HTGuide Forum - TTP IX

Burke Strickland

05-02-2003, 04:21 PM

Jeff -- Thanks for the info on the Amadeus DVD. From my very first viewing years ago, it has been one of my favorite movies -- not only a great production, but fun to watch over and over. I've always felt that there was something "missing" in the characterization of Salieri that might explain why, for instance, Mozart's wife was so surprised to see Salieri in their home at the end and why she was so hostile toward him then after having gone to him for help earlier. Since you say the added footage adds to our understanding of Salieri, maybe it will help illuminate that point... hope so. Plus it'll sure be nice to have the movie on a disc that isn't a flipper. I'll have to keep an eye out for a sale on it sometime... it's definitely on my "buy" list now.

Burke

Burke Strickland

05-02-2003, 04:21 PM

... away we go ...

Burke Strickland

05-02-2003, 04:21 PM

...and one more for good measure ...

Burke Strickland

05-02-2003, 04:21 PM

Here's the "car" I'd like to commute to work in...

http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/03/05/02/metcar.jpg
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Photo: Joshua Trujillo / Chronicle

In a haze of smoke and colorful lights, rail officials and city leaders unveil METRO's first railcar in Houston Thursday. The car left California and arrived in Houston April 24. Officials hope the rail system will be operating in early 2004.

So rail-based mass transit is finally coming to Houston! Story at: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/1892828

Burke

PS -- we already have buses and a LOT of automobiles chugging away on our daily commutes.

Kevin P

05-02-2003, 04:35 PM

Hey guys. This is my first post from my wireless connection! :party:Did you change the settings from the default, very insecure, ones? In particular, set the SSID to something unique, turn off SSID broadcast, and enable 128 bit WEP encryption with a unique key. Otherwise your neighbors might gain access to your network!

And Burke gets another flip...

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Lex

05-02-2003, 04:58 PM

Trevor, are you saying you would be the DM? If so, weigh that decision carefully, not only possible out of town travel, but also the money part. For you with 2 girls that you actually want to see grow up, that's the major consideration, in addition to already being settled, I would think.

Lastly, remember this. If they ask once, you better have your final decision ready if it's yes or no, because they may not ask a second time down the line...

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Andrew Pratt

05-02-2003, 05:29 PM

Did you change the settings from the default, very insecure, ones? In particular, set the SSID to something unique, turn off SSID broadcast, and enable 128 bit WEP encryption with a unique key. Otherwise your neighbors might gain access to your network!

Maybe i'll drive by on my way home and find out:)

Actually I'm off to buy a bunch of ram for my notebook...1 gig here I come:) So I guess I'll have a 256 meg dim for sale shortly

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Jeff Kowerchuk

05-02-2003, 05:42 PM

Haven't done much besides get it going. I set the SSID to something unique. Do I really need WEP? I heard it really slows down the network? Andrew, do you run it? I'm not really worried about my neighbours...if you saw them, you'd know what I mean. ;)

Kevin P

05-02-2003, 06:10 PM

Well Jeff without WEP anyone within 100-odd feet of your house can snoop your packets, or connect to your network. The slowdown is probably negligible for most applications. 802.11b is a lot faster than broadband internet access anyway.

Not just neighbo(u)rs but "drive by hackers" could access your network as well.

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Gordon Moore

05-02-2003, 06:33 PM

Do you need WEP today....short answer no. Chances of a drive by hacking in Winnipeg is slim to none unless you are a corporation and even then script kiddies don't have the funds for that kind of equipment right now.

Hold on Kevin....I'm coming to a point....

That said...3 or so years ago if someone asked do we all need firewalls, what do you think the answer would be?

"A RONSTER!"

Trevor Schell

05-02-2003, 06:50 PM

Drive by hacking!! :rofl:
I would just say!!GET A JOB!!

Lex,,No DM position for me.
Your right though,it's on the road way to much.
DM's are about 7-10 years older than me.
I am one of the youngest managers running a large store in the
company though,,so the position of a DM in the future has been discussed.
The mention of moves have come about through other DM's asking me if I would be willing to move into their Districts..
I don't want to move at this time,,very happy as to where I am now.
As long as the store is meeting goals and the associates are happy , I can stay as long as I want.
If I screw up , then a move would be manditiroy,,that usually gets you a demotion to a smaller store or a step down..
No need to worry now,,Got to pay off that Vette!! ;)

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Jeff Kowerchuk

05-02-2003, 06:50 PM

ROFLMAO....."drive by hacking"..... :rf

Sorry, just sounds funny. Sign of the times I guess. I'll look into WEP later tonight. So far so good with the Netgear tho...went into the backyard and signal strength was still full tilt at 'Excellent'.

Ciao.

Trevor Schell

05-02-2003, 06:59 PM

Congrats on the WIRELESS http://members.shaw.ca/TTP/aawireless.gif Jeff!!

DriveBy Hacking..
Maybe I will stay up late tonight and watch out the window for DRIVE BY HACKERS!! :rofl: :rofl:

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Sonnie Parker

05-02-2003, 07:05 PM

Hey guys!

Hope all of you are doing okay.

I'm still at the office waiting for the money to be tallied so I can make the deposit. Heck, we worked until 7:30pm last night. I've forgotten what free time is, here and at home. I'm not supposed to have to work this hard..... ah, but I guess someone has to do it.

Just wanted to pokey in and say hello.

Have a great weekend.

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Trevor Schell

05-02-2003, 07:08 PM

Scored 8840 on 3DMark with the DeLL i8500

My PI score was 1.17
Very slow compared to the .96 I get with my Athlon XP2500+ Desktop

Still good for a NoteBook though.
Can't remember what Bing scored on PI
I know his 3dMark score was 9010..:E

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Trevor Schell

05-02-2003, 07:10 PM

Hey Sonnie!!,,Good to hear that you are OK!! :T
Don't work too hard!!

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Andrew Pratt

05-02-2003, 08:56 PM

Jeff if you don't turn on WEP at least configure your router to only let the MAC address of your wireless card access your network....I have wep enabled on my network since I can 'see" another wireless network from someone down the street.

Well I drove all the way over to MLH to pick up some RAM but they don't stock any...which pissed me off since their website didn't mention that fact where the other stores all did so I guess I'll order it from kingston direct. Now the big question do I go whole hog and max out the notebook with 1 gig or ram and sell of the 256 meg stick I have in now or do I just buy one 512 stick and call it done?

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Lex

05-02-2003, 09:01 PM

hey Sonnie! working hard ey? :LOL: Sorry, I didn't mean that, really. :)

Trevor, I get it now, I agree, stick. :)

Picked up a few movies tonight. Highlander Season 1! 22 episodes. Friends Season 3, and that new one this week with Sandra Bulluck, and Hugh Grant. Hey, got to get a little romance somehow, lol. I can't resist Sandra, she just does it for me. Her Meg, and Julia. :B

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Andrew Pratt

05-02-2003, 09:32 PM

I bought my first DVD-A title today with Queen's "the game"...

So do I go for 1 gig or 768?

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Burke Strickland

05-02-2003, 09:52 PM

Sonnie -- Good to hear from you. We were concerned about how you were getting along after that earthquake.

Andrew -- You may have said something about this before that I missed, but are you buying DVD-Audio discs thses days to play the DD 5.1 track now but be able to take advantage of DVD-A later or have you acquired an actual DVD-A player in the midst of all your "horse trading" ? Inquiring minds want to know. :>)

Burke

Trevor Schell

05-02-2003, 10:04 PM

Andrew,,You know that if you ask me , I'll say go for the Gig...
Actually,,I just ordered a 512 meg chip for the DeLL.
That will give me 1 Gig of mixed ram.
Bing says he has no problems with his, so it should be OK.

Since I paid $850 for my 512mb 2 cas chip according to the DeLL invoice, I would like to keep it.

Yah Lex!! I plan to stay.
Moving ,would be like starting all over,,It took
a few years to us where we are today..Just doesn't seem like the right thing to do , to start over again..
Cheers!!

Man!! I love the screen on the 8500.
Not only the fine resolution , but the widescreen has me hooked.
The regular 4:3 screen just doesn't seem very right at all.
"Same way movies are wrong on FullScreen settings.
I am sure Bing understands what I am saying..
Jeff will soon realize!!

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Andrew Pratt

05-02-2003, 10:14 PM

Well I think after doinga little more research I'm either going to get another256 meg stick or a 512 stick since there's little to gain going above 512 according to several reports I've read ( the one on cruical is good and if anyone would be slanted towards more memory it would be them:))

Burke I have a Denon 1600 DVD-A player in my rack now:)

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Burke Strickland

05-02-2003, 10:32 PM

I'm either going to get another 256 meg stick or a 512 stick since there's little to gain going above 512 according to several reports I've read ( the one on cruical is good and if anyone would be slanted towards more memory it would be them)

That's sure the way the articles and memory selection guidance charts on the Crucial site come across. Unless you ware going to get into 3D graphics or heavy duty modelling, 512 MB looks like their max recommendation. (Which is a relief, because that is what my current computer has, so I'm not in the market for an upgrade.) :>) If you do get into those ultra-memory-intensive apps, 1 gig wouldn't be enough anyway -- they recommend 2 gig and up for those.

So you are probably better off, as you've concluded, to just add on to what you've got installed already. If the price difference isn't very much, and your motherboard will allow use of unequal sized memory sticks, then having the "headroom" of the larger one wouldn't hurt, it just wouldn't give you really dramatic performance gains above what the other one would yiled. (Obviously if the price difference is enough to really notice, go with the cheaper one.)

I have a Denon 1600 DVD-A player in my rack now

You've definitely got that base covered, then. (But do your Rotel friends know?) :>)

Burke

Lex

05-02-2003, 11:34 PM

I'd always heard that windows 98 or lower could only benefit from 512. But 2000 or even the XP virus could benefit from more memory. I like my 1024 on my desktop myself. :)

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Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 12:02 AM

I think Lex is correct.
Windows XP takes advantage of the extra memory.
Seems 1 gig of memory is the standard when browsing Computer tweak sites etc..

My personal experience shows a quicker loading of pictures with the extra memory.
My 1500+ Vette pics show up almost instantly when I click on My Pictures folder.
When I was packing 512 mb of Ram ,,they took a sustantial amount of more time to show up.
So it just depends on how bloated your computer is.

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Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 12:03 AM

I like my 1024 on my desktop myself

We all like "more". But the question for Andrew is "would 1024 actually yield enough of a performance gain over 512 to justfy the extra expense of the higher capacity memory sticks, and the hassle of selling the existing memory stick?"

Just wondering if you had the same computer system configured with 512 before you installed the 1024 and noticed a big boost from the increase (in that same system)? Or did it start out at 1024 and therefore liking it is perhaps more the "comfort factor" of knowing that no application you plan to run could possibly run out of memory with that much installed? (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) :>)

If the price difference is negligible, then, why not get more? But if there is a steep jump in price to get 1024, then the decision should be weighed more in terms of what the real benefits are vs. what the money might go for otherwise (like important HT upgrades or more DVD-Audio discs). :>)

Burke

Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 12:33 AM

http://www.sonystyle.ca/images/products/GDMFW900_lg.jpg
http://accessories.dell.com/sna/images/products/large/602972-5.jpg
This would seem to be the monitor to get , if a guy is into Widescreen aspects..
I bet Lex agree's.
The 21" Sony I ordered is still on back order. I may cancell it and get the 24" instead..It's only about $400 more.
DO I DO IT???:E

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Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 12:44 AM

This was made for Bing and LEX..

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/images/products/large/06-11945.jpg
Triple 18" screens:E:E

You can order one of these from the DeLL USA site.

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Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 12:44 AM

DO I DO IT???

That's a rhetorical question, right? Great looking monitor. Let us know how you like using it when you get it hooked up in your system. :>) (Presumably that's the computer system, although it looks like it could work nicely in a small HTPC-based HT, as well).

Burke

Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 12:50 AM

Burke!!
Your a bad influence!!

Seriously though, after a few days with the Widescreen on the Notebook, when ever I sit down with my 21" CRT it just doesn't seem right..
So my decision is sealed..Widescreen it will be.

Here is another Sony available on the USA DeLL site.
It's a 23" LCD with a native resolution of 1920x1200.
Same is the 8500's resolution..
SWEET!!:E:E
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/images/products/large/A0066246.jpg

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Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 12:51 AM

Trev -- That 3 panel monitor is just what we've been waiting for to play back the original three-projector Cinerama movies! :>) Now if they'd only produce a DVD set of those films to take advantage of it, we'd be all set -- assuming they also produced a DVD player that would accomodate three side-by-side outputs simultaneously, and we could get our hands on one of these monitors, like borrow one from Bing or Lex (not asking much, here, are we). :>)

Burke

Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 12:58 AM

Burke!!
Your a bad influence!!

