The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Lt. Col. Harold G.(Hal) Moore - Sep. 6th, 2003

Army Magazine ^ | November 2002 | Col. Cole C. Kingseed, U.S. Army retired

[colorado tanker]

The "best and brightest" attitude seems to apply to all democrats not just the Kennedy Adminstration.

That party is indeed full of ideas so stupid only an intellectual could believe them, to borrow a phrase.

[SAMWolf]

I saw that line too, thought it was pretty good myself.

[Darksheare]

Macs and I do not mix either.
Under normal usage, I can crash almost anything in record time.
(The exception being the Nintendo Gameboy.)

Currently using my machine, as it is now 'partially complete' with the switching of the OS.
Will have to beat XP's arrogance out of it sooner or later.
(All operating systems assume that you do not know where you want things put and will strive to install things where you don't want it regardless of user input.)

But, I now have my machine back up.
Even if it is like taking a ship to sea with it half completed.

Win98 had a few 'issues' with fast systems.
Win2000 had less issues with fast systems, but usually drivers were minimal in population.
Thankfully, XP has more drivers available and is supposed to have the stability that Win2000 had.
(Unfortunately, I have no experience with Win2000, so this will be a learning experience. I will keep you informed of my discoveries.)

I'm through with most of the trouble, but now have to complete setting it up, wiping the old drive and working the 'teething' problems of a new install out.
*phew*
;-[ vlah! vlah!

[SAMWolf]

Never even considered a Mac, I got into computers for the games and Macs just didin't support the ones I liked.

[Darksheare]

Same here.

That, and I'm the guy who got a MAC to reliably crash under normal usage.
*Shudder*

Linux doesn't have the games I want either, so that's out.
Xp has a few arrogances, like 'idle or unused' icons in your taskbar suddenly are hidden.
You then have to hunt down where to shut that feature off.
Items that are not used also end up getting stuck in a hidden folder.
(Both are shut off at this time.)

But it is still more stable than Win98.
Will be around.

[Soaring Feather]

So great to hear from you!

Wow, what a time you have been having.

I love MACS!! Hate Windows ugh. My laptop has Windows XP.

Hope to have you back on a regular basis soon. :-)

[SAMWolf]

My son's newer, faster, bigger better Dell came this weekend. Now I'm jealous.

[Darksheare]

Macs and I have a hate/hate relationship.
Ever since I crashed one while listening to music and downloading a file at the same time (simple task that even some windows machines freak about.) Macs and I have been at odds.
It was the way it freaked.
It didn't like the download, and nixed it as well as deleting the music I was listening to and crashing out of MacOS.
(It was a friend's machine, and he had been bragging about it being crash proof.)

I am proof that there is no such thing as a crashless machine.
It's been a learning experience in as much as I am now in new territory with WinXP.
I'll be around, alot more than I have been, and will be testing the setup.

Just discovered that XP doesn't like Winamp 2.91's direct sound support.
Hmmm...

[Darksheare]

I'm building this machine piecemeal.
The motherboard was 104 at googlegear.com (49 bucks for 256Mb of Kingston PC2700 DDR)
Free shipping.
I had the tower case for a year sitting empty, 300 Watt power supply, so the board went into there.

The processor is borrowed at the moment, until I save up enough for at least an XP2600. (Anywhere from 104 to 190 bucks, retail in box with AMD approved fan.)
The drives were scrounged from my old systems, ATA 100 drives are still usable, and are not yet obsolete.

The CD rom drive and the CD-RW drive are only UDMA 33 drives, though.
(Cough)

Scratch building a machine yourself is rather entertaining, and can actually be a good hobby once you get good at it. (I'm not THAT good at it yet.)
I DO know people who make money building machiens for people.
I also know people who can get good prices on things.
(Though I have been able to trump their prices once in a blue moon..)

Be jealous of the son's system.
And then build one to stompinate it.
*chuckle*

[SAMWolf]

Be jealous of the son's system.
And then build one to stompinate it.

Some day, maybe. (or I'll just wait a week and his will be obsolete) :-)

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...A1-E Skyraider =

...Planes of Fame Museum-Chino, California

http://www.PlanesofFame.com


Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Chino's Annual Christmas Lights' 'Crazy Dancing' Santa Claus-20 yrs .."HO-HO-HO"..

[ALOHA RONNIE]

..'911 Remembered: RICK RESCORLA was a Soldier'


http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/978534/posts?page=32


NEVER FORGET

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the ping, Ronnie.

For Rick, and Col. Moore.

Moore concluded his remarks by stressing the bond that exists between a commander and his soldiers. When one cadet inquired about the feeling of comrades in arm, Moore’s eyes welled with tears and he said, "When your men die and you don’t, you feel guilty. That’s all I can say about it." Today 37 years after the Battle in the Ia Drang Valley, Moore makes annual pilgrimages to the cemetery at Fort Benning, Ga., where several of his troopers are interred, and to the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, D.C. In the wake of the tragedy of September 11, the old commander, now in his 80th year, paid his respects to Rick Rescorla, a former lieutenant who died in the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Thank you for your service, Ronnie...and your loyalty.

Good thread, SAM. Thank you.

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