Pirate Traders

[Ben Dover]

This is a test to see if Ben is still in Dover.

I just found out he has moved to Dune, so in future he will be known as Ben Dune.

[Ben Dover]

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[Ben Dover]

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[glta-who-try]

http://www.rallymonkey.com/oldvideo.php

[Ben Dover]

I agree with you. Let's see if we can tell when it happens.

[Carolyn]

I'm looking at a 10-point P&F chart which shows a Price Objective of 2250 - and is also forming a high pole.

For the Dow, a P.O. of 11100 - another high pole.

I'd be getting scared about now - a retracement is bound to happen shortly, IMO.

[Ben Dover]

I've been out of the office. <G>

Anyway, tell me what you see on the long term COMP chart right now...

[Carolyn]

Gosh - I made that post in 2002!

But thanks. <g>

[Ben Dover]

Actually, your analogy is more precise than you imagined. It is in fact like a flat plane on the bottom. Great analogy, I wish I would have thought of it myself.

To put it a different way, a Nessie is a specific kind of "decending triangle".

[Ben Dover]

Yes, I have. Quite a bit, as a matter of fact!

[Zactly]

I am Capital!

so what's going down with SI and IHub?

[MechanicalMethod]

Have you made any progress with the projection techniques?

[Phil(Hot Rod Chevy)]

TLC,

Welcome home.



Have fun,
Phil

[Ben Dover]

working hard!

[Foxlette]

it vanished

let's try this

[MechanicalMethod]

Ok, it's time to get busy again. Seeya later. MM

[Carolyn]

Don't let me stop you!

[MechanicalMethod]

It has to be able to be reduced to code.

[Carolyn]

It is odd, but people seem to be different in the way they understand things. Left brain, right brain, up brain, down brain. <g>

[MechanicalMethod]

I have asked him and I always translate what he says into my own way of counting. He says it can't be counted the way I'm trying to. I like your bouncing ball losing momentum analogy.

[Carolyn]

Think of a bouncing ball: it bounces one and reaches a certain height; the second time that height is reduced; and so forth. This analagy is not a good one, because a bouncing ball always bounces from a level surface. A Nessie goes lower and lower. There are exact points you can calculate as to these points.

Ask TLC!

[MechanicalMethod]

I only have a vague idea what Nessie looks like.

[Carolyn]

I haven't been looking lately, being in class all day this week, and having company last week. You?

[MechanicalMethod]

Have you seen Nessie?

[Carolyn]

Don't know.

[MechanicalMethod]

What's TLC been up to lately?

[MechanicalMethod]

Can you repost the link to the gif?

[MechanicalMethod]

Where's the Captain?

[MechanicalMethod]

An old message board wakes up!

[Phil(Hot Rod Chevy)]

Did for me


Have fun,
Phil

[Carolyn]

Gif didn't come through.

[Foxlette]

but we were more like:

[Carolyn]

Me too.

[Foxlette]

I liked being a pirate

[Carolyn]

What happened?

[Corran Horn]

I found it by accident also.. I was just mulling around in mouse properties and set it by mistake. Been that way ever since. It's so much easier then wheeling or dragging that damn bar up and down..


I also have a Mouseman 2 4 button with the wheel on another computer. I use it for solitaire. The thumb button is set to double click. It's great for moving the cards up to the top row.. My best time was 75 seconds. :)

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Until you said that, I had no idea my mouse worked that way. I had one long ago that the scroll wheel was a double-click if you pressed it, but I just found out that in addition to rolling the wheel to scroll on this one, you can click the wheel, then move your mouse in the direction you want to scroll. And, yes, the further away, the faster. Sweet!

This is some PoS optical mouse but it seems to be working fine now. For the longest time after I bought it, a single click would keep getting sent as a double-click. I guess frequently slamming it down on the desk in frustration is just what it wanted.

I'll have to try smacking our servers around next time they act up and see if that helps.

[Corran Horn]

That's why I still use the venerable Wingman gaming mouse. I just have the middle button set for scroll. You click it on the screen and a 4 way arrow appears. When you move the mouse up or down or side to side the screen moves. The further away you get from the arrows the faster the screen moves. So it's very accurate. When reading a very long page I just set it to scroll slowly. No wheelin'

When Logitech made them they were 25 bucks. Now that they are out of production I just bought 4 of them off Ebay for 60 bucks a piece. I figured I'd better get em now before they're gone for good.


I now have a few in stock. :)

[Corran Horn]

Yes but Power Spec uses a lot of integrated stuff which is ok for the average guy who's just surfing..

I could build their 2.4 system for less and get an Audigy platinumeX card to boot. I use the Sony CDRW and DVD drives. The Geforce is the best card. But not by much.. The ATI Radeon 8500 is all you need for the games that are played online today. The one's coming out by Xmas you're going to need the Geforce for. By then Geforce'll drop by half in price.

Wholesale prices are good.. But at a show you are face to face with these guys and you have the wad of cash in your hand. It's a great bargining tool when haggling. :)

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I used to think I wouldn't like those, but anytime I have to use a regular mouse these days, I always find myself trying to roll a non-existent wheel.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

If I had to buy proprietary, Dell would be at or near the top of my list.

