Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 12:05 P.M.: I checked my mail. CIO Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 10:45 A.M.: I rested for an hour. I uploaded *.zip files of my Favorite URLs, so one can download them. I have not worked too hard on them for about two years, but still there is a lot of useful information. The URL download page is http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/favurl.htm . I chatted with a relative. Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 7:10 A.M.: I chatted with a friend. I will now shut down the computer. I have a 3 P.M. appointment today. CIO Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 6:20 A.M.: On the Dell backup computer, Link Sweeper completed running, but because it is a slower processor at 366 MHz Pentium II with 384 megs of memory, it failed to save the broken links in a separate broken links folder, so all of the broken links are still in their original folders. There were 8,331 broken links (status 404), 3,445 moved links (status 301), 1996 invalid hosts for a total of 13,772 broken links of a total of 75,406. 22% were broken. Thus the Favorites in the Dell backup computer are still the same and have not been changed. I also ran Ad-aware 6.0. CIO Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 6:00 A.M.: On the primary computer, Link Sweeper had already save the Favorites and Broken links when I posted the last note, it just did not show it in the Link Sweeper interface. I organized all the links in my Broken Links folder in the Favorites folder into Alphabetical folders and a IBM, Microsoft, NASA, "0+num" numeric folder. Thus the broken links are still available for examination on the primary computer. I might save them and burn them to CD, and put them on the Dell backup computer, or I just might delete the broken ones on the Dell backup computer. Since sometimes links are broken because of servers are down or other technical reasons, they will still be available to examine on the primary computer Favorites folder. The Dell backup computer is about 60% though checking the Favorites. CIO Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 4:45 A.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I made the salad with all of the usual ingredients except I used six olives instead of eight olives. I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese for the cheddar cheese portion. I had the salad with iced tea. The link checking feature on Link Sweeper on the primary computer has finished running, and it is now saving the Favorites which takes a while. Of the over 76,000 Favorites in my Internet Explorer Favorites, there were 9,796 broken links (status 404), 3,758 moved links (status 301), and 2,358 invalid hosts for 15,912 total broken links of a total of 74,273 Favorites. Thus about 20% of the Favorite links were broken. The Link Sweeper program has been in the process of saving the Favorites for about 10 minutes, so it will probably take a while with some many links. The Link Sweeper program on the Dell backup computer is about 45% through checking the links, since it is a slower computer. CIO Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 3:35 A.M.: I am running Link Sweeper on the Favorites on the primary and Dell backup computers. I set the primary to 100 links at a time with 15 second timeout and the Dell backup computer since it is slower computer to 30 links at a time with 15 second time out. CIO Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 2:35 A.M.: I made and drank a cup of coffee. CIO Note: <888> 01/29/04 Thursday 1:40 A.M.: Today is suppose to be a momentous day in the history of Greenwich, Connecticut with the President of the United States of America www.whitehouse.gov showing up for a fund raiser at the Hyatt Hotel in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Alas to go to a fund raiser, one has to have money, and since I live on a limited budget, I will not be attending. However, if I am not mistaken, the corporate Big Wheel types and Fat Cats get paid on the last Thursday of the month, so they should be flush with cash, so they can afford to attend the event. On a lesser note, I went out after the last message, and I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I first though used my snow brush, I keep in my Hyundai to clean of the snow from the bench from the north side of the veterans monument across from the senior center and from the benches in front of the post office and the senior center. Still some of the benches have snow piled up around them, so they are not easily accessible. I completed my walk of the length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station area. Plows were out working on clearing the roads, parking lots, and sidewalks. I am not sure whether, they are going to clear off the snow off Greenwich Avenue this morning or tomorrow morning. I put the wreath that had fallen from the tripod at the veterans monument at the base of the veterans monument, where it usually is. I drove down by the waterfront. There is so much snow piled up at the end of Steamboat Road, it would be very difficult to climb over it to make it out on the pier. I recall one of the regular fishermen telling me he was going to New Smyrna, Florida for the winter. I next went by the Shell Station on West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a package of Basic Lights 100s cigarettes for $5 total. I then returned home. The primary computer with two 19 inch monitors started up without any problem. I drank some iced tea. While I was sitting on the bench at the north side of the veterans monument across from the senior center, and I looked up in the sky to the southeast, and there is a star or planet visible. Since no other stars were visible, and since the reason for the Mars Rover is that Mars is at its closest in 60,000 years or 220 million miles away, more than likely what one can see clearly visible in the southeastern sky might be the planet Mars. Of course there use to be an office on Steamboat Road called Mars Inc., but I am not sure if they are still there anymore. