Mister P-Mosh

Zixar, you're always after me lucky charms.

Scene: The Oval Office Players: George W. Bush, President of the US Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser George Condi! Nice to see you. What's happening? Condi Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China. George Great. Lay it on me. Condi Hu is the new leader of China. George That's what I want to know. Condi That's what I'm telling you. George That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China? Condi Yes. George I mean the fellow's name. Condi Hu. George The guy in China. Condi Hu. George The new leader of China. Condi Hu. George The Chinaman! Condi Hu is leading China. George Now whaddya' asking me for? Condi I'm telling you Hu is leading China. George Well, I'm asking you. Who is leading China? Condi That's the man's name. George That's who's name? Condi Yes. George Will you or will you not tell me the name of the new leader of China? Condi Yes, sir. George Yassir? Yassir Arafat is in China? I thought he was in the Middle East. Condi That's correct. George Then who is in China? Condi Yes, sir. George Yassir is in China? Condi No, sir. George Then who is? Condi Yes, sir. George Yassir? Condi No, sir. George Look, Condi. I need to know the name of the new leader of China. Get me the Secretary General of the U.N. on the phone. Condi Kofi? George No, thanks. Condi You want Kofi? George No. Condi You don't want Kofi. George No. But now that you mention it, I could use a glass of milk. And then get me the U.N. Condi Yes, sir. George Not Yassir! The guy at the U.N. Condi Kofi? George Milk! Will you please make the call? Condi And call who? George Who is the guy at the U.N? Condi Hu is the guy in China. George Will you stay out of China?! Condi Yes, sir. George And stay out of the Middle East! Just get me the guy at the U.N. Condi Kofi. George All right! With cream and two sugars. Now get on the phone. (Condi picks up the phone.) Condi Rice, here. George Rice? Good idea. And a couple of egg rolls, too. Maybe we should send some to the guy in China. And the Middle East. Can you get Chinese food in the Middle East?

Precisely. I'm fortunate to have a decent job, but yes, the high phone bills were because of her. They rarely got up to $500 exactly, but averaged between $200 and $400 of just LD charges.

If you are getting a Cox cable connection, you might want to see if they have any special plans to make it cheaper. For me, I get my digital cable tv, phone, and internet through them, along with HBO and Cinemax, and they give enough of a discount that I pay about $75 a month for all of that combined (excluding long distance and such.) Actually, I should look at my bills now that I won't have $500 phone bills anymore.

My wife wanted to see Frida, so we went on Saturday to watch the movie. It must be something for old people, because we were the only ones under 60 in the theatre. Anyway, it was a decent movie, nothing too spectacular, if you are curious about the life of artist Frida Kahlo. There is nudity, (which is the main thing I enjoyed about the film) but not so much that you will think it's a porno or anything. The plot basically goes from her as a schoolgirl interested in art through her life with the famous painter Diego Riviera, to her death. It was quite informative on many things, and had some interesting artwork in it. It may have inspired me to start drawing again, but I'd sort of rather learn to paint instead. Anyway, there's not much else out right now worth seeing so if you're hard up to watch a movie that won't be interrupted by crying babies and @$$holes with cellphones, it may be worth watching.

Absinthe is not illegal in the UK (where the books come from), and it's "technically" not illegal in the U.S as long as you don't sell it for human consumption. In reality, it's not even as harmful as eating a meal at KFC. Of course, the FDA often do stupid things, and are a big slow beaurocracy like the rest of the government. It may eventually become legal if someone pushes for it enough. I think parents who feel that everything their kids do needs to be educational should lighten up. Some things are just entertainment and for fun. I wouldn't try to justify seeing that movie for "learning" like in TWI. I'm not a parent, nor a Christian, but I wouldn't think that it would really be damaging to children old enough to read the books. I used to like watching "The Dukes of Hazzard" when I was a little kid, and did imitate them some, but never did anything dangerous, and it hasn't affected me in the long run in life.

I've already scanned in some of the wedding pictures, but I can't post them here for obvious reasons. None of the cake either though. Anyway, thanks for the thread. We had a great time getting married and are doing well settling in together.

We got married and had a great time. Today is my first day back at work unfortunately, but I am happy to now have a wife.

I tried on the tux a little bit ago and I look like this: Anyway, I am definitely looking forward to it (minus dressing up) and really want to go ahead and do it. Judging by how our relationship has been so far, I think things will go well with our marriage. We've always been able to talk and share our hearts with each other, and that seems to be the thing most couples have problems with. Anyway, I'm going to go do some more packing and stuff so talk to you all later.

