OT...calling all geeks

Frank Church wrote in
9.11:

OK, I finally got tired of bsods, lockups, illegal ops etc, etc. so I
upgraded to WinXP Home Edition today. So far, what I've seen I like;
the only fly in the ointment seems to be that windows open slower and
it takes noticeably longer to boot up and shut down. I'm used to
windows fairly snapping open with W98 (when it wasn't locked up, etc)
I have 512 megs RAM and an Athlon 1.2 gig processor. Am I gonna have
to go to a faster processor to kick this thing in the butt or what?
One small negative in this whole thing is my scanner software does not
work with WinXP..time for a new scanner I guess.

Frank Church
..'fishin' for help to keep this partly on topic

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...xptweak/1.html

Flyfish

"rw" wrote in message
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daytripper wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:31:59 GMT, rw
wrote:

I'm having trouble with my Epson Stylus Color 600 printer. The paper
comes out with horizontal lines on it, even after I clean the print
head. Can any Epson printer geeks help?


"Printer geeks"? Who the hell would admit to that? ;-)

It was intended as sarcasm.

Awwww.........isn't that sweet........and on the eve of such a feel good
family holiday!

Wolfgang
who really can't understand why anybody wouldn't just ADORE such a prince of
a fella.

daytripper wrote:


"Printer geeks"? Who the hell would admit to that? ;-)

you sweet talkin' graminivorous fly fishin yankee....

--wally ;-)

Wolfgang wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
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daytripper wrote:

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:31:59 GMT, rw

wrote:

I'm having trouble with my Epson Stylus Color 600 printer. The paper
comes out with horizontal lines on it, even after I clean the print
head. Can any Epson printer geeks help?


"Printer geeks"? Who the hell would admit to that? ;-)

It was intended as sarcasm.


Awwww.........isn't that sweet........and on the eve of such a feel good
family holiday!

Thanksgiving is a feel-good AMERICAN holiday. Believe it or not, most of
the world, including a significant percentage of ROFF, couldn't care
less about Thanksgiving, even if they know what it represents. I like
Thanksgiving -- it's my favorite holiday -- but celebrating Thanksgiving
or Veteran's Day or the Fourth of July or the like ON ROFF strikes me as
crass American chauvinism. There's an underlying assumption that ROFF
belongs to the US, in some fundamental sense. Our English and Canadian
and Aussie and Kiwi colleagues have the good taste, at least, to
celebrate Boxing Day on their own time, in their own way.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

rw wrote:



Thanksgiving is a feel-good AMERICAN holiday. Believe it or not, most of
the world, including a significant percentage of ROFF, couldn't care
less about Thanksgiving, even if they know what it represents. I like
Thanksgiving -- it's my favorite holiday -- but celebrating Thanksgiving
or Veteran's Day or the Fourth of July or the like ON ROFF strikes me as
crass American chauvinism. There's an underlying assumption that ROFF
belongs to the US, in some fundamental sense. Our English and Canadian
and Aussie and Kiwi colleagues have the good taste, at least, to
celebrate Boxing Day on their own time, in their own way.


Bah Humbug!

IMO, holidays where family and friends get together to celebrate some
aspect of life are good things. I'm hard pressed to see how friends
wishing each other well on ROFF during these days can be offensive to
others.

And this from a guy that always has to work overtime before, during and
after holidays.

I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.

Willi

Wolfgang wrote:

It was intended as sarcasm.


Awwww.........isn't that sweet........and on the eve of such a feel good
family holiday!

Wolfgang
who really can't understand why anybody wouldn't just ADORE such a prince of
a fella.

He says sarcastically........

Willi

Willi wrote:


rw wrote:



Thanksgiving is a feel-good AMERICAN holiday. Believe it or not, most
of the world, including a significant percentage of ROFF, couldn't
care less about Thanksgiving, even if they know what it represents. I
like Thanksgiving -- it's my favorite holiday -- but celebrating
Thanksgiving or Veteran's Day or the Fourth of July or the like ON
ROFF strikes me as crass American chauvinism. There's an underlying
assumption that ROFF belongs to the US, in some fundamental sense. Our
English and Canadian and Aussie and Kiwi colleagues have the good
taste, at least, to celebrate Boxing Day on their own time, in their
own way.


