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Jul 21, 2002, 7:41pm

Hi everyone:

I just downloaded a neat little program (at least I *hope* I did) called
V-chat from Microsoft. I'm wondering if it's worth keeping or not....

So far I can't even connect to the main server, which is
vchatsrv.microsoft.com

Anyone know of any other servers in the MS V-Chat universe???

Cheers for now everyone :-)

Patrick

Aug 6, 2002, 3:55am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] WHOA Dude!!! YOU are taking this WAY too seriously.

> Here is a little news tip...

And here's a little tip for you which *isn't* news....

SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP!!!! You obviously need it...

Patrick

Aug 6, 2002, 4:21am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Ohhhh is THAT what that thing under the Riverside Expressway is????

Thought it looked a little funny....

Ohh no....wait a minute....We're talkin' about GOOBERTOWN aren't we???

Or was it Syntax' and Derek's bridge north of SW City????

I *must* be LOST... :-) *LOL!*

Patrick

Aug 6, 2002, 4:57am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] I think Ohhhmy is referring to HIS OWN condition. Not Goober's....

> 1 - There was no law for helping people like me until the early 1990's =
> I'm in my 40's plus...

I'm 36, so what's the point???

> 2 - There was no test for the finding out of this disease until 1972 = I
> was 22 then and had gone through HIGH SCHOOL.
>
> 3 - Up until about the middle 1990's the only form of treatment was the
> injection needle [about a 2 inch needle] and delivered to the mussel.
> Usually it is best in the thigh BUT when you do it you yourself youcan't
> reach that far to reach your own BUTT. So you do it in your upper legs.

Ohhhmy....You seemingly have experience in thia area yourself ....

Poor man....

> PROBLEM with that was after every dose you very nicely put your leg out of
> commission for a few days at a time. When i say out of commission i means
> that it goes numb and when you try to move it for stepping up stairs or
> getting into OR out of vehicles it hurts so much that you have to CARRY it
> up over curbs, into & out of vehicles. You could walk... But sitting and
> getting up meant you didn't use the bum leg any.

See above.

> 4 - The Patch was developed about mid 1995 BUT like it's cigerette
> version... It is to be left on 24 hrs a day. When you sweat it falls off.
> It's a royal pain in the REAR to keep the Patch on. Then in 01/2000 they
> now have the GEL. It goes on like underarm roll on and in 2 minutes flat
> takes care of your daily dose for the day.

That's what you get for listening to all the lies the tobacco industry fed
to America back in the '50s.

"Easy On The Throat" - Yeah right....

> BUT dealing with this medicine is NASTY indeed... You need a dr's Postie
> note script once every 30 days to obtain your new 30 day supply. The GEL
> only cost $150.00 for a 30 day supply. It contains 5 mg per day = 150 mg
> per month. BUT this medication is what is very much needed to maintain
> your appearance of "ACTING NORMAL"
> This medication is what drives many people into other countries... WHY?
> Because it is treated almost like smoking POT is... BUT it is just barely
> legal in the USA. Many other countries arn't so stuck up on this type of
> medication as the USA is and so many people that take this med decide to
> skip out of the USA to a more liberal country.
> the constant daily, monthly mess that people who take this type of
> medication sometimes decide to hell with it and let nature take it's
> course. [Chucks Party decided to do it that way. Tooooo much trouble]

So contact your HMO. They're listed in the Yellow Pages, ya know....

> WHat are the effects?
>
> 1 - Diabetes is one...
>
> 2 - Having open leg wounds in a constant way is another.
>
> 3 - Being in the hospital many times per year is another.
>
> 4 - Not being able to hold down a JOB and having to live off of WELFARE or
> if they get lucky like me can qualify for Social Security Dissability
> Income.

THIS is an EFFECT???? Looks more lioke an EXCUSE to me.....

> NOT having the medication...
>
> well.... All sorts of things happen.

Yeah, like YOU flying off the handle as you did earlier....

> What you read about is only the
> average to light KNOWN things that have been found.

Ohh....there's a SCIENCE to this???? Seems pretty ELEMENTARY to me Mr.
Watson.....

