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July 6, 2012 at 5:29 am #2138170
TR Community scoreboard for July 6, 2012
Lockedby Sonja Thompson · about 11 years, 8 months ago
Here are the TR community stats for the past week:
TR members with the most total posts on the forums
Palmetto_CharlieSpencer – 80
apotheon and Deadly Ernest – 75
AnsuGisalas – 45
Hal 9000 and JJFitz – 26
dcolbert – 25TR members with the most Votes Up in the Discussions forum
Palmetto_CharlieSpencer – 56
Deadly Ernest – 50
slam5 – 29
Michael Kassner – 26
cybershooters – 25TR members with the most Votes Up in the Q&A forum
PurpleSkys – 3
robo_dev, OH Smeg, and hikari_elvira – 2Spam busters
Deadly Ernest – 5
richardw66 – 3
JCitizen – 2
AnsuGisalas and Palmetto_CharlieSpencer – 1Topic is locked -
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July 6, 2012 at 5:40 am #2437937
Thanks Soni
by purpleskys · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to TR Community scoreboard for July 6, 2012
and i think we’re all mostly patient 😀 ….have a great weekend Soni, hope you’re stayin’ cool down there. And happy weekend to everyone 🙂 !
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July 6, 2012 at 6:55 am #2437928
Thanks!
by Sonja Thompson · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Thanks Soni
Hope you have a fantabulous weekend as well! Btw, I just added the spam busters – thanks to Tammikins for the stats!
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July 6, 2012 at 9:08 am #2437918
thanks Tammy
by purpleskys · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to TR Community scoreboard for July 6, 2012
hope you have a spantabulous weekend as well 🙂
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July 6, 2012 at 11:19 am #2437910
Thank you, Sonja!
by Wizard57M-TR · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to TR Community scoreboard for July 6, 2012
Hope everyone has a great weekend! I’ve heard rumors of a cool front heading
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July 6, 2012 at 1:39 pm #2437905
Sunuvagun.
by charliespencer · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to TR Community scoreboard for July 6, 2012
I was only on line two full days and part of another. Geez, I really gotta get a life…
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July 6, 2012 at 3:49 pm #2437894
Looks like I now know why
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to TR Community scoreboard for July 6, 2012
I have no money, I’ve been on TR way too much and not doing any work.
Though I have to admit that Wiz seemed to be very busy last night judging by the long list of Spam Reports that I saw this mourning. 😀
Col
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July 6, 2012 at 5:41 pm #2437887
Yes, I was busy!
by Wizard57M-TR · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Looks like I now know why
Unwinding from a busy day at the store, hehe! What better way to
get rid of frustrations than to mark spams and hunt zombies at TR!
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July 6, 2012 at 6:46 pm #2437885
I was chasing one guy around
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Yes, I was busy!
But after the first 6 or so I just gave up reporting the Spam and just deleted it. I got one that I couldn’t delete as a Response to an Answer to a Question which TPTB at TR will need to look at because it is a definite Coding Fault. You can not report or delete those messages.
Col
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July 8, 2012 at 1:12 pm #2435608
Yes, in case anyone is curious,
by Wizard57M-TR · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Yes, I was busy!
I changed my displayed user name…took out the domain of one of
my email addresses which was part of the old name, and added the
-cnet to my normal handle. Why you ask? Well, the site “upgrade”
at the CNet sister site, ZDNet, would not display my name since the
new format blocks display of email addresses…I noticed my postings
were being made by “User name not displayed”…now, that can be
fun, but for the task at hand I felt some sort of identification would be
appropriate.
