I'm using nicotine replacement, too. Using Nicoderm right now, actually, and it is making it a lot easier. I don't mind a bit of weight gain, either, I work out pretty regularly and always have a lot of trouble putting on weight in the first place. Tend to be very skinny, no matter how much I eat. One of those things were everyone told me I would grow out of it, and I haven't. Thanks for the support, though! All the support of those around me makes it a lot easier, much more than any patch does.
I have to agree completely, and from a non-riders perspective. I travel into NYC a lot, was just in Long Island yesterday (I live in central NY.) Being the beautiful day it was, there were a lot of motorcycles on the road. I was being careful, and some of the motorcyclists were (and some were driving near 100 mph cutting in and out of traffic, too), but a lot of people were too worried about getting to their location to pay half the attention they should have.
Don't forget that the fat Americans are our secret weapon! They cause a lot of damage when dropped from planes, and stink up an area VERY quickly when it's hot out. Wait, those were the secret plans.
Oh, not saying it wasn't her fault for not having her equipment properly configured. And I charged her for having to drive to her place just to take 5 minutes to configure it.
I don't believe Verizon is blocking port 25, but they may be. The service they provide locally is horrid compared to RR, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're just ignoring the problems. The speed difference alone is amazing. The commercials for RR always talk about being a bit faster, but when actually comparing the two directly, it's very noticable.
I have an automatic Honda Accord, 4 banger, and just figured out my gas mileage for going to Long Island from Syracuse, NY and back. At 80 mph, I had 27.7 MPG. At 65 mph, I had 25. I'm not sure what it's rated at, but it gets better gas mileage than my 04 Hyundai Elantra did, which was supposed to be amazing on gas (it was safe in an accident. Someone ran a red light, hit me at about 70, tore most of the engine straight out of the car, hit right at the seam of the drivers door and the front of the car. I walked out with a slight burn on my hand from the air bag and that was it. No more car, but I was okay, and very greatful for it.)
I used to drive a 95 Ford Escort up until about a year ago. I was travelling down a hill, and had to go through a large puddle. My breaks decided not to work. I was heading straight toward a car in front of me, and it went from one lane to two lanes right at this point. I swerved to the left, avoiding this car, and by now my breaks had dried off enough to avoid the cars in the left lane. I was going way too fast at this point (about 50 in a 30), because I couldn't slow down after hitting the puddle and was travelling downhill. The vehicle I would have hit if I hadn't reacted in time was a large truck (F-350 Diesel, looked jacked up on top of being huge already), who's tow hitch would have gone straight through my window, too.
I get quite a few machines from Road Runner customers that have received a notice and had their service turned off until the machine was fixed. One customer told them she fixed it (she didn't, was using all Macs) and had her service turned back on, just to be almost immediatly turned off until she had proof from some sort of tech support it was fixed (it wasn't her machines... It was her open wireless router and her clueless neighbor who just connected to whatever popped up first.) I had to fax over a letter on my companies letterhead to have her service turned back on once her router was configured properly.
Have never seen one from a Verizon customer locally, though (RR and Verizon are pretty much the only two providers you see used around here.)
I've had this same experience with Norton's. And it's not always a new virus, either. I've seen this happen with a virus that the base install with no updates should have found, and it can be nasty.
I've been a huge fan of AntiVir, but have been moving myself toward ClamAV a lot more now. The fact that Norton's takes up so much processor time kills me, too. I hate watching those little popups in the corner as it attempts to scan a ton of programs loading at once. Half the time it seems the programs end up crashing before Norton's even gets to them!
I've been using Nicoderm, and it's been making it a lot easier. I take it off before bed, because I end up having very vivid dreams, and feel like I didn't actually sleep in the morning. Then I wait until I'm almost ready to leave before popping on another patch, and really, don't want a cigarette nearly as bad as when I quit cold turkey.
The first 3 days were always the worst when I tried quitting before, and I made it through them a lot easier with it. It's not for everyone, but it seems to be working for me (plus, the warnings of Don't smoke with it on or right after taking it off or you can have a heart attack is a great insentive.)
