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Zed

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 03:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Butternut.......it's kinda catchy & you can dance to it...I give it a "10".

Grooch

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 03:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Butternut! I love it! :)

Merlin

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hey, why not have more than one......I think it should be Buttternuts

Rabbit

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 03:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If she had shades on her little icon I would vote for Buttercube. Merlin, did you know there is alot you can do with a cool little Buttercube?

Merlin

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am not sure Rabbit......tell me what I could do with a cool little Buttercube.

Weinermr

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Poor Whoami, asking for help and getting deluged with escalating typo humor. I guess typo humor is in some people's blood.

But anyway Whoami, I'll give you my two cents worth on Athlon vs. Pentium.

The way I understand it, Athlon chips are comparable to the Pentium III chips, are sometimes rated as good as or better than a Pentium III with the same speed, and are less expensive than same.

Unless you have super processing needs, you should get along quite well with an Athlon processor, as long as you have enough RAM in your PC to keep up with whatever applications you need to use. Otherwise, a comparable Pentium III will cost more, and a Pentium IV will cost you much much more than you need to pay for the kind of performance you're looking for.

Athlon is making now the Athlon XP chip which was supposed to be designed in conjunction with, and is supposed to enhance the performance of Windows XP. Again, you will have to judge for yourself whether you have the computing needs for the expense, but as far as I'm concerned, the Athlon 4 will probably suit your computing needs at far less expense.

Weinermr

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Butternuts?

Merlin

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 05:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am glad you showed up Weinermr. I was depleting my source of typo humor in an attempt to mask the inability to answer Whoami's question.

Weinermr

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 05:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Always glad to help Merlin. I wasn't sure if all the talk about "p" wasn't displaced from the Survivor threads.

Now Rabbit, what CAN you do with a cool little Buttercube?

Twiggyish

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 05:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When I spilled orange juice on my keyboard one morning, my keyboard didn't work again. Sooo a quick trip to one of the computer stores in town and I found a new inexpensive one. It's cheaper to buy a new one.

Rabbit

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 05:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Celeron is Intel’s economy version of the Pentium III. The main difference is the Celeron has a smaller onboard memory cache and slower bus speed. Interestingly, in many benchmarks the Celeron will match or beat a Pentium III of the same CPU clocking speed. The AMD Athalon is a clone of the Pentium designed to mirror its function which it does very well.

The main thing I have in favor of the Intel products is that Oregon currently has an unemployment rate of 8.1% and my nephew is an engineer there.

With regards to the many wholesome uses for a cool Buttercube, I think that would make an interesting topic for the next meeting of the TVCH Gentlemen’s Club. We could discuss it here but that group that always trys to attach spurious meanings to our innocent comments is hanging around here today. Guest speaker perhaps?

Firebird05

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 06:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
So sorry to hear about your "P' problem Buttercu
What a puzzeling problem.

My advice is to stay away from water.

firebird has no clue on the Celeron Vs Pentium question

Weinermr

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 06:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about Buttercute, Buttercute?

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Buttercup

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What the heck haened in here while I was gone? You all managed to archive my roblem?! *Sigh*

Now if I get a new name, I am going to have to get a new look as well--erhas even get those oular shades... Then again, it would be so much easier if I only could get my p back without having to coy and aste all the time

You see, the p is a retty vital art in my life right now since school requires resentations, aers and rojects written u and handed in

Birdie, when I get a p again, I will definitely stay away from water--think I'll move on to ina coladas

Buttercu goes to reare blender

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Rabbit

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Now for the real solution to Butter's "P"ing problem (expanding on Twiggy's correct answer). For only $29.95 (24.95 on sale at Frys this week) you can get a Logitech Internet Navigator keyboard. It works as either USB or PS/2. It is a real keyboard not one of those wrist twisting ergonomic widgets. It has a built in scroll wheel, 1 touch buttons for direct URL entry, Favorites, Search engine, My sites and more. A cool media player with controls on the keyboard and Speaker volume and Mute buttons that you can push when somebody plays crazy-cow.wav during chat. I would send you one but Mrs Rabbit says if i send gifts to pretty women I talk to on the internet she'll tie my ears in a bow and give me a hare cut.

Tess

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 08:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Butter, I asked Charlie about you rust problem. He said that if you can't afford a new keyboard to try taking it apart again and gently rubbing a pencil eraser over the rust spot. That should take care of the rust problem. If that is NOT the cause of your invisible p, I'm not sure what to do. He did say that your best bet is to get a new keyboard but I told him that might not be feasible at the moment.

tess

Tess

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 08:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
More instructions. If the pencil eraser is not abrasive enough, he said to try an ink eraser if you have one. Otherwise, you can use a piece of fine steel wool if you are very, very gentle. Then make sure all foreign matter is removed before you reassemble your keyboard. Good luck!

Firebird05

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 08:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I understand your ain. That's a retty bad roblrm to have. How can you reare aers without one?

firebird gives buttercu*ie a big hug, then goes to the corner to out in commiseration hoping it makes butter feel better.

Buttercup

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 09:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you Rabbit, Tess and Charlie! By tomorrow I'll hoefully have this figured out :)

Buttercu hugs Birdie right back and areciates her commiserating outing with her 1

Weinermr

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 09:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heck Buttercutie,

That same Fry's that Rabbit is advertising has a fine new keyboard for $9.99, yes $9.99, in stock, with same day shipping. Here's the link -

Keyboard

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 10:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about Butterpuppy??!!!?

Rabbit

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 10:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
um, Juju on "Buttercu"+m->X+"'s" keyboard that would come out Butteruy. ...hmmmmm.

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 10:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Butterbutt?



Um, Rabbit, you are just pushing the envelope a tiny bit on a certain thing you are doing, and I don't mean any -> <--X crapola. Don't make me have to kick your fluffy scruffy tail.

Weinermr

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 10:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes Juju, too many p's in that. It's a shame though. If you pet a Butterpuppy I think it's a Butterpat.

Weinermr

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 10:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If she ever loses her t's we're through.