BS: Frogprince is belly-up

Subject: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: frogprince
Date: 03 May 06 - 11:44 AM

My computer is overdue for admission to intensive care; possibly terminal; it just took me about an hour of error signals and restarts to get it booted up. Will see you all when I have a usable machine again. Feel free to pray for me while I'm undergoing cold turkey : }
                               Dean.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 May 06 - 12:22 PM

While YOU go cold turkey?! What about the rest of us??? How will we cope without ye?:->

Take care and I hope it doesn't take too long before you are back among us. Find a princess to give you a kiss, eh?

All the best,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 May 06 - 12:45 PM

I pictured your go cart wheel over belly. This is worse.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 May 06 - 12:52 PM

It's not easy being green.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Janie
Date: 03 May 06 - 12:52 PM

Waahhhh!!!!!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: gnu
Date: 03 May 06 - 02:23 PM

Gee whiz... ya had me half scared for a minute there, froggy. Sad about your puter, glad it's not you.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 May 06 - 02:53 PM

Go play in another frog's pond until yours is working.

Way down yonder in Yankety Yank
A bullfrog jumped from bank to bank
Cause he hadn't nothin' else to do...

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 May 06 - 03:00 PM

`The Chinese,' bellowed a drunken Australian, `Chinese
bloody invented nerve-splicing. Give me the mainland for a
nerve job any day. Fix you right, mate...'
`Now that,' Case said to his glass, all his bitterness suddenly
rising in him like bile, `that is _so_ much bullshit.'

The Japanese had already forgotten more neurosurgery than
the Chinese had ever known. The black clinics of Chiba were
the cutting edge, whole bodies of technique supplanted monthly,
and still they couldn't repair the damage he'd suffered in that
Memphis hotel.
A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading
nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the
corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in
his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless
void... The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the
Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cow-
boy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the
dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo,
and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the
dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands
clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fin-
gers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there.

-William Gibson "Neuromancer"-

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Ferrara
Date: 03 May 06 - 04:02 PM

Not sure of the connection with Frogprince, but enjoyed the excerpt. Darned good book IMO. Frogprince, by the time you can read this your 'puter will probably be well again, so congratulations on being back with us.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 May 06 - 04:07 PM

"Not sure of the connection with Frogprince"???

trying to reach the console that wasn't there......


No?

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: frogprince
Date: 08 May 06 - 02:42 PM

Well, it coulda been much worse; I figured I would at least be out a hard drive. Turns out it was totally eaten alive by all sorts of viruses and nasties. I had McCaffee running, with updates coming in all the time, and I was running Spybot fairly often, but I had gotten chock-full of garbage anyhow. The repair shop put in AntiVir and Ad-Aware after they flushed things out. The guy advised against a firewall for a machine on dialup. Anyhow, the bill wasn't that bad, and this thing hasn't purred along as well in many moons.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 May 06 - 09:38 PM

"The guy advised against a firewall for a machine on dialup"

I wouldn't go back to that bullshitter mate!

My machine would have collapsed years ago with all the attacks I get thru here on my dialup without one! I trashed Macaffee years ago and got back a 50% increase in speed - there are much better free (Avir) systems that work with far less load on the PC.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 08 May 06 - 09:48 PM

It must have been that pickled herring in a blender from the mudcat food fight. Maybe some of it got stuck in your computer? (I'm still trying to get the smell out of my keyboard).

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: frogprince
Date: 08 May 06 - 09:59 PM

LOL, Elmer : )

Food for thought for sure, Foolestroupe; I just asked the guy, when I picked the machine up, if it would be a good idea to add a firewall; he said on dialup it would just slow things down so much it wasn't worth it. If he had recommended one, he probably had something there in the shop that I would have gone ahead and bought from him.

What "walls" have worked good for folks here?

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 May 06 - 11:33 PM

The old 'Zone Alarm' worked good - but recently I can't get new versions to load on 98SE - so am trying other freewares.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 May 06 - 11:35 PM

"he said on dialup it would just slow things down so much it wasn't worth it"

Hmmm, as I said - he don't know nuttin'!!! A 13 year old kid, was he? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: frogprince
Date: 09 May 06 - 05:45 PM

He was more like 45, and he got the computer back in shape without gouging me, so I gave him some creedance at the time. I'm running ME, the piece of crap Mr. Gates rushed to market so he could say he had something new for the turn of the Millenium, so I need something compatible.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 May 06 - 06:49 PM

Clinton, I haven't seen you on stage but I can 'hear' you doing that soliloquy. Pretty darn well, too, I might add.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 May 06 - 07:45 PM

EXTERNAL Modems/routers are the way to go. Virtually all of the crap thrown at your computer will be stopped by this very simple trick.

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 May 06 - 07:56 PM

I have this persistent image of a fat frog lying on its back with a rusty crown tipped over to one side of its head, legs flailing wldly....


AAAGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: frogprince
Date: 09 May 06 - 09:03 PM

Joe! Clones! somebody! Foolestroupe is picking on me!!

Bunnahabhain (or anybody); if it works, it works, and I'll consider it; but why would an external modem stop what an internal one would pass?

Subject: RE: BS: Frogprince is belly-up
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 May 06 - 08:16 AM

An external serial modem won't stop anything.

An external router only, MAY, depending on how it is configured.
An external router/cable modem, MAY, same thing.

Calm down froggie! No good askin' ME for a kiss, that's how I got into trouble the last time - they just wouldn't believe it was a frog when I took it to bed...