Rest assured, it’s only a change in the displayed name…I’m still the
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July 8, 2012 at 5:53 pm #2435591
yeah, we all knew you were still and old cuss word -nt
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Yes, in case anyone is curious,
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July 8, 2012 at 6:58 pm #2435585
Looks as if I’ll
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Yes, in case anyone is curious,
Have to delete every post from Wiz as he’s taking on C Net and implying that he is part of that Organization. :p
Now where is Taminkins when I want to delete a User Account? :^0
Col
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July 8, 2012 at 8:03 pm #2435582
The “-cnet” is for me…
by Wizard57M-TR · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Looks as if I’ll
that way I can remember where the heck I have wondered off to!
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July 8, 2012 at 8:12 pm #2435580
Yea Sure
by oh smeg · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to The “-cnet” is for me…
But knowing what a Bastard HAL9000 is, I personally wouldn’t trust him as far as I could kick him. 😉
Col
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July 8, 2012 at 8:34 pm #2435579
I was going to just drop everything after Wizard57M,
by Wizard57M-TR · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Yea Sure
BUT…that username is still on file, and darn it I can’t remember
which email address I used to sign up! :O
In fact, I think it was sometime in 1997 or 98, and the dialup ISP
I was using has gone out of business, so if I’m correct, the email
to reset the old password would not get delivered. That was way
back in my DOS internet days, using FreeWWWeb…sheesh,
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July 8, 2012 at 9:18 pm #2435577
And that’s when Hal is having a ‘be nice’ day – nt
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Yea Sure
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July 8, 2012 at 8:43 pm #2435578
Well shucks…
by Wizard57M-TR · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Yes, in case anyone is curious,
adding “-cnet” instead of just an email address is no longer working
as desired, any posts I make at ZDNet are now showing at “User
name not displayed”…must be something else going on…maybe
they are trying to protect me from the hordes over there????
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July 8, 2012 at 9:19 pm #2435576
or keep you safe from the hoarders putting you in storage – nt
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Well shucks…
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July 8, 2012 at 9:50 pm #2435575
I’ve seen a few episodes of that show!
by Wizard57M-TR · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to or keep you safe from the hoarders putting you in storage – nt
Kind of unreal the way some people can’t control the urge to
obtain more “stuff”…could it be a holdover from the old days
when we were told to save everything, you never know when
you might need it? Especially those that were in my grandparents
generation, after living through the “Great Depression” and
WWII, I think the mindset to never throw anything away was
quite common, even a natural reaction for survival.
In some ways, I’m guilty of that…I still have my old 1987
Amstrad PC 10…dual 5.25 in floppy, CGA color…it even
booted up the last time I tried it about 5 years ago!
There’s other old machines up in the attic as well…
plus the P166 that I turn on about once a month to play old
DOS games, sometimes even dialup and browse the web in
DOS still. Hmmm…I’ll have to watch those hoarding tendencies!
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July 8, 2012 at 10:14 pm #2435574
Some people have always been that way, think of
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to I’ve seen a few episodes of that show!
the story A Christmas Carol. However, people who’ve been through hard times, like those who just scraped through during the 1920s – 1930s depression or lived in Europe through WW2 are into keeping enough aside to survive.
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July 8, 2012 at 10:16 pm #2435573
Oh, about OLD computers, should I mention my
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to I’ve seen a few episodes of that show!
Commodore 128 on top of the cupboard,or the old 386 / 25 I’m finally thinking of dumping? I may even get rid of some of the 486s too.
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July 9, 2012 at 5:58 am #2435555
DE should
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to I’ve seen a few episodes of that show!
I mention that most 286/386/486 M???Boards had a Capacitor on them in place of a BIOS Battery?
Those things leak like a Sieve and destroy the M’Board and I’ve lost count of the number that I had to scrap because of that. Even if you plugged in a Battery Pack with 2 AA Batteries in it the corrosion on the M’Board was responsible for killing the M’Board.
However saying that I still have several Power Supplies for that type of M’Board and I have to admit to hording quite a lot of stuff. I always know the moment that I throw it out I’ll need it and every time that I have relented and dumped anything I’ve wanted it several days/weeks latter.