But there are certain
> degrees of DOWNS SYNDRONE. From very light to downright dead serious.

Ohhh PUH-LEAZE!!!! Surely you could've left THIS part out.....

> Mine is VERY serious if not treated. NOT downright dead serious... But
> try and telling a victim of CANCER that your disease is nothing to be
> concerned about when they have noticed they now don't have any hair left
> and they will laugh at you. It's the same way with this.

Do you REALLY have ANY idea just what Downs Syndrome REALLY is??? I
seriously doubt it...

If it is serious
> enough for people to DISCRIMINATE YOU... It is serious illness.

No. It is IGNORANCE!!! Plain and simple. GET THE FACTS **BEFORE** POSTING
CRAP LIKE THIS!!! This holds true with ANY disability.

> [[[Silly as it may seem to the people of today... But in 1970 i have been
> DISCRIMINATED because of this disease.

Dude.....WAKE UP & SMELL THE COFFEE!!!! This is the year 2002. QUIT
DWELLING ON THE PAST!!!

Much like people with AIDS are
> today]]]

See above.

> Because i have been afflicted with this i had for over 4 yrs a web forum
on
> http://www.delphi.com Set it up about 06/1998 and at that time there was
> only 3 info centers about Klienfelters on the internet and ONE Email Info
> about it.

Gee...With crap like what *I've* dissected so far, I wonder WHY.... Could
it be that people are seeing RIGHT THROUGH your BS???? Gee...It appears
tbhat way....

> The forum is still there but trying to get it's message out was rather a
> mess... Can't post ADULT SUBJECT MATTER but it is educational medical
> adult matter NOT to be confused with ADULT SEX SITE stuff.

EDUCATIONAL???? HA!!!!!

> Tecnically... i am an adult. But my attitudesd can be controlled by
> medication.

Yeah. It's called GETTING _FACTUAL_ INFORMATION.

> Getting that medication is one huge hassle.

You can get it quite easily from your doctor, HMO or the AMA if you just
MAKE THE EFFORT TO DO SO!!!

I can't afford
> the monthly fee AND all of my other medications. SO medicare pays it. I
> pay a certain part of my income to medicare to help me. If i don't pay
> medicare by ??/01/?? [That translates to you people NOT IN THE USA...
the
> First day of any month my portion of what i owe... THEN when i do pay it
> takes 10 - 15 days before i can obtain more medication. That might sound
> easy. Just pay on the first of the month. Fine.

Blah...blah....blah....

Dude....As I said before. You need professional help - DESPERATELY!! Seek
it and, while you're at it, spare the rest of us you boring, PATHETIC and
LAME ASS EXCUSES for NOT having a life. We're not to blame for your
failures. YOU are. And you can only overcome those failures by TRYING
AGAIN!!!

If you want to devote a world to your "worthy cause", that's fine. Just
don't expect anybody to care enough to stop by.

Oh yeah...One final note. You might wanna try calling RENT-A-LIFE. You can
call 'em at 1-800-RENT-A-LIFE 24 hours a day (Source - The Yellow Pages).

For the rest of those in the ActiveWorlds Community....Cheers for now
everyone :-)

Patrick

Aug 6, 2002, 5:04am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] > OhhhhhMy has livened up the place BY FAR!!!!!!!!!
>
> LMFAO!!!!!!

Ohh NO...And *I* thought Filmkr was BAD but THIS guy makes Filmkr look
AWFULLY DAMN GOOD right now....

Patrick

Aug 7, 2002, 12:46am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Not really. :-)

Though I found it quite ironic that, as I was traveling up Syntax' road
(facing West) while on my back to my hometown from SW City the other night
(I backtracked Syntax), there was a HUGE hill just a little ways west of
Ballodon City, yet there was nothing but bare ground underneath it.

