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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/8/2013 9:13:41 PM

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Hmmm, let me see. When was the last time you logged in or read the forums? 2010 according to the old niceguy profile?

That sounds about right...but wow time flies.

Mrs Dixie is just about keeping me in line these days, mostly because she needs me around to play cars with Josh. I managed to get a posting back home to keep Mrs D happy as she was fed up being 150 miles from her family, I was happy because I got onto BBMF so now I'm working with WW2 aeroplanes for a living until the ultimate promotion to Mr

Are you out of nappies yet?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/8/2013 9:35:31 PM

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Greetings all! It's a drive by posting from the evil genius formerly known as Niceguy

Had to stop in. I thought I'd take my new 'puter for a spin by loading AE. Damn Windows 8, can't get the screen settings right though.

Nice to see a lot of the old gang here though...Mike, Dixie, Sprior, Apollo 11, T.

Howdy stranger. How's life treating you?

Not bad Dixie. Still lost somewhere in Iowa and working way too D@#! much, but no real complaints.

How are you doing these days? The misses still keeping you in line?

Are you in the eastern half or the western? I only ask as I live for the next month and a half on the Iowa/Nebraska border.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/8/2013 9:39:00 PM

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Are you in the eastern half or the western? I only ask as I live for the next month and a half on the Iowa/Nebraska border.

Eastern edge. I'm so close to Wisconsin I call smell the cheese from here.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/8/2013 9:42:22 PM

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Are you out of nappies yet?

Only on my good days.

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I was happy because I got onto BBMF so now I'm working with WW2 aeroplanes for a living until the ultimate promotion to Mr

Nice work!

I do hope to see the bitter and twisted insignia on a Spitfire soon.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/8/2013 9:51:22 PM

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Are you in the eastern half or the western? I only ask as I live for the next month and a half on the Iowa/Nebraska border.

Eastern edge. I'm so close to Wisconsin I call smell the cheese from here.

Ah....wrong end. Little chance of my buying you a drink anytime soon.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 4:03:47 AM

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Took my son and daughter to the movies this evening, while my wife worked one of her two weekend shifts. Saw "Epic", an animated flick. Beautiful fantasy world, lovingly crafted and rendered. Strongly recommend for those of you looking for a movie your kids and you would enjoy.

ETA: A good dance number in the closing credits. Daughter asked, "Daddy, can I go and dance?" [the theater had a small open area in front of the seats by the screen]. "Sure", says I. She gets up there twirling and kicking and swirling with delight and joy. I try to hide my tears from the attendants coming into clean up the auditorium. She was so beautiful...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 11:02:35 AM

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Tithe...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 3:20:07 PM

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Good morning!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 6:55:50 PM

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All hail the Thread!!

Any Thread brethren have any ideas about the post I made in the Tech Support forum? I'm having trouble with my WiTP screen. It is cutting off at the bottom of my TV screen.

After tinkering, I have almost gotten it to a playable condition but not quite.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 8:04:20 PM

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Thanks T for the post...you've always been the helpful sort.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 8:07:24 PM

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You know one of the things I have always appreciated about my Thread brethren is that we are of the same generation (many of us anyway). I was thinking back recently on how much the Internet has improved since the early days.
1)when you search for stuff on the net now you can usually find information on what you're looking for in a matter of seconds. There is so much content out there now almost always somebody has an answer to any question you have.
2)it is so much faster than that 128k modem we used to have and of course the busy signal I would get with AOL.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 8:11:34 PM

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Never had to endure an old-school modem. Used to use Ze Internet at school and at libraries until I got a cable modem for my home.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 8:33:31 PM

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Yup. Had a 64k modem for several years in the late 80s/early 90s in college. It would take hours (and often drop) to D/L a 1MB file. We learned how to surf the internet on Mosaic, later Netscape. This was before MS Explorer ground their competitors into paste.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 8:36:42 PM

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My very first web browser was Netscape Navigator, with Webcrawler as a search engine... Wasn't a whole lot to search for in those dark days of the early 90s...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/9/2013 11:39:21 PM

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Just watched an old film called By Dawn's Early Light... Forgotten how depressing it was...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 1:11:21 AM

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Just watched an old film called By Dawn's Early Light... Forgotten how depressing it was...

Powers Boothe, right?

