Eric

Wow, that was ultra-nerdy. I didn't realize how bad it was until I re-read it. I'll try to keep those outbursts to a minimum. :)

I'd like to see that picture. I remember the bbq but I don't remember if I'm in the pic or not.

I guess I'll throw in my two cents, and reasons for switching to Vista. First of all, Windows XP was released 7 years ago. It took them about 4 of those years to make it stop sucking. By the time the next version of windows comes out, Vista will be more solid, and everyone will be talking crap about the new version... and it's definitely not going to be less resource intensive than Vista, not with the way Microsoft develops software. If they could continuously refine and add to Windows over time, rather than coming out with a giant release every few years, Windows could be so much more solid... but apparently their business model doesn't allow for such sane development processes. The point about driver availability for peripheral devices is probably the best reason to be worried about a switch to Vista, but you have to look into that yourself and assess the risk involved. UAC can also be a pain in the neck, but it can be disabled--it's a great idea, but poorly implemented. They should look to popular Linux distributions for examples of how to do it right. As far as the learning curve, the parts of the interface that you use on a daily basis haven't changed all that much. The start menu is a little different, but not drastically so. Networking is different, but I actually found networking between Vista machines to be easier to set up than with XP. Not sure about networking between XP and Vista, though I had no trouble networking my Vista workstation with any of my Linux laptops/workstations. My personal experience is that Vista works fine. I waited until SP1 to upgrade, and haven't looked back. My reason for upgrading? I have a quad core 64bit processor and 8GB of RAM. I wanted to take full advantage of the 64bit architecture and utilize all of my ram. A 32bit OS like XP can only recognize 3-3.5GB of RAM. I am, however, not the average Windows user. I only use windows for ONE set of applications, and that is Adobe Creative Suite 4. For everything else, I use Kubuntu Linux, which is the base OS on my workstation. When I need Adobe CS4, I fire up an instance of Vista 64 in VirtualBox on top of Linux, which has 5GB of RAM assigned to it.

This forum is for discussing the ATX motherboard form factor. I don't know what you all keep going on about taxes for. :D

Or downgrade to Vista 32 bit... it would be a shame to have to do that though, and not take full advantage of your new hardware.

No need for donations at this time, thanks for asking :)

as long as you can walk faster than the speed of light, then yesterday. :P

Are you still having problems?

http://www.intodns.com/atxcommunity.com I believe everything is working as it should be now. Of the three warnings that the above site lists, two of them are quite common, and the other doesn't really matter at this point. I will change the SOA expire time to 3 weeks instead of 5 though. RCooper: Let me know if you still have trouble getting to the site from your office in another day or so. It can take these settings a while to reach everyone's ISP.

Oh no, it's my stinking domain registrar that's creating more work for me. And it looks like I was wrong about the down-time, sorry about that everyone. Hopefully this will be solved for good once DNS propagation completes this time around.

It appears that my domain registrar continues to have problems. I have never had problems like this, and I'm tired of dealing with this company, so I'm going to change nameservers until I am able to transfer my domains to a new registrar. It takes up to 48 hours for these changes to propagate throughout the internet. Once propagation is complete, the problems should go away. (I don't expect any downtime)

What exactly do you get at your office? Is it a note saying the community has moved?

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:P

There is free VPN software out there, for example: http://www.tightvnc.com/ or http://openvpn.net/ But unless you or a family member is technically inclined, I would suggest hiring someone to set it up since security needs to be taken very seriously.

The headlines are retarded. I think what's wrong with the economy is that there was a long period where "Every five seconds of every working day, somebody buys a new Chevrolet!" Detroit got pretty comfortable with the bulk of Americans buying crap that they couldn't afford like they're entitled to luxury. Shake that MasterCard money tree! You deserve to have nice things! Unfortunately, our government has the same adolescent view of money management. Sorry about the off topic rant, I'll exercise some restraint and shut up.

I haven't got any idea.

I knew the answers to these ones: 7. C - Pants On Fire 10. E - Oh My 16. G - John, Paul, George, Ringo 18. B - Cause I eats me spinach 20. F - Melt In Your Mouth Not In Your Hand Most of the rest I hadn't even heard of. (I'll be 29 next month)

Please send me an email eric dot brissette at gmail dot com My domain registrar has had some problems, and it may be keeping a few people from accessing the forums properly. I've been speaking to them about it over the past week, and hope to have it corrected soon. For the more technical: DNS propagation is not happening correctly for one of my nameservers.

The move is complete. If I suggest doing this again, someone slap me. If anyone has any trouble staying logged in, I suggest logging out, clearing your cache and cookies, and logging back in.

When I say almost even, I mean the two old hosting accounts will cost about the same as the one new one, give or take a few bucks. Keep in mind that this site isn't the reason for the move, my other sites are. There is plenty in the PayPal account to continue paying for this site's portion of resources for a while, but the donations are appreciated. Sometime this weekend, you may see that the forum is in maintenance mode. It can take up to 24 hours for the switch to complete, but it's usually less. I'm sorry about the disruption, but the new home will provide lots of growing room.

No! no more money! By consolidating my two hosting accounts into one larger account, I'll be coming out almost even as far as monthly hosting bills go.

I have taken on a bunch of website hosting customers and am beginning to outgrow my two current hosting providers. There is a good chance that I will be moving all of my sites to a to a single beefy server located at an ultra-beefy data center. The move will happen, the question is when. (don't worry, it wont be during tax season) Is the board sufficiently slow right now that this would be a good time to do it? Should I wait until after tax season? This should be the last time I have to do this (at least, it better be, it's almost as fun as moving into a new house)

Our stray has accumulated thousands in vet bills. He's had chest taps. He's had ultrasounds and x-rays. He was on meds.. six pills a day for a couple years until I decided to ween him off to see what would happen. He's the most loving and affectionate cat I've ever met. Constantly purring, on our laps, following us around the house, and in between me and anything else I might be trying to focus on. We've also got one from a pet store.. he's a bit of a snob. He's decided that he owns the place, and we're the pets. Much too smart for his own good. Then there's the one we got at the shelter.. the only one of the bunch that kills mice and moles. He's affectionate as long as you're willing to pet him, otherwise he'd rather be killing things in the basement and leaving their heads/kidneys/tails around for us to find. We live in an old farm house in the middle of fields and trees, so there's no shortage of rodent parts. We've still got all three, and it's all I can do to keep my wife from bringing home more. "We need an orange one!" she'll say. :rolleyes:

I find those droppers much worse than giving the pills. I had to give one of my cats amoxicillin from a dropper twice a day for 7 days. Pink froth would come out the sides of his mouth, and he'd shake his head violently covering every surface within 10 feet in a fine pink sticky mist. I considered wrapping the cat in bacon and tossing him in the air for the dog.