Re:Missing Regulars

[Ed Edwards]

Marty tells me he can read, but not write, else
he might post. ::)

[Lance]

::) I think Marty's SO dis-proves of Internet posting. So Marty like any good husband bows to the high command...

[The Guardian]

;) Jeremy: I've increased the character allowance in posts to 900,000. That ought to cover Satterfield's longest rants. And if it needs to be more, I can make it so.

[LibertyNutcase]

IM, Jeremy and Lance,

Please pardon my current absence. I have some real world political fights on my hands right now. (as opposed to our real cyberworld discussions.)

Here is a sample (http://www.news-journalonline.com/2002/apr/27/opinion.htm#letters) of one of the minor issues I'm involved in (second letter). I will be back to play when time permits.

(For those who have known me over the past ten years remember this is why I dropped out of circulation before. I was a regular contributing writer to CGX E-Zine,as well as a regular debater at the CGX Senate, the Right Side of the Web, Turn Left, the Original NoPC, the Mustard Seed, the Feminist Home Page, the Limbaugh Wall; to name just a few.)

dB-) WiL

PS d = a ball cap, B = a pair of Official Patented NonPerzon shades. Do you remember my compatriot from Hawai'i?

[Lance]

Wil: Yeah, I remember the good old days. Its funny, but many of us have been hangin' around the boards longer than most marriages!

I may or may not have Don's e-mail, will have to see if I can let him know we're back and alive.

We'll be here... 8)

[Trathena]

I was a regular for awhile! But then I went away. And then the board went away. And then I lost the URL. And I was on SteveG's homepage and he had a link to this page. So here I am!

I used to post using my first name (Tracy). This name I'm using is my pagan name.

Hello everyone! Hello Lance, dear!

[Lance]

;D Well hello Tracy! How have you been doing? Weren't you about ready to graduate if my old memory isn't tripping out again?

[Trathena]

Hi Lance! Yep! I graduated. Well, I'm done with school and passed my thesis and all that jazz. Graduation is June 28th. I'll be in St. Andrews then. Think of me!

How have you been? Life treating you good?

[Ed Edwards]

;D Hello Tracy

My homepage is:
http://eded.tripod.com/
run over and see the new wife :)

[Ed Edwards]

::) woo, Woo! I got a 19" monitor
for 200 bucks. The signal line was about 2"
to short. I moved my cpu closer to the monitor.

[IM]

Tracy, (oops Trathema)

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat's UUUUUUUUUUUUUP!

I.M.

[Ed Edwards]

Yo, Bro. IM! :o

Is Marty getting a new computer?

[Ed Edwards]

Yes, Thales, makes sense what you say.
I ended up with an HP but it has the XP
operating system. As with all new OSs,
they take away stuff i use, and add stuff
i can't figure out how to use :(

[Ed Edwards]

Happy July 8) be unto all!!!

[MARTY]

I have the new computer. It is bigger and faster than a...a... very big fast thing!

I love it (the computer). I fly my modem at super sonic speed now.

1.8 GHz
256 MB DDR SDRAM
60 GB hard drive ( I can store all knowledge known to man)

It also cuts my grass, makes dinner and tells jokes. It's the best $800 bucks I've ever spent. It also wants to learn how to play hockey

If I could get it to come to bed with me I could get rid of Donna. ;D

PLW

[IM]

Ed,

Kineshewaaaaaaaaaaa!

(Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat's UUUUUUUUUUUUUUp!)

In japanese, according to the Budwesier commercial.

Hoping all had a great 4th.

[Ed Edwards]

Took a holiday trip to Maryland.
When i got back my hub (router, spliter, whatever)
was broke, my defroster on my frige was broke,
not to bad for three days, eh?

[Lance]

Hi guys! Been on vacation for a couple of weeks; I'm glad Marty finnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnally broke down and bought a new machine. That 3.1 stuff was getting a big dated... ;D

Generic hardware advice for all concerned:

1. Your computer will be obsolete in 15 months or less, count on it. It may very well still be workable and a useful tool, but as to state of the art...NOT.

