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Really, can someone workout a better solution B extend the battery life?

http://www.epowerpad.com/300.html

I hope you come to our upcoming Marin Brewing Company get together.

When?

LOL! im using Linux Xandros which also runs MS Apps... virus free

I am under the impression that Windows is more secure than Linux. It is just that virus writers do not like Microsoft. :(

I type with confidence... between virus hackers and the crashs.. i switched
and didnt look back.. office is free browser is free OS is around $75 vs MSFT
at $350... what the heck OS is OS...

FAB,

Sound advice. In fact I did some of what you recommended about six months ago when the management tried to put the squeeze on me. First, I went month-to-month (which tacked on an extra $150/mo.). Next, I gathered comps. Lastly, met with the manager and explained that his asking price was comparable to the apartments in the area, BUT, they are all brand new buildings, built literally within the last year. So why would I pay the same price for a 1980's apartment? He relented, I got a rebate, and we signed a 1-year lease for a more reasonable rate.

It remains to be seen what I'll face when the lease expires next year. I've copied your suggestions to my own file and will certainly have them handy.

Thanks
LSR

Microsoft is junk. It was never seriously built as a multi-tasking operating system and never built with the idea that it would be on a network with potentially hostile other computers.

Finally, after years of being the worst public menace on the Internet, XP came out with some half-hearted attempt to rectify these problems. Then, they added a few bolt-on fixes in SP2.

99% of your spam comes from hacked Windows servers, I can guarantee.

The really sad part is that these problems were all solved in the Unix world 20 years ago.

Linux isn't much better, as it is really a hobbyist O/S that has been adopted for business use.

If you want security, run Apple or Solaris or some other real Unix O/S that has been built and designed correctly.

but not $350 on good software that’ll last many years.

Oh the fun times I had back in DOS days not to mention Windows 3.1
But I also used Macs and very earlier CPM... aside from Linux I use BeOS
on a MultiBoot Laptop. ... My Dell im using now...

Lets see Windows 95 and 98 didnt last long in corporations due to high maint.
IT dept migrated to NT ASAP... compatibily issues with our ERP system.

As always there are alternatives out there!

Very true Jimbo.

GC .. sorry to say W95 didnt work well with Corporate ERP systems like Oracle and SAP... bugs...
Sorry not Engineer.. Im Accounting/Finance.. more hobbist.

True GC ... Macs are good stuff... too bad OS2 died out.. it did look promising.

GC,

While a rich daddy can make the kids' life easy, I don't think that necessarily mean more success. Plenty just become rich trustfunders who make nothing with their life.

...though there's nothing wrong with that. If someone offered me a lifetime of raving my nights in nightclubs and my days skiing in the Alps, I'm not going to say no.

It might be fun for a while, but I personally would get bored with it eventually.

Then I would take up dressage, marry a Belgian industrialist and breed orchids...and visit the kids' nursery twice a week with a photographer (I assume this is how the other 0.00005% of the population lives)

Looks like one of the major home builders is just about ready to go belly up.

"In an SEC filing Monday, Technical Olympic said it has been advised by one of its lenders, Deutsche Bank Trust, that it’s in “multiple potential defaults” on $675 million in debt associated with an unconsolidated joint-venture created a year ago August through the purchase of Transeastern Properties. According to the filing, the bank wants Technical Olympic to pay “all” of the joint- venture’s outstanding obligations."

The contagion is spreading.

Actually here is the original blog post:

http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/article/20038

It is an interesting question as to whether Deutsche Bank can push the debt back onto TOA. But the market is sure acting like it can. The stock has been plummeting all day.

Yes, raving all night until you get bored with it, then settling down and having kids sounds like fun.

But you hardly need to be born wealthy to have that life!

BTW, what is that “something” that successful people do that Warants your admiration?

The drive to do good. Just look at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Jimbo,

Gigantic orchid cloning labs and horse stables don't come cheap. Nor entrance into good clubs (esp. if you have Barbara Bush the Younger's face). Ditto competent childcare and soft lighting.

BillG is a great man. There are exceptions like him. We are fortunate. I am fortunate.

I agree. I have been worshipping him since 1990.

You have foresight (or vision).

I do not have enough self-faith to take profit on my vision though.

I wasn't suggesting gigantic horse stables, though even modest size stables are probably not cheap.