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by FlyingPenguin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 3:01 pm
Forum: Cheers!
Topic: Those of you with an A-HOLE neighbor will LOVE this!
Replies: 6
Views: 921

BTW there ARE links to pictures in there - may not be obvious since they're farther down the page. Some of them are CLASSIC! Idiot neighbor threw a cigarette out his back window during the winter (no snow but grass was brown and dry in hibernation) and set his whole backyard on fire... LOL! http://w...
by FlyingPenguin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 2:55 pm
Forum: Cheers!
Topic: farking health insurance!!! fark Blue Cross Blue Shield!!!
Replies: 13
Views: 1363

My wife's is the expensive one (women cost health ins companies MUCH more than men... hmmm....). When I signed up 3 years ago it was 250 for me and 350 for her. They raised it once for her already and then they switched plans this month. As I understand it (in Florida at least) you can't get $250 de...
by FlyingPenguin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 2:50 pm
Forum: OS / Software Forum
Topic: Anyone try the new Win2k SP3?
Replies: 18
Views: 1438

This a preview version? There's no SP3 available from Windows Update.
by FlyingPenguin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 2:48 pm
Forum: OS / Software Forum
Topic: weird error?
Replies: 5
Views: 433

May sound stupid, but make sure there's no floppy in the drive. That's the error you get when you try to boot off a floppy formatted in NT/2K/XP with no boot files on it :)

Dumb message - can't understand why Microsoft doesn't just TELL YOU you left a non-bootable floppy in your drive....
by FlyingPenguin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 8:00 am
Forum: Cheers!
Topic: farking health insurance!!! fark Blue Cross Blue Shield!!!
Replies: 13
Views: 1363

I'm on BC/BS as well, and not to defend them too much but we were warned about this months ago - around January. If you're on a similar plan as me, they phased out the old PPO and the old deductable (I used to have $250 deductable but they've made $500 the minimum now). This was all effective as of ...
by FlyingPenguin
Thu Aug 01, 2002 7:14 am
Forum: Cheers!
Topic: Those of you with an A-HOLE neighbor will LOVE this!
Replies: 6
Views: 921

Those of you with an A-HOLE neighbor will LOVE this!

Been reading this all morning laughing my ass off! Gotta love that herb garden :laugh

Redneck Neighborhood: http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm
by FlyingPenguin
Wed Jul 31, 2002 7:53 pm
Forum: Cheers!
Topic: John Romero to be college professor
Replies: 3
Views: 692

"The Proper Use of Cybernetic Frogs in First Person Shooters 101"


"How to Cultivate an Ego and Piss Off Your Friends and Co-Workers 101"


LOL! :)
by FlyingPenguin
Wed Jul 31, 2002 7:49 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: need recommendations for amd xp motherboard
Replies: 4
Views: 567

Fearfox, check out this thread: http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=20607

I'm upgrading too and just asked the same question. Lot's of good advise in that thread.

I decided on the IWill XP333 myself and an AMD XP 2000+. Getting them from NewEgg
by FlyingPenguin
Wed Jul 31, 2002 7:47 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: OKAY The Old Fart is upgrading to AMD - need recommendations for mobo.
Replies: 53
Views: 4646

From all the reviews I'm pretty much totally sold on the XP333. Just waiting on a check that's coming in. Debating spending the extra money on the RAID version - it's not much, but it'd be nice to have although I decided I'm not going RAID on the new system - at least not for now. I was going to kee...
by FlyingPenguin
Wed Jul 31, 2002 9:19 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: The realms of lost mobos
Replies: 6
Views: 983

Run REGEDIT and delete the entire registry entry called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\enum. This will essentially wipe your Device manager clean, forcing Windows to redetect all devices upon the next bootup. There's a few gotchas when you move a hard drive with an exist OS installed to a new motherboard. 98 &a...
by FlyingPenguin
Tue Jul 30, 2002 11:46 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: OKAY The Old Fart is upgrading to AMD - need recommendations for mobo.
Replies: 53
Views: 4646

What Pred said - the numbers just don't add up. I'd gladly stay with Intel but the XP 2000 is hands down right now a LOT of bang for the buck, and an equivalent P4 would cost more than I want to spend. Things have changed. AMD CPUs are better supported by Windows and applications - comparably to Int...
by FlyingPenguin
Tue Jul 30, 2002 11:33 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: whew, that was close
Replies: 10
Views: 945

You may want to run a scandisk on that drive. You probably got lucky and it hadn't yet wiped the volume table of contents, but there may be some trashed files or bad cluster links.
by FlyingPenguin
Tue Jul 30, 2002 11:31 pm
Forum: Sizzlin' Deals
Topic: Still some WDC 60gb 7200 ATA100 drives at Circuit City for $89
Replies: 1
Views: 446

Still some WDC 60gb 7200 ATA100 drives at Circuit City for $89

Nice retail price for this drive. I went there today for some car speakers and I checked to see if any were left although figuring everyone would have cleaned out those drives by now, but there was one left on the shelf :)
by FlyingPenguin
Tue Jul 30, 2002 7:44 pm
Forum: Cheers!
Topic: Master the basics of AOL (Free!)
Replies: 15
Views: 1945

No way I know of - AOL takes great pains to avoid that. When you're on AOL and accessing the internet, you're basically using AOL as a proxy server, and that's why their Internet access sucks.
by FlyingPenguin
Tue Jul 30, 2002 7:41 pm
Forum: Cheers!
Topic: come play cs
Replies: 3
Views: 825

I still play CS when I get bored with DOD. I'll bookmark those servers.

FlyingPenguin[OFC]
(Old Farts Clan)