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<20> Wolfgang Stiller - The Integrity Master
<20> Cyberspace and Online Gaming - By Paul Pollack
<20> Tampa Convention Center - Facts and Figures
<20> PBM Flashback February 1994 - Rob Marlowe
<20> Net Worth - By Shawn Berg
<20> 1995 BBS Event Schedule
<20> Computer humor and the latest BBS news
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Editor's Welcome
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Welcome to another issue of the Pasco BBS Magazine!
This month we look back at an educational session from last summer's ONE
BBSCON, with an article about Wolfgang Stiller and his Integrity Master
program. His discussion about of some of the myths about computer viruses is
particularly interesting. Speaking of ONE BBSCON, we continue our extensive
coverage of ONE BBSCON '95, which is coming to Tampa in August. This month
we take a look at the site for the event, with an article entitled Tampa
Convention Center - Facts and Figures. Paul Pollack writes about Cyberspace
and Online Gaming, and Shawn Berg editorializes about Net Worth. Thanks for
the articles guys! This issue also has all our regular features, including
PBM Flashback and another extraction from ROTFL Digest!
Hope you enjoy this month's issue and thanks for reading!
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Wolfgang Stiller - The Integrity Master
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Wolfgang Stiller is a German born anti-virus expert who first released his
popular Integrity Master program in 1990. At last summer's ONE BBSCON in
Atlanta he hosted an educational session which touched on a wide range of
issues related to data integrity. He discussed various threats to data and of
some of the more common myths about viruses. What follows are some of the
highlights of what turned out to be a very interesting and educational
session.
"A virus is just one threat to your data," Wolfgang Stiller began. "There are
many treats. There are hardware problems, or the power can drop out at the
wrong time and damage your executables and your data. Viruses are a subset of
the software problem area. There are all kinds of software problems and many
times they can look like a virus. These are the ones which are most difficult
to defend against." He talked about a very common, but often overlooked
source of viruses. "Beware the repairman. You call the guy and say my PC is
not booting, or its doing flaky things, the first thing he is going to do is
pop a diskette in your A drive and boot it. That diskette has probably
visited a dozen other PCs in the last 24 hours. Be real careful after your
repairman visits your PC, do a quick check on the thing to make sure that he
hasn't left anything behind."
The session continued with a discussion of the different types of viruses.
"Logic bombs are basically something destructive, or something malicious, or
sneaky hidden within a legitimate program. A trojan is really a specific type
of a logic bomb that is embedded in something which appears to be legitimate.
Sometimes trojans are originally drawn up as an ASNI program. Back in the
early days people would just take FORMAT.COM and put a little front end in
there to run it, or a batch file, and format your disk. Upload it and say
this is a neat game, as soon as your run it, you format your disk. That is
really not a logic bomb, just a destructive program that somebody's claiming
is useful. These are not that big of problem, in general, because they will
not spread. You can't imagine a BBS Sysop getting something like that
uploaded and giving it to somebody else. You're not likely to encounter too
many of those. They are more of an issue on networks, the Internet worm is
the most famous example."
"Viruses are different because they spread from one host program to another.
A virus can't exist only by itself, its got to have something to infect, its
got to have a host program to attach itself to. What is a virus. Viruses are
not some mysterious thing that you have to be a genius to write, or really
sharp to understand. They're really simple things. Especially nowadays when
there are a lot of so-called virus writers who do not really understand what
they are writing, they run these canned tools that kick out assembly language,
that if they're lucky they can get to assemble. Half the time they don't run
correctly, but they upload them to somebody's board and we have to scan for
them. There are a lot of junk virus writers out there."
"A virus is a program that replicates by attaching versions of itself to other
programs. The piece of code that is attached is not always the same. When
the program is executed, the virus code executes first. That is generally the
way it is done. It executes along with the legitimate code. Virus code
executes, legitimate code executes, the user doesn't see anything wrong. The
virus then infects other programs. Ultimately, the goal of the virus is to
infect more programs, otherwise it wouldn't be a virus. Some viruses all they
do is go resident in memory the very first time and once the virus is resident
in memory it can infect programs whenever it feels like. A lot of viruses
infect any program that you look at. So, if your scanner does not recognize a
virus and the virus has infected the scanner, which has happened many times in
the past, every file scanned may become infected."
