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Jun 6
2009
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Welcome to the 255th issue. Today is the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy invasion. A civilian salute to all our D-Day veterans, living and fallen; to all our veterans of WWII; to all our veterans. On a lesser note, a week or so ago I saw "The Big Red One" for the first time, the restored version, two disk set, cost next to nothing. I loved it. "Saving Private Ryan" my ass.
This is a huge issue, largely due to a great many archival topics that were for the most part added to the catalog, but not pinged. Having 56 topics to include makes this around half-again as large as what I consider a large issue, and perhaps double what's normal.
As a never-ending troublemaker here on FR, I just got a nice polite FReepmail from a moderator asking me to please not spam the topics and keywords, but based on the subject line "re:" I'm pretty sure it was about something else -- I added all the states to the topics and keywords in a thread about something that will probably be of interest to residents of all the states (and then some), had to do with (try to contain your surprise) this administration. The only other times I did that was with the FReepathon threads, so I take their point.
In the march of technology, I'm mostly bringing up the rear, but try to keep my eye on where the column is headed -- analogous to my role in US politics I suppose. Last night I straightened up a few things on the hard drive, burned five data CDs for backup. It was mostly porn, but was so old, when I called the 800 number, I got a nursing home. /rimshot
But seriously, some of the backup was done of files I'd previously moved to a 2GB flash drive, just to make some space on the tiny original hard drive (1995, still tends to work fine) and/or the 18 gb outrigger SCSI drive (10000 rpm IBM, seemed huge when I bought it for $50 or whatever). I then deleted the contents, noticed an odd bug in the OS (Mac OS 9.2.2, running on a PowerMac 7600, which will only accept up to 9.2.1 without help) which wasn't a biggie, then backed up the entire original hard drive (1.2 gb internal SCSI) onto this freakin' little doodad. It's formatted for DOS, and apparently Classic Mac OS won't format flash drives (also not a biggie) without help. Once I got the files transferred, I moved the icons of the files which normally have their icons on the desktop from the top level to the desktop, and they moved, and vanished when I dragged the flash drive icon to eject. Flash drives are dirt cheap, and though not (yet) as cheap as hard drives, portability, durability, and power requirements are much better. I'm sure that digression was a thrill. Overnight, or at least sometime since I signed off far too late in the day Friday, some new topics got posted. I may ping them immediately after I post this digest, but may wait until tomorrow, when a whole new day will be there for the wasting.
Have a great week all, hope we all enjoy June.
AuntB posts M3Report topics pertaining to our national problems stemming from the tide of illegal aliens crossing the border. *
Sandrat posts a lot (possibly most) of the topics pertaining to the War on Terror.
Be sure to check Celebrimbor's and StarCMC's YouTube Smackdown topics, which are "Countering the cyber-jihad one video at a time".
Be sure to visit the invisib1e hand's Founder's Quote Daily topics.
Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day.
Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR.
Donate to FreeRepublic.
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