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And windows me, was the worst OS I have ever had the chance of getting rid of,,,,
Broderick, my computer freezes or crashes a lot.
Somebody gave me Windows XP Home as a present, and I hear it's stable. "Stable" seems like heaven to me. What do you think about XP Home?
What do others think? Pros and cons, I mean....
Oops, I missent this post to myself, but it was intended for you.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=448580
Reporting to IhubDenizens that my problems have been solved. It's amazing to me.
(Well, not ALL my problems have been solved, but you know, the computer ones that were bothering me so much last night were!)
This is the post on SI that was the same as the one I posted here:
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=17839937
I put it there in case the followup to it there might be useful to someone else.
I have no clue why changing the name or deleting files called Normal.dot should have cured the problem. For one thing, why would bad files be called Normal? Why not Abnormal.dot?
You think I'm kidding I bet.
If you've already posted a question on SI does posting it here, too, count as nagging? How about spam? How about just pathetic?
Here's what's happening....
I'm getting messages I don't understand. This is what happens.
I've been working on files that are stored on my hard drive in 38 separate rather long Word documents. I've been moving from one to the other without any problems for a while. Today I opened and closed them routinely, but then when I attempted to open one I got the message
The system is dangerously low in resources! Would you like to terminate the following application?
[Winword not responding]
I clicked Yes.
Then I got the message
Navw32 caused an invalid page fault in module KERNAL32.DLL at 0197:bffbe64b
I clicked a CLOSE button.
The hourglass just went on and on....
I did Ctrl Alt Del
and got, again,
The system is dangerously low in resources! Would you like to terminate the following application?
This time instead of Winword not responding it said
Explorer not responding]
Choice of Yes, No, Cancel.
Cancel just gives you more opportunity to look at the hourglass.
No runs through all your programs (all the ones that get shut down when you run EndItAll), and you have to shut the computer down with Ctrl Alt Del to escape.
I'm wondering why my system is suddenly low in resources?
The Local Disc capacity is 18.6 GB
Used is 5.79 GB
Free is 12.8 GB
I tried again to open one of the files I've opened without any problems several times and got the The system is dangerously low in resources message again.
Earlier I got it when I brought up Outlook Express, too, but I was just able to check my email uneventfully.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
I'm running Windows ME, IE.
I've rebooted twice, defragged, and run scandisk. The hard drive is sounding real busy, btw.
I just posted this to the thread, but am not sure it will show up in your inbox. So here it is again:
Poet, where are you? I've sent you em's and pm's. You okay?
Poet, where are you? I've sent you em's and pm's. You okay?
That's a good joke... and I'm an atheist!
It's an all-purpose format, too. I could entertain atheists by having the teacher be a Christian and the beautiful Lucy be an atheist! (Any number of substitutions could be made, actually.)
Now, that's funny.
Speaking of serial killers and sociopaths, <g>, what's wrong with SI, does anyone know?
When I try to go there, I get
<The page cannot be displayed>
Was any notification of downtime planned for maintence reasons given while I was away?
A skunk sprayed the side of our house, we think, and some of our clothes seem to smell of skunk. How nice for us. I think the coat I wore to an event last night was skunk-scented. If anyone a has helpful hint, it would be welcome. I've already got many things airing outside.
EDIT
I got to Subject Marks and they looked all weird, with a big font, different format. I then clicked to look at what's showed up in my inbox the last couple of days, and it's back to
<The page cannot be displayed>
Yes, it does help, especially the minus sign, and knowing to put it right in front of the word you want not to be included in the search. Thank you!
Edit: I mean the word you want to be specifically excluded from the search, which is a little different.
Isn't there a way of using + marks and - marks (that was a hyphen, and I assume a minus sign too?) to refine one's search?
i just tried "party hats" with the _ between the words and got FOURTEEN hits as opposed to what was it 340,00? And there seemed to be links relating to diabetes and a complete neglect of fat chicks in party hats. I think a new approach is in order, Po, and should be implemented asap.