Wolfgang Stiller also talked about some of the virus myths that have been
circulated for years. To this day, BBS Sysops still have to fight with these
perceptions. "Virus myths and mythical sources, this is one that hurts a lot
of us that trying to make a living in this business. I started off marketing
my product through the Shareware route. I've had people interested before in
my product and they find out it is available on BBSs, or its Shareware, and
the corporate door slams shut in my face. This is largely due to publicity
that was done early on by one particular anti-virus vendor, who also got his
start in Shareware, who basically put out a list of things to do. And on that
list, that was basically duplicated in the press, was avoid BBSs, avoid
Shareware and Public Domain software. There is absolutely no fact behind that
at all. It just seemed to make sense, well, gee, share files, Shareware,
that's got to be bad. Oh, BBSs, there are files available for download,
dangerous stuff. Absolutely no fact. I mean, obviously, any time you get
some code it could have a virus in it. BBSs, Shareware and Public Domain
software are no more likely to have a virus than going off to your retail
store. As a matter of fact, the statistics I've seen show the opposite.
Retail stores frequently take software back, re-shirk wrap it when its been
returned, and other unsavory practices that can spread viruses. Of course,
major software manufacturers have shipped viruses straight from the factory.
The U.S. Census Bureau sent an infected disk out with CD-ROM they had.
Practically all the major manufacturers at some point in time have made a
slip-up. It is very easy to do, it doesn't mean that they are bad companies,
or anything like that. There is no absolutely safe source, you can get it
many places."
Wolfgang Stiller elaborated on the fact that on-line sources are just as safe,
perhaps safer, than other sources. "On the whole BBS Sysops are very virus
aware. The on-line services are generally very virus aware, using multiple
scanners. It is very unlikely to get one there. Computer store personnel,
there are exceptions, mostly they are not very virus aware. They sometimes
accept returns. I've never heard of a computer store that scanned its
software."
He also passed along some advice on which type of virus scanners were the best
ones to use. "Resident scanners are not as effective as the non-resident
ones. That type of scanning technology can be disabled by a virus."
Wolfgang Stiller has done fairly well with Integrity Master. Those who
purchase the anti-virus program receive a book called "Defeating Viruses and
Other Threats to Data Integrity." The first half is the "Integrity Master
Users Guide" and the second half is about "Data Integrity and Viruses." The
book makes for very interesting reading, covering topics such as, Threats to
your Data, Protection for your PC, Virus Myths, Virus Realities and the latest
information on viruses.
Editor's Note: Further information may be obtained by contacting Wolfgang
Stiller directly by email at 72571.3352@compuserve.com, or by US Mail at
Stiller Research, 2625 Ridgeway Street, Tallahassee, FL 32310.
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Cyberspace and Online Gaming
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Written by Paul Pollack, author of GamePlay, New Port Richey, FL
Edited by Alex Thomas, editor of GamePlay, New Port Richey, FL
It's one of those over-used buzz-words everyone uses but no one understands.
No, I'm not talking about the information superhighway or interactive movies,
I'm talking about Cyberspace, the premiere buzz-word of the '90s. It's been
talked about by some of today's most influential game designers, and I feel
it's time to shed some light on the mystery.
What is Cyberspace? Imagine this scenario: You're talking with your friends.
Let's call them Bob, Katie, and Frank. You whisper something to Bob, and he
breaks out laughing. Bob and Katie can't hear you. Little do you know that
Bob and Katie are whispering to each other. Suddenly, a fly lands on your
keyboard and you're brought back to reality.
What I've just told you about is one of the simplest forms of Cyberspace, a
form you can experience on any BBS with a teleconference feature. In the
example I just gave, you were in a place. Not a physical place like your
local library, school, or museum, but nonetheless a place. Congratulations on
your first trip into the wonderful world we in the trade call Cyberspace. But
Cyberspace isn't always used to refer to BBS chatting and teleconferencing.
In fact, most of the uses of the word Cyberspace deal with VR, or Virtual
Reality. Most people think of Cyberspace as the virtual world that you're
immersed in.
