[dacohenz]

I try to avoid any kind of doctor, so plastic surgery is out. Removing the grey from my hair is another story, but only my haidresser from Borics knows for sure.

[mphenterprises]

Yeah. I have been "blessed" so far in my life. I get a physically every year and still have the build I had when I was in high school.Here's the funny thing. I eat like a horse and only gain weight when I want to gain weight. Shoot, I have only put on 35 lbs since I was 18. LOL :lol:

[lilxkid24]

lol same with me i eat a lot and dont gain a single pound. Im 14 and weigh like 119 or so lol when my friend weighs 162 at 14 lol but hes a bit fat.

[KellieCM]

I hate you. I hate you all. :)

[mphenterprises]

:wink: It's a curse. My grocery bill is upward of $200 per week for just me and my soon to be wife... LOL How can two people eat $800 of food in a month? LOL :lol:

[spike]

[quote name='kellie']I hate you. I hate you all. :):lol::lol::lol:

[Flashorn]

Hey LILXKID! You sometimes have the simplest answer,WHICH WORKS.I started out in college, in 72' . If you wanted a program you had to punch it out on punch cards and feed it to the big monster, which was the size of a school yard, then go and sit in the lounge or something, for the next 4 hours and pray it didn't refuse it because of a keypunch error.Thank God for notebooks.Oh! and if your wondering well I'm 54.FlashornPatience is life.

[lilxkid24]

lol i try to keep everything simple:D Too bad my dating life cant be that simple lol :(

[Flashorn]

HeyLILXKID! Remember my saying. Now at 14 I'm sure that you still have a few good years ahead of you.Ha! No but really,computers are great but no substitute for a strong social life. It's fantastic that you can be such a breath of fresh air on this forum,but you won't meet the woman of your dreams on your keyboard. Get out there Young man.FlashornPatience is life.

[AuroraDizon]

I met my husband on a green lantern message board online rpg!

[Flashorn]

Hey Aurora! But I'm sure our young man also wants to go and stretch his legs and have a little fun. After all the view is so much better in 3D.FlashornPatience is life.

[lilxkid24]

dos prompts is command prompt right? They were in my xp like 5 years ago lol. I wasn't really involved in it until i just got interested with stuff like netstat and other stuff lol. Then i just read more about it like last year. I still remember my first computer lol it was a windows 98 when i was in like 6th grade i believe, then went to another 98 since my uncle had to use my 98 for some accounting program forgot what it was called, but it can only be done on that old computer. Later i switched to a windows xp which i always wanted lol and now 2 years later im using a vista lol.

[Requiem]

Pretty much, may be a few differences. I think after Windows 98 they took out the DOS prompt.

[smax013]

Requiem said:

Pretty much, may be a few differences. I think after Windows 98 they took out the DOS prompt.

The DOS or command prompt is still there in XP....and I assume Vista (but don't have Vista installed yet to try it). Just go to "Run..." in the Start menu and type in "command" and hit enter. A command/DOS window will pop-up and you can type DOS commands to your hearts content.



Now, the true DOS underpinnings of Windoze were last in Windoze Me. Windoze NT did NOT use the DOS kernel as its basis...it had a brand new OS kernel that was completely different. That NT kernel then became the basis of Windoze 2000 and then Windoze XP. So, Windoze lost its DOS heritage when it went from Windoze Me to Windoze XP for the consumer market. But, they did leave the command line/DOS accessable interface...but DOS is not the basis of Windoze XP or Vista.

[rgreen4]

Well, technically speaking, not. The DOS prompt in Windows 3.x, 95 and 98 was in fact DOS. Windows sat on top of DOS.

Windows XP and Vista are based on Windows NT, no DOS involved at all. That is why the "command prompt" is not really called DOS anymore. Some old DOS programs will run, but many will not. Kinda like when Coca-Cola brought out New Coke - it just wan't the same.



One of the problems many Windows 9x programs had, was that they still used some DOS based calls to the system. They worked OK in 9x, and it was easier because they had been there all along. But suddenly when XP came along, they no longer worked. This may be why Lil's Uncle needed a Win98 machine and it's why I keep a Win98 machine going.

[smax013]

rgreen4 said:

Well, technically speaking, not. The DOS prompt in Windows 3.x, 95 and 98 was in fact DOS. Windows sat on top of DOS.

Windows XP and Vista are based on Windows NT, no DOS involved at all. That is why the "command prompt" is not really called DOS anymore. Some old DOS programs will run, but many will not. Kinda like when Coca-Cola brought out New Coke - it just wan't the same.


One of the problems many Windows 9x programs had, was that they still used some DOS based calls to the system. They worked OK in 9x, and it was easier because they had been there all along. But suddenly when XP came along, they no longer worked. This may be why Lil's Uncle needed a Win98 machine and it's why I keep a Win98 machine going.

That is kind of what I was trying to say...but just not so well.



The Win 95, 98, and Me still had DOS underpinnings, but they were all MUCH more "Windozized" (nice word, eh). Windoze 3.0 and 3.1 were really just a shell that ran on top of DOS and had to be installed on top of a DOS installation. While this was still to some degree true with Win 95, 98 and Me, it was much less true and you did not install DOS seperately...it was now intergral with Windoze. I believe you could still re-boot into a DOS only mode, if I recall correctly.



With Win NT, 2000 and XP, DOS technically went away. They still have the command prompt which is basically a DOS command line interface, but it not really DOS. I still call it a DOS prompt because you still use DOS commands, even if it is not really DOS.

[lilxkid24]

Now it comes in my mind he uses the window 98 for payroll to pay restaurant employees

[rgreen4]

It probably won't run in XP for some reason, and he doesn't want to upgrade. Of course with some, there is a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" feeling along with a little reluctance to change.

All of us to one extent or another, resist change, especially when it come to the new high tech stuff. How many million of VCR's are out there still flashing 12:00, because the owner doesn't know how to set the time, and won't bring themselves to ask how. When the grandkids come to visit it get fixed, but after the next power outage there it is again -

12:00

12:00

12:00

[Number3124]

im 14

[Requiem]

It's noticable.