The Amityville Pentium

Tony Evans tevans at adelaide.on.net
Fri Sep 4 04:35:21 PDT 1998


Bill Gates just cost you a phone call. I think there's a "smart update" function in Win98 .... if you ever bet around to reading your manual it will probably mention it somewhere in the fine print.

Tony

Max Sawicky wrote:


> >>>>>> "Max" == Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes:
> >
> > >> you gettin up the nerve to do linux?
> >
> > Max> Yeah, real soon now. Hopefully October.
> >
> >give a holler if'n you need a hand.....
>
> I will for sure. Thanks for the offer.
> While I have you, let me flag a note I
> am also posting to the list.
>
> yesterday I was sitting in front of my
> machine engaged in my usual pastime,
> writing rebuttals to Louis P., and
> without warning my modem issued a
> dial tone, dialed a number, and
> connected to somewhere. I frantically
> hit the little gizmo in the 'tray' on
> the bottom right of Win 98 and all it
> told me was that it transferred a couple
> of thousand bytes. Then it went off,
> and that was it.
>
> Is there any way to find out where it
> dialed and what it sent and/or received?
>
> Max



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