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RE: A Diabetic Question
If you've ever been on the Atkins diet then you've experienced Ketoacidosis as the whole point of the diet is to keep your body producing Ketones.
You can get test strips, KetoStix, to test your urine for the presence of Ketones at the pharmacy.
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strollin
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11/10/09 12:09pm |
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RE: You Know You Live in a Small Town When...
I live in a small little town in California of about 80,000 residents. By California standards, we live in the sticks and most people have never heard of it. But if my small town was located in many other states it would be as big as the State capital. We'd be the big city.
You live in a metropolis compared to the Calif town I live in (4,400 residents)! Technically, we're not a town but an unincorporated area of the county. We don't have a mayor or town council and no police or fire departments. We depend on the county for those services.
In the last year there was an attempt to incorporate but it was defeated.
There's an elementary school here for K-6th but after that the kids get bussed to the big city down the road, population 38,000!
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strollin
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11/09/09 11:31am |
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RE: External Email Programs (EEP) ?
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Whatever "floats your boat" and works for you is the way to go.
Exactly. I started out using email clients in the early 80's but once web based email came about, I switched and never looked back. I love the fact that my email address never changes even if I switch ISPs and love the fact that I can access my email from any device with a browser.
I've been a Hotmail user for more than 10 years and have emails stored on their server that are that old (no need for me to store them locally). I once tried to access one of the older emails but got an error instead. I sent an email to Hotmail support and the next day I was able to open that email.
I've never had the desire or need to read and reply to emails off-line so that isn't a plus for me.
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strollin
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11/07/09 09:38pm |
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RE: Would you buy this car? America's thinnest car.
I might consider it except for the ridiculous $150,000 price tag. What fool would buy one at that price?
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strollin
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11/07/09 05:29pm |
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RE: USAA Announces Expanded Member Eligibility
What is USAA? Never heard of it.
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strollin
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11/07/09 07:44am |
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RE: The Droid cometh!
What plan are people going with? I looked at the available plans and they all seem to be pretty costly. The plans below $80/month were charged data at $1.99 per mb while the $80 and $100 plans had unlimited data. Too rich for my blood and per mb scares the heck out of me.
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strollin
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11/06/09 01:09pm |
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RE: Laptop burned out BUT........
... I first plugged it into my New HP Win7 machine, but got the big BSOD screen, so I pulled it out right away. ...
Hmmm... I wonder why you got the BSOD when you plugged it into your new machine?
Congrats that you were able to recover your data.
The hard drive from the laptop was a complete XP booting operating system which confused the new computer when I plugged it in.
I was essentially trying to boot and already booted system.
Like trying to start your heart when it was already started. :E
Seems like having a Linux computer lying around comes in handy.
Plugging in an external drive won't change the boot order, I've done what you described (plug in external, bootable drive) many times on XP machines without incident, never required a Linux machine. I've also attached drives like that internally with no issues.
I can think of a scenario that might cause confusion and that would be if you plugged the external drive in BEFORE booting the machine AND your BIOS settings were configured to boot from a USB device first.
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strollin
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11/06/09 12:49pm |
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RE: Help getting DD214
When you finally get the copy, take it to the "clerk and recorder's office" at your local courthouse, and have it recorded. That way, it is always there, and readily available if you need another copy.
If your records were involved in the fire some years ago, forget it, you probably won't have any chance of recovering them.
Yeah, when I separated from the army in 1974 I was advised to have it recorded with the county clerk (and did). Don't they advise all personnel to do that?
Of course, in the 35 years since I've only been asked to show my DD214 once. I still have a copy lying around somewhere but I think it would probably be more of a hassle to retrieve a copy from the county than to use the website above to request a copy.
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strollin
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11/06/09 12:39pm |
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RE: Laptop burned out BUT........
... I first plugged it into my New HP Win7 machine, but got the big BSOD screen, so I pulled it out right away. ...
Hmmm... I wonder why you got the BSOD when you plugged it into your new machine?
Congrats that you were able to recover your data.
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strollin
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11/06/09 06:26am |
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RE: NASCAR drivers - too many drunks?
What do you expect from a sport originated by rum runners?
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strollin
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11/02/09 05:24pm |
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RE: Anyone have a HP Pavilion Slimline s5220f Desktop PC
If you are interested in using the Aero features of Win 7 you should be careful regarding that model computer. Aero requires 128M of graphics memory and that only has 64M. Also, the graphics memory is shared with your main memory which means it uses some of your main memory for graphics memory instead of having separate memory for graphics.
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strollin
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11/02/09 09:10am |
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RE: Its out! (humor)
Yes, it is out! Brand new edition of...
"You might be a Redneck if..."
25. Your working TV sits on top of your non-working TV
My grandparents had two televisions stacked on top of each other - both worked though...kinda. The sound worked on one...the picture worked on the other. Between the two you had one good working tv. Does that mean I'm descended from rednecks? Nevermind...don't answer that. I already know the answer.
Heck, my dad did that when I was a kid. We had 2 19" B&W TVs stacked one on top of the other. One had picture but no sound the other sound but no picture. When we changed the channel we had to change it on both TVs! Of course we only got 2 channels and they were both fuzzy.
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strollin
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11/01/09 05:52pm |
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RE: Carbonite (back-up)
Internet based backups seem like a good idea provided you have a fast internet connection. Make sure you consider the upload speed (for backup purposes) as well as the download speed of your connection when deciding whether or not to use an on-line backup service.
For instance, the connection I have is limited to about 200K upload speed so an on-line backup literally takes days to accomplish. Way too slow to be of any use to me.
