Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.

'Unleashed'


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Typo Boy - Aug 31, 2007 7:56:59 am PDT #2545 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I have had good luck with steadfast networks. They are slightly cheaper than dreamhost.


Jon B. - Aug 31, 2007 9:35:28 am PDT #2546 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Another vote for steadfast.net. I've found their customer service to be excellent. I signed up with them through a subsidiary called Host Affection, which seems to be cheaper than going through steadfast.net. [link]


beekaytee - Aug 31, 2007 10:20:56 am PDT #2547 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

Jon, have you ever used the autoresponder function through Host Affection?

I plan to use resonders for email list sign ups and for distribution of timed lessons (e-courses) connected to my coaching programs. If it's easy to use it through this host company, it would save me a chunk of change on the add-on service I use at the moment.


NoiseDesign - Aug 31, 2007 10:46:42 am PDT #2548 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

I've got 3 sites hosted through Dreamhost and they've been great for me.


Jon B. - Aug 31, 2007 12:47:07 pm PDT #2549 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Jon, have you ever used the autoresponder function through Host Affection?

To me, "autoresponder" means where if someone sends an email to a particular address, they automatically receive a canned response back. It sounds like you're looking for mailing list software? If so, you can set up a mailing list directly from the control panel, or you can easily install free third-party software like phpList.


Laga - Aug 31, 2007 11:34:04 pm PDT #2550 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

How many pages is your iphone bill?


NoiseDesign - Sep 01, 2007 5:26:48 am PDT #2551 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

The combined bill for Kristin and I last month was 76 pages.

AT&T is crazy with the bills, but it cracks me up that this is suddenly all kinds of big news. I've been getting 50-100 page bills from them for years. Half of the 76 page bill was stuff from her Blackberry.


Laga - Sep 01, 2007 8:11:29 am PDT #2552 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

yeesh! I heard on the radio some people's bills were 300 pages.


Theodosia - Sep 01, 2007 10:21:37 am PDT #2553 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

That's about one call a page, right?

I'm trying to figure out what I should do about a Windows computer for my school work -- Intel Mac Pro with Parallels, or true Windows machine? And if I can get one with XP installed (yes, there are some that come that way at MicroCenter) do I want to go with one of those, or am I just buying future trouble as the OS gets increasingly outdated and unsupported?


tommyrot - Sep 01, 2007 11:13:53 am PDT #2554 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'd go with Parallels. The downside is you gotta buy a second OS in addition to the Parallels software, so there's added expense.

Lots of people are sticking with XP instead of moving to Vista. I think you'll still be able to buy new machines with XP installed until the end of the year. MS only recently dropped support for NT 4, right? So I think they'll be supporting XP for a while. Also, the pace of OS advances has slowed a lot in recent years. A lot of people stayed with 3.1, 95 and 98 for a long time. I have a feeling this will be even more true of XP.

My biggest beef with Vista is its rather onerous DRM. A Vista machine actually devotes a fair amount of activity determining if you really should be able to play high-quality video - if the video you're playing doesn't meet all its criteria, it will intentionally downgrade the audio and video quality. I'm a little unclear on the details, however.