I'm so stupid, I signed up and got the Zot.

[hk409]

THIS SITE IS ZOT!

GIMME A BRAKE ALREADY! YOU GUYS MUST BE THE BIGEST MORONS ON THE WORLD! THE BIGEST MORONS NEXT TO THAT SOFTWARE COMPANY I USED TO VISIT SIX YEARS AGO! OY YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! EACH TIME I TRYED TO POST SOMETHING NO MATTER HOW SMART! NO MATTER HOW CONSERVATIVE! EVEN IF I BEND OVER BACK AND DO BACK FLIPS AND THEN BEND OVER FOR THAT DUMB LIBERAL WE UNFORTUNATELY ELECTED! EVEN IF SPELL CHECKER ARE WORKING I STILL GET THEN KICKED OFF!! THEN ZOTTED!! WHY? IS IT JUST BECAUSE I WRITE SO BRILLIANT? BOB RUNS THINGS HERE!? OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. MAEYBE PEEPLE LIKE JJFATE AND NOAH HORSEFLY IS ASKING FOR IT BUT WHAT ABOUT ME!

[tuliptree76]

LOL!

[TASMANIANRED]

You sound like a dog fan as well.

I have 2 dogs. One is a lab and the other a lab mix. Both are rescues. They are both cuddle some. They just turned 1 in November.

They don't have to jump on my lap, they save that pleasure for my husband. I sit in the floor with them and they each pick a side and snuggle in, using my lap for a pillow.

When they were younger they couldn't do it without grousing between the two of them. Just a little too much competition between them.

Now that they are starting to grow up they both know Mom loves her fur babies and will stroke them equally. I no longer have growling heads in my lap.

[NicknamedBob]

I'm an equal opportunity dog employer. I have one of each, a black dog and a white dog.

Scottish Terrier and West Highland White Terrier. They sure have a lot of personality per pound!

[Genesis defender]

I've been a dog fan for years, but my apartment building doesn't allow pets, so no dog. :(

My mom's two chihuahua dogs both died within the last year. They were mother and daughter. Momma died first, and daughter walked from room to room for months looking for her mom. Even though those things looked like wet rats, they were great companions.

Except when they got up on your lap and stuck their noses in your face. Their breath could knock over a horse.

[Dead Corpse]

Hehhe... It's hard to keep a good Corpse down. (/Dawn of the Dead)

Guess what kiddies? I got the old Linux box up and running. Spit. Bailing wire. And Duct tape. If I suddenly stop responding, you'll have an idea why...

It only needs to last a week... *fingers crossed*

[tuliptree76]

YAY!!!! Time to party!

[Dead Corpse]

Eh... we'll see. This thing is an ancient Athlon K7 Slot A 1GHz proc machine. One of the first K7 boards. Memeory is maxed.

It is SLLLLOOOOWWWWW compared to my other machines. Heck, slow compared to the machines Zon took North with her...

But it works... *growl*

[tuliptree76]

My desktop is a Pentium 350. I use it as back-up.

[TASMANIANRED]

I don't have a lot of experience with terriers. I love all dogs but dogs with personality are special.

Between my 2 I have 120 lbs of dog. Oddly enough, they don't eat me out of house and home..

[TASMANIANRED]

So far I am doing well with breath and dogs. I use the Kong dental chewers. Keeps their teeth nice and clean.

Do you have a friend with dogs to visit. 10 minutes stroking a loving dog can mend a lot of problems.

I'm sorry about your Mom's loss. I bet she is lost as well. The reason I wound up with 2 pups was loosing a very loved Lab last year.

[Dead Corpse]

Ok.. I'll stop complaining. I bet yours is in a computer case though. Instead of spread out on the floor under your desk in individual pieces...

[NicknamedBob]

Most terriers seem to think they are ten feet tall.

And they are rather aggressively affectionate -- they just know you want to pet them.

[tuliptree76]

Well, true. It's in it's case. Not hooked up though. It's ready to be transported home next week.

[Dead Corpse]

Everything is in pieces right now. Turns out, the Linux box was shorting the power supply in the case somehow. Kept the APIC from initializing correctly. Works fine now that it is scattered hither and yon.

The chunks of my other machines lie waiting. Some odd Frankenstiens monster waiting to be reborn...

[tuliptree76]

Turns out, the Linux box was shorting the power supply in the case somehow.

Is it getting hot? If a fan isn't working properly, computers tend to shut down.

[Dead Corpse]

I've got a small office fan blowing right across the top of it. It's also resting on four plastic blocks to allow airflow underneath the board. About half the systems I test with at work are caseless and running on an open bench.

I've even seen what happens when a boards thermal overheat protection system fails. Some of the testing we do uses sealed temp controlled chambers. If the cooling compressor moderation circuit fails, the heat from the board running will accumulate. It'll get hot enough to melt the solder holding the parts on to the board, delaminate the board itself, and cause all the insulation to drip off the wires.

Icky looking stuff... ;-)

[Asphalt]

We got a new computer a few months ago, this one isn't bad, but the old one was horrible. We bought it in 2000, so needless to say, it wasn't exactly top of the line four years later, worked fine for word processing, but it froze constantley, and managed to get about three different viruses. I think it was messed up during production, because we had no end of problems. We had to get a whole new mother board after about 3 months, and we sent it in for repairs about 6 times while the warranty lasted.

[NicknamedBob]

I'm gonna bail out now, I've been fighting sleep for too long. It's time to arrange a truce.

But I was thinking, Tomorrow should be a good day for an excursion to the surrounding countryside. I'll arrange the transportation, you folks think about where you'd like to visit.

[tuliptree76]

Wow! I've never seen a board melt before. I've had a computer start on fire where I used to work once while I was trying to fix it, but it didn't melt the motherboards.

[NicknamedBob]

Did you find the information you were looking for about "intelligent design?"