2. Memory above ~96M is only useful in NT or Unix boxes. Windows 9x (95, 98, Millennium) will not address the memory over that threshold. Specific applications may, but your bottleneck is still the operating system. In NT (3.5, 4, 2000, XP) this is no longer an issue. It will happily consume as much memory as you want to feed it. My personal workstation has 512M in it. (Win 2000)

3. Hard drives - given the cost of storage, I'd recommend a RAID array (I have twin 45Gs) of drives. This covers you in case of failure in a single drive. Its no substitute for appropriate backups, but a disk failure in one unit or a bad write (Windows is bad about this on inadequate shutdown.) will not kill you. Also, look for a slightly faster drive, I believe WD makes a 10K RPM drive with a higher xfer rate than the "generic" drives. You'll pay a little more but get more speed. If you REALLY need performance, go SCSI. But expect to pay 2-3x the dollars for a hard drive. (But its very hard to argue with 160MB/ms xfer rate sustained on those drives.) This is what is used on servers in a lot of cases.

4. CD-Burner - given again the cost of this hardware, buy one and use it for backups if nothing else. Have a seperate CD-ROM, then you can do drive-to-drive copies.

5. Video Card - if you're a gamer, get the biggest badest AGP card you can find. Otherwise a generic card will work for most of the rest of us. The exception might be someone doing heavy video and/or graphic arts work.

6. Sound Card - See above.

7. Internal modem - one word...DON'T. Not worth wasting a slot on and this technology constantly changes.

8. O/S - This is tough. If you're wanting to stay on 9x, I'd recommend 98 OSR2. If you're wanting to be more current, I'd say Win 2000. Win XP has some rather nasty "big brother is watching" stuff in it. Change 3 components of your computer...and you're making a call to Microsoft to prove to them you aren't installing it on a second machine or different machine. Unfortunately, sooner or later we will have to face this as new applications will only work on XP or will be "XP enhanced". Under no conditions would I recommend Millennium. If Unix were to mature as a desktop OR there were good Windows emulators out there, I'd say go there. I think this day is coming though.

9. Processor - The two biggies are AMD and Intel, pick one of those. Bear in mind this will set your upgrade path as well if you're one that upgrades things in a computer. Beware of multi-processor boards (I have one), particularly with Intel. They have a nasty habit of changing the socket the processor is on, so you can get locked into a very expensive system with zero upgrade path. Which is what happened to my dual-833 machine. Intel changed the socket at the 1Ghz level, so the highest I can upgrade this machine is to ~966Mhz. I also tend to opt for the more expensive "full" processors rather than the inexpensive cut-down models. Usually what happens here is that cache is smaller (the place where a processor stores frequently accessed "stuff") and this will degrade your computing performance slightly. Carefully check out the differences in your processor options as a smaller cache or a smaller number of buffers can hurt.

10. Price - Expect to pay ~two grand for a state of the art bleeding edge machine with lots of toys. A very nice machine can be had for ~one grand; this would include a single processor, 512M-1G memory, dual-RAID drives, a good video card and good sound board. Neither price includes monitors.

11. Monitors - Viewsonic and Optiquest (by Viewsonic) are my favorites. They also cost more too. I'd recommend a 17" at minimum and a 19" if you've got the dough.

12. DSL or Cablemodem? (RoadRunner) - I had very good luck with DSL, but its upspeed is slower than most cable and this was a big concern of mine; as a webmaster I upload LOTS of stuff. So I switched. The upspeed on Cable appears to be 2-3x faster and the downspeed is comparable to DSL on its best days and can even be faster. (Some of the online test sites clocked my machine at 2.3M down, which is T1 line or faster.)

[MARTY]

Lance,

I think I clinged to that old computer the same way I clinged to my old hockey game. I admitted the computer was shot about the same time I admitted my hockey game was shot.

These kids skate so fucking fast and I skate uphill. I’m still a sharp shooter and better than anyone in clearing a puck off the boards but I get there too late to do anything.

The only thing I still do well is waking up kids dumb enough to try to skate the puck through the blues with their heads down. I give them a “Scott Stevens” and they never do it again.