One of the best places to experience Cyberspace right now, without going
broke, is on The ImagiNation Network, an online service founded by Sierra On-
line. What ImagiNation does is allow people a chance to talk, chat, gamble,
and even kill each other in the fantastic online games available. For
example, in Sierra's online FRPG, the Shadow of Yserbius, you converse,
attack, or join other people in your quest to learn the secrets and solve your
quest. In fact, some people, such as Ken Williams himself, would argue that
the conversation and social interaction between others is even more important
then the actual game itself. When you think about it, it's a lot more fun to
play a game with two, three, or four people rather than playing alone. The
ImagiNation Network is a true example of Cyberspace and allows you to simply
live another life.
I could go on and on about the features of the ImagiNation Network, from the
facemaker to the ever popular Red Baron to the marriages occurring because of
the network. In fact, Rush Limbaugh even met his future wife on an online
service (though not INN). I could talk about the great chat capabilities and
all the nice features, and how INN has really evolved over the past few years
from it's Sierra Network beginnings, but I won't. Instead, I'll talk about
one of the benefits(?) of Cyberspace.
Let's go back to a previous example I used earlier in the article. I talked
about how Bob, Katie, Frank and you were talking and whispering to each other.
Suppose you're chatting with these people on a BBS and you've never met them
in real life. Since many BBSs let you use handles, you don't know these
people's real names and many times you'll never know. So Bob, Katie, Frank
could be simply handles on BBSs. Who knows? Bob and Frank could be girls,
while Katie could be a boy. Let's suppose that you're chatting with these
people and you get into an interesting discussion and you find out that
someone there, let's say Frank, shares the same point-of-view as you do.
Instead of judging someone by how they dress or their physical appearance, you
judge them by their personality and what's inside.
Admit it. Within seconds of meeting someone, you start to form opinions about
that person based on stereotypes that society has fed you. Because someone
has a different haircut or dresses differently often will turn you off before
you get a chance to really know the person. But once you actually understand
a person, you don't really care what gender, race, or appearance they possess,
you just know how they are. But isn't this benefit hampered once you're on
the INN? After all, don't people know how you look from you're face you
created? Not necessarily.
When you get right down to it, your basic persona and face that you create can
be totally off-base. You can modify yourself on INN, or completely change
your sex while online. You know that everyone you meet's face or gender could
be a complete facsimile, and so you still don't judge anybody from the way
they look. I like chatting with other mature people without having to worry
about whether or not they'll make fun of my appearance, or make derogatory
comments about me based on how I dress.
So now you know what Cyberspace is, now let's get into the gaming aspect of it
all, online games. While INN is great for games, you can find some great
games all over the country on local BBSs. Earlier I mentioned that playing a
game with/against two, three, four or five people is more fun than playing
alone or against the computer. But why is it more fun?
This leads to a rather obvious answer: People love company and cyberspace is
a gateway toward it. In Cyberspace you lead a virtual life in a virtual
world, whether it be in the world of INN or the world of Neverwinter Nights
(the D&D based America Online title). And just like in a real world, there
are real people. I like stand alone games as much as the next guy, but
getting the same responses and figuring out the characters' one sided
personalities gets boring after a while. After all, it's much more fun when
you can identify with a character. When you're in Cyberspace in an
interlinked virtual world, you have the opportunity to talk to real people
connected to you through your computer or other device.
Another reason that playing with or against a friend is more fun is that you
can figure a computer out. After playing the same flight sim for a few
hundred times, you learn the computer's algorithm. When you beat the
computer, you know that you really didn't beat anybody real, just the opponent
the programmers designed. But when you're flying a Sopwith Camel and shoot
down someone else, you know that there's someone else flying that plane. And
that's a rewarding experience! I could give examples from any genre, from
resource management to arcade/action, but I think you get the picture.
Working with friends and other people gives a new dimension to a game, the
human factor. And the human factor has much more personality and
unpredictability of any computer algorithm.
