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Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:08 pm**

Mark wrote:So I don't suppose you boys want Bush now that he's wrecked our country and retired. Hell, we'll GIVE him away.

Who's this bush you're talking about?

Texan fails to recognise dressed down George W Bush
A Texan who greeted George W Bush at a Dallas store failed to recognise the dressed down former US president.

Mr Bush, who has moved with his wife to a new home in the city, visited Elliott's Hardware at the weekend in search of a torch and batteries.

But Mr Bush apparently had such an anonymous presence that Henry Long, a pensioner who greets customers, failed to realise that walking through the door was the 62-year-old local who until President Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan 20 had been the world's most powerful man.

According to Andrea Bond, the shop's marketing director who was also near the door when Mr Bush entered on Saturday, the confusion was in part due to the former leader's dressed down look, which included "sweatpants and a windbreaker".

However, keen-eyed staff soon recognised Mr Bush, not least because he was wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words "George W Bush" as well as the presidential seal.

The Bushes have begun moving into their new home in the upmarket suburb of Preston Hollow, hence the need for a torch and batteries. Removal vans arrived at the end of last week and security measures are still being put into place but the former first couple will soon be ensconced in a community of like minds, where local residents have put up welcome signs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -Bush.html

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:25 pm**

Reliant121 wrote:I have been wondering where you have been

Been getting in the way, huh?

Yeah work has really been a lot busier and frankly at the time I left, it felt like we were all slowly circling and having some of the same debates over and over. Sometimes when that happens with a forum I take off for awhile and let a couple of months of new material flow in.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:56 pm**

We've got a couple of pretty good ones up at the moment though

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:08 pm**

I've got a fucktonne of homework, chess club till 4:30 and another soccer game at 9.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:16 pm**

I have the joys of Four GCSE modular exams next week. I'm doing a maths one based on Data handling, then Chemistry 1a and 1b, as well as physics 1b.

God help me.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:24 pm**

Reliant121 wrote:I have the joys of Four GCSE modular exams next week. I'm doing a maths one based on Data handling, then Chemistry 1a and 1b, as well as physics 1b.

God help me.

In the words of The Doctor, "Divine intervention is unlikely."

Good luck; I've come to handle work one day at a time so as to avoid the need to "cram" as we say here. I am also unusually "efficient" in that I can pick up material with much less study than most, but I'm sure this is always the best way to go about it anyway.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:53 pm**

Latest in mylife....
I now have another GB of RAM for my desktop and a new 500GB HD.
Though the RAM is only DDR.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:21 pm**

Duskofdead wrote:
Reliant121 wrote:I have been wondering where you have been

Been getting in the way, huh?
Yeah work has really been a lot busier and frankly at the time I left, it felt like we were all slowly circling and having some of the same debates over and over. Sometimes when that happens with a forum I take off for awhile and let a couple of months of new material flow in.

I think it's more like square dancing, personally.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:37 pm**

stitch626 wrote:Latest in mylife....
I now have another GB of RAM for my desktop and a new 500GB HD.
Though the RAM is only DDR.

What does DDR mean in this context? And please note that, for the most part, I'm an admitted tech newbie.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:39 pm**

Well, my girl toy and I are splitsville.

But it looks like my wife and I are going to try for a reconcilliation.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:47 pm**

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:
stitch626 wrote:Latest in mylife....
I now have another GB of RAM for my desktop and a new 500GB HD.
Though the RAM is only DDR.
What does DDR mean in this context? And please note that, for the most part, I'm an admitted tech newbie.

Double Data Rate. Basically, DDR, DDR-2, DDR-3 are measures of the speed of RAM (how fast data can be moved to and from RAM by the computer). So the capacity of RAM in mega- or (in any computer up to modern spec) giga- bytes measures how much data it can store, and then you have the speed of the RAM.

The whole reason we use RAM rather than run the computer off the hard drive is because the latter is slow: both store data and can move data but data is read from and written to the hard drives at very slow speeds from the perspective of the processor, so that would create a bottleneck (as well as stress the HDD and accelerate its breakdown). So, the code of programs that are running and the contents of open files are stored in RAM for immediate, fast access by the processor - it's like your "working" or "short term" memory in contrast with the "long term" memory that is the hard drive.

Posted: **Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:54 pm**

Stitch indicated that he'd increased the capacity of his computer's RAM, but since it's DDR, it's relatively slow compared to DDR-2 (the modern standard). DDR-3 exists and is faster yet, but is still too expensive (especially in these times) to gain large market share - but eventually DDR3 and then presumably even faster RAM will be the standard.

So, I have 2 GB of DDR-2, which is twice the capacity and also faster than the 1 GB of DDR my previous machine had.

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:35 am**

Thanks for the info, CPH. And I understood it, too. Huzzah!

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:57 am**

Mark wrote:Well, my girl toy and I are splitsville.

But it looks like my wife and I are going to try for a reconcilliation.

Bummer.

About the girlfriend, I mean. I don't know what to think about the wife thing.

Posted: **Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:21 am**

My back is feeling better today, so I guess a bit of rest did it.

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