I seemingluy recall a rather large body of water.rwx there. Mebbe Syntax
should've left it there 'cause if he had, this idiot wouldn't have been
virtually unearthed. :-)

Then too, this wacko sounds like he could probaby DRINK a REAL body of water
that size if ya follow his logic... *Hint...Hint*

Though, I'll be happy to 'gram ya asking for that broom should I spot
anything unusual laying around along the Riverside Expressway. :-)

Cheers for now everyone :-)

Patrick

Aug 19, 2002, 8:33pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Uhh.....because it's a COMMUNITY thing??? Could THAT be it???
Uhh....err.....umm....I think so....

Patrick

Aug 19, 2002, 9:21pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Who will do WHAT with it?? Paint the STATE FLAG on it??? How 'bout the
Stars and Stripes??? :-) *LOL!*

PC Hamster

Aug 26, 2002, 3:33am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Yep!! You're right Goober. Just look at the DOZENS of 'em trying to make
FILE SHARING legal (and the Recording Industry's response to the issue and
you'd see what we Live365 Broadcasters are up against.

NOT a pretty picture..... :-(

> Still, I seem to remember hearing somewhere that they were going to get
> rid of the whole special commands BS and open up everything. (Though,
> that could also be more wishful thinking) I was talking to Brant about
> it a little while ago, and he claims that AWTeen has *never* had a
> move/rotate related vandalism problem EVER. And you'd think that would
> be the *first* place where such trouble would arise!

Umm.....You haven't seen some small, isolated sections of AlphaWorld have
you??? Tom Huxton, Indecoticas and I all know of one such place. Right
guys??? :-(

Granted, AW isn't a 3.3 world like AWTeen is, but just take the problems of
AWTeen and multiply them by a factor of AT LEAST two and you have
AlphaWorld.

However though, these "builds" (thankfully!) encompass less than .01 percent
of all the towns and other builds on AlphaWorld, which, coupled with the
fact that AW is only about 12% full, would make AlphaWorld ideal for
upgrading.

The problem is that certain people do NOT want to see AlphaWorld upgraded.
They *claim* it's in the name of HISTORY, but I'm sure even Mountain Myst
(Kellee) knows that this argument can't hold up for much longer.

In fact Kellee, wasn't it you who called for the REMOVAL of AlphaWorld some
several months back??? Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong...

I *still* think Al;phaWorld CAN be upgraded, but ONLY if people would allow
the axis to make this possible.

Please feel free on any of the details, however I stand by the base argument
that AlphaWorld CAN be upgraded. :-)

Cheers for now everyone :-)

PC Hamster

Nov 30, 2002, 2:14am

Hi everyone:
[View Quote] Plus with Yahoo!, your video is really little more than a dinky little
screen on a webpage stored ON GEOCITIES.

I have MSN Messenger Or Windows Messenger as some like to call it) and I
can't wait till MS finally GIVES UP THE GHOSTT on that STUPID NetMeeting
program and adds some REAL video software which DOES NOT depend on some
directory server.

But alas....Leave it to MS to find a way to make things more difficult than
they have to be (and create more and more security "loopholes" in the
process) :-(

PC Hamster

Nov 30, 2002, 2:23am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] WHY have it enabled in AIM if you (apparently!) don't even have it enabled
within OE itself??? That's most likely why you're getting error messages.

Plus, if you've got a broadband pipe like I do, you only need to enable it
within OE anyways.

Such REDUNDANCY....

PC Hamster

Nov 30, 2002, 12:56am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] This says it all. Laptops aren't really very useful for such grahically
intense programs like AW as they just don't have the horsepower needed to
run them like many desktops do. A Desktop lacking horsepower, like mine,
does pretty much the same thing (Mine is also a P4 on XP Home, but it only
has 128 MB of RAM).

Laptops also lack the monitor resolution capabilities that desktops have as
well. So therefore, you've got a double-whammy working against ya.

I could be wrong though, but I do believe this *could* be your problem.....

Cheers for now & Happy Holidays :-)

PC Hamster

Jan 27, 2003, 10:16pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] I'd also throw in Noelle as well. She too was ALWAYS helpful whenever she
could.

> 'tis a sad day for Active Worlds.

