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Started by Questing Character, May 15, 2006, 01:41:02 AM

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PirateKingChris

Well I should also point out my ex IS cute, so it's not really a bad thing, I didn't mean to make it sound like it :P It's just amazing to me that you look quite similar.
"Take it from someone who knows sick:  licking corpses is going waaay beyond demented."

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dew7

So what is your real first name Tage7?  You don't have to tell me if you don't want to because I went under dew7 for a long time till I felt okay about revealing my name.  It is funny how identity theft of first my personnel identity and then my work identity helped me to put all my trust in a higher power than myself.  Anyway, I am not here to debate religion which I know is forbidden in the forums but something greater than me is out there helping me through my crazy rollercoaster life.  I remember praying for adventure in my life and that prayer was certainly answered.  Thanks for all of your support and advice Tage7 and you really seem like a cool and friendly guy.  I am really glad I became a member of this forum because it has helped me through rough times like the difficult times I am going through now. 

BTW, my transmission on my car died recently but fortunately it is covered by an extended warranty on my Honda Civic 2001 EX Sedan.  This car is on its 3rd cd player already and still has less than 100,000 miles on it.  It was purchased in December 2000 and was a gift from my parents.  I did pay for registering the car in Arizona and for all the upkeep after that including insurance, maintenance and fuel of course.

I am now seeing a psychologist to help me refocus and also taking medicine for my bad viral infection.  I am even taking a small amount of medicine to help me calm down especially at night during this rough time.  Finally, I am back at my folks house where they are helping me out greatly with all of my issues. 

My parents are really cool to me.  My dad is a minister and my mom is a retired special education teacher which really helps me since I work at the Albuquerque Public Schools.  I am currently on leave pending this whole investigation.  The interesting thing is that I had the 2 sick days and put the rest in as unpaid leave and now my bosses changed it to paid leave which is really nice since all the charges of computer sabotage were ludicrous and I think my immediate bosses at the school now realize that.
Carpe Diem  Trying to help all of us including myself understand the merry-go-round of life.

dew7

#482
Okay Guys/Gals, now you can now some more about little old/young me ---  8)


Okay, I am just so curious as to what city/state/country you live in Animan but if you don't wish to share then I totally understand.  I grew up in NYC in the statest (U.S.A.), went to college in the southwestern U.S., and now live in New Mexico. My real name is Daniel (God is my Judge) but I went as Danny back East in the Big Apple and usually as Dan here in the Southwest.  I currently work as an educational assistant at an elementary school in the southwest.  I have had a ton of problems with my identity since 2005 when the house I was renting in the Southwest was broken into and my social security card was stolen.  I worked for an air force base as a civilian with children in the past for a few years.  I currently had my home computer which is a dual-boot with 98 Second Edition on C:\ drive in Fat32 and XP Professional on D:\ drive hacked into via VPN (Virtual Private Networking) that I got from work --- there were some vulnerabities that the hacker(s) took advantage of.  This hacker(s) was so good unless it was another hacker(s) that he/she broke through the 128 bit RC4 (Release Candidate -- 4) of my work email at webmail.aps.edu.  Now that is a scary thought that someone was that good especially since I have been working with computer security since 1984.  I know some programming such as BASIC on my IBM PCjr which I still have in storage and from classes I took at the University.  Another language I know about is Java.  Anyway, I was so stupid to trust my home computer to the work's -- APS (Albuquerque Public Schools) Intranet due to all the security vulnerabilities that they had.  That was extremely stupid on my part and I have learned a valuable lesson here.  Anyway, I have been serving on Jury Duty while I am on leave from work pending a complex and comprehensive investigation of all the junk that I have gone through.  Take Care.

P.S. I warned the elementary school that I work at and am now planning to switch to another elementary school due to a false charge of computer sabotage by the assistant principal even after I had worked almost all of 2006 and to May 2007 on the school's computer issues and the school computer network was working great when I left.  I was gone for 3 whole months while working as a Christian Camp Counselor and someone really messed up the whole computer network at the elementary school while I was gone.  I remember the head computer lady whose name is Stephanie told me a former system administrator had locked down all the computers at the school back in Sept. 2006 to the equivalent of DOD (Department of Defense) standards because the person was so mad at the school.  Actually, her words were that the computers had been locked down and I knew about DOD because I worked as a civilian at an air force base.  Anyway, I am now more passionate than ever to have the Windows 9x source code used again for backwards compatibility for DOS Games and Educational Programs as well as support for Windows 3.x older games and educational programs that schools and consumers have to help the consumers have fun and our children to be educated more effectively.  In addition, this could cut down on waste and money by not having old software thrown away in the garbage.  In addition, I am hoping that a tri (3x) based source code will be released that will feature an open source browser like Mozilla Firefox with Windows 9x consumer line (like 98 Second Edition) and Windows NT (New Technology) as well as Unix/Linux Technology thrown in for good measure as an underlying maintenance operating system.  You can find out more information here if you would like.

