HTGuide Forum - TTP IX

Sonnie Parker

04-07-2003, 01:58 PM

Dixie cups.... lol

Funny thing is I did an experiment back in Jr. school that required 2 coffee cans, carbon from inside a couple batteries, wire, and a few other things. I can't remember what it was... I think it was a telegraph. Been too long ago.

whoever did that spanking graphic, could stand to make some adjustments. His b@tt crack shows before he pulls his shorts down, then it's red before he actually spanks it. Geesh, get it right!
The red is from previous spankin's..... I mean, how many times has the poor feller been spanked? His booty never has time to be anything but red.

Thanks for the compliment on the picture George.

Watched part of "Oh Brother, Where Art Though" (I think that's the name of it).... what striking resemblences! Gonna watch the remainder tonight. Gotta love the Soggy Bottom Boys.

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Gordon Moore

04-07-2003, 03:02 PM

Afternoon yall...

Guess most of you down south did not catch the Juno awards (the CDN Grammys) so I'll share this pic of Shania from last night:

http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~gkmoore/pictures/front04072003.jpg

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

Colour matched G-String...nice touch ;)

Later

Kevin P

04-07-2003, 03:55 PM

Think before you speak...

1. I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow and asked loudly, "How much do you charge for a shampoo and a blow job?" I turned around and walked back out and never went back. My husband didn't say a word... he knew better.
- Melinda Lowe, Seguin, TX

2. I was at the golf store comparing different kinds of golf balls. I was unhappy with the women's type I had been using. After browsing for several minutes, I was approached by one of the good-looking gentlemen who works at the store. He asked if he could help me. Without thinking, I looked at him and said, "I think I like playing with men's balls."
- Colleen Collins, Ferndale, MI

3. My sister and I were at the mall and passed by a store that sold a variety of nuts. As we were looking at the display case, the boy behind the counter asked if we needed any help. I replied, "No, I'm just looking at your nuts." I turned beet-red and walked away. To this day, my sister has never let me forget.
- Faye Emerick, Ellerslie, MD

(Pr@ and Erik, look out as you may experience this one in 2-3 years!)

4. While in line at the bank one afternoon, my toddler decided to release some pent-up energy and ran amok. I was finally able to grab hold of her after receiving looks of disgust and annoyance from other patrons. I told her that if she did not start behaving "right now" she would be punished. To my horror, she looked me in the eye and said in a voice just as threatening, "If you don't let me go right now, I will tell Grandma that I saw you kissing Daddy's pee-pee last night!" The silence was deafening after this enlightening exchange. Even the tellers stopped what they were doing. I mustered up the last of my dignity and walked out of the bank with my daughter in tow. The last thing I heard when the door closed behind me were screams of laughter.
- Amy Richardson, Stafford, VA

5. A lady picked up several items at a discount store. When she finally got up to the checker, she learned that one of her items had no price tag. Imagine her embarrassment when the checker got on the intercom and boomed out for all the store to hear, "PRICE CHECK ON LANE THIRTEEN, TAMPAX SUPER SIZE ."That was bad enough, but somebody at the rear of the store apparently misunderstood the word "Tampax" for "THUMBTACKS." In a business-like tone, a voice boomed back over the intercom. "DO YOU WANT THE KIND YOU PUSH IN WITH YOUR THUMB OR THE KIND YOU POUND IN WITH A HAMMER?"
- Diane E. Amov

6. Have you ever asked your child a question too many times? My three-year-old son had a lot of problems with potty training and I was on him constantly. One day we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch in between errands. It was very busy, with a full dining room. While enjoying my taco, I smelled something funny, so of course I checked my seven-month-old daughter, and she was clean. Then I realized that Danny had not asked to go potty in a while, so I asked him if he needed to go, and he said "No." I kept thinking, "Oh Lord, that child has had an accident, and I don't have any clothes with me." Then I said, "Danny, are you SURE you didn't have an accident?" "No," he replied. I just KNEW that he must have had an accident, because the smell was getting worse. Soooooo, I asked one more time, "Danny, did you have an accident?" This time he jumped up, yanked down his pants, bent over and spread his cheeks and yelled. "SEE MOM, IT'S JUST FARTS!!" While 30 people nearly choked to death on their tacos laughing! He calmly pulled up his pants and sat down. An old couple made me feel better by thanking me for the best laugh they'd ever had!

7. This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for 2 days and a very embarrassed female news anchor who will, in the future, likely think before she speaks. What happens when you predict snow but don't get any....a true story... We had a female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked: "So Bob, where's that 8 inches you promised me last night?" Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too they were laughing so hard!

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Mats

04-07-2003, 04:10 PM

I'll just say :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Sonnie Parker

04-07-2003, 04:22 PM

Yes, very funny Kevin..... especially that last one. I can only imagine the laugh folks got out of that one.

Hmmmm... Shania doesn't even look like she had a baby.

You Canadians TTP'ers are staying clear of that SARS stuff I know. At least I hope you are.... doesn't sound to good.

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efarstad

04-07-2003, 05:51 PM

Hey Gang!

First off....Andrew Congrats...she is absolutely prescious!

I'm off to Reno for the week...so you won't be seein' me around until I get back....but until then.

Have a great week and keep the :sn Shinin'!!!

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Burke Strickland

04-07-2003, 06:03 PM

The embarrassed weather forecaster "eight inches" story is a classic urban legend -- but still very funny: http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/snowjob.htm

BTW -- another forum has a 40 page "testy" imitation of TTP. (I know this is not news to everyone here, but the fact that some of the rest of us do read the stuff on other forums may be.) :>) I wonder if that thread will get closed down like this one's original predecessor did (forcing it to find its current home)?

Burke

Andrew Pratt

04-07-2003, 06:11 PM

Well lauren would likely dissapoint you if you want to hear a baby cry...she's only cried a few times in her short life and never for very long at all :T

Bought some speaker wire this afternoon while running errands so I'll get the upstairs subwoofer wired in properly soon...also picked up a real nice looking cichlid for my african tank.

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Sonnie Parker

04-07-2003, 06:25 PM

Andrew, that sub might not get much evening play with the new baby huh? I know mine wouldn't... it seems louder in other rooms than in the main room.

Have a good trip E... stay away from those money hog machines.

Ordered me some toys today:

Makita 18 Volt Combo Kit:

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Gordon Moore

04-07-2003, 06:40 PM

Sonnie...

Andrew's going to have to familiarize himself with midnight mode and invest in high-quality headphones.

Cuz the first time the baby wakes up from a loud movie....your wife...ahem.... :a>'> ;zx :f>'> :smackbutt: :nono:

Burke Strickland

04-07-2003, 06:41 PM

Sonnie -

Makita makes some pretty serious "toys"-- those should be a lot of fun to work with on future projects. We have a store in Houston that claims to carry at least one of every product currently in the Makita line. It's cool to browse there to see what's new and sometimes even buy something. (Kind of like at the HT stores.) :>)

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Kevin P

04-07-2003, 06:51 PM

Cuz the first time the baby wakes up from a loud movie....your wife...ahem....Actually, newborns aren't affected much by noise, after all it isn't exactly quiet inside mommy for 9 months. If you continue to listen to movies/music at normal levels while baby's sleeping then baby will be used to it and will sleep right through it. If you make the house "silent" while baby sleeps, well, baby will wake up at the drop of a pin after a while. So continue to enjoy that home theater, and little Lauren will accept it as normal and will sleep right through it! ;)

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Gordon Moore

04-07-2003, 06:55 PM

Kevin.
Yeah...in theory....in practise...not so much...

every kid is different, trust me on that one. My oldest has from day one been able to sleep through a tornado. My youngest will wake on the slightest drop of a pin.

We did nothing different for the 2 including the "sleeping through noise is good" theory.

Your Mileage May Vary...books are a good starting point but you eventually throw that out the window as you begin to understand who your kids are ;)

Andrew Pratt

04-07-2003, 07:44 PM

Andrew's going to have to familiarize himself with midnight mode and invest in high-quality headphones.

Well considering she was born into this world in a movie theater with a movie playing (sleepy hollow) I think she'll be fine with it:) Actually the ceiling of the theater is insulated as well so as long as the LFE isn't shaking the house you don't hear that much upstairs. A lot of people say listening to music during birth can help take the mothers mind off the pain...we had movies playing all day which glenda really liked since she was always mentally recreating the movie scenes when she couldn't see the screen etc...one of the benefits of birthing at home I guess :LOL:

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Chris D

04-07-2003, 08:07 PM

Overall, a pretty good day today, although it doesn't compare to Pr@. I passed my checkride, and got another "exceptionally qualified."

I'M DONE!!!!!

:party: :party: :party: :party:

Finally, I can leave Oklahoma and go home, after ***4 months***. I'm going to swing by Dallas tomorrow to pick up my sports car, then load it up on a trailer and head out. I probably won't get to Washington until Friday or Saturday, stopping in Denver, Salt Lake City, and maybe somewhere else.

The Colorado Avalance won the Northwest division title last night in hockey! Anybody else out there a hockey fan? Stanley Cup playoffs start Wednesday. I'm STOKED!!!

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Sonnie Parker

04-07-2003, 09:00 PM

Yep, that's true Gordon.... headphones should do the trick. That BOOM BOOM ain't gonna sit too well with mama rockin' the baby huh? lol

I can remember Angibug taking our headphones and putting them on her stomach when she was pregnant, playing music for Chelsea.

Chelsea was a hard sleeper herself as a baby (and still is). She would go to sleep at 8pm and not wake up until 8am. We hardly ever woke up in the middle of the night with her for any reason (except maybe out of courtesy we might have changed a diaper or two). We were so concerned about her sleeping so much we questioned the doctor. Some babies do extremely well, as Chelsea did. Of course I didn't own a big bad sub back in 1990 either.

Then again, while Angibug was carrying Chelsea we did have BOOM BOOM in the vehicle..... and I was always BOOMING!

Angiebug on the other hand, is like Gordon's youngest, will wake on the slightest drop of a pin.

Burke, I was thinkin' I needed these tools, I mean toys, before I started my Florida room project. This is more like a reward I guess... lol I do like Makita. I have a 15 year old 9.6v Makita drill that has taken some serious abuse. Maybe that's why it's on it's last leg. I've got several other Makita tools as well (table saw, compound miter saw, jigsaw, sander, chain saw, ??? can't think of them all). Very pleased with them.

Congrats Chris.... I am sure you are excited to be done and able to get back home.

Well Angibug is pushing me away so later guys! Have a good evening!

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Burke Strickland

04-07-2003, 09:30 PM

Chris -

Congratulations on passing the check ride. Now have a safe drive back home!

Burke

Burke Strickland

04-07-2003, 09:56 PM

Meanwhile, here's "an offer I COULD refuse" that just came in via email. This scam is still just as lame as the last we got SPAMMED with it -- can't beliive they still send out this crap. Even more unbelievable is that some people actually fall for it and send these hucksters their business bank account numbers and other data. (A few years ago these letters were hand written and sent via regular mail -- pretty ballsy considering it is pure hokem and they could be prosecuted for postal fraud.) Email and phone number "masked" just in case some gullible lurker might be tempted. :>)

FROM THE DESK OF DR MALLAM ADAMU GEGA
EMAI-mallamadamu@xxxxxxxx.net,
TELEPHONE---999-9999999999.

ATT----PRESIDENT/CEO

Dear Sir,

RE - REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

I, Mallam Adamu Gega, a director in the Contract Award Department of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have been mandated by two of
my colleagues in the same department to seek for a trustworthy person like
you overseas to stand as a beneficiary to the outstanding contract claim of
twenty one million U.S. dollars (US$21m) only.

