made some minor corrections in the two uploads.  I burned a copy of the Scott directory to CD, but the Dell backup computer would not read it, so I installed the Scott directory by downloading it and installing it to the Red Hat Linux 9.0 partition.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 1:25 A.M.:  I had a call from a friend yesterday morning at 7 A.M..  I slept until 5 P.M., and I then had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I ate a Quaker low fat white cheddar flavored corn cake with some iced tea.  I then chatted with a friend and a relative.  I then heated and ate a Campbell's Chunky 18.5 ounce can of New England clam chowder, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I then dressed up warmly, and I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue for a walk.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  While sitting on the bench on the north side of the veterans monument across from the senior center, I noticed the stands for two wreaths laid for veterans' holidays had fallen over, so I uprighted the stands and put the wreaths back on the stands.  Since this area tends to be quite windy at times, the stands will not probably stay upright too long, but for now it all looks better.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home at midnight.  I then took my interactive directory http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotlist.htm , and I renamed all the files to lower case, so it should work on a local hard drive with a case sensitive web browser such as Mozilla in Red Hat Linux 9.0.  It is available for download from http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/scott008.zip .   I also posted the copy of the downloadable U.S.A. Department of Defense directory http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/dod.htm , and it is available from http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/dod01.zip .  I will now put the lower case directory on my Dell backup computer Red Hat Linux 9.0 partition to have available for use.  It is currently 14 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of 6 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 5:25 A.M.:  I ate three bowls of corn chips and drank some ice tea while listening to the NASA feed.  It is currently 5 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of -11 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 5:10 A.M.:  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 4:20 A.M.:  I have been watching the kids play "Space" on NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html .  I guess they did not end up sleeping in their cars when they took off to California with their laptops.  I never had a chance to visit Pasadena or Cal Tech http://www.caltech.edu/ on my four or five visits to California 26 to 24 years ago, so I guess whatever they do there, I missed out on.  However, since I was last out there, I would imagine a whole generation of children have grown up.  Of course we have better communications today than the old days in the mid 1950s in Decatur, Alabama near the Huntsville, Alabama Redstone now the Marshall Space Center.  I did make it around MIT www.mit.edu until 31 years ago.  I even saw a bit of CoCo beach, but Texas is such a large state, I never saw what sort of facility they have there.  We're pretty backwards and old fashioned in this old yankee state of Connecticut, but I am sure the more modern Californian people if they come out here this time of year would be spending a bit of wampum on cold weather clothes compared to what they're use to in the warmer weather of California.  It seems they have succeeded again taking pictures of Rocks on Mars, but I suppose we will let the public relations department handle that information.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 2:10 A.M.:  I checked the status of my Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer $70 rebate, and the site said the rebate has been fulfilled, and I should receive it in 10 to 15 days.  Back in the old days in Greenwich, when we were younger and fitter, we use to have a "Freezing Norwegian" patrol on very cold nights and early mornings to make sure everything was all right.  However, on a limited budget, I would rather save the energy instead of cruising around.  Basically, the energy to cruise around for an hour can keep one's apartment warm and comfortable for probably a whole day.  Still, I have been out already today, so I would imagine there are probably still some late risers out and about this morning.  There are still slippery spots of ice on the sidewalks on Greenwich Avenue, so one has to be vigilant when walking downtown.  I guess they salt the spots, and the ice melts and refreezes again.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 1:45 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the usual ingredients except blue cheese.  I used four olives instead of eight olives.  I also used Cabot's 50% less fat Vermont cheese for the cheddar cheese portion.  I had the salad with iced tea.  CIO