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I've been away from my PC for a few days, and you may have solved your problem already, but for a free solution, I've had great success with Offline NT Password Editor   http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ Just download either the CD version or the USB version, boot from whichever you decided, and follow the prompts. You'll want to reset the password for the account "Administrator". Once the password has been changed, removed the disk and boot normally into Windows. At the logon screen use Administrator for the account, and whatever password you changed it to. If the logon screen indicates you are logging onto a domain, use ".\Administrator" for the username (don't include the quotes).   If you have a friend that has access to an enterprise subscription to Microsoft Licensing, ask them to get DART (MS Diagnotic And Recovery Tool). It has a very nice and easy to use password recovery tool, along with several other cool utilities. And it is from Microsoft. It boots up to a windows-like desktop and will seem familiar.   If all you are looking for is to be able to get the files copied to a USB drive before wiping the laptop, you could try any of the Linux Boot disks, such as Ubuntu,  that can be installed to a CD and booted from. You'll get a desktop that is running from the CD, but will have access to the files on your hard drive.    Good luck.   ​

Oh, great. My wife and I share the Amazon account, and she is in there frequently. She is going to see this listed in the "recently viewed" section. I have a feeling she'll be treating me real nice for the next few days, but when the delivery truck doesn't show up after a week, she's gonna start being suspicious.

If you already have the program installed in the win8, try this little trick before you wipe the PC. Right-click the shortcut, or go find the .EXE file that starts the program and right-click it, then select properties, and then select the compatibility tab. There are several options in there to fool the O/S run the program as if it were on an earlier version of Windows. Doesn't always work, but at least worth trying.

I've had people at work trying to describe a person go like this:   "You know that guy, he's about 6' tall, has short hair. Drives that Honda. Sat over there at the Christmas party." Then in a very hushed tone like they were telling a secret: "He's Black"   Being he is one of three black guys we work with, that is where they should have started. It's almost like we have to ignore the one main differentiating feature of color because we don't want to appear racist. It is what it is. Doesn't bother me to be described at that old white guy, why should it be a problem the other way?

I'm a whitewater kayaker, and loving all this rain. It has brought up some creeks that usually only run in the middle of winter, It's really wierd paddling these creeks in short sleeves.   Made it to the Piney river in Spring City yesterday. It was absolutely perfect. We got a late start, and I thought we were going to be paddling out in the dark, but we made it to the end by 8:15 or so.   It rained all morning, and then cleared up while we were on the river. In fact we even had blue skies for a while. It came down hard again on the way home.   The wife was not happy that I got home after 11:00   :hiding:

Very sad passing for me. Yes is one of my all time favorite groups. I had front row and center seats at the 90125 concert a few decades ago, Just amazing. News said he had leukemia.

I'll be happy to put away the Confederate flag as soon as we as a country stop referring to black folks as African Americans. They're just Americans, dang-it. If they really want to eliminate that part of our history, then stop reminding everyone where they came from. Besides, most black folks I know don't relate one little bit to Africa or it's culture and heritage.

We had a coyote in downtown Oak Ridge, right in my neighborhood. I called the City animal control, and they refused to come get it, saying they only dealt with domesticated animal collection. They recommended I call a trapper, or trap it myself. I asked if I could put it down if I trapped it, and they said "Not with a gun!". I asked about an arrow, and they said they really weren't allowed either, but they reluctantly gave that answer, so I took it to mean do it out of sight and nobody will be the wiser.   I called TWRA and they said they will not come trap it or dispatch it either. They suggested I trap it and then club it to death  :stunned: . They also told me it was illegal in TN to transport any live wild animal, so don't even think about trapping and releasing it out in the woods.

I heard a report on the news today where someone went to a major grocery store chain and wanted a cake made with a Confederate flag, and the store refused. Then they came back later and asked if they could get a cake made with the ISIS flag. They were told "Sure, no problem"

I'm sure this has created an even bigger health problem for some kids. Kids will always go overboard with stuff like this, so what could have been a moderate amount of salt or sugar  added in for taste during cooking, now the kids will bring in salt / sugar and over-do it.   Just like the nanny state of New York banning 32 oz sodas. People just bought 2 ~ 24oz sodas. They caused people to eat / drink more unhealthy.   How about instead of forcing it down their necks, schools start actually TEACHING kids how to live healthy and help them make good choices.