The outstanding sum was over-invoiced bill realized from contracts we
awarded to foreign companies some years back from the budgetary allocation
to our corporation. The contract was executed, commissioned and the
contract value paid to the contractor hiding the over-invoiced sum of
US$21m floating in the corporation's code account with the apex bank of
Nigeria, to our knowledge alone as he did over-invoiced the contract value
to our benefit as we almost due for retirement in some years to come.

Because the Nigerian Civil Service laws does not permit us to apply for the
release and receipt of the payment with our names, it became mandatory for
us to look for someone overseas to be part of the business. That is why you
have been contacted after your contact information we secured from our
Chambers of Commerce in Abuja.

We have already agreed to have the fund shared as:-
75% for us here
20% for you
5% will be set aside for the upfront expenses from both side

Be informed that this transaction is 100% free from all sorts of risk as we
had carefully planed ways of its successful end. The business needs
confidentiality throughout the few days it will last for our securities as
we are still in active service with the corporation (NNPC).

If you are interested in this proposal, reply immediately via my private
mailbox or my private telephone number: 999-999-9999999 to inform you of
the needed requirements from you to commence the application for the
release of the fund from the concerned activities here.

Waiting to hear from you urgently.

Yours sincerely,
DR MALLAM ADAMU GEGA.

Yikes!

Burke

David Meek

04-07-2003, 11:21 PM

Chris, congratulations you hot pilot you!!!! Exceptionally qualified? Awesome fella! More congrats on getting to go home - bye bye Oklahoma.

Sonnie, you are going to love those Makita tools. I'd never owned one until Jen got me a new circular saw this Christmas. It's the "titanium" model (I think) and it is hands-down the best Csaw I've ever used. Enjoy!

Pr@, Kevin and Gordon have a good point. Some household noise is actually good. Too much quiet will leave her sensitive to noise after a short time and then NO HT! Yikes!

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Bing Fung

04-07-2003, 11:22 PM

Hey Gang! :later:

Sorry about that Chris, I'll change it... Good to hear you are making tracks home again. Good job on being a super pilot!

Sonnie, that's one great looking tool kit! I love Makita tools, can't get enough of them and that looks like top line stuff you picked up.

Bing

David Meek

04-07-2003, 11:27 PM

Hi ya Bing.

Y'all have a good evening. I'm turning in. . . . :Z

12 to a thousand!

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Trevor Schell

04-08-2003, 02:20 AM

Hey Guys!!

Bing,,What happened to your classsic Avatar,,
Get that puppy back up there!! :smackbutt:

SARS is pretty scary.
We were supposed to have visitors from Toronto Office this week,
however they have been grounded for two weeks due to the SARS epidemic in Toronto.
Precautions I guess..

Shania is a Babe and then some!!
Her tummy is perfect. :yesnod:

Eduardo!!..Love that Avatar!! :boobies:

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Burke Strickland

04-08-2003, 02:25 AM

Looks like it is time...

Burke Strickland

04-08-2003, 02:25 AM

... for another...

Burke Strickland

04-08-2003, 02:25 AM

... good night's sleep. What did you think it would be? :>)

Burke Strickland

04-08-2003, 02:25 AM

Now for something completely different. :>) Travelling down Highway 59...

http://www.texasfreeway.com/houston/photos/59sw/images/us59_arches_8-sept-2001_lres.jpg

For real -- US 59 running through Houston is the busiest freeway in Texas... an apt metaphor for the traffic here in TTP IX which has already gotten us to Page 59...

http://www.texasfreeway.com/houston/photos/59sw/images/us59_buffalo.jpg

These must have been taken on a Sunday morning -- I've never seen traffic this light on 59 in these areas. :>)

And as part of NAFTA, this highway corridor will have a new number with speed limit "lickety split". :>)

http://www.texasfreeway.com/houston/photos/59sw/images/59sw_future_interstate_corridor_21-july-2001_lres.jpg

Burke

David Meek

04-08-2003, 09:05 AM

Morning gang. How are you today? I'm starting slow this morning - thank goodness for coffee.
:coffee:

Burke, Highway 69 . . . lickety split . . . :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Yeah, when DID they take those photos? 59 traffic is NEVER that light.

Shania is hot. :drool:

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Lex

04-08-2003, 09:18 AM

Gosh I hate daylight savings time on spring mornings. :??

Getting to work at what amounts to 6:30, sigh.

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04-08-2003, 09:28 AM

:tired: :tired: Morning folks, OSIT :tired: :tired:Still terribly busy at work and at home.... spring time is here and as some of you may know.... spring brings many a chores to the home front.I'd like to believe you but I brushed an inch and a half of that WHITE SH*T off my car this morning. Spring my A$$ :smackbutt: Whoever the man upstairs put in charge of the weather is horribly incompetent. I wonder if he was an executive at my company at one time... :crazy:

Cool POWER TOOL toys. I need some better ones myself. I bought a cordless drill at Home Depot a few months ago and the dang thing will only drill about 4 or 5 holes before the battery goes dead. :roll: I guess it's what I get for being cheap (poor).

Chris, you PILOT you, congrats on your successful check ride! I wouldn't mind flying with you, it sounds like you would always land safely.

Burke, I got one of those scam messages this morning too. As long as there are stupid people in the world there will always be these scams.

I'm slowly adjusting to the time change. It's nice to have it stay light until 7. I wish they kept it DST year round, in the winter is when we need it the most when it's getting dark at 4. :roll:

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David Meek

04-08-2003, 10:03 AM

I'm slowly adjusting to the time change. It's nice to have it stay light until 7. I wish they kept it DST year round, in the winter is when we need it the most when it's getting dark at 4.
Me too Kevin. I wish they'd keep it DST too. I'd much rather have the extra daylight in the evenings.

Bing Fung

04-08-2003, 10:12 AM

Hi ya Bing.

Hey Ya David ;)

Moring Gang :later:

Cool Picture Burke.. I was going to mention that traffic looked a bit light for a 6 lane freeway. Though we don't see traffic like that in ole Saskabush.

That picture reminds me of the time we were driving on the Santa Ana Freeway in LA. It was around 9:00 PM and we were in the fast lane of the freeway in my rented SuperCharged Pontiac Gran Prix, It was bumper to bumper tail lights 6 lanes wide as far as the eye could see, as well it was a wall of bumper to bumper head lights, 6 lanes wide coming at us while I was cruising at about 130kmh. Christine told me afterward that she almost hurled from all the vertego of the lights and speed in close quarters. Small town folks heh?

Trev, I took the classic avatar down for it takes too long to load for some peeps.

Have a good day all

Bing

Lex

04-08-2003, 12:23 PM

This just in.... Useful Spam??? :E

Subject: Spiders--Please read

An article by Dr. Beverly Clark, in the Journal of the United
Medical Association (JUMA), the mystery behind a recent spate of deaths has been solved. If you haven't already heard about it in the news,
here is what happened.

--Three women in North Florida, turned up at hospitals over a 5-day
period, all with the same symptoms. Fever, chills, and vomiting, followed by muscular collapse, paralysis, and finally, death. There were no outward signs of trauma. Autopsy results showed toxicity in the blood. These women did not know each other, and seemed to have nothing in common. It was discovered, however, that they had all visited the same restaurant (Olive Garden) within days of their deaths. The health department descended on the restaurant, shutting it down. The food, water, and air conditioning were all inspected and tested, to no avail.

The big break came when a waitress at the restaurant was rushed
to the hospital with similar symptoms. She told doctors that she had
been on vacation, and had only went to the restaurant to pick up her
check. She did not eat or drink while she was there, but had used the
restroom. That is when one toxicologist, remembering an article he had
read, drove out to the restaurant, went into the restroom, and lifted
the toilet seat. Under the seat, out of normal view, was a small spider.
The spider was captured and brought back to the lab, where it was
determined to be the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata)
so named because of its reddened flesh color. This spider's venom is
extremely toxic, but can take several days to take effect. They live in
cold, dark, damp, climates, and toilet rims provide just the right
atmosphere.

Several days later a lawyer from Jacksonville showed up at a hospital
emergency room. Before his death, he told the doctor, that he had been
away on business, had taken a flight from Indonesia, changing planes in
Singapore,before returning home.

He did not visit (Olive Garden), while there. He did, as did all of the
other victims, have what was determined to be a puncture wound, on his
right buttock. Investigators discovered that the flight he was on had
originated in India.

The Civilian Aeronautics Board (CAB) ordered an immediate inspection the toilets of all flights from India, and discovered the Two-Striped
Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata) spider's nests on 4 different planes!

It is now believed that these spiders can be anywhere in the country.
So please, before you use a public toilet, lift the seat to check for spiders. It can save your life! And please pass this on to everyone you care about.

Officer Sylvia Steele
University of North Florida
Science Dept
4567 St. Johns Bluff Road, South
Jacksonville, FL 32224-2645

Fact or fiction? Read on:

MALE:
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/spiders/pics/1133.jpg

FEMALE:
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/spiders/pics/1132.jpg

Classification: Family Salticidae, Jumping Spiders
Habitat: Foliage in wooded environments.
Female: 9-11mm.
Male: 8-9 mm.
Distribution: Singapore (new record), Indonesia, India.

Another variant:
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/spiders/text/Telamonia_festiva.htm

BUTT, in the end:

http://conspiracies.miningco.com/library/blspider-2002.htm

It looks like a hoax after all. Here I was going to say the story gave new meaning to the phrase "watch your a$$". :LOL:

Lex

Lex

04-08-2003, 12:25 PM

Oh, and thanks Burke for widescreen h@ll from post 1. :twisted:

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Burke Strickland

04-08-2003, 12:29 PM

Oh, and thanks Burke for widescreen h@ll from post 1.
Just wait 'til they widen it to 10 lanes. :>) OK, I've swapped out the "widescreen" shot for a P&S one . :>)

And thanks for introducing and debunking a classic "urban legend" hoax all in one post! Arachniphobes of the world, unite! :>)

Burke

Sonnie Parker

04-08-2003, 12:58 PM

Good Morning fella's!

Thanks on the tools.... I'm sure I'll enjoy using them.

Burke, you guys have 10 lane highways in Texas..... wow! We are lucky to see 4 lanes here in BAMA. lol Interesting flip pics anyway.

Kevin, you mean it isn't Spring time where you are. I thought Spring was the same for everyone.... like March 21st or there abouts. Call your weatherman and tell him you want Spring. lol

Yes! DST year round would be absolutely lovely! I haven't heard of a good reason for changing it in the first place. Someone told me it's so the school kids won't have to get on the bus during dark. Heck, I see buses dropping kids off in the dark during the winter. What gives?

Scary spider story.... now for a true one. Lady friend visited us and went to use our toilet and we heard a loud scream. Ran to find out what was going on and sure enough a huge spider was on the toilet seat. She stated when she lifted up the cover lid the spider was sitting on the seat. What a wicked looking spider it was. Needless to say we flushed it down the toilet. Funny thing is that Chelsea wouldn't use that toilet for several weeks thinking the spider was gonna come out of the toilet and bite her.

I don't like spiders and snakes. It's about snake charming time at the pond. Wonder how many I can destroy this Spring? hee hee

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04-08-2003, 01:32 PM

I've found the easiest way to adjust to DST is to have a baby that doesn't give a rats a$$ about time:) When you're up every few hours changing dipers an hour here or there doesn't mean too much :LOL:

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04-08-2003, 01:34 PM

Kevin you should move to Manitoba its going to 21C (70F) tomorrow:)

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04-08-2003, 01:39 PM

Gordon Moore

04-08-2003, 01:40 PM

Awwww comeon guys...spiders get such a bad rap.

