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Yeah, it could be that the people I know were involved in raising or trucking cattle.
Mom's brother Pete before he passed on used to say his momma in law was the best tamale maker in West Texas.
But he said he was more fun as momma didn't allow the whiskey bottle in the kitchen.
They always pressure cooked like beef round or flank.
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I had freinds tell me that people in Texas didn't know what pork was.
Said they never saw anything but beef on menus and at cookouts.
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... Oh and speaking of cheese, I got my $40 coupon for an analog from HD converter.
I bought a Magnavox and paid $9 + sales tax out of pocket.
If you watch broadcast TV it is well worth getting.
OH! I forgot about THAT gub'ment cheese. Why, they'll turn me into a government-dependent liberal yet!
I have the coupon but haven't used it yet. Where'd you get the box that cheap?
I got it at Kmart while looking for something else.
I heard rumors that Wal Mart has one for $40 but I decided it was worth $9 to avoid that trip..
@Pete, yes people seem to forget at times that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
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It is $600 per person, 1200 for a couple and 300 per dependent.
Youngsters as home need to talk to mom and dad about their cut.
I have not filed a return since 1990 and I get one by filling out the SS income line on the 1040 and printing stimulus payment across the top.
I see Dell has a Vista system for $399 as this weeks online special.
Or Staples has a 64 bit Compaq Presario lappy for $399.
Oh and speaking of cheese, I got my $40 coupon for an analog from HD converter.
I bought a Magnavox and paid $9 + sales tax out of pocket.
If you watch broadcast TV it is well worth getting.
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Have you rechecked the permissions on the file server?
It doesn't sound like it replies when this machine goes looking.
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Hello.
We're have a strange problem with this company PC. In an office in another town a PC has been set up to work as a network drive using an IP address. Every computer in this office seems to be able to map the network drive and access the files properly... except for this one. When this PC attempts to 'ping' or 'tracert' the IP it immediately times out. When we attempt to map the drive (Or create a shortcut directly) it says that it 'cannot be found'. We've tried disabling firewalls, Anti-virus, spyware scanners and all sorts of things but no matter what we do it always times out from the start. We've set it up exactly as the others have been set up but still no go. Anyone have any idea of what might be blocking this computer from accessing said Network IP?
For reference:
Windows XP Pro SP2
Pent 4 2.26 GHz
1.00 GB RAM
3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI NIC
Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer.
-Terry AKA Infektious
1. Use the Ping or PathPing command-line tools to test basic connectivity. Use Ping to isolate network hardware problems and incompatible configurations. Use PathPing to detect packet loss over multiple-hop trips.
To watch Ping statistics, use the ping -t command. To see statistics and continue, press CTRL+BREAK. To stop, press CTRL+C. If you detect lost packets in the statistics output, it indicates networking problems up to Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layer 3 (IP-level connectivity).
If the remote system that you ping is across a high-delay link, such as a satellite link, responses may take longer. Use the -w (wait) switch to specify a longer time-out.
2. Check the event logs for network-card-related entries or connectivity-related entries.
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
308427 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/) How to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
3. Check whether the network adapter is on the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). To see the HCL, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Default.aspx?m=x (http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Default.aspx?m=x)
4. Check other computers that use the same default gateway that are plugged into the same hub or switch. If these computers do not experience network connectivity problems, the problem may be a faulty network adapter on one computer.
If this is the case, update the network adapter driver to the latest version.
5. Contact the vendor of each motherboard and update the BIOS of the boards. Some network adapters and motherboards or BIOS versions are incompatible. Obtain the latest version from the vendor's Web site or contact your hardware vendor.
6. Check the network adapter and uplink hardware (hub or switch) for common settings. Make sure that all complementing network resources (network adapter, hub, and switch) are set to the same speed and duplex level. If the media type is set to autosense, autosensing, or autodetect, or "Auto Select," make sure that all components are autosensing correctly.
On some switches, a duplex setting of Auto may cause it to use half-duplex. You may have to force it to use full-duplex.
Reset the switch, restart the client, and test the connectivity.
Put the client and the server on a passive hub. If communication resumes, the problem may be caused by an incorrect network switch configuration.
For more information about how to configure the devices, contact your hardware vendor.