Years ago my son brought home a gi-normous projection TV that a friend's dad was throwing away. He was just convinced that I could fix whatever was broken, which made me feel good that he thought that of me as a teen, but also made me feel bad because I have no ideas how to fix electronics. I took basic electronics in high school, and I have installed all the wiring in a couple of houses, but fine electronics is like voodoo to me.    I took a look inside the TV cabinet, hoping I could find something simple like a blown fuse or disconnected wire. I was hoping to find a big, black, unrepairable burned out part so I could save face with my son. I did not find that, but I did find a couple of capacitors that still had a charge in them, and successfully discharged them into my finger.   I ended up putting it on the classified ads at work, listing it something like "Come get this TV, if you can get it to work, send me $10, otherwise you can haul it to the dump." The ad was the talk of work for a while, with everyone wondering who would write such a strange ad. Someone eventually picked it up. I never saw my $10.

I'm on TGO nearly every day, and somehow I totally overlooked this thread. DOH! Well, the good thing is, it's like discovering an awesome TV show from years ago and being able to watch all episodes one after another.

My favorite are a few bottles filled with water and frozen. They make a nice spray of ice, and they last longer than just bottles with water.

I've pretty much stopped going to Hardee's because of the deceiving commercials. There's never any sexy women, seductively eating their burgers there. The restaurant is usually filled with gross people eating their burgers like they have no ideas what manners are.

The grandkids all named them when they were chicks, but I don't think anybody knows who is who now, except for maybe one or two chickens that look different than the rest. I usually address them by the affectionate term "Stupid Chicken" when I go out to tend to them.   We do love them though, and they are spoiled rotten. Not only do they bring us eggs, but they are a great source of entertainment. They stay in a fenced area that is about as big as the dogs' lot, which is quite big. They have a room in the barn that serves as the inside coop, and that room is about as big as my bedroom growing up.    I always say they have to make me more than they cost me, and I've asked my wife what she will do when they stop laying eggs. She just wants to keep feeding them and let them enjoy their old age. I joke and say they will go in the pot. She'll probably win this one  :).  I've heard that old chickens are tough and don't taste very good.

  I think that show must have traveled around. I used to go see them in West Palm Beach when I lived there. They would come around a couple times a year, and all the big named guys would wrestle. Pretty sure I saw Dusty on a number of occasions.

We have several chickens and a couple of guinea's. The guinea's lay these eggs that are quite a bit smaller than the chickens, and the shells are like concrete, very hard to crack. Inside, it's almost all yolk. The chickens always lay in the nesting boxes, but the guineas lay wherever they feel like it. We watched one lay an egg while walking across the concrete floor in the barn. Didn't even bother to squat, just dropped it where she stood. The egg fell onto the concrete floor with a plop and never broke. In fact, it may have chipped the floor.  :)   I made a waterer out of a 5 gallon bucket and installed some chicken nipples in the bottom. I hung it up from the roof inside the coop, but the stupid chickens completely ignored it. In fact the outside pan I had water in dried up, and they were dying of thirst when I put them away in the evening. I even tried putting their beaks up to the nipples to show them how the water comes out, but they acted like I was trying to kill them.   My plan was to run water with a hose into the coop, and install a toilet valve in the bucket to keep it at a set level. For now, we just use those round chicken waterers and hang them from the roof of the coop with a rope. We hang them just low enough for them to drink from. It keeps them from standing on the waterer and pooping in it.

Be careful of "repeaters". They take a wireless signal and pass along a re-boosted signal. Great for getting Wi-Fi to a place that you can't reach with ethernet cables. However, the signal will bottleneck and only be as strong as the signal it can receive. So if the signal you can get from wherever you place it is weak, you'll just be passing along a weak signal. Also, a repeater can only EITHER transmit or receive at any given moment, it can't do both like a hotspot, switch or router. What that means is you start of with half the bandwidth you think you should have.   The better option is to use hotspots that can be wired with ethernet cables. If you can get cables to your hotspots you'd be way better off. If you have an old wireless router laying around, most times you can turn them into a hotspot.   A good plan would be to put a gigabit switch in a central location, then run Ethernet cables to each location that requires a wired connection, plus wire your modem/router and each hotspot into the switch, and then use wireless cards for the stuff you don't want to run cables to.   I've had mixed results with WiFi cards in PC's. I bought a top of the line wireless modem / router and my work laptop would connect but had horrible reception. My wife's laptop worked just fine with it. I ended up putting a hotspot in that sits right next to the modem just so I could connect with my laptop. I have a home theater PC with one of those USB WiFi adapters (no external antenna) sitting about 15' from the hotspot and it gets mediocre, at best, reception. I also have a Raspberry Pi computer that I'm playing with as a Media center, and it has a similar USB adapter, and it works great. My PC in the office has a PCI WiFi card with 3 external antennas, and it gets pretty good reception, and it is twice as far away and around a few more corners than the HTPC is. From my personal experience, if you are going to do WiFi cards, get ones with antennas for best reception.   I'm going to either replace the USB adapter in the HTPC with a PCI card, or just go ahead and wire it in. I ran an Internet speed test, and I'm getting 5mb/s with the current setup. I then strung a cable all the way across the floor to the modem and got 25mb/s. For streaming movies, I want the faster speed. It's so frustrating to see the movie stop every so often to wait for it to buffer.   A $200 budget may be cutting it close, but like I said if you can reuse equipment, or get stuff from friends, or buy used from Craigslist, you can save some money.    Good luck

