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    Computer problems

    Hi cciaffone I use windows 7 and a virtual machine for the XP games of my son. I have a copy of that XP machine on my hard disk. Whenever it is too slow I replace it with a fresh copy. A virtual machine is a computer-simulator, just like a train- or flight- simulator... It simulates a...
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    Getting older?

    Thanks ****!
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    Statistics

    Wow....
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    Getting older?

    If in Rome do what Romans do. If in this forum do what your hosts expect you to do? If you have an account on this forum, you have agreed with this registration form: http://www.summerwine.net/community/index.php?action=register Censorship is 'moderating' before you publish. On most political...
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    Statistics

    Is that gigabyte or megabyte? If it is gigabyte, I think we should organise a board of directors and sell shares to share holders and become filthy rich? And than wait until the Queen gives you a knighthood :D
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    Getting older?

    The topic is not a problem. The way some people react, is a problem. You can not foresee this kind of reactions. I think we have to consider some extra manners to keep this forum free of troublemakers. Maybe more moderators are necessary? And more people who use the link "Report to the...
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    Statistics

    Yep, I am such a person who does not have anything to tell. Just that I enjoy First and Last of the summer wine a lot!
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    Getting older?

    In this topic one person made xenophobic remarks. That person has been removed with more than a tray on his head. Please, if this happens again: use "report to moderator" right beneath the posts in this forum.
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    FOTSW - September 1939

    I forgot the name of the philosopher who thought this: A human can have two of these properties. The third is excluded. 1> A human can be intelligent. 2> A human can be decent. 3> A human can be a nationalist. If you are intelligent and decent then you are not a nationalist. If you...
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    Other Statistics

    I do not have that ambition ;)
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    what classic shows are you watching at the moment on DVD?

    Remember: the very last scene of the last episode that the young ones drove a bus into a ravine. I was afraid Roy Clarke wanted to do that also with the old ones...
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    what classic shows are you watching at the moment on DVD?

    No comedy at this moment but War and peace on DVD with Anthony Hopkins. The book by Leo Tolstoy I read 38 years ago. The characters in that book are shrunk in that time. I cannot remember they were so small.
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    Greatest british person ever

    Working class hero? Oh, it is Stephen Hawking without the s... this week Peter Higgs is in the news. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmzwuYj5w1U&feature=player_embedded
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    Greatest british person ever

    Ess resembles Glenda? I agree ( as not Englishman) with James26 about Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawkins.
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    Greatest british person ever

    The (wo)man who worked and was never told about by historians.
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