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An actual spy photo of stuntmekanic caught working at Topmoto in beautiful down town Montr�al�.
Who am I ?� Well, I've been wrenching on bikes for too many years, some that know me would say it's because I only have to work four months of the year.� It snows the rest of� the time in the great white north.� I spend most winters running a rig between Montreal or Edmonton to Texas or California but there is a lot less of� that now, seems I'm getting too old to remember which log book I'm on. . a very costly error.�� Damn computers anyway.�
This mess is a personal web page, nothing for sale here.� The links for the ol' lady's page are below so if� you're into muds and dragons . . .at the end is my link to my home page at the local ISP..
Grab another beer and keep surfing
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Computers, eh?� I� started playing with a 286 last September when Joanne discarded it in favour of a pentium.� Yup got the ttl screen & 14.4 modem.�� My welcome to DOS.� That didn't last long as 'stereo john' dropped off a 486-33motherboard and chip.� I saw the writing on the wall, in went a cd-rom 24x.� Equipped with a Linux disc and 4meg of memory, I spent the next two weeks just trying to get to the installation program.� Well at least I could talk to the xenix server at the bike shop! Login ... Logout and surf with Lynx
It soon became apparent that it was going to take me a millenium to accomplish much with Linux, so out with it and in with win95 on my 250 meg hard drive. (just moved up from a 43 meg).� Guess what? Win 95 wouldn't run on the ttl monitor despite trying to insert a 3.1 driver.� Least I couldn't get it to work.� Stereo john to the rescue with a ancient VGA, now we're in business. .. sort of.� Now 6meg of ram, I wasn't forging ahead quickly.� Smoked my 16 bit video card, and do you think I could find a used one?� Hint, don't unplug monitor while everything is up and running.� Right 'stereo john' ?
Major renovation coming up.. in with original 75 pentium ,old intel motherboard and 16 meg of ram... As of Nov. 98, I managed to find a p166mmx for 75$ cdn, so now this '286' is near the it's end of its capabilities.
Now we sit� with 4.3gig harddrive, a new Abit motherboard, 56K modem....just waiting for a couple of dimm strips.� Dream on, there's always next year.�I sort have Linux running again, tried a Red Hat version, easier install but still insists my PCI 56k modem is some sort of alien network card. Maybe I need a kernel a bit newer than 1.2.13?� It took me a full day to format a floppy disc, and setting up a ppp account so actually logging on to the ISP ...., I think, a figment of my imagination.� The operating system of the future?�Hopefully in my lifetime. I'll keep plugging away.
Web page construction by Pentium 166 (crisping along at 233 this week).
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