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Could everyone make sure and please run a virus/malware scan on their computer? I recently started to received spoofed emails "from" people here on POA that I have never had any contact with via email in the past. (meaning not in my address book) So I doubt it is my computer and I did run...

My soon to be niece by marriage is in intensive care and I need to get her mom from WY to IL. She can get to DEN pretty easily or anywhere in between. RFD, ORD or MDW or any airport in northern IL would do. She is 24 weeks pregnant and the baby wants to come out NOW. They are giving her...

About 3 months ago we had to put our longtime companion down. He was just in too much pain walking and didn't want him to suffer. So, early this last Saturday morning, my wife tells me it is time that we get another dog. Against my better judgement (LOL) we go to the animal shelter to see...

I am having an issue that seems to be appearing approximately every 30 days. My PC's can't connect to their respective Network Printer. When this happens, it happens to all of them at one time. To "fix" the issue when it happens, I dump the print spooler on each PC, reboot and it finds the...

Figure there is at least a couple out there in POA land. My Daughter-in-law graduates Friday with her BS in Chemical Engineering and have NO clue what to get her that would be relevant. That stuff is way over my head. LOL Have asked her and all I get is "I don't know" so looking for some...

Get ready for the knee jerk reaction from this article. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/15/hundreds-pilots-treated-drug-abuse-psychiatric-disorders-review-finds/

I did the latest update to Firefox on my 32 bit Vista machine. Since then, about 30% of the time I get a "server not found" error when going to a page. I do a refresh and it comes right up. Did some googling and found a couple of "fix's" in the config section of Firefox, but still get it. Not...

Found this today. (Credit to http://www.dvorak.org/blog ) It is kind of a long read, but worth it. There were a lot of things we couldn’t do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. We needed 100 hours in the jet to...

I am using Cicso VPN Client software to connect to my work computer from home. When I do this, it is basically taking over my internet connection and is blocking any other programs from using it on my home computer as long as I am connected. I can't find a way to configure it to share the...

After not being PIC for over a year, decided it was time to get back in the air. Needed to get a check out also for the plane I want to bring to Gaston's this year, so I scheduled a lesson today at a "new" airport, a "new" CFI and a "new" plane. Was a little windy, but not bad overall. Went...

Hi gang, I am making a parody of a video of a friend of mine and need to alter the audio. My microphone is just terrible. Wondered if someone could record a few lines for me and send me the file. The total time of the recording is less than a minute. The original video was professionally done...

I know some of you don't care for Harrison Ford, I do like him. Found this video that I hadn't seen before with him in it about pilots and the Young Eagles program. I believe it is done very well and hope you enjoy it as much as I have...

It was several years ago that I first "met" Greg B. online. We became friends quickly. We hadn't actually met face to face but seemed we had from chat here. We finally did meet in person, Greg said to me "nice to meet an old friend for the first time" and that is exactly what it was. We...

On my desktop, running XP with FF as the browser I can't seem to keep the news archive and the first four messages (Spike new mc member, new tags rule, Greg B new mc member and POA tech team doubles) collapsed. On my other machines some are some aren't. Is there some trick to keep them all...

The 19yo son lost his argument with a tree last night. It was raining and had been all day. He started to hydroplane it sounds like, started to fish tail, over corrected and went cross country down a ditch until as he puts it "that tree jumped out in front of me". Had two other people in the...

I am no guru by any means but I seem to have become the IT guy for my plant. (by default I know the difference between XP and Vista so I got the job, LOL) I have a wireless router set up and can get a signal in most of the plant, but not all of it. With that in mind, what would one of you...

Talking with Drizzt76 in chat tonight. He is a helo pilot in Iraq. Just wanted to remind everyone that if you have the means and the time to maybe send a care package to our guys over there and make sure they know they are thought of often back here in the states. Mark B

Had a minor motor problem with our furnace. Get the tech out here this morning to get a new one installed. She figures out that yes the motor is bad, doesn't have one in the truck, will be here tomorrow. Does their normal "inspection" since they are here. She looks down the burners and she can...

On one of my desktops I have a Linksys network adapter (wireless card). When I attempt to use the Linksys software, it will not find the IP address for my 2wire router. When I disable that software and use windows, it connects fine, but I can't get more than 11Mbps connection no matter what I...

A continuation really of my other thread. My modem/router now is a "2wire" brand name. The only way it will work properly for my sons game is to have it in "b" mode only for the wireless so changing that isn't an option. For whatever reason, my other routers as the "primary" one don't want to...