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Amaranthim Talon
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02-13-2009 04:41
Best wishes for your friends, Mouse :|

And don't worry about catching up - this is an on going Seinfeld episode :D
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Jerboa Haystack
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02-13-2009 04:43
From: Amaranthim Talon
And don't worry about catching up - this is an on going Seinfeld episode :D

Oh! in that case...

*ahem*
/me clears his throat...

"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"
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02-13-2009 04:55
From: Pserendipity Daniels
It's Friday (the 13th - which is not a problem; my daughter was born on a supposedly unlucky day and is the nicest person I know) the sun is shining and the snow has melted (we'll ignore the floods) and Wales are going to prevail over England at rugby tomorrow. What could make the day more perfect (apart from going to the pub at lunchtime and finishing work early) other than an Ulster Fry?



And it's never too early for an Irish coffee!



Pep (sorry to all you veggies and health nuts, but a man's gotta do . . .)


From: Pserendipity Daniels
Oh OK then . . .



Pep (Always prepared to compromise - in *this* thread anyway)


Good morning, threadies! TGIF13!

Hope y'all can make it to the "Shades of Red" part this afternoon/evening (from 2 pm to roughly 8 pm SLT). :)


Ohhhh, Pep. Thank you! How wonderful to find breakfast waiting for me.

@ Amara: The round things are, I believe, black pudding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding)...

@ Jerboa: Your friend and his wife are in my thoughts and prayers.
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02-13-2009 05:32
From: Amaranthim Talon
@ Pep - in the Ulster Fry - what are the round black things in the middle? Other than that, I'll take one!
As Mo has said, they are Black Pudding, which I believe might be known as Blood Pudding over your way. You can guess what it's made of. I try not to think of it - I just enjoy it. Come to think of it Gabriele, Mac etc might appreciate it too.

Pep (I believe a Dublin Fry has White Pudding as well, but I have deliberately avoided finding out what is in that)
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Key MacMoragh
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02-13-2009 05:38
From: Pserendipity Daniels
It's Friday (the 13th - which is not a problem; my daughter was born on a supposedly unlucky day and is the nicest person I know)...


In Italy, 13 is a lucky number.
Amaranthim Talon
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02-13-2009 05:39
Generally I avoid blood consumption, tvm :)

Quick question am drawing a blank (not enough sleep or too little SL lately?) What is the term for when your comp is completely scrubbed clean and everything gets reinstalled from the ground up? Argh!
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Brenda Connolly
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02-13-2009 05:42
Reformatted?
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Amaranthim Talon
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02-13-2009 05:46
From: Brenda Connolly
Reformatted?

Thats the one! Thanks! :)
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Amaranthim Talon
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02-13-2009 05:50
K- Here is the why of it and I need help- :(

If I could pick some brains please I am needing a bit of help. I have an HP 3300 that is about hmm- four years old. Recently was reformatted. Everything was wonderful, grafix, speed - it rocked.

About a week and a half ago my CPU started running at 100 % even when not actively doing anything. I usually run SecondLife and Firefox concurrently and had not had any issues until one day this happened. And I don't know what to do to get it back. There are 36 processes running that include in order of greatest mem usage:
FireFox=60,520;
explorer.exe= 40,444;
java.exe=336,100,
SfCtlCom.exe = 27,744;
svchost.exe=27,080;
UfSeAgnt.exe=27,080;
SearchIndexer.exe=12,588;
WindowsSearch.exe=11,384;
TMBSRV.exe=11,216;
TmProxy=11,056

I ran Malaware Malabytes and it found no virus; Trend Micor finds no virus; Went into MsConfig Startup and checked off a few things from start up; tried turning off TrendMicro temporarily...nothing changes, comp still at 100%.
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02-13-2009 05:55
From: Love Hastings
Hallowe... er Valentines Day


Oh, that day that I'm going to spend burning my ex-fiance's stuff in effigy? :)
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Key MacMoragh
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02-13-2009 06:00
Okay... for those of you following the adventures of Spike (see /327/4f/307186/1.html)...