Here's Canada's BIGGEST BADDEST spider....we call it the dock spider ('cuz that's where it's usually found). It's aka the fishing spider (Dolomedes sp:tenebrosus). We get these at the cottage every year. Can grow up to 3 inches in length and here it is affectionately feeding on a minnow:

http://animalpicturesarchive.com/animal/PREVIEW/FishingSpider_J01-Hunted_a_fish-s160.jpg

these spiders can skim acoss water and are a jumping spider...if they were poisonous they could probably take the tarantula or the wolf spider...they're aggressive (when provoked...usually they're pretty harmless) and scare the hell out of you when lying on the dock and it's looking down on you...

here's a better look:
http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/spiderweb/SpiderPictures/Pisauridae/Dolomedes%20tenebrosus.jpg

personally I think they're rather cool 8)

David Meek

04-08-2003, 02:57 PM

...you guys have 10 lane highways in Texas..... wow!

Sonnie -- one of our freeways, a congested stretch of I-10 dubbed the "Katy Freeway" (since it goes from Houson west through Katy, Texas), is going to be widened to FOURTEEN (14) lanes over the next few years (plus six feeder road lanes). Citizens groups are trying to get the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to modify its plans to place most of the freeway below grade and incorporate provision for a light rail commuter line and green space into the plan. (The plan already includes toll lanes which is supposed to expedite express traffic while helping to finance the project.) Other critics of the plan say even 14 lanes aren't enough! We'll see how this works out.

Burke

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Bing Fung

04-08-2003, 03:43 PM

:yeah:

Bing

Bing Fung

04-08-2003, 03:56 PM

Well Silver Dragon will not start windows for some reason. This morning as I was posting on here I tried to run some app by clicking on the task bar. It did not launch and basically seemed like a dead task bar.

Eventually some error message came up saying it was not a vvalid blah, blah, blah 32$#%&* app, or something like that. I clciked on the app again and then after some time it stated the application cannot be found or has been moved.. I looked at the drive it was on and it was not there in File explorer. Which is weird for the other partion of the drive was there. It's the Western Digital drive that has 2 partions, yet only one was visiable.

I decided to restart the system and it held the splash screen forever which was strange, for usually this is faster than a blink of an eye. Anyway WinXP started it's load screen and just when it get to the point where the Welcome screen comes up, the PC just sits there with a blank screen.. Nothing... Monitors show it's still getting a signal, but the screens are black.

So I reboot and go into the bios to have a quick look, the Primary IDE channels are not showing the drives... I check all the cables to make sure they are tight, and as I'm adjusting, all the drives (I think) start making some kind of clunking sound.. I let the system run the boot coarse and leave for work.. I tell Christine if the welcome screen does not comeup after 1.2 hour shut it down... Well she shut it down.

So I'll be looking into that tonight. It seems somthing is hanging the start of windows and it may be the drives on the IDE channel 1. The OS is loaded on the RAID array and it seems it wants to boot, start and run, but something is tripping it up just after windows loads.

I'll have to try Safe mode tonight.

Guess I may be installing that new Mobo and CPU sooner than I thought :(

Bing

Lex

04-08-2003, 04:09 PM

Bing, don't sound good. :evil:

on the bright side, Trevor's learned so much about PCs lately, I bet he can help you fix it! :LOL:

Seriously, sorry bout that, but it seems the nature of the beast, ask me, Paul and a few others around here.

Lex

Gordon Moore

04-08-2003, 04:20 PM

Hey Bing....bummer...once you get that puppy in Safe Mode give BootVis a try...it may show what's (not) going on.

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/BootVis.asp

Actually anyone running XP can benefit from Bootvis BTW.
Is that RAID0 or RAID1? I'm guessing 0 since you are a performance hound.

Eduardo

04-08-2003, 04:22 PM

Finally. I think I have caught up on ALL my post reading. Whew took a long time. Hope everybody has a great day. I can only a short response cause I have a lot of work. First off, I finished my cabinet. I'll be posting pictures soon but it turned out great for my first piece of furniture. All my equipment fits perfectly and no wires showing.

Chris - Congratulations. Never had a doubt in my mind.
Kevin - funny antidotes. Sorry about the crappy weather. I know NY is getting 1.5" of snow today. Strange weather.
Trev - Thanks about the avatar. I knew you guys would like it. :D
Lex - DST is hard to adjust. I stay up later now but still have to get up early.
Burke - thanks for the flip. But glad I'm not there. :twisted:
Sonnie - glad your back. Nice new tools. Personally I like Portet-Gable.
Pr@ - Spiders don't bother me either. When we moved into our house last June, I found a black widow under our deck furniture. This is after we moved it and luckily no one got bitten. it was huge about an inch long.
Dave - sorry about the crappy drive.
Bing - that's bad new about your pc. At least you have the parts to rebuild. :grab:

well back to work. Hopely I'll get some time to post later. Cya

Hi to everyone else too.

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Kevin P

04-08-2003, 04:27 PM

I'd try popping and reseating the RAM, a lot of times hanging apps or "invalid Win32 application" errors are caused by RAM problems. After that, it's probably the hard drives or IDE channel(s). Lastly, check to see that the CPU and HSF are seated properly.

Or just get a new Dell! :-y

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Andrew Pratt

04-08-2003, 04:46 PM

Took lauren on her first shopping trip today...Glenda, Lauren and I went to sears for a maternity item, then to the drug store and then off to some of the optical places to see about getting me some glasses. Found a few pairs I liked so as soon as we confirm glenda's optical coverage we'll likely be putting in an order.

My new Cichlid seems to be a bossy little bastard:) He's chasing the electric yellows around the tank. I added some mondo grass yesterday so at least they have a few more hidding places. Still I want to add even more plants yet...

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Gordon Moore

04-08-2003, 05:15 PM

Hey Pr@ quit making a spectacle of yourself!...Hi-Yuck :LOL: :rf

Sorry I know that sucked nut but I had to...I just did.

"A RONSTER!"

Eduardo

04-08-2003, 05:43 PM

back before the afternoon ends.

Gordon - bad pun :evil: :twisted:
Pr@- having fun showing off the new baby? I would..

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Burke Strickland

04-08-2003, 07:00 PM

Yeah, and guess who's going to be driving the Katy freeway from Katy to the Summit (almost 50 miles round-trip) while all this construction (7-10 years worth) is going on? Uh huh.
That's what you get for moving out to the 'burbs next to a wild life refuge, when you could have spent the same gazillion bucks and moved into the "wild life refuge" that is West U -- right across the freeway from the Summit. :>) (Of course you would have been moving into a SMALLER house instead of a larger one from what you had before.) They say the construction will be "transparent" -- no additional traffic delays -- which we know is a transpartent lie! :>)

Burke

Kevin P

04-08-2003, 07:18 PM

In NH there are two seasons, winter and road construction, and this year they're overlapping--winter hasn't ended yet but they're already starting construction all along the stretch I commute on. Oh what fun... NOT.

Gordon, bad pun. :LOL:

Eduardo, I like the wild avatar! :boobies:

Not too many spiders 'round these parts, we get 'em in the house but they're small harmless ones.

Pr@, taking the baby shopping already. Just wait till she's a little older, then you'll want to leave her home! :twisted:

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04-08-2003, 07:32 PM

http://images.chron.com/content/chronicle/comics/archive/2003/4/8/Ziggy.968.g.gif
Ziggy -- April 8, 2003

Kevin P

04-08-2003, 07:55 PM

This is funny! If I had a bird that did this (http://www.unisolv.com/images/bird.htm), I could quit my job! :B

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Eduardo

04-08-2003, 08:41 PM

Kevin - That was a hillarious bird story.

Here's a pic of my cabinet I built. There's also couple others on my website showing more detail.

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Andrew Pratt

04-08-2003, 08:44 PM

Gordon I thought my puns were bad ;)

Kevin I'm sure in a few years she'll be leaving me behind to go to the mall :roll:

Was out in the yard with the notebook and I've got a connection everywhere in the yard...albeit at a low connection rate near the back fence...but that's 50 feet away from the house and the routers in the basement...not to shabby IMO :T

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Jeff Kowerchuk

04-08-2003, 08:49 PM

Hey guys! Andrew - what kind of cichlid did you get? I got some plants and a new pleco for my tank on Sunday. Poor pleco is already beaten up from the other guys. I've had one heck of a time trying to keep those in my tank. I picked out as large a one as possible...time will tell if he can survive or not! :) These cichlids are aggressive suckers...but so nice to look at!!

Bing, that sux about the computer. Never nice when the damn things don't work.

Trev...get your Sony monitor yet?? :)

Anyway, back to the books for me...

Andrew Pratt

04-08-2003, 08:50 PM

Edurdo that's some Avatar you've got there 8O I'm not bothered by it but I do think we need to tone down some of these given the public nature of our board. Its bad enough have nearly naked babes in the TTP for those of us looking at work but our avatars are visible in every post...

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04-08-2003, 08:55 PM

Jeff I got a zebra...he's a black and blue stripped fella but he's also got a mean streak:)

None of my africans bother the pleco though...guess you didn't get a big enough one :twisted:

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Eduardo

04-08-2003, 08:55 PM

making a run

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Eduardo

04-08-2003, 08:56 PM

for it

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Eduardo

04-08-2003, 08:57 PM

http://home.nc.rr.com/ejimenez/image_data/cabinet4.jpg

Andrew - your right. I changed my avatar.

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Bing Fung

04-08-2003, 09:27 PM

Well go figure... I come home, press the power on switch and the darn thing starts business as usual...

I hate when this happens, it now becomes more of a witch hunt. I think it has something to do with the IDE channel. I may have faulty IDE cords, I have never trusted them :roll:

Thanks for the suggestions so far guys, I'll take heed!

Supper time!

Bing

Kevin P

04-08-2003, 09:48 PM

Eduardo, your pictures aren't working. Try referencing the .jpg file instead of the .html file, like this:

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Lex

04-08-2003, 10:42 PM

Number 9 Number 9 Number 9.

Eduardo, you call that a run? From 34, that's a walk at best. :LOL:

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Trevor Schell

04-08-2003, 11:04 PM

Hey Guys!!

Well ,,I disagree on the Avatar and babe postings..
We are all a bunch of men here and can handle that
type of stuff. Besides , this is TTP were anything goes..
There shouldn't be a need to Tip Toe around here..
Correct me if I am wrong!!

:letitout:

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04-08-2003, 11:19 PM

Well, I understand where Andrew's coming from, and Avatars we do need to at least think about it. But I will admit, I enjoyed Bing's and Trevor's. Eduardo's sort of made my neck hurt though, lol.

How about this, during times when your posting mostly to TTP, let er' rip. But no total n@dity. But during periods when your posting more around the forum use something a little less up front. For those that don't want them visible on the screen, turn graphics off in your profile. I think that works, doesn't it?

Just use good judgement, that's all. But Bing, I got to see "spank me" a bit more sometime. :)

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Eduardo

04-08-2003, 11:22 PM

Kevin - Thanks. Your right I brain farted. Actually I was in the middle of cooking and talking to my account doing my taxes.

Lex - Listening to some Pink Floyd. 8)

Trev - I can understand Pr@'s point. I don't think he was really talking about in here but more so on the generel forums. It is a good to set the right example. Anyways, as long as you guys saw that's all that matters. :D

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Eduardo

04-08-2003, 11:26 PM

Whoops - sorry Bing. Glad the pc is up and running. Better get a back up. ;)

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Greg Stone

04-08-2003, 11:51 PM

Eduardo - good job on the cabinet! Nice flip too.

Pr@ is not wasting any time showing off his new joy! Glad everyone is doing so well.