I used to always roll my own, but the PowerSpec is available locally for about what I'd pay to buy the parts wholesale, and there's nothing proprietary about them. Good components, too. Except for the hard drives.

[Ben Dover]

I got this particular setup because the price was right.

I mean EXACTLY right. *G*

[Ben Dover]

Hey Moe! Hey Moe! I can't see!

[Ben Dover]

I liked the "mouse with wheel" the best. *G*

[Corran Horn]

Hahaha.. You got in trouble..

[Corran Horn]

I love Dell equipment. But you are absolutely right about the proprietary crapola..

I just build my own boxes now. It's easy and cheaper. Just go to the Computer Show on Saturday and by Sunday I'm crankin'.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I don't personally buy anything that's got anything proprietary about it. Yesterday's adventure in replacing hard drives was a good example of why.

But

Tell me what you think of this setup here:

1 220-8138 Dimension 8200 Series,Pentium 4 Processor at 1.8GHz
1 461-2305 512MB PC800 RDRAM
1 310-2753 Dell Enhanced Quiet Key Keyboard
1 320-0456 DVI-VGA Adapter for Connecting2 CRT Monitors to 128MB GeForce4 TI4600 Graphics Card Factory Installed
1 461-2539 19" (18.0 Viewable,.26dp)M991,Monitor,Factory Install
1 461-2539 19" (18.0 Viewable,.26dp)M991,Monitor,Factory Install
1 320-0313 128MB DDR NVidia GeForce4 TI 4600 Graphics Card with TV-OUTand DVI
1 340-3622 80GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive
1 340-1927 3.5in Floppy Drive
1 420-3079 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition,English
1 313-7222 Dell Application Back-up CD, Factory Install
1 310-2757 Mouse W/Wheel,1.3A, Microsoft,Dimension,MG, Factory Install
1 430-5353 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC Factory Install
1 313-1583 56K PCI Telephony Modem for Windows
1 313-2561 48X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive
1 461-5443 24x/10x/40x CD-RW Drive
1 313-2758 Integrated Audio
1 313-7284 Harmon Kardon HK-395 Speakers
1 410-0136 Network Associates MCAFEE VIRUSSCAN 6.01,CD with Doc, Retail,Factory Install, 12 Month Subscription
1 412-3809 Music Match 6.0 for Windows XP
1 412-0194 Dell Picture Studio Standard Edition
1 412-3806 Microsoft, DellNet, V2, Windows XP, Splash Screen
1 412-0093 Microsoft Money 2002 OEM, CD with Doc,US English
1 412-1603 Microsoft Office XP Small Business with EducateU Training
1 950-1272 Type 3-Third Party Next Business Day At Home Service, Lifetime 24x7 Phone Support, 2 Year Extended
1 950-3339 3 Year Limited Warranty
1 950-4270 Type 3-Third Party Next Business Day At Home Service, 1 Year24x7 Phone Support, Initial Year

All I can say on that is "Dude!"

I almost ended up buying one of these yesterday to replace the webserver: http://www.powerspec.com/systems/system_specs.phtml?selection=8940

Problem was, it comes with the dreaded WD drive. And the webserver doesn't need the fancy video. Actually both machines at the ISP have both a fast CD drive and a CD-RW drive, along with more video than they need.

And since nothing about these machines is proprietary, it'd be a lot cheaper to just replace the motherboards, CPU's, and memory. The machines I'm using "only" support 1.5 gig of memory (enough, but in the SQL box's case, "more" is always good) and it's not DDR266.

Sometimes it sucks being a geek. I'd love for the site to be running on 2.4Ghz machines (or multiple-CPU P4's when/if they're ever available) with gobs of really fast memory, and an array of 10k-RPM SCSI drives, but even if we had 9 times as much activity (which SI does) upgrading to machines like that likely wouldn't have any measurable, let alone noticeable, impact on speed. 9 times as much activity might push us up to 40% utilization on these machines. Hard getting a grasp on the fact that if everyone on SI suddenly moved over here, there wouldn't be a slowdown unless they were posting about 3 times as much.

A far cry from when I first visited SI long ago and their quad-CPU SQL Server was running a constant 100% utilization.

[Foxlette]

8:55AM: Not much enthusiasm in the futures market as a generally negative newsflow has weighed on sentiment... Presently, the S&P futures, at -6.0, are 8.0 points below fair value while the Nasdaq 100 Pre-Market Indicator is down 7.94 points... Yesterday's disappointing action, and broad-based losses in European markets, are contributing to the lack of buying interest... The weakness in Europe follows on the heels of an unexpected drop-- the first in six months-- in German Business confidence...
Closer to home, U.S. indices are expected to start the session on a weak note as underlying concerns about the timing, and strength, of a rebound in corporate profits have left investors reluctant to commit new money to the market... Notable laggards in pre-market action include Tyco (TYC 22.47 -4.22), Dynegy (DYN 23.30 -5.75), McAfee.com (MCAF 14.05 -4.49) and Network Associates (NET 20.30 -3.36)

[Carolyn]

Real time. I had to go back and look. <g> I should have posted to the other guy, not you.

[Corran Horn]

No you didn't..