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tod
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response 226 of 318:
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Feb 10 04:45 UTC 2006 |
thanks april!
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naftee
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response 227 of 318:
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Feb 11 05:27 UTC 2006 |
may thanks !
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jadecat
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response 228 of 318:
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Feb 15 14:13 UTC 2006 |
RIP Andreas Katsulas- 2-13-06.
Very bummed.
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naftee
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response 229 of 318:
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Feb 16 02:29 UTC 2006 |
;(
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keesan
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response 230 of 318:
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Feb 22 15:17 UTC 2006 |
Jim reports that his basement flooded deep enough to leave water in the bike
tires that were on the floor. He stores insulation and other things on the
floor. From now on he is going to snake out the drains twice a year before
it floods (which it tends to do every spring). Apparently it has been warm
enough this winter for the tree roots to grow in February. He has to make
space to use the snake in.
Since he did not take a bath or shower recently, the water must have come up
from below, he says. The good news is he is thinking (as usual) about having
less junk stored in the basement and will attack it by getting rid of some
of the broken tape decks upstairs that we could not fix a few times already.
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tod
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response 231 of 318:
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Feb 22 17:16 UTC 2006 |
bdh used to recommend flushing a nice scoop of kosher salt down the torlet
to make the tree roots recede.
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keesan
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response 232 of 318:
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Feb 22 20:02 UTC 2006 |
The hardware store sells stronger chemicals to kill tree roots with. I would
rather not put them into the river.
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rcurl
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response 233 of 318:
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Feb 22 20:10 UTC 2006 |
We once had a street sewer line backup that put 16 inches of sewage in our
basement (1993). Otherwise we have had intermittent backups apparently
from plugs forming in our sewer line, and we have had these reamed out by
sewer service. Because of how traumatic a sewer backup is, I installed an
float alarm in a sewer cleanout port which sets off alarms on both the
first and second floor of our house. The alarm sounds when water backs up
in the sewer pipe to within about a foot of the basement floor. From this
I have learned some important information.
When the alarm sounds I open the cleanout port and observe the water
level. If I keep running water until the level creeps up to close to the
level of the basement floor, after some minutes in all cases the sewer
line suddenly drains and remains clear. I interpret this to be a problem
of toilet paper building up a dam at the sewer line outfall into the
street sewer, which can be forced clear by maintaining a high level in the
line for some minutes.
Tree roots may have played a role in previous backups, but I now use a
chemical root killer once per year in late April. This product is called
Roebic Foaming Root Killer.
Since our footing drain is into the sanitary sewer we could have backups
due to rainfall if the line plugs. Our alarm allows us to address the
problem before the basement floods.
I would not recommend the "classic" treatment, copper sulfate, as its
effect is very temporary and it also corrodes iron sewer pipes.
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rcurl
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response 234 of 318:
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Feb 22 20:14 UTC 2006 |
In regard to #232, the amount of the root killer used once annually by
those few people with root problems is many orders of magnitude smaller
than all the lawn chemical weed killers that find the way into the sewer
system. If the product I used was a serious pollutant problem its use
would not be permitted.
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bru
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response 235 of 318:
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Feb 22 21:23 UTC 2006 |
One way to prevent backup flooding that we used on the farm was to build a
coffer dam and put a sump pump with auto float in it. Of course you gotta
have a place to pump it to. Water would come up, lift the float, start the
pump, and away she goes! Don't know how well it would work with sewage
though.
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nharmon
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response 236 of 318:
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Feb 22 21:28 UTC 2006 |
Our sump pump pumps into the sewer!
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keesan
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response 237 of 318:
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Feb 22 22:45 UTC 2006 |
Jim is still cleaning up the basement to make space to work in. First he
cleaned up another project upstairs, where he was trying to run a tape deck
into a 2-part receiver that had a dead tape deck in the part with the power
supply and the tuner in the other part. It looks odd now but works, he says,
except that the phono was not working, which is what he was trying to use this
old receiver for in the first place. The newer one has no phono input.