BAD influence? I thought I was getting pretty GOOD at helping someone else spend their money. :>)

OK, to balance things out, "Don't do it! Don't spend that money. Stop the order! (Unless you really want that monitor.)" :>)

That any better? :>)

Burke

Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 01:07 AM

No Burke!!Likely that won't help any.
Once I make up my mind on something,,it's basically a done deal..
Done!! Like Done like that!!

Here is another cool configuration..

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Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 01:08 AM

Whoa -- that really is cool!

Speaking of buying things, hope this isn't too "political", but I thought it was pretty funny:

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Doonesbury -- May 2, 2003
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Claude D D

05-03-2003, 01:17 AM

If I were to lust over a German car this would be it.
http://www2.us.porsche.com/english/usa/carreragt/colorconfigurator/bilder/farbconfigurator_foto.jpg

Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 01:17 AM

That is a real beauty! Looks like it is going about Mach 3 just standing still! :>)

Burke

Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 01:17 AM

... is it possible ...

Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 01:17 AM

... we've already polished off another page ...

Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 01:17 AM

Welcome to Page 95!

Speaking of monitors, here is the USS Monitor from the American Civil War (of Monitor vs. Merrimack fame):

http://americancivilwar.com/pictures/monitor_deck.jpg

They sure don't build 'em like they used to. :>)

Burke

Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 01:24 AM

Claude!!,,That car is incredible,,has Lex written on all sides of it! :P

Burke!!
The Flipster!!

Well, it looks like we could roll over to TTP 10 by the end of the weekend!!

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Claude D D

05-03-2003, 01:29 AM

Favorite new Ford to lust over.
95 concept Mustang GT

http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/concept/s197/pics/AutoWeek3.jpg

Chris D

05-03-2003, 01:30 AM

Just got back from a hot date, which for guys like me means seeing X-Men 2 and dinner with the wife. I liked the movie, but for some reason just had a bit of a hard time getting fully pulled into it. Good special effects and everything, I just think it was more of a good entertaining thriller than a thorough storytelling blockbuster. I'd give it a B or B+.

Claude, believe it or not, I actually saw that Porsche GT prototype in person. I toured the Porsche factory two years ago in Stuttgart, Germany, and happened to be there as they were rolling it out of the factory to send to the Paris Auto Show that year. It was beautiful, with suede seats. The center console rose at an angle so that the shifter was at the same height as the steering wheel. More ergonomic for shifting, anyways.

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Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 01:37 AM

This monitor has me Drooling!!:E:E
Just need Bings advice on it!!

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Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 01:40 AM

Burke !!,,I like your Avatar. ;)

Claude! That last image did not show up..
BTW,,How are things in Edmonton?
Got the Vette out yet??

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Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 01:42 AM

Chris,,Would it be best to wait until it comes out on DVD??

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Claude D D

05-03-2003, 01:45 AM

Hey Trevor I got the Vette out last week but unfortunatly as I type this it's snowing outside "BUMMER"
http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2002/august/widebody/rear.jpg
Here's the view the German sports car drivers will see of this Vette

Rich makes it clear he is a responsible driver and does not have the skills required to take this car to its limits, either in the quarter-mile or top speed. Off the bat, we’ll say 0-60 is about three hundredths of a second under three seconds - at 2.97. With the beefed up automatic, all you need to do is aim, floor the pedal, and hang on. One thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three, end of story.
For the quarter, Rich looks to another 427 twin turbo LPE car, also automatic, and just like his, but without the wide body. In the hardtop, this LPE built car ran a 9.36 at 151.7, Rembold remembers.
As for top speed, according to Rich, "They have estimated the top speed at over 240 mph."
Rembold also gave us a peek inside LPE. "I was told by the folks at Lingenfelter that they have something known as Project 255. The old Sledgehammer Corvette turned a closed-course speed record at 254.7. That’s probably the reason for 255."
We get it. As for the tune of the particular car, Rich does not know. However, he has offered his silver Wide Body.
For now, Rich and his wife are content to show their awesome wide body Corvette and to occasionally "fracture" the speed limit. Cars this fast don’t just break the limits. CM.com

Burke Strickland

05-03-2003, 01:46 AM

Burke!!
The Flipster!!

Well, everyone's got to have SOMETHING to live for. :>) But, with the "only-two-flips-in-a-row" rule in effect, someone else gets to take us to the next page in a few minutes... :>)

I like your Avatar
You've noticed that? It's called "Polar bear in a snow storm". :>)

believe it or not, I actually saw that Porsche GT prototype in person

Did they let you sit in it, or was it a view from a distance, surrounded by armed guards? :>) Way cool, either way.

The center console rose at an angle so that the shifter was at the same height as the steering wheel. More ergonomic for shifting, anyways.

Years ago, most cars had the shifter at the same height as the steering wheel (usually mounted on the steering column). But that was soon passe when "four on the floor" became all the rage on sporty cars. And not long thereafter, virtually all cars had floor or low console mounted shifters. Interesting that now the futuristic showcars are moving it back up to sterring wheel height...

Burke

Chris D

05-03-2003, 02:18 AM

Burke- No, unfortunately, nobody was sitting in it. It had attracted quite a bit of attention with the factory workers, and had a nice little crowd around it, everybody interested, of course.

Claude- Whoa... that's some serious statistics. Are you sure though that the actual rated 0-60 time is under 3 seconds? We're talking Maclaren times or better there--pretty serious stuff. My current sports car monster I estimate as just under 4 seconds, which I consider VERY respectable. Although the higher speeds are robbed by the all wheel drive powertrain and vehicle weight, my quarter mile times are somewhere around 11 seconds. Anything more than that would just be overly optimistic right now.

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Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 02:28 AM

That's funny BurkE!!
Any reason you don't have an Avatar..
If you can't find one I have about 20 lined up for future use.
I could always lend you one since I don't mind sharing..

Claude!!
Snowing again,,
You guys were just dumped on last week!!:E
That Vette must be Lingenfelter Turbo 427 equipped!
Those are ultimate and about $90K just for the engine..
That would be a dream..0-60 in 3 secs..with a AUTO tranny to boot!!:E

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05-03-2003, 02:46 AM

Trevor- Yeah, I think you should go see X-Men 2 in the movie theaters. It's not one that I would say 100% absolutely, or anything, but it's good and fun. I think I'll have to go do X-Men 2, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, and maybe the Hulk this year.

Oh yeah, I bought tickets for the Matrix Reloaded already, for an advance screening. The release is 15 May, but my show is for 10PM on May 14th. Not a midnight screening for some reason. Okay by me! I can't WAIT for that one!!!!!
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Mats

05-03-2003, 04:51 AM

Just moving this forward and testing if one of my new Rodney quotes will show up :B

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Kevin P

05-03-2003, 09:47 AM

Happy Saturday folks! I haven't had a chance to mention this yet on here but today is Heather's birthday! :party:

I'm going to take her out tonight (it's a surprise so don't tell her!!) and I bought her something nice (let's say it's shiny, starts with a "J" and is always a perfect gift for a lady!) :amen:

(And no, it's not a Jaguar!) :driving:

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Lex

05-03-2003, 10:22 AM

Really nice monitors guys. Wow, a triple wide? 8O Nice German car too, what is that one Claude?

Well, better things to do than wait around all day on a flip, grass to cut, housethings to do.

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Gordon Moore

05-03-2003, 11:10 AM

Andrew I sit with Burke's camp...I guess it all depends on what you are doing. Run performance monitor for a while on 512MB and plot your weekly memory usage...If you are getting into swap space I'd say go whole hog...but I'm not sure what your computer usage is. Play alot of games, do 3D design or CAD, run a database that supports 1000's of users and needs to process several milion transactions persecond then ya a Gig or more. Browse the internet, type email, VPN into work...512 MB or 768MB should do.

Heck my development box at work only has 384MB on it and that's more than sufficient to work in C and Oracle's tools ;)

Drive by hacking....didn't realize what I wrote to you guys jumped all over it. I guess it does sound silly but if you read several trade magazines this term has come up on more than 1 occasion and is a real concern in the industry where corporations are setting up several WAPs. I guess the term will be funny until you wireless guys suffer identity theft and then it won't be so HA HA funny...more like :oops: :x :cry:

;)

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Gordon Moore

05-03-2003, 11:17 AM

Hey Andrew...about the website thing....bummer. Lessoned learned I guess...I try to call ahead on that sort of thing. The MLH guys are way overburdened right now which is why they're hiring. They're having an anniversary sale in MAY so you may want to hold off and see what price you can work out. From what I understand, once they get some new blood in there then they can concentrate on keeping the website more up to date.

Gordo

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Andrew Pratt

05-03-2003, 11:20 AM

Nice to see both Vancouver win last night:T

I think I'm either going to winp out and just get a 256 meg stick and use the remaining funds to buy an external CDwriter or get a 512 meg stick and call it done at 768 for the time being.

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Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 11:23 AM

Good Morning guys!!

Drive by hacking!!
Ha!Ha!,,I am sorry,,but it is funny to think about it.. :rofl:

Lex won't hang around for a Flip..
But I bet Burke will.. ;)

Well,I officially start my holidays today!!
Lots planned plus a lot not planned.
Typical holiday I guess.
The main though,,is to get lots of rest and hopefully a clear mind.

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05-03-2003, 11:32 AM

Kevin!!
Be sure to wish Heather a Happy Birthday for us!!
:party: :party: :party:

So you bought her some Jewellry!!
Maybe you guys will conceive some kids tonight
while celebrating. ;)
Twins would be cool!!

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05-03-2003, 11:40 AM

Where is Bing??
Maybe in Calgary!!

Better drop in for a minute bud!!
Need your reaction to the 23" Sony LCD at 1920x1200
Native res.
Plus,,need to know if the Sony 24" would guarentee a clear text at 1600x1200 res or higher..My current 21" poops out in crsipness above 1024x768.

:wedgie: :smackbutt:

Andrew,It was nice to see Vancouver win.
Now they can finish off the series at home on Sunday night.
Too bad Tampa is out,,triple OT to boot!!

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05-03-2003, 11:51 AM

Tampa never had a chance in that series and unlike Min they didn't deserve to be in the second round:)

Trevor I'm pretty sure Bings visiting Cam/Brooke in Calgary this weekend

Gordon yeah I'm going to go with either 256 or 512 in addition to my existing 256 stick

As for drive by hacking the term is "war roading" :twisted:

later guys off to Costco and maybe X2:T

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Kevin P

05-03-2003, 11:53 AM

So you bought her some Jewellry!!
Maybe you guys will conceive some kids tonight
while celebrating. ;)
Twins would be cool!! :wtf: Oh Trevor :nono: :naughty: Tsk tsk, that calls for a :wedgie: and a :smackbutt: and a :bash: and a ;-x and a :## and a :f>'> and a :tomato: and a :throwup: and a :blowup:

:twisted: Twins! :rofl:

:puker:

Hey PC experts, I noticed while I'm surfing on my laptop that the CPU fan is kicking on more often than usual. Most of the time it only kicks in if I'm doing something CPU intensive, it almost never goes on while I'm just surfing, but it's been kicking on and off regularly. When I go into task manager there's nothing that's using any amount of CPU--I don't run SETI or anything on my laptop, but something is making the CPU (PIII-M) warmer than usual. Maybe my updated WPC11 driver? Can't imagine why that would make the CPU warm. Any ideas from the peanut gallery?

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Gordon Moore

05-03-2003, 11:57 AM

later guys off to Costco and maybe X2

Don't spoil it ...going tomorrow. Tried to get in last night the 11:00 pm was completely sold out.

Getting tickets today for Sunday night.

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Greg Stone

05-03-2003, 12:34 PM

My youngest is doing well one day after his tonsils came out. Now our refrigerator is acting up, it has melted all his ice cream! :evil:

Glad the new house has new appliances in it, even though the fridge is only 9 years old.

Had to take the mower in this morning as I broke the string when pulling to start it. Not a good day so far!

Greg Stone

05-03-2003, 12:38 PM

Kevin, tell Heather happy birthday from the gang! :party:

Trevor, enjoy your vacation! Hope it goes well. Watch out for drive by hackers! ;)

Just pushing this closer for the flip so Lex can get one, and stop Burke's madness! :P

Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 12:44 PM

Bummer Gerg!
Looks like you need to do some upgrading yourself.

Andrew,,I thought Tampa did very well.
Handled Washington very well, plus had a stellar season for previous basement dwellers.

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05-03-2003, 12:47 PM

Thanks Greg!

Andrew..Go for the 512 MB,,then you are set.

