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You know? I do have 3 "world's records" in the Twin Galaxies Book Of Video Game And Pinball Records book. It's a long story, but, they're not really records. In fact, they weren't even difficult games to finish. BUT, because only my entries were used in Nintendo Power and when the book research was done, the way it was printed made it out like I had done some amazing things. The local newspaper printed it up as I was the only person in the world to have ever done them! And, they were excendingly simple things: Castlevania II, Snake's Revenge, and something else even I've forgotten by now. Nothing that was REALLY difficult like the credit I deserve for Mission: Impossible. Or, I still claim I beat Mike Tyson BEFORE anyone else. I KNOW I had before anyone at Nintendo had. I called and asked them.

And people wonder why I want to smash them.

Well, unintentionally, I've been on one for 5 years. Personally, I'd rather have a date! Or, to feel my feet again. #39;( BTW, remember I have saved the lady. Several times over the years. Wish I knew who she was. So I could find more of her, maybe? Anyway, so, I should always have a backup on hand. Kind of like the first data disaster I have had since 1997, which made me implement a backup scheme that has worked well. What happened was I lost 17 days of live data due to an error on a disc that contained a backup. What I failed to realize at the time was, yes, Drive Image verify MAY pass after it writes a file to HD. BUT, AFTER you burn the Drive Image to discs, you need to MANUALLY run the verify on the new copy. What I discovered was MS-DOS 6.x is an idiot. It's definition of "format" the target drive actually means FDISK and destroy any existing partitions, create one large partition, and THEN format it. So, that destroyed my HD partition of daily backups. HOWEVER, I had made the to disc backup copy of the most recent backup first. I felt so smart, but, I was kicked in my smart arse by the ultimate, cosmic smart ass. So, I had to restore from my monthly to disc copy, 17 days earlier. What I discovered I had lost, though, or so I thought, was something I thought I didn't have a backup copy of! The only time I've ever seen my first girlfriend in a partial state of nudity because of a topless photo she sent me years later. But, as it turned out, I had a DVD-RAM formatted temporarily with a packet writer for a temporary backup. And, amazingly, the file WAS contained there. So, now, there's a copy, a copy of the copy, an archived copy of the copy, backups, and friends who have copies so I can get it from again, should I need a parachute.

Ah, kev's old lady is back! You know? This thread gives me a new idea of a type of USB mouse. It's a shaped like a mouse trap with a dead mouse in it. You move the cursor around by moving the male mouse trying to mate with it. And, it won't be optical, forcing you to periodically remove and clean its ball...

I like to think so. That's a very good point. It means either the Daleks built it from advanced science captured from Time Lords or adopted some pre-existing Time Lord technology to fit them. BUT, here's a bigger question. Regardless, WHERE did they get it? If Gallifrey was destroyed in the Time War... But, why would the Daleks put themselves in a prison? As for any situation like this, the Time Lords, of course, NEVER thought they'd lose it to the Daleks. Same with any prison. It's great IF the prisoners don't rise up and take it over for themselves.

Remember? I need... alibies... that establish I was at X place at Y time...

So, does that mean he has pink, Tweety, water wings in the shape of wombats watching a mouse mate with a dead partner in a trap?

Yeah, for instance, that's probably why Day Of The Daleks is so conveniently just undone by a time paradox. And, yet, there are also cases where people overly complicate things. For instance, the "problem" with rectifying The Evil Of The Daleks with the destruction of Skaro in Remembrance. I see a very easy way to link the two without having to rely on the currently accepted idea that Genesis started a splintered, alternate history of the Daleks when the Doctor interfered with their birth. It's simple: just set Remembrance after Evil, like it airs. Because Remembrance, like Evil, uses time travel, just because Skaro is destroyed when the Doctor is in 1963 doesn't mean that Skaro cannot be in a time period AFTER Evil. IMO, it makes perfect sense. That Skaro would be ripe picking for Davros and an army of his gold and white Daleks to move in and reclaim it, with the Emperor's army all but destroyed. (After all, in Evil, Daleks were show to still be surviving. Just because the Doctor said it was the final end doesn't have to be so.) So, the old Imperial Daleks, vastly outnumbered, go on the run to survive, and, Davros sets himself up as the new Imperial Emperor and chuns out an army of new Daleks that reclaim Skaro. Thus, the now Renegade Daleks, the 4 or so original ones seen in Remembrance, are the last vestiage of the old Imperial army. And both learn of the Hand Of Omega. As the Doctor said, he didn't expect two Dalek factions, and, IMO, this easily explains it away and rectifies the seemingly conflicting "final" Dalek stories. QED OH! WAIT! Here's a better one. Change only one thing above. Infer that all the old Renegade Daleks DID die on Skaro. Because, this idea also rectifies a dangling plot about Davros. The Imperial Daleks return to Skaro with Davros for trial post Revelation, and, discover that they are the last of the Daleks. Davros works his magic, like from Resurrection, and secures a loyal Dalek to escape with. Quickly, he sets up a shop and churns out his army of loyal Daleks before the returning Imperials can. Thus, the Daleks seen in Remembrance that were of the old order are actually the Imperial ones seen from Revelation. Yeah, I like that idea better.