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kingjon
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response 238 of 318:
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Feb 26 02:19 UTC 2006 |
I am unhappy (well, that's not the right word, but I can't think of a better
one) because my computer is taking days to compile OpenOffice. (I'm compiling
it myself rather than use the binary package because the binary package was so
slow as to be nearly unusable.)
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nharmon
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response 239 of 318:
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Feb 26 03:05 UTC 2006 |
Please let me know how it goes Jon. OpenOffice runs really slow for me
too and if I can speed that up by a lot compiling it myself, that would
rock.
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richard
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response 240 of 318:
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Feb 26 03:13 UTC 2006 |
IBB the great comedic actor Don Knotts died at 81 after a long
illness. Don Knotts was of course Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith
Show" He and Andy were lifelong friends, and Andy visited him in the
hospital right before he died.
RIP Don Knotts
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kingjon
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response 241 of 318:
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Feb 26 04:33 UTC 2006 |
Re #239: I'm using Gentoo Linux, so my hands are somewhat tied as to
configuration. I don't think it'll do much good, but I had to try this, because
I need to use OO and it's nearly unusable in the -bin package. (This computer
is 350MHz, with either 256 or 512MB of RAM (I can't recall which).)
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twenex
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response 242 of 318:
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Feb 26 13:42 UTC 2006 |
I'm using Gentoo Linux, so my hands are somewhat tied as to
configuration.
Huh? The point of Gentoo is to UNTIE your configuration hands.
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kingjon
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response 243 of 318:
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Feb 26 13:49 UTC 2006 |
Any package-based system (except possibly Slackware) has a dependency-checking
system, and if something is listed as a dependency you can't build the package
(in Gentoo) without compiling in support for that dependency. In any other
system self-compiling isn't part of the package system, so you can do anything
you like in the configuration stage.
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mcnally
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response 244 of 318:
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Feb 26 20:40 UTC 2006 |
re #243: It doesn't matter which distribution you're using, if
your package requires libqt, for example, you're not going to be
able to get it to run without that (at least not with a practical
amount of effort -- I'm not talking about re-writing the app here.)
There are certain dependencies you're just not going to be able
to get around.
Gentoo, with its system of make flags for its ebuilds, allows you
at least the option of leaving out much of the optional functionality
of many packages. It also allows you to optimize compilation for
your specific processor and instruction set rather than try to build
a binary that'll run on any i386-compatible architecture. If you
gain any performance benefit from recompiling OO for your own system
it'll likely be from one of these two factors. But I suspect your
results are going to be disappointing, especially if you only have
256MB of memory in your system. Open Office is a CPU and memory pig.
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jiffer
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response 245 of 318:
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Feb 27 00:23 UTC 2006 |
IBB I scraped up my knees rather badly this weekend. Ironic that I was wearing
flat, but it was dark, poor lighting in the parking lot, and can't see the
pot holes. I ruined an expensive pair of panty hose!
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nharmon
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response 246 of 318:
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Feb 27 02:02 UTC 2006 |
How expensive is an expensive pair of panty hose?
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scholar
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response 247 of 318:
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Feb 27 02:34 UTC 2006 |
there's been a lot of discussion of that subject on m-net in recent months.
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jiffer
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response 248 of 318:
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Feb 27 05:34 UTC 2006 |
These cost me about $15, when you can get pantyhose at wal-mart for less than
$3. But I love this brand!
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jadecat
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response 249 of 318:
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Feb 27 13:34 UTC 2006 |
Yah, good hosiery can be around $15 at like Victoria's Secrets- and much
much less for stuff that has a tendency to run when you look at it
funny. Or you know, try to wear it... ;)
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richard
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response 250 of 318:
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Feb 27 15:28 UTC 2006 |
re #245 must have been a good party you were leaving. Its always the last
glass of beer that does it :)
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