How does the law change anything? Right now, what is to keep a disgruntled student from threatening a professor? Mostly, it's the law; a student won't risk going to jail, and that won't change.   The fact of the matter is that a person who is law abiding, and conscientious enough to get a carry permit, is probably going to be a good student anyway, and won't need to make threats to prop up a grade. It's the thugs that don't get a permit that they really need to worry about.

Sounds like maybe you are trying to drag / drop from Media Player. Instead, open Windows Explorer and find your music. Copy from there to the thumb drive.

I always wondered how these apps knew the traffic patterns of everywhere without having sensors on all the roads, or paying for satellite surveillance. Then I realized that we are all providing the sensors from our phones. That location status in your phone feeds your location and your rate of travel back up to Google, or whoever, and then they use that data to determine if the people on any given road are travelling slower than the posted speed.  :tinfoil:

We've been talking about being willing to accept the consequences for flag stomping, and it occurred to me that these consequences could last a lifetime in today's digital age. I have been in a position where I have been able to hire people for really good, well paying jobs. The first thing I do when considering interviewing someone is to do a quick Google or Facebook search on them. If I were to see a video of someone doing this, or even "liking" a post, I would immediately disqualify them. You may be the smartest person for the job, but you know what, I don't like you. You make a choice, and so do I. The good / bad thing about the Internet, is this kind of stuff is forever. You think you're being clever, or making a statement now while you're young or in college. Wait until you're 30 and see how the world really works, and you want to provide for your own kids. If I'm making the decision, those actions just cost you dearly.   I saw one video of a young girl doing some kind of dance move stomp on the flag. She had an ass the size of Texas and I kept thinking that living in America she was able to have a nice, cushy life with (relatively) no worries, and sit around getting fat. She probably never in her life stepped up to help someone else, or try to make this country a better place, only caring about herself, and what she could get. I occurred to me that the only patriotic moments she may have ever had were saying God Bless America, right after stuffing a bag of Twinkies down her mouth.

My other hobby is whitewater kayaking, and it is a sport 99% populated by tree hugging liberals. Kayaking is a single person sport, but you need other people to go along with you for safety reasons, and to help with shuttle. I generally have to bite my tongue all the time just not to alienate myself from the group. I'd venture to say most of them have never even fired a gun, and would be repulsed at the very idea. I think most of them would pee themselves if they ever found the Ruger I carry in my backpack.   One weekend several of us were camping out in the woods near a river we were paddling. Many beers were consumed and the conversation turned to "what would we do if some crazy redneck hunter came out here and tried to make us squeal like pigs". Most talked about where in the woods they would run away to. I finally spoke up and mentioned I'd just get the 9 mil from the truck. Everyone sat there looking at me like I had said I would have thrown a dead baby seal at them. The conversation was over and we never spoke of it again.   They definitely don't like when I point out the hypocrisy of burning a couple of tankfulls of gas and emitting all that carbon every weekend to go on a river trip. It's OK to be a tree hugger environmentalist as long as it doesn't interfere with their fun time.

I'm a big fan. In fact, my screen name is taken from one of their song titles. I've seen them a couple of times, and they really put on one heck of a show.   I tend to like their older stuff. Through the years they refined their style, and it got more synthesized. I like the edgier sound of their earlier stuff.    Plus, Geddy just can't hit those high notes anymore  :)

Wow! That was a great post. Thanks for taking the time to share your story, and an even bigger thanks for serving.