Hi friends, I'm having big problems on my PC and I'm on my brother's one, but I may solve them today. I'm experiencing problems with the site, it seems to block when, for example , I try to load all the emoticons page. I'll contact the support at godaddy or I'll change hosting company in a couple of days, however the problem will be hopefully solved in the weekend.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I'll be back

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The problem that I have with the site is for example when I open the page with all the smilies, the page freezes after a while and the whole site too I've contacted godaddy and waiting for a reply. Meanwhile I'll be offline fixing my problem with the pc, I've to give back this one to my brother 'cause she have to do homeworks for university. ttyl friends

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... no, Tormie, no cry. Everything's gonna be allright...
I know, you'll get it fixed, as allways

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I hope that all will be fixed very soon my friend!

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Here we go!

My PC is fixed, the bad news is that I've to reinsatll a lot of programs like Poser, obviously   (But nothing has been lost   ). The site seems to run smoothly now

I'll be home for some days, while I'll clean the house and do homework I'll try to begin the celebretion for our 4th annyversay and hopefull do make a picture with Posy  

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I will bookmark the URL and have a look.

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I won the Loebner prize !

Thanks      

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Here we go!

Happy to have you back

I just uninstalled the crappy Vista   and reinstalled XP, I'll tell you why tonight, lol

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I wiped another Vista today, too
A friend of mine bought a new PC on monday, an Vista was preinstalled. Almost none of the application she is used to work with would work. So she needed her XP back, too.
Worst thing was, Sims2 wasn't working, and she'd die without it   

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My "Wolfenstein" copy had the same problem       so...

However, the difference from Xp don't worth the upgrade, plus it has some more security characteristic resulting only in annoying and boring continue requests to the users, like 2 popups windows when you have to delete a file   ... You can even turn off that thing but the system wants it on and continue to ask you to turn it on... I have a wireless connection to the router here but with Vista it doesn't work fine, for example with online games (a lot of "disconnected" pop ups). I resolved this thing in XP using the driver of the company that made the wireless card, but it is impossible in Vista and it's nearly impossible to change the parameters too. Poser freezed because of (I think) the vdeo card driver that can't be tuned in Vista (no modified drivers have been yet released). I turned back to XP, just reinstalled a lot of things (It took very very long...) and I think I'll wait for the next O.S.      

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I've been playing a bit with a program called VMware recently. It builds a virtual computer with all own (emulated) hardware inside windows. On this machine you can run test installations of OSs without any harm for the host sytem. I.e I've installed a complete UBUNTU Linux, another mini Linux with only a firefox and some other web applications installed for extra safe surfing, and an old plain dos installation for some veeery old games, too It's fun and makes sense at the same time

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this is great Andreas sometimes I use the MAME emulator for old fashioned bar-game like the original Pacman and Willam's Defender. I've a Linux Knoppix disk that I use sometimes

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I've been using Microsoft's "Virtual PC" software for the same thing... and also because I've got a bizaare affection for my ancient old DOS 3D rendering software "Imagine" and can't help hauling it out for occasional use.  There are still some things I can do with it when editing object meshes that are just too fiddly when using 3D Studio MAX.

As for Vista, my PC has been working fairly reliably - give or take an unhappy ATI RAEDON card - under XP for 4 years now.  I'm not gonna tamper with that.  Especially as I have multiple XP boot partitions set up. One for games, one for CGI, and my main one for net and entertaiment use.  Add to that my old Amiga emulator, my even older Atari 8-bit emulator, and my incredibly ancient PDP-11, IBM 360 and VAX emulators, the last thing I need is another OS!

Then of course there is MAME and all the console emulators as well.  Sheesh.

Makes you wonder how people got by without computers, though.

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Am I the only one who thinks they named it Windows because it is a major pane? BA-DUM BOOM!!