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The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!

Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Let them go! Let them go!

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: Ramius

Gonna sign out for a while... might even be back.

Later evellybody...


6,221 posted on 08/15/2005 7:44:05 PM PDT by Ramius (Blades for war fighters: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Rose asks: How much memory is in there now?

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.

6,222 posted on 08/15/2005 7:44:42 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (No other object has been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Rose asks: How much memory is in there now?

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. ;-)

6,223 posted on 08/15/2005 7:46:28 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Lil'freeper

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?


6,224 posted on 08/15/2005 7:48:15 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery
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To: Corin Stormhands
I'm not even sure I know where the laptop is since we brought it back.

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. ;)

6,225 posted on 08/15/2005 7:51:06 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (No other object has been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

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.


6,226 posted on 08/15/2005 7:55:56 PM PDT by JenB
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear; All

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


6,227 posted on 08/15/2005 7:56:40 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: no one in particular
It just struck me that I'm doing something almost completely geeky.
6,228 posted on 08/15/2005 8:07:50 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (No other object has been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Are you going to let us in on what it is, or do we hafta guess?


6,229 posted on 08/15/2005 8:11:35 PM PDT by RosieCotton ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

What, using a slide rule?


6,230 posted on 08/15/2005 8:12:19 PM PDT by JenB
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To: RosieCotton; JenB
This is complicated...

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.

6,231 posted on 08/15/2005 8:17:45 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (No other object has been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

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...


6,232 posted on 08/15/2005 8:18:40 PM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
I think it's the use of an unnecessarily high-tech solution to obsessively keep track of minute details that makes it geeky.
6,233 posted on 08/15/2005 8:25:33 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (No other object has been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.)
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To: Ramius
Would that work at my company? Absolutely. We've got our quota of idiots, and it only takes one.

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.

6,234 posted on 08/15/2005 8:48:32 PM PDT by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: 300winmag

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?


6,235 posted on 08/15/2005 9:09:17 PM PDT by Ramius (Blades for war fighters: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net)
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To: Ramius
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.

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.

6,236 posted on 08/15/2005 9:36:10 PM PDT by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear; All
Hitchhiker's, the radio version.

Good morning!

6,237 posted on 08/16/2005 1:53:08 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Global warming? Bring it on. Climate change? We could use the variety.)
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To: Peanut Gallery
I head home Thurs. morning and am stuck in extremely boring meetings all day today and tomorrow. :( Reeeeeeeally boring - as in there's absolutely *no* reason for me to be at these meetings except that management wanted our organization represented. *sigh*.

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.

6,238 posted on 08/16/2005 5:05:27 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: ExGeeEye
Good morning!

Gotta run!

6,239 posted on 08/16/2005 5:05:49 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: MNJohnnie; HairOfTheDog
Posted on the singers today
6,240 posted on 08/16/2005 5:20:11 AM PDT by Alkhin
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