Thank you very much. It's been difficult, but I'm doing my best to succeed. I have too much going for me to keep killing myself like I was. Difficult recovery will hopefully teach me to never restart, because of how hard it is to quit.
These are machines normally so screwed up with spyware and other misc crap that nothing really works properly. And if an uninstaller isn't going to work, it's always the Norton's one. And that's even after cleaning up spyware and/or viruses. I own a PC repair shop, so we get some seriously screwed up machines in, yet people refuse to let us just reinstall Windows, they want it recovered, no matter the cost. (And yes, that's even after explaining that they won't lose and documents and that doing a backup and re-install for them will cost a third of the price.)
Also, their installs are some of the worst to deal with. Their auto-uninstalls of their old products -- which occurs prior to upgrading -- is horrible. We had to spend tons of time writing our own scripts. We finally tried out Trend Micro and found that it did a better job of auto-uninstalling Symantec's products than Symantec did.
I used Norton's uninstaller app one time to remove the rest of the Norton's suite and it worked great, considering the uninstaller for the actual programs just crashed after removing enough to make the machine spit out 30 errors on boot.
I used to have this Peter Norton's Assembly book. He was posing by a machine on the cover, and manages to look nerdier than Bill Gates (but not as scary as Bill laying down by the machine.) Actually, I bet I still have that book floating around somewhere. When I bought it 10 or 15 years ago, it's was already a bit dated, so it cost next to nothing and was a useful reference for school.
I see a lot of machines come in without Internet access and Symantec's firewall offering on the machine. Can't uninstall any of the Norton products, so have to remove them by hand. Magically, the wonderful wide Interweb comes back for the customer to install spyware till their heart is complete. Install Zonealarm or enable the Windows built in firewall, no issues.
Run Antivir or ClamAV, find way too many copies of Klez or something else Norton AV should have caught.
Customer goes home, immediatly installs Norton again even though we warn them not to, machine is back in the shop two days later because it's broken again.
I can only wonder what their anti-spyware software will do.
I had a decent collection of VHS movies, and as the years have gone on, I've replaced them with DVDs as the VHS copies lost quality. Then my VCR broke, and I realised I didn't have any VHS tapes left to replace I cared about. Now once DVDs are replaced, I'm screwed, because I try to take excellent care of them (but then again, when I start a family, my kids will probably take care of the DVDs for me. *sigh*)
What's to stop people from reporting a legit retailer at an open store? There are people willing to screw someone for something as cheap as Windows (in the grand scheme of things, a copy of Windows isn't expensive.) As someone who owns a small computer shop, who's to say that someone, maybe even a competitor, couldn't do this? And we do sell systems with no OS, or with Linux installed, so even if they want a track record of systems sold compared to copies of their OS sold, there are still more machines compared to copies of Windows.
I was a little freaked out first time I heard about this. I actually received some junk mail from MS about it, which was done in a slightly "If you're doing this, we're going to catch you!!" kind of way.
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I love those stereotypes. I'm in decent shape, I work out whenever I can, and eat very healthy (I'm a vegetarian, actually, and have been doing it long enough to know better than to live off of NotDogs now.)
When people find out what I do for a living, especially if I'm not at work (I do the shirt and tie thing, due to one of my largest clients I spend most days at having that policy), they have this great shocked look on their faces. That, and they normally comment on "How can someone so young own a business??" because I look like I'm in my early 20s. And the girls don't run away immediatly!
Plus, if I do happen to go to some geek event, and get bored, I can always mutter "Oh, I thought this was (misc group), which has nothing to do with computers!" before running off.
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I'm using nicotine replacement, too. Using Nicoderm right now, actually, and it is making it a lot easier. I don't mind a bit of weight gain, either, I work out pretty regularly and always have a lot of trouble putting on weight in the first place. Tend to be very skinny, no matter how much I eat. One of those things were everyone told me I would grow out of it, and I haven't. Thanks for the support, though! All the support of those around me makes it a lot easier, much more than any patch does.
