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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: April 08, 2010, 09:32:17 PM »

So nice and warm back in the states. booo

It's not that warm here.. It's like 43 degrees here, blah!

BTW this is my first post from my iPad, this thing is so cool! I originally wasn't going to get one but once I used one I was hooked!

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TWC Today News / Re: Welcome To The New TWC Today/Classics Forum

« on: April 08, 2010, 09:08:02 PM »

TWCT Username: kpetree10
TWCC Username: twcc_kpetree10

Please merge my TWCC account into my TWCT account. Thanks Guys!

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 25, 2010, 07:48:51 AM »

Was Buffalo the brand that was pulled from the US market briefly? cant remember which one it was

Yea it was, I wasn't aware of this...

From Wikipedia...

In late 2006, the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) won a lawsuit against Buffalo Inc. under which it would receive a royalty for every WLAN product worldwide. [2] The lawsuits basis was that CSIRO was granted US patent 5487069 in 1996, which grants elements of 802.11a/g wireless technology that had become an industry standard.[3] In June of 2007, the federal court in Texas granted an injunction to prevent any more wireless products from shipping until a license agreement had been reached.[4]On September 19, 2008, the Federal Circuit ruled in Buffalo’s favor and has remanded this case to the district court ruling that the district court’s Summary Judgment was insufficient on the merits of obviousness of CSIRO’s patent. Therefore, this case will be tried again before the district court. In this connection Buffalo is hopeful that it will shortly be permitted to, once again, sell IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g compliant products in the United States.

It looks like only 802.11a and g products are the only ones they cant sell right now, however I see N products available.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 24, 2010, 09:36:24 PM »

I bought mine at a Meijer but I've seen them a BestBuy before.

http://www.buffalotech.com/

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 24, 2010, 09:10:16 PM »

My favorite brand is Buffalo. In two years I went through two Linksyses, a D-Link, and a Netgear. They all had the same 'dropping the connection, not allowing connection' problems. I've been using a Buffalo for years now and I've restarted it only a half-dozen times. Most of the time is wasn't even a problem with the router.

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General Discussion / Re: Healthcare

« on: March 21, 2010, 12:45:21 PM »

I don't agree with health care reform. I have a hard time putting any faith in anything the government does. Take Medicare for example, they deny twice as many claims as private insurance and most people on Medicare have to have some kind of supplemental insurance to cover what Medicare doesn't. If the government can't run Medicare how can we trust them to run the entire nations health care? Besides that, with a multi trillion dollar deficit right now I think spending another trillion plus dollars is not the right thing to do. We need to focus on bringing down the nations debt.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 18, 2010, 09:12:56 PM »

For most it will just be a hunk of metal that nobody can use. I purchased one previously from this seller.

Is there anything you CAN do with it since it doesn't have a data source?

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 18, 2010, 12:43:39 PM »

Sold for $61. I was going to buy it but I don't know what I'd do with it.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 18, 2010, 08:34:22 AM »

Not really my thing either. Not much of a Basketball fan, I like Baseball and Football.

BTW, there is a Jr. up for sale on eBay, if anyone cares...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110505609850&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123#ht_1232wt_914

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Contributions / Re: Local Across The 48s #6- Submissions!

« on: March 15, 2010, 09:00:31 AM »

Here's my SD video from my Toledo IS...

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6953/lat48ssd.mp4

and my HD video...

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/21/lat48shd.mp4

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TWC Today News / Re: TWC Classics and TWC Today

« on: March 12, 2010, 07:28:45 PM »

I'm for it. We're all here for the same thing, we might as well be in the same place!

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday, Jonathan!!!!

« on: March 12, 2010, 09:38:14 AM »

Happy Birthday!!! 

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TWC Today News / Re: Local Across the 48s #6 Winter 2010 DELAYED

« on: March 11, 2010, 08:32:55 AM »

I signed on today and thought I was too late and missed the launch but now I'm relieved, my DVR is set for tonight!

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General Discussion / Re: Slingbox?

« on: February 28, 2010, 09:11:31 PM »

I don't own one but my friend bought one that he never used, I found it in his basement one day and borrowed it (that was months ago). This one is an older SD only box. One of these days I'll get a Solo. Anyway, I love it, I always have the news or something on while I'm at work, thankfully nobody cares

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 20, 2010, 08:16:42 PM »

That's exactly my reason for not posting often. I work 45 hours / week plus go to school full time (15 credit hours this semester) and I just haven't had much interest in TWC lately. I sometime watch in the mornings but not often. I love talking with you guys since most of us have a lot in common to talk about aside from TWC.