Bah Humbug!

IMO, holidays where family and friends get together to celebrate some
aspect of life are good things. I'm hard pressed to see how friends
wishing each other well on ROFF during these days can be offensive to
others.

"Offensive" is much too harsh a word. I had something more like
"inappropriate" in mind -- kind of like using ROFF for Windows support.

But, while we're at it, Happy Thanksgiving, Willi. :-)

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"rw" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
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daytripper wrote:

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:31:59 GMT, rw

wrote:

I'm having trouble with my Epson Stylus Color 600 printer. The paper
comes out with horizontal lines on it, even after I clean the print
head. Can any Epson printer geeks help?


"Printer geeks"? Who the hell would admit to that? ;-)

It was intended as sarcasm.


Awwww.........isn't that sweet........and on the eve of such a feel good
family holiday!

Thanksgiving is a feel-good AMERICAN holiday.

See, I never would have guessed that. I'd have guessed it was primarily a
book by some obscure author that only about 84% of the world had ever heard
of. And then I'd have done a Google search on it and presented my findings
by way of a cleverly disguised sneer at someone who said something like
"Hey, ya know, I think I like Thanksgiving"......or something like that.

Believe it or not, most of
the world, including a significant percentage of ROFF, couldn't care
less about Thanksgiving,

Who'da thunk it?! I'da thunk that if'n it'll play in Idaho, it's good
enough fer anybody!

even if they know what it represents.

Well yeah, harvest festivals ARE pretty obscure.......outside 'Murrica and
Indiana there can't be any more'n about five or six billion people who ever
heard of 'em.

I like Thanksgiving

And it likes you!

-- it's my favorite holiday --

And you're its favorite putz!

but celebrating Thanksgiving
or Veteran's Day or the Fourth of July or the like ON ROFF strikes me as
crass American chauvinism.

Well yeah, but then, anything you think you can get mileage out of strikes
you as crass American chauvinism.......or as anything else you think, at the
moment, that you can get mileage out of.......um......I wonder.....does
carrying a satellite phone in places that Isabella Bird picnicked in qualify
as crass American chauvinism?

There's an underlying assumption that ROFF
belongs to the US, in some fundamental sense.

Hm.......well, at least that's something we can't lay at Hart's
feet......or, for that matter, at the feet of anyone who has the moral
stature required to sneer at shooting grouse with a rifle!

Our English and Canadian
and Aussie and Kiwi colleagues have the good taste, at least, to
celebrate Boxing Day on their own time, in their own way.

And thank god they all speak the King's English while doing
so!......um......well, the Quee......oops!

Wolfgang
who swears he did not read any of the above tripe.

"Willi" wrote in message
...


Wolfgang wrote:

It was intended as sarcasm.


Awwww.........isn't that sweet........and on the eve of such a feel good
family holiday!

Wolfgang
who really can't understand why anybody wouldn't just ADORE such a
prince of
a fella.

He says sarcastically........

Willi

Thus demonstrating that two of us know what the word "sarcasm"
means..........and that one of us has, for the moment at least, decided to
refrain from pretending that he or she fails to understand what one or more
of the others said.

Wolfgang
who can also, albeit with the aid of a much maligned dictionary, spell
"sardonic".

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:24:40 GMT, rw
wrote:

(snipped)

- but celebrating Thanksgiving
or Veteran's Day or the Fourth of July or the like ON ROFF strikes me as
crass American chauvinism. There's an underlying assumption that ROFF
belongs to the US, in some fundamental sense. Our English and Canadian
and Aussie and Kiwi colleagues have the good taste, at least, to
celebrate Boxing Day on their own time, in their own way.

All newsgroups populated by Americans tend to act that way. I've seen
the Brits do their special days the same way in newsgroups where they
predominate. I don't find it to my taste, as a general rule, as I'm
not big on holidays (other then the time off work they represent), but
it's not bothersome to me, unless it gets very sloshy sentimental and
goes on and on. Wannabee Hallmark posts tend to up my personal
irritation levels, but I can skim or skip them.
--

rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing.
Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

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