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hm, run a scandisk? if a system file got borked that might catch it.

stupid question, but have you shut down completely and restarted? that's the way to fix most windows errors...

i forget, wasn't it 3 stars for 50 posts to get the karma buttons?

awesome. simply awesome.

:haha: :notworthy: go get em rev. built your own little canary trap there, hm?

since you have infested your system with the ad/spyware that is commonly termed aohell, i suggest you cancel their service asap. also you might want to consider taking your system and doing a clean install, since aohells software tends to spread like a plague throughout the os, sending god knows what info back to aohell, and generally slowing things down, not just your connection. it may not have the fluffy bunny feel, not that that is a bad thing, of aohell, but a 'raw' internet feed will give you much more enjoyment, plus you'll prolly save money since you are now probably paying your provider /and/ aohell to go online.

he. 2wire. finally a fitting name for a dsl product.

http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/ caution. this is sidesplitting type laughterinducing material if you have ever been in anything like a tech support position. which everyone that posts here is in at least on this board.

hm, medicated eyedrops in the fridge, i can see that. but crazy glue in the fridge? right next to the toilet paper? edit hm, more for the chili thread. is a good deal after a really good chili. tp that;s been chilled in the freezer.

i think the only people that slightly annoy me here are those that register, complain about their speed, dl the cablenut settings from van and disappear, never to be heard from again...

you were looking to get flamed you /expletive/ piece of /fecal referance/? but seriously, welcome to the forum, i haven't seen anyone get flamed yet. maybe a light heckling. and that was a good piece on the firefox. i agree, why bother with anything else than ie, at least i know it's compatible to itself.

that's a hell of a battery, reno. wow.

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depends on what package you have. call them up and ask em.

some people have expressed the wish for a chat module. i have been reading up on the subject a bit, but i have not found any docs that give hints as to the server loads that can be expected, but maybe hosting an irc server on the tmn server would be a good idea. leave it unconnected to the rest of the irc networks, thereby ensuring that it will produce minimum loads. there the tmn users could chat away, create their own channels etc. it would require the users that want to use this feature to get their own copies of mirc or whatever, but it might be the best way to inimize the load it causes.

yes, sorry, i missed that part.

St. Peter and Jesus are playing a round of golf. on the 5th hole, a par 4 dogleg, jesus says to st. peter 'you know, i've seen arnold palmer make the tee shot over the water hazard, giving him only a short approach shot to the green, and he had an easy putt for birdy. i am the son of god, if he can do it, so can i.' st. peter wisely holds his counsel and watches him tee up. to jesus' chagrin and st. peter's resignating shrug, it lands smack dab in the middle of the pond. Jesus looks vexed and strides out onto the water, finds his ball and retrns to the tee. 'right then, i think i know what i did wrong, i didn't have my grip relaxed enough.' St. peter only grunts in reply. Jesus makes a few practice swings and then addresses the ball, in perfect form, he sinks the ball in the water. frowning he again proceeds to stride over the water to retrieve his ball, while St. Peter looks on. He tees up again, swings, hits and sinks it in the water. 'I am going to make this shot if it's the last thing i do.' while he is busy wandering over the pond looking for his ball, a player from the next party approaches the tee, looks at jesus and turns to St. Peter. 'Who does that guy think he is, walking on water like that. jesus christ?' 'no,' replies saint peter,'he /thinks/ he's arnold palmer'.

from a purely electronic standpoint, leave the beast running. it will depend on your os if it is advantageous or not, but your hardware will thank you in the long run. a few examples: hdd: if you have it on 24/7, it will not go through the mechanically stressful cycles of spinning up down. running the bearing and motor at it's intended speed puts the least amount of stress on it. power supply: if on 24/7 the surging associated with the system powering up down is eliminated, thus, aain, less stress is placed on the components. cooling fans: again, less acceleration deceleration means they run in the groove smoothly. electronics: no surges due to switching on off, steady temp, no condensation hence no corrosion, all good. now, all of these things are valid only if: you keep your system clean. if you don't own a vacuum cleaner, get one! you may not do your carpet, but be nice to your system. dustbunnies are fluffy and cute, but beng fluffy, they insulate. insulation means hot spots. hot spots mean cranky components. if your environment is /very/ dusty, consider optimizing your cooling fan intakes by placing filters (that you clean regularly) along with more powerful fans to make up for the loss of airflow due to the filter. make sure all your components are running cool, running anything, ram, gpu cpu hdd etc hot for any amount of time will cut into your mtbf. if you know the power at your location is flaky, brownouts, surges, outages and the like, invest some money in a ups. this can range from a small one for 90 bucks that will keep things running for a few minutes to expensive high capacity active ones that not only supply backup power but /clean/ your current all the time, making sure that you have the optimum power going into your box. but these are very pricey. on the issue of power, make sure that the power supply in your comp isn't running at or near max capacity. check hardware vendors or rtfm for power requirements of the components, carefully add up the numbers and then double em. that will give you the rating your power supply should have so it's not straining constantly. now, it really does depend on your os if running 24/7 will give you added stability, but a software restart leaves the system running, so the hardware doesn't mind.

