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I took a long time writing that and many other posts were added in the interim. I want to add: even if I don't think we have jumped the shark, Paw should (and will I hope) do what he needs to do regardless of what I think as to the merits of this place. It is ONLY RIGHT!

I agree with Leafy on this. I was also in chat last night when Hope dropped by. The reason she stressed for why there is no fighting at their place was that they must use real names. While this might be a part of it, that place is really set up for a very different purpose than this one. It has always been geared towards being more of a social reconnect site. As I understand it that was, and is NOT, Paw's primary purpose here. Anonymity might be a small part of a few angry outbursts here, but is by no means the reason for anything. Some of the most angry or outlandish posts have been by people who freely divulge their real names. Are the arguments here really the reason people leave? I'd wager they are also the reason some people stay around. (I rather enjoy some of them) Requiring the use of real names would do VERY little to help Paw manage this site and his time, and could be damaging to some posters in their real world life. The fact that Hope and John require real names works fine at their place, which is NOT searchable by Google and other search engines. This place IS searchable, and NEEDS to be to accomplish it's primary purpose. Hope also stated that Paw or someone else should set up a social site (and John did the same a few weeks or months ago when he came into chat under Hope's login). I think this misses the point entirely. While some of us indeed use this place as a social pastime, that is certainly not the reason some others do. The reasons people come here, and the reasons people stay or leave, are numerous. We each come from different places in Life's journey. What Hope experienced, leaving much later and after a much longer time in TWI than most of us (30 some years she said?), is quite different than me (14 years in, 22 out), or Leafy (4 years in, 25 out). Hope came into GSC and its predecessors for whatever reasons of her own. Others like me just came to connect, and a social site would do us just as well.. Others of us as we age, begin to look for missing parts of our life puzzle. Not all of us have an urgency, or need therapy, even if some do. Frankly, I didn't care what TWI is doing even when I got here, and still don't. Others did and do. Hope's other point was that TWI now is meaningless and trivial and therefore GSC's purpose is trivial now. That may be true to her, and I applaud her for doing what she needed to do. This does not mean it is the same for all of us. TWI is still meaningful for those still in, or those who are newly attaching themselves to the dreams it espouses (witness the posts from Brushstroke regarding his friend Steph), or for those who left long ago but have holes in their understanding of what went on when they were involved. Not all of us EVER had mental health issues to deal with regarding TWI. I put the extent of my interest more in the curiousity arena at most. Anyway...... Paw set this place up to discuss TWI and it's pitfalls, and he has always allowed people to also discuss its merits also. We have each brought to the Cafe our own perspectives, and taken from it what we need to. Those travels have many and extremely varied results. I can't take any one person's view of the usefulness of this site as the all encompassing truth. For Hope, I am glad she got what she needed and has moved on, albeit hastened by some other issues.<=====( ) Has GSC "jumped the shark"? That is like asking "should the water in the river stop flowing?" Which river? All the water? How about it's tributaries? Perhaps a control gate or two should be put in it's path to enable Paw to pursue his other hobby interests, financial needs, and things regarding not only Shellon but also his brother (see the prayer thread), and the rest of his family too, but no the Cafe has not jumped the shark. ~HAP

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The above quote tells me alot.

don't get carried away.... they need to get in the same city first. any city will do.

