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Merry Crimbo peeps
"MowGreen" wrote in message ... Merry Crimbo and a Happy Festivus to the rest of us Hoppy New Year and say " Good Night, Gracie " 2009 was kind of crazy Some don't recall It's too hazy 2010 sounds so much better That's if we all don't end up debtors The rich don't care cause greed is unfettered perhaps eating a few will make everything better ? ® Quite inspiring and uplifting, in a way. Very nice, Mow, I see you've got a 'patent' on it? Hope you're having a really good 'Festivus' yourself. Harry. Mow Shane wrote: Kind of sad how for the last few years this group has been virtually empty Crimbo Day. It used to be almost IM (which I don't use, which maybe made it seem a bit more special? I suppose the appeal of IM is the feedback carrot). I think the microsoft.public.windowsme groups were invigorating because despite being IMO the best 9x version, it was (and still is) widely disliked (there are *some* advantages to Conformity). So they were never oversubscribed, dominated by the intolerant and egomaniacal types who do and always have dominated the XP, Vista and presumably now Windows 7 groups. It is rather as if this has been a 'backwater' where the discerning went. Sure, many WinMe users were complete novices whose first computer came with it, but often simply finding these groups is a kind of initiation and sufficient a learning curve as to mean they came here with the wit and attitude to contribute to the company; and of course those who kept returning contributed to the family, as opposed to the brawl of those other groups in which the few sparkling stars are blotted out by the probing coal-black clouds of trolldom. So WinMe family, hope you didn't just get a lump of coal in your stocking! I think I'll go light mine. The FSM bless us, each and every one! Merry Crimbo! Shane |
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From: "MowGreen"
| Merry Crimbo and a Happy Festivus to the rest of us | Hoppy New Year and say " Good Night, Gracie " | 2009 was kind of crazy | Some don't recall | It's too hazy | 2010 sounds so much better | That's if we all don't end up debtors | The rich don't care cause greed is unfettered | perhaps eating a few will make everything better ? ® | Mow For me, I think about this time frame ten years ago. It was the eve of Y2K and the fruition of much work and preparation. Then even threw in a gas powered tubine engine electric generator in back of my building. I look back ten years later and I say it was a non-event. As for 2009. It sucked. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Merry Crimbo peeps
Hey - Happy (insert appropriate name here), Shane!.....
IKWYM about the denizens of this space - I go away for a few days and come back to find..... well, .... everybody's moved away!.. (OK, it was more than a few days, but....) The old fogies like me/you/us(/Figgs?) are still around, even if not as often, but at least we have contact .....and a Happy New Boxing Day to us al! {Please be aware that this communication bears no relation to reality whatever, and has no informational content beyond that of a greeting.... which does not mean that it originated in Redmond! g} -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Shane" wrote in message ... Kind of sad how for the last few years this group has been virtually empty Crimbo Day. It used to be almost IM (which I don't use, which maybe made it seem a bit more special? I suppose the appeal of IM is the feedback carrot). I think the microsoft.public.windowsme groups were invigorating because despite being IMO the best 9x version, it was (and still is) widely disliked (there are *some* advantages to Conformity). So they were never oversubscribed, dominated by the intolerant and egomaniacal types who do and always have dominated the XP, Vista and presumably now Windows 7 groups. It is rather as if this has been a 'backwater' where the discerning went. Sure, many WinMe users were complete novices whose first computer came with it, but often simply finding these groups is a kind of initiation and sufficient a learning curve as to mean they came here with the wit and attitude to contribute to the company; and of course those who kept returning contributed to the family, as opposed to the brawl of those other groups in which the few sparkling stars are blotted out by the probing coal-black clouds of trolldom. So WinMe family, hope you didn't just get a lump of coal in your stocking! I think I'll go light mine. The FSM bless us, each and every one! Merry Crimbo! Shane |
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Hmmm.... progs that won't run under Vista?...... did they run under XP? did
you try compatibility mode??..... if you wanna work on them (just for fun g) mail me! Merry Xmas, Bill. -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Bill Leary" wrote in message ... I've got two laptops here still running ME. And I've put up a Microsoft VPC on my Vista system with ME installed in it. I expect that, eventually, the two laptops will no longer be of any use at all and they'll go away. But the ME on VPC will likely go on for some time. A couple of programs that will not run in Vista run just fine there. - Bill "Shane" wrote in message ... Kind of sad how for the last few years this group has been virtually empty Crimbo Day. It used to be almost IM (which I don't use, which maybe made it seem a bit more special? I suppose the appeal of IM is the feedback carrot). I think the microsoft.public.windowsme groups were invigorating because despite being IMO the best 9x version, it was (and still is) widely disliked (there are *some* advantages to Conformity). So they were never oversubscribed, dominated by the intolerant and egomaniacal types who do and always have dominated the XP, Vista and presumably now Windows 7 groups. It is rather as if this has been a 'backwater' where the discerning went. Sure, many WinMe users were complete novices whose first computer came with it, but often simply finding these groups is a kind of initiation and sufficient a learning curve as to mean they came here with the wit and attitude to contribute to the company; and of course those who kept returning contributed to the family, as opposed to the brawl of those other groups in which the few sparkling stars are blotted out by the probing coal-black clouds of trolldom. So WinMe family, hope you didn't just get a lump of coal in your stocking! I think I'll go light mine. The FSM bless us, each and every one! Merry Crimbo! Shane |