Strip the car bare. Gut it. Install some lightweight racing seats. You just saved a lot of weight. And gained a lot of cargo room!
But isn't the weight saved by replacing the seats negated by the gigantic spoiler and huge subwoofers?
I have to agree completely, and from a non-riders perspective. I travel into NYC a lot, was just in Long Island yesterday (I live in central NY.) Being the beautiful day it was, there were a lot of motorcycles on the road. I was being careful, and some of the motorcyclists were (and some were driving near 100 mph cutting in and out of traffic, too), but a lot of people were too worried about getting to their location to pay half the attention they should have.
Don't forget that the fat Americans are our secret weapon! They cause a lot of damage when dropped from planes, and stink up an area VERY quickly when it's hot out. Wait, those were the secret plans.
Oh, not saying it wasn't her fault for not having her equipment properly configured. And I charged her for having to drive to her place just to take 5 minutes to configure it.
I don't believe Verizon is blocking port 25, but they may be. The service they provide locally is horrid compared to RR, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're just ignoring the problems. The speed difference alone is amazing. The commercials for RR always talk about being a bit faster, but when actually comparing the two directly, it's very noticable.
I have an automatic Honda Accord, 4 banger, and just figured out my gas mileage for going to Long Island from Syracuse, NY and back. At 80 mph, I had 27.7 MPG. At 65 mph, I had 25. I'm not sure what it's rated at, but it gets better gas mileage than my 04 Hyundai Elantra did, which was supposed to be amazing on gas (it was safe in an accident. Someone ran a red light, hit me at about 70, tore most of the engine straight out of the car, hit right at the seam of the drivers door and the front of the car. I walked out with a slight burn on my hand from the air bag and that was it. No more car, but I was okay, and very greatful for it.)
I used to drive a 95 Ford Escort up until about a year ago. I was travelling down a hill, and had to go through a large puddle. My breaks decided not to work. I was heading straight toward a car in front of me, and it went from one lane to two lanes right at this point. I swerved to the left, avoiding this car, and by now my breaks had dried off enough to avoid the cars in the left lane. I was going way too fast at this point (about 50 in a 30), because I couldn't slow down after hitting the puddle and was travelling downhill. The vehicle I would have hit if I hadn't reacted in time was a large truck (F-350 Diesel, looked jacked up on top of being huge already), who's tow hitch would have gone straight through my window, too.
I get quite a few machines from Road Runner customers that have received a notice and had their service turned off until the machine was fixed. One customer told them she fixed it (she didn't, was using all Macs) and had her service turned back on, just to be almost immediatly turned off until she had proof from some sort of tech support it was fixed (it wasn't her machines... It was her open wireless router and her clueless neighbor who just connected to whatever popped up first.) I had to fax over a letter on my companies letterhead to have her service turned back on once her router was configured properly.
Have never seen one from a Verizon customer locally, though (RR and Verizon are pretty much the only two providers you see used around here.)
I can play a movie in the same way with a notepad!
I've had this same experience with Norton's. And it's not always a new virus, either. I've seen this happen with a virus that the base install with no updates should have found, and it can be nasty.
I've been a huge fan of AntiVir, but have been moving myself toward ClamAV a lot more now. The fact that Norton's takes up so much processor time kills me, too. I hate watching those little popups in the corner as it attempts to scan a ton of programs loading at once. Half the time it seems the programs end up crashing before Norton's even gets to them!
I've been using Nicoderm, and it's been making it a lot easier. I take it off before bed, because I end up having very vivid dreams, and feel like I didn't actually sleep in the morning. Then I wait until I'm almost ready to leave before popping on another patch, and really, don't want a cigarette nearly as bad as when I quit cold turkey.
The first 3 days were always the worst when I tried quitting before, and I made it through them a lot easier with it. It's not for everyone, but it seems to be working for me (plus, the warnings of Don't smoke with it on or right after taking it off or you can have a heart attack is a great insentive.)
Thanks for the support =D
And what bank do you use? We can't really know if you're secure without knowing your bank, oh, and your user id.
