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That one is so cool because they had cameras on board that got spectacular footage of the ride to the top! Very nice.

Yeah, baby!

Maybe you've already seen this one. I just came across it randomly. I used to do this stuff as a kid, but never to this kind of scale!

Of course, again, if you have anything pre-Vista, the story might be quite different. XP couldn't really deal well with anything over 2GB, and within that kind of a constraint, a game booster might work wonders. Most people had 32bit Vista, if they had Vista at all, and that was great up to 4GB. 64bit Win7 just took the governor right off the carb so you could go nuts with memory. You're absolutely right, Damage. In the right environment, a booster can be a MAJOR convenience factor. I think by the time you get to 64bit Win7 with anything over 4GB, you're probably just pissing in the wind with it. Exceptions exist, but even those fade as the amount of memory increases. It's worth the investigation, though, to see if it delivers for you. I think this is only a sidenote to Dean's issue, though. CB did you TeamView into his box? What the heck is up in there?

Beers! Happy Birthday, my Friend! Hope you're rocking your day in style. I suppose there will be BEER involved, too. Go nuts. Don't puke. Of course you need some spanking. Pick a Hooters Girl of your choice for that. I ain't going near your ass. I get enough of your gas in the game! That's me off the screen stage right sending you a beer. A toast to another year. Fuck you're getting old! .

Nice, but what's in it?

Or don't. Sorry, Damage. I'm not a fan of IOBit Software at all. Their GameBooster just seemed to muck things up in my system. It works by shutting down stuff a game doesn't need to have running, like systray interfaces to printer utilities and all manner of other things we used to call "TSR" programs (Terminate and Stay Resident.) But in my experience, restarting them later when the game terminates can be messy and problematic. It is frankly quite doubtful that there is any interference from other programs that are running on most computers today that have reasonable amount of memory. Further, Windows - and this is especially true beginning with Vista - is absolutely brilliant at managing memory. Booster programs provide little gain for way too much pain, IMHO. And just to prove a point, I regularly play games when I have spreadsheets, docs, browsers, and all kinds of shit open. Doesn't mess with me at all.

This is a no-brainer. Identity theft, assault and battery, who knows what else - rape perhaps. There is no question here, only action. You go to the police, and you track this son of a bitch down and you prosecute with absolute prejudice. Don't try to reason with her. Just be her hero.

Welcome to the forum, and glad you enjoy our servers! Good to see you owning those dirty shorts, too. God knows I've soiled mine many times in-game. Goes with the territory when you play with Idiots. What games you playing? Maybe I'll see ya around in the COD5 servers. If you're playing somewhere else, what the hell are you thinking, boy?

18 to 36 degrees C is absolutely NORMAL if not on the low side. I have a case temp readout on the front of my box that reads the ambient internal temp in my computer, which currently reads about 21C. Just so happens that's about what the current room temp is, so my case is cycling air pretty well. Speccy reports my video card is currently running at 33C, my CPU at (4-core average) 48C (cpu is overclocked to 128% of rated speed) and the MoBo is reportingf a temp of 41C. My four hard drives are reporting temps of 41, 34, 29, and 44C. My system has been "sitting still" for nearly 2 hours as I just got back from having some dinner and watching TV for a while, and during that time, my computer was on and doing nothing. If you're worried about 18 to 36C, you're worried about the wrong thing.

What IDIOTS - posting a thumbnail instead of the real pic.

Yahoo... Google... I officially request to be known henceforth as "Bing" No. Wait... Most everyone would have expected me to say "Clink!" Well, whatever. Welcome to >XI< Yahoo!