Okay, but, that only just explains away the ghosts. Not exactly why she'd immediately see a blank ghost and think, "Oi, that's me dad!" I think you did misundertand. The way I remember the dialogue, the Daleks claim the Ark is Time Lord technology, and, the Doctor keeps wondering what Time Lord technology. When the Doctor sees it open and the Daleks emerge from it, he says it was a prison for the Daleks. That the Time Lords had captured them and held them there. Well, it wasn't like Davies tried to hide it. He purposefully wrote it so the Black Dalek appears on camera, clearly says, "Activate emergency temporal shift!" or something to that effect, and we see it disappear. We probably should NOT have seen this. Film it and then use it as a "HOW DID YOU ESCAPE?!" flashback for a later episode. I loved how surprised the Black Dalek was when Rose told it she had met the Emperor. "The... Emperor survived...?!" So incredulous! So, if we accept the novelization of Remembrance Of The Daleks as canon, that means there have been 9 Daleks that have had consciousness of their own individual existence. The 3 human Daleks the Doctor created (And, yes, untold numbers of other humanized Daleks created on Skaro. ) in The Evil Of The Daleks, the Emperor Dalek (The real ones, not Davros. ) the Special Weapons Daleks, aka the Abomination, and the 4 members of the Cult Of Skaro. Does this mean, then, that the Black Dalek is the only member of the Cult Of Skaro that survived? The others looked exactly like the others sucked into that vortex. Of course, there's always the problem of a term like "the last Dalek." As you said, the Doctor always needs Daleks. So, they'll always be around. As long as the BBC doesn't piss off the Terry Nation estate and they pull their part of the license! Like they almost did for the 2005 season. But, there are problems. For instance, the Dalek who lamented he was the last of his kind in Dalek. Did he not have access to the Dalek history files? In just 50 years, the Daleks would invade Earth! And, even if he did scan the skies with Earth technology and did not find any Daleks, they would have to be out there to invade the Earth in the future. All he had to do was wait. OH! And imagine the temporal anomalies THAT would cause! The Daleks that invade Earth, being "past" Daleks, would have access to a Dalek of future technology and files on the future! After all, remember Davros's intention with that tape from Genesis Of The Daleks?

Wow, the current season ender was a real cracker! Armies of Cybermen materializing on the Earth, marching into people's homes, threatening the children! Really terrific stuff! The Cybermen, having just announced their taking over the world to Earthlings, offer an alliance with the Daleks to upgrade the entire universe. Naturally, there is only one superior life form in the universe, and, it's on, baby! Daleks flying in the sky, indiscriminantly killing humans and shooting Cybermen, Cybermen firing at them from streets littered with dead bodies! Literally hundreds of Daleks appear at one point, even about, maybe, 50 Cybermen. Mickey returns, as does Rose's dad from the parallel Earth, who meets up with Rose's real mother. And, the Doctor loses Rose! I do fault Davies for having Rose narrate her own "death" because, if a character does that, you know they won't really die. :wink2: And, I'm not entirely sure I buy something. Maybe something I missed. But, if the Ghosts never spoke before, how did Rose's mom know that that ghost was her father? And, does the Genesis Ark really make much sense? Why would the Time Lords keep Daleks as prisoner? Isn't it standard SOP for a Dalek to blow itself up if it's captured? The Cult Of Skaro, eh, I don't think the idea really works well with given Dalek psychology, but, Davies has tampered with it in the past. "Since when do Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?!" The ending is daft but, I can't strike down what is a whole lot of fun! Davies did top himself over last season's ender.

Maybe it's only a Firefox thing. I hadn't tried any other browsers yet. But, Firefox does have one annoyance I've noticed with the board that no other browsers do. The ' key SOMETIMES opens the Search function of Firefox. So, I can't always use contractions. So, for it to affect FF, and since no one else apparently has tried it there yet...

As well it should be! I KNEW that one already! Actually, with Services, I could have written a complicated routine to open Services, pipe in character names and commands, etc. but, that is so problematic. Giving how long it sometimes needs to wait for Windows to catch up, etc.