KEEP YOUR HEAD UP IN THE BLUES OR YOU’RE ALWAYS GONNA’ LOSE.

What sucks is I’m 36 and can’t play in a Masters League until I’m 40.

But hey, in four years I’ll be the “kid”!!!!!!!!!!

IM’

How’s your rugby game fellow OLD MAN. AND you know Scott’s hits were clean and so are mine.

PEACE
LOVE
WELLNESS

[LanceALott]

Hi ya'all. The resident "commie" is back. Some knew me as Tim in the old days long before 911. Always willin' to stir the pot, make ya think, and challenge yer beliefs.

Hi other Lance, and for those who do not know: yer, not me.

Ed knows me, and he read my book "A JOURNEY OF 220 MILES" before it was published at iUniverse.com, which you can buy for $16.95 at iUniverse, or Ingrams books, or Amazon.com, Barns & Nobel, or any book supplier.

But a word of waring, I write through the eyes of the enemy, the ultra-left wing; and you don't dare to not buy my book, because you better damn well know what we are up to or we'll knock down yer Twin Towers, and put up the Stars and Stripes as a cover.

Hey, $16.95 for every book I sell; and some of you thought us "altruistic commies were not as greedy as you capitaiists.

Okay, all the BS aside. How you all doin'?

[Ed Edwards]

Lott-o-Lance 8) "Ed knows me"

Lott who?

LanceALott: "A JOURNEY OF 220 MILES"

Oh, i read it for free.
I enjoyed it more than those who had
to pay :)

[JasonH]

Hi ya'all. The resident "commie" is back. Some knew me as Tim in the old days long before 911. Always willin' to stir the pot, make ya think, and challenge yer beliefs.


Were you booted from the original NoPC or am I thinking of some other commie??

[JasonH]

I'm no longer a regular, but I used to be the Guardian until I switched jobs back in '97.

Glad to see y'all still goin' strong!

[JasonH]

I've been great! ;D

Who are the very important past regulars? Who's missing??

[Ed Edwards]

;D
ed, the second stringer?
8)

[JasonH]

What about:
The Dread Pirate (Jeff Williams?) and Nonperzon

[IM]

Marty,

The hits just keep on comin! Hope all is well in Jersey. And I told you that the Lakers were going to win because the Nets had no one who could deal with Shaq.

It would be nice to see someone step up who can guard him. But one day he will retire, then we will see if Kobe is all he thinks he is.

[WCP]

The beginnings of NoPC.

See how we've grown?

This is when IM wasn't an Angry Black Man and NoPC used to keep track of their posts by the month vs. by the day as it is now.

[LanceALott]

Wrong BN.

NoPC began long bofore this thread.



Me, IM and some Jew were discussing impeachment of Bush before 9-11-01, and that was after I took a couple of years off from posting. I posted several years before that.

Notice Ed's and Marty's member number, and mine.

[polaris]

The beginnings of NoPC.

See how we've grown?

This is when IM wasn't an Angry Black Man and NoPC used to keep track of their posts by the month vs. by the day as it is now.


I was at EZ before I came here, so I don't know anything about the origins and founders of NOPC. What's the NOPC story, in a nutshell?

[LanceALott]

I was at EZ before I came here, so I don't know anything about the origins and founders of NOPC. What's the NOPC story, in a nutshell?


I think some guy named Jason Henderson started it maybe fifteen years ago.

I got led here by the Wyoming secretary for the Libertarian Party in the middle 90's. He once built and shared a web page with me on tripod.com called the Majority Party. Back in those days I attended most of the Wyoming state Libertarian meetings, but I really was a registered Republican in those days.

[LanceALott]

PS. Jason banned me and I didn't even know it until Lance recently told me.

[polaris]

OK, now you're officially really freaking me out, LAL......

[Whiskey4bfast]

............. but I really was a registered Republican in those days.
Too many boxes of vino ???

[WCP]

What's the NOPC story, in a nutshell?


I'm not entirely sure. Compared to some of these people, I'm a rank newbie and have only been here for three years.