7. Manually set the network adapter of the computer that has connectivity problems to half-duplex and a lower speed.
Connect the system to a switch that is configured to half-duplex and 10-Mbps, or use a 10-Mbps hub, to see whether connection can be established at a lower transmission speed.
To increase performance, increase the speed settings manually to 100 Mbps, and then restart the computers. Test for network connectivity loss, increase the setting to full-duplex, and then restart the computers. If network loss occurs, reduce the duplex setting and the speed to the previous settings.
8. Swap the network cable between the failing system and the hub or switch.
9. Replace the network adapter with a network adapter that has been tested and proven reliable. To do this, follow these steps: a. Remove the network adapter diagnostics program.
b. Remove the network adapter in Network properties.
c. Install the new network adapter.
10. Run Network Monitor at the same time on both ends of the network connection. After you filter the traces on the addresses of the two systems, compare both traces to see whether you can see the same traffic.
Use TCP Retransmit, the Network Monitor Experts tool, to detect TCP retransmissions. To do this, follow these steps: a. Start Network Monitor.
b. On the Tools menu, click Experts, and then click TCP Retransmit in the navigation pane.
c. Click Add to Runlist.
d. Click Run Experts.
If frames are missing in one of the traces, check all intermediate cabling, hubs, switches, and routers for hardware or configuration errors.
In Network Monitor, view the Capture Statistics summary frame. This frame is the last frame of the trace. If it contains a value other than 0 in the following statistic counters, the connectivity problem may be caused by a hardware or configuration problem:
STATS: MAC CRC Errors = 0
STATS: MAC Frames Dropped due to HardWare Errors = 0
Network switches and server network adapters have to have the duplex settings matched for communication to function correctly. Both must be set to full-duplex or half-duplex. They cannot be mismatched.
The computers on a local area network (LAN) typically share a common full-duplex network medium. This configuration permits two computers to transmit data at the same time.
Connectivity problems may occur if either of the following conditions is true: • The computer was moved to a new Ethernet switch port that automatically senses network speed. However, the computer's network adapter is configured to force full-duplex communication with a static network transfer speed setting (10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1 gigabit per second [Gbps]).
• Both the Ethernet switch port and the computer's network adapter are configured to force 100-Mbps or 1-Gbps full-duplex communication. However, the Ethernet switch or the network adapter may not be able to communicate at that rate or may not be able to use full-duplex transmissions.
You can improve network performance in an Ethernet LAN environment by using full-duplex hardware. This configuration permits two-way communication between networked devices. Without full-duplex hardware, information is sent one way and then sent the other way. Packets frequently collide on the network in a half-duplex hardware configuration, and every time a collision occurs, the packets that collided must be resent. This creates even more traffic that can decrease network performance.
With full-duplex, transmit and receive paths are separate. Therefore, you can transmit and receive at the same time, and collisions are prevented. Because of the increased throughput and lack of collisions, full-duplex is more susceptible to bad cable terminations or to cable attenuation that exceeds recommended limits. This can generate data retransmissions that become sufficient to degrade performance.
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Sorry, I don't have a PDF reader loaded.
But you might find this useful.
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I seem to be the only one around here who still follows traffic laws including the cops.
Just pop the cruise control button and it is hard to get a a speeding ticket.
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Kernel mode drivers?
"Drivers can be written in either user mode (also called version 3 drivers) or kernel mode (also called version 2 drivers). In Windows NT 4.0, drivers were moved into kernel mode to improve performance. However, when a kernel-mode driver fails, it can crash an entire system, whereas the failure of a user-mode driver causes only the current process to crash. Because of this difference, and because performance enhancements were made in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, native drivers on Windows 2000 and later run in user mode."
Mebbie you need to brush up on your XP also.
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NT/2000/XP uses the object oriented approach to memory management.
The application or device driver say only "I want memory".
It cannot tell windows which physical memory or which memory addresses it wants, or even the range of addresses it want to fall within.
Windows uses virtual memory manager to interface between the application or driver and the physical or virtual that it controls.
Memory is allocated in 4k segments or pages.
Applications or devices written for Windows NT/200/XP only know how many pages they have.
The the virtual memory manager takes care of the rest.