Later, when I've gotten enough done to deserve to use up oxygen, I'm going to do "coal miners" and "miners, coal" and see what happens.
Then could you give us more tips, simple ones, one at a time?
I knew what you meant about the underlining because it is used in lots of email addresses, as in Bob_Smith@etc.com
I just didn't know it was a search tool.
With the quotes, right? You get 441 hits. They are probably all relevant to ordering party hats, and I see the first hit isn't fat chicks in party hats.
But tell me the rationale for doing it that way. (I like getting few hits a higher percentage of which are relevant.)
I am not an expert, in fact I hadn't heard about the underlinings thing. What I do is, if what I want is defined by a phrase, I put the phrase in quotes.
Like, say I am having a New Year's Eve party and want to order party hats.
If I put "party hats" in, I get 18,000 hits all of which have the two words linked together, which is what I would want. For example, these free party hats I could print out on my color printer, lol!:
http://www.acriticaleye.com/free/index_hats.html
But if I just put party hats, no quotes, I get 328,000 hits, some of which will have both 'party' and 'hats' in them, but might say, oh, "Hats off to the Communist party!" or something.
The world is so various and the net is so much fun. This is the first hit in both cases:
http://www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com/
If I don't get hits using one formulation, I try others. The thing to keep in mind is that it's about words and not concepts. My hubby, who is a lot smarter than I am, doesn't google as productively as I do because he can't seem quite to grasp that. I get to make fun of his searches! (In mitigation I should mention that he's very new to the computer.)
<<Any thoughts out there?>>
I thought that was very interesting, so I put 'male lunar cycles' into google and got lots of hits. I didn't use quotation marks, that's probably why there were thousands. Most of them seem to be new ageish.
This site has interesting things in it. Your hubby is perceptive, clearly.
http://www.geocities.com/annafranklin2/darkside.html
If you think you are off the lunar hook just because you are male, think again. Dr. Rex Hershey, a doctor from the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s, conducted a study on several male factory workers. He found some interesting clues as to why, periodically, the work at the factory was not up to spec. the men seemed to be going through a monthly cycle, where they would go through a phase of being depressed, apathetic and tired. These cycles coincided with the moon. Men do not menstruate, but some have reported other physical symptoms. These include nipple secretion, chest tenderness, weight gain and erections, all coinciding with the moon. In 1977 Alice J. Dan of the University of Chicago confirmed the result that men do have ‘Sexual cycles with emotional physiological reverberations, swinging back and forth each month to the beat of the lunar metronome.’* The Omni Railway Company of Japan found out about male cycles. In 1969 the company realised that at certain times their fleet of male drivers were losing money and more accidents happening. When they adjusted their drivers’ routes to coincide favourably with their lunar cycles, the accident rate went down by one third and despite traffic becoming heavier, the company enjoyed a substantial profit.
Here's an odd factoid. A kind of appropriate technology anti-theft device (appropriate technology but inappropriate behavior!):
After having her car stolen a woman came upon an unusual anti-theft device- she leaves a used pad on the seat in full view of would-be thieves. It has never been broken into or stolen.
It reminded me of a supposedly true story I read years ago about a robbery in which several people were shot. A woman ran from the shooter and took refuge in the ladies' room. She lived because he turned back at the door. It's one thing for a man to shoot people, quite another for him to go into a ladies' bathroom....
I think the creamed corn and absence of tomatoes does make it child-friendly. It makes it sound E-friendly, too.
Lima beans figure large in my family history because my mother's lima bean rule was that every one of them had to be eaten, and my sister refused to eat even the first one. I think she simply couldn't. So on those long summer, southern evenings when all the neighborhood children were outside playing hide and seek, my sister would be sitting by herself in front of her cold lima beans from supper time until bedtime. She still talks about that (as a symbol of many grievances) with bitterness, and she still can't eat lima beans.