What happened was after I shut down NewsMax's forum (single-handedly 8) ), there was a migration to newer and greener pastures, a New Promised Land, as it were. I migrated over to EZ, but alas, my reputation preceded me and IRI was an admin over there at the time where the power had gone to his head and he banned me as well as Sky.

So, I floated around cyberspace for a while, all the while being stalked by some of my "fans" and somehow or another, I got "invited" here...much to many's chagrin, I'm certain...and it's been downhill ever since.

[Whiskey4bfast]

I'm not entirely sure. Compared to some of these people, I'm a rank newbie and have only been here for three years.

What happened was after I shut down NewsMax's forum (single-handedly 8) ), there was a migration to newer and greener pastures, a New Promised Land, as it were. I migrated over to EZ, but alas, my reputation preceded me and IRI was an admin over there at the time where the power had gone to his head and he banned me as well as Sky.

So, I floated around cyberspace for a while, all the while being stalked by some of my "fans" and somehow or another, I got "invited" here...much to many's chagrin, I'm certain...and it's been downhill ever since.
I heard there's a book coming out about cyber stalkers from BBs who end up offing those (IP addresses as they can get, etc.) of people they dislike. Slated to become a movie.

Heard you may be played by the guy who played 'Booger' in 'The Nerds' movies. Good casting, no doubt ;D

(Other cast members forthcoming) 8)

[LanceALott]

OK, now you're officially really freaking me out, LAL......


Before you start giving me hugs and kisses as a former Republican, I must tell you I also was vice president of the Wyoming Labor Party as we tried to get the 5000 signatures to get on the ballot. We only came up about 3,000 short.

A long time ago I was the local chairman for the education Association (teachers union), and chairman of the political action committee. -- But I threw the gavel down at one meting and resigned after I failed to take the union in a more conservative direction.

[Whiskey4bfast]

A long time ago I was the local chairman for the education Association (teachers union), and chairman of the political action committee. -- But I threw the gavel down at one meting and resigned after I failed to take the union in a more conservative direction.
and............... then........

you just became a raving lunatic ???

Something must have happened in the interim. Again boxes de vino ??? One of my bros had shock treatments post VN. Don't be ashamed. Back then it was de Rigeur...... Perhaps delivering the mail "affected" you. He shot an old man in a free fire zone. Never got over it. Doesn't seem like a big deal to most of us but he used to wave to that old farmer (our family are farmers) every day from his APC. When they sent him out to collect bodies (BC was VERY important) he found him. He was different before he went, but more different after. Anyway, maybe you dropped our mail. Were you reading it ???

Don't be ashamed. You can talk to us. (you do anyway)

[JasonH]

I think some guy named Jason Henderson started it maybe fifteen years ago.


I started it in 1996 just before the Bob Dole presidential election fiasco. I was still in high school 15 years ago - not to mention that the web didn't even exist yet.

[The Guardian]

Jason! Hi, hows it going these days??? We haven't seen or heard from you in a long while!

LOL. Remember that old "wall" PERL script we had? I think I still have a copy of the original boards floating around if you can believe that...

To add to the NoPC story...

Most of the early NoPC'ers were members of an early early board called "The Right Side of the Web"; or as we called it "TRSOTW". I can't remember the reason, but the board shut down, very similar in manner to Newsmax's board...except I think the whole site went PFFFFT at that time.

Jason started NoPC as a home for all the people that had grown together on TRSOTW, because most of us enjoyed the banter, debate, discussion, and so on.

Just for yucks and grins, I'll see if I can find my file copy of the old wall HTML pages. It won't be functional, but you'll see a few familar members there. (LaL, Marty, IM, Ed Edwards, Me, Jason, LibertyNutCase...there's more than a few of our early members here that are still around.)

Jason - shoot me an email and let me know how things are going for you!

[Lazarus]

Gee, what's this thread all about? ;)

[LanceALott]

Gee, what's this thread all about? ;)


WE are trying to find out if you are really the old Stark9, cause you are just about as full of shit as he was.