Somewhat off topic, but has anyone here actually used a papertape punch computer??? I used one once...it was part of the Fire Control (weapons firing control) system of the nuclear submarine I was...

The only recent use I've seen for chainmail (beyond shark diving) is for Rennaisance Fairs and LARPs...

ROFL!!! I love it!! I don't have any pics of my stuff, but I guess I'll have to get off my lazy butt and post 'em...I think I'm gonna have to copy your idea with the binary scarf...
btw...does the...

Do you mean by releasing an IP address from a specific computer? If you have access to that computer the you can use the command
"ipconfig /release *con*"
where *con* is the name of the connection...

John Kerry?! War Hero?!?!

Those two shouldn't even go in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence and the term "War Hero" can certainly NOT be applied to John Kerry...
John Kerry was in...

I *do*... :)

Rum and Coke for meee... :)

I do some knitting occasionally...(NO!! I'm not gay!! haha) I have a sweater that I knitted myself and it's Very comfortable...
I also play guitar...Mostly blues and jazz but also a lot of...

Don't be naive, the war in Iraq is not the only thing our military is doing right now...It just gets the most attention...I served in the military during the war in Iraq, participated in many...

Dude, the kid was fighting the police...what did he expect...it's not like he got beaten or anything...There's a difference between exercising your right to free speech and being a nuisance...
(As a...

To be honest, I did not attempt to ping by name, but I did do an nslookup on the ip addresses and it returned the correct name, so I'm assuming that had I tried to ping by name I would have been...

yeah, it's a mahu (Hawaiian slang)...I actually (shuddering even thinking about it) went to It's profile page on youtube...It's name is Chris Crocker...

This was posted in another forum I belong to...At first when I saw it I wasn't sure whether it was guy or a gal...I finally spotted the adams apple and figgered it out...I actually looked at a couple...

Well said EnderX! :)

Hi, I had the same exact problem myself earlier today...Three machines on a workgroup that could ping eachother, but could not see eachother by name...after an hour of going through the network setup...

If yer gonna be soooo irresponsible like that then you deserve it....kinda like the darwin awards, just nobody died in this one...

How about this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/WEST-VIRGINIA-10-Steve-Slaton-Home-NIKE-Jersey-S_W0QQitemZ120160690389QQihZ002QQcategoryZ24640QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Yes, it's on ebay, but...

Regarding "The Holographic Universe", I have read that book as well and found it fascinating...It's been almost 10 years since I read it though, so I think I may have to read it again...thanks for...

I've got to wonder...What about the people who bought a bunch of iPhones when they first came out to sell on eBay or something? I don't know how the rebate thing will work, but would they get a $100...

Allow me to play devils advocate here for a moment (Rest assured I do NOT think the employee - or anyone at the restaurant - deserved jail over it...) but how often have you heard stories of...

I have no problems with bashing hypocrites, but lets be fair...The left is just as replete with hypocrites and liars...Can anyone say "Monica Lewinski" ?

I have to say that I think I agree with sturm here...o/p already paid for the license when he purchased the computer, right? If the key is printed on a sticker on his laptop and he uses that product...

Oh, and I'm currently reading the Recluce series by L.E. Modeslitt...Very good series so far...My only annoyance is that it's not chronologically written to follow the same characters all the...

Yeah...Ender's Game was essentially a prequel to the Speaker for the dead trilogy (I liked the trilogy, but it was very slow reading - too descriptive...)
Then he wrote a whole bunch of other books...

I have spent the past hour reading this entire thread...I am astonished that nobody has mentioned Orson Scott Card...I absolutely LOVE his Ender's Game series...
(I thought the Speaker for the Dead...

When I installed ubuntu on my laptop, the wireless would not work for me either...I ended up using ndiswrapper and it worked fine for me...After reading the ubuntu forums it appears many people have...

jbennet - nope, no graphics pad, just me and my pen...and my warped mind... :)

HAHAHA!! I think my piggie looks more like an oversized rat than anything else...
http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/gallery/large.asp?id=1523222&p=0&hof=1&q=personality+test

The thing that scares me the most isn't the fact that the nuclear missiles were being flown around like they were, but the complacency and lack of attention that led to them being flown around. ...

On topic - I have no problem whatsoever with having a national DNA database (No, I'm not a Briton, but we've had the same debates here in the US...) - (And no - I don't know the specific numbers, but...

Personally, I will never prostitute my values by buying an Apple product...(Then again, I suppose that everytime I purchase a license for Windows I not only prostitute my values, but sell my soul at...

And my semester at College (University for you Britons... ;) ) just started yesterday... (Monday was a holiday)

The subject says it all...I'm fairly sure that someone is sending forged spam with my email address as the sender...I received 13 emails today stating that an email (supposedly from me) had been...

pseudocode?

Judging by when the auction was listed I would guess that possibly school wasn't in session yet and the kids were off for summer? (I don't know what school sessions are like in the UK but smack dab...

I would not recommend using system("pause"); as it is not portable between various operating systems...try something like cin.get(); at the end instead...

Dare I ask about NOLAE??? :D

I don't know if this will help or not, but it's worth a shot...many laptops have a setting in the bios that will allow you to enable or disable the wireless card...if it is disabled in the bios then...

Hi eagerJO, it does sound like your problem could be due to some sort of spyware/malware...While you've done a thorough job of scanning your computer with the various spyware/malware scanners, it's...

I must say...I am ashamed to say that I do live in a "Sanctuary City" (Only because I attend college and get free rent here)...I have never understood why illegal aliens are mollycoddled and treated...

What we really need, in my opinion, is to hold teachers and parents more responsible for their students' education...you have too many teachers simply passing students because they don't want to put...