When I saw the edit feature appear I personally felt that IHub had suddenly become much more valuable. And I've never heard of an 'abuse' of the feature on SI. There have been a few unimportantly awkward moments in which one has had to post on SI, "I don't think you saw my edit," or "I see that what I answered isn't there any more, I guess it was edited out." But that's nothing compared to the advantages of being able to edit.
Just my feeling on the subject.
Edit: This reminded me of a glitch that happened on SI once that caused my PM's to get publicly posted! Fortunately there was nothing mortifying in those PM's, but had there been, I would sure have been glad for the edit function to permit me to delete them, lol.
It should be illuminating that my having responded on behalf of my distressed friend to some fraction, a mere fraction, of the unwelcome posts that you insist on making to her, it feels like 'stalking' to you.
Maybe realizing that will help you understand's Poet's feelings?
I'm kind of disappointed that you didn't try to claim again that you never claimed to be a minister! I admit that I tried to tease you into doing it, hehe.
I'm sorry your encounters with me haven't been very nice recently, NW. I'm sure this will change; but really you can't be so horrid and expect not to be called on it! Why don't you just simply stop posting to Poet? You've caused her a lot of distress. I think maybe you don't know what it has felt like to her, this prolonged experience at your hands.
If you stop posting to Poet, I won't bring this business up again, I promise.
I hope so, too, P.
I must go minister to my sick kids now. They want succotash for lunch.
Good lord. I myself like succotash, but I'm sure that's the first time in the history of language that anyone has said "My kids want succotash for lunch."
It was so remarkable to me that I looked up succotash to see if there was some alternative child-friendly version of it of which I hadn't heard, but no, succotash is "a stew consisting of kernels of corn, lima beans, and tomatoes."
Your children really have very sophisticated tastes. (I hope they're feeling better now.)
if he doesn't feel like walking away at the same moment.
Well, that's very amusing, Father, because it seems to imply that there is some resemblance between Poet's wanting the exchange with excel to end -- after giving the man the last word on the subject -- and what occurred with you: that is, your wanting the last word and the next to last and the next to next to last and the next to next to next to last, and in fact wanting to post infinitely and obsessively to and about Poet on this thread and on SI, even unto waving on IHub threats to sue SI so you could continue to do this however distressing it was to Poet; even unto implying in public that you had had intimate private exchanges with her, even unto threatening to publicly post purported transcripts of them (as though it would make some point relevant to your stalking to do so!) in spite of her denials!
How comical of you, Father Cad, to pretend that the stalking you've been doing of Poet is describable as "the other guy [not feeling] like walking away at the same moment."
I should think that a minister of the gospel like you would leave a female alone if she begged often enough.
I have an idea for you!: Stop posting to Poet! How's that for an idea?
And guess what? I myself think Gore is an established fabulator (liar is such a harsh word), so this is hardly political for me. I could post many documented examples of his pathetic prevarications.
The reason I"m posting to you about this is that Poet is my friend and your 'stalking' has made her suffer. Why don't you just stop it, Father?
There's your poem, David!
And I think it's much much nicer than any of the poems I read on that site.
But my reactions to Poetry.com remain unchanged. Maybe others here would give their thoughts about the site.
It is up to you to decide whether it is worth the money for the fun, and of course there might well be fun in it, I realize.
Good luck with your work!
Original, that link is not to your poem, but to the homepage of an operation called Poetry.com.
I don't know anything about them except what I see there, and that you are supposed to send them a check for $595.
And I know what I saw when I clicked on some of the links to poems in their books.
I believe that not a single one of the poems I read would have been published anywhere unless the publisher was doing it to make money from the poet.
Be careful, please, Original. If it would make you feel good to see your work in print, so good that it is worth rather a lot of money to bring about that end, pay these people to put it in a book of bad poetry -- and I think you should fully expect to be writing more checks to them, too.
These words appear on the page to which you are taken if you click on "Enter Contest":
All poets who enter this contest will receive correspondence concerning their artistry within seven weeks including a copy of their poem for proofing purposes.
Doesn't that make you supicious?