Bing - hope you can fix the problem, something like that would bug me, and make me feel that it is about to happen again at any time... :evil:

Lex - I like Bing and Trev's avatars as well. Missed the one Eduardo had up. :evil:

Went and saw my youngest in a school play tonight, that was good stuff. Makes me want to upgrade my camcorder though, to one with image stabilization and the pop out viewing window. Will need to hold off until we close on our next house though, and that is still looking like the last week of May. Anyone want to volunteer and help load and unload the U-Haul? ;)

Jeff Kowerchuk

04-09-2003, 12:05 AM

Andrew - was that a demasoni you got? Those are really nice looking fish,,but aggressive!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

I started with three in my tank and now have only one left. Apparently that's what they do in small tanks...fight until only one survives. So nice to look at though.

Bing, glad to hear everything worked ok with the comp. I know what you mean though, very annoying when stuff like that happens - would like to know WHAT caused it!! A few weeks ago my computer wouldn't turn on it at all. Rushed out and bought a new power supply, assuming that was the problem. Turned out it wasn't - my motherboard was shorting on the case, thanks to some particularly long solder leads on the back. AND there was a no-return policy on the power supply. :evil:

Anyone need a high-quality Enermax, never used power supply? :)

Have a good night folks.

Jeff Kowerchuk

04-09-2003, 12:14 AM

Eduardo...sweet cabinet. What kind of wood is that?

Trev - where's the Sony widescreen monitor?? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Bing Fung

04-09-2003, 12:39 AM

Whoa, Andrew has a baby girl and suddenly he views women differently.... HA HA!! (Nelson Laugh) :fart2:

EJ, Nice cabinent!

Trev, we are a bunch of men here, last I counted ;) I seen EJ's but I didn't think it was that bad, I think Andrew is ragging on your nekkid animation and my "Spankme" heheh :rofl: :smackbutt: heheh

Lex, just for you buddy
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Greg, for a plane ticket, I'll help!

Jeff, is the Power supply a 341W, 431W and how much-ski?

Scary spiders back there, I can look at spiders, but if they got on me I'd freak!

Thanks for the support of the PC guys, I think it was a loose power connector plugged in to the drive. I changed the IDE cabled back to the flat ribbon type, didn't help, however I heard the drive spin down and then back up again. The molex seemed a tad loose so I pinched them with needle nose pliers so it's snug again... I hope that's it ;x( ;x( ;x(

"Give me a Dell or give me an abacus" P wrote:
Or just get a new Dell! :-y

KJP

Humm... Great Idea, why didn't I think of that!! :huh: Dell's Suxx ;)

Bing

Eduardo

04-09-2003, 12:49 AM

Missed the one Eduardo had up http://home.nc.rr.com/ejimenez/images/pic02134.gif

Jeff - its oak plywood. I veneered the front of the shelvs and used matching trim for the top, bottom and vertical supports. I used Red Oak stain with 4 coats of poly.

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Lex

04-09-2003, 01:14 AM

Thanx Bing, "Smack", "Ohhh", "Ohhh!" :LOL:

Eduardo, nice rack! You did a great job. I listened to Dark Side of the Moon recently on my Extrema. :T

Greg, good to see you drop in. I'm with you pal, I'm with you, but in spirit only, I fear, lol.

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04-09-2003, 08:50 AM

good morning after good night.

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David Meek

04-09-2003, 09:42 AM

Hi guys ('n gals if any), happy Wednesday! :sn :sn :sn (blatant Erik rip-off)

Greg, does the motion-stabilizer "wobble" like the binoculars that have it? Cool idea tho'.

Bing, that's wierd about the 'puter. Is there an issue with IDE cables in general?

Eduardo, nice job on the cabinet! :T Did you leave cable-run holes in the back?

Avatars? Hey, my sexy basset hound is enough for any REAL MAN. :banana: Seriously though, I promise, having a daughter WILL make you re-evaluate lots of things in your life. I know it happened to me. My greatest fear now is that Katheryn will meet a younger version of me - in high school and college the phrase "p***y marauder" comes to mind to describe me. :?

Anyway, hi to everyone I missed - have a good hump day. :hump:

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Bing Fung

04-09-2003, 09:56 AM

Morning all :later:

Lex, "it hurts so good..." heheh

David, it's been said that the Rounded IDE cables can create errors, although I can't substatiate it, I did not trust them for they didn't seem to really plug in solidly.

Bing

Kevin P

04-09-2003, 10:02 AM

Morning folks, or "hump day" as some of the younger folk like to say. :hump:

Here's a crazy idea I came up with for the avatars, if Mats is willing to program it... how about the ability to have a different avatar in each forum? Then we could have "conservative" avatars in the rest of the forum and wild ones in TTP, or I could have speakers in Audio Hideout, a TV in Home Theater, a projector in Front Projection, an Outlaw in Club Rotel :oops: :smackbutt: hey hey I was just kidding :bash: ;)

Bing, hopefully it was just a loose power connector. At work I have a Dell Abacus, or at least it seems that way when it takes 5 minutes to boot up. :Z

Nice cabinet Eduardo. You should post your "other" avatar here so Greg can see it. :boobies:

David, the stabilizers in camcorders are digital, they don't wobble. My Sony has the Steadyshot feature and it works well.

Oh well, time to pretend to work for a while... later folks, KJP

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Bing Fung

04-09-2003, 10:21 AM

"Cave Computer" P wrote:At work I have a Dell Abacus, or at least it seems that way when it takes 5 minutes to boot up. :Z

:rofl:

Ha, I have a Dell 200MHz Pentium Pro at work as well with a 15" bubble monitor. Pretty sad when most Ipaqs are even faster than a desktop.

Bing

David Meek

04-09-2003, 10:22 AM

how about the ability to have a different avatar in each forum?

What's the downside bandwidth-wise? It seems like HTG is getting slower to load up - even on broadband.

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04-09-2003, 10:27 AM

First of all... I didn't read Kevin's post :)
2nd.. I hope speed is a bit better again. Noticed that the Firewall became a bottleneck on the speed and after I did a reset of it the speed was back. Just have to do this every now and then... and we should be fairly ok in the future I hope

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Kevin P

04-09-2003, 12:18 PM

I discovered I can summarize my life in 5 lines of computer code:while (not dead) {
get(up)
goto(work)
goto(home)
goto(bed)
}

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Eduardo

04-09-2003, 12:24 PM

Morning Gents. I see David and Kevin have already kicked off Hump Day. :boobies: :hump:

Lex - I got it wrong you were listening to the Beatles. duh
Eduardo, nice rack Have you been looking in my bathroom window again. :wedgie:

E - Have a good trip to Reno- Play a few hands of Black Jack for me. 8)

Kevin - that idea is crazy talk. :crazy:

Mats - I've notice a slightly better load time.

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Gordon Moore

04-09-2003, 12:34 PM

Morning all,

Andrew... :huh: you didn't think that was very "punny".... ;) :P

Grooooaaaann....sorry

Experiencing a relaxed day for once that's allowing me to clean up some internal projects....A new server should be here next week to configure and I'll have a brand spanking new 19" monitor from dell to play with... :D it's going all the way up to 21C today so I'm definately going to have to take an extended walk downtown.

Kevin...enough with the spaghetti code... m'kay? ;)

Adios Amigos :later:

Lex

04-09-2003, 01:33 PM

Kevin, what about the PHB subroutine? You know the one that's in an infinite loop? LOL.

Eduardo, haha.

Mats, got the dual avatar profile up and running yet?

Lex

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George Bellefontaine

04-09-2003, 01:43 PM

Haven't checked here for a couple of days and suddenly all this stuff about censorship. I'm with Trevor, but understand where Mr. Pratt is coming from. Keep it to TTP and everything will be okay. But if you stop posting babes, I will never visit TTP again. :evil: So there.

On the serious side, becoming a Dad for the first time does change one's outlook, doesn't it, Mr. Pratt. A belated congrats on the new addition.

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Kevin P

04-09-2003, 01:44 PM

Kevin, what about the PHB subroutine? You know the one that's in an infinite loop? LOL.You mean this one?void PHB(void) { }Not even an infinite loop, it's nothing! 8O But if you want the infinite loop version, here it is:void PHBThought(void) {
while (PHB == stupid);
}From the "this would have popped up on my desktop at home if I wasn't running a firewall" department, I present you my latest "catch":From: Jenny
To: You (I really like it when strangers address me as "You", like "Hey, you!"... NOT!)

Hi, my name is Jen

I found you by checking all the members online
in my area & I would LOVE to meet you someday! (members online in my area!? I traced your IP and I'm not in your area!)

I love meeting new people and chatting online! (So you're looking to meet people who run Win2K or XP and don't have a firewall?)
I even have a webcam so we can chat with video! (Oh goody :roll: )

My pics, profile & personal chatroom is located at:

www.se%yh0tpr0n.com (URL obfuscated by moi--use at your own risk)I have to admit though, the spelling and grammar was pretty good for a p0%n spam...

But if you stop posting babes, I will never visit TTP again. :evil: So there.See my tasteless spam above, I'm sure you'll find something at that URL... :crazy:

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Andrew Pratt

04-09-2003, 02:34 PM

My post about the avatars has nothing to do with lauren just looking at the guide site as a whole and not just the TTP. If you want to post girlie picks (please do!) lets just keep them in the TTP and not in the other forums...and since Avatars are global across all forums I think we should keep those fairly clean. Yes this is a male dominated hobby but that doesn't mean we can't at least try to attract a few ladies now and then ;)

We had a pretty sleepless night in winnipeg last night with lauren not wanting to sleep much ...pretty much spent most of the night feeding, changing and burping her while she cried...didn't really get to sleep until 6 am so I'm pretty tired. Ah the joys of parenthood....still one look at her pretty face and you feel much better.

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Kevin P

04-09-2003, 03:01 PM

We had a pretty sleepless night in winnipeg last night with lauren not wanting to sleep much ...We'll be thinking of you while we sleep soundly through the night tonight... :twisted: ;)

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Gordon Moore

04-09-2003, 03:05 PM

Andrew...gas sucks :fart2:
you guys will figure it out. It gets better....eventually :( Is your wife going the formula route (I'm guessing no...since you had a homebirth)...if au natural...tell mom to lay off the onions...basically anything that affects her affects the milk and passes it on to junior...

Okay that's enough of that talk....Lex will be turning purple soon :puker:

Hey any Oracle gurus out there???? :huh:

Anyone have a good "rule of thumb" for estimating the high-water-mark for the max connected sessions to Oracle....

besides installing the statspack....anyone...anyone...Bueller?

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Andrew Pratt

04-09-2003, 03:09 PM

Jeff I think mine is a Maylandia (http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/estherae.htm) which look very similar to the Demasoni. Problem is these africans don't do well with plants so I may have to rethink how I was going to set up these two tanks. Ideally I'd sell the Hex and get a nice large square tank for the africans or move the hex to the nursery and get a larger tank for the livingroom. What have you got in your tank Jeff?

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David Meek

04-09-2003, 03:31 PM

Gordon,

For a standard Oracle RDBMS v8.1 the value for SESSIONS or LICENSE_MAX_SESSIONS is generally:

1.1 x (Number Of Processes) + 5

For multi-threaded it's generally:

1.1 x (Number Of Connections)

Your high-water will depend a lot on the type of instance. If you want to check your parameters, they're in the V$LICENSE view. Use this SQL to check:

SELECT
sessions_max s_max,
sessions_warning s_warning,
sessions_current s_current,
sessions_highwater s_high,
users_max
FROM
v$license;

If you don't have an instance up and running yet, I'd go with AT LEAST 33-50% as a high-water mark. More would be safer, but you don't want to over-spec your through-put.

