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#9   SIG HEADER: /Poota   SIG-Op: Mabster  Created: 28-APR-94 07:38

SIG Topic: A haven for the socially challenged.



 Thoughts of the day:



 It took 300 years to build and by the time it was 10% built,

 everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But by then the

 investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its

 completion, it has cost a fortune to maintain and is still in

 danger of collapsing.



 There are at present no plans to replace it, since it was

 never really needed in the first place.



 I expect every installation has its own pet software which

 is analogous to the above.



        -- K.E. Iverson, on the Leaning Tower of Pisa



 



Public Msg #742485 *Poota* 16:19 03-MAY-96 *EXEMPT*

From: Jimx   (1 Reply)  (Awarded 500 Credits)

  To: Mikez

FILE: nnansi.arj

Reply to #740744



> For some reason, my computer appears to be slow when doing a "DIR".



Have you changed your config.sys lately? If you put the normal ansi

driver in, it'll slow the display right down. Use NNANSI.COM. It's a lot

smaller and shitloads faster, the display is virutally as fast as if you

had no ansi driver loaded.



úJiMXú



Public Msg #901770 *Poota* 18:34 18-MAR-97 *EXEMPT*

From: Scarlet   (1 Reply)

  To: ** ALL **

Subj: Intro to pootas...





Ok, for those of you that _don't_ know me terribly well, I think I

should tell you this now:



I know very little about computers <nods>.  <grin>



But, I do have an assessment question from uni:



  "Expert Systems, Knowledge Bases, Decision Support Systems.

  What are they? How do they work? How are they set up? How are they

  used? Who uses them?"



I don't want, like, my whole essay done, I'm just after a basic

understanding of it first. :)



Byebye.

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Public Msg #902025 *Poota* 09:44 19-MAR-97 *EXEMPT*

From: Jedd  

  To: Scarlet

Subj: Intro to pootas...

Reply to #901770



>   "Expert Systems, Knowledge Bases, Decision Support Systems.

>   What are they? How do they work? How are they set up? How are they

>   used? Who uses them?"



 Expert Systems tend to use knowledge bases to provide a very

 basic, an ersatz form you may say, of 'intelligence'.  It's not

 at all, since they don't 'reason' in anything other than strictly

 defined ways - even those that employ fuzzy.  (Ie they're completely

 pre-deterministic).



 An expert system - and there's any number of them, I think one of

 the earliest ones was a thing called Mycin (?) - a medical ES

 that provided doctors with a second opinion, as it were, on the

 usage of antibiotics (this is from memory - of a topic I last

 looked into about 8 years ago).  ES's consist of a rule base, and

 a fact base - combined to form what they call a knowledge base.

 That is, a series of heuristics, rules of thumbs, general rules to

 apply, and a stack of factual information to apply those rules

 to.  They're created by a ES-designer sitting down for days on

 end with an expert in a particular field, and pulling as much

 information from that expert as possible.  Then converting that

 into a set of rules and a set of facts.



 I've not heard the term 'decision support system', but it does

 sound a lot like an expert system - ie, a fairly smart system

 that you'd reference, but not rely on.



 I think ES's are generally considered part of the fourth generation

 of languages - the only one I've ever played with was a crappy

 product called Guru.  Do a search on the web for more information,

 as there's bound to be positively truckloads of the stuff.



 Jedd.



Public Msg #1168008 *Poota* 21:19 28-APR-99 *EXEMPT*

From: Cheshire   (2 Replies)  (Awarded 1000 Credits)

  To: Akuma

Subj: AntiVirus.

Reply to #1167167, Reply to #116631*



> This was over a week ago. It's still not up.



When will people realise that Bill Gates *is* the anti-christ??!!!



Microsoft is a tool of Satan designed to spread low-level misery and

stress to millions and millions of PC users across the world. All MS

applications expand exponentially to consume all computer resources

no matter *how* much memory or *how* much disk space or *how* fast a

processor you have. On the 1st of January 2000 every PC in the world

(the ones that count anyway - the ones running MS operating systems and

applications) will format all local and networked drives they have

access to, reprogram the EEPROM BIOS on the motherboard, and splash up a

big graphical message on your screen: "Welcome to Armageddon"

 

There is no escape. There is no salvation.



