Mountain Dude

It's ok with me too

I agree with your comment!!! Grasshopper is amazing -- what he has to say at such a young age ~~~~~~ I don't have the words to express the feelings he can develope in a story -- "Just Hit Return" was written while he was just 16, 17 or 18. Such insight for a person of that age. A remarkable story! Hugs to you Grasshopper! I do love you buddy-------------

It is truly amazing the grey matter availabe here -- have to say that I am impressed!!

I had no clue there were problems with Mr. Fats. I also have never taken a look that this file of his. Me thinks that maybe I am the person that needs to take a step back!! Consider me re-educated and silent

?????????????????????????????? Mt Dude, ehhh. Giving away real email addresses in a spam trap is self-defeating. Hmmmm -- Well I have no idea what your e-mail address is/was but it was my understanding that the addresses were random, computer generated addresses. If he hit your e-mail address I would have to believe it was a fluke. I have never had any communication with iomfats and am only expressing my own opinion. You said yourself he is a friend to you. I have a great deal of respect for his website also -- after all, 'Grasshopper' is family to him! Him. Don't like that name -- want to think his name is David -- but not sure if that is correct. As for the-----"I was looking at the packages and thinking . . . why would i want to spend more than 250-thousand-dollars if his ass is gonna get kicked? " That was just drama Did you just drew me into a sucker punch???? Take a deep breath and slowly back away Hugs, Mountain Dude

As I was reading this thread I said to myself - that sounds like Iomfats spam jamming list. I remember reading about it a few years back on his site. As he explained then it is a list that was built to jam software aimmed at extracting email addresses from a site like his. Harmless to all but not harmless to someone phishing for email lists.

Hey RM -- Have a GREAT time. I love England, even the bad food. Make sure you have some fish & chips!!

DUDE -- what happened to the new chapter/stories at the bottom of the home page????

That's GREAT news

What an intriguing story! Graeme - You have done a masterful job with every aspect of this story. Just beautiful. Started reading it yesterday and have just finished Ch 16 and went looking for this forum. I just can't believe that the last entry here was so long ago and stopped after the third chapter. Am I missing something? You had alluded to the fact the story was not finished and there was more to come. Is that in fact happening? I'm not sure when chapter 16 was posted. Great job, Graeme!!!!!

Yep -- I figured that wouldn't fly -- but I liked the zing of it. Never even paid any attention to the fact it could be negative. Blue -- you are spot on with your suggestion above!!! In fact might blend some of the other suggestions into it. Thanks All

Being a 69 year old on Social Security and having a need for additional income and been in bed with computers since the IBM PC Jr, what -- 25 years? I have a pretty fair understanding of computers. More so than most of the population. It has been suggested to me that this might be a business opportunity. Living up in the Rocky Mountains and a 100 mile drive to Denver -- there are any number of people needing help. Sounded like a great idea. Grand County, where I live, has a population of 12,000 people and a local paper that comes out 3 times a week. Only local news -- nothing national -- Remember, God's Country. I came up with a quick and dirty ad for the local paper and sent it off to some friends (the one's who suggested this venture). The problem they had with it was my usage of the word 'suck'. The ad I wrote is as follows: ?Geezer Geeks PC Help? I know ? computers suck! $**** per hr. on site 627-**** The question at this point is whether 'suck' is inappropriate? If it is, then what would be a better word? I quit frankly like 'computers suck' OPEN THREAD -- FREE FOR ALL TIME!!

What a sense of humor!!!!

What an experience -- I'm really enjoying working with Linux. But, it does have a learning curve. I did install the Linux-XP on my hard drive last week and registered the package. Since then I have been taking things slow and getting to know the software AND doing a lot of reading --amazing the information on the internet!!! One of the GREAT things that has come into homes through the PC Camy, I'm still working toward running MS win apps -- taking little steps. Evidently what happens is by running an emulation program (I am going to try the 'Wine Emulation program') which runs under Linux and will open MS Win software. How smoothly I'm not sure but, it seems handle a large number programs but not all. Linux-XP http://www.linux-xp.com/index.php is one of maybe a dozen programs which offer 'Desktop' front end interfaces to the Linux OS. The Linux-XP happens to have a look and feel of WinXP. I'm finding that in many ways it has a much more organized form than WinXP. The 'Control Panel' is much more user friendly. Anybody with cable Internet connection can download the .iso file (a 600 mb file) burn the file to a CD and be able to run the CD with out the program touching the hard drive. The first time I loaded the program, on my Desk top machine, I was able to get on line from my networked laptop. Linux-XP found all the required info automatically -- I was impressed!! Depending on how the Emulation software works, I can easily see dropping Win XP and going to Linux. There is a HUGE Linux/Unix network out there with thousands of beautifully written look-a-like software AND the best part it is ALL FREE!!! How can you go wrong with that There also seems to be an almost endless list if Linux Forums to go to if you run into a problem. And unlike MS Tech support (useless and expensive) the Forums plus FAQ are right there with a quick Goggle search --- AND IT'S FREE -- DID I MENTION THAT YET????? More to come as I progress----- Eddy

I'll do that for sure Camy -- Running MS programs is really important to me also. Like I said, I'm liking what I'm seeing so far.

You're right Jay -- I am only into the fact finding mode at this point. Linux-XP was the first .iso file that I loaded to my hard drive. Another few days to absorb all of this will help. What I'm seeing so far is encouraging. The bottom line is that MS Vista is not the only option. Linux works too. I'm liking what I'm seeing.

Good question Camy ----- Have to spend some time tomorrow and check that out. Judging from what I have seen so far -- It's a good for go -- I'm liking what I'm seeing so far.