Kevin,,I knew you would get pleasure out of that!! :P
Anyways ,,enjoy the evening.

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05-03-2003, 01:00 PM

Is Heather over her morning sickness yet Kevin? :LOL: Happy BD to her!

Yard is mowed, and well, most the veedeating is done. (That's how they say it in Sweden. ;))

Now, pondering what next. Guess I need to go get me a bite to eat, and pick up some some dog food for the puppy, then go from there.

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05-03-2003, 01:39 PM

Any ideas from the peanut gallery?

Ask Schell he's the peanut expert ;)

Saw a few nice toys at Costco but no SODIMM's. They had two external devices that I was looking at...one was a USB2 80 gig harddrive and the other was a USB2 CDRW drive. I could use both to do back ups on both machines here which would be nice but there's a good chance that I'll be able to pick up one of our old servers from work that will have a couple of SCSI drives in it that I might use as file servers and a backup site. I've got a tape back up of my current config so that might be all I really need.

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Trevor Schell

05-03-2003, 02:48 PM

Andrew,,For that you get one of these.. :nutkick:

OK Kevin,,So your Laptop gets real hot..HMMM!!

Couple of questions to trouble shoot..

1) Are you surfing outside..If the temp is warm outdoors it may create a bit of extra heat to the casing,,especially if your legs are all sweaty.

2) Have you downloaded a substantial amount of Babe pics..Lately..That will really heat things up.
And I think you have ,judging from your posting habits of late.

Me BAD!! :smackbutt:
But I have a feeling bing had something to do with it!! :P

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05-03-2003, 03:40 PM

Andrew, I'd just get another 256 stick...but that's me

Kev, wish Heather a happy birthday from the TTP gang.
No clue about the laptop heat prob.

Doug, had to mow today too.

Trev, on a holiday spending spree again 8O

Greg, glad to see you dropping in more. Nice to hear things are going well for your son...'cept about his ice cream :evil:

Claude, nice cars!

Burke, nice monitor ;)

Chris, 4sec!!!...very respectable :amen:

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05-03-2003, 03:43 PM

I see Mats, Trev and Chris are currently logged on...

who's going for the flip?

Anyone?....Anyone?

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Chris D

05-03-2003, 03:53 PM

first flip

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05-03-2003, 03:53 PM

for Chris

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05-03-2003, 03:53 PM

...in a while?

Ah... since it happened while I was travelling, I'll post it now--

A moment of silence please, for the early fall of the great and mighty hockey team. So sad...

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Chris D

05-03-2003, 03:53 PM

Pretty funny... I just did a web search for "xmen", and came up with this fan site for the X-Men movies:

http://www.xmen2-themovie.com/

But then it also came up with this site that is described as a "Gay man's dance club in San Francisco". I haven't tried this one out myself, but it may interest some of you OTHER dudes. ;)

http://www.xmensf.com/

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Pat

05-03-2003, 03:54 PM

Snipe?...nope

Good run Chris!

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05-03-2003, 03:54 PM

Better get that flip photo up ;)

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Mats

05-03-2003, 04:40 PM

Dang... missed that flip :)

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Andrew Pratt

05-03-2003, 06:07 PM

I just got back from X2...see the review in the movies area if you're interested.

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Gordon Moore

05-03-2003, 08:00 PM

Nothing better than being at work on a Saturday night adding in a new database server :roll: . That's okay, I got quite a bit done today at home, so a couple of hours ain't gonna kill me. Man hunting down 50 pin - 68 pin SCSI adapters was a bit of a chore today. Finally found 3 at computer boulevard. Highly recommend that store to Winnipeggers ...especially when you're in a pinch (they got everything there you can think of...even the oddball stuff). ;)

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Trevor Schell

05-04-2003, 12:48 AM

Hey Guys!!

Bought a couple of previously veiwed movies from Rodgers Video.
$9.99 for Scooby Doo upon opening did have a few scatches , but nothing serious.
$12.99 for Van Deisel's XXX , which the disc is pretty much prestine!!
Never purchased previously viewed before but was impressed on the condition for the price.
Of course the boxes are in mint condition since they never hit the counter shelfs. The discs go right into a seperate rental seciruty case when they hit the shelfs for renting.

Picked up some rubberized gasket material to install under the keyboard of the DeLL 8500. Looking again at Bings instructions I think it shouldn't be too difficult.
I think i just may attempt the install tonight!!

I have to put on Scooby now for the girls,,They love Scooby Doo almost as much as they love their Barbies..

What's everybody else doing tonight.
We already know what Kevin is doing!! :P

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05-04-2003, 12:56 AM

Chris,,
Sounds like Roy is going to retire before the new season starts..

I honored your minute of silence for the AVS ,then smiled when I was done..

Philly VS Vancouver for the Coupe de Stanley!!:T

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05-04-2003, 01:59 AM

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zxcvbnm,./fjiejfwojfjclaaldpjfepjvhgjdijdojocaiiofsdsksksFDDHDQWERTYUIOPLKJHGFFDDSSSAZXCXCVBN,MM/,.

sORRY KEY BOARD TEST..

yes,,it's firm.
Slight bulge in the middle after instalation of the underlayer,
Since it belongs to a male, tha t should be OK!! ;)

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05-04-2003, 02:10 AM

sORRY KEY BOARD TEST..

Yep -- pretty obvious it was a test of a "sorry" keyboard. :>) No need to apologize about testing on a test page, huh? Especially on one named after the testor. (Just don't let it happen again without fair compensation, OK? Like maybe a tasteful babe shot out of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, since it is the weekend and all.) :>)

Burke

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05-04-2003, 02:50 AM

Here you go Burke!
Upon request!
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05-04-2003, 06:31 AM

Now... that was worth getting up this morning :drool: :leghumper: :boobies:

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Kevin P

05-04-2003, 10:04 AM

Morning folks!

Trev, you didn't test EVERY key, did you? Every Alt, Ctrl, Shift key combination? What kind of keyboard test was it! :) Hey we know the CAPS LOCK worked though... :twisted:What's everybody else doing tonight.
We already know what Kevin is doing!! :PWe had a nice dinner out, I gave her a bracelet, we went home, played with the cats and went to bed. Did you already know that! ;)

Nice babe shot. I rebooted my laptop (actually shut it down overnight) and it doesn't seem to be doing the hot CPU thing this morning. Maybe something was messed up and was making the CPU go warmer than usual. I'm not quite sure if the new wireless driver is as stable as the old one was.

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Greg Stone

05-04-2003, 11:34 AM

I just love gettng a good 10 hours of weekend sleep, and waking up to a nice Trevor babe pic! That definitely got the old blood pumping this morning!

Now I just need Pl@ to come along and identify her name for some further research and google searches... :twisted:

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05-04-2003, 12:07 PM

I forgot to mention that last week I sent off some digital pictures to get developed and they turned out fantastic! I used FutureShop's online printing service and its great.:T

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05-04-2003, 12:09 PM

Good Morning Guys!!

Hope everybody is enjoying this fine weekend.
Yesterday was a good day, however today doesn't look so great.
Very cloudy , windy and only +5 C,,just nasty cold.

Well the keyboard is rock solid and really does change the percieved build quality of the DeLL Notebook.
Only thing is now my keyboard is very unlevel with a bulge towrds the middle. Still better than being springy.
Hats off to Bing for coming up with the idea..And brave at that.
When I was taking of the top peice to get at the keyboard..I was thinking to myself..I would never do this on my own decision,as it felt like the thing was going to snap in half, I would have stopped right there! ..Knowing that it has been done though, I was able to continue on.
I wonder what was going through Bings mind when he proceeded with taking apart his Golden Goose .

Where is Bing anyways,,Sure he went to Calgary, but he took his 8500 with him, so he should be able to pop in and tell us about Cam's HT..!
For that Bing gets one of these.. :wedgie: :smackbutt:
And for good measures one of these :nutkick:
:tomato: :tomato:

We had a nice dinner out, I gave her a bracelet, we went home, played with the cats and went to bed. Did you already know that!

Kevin,,I did , except about the part of playing with the cats..Well I had a different Cat in mind. :oops:

Greg..Glad we could get your blood flowing on this fine Sunday Morning..
Now if George would just pop on by!! :boobies:

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05-04-2003, 12:11 PM

Andrew,,Wal-mart has one too!

Can anybody recommend some good movies to watch this week.?
I have Harry Potter 2 already and XXX.
Any other recent releases that are worth renting.??

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05-04-2003, 01:43 PM

Well,,The bulge in the keyboard was bugging the heck out of me,,so I took it apart again, thinking that maybe the two peices of rubber celliod over laped in the center or something of that nature.
This wasn't the case. what happened was that there was a wire from a fan or something that was sitting under the keyboard. I tucked it away , put everything back together and POOF ,,she is good to go.
The bulge is gone from the center. I don't think that the Keybord is completely flat and level, but it is straight enough to meet my satisfactions, plus I don't really want to have to take it apart again..

Now I can move on to bigger and better things,,
Tori has a Ball practise at 1 PM.. :yesnod:

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Burke Strickland

05-04-2003, 01:53 PM

Well,,The bulge in the keyboard was bugging the heck out of me,,so I took it apart again, ...

Well,,The bulge in the keyboard was bugging the heck out of me,,so I took it apart again, ...

Well,,The bulge in the keyboard was bugging the heck out of me,,so I took it apart again, ...

Well,,The bulge in the keyboard was bugging the heck out of me,,so I took it apart again, ...

Hey Trev -- that story gets better every time you tell it. :>)

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Gordon Moore

05-04-2003, 02:50 PM

Well, nothing like being at work on a Sunday configuring more servers :roll: (this is getting old)....

Going to X-Men (and Women) tonight... here's hoping. Pr@ more or less liked it so that's positive I think. Hey Andrew...they expanded the movie by more than a half an hour...and you wanted more?????? Maybe I'll see what you mean tonight...

Reloaded getting interesting reviews....apparantly it confuses the heck out of people. Maybe if you take a drag on a big fatty before the movie starts...things start to even out :??

"A RONSTER!"

Kevin P

05-04-2003, 04:20 PM

Afternoon folks on this :sn -y Sunday afternoon! I'm out on the picnic table typing this message on my laptop (and no, my keyboard doesn't have a bulge in it, could that be caused by too many babe pictures saved on it???? Huh? Huh?) :hump:

I remember when Joey hung around the forums more he'd have stories like this, I wish he was still around! Anyway, the restaurant we went to last night is known to be haunted. :E Although I didn't see anything, I had this strange sensation from time to time when we were at our table, like a feeling of disorientation or slight dizziness. Sometimes it would be strong, sometimes weak, but I never felt it before we arrived or after we left. I wonder if I was somehow picking up the ghost's energy or something. One other time when a co-worker and I went to the same restaurant (it is next door to a place we used to take classes at) I felt something, like "we aren't alone" around the stairs we went up. Pretty bizarre stuff! 8O Hmm.. maybe I should save a copy of this and post it around Halloween time! ;)

Later folks... KJP

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Andrew Pratt

05-04-2003, 04:44 PM

Well I found a local source for cheap SODIMMs (Office Depot) so I picked up a 512 stick for $216 cdn tax incl:T I took my notebook, a screwdriver and my wireless card along for the ride and installed the ram in the parking lot to make sure the Dell was ok with the cheaper brand and it works great so I now have 768 megs which should be plenty for what I'm doing and should I need to upgrade later I won't be stuck with two 256 megs sticks.

Since I had my wireless card with me ;) I decided to take a short detour on the way home and just happened to end up near Jeff's driveway :LOL: I believe he's going to be tightening up his security shortly :twisted: To bad his PC's weren't turned on or I could have had some real fun :B

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Burke Strickland

05-04-2003, 04:49 PM

Although I didn't see anything, I had this strange sensation from time to time when we were at our table, like a feeling of disorientation or slight dizziness.

Since you say you experienced that feeling only while at the restaurant, I guess we can rule out a buzz from wine (or whatever) with dinner. Perhaps you were caught up with the celebratory emotion of the moment and got a little giddy from it (although, if you've never experienced the phenomenon elsewhere, during other celebratory moments, that is less likely to be it).

Or, since mild allergic reactions can somtimes cause symptoms like you describe, you may have been experiencing an allergic reaction to something local to the restauant environment that you would not normally encounter in your own day-to-day surroundings. Like something in the food. Or the perfume a waitress was wearing, or air freshener they were using in the back but got carried through the ventilation system. It is hard to predict where we might encounter something our systems are senstive to, especially if we don't have a "history" of known allergies.

