Chappy

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  1. I just bought a BFG Nvidia 8800 GTS OC 320MB card off of Rubber Ducky yesterday, bought a new Enermax Noise Taker II EG701AX 600W Power supply to replace my 20 pin 450 today, and then realized that my case configuration as it is, would NOT FIT the new card!!!!!!!!!!!! Gawd All Mighty...I just about PLOTZ'd!! I knew my case innards were pretty packed in there tight, especially since I added another HDD, a floppy drive and a 2nd DVD burner, and that took a pile of mods to get it all in. But then I opened it up tonight and realized I just didn't have the room for this Monsterous new card I bought
  2. "Catch you"...doing what exactly?? I'm not sure I like the sounds of that young man, are you making little tents in bed again.. And I'm not sure I want to watch as you forget that you're streaming live and come walking in just out of the shower, and drop the towel...nope..pretty sure I don't wanna Catch That! heheh...I'll see if I can remember to "Catch You" someday.
  3. Plot was a bit thin, and the character development needed more work, but overall I think the ending had us all on the edges of our seats!! I give it a 3.5 out of 5 Now, I don't think this is Sequel Material, so let's not see any B-Grade sequels made out of this movie please...(Hello Spidey 3)
  4. Yah, hope Pete's OK too. We had 3 Tornado watches last week as a really powerful bunch of systems came thru back to back. Tornado's hit south and east of us but we just got one Torrential downpouring is all.. I guess there's no more questioning this Global Warming stuff anymore is there. The weather patterns have changed drastically all over, and much faster than they ever predicted it could. Now we have to see if we can slow it down so our kid's kids don't grow up in a giant Snowball of a planet! The tipping point is very close and it won't take much to drive it over the edge. We were only lu
  5. Oh dang...I gotta break my No More Birthdays Posts rule for this idiot....er...fella Canuckster! Happy B-Day TK!! I remember back when he was just a lil feller, spammin my Hotmail throw-away account, and I wrote back with a "Who the $%#@ are U?" kinda deal...LOL!! My, we sure have come a long way since then eh TK!! Take Care Bud!
  6. Geez Ducky...that is the exact card I've been trying to get HP to send me to replace the underpowered Intel 945G chipset onboard graphics in my machine. This 945g was poorly engineered as the graphics solution for a Media Center TV machine and I've received well over 1000 errors in 3 months concerning how it's being "Overutilized" while it's basically doing nothing but TV on a 20" PC monitor, an open web browser and email client...thats "Overutlized"?? I've actually raised quite a stink at HP and have been in contact with the CEO of Support Relations, and all my tests and errors proving my po
  7. Hey...a couple of them cans of Schlitz looked intact!! I say...lets crack them puppies open, fire up the old dog, and go cruisin the block for chicks!!
  8. Chappy

    I Quit.

    Ah...those were the days!! I used to take apart everything I could lay my hands on, just to see how it worked and what the insides looked like. My Dad nearly killed me many times because I wasn't old enough to know how to put it all back together again, but nowadays I can rip apart and rebuild a 327 in an afternoon, I can mess around inside & mod my computer to no end confidently, and I can fix just about anything that stops working...as long as the motor or whatever is still good and even then I'll put in a new one if it isn't more expensive than getting a brand new something or other....
  9. Actually, they are required by Law to maintain and test the sprinkler systems in multi unit apartments and the like. Basically because of what USED to happen, they were left to rot out and when they were really needed they didn't work and people died as a result. Fire Bylaws are very strict now, and we enforce them religously these days. Too many people died needlessly from poorly maintained sprinklers, alarms, water closet hoses...etc, so a clamp down was really badly needed. It never used to be law to do these things, it was "Recommended" but not enforced but nowadays we'll fine businesses f
  10. Where did you purchase this new machine? Is it an OEM (Dell, Gateway, HP) or from a local computer shop? That is definitely not normal behavior and I think it's because something in the BIOS setup is incorrect and it's having to reset to a different setting to compensate. Also, your monitor does not "boot up", it simply recieves a signal when the graphics driver initializes. Your RAM usage with XP is normal, XP doesn't utilize the extra RAM that is not alloted to running programs and services like Vista does with SuperFetch, so actually a low RAM usage in XP is a good thing, as long as the sy
  11. Hey Hitest Ya, most of the western most interior sections are flooding now, and with so much snowpack still on the mountains, it ain't over yet unfortunately. I haven't seen you guys hit this hard by floods in some time, probably since I lived in Whistler in 78 or so. Here's hoping the weather stays cool for awhile yet so the waters can recede before the main snowpack melts, cause if it warms up in the higher altitudes too soon....well, you know what'll happen... Heheh...about the only thing we DON"T get here on the prairies, is Hurricanes. Oh...maybe Avalanches are rare too, our ski slopes ar
  12. Hello Members & Guests! I know how hard it can be to find those settings you need with a new Operating System, and especially so when it's as different as Vista is!! So, I've decided to post this thread so anyone who's having trouble Finding something in Vista, has a place to ask for help in finding it, and one of us (or all of us) will do our best'est to Find that setting/spot for you, and post it here. If it's a really good one, we'll probably turn it into a Tip Post as well, so your questions can help as many folks as possible later on. So please, if you're having trouble finding someth
  13. Same here Mark, and yes I have to agree JD, there were some stinkers even from the old legends of SNL for sure, but it was all so cutting edge and a new brand of comedy back then, and that group pulled it off with style! Bring on the Monty Python too!!
  14. LOL! Funny stuff! Gotta send that to a few friends I know will like this. Thx Marty
  15. Yah...just before our Victoria Day long weekend a few weeks ago, our prices went from $0.95 a Litre to $1.24 a litre!!! Now you tell me that this was not Price Fixing at it's most BLATANT!!! And it happens just before every single long weekend all spring, summer and fall. What a crime this is, if we had a business and we treated our customers like that all the time...just how long do you think we'd STAY in Business??? Not very long
  16. LOLOLOLOL!!!! Cracked me up!
  17. I gotta agree snyper...I just don't understand this whole Anime fad myself. It's basically cartoons isn't it, except they make the girls look like...ummm...Girls, but it's still just animation... I think they're guy's too Honda Boy, and I'll admit that they are good dancers, probably professional or semi-pro I would say from the quality of their movements. And JDoors...Yes, I've seen the (Blarfff) Macarena in all it's ridiculous splendor, and the "Bird Dance" and any form of "Line Dancing", and even Disco..which I have to admit to doing myself once or twice..(but only cause ALL the girls were
  18. Oh Honda_Boy...you neede to watch SNL wayyyyyy back in the day, with the very first Original cast members. THAT was comedy I tell ya...Belushi Ackroyd, Curtin, Chase...man those were the good ole days of SNL.
  19. Heheh-heh...I remember that one JDoors! Excellent Marty!!
  20. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lordy..my sides are hurtin...now I remember why I created the Comedy Club!
  21. OMG Barb...you're sooooo bad..! As soon as I finish laughing and spitting milk thru my nostrils...I'm gonna Trash this Post!!
  22. Probably...No wait...Without A Doubt, the absolute STOOPIDUST dance I ever seen in my LIFE!!! But I have to admit...the guys (or girls, hard to tell) doing the dance for real?..They're pretty damn good!!
  23. Then go running outside and leave the doors wide open too Mark!!