House Bill 45

Here is an email that I received from a friend of mine:

Very Important for you to be aware of a new bill HR 45 introduced into the House. 

This is the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009.

We just learned yesterday about this on the Peter Boyles radio program. 

Even gun shop owners didn't know about this because it is flying under the radar.

To find out about this - go to any government website and type in HR 45 or Google HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of 2009. You will get all the information.

Basically this would make it illegal to own a firearm - any rifle with a clip or ANY pistol unless:

•It is registered

•You are fingerprinted

•You supply a current Driver's License

•You supply your Social Security #

•You will submit to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing

•Each update - change or ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs $25 - Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are subject up to a year in jail.

•There is a child provision clause on page 16 section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and inaccessible to any child under 18. 

They would have the right to come and inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children and fine is punishable for up to 5 yrs. in prison.

If you think this is a joke - go to the website and take your pick of many options to read this. It is long and lengthy. But, more and more people are becoming aware of this. Pass the word along. Any hunters in your family - pass this along.

Peter Boyles is on this and having guests. Listen to him on KHOW 630 a.m. in the morning. He suggests the best way to fight this is to tell all your friends about it and "spring into action". Also he suggests we all join a pro-gun group like the Colorado Rifle Association, hunting associations, gun clubs and especially the NRA.

This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and disarming of our society to the point we have no defense - chip away a little here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it.

This is one to act on whether you own a gun or not.

If you take my gun, only the criminal will have one to use against me. HR 45 only makes me/us less safe. After working with convicts for 26 years I know this bill, if passed, would make them happy and in less danger from their victims.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45

Please... copy and send this out to EVERYONE in the USA ...

Respectfully,
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Last night my wife's dog Samson was hit by a truck and had to be put down.  We got Samson from a shelter a couple of years ago saving him from the needle.  He is best decribed as large, goofy, and lovable with a head the size of a Volkswagen.  

 

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Old Ultimate Bootdisk 4 Windows?

I keep about 10 of theses in my office to help with every thing form virus/spyware removal to re-imaging full labs and I have recently ran into a problem with Avira's AntiVir program not updating correctly. It seems this program all though free, requires a licence file(hbedv.key) to update the virus def. file. Here is a link to the updated .key file

http://dlce.antivir.com/down/windows/hbedv.key

Next I had a problem with downloading the update multiple times in the same room (this this is several Megs). To fix this, I found the update link to get the file it downloads:

http://dl1.avgate.net/down/vdf/ivdf_fusebundle_nt_en.zip

Finally, I started having problem with Antivir grumbling that the virus def file was corrupt and found that the defs were for a newer version of the program. Here is another work around:

Prep Work:

Download the current version of Antivr to a clean computer. 

Use 7zip to extract the .exe file to a folder 

Rename the basic folder to antir (optional) and copy to a USB drive or a network drive

Download the update file above

Boot up a computer with UBD4wWin disk and use the Antivir on the USB drive.

BTW here is the update to the Adaware program on the Disk:

http://download.lavasoft.com/public/defs.zip

This stuff works in a pinch, but I would advise you to update you UBD4Win iso soon. And for those that are scratching your heads asking what I am talking about, go here:

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

 

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No Taskbar, Desktop Icons... Nothing.

Haven't seen this problem before...
A computer had a few viruses and some spyware, but when I removed them the computer starts up and can not start explorer.exe.  I could get to a blank desktop, but there was not a start menu or desktop icons. I had to do CTRL-ALT-DELTET to get to the task manager and run anything.  I was able to get to every thing I needed except explorer.exe which would give me an error about not being able to find it - DANG. 

I ran all the fixes I could find an still was not able to get it to work. in desperation I tried the following and both worked but I would suggest the second method:

Method 1:

First, go to c:\windows and rename explorer.exe to zexplorer.exe and try to launch it. If you get your desktop back, then go to regedit and change 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon  to zexplorer.exe

This would work but I was not comfortable in having to change the file names to get it to work.

Method 2:

Open regedit and delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe then restart the computer.

 Explorer.exe should start up when your computer comes back up.  

Of course before doing either of these, you need to make sure that you have removed all viruses and spyware from your computer.

Good luck!

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I am an Idiot

 OK, so I spent a couple hours fiddling with a project that should have taken a few minutes.  The kid got a PSP for for Christmas and wanted to put some music on it.  No problem... Export her iTunes Playlist and use a script to copy the files...hmmm if was only that easy.  I have a batch file that will read a txt file and use it as an input for something else that works great, but I did not realize that the (whatever.txt) line had to be different for xcopy. Also, the txt file contained "fullpath\2\whatever.ext" one on each line and in quotes.  Here is what I finially had to do to get it to work:

FOR /f "tokens=*" %%X IN ('type fullpath\2\whaterver.txt') DO (XCOPY %%X dest\ /y)

The TYPE statement is manditory! It will not work with out it.
Have fun!
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Respectfully,
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Its Christmas in Texas

Well, it's Christmas time again and I found the PERFECT song for the holidays. Here is a video of Christmas in Houston... enjoy and Happy HO HO HO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhei5sUY3I4



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Budget

It has been about a month since I posted on my quest for financial freedom and about two months since I started my budget... I have to say it is going better then I expected.  I have been able to pay off 2 credit cards (low balances) and move those payments to the next highest one on the list.  I have also started treating the money I need to pay property taxes as a revolving monthly payment due and putting in my savings account.  I see no reason not to make a little interest off money I have to pay the government.  I am still working on my Emergency Fund... This seems to be the hardest to get started.  I think once I pay off a couple more cards it will be easier to contribute.  
With Holidays coming so soon after my  decision to become fiscally responsible, I am glad to report that with the help of my every loving and infinitely patient wife we have agreed to not over spend and adjusted our Christmas list accordingly.  This means only spending on the kid, niece and nephew this year (sorry Grandpa) and asking that the family not spend anything on me. By this time next year I expect that I will have a tidy little sum in place for gift giving.  Yes, it is marked as a revolving monthly payment (% of yearly take home divided by 12) in my budget to be activated after my Emergency Fund gets to a certain balance.  Wish me luck... I will need it.
By the way for whatever reason I did not include a link to a page that I found most helpful in starting my budget it is The Financial Page Created and maintained by Keith Rawlinson. Please, if you have a few minutes, stop by his site it will be well worth your time. It has saved me several hundred dollars already!

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