Roco

I wish I had that option , I got called in today to walk to the post office for some post stamps (4 Miles return trip ), then take the directors car to the car wash , they are using my Tech skills to the limit ! but as long as they keep paying $35 an hour , I can walk as slow as the next guy, +I got $10 lunch allowance for the walk , on a beautifull spring day here in the UK , Btw I had a had a chocalate cake and a coffee for desserts , while idling the time I realized desserts spelled backwords = stressed . nah I dont think so . This job was found in heaven for me , and back home by 11.30 am ,

many a true word is spoken in jest , good night America , good morning Roco , time to shift your butt

you were close there Tommie I was up mighty early in fact , had a long day yesterday , had the luxury of a early night with a good book , was asleep with the book fallen on the floor by 9 PM , Duh, wide awake and ready to go 3.30 am

I would give "a PENNY for your thoughts" on the use of the bow , being that it was a sport of mine , and is of my grandson, but I would not give a NICKLE for my bow now , fractured limb , lol, it just missed my head by inches

can't help on the fixing , but it is no prob anyway, I do that from time to time (often ) I am too busy looking at the keyboard at the time, any one else have the Keyboard fairy move all the keys about overnight ?

always been my problem , but then I type like a woodpecker with a hangover anyway , lol "set it to the side" goes against the grain with me , if any thing breaks I will not leave it be , I guess that is part of my lifetime fixing things , I just got to get it working , even if I throw it in the garbage can after , lol Paladin 2 finger typing , I would apply for a sectaries job if I could do that , and learn to spell , otherwise no chance of the job ,I guess the legs would not be up to it either

1. A short slender implement with a sharp point and small round head, usually made of stainless steel, for fastening, attaching, etc, and used especially in dressmaking. colloq Very readily; if given the smallest reason or encouragement, etc. Example: For two pins, I would come with you mind you two pints sounds better , Example: For two pints, I would come with you, for 2 pins, is an old English saying still used today the humble dressmaking pin was very valuable back then , and not ownend by the poor , women and children worked at very low rates of pay , and used it to buy pins for making their own clothes, and a pin was a treasured item, if you had 2 pins you were upwardly mobile , the rich ownend many pins , and fancy pin cusions , but they would lock them away from the servants , the first written articale refering to the value of pins , ( by a wit of the day ) was ,"There's Pin-money, and Ali-money," first written in 1690 , so not a lot changes IMO

Yes it could work out ok, But the best way would to format and reinstall , the main point is has he got the Win O/S disk or has the hard drive got the O/S preinstalled , if so Microsoft may not help , and send you to the computer makers , if you contact them they wont help either as you have modified it , I would not personaly risk buying without owning the disk and licence key ,or at least factoring in the cost of buying it this is assuming he is runnig a Microsoft O/S Btw, I have taken a dozen or so hard drives from laptops (old Sony Vaio's, no disk drive ) hooked them up as a single drive "C" on a spare desktop computer , formated and reloaded the O/S and all the progs needed , put the drive back in the laptop without any major problems ,

Nice rig Paladin , that would suit me nicely , my old 2.8 xp athlon + 1GB ram is begining to show it's age ,but it will do another year ..............or so IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON"T FIX IT!!!!!!!!! : so what happened to the old rig

Yeah I had one about 3 weeks back , , I explained to the sender I did not appreciate this kind of drivel that was wasting TMN resources , never got a reply, but it seems to have stopped anyway

I may even have the last laugh yet , our Prime Minister (Mr Blair ) is retiring soon , the rumour is he will move to the States to be closer to his buddy Pres. Bush too become one of his special advisor's, so I am holding off my emigration till I see which way he goes , but I have now put Russia on my list of possibles BTW, Queen Elisabeth 2nd. pays income tax to the government also , and she is not happy about it , she only said to me the other day that for 2 pins she would emigrate ,

Taken ? , I feel litigatiion coming on lol Tommie , you got a shed I can share with your $ 20 name profits , I just heards from my Gov .that I owe $50 uk tax if I sell MY $ 15 name