Shellon said alot right here: (she also said a bunch more important stuff in her remarkable way of keeping our attention in her writing style)- but I'd like to comment on the above, since it brought a wellspring of emotion to me..... That is the previously hidden part of the picture, the inner drive to help others that some people just can't shake. I have known those people, my mother was one of them. A day off to go get a lump checked likely would have extended her remarkable life. However, there were those people at the innercity help center that needed a computer fixed or the young widow with 3 kids who had to find some free clothes for a job interview, or needed someone to chat with, or needed food, or the database at the center needed a bug fixed. Then there was the guy from Caterpillar that wanted to donate 15 old computers to her mission to wire the disadvantaged, but they had to get out of corporate HQ.... TODAY. Some people simply do NOT feel right unless they are helping someone. It is not a matter of the size of the mission, it can be just that ONE person who might be left unhelped unless I turn my lips towards them and say "come hither, I care". This kind of person cannot turn it off, nor should they. This is who they are, it does not go away. Sure, sometimes they have to relieve the pressure, but pretty soon there is that ONE person they can help get through another day. In TWI we all heard "each one win one". TWI corrupted that into a marketing scheme every MLM uses- it multiplies. The real basis for the phrase is much smaller. "If I don't help that person, how will I know what opportunity they missed." It is what gives the giver life and hope. It does not go away, it always eats at their craw when they miss an opportunity to help. There is always the "pay it forward" concept. Somehow, this sort of person finds a way to get it done, and to breathe another day. It often involves finding others to take a part of the mission. Little bites finally devour the whole cow. Yeah, we are not a huge group here, it sure seems like a small mission, but it is one person's mission, one person's "pay it forward". Its not about changing the world, it's about changing our one tiny part of it. I "get it" now........ my army-brat-then-army-wife mother would have stood with all her 4'-10 inches, arched her back ramrod straight, and saluted you Paw. Then on tippy toes, her hand would stretch up to your tall and broad shoulder and she'd say, "let's do something about it". ~HAP

well, thanks for the effort. I have used T-cad for years, but just recently upgraded to this version. They do have free tech support and I will give them a try. Others who have posted about this problem with the program were running Acer's and turning off some resident program on their computers enabled the program to work. T-Cad is put out by IMSI, and is fairly highly rated amongst folks in busihnesses like me. It is more user friendly than Autocad, and it has been around for many years. My desktop runs the whole program fine now, which leads me to think it must be either the configuration on the laptop, the video card or the XP version. At least I can save on the desktop and drop the drawings into a PDF to view on the laptop for now. You seem to think that it is not a matter of the program cannot find mfc42 I take it and not a problem in the various stored locations of MFC42? I was hoping that would be it. There seems to be a few differences as to where the two computers have that file stored. ATI has dropped support for the video card, so there is no likelihood of an official updated driver there. I tried a highly rated hacked driver, but could not figure out what settings in it to try. I will play around some more or just go get a new laptop. (anyone want 2 gig of PC 2700 memory?)LOL You get a beer for trying, I was gonna go for a whole 12 pack if you had fixed it for me! (shoot the forums don't have a beer icon.) I will get you one in chat sometime. hmmm now there is an idea. might be worth trying if IMSI supports Linux darn it doesnt really. some older versions work with Linux through Wine, but tht doesnt help me

I posted more specifics in the thread below this one, titled "Unhandled Exceptions"

Rather than post a specific problem on mchud's thread, I am starting a new one to deal with a UE (unhandled exception) that comes up with my CAD program on my laptop. I solved my problem on my desktop computer that I was having with the CAD program,(Turbocad 15 Deluxe), by updating my video driver. I have a Dell Latitude D600 laptop that I can't get it to work on however. The only issue I see with it hardware wise, is the recommended processor speed. I have 1.6ghz Pentium M. The minimum requirements for the program do not specify a speed but their recommended speed is a 2.2 P4 I could handle the program working slower, or having difficulty with 3D rendering, but I cannot get the program past the loading a blank template stage even on 2D drawings. What happens is I get a UE and a screen asking me if I want to debug. This is followed by the "send report" thing to MS, which only comes back saying this is a problem caused by Windows and tells me to check my updates. Updates on my XP are all current, and I have all the drivers checked. The latest driver for my Mobility Radeon 9000 card are from 2005, except for a few hacked drivers out there for gamers. I tried those, but there are settings in them for gamers that I do not know how to use, so I have reverted to the 2005 ATI driver. I used to get pretty much the same UEs when I first tried to load the program on my desktop puter, but as I said I finally solved that one. If anyone thinks they might have some ideas, I will be glad to post the other specs and the UE that comes up. It mentions MFC42.dll as you can see in the paste below. I do have two versions od that .dll on my computer, but do not know which is the correct one for the program. What info would one need to try and get this solved? I am not totally ignorant on tech stuff, but am certainly not proficient at debugging stuff like this. Just let me know what you need to help me, and I will do what I can do. Here is the first part of the UE details Thanks for any help one might be able to pass on. ~HAP

a kind offer indeed mchud, and welcome to the cafe. Watch this section and from time to time you will find a help request. Your inputs will be welcome to us who need these machines for our output. How are you with identifying the cause of "Unhandled exceptions" (UE). I will start a new thread with my current problem. If you or anyone else can help it will be WONderful!. ~HAP