It is free to store these pages in RAM or on the hard drive in the swap file named Pagefile.sys.
The Defrag command detects and repairs fragmentation.
Fragmentation occurs when a single file is placed in several cluster locations that are not the directly next to each other.
The clusters that make up a file are together called a chain.
When a hard drive is freshly formatted, the Windows OS writes files to the drive beginning with cluster 2, placing the data in consecutive clusters.
Each new file begins with the next available cluster.
Later, after the file has been deleted, the OS writes a new file to the drive, beginning with the first available cluster.
It the OS encounters used clusters as it writes the files, it simply skips these clusters and uses the next available one.
In this way, after after many files have been deleted and added to the drive, the files become fragmented.
On a well used hard drive, it is possible to have a file stored in as many as 40 locations.
Fragmentation is undesirable because when the OS has to access many locations on the drive to read a file, access time slows down.
Why does it slow down?
Because it places more demand on memory which causes it to shuffle active processes to the VM.
Which causes the drive sectors assigned to VM to fill up.
And the sectors asigned to VM could be widely scattered causing the pagefile system to request more RAM to run which causes more active processes to transfer to VM.
Thus causing the low virtual memory warning to appear on the screen.
Until someone proves them wrong, I will believe what MS says about their own OS.
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Speaking of the good 'ol days, some of you might know why the kiddies got me riled here
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Partly sunny and 74 for today.
Just mixed up some miracle grow in a watering can and feed the tulip and maple trees I planted two years ago.
There is an 80 degree day in the forecast for next week.
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Like I said, it all sounds familiar from when I bought a machine with pre SP1 XP on it because my A+ texts were all about XP.
Myself, I am deciding if my economic stimulus check will go for upgrades or a new machine.
I have seen many new ones running Vista for $500 and Staples is featuring a laptop with dual core 64 bit processor, 1GB RAM and a 160GB HD for $449.
Matter of fact I saw where Staples is having a sale on PNY RAM.
I can get a gig for this for $68.
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Windows users fight to save XP
It seem like just yesterday that I was a new guy on TTV being told to get that XP off my machine and get me some good Windows like 98 or ME.
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As long as the fibreglass doesn't have big holes it's all fixable.
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Don't forget that no matter what the program you must know how to use it.
A warning box pops up and wants you to give or deny permission.
If you don't know what to select the best will not protect you.
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Hi there.
Have you ever noticed that no matter where you go there you are.
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knock knock...
who's there?
Ben Hur
Bun Hur who?
Ben hur an hour let me in St Pete!
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Tremors!
Is that you Burt?
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Hey guys, thanks for the input and I'll give an update since I made this post last August.
I have been using the Mc suite since Sept. as it is free with comcast.
And regardless of my AV and firewall I have and use CCleaner, AdAware, Spybot S&D and Spybotblaster plus installing the MS MVP and Spybot host file blockers.
It is no joke that the suite is a resource hog.
On startup I have to wait two or three minutes while it downloads and installs updates and if my browsing slows to a crawl I know it is updating.
While typing this reply I have 149.82 Mb Ram available out of 512 on a CeleronD X86 mobo.
I like a couple features it has like the cert trace and the maintainence cleaner which shreds unwanted stuff after removal.
Sometimes I run an online scan just to see if it is doing OK.
I just use it and don't recommend it.
Besides if I get in trouble I know where to ask for help.
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A 30 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy high 54
But the good news in the weekend, mostly sunny Highs 61 and 63.
It's been months since we've seen 60s
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Think these hearings have anything to do with it?
That site is probably busy because they aren't working.
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Went and sprung the old man from the home for mommy day.
Rib Eye steaks on sale at the Kroger.
Just a little garlic powder and threw some dry hickory chips on top of the lava rocks in a gas grill for smoke and charring.
We like ours burnt rare.
Fresh local asparagus - just nuked it for 4 min in a covered dish /w a little water, then drained it and added a little melted butter.
Brother brought about 2lbs of morel mushrooms they found yesterday- about $120 dollars worth if bought retail- breaded in flour/salt/pepper and pan fried.
A bowl of au graten potatos and momma's cole slaw.
Walnut brownies ala mode with peppermint stick ice cream for desert.