as in other threads, go hardware. pick up a router w/ hardware firewalling functions, you can get em as low as 50 bucks, you might get a wireless base thrown in as a bonus, and with that puppy blocking all ports but the ones you tell it not to and denying icmp commands, meaning noone can ping you etc. you've got a good start, and it won't affect your system a bit.

lol @ rev how many microsoft software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? none. Darknesstm is the new industry standard.

oh, yeah water. WATER. what the fuck is so damned hard about keeping a decent water supply? i count myself as being lucky having only to deal with extremely hard and heavily chlorinated water, at least we get some here. but there is places where it's more off than on. and power. jeez. power outages here, in a suburb of san juan no less, at least twice a month. a friends company had to buy a generator for their office/warehouse because the power situation is so bad there. in a commercial district. go figure. during the tropical storm that managed to brush us last year, plenty of rain, some wind, we had no power for 3 days and no water for 2 days. starting /before/the storm hit. why? because the thank god former governor decided it would be a good idea to kill all power at noon on the day it hit because that way no one would get hurt by falling power lines. oh, the pumps distributing water are electric? oops. but why so long an outage? because she wouldn't listen when they told her that the power grid can be shut down instantly, but restarting it is not so easy. what happened exactly? well, the grid being off, the computers controlling it were unable to detect faults as they happened, meaning that in spite of there being minimal damage, every single segment of the grid had tyo be manually and visually checked by field crews before it could be powered up. oh yeah, the unios for the field crews. not uncommon for power outage due to some labor complaint, meaning the crews sabotage the power as a modicum of political pressure. they also had a spate with the waterworks, causing a couple months of striking, actual contamination of drinking water with oil and shit like that. the only good thing is the FBI is now looking into the water sabotage under the new terrorism rules, so if they get a handle on the guy that did it the jokes on him. /end rant/ edit then again, after all the rain recently, there is now several craters in the roads here. not surprisong, considering they call packed clay with some gravel and a few inches of asphalt on top a paved road. leading up to the urbanizations gate several from 2 to 4 feet wide, steep edges, about 5 to 9 inches deep. filled with water of course so unsuspecting drivers nail them and rip a wheel off their car.

isn't monday morning quarterbacking wonderful. lol. saw that about 2 bucks a liter. damn. we pay 42 cents for regular, 45 premium here right now. maybe you should bring a little barge with a few months worth of fuel up that river of yours? the only things i feel sorry for is the guy that gets treed and the kid that kisses the truck. bad training in action. have you ever heard of the shooting competitions in europe? for tanks? the european conscript armies would regularly beat the american 'professioanls'. anyone joining the armed forces in the last what, 15 years pretty much must have /known/ that there was going to be a better than even chance he/she would be deployed somewhere where they'd be shot at. even guardsmen and reservists. yet when they get deployed, they seem ill prepared, and everyone whines about these VOLUNTEERS actually being sent to do what they signed up and get paid for. to be honest, would i have relished a combat or peacekeeping deployment? hell no. i knew that the worst thing that could happen to me was a papercut or a sunburn if i got sent to some southern base. those kids being sent off to a foreign land to fight the good fight, yeah, it sucks. but everytime i hear the press here crying out that another puerto rican got killed in iraq or whereever i think to myself well shit, don't those morons in the press realize that that is what he she should have expected after siging the paper and collecting the pay? meh. think!

yeah, just truck it. here i go willing to give people some credit, but nooo. i thought the chute pulling over the skid was the same skid from 2 angles, but upon further review one goes vertical and falls sideways while the other just flops on its back. and the lapes... i dunno... there was quite a large dust cloud on both of the fubared drops, the discombobulating pallet and the runaway, i wonder if the dz was just too rough and softsoiled causing the platform to catch on something messing up the drop? and the ones that overturn on touchdown, hm, bad luck or bad rigging? but what could have been different to prevent those turnovers? a flatter dz? can't use a wider skid, thats for sure. and the rate of descent looked about right, didn't it?

hm, you're right, the bird doing the lape with the runaway is dexcending while the brake chute depluys and still pretty high when it exits. hm. good editing though, with the finality of the pickup hit. but hey, some of the stuff they dropped seemed to stay intact long enough for the screwed up chute release to destroy by dragging it along the ground. and on another subject, and i may be exxagerating due to personal animosity, that whole clip is the evel of expertise you can expect here if you let em service your boat. i'm not saying it's all bad, but expect the worst and hope for the best. i will admit that i see the glass half empty for puerto rico, but it seems to me there's people here that see the empty glass as being full of air.

looks to me like that clip is a collection of mishaps... i read in a book on the airborne that they will drop anything, it's just a question of putting enough canopies on it and the only thing more spectacular than a heavy drop is a heavy drop going wrong. would have loved to see a shot of the faces of the guys on the ground when that truck seperated from the skid and went rolling off, lol.