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Re: Personal message for Dan

 

Re: Personal message for Dan

 

:) Big grin!

 

Dave

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"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message

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> Please!

>

> --

> Gary S. Terhune

> MS-MVP Shell/User

> http://grystmill.com

>

> "~BD~" <~BD~@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

> news:eTcmsucAJHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>> Hi Dan :)

>>

>> In case of doubt, I was being serious. I PM'd the administrator of our

>> group (Jenn) and she has replied as follows:-

>>

>> "sure he can join, but I'd need to know the username he'd be using. I've

>> been blocking a bot that auto joins by blocking the nicknames it uses...

>> sooo .. if I know what Dan's nickname is going to be I can make sure I

>> don't block that combination of letters and allow him to join".

>>

>> It's a very small group - and I'm sure that you will be made most

>> welcome.

>>

>> Will you join us ............ please? <smile> If you do, what nickname

>> will be used? I'll pass on the message.

>>

>> It cost nothing but time to take a looksee anyway!

>>

>> Dave

>>

>> --

>>

>>

>> "~BD~" <~BD~@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

>> news:%23gvt9gQAJHA.4852@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>>> Dan - Hi!

>>>

>>> Gary thinks *I'm* an idiot too! <wink!>

>>>

>>> Please pop over to http://www.pqlr.org/bbs and join me and fellow outcasts,

>>> mostly Christians too. :)

>>>

>>> Dave

>>>

>>> --

>>>

>>> "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>>> news:9EA9D509-0E03-4DA6-92F9-C3A0716E8EF2@microsoft.com...

>>>> <responses left below and only removed previously to shorten posts and

>>>> lesson

>>>> confusion at least to me>

>>>>

>>>> You will always be in my thoughts and prayers even if you cannot read

>>>> this

>>>> Gary S. Terhune.

>>>>

>>>> BTW, I was diagnosed with a learning disability at age 6 and so have

>>>> never

>>>> been completely normal and never will be and I have learned to thank

>>>> God for

>>>> the challenges that the Creator God has given me and can now rise to

>>>> the

>>>> occasion to get my house in order and try and always build up others

>>>> where I

>>>> can. This is what is lacking in the States (the U.S.A.) is that we

>>>> keep

>>>> trying to fix other people's problems when we are having lots of

>>>> problems

>>>> that are not getting fully dealt with like in the case of Hurricane

>>>> Katrina

>>>> and its aftermath.

>>>>

>>>> Thyroid Disease is not fun and I would not wish or hope for my worst

>>>> enemy

>>>> to ever have it and I would say it is up there with brain cancer and or

>>>> Al

>>>> timer's Disease because it jacks with all of your systems and does

>>>> indeed

>>>> make you completely crazy as I was in the past.

>>>>

>>>> Remember the radiation treatment which was delivered by x-rays was in

>>>> 1990

>>>> and mainly on the right side of the thyroid which was removed by Mike,

>>>> the

>>>> surgeon in New Mexico but it is fine with me if no one believes me

>>>> anymore

>>>> because I can hardly believe it myself. In addition, I now freely

>>>> admit to

>>>> having lied and posted using Art's Computer in Tucson, Arizona because

>>>> I have

>>>> dealt with my Fear of being afraid of man and woman more but I will

>>>> continue

>>>> to deal with this great fear for the rest of my life.

>>>>

>>>> I can only hope and pray that God will continue to strengthen me for

>>>> the

>>>> future. I do not judge anyone for not believing in my Christian God

>>>> but all

>>>> I ask is that you have Faith in something greater than yourselves so

>>>> you will

>>>> not fall into pride and whether it be another great being or even an

>>>> alien

>>>> then at least it can give you the hope to live day by day.

>>>>

>>>> I am in my 30's and living day by day and finally starting to really

>>>> enjoy

>>>> life and knowing that people that I know on-line are only on-line like

>>>> Brad

>>>> Paisley says in his song that he can be anyone on-line and so I sinned

>>>> and

>>>> know now I was wrong and humbly repent and hope that at least some of

>>>> you can

>>>> have mercy upon me but even if not I know that my God finds this

>>>> wretched and

>>>> broken body and mind and soul and spirit acceptable to Him and only if

>>>> He

>>>> would let me meet Him quickly but for some reason God has decided to

>>>> keep

>>>> little old Dan around not that it matters much but that is all to say

>>>> and so

>>>> take care all of you and stay safe out there boys and girls.

>>>>

>>>> "Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> Yup. Sounds like Dan. And if so, what you get it's pure lunacy,

>>>>> regardless

>>>>> of the it's nature. Lately, it's occurred to me that his is a serious

>>>>> case

>>>>> of MPD (they're calling it something else these days, but I forget.)

