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RE: Why Football on ThanksGiving
Why play football on Thanksgiving. Pick the 4 teams to play that day. Than take the 2 teams you no are going to win every year and just give them the win. Put some worth while on those time slots on TV we might enjoy watching.:B
Why not shut the bloody thing off and interact with the people you're with?
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fj12ryder
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11/26/09 05:20pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Motorcycle owned by EVEL KNIEVEL.
Chopper flip over back? Not very likely with that wheelbase and weight. I don't care for choppers, customs or whatever you wish to call them, either. I have to admit that I prefer substance over style and function over flash.
I'll stick to my Honda Interceptor: http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh172/WantsFreeStuff/AtDealsGap.jpg
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fj12ryder
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11/25/09 11:19am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Is it awkward to use a large monitor with a small laptop?
This is just my opinion, but if you're going to have a separate mouse, keyboard, and monitor why not just buy a small form factor computer rather than a laptop? You'll get as much or more computing power and storage in a similar sized package for less money.
We bought this a unit just like this one: $149 E-machine.
It works so well that we bought a second one for our son.
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fj12ryder
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11/25/09 11:04am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Motorcycle owned by EVEL KNIEVEL.
Heck, I wouldn't own it for $2900 unless I knew I could sell it for $3000.
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fj12ryder
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11/25/09 07:09am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Windows 7 GRRRRRR!
I went from XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro and love it. It was a totally smooth install, took about 30 minutes, and works like a champ. It loads windows faster than XP, boots up quicker, and shuts down quicker. At the end of the install even my network was up and running. Love it!!
The new GUI takes some getting used to as I had skipped Vista as just another Windows ME, and it looks a lot like Vista. But it sure doesn't act like Vista. I've worked on some Vista machines and always felt that Vista was waaaaay bloated. Windows 7 just flat a$$ works!!
I'll probably stick with XP for gaming until I can get a new high zoot video card. My 8800 GT works but is getting long in the tooth.
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fj12ryder
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11/22/09 07:12pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Windows 7
Firefox works fine for me on Windows 7, but if I was concerned about the stability the last thing I would do is download and install a beta version.
I take it that it works okay with the 64 bit Windows 7? I thought about trying the 64 bit but I have an old Minolta/Konica laser printer and it doesn't even have new drivers for XP. But the old XP drivers work fine with 32 bit Windows 7.
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fj12ryder
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11/21/09 01:39pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Is there software that determines on-line usage
Yes
NetMeter
It's also freeware.
I use it to monitor my upload/download speeds
Admin
+1
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fj12ryder
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11/21/09 07:02am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Climatologists baffled by Global warming stall
...And for all the chest-thumping going on about "saving the planet" - *man* has about all the effect of a belch in a tornado on both of THOSE.....LOL!!...
And you can swear to this how? Just wondering.
I'm considerably more ambivalent about the whole thing. Man has a rather large effect on the planet so far, witness the extinction of species, large scale deforestation, and reduction in water tables. Quite a few marine species are getting very hard to find in significant numbers due to overfishing.
JMO.
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fj12ryder
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11/20/09 03:11pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Weight Calculations
Looks like you got the idea. The only difference would be that you won't know your actual pin weight until after you've weighed the truck/trailer loaded and truck solo.
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fj12ryder
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11/20/09 10:02am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: RV Awning Mat Sale 9x12
We have two of their maps and they are both great. I'd buy another if we had need of one right now.
We used the 9x12 one that is 6 years old to protect the truck bed when we hauled in 4 truck loads of river rock for the pool area. After it was washed it was still good as new. Very tough mats.
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fj12ryder
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11/20/09 09:57am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Back up Camera setup
I got mine from this guy below on ebay. He changed his user name about a year ago. He is easy to deal with and knows the product. I got the 7" model with the night vision. You can control it a number of ways, included on when you turn the power on or on when you back up,etc. You can also get additional cable and a coil from him. You can see the camera and monitor in my sig link. Backup camera
I bought one from the same guy and it works very well. I ran the cable under the 5er, up through the nose, and out and tyrapped to the power cable. I hook up the camera when I hook up the 5er to the truck.
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fj12ryder
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11/17/09 06:46pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Does anyone
Semi-seriously, wouldn't it make more sense to call the PO and ask them rather than depend on someone on an unrelated forum?
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fj12ryder
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11/13/09 04:33pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Does anyone
Or leave by next Monday.
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fj12ryder
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11/13/09 04:32pm |
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RE: We can all rest easy now
True or not - it looks like a great movie. :B
Doug
I don't know about a great movie, but the special effects look super.
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fj12ryder
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11/13/09 04:31pm |
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RE: We can all rest easy now
If that is true it's a pretty sad state of affairs.
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fj12ryder
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11/12/09 07:01pm |
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RE: Dad lost his job, so this family lives on the road
...This is why on one buys newpapers anymore.
Don't mean to hijack this thread, but this story wasn't in a newspaper, it was on an internet news site. Does that mean no one reads the internet anymore? :)
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fj12ryder
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11/07/09 04:24pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: External Email Programs (EEP) ?
An online e-mail client is not very practical for someone who just wants to sign on to his dial-up, and read his mail after it's downloaded, and log back off. These people exist believe it or not, I have a neighbor that does that. Also someone who is very cautious about his downloaded data amounts may not want to have to load up his browser just to read his e-mail.
Personally I prefer my e-mail client, The Bat, over Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo mail. I'm on cable and speed isn't an issue, I just don't particularly care for the looks of them. And if I need an older e-mail I don't have to worry that it may have been "lost" in cyberspace.
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fj12ryder
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11/07/09 04:18pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: USAA Announces Expanded Member Eligibility
Is there a web site?
Google it.
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fj12ryder
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11/07/09 11:31am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Windows 7 Aero Support
folks have said that you can't upgrade from XP to 7, need to do a complete reinstall.
bumpy
That's correct, having just done that. The installation will tell you that you cannot directly upgrade from XP, you have to do a clean install.
There’s a lot of info out there regarding this. I somehow accepted an offer to get Win7 for about $100 and when it came it was Professional-UPGRADE! Well I tried upgrading from XP and it wouldn’t accept 7s ser.#, tried from Vista and it went OK except it was huge as it included a lot of Vista in the upgrade which I stripped out, the result is it seems to be running OK. The bottleneck is me getting used to it as I never used Vista because of a lot of issues. By the way my “C” partition is around 30G so that my backups are small and done at least once a week. You of course know what a backup is! ?
You just got me thinking: I hadn't activated my copy of 7. I have heard there are some problems with activation when you upgrade from XP. I just activated and had no problems. I also used Windows 7 Professional Upgrade to install. It went smoothly with no issues. Very quick and the results are fine so far. I even installed the old printer drivers that are dated from 2005 and are for XP, and have never been, and will never be, updated. The printer was discontinued a couple of years ago, and the software is just "as is".
Ah yes, backups. We each have multiple hard drives installed, and a couple of USB hard drives, and backup with Acronis True Image.
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fj12ryder
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11/01/09 05:44am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Windows 7 Aero Support
folks have said that you can't upgrade from XP to 7, need to do a complete reinstall.
bumpy
That's correct, having just done that. The installation will tell you that you cannot directly upgrade from XP, you have to do a clean install.
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fj12ryder
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10/31/09 07:21am |
Technology Corner
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