True, but I'm sure someone else will step up to the plate to take Flagg's
place (even if it's ENZO himself). :-)

Cheers for now :-)

Patrick Cook
pchamster at attbi.com
Denver, Colorado

Feb 8, 2003, 2:45pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] What disturbs me is the NUMBER of people who get on AlphaWorld ALONE. To
illustrate my point, there are now only 41 people on Alphaworld. How many
of those do you wanna guess are probably at GZ?? Five?? Ten??

Maybe it's due to the fact that it's 11:36 AM ET on a Saturday Morning and
some people are sleeping in. Maybe there are a few people on New AW. I
dunno, but one thing IS for certain, AlphaWorld's numbers are DROPPING (like
a rock!).

So, WHY am I building there you say??? Maybe its to have a place of my own
to chat WITHOUT having to endure the expense of owning a world. But
Hamsterville will soon be open, in earnest, to builders (it's already listed
on UTN). One can only hope that AWI will have the sense to allow tourists
(WITHOUT building rights, of course) back on (what will soon be known as)
the old AW. I'd hate to think that nearly a year's worth of building was
somehow all in vain. :-(

Anyhow....Just my opinion FWIW.....

Patrick Cook
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
pchamster at attbi.com
Denver, Colorado (My REAL city :-))

May 3, 2003, 1:07am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Looks as though the Validator needs to be updated to reflect the way web
pages and websites are made TODAY as opposed to back when IE and Netscape
were still in 3.x and EVERYTHING was in 16 bit.....

Just a thought... :-)

Patrick

May 3, 2003, 1:10am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Uhh Wayne (I know 77 personally), I hate to break it to you, but there's
really not an upgrade past Netscape 7.0 (thank god AOL has SOME mercy on our
souls :-) *knocking on wood*). *LOL!*

Patrick

May 3, 2003, 1:17am

Hi everyone:


[View Quote] Just curious Goober....If AWNews is YOUR OWN website, then HOW is it you DO
NOT have any control over the registration issue??

FWIW...I registered, but I'm curious...

Curiously Yours (and everyone else's too :-)),

Patrick

May 3, 2003, 1:31am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] It just goes to show how QUICKLY AlphaWorld was practically abandoned at the
Corporate level by the old AWCorp and was left that way when AWI took over
last year.... :-(

> Besides that I only see the community getting smaller and the amounts of
> worlds going down.... weird... Well I'll keep watching the moving
clouds
> we have nowadays, no-one left to talk to anyway...

If ya go about 30-35 miles (or roughly 5000 meters) to the North, you just
might catch ME building away in Hamsterville. :-)

BTW....Out of curiosity, here's a couple math questions to challenge the
mathmeticians amongst us (and to jog my now-half-mushrrom of a brain with).

1). How many meters are there in a mile?
2). To post a sign announcing mileage between two towns using an oddball
direction (such as NW), I assume I add up the total mileage in both
directions and divide by 2. Am I correct on this?

The reason I ask this is becuase I have a sign at the very southern tip of
Blankaborg and I would love VERY MUCH to convert the distance in meters to
distance in miles to keep it AT LEAST fairly consistent with the other signs
in the Blankaborg Metro area. :-)

Thanks a bunch in advance for the answers & Cheers for now :-)

Patrick Cook (e.g. PC Hamster)
pchamster at attbi.com
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))

May 5, 2003, 2:31am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Nevertheless, I don't think it's much of a secret that AlphaWorld is HARDLY
AWI's "Pride & Joy" world today like it was just a couple years ago. Having
said that, I fail to see why AWI doesn't allow tourists onto AW (even
without building rights). Hopefully the results of this poll will force
them to revisit the issue as I think AWI will soon find out that allowing
tourists back onto AW, but WITHOUT building rights, isn't as bad of an idea
as they might think it is now.

Just my opinion.... :-)

Patrick Cook (e.g. PC Hamster)
Mayor - City of Hamsterville
pchamster at attbi.com
Denver, Colorado

May 9, 2003, 6:33am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] How is THIS off topic Brock??? This newsgroup is about the ActiveWorlds
Community (which INCLUDES stuff from AWTeen).

Unless I'm suddenly mistaken..... :-/

Cheers for now :-)

Patrick

Jun 20, 2003, 10:44pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] I noticed that too.