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=8EE44DDB-6550-4400-966D-9827B1A109B8

This guy who is from South Africa and named Chris Quirke, MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft is the smartest guy that I have run across who is recognized with MVP status by Microsoft in the newsgroups.  I regulary participate in the Microsoft newsgroups especially the 98 general newsgroup.  You can just google for the 98 general newsgroup if you want to find it and start posting to it through a Windows Hotmail/Live Mail email account.  Have a nice day.
Carpe Diem  Trying to help all of us including myself understand the merry-go-round of life.

theroachyjay

Warning - Mild Language.  Possibly, though not intentionally, offensive.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AwmsMf1wGw
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daventry

I wonder if you guys or Vivendi has decided to make all 3 Chapters of TSL and release it on DVD for Christmas in Stores. :)

I have been here a long time ago and dont remeber you guys no more. :-[

How far is Chapter 1 from finishing, because its nearly 2008 so to speak and by the time we see Chapter 2 and 3, it will be 2012  ???

koko_99_2001

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daventry

Do you guys have a place of Fan Art or where you show your Photoshoping and so on. :)

Petra Rocks


Delling

I think short of making a new thread... this is the right place to put this.

What's happened to What's Haven?
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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Petra Rocks

It has been archived, along with the weekly polls. My assumption is that with the POS PR department a thing of historical interest only they no longer intend or have the people to continue either. Not official confirmation, but I'd be pretty shocked if it was anything else.

Yonkey

Petra's correct.  The resources necessary to continue those features are no longer available.  Weekly Polls actually stopped back in April, and What's Haven stopped over a year ago.
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."

Yonkey

Quote from: tessspoon on November 08, 2007, 10:17:11 AM
The BAD: I can't decide if I want to take Calculus III or Applied Matrix Theory
Applied Matrix Theory sounds way more interesting and useful. 8)
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."

tessspoon

Quote from: Yonkey on November 08, 2007, 11:43:24 AM
Quote from: tessspoon on November 08, 2007, 10:17:11 AM
The BAD: I can't decide if I want to take Calculus III or Applied Matrix Theory
Applied Matrix Theory sounds way more interesting and useful. 8)
That's kinda what I was thinking, plus several the other CSC majors would be in it with me, and I won't have to take Calc III with the professor that I have right now for Math reas who I do not particularly like all that much. So as long as my prof approves, and I can get it, I'm planning on taking that. But I'll have to make sure I pass Math reas (which is not a 100% certainty atm), as that's the prereq for it. :P

Yonkey

Math reas? ???

The BAD: Not knowing what a Math rea is. :P
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."

Petra Rocks

Mathematical reasoning, if memory serves.

Yonkey

Hmm... I took two courses that involved mathematical reasoning... Did you mainly work with proofs, or was it predicate & propositional logic?
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."

tessspoon

Proofs, mainly. We covered different strategies for doing proofs, and now  he's teaching us point set topology so we have something we've never seen before to practice them on. I'm not sure what predicate and propositional logic is though. :P

Yonkey

#497
I'm not entirely sure if I know what point set topology is either...

Propositional calculus is stuff like:

(P -> Q) ∧ (Q -> P)  =>  (P <=> Q)
That is: if P implies Q, and Q implies P, then P is equivalent to Q.

Predicate calculus is a more formal extension to that. 

EDIT: I found a simple example of predicate calculus:
From "All dogs are mammals" we may infer "If Rover is a dog then Rover is a mammal".
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."

tessspoon

I still don't understand exactly what point-set topology is either, which is probably why I'm not doing so great in the class. :P

We did a little bit of the propositional stuff, but just the basics.

Yonkey

The propositional & predicate stuff looks more difficult than it actually is.  Most of it is just ordinary logic organized into fancy formalized rules. :P  I guess it's to meant to help you to think analytically, although if you've programmed before, you pretty much know how to think that way regardless.

Basically, it helps you write code so that you don't have hundreds of nested if-else stuff, or endless loops that lead to deadlocks/livelocks.
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."