#CsNav has exploded!
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Hey there krazy Ana! Hold the DEL key. I have this problem weekly. What you
need to do is to first try to rebuild cabinet indexes. If that crashes then go
into file manager and del the one file FCabinet.idx in that directory. Then
when you launch wincim the next time it will rebuild that file. Sometimes I
have to do a chkdsk /f from dos in the process. But I always get my archived
messages back into the folders. I'm not sure its csnav bug as I had the same
trouble with wincim and the new multimedia wincim from the CD-rom. I just
attribute it all to PC ritual. Computers are tempremental things and not even
someone like Gus can get them working with 100% perfection.
Message archived for future reference, Don. Thanks! Unfortunately, it has come
tooooo late. Dr.Forrester pushed the button this morning <g>
BTW, this is my first problem with both.
As for the PC ritual… weeeeeeeelllll <g>
ana /krazy images
Sorry I was toooooo late. Who is Dr. Forrester anyway and what business has he
performing a filectomy on computers? He should stick to surgery on people.
<BG>
Who is Dr.Forrester! Doesn't the exclamation "Dr.Clayton Forrester, I love
you!" tell anything to you? <g> Oh, well, he is "just" a MST3K character (I am
sure Jamie got that one)
ana /krazy images
>>I am sure Jamie got that one
Moi? Did you watch last night? It was a re-run (The Brain that wouldn't die)
but it seemed like they re-did the jokes. It was hilarious.
BTW, do you think SOL is an accidental acronym? (I don't think so.)
We got movie sign…
J-moi
Last I saw was a rerun of that space movie with Gene Hackman ("he is good!"
<g>). You know, the one of the "-How do you copy, over?""-On a Xerox machine"
<bg> of the MST3K promotional ad on Comedy Central.
I think I saw "The Brain that wouldn't die" a couple of times, though. Is that
one with the doctor who has a girlfriend who is killed _by_ the road <g> then
he put her head back to life in the lab? (that was the first with Mike as the
guy in space, I think) The first scene in the surgery room with the guy and his
father is one of the best ever.
S(atellite) O(f) L(ove) and accidental acronym? Uhm, I don't know, what do you
exactly mean? 🙂
ana /krazy images
Americanism ahead. Have you ever heard anyone say they were "ess oh el"?
Nope. I am wondering if any of you are going to explain this to me <g>
ana /krazy images
SOL is an term for (S)hoot, (O)ut of (L)uck – well not exactly 'shoot' but this
is a family forum.
And seeing as how Joel (then Mike) got stuck in orbit watching bad movies, it
would seem they're SOL.
BTW- That movie you're talking about was 'Marooned' although they renamed it
for some reason. I actually saw that one in the theater!
J-me
Actually, I do think it was completely accidental. There's a Lou Reed song
about a satellite of love, and I think they took it from that. It's a cute
phrase. Now, have you ever eaten a Hamdinger? I used to know the lady in the
Hamdinger commercials…
>>>Actually, I do think it was completely accidental. There's a Lou Reed song
about a satellite of love, and I think they took it from that. It's a cute
phrase. Now, have you ever eaten a Hamdinger? I used to know the lady in the
Hamdinger commercials…<<<
I heard Joel say it was taken from the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon.
>> Now, have you ever eaten a Hamdinger?
No, you? Can you still get them?
Don't think Hamdingers ever made it out to either coasts.
J-me
I grew up in the same areas and about the same time as the guys on MST3K, and
some of them went to the UW-Madison at one time or another, where I was, too.
Jim Mallon, the producer of MST3K, was responsible for a prank-laden student
government in the late 70s, known for erecting the top half of the Statue of
Liberty on frozen Lake Mendota on campus, as well as covering the central hill
of campus with pink flamingos.
There's a lot of Wisconsin humor on that show. I think Hamdingers went off the
market a long time ago. I think these commercials for Spam-burgers are almost
the same thing, except Hamdingers were, well, a bit ham-mier. 🙂
Linda Barry, the cartoonist, spent some of her childhood in Wisconsin, too.
