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Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Gonna sign out for a while... might even be back.
Later evellybody...
To find out: left click the Start button; right click on My Computer; left click on Properties; left click on the General tab; in the "Computer" paragraph you should see the name of the chip and how much memory is installed.
Heh...I should have been more prepared. I'm not even sure I know where the laptop is since we brought it back. I'll check on that tomorrow and then ask my questions. ;-)
That Barnes and Noble you probably went to used to be a "Horse and Saddle" shop. B&N tore it down when they purchased the property and rebuilt. The Chili's next door is pretty good, but there is a TGIFridays in Lincoln Square, across the street to the west, that is SO much better.
You were talking about steak this weekend. I couldn't remember any specific staek places, but where you are, you are literally swamped with restaurants. There's a Shady Oak BBQ & Grill where you can prolly get some steak. Across the Interstate there is a real steak house by Hurricane Harbor. Can't remember what its called though. There should be an On the Border next door to HOJO's on I-30 (Yum). Frijoles is really good, too (i'm getting hungry just thinking about it). It is across the highway off of Ballpark Way and I-30 and is visible from the hwy. There are also Red Hot Blue, Joe's Crabshack, Pappadeaux, Olive Garden, etc. You won't starve.
There ~used~ to be a Steak and Ale right across the street from 6-flags. There also ~used~ to be a Red Lobster over tere too. It has been too long since I lived there -sigh-
You have basically hit a restaurant haven. It isn't restaurant row, rather it is restaurant block for about a mile. The only fast food places I remember in your immediate vicinity are Chick-fil-a and Taco Bueno.
How long will you be here?
LOL, you should have heard the heavy sigh I got from Rose when I read that response to her. She gets that sort of response a lot from her customers. ;)
Make sure you know where the extra memory will go. A lot of Dell laptops these days have two places you can put memory; the place on the bottom of the computer, and a slot under the keyboard that's quite tricky to get at if you don't know what you're doing.
Actually, I probably moved the laptop when I was moving FURNITURE to replace the cable. So it's prolly not that far.
Thanks for the help though. I'll come back to that and work on it tomorrow evening.
I'm pretty well done in for the night.
g'nite
Are you going to let us in on what it is, or do we hafta guess?
What, using a slide rule?
I used to collect the Babylon 5 collectible card game. Of course, like any collectible or trading card set, you wind up with lots of duplicate cards while trying to complete the set. Soooo...
I'm copying card lists from a website into an Excel spreadsheet that I'm building, in order to make a checklist to keep track of which and how many extra cards I have.
See? Geeky.
Guess that's geeky. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I've had lists on my computer of long SF series that I've needed a few volumes to complete...
At the hospital, "security" means keeping your password on a piece of paper under the keyboard. Everywhere else, it's on stickies stuck all over the monitor.
Yah... that's why one of the preferred professional hacker techniques is to merely get a job as a janitor at the target company. Look under keyboards for passwords and bam! you're done. Doesn't usually take very many to find a hit.
The funny thing is, the companies that take the hardest line on password security are the ones that open the biggest holes. They force users to have long rapidly-changing complex passwords of forced alfa-num variations. This of course guarantees that people will just write them down on a yellow sticky note, either under the keyboard, in the desk drawer, or under the desk.
I've even seen ~very~ senior members of the company (i.e. V.P. or higher) that put their password on a piece of paper taped to the underside of their laptop.
[Sigh] What's the point?
Our IT outsourcing company, which shall not be named, requires that kind of super-long, complex password for its systems. I make a short phrase, using captials, numbers, and funny punctuation, as a password. It's pretty easy to remember.
Another trick I've learned is to make a password out of the initial letter of some favorite saying. "Never give a sucker an even break" yields a password of "NGASAEB". One advantage is that even if someone sees you type it in, they won't make any sense out of it.
Fingerprint readers are cheap now, and easier to implement than some of the schemes we have to put up with. Let everyone sign on with their fingerprints.
Of course, with the people I have to deal with, some of them would somehow manage to forget to bring their fingerprints.
Good morning!
Anyhoo, am going to try to swing through Sheplers this evening. I ate at Trail Dust Steak House and had an ok steak. Very tender, but overcooked.
Gotta run!
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