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 10:00 P.M.: After breakfast I checked my mail. I received my NEON Energy Assistance grant letter, and I will be receiving $535 this year. Of course it takes a couple of months until the money is actually put in my electricity account at Northeast Utilities. When using the two monitor system, the left most monitor is the primary monitor with the icons. For some reason Windows Media and Real video only shows up on the left monitor, and one can not slide it over to the center right monitor. When moving programs from left to right, one needs to click on the upper right corner center icon of the three icons on a program screen to minimize the program half way, and then move it from left to right or vice a versa. Then one can maximize it in the right center monitor. One should also move the programs back to the left primary monitor before closing them out, so when one reopens them again, they open in the left primary monitor. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out for some fresh air. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 9:10 P.M.: I just woke up. I booted the primary computer with the two 19 inch monitors, and it boots up with the left 19 inch CompUSA monitor showing the boot up screen. I had the Iiyama 19 inch monitor also turned on, and about half way through the boot up process, the Iiyama monitor went through a signal recognition sequence, and it too was working properly with the yellow monitor light changing to green to show that it was working with the system, and when the system is first booted, the center Iiyama monitor screen is blue, and one can move over programs from the left monitor to the center monitor for multitasking. Well, I guess that has solved my Iiyama monitor cold boot problem. I guess once the computer is in the boot sequence, it gives out the correct signal to the Iiyama monitor which is the secondary monitor. I will now eat some oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I recently have been putting in two ounces of grapefruit juice in with eight ounces of orange juice. One is not suppose to drink grapefruit juice with Lipitor, but I figure a little bit would not hurt. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 8:20 A.M.: I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will watch a bit of television before going to bed. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 8:15 A.M.: I brushed the snow off my Hyundai. The driveway in front has been plowed, but there was about 2 feet of plowed snow in front of the cars, so I shoveled off the snow in front of my car, and I put it in the pile on the other side of the driveway. The building custodian is using his plow to clean off the walks. I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, which I ate with iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 7:10 A.M.: I chatted with a friend. I will now bundle up in some warm clothes and go outside and clean the snow off my Hyundai. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 6:30 A.M.: I went through the first half of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm . CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 5:50 A.M.: I ate of bowl of corn chips with iced tea. I am watching and listening to on the left monitor German news in English http://rd01.t-bn.de/ramgen/live/dwelle/dwelle-video-dsl.rm . CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 5:25 A.M.: I put the Lindbergh radio that was on top of the AMD backup computer monitor on the Danish desk in the bedroom on top of the IBM Cyrix backup computer CPU on the left side of the Danish desk on the Danish end table. I moved a family picture frame holder to on top of the monitor. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 4:40 A.M.: I did a Guest logon on the primary computer to make sure both monitors work, which they do. I went downstairs by the front entrance, and I measured the snow in several locations, and there is about seven to closer to eight inches of fresh snow. Presently there are very light flurries. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 4:20 A.M.: I finished going through my email. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 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 including six olives instead of eight olives, and I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. On Monday night when I was walking Greenwich Avenue, I noticed that CVS had a number of wooden pink flamingoes in their store windows along with Coca Cola bottles. If I am not mistaken Coca Cola is not solely a southern company, but the parent company www.coke.com in Atlanta also owns the New York State franchise which used to have headquarters in Greenwich by the Boys Club before they moved back into Manhattan. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 2:45 A.M.: I looked out the side door downstairs, and there is about five inches of fresh snow, but it currently is not snowing. I hung the headset for the Columbia 2.4 gigahertz cordless telephone in between the two 19 inch monitors, so it available to use with the Columbia cordless phone just to the left of the keyboard. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 2:30 A.M.: I shut down the Dell backup computer. I arranged the two duck placemats on the dining room table, so the first one is at an angle as one faces it from the apartment entrance, and the other faces across the table towards the wall. The first spot on an angle is where I will be eating regularly, and one's feet will have to straddle the pedestal of the dining room table on the floor. I also arranged the items on the dining room table, so it has the same busy look as before. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 2:10 A.M.: I disconnected the Royal 17 inch monitor from the IBM Cyrix in the bedroom on the Danish desk, and I put it with the AMD backup computer. Thus the IBM Cyrix does not have a monitor. However, I doubt if I will be using it anytime soon. I put the Sterling V92 56K PCI modem in its box, and I will leave it on the right back side of the white bureau in the bedroom with the other computer items. