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Gosh, and people think use txans are violent Actually, I remember hearing that when I was a kiddo. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

Son of a mule....that's some wild stuff. Sorry to see it...hope there weren't any casualties. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

That was great....I'm still giggling!!! Thanks for the long load time warning, but it's not THAT bad when you have a 1 meg high speed connection

About the worse thing I've done is to start climbing out to exit and realize that I didn't pull my goggles down over my eyes. It was a solo sitfly that I was planning, so right after I launched I just reached up and pulled them down. I know it was a small thing, and I didn't kick myself in the butt too hard, but still, it's usually some SMALL something that can get you in serious trouble. It just sort of alarmed me that I could forget something like that. DUH!!! Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

IIIIYEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Run away, RUN AWAY!!! No thanks, I'll stick with skydiving. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

Glad I could inadvertantly help out. This DVD you are working on, is it going to be something available for sale? I'm really interested, thanks in part to your dad, in the early years of skydiving. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

If you are Jerry's son, J , yea I met you years ago. Actually, it would have been the last time I jumped with Jerry. It was the end of summer/beginning of fall in 99, about a year before he passed away. I had spent the day being coached by Jerry and at the end of the day I met you. If memory serves me right, we did a simple 3 way, and then for the last jump of the day, we attempted a h. guerilla. After that, I moved to a different part of the state and started jumping elsewhere. I made skyfest the first year it was held and haven't made one since. Wish I could come this year (and every other year for that matter), but I've been sidelined for the past 18 months with medical problems. After I got the med issues worked out, I am currently trying to clear the bills that the insurance didn't want to cover. I'm almost there...actually trying to get my 'ducks in a row' to get in the air pretty soon. Blue skies. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

Whoa, that's a cool shot. I had the privilege to have Jerry coach me years ago. He was a great guy, very friendly. I remember getting the opportunity to sit and listen to some of his stories while waiting for loads at SDD. I always think of him often and fondly. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

Hey speed, here's a great tool. It's in beta, but I have used past releases and they have worked well. I use the beta right now when I have to diagnose client machines of unkown origin. Get it here. If that doesn't work (which I'm 95% certain it will), just pop the cover off of your cpu case. Usually the manufacturer and model number are pasted right on the mb. Just be careful with the bios upgrade, if something goes wrong or if you use the wrong image the damage CAN be irreversible and fatal. Good luck. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

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Well crap, that blows my plan. I was going to duct tape a video phone to my helmet to do some camera flying. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

That's a nice image and sweet sentiments. It's best to remember that people and relationships are the important things in life...everything else is just fluff. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

I haven't made a jump in 18 months, at this point I'd sell a lung

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I'll trust you on that one.

Jaeger does look like an ice cream topping. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

I would say that, in my experience that the MAcs keep on trucking. However, just over a year ago, I retired some 486s (yes, you read that right) that were used for basic typing classes - most of them still had their original parts. And we still have some Mac LC IIIs around doing some 'really easy' stuff. In general, I think that Macs are more user friendly, if you just want to turn things on and go without having to read or learn anything. Most things that people find 'frustrating' on PCs can be conquered by doing a little research. I think people are lazy when it comes to their computer, they want it to be more like their television. However, from my working environment, what people get used to using most, is what makes their preference. I've been frustrated by PCs AND by Macs, and I can work on either as a technician or as a user. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

11b runs at 11 Megabits/sec while 11g is 54 Megabits/sec. The kicker is, though, most high speed internet connections outside of the corporate world don't run more than 1 to 1.5 Mbits/sec so really, what's the point unless you are doing a HECK of a lot transferring on your home or other network. I did some work at one of my client's home. They just had DirecWay high speed satellite internet hooked into their home (they live in the boonies). I was hired to config their small network, (one desktop and one notebook) They had bought an 11b, wireless router and the tech forom the company told them to 'take it back and get 11g, you won't be happy with the performance of the 11b.' Their satellite internet connection only runs at a MAX of 750 kilobit/sec - essentially the 11b wireless is running over 10X faster than their internet connection. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

I just finished polishing off a little homemade vanilla, with some warm and gooey caramel topping - which is my aboslute favorite.

I read this, and I have to throw in my $.002 worth. I'm sure the 'apple-heads' will throw a few rocks at me. I support a network with approximately 900 PCs and 400 Macs. This is my experience...Macs are nice, as long as you budget mucho dinero for upkeep, if you plan to keep it for any number of years. Case in point, we have MANY campuses, and for some of the software that is used, the old G3 'all-in-one' beige cubes are still used, work like a champ. However, we lost a couple last year due to power supplies going out. Now, if this were a PC, $25.00 power supply and less than 10 minutes of my time, I've got it back in the class doing it's job. But, since this is a MAC, a REFURBISHED power supply is $125.00 and it took me over an hour just to tear the thing apart, and I literally had to tear the thing completely apart. So even if I buy the $125.00 power supply, assuming all goes well, it will take another hour to put it back together. Since I have to help support so many machines, along with printers, 15 servers and a fiber network that covers a lot of area, I'm not wasting that much time ON A POWER SUPPLY. If I decided just to take it to an 'Authorized Mac Shop' $250 to $300 - FOR A STUPID POWER SUPPLY!!! That's the dumbest thing I've heard of. We can purchase a new PC (2.4 Ghz, 512 DDR, 60 Gig HDD) for just a hair over $500. Same situation with an IMAC (power supply)- but decided to have it repaired, $350.00. Again, with a PC, $25.00 and 10 minutes max. I have a 2 labs with a total of 50 to 60 IBooks. While I haven't had any of them go out yet (the oldest lab is only 2 years old), I can imagine the cost if it does. First one that dies, since it will NOT be repaired or replaced (with an Apple), I'm going to tear it down to see how complicated it is. I can tear a Dell notebook down, replace any part (even if it's older and I have to find the part on ebay) and have it back up and working in about an hour. With school budgets in crisis, especially here in TX, we CANNOT justify keeping these things around. Therefore, we as a department sat down this past spring and made the decision to phase Apple out of our school system. Anyway, bottom line - Apples IN GENERAL are not technician or budget friendly. I guess their idea was that if something goes wrong outside of the warranty, it's cheaper to just go ahead and purchase a new one as opposed to repairing the old. Buy an extended warranty that covers EVERYTHING if you go with the IBook. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

Somehow I knew this would end up happening when I saw the title I don't have any more work until 5 p.m., I think I'm going to go throw the tape in right now and watch it.

blue screwdriver. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

Where can I find one of those? Congrats!!!

whoa, that was pretty cool. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.

Sure you did, I found that 'dimpled chad' on your ballot. Matt A well-informed person is somebody who has the same views and opinions as yours.