martymas

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  1. ha ha ha i posted as a new topic instead of a reply and then i got a crisis and got called away and havent been back until now i was answering a post by pierce wich was a blank page so i needed rose coloured glasses ha ha sorry bout that marty
  2. martymas

    Drews World

    i was a fan of drew amd mores the pity he is not here with us however were ever he is he is in a better world than we have here at the moment so many wishes to drews family in particular to papa and topher marty
  3. hi all i need advice next year im off to the world diabetes conference in admonton canada as we need to raise funds to take other personal the assoc i am a member of is running a karioke night and as a support fund raiser i need to learn how to use the karioke is there an on line player i could use ive tried to google it but ive looked at 3 but they are full of ads and spyware there are other fund raising ideas but this is my project thanks marty
  4. what ever you guys see is invisable to me may be i need to change my glasses marty
  5. ok from your thread answers i was able to install the scanner and copy the photos from the scanner to the compt then to a cd hey with out you guys input i would be struggleing my grand children are now on a cd i may post them on the board to show the posters if ive done it right or not thanks all sorry for starting a new thread but i needed to acknowledge you guys who helped i found the copeir was a bit easier than i thought tho it has taken me some time to get back to you i have it sussed out now for some of you who didnt understand my q i needed to put the pics on my compt then to
  6. good luck brian when it comes to children i get carried away weather it be neices nephews grandsons grand daighters you name it with out them their would be nothing for us to love marty
  7. seagate and maxtor are the same at least thats what the email says seagate has bought into maxtor is that correct marty
  8. yes TT "s scan works as ive just done it my self and the scan says my hdd is failing ive emailed maxtor and if you look at the return email i posted maxtor explains the reasons for a failing hdd try TT fix it isnt to bad my scan only went to 50percent marty
  9. i love this summing up of children with out them what would life be worth marty PRICE OF CHILDREN The Price of Children This is just too good not to pass on to all. Something absolutely positive for a change. I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It's nice. The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with$160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break
  10. hi dragon thanks for your input i like ubuntu and kubuntu at the moment ime using kubuntu i havent a clue where to find things yet \but ive figured out the deskp top background and the task bar size i havent been able the find the mail thing yet does kubuntu allow you to install thunderbird if so where is it k mail i found was hard to configure and ive yet to come to grips with it im on cable connect and that wasent to bad to configure and some thing that has changed with this linux thing in kubuntu the hardware was found quite easy which wasent so in the days of mandrake it seems
  11. i hope she makes president whats in there now isnt much good marty
  12. hi test all day ive tried to fathom out the reason these kubuntu and ubuntu cds wont load a second time and may be ive found the answer on the forum you sent me to. one techy said they need to be installed on a slower cd drive as my cd rom is 52 speed my cdwr is 32 so i tried the cdwr and buggere me if kubuntu went on no trouble and that is from the disk that i couldnt load from the cd rom, so may be that is the answer slower installation speed the techeckie said the problem is they are burned at to fast of a speed and when you go to reinstall on SOME sys"s the speed is a factor iit
  13. hi TT yes that disk is not to bad but when i isolate the drive im tryng restore it gives me this message take out the media and reboot i cant think why it is doing this sort of thing with your disk you linked i tried it on another hdd and it worked great tho i wasen going to use it other than storage pete said if a linux os has been installed on that disk the partitions will stopped you from accessing it and it has had lycoris on it so he may be right but ime trying again now marty
  14. susse is very popular in new zealand my son has just burned it to a disk from one of your links and is gving it away willy nilly he has seven members of his band and they all have it he is so commited to linux he had vista given to him free becuase the owners didnt like it and stuck to xp and he sold the disk for $600 im not sure how to equate that in american doller terms and he uses xp and windows 98 for gaming so vista was no use to him he only started using linux through me ranting and raving about it but he is pretty good with it he said if i could get linux to game faster i wou
