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Re: What are songs that haunt your senses? - 3 months ago

QuoteKraniac Two Kate Bush songs that continue to stop me in my tracks and leave me glazed. Once I really listened to her lyrics for "And Dream of Sheep" ... it's hard to listen to that without getting choked up. The video pushes that feeling even farther. God.

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Re: Fiber Optic Gigabit speed is the real deal 932/897 Mbps - 3 months ago

I wish I had that option (I'm in central AR, just southwest of Little Rock). Comcast is really the only game in town. There's AT&T (DSL, but I keep hearing rumors of fiber optics), and there's Fidelity (fast but not much cheaper and an abysmal uptime % according to those I know who use it). If anyone with some clout shows up around here with fiber, I'm switching instantly.

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Re: Photo of the Ohio River at North Bend Ohio - 3 months ago

Lovely shot. Thanks for posting.

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Re: #&$%^@%!$! Comcast! - 3 months ago

QuoteSarcany Tired of fighting them just to get the price down to moderately-less-than-highway-robbery. Honest regulators would have stepped in long ago to keep this monopoly-pricing down. Our government sucks. This, in a nutshell.

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Re: What is wrong with Solo movie? - 3 months ago

Bad word of mouth is killing box office, plus there wasn't a real desire for a Solo film -- after ROGUE ONE, people were asking for the pop choices (Boba Fett being the loudest request) and other untold stories (an Obi Wan movie set during his exile on Tatooine now that Ewan McGregor is the perfect age). I went to see SOLO yesterday with my son; it was a blast. The score (soundtrack to you unw

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Re: Thanks Carbon Copy Cloner And A I Didn't Know It Could Do That Feature - 3 months ago

Have used CCC for longer than I can remember; one of my all-time favorite Mac apps.

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Re: Anybody still using Diskwarrior? - 3 months ago

I do, and regularly. Have an OWC Envoy with a macOS install and DiskWarrior on it. Have used it to save my (and many others') bacon on any number of occasions when all other disk utility apps failed to fix the issue. Patiently awaiting their High Sierra update:

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Re: my Apple TV 4 is the biggest piece of crap Apple ever shipped - 3 months ago

QuoteOWC Jamie Get it replaced by Apple yet? I have 5 ATV4s and 2 ATV 4Ks. Every one of them perfect, flawless operation, no issues whatsoever..... Ditto. A couple of AppleTV 4Ks and a few previous AppleTVs; no problems. Only issue I ever had was with the ones working via WiFi, and that was more of a router issue that a restart (of the wifi system) solved.

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Re: great expectations?!.....what Bloomberg believes Apple may introduce @ WWDC..... - 3 months ago

I sure do miss getting excited at the prospect of new Mac hardware from Apple.

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Re: RYF ! Garaaaage Saaaale ! - 3 months ago

Thanks for the heads-up, cbelt. Been waiting to get a couple of enclosures at a discount.

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Re: National tragedy: "Study Puts Puerto Rico Death Toll From Hurricane Maria Near 5,000" - 3 months ago

Not surprising. The post-Katrina New Orleans death toll was quite a bit higher than the storm event death toll.

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Re: Reading up on fate of iPad mini - 3 months ago

My wife and son both have iPad mini 4s (I'm still chugging along on a Forum-bought iPad mini 2). I only use mine for reading, mostly, but occasional web surfing and email work. That said, they both like their 4s just fine, but are envious of the brightness and speeds they see with the iPad Pro (10.4") my daughter has and the iPad (2018) a friend has. They just don't want the larger scree

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Re: Smart TVs - 3 months ago

Quotejdc Best options are: appleTV and use it instead. Apple has the tightest tracking. I second that emotion.

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Re: PSA: Subtropical Storm Alberto forms off Yucatan, aiming to strafe Florida and hit central Gulf coast - 3 months ago

QuoteWill Collier I swear I've been through half a dozen Tropical Storm Albertos. The '94 one flooded the crap out of my hometown. Pick a new name already. Agreed. I know they like to name them for dramatic effect but they should use a year/event system; e.g., "the newly formed 2018-A" and then maybe a name-name for reporting. You know the Weather Channel eats that @#$%& up, doing s

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Re: Han Solo movie was a BLAST. (no spoilers) - 3 months ago

Looking forward to it. The score (soundtrack) is top-notch work by Powell (with a main theme by John Williams and a *bunch* of his themes thrown in here and there).

