ever notice vista thrashing the hard drive like there's no tomorrow for no apparent reason?
ever notice how vista will do this forever and without end?
every try to get work done but vista is too busy thrashing the hard drive and sucking up precious resources causing the system to slow down so much that you can't get anything done?.
Oh and thanks elsewhere for the reminder about the indexing. I still have XP but it turns out that I had indexing on by default. I have turned it off and the disk chatter has gone down dramatically.
I will never get Vista. I would like to dump Microsoft completely.
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ok guys i thought i would update you on my sunday and how the study went.
i had to drive a few of the older sisters to the hall (one has a bum leg the other an injured hip and the other one has a hard time seeing), so i drove them to the hall and stayed for the meeting, here are some of my thoughts, first of the public talk.. i dont know how i made it thru the 30 minute talk without screaming bulls*it every other five seconds, the talk was about being no part of the world, and man it made me want to vomit.
first off, children are still discouraged from extra curricular activities, i dont know how they expect children to grow up and be able to function socially if they raise them to isolate themselves from their peers, dont they realize that they are raising social retards?
lola28:
he turns around and takes my hand *shudders* then he leans in way close and says “have you missed me? Have you thought about me
every day?” and he still would not let go of my hand,
TWO WORDS:
P E P P E R S P R A Y
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since i was about 10 i've been on thryoid medication.
it is the same medication i take every month.
i had my last blood tests done 6 months ago.
my doc tried to milk more copays out of me. I have a $3,000 (US) annual deductable plus copays. It is the only way I can afford any insurance whatsoever. I have to pay out of pocket, employer does not offer insurance.
I went in for a general phyiscal and had blood work. Of course, my cholesterol is too high. So the office calls me and tells me the doc wants me to come in again for a consult (another copay and another payment from the insurance co) to put me on pharmaceuticals. No discussion about diet and/or lifestyle (excercise) changes. I wont go back to that doc again. I am looking for a new one now (this one I inherited when my old doc moved out of state...I have been passed from one doc to another as docs leave the state).
Its a scam...they want to maximize copays because the insurance companies are balking at paying their fees.
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ever notice vista thrashing the hard drive like there's no tomorrow for no apparent reason?
ever notice how vista will do this forever and without end?
every try to get work done but vista is too busy thrashing the hard drive and sucking up precious resources causing the system to slow down so much that you can't get anything done?.
The issue with recovering "memory" (actually storage space) with hard drives is the way that information is stored. Files are stored in the first available space the computer finds on the drive. So if you have a 1MB Word file..it finds the first space available. If the first space available is only 500KB, then it will put part of the file there and the other half elsewhere... when the hard drive is brand new...generally files stay in one piece... but as you go about deleting things, you have holes.... and when you save new things.. if splits your file to fill the holes. Your computer keeps track of all the pieces with an Index at the beginning of the drive. (corrupt the index, you are SOL). (I am trying to avoid technogeek as much as possible).
It would be like going to the library and having no real order in the shelving. The library got cheap and hired fools to reshelve books and they just walk down the shelf stack until they find a hole and put the book there...and the manager, rather than putting it where it belongs, just makes a note and puts the note in a book of notes (index)... and if you want to find that book..you have to look in that notebook to find what you want... worse...if the hole for the book isnt large enough..the idiot rips the book in half and puts one part there and the other part in another hole. thats what the hard drive is doing...
The other issue is that depending on how big your hard drive is and how (or if) it is partitioned. Data is dropped into little sections. If your file does not take up the whole section, it doesnt matter. The whole section is "FULL" even if it is only partially filled with the file. This is where the waste of space comes in.
The key to gaining space back is to partition larger hard drives to make better use of the smaller sections. Also making sure that you defragment your hard drive periodically. Defragmenting the hard drive takes all of the scattered pieces of files and places them together, storing them efficiently...it also speeds up the process of finding a file or running a program. People who burn lots of CDs, videos, etc tend to have this issue more than those who just save documents from time to time. in the library illustration, eventually it would become to cumbersome and someone has to go in and clean that mess up...thats what defragmenting does.
(By the way, grocery stores do the exact same thing. Ever go to the store and see things have been moved around when you were used to a different way? Yep...the grocery store defragmented its shelves..another story for another time.)
Here is a link to useful ways to reclaim lost hard drive space: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,97442/printable.html
Whatever you do..back up your files (to an external hard drive, online storage, or a USB flash drive) before messin around with the hard drive.
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this has been my most challenging video yet!
click for an exclusive look inside the walls of gilead, as well as an overview of what crap gilead teaches.. .
includes never before see video interviews with gilead instructors, wally "the end is coming really soon" liverance, lawrence "newly anointed" bowen, and mark "mr. availability" noumair.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5fqz2_lzge.
Interesting video...
a lot of similarities with what I went through during Ministerial Training School (MTS), which is part of the School of Gilead.