Or, maybe it could have been the ghosts just waiting to reveal themselves to you, but not finding the right moment to do so.... that is by far the explanation that would sell more books if you wrote it up after figuring out a few more creepy Stephen-King-story-like details to punch it up a bit. :>)

Anyway, it sounds like you folks had a good time. Glad it was an enjoyable evening for you !

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Burke Strickland

05-04-2003, 05:04 PM

should I need to upgrade later I won't be stuck with two 256 megs sticks.

hehe ... instead, you'll be struck with a 256 and a 512, since if you go beyond what you have now in a meaningful way, you'll probably want two 1024 sticks to replace it all. :>) Looking at the bright(er) side, you'll probably need a new computer before you'll need another memory upgrade. :>)

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Kevin P

05-04-2003, 05:26 PM

Since you say you experienced that feeling only while at the restaurant, I guess we can rule out a buzz from wine (or whatever) with dinner. Perhaps you were caught up with the celebratory emotion of the moment and got a little giddy from it (although, if you've never experienced the phenomenon elsewhere, during other celebratory moments, that is less likely to be it).I don't drink so it wasn't the wine. It wasn't the food either, as I felt it before we ate anything. And (perhaps because I don't drink), I don't tend to get dizzy or disoriented when I get "giddy" or whatever (well, maybe during some really good :hump: but I think we can rule that out as well!) ;)Or, since mild allergic reactions can somtimes cause symptoms like you describe, you may have been experiencing an allergic reaction to something local to the restauant environment that you would not normally encounter in your own day-to-day surroundings. Like something in the food. Or the perfume a waitress was wearing, or air freshener they were using in the back but got carried through the ventilation system. It is hard to predict where we might encounter something our systems are senstive to, especially if we don't have a "history" of known allergies.I doubt it was an allergy to anything. The feeling was sporadic, it would come and go. Sometimes it would come on suddenly. It felt a little like the disoriented feeling you get when you're on a boat and it's rocking, even though I was seated and not moving.Or, maybe it could have been the ghosts just waiting to reveal themselves to you, but not finding the right moment to do so.... that is by far the explanation that would sell more books if you wrote it up after figuring out a few more creepy Stephen-King-story-like details to punch it up a bit. :>)And that explanation makes for a far more interesting TTP post! :)

I guess I'll have to visit more haunted places (or that restaurant) more often to see if it happens again. Perhaps it was nothing, who knows. I have an open mind about such things so I'm not saying it is or isn't something in particular until I have some sort of proof (like if the ghost joined in with the crew singing "Happy Birthday" to Heather) :LOL:

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05-04-2003, 05:26 PM

Gordon- Oh, no! One of the things I appreciated the most about the Matrix was that is was a very deep movie. It went way beyond the groovy action, bringing in a lot of philosophy, religion, and even physics. There were so many allegories to the Bible, Alice in Wonderland, Plato and Aristotle, etc. I do hope they don't screw it up here in the following movies!

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05-04-2003, 05:30 PM

Guess I'll have to go see The Matrix Reloaded and find out what variuos folks are finding so confusing about it. The first one set the bar very high, and our expectations might have been raised a bit too high (although I will not be "high" while watching it). :>) The real test will be in our own viewing -- I think this is one we should see for ourselves and decide whether we like it, or not rather than depending very much on anyone elses' commentary in advance. (However, I'll have to admit if the movie is as disjointed as at least a couple of the trailers looked, the advance buzz may be right.)

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Jeff Kowerchuk

05-04-2003, 05:37 PM

Yes, I was a victim of my first drive by hacking by Mr. Pratt!! :wedgie:

Anyway, got the security set up now with WEP and controlled access. Let it be known to all and sundry that there is no longer free web surfing in front of Jeff's house!!

Trev...great news on the keyboard. I'm anticipating this will be the first thing I need to do when I get my 8500. Where did you get the stuff Trev?

Burke Strickland

05-04-2003, 05:38 PM

.. let's go ...

Burke Strickland

05-04-2003, 05:38 PM

... time to try ...

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.. one more time for a ...

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05-04-2003, 05:38 PM

FLIP !!
Welcome to Page 97

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Kevin P

05-04-2003, 05:44 PM

Yes, I was a victim of my first drive by hacking by Mr. Pratt!! :wedgie: Well, there are two ways you can approach security... one is to implement it right away to avoid being attacked, and the other is to be forced into implementing it because you were attacked! :roll: I'll have to drive around neighborhoods to see how many unsecured WLANs I can find, and then leave my business card in their mailbox! :LOL:

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Andrew Pratt

05-04-2003, 06:03 PM

hehe ... instead, you'll be struck with a 256 and a 512, since if you go beyond what you have now in a meaningful way, you'll probably want two 1024 sticks to replace it all. :>)

Burke the max I can put in this machine is 1 gig so the 512 stick won't goto waste should I need to upgrade.

Jeff you mean no free internet for me now:( Damn and here I was going to buy a stronger antannae for my router and just tap into yours :LOL:

I've been playing on the notebook for an hour now and there's been no lock ups or anything to suggest it doesn't like the RAM I got for it which is great news.:T

I've been playing with a utility called StyleXP which allows you to install new themes onto XP. I've got a really cool one on now that's quite different the the default one. There's a slick OSX one too that was fun to try.If anyone wants to download the trial version let me know and I'll point out some "hints" for you ;)

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05-04-2003, 06:05 PM

burke I edited your flip pic to be a link instead of a very wide image...not all of us bough the Dell 8500 you know. ;)

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Kevin P

05-04-2003, 06:05 PM

Ok Burke that's a serious widescreen picture, even on my laptop with 1400x1050 resolution I have to scroll to find the reply button! :roll: EDIT: Thanks guys, I see you changed it...

Pr@, you hacker you... I dare you to park in front of my house and try to break into MY network... I DARE you... :twisted:

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Burke Strickland

05-04-2003, 06:08 PM

the max I can put in this machine is 1 gig so the 512 stick won't goto waste should I need to upgrade.

Then, kind of like I said before, to get any significant improvement, you''ll probably need to get a new machine before you'll need another memory upgrade. :>) I'm glad the new memory is working well with your Dell.

burke I edited your flip pic to be a link instead of a very wide image...not all of us bough the Dell 8500 you know
Although it didn't cause scrolling in a "test window" elsewhere, as soon as I saw what the first image was doing here, I substituted a narrower image that should not cause scrolling on anyone's monitor, even if it is only on a Dell 8.5 :>) -- hope this one will work for everyone now as an IMG image instead of needing to revert to a URL link.

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Andrew Pratt

05-04-2003, 07:34 PM

Tell you what Kevin pay for my flight and I'll give it a go:)

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Trevor Schell

05-04-2003, 09:21 PM

Well, if everybody else is doing it,,then I am going to go for it..
I drive by Bing's house and see if I can post to TTP from the car.. :twisted: :smackbutt:

Drive by hacking sounds like a fun expedition.

Andrew,,What type of Ram did you get with your DeLL? Same as Bings?

BTW,,Lots of DeLL buddies here.
We will have to start up a club!!
I gave up the Sony Notebook to Tracey, so she now has her own little personal wireless websurfer, MP3 downloader..

Bring on the widescreen pictures,,I don't mind at all!!
In fact I encourage it immensely.

Jeff,,The material was bought at Can Tire.
$10.50 for a 4 pack, which included other material types , however one was the stuff we needed...
Just wait..OK,,I am back.
2 pce were Cork-Rubber
1 Pce Rubber-Fibre
1 Pce Rubber Cellulose, this is the one we need according to Bing.
Tracey picked this up for me as she was out and i asked to look for it..So not sure if it could have bought in a different pack.
Anyways''The Rubber Cellulose is blue ,,I hope cause that's the one I used.,,If not then I used the Rubber Fibre..:E
Bottom line is it worked and my keyboad hasn't caught fire.

I am very happy with the 8500 so far.
I try to keep it plugged in as much as possible, those batteries are just too costly?:E

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05-04-2003, 09:26 PM

Got the power washer going today..SWEET!!
I had bought this last year but never took the time to set it up and get it going..
Washed the car with it and the driveway too.
Blew away most of the gravel off the road as well.
Blew it onto the neighbors side of the road anyways. :wedgie:

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05-04-2003, 09:37 PM

Andrew,,What type of Ram did you get with your DeLL? Same as Bings?

I'm not sure what Bing got my mine is called ShikaRAM its what Office Depots carries and their website is at http://www.shikatronics.com

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Trevor Schell

05-04-2003, 09:41 PM

Bings ram was Nanya sp?,,anyways a cas 2 rating.

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05-04-2003, 09:42 PM

Trevor becareful with that pressure washer I knew a guy that ended up chipping paint of their new car with one 8O

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Andrew Pratt

05-04-2003, 09:44 PM

Ah mine is Cas 2.5 which is what it calls for. Interestingly enough I thought that Dell only used Crucial Ram but the 256 meg stick in my notebook was a Samsung stick.

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Burke Strickland

05-04-2003, 11:09 PM

Trevor becareful with that pressure washer I knew a guy that ended up chipping paint of their new car with one

Also, don't aim it at your face! :>) In fact, if you haven't already been doing this, I'd recommend that you start wearing protective goggles while working with the pressure washer.

Burke

Lex

05-04-2003, 11:29 PM

Pressure washers are great for washing cats too. :LOL:

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05-04-2003, 11:39 PM

Pressure washers are great for washing cats too.

:E

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Burke Strickland

05-04-2003, 11:58 PM

Pressure washers are great for washing cats too.

May we assume that you are referring to the cleaning of a certain brand of HT cables, and not the furry feline creatures some folks hold dear? We'd hate to see pictures of a ruptured pussy, wouldn't we? It would be obscene. :>)

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Trevor Schell

05-05-2003, 12:30 AM

Also, don't aim it at your face!
:E
That would be nasty!!

Pressure washers are great for washing cats too
:E
That would be nasty as well,
Don't let Kevin hear that one!! :nutkick:

Seriously,,she is hellapowerful!!
2200 psi rating and is driven with a 4.5HP Honda engine.
Simonize is the manufacturer.
Didin't do any damage yet..
However I can see this thing stripping paint and such with ease.
Sure did a great job on the driveway though, since the driveway is a cobblestone type brick, there was a lot of crap in between the cracks..
Not any more!! :-y

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05-05-2003, 12:36 AM

Andrew!,,Interesting on the Ram!!
I guess they use several brands on there PC's..
BTW,,What's the specs on your DeLL Notebook?

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05-05-2003, 01:38 AM

Check this out for those that live in the USA!!

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Not available in Canada yet. :(

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05-05-2003, 08:02 AM

So, what would that Dell blue beast give you that the TTP machine wouldn't Trevor? I'm sure it's a great machine and all, but there's really not a good reason to buy a factory desktop PC now, that I can think of.

OSIM.

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05-05-2003, 09:08 AM

Trevor I've got a 2.4 GHZ Dell 5100 with 32 meg ATI Radeon 7500, 30 gig HHD, 768 DDR RAM, 15" screen, Netgear 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card, DVD drive, 64 meg USB memory stick, Keyspan USB to serial adapter & dell carrying case.

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Bing Fung

05-05-2003, 09:22 AM

Morning all! :later:

Sorry for not checking in over the weekend, but Cam and I were busy... It was his birthday and his wife Nicole called me up as a surprize to Cam. She gave Cam and I a helicopter ride/ tour of the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Icefields. Unfortunely due to the snow and low ceiling we could not take off so we have rescheduled for some sunny day in June, July :( I was totally looking forward to the ride of the chopper and the Porsche Boxster through the Rockies.... Soon :) So we just hung around town.

Cam's theater is one awesome set up. The new Stewart Films Firehawk screen is simply awesome! We watched movoes, and played PC games on it seeing as we couldn't fly. We played Ghost recon in his theater room with him on the HTPC and I on my Dell 8500, it was fun to be able to see what each other was seeing. We had Nicole directing tactical and watching the operations from the elevated back couch :)

I surprized Brook as well and we had a nice dimsum lunch on sunday.. It's nice seeing her. She just got her porfolio submitted for ACAD art school in Calgary. I hope she is accepted.

Trev, that Sony LCD looks to be the ticket, better order one :)

Good job on getting the keyboard fixed on your Dell...

