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Date:	Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:20:28 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Re-doing MMOS2 | When Good CDs Go Bad

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Steven Levine wrote:

> There's probably a KIA article somewhere.

Indeed there is, and one from your tenure: Feb. '00, to be exact. Lest you suppose
that I don't check online resources first and simply post a query here, I usually try
online first. As I've noted before, Google is not always necessarily our friend, or
at least may not be friendly enough. I found a reference to the old article with
Deja Power Search. It falls into a noticeable gap of what is currently included in
the articles index for Mr. KIA at the SCOUG site. The article may or may not still be
on the server; accessing it was the problem.

Luckily for me (or so I thought), I happen to have quite a few of the SCOUG CDs of the
month, dating back to some time in 1998. A backfile of the articles from OS24U were
included on these CDs perhaps once a year. So I began flipping through them and
loading them to check. I started with Feb. '00 and went forward to almost the end of
'01. This took quite a while, partly because somel of the CDs appear to have become
unreadable. Unreadable in three different drives ! CRC errors, or endless searching
with NO disk contents being logged. (Incidentally, I keep my CDs in clean, individual
sleeves. No fingerprints, greasy swirls, or dust buildup.) The clear offenders I've
identified so far are the CDs for June 2000, July 2000, and Sept. 2000. Have you
heard of anything like this before ? I'll be glad to bring them to a meeting and have
anyone else try to read them.

Anyway, I finally found this article on the Nov. 2001 SCOUG CD, which has a good swath
of them going back to 1993. Better yet, this cd was readable. Curiously enough, an
error was made in the construction of this cd. Trying to access the articles by
browser from the cd index will take you to the SCOUG site (producing an error), even
though the articles are right there on the cd !

[Note to our present Master of CDs: it might be a good idea at this point to reissue
*all* of this material on cd again, from the beginning up until right now. If there
is not sufficient room on a monthly cd, make it a special issue unto itself. Who
knows -- the SCOUG server may be down for awhile, or someone's Net access could be
down at a crucial time. Having all this material in hand can be a big plus. If you
do not have access to it, I would be glad to dupe this Nov. '01 edition for you, which
seems like a good starting point.]

> There's no need to blow away MMOS2 and there never has been. The internet
> never forgets and that goes for bad information as well as good. This is
> one of the reasons I like wiki's. There's a way to fix bad data.

"Wiki's ? " Isn't that something you find in cultures of the South Sea islands ?

> IAC, run whatever you used to install the original sound card and tell it
> you have 0 cards. Then you can install the new card. You can check your
> work with:
>
> <http://www.thetaband.com/mmpack/mmpack.zip>

Thanks much, Steven.

Jordan

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