martymas

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  1. hi team ive just come from a nz board and found this article it is called. EWOK once you read the article you will see how it got the name at first i thought it was a tale from star wars but ive just found it works and all it costs is the price of a wok how ever read and make up your mind marty http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm...E5E83027AF10110
  2. here is an englishmans summing up of vista i extracted from the bbc.co.uk as i do not have vista i cant publish my views but many of you have it installed the article says the poster had to up grade his hardware that puts me out and after reading that view i feel vista is for the affluent how ever read and make up you own mind marty http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6407419.stm
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    Dell

    hi ive just come from slashdot in the uk and i found this article it seems dell are doing to linux what they did to xp perinstall linux and instead of issuing a disk they want to install a recovery console the english are very concerned about it it is dell and hp that make the compt world unethecal here is part of the review this is only part of the interview it was to big to post onto the board marty "It seems pointless to seek ideas and feedback if you're going to ignore and delete the opinions you don't like. That's exactly what Dell is doing with its IdeaStorm website, which the comp
  4. did i miss irregularjoes birthday greeting on the board however many happy returns joe sorry ime late marty
  5. shanenin yes that plant in the pic is the same as mine was but the flower was shaped like a trumpet in my research they can live on insects at the bottom of the flower is a necter which the insects drink and it makes them high and they cant get back out of the flower and are consumed by the plant just how that is done i havent found out yet but i believe there are a 100 and fifety species of the plant so many differ like i said it boggles the mind i wonder if bear skin has tried it he posts at drews world shanenin sorry im not sure if the plant im discribing is peyote or not to show ho
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    Cyclones

    hi becuase i know many of you through this and other boards i watch our new service i have teletex and i saw it first through this service so i went to the local tv new service my worry it was some of you that was affected tho i ime sorry to hear any one is injured or have been killed in my country those sort of storms are rare in the area i live in funny thing if i hadent of known many of you i probable woudnt have been concerned as much tho any one dead is tragic weather you know them or not i greive for the familys concerned and hope no more of them is fatal thanks for the up date
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    Cyclones

    hi all does any one live in the path of these tornadoes i thinl alabama is one area i hope all is ok and not affected by these storms some 14 people have been killed my goodness keep safe and good luck marty
  8. hi JD yes i have gained some thing out of all of this that dam inspector was a smart b---- he thought iwas growing the plants for drug use at my age the bloody plant may as well be from the moon he was the one who told me the name of the thing to me a cactus is a cactus just a name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ and as bim posted those poppies used to be grown by every body in new zealand i remember i used to see the pods brimming over with this white stuff and thought no more about it until the last few ye
  9. how did they spot the rogue plant the plot i have the cacti in is exposed the a road which runs past my house and obviously some one saw it and recognised it and reported it as a noxious weed this is all double dutch to me tho here is the bright side when they decided to destroy the plant they also gave me the a choice to replace plant as long as it was indigenous to nz so i chose a plant called koromiko [old cure] it has medicinal properties as when you get the s-----ts you chew it and swallow the saliva and it stops those trots to the toilet so i lost one but gained another all my p
  10. hi liz and th beauty is i live in a climate that in the winter is below zero and i alway understood cactus was a desert plant which grew in hot areas so may be they are like humans and can aclimatise to the conditions so we need to nurture these sort of plants not many of them can change with the conditions new zealand is predominately a temperate zone and all indigenous plants are ever greens so the cactus is unique because it can adjust to the climatic conditions goodness i sound as tho im a cactus expert which im not but it was a little project which started as some thing to do and th
  11. there is something i learned from pete and chappy which ive done for several years and it has saved my compt check your cookie settings to prompt and block as you know one of the easiest way to get a virus or spy ware is through your cookies if the sites asks to put a cookies on your sys by setting it to prompt you have the choice of saying yes or no then the onus is on you and not the sys ive used this method for years and ive been spyware and virus free for a long time and in the bargain i use the windows firewall wich many rubbish. perhaps im lucky and i know pete chappy and goliath did
  12. hi all here are some home help tips i cant vouch for some of the ingredients as some of the names arnt available in my country many of you will be familiar with some of them marty Some good stuff Some interesting hints and stuff to know about. Especially the thing about bread at the bottom. THINGS TO KNOW 1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair. 2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish 3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes 4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair 5. Elmer's Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the de
  13. hi liz i grow an assortment of cactus i started growing them in a glass case at first but because of space i had to replant them in a little plot ive done this for several years well last year the local council sent an officer to my house to tell me i was growing in illegal plant and it would have to be removed which turned out to be one of the best of a poor lot the name of the plant was mescalini or in drug terms mescalin up until then i hadent heard of the dam thing it seems it is popular in the south american countrys i was a bit peeved as it has a beatifull flower when in bloo
  14. UFFDA! Ole is in trouble now. Sven was out shopping in the mall when he met his friend Ole outside the jewelers. Ole noticed that Sven had a small gift-wrapped box in his hand. "So vat have you just purchased Sven?" Ole asks. "Vell, now that you've asked," replies Sven, "It's my Lena's birthday tomorrow and ven I asked her this morning vat she vanted for her birthday she said, 'Oh, I don't know, dear, yust give me something with a lot of diamonds in it.'" "So vat what did you get her?" Ole asks. Sven replied, smiling, "I bought her a deck of cards."
  15. take a look at this monster sturgeon i understand this fish is found mainly in the northen hemisphere it isnt found in my area wouldnt it make a few fish fingers
  16. hi pat i have a friends compt ive been fixing and it is on dial up so i tried it and it goes well better than my cable so the song era must be fitting for the connection some songs in there a love but dont hear any more enjoy pat marty
  17. yes some of those links wont open for me either ive only got the two browsers IE and slim browser si will try SB i got wrapped in areatha franklin and go told off for to loud of music marty
  18. a friend emailed ot to me from world start and at first it was giving me an error page and cant find the server so i emailed it back to him and he sent this link which i was able to open as for not getting the links so far i havent had that trouble but im off to try it out to make matters worse i tried to sing along but i was behind the theme and the lyrics marty
  19. i refered your post on another board and it seems there are several who use it so with compting we are always learning marty
  20. if yuor amusic lover and you sing constantly try singing your favourites here. marty http://www.tropicalglen.com/
  21. hi pat ide like to wish both you and your wife a very happy birth day gee pat 50 you wife is a lucky person to have you and of course vica versa good luck to both of you marty
  22. happy bithday novi and jonk i hope you have a hundred more marty
  23. hi all after 2days 5hrs 24 mins ive got the pic at last maybe it is my sys that wasnt brinbing the pic up how ever it is there now so ime off to see that it is marty
  24. is the track ballo mouse with the round ball i used to use one of those but it used to agther a lot of fluff on the rollers is there any difference from a track ball mouse than ordinary mouse with a ball i now use an optical mouse with a laser light and i wouldnt go back marty