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Re: Frivolous Conversations #88

petersz — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:24:28 +0200

I see all four of the other forums on eMule have been completely inundated with advertising.

Re: Frivolous Conversations #88

petersz — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:46:56 +0200

Hey Frosty! Sorry we missed each other today. Kaye invited me out for lunch, which is a rare event, so I did that and really enjoyed myself. That doesn't mean I wasn't thinking about you all day...thinking about our missed chance to meet face-to-face. On the bus home I talked with a woman from Oklahoma who was in town for the Oracle conference. Somehow, even though it was a great talk, it wasn't the same. So glad you and I had the brief email exchange anyway. I don't forsee myself headed toNYC for a while, unless one of my daughters ends going to grad school in New Hampshire or Washington, D.C. Anyway, keep on keeping on and don't let that boss take too many 14 hour days out of you. love and go forward, Peter

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petersz — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:45:22 +0100

just about five years since the last casual conversation here.

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lifeisbutadream — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:15:04 +0100

Hello! It has been quite a while. Hope all are well.

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petersz — Sat, 28 May 2011 02:22:40 +0200

I am pleased this forum is back up and running after too long.

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petersz — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:00:19 +0200

By the way, my Norton Safe Web Lite just told me this website is not safe. amo, Peter

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petersz — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:34:32 +0200

http://danerdz.webs.com/ Home Away from Home.

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UPMarty — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:01 +0100

wow....can't believe what I just read about the rod falling off the SF bridge. >The rod that fell Tuesday was erected last month during an emergency repair job. It was holding in place a saddle-like cap that had been installed over a cracked link discovered over the Labor Day weekend. Wouldn't you think something more than a bandaid would be needed to repair such a bridge? Scarey. Mary

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larkinabout — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:34:37 +0200

"A few of us academics tend to value the art of writing" That sentence is the most pretentious bollocks I've had the misfortune to witness in the last 10 minutes. If Les, you "value the art of writing" you would give honest appraisals to the crap that is more often than not posted on here. You don't, you reel out the "Good poem" "nice poem" "enjoyed, welcome to emule" which is certainly not akin to your "academic" philosophy. 1) You are not capable of worthy crit. Which being an "academic" you surely must be? 2) You are false, and quite afraid of healthy confrontation, probably a republican?

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petersz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:31:11 +0200

I check each day to see if the forum has been cleansed. Peter

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les712 — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:36:13 +0200

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petersz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:37:45 +0200

I don't mind the social networking; I often enjoy it. But I do like to know what people think of my work and why, Les. Peter

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les712 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:33:15 +0200

Peter, I think you may be right. A few of us academics tend to value the art of writing, while most ohters seem to use the site as some sort of means of social networking. Les Hacked again, these guys need a better security system.

Re: Frivolous Conversations #88

petersz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:30:00 +0200

So the primary motive for posting poems to the poetry forum can�t be the discussion of the poems since there is very little discussion of the poems themselves.

Re: Frivolous Conversations #88

Mr. P — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:39:53 +0200

Simple fact of the matter is the mule is dying. No one wants to put up with the various hassles, random attacks, quarterly breakdowns, reregistrations, blah, blah, blah. Plus, all this prevents new blood from coming, which gives the old boys less things to gawk at. Less the admins get crackin soon, the mule dies. We ain't gotta go down with it.

Re: Frivolous Conversations #88

Mr. P — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:37:07 +0200

Well that's the point. We keep those faces by luring them with a working site. We leave behind, here, a message we ritually bump directing them to the new forum. As for the admins, well. As I said, things have gone downhill for years.

Re: Frivolous Conversations #88

petersz — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:27:47 +0200

Personally, I like this place as a place to go to when I want familiar faces. Maybe I'm just lazy and maybe I am a litte over optimistic that the administrators will get their act together and take care of the glitches. Peter

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Mr. P — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:43:59 +0200

Speaking of, should we jump ship? It's not as if things have ever gotten better. There's camus' place, if we can tolerate what is sure to be being lorded over. Bruce's, though I don't know if he still maintains one. Either way I don't know the address for either nor how to contact either.

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Mr. P — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:34:07 +0200

As I always say, I'm always around. Simply waiting.

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hpesoj — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:35:08 +0200

Good to see you're still around, Johnny. Hey Peter: I'm impressed with your computer wizardry! Joe

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petersz — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:44:48 +0200

Same back to you...the distorting mirror seems a test to me...if the semantic and aesthetic will make it to the ball without its prom dress on...a test, a test, the windows come unblessed... but keep at it just, precede your post with < pre> put < /pre> two lines after it to retain delineation...dropping the space after the first arrow.

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JohnnyBoy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:27:26 +0200

As if I wasn't hard enough to comprehend before ! I looked back on some of the old stuff and it looks terrible I haven't forgotten you guys...hope all is well

Re: Frivolous Conversations #88

hpesoj — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:37:20 +0200

It's not your computer, Percival. Looks like another system glitch in a long line of glitches that continue to drive emule contributors away. Pity. Joe

Re: Frivolous Conversations #88

Mr. P — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:00:19 +0200

So whats fucking with the format on the forum? Just my computer that's making the poems and lyrics ugly?

