[Tigers] [Land-speed] OFF Topic: Desk Top Computer Question Involving a Farkled Win XP Pro OS

[Larry Mayfield]

And yet another one piles on.... with my tongue firmly in my cheek, I 
ask, "What's a spell checker?"   Let's consider, well,  is there one 
that can check =whether or not the person is having a "spell"?. Much 
like being sick ( a period of being unwell?)?  A financial bad spell ( a 
period of time)?  Or a bad spell of weather (like a drought)?  Spells 
can obviously be a period of bad things happening.  Or in this case, 
notice that just about everything quoted below was indeed spelled 
correctly.  ANS is abbreviation for answer, i is just lower case I, on 
is correctly spelled, eof is end of file abbreviation and he is 
correctly spelled.  So, do I need a "Spell checker to see if I am 
functioning, a spell checker to see if the weather is bad or that I am 
running out of money or conversely having a good spell in financial 
matters, or if the words I used were spelled correctly.  Perhaps what I 
really need is a context checker AND a spell checker combined...  I am 
sure that one exists somewhere and that I need it and you all will send 
me a link to where it maybe found.

What I REALLY need is a new computer, lol.   The one I am using right 
now is a unit I put together from parts I acquired. It is a P3 Pentium,  
and not much memory.  I put it together to be my data acquisition  
computer for shop use. It has some legacy card slots for some old 
instrument boards I have.  The computer that went toes up, twice since 
2010, is a Dell I purchased new in 2000.  It had a whopping 256MB RDRAM, 
Win ME, and I have been upgrading hardware and software all along.  It 
had a Pentium 4 at 1.3 GHz speed. I added memory to bring it to 512 MB 
RDRAM. When the first farkle hit, I purchased a used eBay MOBO that had 
a 2.0 GHz CPU and 2 GB of memory on it.   And some where along the way, 
I went from Win ME to WIn XP Pro SP3 and larger hard drives.  What I 
want is a HP Z1 work station, lol...  Sadly, I wont be getting that 
either.   What's interesting is that I could purchase the Z1 today for 
the same price as I paid for the Dell.

I am pretty happy that I am of sound mind (mostly) and can do the 
required stuff to keep it all running.  My other platforms are: 
Panasonic Toughbook, Acer Netbook, Toshiba Satellite (3.2 Ghz hyper 
threading laptop with no memory, lol), and a Gateway P4 system that I 
inherited from a deceased family member.  Add to that is my internal 
network as everything is connected via routers, ethernet or wireless, 
including several printers.  I have plans to build a shop network that 
is connected to my Cisco gateway coupled to my Cisco dual band N 
router.  I have the parts if I can just quit fooling around with race cars.

so, please cut me some slack. I am not doing too bad for an old fart, lol...

this is fun

mayf

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On 5/21/2012 7:03 AM, Rense, Mark (GE, Appl & Light) wrote:
> Might need to re-install the spell checker though.....
> :>)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark J Bradakis
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:29 PM
> To: land-speed at autox.team.net; tigers at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] [Land-speed] OFF Topic: Desk Top Computer Question
> Involving a Farkled Win XP Pro OS
>
> Larry Mayfield wrote:
>> ans i is fully functional again! It was not easy at all.  In on eof he
>>
> Keyboard works great!
>
> mjb.