Netscape 3 beta 6 is out. The Real Audio plug-in works but I still get crashes after playing AU files.
I went by Action at lunch Thursday and bought a AMD K90 and motherboard. They tested it and found the CPU chip was bad. Strange, I thought that was what customers were for.
Friday they informed me the motherboard and AMD CPU were incompatible. So they sold be the similar but somewhat cheaper Intel 82430VX PCI/ISA motherboard. It's a nice little board with built-in IDE controllers and floppy drive controller.
The down side is it didn't have a cable for my tape drive and I had to replace my VLB video card. Leaving me in VGA mode.
After all the nightmares I've had buying stuff at Fry's I figure these guys rate a free plug.
Action Computers & Surplus
500-F Lawrence Expwy.
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Phone: (408) 739-0316
Fax: (408) 739-8510
The Cadillac held up nicely during the trip. It even passed the water test with flying colors. Once we found where TWA stashed the Flight 800 mourners, Lance "Homer" Steel went into action.
As Lance approaches his first victim, Pat wanders off to start a campaign rally. Igor and I hang around to watch Lance's act. He's explaining to a middle aged widow what a fine man her husband was.
Lance: "Such a fine man. Taking your daughter to see the sites of Paris. He was even bouncing her in his lap when we went down."
Widow: "We didn't have a daughter. That was his bimbo mistress. When I was pregnant with our son, he tried to weasel his way out of marrying me. He even had his friend, Benedict, take the blood test for him but the joke was on my late husband. I'd been sleeping with Benedict for months and it was his kid. My dearly departed was stuck with the bill and I wasn't about to tell the rat the truth."
Lance: "He was a hero to the very end. Trying to open the emergency door for everyone else."
Widow: "You mean he panicked, stomped everyone between him and the exit, then was too stupid to operate the hatch."
Lance: "But he left you a million dollar insurance policy."
Widow: "All he left me was a worthless expired policy and the credit card bills for the bimbo's new wardrobe. Security! This man is bothering me."
A security guard, chewing on a box donuts, waddles toward the disturbance. Unable to solve the mystery of the small piece of transparent tape securing the lid of donut box, he is attempting to eat his way into the container of fried dough delights.
Guard: "Waat rrur uua dunn' err?" [Translation for those unaccustomed to receiving inquires from donut box eating rent-a-cops: What are you doing here?]
Lance, after reading the translation, replies, "Nothing. I'm not doing anything. And besides, she started it. And ... and they made me do it."
The large head of the guard swivels like a tank turret toward us. Backing toward an exit, I whisper to Igor, "Careful, I think the box is still loaded."
Treads, I mean feet, grinding into the old yellow wax of the waiting room floor, drag the donut box champing monster ever nearer to it's goal, us, with Lance in tow like a small U-Haul trailer.
Continuing to back away, we bump into a large obstacle. You know how those cheap topless bar bouncer types are described as being as large as a front lineman on a football team? Well, as I best I could tell without turning around, we'd backed into a football team's entire front line.
The apparent front line, spread it's arms, scooped us up like a bulldozer and rushed us toward the other guard who was quickly beginning to resemble a brick wall. As the mortar of the brick wall came into focus, front line locked his teeth on the other end of the donut box. The ensuing struggle was a scene right out of Lost Worlds.
As we attempted to discreetly sneak away during the Battle of the Donut Dinosaurs, front line lost his balance and pulled brick wall down with him. It was like being tackled on the goal line after a quarterback sneak and having the fans shower you with a ton of bricks.
Chapter ten: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or "The FBI Arrests Two Flight 800 bomber suspects."
From: doorman@hooked.net
Subject: Yahoo! Maps
Looking for a particular street address.....and how to get there ?
Use the following URL....just enter the street, or street address,
City, State.....a detailed map...with zoom in and zoom out capabilities
will be displayed.
Web: The Murky News also suggests - http://www.mapquest.com - http://maps.yahoo.com/yahoo - http://www.microsoft.com/automap/route/route.htm - http://route.delorme.com/ - http://www.city.net/ - http://www.proximus.com/geocities/catalogs
From: innocence.bystander@scene.of.the.accident
Subject: Re: California Wacko
Test
Hello,
At 11:16 AM 7/30/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Web Walker
>
>You are slightly crazier than my son -- and that's a compliment.
Thank you.
He does set quite the standard to keep up with but I do workout at the
institute on weekends.
[ We, the custodians of this federally funded mental health care center, prefer not to edit the contents of our clients personal correspondence but sometimes extreme circumstances require our intervention. We do not deem the disclosure of the remainder of this message in the best interest of our client, the recipient of this email or our government grants. And let us assure you these grants are very hard to come by and very easy to lose.
Do you think it's easy taking care of these nuts day in and day out. I don't think so. And then I get one of those Nowhere Man cases. And all he can talk about is government conspiracy this and government conspiracy that. Of course, we are out to get him and yes, the government is paying for it -- but it is for the greater good of our grants.
You can't expect me to be down at McDonald's in my swell NIMH lab jacket and some stupid hat flipping burgers. I've got a Ph.D. and that means I'm smarter than everyone else and should be paid more. If private industry isn't smart enough to realize my worth then the government must pay for my talents.
Do you think those lying swine could stay in office without the nation getting a daily dose of my hypno-therapy? Of course not!
Uh oh, they're coming. I have to go now. ]
Having detailed the conditions here, I hope you understand my position.
Thanks in advance for any possible help in these matters.
...wtb... - http://www.bayarea.net/~arkres/wiltb/column/
From: Jim Bergsten <bergsten@arkres.com>
Subject: It isn't as good as squashed bugs, but...
...it MIGHT be worth a look (not that I've looked at it yet)...
From: Charles Fannin <cfannin@xsvr2.cup.hp.com>
Subject: Smog Check Stuff
Greetings,
In case you have not already seen it, the smog check stuff is now linked to the KSFO web page. Here is "direct" address.
Later,
Chuck
Web: I really like the animated GIF of the guy who's "mad as hell and not going to take it any more." With any luck, August 21 could become day one of the revolt against the People's Republic of California. "Stop car fires. Fire the CARB!"
The year is 2000. The President of the United States has been assassinated before President Elect Buchanan can be sworn into office. Hillary declares a national emergency and takes control of the nation.
How goes the manhunt for America's number one emeny? The police are baby sitting for working welfare mothers. The military is in China on a humanitarian mission to distribute color TV's and VCR's. The CIA is setting the VCR's clocks and programming them to record Barney on PBS. The White house alleged Vince Foster is the assassin.
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