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[lifefeedsonlife]

Notice his wife is wearin' flats.

[NightmarePatrol]

[bighair80s]

Headline: 4 Runners Gored at Running of the Bulls
Riff: 4 million screwed at Gore's spouting of the bull.
 
 

(from "the endive" sort of like "the onion" )
http://www.theendive.com/

[bighair80s]

Microsoft Ready to Unveil Windows 7

Microsoft is excited about its new operating system, Windows 7, which it touts as being release on-time and probably glitch-free. Here are some of the features that will make this system beat the competition:

Automatically crashes any program that starts with a lowercase “i.”

New virus converter allows all the new computer viruses to work on a Mac.

Each copy comes with a dedicated East Indian guy named Steve to talk you through the installation.

The Blue Screen of Death is now available in sepia, purple, and beige.

A built in laser-beam shoots right through your cornea and into your brain, erasing all memories of Windows Vista.

Windows 7 will immediately crash if you use that crappy picture of your kid as your desktop background again.

Windows 7 touts many of the same features as Windows Vista, but with the enhanced value that comes with paying for Windows again.

Automatically detects old software and pops up a dialogue box that says, “Dude, this is crap.”

 

[NightmarePatrol]

Actually I've heard that W7 is much leaner and has fewer problems than vista. However, I'm not giving up my linux systems and return to the collective.

[bighair80s]

actually i hve heard the same.. but the jokes were funny i guess

actually i do have an off topic question. when i boot up the kids computer the dos screen says.. "memory write/read failure  reducing system memory"

does this mean i have a bad memory stick or is the slot bad. i did some tests  by switchig the two sticks and got the same error message. i also went on crucial.com and had the "online memory scammer" scan the system to read the memory that was installed. the scanner read the correct installed gb/mb  sticks. its kinda weird.  what would you think?

[NightmarePatrol]

It could be a bad stick or a bad slot. Probably the former. Remember if it's bad it gets carved out at boot time and most scanners probably won't see it anyhow.

[bighair80s]

one last question then, the windows system info reads a lot less physical memory after bootup completes.  then i cet online and the  crucial scanner says i have a lot more. ?? 

[bighair80s]

the crucial scanner is correct for the actual amount of physical sticks installed, but there must be some problem because the boot message is as i mentioned and there is a performance downgrade i notice as well as windows shows a a ton of loss in its ssys info report.
 
anyhow if you think of anything let me know , if not, no biggie, it is just the ones the kids use when they are here. not that big of a deal i guess.  im off to bed.

[NightmarePatrol]

does the crucial scanner actually test the memory that windows can't see/use?

[Mr. Ripley]

I overheard this statement in a book store this afternoon. The young lady was speaking to her apparent boyfriend with a distant dreaminess in her voice.

" Oh, they have an atlas. I have always loved atlases. I mean, I have never actually opened one up and looked at it but I still think they are so cool."

The young man gazed at her as if she had an unfathomable intellect.

Such is love I guess.

Mr R

[E-L Man]

Yeh, and they tell me "if its got tits or tires, it's gonna give ya trouble!   

[CindyLouWho]

[Puffin]

thanks CLW, I was strugglng with how to put exactly those thoughts to words for years. You did it elegantly!!!!

[NightmarePatrol]