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 1:50 A.M.: I have the Dell backup computer back together and connected up. I set the onboard video in the CMOS for video init to AGP and 256 meg aperature and no VGA probing. The onboard video has 8 megs of memory, and it is all configured for both systems, and it is running just fine with the Dell Trinitron 1025TM monitor with the onboard ATI Mach64 video. It actually seems to be a bit faster and better quality than the previous setup. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 1:00 A.M.: I label the lower control panel computer switch as "Center Monitor". I put a piece of Scotch tape over the label, so it does not smudge. I took the two paper trays out of the HP Laser Jet II laser printer, and I put them on top of the printer, so they do not protrude into the kitchen entrance way. I only use the HP LaserJet IID printer every four months when I print out my random notes, and although I have other laser printers, it is a heavy duty laser printer with about 2,000 pages left on the fairly new HP 95A cartridge that I bought two years ago for $100 at Office Depot in Scarsdale, New York. I put the pink floral design Chinese basin inside the larger blue and yellow Chinese basin which is on the center back of the long mahogany bureau in the living room overlooking the living room sitting area, and I put the large Golden Pathos plant inside the basins. I have had that plant for about 20 years, from the first year that I moved on Steamboat Road 20 years ago, and I have replanted it a couple of times, and it is currently in a large 15 inch terracotta pot. I put the glass bowl and Revere silver plate bowl and the large Revere silver plate bowl with lid on the right front of the mahogany bureau by the day bed. I put the Nantucket ashtray on top of the display case on the front center of the mahogany bureau with the Greek Parthenon silver plate box on top of it. I put each my two Swiss flags on the center top of each of the 19 inch monitors along with the wireless mouse remote sender which is turned off and the Vibra web cam. CIO Note: <888> 01/28/04 Wednesday 12:25 A.M.: I moved the large pathos plant with the Chinese basin from the dining room table to on top of the other Chinese basin on the long mahogany bureau. I put the Revere silver plate bowl with top on top of the Nantucket ashtray on the right side of the mahogany bureau. I rotated the HP LaserJet IID laser printer 90 degrees clockwise and pulled it forward, so it faces out towards the kitchen entrance sitting on the dining room table. I disconnected my Dell backup computer, and I opened up the case, and I took out the Diamond Stealth 32 meg PCI video card. I opened up my primary Northgate Computer, and I took out the telephone modem, and I switched the LAN card over to the right most PCI slot, and I put the Diamond Stealth 32 meg PCI video card in the center PCI slot, so there is a bit of air space between the right most AGP slot video card. I have the Creative Live MP3+ card in the left most PCI slot which would also be the lowest PCI slot, so right would be highest when the CPU is upright. I use my antistatic wrist band for doing all of this. I had to put a new video cable connector screw which I had on the Diamond Stealth PCI video card. I closed up the primary computer case. I moved the CompUSA 19 inch monitor on a Encyclopedia Britannica 1962 year book on the dining room table just to the left of the primary computer monitor, so they are both at the same height. It is at about a 35 degrees angle to the primary computer. I connected the power cable to the CompUSA monitor to the primary upper control panel Computer monitor switch which says monitor, and I connected the Iiyama monitor to the lower control panel switch that says computer which I will rename with a slip of paper "center monitor". I connected the CompUSA 19 inch monitor to the Diamond Stealth 32 meg PCI card on the primary Northgate computer. I booted the primary computer, and I set in the CMOS "Display Init" from AGP to PCI. When the computer boots the left most CompUSA 19 inch monitor displays, which also has no boot up problems like the Iiyama monitor. The system recognized the two monitors and the television monitor for three monitors total. I set up the monitor display properties. I set the left side CompUSA 19 inch monitor to be the primary monitor with Desktop Icons. I have the IIyama monitor as the center monitor which can display any programs that I move over on to it to work on. This way moving left to right is more natural than if I set it up the other way, plus one has a display with out monitor error when one boots. I guess when the system is cold, I will have to turn on the Iiyama monitor once the system is booted, and it should work fine, once it is turned on a time or two. I now have to put the Dell backup computer back together which I will use with its onboard AGP video, and I will take the Dell Trinitron monitor from the bedroom AMD backup computer, and I will put it with the Dell backup computer. I will put one of the Dell HP monitors with the AMD backup computer, and I will move the Royal monitor from off of the CPU of IBM Cyrix backup computer to be with one of the HP backup computers. I also have to straighten up and arrange the dining room table. This will take some time. I am most pleased with the dual 19 inch monitor setup on the primary Northgate computer, and once one gets use to it, it should make multitasking easier. One has to remember to move the programs to the left adjacent desktop icon monitor when one closes them out, so one does not clutter the center monitor work area. Well, I feel like I have my own Wall Street trading setup or War room, when one has multiple monitors going. One can also display the primary monitor screen on the Orion television too. CIO Note: <888> 01/27/04 Tuesday 10:35 P.M.: My Microsoft Investor http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp stock market tracking portfolio is at an all time high. It is available for download from http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scopor01.zip . However, I do not recommend it as an investment portfolio, it is simply meant to track the average performance of the stock market not to out perform it. CIO Note: <888> 01/27/04 Tuesday 10:30 P.M.: I went back to sleep until 9 P.M.. I chatted with a relative and a couple of friends. We presently have about 2.5 inches of fresh snow, and we are suppose to get more. Thus we could start a new computer club called "Siberia Sam's Computer Fans". I guess I could try to network on the internet, but I basically get more information from reading all the technological information out there. Since I am a high baud cable modem user, I get my information off the internet faster, so I can surf the internet faster. I have thought about putting the Diamond Stealth PCI 32 meg video card back into my primary computer, and then I would be able to run two 19 inch monitors with it. However, unless I moved the primary CPU to the left of the primary computer monitor on the dining room table, and then created another stack of items to put the second monitor to the right of the primary computer monitor. It would take a bit of time, and I am not sure if the second monitor would interfere with the television monitor I presently have set up. About the only benefit to setting it up that way would be to watch internet video on the right monitor while one surfed the web on the left monitor. It would also involve moving a lot of cables which might not reach the extra distance anyway. It is just a thought, but since I do not think I have the room to do it anyway, I will probably not do it. Also with the primary CPU set up the way it is, I have room to work on it when I occasionally have to attach cables and for other maintenance, which I do not think would be as easy if I put it on the dining room table. I basically need a bit more room to set up that configuration, which I do not have in my present limited area in the apartment. The 19 inch monitor weighs too much to put it on the CPU. I will think about it a minute, but more than likely I will leave it the way it is for now, since it works fine enough the way it is all set up presently. I could move the HP LaserJet IID printer from the dining room table and put the second monitor in its place, but I do not have any room to put the HP LaserJet IID laser printer which is quite large in another location where I could use it. I guess I could try moving it further towards the door, and then there would only be one place to eat at the dining table, but I would then have to relocate my large pythos plant to the mahogany bureau too. Well think about it. I do not actually watch that much internet video since I do not have a Real subscription, and since I actually spend most of my time reading off the internet, so I am not sure it would be necessary anyway. Also when using the PCI card with my AGP card, the primary monitor has to be the PCI card as I recall, and I prefer using the current setup with the AGP card as the primary video card. CIO Note: <888> 01/27/04 Tuesday 7:15 P.M.: Well, it is just beginning to snow out, so I will be in for the evening, unless it should quit early. The latest weather forecast is: ... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT... AREAS OF FREEZING DRIZZLE... WILL CHANGE TO A MIX OF LIGHT SNOW AND SLEET THIS EVENING. BANDS OF HEAVY SNOW ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP AFTER 8 PM... AND SPREAD NORTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT. SNOWFALL RATES MAY REACH 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WITHIN THE HEAVIER BANDS. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE FORECAST TO RANGE FROM 5 TO 10 INCHES BY SUNRISE WEDNESDAY. THE SNOW IS FORECAST TO TAPER OFF TO LIGHT SNOW LATE TONIGHT... BEFORE ENDING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. ONCE AGAIN... THE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE FORECAST TO RANGE FROM 5 TO 10 INCHES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. I will now have breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. Stay warm. CIO Note: <888> 01/27/04 Tuesday 7:00 P.M.: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Christian Science Monitor Daily Online Newspaper . CIO Note: <888> 01/27/04 Tuesday 6:55 P.M.: The Iiyama monitor still does not start when it is turned on first, and then the primary computer is turned on. However, it still does start right up, when it is turned on about a second after the primary computer is turned on. I turned off "Sync on Green" in the monitor menu to try the next time it is cold. Well, it is not that big of a problem starting the computer, so I will just leave it as the primary monitor, since it is still a very good monitor. CIO Note: <888> 01/27/04 Tuesday 2:35 P.M.: I had a call from a relative about 1 P.M.. I think I fixed the problem with the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch flat screen monitor starting up with the primary Northgate Computer. In the Syntax SV266M motherboard CMOS setup, I changed the CMOS setting for Primary Video Init Display from AGP to PCI. Since I have onboard AGP which I do not use, the AGP setting tries to start the onboard AGP first when booting the computer. Although I use the Mad Dog Multimedia Prowler MX-440-SE AGP 4x 64 meg. http://www.mdmm.com/products/graphics/mx440agp-se.asp video card which is AGP, in the CMOS setting I have to set Primary Video Init Display to "PCI" since the card is an AGP slot and not the onboard AGP. The setting is ambiguous, but I have a feeling I have it setup properly now. I also enabled on the menu of the Iiyama monitor the "Sync on Green" setting. I will now try to go back to sleep, and I will see it the computer starts up properly when I wake up, and it has not been start up in a couple of hours or more. CIO Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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