But what *I* would like to know is HOW do you "forge" A KEYBOARD?!?!?!?

ROTFLMAO! :-)

PC Hamster


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Jul 4, 2003, 6:55am

......WHAT is up with the CTV VR TV network and their CONSTANT BARRAGE of
pictures of a world which MANY of us can't even get on?? That being New AW.
It was because of this that Channel 8 was forced to *DROP* CTV in favor of
VWTV's new movie channel VWMP. BIG difference.

I'd ALSO love to know what's up with SFTV and their promotion of AW 3.3 when
in fact 3.4 is now the latest stuff. I mean, it's WEIRD watching SFTV on
Channel 5 in Hamsterville as thery show an ad for AW 3.3 while an ad for
AWTeen 3.4 airs on Channel 11, the XEON affiliate. MESSAGE TO SFTV - UPDATE
YOUR STUFF!!!!

Apologies for my off-topic rant, but this beats starting a NEW thread just
for this IMO....

Cheers for now :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Jul 3, 2003, 8:35pm

Hi everyone:

The following is an account of a true story. Hiccup bags are STRONGLY
advised. :-) |*ROTFLMAO!*

Once upon a time yesterday as I was busy working on my new pub in the Old
Cedar Town District of Hamsterville, I suddenly got a SURPRISE visit from
Syntax. His reason was that he "got lost".

Now KNOWING that the Syntax I *thought* I knew would know hot to get back to
SW City from practically ANYWHERE, I was thinking "Hmm..." and eventually
told me to follow me. The first time around, he heard Comit calling him and
he left. I went back to what I was doing.

TWENTY MINUTES LATES, he comes back but THIS TIME he had a friend with him.
He tells he he "got lost AGAIN" and needed help in getting back to SW City.

After getting MY OWN bearings straight (afterall I *was* working on getting
the TV stations set up in the pub), I *finally* managed to get as far as
Intertown Highway 55 at Retsmah Road East. I told him he'd eventually run
into the Riverside Expressway which will take him to Syntax Road going into
SW City. So I sent him on his way and | went back to the pub.

A few minutes after I got back to the pub, I he telegrammed me asking which
way should he turn. IN MY OWN SELF-ADMITTED STUPIDITY, I said "Hang a
right" thinking that if I was wrong he'd just turn around. I then told him
that he'd be taking the scenic route back. He responded with something to
the effect that he thinks he's lost AGAIN. I thought to myself THREE
TIMES - IN ONE DAY??? IMPOSSIBLE. So I asked him which direction he was
going. He said NW.

I told him that doersn't sound right and asked to let me join him (I
remembered later on that if you were to hang a right at Intertown Highway 55
& Riverside Expressway, he WOULD be headed back to the place HE WAS TRYING
TO LEAVE). When I joined him, guess where he was...

WAY OVER on the WEST side of town in the EMBASSY PARK DISTRICT.

By THIS time, I was asking myself HOW is it that this guy could get himself
SO LOST that he couldn't even get back to SW City by highway - EVEN IF HE
WAS ON THE RIGHT ONE?? It just seemed like it was a weird dream!!

Anyway, I get him turned around AGAIN (this time we WERE on the Riverside
Expressway) when I get a telegram from BlankaM announcing her return.

Knowing that I had to catch her while she was online so she and I could
discuss the building of her hotel at Hamsterville GZ (she's online like once
in a blue moon), I didn't have time to help poor Syntax find his way back to
the city he calls home, so I took him to where he could find a teleporter.

I took him to the Bus Station on Harborview Avenue.