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 03:34 PM

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 03:34 PM

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 03:34 PM

xyz

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 03:34 PM

SARS Carriers?

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/images/1528864914

Health authorities in Hong Kong are speculating that common household cockroaches carried the SARS virus around an apartment complex where a large number of people contracted the disease apparantly without being in direct contact with any other person who already had it. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-639590,00.html Maybe it's time to go to Home Depot and get some heavy duty bug spray before that happens around here! (Roaches have long been suspected of being disease carriers, but this rachets it up another notch.)

Burke

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 03:34 PM

x = (y(2)/2) * i(2) - 1

David Meek

04-09-2003, 03:39 PM

I KNEW I could smell a sniper . . . :k>'> Burke your image is broken.

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David Meek

04-09-2003, 03:42 PM

Gordon, check post #32 on the last page for some Oracle info.

Is that what you were looking for?

Gordon Moore

04-09-2003, 03:51 PM

Cool David ...thanks I guessing x is max sessions.

That value from v$license will be rather dynamic as users and processes initiate more sessions. Would parallel executions (processes or queries) create more sessions and affect that number?

DB is 8.1.6 and 8.1.7

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 03:58 PM

Burke your image is broken.
Hit refresh -- new image should work better, even though it really isn't quite as effective visually as the first one.

You wouldn't believe how many pop-up ads I got when first going to the site where I found the images -- swarming on screen almost like ... cockroaches. :>)

Burke

David Meek

04-09-2003, 04:02 PM

Would parallel executions (processes or queries) create more sessions and affect that number

If you have parallelling enabled it won't create more sessions, but it will create more processes which would impact your max sessions in a multi-threaded environment. You can limit the number of parallel processes on a statement at the statement level by using the PARALLEL parameter. If you want to set a limit of 4 parallel processes on a specific table use:

ALTER TABLE employee PARALLEL 4;

If you want to set a value for parallel operations per cpu, use the following variable:

PARALLEL_THREADS_PER_CPU

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Gordon Moore

04-09-2003, 04:08 PM

Alrighty then....parallel queries has been more of a concept lately than actual practise but now that one of our clients will be getting a quad server....away we go. Thanks for the insight!

David Meek

04-09-2003, 04:17 PM

Gordon, was that clear? Or did I lapse to far into Oraspeak? :)

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Kevin P

04-09-2003, 04:24 PM

Ok, even I'm a geek and this talk is going over my head, but then I admit I'm not an Oracle guru.

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Gordon Moore

04-09-2003, 04:24 PM

Lowly developer here...you know....strange logic pretty screens....wishes the database ran on it's own with no intervention....

So I took another look at what you wrote...

So when I connect ... 1 session will open 1 process. But say my query is parallel it will create more than 1 process which you can limit. Correct?

any app created will open a session and, because it's running, creates an os process.

So how do several processes affect the max_session value?

Gordon Moore

04-09-2003, 04:26 PM

Sorry guys...this is coming to an end soon I promise.

David I'm still pretty much with you...I think :?

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 04:29 PM

Or did I lapse to far into Oraspeak?
The ancient Oracle was known to speak in riddles. Fast forward to the present, and nothing has changed. :>)

Burke

David Meek

04-09-2003, 04:31 PM

So when I connect ... 1 session will open 1 process. But say my query is parallel it will create more than 1 process which you can limit. Correct?
Yep. Again, as long as parallelism is enabled. If it's not, you get one process per session that executes sequentially.

any app created will open a session and, because it's running, creates an os process.
Yep.

So how do several processes affect the max_session value?
They won't affect the session count - past the initial one created at login - as long as the sub-processes themselves don't initiate another login. But that's easy to check - just see if it calls SQL.

One question: You aren't running multi-threaded are you?

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David Meek

04-09-2003, 04:35 PM

ANCIENT!?!?!?!? I think not. 44 maybe, but not ancient. :D

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Gordon Moore

04-09-2003, 04:42 PM

Multi-threaded....no

Now that our client was going to quad I have to wander over and reload oracle. Most of the install is default with some minor tweaks to max open cursors ..sort_area_size things like that....course I was reading an interesting article on tweaking the SGA to optimize allocated memory...it was something to the effect of:

system RAM - PGA (for x users) - RAM(20% windows reserved) = max SGA to avoid swapping.

User = sessions but I also know that each user can fire up sqlplus, forms, etc...creating additional sessions.

Lex

04-09-2003, 04:47 PM

Burke, what's the equation? First time I looked it was "X", next it was "X"= :blah:

:LOL:

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Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 04:50 PM

ANCIENT!?!?!?!? I think not. 44 maybe, but not ancient.
Actually, by "ancient Oracle", I was referring to the Greek Oracle at Dephi which dates from 1400 B.C. -- at which time, Delphi was considered to be the "center of the world" -- so even then, Oracle thought the Universe circled around them. :>) http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/7_p1.html
The Oracle's cryptic messages were delivered in this early computer room: http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/img/background/illustrations/7.jpg

what's the equation?
I'm afraid you'll have to ask the Oracle to solve that one. :>)

Burke

David Meek

04-09-2003, 04:52 PM

Yeah, users = sessions is a decent starting point, but based on your input I'd give myself a little more room to manuever. I'd go sessions = 1.1 or 1.2 x users.

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Lex

04-09-2003, 04:52 PM

Ok, Mats, I am going to repeat this here.

The "Who's online" is not an accurate indicator of who's actually online, because you don't have to log in to post using your cookie settings.

I think this is more a detriment to getting new people to sign up when they say, oh, there's only 3-4 people online, or only Guest, and don't join because they don't think anyone is around.

Please hunt for a solution for you to automatically be logged in as soon as your cookie is used, and you stay logged in until you don't post for 15 minutes or 30 minutes... ok?

Agree guys? It is my opinion that this feature needs to go away if we can't make it work like that. Either that, or we require you to log in before you post.

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Kevin P

04-09-2003, 04:54 PM

Me thinks these Oracle gurus forgot that there is this handy feature in the forum called "starting a new thread"... I know it's a foreign concept to TTPers where it seems like there is only one thread that goes on forever and ever... think of it as multi-threading! :LOL:

There's even a forum for geeky stuff like this... "Tower of Power" ;) And you guys though that TTP was all that exists here. 8O

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David Meek

04-09-2003, 04:55 PM

Actually, by "ancient Oracle", I was referring to the Greek Oracle at Dephi which dates from 1400 B.C. -- at which time, Delphi was considered to be the "center of the world" -- so even then, Oracle thought the Universe circled around them.
Actually, version 1.01a dates back to 1403 BC. The great one's name then was Larryisius Elissonius and it was the solar system that revolved around Oracle at the time. :D

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Gordon Moore

04-09-2003, 04:57 PM

Cute... :LOL:

David thanks for your input....really appreciate the insight.

Kevin...testy testy... ;) we'll bring the geek speak down to a more universal level...I'll start: "Windows sucks...Linux Rulzs"

Lex why not make the "Log me on automatically on each visit" not an option but a default?

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Kevin P

04-09-2003, 05:01 PM

Ok Lex, I have no idea of what you're talking about. Are you saying we should log into the forum using our cookie so our name appears on the online list? I just tried that and it didn't do anything (my name still doesn't appear), but then Junkbuster blocks cookies by default.

Perhaps the online list should include anyone who's browsed recently with a logged-in cookie, or anyone who's posted with or without a cookie within the past (X) minutes. Then it would be an "accurate" indication of who's online.

Not everybody necessarily wants to stay "logged in", say if they're on a PC that more than one person can access.

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Lex

04-09-2003, 05:20 PM

More or less Kevin, I think what I said was pretty clear. at the bottom of the main forum page, is a login section. If you log in there, and you don't have cookie eater on, I think you should show in the online list. I would like it to be transparent, as soon as you post, you show up for a pre-determined amount of time.

Oracle talk is fine here, h@ll, we talk about everything else. :) Not many in tower give a r@ts @ss about Oracle anyways.

Lex

Chris D

04-09-2003, 05:32 PM

Hi guys... got my sports car from Dallas last night, and she's all loaded up on my trailer. I was going to take off today, but I didn't get back until 6AM after the drive. So I'm going to take off tomorrow.

Kevin, where in the world do you get all your little sayings for you sig line?
8O

Burke, in your equation, were you trying to reduce it to -(y(2)/2) -1? Or are you using "i" as not the mathematical concept of the square root of -1, like I'm used to? I was a math major in college, and that stuff always gets my math geek blood flowing.

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04-09-2003, 05:33 PM

Look out folks, Kevin the geek has a new addition in his line of exclusive Stealth(tm) products in the works... stay tuned...Kevin, where in the world do you get all your little sayings for you sig line? 8O Most of them are quotes that came in a fortune cookie program in my distribution of Linux. I made up a few of my own, or got them in emails or off web pages too.

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Pat

04-09-2003, 06:29 PM

Hey there fellas

Just checking in...
Now checking out...

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Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 07:17 PM

in your equation, were you trying to reduce it to -(y(2)/2) -1? Or are you using "i" as not the mathematical concept of the square root of -1, like I'm used to?
Actually I was trying to post a picture of a hot babe in a fast sports car using a new laptop computer to write spaghetti code (or was it a fast babe in a hot sports car doing a lap dance while eating Spaghetti-Os ?) :>) and SOMEONE hijacked the car, er, post with something a bit more cerebral. :>)

Now checking out...
Anything in particular that you are checking out? :>)

Burke

Andrew Pratt

04-09-2003, 08:36 PM

Had a nice afternoon working in the back yard as glenda and lauren slept...it got to plus 21C (70F) today which was great.

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Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 08:45 PM

it got to plus 21C (70F)
Incredible! Winnepeg was as warm as Houston, today! (In fact, right now, it is 18.33 C (65 F) locally.) Glad you enjoyed the balmy spring weather.

Burke

Eduardo

04-09-2003, 09:03 PM

or was it a fast babe in a hot sports car doing a lap dance while eating Spaghetti-Os ?) :>) :rofl: you mean something like this :boobies: :driving: :tomato: <-for the spaghetti

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Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 09:06 PM

That's it exactly! :>)

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 09:06 PM

But now we must press...

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 09:06 PM

onward!

Burke Strickland

04-09-2003, 09:06 PM

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Rumor has it there is a car somewhere in this photo. (Extra points if you guess where she's hidden the cans of Spaghetti-Os.) :>)

Burke

Mats

04-09-2003, 09:29 PM

Ok, Mats, I am going to repeat this here.

The "Who's online" is not an accurate indicator of who's actually online, because you don't have to log in to post using your cookie settings.

Online counter changed to display number of guests (none logged in visitors). Hope this works better.

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Jeff Kowerchuk

04-09-2003, 09:35 PM

Hey Guys!

Wow, some amazing weather here. It was actually HOT in the sun today!! Of course, it'll probably snow next week...

Andrew, I've got two electric blues, one electric yellow, another yellow one (can't remember the name, but I love it), a demasoni, and a pleco. Africans are nice to look at, but I love a planted tank and Africans DO NOT go well with plants. I'd really like to get a massive tank, fill it with plants, and then put a large school of tetras in - maybe a whole shitload of neons and black ghosts (I think thats what they are called). I think Africans are a bit too aggressive for my tastes. Want my Africans Andrew? :)

Ciao guys!

Andrew Pratt

04-09-2003, 10:34 PM

Jeff maybe we can work out a trade since I need to off load a few fish I have in the nursery 10 gallon tank. How large is the tank you have now?

