hitest

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  1. Yes, were are certainly lucky, Liz! Our town bought these generators years ago for this type of emergency. Our small town is geographically isolated in that the only road in to our town is a highway. Our nearest town is 145 KM away. With the landslide and the closure to our airport with the snow we were totally cut-off from the world for a day or two. Where in BC are you? Hi Joe, I live in a small town called Prince Rupert which is located right on the North Coast of B.C. Our town had a thriving fishing industry, but, that has mostly collapsed due to declining fish stocks. Our local ec
  2. You are lucky. Someone in your local government had the foresight to help the community, rather then put the screw to it. Agreed.
  3. gouge...................................we work so that we can give a huge chunk of our pay to the government.
  4. LOL! destruction! Satisfaction Rolling Stones.............................now I'm dating myself, lol.
  5. The good people at Debian have released Debian Etch (4.0). I may give this a try in a day or two. I'll wait until the repos settle down:-) I have a fondness for Debian. Announcement:-)
  6. Yes, were are certainly lucky, Liz! Our town bought these generators years ago for this type of emergency. Our small town is geographically isolated in that the only road in to our town is a highway. Our nearest town is 145 KM away. With the landslide and the closure to our airport with the snow we were totally cut-off from the world for a day or two.
  7. About a week ago our town lost main power. We had a massive dump of heavy, wet snow (about 1 1/2 feet in one night). As a result of the heavy snow we had a big landslide just outside of town. The landslide took out the electricity transformer tower that supplies electricity to our small town of 12,000 people. Our power company (BC Hydro) informs us that it will take 3 weeks to repair the tower. Our town is lucky in that we have two large gas powered generators within the city limits. Our town is now running on auxiliary power from the two generators until the tower is fixed. Our life is
  8. If you're able to go on-line it is working. One thing you may consider doing is changing the stock administrator password for your router. I did that with my D-Link router. Your support documentation should explain how to do this. Leaving it as is should also be fine if you're not worried about someone having physical access to your router.
  9. We have a ride that is similar to that up here in Canada at our amusement park, in Vancouver. I love screaming my head off when the seat plummets to the Earth:-)
  10. crash ... Override three finger salute.........................Ctrl+Alt+Delete
  11. The sad reality is that many web designers design their sites for broadband users. Many sites ignore the bandwidth limitations that dial-up users are faced with. I think that dial-up users should be given a choice to launch animated gifs, video clips, etc. I personally think that high speed Internet is worth the extra expense.