  15. this isnt swearing if you think it is go flucuate marty English This is why it's important to understand English: When I got back from Montana last week I had a bunch of Canadian dollars I needed to exchange, so I went to the currency exchange window at the local bank. It was a short line with just one guy in front of me...an Asian guy who was trying to exchange yen for dollars and he was a little irritated! He asked the teller, 'Why it change?? Yestoday, I get two huna dolla fo yen. Today I get huna eighty?? Why it change?' The teller shrugged her shoulders and said, 'Fluctuations'. The Asi
  16. here is some thing many will love i know i do marty YOUR MORNING SMILE A little girl walked to and from school daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the elementary school.As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with thunder and lightning. The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school and she herself feared that the electrical storm might harm her child. Following the roar of thunder, lightning, like a flaming sword, would cut through
  17. ok forget about the grizzle i just posted in some how i fixed it by accident the terrorist sent me a link for a ME boot disk actually to restore a hdd that was on the way out ok it didnt work so i needed to clean a drive i had kubuntu on so i could reinstall the sys and reset the mbr with out doing it through the repair console so i inserted the ME boot disk fdisked formated then it asked if i wanted reset the mbr as i had nothing to lose i agreed well miricles i was able to boot back into windows and now i can see the drive i installed kubuntu on which wasent possable before once it
  18. yes what happened i uninstalled ubuntu and kubuntu and eachtime when booting back to windows i get the grub error previouly i need to reinstall windows twice to be precise i posted and tictoc replyed and said insert your xpcd go to the repair console type your admin p-wrod at the prompt type fixmbr wel i did that ans it worked but now both of those cds wont load i cant get them to install the sys. as i have several kbuntu and ubuntu cds ihavent any problem installing the sys but dont you think it is a waste of cd if you have to use a new one each time you install i posted many time
  19. ime interested in knowing if there is a way round the grub error coupla times ive deleted linux from the disk management area but when i go to boot into windows i get this grub error when i posted some time ago tictoc showed me how to get round the mbr reset which is successful but the problem it has rendered my kubuntu useless as it wont boot from that cd i suspect it is the corrupted mbr is there some other way to stop this mbr thing one of the downsides to linux is this mbr thing and as a result it wont boot back into windows until you reset it i havent a clue as what to do about
  20. yeow that looks like a young bull my he is massive is it true the bigger the more passive marty
  21. im not sure if any posters are familair with sheep dog trials were the sheperd sends his dog out to round up sheep and each dog gets points and the winner gets a trophy and drunk wel i live near one of these trial bases as they call them and as i didnt know there were trials in progress this dog came over the hill [i was in my garden bendind over weeding] and the bugger came up hehind me and lifted his leg and peed over me so i tried him up the next morning one of the farmers rang lani he said have you seen a stray dog in your area we were trialing and he disappeared i told a bare
  22. from TT"s link i emailed maxtor seagate and explained what had happened to the hdd and after scanning what was the chances for recovery as it is no matter to me i really wanted to see if these compnents could be restored on line but unfortunately they have to be sent to the factory but it is a good learning experience for me. here is a draft of the reply i got back from a peter rodrigues from maxtor im happy with that result marty --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are the data recovery division. Cost of da
  23. this discussion has been going on for years preston should no we had it techtv what puzzles me is we have these patchs from micro soft and all hell breaks loose from the windows anti lobby more so with the browsers but mozills firefox linux have the same problems and call them versions what are the difference ive just installed linux and ive found more bloody bugs than a bloody rose garden it wont handle 64bit from a windows platform ive just tried to install thunderbird inside the linux platform and cant were as i could do it in windows there is good and bad in all platforms or bro
  24. PERKS OF BEING OVER 50 1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you. 2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first. 3. No one expects you to run--anywhere. 4. People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you????" 5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac. 6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way. 7. Things you buy now won't wear out. 8. You can eat dinner at 4 PM. 9. You can live without sex but not your glasses. 10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans. 11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge. 12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no m
  25. im not sure if this is any nthing to go by but i found my isp uses it and until i posted i hadnt heard any thing of it so we live and learn is it a free or a paid one marty