I still get goosebumps with the SAC scramble with the voice-over of the Premier's voice. Apologizing for nuking CONUS and acknowledging the willingness to take one back to prevent an all-out exchange. That's some cold calculus there.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 1:19:36 AM

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Powers Boothe, yah... It's quite the grim spectacle.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 1:47:01 AM

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My very first web browser was Netscape Navigator, with Webcrawler as a search engine... Wasn't a whole lot to search for in those dark days of the early 90s...

Yep Netscape was the first browser I used consistently. I was on the net before they came out, but as you say, there wasn't a whole lot to do there but order books from amazon.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 5:46:25 AM

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Powers Boothe, yah... It's quite the grim spectacle.

Don't forget a half-blinded Rebecca DeMornae. "You ever get high, Joel?"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 9:19:35 AM

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Hi all,

Good morning!

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 9:21:55 AM

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Hi all,

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My very first web browser was Netscape Navigator, with Webcrawler as a search engine... Wasn't a whole lot to search for in those dark days of the early 90s...

Ahhh... I used even older stuff... anyone remembers the "Mosaic"?

I used it on my Intel DX266 in early 1990's and at the university on Sun Sparc workstations!

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 11:08:13 AM

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Yup. Had a 64k modem for several years in the late 80s/early 90s in college. It would take hours (and often drop) to D/L a 1MB file. We learned how to surf the internet on Mosaic, later Netscape. This was before MS Explorer ground their competitors into paste.

I used to use Lynx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
(It was actually ALynx running on my Amiga. Downloaded* a free TCP/IP stack and bingo - internet machine!!)

Amazing, it's still around!!

Edit: * Downloaded off a BBS in case you were wondering how that was possible or was it a Fish disk (floppy disk public domain collection compiled by Fred Fish) - it was a long time ago. My first ISP gave me a totally unrestricted Unix account on his server and I had to set everything up myself. They were great days for learning the ropes!!
P.S All done on a 28K Modem. At least I didn't have a 2400baud modem like some of my friends (which by the way is still the only phone data service speed guaranteed by Telstra - just ask them!!)

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 1:57:43 PM

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Greetings all! It's a drive by posting from the evil genius formerly known as Niceguy

Had to stop in. I thought I'd take my new 'puter for a spin by loading AE. Damn Windows 8, can't get the screen settings right though.

Nice to see a lot of the old gang here though...Mike, Dixie, Sprior, Apollo 11, T.

Hey Chris! Good to see you around.

Forgot your old password, didn't 'ya?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 1:59:40 PM

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It's so weird...there's this thing in the sky...and it hurts my eyes when I look at it. Also, it makes my skin feel...I dunno...what's the opposite of bitterly cold?

You seeing it up there NoDak?

I immediately reteated to the basement. Run away, run away. Panic and dispair.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 2:00:06 PM

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Took my son and daughter to the movies this evening, while my wife worked one of her two weekend shifts. Saw "Epic", an animated flick. Beautiful fantasy world, lovingly crafted and rendered. Strongly recommend for those of you looking for a movie your kids and you would enjoy.

ETA: A good dance number in the closing credits. Daughter asked, "Daddy, can I go and dance?" [the theater had a small open area in front of the seats by the screen]. "Sure", says I. She gets up there twirling and kicking and swirling with delight and joy. I try to hide my tears from the attendants coming into clean up the auditorium. She was so beautiful...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 2:02:37 PM

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Yup. Had a 64k modem for several years in the late 80s/early 90s in college. It would take hours (and often drop) to D/L a 1MB file. We learned how to surf the internet on Mosaic, later Netscape. This was before MS Explorer ground their competitors into paste.

My "first time" was on my mother's IBM PC XT in 1986, on a 300/600 baud modem. No "internet" to speak of, but connected to local dialup BBS "servers."

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 2:04:24 PM

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Just watched an old film called By Dawn's Early Light... Forgotten how depressing it was...

Looked it up and now I remember it, but never watched it.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 2:06:06 PM

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Good Monday morning - Tithe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 2:07:29 PM

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Thank the Thread for work today, where I at least get to sit down at my desk for 8 hours!

Exhausted from moving stuff out of our house and detail cleaning, as we get ready to list it for sale. Just moving locally, to somewhere with a little more room, a little less stairs, and hopefully, a pool.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/10/2013 3:51:12 PM

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Hah, Good Morning!

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