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			<title>The future of PCQandA - jasonlevine</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Hi all,

As you might have noticed, PCQandA has been very quiet recently. When we first launched in October 2002, we had close to 11,000 posts in the Computer Forum and nearly 4,000 posts in the OT Forum. This past June, however, we had only 12 posts in the Computer Forum and 2 in the OT Forum. Worse, many (if not most) of the recent posts appear to be spam. Forums, in general, have experienced a severe decline - replaced by social media applications like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.

Give...]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:03:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: Happy New Year - 2026 - nightlyreader</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Windows 10 and 11 are both a PITA to network, with 11 being the worse. I wish there was a switch to shut off the security features I don't need. All I want is to share files between PCs, but MS says "Not So Fast".]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:59:01 -0500</pubDate> 
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			<title>Happy New Year - 2026 - therube</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[So I fired up a mothballed computer, WinXP, AMD Athlon II X3 440, 2GB RAM.

Fire up my browser, SeaMonkey 2.49.5, &amp;amp; it opens, 12 separate windows, untold number of tabs.  From the dates of the pages that opened (from "history"), seems the computer was last used in 2018 ;-).

Anyhow, in these tabs are my old &amp;amp; current haunts.
And (unlike most other pages these days) PCQ&amp;amp;A is plain 'ol http:, so no certificate issues on this ancient contraption, so here I am.

:-)

What a plea...]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:44:49 -0500</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: First Post of 2025!!! - nightlyreader</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Congratulations! Someone has to be the first.]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 13:37:43 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>First Post of 2025!!! - ablib</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Woot! Happy New Year!!!]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 22:56:22 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: Welcome back, Forum - Pcqandaman</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Ah that's good.
I thought we'd seen the last of the forum. ;( ]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:28:48 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>Welcome back, Forum - therube</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome back, Forum :-)

I'll suppose it was not just me who couldn't access the forum (oh, over the past couple weeks, or so).]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:12:52 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: A New Marine - nightlyreader</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[QUOTE:
Seems the file was in something called a "NEF" format.

Here you go :--) :

http://www.pcqanda.com/dc/user_files2/28414.png




Be proud!]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 13:49:21 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>A New Marine - Daylilydayzed</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[On the 12th of this month my 2nd oldest grandson Tyler Mason graduated from the US Marine Corps boot camp. He is going into the cyber security field in his training. We are very proud of him.]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:34:51 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: A New Marine - Daylilydayzed</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[The little boy with him is his little brother Hunter. They are 10 years apart
Daylilydayzed
Daylilies are the Lord's smiles, new one every day.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 01:14:43 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: A New Marine - therube</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Seems the file was in something called a "NEF" format.

Here you go :--) :

http://www.pcqanda.com/dc/user_files2/28414.png


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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 10:48:20 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: A New Marine - Daylilydayzed</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[I am sorry I guess the picture was not compatible. since it was from my phone
Daylilydayzed
Daylilies are the Lord's smiles, new one every day.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:13:30 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: A New Marine - Pcqandaman</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[I only get a small white square when I click the link.]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:42:13 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>Loss of our Dogs - Daylilydayzed</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Back last year we lost our female long hair miniature dachshund on May 31. Then in Dec we lost our male miniature long hair dachshund. Sugarfoot was the female and she was 13 at time of death. Gunner's Coal was our male and he was 14 at time of death. 
Daylilydayzed
Daylilies are the Lord's smiles, new one every day.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:04:33 -0500</pubDate> 
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			<title>Daughter Moved Back Home - Daylilydayzed</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Just before our son passed  away, our daughter move back home because her rent was going up to over a 1000.00 She could not afford that. She had a problem with her car and for the last 3 months she has had to have my hubby drive her to work and pick her up, or has driven our car. She had a small accident and busted the right front fender and did no tell us. I saw the damage and took a picture with my phone and showed it to hubby. He asked her what she hit and she said a parked car. That girl is ...]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 02:29:07 -0500</pubDate> 
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			<title>Things are really getting bad now in the West Bank - therube</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Things are really getting bad now in the West Bank.
Shame.


http://www.pcqanda.com/dc/user_files2/28410.jpg


(Hint, http://www.pcqanda.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&amp;amp;forum=4&amp;amp;topic_id=218347&amp;amp;mesg_id=218347.
Seems it will never end.)]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:09:39 -0500</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: The future of PCQandA - Red Squirrel</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[I'd say just shut down user registrations.  If anything this place serves as an archive of early computing which the longer it stays up the more cool it is to be able to go back and see what things were like.  Ex: dialup.  

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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 10:32:25 -0500</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: Shelly - Paul D</title> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:08:17 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>Shelly - ablib</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[I don't want to seem like a ghoul, but it's been almost 5 years and it still doesn't seem real. Rest in peace, sir.  It was an honor to have known you.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193180706/sheldon-alvin-glick#

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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:00:04 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: Abdomax - Paul D</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[
So familiar. I've lived with UC for nearly 20 years. Not pleasant.
Paul D]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:06:20 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>Abdomax - therube</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[@Pcqandaman

"Smart pill could be game changer in diagnosis, treatment of bowel diseases"
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-smart-pill-game-changer-diagnosis.html]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:07:51 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: Abdomax - Pcqandaman</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks very much @therube, interesting read.
However, IBDisease usually refers to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis which are more serious conditions.
I have IBSyndrome which currently affects 10-15 percent of the population.  My main symptom is the need to rush to the loo and not being able to predict when this occurs.  So you can imagine this is very inconvenient to say the least!
This for me limits when and where I can go in my every day life.]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:26:38 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>loss Of a pet - Daylilydayzed</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[On the night of May 31 after our miniature long hair female went to bed with her beloved Pappa , she was in her bed by the closet door. When I go to bed , she usually barks at me and I go give her the nightly belly rub. This night she did not bark at me so I went to giver the belly rub and her belly was hard as a rock. She was stiff as a board and not breathing. She passed away in her sleep sometime after 10:30-2:30 when I cam in to go to bed.
Daylilydayzed
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:01:01 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: Shelly - therube</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[Yep, Shelly ran a good ship.


---


(Didn't know such a site existed.

So with DNA, they know where you came from, &amp;amp; with this site, they know where you've ended up.

Don't know if that's good or bad.

When I was younger, always thought my grandfather was from Poland.
But his naturalization papers showed he was from Russia.

But this  shows he was from Belarus.

With changing borders &amp;amp; all that, then &amp;amp; now, as it is...)]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:03:15 -0400</pubDate> 
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			<title>RE: Anyone heard of Abdomax? - Pcqandaman</title> 
			<description><![CDATA[@therube, yeah, I take exactly the same skeptical view as you.
But sometimes something comes along that works, not very often but sometimes.
So when you've had IBS for a long time and tried virtually all the recommended remedies you'll try anything provided there's concrete proven evidence of its efficacy.
And yes I've had several colonoscopy and gastroscopy examinations that have found nothing sinister.
The search goes on!]]></description> 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 10:51:32 -0500</pubDate> 
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