Congratulations To Everyone

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Leon · #1 Post by **Leon** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:49 pm

I am relatively new to this board, but have been in the computer industry since I was very young, and have been on Forums since the days of the TRS-80 and BBS's. I have rarely seen a Forum of nicer people, who rarely (if ever) snipe at each other or get defensive. You are a great bunch. I am here daily, and have decided to stay because of all of you! I know others must feel the same! You should all be proud of yourselves!

Leon

#2 Post by **carbon_unit** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:01 pm

I agree!
This is the most friendly forum I have found yet.
There is no reason to fear the flame here.
On some forums the members and even the mod's take great pleasure in flaming the newbies

, but not here.
Thanks for having such a welcoming forum.

eliu · #3 Post by **eliu** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 7:11 pm

Hm you know...I've only been here for a few weeks, but now that you mention it, that is a really good point, and I hadn't thought of that until now. This is a really great forum.

kangazoom · #4 Post by **kangazoom** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 7:45 pm

i love you guys
<3

i spent months researching notebooks -- and i decided to order a thinkpad only a few days after finding this forum. ::teardrop::

dclee012 · #5 Post by **dclee012** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:03 am

i guess you could say there are a lot of thinkpadphiles in here... and then some "thinkpadphiles" lol

John560e · #6 Post by **John560e** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:42 pm

The forum itself is very user friendly ... thanks to the creators!

geobel · #7 Post by **geobel** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:09 pm

The question is whether nice people use ThinkPads or using ThinkPads makes people nice... That might be interesting topic for PhD in psychology/sociology..(lol..)

Gosha

snappy · #8 Post by **snappy** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:36 pm

"To ThinkPad or not to ThinkPad" ... ...

Maybe Bush should start sending T42p or X series Thinkpads to Iraq, it might qwell the unrest much faster!

Then they will not go around destroying power installations but will invest in wifi hotspots and start a nice forum like this as well. hehe

G-Man · #9 Post by **G-Man** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:28 pm

Yeah, would be great. Maybe Kerry will do it. Actually the GIs over there are still using Dells...

Sad, very sad.

Regards,
G-Man

cynic · #10 Post by **cynic** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:42 pm

Not the Navy Seals.

They bought the first 500 ThinkPad T40p (2373G1U) models when they came out over a year ago. My lappie is number 501 and after me was a very, very larger order for the same model (over a thousand) for an insurance company (I want to say AllState)

G-Man · #11 Post by **G-Man** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:53 pm

cynic wrote:Not the Navy Seals. They bought the first 500 ThinkPad T40p (2373G1U) models when they came out over a year ago...

Oh, thank God. Then we are safe. BTW, do the GIs have a Dell hotline number they can call? That number is surely busy all the time.

Regards,
G-Man

hausman · #12 Post by **hausman** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:03 pm

G-Man wrote:
cynic wrote:Not the Navy Seals. They bought the first 500 ThinkPad T40p (2373G1U) models when they came out over a year ago...
BTW, do the GIs have a Dell hotline number they can call?

Yeah. It goes to the call center in India, er, I mean Elbonia.

Link to cartoon.

G-Man · #13 Post by **G-Man** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:20 pm

LOL!

I think with this pic, you definitely reserved a nice place on Nonny's black list.

Regards,
G-Man

snappy · #14 Post by **snappy** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:34 pm

wow ... the GIs got the T40p? Cool!

hee, what's the typical call to tech support like ... ...

TS: "Hi, this is Carl here. How can I help you?"
G: "Hi, I have a crisis here. I'm being ambushed and can't get out."
(blast in the background)
TS: "Calm down ... "
G: "I need help *NOW* ... What should I do with my T40p? ... "
(BOOM)
TS: "Just press ... *static*"
G: "what? press what? *static* "
TS: " Jus* .... the *static*"
G: "Press the what?"
TS: "Press the BLUE BUTTON"
G presses blue button on T40p
(Next scene)
A squadron of Black Hawks swoops down on enemy bunkers. A load of T40ps are heli-dropped onto them. The enemies all start playing games.

GI is "recovered" from hotspot by BlackHawk. As the BlackHawk takes off, the camera zooms in on IBM logo on tail of BlackHawk.

hausman · #15 Post by **hausman** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:49 pm

G-Man wrote:I think with this pic, you definitely reserved a nice place on Nonny's black list.

Let me cut that one off at the bud. This page (without any images) is ~65k. The cartoon added 18k (before I replaced it with a link) and the ThinkPad at the top adds 7k.

So the images alone aren't what's slowing nonny down on this thread

cynic · #16 Post by **cynic** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:09 pm

snappy wrote:wow ... the GIs got the T40p? Cool!

Not the General Infantry. The Navy Seals received T40p models. Big difference...

#17 Post by **JaneL** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:10 pm

>So the images alone aren't what's slowing nonny down on this thread :)
>

You're right that the images aren't the only thing that makes this forum much slower than the previous incarnation, but there's no reason to make it even worse by posting them! ;-)

Cat5 · #18 Post by **Cat5** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:03 pm

Well, lets say i'm new and i joined because 2 reasons
1) I found the soulution to the "pseudopixel problem" here (the driver nonsence with the ultranav...)
2) You guys are really ok...

G-Man · #19 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:11 am

Welcome to the forum! I guess you are our first member from Croatia. Powered by Tuborg, huh?

Regards,
G-Man

Cat5 · #20 Post by **Cat5** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:30 am

Yup, i see you're from hungary... i'm really near the Hungarian border (Varazdin),

Powered by Tuborg? 3 things that give me fun and joy... Beer, ISDN line to the Internet, and my T41 thinkpad

#21 Post by **BillMorrow** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:46 am

welcome to Tkisason from croatia..

beer, broadband and a thinkpad..??

it USED to be a jug of wine and a broad..!
or am i dating myself..?

IRT forum slowing down..
might be getting a bit top heavy with posts and it could use some pruning..?!

Cat5 · #22 Post by **Cat5** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:04 pm

morrow wrote: beer, broadband and a thinkpad..??

Yup!

morrow wrote: it USED to be a jug of wine and a broad..!
or am i dating myself..?

LOL, It used to be...

morrow wrote: IRT forum slowing down..
might be getting a bit top heavy with posts and it could use some pruning..?!

IRT forum? whats that?

#23 Post by **BillMorrow** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:53 pm

forum = phpBBS
or
THIS PLACE..!

JHEM · #24 Post by **JHEM** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:35 am

I think Gospodin Tkisason meant what does "IRT" mean.

IRT - In Regard To.

Regards,

James

Cat5 · #25 Post by **Cat5** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:56 am

I wondered for the IRT thingy...

JHEM wrote:Gospodin Tkisason

Heh, no need to get formal, btw, you know croatian? I guessed that there ain't ppl on this forum that know croatian.

G-Man · #26 Post by **G-Man** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:02 am

Croatian is one of the easiest languages, just like Hungarian.

By the way, AFAIK James has been to Europe (especially in Germany) for a while. He is one of the explorer type Americans who had crossed the state border.

Regards,
G-Man