Now, have you ever seen "The Red Green Show" on PBS? It's a parody of all those
hunting-fishing kind of TV shows.
>he is "just" a MST3K character
MST3K? I'm afraid to ask.. Enlighten me o krazy one!
Mistery Science Theater 3000. You can watch it in Comedy Central everyday at
midnight. It will be better for you to check it out, since it is almost
impossible to describe what these guys do and how they do it. One thing: once
you connect, it is nearly impossible to disengage (hey, I learnt that word by
playing Tie Fighter <g>)
ana /krazy images
>>Mistery Science Theater 3000. You can watch it in Comedy Central…
I don't get Comedy Central… or the Comedy Channel… or E… or the
Sci Fi channel… or…. AND I still pay for cable! Boy I hate my cable
company, but seeing that they are the only one around, it's that or nothing! Is
this the case everywhere? (only a single cable company in any given area, and
thus, no competition). I really hate that!
OK. Just had to get that out… I feel better now (except I still don't
get Comedy Central… or….) 🙁
David
>> Is this the case everywhere?
Not really. Get a satellite dish. Bypass the middle man all together and get
over 300 channels (though a great percentage of junk like all kinds of
preachers) including all the channels distributed by cable (the cable company
is nothing more than a couple of satellite dishes and a redistribution
network). You do have to pay for the premium channels just like cable but you
pay the source directly. It costs around $275 a year to get everything you
could want. The real great stuff is channel surfing (my preferred sport) and
you get to find the weirdest things.
I'd never really considered a dish before because I've always
thought they were pretty expensive. You mentioned $275 a year. Are
those just subscription fees on top of the initial purchase? Do you
know if you can lease/rent units for a resonable price, like in the
range of $60 – 75 a month (including service subscriptions)? If I
can, I'll start looking this weekend, because I'm paying over $50 a
month just for cable right now! (they raise the rates every couple of
months, it seems)
I don't know. I bought my dish 4 years ago and at that time it (the
whole system) costed around $2,200. I would think you should be able
to get a 10' dish, actuator, feedhorn, LNA, and receiver for around
$1,500 nowadays. You can either buy everything yourself and install
it or hire a company and buy the setup from them. Check around and
let me know what you find.
P.S. $275 is what I pay for the programming. That gives all the usual
half dozen HBO channels (you get both East and West feeds), Cinemax,
and everything else.
Well, $1500 is outa my range for now. I'm trying to save up for a
move in a few months and I'm about to sink $$ into a new P90 system
(which alone is stressing my wallet more than I'd like). I still
might check into it, just for fun anyway.
Yeah, but "Internet" is to "surfing" as "waiting for the dish to move" is to
"channel surfing". 🙂 I know I'd like satellite, but I don't like to wait
for the dish to catch up with my trigger finger! Even cable isn't fast enough
for me. I have two picture-in-picture cable tuners linked in chain, so I can
watch up to three video signals simultaneously. And that's just at the office!
Most people don't think about the most useful applications of very large, very
high-res screens. I don't want to watch one high-res movie-box, I want
three-four resizable channels at once.
At the NewTek holiday parties, they set up a great system: a video wall of 36
identical TVs all tuned to cable, one per station. They had one remote with a
shotgun-like cardboard tube that could point at a single monitor from the
recliner that sat in front of the screens, and another remote that could
control them all at once.
Are you kidding me? That message was exactly like the Comedy Central
ad on MTV. Now you will tell me: "M-T-V? Uuuh, what's that? Is that
like Music Television or something? UhUh uuu, what?" <bg>
Music television, huh? haven't heard of that one. Is it something new?
<g>
Yeah, you shake the remote and then throw it to the wall and it is
like it sounds or something and then you shake it again and you start
to hear a rythm inside made by a broken piece maybe and it is like
you throw it again against the TV and you get more cool sounds and it
is like it is cool or music television or something <g>
Get a sattelite dish. That's your only form of protest to these idiot
cable companies. I'm going to get one when I move, because although
my cable operator carries a decent variety of channels, the signal
quality is really poor, and I've dragged them out on enough service
calls to realize they either can't or won't do anything to improve it
=-(
Depends on the price, but i'm considering it. I'm also
planning on moving, hopefully by the start of the year, the tiny
place we're in now gets smaller by the day.