Thank you very much. It's been difficult, but I'm doing my best to succeed. I have too much going for me to keep killing myself like I was. Difficult recovery will hopefully teach me to never restart, because of how hard it is to quit.
Thanks! I'll definitely remember you next time I have one of those lovely machines in and try this out!
I think that broadcast flags are actually a good idea. Let's start with a "crap flag" that refuses to let me watch shows that are crap.
Wouldn't that end up with no channels coming in?
Now what am I supposed to do with the warehouse of capture cards I bought to resell after this passed!?
These are machines normally so screwed up with spyware and other misc crap that nothing really works properly. And if an uninstaller isn't going to work, it's always the Norton's one. And that's even after cleaning up spyware and/or viruses. I own a PC repair shop, so we get some seriously screwed up machines in, yet people refuse to let us just reinstall Windows, they want it recovered, no matter the cost. (And yes, that's even after explaining that they won't lose and documents and that doing a backup and re-install for them will cost a third of the price.)
Also, their installs are some of the worst to deal with. Their auto-uninstalls of their old products -- which occurs prior to upgrading -- is horrible. We had to spend tons of time writing our own scripts. We finally tried out Trend Micro and found that it did a better job of auto-uninstalling Symantec's products than Symantec did.
I used Norton's uninstaller app one time to remove the rest of the Norton's suite and it worked great, considering the uninstaller for the actual programs just crashed after removing enough to make the machine spit out 30 errors on boot.
I used to have this Peter Norton's Assembly book. He was posing by a machine on the cover, and manages to look nerdier than Bill Gates (but not as scary as Bill laying down by the machine.) Actually, I bet I still have that book floating around somewhere. When I bought it 10 or 15 years ago, it's was already a bit dated, so it cost next to nothing and was a useful reference for school.
You mean there are other uses for a spatchula!?
I see a lot of machines come in without Internet access and Symantec's firewall offering on the machine. Can't uninstall any of the Norton products, so have to remove them by hand. Magically, the wonderful wide Interweb comes back for the customer to install spyware till their heart is complete. Install Zonealarm or enable the Windows built in firewall, no issues.
Run Antivir or ClamAV, find way too many copies of Klez or something else Norton AV should have caught.
Customer goes home, immediatly installs Norton again even though we warn them not to, machine is back in the shop two days later because it's broken again.
I can only wonder what their anti-spyware software will do.
I had a decent collection of VHS movies, and as the years have gone on, I've replaced them with DVDs as the VHS copies lost quality. Then my VCR broke, and I realised I didn't have any VHS tapes left to replace I cared about. Now once DVDs are replaced, I'm screwed, because I try to take excellent care of them (but then again, when I start a family, my kids will probably take care of the DVDs for me. *sigh*)
Now it just says removed to Slashdotting.
What's to stop people from reporting a legit retailer at an open store? There are people willing to screw someone for something as cheap as Windows (in the grand scheme of things, a copy of Windows isn't expensive.) As someone who owns a small computer shop, who's to say that someone, maybe even a competitor, couldn't do this? And we do sell systems with no OS, or with Linux installed, so even if they want a track record of systems sold compared to copies of their OS sold, there are still more machines compared to copies of Windows.
I was a little freaked out first time I heard about this. I actually received some junk mail from MS about it, which was done in a slightly "If you're doing this, we're going to catch you!!" kind of way.
-Start off topic rant-
I love those stereotypes. I'm in decent shape, I work out whenever I can, and eat very healthy (I'm a vegetarian, actually, and have been doing it long enough to know better than to live off of NotDogs now.)
When people find out what I do for a living, especially if I'm not at work (I do the shirt and tie thing, due to one of my largest clients I spend most days at having that policy), they have this great shocked look on their faces. That, and they normally comment on "How can someone so young own a business??" because I look like I'm in my early 20s. And the girls don't run away immediatly!
Plus, if I do happen to go to some geek event, and get bored, I can always mutter "Oh, I thought this was (misc group), which has nothing to do with computers!" before running off.
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