What makes you think your video card is getting hot, Dean? Do you have a temp monitoring app? If not, the one Damage mentioned is okay and has an installer that doesn't have any crapware you need to be careful of accidentally installing. This is the download page for the free version: http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/standard Your graphics card is not going to cause issues with your network card unless their physical proximity is causing some bizarre heat or electrical interference problem. Just because you have the case open and a fan blowing into it doesn't mean you need to really dust stuff off. I just took my internet radio station down the other night and blew the dust out of it. The CPU heatsink/fan was horribly clogged. Surprising it ran at all, but I can't turn the thing off very often for cleaning as that takes me "off the air," so to speak. Have to do it from time to time though, no matter what. I also cleaned my main desktop, too. The one I game on. Although it had been cleaned more recently, there was a ton of dust in that one, too. My video card isn't all that old; it's my 660TI. When I blew it out, there was a lot of dust accumulated in it. It even has a feature that runs the fans in reverse at high speed for 30 seconds on power-up just to back-draft accumulated dust in its heatsinks. So it's clear that a can of compressed air is a good investment every now and then. How old is your system. I'm wondering about the potential for failing capacitors or voltage regulators that could be causing excessive heat problems. But other than that, accumulated dust is about the only thing that's going to cause an unnatural temperature rise in your system. And even that should be predictable - that is to say, if it happens one day after running for so long, it should do about the same thing the next day under similar usage conditions since the amount of accumulated dust isn't going to change enough from one day to the next. What specifically are your temps, and when do they go nuts?

A pirate walked into a bar with a steering wheel on his penis, and he asks for a drink. The bartender says "Okay, coming right up, but i can't help but notice there is a steering wheel on your penis!" and the pirate says, "Argh - I know, its been driving me nuts!"

HA HA HA HA - I get it !!!

What's my opinion? Too Much Butter !!!

Merci, Frenchi - Dans plusieurs millions d'années, je suppose Wisconsin et la France se réuniront dans une zone de subduction sous la mer. Ensuite, nous pouvons travailler ensemble. Et d'ici là, nous aurons du pain sur pour nous!

I have considered that, but always wondered about the exterior electrical requirements and building/electrical codes. Also, as the picture hints at, there is a 6' utility easement across the back of the lot for buried utility lines. The pond/marsh forms right where the utility lines run underground. That said, I could find a place in the middle of the yard to install such a sump well. By that reckoning, though, I could also jack-hammer out a couple of holes in my basements and just put in a sump well without the tile system. The dry basement contractors don't want to do that because they claim that it's pointless to have a well without a tile system and it just won't work. Personally, I think they just want the money that the whole job would bring in.

That's what she said... No, you Idiot, that's what HE said. Now stop it!

Oh, and who let the Russian Spammer in here? Johnny Depp?

Wow! There's three minutes of my life I'll never get back.

I was quoted somewhere around $16K to do both basements. That's a pretty big expense. And, although you can re-coop the money you put into a kitchen or bathroom remodel when you go to sell later on, you cannot get money back on a dry-basement project. A dry basement is something that's assumed and doesn't otherwise enhance the value of a home like a contemporary remodel of any of the finished living space does. Frequency of these kinds of events, or ones that end up with water seepage into the basements is roughly once every 2 to 3 years. It's been twice already this year, but it's been 2 years since the last episode before that.

Hmm. You got me thinking with that one LaBob. However, the main issue is that the area that's wet back there is an area that the county hydrogeological maps show as "partially anaerobic soil." In other words, it's a known periodic swamp or pond. The basements can seep even when there is no visible water in the back yard. Today is an extreme case, but in others, the local water table might be several inches below the topsoil, but high enough to cause seepage into the basement.

This is what I get after as much rain as we've gotten here in Wisconsin. This is in the evening, and the last round of storms was very early in the morning, so it's had about 12 hours to dissipate some. It was much more like a pond this morning than like the swamp it is now. This is how I end up with seepage into the basements. Damn the builder for not putting in a sump!

Does it work in Chrome? Do you have Firefox auto update on? Current Firefox version is 21.0. Note that Firefox, on its Help menu, has a "restart with add-ons disabled" selection. Try that. Does the shout box work then? If so, it's an add-on. Go back to all enabled as normal, then turn them off one at a time (last one you added first if you recall) till you find the culprit.