Posts by drwtsn32

i have a new, presumably good-working-order 1terabyte hard drive, with 64 bit windows vista loaded from an hp computer that i purchased cheap (125 bucks) because the case (and the motherboard) has been badly smooshed by an errant forklift.

i have a 1.5 year old hp computer that is running vista (but not vista 64).. .

the smooshed computer w/ the good 1t drive had a pentium e6300 chip, and my working computer has an athlon 64x2.. .

drwtsn32

zombie: for fun. But actually I also do software development, so one real purpose is to test applications on other platforms. Nowadays I only test software on Windows 2000 and up.

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Computer Geek advice?

by SixofNine in

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i have a new, presumably good-working-order 1terabyte hard drive, with 64 bit windows vista loaded from an hp computer that i purchased cheap (125 bucks) because the case (and the motherboard) has been badly smooshed by an errant forklift.

i have a 1.5 year old hp computer that is running vista (but not vista 64).. .

the smooshed computer w/ the good 1t drive had a pentium e6300 chip, and my working computer has an athlon 64x2.. .

drwtsn32

My machine is booted to run XP, Windows 7, Vista, Mac, Linux ... beat that bitches.

I boot:

MS DOS 3.30 (optionally start Windows 1.x or 2.x)
MS DOS 6.22 (optionally start Windows for Workgroups 3.11)
Windows 95b
Windows 98SE
Windows Me
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista Business
Windows 7 x64 Enterprise
Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2008 Server
Debian 5.0
Ubuntu 9.04

Suck it.

But this all runs in VMware on a Windows XP host, so it's not quite as cool.

Too bad VMware doesn't let me load my copy of OS/2. :( I also tried loading a hacked copy of Mac OS X but it didn't want to work very well.

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The Top 100 Most Dangerous Websites For Your PC Enlisted

by Bangalore in

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the top 100 most dangerous websites for your pc enlisted.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20090820/854/ttc-the-top-100-most-dangerous-websites.html.

bangalore.

drwtsn32

It is unlikely that people intentionally visit these sites, or that you would instantly become infected by merely looking at them.

Instead I bet these sites hosted some malware that was then linked to in spam email, linked to from another site, etc.

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Is Will Smith studying?

by Gram in

i heard that someone saw him at a dc sitting in a row behind catherine (katherine) jackson and that he is studying.

anyone heard this before?.

drwtsn32

I also understood Will Smith is a Scientologist.

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Serious Question - Does anybody know anything about the disease MS?

by JWoods in

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i just got a call from an old girlfriend who thinks she has been diagnosed with this.

first doctor sent her to a neurolgist to confirm..

drwtsn32

Ha, drwtsn32, you must be a doctor! It's ok - I actually like some doctors.

Actually I'm not a doctor. Not even close. :) I am a skeptical thinker with a strong interest in medical claims though.

The good thing is that eventually, after listening to this 'anecdotal evidence' for several years, blind, double-blind and controlled studies are being 'considered' and from what I understand, already in the works re: the bee venom therapy.

There is certainly nothing wrong with anecdotes leading to studies being performed. Who knows, it could work! But controlled studies HAVE been done on bee sting therapy, and they have been shown to be ineffective in helping MS.

You bring up a good point about blinding the study though... it does seem like it'd be difficult to properly blind it. But they have figured out how to blind acupuncture trials..... so who knows.

... and then when things go sour and you have a 'couple of deaths', do a recall, and let the still living sue for 'damages'.

Are you serious? The millions of dollars spent doing legitimate medical research is partly to help ensure something is not dangerous (not to mention truly effective). Do things sometimes slip through the cracks? Yes. But you don't really suggest that we go to a system where things are promoted without being tested, right?

Remember, anything that affects your physiology has the potential to affect it negatively, too. That includes alternative treatments.

The conspiracy is not to keep 'people sick'; it's to keep the drug cartels in business, whatever it takes...and PROMOTION is the key.

There's no difference, IMO. It's still the idea that there's a conspiracy. The opposite would be to say the promoters of "alternative" therapies are trying to get rich without doing any real work. They probably didn't go to medical school, and they are promoting unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments. The are under almost no regulation by the government which I think definitely needs to change.

Sorry to side track this thread...

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Do You Use Your Cellphone At All While Driving?

by minimus in

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in nyc, there's a crackdown on anyone that drives while using a hand held phone.

they say it's dangerous to have only one hand on the wheel.

i wonder if drive thru establishments like mcdonald's and dunkin donuts will be next..

drwtsn32

I have one, but it's mounted on the console out of my field of vision. I do not understand why people put those things on the dash or on the windshield.

Agreed. In some states it's illegal to mount them on the windshield.

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Serious Question - Does anybody know anything about the disease MS?

by JWoods in

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i just got a call from an old girlfriend who thinks she has been diagnosed with this.

first doctor sent her to a neurolgist to confirm..

drwtsn32

The fact that it has not been promoted by actual medical doctors is probably a point in its favour, imo.

Only if you believe there is a conspiracy in the standard medical community to keep people sick.

Of course, such improvement and endorsement is always dismissed with the old 'anecdotal' evidence label.

Yes, because if all you have are anecdotes and the results are not backed up by controlled studies, we know the treatment actually does NOT work. Humans are VERY prone to suggestion. That's why placebos "work" so well, especially the more invasive they are. You have to weed that out, and blinded, controlled studies are the only way that can be accomplished.

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Is there an honest way to make a living online?

by AK - Jeff in

our area is hit hard by this recession.

unemployment is out the roof - close to 18%.. my wife has been trying to find work for over a year.

she has done so very diligently.

drwtsn32

Yeah, definitely avoid MLMs. And be careful: some MLMs lie and claim they are something else. Mary Kay, for example, insists they are not an MLM but rather a "dual marketing" business. Bullshit, they are an MLM.

MLMs are bad -- an absurdly high number of people (like 99%) never make anything. The few that are successful do it by taking advantage of the people below them. They are a barely legal pyramid scheme.

The suggestion to not do anything if it requires money up front is a good one. Legit business opportunities don't ask for money. Almost all MLMs require you to spend money up front to build up an "inventory."