He turned out to be a pretty nice guy, and Honeybear gave him a great makeover. Here's the before and after. The in-between pics are at

http://s384.photobucket.com/albums/oo281/key_mac/spike/?albumview=grid

Before:


After:


I'm still editing the pics -- there are better ones of each of us. I mean, better ones of me... Honeybear always looks amazing.
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02-13-2009 06:07
Amar, i don't know what all those programs are that you have running.... but did you try defragging?
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02-13-2009 06:08
re: Spike - i personally prefer the BEFORE shape. i hope he is having fun! :D
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Key MacMoragh
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02-13-2009 06:11
From: 3Ring Binder
re: Spike - i personally prefer the BEFORE shape. i hope he is having fun! :D


It's the crappy picture. He looks better, believe me.



This is a better one of him... I didn't want to use it as the After because of Honeybear doing the frug in the background.
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02-13-2009 06:12
Amara,

How does it behave without Firefox running at all? Just curious.

Also, you say your cpu is at 100%. What about the hard drive? Is it churning while this is happening?

And in task manager, you can also look at cpu usage as well as memory usage. Take a peek at that tab, and see which process is eating up all the cpu.

That might help find the problem.
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02-13-2009 06:13
/me still liking the before better, even with the new pic angle. but that's just me. i tend to prefer the realistic thin male avatars over the buffed up macho men.
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02-13-2009 06:13
Amara, try using spybot and CCleaner. The are both free downloads. Also I read somewhere that you should use services.msc to disable background programs instead of msconfig.
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02-13-2009 06:14
From: Key MacMoragh
Okay... for those of you following the adventures of Spike (see /327/4f/307186/1.html)...

He turned out to be a pretty nice guy, and Honeybear gave him a great makeover. Here's the before and after. The in-between pics are at

http://s384.photobucket.com/albums/oo281/key_mac/spike/?albumview=grid


I'm still editing the pics -- there are better ones of each of us. I mean, better ones of me... Honeybear always looks amazing.


That's awesome! You ladies are great for helping him out. Especially after a forum entrance such as that.

I have full faith that Honey can have him runway-ready in a snap. She's just that good.
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02-13-2009 06:15
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re: Spike - i personally prefer the BEFORE shape. i hope he is having fun! :D


same here, it looked more realistic. Now as to Honey's shape :) , and Key is adorable.
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02-13-2009 06:15
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same here, it looked more realistic. Now as to Honey's shape :) , and Key is adorable.

this. :D
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02-13-2009 06:18
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It's the crappy picture. He looks better, believe me.



This is a better one of him... I didn't want to use it as the After because of Honeybear doing the frug in the background.


give him a little wider hips, a little less shoulder, and a tad less muscle. He's still borderline triangle-guy. :)

('course I'm one to talk... my shape is pretty exaggerated too.)
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02-13-2009 06:20
From: Jerboa Haystack
give him a little wider hips, a little less shoulder, and a tad less muscle. He's still borderline triangle-guy. :)

('course I'm one to talk... my shape is pretty exaggerated too.)


He needs a bigger head too.

Perhaps we should send him to Pep :p
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02-13-2009 06:21
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He needs a bigger head too.

Perhaps we should send him to Pep :p

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02-13-2009 06:21
From: Jerboa Haystack
give him a little wider hips, a little less shoulder, and a tad less muscle. He's still borderline triangle-guy. :)

('course I'm one to talk... my shape is pretty exaggerated too.)


Well, you know, it would be nice if one of you GUYS showed him around a little... explained how things worked and all that, which is what he was asking about in the first place.

/me laughs

Anyway, he doesn't look like a newbie any more. He looks like an alt.
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02-13-2009 06:23
Amara, this may be of some help, if you are running XP

http://www.optimizingpc.com/optimize/windowsservices.html
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