My memory from Dell is CAS 2 Nanya, my memory from Crucial is CAS 2.5. I'm glad I only bought a 256mb stick of the CAS 2.5 stuff. Had I known the Dell was using CAS 2, I wouldn't have bought the Crucial, but owell, here I am. I'll keep my eye peeled for some CAS 2.0 stuff

Got my internal Bluetooth wireless card, but those Cheap bastards at Dell didn't send the connecting cord with it.. Bastards! So after a few calls, they are sending it out, after i insisted that I was not going to pay shipping on a two bit item that they should have included in the first place. :smackbutt:

Picked up a set of these while I was at Compusmart in Calgary, not what I was really looking for, but the price was right... The boom mic is really cool, and it comes with 4 diferent colered inserts. I have the Blue installed. A person can always use extra head phones but I would really like a set of bluetooth headphones and then I'd be smiling :)

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Don't be swayed by those Dell gaming rigs Trev, remember you can always build one that is just as fast if not better than the Dell XP for cheaper, well, maybe not cheaper, but more custom.

OK, gotta get ready for work....

Later :later:

Bing

Andrew Pratt

05-05-2003, 09:48 AM

Bing it sounds like you and Cam had fun...a stewart screen, Boxster, chopper and birthday cake...sounds like a fun weekend :LOL:

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Lex

05-05-2003, 10:22 AM

Don't you read Andrew? The Chopper deal didn't take off dude. :)

Sounds like a fun weekend Bing.

Let's see, I mowed and did laundry, built some cables, watched a few movies. Pure excitement! LOL.

Where is Hefferone today?

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05-05-2003, 10:27 AM

Where is Hefferone today?Who's Hefferone? :?? Not me, is it? Crazy morning, will post more but I have a TWM to go to... :roll:

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George Bellefontaine

05-05-2003, 10:37 AM

Gidday all. Looks like it will hit 70 or better today. Like Lex, I will soon be mowing grass. Have a nice Monday.

Who is Hefferone anyway ? :?

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05-05-2003, 10:56 AM

Guys, nothing personal there, not aimed at anyone, just felt like spicing up the word everyone. ;)

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05-05-2003, 11:12 AM

Don't you read Andrew? The Chopper deal didn't take off dude.

Yeah I cun red real gud...mi spelun's nut soo gud thoo. ;) Even if it didn't go up it still adds to the weekend

I drove into work this morning since its my turn to buy the birhtday cake so I got a nice half hour to listen to some tunes and enjoy the drive. I really miss driving around the countryside like I used to before I became an office drone...oh well the moneys better (i guess :roll: ) Still it was nice to have bob seger cranked up on the old cd player :T

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05-05-2003, 11:42 AM

Good Morning Everyone. I'm not even going to try to catch up. Everybodies fingers must be soar with all the typing going on this weekend. Burke seems to have gone flip crazy too.

I had a great weekend. Cleaned house, invited my dad, bro, uncles and a friend over to watch the Oscar De La Hoya fight. Sunday was also productive. Worked on the landscaping and picked up some patio furniture we bought from somebody. A couple of hours later my aunt and uncle show up with patio set as a house warming presend. :roll: Anyway almost lunch time, hope everyone has a great Monday.

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Kevin P

05-05-2003, 11:45 AM

Howdy howdy howdy folks!! I finally get to post my morning rants, er greetings! :p:

Well, the first thing I should ask is for a moment of silence for the Old Man of the Mountain (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/whites/old_man.html), a well known NH landmark which collapsed over the weekend. Here's a picture of how it looked:

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/whites/skookumchuck/om4.jpg

It's an outcropping of rocks that looks like the profile of a face, hence its name. It's been held up with cables for the past century, but nature took its course and the structure finally gave out. CNN article (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/05/03/old.man.mountian.ap/index.html)

You know it's OSIM when you get rear-ended on the way to work. 8O :roll: :evil: I was at a stop sign waiting for the traffic to clear, and I inched out a little to see if anyone else was coming and stopped again, and the truck in back of me thought I was going so he went, and smacked me in the rear. Fortunately only our bumpers hit and there was no damage, so after a quick once over we were on our way. The last thing I need right now is to have something happen to my car!

When I got into work I was recruited to help the IT group update all the PCs in the classroom with IE 6, XML 4.0 and Acrobat Reader 5.1, so I was hopping this morning, hence my tardiness in posting here. Of course when you install anything there are 27 critical updates and security fixes that have to be downloaded and installed as well, good old Mickeysoft...

My dad called, asking me if I wanted to move to Georgia. I asked him what it was for, and he said that a cousin might have an opening for a programmer or something down there, and for me to send a resume down. I'll do that tonight. It probably won't lead to anything (I would never be so lucky) but I don't want to pass up the opportunity either. It isn't Florida but hey it's warmer than NH!

Later folks... KJP

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Burke Strickland

05-05-2003, 11:46 AM

Bing -- Sounds like a heck of a weeknd even without the chopper ride... that's something to look forward to on a sunny June day (which isn't that far away). Better to be on the ground and safe than scattered over the mountainside due to a flying mishap in stormy weather!

Andrew -- That's quite a switch from slogging through marshes to buying a b'day cake for the office crew to the sound of Bob Seeger. (Old tune, new words?) :>)

Burke

efarstad

05-05-2003, 11:52 AM

:sn :sn :sn Good Morning! :sn :sn :sn

Happy Monday to all! :D Busy weekend of family visiting and yard work...all good! 8)

School starts again for me this Thursday... :? But on the bright :sn side...I'll be grajitated very soon...Sept. 19th!!! So just three classes to go... 8)

Now the real question is...who is Hefferone? 8O

Have a great day everyone!!!

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Burke Strickland

05-05-2003, 11:53 AM

Eduardo -- I'm sure that your place looks even more spiffy after all the work outside. If you enjoy landscaping that much, I know of a yard that could use some next time you have a little free time in Houston. :>) Burke seems to have gone flip crazy too. I'll say some more about the flipping a little later on...

Kev -- you never know where opportunity might be -- Georgia may not be Silicon Valley, but after the DOT COM bust, that's probably a good thing. :>) It'll be interesting to hear if anything comes of it. Good luck!

As for the temperature difference between Forida and Georgia, one Christmas during the time I was growing up in Minnesota, our family went to visit relatives in Georgia for the holdays. It was 70 degrees F (21.1 C) outside when we stopped for lunch on the way in northern Georgia. My sister and I were running around without our jackets, since by our statndards, it was "summer". But the local people coming into the restaurant were complaining about how COLD it was outside and wishing they had heavier coats! I knew right then that I wanted to live someplace where 70 degrees was considered cold. :>)

e - sounds like you are making good progress with school -- you'll have a real reason to celebrate toward the end oif September!

Burke

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05-05-2003, 11:54 AM

... one more for good measure ...

Burke Strickland

05-05-2003, 11:54 AM

Welcome to Page 98

A view from "up there" :

http://www.rockymountainreservations.com/images/pic_chateaulouise.jpg

Aerial view of Chateau Lake Loiuse at Banff

Burke

Andrew Pratt

05-05-2003, 12:06 PM

Lake louise is beautiful and the walk around the lake is fantastic. I haven't been there in 10 years though so its time to make the trek back...maybe this fall if we're lucky.

Andrew -- That's quite a switch from slogging through marshes to buying a b'day cake for the office crew to the sound of Bob Seeger. (Old tune, new words?) :>)

I spent most of my time the last couple of years doing upland field inspectsion fo various sorts so I wasn't in wetlands per say...and the last two years I spent a lot of time driving from one project to the next so I put on an average of 300-500 KM per day on my truck.

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Mats

05-05-2003, 12:27 PM

Mr Flipparooo did it again :)
Nice flip pic Burke!

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Lex

05-05-2003, 12:53 PM

Anybody watch the Tim Allen Tooltime special last night? I laughed my a$$ off at times. I really miss that old show. 8 years just wasn't enough!

Heidi still looked prime. 8O

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Andrew Pratt

05-05-2003, 01:50 PM

I miss tool tim as well...and heidi:drool: There's some pics of her floating around the web that will make your jaw drop ;)

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Trevor Schell

05-05-2003, 02:18 PM

Hi Everybody!!

So, what would that Dell blue beast give you that the TTP machine wouldn't Trevor? I'm sure it's a great machine and all, but there's really not a good reason to buy a factory desktop PC now, that I can think of.

Don't be swayed by those Dell gaming rigs Trev, remember you can always build one that is just as fast if not better than the Dell XP for cheaper, well, maybe not cheaper, but more custom.

Turkeys!!,I have no plans of upgrading..I just biult a new PC..
Just thought it was cool that DeLL is getting into the gaming industry with an exclusive box..Very nice case for sure.

Bing!!,,Glad you had a good trip.
There supposed to get more snow today:E
Your excused for not checking in,,since you had an action planned weekend.

Eduardo ,,Gald you had a good weekend.!
We will dong lots of outdoor yard work this week too!

Kevin,,That Mountain is frreeky!!
Your definately involved in some bizarre happenings.

Where is Hefferone? and what does he look like?

Hope everybody has a great day!!
I am on holidays..
They called me at 6:45 this morning..
Now,, I am leaving to visit work for a couple of hours.

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05-05-2003, 02:28 PM

So is this the week you're going to get a projector trevor? I can't wait to get mine this summer :yesnod:

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efarstad

05-05-2003, 02:58 PM

Andrew: Speaking of PJ's are you gettin' the X1?

Meez is SERIOUSLY thinking of jumpin' in the fold and pullin' the trigger on the Panny 300u and Da-Lite 92" Perm Wall just like our buddy Sayer has! 8)

Plus I'm thinkin' of movin the Martins into the theater room to use as the L/R speakers and sellin' off a pair of my Energy C2's as well as my MF Preamp and Cambridge Audio CD player....which of course would help pay the bill for the new PJ! ;)

I just don't think I'll set the Martins and gear up in the family room downstairs (once it's finished) so why not use them in the HT...then when I wanna listen to music...I have dedicated room for that as well! :T Watcha all think? Am I nuts???? :??

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Eduardo

05-05-2003, 03:15 PM

Good Afternoon everyone.

Burke - how often do you refresh your browser? You on fire with all your flips. I don't necessarily enjoy doing yard work but it has to get done. I also like getting my hands dirty.

Kevin - I've been in the same type of car accident. Fortunately we had the same outcome too. Also I've been upgrading a laptop in the office. MS critical updates totalling over 56 MB. :roll:

Bing - Cool weekend. I love helicopters. My uncle would take us for rides when I was growing up. He owned a crop dusting business (literally made millions $). Now he travels a lot and drives a Yellow Corvette Convertible. The american dream. 8)

Pr@ - figure I'll let you know first but I plan on getting the Rotel. :twisted:

E - Welcome back. So when you graduate you'll have your MBA? Good for you. I still need to finish getting my BA.

Trev - don't work to hard during your holiday.

Mats - Great Bullwinkle Avatar.

Lex - Nope I missed the Tim Allen special. Heidi :drool:

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efarstad

05-05-2003, 03:31 PM

EJ: Yep, MBA...now I'll have to see if my work wants to help me pay off my student loans! :P

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Andrew Pratt

05-05-2003, 03:50 PM

Andrew: Speaking of PJ's are you gettin' the X1?

Likely providing some pronto programming work comes though in June.

Erik moving the ML's into the theater seems like a great move to me. I know when I had the maggies in my HT it was a great mix..there's tons of detail in soundtracks as well which those will highlight nicely.

Eduardo..that's not a surprise to me ;) Welcome to Club Rotel:T

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efarstad

05-05-2003, 03:54 PM

Yea, had I thought it through I would have put an outlet on the LEFT side of my theater to plug the Martins into...now I just need a longer power cord....no biggie! 8)

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Andrew Pratt

05-05-2003, 04:22 PM

You can never have too many outlets:)

Here's a little something for george and the X2 fans out there:drool:

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Andrew Pratt

05-05-2003, 04:23 PM

And it gets better:)

http://www.celebritycd.com/rebeccaromijn/rebecca06.jpg

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Burke Strickland

05-05-2003, 04:40 PM

Burke - how often do you refresh your browser?Ever since I got Opera for a song, :>) my browser has been refreshing ME ! :>)

You on fire with all your flips.
A lot of luck with good timing. Actually I've missed a few because of occasionally slow refreshes and the fact that for some reason the cookies are not remembering my user name and password. (I've checked the box in the Profile area but when I go back to look, it is unchecked again.) They remember what threads I've accessed and all the other stuff that doesn't require me retyping something every damned time. :>)

But I have to type in my user name and password every time I try to post or edit a post. And if I mistype either one, of course, it tells me "Sorry -- you are not the author of this post" and I have to go back and wait while it refreshes a zillion embedded images in the edit panel before I can correct the mistake.

So it is a wonder I've managed to snag any flips at all, much less be able to break the record for number of flips in a TTP edition. (Just thought I'd mention that in case no one else has been counting.) :>) Actually the added challenge has made it a little more "fun", if aggrevating at times. Also, I've tried to come up with flip graphics that aren't the same thing every time, and with so many, that gets to be a challenge too.