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-- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Hey - Happy (insert appropriate name here), Shane!..... IKWYM about the denizens of this space - I go away for a few days and come back to find..... well, .... everybody's moved away!.. (OK, it was more than a few days, but....) The old fogies like me/you/us(/Figgs?) are still around, even if not as often, but at least we have contact ....and a Happy New Boxing Day to us al! {Please be aware that this communication bears no relation to reality whatever, and has no informational content beyond that of a greeting.... which does not mean that it originated in Redmond! g} -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Shane" wrote in message ... Kind of sad how for the last few years this group has been virtually empty Crimbo Day. It used to be almost IM (which I don't use, which maybe made it seem a bit more special? I suppose the appeal of IM is the feedback carrot). I think the microsoft.public.windowsme groups were invigorating because despite being IMO the best 9x version, it was (and still is) widely disliked (there are *some* advantages to Conformity). So they were never oversubscribed, dominated by the intolerant and egomaniacal types who do and always have dominated the XP, Vista and presumably now Windows 7 groups. It is rather as if this has been a 'backwater' where the discerning went. Sure, many WinMe users were complete novices whose first computer came with it, but often simply finding these groups is a kind of initiation and sufficient a learning curve as to mean they came here with the wit and attitude to contribute to the company; and of course those who kept returning contributed to the family, as opposed to the brawl of those other groups in which the few sparkling stars are blotted out by the probing coal-black clouds of trolldom. So WinMe family, hope you didn't just get a lump of coal in your stocking! I think I'll go light mine. The FSM bless us, each and every one! Merry Crimbo! Shane |
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YO.....It was Shane's birthday a couple of days ago and in my Crimbo-addled
state of mind, I forgot to tell you all. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLD SOCK!! #50?? The Figgs Family "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... ROFL -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Hey - Happy (insert appropriate name here), Shane!..... IKWYM about the denizens of this space - I go away for a few days and come back to find..... well, .... everybody's moved away!.. (OK, it was more than a few days, but....) The old fogies like me/you/us(/Figgs?) are still around, even if not as often, but at least we have contact ....and a Happy New Boxing Day to us al! {Please be aware that this communication bears no relation to reality whatever, and has no informational content beyond that of a greeting.... which does not mean that it originated in Redmond! g} -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Shane" wrote in message ... Kind of sad how for the last few years this group has been virtually empty Crimbo Day. It used to be almost IM (which I don't use, which maybe made it seem a bit more special? I suppose the appeal of IM is the feedback carrot). I think the microsoft.public.windowsme groups were invigorating because despite being IMO the best 9x version, it was (and still is) widely disliked (there are *some* advantages to Conformity). So they were never oversubscribed, dominated by the intolerant and egomaniacal types who do and always have dominated the XP, Vista and presumably now Windows 7 groups. It is rather as if this has been a 'backwater' where the discerning went. Sure, many WinMe users were complete novices whose first computer came with it, but often simply finding these groups is a kind of initiation and sufficient a learning curve as to mean they came here with the wit and attitude to contribute to the company; and of course those who kept returning contributed to the family, as opposed to the brawl of those other groups in which the few sparkling stars are blotted out by the probing coal-black clouds of trolldom. So WinMe family, hope you didn't just get a lump of coal in your stocking! I think I'll go light mine. The FSM bless us, each and every one! Merry Crimbo! Shane |
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:24:23 -0000, Shane wrote:
