analog_kidd

In a world where common sense prevails, the duck owner would be the one in trouble with the law or allowing his animals to wander off, bothering other neighbors. We have neighbors down the street that raise a lot of ducks, and let them roam around. Their next door neighbor hates them, because they are disgusting creatures that poop all over everything.

At work, we recently got a new "Big Cheese". You can tell by her accent that she is not from around here. She likes to storm in and push folks around, and make inflammatory remarks. My boss and I were discussing her, and I said that "she doesn't understand that we do things a bit different here  in the South. If nothing else we are cordial to each other."   I'm starting to think that the era of being "cordial" has passed.   This guy may be having problems at home, but likely it's because he treats the people in his life just like he treats his customers.   What's the line from from the Pink Floyd song "Us and Them"? "Good manners don't cost nothin', do they?"

Glad it all worked out for you. Since the bad DNS servers were hard coded in your TCP/IP settings, you could probably select the setting to "Obtain DNS Server Address Automatically" and let it pull the address from your router, which gets it from your ISP. Or just leave it set to the Google DNS servers. They are what I generally use.

I'm still leaning toward it being a DNS issue. Try this: open a command prompt and type:   nslookup www.walmart.com   Note the IP address it returns, then type:   nslookup www.walmart.com 8.8.8.8   Compare the IP address. The first command queries the DNS server currently configured for your PC. The second command tells nslookup to look at Google's public DNS server. If you get different IP's for each command, DNS is likely your issue. Go into your TCP/IP settings and hard code Google's DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers (make a note of what they were before changing in case you want to go back). Go back to the command prompt and run IPconfig /flushdns and give your browser another try.

I'm with Oh Shoot, I think it's your Host file. I see this all the time, as something malware will do.   The Internet is made up of IP addresses. DNS translates friendly Internet names (like www.walmart,com) into an IP address. A Host file does the exact same thing, but your computer will always check the hosts file first. A favorite trick of malware is to put a bogus IP in the hosts file for places like Antivirus update sites, or MS Updates. If your PC can't get there, you can't get the malware fixed.   I use this to my advantage. If you Google Ad-Free hosts file, you'll find several sites that provide a ready made hosts files with most of the currently known malware and annoying ad sites, all configured with a bogus IP. This way, if you stumble upon a link to one of these sites, if you click it, you'll never be able to connect to it.   If you find that your hosts file has been tampered with, you most definitely have gotten a virus, or some kind of malware. They don't change themselves. You'll likely see pages and pages of other sites in the file too. You'll want to get a good scanner and clean up your PC. I'd recommend "Malware Bytes" as a good free solution. Then make sure your PC has a good antivirus with up to date definitions.   If your hosts file is not the culprit, you still have a DNS problem. Check your TCP/IP settings and look at your DNS settings. Compare to your wife's PC. If you are using a router connected to Comcast, or AT&T, etc. you'll typically have selected the option to "Obtain DNS Setting Automatically". I like to use Google's DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4. It's possible that you might have an odd DNS server configured. Perhaps your antivirus program changed it to send you to a "safe" DNS server (one with malware sites removed), and that DNS server has a bad entry for Walmart.   Good luck.

Joe released a new album a few weeks ago. Seems like this guy releases an album every six  months, and they just keep getting better.   http://youtu.be/Z3_GOk36JD0    

Well, I made a couple of these traps this past weekend, and I'm sorry to say, I haven't caught a single one yet. I was certain they were coming in thru the attic, so I put one up there. I checked it after a day and a half, and all I had was an ant.   I did made an effective bug collector, however. It's the same concept as the 2 liter trap, but instead uses one of the 16oz soda bottles. Cut the top off, flip it over and jam it down into the bottle. Same design as the video, but no light inside. You just walk up to the bug and use the bottle to scoop them up. They fall in and can't get out, and you don't squish them, so no stink. I must have caught 50 of them in a short while. Mostly in the sunroom, where they like to hang out on the windows.   It was funny, though. I went to Home Depot to get the LED light, and while I was looking at the lights, a store employee walks a customer right to the LED lights and says"here's what you're looking for". I looked at the guy and said "Stink bug trap?" and he laughed and said yes. The clerk said they had sold a bunch of the lights that day, and someone else told him they were making a trap. So I guess I'm not the only one plagued by these insects.

Just stumbled upon this ingenious trap. Gonna run out to the store this afternoon and get the supplies.   http://youtu.be/VwUuHhWYvDA

We recently got a Boxer (our first) and she has turned out to be a great dog. She loves our grandkids and the neighbor kids, and joins right in when they are playing tag. But when a stranger comes near, she turns into scary-dog. She loves being with her people, is very gentle and loving with us, and is eager to please us.    The rescue we got her from, said she was a runner, and sure enough, a friend left the gate open one day and it took forever to get her back home. I bought a training collar, and it only took about two sessions working with her, now she never wanders more than 20 yards.   They are a very playful breed and do need some room to run.

  I read that that was a possibility, so I took the trigger out and checked. It was installed correctly. :shrug:

I finally got around to completing my TGO AR today. :woohoo: Upper and lower receiver were completed in the spring, then we moved, and I ran out of money. Got the barrel and hand guards in a week ago, and today was the big day. At first, it would fire one round, cycle the bolt and load a second round, but then wouldn't fire the second round. I discovered that if I put it to safe and back to fire it would fire off the next round and then not fire again. Repeating the safety of/on made the next round fire. Took it all apart and discovered that when cocking the hammer with the trigger pulled back, the disconnector wouldn't reset. I manually pulled the hammer back to cocked and pushed it forward about 100 times and it eventually loosened up. Works perfectly now. All I need now is a scope and it'll be all done.

