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[drooartz]

AltaVista?!? wow, Tom. I s'pose you remember Pine and Mosaic then. The beginnings of the "revolution"... shoulda stopped with Usenet. :smirk:

I remember (and used) those too, Doc. 2400 bauds for me all the way...

 

[Guest]

This is good advice. I often google myself late at night or when the wife's not home and was shocked to now find not only a forum member here posting my real name and screen name together, but on another site I found my name and HOME ADDRESS posted. Needless to say the matter is now handled. I also googled the origin and meaning of my last name. Thoughout my life I have notice lots of symbolisim, irony and prophtic themes ( I met my crazy ex girfriend in "Intro to Drama, little did I know.... Despite that I was SHOCKED to learn that my last name fit my family traits PERFECTLY.....and my name doesnt sound like anything like what it means. It's one thing to be a certain way, it's another matter all together to be branded it before birth. Nope, sorry folks, can't say what it is.

Check yours out and see if it fits.

HoooBooi, I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue!

( no, that has nothing to do w/ it.)

 

[DrEntropy]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] shocked to now find not only a forum member here posting my real name and screen name together, but on another site I found my name and HOME ADDRESS posted. [/QUOTE]

Hmmm. UNcool. :shocked:

 

[Scott_Hower]

There was a recent WSJ acticle about lawyers and FB. Seems that attorneys have discovered FB a great resource to dig up photos and information to support their client's cases. I'm surprised that so many people ignore the privacy settings.

 

[70herald]

AltaVista?!? wow, Tom. I s'pose you remember Pine and Mosaic then. The beginnings of the "revolution"... shoulda stopped with Usenet. :smirk:

I remember (and used) those too, Doc. 2400 bauds for me all the way...

I remember seeing a demo of the internet, which still wasn't called that when there were only one or maybe two sites. A few pictures from a museum as a demo. Probably was on a NEXT station.

 

[DrEntropy]

ARPAnet.

And I sit corrected, Drew. Started off with a 2400b in a 386-16... thought we'd <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">arrived</span></span>. :smirk:

AND had an 8086 IBM ~THINKPAD~! Could dial up the ISP and use Pine for e-mail! I think the battery could go for an entire 30 minutes. Tried to get it to accept OS/2 when released...
no go. :frown:

 

[NutmegCT]

ARPAnet.

And I sit corrected, Drew. Started off with a 2400b in a 386-16... thought we'd <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">arrived</span></span>. :smirk:

AND had an 8086 IBM ~THINKPAD~! Could dial up the ISP and use Pine for e-mail! I think the battery could go for an entire 30 minutes. Tried to get it to accept OS/2 when released...
no go. :frown:

You young folks with your 386 chips and Thinkpads. Back in my day we made do with our TRS-80 100s. Built in modem, text, BASIC, and a whopping 32K memory. (Code was short and elegant back then.)

Funny, I don't remember any virus problems. Or BSOD. And my battery powered thermal printer never needed an ink cartridge. (Of course, it only printed on a strip of thermal paper 3 inches wide.)

Last time I used it was ... a year ago. Database work at the air museum. The 100 weighs under 4 pounds, has a full size keyboard, and you don't have a folding screen or exploding Li-Ion battery to worry about.

Now where did I put my RS-232 adapters ...?

Them were the days.
Tom

 

[Brooklands]

I missed out on so much...I did not join in the computer world until 1984 when I bought my first 128K Mac, and then upgraded it to 512K myself cutting wires with a pocket knife. I added a Mac Plus around 1986. I was angry when corporate, who would not decide whether to go PC or Mac for years decreed they wanted everyone on PC's forcing half of the offices to junk our virus free machines...

 

[rlwhitetr3b]

I've been chasing ones and zeros since '76. I’m an electronics tech that could see what was coming. I started with a Heathkit micro processor trainer that was programmed with the hexadecimal code of the Motorola 6802 chip. It had 512 bytes of ram and no storage. I later expanded it to 4K and a tape drive interface. I thought BASIC was hard to use because I could not access the registers.