Did I mention it's MUCH faster ---- Really love it so far

THIS IS SO KEWL ------!!!!! Just loaded Linux-XP on my desk top computer -- well an hour ago. I'm working on my laptop at this moment. Clean, simple and REALLY DOES ACT LIKE WIN-XP I spent 10 minutes tweaking a few things and have my laptop working off the Linux-XP on my desktop -- info coming from MS Win XP !!!!!! FoxFire, Network connection and I was up and running!!!!!!!! I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO HIGH (no, no drugs) I need to import some of the fonts from Win XP ----- BUT I AM REALLY IMPRESSED!!!!!!!!!! LINUX-XP.COM HAVE A LOOK!!! Microsoft -- KISS MY, ................. Jeez -- I forget where I was going with that Hugs people, --- Moved to own topic by Camy ---

Well today's find is Linux-XP -- from Russia, of all places. http://www.linux-xp.com/index.php This installs to your hard drive and I have not done that yet. The info claims it's a Win XP product running under Linux. The screen saves look like XP and claims to have the look and feel also. What you do in Win XP is handled in the same manor under Linux-XP. They also claim that most Windows software will also run under Linux-XP. Like I mentioned above -- this is what they claim. Almost sounds to good.............I'm not adding any fluff. Tomorrow I need to do a bit of housecleaning on C: drive -- do a backup and then add another partition to it and then load Linux-XP and see what happens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think Bill Gates has done an awesome job these past 25 years. Bill got the PC organized and the ducks lined up -- all heading in the same direction. The helter skelter mess during those start up years of the home computer needed focusing and he did do that. Microsoft has done a great job in putting a computer in every home and more important -- into all schools. OK -- Apple had allot to do with that too. But, me thinks the bucks stops here -----! My first computer was a IBM PC Jr --- I was in love!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 300 baud modums being the exception!!!!! Grass grew faster!!!!! I was still in love with my computer. 2007 and the introduction of Vista will start the decline of Microsoft. Mr. Gates can step to the side now -- along with his many billions of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ He did bring the personal computer into the 21st century and then dropped the ball. Longhorn/Vista -- 5, 6, 7 years under development and they can't even get a "FIREWALL" WORKING RIGHT!!!!! REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They need to stop dispensing those "smokes" at the water cooler. Oh my!!!!! Where do we go from here? Microsoft is no longer part of the future -- Vista is showing us that. Will Google do it? Or maybe Mozilla!!!!! Firefox is HOT!!!! Firefox OS could be hot too! What were they thinking? !!! Was that a rant? Hugs to all, Eddy

Well after getting the Sauver CD burned and then not booting on my laptop, I headed off to my desktop where the cd booted first try. Not what I had expected to see -- guess I was expecting Win XP LOL OK, need to backup for a minute -- my post above talked about Sauver (Linux), a Windows look a like. Very nice clean look -- but a steep learning curve I'm afraid. I was able to get my printer recognized but wouldn't print. Unlike the ubuntu (Linux) that I tried yesterday, which got me on the internet in seconds (through my network) --- Sauver had no clue about either. Both were booted from a CD disk without disrupting my XP OS. The Sauver software was very responsive. It loaded into Ram and not to the hard drive. I'm going to play with it some more tomorrow -- want to see if it remembered my preference settings, which I'm sure it did, but were these saved to the hard drive? -- had to go look, and found no sign of Linux type directories. After 2 days spent poking at Linux -- I'm really liking what I am seeing. Sauver was awesome -- ubuntu, which seems to be very popular, wasn't as impressive but I really think that had more to do with the drivers. It seems I'm not the not person looking elsewhere for an operating system. The MAC for me is not an option at this point -- the cost is beyond my limits. Linux being FREE looks real good. I'm hoping we can share some info back and forth and get past this Vista BS!!! Take a hike Mr. Gates.......... Eddy

Interesting find today while checking out Linux: http://sauveros.com/os/index.php?option=co...ge&Itemid=1 Just finished downloading files and am in the process of burning a CD. What "Sauver" is offering seems to be a linux front end to Windows ---- Booting from a CD ( Sauver) takes you into Windows but under Linux --- Interesting -- can't wait to boot this -- could be WAY KEWL!!!!!

Back in the "Old Days" I loved the command prompt and fought moving to Windows because I was loosing that basic control. I must say though that I did get over that lose. Every new release seems to be building more walls between the hardware and the consumer. That wasn't including a good Firewall though -- They still haven't figured that one out Vista seems to have placed the user into the idiot category. After spending too many years developing Vista I must say I am REALLY unhappy with the end result. I don't want Tags, I'm happy with the search in XP ----JEEZ!!!!! Then there is the pricing. Do I need to buy the basic package or do I really need the top of the line. At what point do you get Networking? That's a must have for me. I have yet to see a comprehensive side by side comparison of each package. Maybe Microsoft has it on their web site -- I haven't looked yet. So much for building my interest. I think Microsoft has stepped into a huge bucket of s**t this time Yesterday I downloaded a copy of ubuntu Linux -- have to LOVE the Linux pricing!!!! Loved being able to boot it from a CD and give it a test drive -- that was neat. I'm not sure if it was fair way of judging the Linux OS without all the require drivers. It did recognize my Network and was on the Internet in a flash. The screen Res was 800 x 640 which I didn't like at all -- I would hope that was a driver issue ((Maybe someone can enlighten me)) I do want to spend some more time looking at the Linux OS. I really would like to dump Windows for good!! I'm going to pass on Vista for a (good) while.

I agree with you Cole -- It has gotten to the point with me that I just don't read a Novel until it is finished. If it doesn't sat The End, how would you ever know the author had brought it to a conclusion. Eddy

Yep -- that works for me too