I even rode my bike right on up to the stop and told him he could POSSIBLY
miss THIS. He didn't. He was back in SW City and I was, after a few
minutes, on my way to Hamsterville GZ where I would meet up with the
virtually lovely BlankaM to discuss her hotel. :-)

I telegrammed him later reminding him that he was ON HIS OWN when it came to
finding his virtual private residence from the SW City Bus Terminal as I
know how to navigate my way around SW City about as well as Syntax quite
obviously knows how to navigate through Hamsterville. :-) *LOL!*

Now mind you, I'm NOT angry that this happened. But I was a *little*
perplexed. I later realized that this would get quite a few laughs once
posted to message boards and newsgroups. :-) So Syntax....Don't say I
didn't warn ya. :-)

Enjoy the laughs everyone :-)

Cheers for now :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City of Hamsterville
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Jul 4, 2003, 4:28am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Uh huh. Yeah right. IF this is true then HOW is it you were still able to
remember the event in our conversation some 24 hours LATER?!?!? :-P :-)

And to answer your question Baro, 1). I don't typically keep the Bus Station
in my TELEPORTS section because I generally don't go anywhere that I can't
get to via road and 2). We were actually CLOSER to the highway which runs
all the way up syntax Road going into SW City via the ocean than we were to
the Bus Station, which is why I pointed him in that direction (BTW
Vornox....Did you FINALLY build a bridge from there and string it across the
ocean so road travel into SW City proper would be possible or is that still
a WIP? Just wondering... :-)). 3). I usually don't encounter "lost"
people on an everyday basis (thank goodness!) :-)

Cheers for now everyone :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Jul 4, 2003, 9:10pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Yeah! PLUS....Look who runs UTN. Look who has a town on AWTeen
(AlphaWorld's sister world). Need we go on?? :-)

In short Goober, to some of us, AW resembles what ALL OF US who build there
like to believe is real. It also gives us to "relive" our childhood by
building a town based on the more simpler times of our childhood years. :-)

Someting to think about :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Jul 13, 2003, 7:17pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Boy, is THIS a contradictory statement OR WHAT???

That's just like victims of domestic violence telling the police every time
they're summoned "my boyfriend beats me up, but I still love him".just as
they're putting the boyfriend in handcuffs and about to stuff him in the
squad car.

PC Hamster


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Jul 31, 2003, 1:14am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Speaking of lost cits, anyone heard from FiercceFerrette lately?? As it
turns out, he's an old friend of mine IRL. Haven't seen him on AW in MONTHS
now. :-(

Cheers for now :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
Hamster Ground Zero Area - AW 5000N 272E
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Jul 17, 2003, 3:37am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Ohh......So does this mean that ISPs shouldn't terminate someone's access
simply because they're a "first time" spammer??? GIMME A BREAK!!!!

It may be a different situation, but the analogy is the same.

PC Hamster

P.S.: In the spirit of the Community NG Guidelines, I propose we move this
to the General Discussion group. :-)


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Aug 12, 2003, 2:52am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Given the IQ of much of today's society, this is often easier said than
done....

> I do not run any background virus scanner but still
> caught each virus before it became active. I scan
> "on demand", just suspicious files. Needs way less
> CPU power and does not make the users sleepy and
> careless.

I run the AV program from http://www.grisoft.com/ It's an *excellent*
little program that scans my email and newsgroups posts (both incoming and
outgoing) for viruses and other little things which shouldn't be there and
(ususally) does a very good job. I have it set where it automatically
updates itself and it does a daily overnight scan of my computer at an hour
in which I'm most likely to either be asleep or headed to bed. :-)

It's also quick at notifying me if I've somehow downloaded a virus (I don't
even need to open it for my AV program to kick in) or a trojan in my email
and tells me how to get rid of it. It takes about a half hour to scan my
whole system, but it gets the job done. :-)

This program has bailed me out more than once. CHECK IT OUT.
http://www.grisoft.com/

> I think, information is way better than a security
> that can never be 100% anyway.

Well.....Between the NGs, the various AW-related websites, and the VR TV
networks, there really shouldn't be *any* excuse why people shouldn't be
aware of what's going on in the AW Universe, whether the news is good or bad
IMO...

Just my $.02 worth...

Cheers for now :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
Hamster Ground Zero Area - AW 5000N 272E
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Aug 2, 2003, 7:28am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] [snip...]

Just wanted to say that it's good to hear that you're not leaving anytime
soon Richard (or so it appears anyway :-)).

Cheers for now everyone :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
Hamster Ground Zero Area - AW 5000N 272E
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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