Burke

efarstad

05-05-2003, 04:41 PM

What's funny is I have an outlet in each back corner, that I thought I was going to use, but now am not! :roll: So much for planning ahead! :loser:

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Andrew Pratt

05-05-2003, 05:06 PM

I have outlets along the side wall in case I need them, two behind the curtain and it would be easy to add some along the common wall with the shop so I think I'll be ok:) I will need at least one more for the PJ but I might just run an extension cord over for that instead of wireing up a plug in the ceiling...though having a false ceiling makes that much easier then if I'd dry walled it.

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efarstad

05-05-2003, 05:10 PM

Sounds like you're good to go...I did plan ahead and put power and a conduit in the ceiling for PJ wires so that's good...I don't think a dangling cord would look very attractive! 8O

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Pat

05-05-2003, 05:30 PM

Hey guys, and Hefferone ;)

Burke, nice flip pic :T

Bing, sounds like you had a great time...bummer on the chopper ride.
I'll bet you get some cool photos when you do get to fly :)

Doug, missed the Tool Time special :(

Eduardo, your ankle must be feeling better to be doing all that yard work.

Kev, saw the before and after of the Old Man...didn't realize that it had been trussed up. Kewl Ghost story. Glad the fender bender was minor.

E, good luck with your last 3 classes.
If you're serious about selling some of your stuff, email me about your Cambridge CD player :) I might be interested.
Put the Logan's in the Theater...just do it.

Pr@...umm Mystique :drool:

Trev, bummer you have to go to work during your holidays...hope it's nothing major.

George, got my mowing done Sat.

:later: Howdy to anyone I missed.

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efarstad

05-05-2003, 06:15 PM

Pat: YGM! ;)

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Bing Fung

05-05-2003, 08:02 PM

Hey Guys, thanks for the comments on the weekend. It would have been nice to get the chopper ride in, but as Burke stated, better to be safe than scattered... Coudn't have seen anything anyway.

Nice flip graphic Burke! I have spend a lot of time in and around the Lake Louise area, hiking, camping, skiing... Generally we go once or twice a year. That is Victoria glacier in the background. What you can't see is that the lake is fed by six glaciers that come into the mouth of the lake by the foot of Victoria glacier. If you hike to the back area you arrive at the Plain of Six Glaciers and you can see it in all it's glory!

Bing

Paul Wu

05-05-2003, 08:23 PM

"If you're going to videotape your Star Wars fighting skills on a school
camera, remember to remove the cassette when you're done. Watch this
embarrassingly good video"

http://bigjim.org/temp/Star_Wars_Kid.wmv
(Windows Media video).

"It didn't take long for the online community to remix it with full Star
Wars special effects and lightsaber noises."

http://bigjim.org/temp/Star_Wars_Kid_Remix.wmv

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Go Canucks Go!

Bing Fung

05-05-2003, 08:28 PM

Seriously,,she is hellapowerful!!
2200 psi rating and is driven with a 4.5HP Honda engine.
Simonize is the manufacturer.
Didin't do any damage yet..
However I can see this thing stripping paint and such with ease.
Sure did a great job on the driveway though, since the driveway is a cobblestone type brick, there was a lot of crap in between the cracks..
Not any more!! :-y

Uhh Trev..... :bash: Hope that stuff you blasted out was not the sand that is used to pack and fill between the blocks. :LOL:

Man Ottawa is spanking Philly :smackbutt:

Bing

Andrew Pratt

05-05-2003, 08:43 PM

Go ottawa:T

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Bing Fung

05-05-2003, 09:06 PM

Turkeys!!,I have no plans of upgrading..I just biult a new PC..

Ha, ha (Nelson laugh) :LOL: Since when it that an excuse for you Trev? :wedgie: You bought a notebook one week that you were "perfectly" happy with, only to buy another one that "You would be getting hooped" on :rofl: :wedgie:

It is a nice case for sure and it's good to see Dell make some cool shiat!

Going to work on your holiday? You remind me of my brother inlaw...

E, I think the Martins in the Theater is the way to go! I love the look of those...

Ej, good stuff on the new toy.

Bing

Trevor Schell

05-05-2003, 11:26 PM

Paull,,hilarious videos.
Notice how they spoffed up the last shot as the guys was getting really , really goofy.
Just watching the Canuks in the first period.
They just tied it up.
Hope they win too!
Poor Philly, just ran out of steam.
Just think,,it is possible that the Sens and Canuks could meet in the finals..That would be Hella-awesome!!

Bing,,Don't try to talk me into a new PC..Got to save for a FPTV.. ;)
I do love the looks of that DeLL case though.
No worries about work..since I missed Thursday and Friday last week , I had to tie up some loose ends and leave some directions that I hadn't completely finished up on. 3 Hours and it was all taken care of.
So now I have 6 days to kill.

Bing,,the stuuf in the cracks was mostly dirt..there was some filler that was loose and chipped up , so it had to go..
Otherwise no worries.

Bing,,I picked up a new magazine today that you would love.
It's called Laptop. It's the May 2003 issue which I found at Staples.
Talk about gadgets and cool stuff:E:E:E:E
You have to get it ,,,it's awesome.:T
Gadgets I never knew even existed.

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05-05-2003, 11:30 PM

Bing,,I am going to install the Antec True Blue power supply into Blue Zone,any thing special I need to know before performing this procedure?
I just don't want to ruin anything :nono:

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05-05-2003, 11:32 PM

A blonde calls Delta Airlines and asks, "Can you tell me how long it'll take to fly from San Francisco to New York City?" The agent replies, "Just a minute..." "Thank you," the blonde says, and hangs up.
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Two Mexican detectives were investigating the murder of Juan Gonzalez. "How was he killed?" asked one detective. "With a golf gun," the other detective replied. "A golf gun?! What is a golf gun?" "I don't know. But it sure made a hole in Juan."
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The investigation of Martha Stewart continues. Her recipe for chicken casserole is quite efficient. First you boil the chicken in water. And then you dump the stock.
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New Sex Study... It has been determined, the most used sexual position for married couples is a doggie position. The husband sits up and begs. The wife rolls over and plays dead...
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This guy has been sitting in a bar all night, staring at a blonde wearing the tightest pants he's ever seen. Finally his curiosity gets the best of him, so he walks over and asks, "How do you get into those pants?" The young woman looks him over and replies, "Well, you could start by buying me a drink."
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Moe: "My wife got me to believe in religion."
Joe: "Really?"
Moe: "Yeah. Until I married her I didn't believe in hell."
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A woman's perfect breakfast:
She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee. Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box. Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week. Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl. And her husband is on the back of the milk carton.
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A man is recovering from surgery when a nurse asks him how he is feeling. "I'm O.K. but I didn't like the four-letter-word the doctor used in surgery, he answered. "What did he say," asked the nurse. "OOPS!"
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While shopping for vacation clothes, my husband and I passed a display of bathing suits. It had been at least ten years and twenty pounds since I had even considered buying a bathing suit, so I sought my husband's advice. "What do you think?" I asked. "Should I get a bikini or an all-in-one?" "Better get a bikini," he replied. "You'd never get it all in one."
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If there were 4 potatoes in a room, which one would be the prostitute? The one that's labeled "IDAHO"
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Grandpa was driving with his 9 year old grand-daughter and beeped the horn by mistake. She turned and looked at him for an explanation. He said, "I did that by accident." She replied, "I know that, Grandpa." He replied, "How did you know?" She said, "Because you didn't say "asshole!" afterwards.

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Burke Strickland

05-06-2003, 12:54 AM

Trev --

Those are GREAT jokes. I had only seen one of them before and that had been worth an email on its own -- this collection is going out to my list, for sure. Thanks for sharing those.

Burke

Trevor Schell

05-06-2003, 03:36 AM

Burke,,Glad you liked the jokes.
I thought they were pretty funny as well.

WOW!!The Ducks beat out Dallas..:E

So now it's Jersey VS Ottawa
Then the Ducks VS Vancouver/Minnesota.

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05-06-2003, 03:39 AM

OK!!!
This is Tuesday's Morning Wake-up Call!!
Courtesy of Trevor..I take pleasure in sharing my Babes..
That's right!

http://

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05-06-2003, 07:23 AM

Flip?!
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Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 09:40 AM

Thanks trevor that got my blood flowing ;)

Wow Anahiem won, Ottawa won and where the he!! was Vancouver last night they looked horrible.

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Trevor Schell

05-06-2003, 10:14 AM

Good Morning Gentlemens!!

Great feeling to be on Holidays!!!! :yesnod:

Pat!,,Your welcome!!

Andrew,,That's my GAL on page 98

Yes,,interesting night in the NHL!
Just wish Vancouver could have pulled it off.
It's going to be a tough go , going forwards for them.
Over confidient is what I suspect.

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Kevin P

05-06-2003, 10:16 AM

Morning folks, OSIT as they say...

Courtesy of Trevor..I take pleasure in sharing my Babes..Do you share them with your wife too?? :LOL: 8O What the life, great job, lots of money, dream house, dream Corvette, his and hers laptops, and babes too! Sheesh... ;)

Funny jokes there Trevor. I like the sex study one.

We're up to page 99 already? We'll be on TTP X (hopefully not TTP X-R@ted 8O ) before the end of the week...

Well, it looks like the merger/reorganization will be complete on May 15. Crossing my fingers as to whether I'll still have a job after then. Still nobody hiring around these parts. I may wind up parking in people's driveways with my wireless card to do my TTP posting in a few months :roll:

Glad people got a kick out of my ghost story. I asked Heather if she felt anything odd when we were at the restaurant, and she said she didn't, and now she thinks I'm crazy or something :?? :crazy: Hey, I'm fascinated by weird stuff, what can I say. Maybe that's why I work with Microcr@p stuff. :LOL:

Later folx... KJP

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Lex

05-06-2003, 10:42 AM

Just remember Trev, the rest of us are not on "holidays", so please run the graphics through the clean room before posting... I'd really rather not have to many in my work machine hard drive memory locations showing to much. I'm sure there's others that feel the same.

You guys do know that just because you delete something, doesn't mean it's gone, right? It's only gone when something is written over that precise memory location, and usually more than once. Without programs designed to do that, you can never know if it's truly gone, even if you delete it. So, it stays there, and with a complete machine audit, it could spell trouble for some... Windows only deletes the logical index to a file, it doesn't actually delete the bytes of any file off the drive. It just deletes the physical drive location from the index and declares that memory as free for use again in the system. But even writing over it once or twice, still doesn't mean it's gone.

I'm being totally honest here folks, so please think about that before posting to graphic an image during week or even on a page that rolls to Monday.

If you post an image after hours for us to see during the week that's risky, please convert it to a link by the end of the evening, with a warning for opening it.

Lex

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Trevor Schell

05-06-2003, 10:46 AM

Kevin,,Yes,It can be a great life ,,but this guy really is wearing out.
the mental exhaustion is huge and does take it's toll.
I really needed this holiday and hope I can be refreshed when it's all done!
I have lots of cake,,but don't have the chance to eat it..I have learned how to nibble.

Bing,,Questions on the DeLL 8500.
I love this thing!
Anyways,,are you runnning the McAffee software that came with it,or did you delete it and install Nortons?
Also,,What will you be using the Bluetooth device for.?
I believe you ordered the Bluetooth preinstalled.

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efarstad

05-06-2003, 10:57 AM

:sn :sn :sn Good Morn Fellas! :sn :sn :sn

Not much to say...I'm just sittin here trying to think of something witty and just blank.....must go get :coffee: then! :D

Nice flip Pat...I've been Flipless in Seattle for a long time! :P

Trev: Enjoy nibblin' on your cake! ;)

Have a great day everyone!

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Trevor Schell

05-06-2003, 11:02 AM

Lex!,,Well,,,that was as sutle as a Drive by Shooting!
I guess you didn't like the top of her legs..
Anyways, It's fixed..
Sorry if I got anybody in trouble at work. :oops:
I figured it was safe since it was at the very end of the page.

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Kevin P

05-06-2003, 11:15 AM

A little paranoid there Lex? ;) I doubt most any company would go through the trouble of searching deleted disk space for "evidence" unless they believed that there was criminal activity taking place. So as long as you're not suspected of anything like that you should be safe if you clear out your cache and history periodically. I for one run stealth, but I also have IE set up to clear cache and history automatically.

You can get utilities that will "wipe" out unused disk space, or any files you specify, so that they can't be easily recovered. Some of them will do multiple wipes but this is overkill IMHO. To retrieve data that has been overwritten is expensive and requires sending the drive out to a data recovery specialist. IMHO the biggest risk at work is having one of those pics up on your screen and having someone walk by, and the SIMG tags or stealth takes care of that little problem!