One of our instructors, Paul Illingworth, claimed to have taught himself Koene (sp?) Greek. Since the instructors alternate teaching A and B portions of the material, it was a crap shoot whether or not he taught the NWT section of the class. He did. And Anthony Manera taught the JW history (Proclaimers) portion. At the time we thought it was great because we had instructors using their "specialties," Illingworth going into detail about John 1:1 and other portions the Borg likes to twist and Manera going on and on about people in the background of many pictures, telling how he knew them way back when. Try listening to that drivel at 2pm right after a heavy lunch and slave chores around the assembly hall. (and sitting on the front row trying not to get caught napping).
Reflecting back now without the rose colored glasses, the "school" was a farce. Nothing but teaching single men how to be Company Men. The difference between MTS (2 months) and Gilead (5 months) is that MTS emphasized Organizational procedure more and Gilead (at least it appears to me) emphasizes the ministry and missionary service more. Same material basically with different emphasis.
I dont have any video of my experience just a bunch of pictures. I have put all of that stuff in a box in storage.
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anything V does on Watchtower Comments:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=watchtower+comments
http://www.watchtowercomments.com/
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I hate going to the laundromat. I get some reading done, but it is a hassle to the loads in the car, drive to the laundromat, load out of the car, into the washer out of the washer into the dryer out of the dryer fold the clothes properly, back into baskets back into the car, drive back home, back out of the car, back onto the shelves where they belong.. all the crap in bold I could eliminate if I had a washer and dryer at home.
I only do 1 maybe 2 loads a week tops..sometimes a third large load if I am doing bedding which I do every other trip. (I change bedding every 5-7 days...).
Regular housework doesn't bother me so much...I have a small house (small bathroom, living room, kitchen, bedroom and office)...its just me and the cat.....though cleaning up the fresh cat puke on the living room carpet was not in my plans today.
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the first time i went to australia bethel during a holiday, we pioneer boys put on our best "going out" clothes, no ties just very smart, well groomed and neat.
the sister we stayed with said: "oh no you can't wear those clothes, you have to dress in meeting clothes!
" so we did, realizing we had shamed ourselves and our god.
A week ago I was talking to a JW friend who was on the 06 germany trip ..(she knows I dont go to the KH anymore and still stays in contact regularly..another story).... about the amount of money and rules on our trip. We agreed it was a one time deal. Any future trips would not be for conventions but real vacations where you can do what you want and dress how you want.
CO's have pretty stringent rules...no jeans, flip flops, etc... even when "off duty".... because they are always representing the FDS and the GB... one CO wife told me she cannot go to the grocery for a late night run unless she is presentable (no sweats, curlers, etc)...
C U L T
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fe2o3baby2 was born on friday morning at 6:20am, weighed 8lb 10oz, and we are all doing well.. on thursday i had some niggly pain and light bleeding but no progression.
i had a bath in the evening and added rose, lavendar and clary sage oil to the water.
i was woken up by my contractions at about 2am on friday morning.
TENS... I remember seeing that acronym in my medical terminology course but had to look it up again...
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
electrical current through the skin to block pain..good because no drugs to affect mom or baby...commnly used during labor.
that the right TENS?
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edited to add...congrats MOM and baby....
the first time i went to australia bethel during a holiday, we pioneer boys put on our best "going out" clothes, no ties just very smart, well groomed and neat.
the sister we stayed with said: "oh no you can't wear those clothes, you have to dress in meeting clothes!
" so we did, realizing we had shamed ourselves and our god.
***sigh***
I did temp work twice at Bethell. Once in the 80s, once in the 90s. There were so many rules and regulations on everything one did..and I realized after the second stint that Bethel was not for me (and pulled my ap for permanent status).
I once ran a bus tour in 91. We didnt have the "benefit" {gag} of that brochure. I thought at first it was another clever satire...it is not?!! I do remember having to send out information with the tour packet reminding about dress and grooming. Never had a problem..and those who wore clean running shoes for comfort I didnt say anything too. I figure they were adults. We had fun.. (though my idea of fun then has changed drastically since I left.)
Over a decade later, back in summer 06, I was a delegate to the special convention in Hamburg. I showed up at the airport in NY in jeans, tshirt and walking shoes (aka tennis shoes). The bus captain was not happy with me, esp since I was also supposed to be one of his "assistants." I told him that I dont do well flying and if I was going to be trapped on a 250ft aluminum tube at 35,000 feet for 6 hours I was going to be comfortable....and my "meeting clothes" were packed in checked luggage (a lie, but he didnt call my bluff). Others were quite envious of the rebellious elder in his comfy clothes... (I noticed many ties coming off and slippers coming out during flight).
I think that old brother didnt know what to make of me. I think he had suspicions of me even then...it was a year later I left the Org...LOL...maybe he knew before I did I was bad news...
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