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Re: Found new use for my old G4 Mini - 3 months ago

Still useful G4 Mac mini LEADER!

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Re: Sweet DUM DUMS: NECCO Sold, Candy production continues - 3 months ago

Quoteblooz I guess I can stop stockpiling them. Sold! Just kidding; my wife would kill me. Or they would.

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Re: I can't get USPS tacking page to load, but downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it's just me - 3 months ago

FWIW, I had a world of trouble with usps.com yesterday; I could get packages set up to ship but not actually go through with the shipment, or get to the selection for shipment page and go no further. Other pages also had exceptionally slow load times to the point I just gave up. Not sure what was going on ,but something was up. As hal pointed out, it could be the changeover from old browser c

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Re: Star Trek: 1-10 Movie Collection (iTunes Digital HD) $30 - 3 months ago

Big, big fan of TMP, and was happy with it as science fiction rather than action/adventure in a sci/fi setting (which is what the rest of the series is). Don't get me wrong, I love TWOK but it's more of an action movie than s/f.

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Re: Star Trek: 1-10 Movie Collection (iTunes Digital HD) $30 - 4 months ago

I did that deal a few years ago; it's a good bargain -- comes out to $3 per movie. Best part was that, as new content was added, I got it (i.e., no further purchases; bonus material added without additional cost). I did purchase separately the Director's Cut of The Motion Picture, which was a wholly separate release, though my purchase (through that bundle) of Wrath of Khan does include it

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You think your server room has problems? - 4 months ago

From Reddit's "What Is This Thing?" sub: "Some kind of explosive lying on the floor of server room?" TL;DR: yes -- unexploded Sagger Missile (Russian MCLOS ATGM)

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Re: number 9 - 4 months ago

This is what I thought of when I read the subject line:

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Re: POLL: Which browser is your main browser? - 4 months ago

For a while I was 100% Firefox but switched back to Safari for some reason a few years ago. Then I slowly started having issues with Safari -- slow loads, refusal to load, certain aspects just not working -- and switched to Chrome based on OWC Jamie's recommendation. Been pretty smooth sailing since.

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Re: Pinterest - 4 months ago

I like Pinterest fine; used it for project photo collection online, when I was researching new office layouts (and new desks, etc.), found a few good recipes there as well. Lots of home improvement ideas too. To each his own.

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Re: Pinterest - 4 months ago

QuoteRacer X But, but, Google CAN'T be Evil, that is even their motto "Don't be evil" cough, cough

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Re: AT&T just royally screwed me on a group plan. Where should I go next? - 4 months ago

Quoterz Wife is trying to get a better deal since we have AT&T and DirecTV. She's been on the phone 3 times today, each time getting nowhere then eventually having to hang up because she had a telecon she needed to dial into. I think she's just going to say @#$%& it and live with what we have already. I'm sure that's their plan. I still believe what happened to me was a coordinated con j

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Re: AT&T just royally screwed me on a group plan. Where should I go next? - 4 months ago

FWIW * Little Rock AR region; occasional travel south (either east through Memphis then south, or west through Shreveport then south) to New Orleans area. * All phones are paid for; i.e., not on any AT&T contract * Data usage is rare but occasionally big, which started this whole mess in the first place

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AT&T just royally screwed me on a group plan. Where should I go next? - 4 months ago

Trying to lower my AT&T multi-phone/plan bill -- After two weeks and several issues (including blatant misinformation from an AT&T agent), my bill is now actually higher than it was before, and for less services. It feels like AT&T owes me a cigarette after such a doodling. Maybe T-Mobile or Sprint. Or go to Cricket, and just do pay-as-you-go. Note: Verizon is not an option f

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Re: the hippy, hippy shake?!....the 'Tremors' reboot TV series is dead...... - 4 months ago

Hello, Netflix? Hulu? Amazon?

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Re: Back To The Future in HD $15 on iTunes - 4 months ago

Get the CheapCharts app (iOS), and use it for your wish list (movies, tv, music, books). You'll get notifications when items on it go on sale. They also track all price changes on iTunes.

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