Okay, I know you can at least Start and Stop a Service with a command line. Maybe even Restart it. But, is there a way to change the StartUp Type of a Service with a command line? i.e. to change it from Automatic to Manual or Disabled? That way, just put it in the StartUp folder and not have to worry about manually changing the StartUp Type, since even when a service is stopped, it MAY STILL DAMN WELL BE in memory UNLESS it's Disabled so that it never runs. Fuckers! Thanks!

This is the 2nd time I've encountered it now, so, it appears to be a problem in the forum software. Has anyone else noticed it? When I highlight something and want to give the text two attributes, say, Bold and Italics, when I select first Bold and then Italics, what it does is surround the text with but Italics only puts [/i] after [/ b]. I have to go in and manually type in the at the other end. Now, it may just be the way the forum software is written, because, if you manually highlight the text again and repeat each text change one at a time, it works properly. And, I didn't know where else to post something like this. Especially since it's such a small error. If it could even be considered an error since it just appears to be a shortcoming in thinking of how the user might work with the software.

Is there a way to use .REG keys to uncheck/remove StartUp entries in Microsoft Configuration Utility? i.e. is there a common Registry key/branch that contains this information? Or, is it impossible except on an individual basis, depending on where the software installs a key? What I want to do is, if possible, have a .REG key that unchecks/disables/removes a given checked "thing" that starts on StartUp, controlled by MCU. Such as zlclient, a common one added by ZoneAlarm. [ No, I don't want to disable that, and, neither do you! ] Then, I can just create a shortcut to silently import the key and put that shortcut in the StartUp folder of the Start Menu. That way, any updates, new versions, etc. that re-add them will be taken care of on each start of Windows. Thus, I won't have to worry about them. Similar to keys I've already developed to keep MY settings, such as my default CD/DVD players, etc. Thanks!

I never saw it until the Playhouse videos came out around 1986, 1987? Funny story, I had seen one, but, never even knew it until years later. There was a local PBS station that when it went off the air, another station would come in scrambled on it. I was watching it one time and, years later, I realized it was an episode of... THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH! It would just HAPPEN to get static, etc. at any point with Daleks which would have been a clear giveaway. :wink2: Oh, and, I had seen the Doctor Who And The Daleks movie before that, around 1983. I was a fan of Doctor Who for years before I ever saw an episode. I was such a fan of the Daleks merely on sight, after seeing them in a Starlog magazine and then my Spencer's Gifts miraculously having a copy of the 20th anniversary special magazine for Doctor Who, and at half price! Doctor Who finally aired locally on PBS in 1988. It ran until about 1991, enough to show the entire Tom Baker era twice. Except for Genesis Of The Daleks. They saved that one for a third extra repeat for a pledge week.

Wow, original Who got a mention on VH-1's I Love The 70's: Volume II for 1978! Probably because it was around that time it started making the PBS rounds in the US?

Wasn't long at all.

And, for once, it apparently ISN'T an ubran legend... http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/whalethanks.asp

Would anyone willing to do me a favor do me a favor? I need to get some corroborating information one way or another. If you have Windows set up to open your previously opened folders when Windows shuts down, please open My Computer (just open it and leave it at the default view) and then restart the computer. When Windows restarts afterwards, check My Computer to see if any of your CD/DVD drives appear as the last entry in My Computer. (This infers, of course, the drive in question that appears is not already the last one in your list of drive letters.) I know on Windows start that Windows basically polls and assigns all drive and letters even when, basically, there's no need to even think a new drive is attached. But, something odd came up when fixing another problem. After testing various backups going back to a basic XP SP 2 install and my backups from January 1st, I've noticed conflicting behavior. That starting with February, when I start Windows with My Computer open, my 2nd and last CD/DVD drive, appears at the end of the list until I Refresh and the drives get sorted by letter. On the January and XP SP 2 backups, this behavior does not occur. So, I'm trying to see if this is something I should be concerned about. Because, if not, I'd REALLY rather avoid going ALL the way to January and trying to synch installed program versions, data files, program options, etc. Thanks!

Oh, if only I COULD be allowed to unleash clouds of mushroom death across the globe...

Oh, if only they WOULD put me away...

When I first read the subject, I thought this may be about that weirdo down in Texas or wherever, Pinky something, who was running for governor or whatever. Yeah, I'm always on the ball with my facts.

Some of it I know. Some I don't. So, unless it's been like 18 weeks I can wait.

Looks more like the Hand Of Omega. Well, with a name like Genesis, they want you to expect a certain crippled scientist inside... so, it's probably... the script that was originally supposed to follow Revelation Of The Daleks before the old series got cancelled!