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I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. In my 58 years I've lost 8 boxers. The last two Samson and Tasha died 3 and 2 years ago. The grief was the last I wanted to feel in my life for my 4 legged friends. They were both just a little over 14 years when I had to have them put down. I said no more dogs.
Last December I decided life is too short to go without their companionship and unconditional love they give back. I work from home and my new Boxer I adopted in late January has been such a blessing. My life is once more filled with so much love and entertainment he gives. As much as I love my wife of 33 years, there is just something a dog gives back that humans in your life can not.
Took me almost two years to get back in the game and I'm sorry I missed that time that could have been blessed much earlier after Tasha died.
No idea if I'll out live my new Max but everyday I say a special thanks to my Lord for his new blessing in my life.

All my sympathies in your loss,

Paul

Patience Grasshopper, “The Master has Awakened”

Smart soldiers fight one battle at a time. They focus on killing the most dangerous foe 1st.

People who spend all their time shooting their allies in the back instead of ever fighting the real enemy of their political agenda are the useful idiots of the Democrat party.

I totally agree, now is the time to fall in behind Romney as we have no other choice. Look where we were at in 2010 when we took back the House. We’ve come a long way with the Tea Party. We took back the House and Lord willing we’ll take the Presidency and Senate in Nov.
Romney was not my first choice, but it’s a vote in the right direction. The local state vote is what can bring the issues to the floor of the House and Senate. We have no choice for now. Been through this for many years, but it’s a move forward and beats the alternative.

ElPaso County is the most conservative county in Colorado. I doubt that the great BO will give much to us, but who knows, this is a swing state. His performance and Marxist agenda doesn’t play well here even with a lot of DIM’s.

When I hunted and skinned out raccoons back in the late 60’s and early 70’s in Nebraska when there was pretty good money in the hide industry, I decided they weren’t worth eating. You could skin em out and slice off chunks of meat, but cats and dogs on the farm wouldn’t eat it, something just wasn’t right about man eating coon meat. Just the impression the dogs and cats on the farm told me.

40-60% less on VMS, sorry

DOW rolled out a whole bunch of Vaxen and are upgrading to the IA64 platforms for their production systems after they did a 5 year study on the cost of ownership, after they had all moved over to MS systems. The cost of ownership on VMS was 40-60 less for them on VMS. I make an extra effort to support those folks.

I hired on with DEC in 1977, been through Compaq and now HP. I’ve been supporting VMS on Vaxes, Alphas and now IA64 systems. Our systems are in the heart of the DOD, national research labs, and the financial systems world wide. Our VMS engineers in the US for the most part have been replaced by engineers in India. The VMS support team I joined in 1990 had 72 network specialist in it. Now that is down to 6. Guess I should consider myself lucky, but it’s been a lot of work on my own personal time to stay current and even expand into areas of VMS including programming, internals and performance to keep my job. We have about 24 total VMS second level support engineers left in the US. The rest are all being off shored to India and Costa Rica. Our L3 engineering is almost all in India now. Quality is definitely going down hill.
What I can not figure out is how the DOD, national labs and a lot of the Military depend on our systems and the engineering is being done in India. Who knows what phone home code is being incorporated into the code to send sensitive or secret information else where. When I was in a secure environment for 7 years 25 years ago, there were no outside connections to the outside world outside of the secure network you were on. Security was taken seriously and it was secure. Then came the days of Clinokio and his secretary of Energy Witch Hazel O’Leary, who totally relaxed security at the national labs.
I really have to wonder about our top Executives of HP and for that matter the DOD and DOE on letting this engineering go offshore. Even in Los Alamos the security is suspect.

Bit significance depends on if you system used Little or Big Endian alignment. Started with and old Honeywell 2020 in college, all programming done on Hollerith 80 column cards. Hated it when you dropped your program of 1-2 thousand cards and they weren’t numbered like you could do with the later IBM punch card machines, of which at that time were in short supply. First remote terminal was an old Texas Instruments hardcopy thermal printer. I think it was a model 300, don’t remember anymore, had a 300 baud acousta coupler that was about circa 1982-3 time frame I would log into customers field test systems for DEC’s testing of 11780’s in a cluster environment. Pretty heady days in the computer industry at that point.
Now days most of our code is written in foreign countries and who knows what type of phone home code they are slipping in and even our DOD uses that crap. I’m coming to the close of my career in the industry. But those 70’s and 80’s were great days in the business.
Seeing those old machines brought back a lot of memories.

What hasn’t been said, is personally I think McCain was only just slightly right of BO, but that the folks throughout this country then elected a Senate and House of Representatives that put total control behind this Marxist.
But hey, that’s just my opinion

What hasn’t been said, is personally I think McCain was only just slightly right of BO, but that the folks throughout this country then elected a Senate and House of Representatives that put total control behind this Marxist.
But hey, that’s just my opinion

Love it, I live in Colorado Springs but I’m going to be in Greeley Saturday to visit my sister. I’ll be leaving a little earlier and bring an old boot and a teabag or two.

Bye the way, I also drive an almost 22 year old Toyota pickup that I put $300 into 19 years ago to replace a head gasket.
All 3 of the automakers deserve to go down. They made their bed with the unions and they can all suck water as far as I’m concerned. Not a dime for a bailout.