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AH, what was that site they featured on the news. It was originally founded by some MIT students but has expanded beyond the Boston area. It lets independents bid on doing work like web design , cad, software work etc that companies and individuals post that they need done. I think it had job in the url Yes jobaphiles http://jobaphiles.com/ From the new jobs listing Jobaphiles is looking for an ASP.NET developer Web site design http://jobaphiles.com/BidRequest.aspx?guid...de35&id=752 Since they have a local office I often recommend Babich and associates http://www.babich.com/ to those i

Yeah Chuck I know what you are talking about in regards Natural Gas. Just to the west of us is the Barnett Shale deposit. At first there was all this fervor for explanation when they started signing leases and paying royalties. Then a small group of noise makers got lots of coverage for protesting drilling in urban and suburban settings and tried to get communities to raise the distance from a dwelling that wells and drilling rigs must be (I think from 300Ft to 600 or 1000ft). The latest is challenges to the Texas pipeline regulations which basically give the utility companies the right to

Yes, I am aware that the new job figures for last month are out and they are not good; but I have recently noticed a lot of things that give me hope. First off, the DOW is back up over 8000, after four weeks of positive movement. http://www.wikinvest.com/wiki/Dow_Jones_In...Average_(.DJIA) From low of 6626 to todays high of 8017.59 today That is a run up of 1391 or 20% in one month; more than normally occurs in a year. Sure there will be ups and downs and we are a long way from the high of over 14000 but still it was a nice month. But that is not what sparked my interest. Back in October / N

What most people seem to have missed is that these "bailout funds" were loans secured by stock that the company kept to itself to maintain a controlling interest in votes etc. These were "purchased" by the government when stocks were near the low; in many cases the stock involved had plummeted to near worthless. Now I wonder, when they pay back the loan will they have to pay the current value of the stock? IE , if the government lent them 45 Billion secured by stock selling at 3.50 per share; and now the stock is selling at 7.00 per share , would they have to pay 90Billion to get it back? I

Problem with the sony Extended BIOS Dynamic Link Library being corrupt. http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download...=26&os_id=6 Needs to be reinstalled. Darn that is the me link will find XP Closer http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/microsi...%200%2084677843 Ah here we go http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/microsi...%200%2084677994 Direct download ftp://download.sony.com/US/pc/SOASSL-10133900-US.EXE Alternative approach (not really recomended) is locate the files in question in C/program files/common files/sony shared/SxBios Rename them to SXBIOS.OLD and BSNTSBS.OLD restart and let window

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Sounds like you live in a mighty civilized city marty. I know a lot of them where if they turned out the lights for one hour they would wind up with more light and pollution from the fires from the looting and ambulances taking the robbery and shooting victims to the hospital.

Nope and if asked I would tell them the same thing I told Leo when asked if I wanted to be on CFH for winning the helper contest; STFU I like what I do and like where I am and have no interest in being on TV or going to a state of confusion like California.

Yes, once you have made the curds, normally they add in cultures which give the cheese its distinctive flavor and odor before pressing it (if making hard cheese) and salting or waxing it and letting it age. But I think I will stick with fresh cheeses for now. It was so good it did not last long. Those were some good ravioli and then there was the cream cheese / marscapone and the eggplant/ chicken parm. I think next batch I will make some Crab rangoon (crab meat and fresh cheese fried up in a wonton skin) and pot stickers (meat, veggies and cheese in wonton wrappers steamed then browned

Well even where they bury the residential delivery lines the high voltage lines to the transformers / vaults are likely above ground. Also most of these where they have underground lines have transformer boxes above ground (green cubes?) for ventilation reasons . Although not as vulnerable as lines in alleys to wind and rain causing branches to short things; they are vulnerable to drunks and drivers who loose control hitting them.

I wonder if this is like the cases where in Win9x if you had two identical hard drives or cdroms on the same channel ; often the boot manager (being DOS) would conclude that one was just an echo and ignore it. How similar are the drives? What if you have just the one that is not normally detected connected?

Yeah. Whirling (air rushing ) or whining (metal on metal screech)? Whirling is probably normal, just the sound of a fast drive causing things to vibrate a bit. Try rubber washers to isolate it from the case if needed. Install more fans to cover the noise if it freaks you out. Play some music. Whining is not normal, nor is grinding ; both represent a probable failure. Make sure you have SMART (self monitoring and reporting tool) for the drives enabled in the bios so it will warn you when it detects imminent failure.