Well I just thought it was funny. I hear people that are (for the lack of a translation in English) pochos all the time around here and it's funny because I can understand English, I can understand Spanish, but I can't really understand the mixture of the two. There was a Puerto Rican woman that attended fellowship with my family years ago, one of the most friendly people I've ever met. I do wonder if she's still in or not, now that I think about it. I suppose I could use the friend tracker forum for it's true purpose but I don't want to reveal who I am to any WayGB types that might be lurking.

It's sort of a "thanks for working hard" gift from the VP of my company that I work for. A bunch of us from work are going, and this is an extremely non-PC company. I expect the remarks from my coworkers to be at least as entertaining as the antics on the screen.

¿Por que hablas esto Spanglish extraño?

Of course, my EULA to gain access on my computer says that whoever connects waives their right to do that, plus it gives me the ability to charge whatever amount of money I want as a fee for using my resources.

I am starting to not like ZoneAlarm. It's easy to set up and everything, but if you use it on a LAN it prevents file sharing from working, unless you set it on the lowest security settings. I was using Norton Firewall, but it crashed too much and slowed down my computer a bit more than ZoneAlarm.

igotout: Server backups are usually best on tape then. I've worked with quite a few different types of backup tapes and systems. In fact, had this been three years ago I could have gotten you two DLT tape libraries (hold either 8 or 10 each) with a drive in each of them for $50. Anyway, if I were to buy a backup tape drive for my server at home or at a small business, I'd probably go for a DDS3 DAT drive. I believe those hold 12GB a tape, and they're pretty cheap considering. They're also small, which means you can take them home and put them in a safety deposit box if you don't want to spend money on an off site backup vault. Or you can mail them pretty easily.

On my Windows XP computers, it's simple. I occasionally write out the entire C:Documents and settings directory to a CD (I don't store music there though.) My MP3's I put on CD as well, mostly beecause I have a portable MP3 player. I also transfer the MP3s to the other XP computer so I can listen to them there. It's easy and inexpensive to burn CDs and that's usually the way to go. On my linux box, I regularly use Samba to copy over the contents of /home (and /usr when I make changes to it) to a special directory on my WinXP desktop and back that up to CD at the same time I get the Documents and Settings directory. As far as making a bootable image, I think it's fairly worthless as most companies that sell PCs give you one when you buy the PC. I generally just go by that, and then install my extra programs from CD, and then whatever downloaded stuff and data I have in the Documents and Settings directory on CD. It takes me less than an hour to completely restore everything, so it's not too bad. I do think stuff like RAID is really overkill for a computer at home. I would do it if I ran a server or something, but not for something that I use to play games and surf the internet.

Don't forget that you can go into the event viewer to see if anything suspicious is happening. It usually records reboots and such. Click on the Start menu, settings, open up the control panel. In there click on the administrative tools icon, and open the program called Event Viewer. Look for the lines in there that are a red circle with white X's in them. Those are the errors you would probably most want to look into.

Heh, I haven't heard that one yet. Anyway, thanks. I have been looking forward to this for over a year and a half. Well, actually longer because I had been thinking about proposing for a couple years, but we had been engaged for a year and a half.

I'll be having my 0th wedding anniversary next week (actually, it will be the (1/365)th I suppose, but anyway, I'm nearly prepared for it. Hopefully that doesn't give too much info to any WayGB around, but whatever.

If you run Windows XP, click here and download the XPdite program. It appears that Microsoft's "Help Center" can be used to delete all the files on your system. I tried out the bug by creating a directory called test, then made a URL that used the help center program to the test directory, and it wiped out all the files in that directory.

I think Windows Update does a fine job of taking care of that for Windows security problems, however Windows Update doesn't cover other things. If you run stuff like AOL instant messenger, KaZaA, etc. then any security problems in those will not be fixed by the Windows Update. Personally, I run CNet's Catchup program (I believe the URL is http://catchup.cnet.com) and it does both security and version audits so I have all the patches and the most current versions of the software.

The feeling is mutual. I have already learned a lot from people here, including yourself. I am greatful to have found this place, I just wish I could share it with some of the others I know who are "innies" right now. I may do it, but I'll side with caution. I'm well aware of the whole idea of people who are no longer "standing" with TWI being supposedly posessed and trying to "trick" innies to leave.

Kathy, I have a feeling that you understand what I'm getting at, and that your husband and I probably agree on more of that stuff as well. I have fairly strange political views I guess. In some ways I'm very conservative, in others very liberal. I despise war and see it as a failure of thinking. However, I support it in self-defence. I do think it's just to go after bin Laden and al Qaeda, but I find it distasteful. Also having been aware of terrorism outside of the U.S. I didn't have the same "innocence" that many others have, and lost on September 11th last year. Anyway, thanks for understanding me, sometimes I fail to do well with my words.

