Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
I hear (read) you Lima Charlie…Hotel Mike…Over …Best
i’ve got you Lickin’ Chicken here too…
Thank god! I was ascairt!
Me, too, Kris [ascairt, I mean]. I thought it might be the dumba$$ Vista software on my husband’s laptop. Got the news today from my computer guy that I have to get a new desk-top [sob] but that I can get my Windows XP Professional back [yay!] This consarned blasted Vista is driving me up the wall.
And that’s not nice to do to Mother Nature …
Cranky Marianne
Other Word Press blogs seem to be having problems as well. Sometimes it happens.
Vista is a crime against humanity! I would be all for reconvening the Nuremberg Tribunals and placing Gates and his minions in front of them.
We migrated back to XP at work as we couldn’t get our Ricoh large format printer to work with Vista. Even the manufacturers drivers refused to work.
On the home PC front, I use Vista and I’m very happy with it. Most all my programs work without a hiccup, and it never crashes. I like it a heck of a lot better than my old XP/SP2 setup.
YMMV.
I was cussing my computer over not being able to get onto your site when I could get on others. I’m relieved to know that it wasn’t just me – although I’m sorry for your troubles, Lex.
Lex:
The whole problem is that too many of us LORC members are trying to read you on more than an “occasional” basis. We can’t help it if you are so popular. Boss.
I wasn’t worried at all…I just figured that the Cap’n would finally tire of the server shenanigans and whisper two words into the net admins ear: “Alpha Strike”
Brad, nothing is 100%. If you’re happy, then you’re good to good. I’m happy for you!
Alas, I’ve been mucking around with PCs since CP/M was an operating system, and -quite frankly- Vista sucks big, hairy rocks.
I ran Win95 on a 4 megabytes RAM 486DX2-66 motherboard, with a 24/7 Fidonet BBS going full blast. Mind you, the regulars could tell when I was playing Quake in another window.
Win98SE is/was probably the best 16/32 “hybrid” MS put out, and was demonstratively better than Win Me.
I’ve tried Win2K, found it light on resources, but I still encountered regular application crashes, especially Mozilla.
I’ll add here that MS-DOS 5.0 was probably the best x.0 operating system MicroSoft ever released.
Point being that ’95 could run under 4Mb ram, and ran acceptably under 8Mb ram. ’98SE liked 32Mb, and Win2K ran decently under 128Mb.
Point being that -while system improvements can understandably increase system requirements- no one has EVER demonstrated just why Vista needs a stinking two gigabytes of ram just to run happily, where XP can run rather nicely with 512Mb.
In other words, Vista has quadrupled the minimum “real world” ram necessary, with little or no demonstratable performance increase.
Kinda like the LCS (running and ducking for cover!)…
And that, Marianne, is why Hte Oracle and I are considering going over to the dark side and getting a Mac when we replace our home laptop this year. That and a whole lot of other reasons to be fed up with Microsoft. I don’t even use IE at home anymore – FireFox performs far better than IE could ever dream.
So it seems I may soon enter the ranks of Mac users – gulp.
Come into the light, Kris. All are welcome, all are welcome
Back on target though… So unlike last year when we had this problem it is a DIFFERENT account screwing up the server this time…
Relatively long term Geek (not back to CPM days) and I hate Vista. OTH some do not migrate well to MAC – chose your poison
(my iPhone rocks though!)
Friday (09jan09) Windows 7 BETA available for download:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
Nice to be able to get on here. For the first time day. Must be that darn Vista again.
Note to self: When in doubt, blame Vista …
I liked CP/M. I liked “Mess”DOS OK. I hated Windoze, and still don’t like it much. Its tolerable, except in its Vista incarnation. What I really think of Vista can’t be printed in this mixed company, family blog.
I think you are probably on the same server as the web blog awards. Hence, the overload.
Babs @17, that was my thought this morning, too.