Most fluorescents are not truely dimmable. They need full power to power up and get warm and even then due to threshold voltages they are a bear to dim. On the other hand I think most LEDs are dimmable. I noticed one that the package specifically mentions that they "are fine for dimmable circuits unlike cfls" At SAM's Club these are all $14.99 http://aasaving.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3573020 http://store3-store.stores.yahoo.net/liofamdoleda.html Not really worth the $40 annual membership unless you are buying a bundle or have other reasons to join but if you are a member well worth cons

We had some serious boomers in the middle of the night. Woke me and the dogs up. They had baseball size hail within fifty miles but we got none just rain and thunder and a lot of wind. It must have got the power company concerned as this morning I saw lots of inpectors out early taking notes on trees that need trimming before the real spring storms set in. I wish they would do the back alley but I think they consider that the phone companies responsibility. I too saw crews replacing poles that had a slight lean to them (of course due to location if they fell they would fall in a major six l

Having concluded that it was the fat issue; I tried a plain batch and then processed it in the food processor with some heavy whipping cream until smooth and had home made marscapone; excellent with a little strawberry jam on an english muffin or straight on French bread. Last night I made Chicken and Eggplant Parmesan (well there was just a touch of parmesan) with pepperoni and chunky tomato sauce. Good stuff.

I converted all my lighting needs to fluorescent or compact fluorescent long ago. Not that it makes that big an impact; since the real users of energy in the home are heating and air conditioning, refrigerator and freezer, clothes dryer, TV, computer and things like that. But every little bit helps and it adds up when hundreds of millions of households do it. Which is what worries me. CFL and Fluurescent contain mercury (albeit a small amount) and while they do offer recycling at many stores which sell them; be realistic how many people will take the dead bulb and run down to the store to re

I was at the grocery last week and they had half gallons of milk which were nearing the sell by date on clearance for 25 cents (yes 4 half gallons for a dollar) ; so I bought six. Needless to say we could not drink them all before they began to go sour; but this is a good thing. I had planned on using most of it to try to make home made instant cheese. I remembered an Iron Chef episode where Chen Kenichi made quick cheese by adding vinegar to hot milk so I thought I would try it. I did some quick googling and settled on the following technique. Heat a half gallon of milk to 190F Remove from

I'm a bit wobbly walking. I need to retrain all of my muscles again. Careful there. No blood clots or embolisms please. I remember my stay and the OLs , we had those neat blow up splints which inflate and deflate to keep up circulation in your legs while you are confined to bed. Then as soon as they could get you up they kept trying to walk you up and down corridors and encouraged you to do it on your own once you were stable. The floor seemed to be layed out like a star with a core and radiating corridors with rooms on both sides. The rule of thumb was you were not ready to leave until you

Does C: work correctly?> The problem I see is that it appears that you have a hodgepodge of entries; some pointing to C: some to E: so just moving things around won't help since the registry is all bollixed. You could try a repair install and hope if fixes what needs fixing and then do reinstall of programs as needed.

I would suspect an issue with the "safely remove hardware" or "optimize drive for fast removal" settings. Maybe it was disconnected improperly once and windows has one instance where it thinks it is connected and misbehaving. Check device manager (with view=> show hidden devices) both when it is not working and when it is. Any differences? Compare its settings to those for the drive that does not have a problem.

Ah were to start Does this point you in the right direction? E:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\CenturyTel\Home Network Manager\AffinegyService.exe Yep, when you cloned things, the registry still points to C: not E: for things like program files. You probably did not clone, you copied? And as such things won't boot since the boot sector and boot loader are on C: not E but you still need C because the registry is all wrong. You could remove C: Set E as primary master so it is the new C: THen boot to your XP install cd and boot to the recovery console Do the following commands in

Is this a new machine which came with vista installed? Or is it an older machine which previously ran a different version of windows which you choose to "upgrade" to vista for whatever reason? Has this machine always had this problem or did it just start crashing after an update or program installation? Do you get a specific stop error and blue screen? If so copy it down in its entirety and post it. Can you boot to safe mode? Safe mode with networking? Does it crash or is it stable in safe mode?

How is your Xbox connected? Might try the suggestions here http://forums.g4tv.com/showthread.php?t=117917 and here http://forums.g4tv.com/showthread.php?t=117441 Why uninstall WMP? Just set something else as default and keep it so if you have problems you have a way to troubleshoot them (an alternative media player)

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/surge-protector1.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge_protector But if you exceed the number of joules the protector is rated for; it fails, the varistors burn out. I guess you could open it and look for any burned out components. None means it is still good.

Gee you must really own an old POS crappy computer if you can only run 19 processes; I generally consider 40 to be normal and nothing to worry about performance wise even on something as old as a Tualatin.