If I had of kept that stuff I could have made a lot of money on Obsolete Hardware that no one else has anymore.
I do however still have quite a few Pentium M’Boards with BIOS Batteries Removed and sitting here I can see 2 Athlon M???Boards with CPU’s sitting in a tray on top of a Bubble Jet Printer that I use for printing CD Faces.
The Back Panel USB Ports that where a Extra for ASUS M’Boards though I only have one left now and I’ve used quite a lot of those over the years.
Col
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July 6, 2012 at 5:33 pm #2437888
Thanks for the info, I think I need to spend more time writing -nt
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to TR Community scoreboard for July 6, 2012
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July 6, 2012 at 7:53 pm #2437876
HUM DE
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to TR Community scoreboard for July 6, 2012
Posting to TR is writing though I very much doubt it’s the writing you are talking about here. 😉
Col
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July 7, 2012 at 3:32 am #2437869
Col, I write fiction stories, over 2 million words in nearly 50 stories
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to HUM DE
completed and another half a million in 20 works in progress, all available through certain web sites as either a printed book or and electronic format book for a few bucks or some other sites for free. They range from a couple of thousand words to up to 300,000 words long.
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July 7, 2012 at 5:18 am #2437866
that’s cool
by purpleskys · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Col, I write fiction stories, over 2 million words in nearly 50 stories
i’m envious. I did a little poetry writing a number of years ago, but seems i’ve wondered away from it. I’d like to get to a point where i had enough to send to a publishing company and have it printed. Ahhh…maybe someday. Good luck DE 🙂
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July 7, 2012 at 5:42 am #2437865
I use two names because my publisher wanted my Clan Amir series
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to that’s cool
not immediately associated with the first book I put with him.
Some stories can be found on my Home page – http://www.bywater.net.au – not the latest versions though, as my writing has improved a lot in the last years or so since I updated them. Others can be found via storiesonline.net – finestories.com – http://www.lulu.com – http://www.dpdotcom.com
All up I’ve had about 300,000 downloads from the free sites and sold close to a thousand copies from the others. not all the stories are available as freebies, but about 60% are.
I write as Ernest Bywater and the Clan Amir series is as Ernest Edwards.
One of my earliest stories was about the IT industry, first draft done back around 1998 and finally released it into the wild in 2007 – in it I predicted certain actions by some big IT players (based on their past actions and statements) and am seeing more and more of them coming true each year.
…………..edit to add
With print on demand via http://www.lulu.com you can now make available to the public stuff in any size and at almost any price. Also, sites like storiesonline and finestories allow you to put it out free to a range of readers.
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July 7, 2012 at 1:04 pm #2435691
I am gonna leave this one unflagged :D
by ansugisalas · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to I use two names because my publisher wanted my Clan Amir series
Just so, when the spammers come crying that “you didn’t flag DE’s post, why did you flag my Penis-enlarging-ugg-boot ad”, I can tell them “That’s because I like DE better than you!”
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July 7, 2012 at 3:27 pm #2435686
Thanks, I think. However, I’m NOT trying to get people
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to I am gonna leave this one unflagged :D
to buy my stories by mentioning it here, just letting them know where they’re available, which is why I mentioned the FREE access locations first. I suppose I could put that stuff in my signature block, which I do with many of my emails.
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July 7, 2012 at 3:29 pm #2435684
Hehehe
by ansugisalas · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Thanks, I think. However, I’m NOT trying to get people
Actually, I’d have flagged your posts “Teasey McTease” if you hadn’t disclosed where to find your stuff :^0
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July 7, 2012 at 3:27 pm #2435685
Yep I know DE
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 8 months ago
In reply to Col, I write fiction stories, over 2 million words in nearly 50 stories
You’ve mentioned this before but you left it wide open with just [i]”I have to do some more writing.”[/i] :p
Oh and I liked Ansu’s response. :^0
Col
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July 7, 2012 at 10:16 pm #2435666
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