tjesterb

tjesterb

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From Snatch , Bricktop: Now go an' put the kettle on Turkish: You take sugar? Bricktop: No thank you, I'm sweet enough ========================================== Avi: Boris the bullet-dodger? Why do they call him that? Bullet-tooth Tony: Because he dodges bullets, Avi =========================================== Bullet-tooth Tony: ...and the fact that you've got "REPLICA" wr

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From the article: The company has also added the capability for a custom install, meaning users can select which Nero 7 applications are loaded onto their machines. Other new features include Nero Scout, a new media database application; redesigned backup and burning applications; and support for 5.1 and 7.1 audio recording. Sounds like you will be able to choose your own level of "bloat" I still haven't found an

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Ususally it seems the first tier guy or girl is more than happy to pass you on to the next level, once you pull out one or two technical terms (of the many thousands they are ignorant of...) then you're much more likely to get some real support. I have to say that once I've gotten past the first layer, the Roadrunner tech support has been very helpful. It was nice that English also seemed to be their native language. Symantec tech

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If there's no beep from the motherboard, and you can't boot from external media, you can be pretty sure your mobo has died on you. Have you tried unplugging the hard drive and booting from CD or DVD? You could also try replacing the CMOS battery, but it's probably a long shot.

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Goodmorphing, Thanks for the links, interesting reading. One of the posters on Slashdot, who works for Time Warner (Roadrunner) said that they use Level-3. Here is a trace route from Wincustomize, whose host obviously uses Cogent. Tracing route to 66.28.242.218 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 2275 ms 10 ms 12 ms 10.64.224.1 2 16 ms 16 ms 13 ms srp9-0.mtgmoh1-rtr3.cinci.rr.com

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My mom, who uses Earthlink as her ISP In my area Earthlink just resells RoadRunner service under their name, at least as far as their cable offering. Their DSL and dial-up offerings are probably the same kind of arrangement.

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The articles on CNet and ZD.net say that Level3 gave 90 days notice that they intended to sever their peering agreement with Cogent. Sounds to me like neither side wants to play nice, and the end consumers (those of us doling out $45-$50 per month for RR)are the ones getting the short end of the stick. This also has to be hurting businesses who depend on web traffic for their livelihood. Some people also haven't been able to access their Ebay au

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Well, I can get on WC now. I couldn't a couple hours ago. RR said they were working in alternate routing, guess they must have gotten something done.

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Hmmm.... I'll have to try bouncing off a proxy server when I get home if I still can't get on here. On the bright side, maybe it will help WC with some of it's traffic problems if enough people are being cut off from here.

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Yesterday I could only get a "Request timed out while waiting for Wincustomize" Later I read this article: http://news.com.com/Network+feud+leads+to+Net+blackout/2100-1038_3-5889592.html?part=rss&tag=5889592&subj=news My ISP is RoadRunner. I was unable to get any Stardock site to load, whether in FF, IE, or using the WC browser. I logged onto WC from work this morning, expecting to see posts about the server being down

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I did a search for "Desktop Customization software" on Download dot com. I liked what I read about DesktopX, so I purchased that, I think there was some kind of special bundling it with CursorXP. It only took an hour or two before I bought an upgrade to the whole OD suite. Definitely one of the best purchases I've made.

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Hang in there, Nicked Blade. I used the patches when I quit years ago. I was always rubbing that patch to try and get the nicotine out faster. I don't think the rubbing helped, but the patches at least took the edge off enough that I could keep from lighting up.

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I've been a ODNT subscriber for almost two years, and even subscribed to WC because I wanted to support the site. I like the community, and I do download quite a bit. I plan to continue both subscriptions. However, I don't really see much benefit to a WC subscription in addition to ODNT. I don't use the premium suites, and for the life of me, I can't see the purpose of the WC browser (maybe make it gecko-based and use FF extensions?) I und

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