Steve!

Well, ya caught me with my pants down on that one, Goey!

Umm, Goey, I think Pat was attempting humor. He was being ironic.

TheEvan - I agree with your sentiment. But neither you or I should be posting on this thread any more - om has Declared That This Thread Has Run Its Course.

4 or 5 centuries according to docvic(praise be his name). It has already repeatedly been demonstrated that he was a liar. And smikeol, you just proved earlier in this thread that you don't pay attention to details. Why do you have any expectation at all that anyone would lend any credence to your "work"?

om, where's your commitment?

I think perhaps Rosie O'Donnell as Rozilla Rivenfart. Think about it.

Umm, let's see, well, there was a wedding with about 15 or so ex-wayfers recently . . .

I agree with Goey. Why give any weight at all to anything om says? He has repeatedly demonstrated that he has one and only one aim - protect docvic(praise be his name) at all costs. And if in order to do that he has to demonize his sisters in Christ, he will spare no effort.

No, Bramble, you didn't break it. It just wore out. It got old. The data on it went to bit heaven. Wave byebye, give the diskette a decent burial. Start saving things on a data stick, or a tape backup, or a CD.

Once again, om proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is emotionally disabled. He's got no sense of empathy whatsoever. I would not be one little bit surprised if you have never been in a long-term relationship with a woman. Any woman. And once again om sidetracks the thread to make sure that Everyone! Hears! His! Point! Of! View! which has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic at hand. It's as if we were talking about red flowers, and OM pipes up (again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again) that "dangit! there are yellow flowers too!" Qu'elle simpleton.

One of the challenges that they worked real hard to overcome was making those disks so that they would be compatible with existing DVD players. Yeah, you should be able to play them in any DVD player.

And to add to what Zixar said: When temperature records first started being kept, there were far fewer measurements taken - that is, instead of, say, 20 or 30 measurements per city, there was 1 measurement per large city, and none at all for smaller locations. So conservatively speaking, we are taking 20 to 30 times as many measurements as were taken back in the late 1800's. That in itself would cause over a half of a degree of fluctuation.

Yes, I am or was a Frank Zappa fan. Jean Luc Ponti played on a number of his albums. They say you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you shouldn't pick your friend's nose.

Dmiller - would that be Jean Luc Ponti?

My point was exactly the same as yours, Goey - I wasn't saying anything at all against James, just making a comment about how close his cult sounded to ours.

Fine - and you were never involved in TWIt, yet you sound exactly as if you were!

All of those convoluted calculations and "hidden messages", that sounds so much like smikeol's message.

Some of those fockers at the top of the way tree (as dead a tree as I've ever seen) should be doing prison INreach!

Stupid things? How about "You'll be a greasespot by midnight!"

Yup.

Oh, suuuuure, if you wanna play it safe! Chicken! ;)--> :D-->

No, Herbie, the registry is much much more than a list of running programs. The registry is what tells Windoze how to handle situations and file extensions, how to run applications, how to connect to the internet - everything. There aren't any buttons in regedit. To get there, click on "Start", then "Run", then type in "regedit". Hit the "F3" key, and type in whatever it is you are searching out. In your case, try "housecallcontrol". When it is found, just delete the key entirely. And hit F3 again and again and again until it says "not found". Exit regedit, reboot, and run AdAware again. Good luck!

Well, didja run AdAware after rebooting? Do that, and that will tell you if it took care of it or not. As far as your other questions - 1. don't know 2. because they can 3. don't know

That's an interesing one. You may have some success with the following: Open "MyDocuments" or "My Computer", then click on the "Search" button. You want to search all files and folders, and you want to leave the filename field blank, and the included text field should include www.flipside.com, and hit "search". Once you find that file, delete it if you can.

Adaware says you have what, exactly? There are procedures you can follow that don't involve mucking around with the registry. Smatter of fact, some of those spyware thingies reset the registry themselves, so changing the registry has no effect.