>>>>> He

>>>>> belongs permanently institutionalized. There is no cure. I have also

>>>>> seen

>>>>> indicators of a homicidal personality. I learned that years ago. And

>>>>> about

>>>>> his pathological lying (and I'm speaking in purely clinical terms,

>>>>> here.)

>>>>>

>>>>> I'm serious, if you're talking about Dan, as far as I can tell from

>>>>> this

>>>>> distance, he's a danger to himself and others and should be

>>>>> institutionalized, at gunpoint if necessary. I've been around enough

>>>>> of

>>>>> them, I know.

>>>>>

>>>>> And that's as far as I go until you somehow switch from using MIME QP

>>>>> to

>>>>> something else. When you use MIME QP, my OE cannot add "indentation"

>>>>> marks

>>>>> to "included" content. Therefore, it limits me to top-posting only,

>>>>> and

>>>>> while I am generally a top-poster anyway, I won't be limited to it

>>>>> unless

>>>>> there is absolutely no other way. I used to use MIME QP to keep

>>>>> hyperlinks

>>>>> from breaking for people who used certain other types of newsreaders.

>>>>> I was

>>>>> finally convinced that the advantages are greatly outweighed by the

>>>>> disadvantages caused to others, and the resulting bad will, due to the

>>>>> lack

>>>>> of distinction between one person's text and another's.

>>>>>

>>>>> --

>>>>> Gary S. Terhune

>>>>> MS-MVP Shell/User

>>>>> http://grystmill.com

>>>>>

>>>>> "Robert A. Macy" <macy@california.com> wrote in message

>>>>> news:6d37e888-ae2b-4277-a715-1f7d4fb53f6b@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com...

>>>>> On Aug 10, 3:48 pm, "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote:

>>>>> > When you don't leave the previous content of the thread in your

>>>>> > post,

>>>>> > nobody

>>>>> > has the slightest idea who or what you're responding to. In my case,

>>>>> > lots

>>>>> > of

>>>>> > idiots get blocked, and from the sounds of it, this one was called

>>>>> > Dan. A

>>>>> > lying mental patient, escaped from the asylum.

>>>>> >

>>>>> > Or, in the case of the msnews news server, lots of posts get dumped

>>>>> > for no

>>>>> > reason at all. So leave at least two or three in complete.

>>>>>

>>>>> Too bad it was blocked it contained accolades about you, an apology

>>>>> specifically addressed to you [i think], and a detailed explanation

>>>>> [did not seem like an excuse, but an explanation] of the reason for

>>>>> his inappropriate previous interaction with you.

>>>>>

>>>>> So this time I left a few lines., regarding getting on line with this

>>>>> last system...

>>>>>

>>>>> I am pursuing installing a modem driver that is EXACTLY for the dialup

>>>>> modem installed in the faulty system. I've found two, but neither

>>>>> seem exactly correct for this WinXP

>>>>>

>>>>> the modem is

>>>>> Aztech Systems MDP 3880W(B)

>>>>> 1NA-IDN-A22-99-0577

>>>>>

>>>>> containing Conexant chip:

>>>>> RH56D-PCI

>>>>> R6795-12

>>>>> F21204.6

>>>>> 0008

>>>>>

>>>>> I'll keep looking.

>>>>>

>>>>> I can't believe an inadequate driver caused the problem because the

>>>>> thing didn't work, worked perfectly for a session, then stopped

>>>>> working, never worked again. It was that 'worked perfectly for a

>>>>> session' that is confusing to me.

>>>>>

>>>>> But, as you said, step by step.

>>>>>

>>>>> It's possible there is some 'residual' antivirus in this machine. But

>>>>> I don't see any vestige of it. At least when I hit ctl-alt-del it does

>>>>> not show up.

>>>>>

>>>>> From past experience, when I brought up the other WinXP, everything

>>>>> almost worked only to find that

>>>>> 1) generic modem driver did NOT make it dial at all [different modem]

>>>>> 2) had to make certain that the WinXP Network something was started

>>>>> manually before installing the Network connection.

>>>>>

>>>>> After installing the correct driver and starting the Network Manager

>>>>> manually before setting up, that WinXP system keeps working.

>>>>> Hmmm....didn't think of this - swap modems. much to do, much to do.

>>>>>

>>>>> In the system that doesn't work, any idea why the

>>>>> ipconfig /flushdns

>>>>> hung up the command window? and seemed to do nothing?

>>>>>

>>>>> After I square away a few more basics, I'll be back with information

>>>>> to share, and probably ask again.

>>>>>

>>>>> Robert

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>

>>>

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