Dan

Excellent info, as always. I was about to get a Vostro machine, then I saw the Leveno stuff and started thinking of alternatives. I need a basic machine, easy cheesy. She'll just be doign basic office work, email, MS apps, that kinda stuff. Nothing too serious. \\ Thanks.

Excellent.

I agree someone like Johnson would have been nice insurance for a year. Perhaps they just didn't like his attitude or something else abot him kinda made the FO think twice. So they made a half hearted attempt. ??

Thanks. I'll search for price. I was just looking at the Lenovo line of desktops and laptops. I agree, their laptops look pretty nice.

Definitely good to know! Thanks. Any suggestions for desktops? I have to buy a desktop for a new office. All our machines are Dells, but I'd love to find something better (as noted with my earlier post). I'd switch the company to all Macs, but they're expensive and the people using them would absolutely freak out if I walked in with a Mac.

I've used both Macs and Dells for years. I do your basic work stuff... MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access; plus website creation, design brochures, posters, etc; and of course all the internet stuff. No games. I've done it all on both Macs and the Dells. IMO, they're both pretty much the same. I'd say there's nothing anyone can do on a Mac that I can't do equally well on a Dell; likewise, there's nothing I can do on a Dell that I can't do on a Mac. So, to some extent, it's a wash. With that being said... I vastly prefer working on a Mac. The integration of all the software is much more seamless and consistent. Far less troubleshooting and far fewer virii. The machine is sleek and solid. Plain and simple. The biggest problem, you would have are all the little differences. I imagine that's Pete's problem. To Copy on a Dell, you hit "Ctrl" + "C", on a Mac its "Cmd" + "C" - the same but different. The "X" to close windows is in the top right corner in Windows Apps; on a Mac its in the top left corner. And so on. So, it's getting used to all those different things that can make the switch difficult. But, imagine installing a program simply by dragging the application to a folder on your hard drive. Or uninstalling it by just hitting delete. No dangling .dll's to worry about. It's those kinds of things that seem nice to me. Also, I'll add that Dell's are becoming crap. I'm on my 3rd laptop in less than 3 years. I've had the one I'm typing on right now for about 8 months - the hinge on the monitor has about 3/4in play (so its about to go), the left mouse button is sticky, and the space bar just pooped out 2 days ago (I popped it back in). I give this thing 3 (maybe 6 months tops) before it'll be replaced. Conversely, the only reason I've ever replaced a Mac was to buy a new one. They're just better built. As far as the price goes... yes, Dells are cheaper. But a Taurus is cheaper than a BMW, as well. They both get you to work. But, one gets you there in style and luxury. If you have the money, IMO, its a no brainer - ride in style.

I would offer that the single biggest problem for our offense was the telegraphing of plays, couple that with no audibles, and how would anyone expect results? I've said it plenty of times before, but when I'm sitting on my couch watching the game and I know exactly what play is called before the snap of the ball; you know darn well the defenses know. Simply mixing the play calling up a little and giving the QB the ability to audible will improve the offense over last season's showing.

Can I get an Amen.

I just heard that... Hamdan STILL Rocks!

Seems odd to me.... with the emergence of the NFL Network, you'd think they'd be busier than ever at NFL Films generating all sorts of original programming for their network. But what happens, they start cutting back and continue to show the same 2 or 3 shows 10 times a day. I just don't get it. But, I've noticed that's the trend in all of TV. Turn on USA Network or TNT or A&E or anything and it's like they have about 4 hours of programming that they put on a loop and repeat all day long. Or they show Law and Order from noon till midnight nonstop. What ever happened to actual programming and variety.

I heard Hamdan Rocked so much, that Joan Jett originally named her mega hit.. I love Gibran Hamdan! Her record producer talked her into changing the song title, a decision she regrets to this day.

While I can certainly understand your consternation, as I have wondered on many a night, why Hamdan isn't on American Idol. But then I realized, Hamdan would win in week one because all other contestants would relinquish to the chroise. So, you see, he's not a false American Idol. He is what Idols in America dream to be.... Hamdan is America.

39. But, in my defense I got a phone call part way through that cost me 1 question.

Thanks. Yeah, I really worry about that one. I wanted to do some stylistic effects that just can't be done otherwise; but I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze. I'll almost certainly change it back to regular text before its finalized.

Joini the Chroise at will...

Excellentay! ..and besides... Hamdan Rocks! Choroise... improved posture. What can't people understand?

Hamdan Rocks!

Definitely added some weight!

Thanks to all for the input. I feel compelled to post an update and state that Customer Support at GoDaddy is pretty darn good. I got a call this morning; thanking me for signing up and asking if I had any questions. Of course, I had a few. After about 15 minutes, the guy determined that I didn't need the server space that I got. So he cancelled that and credited my card the money! He walked me through a few other steps, added a few more features I needed, removed a few others. All in all, after about 45 minutes, he had saved me about $400 and I had up and running exactly what I needed. Today I got the website uploaded. Now, I'll start working on the rest of the site. Not bad. For those interested the site is: Mosquito Mafia It's not complete, you're all the first ones to see it. It's a change for me. I've created several informational websites, but this is my first conceptual site. Feel free to critique it.

Point well taken. We'll just carve out Brady's chin dimple, just for flavor. So let's throw some Staubach in and see what we get.

I must admit... I'm not a fan at all of trading down. But, this year does seem like a good year for it. If Ellis/Dorsey are gone, it would be really interesting to trade down a few spots and get an extra 2nd.

It's like somone put Montana, Brady and Unitas all in pot, boiled them down, and that dreamy substance that rose to the top was called Trent.

I'm assuming its the nameservers being slow... although I confess I don't completely know what that means. But, it says I can FTP stuff, but it won't let me connect. So, I tried to do one of their preset/template pages. That's when it says status - pending setup. So, I'm guessing it jsut takes a day or so to get the website portion going?? It's funny though. I set up an email address. - that was up and able to receive email easily. I got a virtual server - that was up and running in a few hours. But, when I manage the domains and try to launch the website, it says pending setup. But then, it had one way to build a website I did that. I guess that's the starter page? But I see no way to customize that. But, then they have this "WebSite Tonight" thing that allows you to manage your website. That's where it says pending setup. But, they also says it's 5 pages free. Dang sure hope that doesn't mean the website can only be 5 individual pages. Like I said... confusing to me.

Thanks. I've got the site made... well some of it. Making the website is no problem. I've been doing that for a while. I just needed place to host and the domain of course. Well, I went with GoDaddy and so far, I'm not impressed. It was easy enough to register the domain - cheap too, $2.85 fo the first year. But, trying to get the website up is confusing as hell. It's still not up. It's not in any way intuitive. I thought I had to wait for about 5 hours. OK, but I tried again this morning and now it says it can be 24-48hrs. That is... if I'm doing what I think I'm doing.

Watching the game right now. But it blows. Moon is on fire. Our defense can't stop anything. Reich looks lost out there. Thurmal can't get any room to run at all. It's the 2:00 minute warning, and I'm about to turn it off if they don't get some points here. 21-3! and we can't get anything going. edit: Well, that does it. Levy goes for it on 4th and 4. Incomplete. This game is as good as done. We really need a better #2 QB. I'm done with this mess!