This struck me as funny. (edited to add: In the late 70s, Hayes Gahagan, a PFAL grad, was highly touted by VPW as a political hero to God's people (us wayfers). TWI sent Political WOWs (PowWOWS) to surreptitiously campaign for him, if I recall correctly) I didn't know he has an award named after him: http://www.yorkindependent.net/news/2008/2...S_AD_diamon.cfm From the article: POLITICS & OTHER MISTAKES Scars and souvenirs By Al Diamon November 07, 2008 "The campaign is over. Now for the fun stuff. No, not the results. The results are boring. (Unless they aren't. I'm writing this before any votes have been counted, so if John Frary happens to be a congressman-elect or Tom Allen is preparing to enter the U.S. Senate or Republicans are about to assume control of the Legislature, I deny I ever said anything about boring results. And next time, I'll use this space to reveal the insights that allowed me to anticipate such unexpected outcomes before anyone else.) What I meant is it's time for the Gaggie Awards. These coveted trophies honor those who have campaigned in the grand tradition of the Gaggies' namesake: Hayes Gahagan. In 1978, Gahagan, an independent U.S. Senate candidate with ties to a religious cult, announced that persons unknown had altered his campaign photos by inserting subliminal pictures of reproductive organs in his hairline. It was a moment like no other in Maine political history, and to preserve its memory, we recognize politicians with similar styles for their, uh, endowments. The envelope, please." (end quote) Gahagan won his own namesake award this year: hahahahaahahaaaaaaaa! hairline problem

yes. He told us awhile ago that he would be hanging out here less. I hope that changes soon. He did drop in the other day to the Chatroom, all was well but he did have car trouble and was not able to get to his folks for Thankisgiving. That's all I know.

the one with the sidecar was sold a few years ago on ebay as I recall. there was a link posted here to it. CORRECTION, it was the 67 Harley that was sold on ebay. Topic is here" http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=9365

Thanks for keeping up the discussion about reg cleaners. I am still interested in one just to check things out and clean some stuff. My original problem with my CAD program appears for now to be fixed with the Video Card driver update. Would that make sense? I think it related to the 3D rendering this version is more extreme with, and the driver notes mentioned 3D gaming benefits/ fixes. Back to Reg boosters: Do you have any experience with Uniblue's RegistryBooster 2009? They offer a free scan, but I think it is a buy it to fix thing. The reviews I have read seem to be generally positive however, although many say free ones do as good a job.

actually, after playing tonight for some time, with 6 drawings open and juking around making a 3d one, everything was going fine. no glitches to the software, so maybe it was the video card driver. Or wait until I am working on it instead of playing and we will see. I am still gonna get at least 2 gig more memory just cause I can, and it never hurts. MY experience has always been "I won't need that........but then I DO need it all of a sudden and its not there." shoot, my appleIIE had what 512 kb or something? Oh, and Cman, the tech support did say use a reg cleaner (they recomended one i didn't like) only if I felt comfortable doing so. Their point was older versions of turbocad I had before might have left stuff in the registry and be causing the new one to hang. The uninstallers on some old software sometimes did not exactly make everything disappear from what I understand. Yes I understand backing up the registry and would do that if I run one anyway. thanks.