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Andrew Pratt

04-09-2003, 10:44 PM

FYI Dell has a $100 off again on their notebooks...I managed to configure a base 8500 for under $2200...damn I'd have bought that instead of my 5100 if I could have gotten that price when I ordered it :roll:

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Jeff Kowerchuk

04-09-2003, 10:46 PM

Andrew - my tank is 25 gallons. How much do you think a larger tank would be from PetTraders? I was thinking something like 40? I'd really like to sell my 25 and get a slightly larger one and begin work on a tetra tank...but of course I've got to watch my $$$ with everything I've been buying these days!! :)

Bing Fung

04-09-2003, 11:15 PM

Nice RX7 Flip Burke!

FYI Dell has a $100 off again on their notebooks...I managed to configure a base 8500 for under $2200...damn I'd have bought that instead of my 5100 if I could have gotten that price when I ordered it :roll:

Andrew, ya know ya shouldn't do that to yourself.... Besides it would have been stripped down, hardly worth owning ;)

I got $300 off, free shipping and a free 64MB USB Memory Key... BFD! Whoop-dee-doo! They still screw ya over if ya want the good stuff :bash: It's a conspiracy I tell ya ;)

I picked up another 256MB of memory from Crucial for $52.99 US. Much better than the $200 Dell was wanting.

I'm looking for a notebook backpack to carry it around in. So far I have narrowed it down to a few...

http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/2630/1d/www.patagonia.com/images/store/products/large/48440_393.jpg

Patagonia Chipotle Bag

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Jansport Lap Station

Both bags have a padded pocket for the laptop. I'm leaning towards the Patagonia for I like their equipment, and my friends own an outdoor store that handles Pat.

I'm getting the Dell nylon bag, but I need something that going to carry lots of stuff for medium distances.

Bing

Lex

04-09-2003, 11:32 PM

Actually no Mats, that's still not acceptable. If it doesn't show all members posting, it doesn't work for me. 1 member and lots of visitors still has a bad appearance from a MEMBERSHIP perspective.

It's important that the thing be able to represent the true nature of how many members are logged in in addition to guests. Showing us as Guests doesn't work. I repeat, it doensn't work.

Plenty of forums do it on the basis of your posting, that's what it needs to be able to do.

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Bing Fung

04-09-2003, 11:51 PM

Hey there fellas

Just checking in...
Now checking out...

I can see why Pat, That last page was just weird :??

Nothing to see here, move along!

Where's Trev been? it's his day off today and I figured he would have posted something or another...

T'was a nice day here in Saskatoon too, washed the car after work and had my ears lowered as well :P

Ate TacoTime Super Soft and Mexi fries for supper, seeing as the girls were at Katherine's Basket ball practice and then selling Girl Guide cookies.

Bing

Trevor Schell

04-10-2003, 12:02 AM

Hey Guys!!

Sorry about my Rant yesterday!
I was tired and for once in a bad mood.
Bottom line though! We need to have lots of Babes here!
We don't want to loose George. Right!!

Burke!!Awesome Flip graphic!! :^x

Bing!!Did you get your Laptop yet?

Jeff, The bigger the tank the better!
Several reasons,,your fish will have more room to swim,therefore growing healthier and larger. Plus a larger tank is less suseptable to clouding and becoming contaminated with bacteria and such.
Just easier to maintain overall.

No monitor yet.
Not sure again as to what I want.
Bing's right ,,the 17" is too small.
Now I am leaning towards CRT..The Sony .22 model
Not sure though :?
:huh:

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04-10-2003, 12:05 AM

Bing!,
I had to work today.

Where did you put your ears?

:smackbutt: :wedgie:

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Bing Fung

04-10-2003, 12:11 AM

Hey Trev!! I feel your pain man, we don't need no stinking moderation around here.. :wedgie: And if we do, fine with me...

No lap top yet, they sent an e-mail stating there is an expected 12day lead time to get the parts to build it.

Trev, I know you want a LCD so just do it... It's you that has to live with it, not me.. :yesnod:

Get the Dell 20"

http://accessories.dell.com/sna/images/products/large/320-4105.jpg

That's the one I would get if I was to get a bigger LCD monitor. Plus the price is more reasonable now then when I was considering it.

Bing

Lex

04-10-2003, 12:17 AM

Mats, there has to be a better word than "guests". Many of us are members, so not guests.

Perhaps you could just say XXX members and guests where XXX is the number of people.

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Trevor Schell

04-10-2003, 12:18 AM

The Jansport bag looks pretty cool! :T

Go for it Kimosabi! :P

I was thinking of treating myself to one of these,
http://di.dell.com/images/global/products/pda/axim_x5_series2.jpg
I know I could load my digital pictures onto it.
What else could I use it for.
Web surfing?,,?What other uses do they have?
These devices have a 400 MHZ processor in it , which is pretty
impressive for such a small unit.
I just want one for the coolness factor that it provides. :crazy:

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Bing Fung

04-10-2003, 12:24 AM

Trev! You need one of those, with a wireless card you can surf the web with it. And you thought your Sony was cool?? it can be used as an organizer, day planner, MP3 player (not sure on the Dell ver), Hightech calculator, conversion machine, memo pad.... It's endless! You coulc keep a data base of prices in that thing :wedgie:

They hand the Compaq version out to my department for we have to support those and the wireless web/LAN access around the U of S campus.

Throw one in with your monitor order :wedgie:

Bing

Burke Strickland

04-10-2003, 12:26 AM

... the coolness factor that it provides.
That must explain why my hands get cold every time I pick up my look-alike Pronto TSU2000. :>)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000068IGS.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg
Now if I could just figure out a way to graft in a 400 MHz processor... not that it would do anything more than it does now, but it would be so fast, it might switch on my HT gear BEFORE I think about it. :>)

Trevor Schell

04-10-2003, 12:28 AM

Lex!!
Let him have it ! It would be inappropriate for everybody to show their members.
Somebody has to straighten him out.
Tell him we need the Pepsi smiley added to the
collection.

Bing..The 20" is sweet.
Just not sure if LCD is the way to go fo me.
I was sold on the 19" Samsung,,however, when I had the guys connect it
to a computer to study the print display,,I was totally disappointed..
I feel I would need to see it up front first, before buying it.
I am worried about ordering somehting , then realize it sucks,,
That would really suck! :#
Maybe the CRT is the way to go..

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Trevor Schell

04-10-2003, 12:36 AM

Bing!,,I seen that you can add the wireless to it.
I could use it for work in many ways!!
I am going to get one..CNET also gave it an Editors choice rating
and highly recommended rating.:-y

Burke,,They do look exactly like the Pronto.
Maybe you can use it as a remote too!

Well,,I am going to set up the old 32" Panasonic TV into the garage
so as to be able to watch the NHL Playoffs and still be outside plus clean the Vette at the same time...... :tomato:

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Bing Fung

04-10-2003, 12:38 AM

Well Trev, you know my thoughts, "LCD is suck". If I was to own a no holds barred monitor it would be the Sony GDM F520 .22 Pitch CRT. That said, I'm perfectly happy with my 21" Sony .24 pitch and would say it offers better value over the GDM 520 at almost half the price. I wouldn't trade it for any LCD to date.

I just want you to buy what you want, not what I would want. I agree though, any monitor should be bought locally if at all possible. That way you get to inspect it and it's not such a hassle to return, exchange it if your not happy with it.

When looking at the LCD monitor, make sure it is displaying at it's native resolution (as Kevin said) as well make sure Clear Type Fonts is enabled. That was designed to take away the Lego block look of the text. As a side, note what type of PC / Graphics card is driving the display.

When I was at Future Shop looking at the laptops, none of them had clear type fonts enabled. I turn them all on as I was playing. They should give me some gift certificate or coupon for helping make their laptops look better.

Yeap, you can use the Dell PDA as a remote too... Ipaq Remote (http://www.remotecentral.com/wn020111.htm)

http://www.remotecentral.com/wn000079.jpg http://www.remotecentral.com/wn000080.jpg

I was in the Sony Store and all those sales men there use Sony Clie PDA's for remotes to control all the devices in store.. Pretty cool if you ask me. It probably does not replace the Pronto, but it's just handy in that environment.

Bing

Jeff Kowerchuk

04-10-2003, 01:01 AM

LOL Bing...everytime I got to Futile shop, the displays for the laptops and the desktop LCDs are always set to the wrong resolution. I wonder how they sell those things!! So I always go and set every single one up properly. I'm probably making a few sales for them! :)

Trev....you missed the most important part of a big tank - ITS COOL!!!! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

I'll have to see how much its gonna cost...gotta watch my pennies with all the stuff I want these days!!

Well, I'm a total LCD convert. I figure LCDs are essential for people who don't need the colour purity of CRTs. I hated every CRT I ever had - poor convergence, poor focus, poor geometry...the list goes on and on. Then again, these were cheapie monitors, not Sony flagships!! :)

Bing, that sux on the wait time for the Dell. Still waiting impatiently for our first 5100...its been 4 days, whats the hold up?? :)

Lex

04-10-2003, 01:08 AM

I couldn't resist. :LOL:

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Trevor Schell

04-10-2003, 01:15 AM

Bing,,How does your Sony compare to my 21" Dell Trinitron?
I beleive the Dell is a .26mm .dot pitch.
Yes,,The Sony GDM F20 is the one I would like,,thinking it would be a large leap over what I already have.
Would your model be a giant leap over what I currently have.
Thing is too,,there actually is nothing wrong with my monitor,,
Except at the higher resolution it is a little blurry and I feell, over the years the colors may not be as vibrant as they used to be. It is about 6 years old..I could move it to Tori's room.

Cool on the TV control..The dell Axim is for me,,
or is the Palm or Sony Clia a better device..I don't think so , but not 100% sure.

Jeff,,You woild think they would have next day deleivery by now! :smackbutt:

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04-10-2003, 01:24 AM

I personally found pocket windows, or whatever version they call it now, awkward, and difficult to use for sometimes, the simplest tasks. In my mind for true PDA functionality, Palm is much more straight forward, and better...

I kept a Compaq IPAQ for about a week, and returned it. I now have a Sony Clie' with color screen/mpeg capability/remote functionality.

Lex

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Jeff Kowerchuk

04-10-2003, 01:25 AM

Trev - I'd vote for the Dell. I'm not a huge fan of the Palms or the Clies. I like PocketPCs more - their similarity to the PC is useful I think - easy transition from one to the other and I think sharing data between them is easier too.

Lex

04-10-2003, 01:28 AM

Sorry Jeff, disagree completely. I never fully got the PC interface software functioning as advertised with the IPAQ, though I can't recall particulars at this point, and as a Sr. Programmer/Analyst, it shouldn't be that difficult. :) Palm software is easy, straightforward, and consistently works across the board.

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Trevor Schell

04-10-2003, 01:30 AM

Lex sounds like you have been there done that!!
;x(

How about this one?

http://www.sonystyle.ca/images/products/PEGNZ90_lg.jpg

PEGNZ90 CLIA

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Lex

04-10-2003, 01:38 AM

This is the one I have: I liked the size of it, and the durable metal case. Though I admit, I really haven't taken time to use this dang thing like I should.

http://www.sonystyle.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/imagesProducts/180x180/PEGT665C.jpg T665C Color CLIÉ™

But the integrated keyboard of the other one is pretty nice, I admit.

But hey, maybe the Dell is right for you Trevor, I don't know. :)

Lex

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Bing Fung

04-10-2003, 01:38 AM

I like the Palms because I mainly use it as an address book and organizer. I like the graphitti writting style of the palms and I'm not convinced that the hand writing recongnition of the Pocket PC's is up to snuff. But if you want to surf wirelessly, then the pocket PC is the wat to go. Palm is not yet fully supported.

