Thank You Everyone!!!

Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> You're welcome.
>

I concur. It is a great site. I will have to have a security web-page
someday and I already have a very limited blog on computers -- nothing
like Chris Quirke's MVP blog which I almost always enjoy reading. The
stupid thing was that I replied once and Chris kindly replied back.
Next thing the feature has to be disabled by Chris because of some --
sorry --- bleeping (fill in blank creatively here) spammer hits his
blog. The people who do this are terrible in my opinion and make the
Internet a meaner place to be a part of in the community.

Thank you so much Gary for being my trainer in computers. I see you
as my teacher and me as your student. Because of your excellent
training people at work thought that I had a computer science degree.
It is actually a Batchers of Arts from a large public university ---
Classics major (lots of Greek and Roman history, some mythology and some
limited Latin and Greek) with Cultural Anthropology Minor (I enjoyed
this and it gave me an appreciation of all cultures) with an emphasis in
Middle Eastern studies. (I wanted to understand the threats we face from
there and the hatred the terrorists have towards us in the United States
and actually all of Western Civilization)

I was never good at math and I did take some computer classes but
the last thing I want is to be chained (eg tied-down) figuratively from
9am-5pm at the office. I need and want to move around -- too
energetic to sit for too long. I also have learned stuff from studying
about the history of Microsoft from several books and reading up on
computer books about programming, security and other stuff. I sometimes
wonder why I have not tried Linux earlier. I also have skills from
trial and error which mainly involve my PC and messing it up before I
had the skills that I have now but I have also FUBAR a few other
people's PCs and now I am much more careful to get permission first
before I work on a computer and that seems to be essential in helping to
prevent a FUBAR system at least for me. The only correlation that I can
think of is the movie -- Office Space which while an extreme view and
highly unlikely to happen is funny and entertaining to me. Thank you
and your expertise will always be welcome to me despite our prior
issues, I bear you great respect and see you as a good man with a great
potential.

I extend this respect and caring to Chris Quirke, MVP and his
tireless work towards showing us all why NT must be reworked and Chris
has been the inspiration to me in my current tri-based source code work.
In addition, great and welcome thanks to PCR despite how he used to have
long lists of web links -- I do not notice that as much and see that as
a good thing, Ron, MVP a great man who I respect. Tim from .gov who is
a man who has shown great humility and does not post offensive stuff
even when others are mean to him -- that takes a man of great character
in my opinion. Robear, for being a security expert and emailing me when
I started using Thunderbird since he was surprised to see its extra
features and that is one reason I prefer Firefox is because of its extra
features and enjoy them both for being open source solutions from
Mozilla that I think should by default be included on all new PC's.
Jeff, MVP for his great thoughts and kindness. I also include 98 guy in
this list because although he has problems with Microsoft -- I think he
was the first one to extract the Windows 2000 patch and then post about
it here so everyone could also fix theirs --- the manual solution is the
way to go --- I do not know how well the automatic route has worked and
can anyone here please comment on that since I have so many 98 Second
Edition PC's that I need to patch at work for this vulnerability -- vgx.dll.

Actually, I was going to post this as a reply but I had better
change and not hijack this post and let people have a chance and just
start a new thread and giggle -- time to cut and paste -- grin --
reminds me of being a kid again and cutting and pasting <smile -- this
is the life>

--
Dan W.

Computer User

[Just one trying to make the world a little bit better] <grin>

are you sure you didnt leave out any details?
better proof-read it and double-check....


"Dan W." <spamyou.DeleteThis@user.nec> wrote in message
news:uuYGUIh6GHA.4404@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> > You're welcome.
> >
>
> I concur. It is a great site. I will have to have a security web-page
> someday and I already have a very limited blog on computers -- nothing
> like Chris Quirke's MVP blog which I almost always enjoy reading. The
> stupid thing was that I replied once and Chris kindly replied back.
> Next thing the feature has to be disabled by Chris because of some --
> sorry --- bleeping (fill in blank creatively here) spammer hits his
> blog. The people who do this are terrible in my opinion and make the
> Internet a meaner place to be a part of in the community.
>
> Thank you so much Gary for being my trainer in computers. I see you
> as my teacher and me as your student. Because of your excellent
> training people at work thought that I had a computer science degree.
> It is actually a Batchers of Arts from a large public university ---
> Classics major (lots of Greek and Roman history, some mythology and some
> limited Latin and Greek) with Cultural Anthropology Minor (I enjoyed
> this and it gave me an appreciation of all cultures) with an emphasis in
> Middle Eastern studies. (I wanted to understand the threats we face from
> there and the hatred the terrorists have towards us in the United States
> and actually all of Western Civilization)
>
> I was never good at math and I did take some computer classes but
> the last thing I want is to be chained (eg tied-down) figuratively from
> 9am-5pm at the office. I need and want to move around -- too
> energetic to sit for too long. I also have learned stuff from studying
> about the history of Microsoft from several books and reading up on
> computer books about programming, security and other stuff. I sometimes
> wonder why I have not tried Linux earlier. I also have skills from
> trial and error which mainly involve my PC and messing it up before I
> had the skills that I have now but I have also FUBAR a few other
> people's PCs and now I am much more careful to get permission first
> before I work on a computer and that seems to be essential in helping to
> prevent a FUBAR system at least for me. The only correlation that I can
> think of is the movie -- Office Space which while an extreme view and
> highly unlikely to happen is funny and entertaining to me. Thank you
> and your expertise will always be welcome to me despite our prior
> issues, I bear you great respect and see you as a good man with a great
> potential.
>
> I extend this respect and caring to Chris Quirke, MVP and his
> tireless work towards showing us all why NT must be reworked and Chris
> has been the inspiration to me in my current tri-based source code work.
> In addition, great and welcome thanks to PCR despite how he used to have
> long lists of web links -- I do not notice that as much and see that as
> a good thing, Ron, MVP a great man who I respect. Tim from .gov who is
> a man who has shown great humility and does not post offensive stuff
> even when others are mean to him -- that takes a man of great character
> in my opinion. Robear, for being a security expert and emailing me when
> I started using Thunderbird since he was surprised to see its extra
> features and that is one reason I prefer Firefox is because of its extra
> features and enjoy them both for being open source solutions from
> Mozilla that I think should by default be included on all new PC's.
> Jeff, MVP for his great thoughts and kindness. I also include 98 guy in
> this list because although he has problems with Microsoft -- I think he
> was the first one to extract the Windows 2000 patch and then post about
> it here so everyone could also fix theirs --- the manual solution is the
> way to go --- I do not know how well the automatic route has worked and
> can anyone here please comment on that since I have so many 98 Second
> Edition PC's that I need to patch at work for this vulnerability --
vgx.dll.
>
> Actually, I was going to post this as a reply but I had better
> change and not hijack this post and let people have a chance and just
> start a new thread and giggle -- time to cut and paste -- grin --
> reminds me of being a kid again and cutting and pasting <smile -- this
> is the life>
>
> --
> Dan W.
>
> Computer User
>
> [Just one trying to make the world a little bit better] <grin>