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I could not remember a time where the Olympics were so boring to watch. There's no fans in the arena. There's not excitment coming for the commentators. It is a very dull event. I find myself watching other HD programming and flip to it once in a while. I am only watching the HD version.
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the day any of you can shine these people's shoes will be a cold day in hell. do you have any idea of the work and training and 5am workouts 90% of these people go thru?? and you know what? they arent "wannabees", they arent "also rans". These people have made the olympic team. those nuts go full speed at that sprinboard and fly as fast as they can to the pommel horse and do a few spins flips and twists -then land on thier feet(mostly). what can u do? u think u got the right to rank on them when the most athletic thing you can do is work the pvr remote in the left hand while cradling a drink in your right?? how bout those guys on the rings? thats easy,huh? and I know I certainly can balance myself on a 4-inch wide beam and do flips --everybody can, cant they? you all make me want to puke so bad I just might win a gold medal for distance vomiting. die!
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mattyro said:
the day any of you can shine these people's shoes will be a cold day in hell. do you have any idea of the work and training and 5am workouts 90% of these people go thru?? and you know what? they arent "wannabees", they arent "also rans". These people have made the olympic team. those nuts go full speed at that sprinboard and fly as fast as they can to the pommel horse and do a few spins flips and twists -then land on thier feet(mostly). what can u do? u think u got the right to rank on them when the most athletic thing you can do is work the pvr remote in the left hand while cradling a drink in your right?? how bout those guys on the rings? thats easy,huh? and I know I certainly can balance myself on a 4-inch wide beam and do flips --everybody can, cant they? you all make me want to puke so bad I just might win a gold medal for distance vomiting. die!
Deep breaths, dude. . . deep breaths. ;)
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I got this from E* newsletter today... this would have been cool to see, if I still had them. Looks like they stepped up to the plate for their customers on this one.

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Sean Mota said:
I could not remember a time where the Olympics were so boring to watch. There's no fans in the arena. There's not excitment coming for the commentators. It is a very dull event. I find myself watching other HD programming and flip to it once in a while. I am only watching the HD version.
I disagree. I'm finding the Games to be quite exciting. Attendance and commentary have little or no effect on my enjoyment. I'm seeing all the excitement I need in the pool, on the beach, on the court (volleyball, not necessarily basketball), on the softball diamond. And I can hardly wait to see water polo and track! Boxing and tennis I could do without. Fencing and table tennis on the other hand...

The only thing that's detracting from the excitement at all is when I'm watching something in HD that I already know the result of. So I find myself watching mainly SD Live and just looking at HD for highlights of pretty swimmers - still waiting to see volleyball in HD :yes :D !
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I didn't watch or check out any websites about the Olympics and was plenty excited this morning while watching the women's olympics. Team USA scratches a silver, while I think they got gypped in a few scores overall they did not perform with the solid consistency of the Romanians.

They have a chance to pull more medals in the all around, and individual events though. It does seem that Mens/Womens gymnastics have a good shot at some golds too. Of course on the ride to work the radio was blasting Michael Phelps ..... blah blah blah and listing the names of the winners from last night and I was pissed. I haven't SEEN it yet!
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We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Leftover wanton soup and pork fried rice. Water.
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Tuna salad sandwich on toasted honey whole wheat bread with a handful of kettle chips. Water.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine
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It's Easy - Boston
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Take It Easy On Me - Little River Band
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Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
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That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
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If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
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Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.