Thanks Paw and Cman- (and Leafy for your efforts too) yeah I see that now, although the minimum requirement is 512mb. I am running 1 gig with XP. I would have thought the extra recomendation was for the 3D rendering/ rotating and isometric views, but perhaps not. Mostly I draw in 2D, and the file sizes are under 300 mb. Right now I have Mozilla and IE open, and Turbocad with one of my larger files open. System Information reports: Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB Available Physical Memory 387.20 MB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 2.85 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys HOWEVER, now that I look, just getting booted running the desktop takes pretty much one stick of 512 with XP, so memory makes possible sense. Opening T-cad without doing anything uses about 40-50mb. Once I start using the program, available memory seems to be around 300. So maybe when it really is active more is chomped on and more memory might be the answer. I would have thought the virtual memory would have covered that. guess not. I have two memslots available, can't hurt anyway. Currently I have two 512 mb (I think 533 Mhz) DDR2 . Do I have to match the 533 or can I add a pair of 667mhz (or just get 2 ea. 1gig 667 and pull the 533's) I remember in the old days they had to be in pairs, and some of the DDR2 I see offered for this machine says 2 required, others say 1 stick. Last night I did find that Nvidia's site has very new drivers for my card (GEForce 6800- series 6). I downloaded them and will give the program a shot tonight and let you know. Niether Dell nor Windows updates told me about any driver newer than 2006 for that card. grrrr. Thanks muchez- ~HAP

yeah, I did the whole reformat reinstall XP, sp3 and all updates, drivers of everything on the machine etc. when I first got it. processor is a 3.6 g Intel, a gig of Ram. Turbocad does autosave, but I think that may be where it is hanging and crashing. (not all the time, just when I haven't saved stuff oin my own of course) The computer has way more than the system requirements of the program. The same symptom has been reported on Acer computers with this version of T-cad, and somemonitoring program has to be disabled. Other people have reported it on various Vista machines too. I think there is a bug in this version, that the company is gonna get around to putting up a patch for. I really don't expect a registry cleaner to solve it, but if I found one I trust, I would try it. Never hurts speedwise to rid the unneeded rif raf that gets left there. (yeah, I know back up before making changes and all that.) My interest in a reg cleaner is not just related to my CAD software issue. I am confident I will solve that eventually. I have used earlier versions of it for 8 years or so. I think their latest version just needs a fix for some configurations.

I have been moving things around, uninstalling a few programs, and otherwise cleaning up space on this computer which I bought used. I really don't have any serious problems, but one new Cad program I bought (Turbocad15 deluxe) does seem to close unexpectedly at times. (aggravating if I have not recently saved my building plans when it happens) One recomendation the T-Cad folks mention is perhaps to run a Registry cleaner after uninstalling, and then reinstall the program. Anyone have a particular program they like? How about one that they wish they had never tried? I have been looking at reviews of Uniblue's RegistryBooster 2009, and like every other registry cleaning program, the reviews seem to run across the spectrum. Ideas? ~HAP

well shoot, Sarah Palin tried to sell a plane on Ebay, Gov. Blag was trying to outdo her and sell a senate seat.

valid point, and that WOULD be nice if it comes out that way too.

He DID know, and did it anyway. He had already been informed of being under investigation for other criminal activity. Good gawd, I heartily agree it is good to have this brought out, and I agree with the Dems wanting to have an election ASAP to avoid any possibility of this criminal appointing someone in the interim. I think any potential candidate who was considering going along with the scheme should also be prosecuted for whatever charges can be brought against them. If they can't be charged, then the IL voters should take care of business in an election. Rumor is that Jesse Jackson Jr. was considering going along with it, as well as possibly some others. ~HAP

I was not meaning to cast aspersions on Dorothy or Rhoda, and I apologize if it sounded that way. To me that album was a yawner, that is all.

yikes Paw, doesn't your friend like her parents? I will see if I can find mine, but it is buried somewhere in the basement. I never planned on needing it until I got the kid's toys to their children. I'll let you know if I can locate it but don't hold your breath, please.. I have no idea what condition it might be in if I can find it.

I recall not being allowed to write a personal check to replace cash ABS, (get a MO instead) but we always did checks for our own ABS. This made sense actually, because using my own check to cover twig cash abs would allow me to ostensibly claim more of a charitable donation come tax time. I too remember getting personal year end statements for awhile, but not for the twig blue forms. Seems that did not last long, and only lasted thru the IRS investigation years of the mid to late 70s as I recall.

ummmm Rum. I don't know what toilet you have, or how old it is. BUT American Standard toilet ceramic is from Mexico and Canada. Kohler has factories in the US, but also in China, Mexico and a few other places. All I am saying is you might not be the king of a USA throne afterall. ~HAP