 

[DrEntropy]

Here I thought we were talkin' 'bout th' 'net...

I built flip-flop circuits onna dining room table around 1964. Discreet transistors/components. Also and/nand gates, and saw what was coming as well. Had "new math" handled at about the same time (8th grade), Old Fella got me a subscription to Popular Electronics a few years before that, kept my hand in (electronics) too. It was a fascination.... But photography/photojournalism had my heart.

And just today found my Zilog Z80 manuals! There's still one chip around here ~someplace~ in original packaging too.

I thought BASIC was hard to use because I could not access the registers.

:lol: I have a CMOS programming "kit" *someplace* in here too, Rich.
And a TI-99/4A with a cassette tape recorder "interface" cable. BASIC was boring.

And BOOKS! TOMES on CPM-80, DOS, Basic, Borland C, C+, C++, stuff from "The Undocumented PC" to "The Firebird Book" (Borland's DBMS, released to open source) ... sooo much money spent. Shoulda put it into minted gold instead.

I'm a nidiot!! Too absorbed with "click-buzz-whirr!" :wink:

 

[DNK]

Tom- you just made my kid run into my office to find out what the heck I was doing with dial up.


To steal this thread more.
My son got me to upgrade my FF to 4.0. Now when I type a word into the address bar it won't automatically take me to the site.
It sends me to the Google.
How do I fix this?

my guess is that if you just got FF 4, there's no "history" built up yet. The quick URL list usually shows up as a drop down in the address field, but only after the browser knows the sites you've already been to. Isn't related to bookmarks or favorites.

But I still use 3.6. Beware of folks who "improve" your computer and then disappear.

T.

Tom, can't be that as my Cache, history ,and cookies are auto wiped at shut down.


Found out what it was.
AVG
Bastages changed it . Found out how to fix it but it reverted on boot up.
Now got to figure out how to keep it that way

 

[GregW]

Tom, can't be that as my Cache, history ,and cookies are auto wiped at shut down.


Found out what it was.
AVG
Bastages changed it . Found out how to fix it but it reverted on boot up.
Now got to figure out how to keep it that way

Your not alone with the cookie wipe. I've been having to manually log in here and other sites for over a week. My problem started when I was on FF 3.sumthin. Upgraded to 4 and the problem persisted. I also mucked around in my security settings but didn't really see anything out of the ordinary. I don't have AVG though. (Knock on wood) the issue hasn't cropped up in the past two days. May have been a silent bug fix. There are other people with this problem on the Mozilla help website.

 

[DNK]

I've been manually logging in to this and TR7/8 forum for a couple of years as I can't get these two to auto log on with my tool settings

 

[DrEntropy]

With any box, any OS, I make sure there's no "auto" ANYTHING active. Manual log-in is less painful than sniped passwords, etc. would be. Many Yahoo mail accounts are hacked regularly due to it.

 

[DNK]

Doc, they can have my forum passwords

 

[70herald]

Many Yahoo mail accounts are hacked regularly due to it.

Making someone read all the junk mail which my Yahoo mailbox picks up would be the perfect punishment for anyone who breaks into it.

 

[DrEntropy]

:lol:

 

[Brooklands]

BTW Tom, OSV has a very nice Facebook Page. What vintage of computers are they using?

 

[Basil]

Many Yahoo mail accounts are hacked regularly due to it.

Making someone read all the junk mail which my Yahoo mailbox picks up would be the perfect punishment for anyone who breaks into it.

I have a yahoo account precisely for that reason - to use online and thus act as a junk mail collector. My "real" email address I only give to friends I trust and family and get very little spam. (still some but nothing like my Yahoo account).

 

[Basil]

Back in my day we made do with our <span style="font-weight: bold">TRS-80 </span>100s.

Didn't that have the nickname "trash 80?"