Where can I "jack in" to Cyberspace right now? If you want to spend some time
in a few "virtual worlds" you could try a BattleTech center or a Virtual World
amusement park, but for those looking for a casual alternate universe to spend
some time in, the forementioned INN makes a great choice. Not only does it
offer chat sessions and allow you to make more friends than you ever imagined,
it has some of the hottest multiplayer titles around. For those who wish to
sample Cyberspace before logging on to an expensive online service, or for
those nervous about giving out your credit card number, you can sample
Cyberspace on your local BBS. Most BBSs nowadays have at least a few online
doors where users often compete with each other to conquer the galaxy, build
an empire, or just play an old fashioned game of Solitaire. So no matter what
you're cup of tea is, you can find it cruisin' through Cyberspace.
Editor's Note: Thanks again to Paul Pollack for another great article. The
above is from GamePlay version 8.0 and make sure to look for more from Paul in
next month's Pasco BBS Magazine. There will also be news about a new project
he is working on. Paul is an avid gamer and frequent BBSer who, if you would
like to contact him, can be reached at Gator's Place BBS (813) 376-0087, Dr.
Duck's BBS (813) 849-3562 and the Board of Trade BBS (813) 862-4772.
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The Tampa Convention Center, located in downtown Tampa, has been selected as
the site for ONE BBSCON '95. As part of our ongoing comprehensive coverage
leading up to the event, this month the Pasco BBS Magazine takes a look at
this beautiful facility.
The multi-purpose Tampa Convention Center, owned and operated by the City of
Tampa, was built at a cost of $140 million and had its official grand opening
on October 19, 1990. The building features 600,000 square feet of functional
space with all the amenities to host an event of this magnitude. With the
extensive use of maple trim, large mosaic tile renderings and plush patterned
carpet, this meeting center is definitely state of the art. The location, at
the mouth of the Hillsborough River, provides a wonderful setting.
Considering the 2,000 feet of waterfront view, Riverwalk session rooms and
outdoor patios, it would be difficult to find a more attractive place to hold
a convention.
Some of the facts and figures on the Tampa Convention Center follow.
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<20> TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER - FACTS AND FIGURES <20>
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<20> Address <20> 333 South Franklin Street <20>
<20> <20> Tampa, FL 33602 <20>
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<20> Telephone <20> Voice: (800) 426-5630 <20>
<20> Numbers <20> Fax: (813) 229-9435 <20>
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<20> Opened <20> October 19, 1990 <20>
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<20> Cost <20> $140 million <20>
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<20> Operated by <20> City of Tampa, Florida <20>
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<20> Ballroom <20> 36,000 square feet <20>
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Editor's Note: The Pasco BBS Magazine will continue extensive coverage
leading up to ONE BBSCON '95, the most significant event in the history of the
Tampa Bay on-line community, in next month's issue. A future issue will also
take a closer look at the Convention Center-Harbour Island-Franklin Street
area, so visitors will be able to have a better idea of just how suited this
area is to hosting these types of events.
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PBM Flashback - February 1994
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Ten years ago next month, the Inner Sanctum BBS went on-line in West Pasco
County. Rob Marlowe, Sysop of Pasco's oldest BBS, wrote about "Pasco
BBSing...The Early Years" in an article for the February 1994 issue of the
Pasco BBS Magazine. It is interesting to note how much things have changed
over the last ten years, especially when compared to this day of 28.8 modems
and gigabyte hard drives. Here is some of what Rob Marlowe had to say about
the earliest days of bulletin boards in Pasco County.
"The Inner Sanctum BBS went on-line on March 8, 1985, and at that time there
were two bulletin board systems in West Pasco. The Windjammer's Bay, a
Commodore 64 based system run by Steve Watford, and Fast Eddies' BBS, an
Apple // based system run by Ed Black. Both systems ran 300 bps modems and
used floppy disks for storage! The Inner Sanctum brought high speed (1200
bps) communications and a hard disk for storage (a whopping 10 meg drive).
All this running on a five slot IBM PC! Shortly after our first birthday, the
system was coming up on call number 20,000. I'd have never believed that sort
of response by folks in West Pasco could have been possible. There were only
60 or 70 folks using modems then, so that meant each one was calling quite a
bit!"
Editor's Note: PBM Flashback will appear on a regular basis in future issues.
Most issues will have this brief look back at some of the features which have
appeared over the history of the Pasco BBS Magazine.
