Post #153,972
5/6/04 1:22:01 AM
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When I'm helping people with computer troubles...
I always plan my visits to be around dinner time. Works a treat - more often than not, food and beer :)
Which reminds me I'd best go and pre-emptively fix my Mum's and brother's PCs...
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #153,982
5/6/04 2:34:11 AM
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Indeed.. dinnert time is Best :-)
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Post #153,989
5/6/04 6:00:17 AM
5/6/04 6:04:54 AM
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Got offered a case of wine 2 months back after ...
Installing a WiFi setup for one of the non-IT managers at work. I didn't know
whether to take him seriously or not ( helped him choose a WiFi 4-port router, ordered it for him as well as called in after work & set it up). I settled for 2 bottles of wine :-) - also ordered same model for a divisional manger (his office next to the other guy) but his son had enough net savvy to work from some notes I gave him. (PS Netgear WGR624 - both people have cable installed at home).
In a couple of weeks am going to run a couple of lunch-time seminars on setting up
home WiFi network.
Quid-pro-quo works fine for me.
Doug
PS Ash, that SMC Barricade from BBrown worked fine once I realised I needed a reverse connection cable for the wan port (my newer 802.11g routers & 4-port hub all have auto-sense & can adapt). Barricade is such a nice robust model. The D-Link too was fabulous as it works magnificently with my BPC cable connection).
Edited by dmarker
May 6, 2004, 06:04:54 AM EDT
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Post #154,002
5/6/04 9:11:45 AM
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I have an 'arrangement' with my local bistro.
The owner has computer problems, I fix 'em, she opens up a tab for me. I've gotten some very nice meals out of this.
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It is much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why?
Because it is easier to give someone the finger than it is to give them a helping hand.
Mike Royko
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Post #154,003
5/6/04 9:15:46 AM
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Neighbor is an accountant
I do his computers, he does my taxes.
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #154,023
5/6/04 10:36:18 AM
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hope you are all declaring this income :-)
attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams
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Post #154,086
5/6/04 2:00:36 PM
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Uhhh, Box...?
This one's fer you, buddy:
<raspberry> :-\ufffd </raspberry>
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #154,092
5/6/04 2:16:16 PM
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Trouble is Box is right
It's called the Barter System, and it is reportable. Basically, y'all been postin' to this here public forum 'bout how yer evadin' yer taxes.
naughty naughty.
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Post #154,093
5/6/04 2:18:10 PM
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thats why I donate x barter dollars to charity
I always claim a few hun as miscellanious income which is covered by my charitable contributions which I dont need receipts for. Its a wash but no PO'd person is gonna make any anonymous tips on my ass.
thanx,
bill
attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams
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