>> That's your only form of protest to these idiot cable companies.
But then you'll need to contend with General Instrument's encryption
nonsense. Take a look at Wired, August '94 for a really good look at
satellite video piracy. I'd like to see broadcasters lower their
subscription rates for satellite dish owners and more (that's ANY)
competition for cable companies. I think a number of cities are
offering cable broadcast via airwaves to be picked up by set-top
dishes. This is the kind of service that will undermine the cable
monopoly.
>> … the signal quality is really poor, and I've dragged
>> them out on enough service calls to realize they either
>> can't or won't do anything to improve it =-(
I will make a prediction that your cable signal quality will improve
in the relatively near term, say 2 to 4 years approx.
Why do I make so bold? It is the "information highway" thing. The
old electrical type cable cannot deliver the services that the cable
system MUST deliver and that includes two way communications of
several types. It also includes many more channels (500 is often
mentioned).
My area is served by a company that will put in optical on the
street but the hookup will remain electrical for a while. But not to
me since I don't have cable.
Actually, the problem isn't in the main feed, it's in the feed from
the street into my apartment. They've got the friggin cable wrapped
around the house like 10 times or something, and these bozo's are
wondering why the signal doesn't look good! I've told them they need
to re-do the wiring, but they just keep scratching their heads and
telling me the "supervisor" will call in a day or so. What a bunch
of lame idiots – I guess MacDonalds wouldn't hire them so they went
to work for Viacom.
You could always perform a little illegal monkey-wrenching by flexing the cable
in various spots until the internal copper breaks, and then instead of finding
the break, they'll simply re-wire your apartment the right way.
>> … and these bozo's are wondering why …
Ok, my cable was very good when I had it for a while. But I can relate to the
bozo part since it sounds just like a number of "supervisors" that I could not
work for or satisfy.
hey, i used to work for viacom, and most of those people would probably be able
to get a job at McDonalds
m.
Two words: sat dish.<g>
Two more words… too expensive! I'll check into prices, but it will
probably cost more than I can afford, and the LAST thing I need is to
put anything else on credit.
Save your money for now, cable is going to get a lot more competitive
in the next few years. Direct broadcast satellite is almost ready,
and the telco's will be cable ready soon enough. Competition will
cause prices to drop before you can make up for the cost of your
dish. (I hope <g>)
Two(3?) last words: you're right.<g> I don't have one.
I guess I'll have to imagine it. No Comedy Central here.
Have you heard about the new Lucas Arts game coming out? It's called Dark
Forces, and it's a Doom like Star Wars game. It looks really hot! You shoot
Storm Troopers, steal plans for the Death Star, and a bunch of other stuff. It
adds more story/puzzle than Doom, and lets you jump, look up and down, etc.
Doom 2 will be pretty pale in comparison.
I gotta have it. (I really need to apply to LA.)
Who was it that did the Stormtrooper animations for Rebel Assault? Alan I.? I
forget.
JNJ
(did anyone of you do the modeling for Dark Forces? if so- please let me
know!)
Yes, I have read and ordered it 🙂 Martin Foster participated in Rebel
Assault, but I can't remember what he exactly did. Maybe Alan could
refresh our -fragil, magnetic- memories
I believe Steve Sherer was responsible for the storm-troopers in RA,
John. We could ask MartinF when he comes back, as he did some work
with Steve on the project. I haven't spoken to Steve since Christmas
time, when he was talking about ramping up to produce a game of his
own design.
Alan- is Steve Sherer in Lucas Arts? I'd like to know what kind of people they
are looking for, as far as artists. When's Martin getting back?
Thanks. (you too Ana!)
JNJ
No, John, Steve (as far as I know) does not work for LucasArts. I
believe he contracted out to them during the development of RA. Like
I said, I believe he is working on his own projects these days.
Martin should be back on the 19th.
-Alan
Thanks Alan.