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<20> Since 1985 - Pasco County's Oldest BBS <20>
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Net Worth
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Written by Shawn Berg, New Port Richey, FL
Why are we all arguing about America Online, Prodigy, and Compuserve? In
PC/Computing's September feature, "Online Fever" (page 140), they state that
you can get a basic Prodigy membership for $14.95 a month, which comes with
five free hours. Additional hours are $3.60 a piece! All or MOST of the
information you can get on these on-line services you can get on local
bulletin board services like The Storm's Fury, Board of Trade, Studio-PC and
MANY more! You can also get this information on plain Internet! I get
unlimited access to the full Internet for $29 a month! There is no extra
charge for more hours. Online services like Prodigy give you five free hours
(which might sound terrific to you) just to get you addicted. Trust me, those
five hours will go extremely fast! And on the Internet, you can get twice as
much as on America Online, Compuserve, and Prodigy! So why pay such outrages
prices?
PC/Computing's response on page 28 of the January '95 issue: "Net Worth"
"I'd PAY for the on-line services rather than surf in cyberspace because
they're better organized. Like PC/Computing, these services filter out the
noise and organize information so you can find it easily. Case in point, I
did a keyword search on WWW for cat (as in tabby) and pet. I got some feline
information, but most related to computer-aided tomography and proton-electron
transfer." (HB)
Now what do you think? I would like to take a vote of most of Pasco County's
BBS users and see what they think is more worth it and send it to
PC/Computing. So leave E-Mail to Shawn Berg on the Board of Trade BBS (862-
4772), or leave E-Mail to IceBerg on The Storm's Fury BBS (843-8905/849-2272).
I appreciate your cooperation.
Editor's Note: Thanks to Shawn Berg for the interesting editorial, and we
hope to see more editorials from him in future issues. The Pasco BBS Magazine
will print any interesting responses received in a future issue of the
magazine. So if you have some feelings about "net worth" send them along.
The Pasco BBS Magazine wants your opinion, and welcomes opposing viewpoints.
Readers are encouraged to send along opinions on any BBS, or computer, related
issue.
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1995 BBS Event Schedule
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With all our coverage of the upcoming ONE BBSCON '95 in Tampa, one might think
that this was the only on-line event scheduled for 1995. Nothing could be
further from the truth, as there are more events scheduled for 1995 than ever
before. While the Pasco BBS Magazine will be unable send a representative to
all these events, or give the extensive coverage given to the Tampa show, we
do want to pass along the current schedule for 1995. Additional information
about these events may be published in future issues.
TWO BBSCon '95 - This is the European version of the ONE BBSCON. The event is
scheduled for February 8-11, 1995 at the Swissotel Rheinpark Congress Centrum
in Dusseldorf, Germany. John C. Dvorak is scheduled to give the keynote
address, and also scheduled to speak are Jack Rickard, Richard Paquette, Tim
Stryker, among others. The cost for three days is $595.00, one day passes are
available for $295.00, and a 10% discount is available for registrations
received prior to February 1, 1995. For more information contact TWO BBSCON
EST., P.O. Box 206, FL 9486 Schaanwald, Liechtenstein, Europe, or call +41
(75) 373 28 32.
cyber.Xpo.95 - This is the first show put on by Sysop News magazine and is
scheduled for June 4-6, 1995 at the Sahara Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas,
Nevada. There are educational sessions and exhibits planned, along with the
first Sysop News Awards of Excellence. Further information is expected to be
released shortly. For additional information contact BBS Press Service, Inc.,
8125 SW 21st Street, Topeka, KS 66615, or call (913) 478-3157.
ONE BBSCON '95 - This is the on-line industry show which started it all and
the event is scheduled for August 16-20, 1995 at the Tampa Convention Center
in Tampa, Florida. Many of the specifics should be announced shortly, and the
Pasco BBS Magazine will continue comprehensive coverage leading up to ONE
BBSCON '95. The registration fee is $175.00 until May 1, 1995. For further
information contact Peg Coniglio at ONE, Inc., 4255 South Buckley Road, Suite
308, Aurora, CO 80013, or call (303) 693-5253.