Had a pack of them wake me up at 4:00 am this morning. Sounded like they were just outside, and they carried on for about 15 minutes. We live in the country with several hundred acres of woods around us, and we hear them all the time. They sound creepy, but I think it's kinda cool. I've only ever seen one. Woke him from a morning nap while I was walking across a field, and he ran off.

  For me it usually isn't that big a deal... Unless there are 15 people in the line to get out and you know darn well the receipt checker isn't really doing anything but preventing me from getting my package of 5000 hot dogs in the fridge.

For about $20, you can find a USB drive enclosure. With it, you can take the drive out of your laptop, plug it into the enclosure, and then plug it into a USB port on another computer. If it works, you can copy the files to the other PC or burn them to a DVD. Honestly, there isn't a lot that can me done to fix a broken hard drive, unless you are willing to send it off to a recovery place along with a very big check. and if it works, keep the drive in the enclosure and use it for backups.   It seems unusual to have two hard drives in a laptop. If I had to guess, I'd say that the hard drive was partitioned into two drive letters. I do this on my computers. I use the C:\ partition for the O/S and programs, and the D:\ partition for data. It makes it easy to reload the O/S. I just wipe the C:\ and reinstall, and all my data stays intact.   As said above, I wouldn't have the laptop repaired. You are going to spend a lot of money on it, and could have just spent the same amount on a new one..

What the heck is with all the stink bugs this year? I've never seen them this bad. They are everywhere! I got them all over the house, in the house and in the truck. They can sneak into just about anywhere. They crawl across my face while I'm sleeping and get stuck in my wife's hair. I'm over them. And you can't squish them, or they smell like a teenager's socks.

The wife and I were heading to Costco yesterday, and I told her about this story. As I was talking, it occurred to me that it would be funny to start calling it Accost-Co.

Oh, no. It's going to be like all the other cop and CSI shows on TV now, where one show becomes popular so they fire up another one with a similar name but in a different city. It'll be Walking Dead - New York, and Walking Dead - L.A.   I'm putting in my order now for Walking Dead - D.C.  :up:

So, I heard an unverified story that this past Friday in Oak Ridge two MOH recipients were brought in on Black-hawk helicopters to the local high school. When they flew in, they buzzed over Y12, which sent them into high alert and they locked the place down.   I know the guys were in town, I heard the lead up to the ceremony on the radio. They held it at the Y12 auditorium. I just don't know how accurate the flyover story is.

I finally got to use my "Chicken Nipples"   :dropjaw:   They are a little gizmo I installed in the bottom of a bucket, and then you fill it with water. The chickens touch the little plunger and get a drink. Don't know why they call them chicken nipples, but I think it's funny. I've been telling people it's what they cut off the end of the chicken breast.   Here's what they look like:  http://www.amazon.com/Poultry-Chicken-nipple-chickens-hatching/dp/B004NEIS1M/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1410565577&sr=8-3&keywords=chicken+nipples

The wife and I started a Square Dancing class. I'm not really all that interested in square dancing, but she wanted to do it, and I'm always dragging her to my silly activities, so I agreed.   It was actually fun, right up until the lights went out and they sent everyone home. I thought it might be more fun to Do-Si-Do in the dark  :cool:

A few months ago, I was driving home from work. I don't now the details of what happened, but this woman was absolutely enraged at a man in a different vehicle. She was honking and shaking her fist, and rocking the car by holding the steering wheel. I noticed this at a stop light we were all at. When the light changed, the man got the jump on her and somehow a car ended up between them. She became so enraged, that she started driving very erratically. She did a two lane sweep into oncoming traffic across a solid yellow line, jumped back around and cut me off, nearly clipping my bumper, floored the gas, and locked up the brakes at the next red light, right behind the guy, but not fully in her lane. She was taking up both lanes.   She then proceeds to get out of her car and pounded on the guys window, kicked his tires, and dropped all kinds of profanity that made even me uncomfortable. Meanwhile she's screaming at him about what a horrible driver the guy was.   Oh, the irony

  I think I'm back in. Someone posted a link to the new group, and I followed that and joined. No biggie either way, Facebook is a distraction that I barely give a second thought to.Besides, there's too much good stuff to read on TGO. Who has time for FaceBook?

  So you did that? I just signed up for that page a week or so ago, and saw that it went to "Secret". I thought to myself "Wohoo; in before the lock"  :up:

Sounds like you got a solution, but I'll mention what I bought anyway. I got a stereo that is called a "switching receiver". It has one HDMI output, and several other inputs, consisting of HDMI in, component in, RGB in, etc. The receiver has several modes such as Cable, DVD, Game, PC, etc. I can configure each of those modes for what ever type of input it uses, so my Cable is HDMI, vcr is RGB, etc. The receiver handles converting everything to the one HDMI output that goes to my TV. All I have to do is select "Cable" on my receiver remote and the receiver takes over and makes all the connections. Want to watch a DVD? Just hit the DVD setting on the Receiver remote.   It also does all the fancy surround sound stuff, plus connects to my network so I get Pandora, can connect to my den PC to get music, and does  a bunch of other stuff I never use. I forget exactly what I paid for it, but it was in the $400-$500 range.

I read that the range is a popular tourist destination outside Las Vegas, called Burgers and Bullets. I guess you can shoot just about any kind of gun you want there, and enjoy a tasty burger afterward. One thing they specialize in is teaching youth about firearms. I also read that the instructor did have the girl shoot a few times with single rounds loaded, to get the feel for it.