If I was to get a Pocket PC , this is the one i would consider for it's features. Built in Wireless, bluetooth....

http://www.hp.ca/products/images/264493-001.jpg

http://www.hp.ca/products/static/264493-001/features.php

Trev, I have not seen your monitor in full action, however I can safely say it is much better (sorry) It's flat screen, finer pitch and maximum resolution of 2048x1536, really is leaps over the older Sony's. Your welcome to come over and have a look.

If you bought the GDM F520, you would rest easy knowing you have the best monitor money can buy... Do it now!

Jeff, Futile shop should send us some free Swagg!

Lex, very well done :)

OK, I have to take of and do some video compression

:later:

Bing

Lex

04-10-2003, 01:48 AM

Hey guys, I thought of a solution for posting in TTP with one avatar, but in the forum with another one. Simply create a second user ID. Like:

TTP Trevor

Or TTP_Lex

or TTPZing, I mean Bing. ;)

Lex

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Lex

04-10-2003, 01:54 AM

Also well said Bing. Your right, for cool factor, and things like surfing, the pocket PC is the way to go. But for grind it out business functionality, Palm's been doing this longer than anyone. But remember, you have to have a service, and pay for that web time, and that part may not be cheap, and for someone like myself that spends most their time at one or the other PC locations, it's really just not that necesary. Now, Bluetooth makes it so the cell phone can interface, and you use the cell's time and web client capability, right Bing? Again, you got to pay for the cell time, and the cell dialup capability.

Lex

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Chris D

04-10-2003, 01:57 AM

Okay, this is it, guys. I'm signing off for my cross country trip. I'll talk to ya'll next week when I get back to Washington. TTFN!
:later:

Has anyone else used this line, or is it just me?

http://www.hometheatertalk.com/Cartoons/toonlie.jpg

"Honey, I swear, this is the last piece of equipment I'll need to buy for a really long time"

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Burke Strickland

04-10-2003, 01:59 AM

http://cst.rbma.com/content/TDIE?date=20030409
They'll Do It Every Time
April 9, 2003

I thought of a solution for posting in TTP with one avatar, but in the forum with another one. Simply create a second user ID. Like:

TTP Trevor

Or TTP_Lex

Not only would that quickly get us over the 1,000 member hurdle, but then you'd have an extra ID to use when you want to "argue" with yourself or take a run from post #32 (but I guess you'd have to use a name like "Stealth_Lex" instead of "TTP_Lex" or else we'd figure out what you're up to). :>)

Has anyone else used this line, or is it just me?
I've told MYSELF "this is it" from time to time, only to be seduced by another "deal" sometime shortly thereafter.

BTW -- have a safe trip back to Washington.

Burke

PS -- Anyone ready to take us to the next page?

Lex

04-10-2003, 02:00 AM

Safe trip Chris! May the road be smooth, and the rest stops plentiful, lol.

Lex

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Lex

04-10-2003, 02:00 AM

f

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Lex

04-10-2003, 02:00 AM

f

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Lex

04-10-2003, 02:00 AM

f is a more sensible letter than X. :LOL:

FLiPP!

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Lex

04-10-2003, 02:00 AM

f = the letter used to abbreviate a flip.

As defined in Websters:
Flip (Pronounced FLIP) An event occuring in TTP on HTGuide. Usually accompanied by a graphic. Flip, the name of comedian Flip Wilson. Lastly, the act if leaving from your feet, spinning your body around, and hopefully landing on your feet again or busting your a$$ trying.

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Burke Strickland

04-10-2003, 02:09 AM

f is a more sensible letter than X

All I can add to that is "uck" ! :>)

Burke

Lex

04-10-2003, 02:17 AM

LOL goodnight all!

Le

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Burke Strickland

04-10-2003, 02:42 AM

Speaking of "uck" ... :>)

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Mats

04-10-2003, 02:54 AM

OK, changed the online tracker again... Puhhhh

Now it picks up all that are logged on, not logged on but using the Cookie to store there Username/PW AND the name of the person who ever is making a post to the board. The rest is Guests/Peekers/Pookers until they reveal them selfs!

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Pat

04-10-2003, 08:26 AM

You guys are flippin' maniacs

Mats, nice job on the board upgrades :T

Bing, thanks buddy

Chris, have a safe trip.

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Lex

04-10-2003, 09:12 AM

Tough crowd, not one person liked my Dude your getting a Krell. :cry:

Mats, bang up job, that's exactly what we wanted on the who's online. :T :T :T

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Andrew Pratt

04-10-2003, 09:52 AM

Morning guys...had a much better night last night then the previous one. i think today we're going to try and go back to the mall and buy some spec's for me.

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Bing Fung

04-10-2003, 09:54 AM

Looking good Mats :T I like the online status.

Lex, I mentioned good job on the Krell :smackbutt: But we can be a tough crowd around here.

Hey Pat :later:

Hey TTP Dudes :later:

Bing

Kevin P

04-10-2003, 10:04 AM

Ok, I posted, am I "online" now? :smackbutt:

Two flips last night, sheesh, this old fart can't keep up anymore :tired: well I had computer consulting work last night so I was up till 11 cleaning spyware off a couple PCs. One of them had a corrupted TCP/IP stack so I had to reinstall Windoze since it only had a Compaq restore CD and not a real Windoze CD.

Tough crowd, or using Stealth(tm)? Cute pic Lex. Bad pun though. :smackbutt:

Pr@, glad to hear Lauren let you sleep better last night. Never mind their first words, or their first steps, the best moment in a new parent's life is when they sleep through the night for the first time! 8O

A separate account for TTP vs. the rest of the forum? I have enough trouble keeping track of one! Plus I would want to have a way of synchronizing the post counts between the two accounts! Oh well, I'll just keep one account and stay away from the :boobies: avatars. :E

Oh well, time to pretend to work for a while, maybe I'll work on my new Stealth(tm) product for a bit. Later folks... KJP

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David Meek

04-10-2003, 10:28 AM

Hi gang. Bye gang. Lot's going on this AM.

I like the new "Who Is Online" look Mats and Lex. Very snazzy!

Chris, have an easy 'n safe drive home.

David - HTGuide flunky
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Lex

04-10-2003, 10:28 AM

Post count no problem, every couple of months I could offload your TTP account totals to your regular one by request.

Lex

Eduardo

04-10-2003, 10:33 AM

Good morning everyone. Another dreary day here with flood warnings and 50 MPH winds. You guys were some chatty beavers last night.

Lex - I wish I was getting Krell. Good flip
Chris - Have a safe trip home.
Trev - You spend money faster than my wife. :roll: :D
Burke - I can never see your comics. :huh:
Mats - good job. let me pat you on your back. :smackbutt:
Pat - glad you stuck around a little longer. ;)
Pr@-Morning
Bing - what's up :-y
Kevin - I'm pretending to work too.

time to go play. :twisted:

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Andrew Pratt

04-10-2003, 10:41 AM

Time to pick the playoff pool. So who's going the distance this year? I figure Detroits a safe bet.

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Mats

04-10-2003, 10:52 AM

I will add one more setting to the Profile page where people can select if they want to be shown online or not... If not they will be counted in a group of Hidden users... pretty much liek the Guestie count.

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Mats

04-10-2003, 10:57 AM

Oh, and btw... had a booooooring day at work today :)

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Cheavy's glass of water is a clasic :)

Just luv Mr Fletch :)

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Sonnie Parker

04-10-2003, 11:15 AM

Howdy gents!

Worked on the Florida room again yesterday.... almost finished. All I lack is a little caulking and then comes the painting. ECKKK! I hate painting.

David, sounds like you might be in for a treat when they start work on that 14 lane interstate highway. You might need to find an alternate route.

Eduardo, nice cabinet you built yourself. My dad and I built our coffee table and end tables out of laminated oak pieces we purchased from a trucking company. They are used for the flooring in trailors for tractor trailer rigs. This stuff is 1¼" thick and made of solid oak strips laminated together making the sections about foot wide. We further glued them together making them coffee and end table width. We've had them now for about 18 years. I've replaced the coffee table with a large round one now and use the old coffee table for an end table.

I love working with wood. Most of my cabintry work now is using birch and painting since all of our trim is painted now.

I also like Porter-Cable tools... we have a Porter-Cable air nail gun and I'm about to buy another Porter-Cable air nail gun.

You guys have a great day! Back to work for me.

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04-10-2003, 11:25 AM

Most of my cabintry work now is using birch
If you don't have the right tools, ALL cabinetry work is a "birch". :>)
Glad you've found some that do the job for you!

Burke

Mats

04-10-2003, 11:34 AM

Okie dokie... Show Online feature now available on the Profile section.

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Bing Fung

04-10-2003, 11:37 AM

But remember, you have to have a service, and pay for that web time, and that part may not be cheap, and for someone like myself that spends most their time at one or the other PC locations, it's really just not that necesary. Now, Bluetooth makes it so the cell phone can interface, and you use the cell's time and web client capability, right Bing? Again, you got to pay for the cell time, and the cell dialup capability.

Lex

Lex, depending on what is available and what standards are in use. If Trev was to get the HP Pocket PC, it is 802.11b compliant out of the box and he could access his network / web at home. The other option is to subscribe to a service in your local area. I believe Sasktel is setting up the infrastructure for this around town. To use in on the U of S campus we need to have Cisco compliant cards.

Blue tooth enabled allows you to connect/communicate to your PC, if also equipped with a blutooth card just buy bringing it with in proximity (typically 30 -50 feet). The Hewlett Packard is one sweet Pocket PC.

But I like the Sony PEGNZ90 and the PEGNX70V models myself if i was to replace my trusty HandSpring...

Thats a sweet Sony you have Lex, I bought the monochrome version for Christine. It's high resolution display was actually more desireable than the color M505. At the time it was one of the first high resolution PDA's. She absolutely loves it.

Bing

Eduardo

04-10-2003, 12:04 PM

Thanks Sonnie.

Burke, where going to have change your title to Pun Master.

Bing - you need to see a dentist. That Blue Tooth doesn't sound to healthy.

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Burke Strickland

04-10-2003, 12:05 PM

Show Online feature now available on the Profile section.
Great job. Mats! I just tested it by going to my Profile and unchecking "Show Online Status" and then observed that on the main page, it showed 45 total online, naming 9 others plus "1 Hidden Member" and showing 35 "Guests"... then went back to the profile and re-checked it and now my name shows again (color coded as Moderator)... COOL!

Burke

George Bellefontaine

04-10-2003, 12:44 PM

Hi, all.

Sounds like Chris is off on a fun trip. Drive carefully, Captain.

All this talk about monitors, lcd, etc. I've decided to get an 8 foot wide widsecreen monitor for my computer, to match my home theater. :popcorn:

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Andrew Pratt

04-10-2003, 01:02 PM

George it would be easier to just run an line from your PC to your Denon and have it route the video to your screen:) I will likely be doing the same thing when I get my PJ. I've already done a slide show on the Wega from my notebook (yes of lauren!)

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Gordon Moore

04-10-2003, 02:45 PM

Oh oh....Daddy's little girl. She's got you Pr@ you're doomed :LOL:

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04-10-2003, 03:01 PM

Uh-oh, someone needs to dump a pail of water on Pr@'s head to snap him out of it :spit: he's turning into one of "them" 8O

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Eduardo

04-10-2003, 03:25 PM

Proud Papa Pratt - PPP :LOL: I think its 8) that you have a slide show already. I'd like to see it and I'm sure Allison would too.

but until then here's a picture for Goerge cause I don't want to see him go anywhere. ;)

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Lex

04-10-2003, 04:40 PM

:E :drool: :leghumper: :boobies: :icecream: :icecream:

8O

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Kevin P

04-10-2003, 05:17 PM

Ya know, sometimes these discussions are more amusing with stealth than without. For example, when I view the last couple posts I see:

(Eduardo)

but until then here's a picture for Goerge cause I don't want to see him go anywhere. :wink:

X

(Lex)

:E :drool: :leghumper: :boobies: :icecream: :icecream:

8O

Basically I see a placeholder where a picture is and then Lex's reaction expanded out into alt tags, so I literally see ":E :drool: :leghumper: :boobies: :icecream: :icecream:"

:rofl:

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Eduardo

04-10-2003, 05:41 PM

Slow at the TTP Corral. Tonight is Allison's bunko night so I'm off to my parents to help hang some shelves.

