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Happy Birthday Aron, May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat. P.S. Buckwheat is also the name of Marsh_Ox's cat. Marsh is a longtime board friend of many of us from TTV days, later on G4, and is here occasionally. Vietnam vet, lives in Wisconsin, has agent orange and diabetic health problems, and is an all around good guy that we all love. When I first saw your screen name here, I thought Marsh might be playing a joke on us by using his cat's name as another screen name besides his own. But now we know you are Liz's son, we wont confuse the n

Happy Birthday, May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat. God bless everyone.

As for the question of a firewall for Win 2000, sorry it doesn't have one. Only XP does, and I think only after SP2 update does it work both ways. Also it isn't as good as a real one like Norton's Personal Firewall, or one of the free ones so often mentioned on the boards. If anyone with XP does get a real firewall, they should turn off the XP one I have read. But Windows 2000 doesn't have one, just as we don't have system restore either and probably a zillion other XP things, but I still like it...most of the time anyhow. I get my Norton antivirus and firewall free or nearly so every year wi

Welcome to BestTechie's, the best boards around. I am sure you have noticed, while lurking under Liz's name, that we are a friendly bunch. Sometimes we even throw in some help to people in need, but many of us just like to gab about all sorts of stuff, your Mom is one of the best at doing that and with a great sense of humor to boot. I am glad you decided to join us. I hope you enjoy being here as much as we all do. Welcome to the BestTechie family. Pat. God bless everyone.

Here is a thumbnail sketch of Bill Gates. Found by an iTools/biography search. (iTools Specific Searching) Bill Gates A Short Biography And another site for info on Bill. About - Inventors - Bill Gates When you have multiple source materials about something, it is easier to write a more detailed essay on the subject. The internet is great for research if you put some effort into it. This next link will help you learn how to do that research. I just found it a few hours ago, along with iTools, and will continue to use both of them in the future. Research Launchpad English II used to require mor

Thanks Efwis, for the link to the CNet News article about this mess. I just read the article and all the comments about the problem. They talked about alot of the same things I have been thinking about regarding this, and some added more info including who to report this to in the government. I found it all to be interesting reading. How fragile the whole internet system is. We have seen it slowed by worms, and other slimeball stuff, and heard of possible future terrorist attacks to it, but it takes a couple of stupid shoot themselves in the foot companies to bring it to a crawl or take out w

WOW!!! Thanks for the photos and the link to the TV station photos too. Sure glad no one was killed or injured. I'm glad people evacuated and were safe, but oh the sorrow to lose so much (from both Katrina and Rita). I saw news reports saying that towns in both La, and Texas were totally wiped off the map. One was an oil town in Texas I think. Such fierce weather is sure scary!!! Your pictures and the TV station ones look like the damage I remember from the NW's "1962 Columbus Day Storm". That was the worst storm I've ever gone through, though where I was west of Tacoma, Wa wasn't as bad as

Congratulations on the 26 years of marriage!!! We just got to 35 last month. I figure we have earned every war medal available, plus a nomination for the Nobel peace prize, during those many years (or was I talking about the past month, and one still to go, with hubby home on a Sabbatical and all these Projects? sigh!!! ) Marriage is definitely hard work, divorce isn't easy either (I've gone down that road once). Now murder...ummm? Funny sort of thing happened while my hubby and I were having a Difference Of Opinion this past week...a woman shot and killed her husband here in Metro are

The nice thing about the cafe food here is it is calorie free! Though I have heard people say they gain weight just looking at a cookbook or thinking about food! I figure I am safer in here at the computer (strict no food rule for computer desk area) then out in kitchen!!! We did the dryer project this afternoon and it is now back to being a quiet dryer Praise God. That thread (link in yesterday's post) from handymanwire with the additional links in the thread (very helpful illustrations) really helped alot. It was the blower white plastic wheel thing for our problem. New one cost $23 at local

I have no idea about any of this, just wanted to ask Flash if you had read Chappy's thread with his isp problem. Maybe it is similar to yours? Stumper by Chappy P.S. I thought a reboot was shutting down everything then starting back up fresh? I could be wrong but that is what I thought it meant. Pat. God bless everyone.

Willow ( dowsing rods made of willow) God bless everyone

Happy Belated Birthday Greetings Mandy, May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat. God bless everyone.

Belated Birthday Greetings Jsbowen, May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat. God bless everyone.

Hi everyone, I am back too. That zucchini bread smells good to me too, please may I have a slice, or two even, with my coffee? Had some more "unsettled" stormy weather for last few days so had computer unplugged, heavy rains (for here) with power outages around town, some thunderstorm activity, cool nights etc. In other words fall has arrived, in fact it happened overnight Thursday. It had been mostly nice all Sept with only a trace or so of rain, then the last day of the month we got enough rain, 1.68 inches officially at PDX, to bring us just above the average for whole month. Many areas of

Have you tried uninstalling Spybot and checking system out, then reinstalling it and running it again after updates? Oh check to see if the customer had anything quarantined by Spybot before uninstalling it. Which version of Spybot? updated? Pat. God bless everyone.

Now why didn't we think of that when all that was going on??? Did anyone notice how some 'stuff seemed to hit the fan' around here with Chappy gone? Now we'll have to be good again!!! I know we can do it...if we remember how! As I said someplace else tonight, Yea!!! Chappy is back!!! Yea!!! We did miss you sir, but glad you had a break and I hope you will start feeling better. Welcome back. Watch out you don't trip over, step on, or sit on Honeybun when you visit the cafe. Pat. God bless everyone.

Yea!!!! Chappy is back!!! Yea!!! Happy Birthday to our Google!!! Pat. God bless everyone.

turning lopsided cartwheels, and somersaults galore. God bless everyone.

Happy Birthday Snaxe, MrBill, and Rawe too. May you be blessed with long lives filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat. God bless everyone.

Happy Birthday to you Rawe, May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat. God bless everyone.

I am so sorry to hear that he isn't eating and is so sick and weak. I will be praying extra for him, for you, and your family; in addition to my usual prayers everyday for all the message board people and their families. Hugs to you and your family. It is so hard to see someone you love suffer. It makes a person feel so helpless when they wont or cant eat too. I have been through that many years ago with my Mom, so I know how it feels to not be able to even get them to eat. Take care and keep us updated my friend. Pat. God bless everyone.

Happy Birthday to you, May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat. God bless everyone.

Happy Birthday to You, May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat. God bless everyone.

I never have "fit" into groups. In fact I have learned that I don't like what happens in the groups I tried out even as an adult. Lots of gossip, catty remarks, labeling others to make themselves look good only turned out they were the jerks but didn't know it if that made any sense, lots of petty jealousies among themselves, lots of surface only stuff, lots of materialism oriented lifestyles, no real purpose in life or in the groups other than hangout to attract guys, or make trouble, or get into trouble, or just talk about nothing constantly over and over again. Been there done that and don'

I am going to give you some links on stalking that might give you more info, but do the basics first, alert school, local police, and FBI. Stalking Resource Center Halt online abuse Being Stalked ...What to do Most of this will be about adults with a problem stalker, but still some good info and/or some good links to further resources. I'm praying for your girl's safety. Pat. God bless everyone.