Kind of sad how for the last few years this group has been virtually empty Crimbo Day. It used to be almost IM (which I don't use, which maybe made it seem a bit more special? I suppose the appeal of IM is the feedback carrot). I think the microsoft.public.windowsme groups were invigorating because despite being IMO the best 9x version, it was (and still is) widely disliked (there are *some* advantages to Conformity). So they were never oversubscribed, dominated by the intolerant and egomaniacal types who do and always have dominated the XP, Vista and presumably now Windows 7 groups. I never understood the fuss about Windows ME. The only failing I ever was bugged by was common to the entire Win9x family: System resources. And there are no Windows 7 NNTP groups. Alas. I don't care much for Web forums, and have yet to check out those for Windows 7. It is rather as if this has been a 'backwater' where the discerning went. Sure, many WinMe users were complete novices whose first computer came with it, but often simply finding these groups is a kind of initiation and sufficient a learning curve as to mean they came here with the wit and attitude to contribute to the company; and of course those who kept returning contributed to the family, as opposed to the brawl of those other groups in which the few sparkling stars are blotted out by the probing coal-black clouds of trolldom. By the time I got here, I had been using WinME for a couple of years. and was just a couple more away from a new computer with Windows XP. So WinMe family, hope you didn't just get a lump of coal in your stocking! I think I'll go light mine. The FSM bless us, each and every one! Well, I have only one computer left with Windows ME on it. And I need to cannibalize its power supply for the other one, which I had upgraded to Windows XP because of that System Resources issue. When I was turning off that computer every night, it wasn't such a horrific issue. But when I started running a mail server on it, 24/7, I had to power it down every other day to recover used resources. Windows XP is slow as molasses on that machine, but once the server is running, everything goes smoothly until the next round of Microsoft Updates (where the pain of insufficient hardware is greatly felt). -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:50:43 -0500, webster72n wrote:
According to public opinion Windows ME and Vista are 'throw aways'. Is the fact that I like WinME and Vista just fine of a personal reflection, or could the public be wrong? I think the public was wrong. I liked Windows ME very much, despite a weakness common to the entire 9x family. But I found Windows ME superior to Windows 98 in recovery from that weakness. I never played much with Windows Vista. It seemed okay, but not so great that I felt compelled to spend $109 of my hard earned money to upgrade from Windows XP MCE 2005. However, the $44.99 price tag of the Windows 7 upgrade was very attractive (Windows 7 Home Premium "Family Pack"; $44.99 x 3). -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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Buy the 2 adults a movie ticket and give them a few shillings for snacks,
bind and gag the 3 sorta adults....put them in a large Ziplok to preserve freshness, kill the cat and send me the Yorkies. Oh yeah, Merry Christmas to all (belated) and a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!!! Heirloom, old and still haven't figured out the 'man in the moon' thing. "Heather" wrote in message ... Merry Crimbo to you all.....we are relaxing for a min before going next door with 2 adults, 3 sorta adults, 1 cat and 2 yappin' Yorkies. LOL. All the best to everyone...........and Joanie, stay out of the cooking sherry!! Figgs and Family "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... Best wishes back at you lot as well, crikey I managed to type that without a mistake sorry but I've had 2 glasses of Leibrf sp you know that wine, and as I don't drink usually after the first one my head was woozy and I still had to dish up Christmas pud Thought I'd pop in here while I drink my 2nd cup of real coffee with double cream floating on top g Joan -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Mike M" wrote in message ... Good to see you still around. Enjoy yourself and humbug aside, enjoy your mince pie(s) but careful with the cooking sherry. Merry Crimbo back at you and also to anyone else passing by this NG today! -- Mike Shane wrote: Kind of sad how for the last few years this group has been virtually empty Crimbo Day. It used to be almost IM (which I don't use, which maybe made it seem a bit more special? I suppose the appeal of IM is the feedback carrot). I think the microsoft.public.windowsme groups were invigorating because despite being IMO the best 9x version, it was (and still is) widely disliked (there are *some* advantages to Conformity). So they were never oversubscribed, dominated by the intolerant and egomaniacal types who do and always have dominated the XP, Vista and presumably now Windows 7 groups. It is rather as if this has been a 'backwater' where the discerning went. Sure, many WinMe users were complete novices whose first computer came with it, but often simply finding these groups is a kind of initiation and sufficient a learning curve as to mean they came here with the wit and attitude to contribute to the company; and of course those who kept returning contributed to the family, as opposed to the brawl of those other groups in which the few sparkling stars are blotted out by the probing coal-black clouds of trolldom. So WinMe family, hope you didn't just get a lump of coal in your stocking! I think I'll go light mine. The FSM bless us, each and every one! Merry Crimbo! Shane |
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Wondered if you'd surface this year Heirloom, hope you both had a good Christmas. We had a fairly quiet day, after Kelly and her lot went home, it was nice having the first Christmas just to ourselves, oh not forgetting the cat g As for the man in the moon I thought he was trying to find the cheese g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Heirloom" wrote in message ... Buy the 2 adults a movie ticket and give them a few shillings for snacks, bind and gag the 3 sorta adults....put them in a large Ziplok to preserve freshness, kill the cat and send me the Yorkies. Oh yeah, Merry Christmas to all (belated) and a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!!! Heirloom, old and still haven't figured out the 'man in the moon' thing. |
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