Public Msg #1191875 *Poota* 18:51 17-AUG-99 *EXEMPT*

From: Greedy    (Awarded 1000 Credits)

  To: Lazer

FILE: cdrom.sys



Here's the CD-ROM driver you're after......... It's actually for a Sony

drive, but any atapi compatable (99% of them from 8x and up) should work

fine. :)



Save it into a directory called "CDROM" and also copy into that

directory MSCDEX.EXE (Should be in C:\DOS or C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND).



Put this line into your config.sys file (doesn't really matter where,

but at the end is easiest)



DEVICE=C:\CDROM\CDROM.SYS /D:CDROM



and this one into autoexec.bat



C:\CDROM\MSCDEX /D:CDROM



(you can use devicehigh and lh if you want to save 30k or so of memory)



Reboot and you should be able to use the drive. :)



greedy! :)



Public Msg #1221491 *Poota* 03:19 29-FEB-00 *EXEMPT*

From: Jedd   (1 Reply)

  To: Lilith

FILE: tar.zip



 tar is very small, very nice, very fast, very old, very reliable, and

 as a result, very very sexy indeed.  [much nodding]



 a command line utility - no GUI for us Real Computer Users - it

 takes up about 28k.  I've got a zip'ed version here for MS-DOS

 (including windows - in a dos box).



 you would normally take your file, say active.tar to pick a filename

 completely at random, and then do something like :



 C:\> cd tmp

 C:\TMP> copy \path\active.tar .

 C:\TMP> tar xvf active.tar



 (extract, verbose, file (not tape)).  easy.  'tar tvf <filename>'

 shows you the contents.  t, of course, standing for lisT contents.



 as you'd expect.



 so - download this, save it in c:/apps/win95/command (or wherever

 abnormal people keep win95 installed), and away you go.



 jedd.



Public Msg #1245523 *Poota* 19:29 19-DEC-00 *EXEMPT*

From: Light   (1 Reply)  (Awarded 2000 Credits)

  To: ** ALL **

FILE: SOUNDS.SLT



This piece of crap software doesn't even play sounds for default beeps

:( What a joke! And the scripting language is dodgy and slow.

So for all those sufferers of lack of noise. I've done a small script

you can expand on to make it what ever kind of sounds and tracking you

need.



And the bugs are very silly and ridiculous ones like.. it tells you a

task has completed when it hasn't.. etc etc etc.. Not worth $79US!!!! by

any means, even if it was without bugs.



Just whack this file into the TFW\Scripts directory and modify it to

suit your needs or just execute it.



Light



Public Msg #1245621 *Poota* 02:11 21-DEC-00 *EXEMPT*

From: Sn00pen   (1 Reply)

  To: Light

Subj: SOUNDS.SLT

Reply to #1245523



> Just whack this file into the TFW\Scripts directory and modify it to



What program is it for anyhow? :)



Snoooooooooooopa



Public Msg #1245667 *Poota* 12:33 21-DEC-00 *EXEMPT*

From: Light  

  To: Sn00pen

Subj: SOUNDS.SLT

Reply to #1245621, Reply to #1245523



SN> > Just whack this file into the TFW\Scripts directory and modify it

SN>

SN> What program is it for anyhow? :)



Haha.. I had to change the subject for the filename and forgot.. The

subject was: Telix for Windows Sux Arse,



:)

Light



Public Msg #1245899 *Poota* 00:31 27-DEC-00 *EXEMPT*

From: Light    (Awarded 1000 Credits)

  To: ** ALL **

FILE: ICO2ANS.ZIP



Found this little file on the internet.. it converts .ICO files into

ANSI :) The reason it was made is for BBS graphics that couldn't be done

by the author though they (well their friend) were good at .ICO files.



Light