Where has everyone gone?

[russau]

I get to a lot of websites and for the last couple of years the people that were posting have seemed to evaporate. most websites have gone that way. except for www.treasurenet.com that site is always abuzz with all topics. It used tobe 49ermike.com and before that Tom Ashworth . There are several sites that I used to goto out East but im getting to old/lazy (F.O.G.)to keep up with all of them. wazzzz up?

[Hoser John]

Age,apathy,frustration,too busy trying to eek out a existance,busy digging into legal briefs and biological reports,CEQA process,Little Hoover Commission data. In the midst of 3 fights-Dredge rules,trying to fight and keep my claims from "segregation" by FS/BLM(Lose all mineral extraction for 20 years) Fight Clear Creek restoration(bulldoze roads and dump millions of tons of rock into the creek of non native gravels) and got 2 new claims so BUSY beyond belief for a broke down worn out bad back ol'fart.....and do all of lifes chores hahaha busy who me John

[russau]

OK................. so after lunch whatcha got going?

[Hoser John]

CENSORED MORE DAMN WORK AS ATT INTERNET CONNECTION IS DYING,PUTER WON'T TALK TO PRINTER and dry as a popcorn fart.................. and then more censored John PS took 2 hours just to get here to post sssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttt but I must have golddredger fix or my head will fall off

[russau]

AHMEN to that John!

[golden optimist]

Sorry about the computer problems John. I've managed to skip most computer problems.

Leonard

[Hoser John]

Why thank you Leonard. 3 in the house and att/yahoo got hacked and microsoft deliberately updates old xp unit and takes away functions sobs. Have 2 newer 7s but they try to ruin my ol' one to make ya buy that lousy-read defunct 8?? Puled over 5,000 photos and documents off this thang,guess it'll become a boat anchor John

[russau]

Boy do I know boat anchors!!

[golden optimist]

I'm running an old XP one that's about 10 years old. Right next to it is my backup, an old windows2000 machine. I haven't had it on for a year or so. What I'm thinking about doing is take it off of the internet and use it for stuff I don't want exposed to the internet.
Leonard

[dickb]

Leonard, what do you think?

If John takes the hard drive or drives out of the old XP and puts them in a external USB 2 hard drive case, can he access the documents and photos, then download them to the new Win 7 computer? They may have killed the XP OS, but the other files sill may be accessible. I'm not running XP anymore but I saved my old computer and keep it off line to protect my 32 bit programs and downloaded all the files that I wanted to save to my new 8.1. Then I backed everything up so I can't loose them.

Just thinking out loud here.

Dickb