If you have a fast internet connection it probably is a viable solution but it just is not an option for me.
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strollin
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10/30/09 05:10pm |
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RE: RAM upgrade
The great thing about crucial.com is that they have a scanner tool that will scan your computer and tell you how much memory you have, how many slots there are and what is the max amount of RAM that can be installed. It will then allow you to order the correct memory modules so that there is no guesswork on your part.
Here's a link to the Dell site for step-by-step instructions on how to replace/install the memory in your computer: Dell XPS M140 Service Manual
Your laptop has 2 memory slots and since you already have 512M, my guess is that you have a single 512M in 1 slot. You have several options: Buy another 512M for slot 2 for a total of 1G, Buy a 1G module for slot 2 for a total of 1.5G. If you want to max the ram out at 2G you will need to get 2 1G modules, pull the existing 512M module and install the 2 1G modules.
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strollin
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10/29/09 11:06am |
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RE: Isn't Windows Great?
... I've often wondered how different things would have been if Digital Research had won the IBM PC operating system deal.... Some guy named Bill bought CPM and sold only the "right to use" to IBM, calling it DOS (Disk Operating System), but retained ownership of the DOS product. He got a royaly on every machine sold with a DOS disk.
Actually, Bill didn't buy CPM, he bought a product called "QDOS" (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from a company called Seattle Computer and renamed it MS-DOS.
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strollin
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10/28/09 07:19pm |
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RE: Finally dumped Vista - Huge improvement!!
I don't know about Office 2000 but Office 2003 is happily running on my Win 7 machine.
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strollin
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10/28/09 07:12pm |
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RE: Isn't Windows Great?
Yeah, I remember DOS where each application you used had to have it's own driver for your video card, modem, printer, etc... Where you could only run 1 program at a time and you had a memory limit of 640K. Yup, good ol' DOS.
I remember when I was a Beta tester for OS/2 1.0 before they added the GUI, Presentation Manager. It had the ability to run multiple DOS boxes meaning you could run multiple DOS apps concurrently. I was in 7th heaven until the first build that included PM. I absolutely hated it, but eventually it grew on me.
Even though I learned computers on mainframes where everything was done from the command line, I still prefer a GUI today. For instance, File management is much easier with a GUI then it ever was from the command line or even using an app like XTree.
I have many DOS only machines around my house but I only use them to play with since most of them can't even access the internet or only have floppy drives.
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strollin
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10/28/09 07:02pm |
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RE: Windows 7
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That helps. I bought the Professional Version hoping to do use it that way. My computer doesn't have the virtualization technology, but I don't mind either upgrading or building up a replacement. I've been trying to find information on what processors/bios supports it without much luck. Even new retail computers don't specify it.
Your info is different than what I had seen somewhere else about XP Mode including a licensed version of XP. That would be a lot better if I build a new system. I would still have this XP machine.
I can't help you with determining which processors/bios support virtualization from the mfr specs, maybe a call to the mfr to ask before you buy is in order. I think most current machines do support it, my 3 yr old machine with an Intel Dual Core processor supports it, as does my 2 yr old laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Here's a link to a little utility that will tell you if a given machine supports it or not and whether it is enabled in the BIOS:
Gibson Research Securable
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strollin
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10/28/09 05:56pm |
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RE: Windows 7
... One of the problems is that Vista (and I'm guessing Win 7) got rid of the XP's My Documents naming. While I don't miss that many programs have it hard coded. If you try to create a My Documents on a Vista machine it will do everything it can to stop you and if you are successful it hides it. ...
Maybe I'm missing something in your post or it may be that I don't remember how it used to be in XP but under Vista and now under Win 7 I have a "My Document" folder which was automatically created for each username -- C:\Users\username\My Documents
I goofed, I should have included the whole path.
XP is c:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\
Vista is c:users\username\documents\
The problem is that the whole path is different. Does this fit?
Win 7 uses the same path as Vista however Win 7 throws in a new wrinkle called Libraries. In a "Picture" Library, for instance, you can place all your pictures but the cool thing is that they do not need to physically be in the same folder or even the same drive but will look and act as if they are. If you setup a Win 7 exclusive Homegroup network, the files can be on different folders on different machines scattered across your network. It's a powerful new feature of Win 7 that many aren't even aware of yet.
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strollin
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10/28/09 05:34pm |
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RE: Windows 7
One important thing that hasn't been covered about upgrading...
If you have a newer machine who's processor supports "virtualization", and you get Windows 7 Business or Ultimate, you have "XP mode" available to you.
Just about any old application that won't run on Windows 7, can be run in "XP mode" and it's virtually (pun intended) seamless. Runs just like it was running in Windows 7 directly.
And "XP mode" is not just a compatibility setting that you set in the shortcut, it REALLY IS running under Windows XP. It is a totally awesome feature of Windows 7 (it's a seperate download, not included with default installation).
Not only that but XP mode INCLUDES a fully licensed copy of XP so you don't even need an XP install disk to install XP in the virtual machine.
This may not seem like a big deal to some but typically when you create a VM (Virtual Machine) which is what XP Mode is, you need to have a copy of the OS with a valid license key to install on that machine just as if it was a physical machine. Not only that but you are not restricted to having only an XP VM, you can create VMs to run Linux or other Windows versions such as Win 2000 or Vista (as long as you have the install disks and a valid license key).
VM software has been around for years but XP Mode is more tightly integrated into Win 7 to make it more seamless with better performance.
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strollin
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10/28/09 05:29pm |
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