I lost my Mom several years ago (8-Feb-2001); here is a web page for her.

**_CAUTION_**
This page currently is under construction. Proceed with caution!

to find my contact info, go to my employer's page (WVNET)
and find me in the staff listing (ABOUT WVNET --> DIRECTORY)

VMS Mosaic web browser help page
(also linked from the HELP -- HELP ON VMS MOSAIC button on the browser)

WVNET OpenVMS Software
(see my DRAIN virtual printer program for VMS here)
DRAIN direct link

info on on-line account access for state travel MasterCards

Cris attended a meeting and farewell luncheon for her boss Lois Morgan in Charleston WV on Wednesday December 3, 2008 ... Lois is retiring at the end of December after almost 20 years as the Director of the Birth Score Project. Cris (left), Lois (center), Jeri Miller (right)

Our niece Kim got a really big poster at her job for the 2007 SOPRANOS season on HBO ...
poster in our kitchen (1.8mb) (small one, 49kb) and Verne with poster (2.2mb) (small one, 49kb)

I work at the West Virginia Network in Morgantown, WV.

On Saturday August 5, 2005, we attended a wedding and reception in Charleston of Nel Kimble's (Nel and Jack McLaughlin's) daughter.
The reception was held at Governor's Mansion.
Cris, Nel and Betty Ireland, WV Secretary of State -- You Listen To Me...
Cris, Nel and Betty Ireland, WV Secretary of State -- You're Outta Here...
Cris at table -- Don't Be Takin' My Picture...
Cris and Verne
Cris and Verne -- closeup

TeraTerm Pro

is a very nice VT220 Telnet program for Windows. It does a wonderful job when talking to VMS.
To download my local copy of v2.3, click here.
Or get the newer one with SSH2 support from here (again a local copy of Version 3.1.3 from Ayera.Com) (it's still free !!).
Here is the TeraTerm Windows Font that sometimes does not get installed correctly into C:\WINDOWS\FONTS

VNC

is a free remote control package for Windows
Here is the install kit for RealVNC v4.1.2 (an EXE file, 722kb) or see www.realvnc.com

QWS3270

is a free TN3270 package to talk to IBM mainframes
Here is the install kit for QWS3270 v3.2F (a ZIP file, 72kb)

WS FTP LE

is a free (for certain users) FTP package
Here is the install kit for WS_FTP LE v5.08 (a EXE file, 691kb)
and a newer one is the install kit for WS_FTP LE v6 (a EXE file, 1.9MB)

ENZIP

is a free Zip/UnZip package Here is the zip file (1.4mb, use Windows -- EXPLORE to open it)

See Verne working at the WVNET open house

WVNET had over 150 visitors on Thursday September 21, 1995. Parking was at a premimum, so Verne directed traffic.

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             pre - formatted
and should look
             very strange
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             'cause that is what I want !

Here are some pictures of Verne in the parking lot, taken with our new digital camera (it records pictures electronically (no film) and then directly uploads them to a PC to immediately be available on-line !).

* Getting ready for bad weather

* Pretending for the camera...bad weather upon us

* ACCE group meets Governor Wise (3/20/2001) (63k) in Charleston (I'm on the right)
* original uncropped version (83k)
* Verne at conference in Charleston
* Verne at Monongalia County Commission meeting May 1, 2006 (44k) (I'm the gray head in the
foreground at the bottom of the photo, blue checked shirt)
* Verne at WVNET User conference (September 2001)

* Verne at State-wide IT conference (August 2006) (with Kelly and Kathy)
* Verne at State-wide IT conference (August 2006) (WVNET booth)

* Verne at WVNET booth for WVU Computer Fair (April 2005) (1.3MB) (seated at table)

* Higher Education Day (3/13/2001) in Charleston (I'm on the right)

* ACCE Retreat, Blackwater Falls State Park (7/14/2008) ... Amy Pitzer took some photos ...
Verne and Mary (Verne on left, Mary Alltop from Glenville on the right) (91k)
Verne with Chris and Mike (Mike Dunn from Marshall on left, Verne, John C. (Chris) Gray from Southern on the right) (96k)
Cris and Ken (Cris Britton on left, Ken Harbaugh from Shepherd on the right) (108k)

Some plain ASCII text files for browser download speed testing...

* 1000 line test pattern (79k)    alternate server    2nd alternate server
* 3000 line test pattern (240k)    alternate server    2nd alternate server
* 5000 line test pattern (400k)    alternate server    2nd alternate server
* 5000 line test pattern (mostly spaces) (400k)    alternate server    2nd alternate server
* 9999 line test pattern (800k)    alternate server    2nd alternate server

Flush the http server cache
Flush the WV-WEB http server cache
Flush the WV-WEB http server cache (by number)

[Cat Animation] Verne and Cris now have a cat. Her name is Lucy and she was born in August of 1995.
* Cat snapshot #1 (cats1, 666k)
* Cat snapshot #2 (cat2, 193k)
* Cat snapshot #3 (cat2b, 437k)
* Cat snapshot #4 (cat3, 118k)
* Lucy #1 (210k, 75 sec at 26k baud, posted Aug-2000)
* Lucy #1-b (65k, 22 sec at 26k baud, 8-2000) (lower resolution)

Now we have a second cat, Ethel

* Ethel and Lucy (47k) (Lucy is on the right)
* Ethel and Lucy in laundry basket (63k) (Lucy is on the bottom)

Poor Ethel got sick and was put to sleep by the vet on Friday 26-Sep-2008
... she was about 10 years old ... she loved to curl up and take naps in my lap while I watched TV
... she will be missed

Verne tries to grow a beard... he started 1-Jan-1998... 4 weeks growth
* Portrait (beard1, 31k) (halfsize) (beard1-half, 23k)
* Portrait (horizontal) (beard2, 23k) (halfsize) (beard2-half, 23k)
* Portrait, cropped (beard2b, 81k)
* Profile (beard3, 31k) (halfsize) (beard3-half, 24k)
* Profile (horizontal) (beard4, 30k) (halfsize) (beard4-half, 23k)
* Portrait, trying to smile (beard5, 32k) (halfsize) (beard5-half, 24k)
* Portrait, trying to smile (cropped) (beard5b, 82k)
* Portrait, trying to smile-2 (cropped) (beard5c, 32k)