The CAT is back

[Hazcat]

Hi All,

First let me say that though I have not commented much I have been keeping an eye on y’all.

Next, let me mention that I HATE Bill Gates.

Here is what is going on here.

As some of you know, my system died some weeks past.  I called the “Geek Squad from Best Buy” (useless).  They told me that either the drive was dead or the mother board was.  I called a local company called “Bay Geeks”.  Alden from Bay Geeks came over after I bought a new system (Toshiba Notebook) and attempted to set it up.  The new system runs on Vista (I HATE Bill Gates) and of course, had problems.  First it won’t run Office 2000 so I had to get a Vista version (I HATE Bill Gates) and then attempt to restore my system from a two month old backup (need to do that more often).  Low and behold Vista will not read backups from any older Windows systems! (I HATE Bill Gates)  So we had to get a program to translate between Windows and Vista (I HATE Bill Gates) and get the data.  By This time Alden has subcontracted a guy named Anthony to help (we are going on 2 weeks now) and he (Anthony) is good at his job (miracle of miracles!)   After several sessions the system seems to be working well or at least as well as designed (BTW did I tell you I HATE BILL GATES!!).  Anthony is now trying to get info from my dead drive and is setting me up a server using my old system and a new drive.   Maybe by the time I retire things will be going smooth (I HATE BILL GATES….Microsoft MUST DIE!)

While all of this was going on my books have become a mess due to lack of information, lack of time to work on them and my GF (who is also my bookkeeper) being in CA for this month of hell as well.  Her Mother has been ill for a year now and was going downhill rapidly.  She did pass away about 3 weeks after my GF got there (sad but not unexpected, she was 91!).  My GF needed to be there and I’m not complaining it’s just that timing on all fronts was terrible.

Also somewhere in here I picked up an Ishapore .308 on my C&R license.   The wood and all looks good but is covered in Cosmoline so that’s another project (fun one though).  The damn thing is BIG (9.5 lbs) but really cool looking.  I’ll post pictures when I get started.

UPDATE

The above was written about a week ago.  I have since bought a new drive for my old system and turned it and my old drive (retuned by Alden saying he could not access any data on it) over to Anthony.  Anthony called me two days ago saying that there was NOTHING WRONG with my old system!!  That the boot register was pooched but all else was fine and all data was intact.

SOOOOO,  I am now about two grand into a new system that I did not need.  Anthony is setting up my old system with the new drive as a sever and hooking in a flash drive I have as a redundant  (automatic daily) back-up.

One last time… I HATE BILL GATES!!

Hazcat

[leatherman92]

good that your back FINNALY

[saltydogbk]

Go Mac.  No problems in over 4 years.

[Ksail101]

Hey Haz- You're just in luck, I live in Seattle and I am getting in my car rightnow to make a trip to his house on lake Washington. i cant promise you much, but I got a loud speaker and a big sign that says Haz Hates You!!! Now since I do CCW. and who knows what kind of weapon decttion system he has there. If he can make a room adjust to your fav temp, and what music you like and all the paintings on the walls change to your prefrences, I am sure he will see my little glock on my waist about a mile away. I hope the guys he has hired from Blackwater dont fly down in a  Little Bird abduct me and use methods to get me to talk about who Haz "really" is.  Either way I hope to make you happy.

Also it is really good to hear from you. I posted a couple times to let someone know I say hi. And I know some other guys have been worried too. I hope you get everything taken care of and its good to hear from you.

[Bidah]

Go Mac, or Liniux... anything but Bill...   This comes from someone who works on systems costing hundreds of millions, and no, they don't run MS...

-Bidah

[Sponsor]

[Hazcat]

Hey Haz- You're just in luck, I live in Seattle and I am getting in my car rightnow to make a trip to his house on lake Washington. i cant promise you much, but I got a loud speaker and a big sign that says Haz Hates You!!! Now since I do CCW. and who knows what kind of weapon decttion system he has there. If he can make a room adjust to your fav temp, and what music you like and all the paintings on the walls change to your prefrences, I am sure he will see my little glock on my waist about a mile away. I hope the guys he has hired from Blackwater dont fly down in a  Little Bird abduct me and use methods to get me to talk about who Haz "really" is.  Either way I hope to make you happy.

Also it is really good to hear from you. I posted a couple times to let someone know I say hi. And I know some other guys have been worried too. I hope you get everything taken care of and its good to hear from you.

Thanks...

And give "Bill" my best!

[Hazcat]

RE:  MAC and Linux here is a song for y'all

http://deadtroll.com/index2.html?/video/ossuckscable.html~content  (give it a second or two to start).

[Big Frank]

If you have any important information on your computer back it up, frequently. Vista has an Automatic File Backup in the System Tools. You set it once and tell it where to back everything up to and you're done. Linux is only used on 1% of desktops and laptops and Windows is used on over 90%, so if you want to be able to run games or other software on your computer use Windows. If you never want to use your computer for anything use Linux. Mac being another minority has some funtionality, but many programs are Windows only. No-one wants to write a progran for every OS so they usually just write one for the 90+% of us in the world that use Windows.

[Outlaw]

Hey Mac, glad to have ya back...Oh, BTW, Bill G. says HI!   

[jaybet]

Howdy Haz! Things were getting a little too polite around here. Glad to see you back online.