Chaos Corner

Chaos Corner V04 N03 22 June 1994 Copyright 1994 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents for V04 N03 Just a few corrections Further info on the Jupiter event US National Archives is on the Internet Chaos Corner not enough information? Service tales - Good and Bad - Continued Continuing selections from alt....

Chaos Corner V04 N02 5 June 1994 Copyright 1994 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Service tales - Good and Bad All warrantee service is not the same. When the Trackpointer on our IBM Thinkpad stopped working properly, we thought we had arranged with a service department that they would examine the laptop when we took ...

Chaos Corner V04 N01 24 February 1994 Copyright 1994 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Mailbag - Out-of-this World PILOT Software Tax Dollars at work ... this information is provided by John Fwu: October 1993, The first UNIX workstation went to space with Space Shuttle Columbia for NASA's STS-58 mission. On board Colu...

Chaos Corner V03 N10 29 December 1993 Copyright 1993 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Mailing Errors Again --- Solved Now? After the number of duplicate mailings reported from issue number 8, we were embarrassed by the number of reports of people getting three (3!) copies of issue 9. At Rich Greenberg's suggestion, w...

Chaos Corner V03 N09 21 December 1993 Copyright 1993 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Winter and Winter Weather! The Winter season is officially here, along with the first major snowfall of the year. Dr. Chaos finds the way to track the coming storms this season is to get the current (usually) US weather m...

Chaos Corner V03 N08 3 December 1993 Copyright 1993 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Mailbag - Sites for SCO/Unix software? Mark Lednor asked after our last issue about the availability of precompiled software for systems that run Xenix from SCO. While Dr. Chaos doesnÆt know himself of any such sites, he suggests...

Chaos Corner V03 N07 20 October 1993 Copyright 1993 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Welcome to 112 New Subscribers Thanks to a mention in the Bits and Bytes online newsletter, we've processed over 112 new subscriptions in the 12 days since the last issue; including the addition of what appears to be a list exploder ...

Chaos Corner V03 N06 8 October 1993 Copyright 1993 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Welcome to 175 New Subscribers For those who wonder if we have been completely idle here in the Corner, since it has been almost two months since the last issue ... if nothing else we have been victims of our own success with many req...

Chaos Corner V03 N05 9 August 1993 Copyright 1993 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. -------------------------------------------------- Slow Mail Distribution Possible This issue my be distributed more slowly than normal. There is currently a mail loop on the Internet due to a host in Japan rejecting some of the White House news summaries and the Listserv responsible f...

Chaos Corner V03 N04 30 June 1993 Copyright 1993 by Robert D. Cowles; Ithaca, NY 14850. Permission is hereby granted to republish complete issues in unaltered form. Republication of partial issues must reference the source and state that subscriptions to Chaos Corner are available (free) by sending electronic mail to chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu. ------------------------------------------------- OS/2 2.1 Well, it looks like IBM managed to learn something about marketing in the past year since shipping OS/2 2.0. It took us almost a month to get the 2.0 release after it became available ... 2.1 arrived exactly on June 14, ...