The ***OFFICIAL*** Friday/Saturday Night Singles' Thread (Feb. 3 & 4 )

2.3.06 | apackof2

[apackof2]

The ***OFFICIAL*** Friday/Saturday Night Singles' Thread
Feb. 3 & 4

Are you ready for some football?

I thought we could have our own pre-game party!

So if ya don’t know much about the SuperBowl or football well here’s a chance to learn
If you’re a football/SuperBowl expert, well here’s your chance to educate us novices!

Remember:

This is a thread for singles, not a thread about the misery of singleness -- no moping allowed! :-)

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SUPERBOWL TRIVIA

1. Including 2002, how many Super Bowls have been played in New Orleans?
2. What is the current cost of Super Bowl rings?
3. Who makes the Super Bowl Trophy?
4. How many times has Tampa hosted the Super Bowl?
5. Super Bowl I was played in what year and city?
6. Garth Brooks performed the national anthem at which Super Bowl?
7. This Super Bowl III MVP’s team was a 17-point underdog going into the game.
8. What team won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1973 & 1974?
9. The 2005 Super Bowl will be played in what Florida city?
10.Which of the following performers has not performed the national anthem at a Super Bowl?
Barry Manilow Marvin Gaye US Air Force Academy Chorale Tom Jones
11.Super Bowl V saw two firsts in its award of the game MVP. What were they?
12. Bands from FSU & UofF played at the same Super Bowl.
TRUE
FALSE

[Allegra]

Yeah, the commercials. The best part of the SB. LOL

We get the US news channels here and I'm sure they'll be replaying the good ones the next day.

The Panthers are a pretty good team. And getting better.

I'm a Houston Texans fan and season ticket holder. I have a rough life. ;-)

[pcottraux]

Panthers seem to be a good team. They have some wild cheerleaders, though.

Of course, I'm coming from Georgia where the Falcons provided lots of disappointment.

[Revel]

What do you do over there?

[Allegra]

Aren't the Falcons and the Panthers rivals? Same division?

That's got to be a difficult switch. ;-)

[Allegra]

Procurement. We buy stuff and get it to where it needs to be. ;-)

[Revel]

So I switched form Dish back to Cable today. That would allow me to see the superbowl. But it will be hard getting used to how much less sharp some of the channels are. TV land is so fuzzy that I keep thinking I need to adjust the rabbit ears. There is a big difference between digital and analog. And the digital channels on cable are only for the premium channels.

[pcottraux]

Aren't the Falcons and the Panthers rivals?

I wouldn't be surprised.

[pcottraux]

Yeah, Dish and Cable both have their pros and cons, I imagine.

[Revel]

Well...Goodnight everyone.

[pcottraux]

See you later.

[backhoe]

I'm just getting up to speed, so I have not scanned this post to see if anyone gave you other, better suggestions- if so, disregard.

Off the top of my head?

Ditch Norton AV, and get AVG from Grisoft. Uses less system resources, updates & scans once a day. If you don't care for AVG, Avast! by Alwil is also good, and free to home users.

Rather than rely on a software firewall ( Norton ) set up a home network ( ethernet, what we used to call a LAN- local area net ) and you will have a hardware firewall-- much better.

Fiddlstix has a point about that damned MS registry-- a corrupt registry, or one that has had numerous additions and deletions can cause all sorts of weird problems.

The earlier, free versions of regcleaner were pretty good, if you can find one. Regseeker ( google it ) is what I currently use, and it does other things as well.

I hate to mention it, but sometimes, it's faster, and less hassle, to wipe the drive and reinstall everything. This also clears all the crud the registry's accumulated. One "hardware guy" trick? Get a new drive, set it as "master," install the operating system, then install your old drive a "slave," and all your data will be there. You still have to reinstall all your software on the master ( so it will be recognized ) and then import your data from the slave drive.

Yes, it's all a pain in the backside- sometimes I long for the days of vacuum tubes and dial phones...

[carlr]

LOL! I don't know... I haven't gotten there yet. ;-)

Sorry to tell you,but you will be there faster than you can ever imagine.

It`s not bad though.

[carlr]

I have DirecTV and have very few problems.

You can get local channels or east and west coast network feeds.

You do have to pay extra for that though.

[carlr]

And yep...the sun is up and it's just after 8:30 a.m.

So it is almost 3:30 pm to you right now and the day is just starting here.

As a non traveler that concept still is hard for me to grasp sometimes.

Hope you have had a good ,safe day.

[najida]

First off, everything I did last night seems to have made my computer run WAY better....much, so it was worth it. However, I still can't log onto https sites.

Rather than rely on a software firewall ( Norton ) set up a home network ( ethernet, what we used to call a LAN- local area net ) and you will have a hardware firewall-- much better.

I purchased my Modem and my DSL service is with my local phone company, at the lowest baud/cheapest rate (please excuse my ineptitude here). Someone mentioned that it may be the problem. I'm assuming that's what you mean by ethernet (if not, I'm a total dolt)

Fiddlstix has a point about that damned MS registry-- a corrupt registry, or one that has had numerous additions and deletions can cause all sorts of weird problems.

The earlier, free versions of regcleaner were pretty good, if you can find one. Regseeker ( google it ) is what I currently use, and it does other things as well.

Well, I just ran it, and turned off my computer, rebooted and I still can't get to https sites. ARGH!

I hate to mention it, but sometimes, it's faster, and less hassle, to wipe the drive and reinstall everything. This also clears all the crud the registry's accumulated. One "hardware guy" trick? Get a new drive, set it as "master," install the operating system, then install your old drive a "slave," and all your data will be there. You still have to reinstall all your software on the master ( so it will be recognized ) and then import your data from the slave drive.

Hmmmm, I've alread wiped my drive clean twice. Also there are three issues here....
a. I've already spent gobs of money on software updates, service contract updates, etc to see if they would fix it.....so please understand my hesitation at spending even more money on something that may not work.
b. Time....I've got so much I need to do on the computer that spending so much time trying to fix this one is starting to wear on me.
c. My frustration comes from the fact that I've got 100's of music, video downloads, all my professional CEU stuff I'm working on etc. The stuff I have on my computer makes me worry about losing some of it and the time it would take to back it up.

HOWEVER, I may have to go that new drive route. I'm not completely turned off to it. Someone suggested trying a dialup ISP and see if it could be my phone companies DSL messing me up. Any ideas?

[najida]

Hmmmm,
If I go into control panel, and click on 'firewall', it says it's turned off. BUT, if I go into my windows security center, it says it's still on....Norton at that!

WTF???

[apackof2]

Over 65 Years Old and Still Goin' Strong!

Well I wouldn't expect less from a true Texan cowboy!

;>)

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I'm actually turning 25 later this month.

[Fiddlstix]

The earlier, free versions of regcleaner were pretty good, if you can find one. Regseeker ( google it ) is what I currently use, and it does other things as well.

Thanks backhoe. I'd forgotten that one. RegSeeker is really a good one.

najida: Go here to get RegSeeker

backhoe is right. Regseeker will do almost everything reg 1st aid will do and it is a freeware program.

(I must be getting senile. lol I should've thought of that one. It's a very popular registry cleaner program)

I think what backhoe means by "cleaning the disk" is to re format the disk. Then you'll end up with a "blank" HD and you'll have to reload windows and all your other programs. Myself, I would recommend that only as a last resort.
What say you, backhoe?

[najida]

OK,
here is something interesting.....

I can't get Norton completely out of my computer,
seems its part of the Windows security system....at least the firewall is.

And while I can turn off the firewall itself, when I check the security center, it says its still on.

OK, could my pooter just be a lemon???