Re: slap in the face again... thanks HP

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Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:23:57 GMT

In article <519b60ffe8ea29e4dd0bd5aa359e3c43@news.teranews.com>, JF Mezei <"jfmezei"@spamnot@teksavvy.com> writes:
>VAXman-, @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> micro$hit organization). The kids and wife used it for the most part.
>> First the monitor died in about 6 months (I leave my old trusty DEC VRC
>> and VRT on all the time. This Gateway monitor was not on all that often
>> and it died off quickly). Then the mouse decided to spring its left or
>> rigth click button. The keyboard followed soon after.
>
>The important part of this was "the kids and wife used it". Sorry, but the
>fact that it didn't last long make have far more to do with the kids using it
>than it coming from Dell, Gateway or whatever :-) :-) ;-) :-) :-)

Wife uses these nasty boxes at work because of mahogany lined meeting room
martini guzzling management edicts. She surfs and reads email. As for my
kids, there are no games. They use it to do school work because the school
has a similar group of mahogany lined meeting room martini guzzling manage-
ment edicts to force feed Micro$hit to the hapless dweebs under their tute-
lage.

At least of my kids uses the crappy PeeCee terminal emulator to maintain a
web site on my VMS machines. Yes, he has to use EDT too because you can't
seem to author an HTML page on a PeeCee and FTP it to a web server where it
will work-a-***(tm). He also maintains his growing prog collection on the
PeeCee using Apple iTunes. Good preparation for when this PeeCee meets its
demise with the snow plow and I supplant it with an Apple G5.

>You know, the human brain naturally/instinctively does get the fingers to
>click much harder on the mouse thinking the phaser gun will fire faster/harder
>to kill the dangerous alien that is about to eat you.... It is only as you
>mature that you succesfully train your brain that it doesn'T make a difference
>if you click the mouse softly or hard when the time comes to kill off some
>dangerous enemy on some CRT :-)

Video games are played on the Nintendo box here; not the Wintendo box. At
least the only crashes on the regular game consoles occur in race games.

FYI, I spent 3 hours and applied NUMEROUS Weendoze XP Regressional patches
to try to get simple USB camera working. It remains NON-functional on this
piece of ***. I plugged it into the Apple Powerbook (even though the box
that contained this camera claims to be Weendoze numerous incestuous off-
spring compliant) and it worked straight away.

Also, on a "security note": I wanted to regain my wireless bridge to I got
a wireless PCI card and installed it in this PeeCee. My network SSID isn't
advertized and the communications encrypted via a 128bit passphrase. After
I dicked with the card and software for about an hour and made one support
call, I got it working. Weendoze XP fires up and a little bubble pops up
atop some icon of two little PeeCees on the bar at the bottom. It says, to
this effect: You are connected to netowrk "xyzzy" using 128 bit passphrase
"there goes your security". Billy and Co. will never get it will they? 

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