So take reasonable precautions and you should be ok. Hmm... maybe I should offer a server version of my Stealth(tm) technology (for a reasonable price :twisted: ) and have Mats install it on the HTG server... :)

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Eduardo

05-06-2003, 11:18 AM

Good day everyone (in my best brit accent) . Thanks everyone for the encouraging words for my soon to be purchase.

Trev - funny jokes and I like you Tuesday eye opener. 8O Vacations are very important. Make sure you rest up and DO NOT think about work or else you maybe more stressed when you go back work.

Lex - screw work. I say all work places should have topless female Messsagers. ;)

Pat - good flip pic. I would like to see the radar gun. :twisted:

Kevin - good luck with the re-org. I believe in the supernatural. You never know you may be sensitive to ghosts. spooky

E - What's up.Not much to say...I'm just sittin here trying to think of something witty and just blank sounds like me everyday. :grab:

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Lex

05-06-2003, 11:35 AM

Ok ok ok guys, I'm not just thinking of me here. I'm not the only one that could be impacted. But working for a government organization, who can put anything past them? If they want to nail your butt, 2-3K disc recovery is chicken scratch. Fact is, they've probably got people right here that can seize and examine discs. Actually, it's been done at the top of the organization before. I can't say if they used an external agency or did it internal. I don't know.

Again, sexy pics are ok, but avoid showing major parts. Evenings and weekends only on that, and don't leave it for next work day. I have spoken on this. Ca Pish?

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Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 11:40 AM

Morning everyone...my machines busy cunching numbers so i'll be baby sitting it for a while. I have my notebook here as well to help run some other batches since its faster then my desktop :twisted:

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Kevin P

05-06-2003, 11:47 AM

So, Lex, have you downloaded and tried my stealth proxy yet? ;) What's great about it is the blocked images aren't downloaded at all, so there's no trail. It results in faster browsing as well. Actually, I should upload my latest build with the bug fix I made last week. :)Lex - screw work. I say all work places should have topless female Messsagers. ;)I keep telling Heather that she should go to work for my company as a massager. She's good at it, and it would improve morale. Topless would be a bonus too 8O ;) Too bad my company's too cheapskate.You never know you may be sensitive to ghosts. spookyCould be... I'm not in "haunted" places often enough to know if I'm sensitive or not. In fact this particular restaurant is the only place I've been to where I knew it was haunted. I picked it in hopes that I might experience something there, and it looks like I may have gotten my wish! :E BTW, I posted my experiences on another forum (not a HT one, one that people post paranormal experiences on) and some of the responses indicate that I'm not the only one who has experienced something like that! 8O Now I'm wishing I brought my camera, I might have picked something up in the infrared mode or something.

Trevor: just think about what all your hard work will bring you someday: a comfortable RETIREMENT! Something I can only dream about.

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efarstad

05-06-2003, 11:51 AM

A few years back I worked for this wireless Internet company and my boss wanted me to work on this project using his laptop. He wanted me to design this graphic for a brochure...ok I said. His laptop had some graphic program on it that no other puter did...so I began working away.

Shortly into the project...while "searching" for the graphics he wanted I ran across some "cached" pics of well...let just say my boss's surfing was saved on the machine! 8O

I couldn't look him straight in the face again after that! Oh, boy did the jokes go around...cause two other folks were watching me work cause they'd never used this certain program before...

OUCH!

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Trevor Schell

05-06-2003, 11:54 AM

Trevor: just think about what all your hard work will bring you someday: a comfortable RETIREMENT! Something I can only dream about.

Kevin,,That's true!,,Thanks for lifting up my Spirits.
I do have a nice retirement fund that is growing somewhat ,although it took a bit of a pinch last year.

Lex,,Don't forget , we need to take care of George. His health is important to us.

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Lex

05-06-2003, 12:27 PM

I want to see images Kevin, but I want them to be reasonable. If a woman is in a thong, angled side ways, that's one thing, but bare butted in your face, that's an entirely different thing.

Trevor, George can be taken care of with tasteful shots. That girl in the bakini sitting down that Kevin put up a while back was about as s#xy as anything I've seen in a while. S#xy isn't just about what's shown, it's about how it's not shown and shere beauty. Go to far and it just becomes trashy. I'm sorry, but trashy is NOT what we are about here. If that's how it goes, well, I'll have to take further action.

Sorry to be the grinch today guys, but there has to be limits for those of us that surf at work, and before I shut off graphics with stealth, I won't view TTP at all during the day, that's how it has to be. I have to maintain image access for other areas of the forum.

I did not mean to turn this into a brow beating. But I thought it was pretty clear before that things have to remain tasteful during the work week/day. Yes, again, leaving risky stuff up at night for the next work day is not good.

I'm not saying anything else on this subject. But if things get out of hand with this in the future, what will wind up happening is TTP becoming password protected or no images of women allowed.

Lex

Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 12:42 PM

Well I wholeheartedly agree with doug here and I've made similar requests before about it ;)

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Kevin P

05-06-2003, 12:50 PM

Having a bad day Lex? Or did Trev's last images go over the line (I have stealth so I didn't see them). Maybe we need to reinstate that password protected area for the b@be pics, and just post pics of blue toothed computers and Corvettes (and Audi A4s!) here in TTP.

Stealth is easy to turn on and off if you wanted to use it for TTP viewing and still have images elsewhere. You can also configure the proxy to not stealth but to block images from sites other than htguide, that would take care of your problems as well. Download it and give it a try, it's very configurable. Its original purpose in life was to control annoying banner ads and things like that, so even if you don't enable the stealth feature it might still be useful to you.

Have any of the pics I posted gone over the line? Sometimes it's hard to judge what is acceptable and what isn't... maybe I'll just stick with cute harmless fuzzy kittens for my flip pics ;)

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Kevin P

05-06-2003, 01:59 PM

Hello, hello? (tap tap tap)... is this thing on? Anyone here? Bueller?

I just dropped Joey6P an email to see what he's up to. TTP just isn't the same without him, even if I have ghost stories to tell now! :) I don't have much in the way of J6P stories though other than the occasional "forgetting to turn on the sub during a movie" moment... :crazy:

Oh, speaking of "moments"... I had an Office Space flash-back moment today! The guy I do the HT installation stuff with borrowed my cordless drill over the weekend, and he brought it back. I picked up the drill to take it out to my car. As I held the drill in my hand, while sitting in what passes for a cubicle in this place, well I'm sure anyone who's seen Office Space can imagine what scene popped into my head at that moment. The temptation was difficult to resist! :twisted: :LOL:

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Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 02:47 PM

I'm not here either :LOL:

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Kevin P

05-06-2003, 02:49 PM

Look out folks, there's a virus going around that masquerades as a Blue Mountain greeting card. I discovered it when I was checking my home email.

The message looks like this:Subject: Hi, I sent you an eCard from BlueMountain.com
Message:
To view your eCard, open the attachment
If you have any comments or questions, please visit http:/ /www.bluemountain.com/customer/index.pd
Thanks for using BlueMountain.com.
Attachment: BlueMountaineCard.pif

The virus is called W32.HLLW.Cult.C@mm, and here is a link to Symantec's writeup (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.cult.c@mm.html).

Real e-card greetings point you to a link on their website, they don't include attachments that have to be run. So make sure to keep an eye out if you get any BlueMountain greeting cards in your email, they may not be what you think! 8O

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efarstad

05-06-2003, 03:36 PM

Thanks for the head's up Kev... 8O

It's official...I'm selling some gear to help pay for my FP purchase! ;lx

Pat you have first dibs on the CD player...other than that it's first come first serve! :banana:

I'm a eatin microwave popcorn for lunch...mmmm.....yummy! :popcorn:

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Gordon Moore

05-06-2003, 03:56 PM

Man Paul...that little Star Wars goober had me in stitches. I've probably done that myself (who hasn't?...bah, the rest of you are lying) but I'm smart enough not to film it ;)

I was talking with some friends and agreed that he should have a cameo as a young Porkins or something like that :LOL:

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Lex

05-06-2003, 03:58 PM

No Kevin, not a bad day at all. I just know if I don't nip this in the bud, it will only get worse. It wasn't the one picture at all. I told you guys we had to chill during the work week some, and keep things calm.

But this is a home theater forum first, TTP is second. With that in mind, our guiding thoughts must be to what makes us a better home theater forum, not a better off beat site. That's why I have to keep a constant pulse on this stuff. Professional vendors will not want to get involved with a site that's promoting the wrong image. Understand???

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efarstad

05-06-2003, 04:52 PM

Ok gents...let's start a new chapter of TTP...help me push this mother forward! :dance:

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Burke Strickland

05-06-2003, 04:57 PM

Ok gents...let's start a new chapter of TTP...help me push this mother forward! Well, we've just got two more pages to go, but someone else is going to have to flip us over... I'm retiring from the flipping public service for a while to spend more time with my family and pursue private business interests. :>) (That's a paraphrase of what a lot of politicians say when they retire from public office. Only they leave out the "flipping" from their press releases.) :>)

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Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 05:26 PM

I've been playing with VBS again today:) While my main machine was crunching code I set to work to see if I could write a script to connect my notebook to the network drives when I plug into the network here. So I came up with a neat little script that goes out and checks my IP address to see if it starts with two digits and if so logs me in and connects my drives. I'm going to have it check to see if I'm connected at home and log those drives instead and vise versa so it should work slick. I'm beginning to really like scripting :twisted:

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Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 07:12 PM

Kevin how do I get a script to automatically run when I shut down XP? I want it to disconnect any network drives I have so that the next time I boot my logon script can connect any drive it needs without having to worry about other drives already been connected etc.

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Kevin P

05-06-2003, 08:45 PM

Pr@ there may be utilities out there that will run a script at shutdown, but my suggestion is to have your script map your network drives so that they aren't remapped every time you log on (when you do it from explorer you have the check box where you can select "Reconnect at logon"). When you map the drive make sure you don't select that option, and then you'll start with a clean slate every time you log on.

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Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 09:10 PM

I was thinking along those lines kevin...I'll have to see if that's possible with this script.

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Lex

05-06-2003, 09:42 PM

Wow, exciting stuff Kev and Andrew. :loser: :loser:

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Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 09:58 PM

Doug and just what is it that you do for a living? :p:

Kevin there was a switch I could set to false that fixed my problem:T I've now got it wrapped up in a nice select case statement so I can easily add more IP's to handle other networks etc and cases when I'm not actually attached to a known network. I'm going to see about mapping to a printer tomorrow...oh what fun :twisted:

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Lex

05-06-2003, 09:58 PM

and lets go

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Lex

05-06-2003, 09:58 PM

to

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Lex

05-06-2003, 09:59 PM

triple digits!

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Lex

05-06-2003, 10:00 PM

AND FLIP!!!

I present, my daughter on Prom night. I accidentally didn't get her date ( :loser: ) in the picture. :LOL:

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She certainly is striking in this photo. (Proud Dad)

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Andrew Pratt

05-06-2003, 11:03 PM

She's a cutie Doug

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Lex

05-07-2003, 08:24 AM

Thanks Andrew. :)

Say, where is everyone, and Trevor too?

Lex

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Kevin P

05-07-2003, 08:24 AM

Morning folks, on this... uh... Wednesday :roll: I was going to say sunny Wednesday but it isn't sunny here today ;)

Wow, Lex, who needs b@be pics when you have her? You must be a proud papa. Look out, the guys will be a-knocking ;) Don't they always take a :loser: to the prom? ;)

Pr@, you VBScript geek you... you probably know more about scripting than I do... today's project is to write a java app that scans a database for records with a certain status older than a certain date and email them to someone. I got the email piece figured out yesterday, today's will be a crash course in JDBC :) I've done it before but in existing systems where the infrastructure was in place already. I have to do it from scratch in this one! 8O

We might make it to 101/TTP X today? :E

I got that blue mountain virus again this morning. :roll: It's a pain when you can't figure out who's sending it. If I keep getting it I'll have to call comcast and have them look it up and notify the culprit since I only have an IP address, no valid email address of the sender. Hey get this, Norton's known about this virus for a month now, but I couldn't find any info on it on Mcafee's site, so I forwarded the email to my Hotmail account and scanned it there using their Mcafee scanner, and it didn't detect it! I guess it's a good thing I use Norton! 8O

I went to one of our customer's houses last night to help them set up their system to work with their new HDTV cable box. They have a Mits HDTV similar to mine (55", mine is 46"), and wow, after I converged that puppy HDTV looked like I was looking out a window :drool: We watched a little of Summer Catch on HBO and it was like 8O . DD 5.1, widescreen and all, way cool! Too bad they only have like 4 HD channels so far, but they should be adding more down the road.