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Mr. P — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:53:01 +0200

That's the point of this whole thing, it's the last resort. Takes at least an hour or two. It works, it's simple, viruses gone completely. Getting into anti-viruses adds complications. Scan, scan often, use multiple scanners, don't use a program that's taking up too much system resources or you're just gonna slow the computer down more than a virus would, lot of anti-virus conflict with each other, some fucking set up firewalls that complicate every god damned thing, pain in the fucking ass. I don't even buy anti-viruses. Plenty of free ones that do the job, and I don't wander around sites that you find viruses on. I honestly don't know where you people get your shit from. Figure you goody-two-shoes would be on christian card crafting sites or something. Where the hell are you getting these high class viruses? Checking out young poet stud porn again?

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UPMarty — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:29:16 +0200

Yes, Percival, and thank you. You forgot the part about after all is reformatted and hunky dory again, make sure to have a reliable anytivirus, antispyware program. I already found out exactly how many CD's vs. DVD's I need to back everything up. but keep forgetting to buy them. I also do save every CD that comes with the computer or any other CD's for programs, printer, devices etc. I'll let you know how it all went when I get done.

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Mr. P — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:23:37 +0200

Hold onto your Windows CD like a birth certificate. Keep the book and other shit that comes with it. Possessing that allows you to "Reformat" your computer. Pop the CD in, click a few of the options, and the process begins. The action of this process is to delete everything on your computer, EVERYTHING, and reinstall windows and ONLY windows. Now your computer is as it was when you first got it. Assuming you didn't break your hardware somehow, which is extremely unlikely minus a power surge. Always have your computers, ALWAYS have them on good surge bars, round 30-50 bucks is about how much I pay for my surge bar. Anyway, assuming your hardware is fine, this fixes everything. Haven't seen a software problem this hasn't fixed. Now, there are a variety of problems. One, it takes a little knowledge to do. Pretty much just pop the CD in, click yes a lot, and you done, but there are 2 or 3 spots where you have to guide it. Easy to learn, go find a guide. Another problem, as we've discussed in unrelated conversations, people have a tendency to ignore their problems until they become unmanageable. Same problem here. Your computer can get so loaded with viruses that you can't even get the damn thing to start, much less read and run a CD. Don't ever let that happen. Reformat before then. If it gets to that point, replace your Hard drive (hardware, main memory), and have someone format it with your CD. Third problem, Drivers and CDs. Just like keeping the Windows CD, you NEED to keep the CDs of ALL programs you want to keep. Once reformatted, windows is reinstalled, you have a blank slate, all that other shit you had on your computer is gone. You HAVE to reinstall what you want on there. Forth, general information you want to keep that isn't a program. Text files, pictures, music, bookmarks, files that are your personal information fed into program, such as bookkeepers, calendars, shit like that, that all needs to be put on a disc, or CD, or a thumb drive BEFORE reformatting as it will be deleted along with everything else on there. So, review. Keep your fucking Windows CD. Learn how to reformat. Reformat before it's too late. Back up all your files, all the time. These are all fucking simple to do. All of them. You don't need to know how the god damned thing works, you just need to know how to do these things and your computer will run for decades.

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UPMarty — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:46:59 +0200

Peter, I don't know much about these things either and I do very little on the world-wide web beside use e-mail, play computer games, and visit e-mule. Young people today, on the other hand, are very adept and active on the computer. Instant messaging has replaced the telephone as a favorite pass-time for teens (this can be limited to just their circle of friends from school or people they know).The telephone seems to be reserved for "text" messaging. Using i-tunes to download music onto MP3 players or I-pods has replaced the stereo system as we knew it. With viruses and problems I've encountered, I would tend to want to put the blame on the activities of the other, more computer savvy, people with access to my computer. That same savvy, however, also spreads into the world of virus protection. With my computer disabled, I am now using my son's. He apparently has better virus protection downloaded onto his, which gives messages about sites that have been tested and found to have dangerous downloads. In other words, sites to avoid if you don't want problems for your computer. As he didn't have e-mule bookmarked, I had to google it when first accessing the site from his computer. E-mule was highlighted with a warning. When I proceeded and came here anyway, a Site Advisory (with a picture of a bug next to it) appears at the bottom of the screen and remains there until I X-out of e-mule. So as much as I still don't know for sure if e-mule was the cause of yet another computer crash for me, there are definitely some problems noted to be here that are not just conjecture or my imaginatio, Peter. It's come down to my son telling me he doesn't want me to visit e-mule on his computer for fear it will cause problems on his as well. He apparently heeds the site advisories. Mary

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petersz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:43:50 +0200

Mary, One thing that confuses me about your experience with these things at E-mule is that I have none of these problems here that you mention, which makes me suspect it might be something specific to what you let on your computer or some specific thing you are during or maybe a problem with your firewall and the specific safety software you use...but also have no expertise in those areas. Maybe Percival or someone you know can advice you on that. I do not think it is the site itself. Peter