PCBoard/Communications Retreat - This event is put on by Clark Development
Company, the designs of the PCBoard BBS Software. It is scheduled for Park
City, Utah on September 21-24, 1995. Additional information may be obtained
by calling CDC at (800) 356-1686 or (801) 261-1686.
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<20> 14.4-28.8k USR v.everything Member Lines: (508) 368-7139 <20>
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<20> * Software Creations BBS continues to bring you the Best of the Best * <20>
<20> Member of the Worcester County Sysops Association <20>
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<20> * Software Creations is a division of Linton Enterprises, Inc. * <20>
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ROTFL!
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Top Ten Things Some Users Do To Annoy Sysops, Courtesy of Sandy Illes
10. Try to access Sysop functions.
9. Experiment with the ascii keys trying to find backdoors.
8. Upload a 5k file so they can download a 500k file.
7. Attempt to obtain multiple accounts.
6. Complain that they should be able to download anything they want since
they're doing you a favor to even call your board.
5. Hang up inside a door.
4. Leave a Comment to Sysop asking for information that's already available
in the bulletins.
3. Say, "I'd send money if you had more nodes." (So you get more nodes and
they don't call back for a year, during which their account has expired.)
2. Request commercial software.
1. Distribute viruses and trojans.
Editor's Note: Thank you to ROTFL Digest!, and its editor Sandy Illes for
allowing the above to be reprinted from a prior issue of the on-line humor
magazine. For more information on ROTFL Digest! contact Access Media
Systems at (905) 847-7362 (Voice/FAX), or call the CAP/Canada BBS at (416)
287-0935. Email: sandy.illes@canrem.com, or Sandy Illes 1:250/710.
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Favorite Taglines
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Some bulletin boards and off-line mail readers are set-up to add taglines
to network type messages. This is typically done to add a humorous thought
onto the message. The Pasco BBS Magazine will on occasion run some of our
favorite taglines found while browsing the local nets.
Member: Tagline Thieves Local 363 ...
Any answer over three words is no!
Even Eternal Truth doesn't last forever.
Daddy, what does "Formatting Drive C:" mean?
Know how to save a drowning lawyer? No! Good!
GUI = [G]enerally [U]seless [I]nterface ...
You can burn the flag, but not tobacco.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!
NAVY: Never Again Volunteer Yourself.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
If she won't live forever, why give her a diamond?
I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is having!
Behind every great man is his butt.
Talk is cheap...Until you purchase a modem.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
A penny saved isn't a heck of a lot!
Cats remind us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
I don't care about apathy ...
Psst! Your Zip file is open.
I've used Windows apps, but I didn't inhale.
Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
No bathroom? Just boldly go where no man has gone before.
The shortest distance between two puns...is a straight line.
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Murphy's Law of Computers
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When you're asked if you need help to understand a computer program, say "no,"
then negotiate.
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<20> Board of Trade BBS New Port Richey, Florida <20>
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<20> Home of the Pasco BBS Magazine <20>
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<20> Home of Shadoware <20>
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<20> Home of the 813 BBS Directory <20>
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<20> (813) 862-4772 FidoNet 1:3619/10 <20>
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<20> Id Software, Impulse Software, MVP Software, Safari Software, <20>
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Intel Pentium Processor Replacement Policy Announced
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Santa Clara, CA, December 20, 1994 -- Intel today said it will exchange the
processor for any owner of a Pentium(TM) processor-based system who is
concerned about the subtle flaw in the floating point unit of the processor.
The company has been criticized in recent weeks for replacing processors on
the basis of need rather than on request. Intel will take a reserve against
fourth quarter earnings to cover costs associated with the replacement
program.
The flaw can produce reduced precision in floating point divide operations
once every nine billion random number pairs. Intel said that while almost no
one will ever encounter the flaw, the company will nevertheless replace the
processor upon request with an updated version that does not have the flaw.
This offer will be in effect for the lifetime of a user's PC, which means that
users can conclude they do not currently want a replacement, but still have
the option of replacing the chip in the future if they wish. Intel is making
a rapid manufacturing transition to the updated version, and expects to be
able to ship sufficient replacement parts to meet demand during the next few
months.
"The past few weeks have been deeply troubling. What we view as an extremely
minor technical problem has taken on a life of its own," said Dr. Andrew S.