In my opinion, this is about getting your money, and only about getting your money. I have not read your poem and have no idea which one it is, so please don't take this personally. But you asked for reactions, and I have given mine. I hope it doesn't make you feel bad. I wish you good luck.
You could tell us about a project or two.
No interesting articles, you say?
http://www.rense.com/general19/ast.htm
Yes, the entire phrase. Didn't put it in quotes. The first hit was the story. Then there were 2,429,999 more hits showing hits on individual words from the story! No kidding. Total number of hits was 2,430,000.
Will be offline the rest of the day, btw....
Edit:
http://www.google.com/custom?q=Because+it+is+my+nature&sa=+Search&cof=LW%3A90%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%...
Good morning, Po. Your slightest question is my command, and mine is google's!
http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/zenstory/onesnature.html
Hi, Po! Look at this amazing story. I wish it hadn't ended as it did, inevitable though it was.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020107/od/lioness_dc_1.html
Matt, I just discovered you went with the cashmere robe for your mother! I'm so delighted~! But now I need to know whether it was a success....
When you say Orchid Fever is a "book," do you mean that thing with little black marks on silent pages you are supposed to manually "turn," or do you mean what I mean when I say book these days?
I can't believe this recipe. I mean it. I can't believe my eyes. Anyone who served it could reasonably be charged with assault with a deadly albeit delicious weapon. I would like to play russian roulette with this pie. I would eat a piece every night until I died.
re, "Their moronic remarks and their spelling were the perfect compliment to each other"
Maybe he meant that their moronic remarks said "You look lovely!" to their spelling and their spelling said, "How kind you always are!" to their moronic remarks.
Oh, wait -- that would be made the perfect compliment.
I can't think of an explanation, then.
If they were all as good as that one... what a tour de force.
I'd never heard Jon Brooker's name before.
I don't know anything scholarly about the crucifixion scene, nothing except the standard pop culch stuff. My appreciation of the poem was really of it as a piece of remarkable writing, and of craft. I thought it was the best of the genre, of the ones I read, at least. Jon Brooker is a real poet.
I had the strongest feeling as I was reading those things of....
well...
of just loving humanity. Humankind, I guess i mean.
I wonder if the form has that effect on others.
There is something so charmingly, disarmingly [notional about the sestina, yet not notional, too, in that it works; it goes to a place in one's esthetic one didn't know was there! Or something like that.
You will appreciate the examples offered, esp, i think, the Jon Brooker one that was caradoc's favorite and is still mine, of the ones i've read. If one had peace of mind, or a span of attention worth the name, it would be a lot of fun to try to write a sestina. Well, not "try," since one could write one; but try to write a non-ludicrous one.
I see you only posted an hour ago, and i haven't been here for days. I forgot to check back. So it's not only peace of mind and an attention mind I lack, it's a memory, too. This pretty much cinches my identity as the real E, I'd say.
How do we know you are the real Rambi? For all we know, you are some nefarious character feigning an interest in cookies and poetry to make Poet believe you are Rambi. You know what would be fun sometime? For a bunch of us to download whatever it takes to be able to have group voice chats, and chat. With voices. I'd have to get a mic first. Right after I got my computer I listened to a group discussion of some damn thing over my speakers and began shouting into them trying to join in.
Add to the above attributes stupidity.
Now I shall give you and all the other imposters the GREATEST link i've ever found.
http://www.expertcity.com
Poet, I just signed up, I'm E from SI, and I didn't send that bit of verse to you in February, btw. Someone adopted my SI alias, "E". So I've taken E with a dot. Anyway, hi. Browsing, I found the sestina links posted by caradoc (thank you, caradoc!), and although i've heard the word, i wasn't familiar with the form, and am, well, kind of enthralled. The best one that I read, to me, was this one:
http://www.jbit.com/legion.htm
Jon Brooker is amazing.
And on a completely different subject:
Do people here have an opinion about what might happen to SI? And, if it fails, whether the archives would be forever inaccessible? That would be a shame....