Lex - I'm glad you liked.

Kevin - very funnt - sort of like Mad Libs. :D

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Eduardo

04-10-2003, 05:42 PM

mmm - sort of illegal. But its so tempting.........

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Eduardo

04-10-2003, 05:44 PM

{whistling} tip toe tip toe tip toe tip toe

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Eduardo

04-10-2003, 05:47 PM

Is anyone looking..........its so easy. Almost to easy......... I'm going to wait for the right moment..

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Lex

04-10-2003, 05:53 PM

looking for what?

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Kevin P

04-10-2003, 05:54 PM

snipe?

And for a harmless type of "pu&&y"...

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Eduardo

04-10-2003, 05:58 PM

Turn my back for one second and Kevin takes it from me. :evil: :wtf: :wedgie: :smackbutt: :321: ;)

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Kevin P

04-10-2003, 06:50 PM

Well, if Pr@ can post baby pics, so can I, so here's my "baby", though she's close to 7 years old now. She was so cute the way she was laying on the couch that I took this pic:

http://kpatz.home.attbi.com/catzpics/patch0410.jpg

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Andrew Pratt

04-10-2003, 06:52 PM

Ordered some glasses this afternoon from Sears. They had a 50% off frames so it brought the price down from ungodly to unbareable:) Anyway they're the titanium frames so I'm sure they'll have Bing's approval :LOL: I've worn perscription sunglasses for years since I was getting nasty headaches while driving but I kept putting off getting regular specs until now. I'm finding seeing the text in power point presentations at work hard to read and so its time to at least have a pair on hand for those occasions...even if I don't wear them all the time. I really only need them for seeing past 10 feet and even then its not to bad unless I'm trying to read small text etc. I'll maybe post a pic of me wearing them when they come in in a few weeks.

I'm currently BBQing some burgers while surfing from the patio....very cool :yesnod:

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Lex

04-10-2003, 07:05 PM

My idea of a CAT:

http://www.pageantrymagazine.com/venusintro.jpg

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Andrew Pratt

04-10-2003, 08:27 PM

http://www.mts.net/~glendap/jokes/easter.jpg

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Andrew Pratt

04-10-2003, 08:51 PM

My idea of a CAT:

Meow :smootch:

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Lex

04-10-2003, 11:41 PM

Ok, where's everyone tonight? To pooped to putter?

I'll leave it for the next person to keep it going now, l8er.

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Eduardo

04-11-2003, 12:17 AM

Cute kitties Kevin even though I'm a dog person.
http://home.nc.rr.com/ejimenez/images/Molly%20&%20lexus%20small.jpgThe white dog is mine, Lexus and the the other is her cousin Mollie. Both great dogs.

LeX- I'm here.

Pr@ - Allison sent me that yesterday. :rofl:

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Trevor Schell

04-11-2003, 12:33 AM

Hey guys!!

Nice Babe pic!!!:E:E:E:E
The perfect Catmodel!!

Just a question on those Pocket PC's..
When surfing the web..is it exactly the same as on the computer,,same access etc??

I am using my new wireless minimouse right now!!:-y

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04-11-2003, 12:42 AM

Trevor, no you can't say anything is the "same" on pocket and full size PCs. Actually, some of the major sites like Yahoo and such have special pages that download to pocket units. They don't display everything the same way. Yeah, you get the feeling, but not the same. That's my take on my experiences so far.

Yes, she's got the job Trevor if she wants it. :LOL:

Nice dogs Eduardo, nice boat pic too.

Funny pratt! :LOL:

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Lex

04-11-2003, 12:44 AM

5 to go!!! 5 to GO!!!

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Trevor Schell

04-11-2003, 12:57 AM

Nice Pups! Eduardo

Nice Kitty's Kevin..

Hilarious bunny cartoon Andrew!!

I get it Lex..So you can still buy stuff and see graphics,,however the
pages may be toned down a little..Right!!

Bing,,I think I will just get the .22 Dot pitch Sony and be done with it..
Or should I get the Dell FPTV..It would cost even less. :E

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Bing Fung

04-11-2003, 01:35 AM

EJ, :rofl: Yep, better make an appointment to have that "Blue Tooth" looked at :wedgie:

Andrew, Titanium glasses???? 8O Su-Weet! Post a picture please with you sporting them, or just of the glasses if you prefer.. I must see these :T

Lex, that your new Gurl Friend?

Trev, .22 Pitch GDM F520 ;x( Dell Front Projector ;x( You could port your Sony Vaio to the projector at 800x600 resolution. Throw in an Axiom with a 802.11B Wireless card with the order ;x( :wedgie:

Went to CompuSmart today and was looking around. Saw this....

http://www.targus.com/product_images/tsb312_cases_b.jpg http://www.targus.com/product_images/tsb312_img1_cases_b.jpg http://www.targus.com/product_images/tsb312_img2_cases_b.jpg

So I picked it up, I hope it fits the 15.4" widescreen. If not it's going back, although it did hold a 16" Toshiba with room to spare. It's a Targus Sport Deluxe in Platinum/Black. The harness on this is as good as it gets and it does not feel like a brick on your back.

Man I love backpacks :crazy: You know how Lex collects glass vases? Well I collect technical backpacks, I must own at least Te.. More than I care to admit :crazy:

Got the Crucial memory today, boy that was fast.. I ordered it on Monday, and it's here today. Great recommendation Trev :T :T

Funny cat pose Kevin :)

Nice looking dogs EJ !

When am I ever going to get to the new desktop PC?? :huh: seems my attention has been slightly diverted. I Blame Andrew, Trev and Jeff Mostly :smackbutt:

Bing

Trevor Schell

04-11-2003, 02:08 AM

Nice BP Bing!!
Looks like it's big enough to fit your 21" Sony into!!:-y

Good night all!!!

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Mats

04-11-2003, 02:13 AM

Good night and Good morning everyone :)

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Lex

04-11-2003, 09:04 AM

Good something there Matso. ;)

3 to go, I repeat 3 to GO!

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David Meek

04-11-2003, 10:06 AM

Hey gang, we made it to Friday!
:party: ;b>'> :^x :popcorn: :boozer: :party:

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Sonnie Parker

04-11-2003, 10:17 AM

Good morning!

Let me get my TGIF in early this morning.

TGIF!

Nice widescreen avatar Trev.... very nice!

Speaking of which, looks like the Iraqi people are getting a taste of the American freedom. Good for them and thanks to America and our soldiers brave enough to help them.

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04-11-2003, 10:23 AM

TGIF. The weather is suppose to perk up this weekend so I can't wait. Tomorrow I'm headed to the Chrysler Road Show. You get to test drive a lot of cars on a closed track. Its a lot of fun. Me and my 2 buddies have been doing this for about 3 years now.

Bing - I'm glad your going to the dentist. I love the Back Pack. Looks cool, I'm sure it costs a pretty penny.

Lex - I wish the boat was mine. It's my brother in law's.

It's going to be and exciting moment when HTG hits a 1000 memebers :party: :band:

Thanks everybody, Lexus appreciates the compliments. Like Kevin she my little one (temporarily).

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Bing Fung

04-11-2003, 10:33 AM

:later: Morning Gang!

Thanks Trev, Ej on the backpack, it's silly, buy I'm a silly guy... Have fun burning coporate rubber Eduardo!

OSIF? Oh Shit it's Friday? :wedgie: I say that as I have to work overtime tomorrow.

Sounds like Looting is the biggest problem now in Iraq...

Bing

Lex

04-11-2003, 10:41 AM

Looting is a problem, but let's not forget, our guys are still in harms way, evidenced by yesterday's events. Lost one Marine, 4 injured by a suicide bomber and who knows what else may have happened. It was a pleasure to see a lot of their soldiers put down their guns and start walking home yesterday from the northern front. Now if Kirkut will go as quickly.

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Kevin P

04-11-2003, 10:42 AM

Morning folks, TGIF I suppose... it's not really "TGIF" until about 5 pm though...

Glad folks like my kitty shots. The flip pic isn't mine, it came from ratemykitten.com. The kitty on the couch pic is my spoiled little rascal Patches. :)Thanks everybody, Lexus appreciates the compliments. Like Kevin she my little one (temporarily).Here's another compliment, cute dogs! Temporarily, you mean you're getting another dog, right, I hope...

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Lex

04-11-2003, 10:42 AM

Bing, your right, about the girlfriend. in my dreams, lol. Gosh, is she hot, huh?

Lex

Eduardo

04-11-2003, 10:51 AM

Mats - I like the Al Bundy Avatar. He's a great role model. ;)

you mean you're getting another dog, right
I don't think I could get another dog. Even after she's gone :cry: .

Lex - yeah looting is a problem. I hope they set up thier infrastructure quickly so we don't have to police them.

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Kevin P

04-11-2003, 10:53 AM

I don't think I could get another dog. Even after she's gone :cry: .So you're getting a cat then? Bird? Goldfish? Ferret? Snake? Iguana? Spider? Hamster? Guinea pig? Regular pig? Mouse? Rat? Cow? Horse? Sheep? Goat? Duck? Goose? Hippo? Tasmanian devil? ;)

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Mats

04-11-2003, 11:03 AM

Mats - I like the Al Bundy Avatar. He's a great role model. ;)

Yeah, we need to get our selfs a nice No Mam T-Shirt

I added a small feature on the Who's online feature. Now we're storing the peak value of users online so we can see how many ppl we can bring on at the same time and then try to beat that :)

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Bing Fung

04-11-2003, 11:10 AM

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply looting takes precedence over the safety of the US troops...

I'm just alarmed at how much looting is taking place, and I don't think it's the US's job to police that, the Iraqis have to make their own choices now that they are free to express themselfs. I guess looting is only natural when it was built on the backs of the Iraq people.

She one nice girlfriend Lex ;)

Have a good day gang :later:

Bing

Lex

04-11-2003, 11:51 AM

I know we had silenced the war talk for a while. But sometimes it's difficult to live in a vaccum. So...

I know you didn't mean to imply that Bing. :) Actually, the coalition does have some responsibility for policing, IMO. When you take away law enforcement (no matter how cruel they are), something has to be put in it's place by the powers to be, and the coalition is that power now.

[editorial on]
But then you can't really blame these people. They've been silenced for so long by threat of retribution, kept to a life of total impoverishment by the regime. So that the wealth of a country, became the wealth of the few. They are in a sense, taking back some of what is rightfully theirs. But lines must be drawn. Taking equipment and supplies from a hospital is well over that line. Taking from the residences of the dictator's regime? I was glad to see them take everything that wasn't nailed down, and then some.

The war and loss of innocent life as a result of it is very sad. But the loss of a nation's populations identity for 30 some odd years, is in some ways, even sadder. During that period of time, it's reported that well over 833 times the number of people died at the hands of an evil regime, (by my calculation) vs. the number of civilians that have died in this war so far. That is, the greatest atrocity of all. Of course, the value of the Coalition loss of life, is indeed very costly and sad. Let's not forget these brave Men and Women, ever.[editorial off]

Lex