Oh well, I guess that's it for this morning's post. Later folks... KJP

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Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 09:38 AM

Pr@, you VBScript geek you... you probably know more about scripting than I do... today's project is to write a java app that scans a database for records with a certain status older than a certain date and email them to someone. I got the email piece figured out yesterday, today's will be a crash course in JDBC I've done it before but in existing systems where the infrastructure was in place already. I have to do it from scratch in this one!

Kevin I could do that in VBS fairly easily...try looking under Enterprise Scripts here (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/scriptcenter/Default.asp) it might help point you in the right direction since VBS and Javascript are so similar....or just code it in VBS:)

Morning guys!

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Kevin P

05-07-2003, 09:43 AM

Now this is wild... I logged into my attbi email over the web so I could delete the virus email from there, and while I was there I went into the screened mail folder, which where their spam filter drops filtered messages in to, and I found 11 more copies of that virus, dating back to 4/28. Their spam filter has been catching most of them (going to one of my addresses), but now I'm getting them on the other address and it's not filtering those. Bizarre. Symantec rates this threat "low", having received few submissions, and Mcafee and F-Secure have no information on it whatsoever! 8O

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Kevin P

05-07-2003, 10:54 AM

Ok where is everyone today? Did Lex scare everyone away? 8O :LOL: Or did I forget my deodorant? :fart:

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Lex

05-07-2003, 11:26 AM

It must be you Kevin. Please go home and clean up, ok?

If a few folks are upset at me, well, what can I say? I have to be the bad guy sometimes. Sorry, but I do.

Lex

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efarstad

05-07-2003, 12:18 PM

:sn :sn :sn Hey there gents! :sn :sn :sn

I bet 'I' scared everyone away...I usually do that sort of thing! :oops:

Lex: Your daughter looks very pretty...scary how FAST they grow up huh? I want a daughter but the thought of her as a young adult scares me a bit! 8O Cause of those "loser" guys out there....keep her close...she's a treasure...but you already know that!

Hey Trevor...come and start a new TTP will ya? ;)

You guys and your puter talk :blah: , I'm just a total :loser: cause I don't know a thing about whatchooz is sayin'!

Meez is stickin' to what I know...uh...can somebody tell me what that is? :?

Have a wonderous day everyone!

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Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 12:33 PM

:later: Hi E!

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Kevin P

05-07-2003, 12:33 PM

Meez is stickin' to what I know...uh...can somebody tell me what that is? :? A-ha, that's why you're always so happy! Ignorance is bliss! :LOL:

Actually, a saying I read somewhere is "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?" I think I have it in my sig quotes script...

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Lex

05-07-2003, 12:38 PM

I think we are supposed to take it to 101 first so it's 100 flips, I guess.

Thanks E, yeah, it scares me trying to protect her from bad things and bad people. She's been a good kid. I just hope it sticks with her now, as she's a young adult. I worry about her every time she walks out the door though, it's tough.

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efarstad

05-07-2003, 12:53 PM

Hi Andrew! :later:

Kev: I wish ignorance was bliss when it comes to this HT thing...jeez...I could retire on the money saved! 8O

Lex: Yup...I'm happy with diapers right now...all that 'fun' will come in time...Did you get my e-mail from yesterday?

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Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 01:09 PM

Hmm just polished off a nice 6" sub...I love Subway :drool:

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Kevin P

05-07-2003, 01:28 PM

Hmm just polished off a nice 6" sub...I love Subway :drool:
For a second I thought you were talking about a different kind of sub... 6", trying to compete with Bose or something? :rofl:

I posted an email on a security mailing list about the virus I've been getting, and getting all kinds of great information back from other folks... according to Mcafee it isn't a mass mailing worm but instead a backdoor trojan, a variant of Sdbot in fact Pr@ (remember that one?), that allows a hacker on IRC to send commands to your computer, and one of the things they can tell it to do is email itself out. That could be why I'm getting copies sent from many different IP addresses... :roll: Well, I'll keep on researching this little beast and I'll post more info as I find out about it. In the meantime watch out for emails claiming to be Blue Mountain e-cards... :E

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Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 01:40 PM

Yeah I remember that little bastard :F

If anyone's looking for a good spy/geek/mystery novel try A blue nowhere (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671042262/qid=1052328961/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-6485127-0760927?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) by Jeffery Deaver (same guy that wrote the bone collector). Its a pretty good read esp if you're remotely interested in hacking/cracking/programming etc.

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Eduardo

05-07-2003, 02:28 PM

Happy Hump Day!!!!! :hump:

Lex - you have a very pretty daughter. I would have to meet every guy with my shotgun. :twisted:

E - What else are you selling? Not that I have the money to buy anything but curious minds would like to know.

Pr@ - speaking of money. I'm holding off on the Rotel till next week. My AC is acting kind of funny and I have an appointment next Monday. As long as my AC is OK or need only minor maintenance then I can get the Rotel. Damn I hate being responsible. :evil:

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Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 02:47 PM

Damn I hate being responsible.

Edurado where are your priorities man :nono:

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Lex

05-07-2003, 03:03 PM

Thanks Eduardo. She is a jewel. :) My crown jewel.

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Burke Strickland

05-07-2003, 03:09 PM

My AC is acting kind of funny and I have an appointment next Monday. As long as my AC is OK or need only minor maintenance then I can get the Rotel. Damn I hate being responsible.
Good luck on that AC situation. A couple of years ago, my AC system wasn't cooling very well, so I called out a heavily advetised company to have someone come out and put freon in the system. Immediately after getting out of his truck, before the dude even set foot on my property, much less even saw the system, he said; "Looks like you might need a new coil for that AC system." Although he did puty in thfreon, he wasn't really there to provide service, he was there to sell me a coil (since he kept mentioning that and handed me brochures about them) -- without even checking to see if that was really needed or if anything else was wrong with the system! He did go uup in the attic and pointed to rust-like deposits on the coil as if that was proof of hius point. All coils get that -- proves nothing.

A couple of months later, a lightning strike close by in the neighborhood sent a surge through the power line that fried the AC -- the big capacitor on the control unit basically exploded. At that point, I knew that more freon wouldn't fix it. So when a different technician came out and said he could repalce the control unit, but Ireally needed a whole new system, pointing oput a number of other things that had been damaged, I got seven bids for replacement of the entire system (did not call that first company back for a bid, however).

The estimator from the AC company that is highly praised on the local public radio equivalent of "tool time" was almost as bad as the dude who wanted toi sell me the coil right off the bat. He didn't measure anything, never looked at the existing thermostat before recommending it be replaced, and didn't take any notes while he was looking around, and then spent abiut ten minutes bragging about the multiple zone, bell-and-whistles laden systen he had just had installed in his home. His bid came in at almost four times what the low bid came in.

Others ranged form competent but expensive to almst as ridiculous as the first bid. Fortunately my eye doctor had recommended an outfit who had done a system for the house he and his wife were living in at the time, and another for his mother's house, plus various maintenence tasks for others he knows. They not only came in with the low bid on a full Lennox system of the proper capacity (the original system the builder put in the house wasn't really suficient to keep the whole house cool on the hottest days) but were the only ones willing to schedule the job that same week (and in Houston, waiting even a few days for AC in the summer can be gruelling). Their installation went smoothly and the system has wrked fine now for two years without incident.

Bottom line, be careful about accepting what an AC dude tells you at face value, get multiple bids if expensive work is recommended and if possible get recommendations from people you can trust for people you can trust.

Good luck!

Burke

efarstad

05-07-2003, 03:31 PM

EJ: Check out the Pawn Shop! ;)

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Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 05:23 PM

wow its quite around here today!

I came across my first real beef with XP today:F Back when I got my Dell there was an error on boot up that required me to reinstall the OS. Now I should have known better but I figured that since everything other then that error was working ok I'd just reinstall over top of the old OS w/o formating the drive....well its come round to bite me in the a$$ today since I can't create a dial up connection even though my modem works fine..its simply greyed out when you try to setup an account:F There's a fix on the MS site about editing a registry key which didn't work so they're next solution is to reinstall the OS 8O Oh well dial up isnt' that important at the moment so that will have to wait until I'm not in the middle of several projects.....damn it.

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Burke Strickland

05-07-2003, 05:34 PM

wow its quite around here today!
Quite what? Quite balmy? Quite noisy? Quite nice? Quite expensive? Quite confusing? hmmm... Quite quiet? :>)

Burke

Pat

05-07-2003, 05:54 PM

Doug, you have good reason to be proud!
I'm not upset...I just don't have internet access at work :(

Eduardo, I hate being responsible too :evil:

Kev, haven't gotten that bluemountain virus yet...knock on wood

E, Hi there buddy...long time no talk ;)

Pr@, bummer about the XP snafu

Burke, I might be looking to replace my furnace and A/C soon...did I say I hate being responsible.

:later: Hasta la vista

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Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 08:09 PM

Cool got the VPN software working so I can log into the network drives at work from home:) That will make it much easier to work from home when I need/want to:T

To bad about the AC Pat

burke that's quiet enough out of you for now ;)

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Bing Fung

05-07-2003, 08:24 PM

Pat, I know how you feel. Although it's not as sexy as some new toy, it was a nessessary evil. I replaced the furnace and AC in my house 2 years ago.. The AC was not doing it's job well, so I decided to upgrade it. At the same time it was recommended to replcae the funace as well due to the archaic design and to be integrated properly with the new air conditioning unit.

Lex, good picture of your daughter :)

Trev, I'm using Norton Anti Virus 2003. I have no immediate need /use for the internal Bluetooth, but I'll be ready should I have wandered into a bluetooth zone :dance: We have bluetooth PDAs at work so I'm looking forward to testing this out. I'm really wanting BT headphones and a slick BT mouse from Logitech. Now if only somebody would get on it.

Katherine has a basket ball game tonight...

:later:

Bing

Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 08:55 PM

When we were house hunting last year one of the big selling points to this place was that the furnace, hot water tank and AC were all newer then 5 years old:T

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Kevin P

05-07-2003, 09:01 PM

When we were house hunting last year one of the big selling points to this place was that the furnace, hot water tank and AC were all newer then 5 years old:T
AC in Winnipeg? Only the rich folk have central air around here. It's rare it would get used more than 1 month a year anyway.

Us? We just open windows and jump in the pool if it gets really hot! :sn

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Andrew Pratt

05-07-2003, 09:26 PM

Only the rich have pools up here so I guess we're even ;)

We didn't use our AC that much last year but with Lauren I think we'll use it a lot more this year...plus I much prefer really quiet when I go to sleep so open windows or noisey fans drive me :??

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Burke Strickland

05-07-2003, 10:50 PM

One thing I forgot to mention about my "new" AC system (aside from the fact that it is an absolute necessity in Houston) is that, blessedly, it is quite quiet. :>) The old system, using the same ductwork, made a lot of noise. especially when cycling on or off. The new system may give an air whoosh at those points in the cycle, but the overall noise level is very low. That qualifies it as a substantial HT upgrade, since it lowered the background noise level inside the house. :>)

Burke

Andrew Pratt

05-08-2003, 12:00 AM

Wow what a game by Minnesota 8O Vancouvers in deep trouble now :roll:

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Burke Strickland

05-08-2003, 12:07 AM

Wow what a game by Minnesota Vancouvers in deep trouble now
What a horserace! I'd bet 5 to 1 they'll have to play again. :>)

Burke

Trevor Schell

05-08-2003, 12:38 AM

Hey Guys!!

Had a couple busy days!!
Got lots done, like put in my new power supply in Blue Zone TTP,
Installed the extra 512 MB memory that I had ordered for the Laptop.
Bought a set of Nike inline skates,,the girls new leather ball gloves , aluminum bat and Helmet,,umped Tori's first Softball game of the season,,she hit a single..watched some movies, hockey ,,bought a new shirt , a new sweat shirt , a new long sleeve shirt, took walks around the lake,,Drove the Vette around,,Whew!!! I am not done yet,,but that's all I will list for now..

Lex,,great picture of your daughter,,she sure looks great and I can see why you would be worried about here. I am sure she attracts a lot of guys. Sounds like she is resonsible though, so that's a good thing..

Bing,,i forgot to ask about adding Bluetoooth to the Laptop..I would like to do that..imagine printing from the Laptop through bluetooth..The thought has me quivering :oh: 8O Need more toys.

Kevin,,Did you get my E-mails??
Hopefully I will have pictures completed tomorrow.

Andrew,,The Canuks are toast,,I just have a bad feeling about it.
I really hope they do win,,but it's going to be tough,,they play tomorrow night alreadyy,screwy schedule.

Well Almost ready to start up TTP X...:E

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