I didn't want to get too much into the politics here, but I guess I should to explain why I feel the way I do. I see our nation's foreign policy as being responsible for the deaths of countless people outside the U.S. I have seen firsthand the results of the idiots from NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc. funding terrorists in Northern Ireland and the U.K. Our nation's government has been a bully to the rest of the world for a while, and then when someone else strikes back, we act suprised. Personally, I do feel empathy for the families of those that died, but it was a year ago, and I can't keep dwelling on something that long ago when I was not a direct part of it. However, I think I'd be safe to say that I doubt anyone here cares a lick about the "collateral damage" where we've killed wedding parties, destroyed hospitals, and other things like that in Afghanistan in mistakes that would have been easily avoided. We've propped up governments all over the world that have oppressed their people and caused problems. We supported Saddam Hussein in the past, and look at where that got us. We supported a lot of the people in Afghanistan, some of whom became the Taliban. We continue to directly support terrorists in central and south America that keep those regions destabilized. When I say "we" I don't mean "we the people" but I mean our elected officials. If the average person was aware of some of the attrocities carried out in our names by our leaders, there would be some major reform. Anyway, the reason this is relevant is two-fold. If you don't feel as bad when our troops go out and kill a wedding party for setting off fireworks as you do for the victims of the WTC attack, then there is something wrong with you. Also, our government has been a bully to most of the world, so it should have come as no suprise that people hate us. I've had a family member mutilated by a bomb planted in a desk at a primary school in Northern Ireland thanks to the American funded IRA. He probably wishes that he didn't live, but he is alive and can't take care of himself anymore since he can't walk and is missing an arm. Nobody in the U.S. cares about those sorts of things though, so I have grown somewhat calloused to other attrocities. I don't think that has anything to do with TWI. P.S. - If someone wants me to provide links to websites to back up my political claims higher up, I'll be glad to do so, although that might be better left to the politics forum rather than here.

I'll probably get flamed by someone for posting this here, but I'll go ahead and say it anyways. I think there's something wrong with what our country is doing today. I touched on it in another topic about how the memory of the dead is being abused by the capitalists (well, I'm not a commie but I mean those that worship capitalism as their god) in order to make money. Today isn't about a memorial of the deaths of innocent people a year ago, it's about advertising and pop singers. Then there's the revenge aspect. So many people keep the subject alive of how we have to get those responsible for it. I can guarantee that everyone directly responsible for the terrorist attack is already dead, so at best we can find their leaders (not just bin Laden) and get rid of them. Instead though, the politicians have turned it into a big clusterf*** that now somehow involves Iraq, who doesn't like al Qaeda either. I am all for justice, but the attitude of "let's go bomb some towelheads" that has been in the undercurrents of America for the past year does bother me. I see the lust for revenge rather than justice the exact same logic that al Qaeda used. Also, I don't really care about the people who died. I know that sounds callous, but I've talked to some of my closer friends and they feel the same way. Unless you know someone who died, or lived in NYC, DC, or near that field in PA, it didn't really affect you. I felt sorry for the families of the deceased a year ago, and I still do to a certain degree, but it's not some sort of life-changing event for me. It's just as sad as when you hear about the 5000 Iraqi kids that die each month or the mass murders in Rwanda or wherever. I also don't really like what I refer to as pseudo-patriotism. I see those who went out immediately after September 11th last year as superficial and doing it only because it was fashionable. "911" and "FDNY" are fashion statements now and can be found on clothing at various stores. Real patriots don't need signs just like real followers of God shouldn't need a green bumpersticker and a pictire of the BOT hanging in their living room. I have to admit, in the past year, I have seen a few shining examples of human compassion and accomplishment. The police and firemen who died a year ago while trying to help others were valiant, and I hope their families will try to follow their principles. I felt bad for the families of the innocents who did nothing wrong to put themselves in those positions that were killed last year. However, everything else is a bunch of hoo-ha to me, and completely worthless. I'm not going to wear red white and blue today, I'm not going to go buy a new flag (I've had one since before last year anyway), and I'm not going to call for blood from innocents who live in the same region of the world that some of the terrorists were from. I reject the commercialism and the idiocy of the politicians as well. Unfortunately, for me all of the bad things tend to stick out more than the things I would like to memorialize today. That makes me sick of September 11th. The terrorists damaged a few buildings and murdered a few thousand, but we should be ashamed of ourselves for our nation's reaction and childishness that has been going on nonstop for about a year now.