:2funny: the woman in the chair needs to go back to drama school, or train with the English football team , I have seen some dives , but that was a belly flop :2funny:

Wow , $278,378,00 for Roco.com I guess me and Ca3le could be near neighbours in Bel-Air, after the sale http://leapfish.com/domain_name_appraisal.php?url=Roco.com Btw Tommie I hope you are kidding on the sale of TMN , but then again that is a lot of money, for a young guy to walk away from , be honest guys what would you do in that situation ?, Yeah so would I , just a thought, are the mods share holders ?

total waste of good bronze , it would have been enough to cast a ships propeller , oh I nearly forgot she killed of our ship building industry , coal mines , steel making , introduced poll tax , caused for the riots on the streets of the UK, sat on the simmering Falklands war , just to gain the glory of winning it , had a debate on allowing cruise missiles into the UK , they had already been here for 3 months b4 , I climbed all over one when they first arrived , and F**ed the working classes , apart from that she was a great P.M.

nowt wrong with passion , it's lethargy that kills , we got near on 20% of our Uk population , not born here , Ohl I guess that includes me, so maybe I will get sent home , yes please income tax at 5%, trouble is I got to put up $2.5 million to be allowed back

lol Mudmanc, was you thumping the table while writting that speach , BTW you aint growing a tash as well , only kidding Bro.most of the UK puters I work on are 1 Ghz with 256 Mb ram , and with a gallon of petrol around $7.50, if you guys ever need any advice just PM me , I can talk suffering to the cows come home

You may well be right Peepn.& Shugs but it ain't going to happen overnight , maybe 20-50 years , and the new order will be China IMHO , but as a UK Cit. and I hope I know you guys well enough , the shift of power wont be a walkover , maybe a slow decline over a 100 years or so , Hunger ,and not just for food, is a powerfull tool , the West has grown soft , we have had it all , the UK faded a long time ago , America was the new star, and climbed to the top, by hunger and hard work , then sat back on it's laurels ,as Rome did many years back , BTW glad to see the vote for TMN bucks is climbing , anyone want to buy my share ,

Thanks for the link Jeff , it gives me another reason for me to stay with XP, I will wait fot the others to catch up , and M/S to issue Vista SP2 , b4 I test the water , I had enough trouble moving from M.E to XP ,

back late last night , then 4 hours sleep back on the road at 6.30 am and now just off again for a few hours , paid for this time and I thought my life would get easier when I retired from full time work ,

:2funny: I had e-mailed the saga of the dead vid card on to another freebie customer , who was waiting for me to call if I had the time ,(another problem ) I guess this must be female logic at work Morning Roco Why didn't she tell you no signal with a blank screen , cos it was bound to be NTL's fault, they are the new ones on the scene and it gave good reason for verbal abuse at my age Tommie I like to keep my options open , never know when I might need a freebie ..............................................................dinner Nah , not clever , I should have asked a few questions about the lost internet connection , and saved myself a trip through the London rush hour (fri*g*n 1.1/2 hours to travel 8 miles , ( it was only 2 miles as the crow flies ) dont know what happened last night but there were 5 mile queues to the Thames bridges up to 8pm,

right on there grandpa , BTW. how many grandchildren have you got I got 2 (11y & 9y both boys, thanks for the PM as we are drifting of topic , it's 12.30 GMT , and I have got to get up at 06 GMT late again Roco , will get back to you at a sensible hour for me , this + 8 sucks for me regards Roco UK

:2funny: my just a puppy then ,

Hi grandpa , I got my first real computer at 54y , so I ain't looking for a Career in fixing computers, just more than happy with the international friendship that it can give , just like this contact , I grew up in the days of post meaning sticking a stamp on a letter BTW I build my own also, but with the UK prices , the next one will be a while yet

Hi grandpa , yeah, on call 24 hrs , the only cure for this I guess is to is to start charging , I got caught in this trap working for a charity for the elderly , and bless them they passed on my contact number to all , but in all fairness it has been a good learning curve for me , and a pay back for all the good things I have gained from computers and the internet , like TMN etc. and friends from around the world , how do you put a price on that ?