OT...calling all geeks

"rw" wrote in message
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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.

Thanksgiving is also a Canadian Holiday, we just have it a month or earlier
than you.

I have no problem with people wishing each other well, regardless of the
reason. I plan to celebrate US thanksgiving myself. My oldest daughter has
grown up in the US, and is visiting me here in the north thsi week. We are
cooking a turkey tomorrow just for the hell of it.

Happy Thanskgiving

Tim Lysyk
timlysyk at telus dot net

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.

Probably, but so what? 90% of roff is American. If this bothers you,
check Google for the threads around (US) election time. I take
Thanksgiving over elections any day.

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.

Huh? Boxing day?

Happy thanksgiving to all, and have fun or whatever you're supposed to
have :-).

--
Herman, celebrating sinterklaas in 10 days or so.

(Greg Pavlov) wrote in
:

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:33:33 GMT, "Bill" wrote:

The only way to go is a fresh install As Scott said - up-grading
brings along other things.
PLUS IT really keeps most of old win - 98 system.
If done this way system will start up faster than any version of
Windows 98.

I very much agree with Scott's recomendation, but I don't
believe that you can count on a faster startup.

....as I mentioned before, I formatted the HD and then did the install.
Everything went swimmingly, not a hitch anywhere. Installed my new Canon
flatbed scanner today, ditto, just like it's supposed to and works great.
After doing some tweaking (thanks to Flyfish's URL) it still runs fine but
I can say without a doubt it boots slower than W98...I can live with that
if it continues to run as it has since installation, especially since it
will rarely be turned off.

Frank Church
...geek in training..does that make me a geeklet?

I have an home brewed intel P-4 2.4 with 512 mb ram and an Abit Siluro Nvidia
Ti 4200 video card built on an Asus P4PE motherboard, and set up with a dual
boot system of XP Home sp1, and 98SE. I have done no tweaking to either OS
other than to remove a few unneeded programs from the startup menu. XP loads
about twice as fast as 98.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

On 28 Nov 2003 18:32:09 GMT, ojunk (George Adams) wrote:

I have an home brewed intel P-4 2.4 with 512 mb ram and an Abit Siluro Nvidia
Ti 4200 video card built on an Asus P4PE motherboard, and set up with a dual
boot system of XP Home sp1, and 98SE. I have done no tweaking to either OS
other than to remove a few unneeded programs from the startup menu. XP loads
about twice as fast as 98.

fwiw, on my systems that have had (or still have) both, XP Pro boots to the
login screen faster than 98SE.

Wandering even further OT...

Sometime back we had a very brief discussion about EA Sports NHL2K, and how
the 2003 version was way better than earlier vintages. Well, NHL2004 kicks all
of the earlier versions right off their training wheels. It is way cool and
suitable for inclusion in the kit of winter boredom chasers, for those who are
into sports sims, at least...

And there was another discussion about Norton Antivirus 2002-2003 subscription
renewals. The totally unethical may be happy to know there's a hacked
Catalog.LiveSubscribe file that'll enable the subscription service through May
of 2097...

It *is* possible to take down a huge oak in the opposite direction of its 15°
list towards the homestead. All it takes is 400' of 1" line, a multiplying
pully set, a 40' extension ladder, a decrepit Pathfinder driven by willing
child, a chain saw, and an old fart who won't listen to "Call a pro!"...

"The Matrix: Revolutions" Only ubergeeks will get it.
"Master and Commander" A "Must See".

/daytripper (ayup, it's gonna be a long winter...)

iscussion about EA Sports NHL2K, and how
the 2003 version was way better than earlier vintages. Well, NHL2004 kicks
all
of the earlier versions right off their training wheels.
It is way cool and
suitable for inclusion in the kit of winter boredom chasers, for those who
are
into sports sims, at least...

Interesting....I'll give it a look after the Christmas rush is over.

And there was another discussion about Norton Antivirus 2002-2003
subscription
renewals. The totally unethical may be happy to know there's a hacked
Catalog.LiveSubscribe file that'll enable the subscription service through
May
of 2097...

Acting on a tip from Mike Connor, I have been using FreeAV (www.freeav.com) for
a couple of years now. It is totally free, less intrusive than NAV, and even
sends a prompt to remind the user to update.

/daytripper (ayup, it's gonna be a long winter...)

Maybe.....did some fishing last week, but next week doesn't look too promising.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

"daytripper" wrote in message
...

.....(ayup, it's gonna be a long winter...)

Um......so, you're saying it ain't over yet?

Wolfgang
well, ****.