Grove, president and chief executive officer. "Our OEM customers and the
retail channel have been very supportive during this difficult period, and we
are very grateful," Dr. Grove said. "To support them and their customers, we
are today announcing a no-questions-asked return policy on the current version
of the Pentium processor."
"Our previous policy was to talk with users to determine whether their needs
required replacement of the processor. To some people, this policy seemed
arrogant and uncaring. We apologize. We were motivated by a belief that
replacement is simply unnecessary for most people. We still feel that way,
but we are changing our policy because we want there to be no doubt that we
stand behind this product."
Intel will send a replacement processor to PC users who choose to do the
replacement themselves, and will offer telephone technical assistance. Call
1-800-628-8686 for details. Intel also said it planned to contract with
service providers to do replacements at no charge for PC owners who prefer to
bring their PC's to a service location. Details will be provided in the next
few weeks. Finally, Intel said it would work with its OEM customers to
provide replacement for PC users who prefer to work with the manufacturer of
their system.
The company said it would take an unspecified but material charge against
fourth quarter earnings to cover costs associated with the replacement program
announced today. Intel said it was unable to determine the amount of the
reserve, but said an estimated total will be provided on or before January 17,
the date of Intel's 1994 financial results announcement.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of
personal computers, networking and communications products.
Editor's Note: The above is from a press release from Intel and all inquiries
should be directed to them.
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Corrections and Clarifications
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Last month's Special Second Anniversary Issue had a mistake in the masthead,
as the year was listed as 1994 instead of 1995. This was the first time that
a mistake in the masthead had occurred and hopefully that type of mistake will
not happen again. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
Matt Holden did not submit his Hallways segment for this month's issue.
Hopefully, his series of door game reviews will continue in future issues.
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Next Month
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The March issue of the Pasco BBS Magazine will have a special feature on
seniors on-line, and some may be surprised just how many have jumped on the
information superhighway. We will have all our regular features including
more on the upcoming ONE BBSCON '95, a PBM Flashback featuring Dam Linton of
Software Creations BBS and more computer humor courtesy of ROTFL Digest!
There will be another article from Paul Pollack and news about a new project
he is working on. Hopefully, we will have some responses to this month's
editorial on net worth.
There are several articles in the works for future issues, including the first
"Pasco BBS Magazine Lifetime Achievement Awards." Each year we would like to
reward an individual who has made a significant contribution to the Pasco
County on-line community. We are now taking nominations for the award from
readers of the magazine, so if you think someone is deserving of some
recognition, please let us know. Award recipients will receive some sort of
plaque or certificate for their efforts on behalf of our community, and will
be featured in an article in the magazine.
Do not miss an exciting issue of the Pasco BBS Magazine! Look for the March
issue, available by February 22.
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Important Information
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unaltered and complete. When uploading make sure the original archive is
intact with all files included.
The Pasco BBS Magazine is the sole property of the Board of Trade BBS and
Richard Ziegler. It is legally copyrighted material and all rights are
reserved. No part of this magazine may be used without permission. No
compensation of any kind may be received for the viewing, distribution, or
for any other use of the magazine files.
By submitting something, you are agreeing to allow publication of the
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reflect the views of the Pasco BBS Magazine. The editor reserves the right
to edit submissions, however, this is normally only done to correct spelling
or grammatical errors. The editor makes all determinations on what and when
articles will run.
Every effort is made to insure that all information contained within the
Pasco BBS Magazine is accurate, but inadvertently mistakes can appear.
The Pasco BBS Magazine, Board of Trade BBS or Richard Ziegler cannot be held
liable for information contained within this document. It is intended that
this magazine exists for the personal enjoyment of the readers.
Rather than place a trademark symbol at every occurrence of a trademarked
name, it is stated that trademarks are only being used in an editorial
fashion with no intention of any infringement of the trademark itself.
More information can be found in the other files distributed with the
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Comments, questions, suggestions and submissions can be left on the Board
of Trade BBS (813) 862-4772, or mailed to Board of Trade BBS, P.O. Box 1853,
New Port Richey, FL 34656.
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(C)Copyright 1995 Richard Ziegler - All Rights Reserved
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